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'''Frans Rayner''': The bullets are supposed to be faster than you and you know that! |''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''}}

 

* The engineereds in ''[[Duumvirate]]'' dodge single aimed bullets easily, but have a harder time with things such as poorly-aimed [[A Ks]] and shotguns.

* Grandpa Smedry of ''Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians'' and sequels presents an interesting twist, as part of his [[Blessed with Suck|Smedry]] [[Cursed with Awesome|Talent]]: {{spoiler|his Talent is being late; when somebody shoots a gun at him, he always arrives late for the bullets to hit him}}.

* In [[Discworld]], in ''[[Discworld/Men At Arms|Men At Arms]]'', Sergeant Colon enters the Tower of Art, having just heard somebody, and reasons, seeing nobody in the tower, that they are behind him. He dives right as the Gonne is fired. Afterwards he swears that he felt the shot pass over him. Discworld is based on Steampunk era technology, and the Gonne would not be as fast-firing as modern guns. Also, Sergeant Colon can spout a lot of shit sometimes.

* In John D. MacDonald's ''The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything'', the hero activates his [[Time Stands Still|magic pocket watch]] just as his adversary pulls the trigger. Not only can he easily get out of the bullet's way, he uses a ruler and his knowledge of the gun's normal-speed muzzle velocity to calculate just ''how much'' the pocket watch is slowing down time.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[MacGyver]]'' does this at times. He dives between lines of bullets shot by a helicopter in the early season intros. He's blocked a crossbow bolt with a 2x2 board. Practically nobody who shoots at him can hit him—if they do, they graze him (and cause amnesia). It's played off as luck, though, rather than skill, and he has a healthy respect for people pointing guns at him.

* Ziva does this in an episode of ''[[NCIS]]'', though what actually happens is she hears the gun being cocked and reacts to that.

* Hicks from ''[[Alphas]]'' is able use his [[Super Reflexes]] to get out of the way of a bullet. He realizes that the shooter is about to fire and drops to the ground before the trigger is squeezed. He follows this up with a feat of acrobatics right out of a [[the Matrix]] which confuses the shooter and causes the second shot to miss as well.

* Parodied in ''[[The Office]]''. Michael Scott's amateur film features his character dodging bullets from point blank range using some awkward and poorly choreographed poses.

** Grey Fox also has a form of this in his ability to deflect bullets with his sword, thanks to impossibly-fast reflexes.

** Fortune ''doesn't even dodge''. She just stands there and the bullets miss her. In other words, her power is to ''[[Invoked Trope|cause]]'' [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|Stormtrooper Marksmanship]]

** Gene from ''Portable Ops'' does this through actual [[Super Speed]].

** Also, the GRU soldiers during the Ocelot duel. Go ahead, [[Shotguns Are Just Better|try using the shotgun]]. Or [[Bottomless Magazines|the]] [[Impossibly Cool Weapon|Patriot]]. It won't get you anywhere.

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