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If the ridiculously [[Slow Doors]] in your [[Elaborate Underground Base]] close downwards, rest assured that some character will inevitably make their way through a doorway [[Just in Time]] by rolling under an almost-closed door.
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If there is a [[Lockdown]] occurring, the odds are 99% someone will attempt this.
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In the OVA adaptation of ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'', Lloyd does this to get to Kvar alone. Unfortunately, he then proceeds to get his ass handed to him, until Kratos and Sheena show up to save the day.
* In ''[[Macross Plus]]'', we get the "corridor of doors closing in sequence" version as Myung and Guld race through; the doors are justified as being firewalls (and there IS a fire going on); unfortunately for them, one closes on Guld, who stoically uses his back as a barrier to protect Myung. Which is only possible because Guld, [[Half-Human Hybrid|being half-Zentraedi]], is [[The Big Guy|more accurately described as a mountain]]
* ''[[Gunslinger Girl]]''. Rico and Henrietta slide under a closing door during the attack on the terrorist-occupied nuclear power plant.
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* ''[[Shrek]] 2'' does this as well... with Puss in Boots. Voiced by Antonio Banderas, which made it even funnier.
* Massively spoofed in ''[[The Incredibles]],'' where Elastigirl manages to get stuck in a whole series of [[Slow Doors]] ''[[Rubber Man|simultaneously]].''
* In ''[[Chicken Run]]'', Ginger gets to the closing oven door easily, but Rocky is stuck falling into pies. She wedges the door open and runs back for him, then makes it out of the oven with the
* ''[[Tangled]]'' does this with Rapunzel and Flynn escaping into the cave from beneath the giant falling rock pillar. Flynn manages to grab the previously discarded frying pan at the last second.
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* The classic example is ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'', with the addition of reaching back for [[Nice Hat|his hat]] at the last second (hence the trope name). In ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark]]'' he reaches back for his [[Weapon of Choice|whip]].
** Parodies often mix the two movies. They use the ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' setup, i.e the giant boulder, but have the stand-in for Indy reach for a hat instead of the whip. They might be confused, or they might simply be [[Adaptation Distillation|combining the more memorable trap and the funnier thing to reach for]].
* Another Harrison Ford example, predating ''Indiana Jones'', is the original ''[[Star Wars]]''. Avoiding a security lockdown and being followed by stormtroopers, Han Solo jumped through the diamond shaped opening that was formed by the blast doors closing. Interestingly enough, later movies depict the blast doors closing far too fast for any sort of maneuver like
** ''Eberts Little Movie Glossary'' even calls this trope the ''Harrison Door''.
* A scene from ''[[Spaceballs]]'' parodies the ''Star Wars'' example. The characters dive through a blast door just in time, but there's a cadre of Spaceballs waiting for them. They get away anyway, though, because, as the lieutenant shockedly points out, "You idiots! [[No Fourth Wall|You've captured their stunt doubles!]]" The door also closes notably faster after the characters jumped through.
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** Gwen Cooper in the episode "Ghost Machine".
** Subverted in the episode "Exit Wounds", in which {{spoiler|Owen gets trapped in a nuclear power station that's about to go up, and doesn't make it to the door in time. He actually does die}}. He was {{spoiler|technically dead already. But there was that glove...}}
* Another subversion in ''[[Blake's
* Subverted in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Dalek". Adam and Rose are fleeing from the Dalek while the Doctor is forced to close the door to the room where he, Van Statten and Diana Goddard are hiding. Adam makes it in time by rolling under the door. Rose ''doesn't''.
* Spike does this while escaping the Initiative on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''.
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* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Zack Allen dives under the docking bay doors in the third series {{spoiler|after he has led most of the station's Night Watch members there in a double-double cross}}. This clip also appears in the titles.
* ''[[MacGyver]]'' has one moment of the hat roll when they are trapped in an [[Bamboo Technology|Ancient Indian Death Trap]] and Dalton reaches back to grab his pilot hat, much to Mac's irritation.
* ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Averted on ''[[Lost]]''; instead of diving under the Swan Station's closing doors (which are quite fast), Locke pushes a toolbox under it to wedge it open. Further averted/subverted when his leg gets crushed while he tries to crawl through the opening and the toolbox collapses.
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', episode "The Xena Scrolls": Alice is Gabrielle's [[Identical Grandson|umpteenth granddaughter]] in 1940ish. She is an archaeologist and so she does the hat-roll.
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* The penultimate mission of ''[[Ace Combat]] 5'' has sliding doors that close off the tunnel after you destroy your target. They all close in different directions and there are other obstacles, so flying through the tunnel at top speed is a bit tricky. The trope is inverted when entering the tunnel: You can run into doors as they're opening.
* ''[[Resident Evil]]''
** In ''[[Resident Evil Code: Veronica]]'', you have to escape the general area of a breached biohazard containment room. On the first time, Claire does this. [[Averted Trope|Strangely enough, she doesn't at the second time]].
** Used in a ridiculous manner in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]''. While esacaping a [[Mayincatec]] death trap, Chris and Sheva feel the need to ''dive across one another'' under a [[Slow Doors]]. Such is their style, the [[Quick Time Event]] involved cuts straight to three cutscenes of the move from different angles, in case you didn't see how ridiculous it was the first time.
* In ''[[Sonic Adventure 2]]'', one of the stages forces you to outrace timed doors as Sonic. While most doors give you plenty of time to slip through, there are some that'll force you into doing this.
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** Bart also does this when he lifts Homer's change jar in a specific send up of Indy's adventures, complete with ''actual Indiana Jones music'' and Bart grabbing his hat from under the closing door.
** Marge did one of these with the closing garage when she finds the police career to be exciting in "The Springfield Connection."
* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' TOS episode "The Fraudulent Volcano". Jonny and Hadji crawled on their hands and knees under a closing security
* This happens in ''[[Recess|Recess: Schools Out]], when the kids are being chased inside the school.
* On the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Task Force X", Plastique and Deadshot do this to escape {{spoiler|from a nuclear reactor on The Watchtower they sabotaged}} as blast doors are closing. They pull off with the first door, but don't make it in time for the second (Captain Atom saves them).
* Sunny Bridges does it in the ''[[Class of 3000]]'' episode "Eddie's Money"; grabbing his hat with his feet for a few extra style points.
* Done in the original ''[[My Little Pony]]'' cartoon of all things, as part of an [[Indy Escape]] scene.
** Toyed with in [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2
* ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'' episode "Once Upon A Planet". Captain Kirk leaps through a sliding rock door in the side of a mountain just before it closes.
* ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'' "Larry" Needlemeyer does when fleeing from The Manager.
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