Indy Hat Roll: Difference between revisions

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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.

 

If there is a [[Lockdown]] occurring, the odds are 99% someone will attempt this.

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* 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]]—though it ''still'' causes him quite the injury there.

* 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.

* 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.