Nonchalant Dodge: Difference between revisions

This makes the character appear more awesome with minimal effort on the part of both character and artist. Only the first one doesn't completely upset the mood and generally mean the fight scene is ending or shifting to a different mood, fact is the first one is generally a start of the fight move.

 

 

* ''[[Dragon Ball]]''

** Goku is not the only character to use this trick, however they generally all stick with Type 1. When showing off their speed, characters often do Type 2 as well, and Vegeta and Freeza were so superior to their opponents they pulled Type 3, standing with a look of boredom in front of a raging and punching opponent.

** Gaara's Sand gives him the least moving Type 1 as he didn't have to move to block most attacks. Making him much more menacing.

** Rock Lee, drunk, Type 3. Bonus points for being ''completely and sincerely'' asleep.

** The anime takes this so much farther, as he also does this too pretty much ''all'' of the Leaf ninja and after doing it to Naruto [[Crowning Moment of Funny|he loudly shouts "Ole!"]].

* ''[[Bleach]]''

** In a villainous example, [[One-Episode Wonder]] Goshinki uses type 3 with the explanation that he can read his attackers' thoughts.

 

* [[Batgirl (2000 comic book)|Batgirl]] III was notorious for being a type-1 example of this trope (often leaning away from bullets ''after'' [[Charles Atlas Superpower|they were fired]]... for giggles).

* [[Spider-Man]], having his signature [[Spider Sense]], generally uses 1 and 2 during fistfights. As Peter Parker in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man|The Spectacular Spider Man]]'', he does 3 in order to avoid a thrown football.

* ''[[Sin City]]'': Miho does number three a lot. Especially in ''Family Values'' when a mook uses a racial slur against her. She decides to take her time, making sure he's good and humiliated before slowly killing him.

 

* "Odile" the fae mercenary does type 3. while fighting 3/4 of the main cast of ''[[Roommates 2007|Roommates]]''. {{spoiler|Later subverted when her opponents outright tell her that they did not intend to defeat her.}}

 

* ''Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins''

** Our introduction to the title character's future master comes when Remo shoots at him. The man does a Type 1, later explained as him watching Remo's muscle movements to tell when he was about to fire.

* Michael Myer's response to Laurie's knife throwing act in ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]] H20''.

 

* [[Punny Name|Hiro Protagonist]] pulls one of these in ''[[Snow Crash]]'' when Raven hurls a glass-knife-tipped bamboo harpoon in his direction. He slaps the incoming spear aside with the flat of his [[Katanas Are Just Better|sword]] entirely on reflex... [[Deconstructed Trope|and then spends the rest of the night feverishly training, unable to sleep, having realized just how close to death he came.]]

* In ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighters of Adumar]]'', while Wes Janson is performing a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] on an aristocrat who tried to kill a friend, the aristocrat tries to punch back but is ineffectual.

* [[Mistborn]] do this when burning [[Combat Clairvoyance|Atium]]

 

* In the ''[[Angel]]'' episode "War Zone", Angel is investigating a seemingly abandoned vampire den. But the creepy music starts playing as we see that there's a vampire lurking in the rafters... [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and then Angel coolly sidesteps, leaving his would-be ambusher to have a sudden and unpleasant introduction to the floor.]]

 

* In one hilarious moment, Shawn Stasiak tried to spear [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] in the middle of a promo. The Rock dodged the spear easily, Stasiak flew into the ropes and the Rock continued his promo without missing a beat.

* William Regal has been known to walk away from opponents jumping off the top turnbuckle while taunting the fans.

* Samoa Joe will often do this when an opponent attempts an aerial move off the turnbuckles, casually walking to the side as the opponent crashes to the mat.

 

* ''[[Spirit of the Century]]'' allows players to invoke this trope with the "Right Place, Right Time" stunt. Normally in physical combat, a character must use some appropriate combat skill such as Athletics (representing physical agility) to dodge attacks. With the stunt, the character may use their Resolve skill (representing mental/spiritual fortitude or willpower). In-game, this is described as Type-3 Nonchalant Dodging.

{{quote|"So there he was, bullets flying all over the place, and he just walked over to their leader and punched him out like it was just the next thing on his to-do list."}}

 

* ''[[Fire Emblem]]''

** Certain "fast" classes in the sprite games have dull dodge animations that match with Type 1. Swordmasters are the ever present example.

* From ''[[League of Legends]]'', Irelia's father, Lito was allegedly admitted to the Ionian council of Elders by standing on his rooftop during a rainstorm and staying dry. Without moving his feet.

 

* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': "I think I woke up halfway through fighting off assassins."

* In ''Circus Knights'', ''two'' people [https://web.archive.org/web/20191216163458/https://www.smackjeeves.com/discover/articleList?titleNo=96302 dodge an aerial assault from a nightmare]. One of them casually crouches, while the other takes a small step backwards while lecturing the Nightmare on why its attack is a bad idea.

* The Unstoppable Higgs from ''[[Girl Genius]]'' shows just how unstoppable he is by [http://girlgeniuscomic.livejournal.com/97635.html doing this twice in a row] against a rampaging Clank. He'd earlier also done it in a [[Bar Brawl]] full of Jägers.

 

* Particularly effective with Princess' debut episode in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. After Princess trashes Buttercup and Bubbles thanks to her powerful gadgets, Blossom gets into it, and ''she is pissed''. Cue complete ownage, with Blossom merely moving her head to avoid Princess' flurry of punches. Pissed, she was, but she demonstrated that [[Tranquil Fury]] trumps [[Unstoppable Rage]], at least for that episode.

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''

** We also see a random villager do the Type 1 against [[Everything's Worse with Bears|a gorram platypus bear]] in "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book 1/14 The Fortuneteller|The Fortuneteller]]".

* We sometimes see a Type 1 Nonchalant Dodge in ''[[Code Lyoko]]''. Notably, Odd dodging a Crawler's fire at point-blank range in episode "Franz Hopper", or William casually moving his head away from Aelita's energy field in "William Returns".

 

* There is a Type 3 [[Truth in Television|real life example]]. Japanese swordsman Odagiri Ichiun was ambushed by two men while taking a nap in a sitting position. When one attacked him with a sword, Odagiri dodged the first cut by swaying to the side, the second by swaying in the opposite direction, and the third by reflexively catching the man by the wrist and throwing him—and then got back to sleep.

* [[Mixed Martial Arts|Anderson Silva]] is the patron saint of this trope. Particularly types [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rQv9nSn-vEw/TlqMoV9gF2I/AAAAAAAABh4/_Dy6XJsHjOA/s1600/4.gif one] [http://i53.tinypic.com/zwdwnq.jpg and] [http://mmachronic.com/blog1/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/silvavsfranklin.gif three]{{Dead link}}, but sometimes [http://cdn0.sbnation.com/imported_assets/790010/2vrveop_jpg.gif two] as well.

 

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