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When a character demonstrates a rather odd way of walking, often involving deliberate contortions.
Watch out for this after someone says [[Walk This Way]]. Also recall that one does not
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== Film ==▼
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[
▲== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Incredibles]]'': Syndrome's walk was based on a person's deliberate attempt to cure a strange walk.
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': Captain Jack Sparrow has a rather odd gait based on that of Keith Richards. He also has a silly ''run'', known as "The Lizard Run" because he waves his hands around while he does it.
* [[Robin Williams]] in ''[[The Birdcage]]'' and other times he's playing a homosexual character does a rather exaggerated mincing walk. Compared to Nathan Lane it's downright manly though.
* Torgo in ''[[Manos:
* Pretty much anyone playing [[The Igor|Igor]] in a work based on ''[[Frankenstein]]'' does this, notably Marty Feldman in ''[[Young Frankenstein]]''.
* [[The Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]] had a distinctive walk, slightly too low to the ground.
* At the end of the third ''[[Austin Powers]]'' movie Scott Evil had one of these.
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* Probably one of the oldest and most iconic examples is the waddling gait of [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s Little Tramp, often accompanied by a twirl of his cane.
* ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'': Guido, the hero, often performs a comically exaggerated and slowed-down goose-step as a mockery of Mussolini's Fascists and the Nazis. Used to poignant effect when Guido says good-bye to his son as {{spoiler|the death camp guards lead him off to be shot}}.
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* ''Mickey Blue Eyes'' has a scene where the eponymous protagonist and his [[Mafia Princess]] love interest are running; she collapses in laughter, telling him to "stop doing the funny run" and he's embarrassed to admit that he wasn't doing it for comic effect; that's just how he runs.
** For the record, that's how Hugh Grant ''actually runs''.
* Discussed, but not shown, in ''[[
== Literature ==▼
▲== [[Literature]] ==
* The "Black Hats"/Wogs in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Number of the Beast]]'' have an extra joint in each limb, and without sophisticated prosthetics, they have a very odd shambling gait. Even with the prosthetics, they have a slightly detectable strange way of walking.
== [[Live
* ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'': The [[Trope Namer]] is the Ministry of Silly Walks sketch.
* [[Frank Zappa]] has a memorable role as a hunchback in "The Boy Who Left Home to Learn About the Shivers," an episode of ''[[Faerie Tale Theatre]]''. His bizarre walk has to be seen to be believed.
* Kryten of [[
** Robert Llewlyn, Kryten's actor, came up with the walk during the audition... and when he learned Doug Naylor has a false leg, left the audition lamenting about how he'd blown his chance.
* ''[[
* ''[[One Foot in
* The serial killer Sqweegel, from ''CSI'', employs an extremely '''creepy''' style of walk while sneaking around his intended victims' homes, going on all fours and alternately moving one hand and the opposite foot. Together with his black leather bodysuit and lithe build, it creates the visual impression of a crawling spider.
* ''[[Pitagora Suicchi]]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20120414144730/http://www.metacafe.com/watch/253567/the_algorithm_march/ The Algorithm March.]
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==▼
* The Bushwhackers are known for their odd manner of walking: holding their arms at right angles and swinging them up and down with each step. [[The Iron Sheik]] did a similar (albeit less exaggerated) version.▼
* When [[Vince McMahon]] makes his entrance, he likes to walk with his chest pumped out, swinging his arms back and forth. This is usually referred to as his "power" walk.▼
* Santino Marella speed walks to the ring as a parody of the [[Power Walk]].▼
==
* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in the ''[[I'm Sorry,
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲* In ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'', L Lawliet's distinctive way of walking while slouching forward with his knees slightly bent is another one of the traits that Takeshi Obata and Tsugumi Ohba incorporated to his design(along with other strange quirks like sitting in a crouched position and holding objects with only his thumb and index)in order to make him the perfect rival of Light: As brilliant as him but the total opposite of his perfect image.
* ''[[Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'': [[The Joker]] in the DLC has a ''very'' unusual default walk -- [[Milking the Giant Cow]] upstairs, ''[[Saturday Night Fever]]'' pimp-strut downstairs with more than a hint of [[Mary Poppins|Cockney]]/[[Oasis|Madchester]] swagger thrown in. [[Large Ham|All part of the plan, of course.]]▼
▲* [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] in the ''[[I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again (Radio)|I'm Sorry Ill Read That Again]]'' 25th aniversary [[Reunion Show]], which portrayed the post-''Python'' [[John Cleese (Creator)|John Cleese]] as obsessed with silly walks, and constantly attempting to work them into his film roles. ("In ''[[Silverado]]'' they wouldn't even let me hop! The part of the sheriff was crying out for it, but they wouldn't even let the horse do it!") He agrees to rejoin the Prune gang on condition he is allowed to use "the comedy legs", only for this to prove terrible radio.
▲== Video Games ==
▲* ''[[Batman Arkham Asylum]]'': [[The Joker]] in the DLC has a ''very'' unusual default walk -- [[Milking the Giant Cow]] upstairs, [[Saturday Night Fever]] pimp-strut downstairs with more than a hint of [[Mary Poppins|Cockney]]/[[Oasis|Madchester]] swagger thrown in. [[Large Ham|All part of the plan, of course.]]
* Wario in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''.
* Inspector Cabanela of ''[[Ghost Trick]]''.
* The runner in ''[[QWOP]]'' runs like he has spasms. This is because the player is controlling his leg muscles individually, and likely not very well.
* ''[[Castlevania]]'': Most of the members of the Belmont family in the series walk in a very peculiar way that has since been dubbed the "Belmont walk" or "pimp walk," depending on whom you ask.
* In ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', Deadpool has a sliding shuffle when walking forward (he looks like he's walking backwards) and moonwalks backward.
* Bonne Jenet of ''[[Fatal Fury|Mark of the Wolves]]'' walks with hands on her hips, swaying her ass. She runs more normally, except for the part where she ''waves''. All part of being an [[Attention Whore]].
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* The main character in ''[[Not Stanley]]'' walks sideways in a crab-like manner with no arm movement.
== Web Original ==▼
▲== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Stupid Mario Brothers]]'': Mr. Redhead in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNEisPScKgQ this] episode.
* ''[[Baman Piderman]]'': The title characters walks like a baby taking its first steps. That said, they rarely even do anything that can be ''called'' walking.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRZ2Sh5-XuM
== Western Animation ==▼
▲== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Looney Tunes]]'': Marvin the Martian's distinctive shuffling walk.
* ''[[Classic Disney Shorts]]'': Goofy had a distinctive walk in the 1930s, with his knees bending backward and his feet swiveling nearly all the way around. It carried over into ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''. It's particularly noticeable in the Timeless River.
* ''[[
* Zoidberg from ''[[
* The [[Cold Open]] of the ''[[
▲== Professional Wrestling ==
▲* The Bushwhackers are known for their odd manner of walking: holding their arms at right angles and swinging them up and down with each step. [[The Iron Sheik]] did a similar (albeit less exaggerated) version.
▲* When [[Vince McMahon]] makes his entrance, he likes to walk with his chest pumped out, swinging his arms back and forth. This is usually referred to as his "power" walk.
▲* Santino Marella speed walks to the ring as a parody of the [[Power Walk]].
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The guards at the Government Palace in Lima have a rather bizarre walk, as seen during the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7BcEwGISi0 changing of the guards]. Having them march in time to "[[Carmina Burana
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