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# The bullet literally ''dodges'' the character; instead of stopping, it goes around him without even slowing.
This does not happen [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|in Soviet Russia]]. Compare [[Plot Armor]], which is the metafictional protection offered to main characters and sometimes can appear to serve this purpose (especially if [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy|Stormtroopers]] are involved). Also compare [[A-Team Firing]], where bullets dodge everybody, no matter how many bullets/people there are.
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== Live Action TV ==
* When ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' gets a temporary magical upgrade to fight Adam, she stops machine gun fire in mid-air and turns an RPG into a dove.
* Khalek does this in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Prototype." A lot. Unfortunately (for him), it only works when he knows the bullets are coming, so Mitchell distracts him by shooting at him while Daniel comes at him through a door on the other side of the room.
* There are several episodes of ''[[Charmed]]'' where either Prue or Paige use their telekinesis to deflect bullets, or Piper uses her freezing power to stop them in midair.
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' - Matt Parkman fires a round of bullets at Sylar, who stops them with one hand. He then [[Catch and Return|flicks them right back into Matt]]. Ouch.
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* In [[Isabel Allende]]'s ''Forest of the Pygmies'', Alexander Cold is given a magical amulet with this power.
** Actually it wasn't avoiding friendlies, the bullets were navigating a 180 degree turn to hit the pre-programmed target he'd already set. He was simply firing at his allies for showmanship.
* In [[The Book of Mormon (
* Bink's talent in the ''[[Xanth]]'' books could be seen as the magical version: Any spell that would harm him, even Magician-caliber, is pushed aside by seeming coincidence and dumb luck. Unfortunately for him, his talent has a very precise definition of "harm", meaning that there are spells that can incapacitate him. And of course, he has no such protection against non-magical methods of attack.
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