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{{quote|'''Dr. McNinja''': The problem with your gun is [[Gun Kata|you have to point it where you want to send the bullets]], and ''I can see that''.
'''Frans Rayner''': The bullets are supposed to be faster than you and you know that!
|''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''}}
A character who can stroll into the middle of a firefight and emerge unscathed. [[Guns Are Worthless]] against them. They aren't [[Immune to Bullets]], but they're so fast they might as well be. If you shoot at them from any farther than [[Dodge This|point blank range]], they'll jump out of the way, or use some impressively small object to deflect the bullet, [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] be damned.
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Sometimes this skill is imparted by a background in [[Gun Fu]], [[Gun Kata]],<ref>dodging ''lines of fire'' before the shot</ref> [[Implausible Fencing Powers]], or [[Super Reflexes]]. Maybe the enemy was [[Point Defenseless]]? For maximum coolness, show off the dodging in [[Bullet Time]]. See also [[Could Have Been Messy]]. [[More Dakka]] may be employed to attempt to overcome this. Compare [[Bullet Catch]], which is even cooler, and [[Catch and Return]], which takes this to its logical extreme. Contrast [[Bullet Dodges You]]. When you upgrade from bullets to missiles, [[High-Speed Missile Dodge]] is the result.
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== Anime
* Overdosed in ''[[Black Lagoon]]''. This is what keeps [[Guile Hero|Rokuro]] [[Action Survivor|"Rock"]] [[Salaryman|Okajima]] alive when his [[Chain of Deals]] fails - his version is normal compared to his [[Sociopathic Hero|Pseudo-]][[Tsundere]] [[Action Girl]][[Ship Tease|friend]] [[Guns Akimbo|Revy]] (yeah, no [[Bullet Time]] for the little Rock).
* Vash from ''[[Trigun]]'' did this a couple of times. It was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in the first instance where he explains that the enemy is 'just a bad shot'. He is one of the more amusing examples because of [[Obfuscating Stupidity|how he dodges the bullets]] in the first half of the anime. Eventually, we are shown that he is fast enough to change the paths of bullets in mid-air... by ''throwing rocks at them''.
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== Live
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'': The Augments appear to dodge disruptor beams when seizing the Klingon Bird of Prey, but that might be an illusion caused by their [[Ubermensch|genetically-enhanced reflexes]].
* ''[[MacGyver]]'' does this at times. He dives between lines of bullets shot by a helicopter in the early season intros. He's blocked a crossbow bolt with a 2x2 board. Practically nobody who shoots at him can hit him—if they do, they graze him (and cause amnesia). It's played off as luck, though, rather than skill, and he has a healthy respect for people pointing guns at him.
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* [[MAG-ISA]] -- [http://mag-isa.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/119718 Eman Cruz] did it during his gunfight with Kyle.
* As the opening quote shows, ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' has played this trope [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/5p44 straight]. On the other hand, it also gave us a dramatic [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901192335/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=16&issue=9 subversion]. And [https://web.archive.org/web/20080409202904/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=9&issue=11 this] (although it was an April fools joke)
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