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{{quote|''"It is impossible to punch or kick someone while they are rolling. Try to time your somersaults so that you pass through your opponent's attempts to hit you. "''|Advice for a fighting game}}
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{{quote|'''Yotsuba''': Freeze! [[Gratuitous English|Nonstop]]!}}
* Subverted in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS]]'': During a training session, Teana tries to avoid Nanoha's shots by making some rolls on the ground, and Nanoha criticizes her action ("Now, if you move like that, it's all over") and the point of the lesson is to teach her how to [[Shoot the Bullet]] instead as a way of defending without having to move.
* Ritsu's [[Dynamic Entry]] into Yui's room in ''[[K-On!]]'' involves a half-assed combat roll (shown in [[Repeat Cut|three different angles]], to boot). She gets punched in the head for her troubles.
* In the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' movie, America pulls one off in the only action scene in the series.
* In ''[[My-HiME]]'', [[Ninja|Akira]] does a roll when bursting into her and Takumi's room after hearing a [[Not What It Looks Like|suspicious sounding conversation between Takumi and Mai]].
== [[Fan Works]] ==
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* [[Lampshaded Trope|Lampshaded]] in the movie ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'', when Gwen DiMarco asks Jason Nesmith, "Does the rolling help?" when he suddenly does this while they're just walking along on the surface of an alien planet. Nesmith also loses his gun during the roll. This is, largely, a reference to the ''[[Star Trek]]'' example below.
* Trinity's unnecessary cartwheel through the subway turnstiles in ''[[The Matrix]]'' Revolutions. Later in the movie, Morpheus, Trinity, and Seraph get into a fight with some guys who can bend gravity. Said guys do things like cartwheeling on the ceiling from cover to cover. [[Reality Ensues|They die.]]
* Subverted in the film version of ''[[
* Watch Ironhide in the '07 ''[[Transformers Film Series|Transformers]]'' movie, particularly when he and Ratchet are covering Witwicky in the big city battle. It's practically all he does.
* Parodied, hilariously, in ''[[Tropic Thunder]]''.
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* See the diamond heist in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]''.
* Senseless jumping and rolling makes up roughly half of the main character's fighting style in ''Dünyayı Kurtaran Adam,'' a.k.a ''[[Turkish Star Wars]]''. The other half consists of really inefficient flailing.
* In the 1973 ''[[The Three Musketeers (1973 film)|The Three Musketeers
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Mr. and Mrs. Smith]]'' when John Smith does a dramatic dive roll into the bushes while trying to hide from his wife and rolls right into a tangled pile of branches with an appropriately annoyed hiss of ''"OW!"''
* A special move of Riggs in the ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' series is to roll on the ground while unloading with his pistol.
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