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When the bullets, fists or pies are flying, expect one character to be able to wander through it all without so much as a nick, a scratch or a drop of cream.

 

See also [[Unflinching Walk]], [[Dissonant Serenity]], and [[While Rome Burns]].

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== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|Uncanny X-Men]]'' #141, Kitty Pryde underwent her first Danger Room session. She had to get past a gauntlet of deadly traps to reach a designated area and turn off the simulation. She simply closed her eyes and walked forward, phasing all the way. This scene is notable for being the very first recorded instance of [[Wolverine]] laughing.

* [[Plastic Man]]'s buddy Woozy Winks started out as "The Man Who Nature Protects!"-- ''natural disasters'' would spring up around him to protect him from enemies. (It was dropped after a few issues.)

 

== Film ==

* ''[[The Great Race]]'' had The Great Leslie strolling through a massive pie fight in a royal kitchen. It was his attempt to dodge one pie too many that led to his diving face first into the one pie that got him.

* ''[[Star Wars]]'' had R2D2 and C3PO amble across a corridor during a pitched firefight between Rebel and Imperial forces.

** And again in ''Attack of the Clones'', this time with C3PO "[[Hurricane of Puns|beside himself]]".

* {{spoiler|Lord Cutler Beckett's}} death scene in the third ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' movie was very much the serious version. He's walking down the stairs, which are blowing up behind him with chunks of wood flying around when he finally dies.

** Jack does this in the second movie. After the fight starts, the man starts wandering aimlessly through the pub, randomly trying on people's hats to replace the one he lost at the beginning of the movie. He narrowly avoids getting injured in some spectacularly funny ways (such as ducking to get a dropped hat off the floor and avoiding a flying bottle that smashes on the wall above him).

* In ''[[Mean Girls]]'' after the female population of the school has descended in to madness over the Burn Book, Regina stands at the top of the stairs and admires her handiwork as people run past and debris flies through the shot.

 

* This troper recalls an X-Men fanfic where a minor new character has a weird sort of combined luck/forcefield power, to the point where she can walk through a battlefield and not get hit. It was given an offhanded mention in the final story of the Sikudhani series.

* In the ''[[Naruto]]'' fan fic, [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4781296/1/Here_and_Now Here and Now] Yugito Nii, host of the Two-Tailed Cat, casually strolls through a battle between Cloud and Leaf ninja. Sasuke decides to take her out and finds out exactly why she was so calm.

 

== Literature ==

* War does this in ''[[Good Omens]]''. Justified in that she's War.

 

** In fact, in the former, The Doctor takes this a step further by casually walking inbetween two people having a ''swordfight'', cheerfully raising his hat to them as he does so.

* In ''[[Farscape]]'', Scorpius wanders through the corridors of his exploding Command Carrier in a state of shock, drifting unharmed past hordes of evacuees, exploding energy conduits, and bursting watertanks. For dramatic effect, apocalyptic choirs are singing in the background, cementing this moment as Scorpius' great [[Villainous Breakdown]].

 

== Music ==

* [[Fiona Apple]] did a cover of "Across the Universe" by [[The Beatles]]. In the music video, she is flowing through the riot without getting hit by their baseball bats, or cut by the broken glass. In fact; she doesn't even notice or acknowledge them.

 

== Mythology ==

* Various mediums portray Ares, the God of War, to do this is the midst of heated battles. Cause ya'know, he's the god of war.

** ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]''

 

== Video Games ==

* [[Super Smash Brothers|Peach]] strolls across the deck of the Halberd as Fox and Falco strafe it with laser blasts, starting a chain of explosions directly behind her. She doesn't seem to notice, and in fact, merrily twirls her parasol as she does.

* Happens in ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]'' at the end of the Mexican revolution, John Marston walks calmly through the embattled Escalera past both civilians and soldiers [[Dying Like Animals]].

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* Parodied in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' episode "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson" Springfield's [[The Mafia|Sicilian mobsters]] are [[Mob War|being fought by]] the [[Yakuza]] gangsters brought over from Japan. While everyone else is fighting, however, one tiny Yakuza member in a white suit is standing perfectly still as the fight rages around him. When Marge pulls Homer away from the fight, he complains, "But Marge, that little guy hasn't done anything yet. Look at him. He's going to do something soon, and you know it's going to be good!" Sure enough, as soon as Homer can no longer see the fight, a [[Kiai|ninja yell]] and a very loud "thump" are heard.

** "Homer, on your way out, if you wanna kill somebody, it would help me a lot."

* A food fight variation from ''[[The Critic]]'': "Give me your french fries! *GULP!* Give me your pot pies!"

 

* Wyatt Earp. Yes, [[Tombstone|that one]]. Despite being a real-life iconic badass, a [[US Marshal]], and perhaps the [[Ur Example]] of the [[The Wild West|Wild West]] lawman, he was never in his life grazed by a single bullet. There's even a story that says a thug fired on him with a 10-gauge shotgun, and every single piece of shot missed, passing harmlessly through his [[Badass Longcoat|duster]].

** This is showcased in the 1977 movie dedicated to him. During the campaign in the Philippines MacArthur is watching a battle from a distance from the safety of his car escort and some of his subordinates come to inform him that Washington has promoted him to the rank of General of the Army making him a 5 star General. Immediately after this enemy artillery comes close to his position and everyone except him flinches for cover. This man had no fear of battle.

 

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