Super Reflexes: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Terminator Salvation]]'' shows that this is why the moto-terminators are so deadly; their cybernetic brains allow them to predict the movement of obstacles at high speeds <ref>(both the computing and the obstacles, that is)</ref>, effectively giving themselves [[Super Reflexes]]. At one point, one terminator slides under a bouncing tanker truck, rights itself and ''keeps firing at the retreating heroes.''

* A common ability for the robots in ''[[I, Robot (film)|I, Robot]]''

{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Sonny:}}''' By the time you have fired, I will have moved {{spoiler|Dr Calvin}}'s head into the path of your bullet.}}

{{quote|''' {{spoiler|Sonny:}}''' By the time you have fired, I will have moved {{spoiler|Dr Calvin}}'s head into the path of your bullet.}}

* Appears in the Serbian animated movie ''[[Technotise Edit I Ja]]''

* Maruti from ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'' is able to avoid bullets very quickly. This was shown when he had to face some gangsters.

* ''~D.A.R.Y.L.~'' has this ability due to being a cyborg.

* ''[[D.A.R.Y.L.]]'' has this ability due to being a cyborg.

* ''Remo Williams'' learns to dodge bullets.

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* This is one of the key abilities of windcrafters in the ''[[Codex Alera]]''. However, it's possible for someone to start damaging their body if they push the [[Super Speed]] aspects too far, since muscles and bones aren't designed to move that fast.

* Described in ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]'' when Luke fights a superfast droid assassin, opens himself to the Force, and time seems to slow way down.

{{quote| Luke felt as if he were moving at normal speed, though there was a crackling feeling to his motion, a sound like strong wind whistling about his ears.}}

{{quote|Luke felt as if he were moving at normal speed, though there was a crackling feeling to his motion, a sound like strong wind whistling about his ears.}}

* Possibly the first example ever of Super Reflexes appeared in the 1956 Science Fiction Classic (and proto-proto cyberpunk novel), ''[[The Stars My Destination]]'' (aka ''Tiger! Tiger!''). In it, the anti-hero protagonist has his nervous system and musculature rewired to allow a state of accelerated movement. It is notable in that it had a relatively realistic look at the effects and problems of the state: The color spectrum shifts down to red, energy expenditure means that you will starve to death if the state is held too long, and engaging in hand to hand combat with another accelerated fighter is essentially suicidal for both of you as the collision is nearly instantly fatal.

* Appears in ~Philip K. Dick~'s novel ''The Counter-Clock World''.

* Appears in [[Philip K. Dick]]'s novel ''The Counter-Clock World''.

* In ''[[Mistborn]]'', the metal atium effectively causes this when "burned" for power- technically it grants the wielder the ability to see a few seconds into the future, but in practice this results in almost literally unbeatable [[Super Reflexes]]- unless the other person has atium too, in which case the power is cancelled out.

* The ''[[Percy Jackson]]'' books explain that the demigods enhanced "Battle Reflexes" are the reason so many of them end up diagnosed with ADHD. (This an a similar explanation of dyslexia being the result of having a brain hardwired for ancient Greek were written in for the benefit of the authors son, who has both ADHD and dyslexia.)