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[[File:swordlimbo1.jpg|link=Avatar: The Last Airbender|frame|Everybody limbo!]]
A common maneuver in a [[Sword Fight]]: one character will dodge a sword swipe by bending over backward as the opponent's blade whips horizontally over their body.
Often filmed from above and in [[Slow Motion]] to boot, ala [[Bullet Time]]. Sometimes the shot will also employ an extreme zoom to show the sword [[Close-Call Haircut|cutting through a loose strand of hair]]. Ooh, that [[Could Have Been Messy]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Hei of ''[[Darker
* Rock Lee pulls this off while drunk during his fight with Kimimaro in [[Naruto]].
* Mugen during his fight with Sara in ''[[Samurai Champloo]]''.
** Mugen also pulls this off in his first fight with Ukon/Shoryuu.
* Revy from ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' does this to duck Shenhua's throwing knives so that they can [[Deadly Dodging|kill the bad guys they were meant for instead of her]].
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* {{spoiler|Kaku}} from [[One Piece]] does this during his fight with Zoro.
** And Brook in his fight with Ryuuma, complete with the [[Close-Call Haircut]] (kind of inevitable given the size of Brook's [[Funny Afro]]).
* The titular character of ''[[Ranma ½
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Happens with Sam Carter in the "Emancipation" episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', albeit with a knife.
* In the [[Legend of the Seeker]], Kahlan and Cara do this ''all the goddamn time''. It turns out that when you have magic and you're fighting mooks with swords and all you're armed with is daggers or an Agiel, this is the proper way to not be exsanguinated. For those who don't know, an Agiel is a torture device that looks like a cheap dildo. We have no idea either, but it certainly doesn't have reach on [[Visual Innuendo|swords]] or [[Hurricane of Puns|polearms]].
** Sisters of the Light and Sisters of the Dark occasionally do this, often against Richard.
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== Film ==
* The Bride in ''[[Kill Bill]] vol. 1'', in her fight with Gogo and later the Crazy 88.
* The [[Film of the Book]] ''The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe'': Peter dodged a stab from the White Witch in this way.
* Popularized by Neo's bullet dodging sequence in ''[[The Matrix]]''. The sheer number of times this particular variation has been parodied itself is enough to warrant its own article. Why this trope wasn't titled [[Neo Limbo]] is a mystery in itself.
** A melee example occurs during the "Burly Brawl" battle in ''Reloaded'', where a ring of Smiths all bend out of the way when Neo swings at them. (From the Knox voiceover: "Limbo!")
** It's also in ''The Animatrix''.
* In the first ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' film, Peter Parker dodges a punch in this manner. He later avoids Green Goblin's razor blades with it.
* Similarly in ''[[Daredevil]]'', during their first encounter, Daredevil is able to successfully dodge razors thrown by Bullseye with this, which naturally pisses the hell out of him.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Futurama]]: Bender's Big Score!'', Hermes shows off his skills by literally limbo dancing under a sword. It's subverted when he {{spoiler|gets his head severed by the ''other'' sword that was mounted on one of those sword/shield/wall mount thingies}}.
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has used this twice so far:
** Zuko to Jet in "City of Walls and Secrets" -- In a "Making Of" special, Bryan Konietzko and Sifu Kisu were doing a motion-reference for the Sword Fight between Jet and Zuko (Bryan was Jet, Kisu was Zuko) and they did this part in slow-mo (as in they intentionally did it very slow to show of the rate of time; Bryan even had a blade of grass in his mouth).
** Sokka in "Sokka's Master", as shown above.
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