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* ''[[Power Rangers]]'': their giant robot advances, it is being shot at, but the explosions from the projectiles are useless.
** A rare example of one of the Rangers doing this occurs in ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'', where Tommy does the walk towards the [[Monster of the Week]] while effortlessly beating aside some mooks, enters [[Super Mode|super dino mode]], then defeats the monster with ease.
** Kit Taylor, from ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]'' does this, as Kamen Rider ''Onyx'', to his mirror twin Adam, who had become Dragon Knight. Kit clearly [[Took a Level
** We also see it with Len. At one point, Kit had been tricked into distrusting him, and he was just generally having a bad day. So when he hears the mirror world sound, he takes out his [[Transformation Trinket|Advent Deck]]... and then puts it away. We next see him walking slowly and purposefully towards ''two'' mirror monsters, his [[Cool Shades]] of Badassitude on. He proceeds to beat them down ''without'' transforming, and send them running away.
== Professional Wrestling ==
* This is half of [[Professional Wrestling|The Undertaker's]] gimmick.
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[In Nomine]]'' by Steve Jackson Games, has this available to angels of Stone as a power called "Inevitability"—so long as the angel continues to pursue at all, their fleeing prey is at half speed. The effect is described as being like the classic horror movie ... no matter how quickly the victim tries to flee, the walking angel keeps getting closer and closer.
* ''[[Warhammer
** The Necrons are for the most part forced to use, and master, this trope-when they need to get around, they tend to teleport into position, ''then'' make a slow walk. In general, they don't as much dodge or block the attacks as take them head on. Their toughness is emphasized often [[All There in the Manual|in the fluff]].
** Another army that's prone to Slow Walking are the Thousand Sons, a faction of Chaos Space Marines backed by Tzeentch. They, like the Necrons, have a good reason for their lumbering gait: whilst the Necrons are really ancient skeletal robots, the Thousand Sons are, essentially, the souls of those Thousand Sons with no psychic powers trapped in their armor forever and ever, unless...evicted forcibly. It's only the non-psykers who do this, as the Sorcerers that lead them are capable of normal locomotion.
** [[All There in the Manual|In the fluff]], when the Tau enter [[Tranquil Fury|battle-rage]], they tend to do this on a ''battalion'' level, slowly pushing the battle line forward regardless of casualties while pouring a [[More Dakka|hail of gunfire]] into the enemy. This is said to happen sometimes when a particularly beloved Etheral is killed, [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|though the actual rules for such events happening tend to result in the opposite effect]].
*** Although essentially fixed with a particular Tau-only ''[[Expansion Pack|Planetstrike]]'' stratagem, where the death of their leader actually galvanizes the entire army into a state of fearlessness for a short time. For the Greater Good.
** Any unit in the game that benefits from the "Slow And Purposeful" special rule tends to do this, the rule allowing the unit to fire with weapons as if they stood still even if they have moved that turn - slowly though, as they always move as if through difficult terrain, which is on average slower than otherwise.
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== Web Comics ==
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Oasis does one of these during a [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020127 particularly psychotic] period in her life.
* In [[No Songs for The Dead]] Miranda Io does this as she is battling Romeo in the end of Chapter 2. Might also be considered as an [[Ominous Walk]] as Miranda's morality is slightly ambiguous.
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