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[[File:axecop.jpg|link=Axe Cop (Webcomic)|framethumb|350px|Axe Cop blows [[The Lonely Island|blows things up, and then walks away.]]]]

* This ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]'' / [[Sony]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHBrbumr-Hc advert] involves [[James Bond]] unflinchingly ''flailing around''.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pblj3JHF-Jo This] [[Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game)|Call of Duty Black Ops]] commercial.

== Anime &and Manga ==

* ''[[Jo JoJoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Manga)|Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure]]'', when Jotaro finally encounters Dio on the streets of Cairo, in the face of seeing the effects of Dio's stand, he simply ignores the advice to run for his life and walks unwaveringly toward Dio for the final showdown.

* While nothing explodes, Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' has the most overexaggeratedover-exaggerated example of the [[Unflinching Walk]] ever. He walks through a '''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|skyscraper that falls on his head]]''' without even seeming to notice it.

* [[Little Miss Badass|Cinque]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker SStrikerS]]'' calmly walks away as a raging inferno starts behind her after she blows up one of the Ground Forces HQ's shield generators.

* Done several times in ''[[Monster (Animemanga)|Monster]]'', usually by the [[Dissonant Serenity|extraordinarily calm]] [[Complete Monster|Johan,]] but once or twice by other characters.

* Dekoppa [https://web.archive.org/web/20090216190527/http://www.onemanga.com/Majin_Devil/9/28/ here] from ''[[Majin Devil]]''does one with a bundle of pipes while striding towards an ancient devil who produces soundwaves that reduces concrete down to its very atoms.He is also a [[Badass Bookworm]].

* While arguably conflicting with manga [[Canon]], [[The Atoner|Kenshin Himura]] in the ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' OVA ''Tsuiokuhen'' has him walking away from the blazing hut that was once his home where {{spoiler|he left the corpse of his wife Tomoe Yukishiro whom he accidentally killed in his final showdown with the [[Big Bad]]}}

* ''[[Bleach]]'': [[Stoic Spectacles|Ishida]] [[Badass Bookworm|Uryuu]] did this after blowing a hole under Yammy Riyalgo's feet. Made cooler via a [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] shot.

* [[Battle Butler|Sebastian]] does this in episode 2 of ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]''. [http://i51.tinypic.com/2u4lw90.png Amazing.] [[Catch Phrase|He is, after all, one hell of a butler.]]

* In the ''[[Transformers]]'' fandom, there is an infamous picture of Pat Lee and the other Dreamwave founders doing this while walking away from an explosion. Dreamwave imploded after not paying its employees. On many sites, the mere mention of Pat Lee or Dreamwave will cause the picture to be posted.

* [[Warren Ellis]] loves this trope (see ''[[Thunderbolts]]'') and loves subverting it (see ''[[Nextwave]]'').

* In a ''[[Twisted ToyfareToyFare TheaterTheatre]]'' strip about Sam Worthington (star of ''[[Avatar]]'') infiltrating the Manly Men of Action at James Cameron's behest, this is part of his training. "Ow! [[Bruce Willis (Creator)|Mr. Willis]], the explosion singed off my back hair!" "That's good! Manly men don't have body hair. Now keep walking all slow!"

* Faren Brosca in ''[[Dragon Age: theThe Crown of Thorns]]'' calmly walks away from the center of the proving arena and towards the exit after beating Seweryn and the twins, respectively. Both were [[Curb Stomp Battle|curbstomp battles]] made particularly awesome by the fact that he was undercover, wearing his Dark Wolf attire. Said attire consists of a dark leather armor suit, a black cloak, which is more of an [[All-Encompassing Mantle]], a black scarf (covered his nose and lower face) whose ends flowed through the air behind him ''and'' an equally black headband that doubled as a mask (covered his upper face but had eye holes), also with the bands tying it in place billowing behind him in a dramatic breeze. All the while, the crown was either staring in awe or cheering... and he's not even the protagonist.

* [[Death Note (Manga)|Light and Matt]] in ''[[Point of Succession (Fanfic)|Point of Succession]]'' when they stoically make their way through Beyond Birthday's villain lair that has been booby-trapped with all kinds of explosives.

* A early example is seen in ''[[Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins]]'' (1985) after Remo (Fred Ward) blows up a jeep.

* Astrid from ''[[How to Train Your Dragon]]'', the [[Love Interest]], is first seen [http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/how_to_train_your_dragon07.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/00030788.html&usg=__hzDQQkYHOE1FoM0S4dXHJkW4CPQ=&h=1530&w=3600&sz=188&hl=en&start=0&sig2=Sxmyn4XzxJMAZgD0qXjZsA&zoom=1&tbnid=d_EGjmNd_HjvWM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=204&ei=gK7cTJDHAYOdlgesq7HhBQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dastrid%2Bhow%2Bto%2Btrain%2Byour%2Bdragon%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26biw%3D1280%26bih%3D866%26tbs%3Disch:1,isz:l&um=1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=99&vpy=286&dur=831&hovh=146&hovw=345&tx=141&ty=67&oei=gK7cTJDHAYOdlgesq7HhBQ&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=28&ved=1t:429,r:5,s:0 walking out of a huge explosion], almost model-like (complete with [[Hair Flip]]!)

* ''[[X -Men (Filmfilm)|X -Men]]'': Storm, quietly advancing on Toad.

* Parodied in ''[[Windstruck]]''. As the heroine drags a criminal from an overturned car, her partner just happens to drop his lit cigarette into the leaking gasoline. Cue explosion as she poses on the criminal Captain Morgan style.

* Less of an [[Unflinching Walk]] so much as an unflinching-sitting-at-the-bar-sipping-his-martini: The pre-credits sequence of the [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] film ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]'', where Bond is the only one at the bar not to react to the huge explosion he planted earlier.

** The ''[[GoldenGoldenEye Eye007 (1997 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Golden Eye 1997]]'' video game has this after the Streets level.

** A rather good HDTV advert around the time of the [[Merchandise-Driven|insanely]] [[Cash Cow Franchise|merchandised]] ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]'' was nothing but Daniel Craig doing this in slow motion. Turned [[Up to Eleven]] as he actually was getting pummelled by flying debris, [[The Stoic|but continued to look grimly at the camera.]]

* Also subverted in ''[[The Dark Knight]]:'' The Joker does something like an unflinching walk out of the hospital, then stops as the explosion peters out. He then stands there fiddling with the detonator until the ''rest'' of the bombs go off, visibly startling him, and he hightails it out of there (all of which, it should be noted, were [[Throw It In|adlibbedad-libbed by Ledger]] after a special effects failure).

* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20090422204658/http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/ironman/large_tv.html the trailers] to the film ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]'' (retained in the film itself). [[Iron Man]] dodges a tank shell and then fires a tiny, wrist-mounted rocket at the tank. He doesn't even wait for the rocket to explode before turning around to begin his [[Unflinching Walk]]. Combine that imagery with the opening riff of the Black Sabbath song of the same name and you have [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the ultimate in superhero badassery]].

* Slightly subverted in ''[[From Dusk Tilltill Dawn]].'' Seth and Richie Gecko are bickering with each other while walking out of the exploding store. Richie had been shot in the hand, and Seth is annoyed that Richie is unable to keep a "low profile." Neither plays attention to the store they just blew up.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Evil-possessed]] [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] does it in [[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|the third movie]], after throwing one of Harry's pumpkin bombs back at him.

* Used in ''[[Black Hawk Down]]''; every time [[Mc Knight]]McKnight's convoy stops, he gets out of his truck and strolls around, apparently oblivious to the bullets/RPGs flying all around him, to find out what's going on.

* In ''[[X Men (Film)|X-Men Origins: Wolverine]]'', Wolverine does this away from an exploding helicopter.

** [[The Colbert Report (TV)|Stephen Colbert]] included in a list of Wolverine's powers the ability to "Make things explode behind him"

* Tony Anthony's character does this in the 1970s barely-a-western ''[[Get Mean]]''.

* In ''[[John Carpenter's Vampires]]'', James Woods gets one of these after the Big Bad attacks and slaughters his vampire hunting team at a post vamp-kill party. More badass points for this since the reason he is blowing up the motel is NOT to avenge his friends and kill anybody, but rather because he feels that it's the best way to hide any evidence.

* Even ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' has one instance, performed by - of all things - '''an Ent'''. After one of the ents busts up Isengard's dam, he casually walks away as the torrential water eruption breaks through and floods the basin. "Don't be hasty" indeed.

** As a little aside, that was an Ent being hasty. They really aren't remarkably fast, Example: their charge to Isengard took almost a minute and a half, despite the shortest one having a good twenty -foot pace, and only a couple hundred feet to cover. The one that broke the dam was at least twice that, so a forty -foot pace. Ten, possibly twelve steps in 90 seconds, running.

** "How do they walk away in movies without flinching when it explodes behind them!!? There's no way!! The movie industry is completely irresponsible for the way they portray explosions!!"

* Used in ''[[The New Guy]]'' when Dizzy/Gil walks away from the girls who invited him to a party. He looks back and gets an [[Oh Crap]] expression on his face because he just set the school statue on fire.

* Used in ''[[Kung Pow! Enter the Fist]]'' after Master Pain set the Chosen One's house on fire.

* Surprisingly, subverted in [[The a A-Team (Filmfilm)|the 2010 ''A-Team'' movie]] - when the {{spoiler|container with the plates}} explodes, the blastwave knocks the entire team off their feet.

* Warren Beatty pulls off one of these in the ''[[Dick Tracy (Filmfilm)|Dick Tracy]]'' movie, although he's not walking but wearing a deadpan expression while firing a Tommy gun as a car explodes behind him.

* In ''[[Terminator 2]]'', the T1000 does one of these after being INSIDE''inside'' the truck that exploded. It walks, in silvery form, calmly and casually [[Out of the Inferno|out of the fireball]], and just as calmly recomposes its camouflage form and walks on.

* During ''[[Scream (Filmfilm)|Scream]] 2'', Sidney {{spoiler|shakes off the reporters and confidently walks through the college campus as the film ends}}.

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Smallville]]'', in the aptly-titled episode ''Justice'', the proto-Justice League did this. This is both an example of the [[Power Walk]] subset and a [[Shout-Out]] to the ''[[Justice League (animation)|Justice League]]'' series's original opening.

*** In fact, he was told not to expect a massive explosion, and that most of it would be put in with special effects afterwards. When the whole tent set exploded behind him, he had to end up doing the [[Unflinching Walk]] for real, because he knew they couldn't afford a second take.

* In an episode of ''[[Stargate Atlantis (TV)|Stargate Atlantis]]'', Ronon Dex is forced to fight several enemies. In one case he casually turns away from a foe who is down but not out. He then tosses a grenade over his shoulder without breaking stride.

{{quote| '''Traitor''': Where are you going?<br />

* In ''[[Human Target]]'', Guerrero gets a great one of these, blowing up the CIA agent who threatened his kid.

{{quote| '''Guerrero''':He's my world. You understand? That's my kid.}}

** But ''[[Power Rangers RPM (TV)|Power Rangers RPM]]'' makes up for it. Not only does one episode lampshade such explosions, but the Blue Ranger's attempt at fixing a glitch in his morpher runs the risk of cranking the blast [[Up to Eleven]]... so he aims the Exploding Fart at [[The Dragon]] and her [[Mooks]] and fires away. Needless to say, the bad guys aren't so unflinching.

** This was parodied in a great scene on the Kamen Rider Decade special features, where various Kamen Riders hold a footrace to see who has the fastest landspeed. Most of the other Riders make a show of it, but Black just does an [[Unflinching Walk]] around the track. The other Kamen Riders proceed to reset the finishing line tape for him and declare him the winner when he finally gets to the end.

* In one episode of ''[[CSI: Miami]]'', [[Badass]] CSI agent Horatio Caine finds a bomb in a car they have impounded. Realizing he has only minutes until it detonates, he jumps in, drives the car out of the garage, through the streets of Miami (with [[V8 Engine Noises|appropriate roaring engine noises]], weaving in and out of traffic, etc.) and races to a deserted stretch of beach. He then calmly takes his sunglasses off, gets out of the car, [[Glasses Pull|puts his sunglasses back on]] and executes an [[Unflinching Walk]], complete with badass black clothes and sunglasses.

{{quote| '''Horatio Caine''': [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}3d54Ok6Uz_A Burn baby burn].}}

** [[GrissomQuip Oneto LinerBlack|YYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!]]

** This happens again in the third season premiere when {{spoiler|the two mysterious bald Mexican gangsters murder everyone in the truck they are using to cross the border into Texas, after which they set fire to the aforementioned vehicle.}}

* In the pilot episode of ''[[Smith]]'', although the protagonists are doing an [[Unflinching Walk]] away from their exploding getaway boat, the scene is rendered decidedly more depressing than [[Badass]] by the choice of background music ([[Imogen Heap]] 's "Hide and Seek") and the fact that the boat contained the corpse of a colleague who didn't survive the heist.

* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'': After a corrupt cop kills another evolved human, Magneto-esque Volume 5 [[Big Bad]] Samuel gets his revenge by using his earth controlling powers to destroy the police station. As the station crumbles to the ground (complete with mushroom cloud-like plume of smoke), Samuel walks away with arguably one of the most badass faces ever seen.

* In a variant, Gibbs of ''[[NCIS (TV)|NCIS]]'' stomped out of a room as a huge real-time explosion took place ''on a screen'' behind him. {{spoiler|He was disgusted by his superiors' refusal to call back some marines who were headed for the munitions ship, and wasn't going to linger and watch good men die unnecessarily. So disgusted, in fact, that he quit entirely.}}

** In one of the earlier seasons, he calmly puts his shades into his coat as a trailer explodes in a field behind him. Tony and Kate both crouch and cover.

{{quote| Gibbs: "You might want to-" <br />

Trailer explodes, Tony and Kate duck. <br />

*** This was eventually put into the opening sequence.

* The finale of [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the reimagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'']] had [[Big Bad|Cavil]] doing this, followed by a horde of Centurions as he walked through ''Galactica'''s hallways while a battle was going on around him.

* Not really a "walk", but when [[Myth BustersMythBusters]] was replicating the results of the Dynamite Dog myth (dynamite sinking a car on the ice), Jamie had his back to the explosion and didn't look at it as he himself said the countdown and set it off. Adam, on the other hand, watched the whole thing.

* Castiel's first appearance on ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'', in which the entire building shakes, the door bursts open (it was ''barred''), and he walks in amid showers of sparks from bursting lightbulbs, completely ignoring said sparks, the many protective symbols covering the walls, four shotgun blasts, and a frickin' magic knife to the chest. Well, OK, he doesn't ignore the knife. He glances at it, pulls it out, and casually drops it.

{{quote| Hey, look at me, casually<br />

<s>Walking away</s> [[Last Chorus Slow-Down|Stumbling down]] like Action Movie <s>Hero Boy</s> [[Last Chorus Slow-Down|Blooper Reel]]<br />

In slow-mo, everything glowing<br />

* The video for "Prayer" by [[Disturbed (Music)|Disturbed]] has the singer continue walking slowly and speaking with [[God]] while explosions and car accidents happen all around him.

* The last ten seconds of [[Rammstein (Music)|Rammstein]]'s video for Du Hast includes this.

* Michael Thorton walks away from the exploding Roman Ruins in [[Alpha Protocol]].

* The PC does this in [[Multiple Endings|two endings]] of [[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]. Your PC calmly strides away from the ruins of {{spoiler|1=LaCroix's building}} as bits of flaming debris come hurling into the ground next to him.

* ''[[Mega Man (Videovideo Gamegame)|Mega Man]]'' does this as Wily's fortress explodes (again) at the end of ''7''.

* Of all people, ''Princess Peach'' does this in the Subspace Emissary mode (one-player story mode) of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl''. Fox is up on his Arwing, blowing up the deck of the Halberd (on which Peach and Sheik are standing) and the glorious explosions blooming behind her seem to affect her as much as a warm breeze.

* In ''[[Call of Duty]] 4'', during the mission "One Shot, One Kill" Captain MacMillian and then-Lieutenant Price take down a Hind helicopter with their sniper rifles. The Captain then turns away from the crashing helicopter, quips "Good night, ya bastard," and does an [[Unflinching Walk]] away from it as it crashes. {{spoiler|On ''top'' of him. Price has to carry the Captain all the way to the extraction point.}} But the [[Badass]]-ness of that scene was so ''worth it.''

* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] got one or two of these in ''[[Sonic X (Anime)|Sonic X]]''.

** In the Death Egg Boss fight of ''[[Sonic Generations (Video Game)|Sonic Generations]]'', Classic Sonic lands and strikes a pose after mecha is destroyed, complete with small explosions.

* Even ''[[The Battle for Middle Earth (Video Game)|The Battle for Middle Earth]]'' has one instance, performed by - of all people - '''Treebeard'''. After he busts up Isengard's dam, he casually walks away as the torrential water eruption breaks through and floods the basin. "Don't be hasty" indeed. <small>(Based on a similar scene in the film, above.)</small>

** With the addition of C4 plastic explosive in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' (which can be remotely detonated), you can walk away from massive explosions anytime, anywhere. It's also demonstrated at the end of the teaser trailer.

** And [[Subverted]] in ''[[DLCDownloadable Content|Project Overlord]]'': Shepard's Unflinching Walk from a giant collapsing radio antenna is cut short when a ''very'' large piece of the antenna nearly pancakes the whole party, followed by Shepard and company ''running like hell'' when they [[Oh Crap|realize]] the whole thing is about to [[Death From Above|collapse on top of them.]]

* Rico can do this in ''[[Just Cause (Videovideo Gamegame)|Just Cause]]'', but if you're too close to it, it can still damage you.

* ''~[[Assassin's Creed~]]: Brotherhood'' has Unflinching Leaps of Faith: After setting up the explosives to destroy a Borgia Tower, Ezio calmly throws a torch to set them off, then strolls onto a protrusion and executes a Leap of Faith without any apparent concern for the [[Stuff Blowing Up]].

* This is without a doubt the most fun way to use the remote plastic explosive in ''[[GTA]]Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas]]'', and with the [[Free Rotating Camera]] you can make sure you've got the best possible viewpoint.

* Taken a step further in ''[[Twice Blessed (Webcomic)|Twice Blessed]]''. After Princess Pella Brightwing single-handedly takes out two constructs the size of houses that come after her, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140113133138/http://www.twiceblessedcomic.com/?webcomic_post=30 she calmly sits down to dig through her bag for a healing potion while the warforged titan she defeated blows up just feet away from her.]

* Played straight on [https://web.archive.org/web/20111211103511/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2011/01/project-0-page-211-big-finish.html this] page of ''[[Project 0]]''. The creators even invoke The Lonely Island in their description.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090830032655/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=20&issue=13 This] strip of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' lampshades the [[Unflinching Walk]] as a ''ninjitsu technique''.

** The poster for ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'''s crossover with ''[[Axe Cop (Webcomic)|Axe Cop]]'' has them doing a [[Power Walk]] with an explosion as the backdrop.

* An action movie cliché the author of ''[[Bug (Webcomic)Martini|Bug]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130516071145/http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/action-movies/ could do without].

* Played with in [http://www.housepetscomic.com/2011/08/01/the-only-way-to-end/ this] ''[[Housepets (Webcomic)|Housepets]]'' strip, in the story arc "The Great Water Balloon War".

* Lampshaded in [[The Angry Joe Show (Web Video)|The Angry Joe Show]] review of ''[[Just Cause (Videovideo Gamegame)|Just Cause 2]]'' when Rico jumps out of a building that explodes behind him. "Cool guys don't look at explosions!" comes up in the subtitles.

{{quote| "He did it! And he's not looking back at that cool explosion, he's a hero!"}}

* Korra blowing a giant fireball into [[Big Bad]] Amon's airship in ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' barely makes him break his stride. His minions, meanwhile, are blown away. This is especially impressive if his backstory, in which his parents were murdered and his face burned away by a firebender, is true.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140206121558/http://thechive.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/1321804155522.gif?w=504&h=364 These] two soldiers.

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