Unnecessary Combat Roll: Difference between revisions

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* Parodied in ''[[Yotsubato|Yotsuba&!]]'' (seen above) when the title character, after watching one too many Japanese gangster movies, decides to take out her neighbors on a [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] with a water pistol: she kicks open Ena's bedroom door, stops to crouch down, does an awkward somersault, and comes up gun squirting.

* Subverted in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'': During a training session, Teana tries to avoid Nanoha's shots by making some rolls on the ground, and Nanoha criticizes her action ("Now, if you move like that, it's all over") and the point of the lesson is to teach her how to [[Shoot the Bullet]] instead as a way of defending without having to move.

* ''[[K-On!|Ritsu]]'''s [[Dynamic Entry]] into Yui's room involves a half-assed combat roll (shown in three different angles, to boot). She gets punched in the head for her troubles.

** Sora could do this in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]: Chain of Memories'' and doing so allowed one to avoid certain attacks. Riku had the much preferred dodge jump, where he jumps... and lands behind the opponent, facing his back letting you unleash hell.

** Lampshaded in the [[Chain of Memories]] manga where when {{spoiler|Marluxia}} takes away all of Sora's skills, Sora comments, "So dodge roll is just a somersault now?"

** ''358/2 Days'' gives the Dodge Roll to Roxas. In addition to the normal roll, you could upgrade it to: stagger enemies on contact, reflect projectiles, or activate automatically in response to attack. Made funnier in Mission Mode where you can choose to play as any of the Organization, and watch them roll about with weapons such as a shield, a book, a tomahawk, a claymore and a scythe.

** ''[[Birth By Sleep]]'' goes back-and-forth on this. Ven can use Dodge Roll just like Sora and Roxas (he can even upgrade it with a magic attack), while Terra gets a more reasonable forward charge. [[Action Girl|Aqua]], however, gets a [[She Fu|dodge]] ''[[She Fu|cartwheel]]''.