Unnecessary Combat Roll: Difference between revisions

* ''[[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.

* In the ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' movie, America pulls one off in the only action scene in the series.

 

== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

* Played with in ''[[Max Payne (series)|Max Payne]]''. Max himself usually doesn't roll so much as jump and fall over in slow motion, while firing his guns. By contrast, the gangsters and other enemies Max fights WILL do a gun roll to leap in front of you before shooting... and, since they can't shoot at the same time as they roll, this gives you a few seconds to shoot them. In slow motion. While falling over.

* Late 1990s Bruce Willis vehicle ''[[Apocalypse]]'' theoretically allows the player to spend the game's entire duration as a computer-generated, soundbyte-hurling, constantly-revolving Bruce Willis, which may be the most absurd example possible.

* ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]]'' has an odd take on this: if you shoot an enemy when he starts his side roll, he will complete the animation, stand up and then die (or flinch in pain if he's not killed).

* ''[[Gears of War]]'' and ''[[Army of Two]]'' allow your characters to roll, generally to avoid being hit and to quickly move in a direction. In ''[[Gears of War]] 2'', this is actually the fastest way to move, roadie-running (essentially sprinting while crouching) when you're not rolling and attempting to roll as often as possible.

* In ''[[Transformers Animated]],'' Sentinel Prime did this, as one more sign of just how much of a walking ego he is.

* Done by [[Adam West]] in ''[[Family Guy]]'' (the episode where Peter establishes the country of Petoria) so he can get to his desk.

* Attempted once by Finn in ''[[Storm Hawks]]'', which led him to faceplant into a rock wall.

* Done by Zak Saturday in the first episode of ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]''; entering a room after the combat had finished. Forgivable because he is ''11''.

== [[Web Original]] ==

* One story had a highly-trained, government-sponsored superhero enter the lobby of a hostile-held building by ''cartwheeling'' through the door. She then walks across the lobby and executes a "tactical manoeuvre" by jumping, skipping, rolling, jumping again, then hiding behind a pillar. It becomes impossible to take the story seriously from that point on, especially since said lobby was completely empty. Did she know the lobby was empty? Was the point of the manoeuvre that no-one ''watching'' could take it seriously?

 

 

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