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Note that while the obstacle is ''usually'' a cliff, the ground, or a similar immobile object, it's not unheard of to pull this off with missiles, other vehicles, or other mobile targets.
[[Trope Namer|Named]] after the Quidditch technique where one team's Seeker will pretend to see the Snitch near the ground and go into a dive to attempt to lure the opposing Seeker into crashing into the ground. The Wronski Feint is first mentioned in ''[[
Sometimes peppers and ends a longer [[Try and Follow]] sequence or [[Aerial Canyon Chase]].
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* Appears in the movie of ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]''. It helps that {{spoiler|the Red Death's wings were shot full of holes so it ''can't'' pull up}}.
* In ''[[Independence Day]]'', Steven Hiller uses the canyon ploy to escape from the alien dogfighters. He then uses the actual Wronski Feint on his last pursuer, ejecting and deploying his chute, causing both plane and alien fighter to crash. Mostly justified since the chute obscures the alien's sight, and by the time it slides off the alien craft, it's too close to the canyon wall to pull up in time.
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* In a variation without canyon walls, the heroes of ''[[Pearl Harbor]]'' do this by flying their planes directly at each other, and then swerving at the last minute, causing their pursuers to crash into each other.
* Terrestrial variant: ''[[Batman Forever]]'' shows the Batmobile accelerating into a brick wall before using a combination of rocket boosters and a grappling hook to drive ''up the wall.'' The pursuers drive right into it.
* [[Intangible Man|Intangible Mutant]] heroine Kitty Pryde defeats the Juggernaut this way in ''[[X-Men: The Last Stand]]''. After leading him on a chase where she phases through multiple walls only for him to follow by smashing through them, she ends up in a cell with Leech, a young mutant whose powers dampen those of other mutants. When Juggernaut smashes in, she stands against the wall with Leech and taunts the villain by calling him a "dickhead". He charges, she and Leech dodge aside, and not knowing his powers don't work here, rams head first into the concrete wall, knocking himself out.
== Literature ==
* As mentioned above, it was demonstrated quite effectively in the Quidditch World Cup by Viktor Krum in the book ''[[Harry Potter and
* Skandranon, the hero of the Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon novel ''[[Heralds of Valdemar|The Black Gryphon]]'' does this in the first chapter of the book, when he's being pursued by enemy fliers. It's subverted by the fact that he promptly runs straight into a tree himself shortly thereafter. Of course, it was a tree on ''his'' team's side of the warzone, which is what he was really worrying about.
* In the [[X Wing Series]], Corran Horn pulls this off against a set of missiles, pulling up at the last second to cause them to crash into an enemy ship.
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* Dude Hennick pulls one against a Japanese fighter in ''[[Terry and the Pirates]]'' when the heroes are escaping from Temple Rock prison, causing the fighter to crash into a lake.
* One ''[[Garfield]]'' comic strip had the titular feline chasing a bird at ground-level, at full speed, only to have the bird pull up sharply (90° angle!) at the base of a tree. Garfield did not dodge.
== Tabletop Games ==
* The ''[[Planescape]]'' [[Splatbook]] ''Hellbound: The Blood War'' describes the Broken Wheel, a favorite strategy among the devils of Baator for Blood War skirmishes. It works as follows: the diabolic troops form a line with their backs to an obstacle (like a cliff's edge, lake of lava, or the River Styx) then goad the demonic troops into attacking, which given their chaotic nature, they're certain to do. The demons charge towards the center of the line, and then the line bends and breaks with the attack, splitting into two halves, which wheel around and join at the other end. Thus, the reformed line had the demonic troops pinned against the obstacle, and are often able to push them into it. It's amazing how much this trick works and the Abyssal hordes never learn, but then, [[Sanity Has Advantages| such is the nature of Chaos.]]
== Video Games ==
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* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade Game]]'', both Rocksteady and Beebop have a charge attack that can injure every player's Turtle in one charge. However, when both appear as a [[Dual Boss]] in stage four, they'll eventually do this in a way that lets you dodge so [[Crowning Moment of Funny| they collide with each other.]]
** This will also likely happen during the battle with Tokka and Rahzar in [[Turtles in Time|the sequel.]]
** You can also trick Rocksteady and Beebop into doing this in ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Shredder's Revenge]]'' (the game being one big [[Homage]] to the original) ''several'' times in the same boss fight. The two lunkheads just never learn.
== Web Comics ==
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