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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.
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== 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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