History Main / AwesomenessByAnalysis

* ''WebVideo/DreamShorts'': In "LetsPlay/{{Dream}} In Minecraft Manhunt", Dream calculates the exact way he should move to dodge an arrow by 5 pixels while also perfectly retaining his forward momentum.

Compare SherlockScan. Contrast with FailedASpotCheck. Not to be confused with this site's very {{Analysis}} page.

* In ''Film/TheWall2017'', this is how Ize manages to locate [[{{ColdSniper}} Juba]]'s hideout. He takes in consideration several factors like the delay between the bullet hitting the ground and the gunshot sound, the angle in which the bullet that hit him entered his leg and, most importantly, the background noise in Juba's radio call.

** The Ultimate Detective, [[spoiler: Kyoko Kirigiri]] is a milder version. She regularly performs {{Sherlock Scan}}s that lead her to correctly theorizing the identity of each killer, and manages to deduce the Mastermind's psychology, motives, intentions, and several exploitable weak points with no more information than the player is given. She also displays a SpiderSense for when her loved ones are in danger, [[spoiler: with it being explained in ''Danganronpa: Kirigiri'' that this ability stems from her deductive skills. When somebody is in grave danger, Kirigiri naturally turns her SherlockScan up a notch and jumps through most of the intermediary steps involved in a typical deduction to arrive at the conclusion almost instantaneously, with even her unsure how she got there. The details she has been passively collecting through her surroundings just raise a red flag and tell her to respond in a specific way.]]

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue Recreation'' has Sarge deduce the problems back at base from a single phone call, begining with [[ProfessionalButtKisser Simmons]] answering casually intead of following protocol. As shown in the video clip bellow.

* The Huns prove their tracking prowess when [[BigBad Shan Yu]] tosses them a doll his falcon retrieved and asked them "what do you see?" Black pine from the high mountains, a white horse hair from an Imperial stallion, and the scent of sulfur from cannons mean the doll came from a village in the Tung Shao Pass, where an imperial army is waiting to ambush them. Thus it is established at least Shan Yu's elites are not DumbMuscle, but thoroughly professional and highly dangerous soldiers.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Po is able to learn advanced martial-arts techniques like the Wuxi Finger Hold by seeing them performed and just a small amount of practice.

* The Huns in ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' prove their tracking prowess when [[BigBad Shan Yu]] tosses them a doll his falcon retrieved and asked them "what do you see?" Black pine from the high mountains, a white horse hair from an Imperial stallion, and the scent of sulfur from cannons mean the doll came from a village in the Tung Shao Pass, where an imperial army is waiting to ambush them. Thus it is established at least Shan Yu's elites are not DumbMuscle, but thoroughly professional and highly dangerous soldiers.

* ''Film/BlackPantherWakandaForever:'' Riri Williams is able to calculate how to shoot down a spy drone in such a way that it will land on a police blockade that is in Shuri and Okoye's path. And that's ''before'' the police have even properly set it up.
* ''Film/TheBourneSeries'': Jason Bourne is a master at this, calmly assessing a situation before springing into action, such as in ''The Bourne Supremacy'' when he stops to study the train schedule in Berlin while being chased by cops.

* This is the whole premise of the Thai martial arts film ''Film/{{Chocolate}}'', in which an autistic girl is able to become a face-kicking machine by memorizing techniques she sees when watching Creator/BruceLee movies and observing lessons at a nearby Muay Thai school. Her greatest challenge is against a man with what is implied to be Tourette's syndrome - his tics completely throw off her ability to read him.
* Richard B. Riddick's badassitude stems not only from his fighting skill but also from his deductive reasoning. In ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick2004'', it is hinted that the entire series of events that transpired at the Crematoria prison was a GambitRoulette masterminded by Riddick. The Crematoria prison escape begins with Riddick giving a detailed description of what the guys currently escaping the prison are doing and concludes by saying it's a good plan. When a mercenary who didn't get out asks him how he knows their plan, he replies, "It was mine."
* In the Kid N Play movie ''Film/ClassAct'', uber-nerd Duncan becomes a star football player by using geometry and physics to kick perfect field goals.

* The winning shot ''Film/HappyGilmore'' uses to defeat Shooter [=McGavin=] is definitely awesome by analysis.

* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'' has Seaman Jones, whose sensitive ears can tell if people are singing on a distant submarine, can pick up [[SovietSuperScience unique submarine sounds]] that the computer thinks is a result of geology, and can tell if a torpedo is Russian just by listening to the pitch it makes as it passes over -- although the last one is more of a GeniusBonus, as Soviet-design torpedoes did use smaller props operating at higher RPM, thus producing a distinctively higher pitch.
* In ''Film/IcePrincess'', Creator/MichelleTrachtenberg plays a math and physics nerd who applies her skills to becoming a figure skater, utilizing it to figure out how fast an ideal spin is and how much power she needs to apply to do it, and so on. She goes from 0 to competing for a U.S. Nationals spot in a few weeks.
* This is subverted in the film ''Film/ImJuli''. The main character, a physics teacher, must get a car across a river with a [[BenevolentArchitecture conveniently placed ramp]]. He does some calculations in the sand, drives the car off the ramp, and sails through the air...only to land in the middle of the river.

-->'''Mac:''' We’re playing the Yankees. No one out. Scales is on first, great speed. Lou’s up. 2-1 count. Abbott’s on the mound, lefty. Lonnie’s on deck, and remember he’s a switch hitter. What do you do?\\
'''Billy:''' ''[thinking]'' What’s the score?\\

'''Billy:''' Who’s catching? Who’s rested in the bullpen? Who’s up in the 9th for the Yankees?\\

'''Billy:''' Okay. I let Lou hit away. With Mattingly holding Scales, he’s got that big hole to hit through.\\
'''Mac:''' No. See, that’s what I’m talking about. You got lefty against lefty. Lou’s a good bunter. You only need one run, so you sacrifice the go-ahead run to 2nd with only one out.\\
'''Billy:''' No. You sacrifice him to second, they walk Lonnie and bring in Steve Farr to pitch to Spencer. So you’ve taken the bat out of two best hitters, our 3 and 4 men. And you’ve got Spencer, a righty with no speed against Farr and his palm ball. Which means…\\
'''Mac:''' [[OhCrap Double play.]] (a pause) You could pitch hit for Spencer.\\
'''Billy:''' Now you’ve taken the bat out of our 3, 4, and 5 hitters. Not exactly a great trip through the heart of our order.\\

'''Mac:''' Yeah. What’s he need me for?

* ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter''. After Alice is forced to put down her firearm by Dr. Isaacs, she does a ''Film/SherlockHolmes'' style analysis of how she could kill him with three different {{Improvised Weapon}}s on his table. Then Dr. Isaacs reveals he has been upgraded with predictive software, and runs the same simulations to counteract each possible move and kill Alice instead.
* It's played with in ''Film/RoadTrip'' -- Ruben calculates that the car will need to be going [[UsefulNotes/AmericanCustomaryMeasurements 50 miles/hour]] to jump the broken bridge. After EL spits over the gap -- and causes the bridge to collapse further -- he revises it to 75. They make the jump fine...but the car's axles break and, after they all get clear, [[EveryCarIsAPinto it blows up]].

* Literature/SherlockHolmes has always had shades of this, but the [[Film/SherlockHolmes2009 2009 movie]] makes it explicit by showing his analysis, step by step, of how to beat the living shit out of an opponent. The 2011 sequel, ''[[Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows A Game of Shadows]]'' takes this even further with [[spoiler:Holmes and Moriarty deadlocked in an Awesomeness by Analysis duel ''in their minds'' before a single punch is thrown.]]

* For all that the franchise plays it straight with many characters, ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' averts it for Khan himself. Spock observes that "he is intelligent, but inexperienced" in space combat, and notes his "two-dimensional thinking". Kirk then proceeds to kick Khan's ass in space combat, defeating or bypassing every single one of Khan's ship's advantages and taking advantage of Khan's unfamiliarity with the equipment and how to use it to best advantage. In this case, raw intelligence simply cannot defeat experience, knowledge, and sheer treachery.
-->"I'll say this for him: he's consistent."
* In the film ''Film/TheThirteenthWarrior'', Ibn Fahdlan (Creator/AntonioBanderas) learns Norse simply by [[TimeCompressionMontage listening to the Vikings' campfire talk]]. In the book, he spends most of the story speaking Latin to the one Viking who knows it, and his comprehension of Norse slowly grows over time.
* Juror #9 in ''Film/TwelveAngryMen'', once convinced to examine the testimony and evidence more clearly, uses clues from the witnesses' appearances in court to poke holes in their testimony. The biggest example is [[spoiler:realizing an eyewitness was glasses-dependent solely by the indents on her nose, and couldn't have seen the crime well enough to identify the murderer]].
* In ''{{Film/The Wall 2017}}'', this is how Ize manages to locate [[{{ColdSniper}} Juba’s]] hideout. He takes in consideration several factors like the delay between the bullet hitting the ground and the gunshot sound, the angle in which the bullet that hit him entered his leg and, most importantly, the background noise in Juba’s radio call.
* Victor Creed, a clawed and beast-like creature with abilities similar to ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' faces John Wraith, a man who can instantly teleport. Creed [[spoiler:uses his brain, not his mutant power, to predict the exact location of John Wraith's next teleport destination. Creed catches Wraith's spine mid-teleport, and comments on how Wraith's weakness was his predictability]].

** There are some hints that [[spoiler:Kokichi Oma]] of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' shares this talent for analytics, being extremely intelligent to the point of ''writing a script that correctly predicts everyone's words and reactions'' for Kaito to follow in the fifth class trial. And just like Junko and Izuru, he hates being bored.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'':

* The crew of HMS ''Venturer'' during WWII -- ''Venturer'' is the only submarine ever to sink another submarine while both boats were submerged. Not so impressive in modern subs, which are designed to do this, and the only reason it hasn't happened again is that (thank God) a major war hasn't broken out yet. But in a WWII sub, having calculated (i.e, with paper and pencils) a firing solution in three dimensions, a feat previously thought impossible in combat conditions? Awesome.

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[[caption-width-right:330:Baseball: [[GameOfNerds A thinking man's game]].]]

* The Omnidroid in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'' is the embodiment of this trope. In addition to being horribly strong and tough, it analyzes its surroundings and enemy moves to become a ruthlessly efficient CombatPragmatist. When Syndrome attacks the final version as part of his EngineeredHeroics scheme, we see that it quickly analyzes Syndrome's attack and realizes that Syndrome's remote control was giving him the advantage. The robot quickly negates the problem by blasting the remote off of Syndrome's arm.

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