History Main / CoincidentalDodge

* ''{{Futurama}}'' - During "The Duh-Vinci Code" Animatronio blows a dart towards Leela, who bends down to pick it up. Perhaps a [[{{Subverted Trope}} subversion]] because the dart hits Bender in the eye, but due to his being a robot and all, doesn't phase him.

* Mobster Mickey Cohen survived any number attempts on his life by such means as bending down at the last second to check a scratch on his car.

* ''Futurama'' - During "The Duh-Vinci Code" Animatronio blows a dart towards Leela, who bends down to pick it up. Perhaps a ''subversion'' because the dart hits Bender in the eye, but due to his being a robot and all, doesn't phase him.

* A speciality of the protagonist of ''AngelDensetsu''.

** In ''The Pink Panther Strikes Again'', Dreyfus puts a price on Clouseau's head. An insane number of hitmen try to kill him at the same time; Clouseau dodges them and they all kill each other.

* ''HotShots'': A guard that [[strike: Rambo]] Topper is shooting arrows at does this a dozen times, only realizing it after Topper ran out of ammunitions when he turns around and sees the door behind him filled with arrows. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Then Topper improvises.]]

* Miles Dyson excapes assasination by Sarah Conner in {{Terminator}} 2: JudgementDay, when he is disturbed by his son's remote control truck.

* 'FamilyGuy'' - Lois Griffin is the target of a mob contract foiled by chance.

* In ''Pokemon'', when May attempts to catch Munchlax, all of Combusken's attacks are dodged by Munchlax by... picking up pokeblocks, and lying down to take a nap.

* Although not meeting the requirements of {{Chance the Gardener}}, Lois Griffin of ''FamilyGuy'' is the target of a mob contract foiled by chance.
* [[{{Subversion}} Subverted]] in ''Series/{{Dilbert}}'', in which "the BigBad" is replaced by "the [=FBI=]" (close enough), "coupla assassins" are replaced by "a [=SWAT=] team", and "Chance the Gardener" is replaced by "Chance the Reckless Driver, Terrorist and Mass Murderer".
* Happens approximately {{Once an Episode}} in ''InspectorGadget'', with Gadget blissfully unaware of the MAD agents out to do him in.

* This happens in ''{{Skip Beat}}!'' when Kanae's rival tries to injure her and steal her spot in an ad, only to be foiled by Kyoko, who keeps pulling Kanae out of danger without knowing it. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues]], with the rival and her mooks getting off worst.

* A speciality of the protagonist of AngelDensetsu.

* The premise behind ''KillDoctorLucky'' is that you are trying to, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Kill Doctor Lucky]]. Nobody can directly stop an assassination attempt since they're always done out of sight, but other players can play "fail cards" that cause your plan to fail due to Doctor Lucky's luck.

* [[CalvinAndHobbes Hobbes]], as is his imaginary tiger nature, would have pounced on [[CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] from behind if Calvin didn't bend down at the last moment to pick up a dime.

* Inspector Clouseau of ''ThePinkPanther'' series is a target of this at least once, in ''{{A Shot in the Dark}}''.

* The climax of ''{{The Day of the Jackal}}''. The entire rest of the film focuses on the assasins' build-up to the attempt.
** Same goes for the Book on which the Film was based on.

* The page picture as of this writing is from ''{{Avernum}}'', drawn by PhilFoglio to illustrate the LuckStat.

* ''TheSimpsons'': Grampa Simpson and Homer have both done this a few times.
** The most famous example being when Homer bending over for a bobby pin gets Maude Flanders killed.

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* In ''SumomoMomomo'', Sanae is walking with Kushi when Iroha throws a pencil at the back of her head at breakneck speed. Sanae sneezes and the pencil misses leading you to believe she dodged it on accident. Later at the end of that same chapter, Iroha tries the same method only for Sanae to sneeze again and give Iroha a glare, telling Iroha that she's actually dodging on purpose, however everyone else still takes it as a moment of luck dodge.

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* This happens in [[SkipBeat Skip Beat!]] when Kanae's rival tries to injure her and steal her spot in an ad, only to be foiled by Kyoko, who keeps pulling Kanae out of danger without knowing it. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues]], with the rival and her mooks getting off worst.
* In SumomoMomomo Sanae is walking with Kushi when Iroha throws a pencil at the back of her head at breakneck speed. Sanae sneezes and the pencil misses leading you to believe she dodged it on accident. Later at the end of that same chapter, Iroha tries the same method only for Sanae to sneeze again and give Iroha a glare, telling Iroha that she's actually dodging on purpose, however everyone else still takes it as a moment of luck dodge.

* The climax of ''{{The Day of the Jackal}}''. The entire rest of the film focus' on the assasins build up to the attempt

* In NoOneLivesForever, you have to protect a politician who keeps bending over to pick up change that keeps falling through a hole in his pocket.

* [[TheSimpsons Grampa Simpson]] and Homer have both done this a few times.

* Happens approximately OnceAnEpisode in ''InspectorGadget'', with Gadget blissfully unaware of the MAD agents out to do him in.

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