History Main / ExcuseMeComingThrough

Can also be a StockPhrase, in which case, if the speaker is in the military, he will likely shout ''"Make a hole!"''[[note]]particularly older servicepeople, as nowadays the phrase is considered offensive with the increasing integration of women into the armed services[[/note]]

** Done later by [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9234 Kiel]] when fleeing her Imperial pursuers, including cutting through someone's house.

* The memorable [[MundaneMadeAwesome Wheelchair Race]] against PaulNewman through the hospital in ''Film/SilentMovie''. Since it's through a ''hospital'', there are quite a few scenes of people rushing to get out of the way. The highlight being a pair of orderlies with a man on the stretcher tossing him over the side of a ledge in their haste to get out of the way.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "The Runaway Bride" the Doctor is threatened by flamethrower-toting robot Santas, so (similar to ''Octopussy'' and ''The Three Musketeers'' in Film above) he sonics a cash machine and gets away in the scramble for bank notes.

* Non-chase: Wilbur the albatross does this in ''TheRescuersDownUnder'' when flying through a flock of seagulls while carrying the two mice. "Excuse me, pardon me,coming through,mice on board".

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* non-chase: Wilbur the albatross does this in ''TheRescuersDownUnder'' when flying through a flock of seagulls while carrying the two mice. "Excuse me, pardon me,coming through,mice on board".
* In ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'', Gaston is trying to catch up to Belle through the crowd in the opening CrowdSong "Belle." He actually makes "Please let me through" a part of the song.

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* In a Non-chase example, one episode of ''{{ER}}'' has a compressed air bottle fall off a table, pressing the nozzling making the bottle shoot down the hallway. A view from the bottle shows people diving and jumping out of the bottle's way before it hits something, flies through the air, and is embedded in a janitor closet door.

* ''{{Drowtales}}'' does this subtly [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=5810 here]] (note someone hanging from the staircase in the distance at the bottom of the page).

* InvokedTrope in the D20Modern Urban Arcana setting. [[GovernmentAgencyOfFiction Department 7]] agents are equipped with an item called a "Synchronicity watch", casting a version of the Synchronicity spell lasting for one minute. It makes (among other things) people subconsciously step out of the way of the character equipped with the watch.

-->'''Buck:'''(narrating) [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy But you just don't]] ''[[DangerouslyGenreSavvy do]]'' [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy that here]].

* While in Sri Lanka, AbleTeam notice [[OhCrap several mean-looking guys watching them and sharpening their knives]]. They end up running through the crowded market to get back to their van where they've got MoreDakka, with their Sri Lankan liaison officer [[SkewedPriorities trying to apologize to everyone they've shoved aside]].

* Lampshaded in ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' where its an important part of TheoryOfNarrativeCausality - complete with two men carrying a pane of glass.

* While on the run from a pursuing [[SpiderMan Spider-Man]], Ricochet of the ''Slingers'' invokes the this trope with a memorable "One side people! Pregnant lady on fire coming through!"
* [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in the first arc of SupremePower; Hyperion is chasing a criminal with roughly the same powerset as he, and the criminal dives flying through a mall. And everybody he comes across he throws left and right through the air with the intent that Hyperion would need to slow down to catch them, not caring if they die or not.

* Subverted, sort of, in the ''[[RyuGaGotoku Yakuza]]'' games. Random [=NPCs=] wander the streets of Kamurocho, and running into them will cause them to either shuffle quickly aside or get knocked down.

* In ''Franchise/StarWars: NewJediOrder''. Leia and Han are trying to escape Coruscant by getting to the Millenium Falcon. They are stopped by Viqi Shesh and Dab Hantaq who pretend to be seeking asylum on the Millenium Falcon. Things go sour as the two are attempting to prevent their escape and Hantaq throws a Thermal Detonator and bolts. One of Solo's Security Droids picks it up and attempts to disarm it and almost refers to this trope by name saying, "make a hole! Thermal detonator coming through!"

* In the {{pilot}} MiniSeries for the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' remake, Starbuck is jogging around TheBattlestar, shouting "Make a hole!" whenever people are blocking the way.

* Done in ''AdventChildren'' [[spoiler: after Cloud smites the dragon]] and he's chasing Kadaj on a motorcycle through Midgar. A scene is shown shortly afterwards with people dashing out of the street to get out of the way.

* While in Sri Lanka, AbleTeam notice [[several mean-looking guys watching them and sharpening their knives]]. They end up running through the crowded market to get back to their van where they've got MoreDakka, with their Sri Lankan liaison officer [[SkewedPriorities trying to apologize to everyone they've shoved aside]].

** And then played straight later on, when the villain successfully uses it ''against'' [=PSmith=] (who, as it turns out, is a hive mind and is now there in large group of bodies),

* FamilyGuy: In the episode where Peter fattens up Lois, he brings the fat Lois to a restaurant where he announces "MAKE WAY! MAKE WAY! FAT WIFE COMING THROUGH!" and pushes tables apart to give Lois more space.

* ''Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'': Ford Prefect works his way through a crowd surrounding a giant robot who is resting on a beach by shouting about a scientific breakthrough. When the police show up behind him shouting about a break in, he tosses Walkmen into the crowd so that they won't make way again.

** Similar to the two examples above, [[DoctorWho The Doctor]] does this in the [[ChristmasEpisode Runaway Bride]].
* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', The page quote is Fezzik the giant doing this where the much smaller Inigo fails to.