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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The TropeNamer. There are four known forms of this super-speed in {{Bleach}}. Shunpou (the trope name is a translation of this term) is what Shinigami call the technique. Sonidou is what the hollows call the technique. Hirenkyaku is what the Quincies call the technique. Bringer Light is what the Fullbringers call the technique. Each technique functions in very slightly different ways producing different special effects when active, but they all achieve the same result: super speed.

* Geth stalkers in ''VideoGame/MassEffect'' can jump around incredibly quickly. To make things worse, they jam your sensors, so you can't reliable use that to track their movements.

** My favorite 3.5 edition flash step was always an alternate class feature instead of a familiar for conjurers. They could interrupt their opponents turn to teleport 6 squares and do it a number of times equal to their intelligence modifier.
*** That would be the Conjurer Immediate Magic class feature from PLayer's Handbook 2, and it's only up to 10ft.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' has [[http://dishonored.wikia.com/wiki/Blink "Blink"]] as the first ability given to Corvo by The Outsider. It's primary use is to help the player traverse the stages with relative ease.

* ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}'' has "Blink" as the first ability given to Corvo by The Outsider. It's primary use is to help the player traverse the stages with relative ease.

** Bonus points in that he was played by the voice of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth, George Newbern]], while he was speaking with the [[CreepyMonotone Sephiroth voice]]...because if there's one way you want Superman to sound scary, give him the unnervingly calm monotone of an OmnicidalManiac.

* The BonusBoss of ''{{Bayonetta}}'', [[spoiler: Father Rodin]], starts doing similar movements to this when his health gets lower.

* ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' does the mid-air teleport-behind-the-opponent variety. Used often in the ''Budokai'' video games. Slightly confusingly, the series has both super-speed, and teleportation proper (Instantaneous Movement). The only difference between the two in practice is that Instantaneous Movement lets you move over intergalactic distances (or even to other planes of existence; on a few occasions Goku uses it to ''teleport to the afterlife''), which normal super-speed can't.

* In the final boss battle of ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', [[spoiler:Jeane]] is capable of streaking around the battlefield in a decidedly ''DragonBall Z''-esque manner. While this is likely utilized to show off just how patently nasty and tough the boss is in addition to disorienting the player, it's worth noting that you have no trouble keeping locked on to and tracking the boss's movements; Travis is [[ImplausibleFencingPowers capable of blocking every bullet fired from a full Uzi clip]], after all.

* ''{{Bunnykill}} 4'''s Snowball, when he goes into [[strike:[[DragonBallZ Super Saiyan]]]] [[SuperMode "White Avenger"]] mode during the final battle with [[BigBad Flint]], demonstrates the ability to do this.

*** Except for that one time when he needed to teleport farther [[StrongAsTheyNeedToBe to advance the plot]].

** Rock Lee, after removing a pair of weighted clothing hidden underneath his leg warmers, is able to literally ''pinball'' Gaara by throwing tens of attacks in mere seconds, and then takes it UpToEleven when he opens his chaka gates, increasing his [[Film/TheMatrix Neo-esque]] destructive force.

** After witnessing Soru in action (and losing to its user), Luffy figured it out and incorporated the move into his own skillset when using Gear 2nd.
*** The technique is to kick off at least ten times rapidly enough, if you're curious.
** There's also Admiral Kizaru, whose Devil Fruit power allows him to move at the speed of light. ''Literally.'' He can control this ability well enough to use it to generate explosions and deliver ''light speed kicks.''

*** At one point in the Frieza fight, both Goku and Frieza are flying as fast as they can to the Namekian Dragon, but Goku only barely catches up by teleporting in between sprints.
**** Goku couldn't teleport during the Frieza fight, he learned the ability after escaping Namek's explosion in one of Frieza's spare ships.

* ''TowerOfGod'': The use of Body Reinforcement can result in this, and Mule Love's Blue Oar technique fits as well.

* In ''BattleAngelAlita'' most characters only use flash step and attack just for fun or when they want to psych their opponent out. The more seasoned fighters instead mainly use attacks that are weak but come in large numbers and for the main characters, the faster the attack, the bigger windup it has. This is especially apparent in Gally's fight with Gavit of Gadokai where he effortlessly BLOCKS her when she fires off a supersonic punch noting that with a windup that she has for it, he can easily just absorb the kinetic force.

* [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]] is a master of this in pretty much [[CrisisCore everything]] [[Franchise/KingdomHearts he]] [[DissidiaFinalFantasy appears]] [[AdventChildren in]] ''aside'' from [[Videogame/FinalFantasyVII the original game]]. Arguably, it's his entire fighting style.

** Bonus points in that he was played by the voice of [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth, George Newbern]], while he was speaking with the [[CreepyMonotone Sephiroth voice]]...because if there's one way you want Superman to sound scary, give him the unnervingly calm monotone of an OmnicidalManiac.