History Main / IndyHatRoll

* ''XenaWarriorPrincess'', episode "The Xena Scrolls": Alice is Gabrielle's [[IdenticalGrandson umpteenth granddaughter]] in 1940ish. She is an archaeologist and so she does the hat-roll.
* On the ''WhiteCollar'' episode "Countdown", Neal slips into an elevator just as the doors close, complete with the Indy homage as he reaches back to grab his NiceHat.

* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is nicely parodied in ''MalcolmInTheMiddle'' when Hal ditches his job at a department store to attend a party. While the ''Indiana Jones'' theme plays, Hal outruns a beach ball rolling after him, dives under the closing shutters, and reaches back for his car keys in the nick of time.

* In ''MacrossPlus'', we get the "corridor of doors closing in sequence" version as Myung and Guld race through; the doors are justified as being firewalls (and there IS a fire going on); unfortunately for them, one closes on Guld, who stoically uses his back as a barrier to protect Myung. Which is only possible because Guld, [[HalfHumanHybrid being half-Zentraedi]], is [[TheBigGuy more accurately described as a mountain]] -- though it ''still'' causes him quite the injury there.

* In ''{{Witness}}'', Amish boy Samuel Lapp, who is hiding in a toilet cubicle after [[TitleDrop witness]]ing a murder, crawls underneath the wall to the neighboring cubicle by the time [[TheDragon McFee]] (who is kicking the cubicle doors open) gets to his cubicle. Samuel reaches and grabs his hat just as [[ScaryBlackMan McFee]] opens the door.
* In ''Film/{{Titanic}}'', just after the iceberg hits, the workers in that particular engine room flee before the watertight doors close. Unfortunately, one or two don't make it...

* Used in ''[[VideoGame/{{F-Zero}} F-Zero GX]]''. In one of the story missions, you have to escape from a reactor that's about to explode, all while the twenty something blast doors in a straight line are slowly closing in sequence. If the player stops (and doesn't mind dying), you can see the doors never actually close, they leave barely enough room for the player to drive through.

* The penultimate mission of ''AceCombat 5'' has sliding doors that close off the tunnel after you destroy your target. They all close in different directions and there are other obstacles, so flying through the tunnel at top speed is a bit tricky. The trope is inverted when entering the tunnel: You can run into doors as they're opening.

* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}''. Boomer (in a stolen Raptor) flies out of Galactica's landing pod as it's retracting into jump drive position (to prevent her taking off). She doesn't make it undamaged though, smashing one wing and having to jump while still dangerously close to Galactica.
* Averted on ''{{Lost}}''; instead of diving under the Swan Station's closing doors (which are quite fast), Locke pushes a toolbox under it to wedge it open. Further averted/subverted when his leg gets crushed while he tries to crawl through the opening and the toolbox collapses.

* ''JonnyQuest'' TOS episode "The Fraudulent Volcano". Jonny and Hadji crawled on their hands and knees under a closing security door -- Hadji just made it by throwing himself forward.

* Marty [=McFly=] makes use of the maneuver in ''[[Film/BackToTheFuture Back To The Future Part II]]''. At the school dance in 1955 Marty dives under a table to escape Biff's FiveBadBand, leaving just enough time to grab his own Indy-esque hat before trouble arrives.

* ''GunslingerGirl''. Rico and Henrietta slide under a closing door during the attack on the terrorist-occupied nuclear power plant.

Sometimes, they make it a little faster, leaving something lying on the floor just inside the door. At which point there will be just enough time for their hand to come reaching back in and pulling it out. This is usually an explicit ShoutOut to the [[TropeNamer trope naming]] moment in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.

* One of the many trademark Indy moves executed by Numbuh Five of ''CodenameKidsNextDoor''. Complete with reaching back for her fallen hat in "Operation: L.I.C.E." [[spoiler:-- although this time it's a trap: this is not her hat]].
* Spoofed in an episode of ''{{Futurama}}''; a falling door is stopped by Zoidberg, who throws himself forward and wedges his claw between the door and the floor. Hermes then uses his [[ChekhovsSkill previously-referenced ''Olympic-level'' Limbo ability]] to make it through the gap.
* ''TheSimpsons''

* ''Series/{{Fillmore}}'': In "Masterstroke of Malevolence", Fillmore and Ingrid slide under the closing security door in the museum as they chase after Leo.

* ''{{Shrek}} 2'' does this as well... with Puss in Boots. Voiced by Antonio Banderas, which made it even funnier.
* Massively spoofed in ''TheIncredibles,'' where Elastigirl manages to get stuck in a whole series of SlowDoors ''[[RubberMan simultaneously]].''

* In ''TheAndromedaStrain'' (book and film), this is attempted but he is too slow to succeed.

* Furry sci-fi webcomic ''[[http://poisonedminds.com/ SSDD]]'' did this one, using the "[[http://poisonedminds.com/d/20070706.html Door comes up from the ground]]" version, much to the chagrin of the protagonists.

!!Examples

* In a variant, Tamara from ''Film/TwentyTwelve'' slips into a rapidly-closing opening in the hull of TheArk after reclaiming her dog, then briefly reaches back through it at the last second to [[FlippingTheBird flip off]] the sugar-daddy who'd left her behind to die.

* In a variant, Tamara from ''Film/TewntyTwelve'' slips into a rapidly-closing opening in the hull of TheArk after reclaiming her dog, then briefly reaches back through it at the last second to [[FlippingTheBird flip off]] the sugar-daddy who'd left her behind to die.

* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. When there's a coolant leak in the warp core reactor, the Enterprise engineering crew evacuates the area. Geordi La Forge is the last person out, rolling under the descending door just before it closes.

* In ''FinalFantasyIX'', this is done by ''an airship'' through quickly-closing ''humungous'' doors. Doubly awesome in that a much faster craft, which is chasing it, fails to make it through the doors and crashes spectacularly.
* ''SkiesOfArcadia'' has a scene similar to the above, involving an airship and an enormous gate.
* In ''JakIIRenegade'', the Tomb of Mar refuses to allow the young heir to go through the trials and starts to close. Jak then dives underneath the stone door, grabbing Daxter ''just'' as it slams down.

* In ''MassEffect2'', Jack pulls an Indy Slide during her rampage through Purgatory.

* J.B. at the climax of ''TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny''. He has the Pick but security is trying to lock him in, so he does a Power Slide through the door as it shuts.