History Main / IndyHatRoll

Sometimes, they make it a little faster, but in doing so execute their escape a little too recklessly, 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''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', Ginger gets to the closing oven door easily, but Rocky is stuck falling into pies. She wedges the door open and runs back for him, then makes it out of the oven with the IndyHatRoll. Complete with Ginger reaching back for her hat.

* The classic example is ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', with the addition of reaching back for [[NiceHat his hat]] at the last second (hence the trope name). In ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' he reaches back for his [[WeaponOfChoice whip]].

* Another Harrison Ford example, predating ''Indiana Jones'', is the original ''StarWars''. Avoiding a security lockdown and being followed by stormtroopers, Han Solo jumped through the diamond shaped opening that was formed by the blast doors closing. Interestingly enough, later movies depict the blast doors closing far too fast for any sort of maneuver like this -- even ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', whose events predate ''Film/ANewHope'' chronologically by 32 years.

* A scene from ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' parodies the ''Star Wars'' example. The characters dive through a blast door just in time, but there's a cadre of Spaceballs waiting for them. They get away anyway, though, because, as the lieutenant shockedly points out, "You idiots! [[NoFourthWall You've captured their stunt doubles!]]" The door also closes notably faster after the characters jumped through.

** The Enterprise herself pulls [[RecycledInSpace the nearest available equivalent]] to escape a Dyson sphere in "Relics".

** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', you have to escape the general area of a breached biohazard containment room. On the first time, Claire does this. [[AvertedTrope Strangely enough, she doesn't at the second time]].
** Used in a ridiculous manner in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''. While esacaping a {{Mayincatec}} death trap, Chris and Sheva feel the need to ''dive across one another'' under a {{Slow Door|s}}. Such is their style, the QuickTimeEvent involved cuts straight to three cutscenes of the move from different angles, in case you didn't see how ridiculous it was the first time.

* Spoofed in an episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/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.

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* ''Series/MacGyver'' has one moment of the hat roll when they are trapped in an [[BambooTechnology Ancient Indian Death Trap]] and Dalton reaches back to grab his pilot hat, much to Mac's irritation.

* The doors/grates in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1'' and ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2'' open when you step on the appropriate pressure plate, then slowly start closing after a few seconds (unless you step on another pressure plate which makes the door close instantly). Sometimes you have to use this stunt to get through.

* Sunny Bridges does it in the ''ClassOf3000'' episode "Eddie's Money"; grabbing his hat with his feet for a few extra style points.

* In ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'', every character manages to escape Dr. Benedict's base as the door is closing save for TJ.

* This happens in ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'', when the kids are being chased inside the school.

* WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut Every character manages to escape Dr. Benedict's base as the door is closing save for TJ.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E3UnderTheLake Under the Lake]]", the Doctor dives under a rapidly closing door as the base floods.

* On the ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode "Task Force X", Plastique and Deadshot do this to escape [[spoiler:from a nuclear reactor on The Watchtower they sabotaged]] as blast doors are closing. They pull off with the first door, but don't make it in time for the second (Captain Atom saves them).

* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' uses this sort of thing a few times: a notable example is during the climax of the first movie, where a trap causes the temple to collapse, and in trying to escape the treacherous Beni makes an impressive just-in-time slide under the crushing ceiling... only to end up trapped in a room with thousands of man-eating scarabs.

* In a variant, Tamara from ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' 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]] Yuri, the sugar-daddy who'd left her behind to die.

* 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]] Yuri, the sugar-daddy who'd left her behind to die.

* Rather more mundanely than some of the other examples, Martin Riggs nonchalantly drops to the floor and rolls sideways under a shutter at the villain's embassy front in ''LethalWeapon 2''. Still very much a badass action when performed by him though.

* Jordan does it in an episode of ''{{Scrubs}}'' to escape a hospital quarantine lock-down. She even, for the first and last time in the series, wears a fedora to grab.

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* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', Violine's father uses soap to slide under a quickly closing door. No hats are involved, though.
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