History Main / IndyHatRoll

* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Pahkitew Island'' episode "[[Recap/TotalDramaScarlettFever Scarlett Fever]]", Jasmine and Shawn slide under a closing door while being chased by robot animals inside the island's underground base. Jasmine then realizes she dropped her hat on the other side of the door and reaches for it just before it closes, and then punches out a robot head that was biting onto the hat. It helps that [[AwesomeAussie Jasmine]] is a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.

May or may not involve a NiceHat.

* The Creator/NancyKress novel ''ProbabilitySpace'' includes literary equivalents of this. An act of great stupidity requires our protagonists to fly their ship through a closing jump gate to escape annihilation. [[spoiler: They repeat this just in case. Then they realize ''all'' the jump gates, everywhere, are closing, and they must fly through a series to get back to Earth before they're stranded. All but one of these is a close enough call to qualify for an Indy Hat Roll.]]

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The [[MemeticMutation Epic Geordi Maneuver]], used by [=LaForge=] when the big blast doors close around the warp core on "The Best of Both Worlds".
** The Enterprise herself pulls [[RecycledINSPACE the nearest available equivalent]] to escape a Dyson sphere in "Relics".
* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is nicely parodied in ''Series/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.
* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''
** Gwen Cooper in the episode "Ghost Machine".
** Subverted in the episode "Exit Wounds", in which [[spoiler:Owen gets trapped in a nuclear power station that's about to go up, and doesn't make it to the door in time. He actually does die]]. He was [[spoiler:technically dead already. But there was that glove...]]
* Another subversion in ''Series/BlakesSeven'', when they raid the [[spoiler:decoy]] Star One base -- they get out, but only because [[spoiler:Gan]] sacrifices himself to hold the door for them.

* Spike does this while escaping the Initiative on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.

* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Zack Allen dives under the docking bay doors in the third series [[spoiler:after he has led most of the station's Night Watch members there in a double-double cross]]. This clip also appears in the titles.
* ''Series/MacGyver1985'' 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.
* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. 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 ''Series/{{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.

* On the ''Series/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.

* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' has a scene similar to the above, involving an airship and an enormous gate.
* In ''VideoGame/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.
* Used in ''[[VideoGame/FZero 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.

* Reference to original example: a lot of doors make you do this in ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheEmperorsTomb''.
* The penultimate mission of ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' 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.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': You slip through the first set of slow doors in time, but Robo has to race ahead and hold the next set open.

* The point-and-click adventure game ''Spud!'' has this in a cutscene, complete with hat retrieval.
* 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. In the ''Classic'' remake, the Prince has a dive-roll move to aid in this.
** There is a notable subversion in the first game where there is no way you can reach the door in time. If you wait some time though, [[FissionMailed you get rescued]].
* ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has two hallways each with a sequence of doors slowly closing from the top (one of which even adds a collapsing bridge). You're not supposed to be able to get past them until you have the Speed Booster item, but a speedrunning technique called [[https://wiki.supermetroid.run/Mockball Mockball]] allows you to roll under the closing doors just in time.
* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest: Definitive Edition'' and ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', the Dash is primarily used to dodge sequential SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom and slide under timed doors, and even has a rolling animation when performed on the ground in the latter game.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
** Similarly, Homer Simpson once recognized that a couple of suspicious-acting men were in fact chiropractors, because of their skill at getting under a closing garage door.
** Bart also does this when he lifts Homer's change jar in a specific send-up of Indy's adventures, complete with ''actual Indiana Jones music'' and Bart grabbing his hat from under the closing door.
** Marge did one of these with the closing garage when she finds the police career to be exciting in "The Springfield Connection."

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

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

* Bobby and Joseph played this in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. Joseph quickly rolled under the closing garage door, but Bobby, being chubby and physically inept, rolled and crawled too slowly and damaged the door.

* ''Film/{{Fanboys}}'' does a combo parody of ''both'' the above examples, by having Hutch dive through the blast-door-style security door of Skywalker Ranch's memorabilia room, then reach back through the shrinking diamond-shaped opening for an instant to [[FlippingTheBird flip off the Ranch's guards]].
* 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 shockingly points out, "You idiots! [[NoFourthWall You've captured their stunt doubles!]]" The door also closes notably faster after the characters jumped through.
* Subversion: in ''Film/TheFifthElement'', the archaeologist's panicked assistant opens fire on the peaceful aliens inside the Egyptian temple, unwittingly activating a self-defense locking mechanism in the Element's chamber. Although most of the aliens and their human contact escape, the last one is too slow to make it through and shoves its hand between the stone slabs to pass the key on to the human monk. (Presumably, the alien itself was crushed by the door.)
* Occurs in the [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie of the comic book]] ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''. At one point, Hellboy and another character are running to get through a door in an underground catacomb system. Both make it, but just as the door is about to close on Hellboy's tail, he flicks it out of the way JustInTime.
* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Mystique slides under a door while flipping off the men shooting at her.

* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' uses this sort of thing a few times: a notable example is during the climax of the [[Film/TheMummy1999 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 ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', 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...
* J.B. at the climax of ''Film/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.
* In the film ''Film/{{Saturn 3}}'' starring Kirk Douglas, Kirk and his girlfriend are alone on a space station that is being taken over by a robot. There's one sequence where they have to run through a corridor full of closing doors that close in sequence, as the trope dictates; however, they don't quite make it and the last door closes in front of them.
* ''Swarmed'' has a variation. Washburn takes cover from the wasps inside an empty plastic dumpster... then opens the lid again to snatch his hat, which fell off during his escape.
* Marty [=McFly=] makes use of the maneuver in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. At the school dance in 1955, Marty dives under a table to escape Biff's gang, leaving just enough time to grab his own Indy-esque hat before trouble arrives.
* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'' has this as one of several obvious shout-outs to Harrison Fords' earlier movies.
* ''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. Unlike the example with him below, the door ''was'' almost closed this time making it more justified.
* 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 ''Film/LethalWeapon2''. Still very much a badass action when performed by him though.
* 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 ''Film/{{Hanna}}'', as the eponymous character escaped the CIA holding facility.
* In ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', the main character attempts to escape in the Natural History Museum as a lockdown was triggered. His iconic red hat falls off during his slide under the closing door, and he manages to retrieve it just in time.
* ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther''. After the guard discovers the theft of the Pink Panther diamond, he triggers the activation of the security system and causes the door to the room to close. The thief rolls under the door and out of the room just before it closes.
* Played for drama in ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}} ''. When Steppenwolf shows up to take the Mother Box from the Amazons, Queen Hippolyta orders the chamber sealed. As she runs past them holding the Mother Box, her Amazons smash the supports bringing down huge stone doors, with the last two using their SuperStrength to hold one up long enough for the Queen to slide underneath just before it crashes to the ground. Steppenwolf is breaking out moments later, so it's implied that every one of those Amazons was killed doing a YouShallNotPass.
** The same happens in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', but this time the chamber collapses into the ocean, giving the Amazons who remained prisoners inside less chances of surviving.

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* ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' anime episode 263. The zanpakuto spirits Senbonzakura & Zabimaru are trying to escape the Research Division's building as walls are coming down to trap them. Just before the last wall reaches the floor they slide under it and through a suddenly-opening door.

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* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader''. Given that Dr Aphra is an EvilCounterpart to Han Solo and Harrison Ford's other famous role, this happens on a couple of occasions when dealing with those famous SlowDoors. The only difference is that she's wearing a close-fitting aviator's cap, so doesn't lose it in the process.

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' does this as well... with Puss in Boots. Voiced by Antonio Banderas, which made it even funnier.
* Massively spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles,'' where Elastigirl manages to get stuck in a whole series of SlowDoors ''[[RubberMan simultaneously]].''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' does this with Rapunzel and Flynn escaping into the cave from beneath the giant falling rock pillar. Flynn manages to grab the previously discarded frying pan at the last second.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AprilAndTheExtraordinaryWorld'', Darwin runs at full speed and then dives, flattening himself out, to pass under the rapidly closing blast door of the rocket.
* In ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', the prince ''rides a horse'' under a closing gate of iron spikes. The horse audibly sighs in relief after they make it through.

* Played for drama in ''Film/JusticeLeague2017''. When Steppenwolf shows up to take the Mother Box from the Amazons, their Queen orders the chamber sealed. As she runs past them holding the Mother Box, her Amazons smash the supports bringing down huge stone doors, with the last two using their SuperStrength to hold one up long enough for the Queen to slide underneath just before it crashes to the ground. Steppenwolf is breaking out moments later, so it's implied that every one of those Amazons was killed doing a YouShallNotPass.

May or may not involve a CoolHat.

* ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' does this with Rapunzel and Flynn escaping into the cave from beneath the giant falling rock pillar. Flynn manages to grab the previously discarded frying pan at the last second.

* In ''Disney/{{Cinderella}} III: A Twist in Time'', the prince ''rides a horse'' under a closing gate of iron spikes. The horse audibly sighs in relief after they make it through.

** Ahsoka Tano leaps through the doors just as they're about to be shut to contain the "Blue Shadow Virus" in the episode of the same name.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Ahsoka Tano leaps through the doors just as they're about to be shut to contain the "Blue Shadow Virus" in the episode of the same name.

* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader''. Given that Dr Aphra is an EvilCounterpart to Han Solo and Harrison Ford's other famous role, this happens on a couple of occasions when dealing with those famous SlowDoors.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} 2'' does this as well... with Puss in Boots. Voiced by Antonio Banderas, which made it even funnier.

* In the OVA adaptation of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', Lloyd does this to get to Kvar alone. Unfortunately, he then proceeds to get his ass handed to him, until Kratos and Sheena show up to save the day.

* Another Harrison Ford example, predating ''Indiana Jones'', is the original ''Franchise/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.

* Subversion: in ''Film/TheFifthElement'', the archaeologist's panicked assistant opens fire on the peaceful aliens inside the Egyptian temple, unwittingly activating a self-defense locking mechanism in the Element's chamber. Although most of the aliens and their human contact escape, the last one is too slow to make it through, and shoves its hand between the stone slabs to pass the key on to the human monk. (Presumably, the alien itself was crushed by the door.)

* In the film ''Film/{{Saturn 3}},'' starring Kirk Douglas, Kirk and his girlfriend are alone on a space station that is being taken over by a robot. There's one sequence where they have to run through a corridor full of closing doors that close in sequence, as the trope dictates; however, they don't quite make it and the last door closes in front of them.

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

* In ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', the main character attempts to escape in the Natural History Museum as a lock down was triggered. His iconic red hat falls off during his slide under the closing door, and he manages to retrieve it just in 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 [[PressXToNotDie Quick-Time Event]] 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.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': You slip though the first set of slow doors in time, but Robo has to race ahead and hold the next set open.

* On the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' 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).

** Played straight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E21DaringDoubt Daring Doubt]]". Rainbow Dash and Daring Do (again) fly through a mobile floor atop a temple as it is closing; Daring Do leaves her pith helmet behind, but grabs it just in time.

* Done in the original ''MyLittlePony'' cartoon of all things, as part of an IndyEscape scene.
** Toyed with in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep an episode]] of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', where the adventurous, hat-wearing pony in [[ShowWithinAShow Rainbow Dash's book]] slides toward a closing door, only makes it about halfway through, and quickly slides out from under it as it closes. When she stands up, her hat is still on.

* Occurs in the [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie of the comic book]] ''Film/{{Hellboy}}''. At one point, Hellboy and another character are running to get through a door in an underground catacomb system. Both make it, but just as the door is about to close on Hellboy's tail, he flicks it out of the way JustInTime.

** Bart also does this when he lifts Homer's change jar in a specific send up of Indy's adventures, complete with ''actual Indiana Jones music'' and Bart grabbing his hat from under the closing door.

* On the ''WesternAnimation/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).

* WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars Ahsoka Tano leaps through the doors just as their about to be shut to contain the "Blue Shadow Virus" in the episode of the same name.

* Played for drama in ''Film/JusticeLeague''. When Steppenwolf shows up to take the Mother Box from the Amazons, their Queen orders the chamber sealed. As she runs past them holding the Mother Box, her Amazons smash the supports bringing down huge stone doors, with the last two using their SuperStrength to hold one up long enough for the Queen to slide underneath just before it crashes to the ground. Steppenwolf is breaking out moments later, so it's implied that every one of those Amazons was killed doing a YouShallNotPass.

Another problem for the captors: The doors close in sequence, instead of all at once (or, perhaps better, outside doors first, then the rest, moving inward). If they all closed at once, the hero would make it through one or two doors before being completely locked in.

* Marty [=McFly=] makes use of the maneuver in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII''. 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.

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