History Main / StrollingThroughTheChaos

* In ''[[Comicbook/XMen Uncanny X-Men]]'' #141, Kitty Pryde underwent her first Danger Room session. She had to get past a gauntlet of deadly traps to reach a designated area and turn off the simulation. She simply closed her eyes and walked forward, phasing all the way. This scene is notable for being the very first recorded instance of {{Wolverine}} laughing.

* In ''{{Scion}}'', this is the first power of the Chaos purview: as long as the Scion in question doesn't interact with the violence/whackiness/chaos that's going on in a scene where he/she activates this power, he/she can't be harmed by it.

* ''MetalGearSolid2'' gave us Fortune who, through some AppliedPhlebotinum caused bullets to bend around her and grenade to defuse near her body. That coupled with her huge {{Railgun}} made her practically impossible to defeat.

* Blaine from ''{{Glee}}'' does this on the football field during his number of "Hopelessly Devoted to You", as a homage to ''Across the Universe'' above.

** [[spoiler:Lord Cutler Beckett]]'s death scene in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanAtWorldEnd'' was very much the serious version. He's walking down the stairs, which are blowing up behind him with chunks of wood flying around, and finally dies engulfed in the fireball which annihilates his ship.

* [[spoiler:Lord Cutler Beckett]]'s death scene in the third ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' movie was very much the serious version. He's walking down the stairs, which are blowing up behind him with chunks of wood flying around, and finally dies engulfed in the fireball which annihilates his ship.
** Jack does this in the second movie. After the fight starts, the man starts wandering aimlessly through the pub, randomly trying on people's hats to replace the one he lost at the beginning of the movie. He narrowly avoids getting injured in some spectacularly funny ways (such as ducking to get a dropped hat off the floor and avoiding a flying bottle that smashes on the wall above him).

* While advising on ''ABridgeTooFar'' Lt. Colonel Frost objected to a scene where the actor playing him (Anthony Hopkins) runs across a street under fire. ''He'' always walked. It was decided to leave the scene as it was, for fear the audience would have a WhatAnIdiot reaction.

[[caption-width-right:350:I don't think you noticed, but those stairs you were walking on just ''exploded''...[[note]]Next the stairs blow up completely, and he's ''still'' [[TheJuggernaut ascending them as if nothing happened]][[/note]].]]

* General DouglasMacArthur had a habit of not seeking cover during major battles. An anecdote said that during WorldWarOne he told a young George Patton (who flinched when an artillery shell landed nearby) that "You never hear the one that gets you."

* Hedley Lamarr, the BigBad of ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', walked in on a pie fight in the commissary. He ducks into the bathroom and emergies after a moment, disguised by having [[PieInTheFace his face completely covered by a cream pie]]. Since he's clearly already been hit and isn't throwing anything himself, everyone ignores him to focus other targets.

* Hedley Lamarr, the BigBad of ''Film/BlazingSaddles'', seemed like he was going to make it out of the pie fight untouched, and being somewhat GenreSavvy, attempted to duck out of the occasion and hide in the bathroom. He emerges from the bathroom after a moment however, with [[PieInTheFace his face completely covered by a cream pie]].

-->-- ''Film/ApocalypseNow''

-->--''Film/ApocalypseNow''

* ''TheGreatRace'' had The Great Leslie strolling through a massive pie fight in a royal kitchen. It was his attempt to dodge one pie too many that led to his diving face first into the one pie that got him.

* Gandalf in ''TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'', grimly closing in on the possessed Théoden while his party held off the guards.
* ''TheLongestDay'' features a group of nuns calmly walking through the intense battlefield to join up with the Allied troops to help wounded soldiers.

* In ''SupportYourLocalSheriff'' a brawl breaks out as James Garner's character is trying to get some lunch. He says "Hold it!". Everyone freezes. He steps out of range, carefully taking his plate of overpriced food with him, then tells them to "Go ahead on!" He calmly eats as they brawl, discouraging the one man who tries to attack him with a warning glance, and helpfully handing another combatant a two-by-four.

* ''BlackhawkDown'': Lt. Col. [=McKnight=] had a habit of walking around in the open during intense urban firefights, while bullets and shrapnel land all around him, at one point standing in the open talking to a Ranger who is taking cover to avoid being shot (actually, he was announcing the arrival of his convoy of reinforcements for the besieged Rangers by asking him "Need a lift?") Interestingly enough, the one time [=McKnight=] gets injured is while riding shotgun in a Humvee barreling down the city streets and a lucky shot grazes him.

* Happens in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemption'' at the end of the Mexican revolution, John Marston walks calmly through the embattled Escalera past both civilians and soldiers DyingLikeAnimals.

* Occurs in [[http://www.ryanestrada.com/2008/10/16/comics/aki-alliance/ondine-trout-page-66/ this]] ''AkiAlliance'' strip when Aki starts up a fight and simply walks around.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'', the eponymous villain can easily walk into the ClockworksArea of the ClockTower without showing vertigo, while Batman slips and fails. He even can do it when the ClockTower [[CollapsingLair collapses]].

* PlasticMan's buddy Woozy Winks started out as "The Man Who Nature Protects!"-- ''natural disasters'' would spring up around him to protect him from enemies. (It was dropped after a few issues.)

** ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' often portrayed him as raving fanboy getting front row seat action.

* In TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman}}'' there's a scene where the Joker's thugs tommy-gun rival mobsters on the steps of the courthouse. Naturally everyone hits the deck except Bruce Wayne, who's so busy staring at the Joker he doesn't even notice when a bullet clips his shoulder.

* Justified at the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' The eponymous villain can easily walk into the ClockworksArea of the ClockTower without showing any vertigo, while TheBatman continuously slips and fails. He even can do it when the ClockTower [[CollapsingLair collapses]]. Justified because as TheSociopath, he has PowerBornOfMadness because [[FridgeLogic he cannot feel fear]].

[[caption-width-right:350:I don't think you noticed, but those stairs you were walking on just ''exploded''...[[hottip:*:Next the stairs blow up completely, and he's ''still'' [[TheJuggernaut ascending them as if nothing happened]].]]

* Commander Black's first scene in ''UltramanLeo'' had him calmly walking around Tokyo, oblivious to the mayhem and destruction his Saucer Monster caused.

* Justified at the ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode ''[[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesTheClockKing The Clock King]]'' The eponymous villain can easily walks into the ClockworksArea of the ClockTower without showing any vertigo, while TheBatman continuously slips and fails. He even can do it when the ClockTower [[CollapsingLair collapses]]. Justified because as TheSociopath, he has PowerBornOfMadness because [[FridgeLogic he cannot feel fear]].

* A dramatic variant from ''MassEffect3'': Mordin Solus walks briskly through an expolding building on Tuchanka on his way to [[spoiler: cure the genophage]], shielding his eyes from shrapnel, but never breaking stride. Depending on your exact choices, this can either be [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] by making Mordin struggle a great deal to reach the end [[spoiler: and succumb to his bullet wound before making it]], or turned UpToEleven as he'll actually sing quietly to himself as he makes the trip.

* Occurs in [[http://www.ryanestrada.com/2008/10/16/comics/aki-alliance/ondine-trout-page-66/ this]] Aki Alliance strip when Aki starts up a fight and simply walks around.

* Gandalf in ''TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'', grimly closing in on the possessed Theoden while his party held off the guards.