History Main / StrollingThroughTheChaos

* General UsefulNotes/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."

* ''Series/{{Lucifer}}''. In "God Johnson", Lucifer gets the [[GoAmongstMadPeople inmates of a mental hospital]] to start a riot [[WeNeedADistraction so he and God Johnson can break out of there]]. The scene is combined with LyricalDissonance as they stride through the chaos to "In A Blackout" by Hamilton Leithauser, dodging hurled objects and clearly enjoying themselves.

* "Now or Never", the first sequence of ''HighSchoolMusical 3: Senior Year'' sees Troy walking straight through the middle of a basketball court, singing, without being tackled; he even catches a pass and travels with it before passing it on, still singing.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheThiefAndTheCobbler'': In the climax, the thief [[TooDumbToLive enters a huge warmachine]]. The machine is on fire and collapsing, and all the millions of weapons inside it are being constantly fired, creating a true BulletHell. Miraculously, he doesn't notice any of the chaos surrounding him, managing to steal the items he was after and escapes completely unharmed.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmluf-qVuyY Here]] is the whole scene in question, with non-relevant parts edited out. It lasts over ''eight minutes''.

* During the big BallroomBlitz between the clans in ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', Queen Elinor manages to break things up just by strolling into the chaos and dragging the instigators (her husband Fergus and the Lords Macintosh, Macguffin, and Dingwall) out of it by their ears. The other fighters simply stop and turn to face her as she passes. Near the end, Merida breaks up another fight between the clans by strolling into the middle of the fight, much like her mother.

* ''Franchise/StarWars: Film/ANewHope'' had [=R2D2=] and [=C3PO=] amble across a corridor during a pitched firefight between Rebel and Imperial forces.

** Subverted in ''[[{{Homer}} The Iliad]]'', in which Ares is impaled by a spear thrown by a soldier under the guidance of his sister and subsequently is forced to withdraw from the battlefield.

* Bill the Butcher pulls this in an opening battle of ''GangsOfNewYork''; he [[FoeTossingCharge swiftly dispatches any opponent unfortunate enough to get between]] him and Priest Vallon though.

* A minor plot point in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' GauntsGhosts novel ''Ghostmaker'', through psychic trickery.

->''"He was one of those guys that had that [[BattleAura weird light]] around him. You just knew he wasn't going to get so much as a scratch here."''

* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'': Col. Kilgore strolls around in the midst of a battle as his fellow soldiers duck and cringe at the bullets and explosions. The narrator says that he's the kind of guy who won'Lord Cutler Beckett's death scene in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End was very much the serious version. He's walking down the stairs, which t get so much as scratched during the war.

* ''Film/ApocalypseNow'': Col. Kilgore strolls around in the midst of a battle as his fellow soldiers duck and cringe at the bullets and explosions. The narrator says that he's the kind of guy who won't get so much as scratched during the war.

* An interesting variant crops up in ''Film/TheDambusters'; Wing Commander Guy Gibson strolls past an almighty BarBrawl that's taking place ''just'' off-screen, his StiffUpperLip undisturbed by the occasional chair being hurled through a window into his path or a man being tackled to the ground by two others and forcibly relieved of his trousers. This is not ''strictly'' accurate, incidentally; by his own admission in his memoirs, Gibson was just as much the WorkHardPlayHard type as the rest of the squadron.

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When the bullets, fists or pies are flying, expect one character to be able to wander through it all without so much as a nick, a scratch or a drop of cream.

Usually played for laughs, this trope will have one person able to maneuver about the chaos while completely avoiding damage. This could be either through skillful dodging or simple blind luck. Often the character will take advantage of the pandemonium. If a bar has erupted into [[BarBrawl battle royale]], this guy will be leisurely enjoying the top shelf booze while bodies slide along the bar and fly into the stacks of bottles behind him. Sometimes they may try to play peacemaker. Other times they are simply trying to find the nearest exit.

* In ''[[Comicbook/XMen Uncanny X-Men]]'' #141, ComicBook/KittyPryde 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.

* ''StarWars'' had [=R2D2=] and [=C3PO=] amble across a corridor during a pitched firefight between Rebel and Imperial forces.
** And again in ''Attack of the Clones'', this time with [=C3PO=] "[[HurricaneOfPuns beside himself]]".

** ''JusticeLeagueUnlimited''

* ''SuperSmashBrothers'': Peach strolls across the deck of the Halberd as Fox and Falco strafe it with laser blasts, starting a chain of explosions directly behind her. She doesn't seem to notice, and in fact, merrily twirls her parasol as she does.

* Enforced in ''VideoGame/ShadowComplex'' with the [[BeehiveBarrier Fusion]] [[PurposelyOverpoweredHelmet]] - it renders the user completely ImmuneToBullets, grenades, missiles, railgun rounds and ''artillery fire'', so long as said user does not move faster than any pace that can be described as "brisk".

* [[Series/DoctorWho The Doctor]] does this in "Battlefield" and "The Christmas Invasion."
** In fact, in the former, The Doctor takes this a step further by casually walking inbetween two people having a ''swordfight'', cheerfully raising his hat to them as he does so.

* A vehicle variant occurs in ''TopGear'', during the review of the Ford Fiesta. The test was to take part in an amphibious assault alongside the Royal Marines, which culminates in a wonderfully, brilliantly awesome shot of the cheerfully green Fiesta winding its way up a beach filled with gunfire and explosions.

* ''TheSimpsons'':

* In the Characters/BugsBunny short ''Racketeer Rabbit'', Bugs - whose rabbit hole is located underneath a house occupied by a pair of mobsters - sleepily climbs up into the living room and walks to the kitchen and back for a glass of water, ignoring a shootout that the crooks are engaging in with a rival gang.

->''He was one of those guys that had that [[BattleAura weird light]] around him. You just knew he wasn't going to get so much as a scratch here.''

* ''TheSimpsons''

--> '''Bugs:''' (*ducking his head beneath a hail of machine-gun fire*) Low bridge!