History Main / UnflinchingWalk

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty4'', during the mission "One Shot, One Kill" Captain [=MacMillian=] and then-Lieutenant Price take down a Hind helicopter with their sniper rifles. The Captain then turns away from the crashing helicopter, quips "Good night, ya bastard," and does an Unflinching Walk away from it as it crashes. [[spoiler:On ''top'' of him. Price has to carry the Captain all the way to the extraction point.]] But the Badass-ness of that scene was so ''worth it.''

** In ''Series/KamenRiderKuuga'', this trope sums up the titular Rider's fighting style in [[MightyGlacier Titan Form]]: He weathers enemy attacks as he walks towards them, and when he's close enough, he performs the [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice Calamity Titan.]]

Can be combined with a PowerWalk for extra badassitude. Likely requires ConvectionSchmonvection, or there is convection, and the fact that the character is still unflinching further confirms badassitude. When the character was ''in'' [[OutOfTheInferno the fireball, and still pulls this off]], that's usually a sign that they're an ImplacableMan or TheJuggernaut.

Compare OutrunTheFireball (when this is done running), StrollingThroughTheChaos. Contrast it with TheSlowWalk, where the character is walking ''towards'' danger (in order to lay a major beat down) and PowerWalk, where one or more characters walk towards the camera while giving off an air of determination. Contrast UnflinchingFaithInTheBrakes.

* ''Series/TheATeam'' has a truly epic variation in the season two episode "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E21DeadlyManuevers Deadly Maneuvers]]". The explosion is timed to the flick of Hannibal placidly lighting his cigar. Hannibal isn't doing a PowerWalk away from it (he's already satisfied with the distance), but it has the "no reaction" part down pat.

** Yasmin Khan does this in "[[Recap/DoctorWho2022CENThePowerOfTheDoctor The Power of the Doctor]]," carrying a dying Thirteen in a PowerWalk to the TARDIS as an entire planet crumbles all around them.

* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'', in the aptly-titled episode "Justice", the proto-Justice League did this. This is both an example of the PowerWalk subset and a ShoutOut to the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' series's original opening.

* The last ten seconds of Music/{{Rammstein}}'s video for "Du Hast" has the band doing a PowerWalk across a field with a massive bomb explosion behind them. It's ''[[RuleOfCool awesome]]''.

** The poster for ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'''s crossover with ''Webcomic/AxeCop'' has them doing a PowerWalk with an explosion as the backdrop.

** In the Death Egg Boss fight of ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', Classic Sonic lands and strikes a pose after mecha is destroyed, complete with small explosions.

* In ''Literature/{{Ward}}'' the supervillain March has a power that allows her to energize a bladed weapon[[note]]usually her saber, but it works on any blade[[/note]] so that [[AbsurdCuttingPower it can cut through anything]] and draw "lines" of energy on any opponent or object she cuts. After a delay of a few seconds, these lines explode violently, typically [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe blowing the victim apart.]] She ''also'' has [[ClockKing superpowered timing and coordination]], so she almost never misses and if she wants a cut to be deadly, it will be. Combining her powerset with [[SmugSuper arrogance]] and a flair for the dramatic, she does an unflinching walk away from nearly ''every'' opponent she defeats, rarely seeing any of them explode and die. In a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] this later [[HoistByHisOwnPetard proves to be her undoing]]: [[spoiler:Vista, a superhero with the power to [[SpaceMaster warp the dimensions of space and objects at will]], notices this and [[ExploitedTrope takes advantage of it]] by shortening March's blade whenever it would cut or impale someone. The resulting blast only scratches the surface of the person hit, damaging only clothes or skin, but since March never watches the explosion she never realizes that her opponent is not dead. Her [[AntiVillain moral villain nemesis]] Foil, teamed up with Vista, uses this to [[FakingTheDead fake taking a lethal blow]] and then [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice run March through with a rapier]] [[CombatPragmatist from behind]].]]

-->Hey, look at me, casually
-->[[strike:Walking away]] [[LastChorusSlowDown Stumbling down]] like Action Movie [[strike:Hero Boy]] [[LastChorusSlowDown Blooper Reel]]
-->In slow-mo, everything glowing

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty 4'', during the mission "One Shot, One Kill" Captain [=MacMillian=] and then-Lieutenant Price take down a Hind helicopter with their sniper rifles. The Captain then turns away from the crashing helicopter, quips "Good night, ya bastard," and does an Unflinching Walk away from it as it crashes. [[spoiler:On ''top'' of him. Price has to carry the Captain all the way to the extraction point.]] But the Badass-ness of that scene was so ''worth it.''

* ''VideoGame/TimeCrisis 3'' ends with Alan and Wesley walking out of the destruction of the Zagorian base after killing [[PresidentEvil Giorgio]] [[BigBad Zott]] and stopping the missiles in the process.

* In the pilot episode of ''Series/TheVisitor'', The hero Adam [=McArthur=] does that after self-destructing his crashed stolen spaceship.

* The ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'' anime's second opening depicts Qwenthur and Havia doing this as an Object explodes behind them. Averted in-story, where they'll typically be sprinting away from whatever's about to explode and are likely to be blown off their feet anyway.

* Done several times in ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', usually by the [[DissonantSerenity extraordinarily calm Johan,]] but once or twice by other characters.

* Artanis in ''VideoGame/StarcraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'' ends up doing this in the cinematic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0kcHS0Tcu0 'Alone']], where at the end of it, he proceeds to Unflinching ''Warp'' away from [[spoiler:a planet-destroying explosion after standing his ground against a large number of Zerg right after he had set the Xel'Naga temple of Sharukas on overload]].

* Vincent does one of these after setting off a biological weapon near the start of the ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' movie. It makes for a rather effective introduction.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'': Sarabi is summoned by Scar to deal with the food shortage in the Pride Lands, and must walk through a crowd of furious hyenas growling and snapping at her, demanding more food. But she holds her head up high and casts a cold sideways glance at them. She's TheHighQueen indeed.

* Sheriff Clay performs one in ''Film/GhostRock'' when he returns to town in time to aid the heroes in the final showdown after being out of town earlier. He lights a stick of dynamite, tosses it into a building, and then continues his slow march into town as the building explodes behind him.

* Played with in ''Film/ConAir''. After setting up an explosion by lighting a pool of gasoline leading back to a gas station, Cyrus and his buddies walk off. Once the explosion happens, Cyrus keeps walking without reacting; everyone else, however, flinches or turns around to look.

* In ''Film/TheHitmansWifesBodyguard'', after finding out [[spoiler: his stepfather Bryce Sr.]] [[FaceHeelTurn turned his back on him]], Bryce blows up his Jaguar before waking away in this manner.

* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': During [[spoiler: Viper's raid]] on Falcon Base in the first episode, [[spoiler: Zero enters shortly after [[TheJuggernaut Diesel]] and [[TeleportSpam Phase]] mop up most of the security forces inside, while a few remnants appear in an attempt to stop him, he easily takes care of them, finishing off the last one off in this style.]]

* Creator/AudieMurphy actually [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17019_p2.html did this after manning a machine gun nest that was about to blow]].

* Firefighter demonstrates why it's dangerous to cook a turkey in an overflowing oil cooker by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQYTMFCLy5E dunking one in and calmly walking away as the whole thing blows up]].

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': During [[spoiler: Viper's raid]] on Falcon Base in the first episode, [[spoiler: Zero enters shortly after [[TheJuggernaut Diesel]] and [[TeleportSpam Phase]] mop up most of the security forces inside, while a few remnants appear in an attempt to stop him, he easily takes care of them, finishing off the last one off in this style.]]

* ''Webanimation/StupidKids'': {{Parodied}} in ''Townder örökség'' (''Towner legacy''), after Jason Towner escapes from a building, he does an unflinching standing right when the building blows up behind him. Then turns out he stood too close to the explosion and his entire back is on fire.

* Gouenji from ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' is [[MemeticMutation memetic]] for this. During the match against Epsilon [[spoiler:Remastered]], Desarm prepares [[spoiler:Drill Smasher]]; and Gouenji shoots [[spoiler:Bakuretsu Storm]] afterwards casually looking back as Desarm is overwhelmed by it.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'': Homura is a total badass and fond of explosives. This happens semi-frequently, with the fight against Roberta in episode 10 being the best example. [[spoiler:She eventually takes it UpToEleven by performing the Unflinching Walk... ''[[TimeMaster backwards through time]]'']].

%%* Creator/JackKirby amps the trope UpToEleven in ''ComicBook/{{OMAC}}'' [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Rf9S3GkkeyI/STl0ZArIMQI/AAAAAAAAHvM/ukjOkKWuBq8/s1600-h/jack+kirby.+omac.+page.+004.jpg #1]]

** A rather good HDTV advert around the time of the [[MerchandiseDriven insanely]] [[CashCowFranchise merchandised]] ''Film/QuantumOfSolace'' was nothing but Daniel Craig doing this in slow motion. Turned UpToEleven as he actually was getting pummelled by flying debris, [[TheStoic but continued to look grimly at the camera.]]

** But ''Series/PowerRangersRPM'' makes up for it. Not only does one episode lampshade such explosions, but the Blue Ranger's attempt at fixing a glitch in his morpher runs the risk of cranking the blast UpToEleven... so he aims the Exploding Fart at TheDragon and her {{Mooks}} and fires away. Needless to say, the bad guys aren't so unflinching.

** Also, Creator/SummerGlau turns her robot badassey up to eleven in [[http://imgbox.com/FFqqO6so this scene]] where she drives a truck off a cliff and walks away over the top of it. She does turn to look at the crash afterwards, though.

* Viole from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', who took a [[AppliedPhlebotinum Shinsu]] Bomb head on and didn't even blink - [[BlindingBangs as far as we can tell, anyway]]. Subverted in his less than cool reaction too the much weaker normal bombs Ja was using - taking an actual explosion instead of a Shinsu Blast actually made him bleed a little, since he didn't have an innate immunity against fire, shrapnels and shockwaves, unlike with Shinsu.

* Subverted in the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', when Snake starts to do this after blowing up a helicopter he was fighting, but then turns around and runs to the railing to watch the explosion. He then walks away once the explosion is over, followed up with [[BondOneLiner "That takes care of the cremation"]].

* One of these happens after every major boss in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'': Samus casually strolls away while the Phazon Core she just gave a PhlebotinumOverload comes crashing down behind her and starts exploding. Made extra badass because each of these events also increases her corruption level, and yet she continues like nothing happened.
** Another occurs on Elysia, where you can drop a bridge out from under a crowd of Tinbots by grappling out the support gates. As the bridge collapses, the camera focuses on Samus' back as she calmly walks away. The whole sequence earns you a "Stylish Kill" token voucher.
** Also happens in the first ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' after defeating Thardus (the rock monster). All of the rocks explode outward and Samus just casually strolls away. [[spoiler:One of the smaller rocks actually dings off her helmet, but she just looks annoyed that it messed up her Unflinching Walk.]]
** And again in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'' after finishing off Quadraxis. The core unit starts shaking, Samus hops off the unit and glides down to the ground, and strikes a pose as Quadraxis' head flies past her exploding, all while she then slowly gets up, doesn't spare a glace, and walks away.

* Parodied in ''Webcomic/{{Chainsawsuit}}'', with recurring character [[AwesomeMcCoolname Action Champ Walkaway]] -- [[http://chainsawsuit.com/tag/action-champ-walkaway/ everything]] he walks away from explodes.

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': In episode 2, [=BoBoiBoy=] sends several Lightning Bolts towards Adu Du's barrage of missiles, causing a dust cloud of an explosion. As the dust cloud fades away, [=BoBoiBoy=] walks out of it and towards the alien enemies with a determind expression. This scene later became part of the intro sequence.

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"]]: [[http://i39.tinypic.com/m90sd2.jpg Here.]]

* ''Manga/MoriartyThePatriot'': Sherlock Holmes in ''The Two Criminals'' casually strides awya from Milverton's estate, where he just murdered a man and set the scene on fire, only to immediately confess to the crime to the police and allow himself to be arrested.

* ''FanFic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': The Avatar Restored goes on one after regaining his true shape. Previous to this event, he was a trasformed ''female'' troll, and had undergone fifteen years of desperate survival against a continent of undead. This, in turn, was following his witness of the slaughter of his entire family, and all the survivors of the war; men, women, and children alike. [[spoiler:Not to mention his possible ''rape'', transformed, remember? He was the 'troll' at the end of ''VideoGame/DungeonKeeper''...]] Having regained his old form and power, he is understandably eager to vent his frustrations on Ami, as she is a keeper- in his anger he doesn't particularly care that she's essentially a heroine acting in an ambiguously villainous manner so that her minions don't rebel. Ami is understandably reluctant to attack him, but resorts to more and more desperate measures. Eventually blasting him with every spell she knows, sending waves of golems at him, channeling the might of Mettalia to turn the floor into a mass of living hands to encumber him, dropping the ceiling on him, and glamoring more powerful minions into weaker ones to mount surprise attacks. The Avatar weathers them all, until... she attempts an indirect assault, [[spoiler:and sticks him to the wall with a gigantic electro-magnet.]]