History Main / WronskiFeint

* In ''Comicbook/DCOneMillion'', Superman pulls this when being chased by "icon jockeys" (superhero wannabes who, thanks to 853rd century science, can buy temporary powers) who think he's a Bizarro.

* In ''Film/FantasticFour2005'', the Human Torch uses the Wronski Feint to dispose of a missile, when his attempt to lure it with flares proved ineffective.

* ''{{Film/Outbreak}}'': Colonel Daniels and Major Salt manage to pull this off on two UH-1 Hueys while flying an OH-6 Loach. Both Hueys survive, but it distracts them long enough for the Loach to fire some missiles into the forest, keeping them even further distracted while they work on a cure for the virus.

* The Lightcycles in ''Film/{{TRON}}'' use a unique variant, creating their own walls for their pursuers to crash into. They use the standard version when there's a wall already in place.

* In the ''Series/BabylonFive'' episode "Messages From Earth", Sheridan baits an insane Shadow vessel into following the ''White Star'' into Jupiter's atmosphere. When the ''White Star'' reverses direction, the Shadow vessel overshoots; it ends up going too deep into the atmosphere and gets crushed by the pressure; the ''White Star'' barely manages to escape itself.

--> '''Wash:''' I didn't think of that.
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. During the Klingon CivilWar, Worf's brother Kurn does this against two pursuing Bird of Prey spaceships ''by diving at a sun!'' Only Kurn's vessel pulls up in time. Specifically, he goes to warp REALLY close to the sun, causing a plume of solar gas to erupt in front of the pursuers.

* An apparently accidental variant in ''Series/{{CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons}}'' a dogfight between the Angels and mysteron fighter jets ends with the last fighter and Melody both diving steeply into the ground while trading fire, with only the latter successfully pulling up.
* Koba and Mizuki both pull it off in ''Series/UltramanMax''.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'':

*** Corran ends up on the wrong side of this during ''The Bacta War'', when Imperial pilot Erisi Dlarit dodges his last pair of missiles by feinting toward a mountain ridge and forcing them to crash into a moon. Unfortunately for her, the second impact against the ridge kicks up a colossal dust cloud that prevents her from seeing Corran bearing down on her position.

* Rabbits and hares will do a version of this. If a pursuing predator gets too close, they'll make a sudden ninety-degree turn in the hopes that the predator will overshoot, putting more distance between them.

** First, Piccolo Jr. uses a homing ki shot to track Goku in their match in the 23rd Tenkaichi Budokai. Goku successfully outruns it and runs right up to Piccolo, who takes the shot full-bore and loses his arm ([[HealingFactor which he then promtly tears off and grows back]]).

* ''Film/{{Condorman}}'': At the end of the speedboat chase, Woody's boat is damaged and out of gas. [[TheDragon Morovich]], whose weapons are also disabled, elects to [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram him]] in a final attempt to finish the hero off.
* ''Film/DeathRace2000''. LaResistance is trying to bomb [[BadassDriver Frankenstein]] with a small low-flying aircraft. Frankenstein spins his car around a large rock and the aircraft follows, only to find the rock is jutting out from a cliff face which he flies straight into. Unfortunately for Marovich, the speedboat is airlifted away just in time, causing him to crash spectacularly into the rocks.

* ''Fanfic/{{Myrmidons}}'': Kanril Eleya, badly outnumbered by a [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Fek'Ihri]] fleet, launches a hit-and-run raid with her flotilla to get them to follow her, then makes a carefully calculated dive across the event horizon of a black hole hoping some of them will fall in. [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee This is only half of her plan]]: [[spoiler:she also exploits the TimeDilation to enable faraway Starfleet reinforcements to arrive so she can turn and engage and destroy the Fek conventionally]].

* ''Fanfic/{{Myrmidons}}'': Kanril Eleya, badly outnumbered by a [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Fek'Ihri] fleet, launches a hit-and-run raid to get them to follow her, then makes a carefully calculated dive across the event horizon of a black hole hoping some of them will fall in. [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee This is only half of her plan]]: [[spoiler:she also exploits the TimeDilation to enable faraway Starfleet reinforcements to arrive so she can turn and engage and destroy the Fek conventionally]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Nigel the pelican pulls this to get away from a swarm of seagulls that are after Marlin and Dory (who are riding in Nigel's mouth) by flying through the space between the mast and sail of one of the many sailboats in the harbor. [[TooDumbToLive The]] ''[[TooDumbToLive entire]]'' [[TooDumbToLive flock of seagulls fall for it]] and get their beaks stuck in the sails.

*** Corran ends up on the wrong side of this during ''The Bacta War'', when Imperial pilot Erisi Dlarit dodges his last pair of missiles by forcing them to crash into a moon. Unfortunately for her, the second impact (against a ridge she is sheltering behind) kicks up a colossal dust cloud that prevents her from seeing him bearing down on her position.

*** In a later book, Admiral Pellaeon uses a variant of bel Iblis' trick (Using torpedoes instead of A-Wings) to defeat a fleet of ships that attacked him at a time when he was expecting bel Iblis to be meeting him to discuss a peace treaty. Since he had been present at the battle when bel Iblis had ''invented'' that move, he took the fact that the enemy fell for it as proof that the Corellian had nothing to do with the ambush.

* In the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' and ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' games, the best way to lose a cop pursuit is to switch into the opposite lane [[LemmingCops wait for them to follow you]] and switch out just before you hit another car.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', during the SuicideMission, Joker will pull one of these to deal with several Oculus drones engaging the Normandy by flying into the [[AsteroidThicket wreckage of thousands of other ships]] that entered the Omega-4 relay. How it plays out depends on [[spoiler: whether or not you bought Tali's shield upgrade. If you did the Normandy makes it through needing a new coat of paint, but otherwise intact. If you didn't however, the Normandy's drive core overloads and vents into the engineering compartment, killing a squadmate, possibly Tali herself.]]
* In ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' Team Starwolf would tail you unmercifully. You COULD pull an Immelmann Turn and shoot whoever was following you that way -- but it's way more fun to fly almost right into a pillar, ''then'' pull an Immelmann, and have Wolf die an instantaneous death. Cue ''EvilLaugh''. However, due to technical limitations, this would only work if you had the victim in your sight.

** A effective tactic to use with bombers equipped with adequate ventral/tail protection when a fighter glues themselves to their tail is to fly fast and low towards a valley, then suddenly dip altitude and pull up, intending for the pursuer to follow. If they do, two possibilities then exist: Either the pursuer plows themselves into the ground, or they find themselves in the perfect position for those mention tail and ventral turrets to ''tear them apart.''

* In the "Wrecking Havoc" story in ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'', a human fighter pilot actually manages to pull this off on Cyclonus.

* ''Film/DeathRace2000''. LaResistance is trying to bomb [[BadassDriver Frankenstein]] with a small low-flying aircraft. Frankenstein spins his car around a large rock and the aircraft follows, only to find the rock is jutting out from a cliff face which he flies straight into.
Unfortunately for Marovich, the speedboat is airlifted away just in time, causing him to crash spectacularly into the rocks.

* An infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twMmSSB3HME trick]] in ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'''s multiplayer, known as "ground pounding", is essentially this.

* In ''VideoGame/ForzaMotorsport'' this is a popular method to get rid of AI cars tailgating you; if they only start to overtake you right before a turn, they'll go flying through the turn from breaking too late, often slamming into a wall. This also happens frequently in multiplayer when dealing with [[CarFu rammers]] - if you see someone aiming to smash into you at a tight turn, just go wide at a turn and smash on the brakes, and the rammer will go flying through the turn and smash into the walls of the track.

A Wronski Feint is a maneuver where a pursued character feints at an obstacle in order to get their pursuer to follow. They pull up at the very last second, and the split-second of confusion, or their enemy's inferior piloting skills, causes the enemy to crash into the obstacle.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7WnBYRBEOU Captain Jim Denton and Brent Brandon]], USAF, manage to pull one of these in an unarmed EF-111 Raven radar jammer against an Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1. Though the kill was credited to a nearby fighter pilot who was in the process of locking the Mirage, Denton and Brandon were both awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for their role in causing the Mirage to plow into the ground at full speed. This is the only time that a kill of a jet has been credited to an F-111 Airframe.

* In ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', a more unusual form of this is done to evade missiles and fighter pursuit. Instead of bothering to pull out of the dive, Kitty Pryde phases the entire jet through a mountainside. The missiles crash harmlessly into the rock and the pilots who were in pursuit (not knowing about mutants) swear never to speak of it again.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WingCommanderAcademy'' episode "The Lords of the Sky", Grunt uses the bottom of a canyon to scrape off some Kilrathi fighters chasing him, by diving down at it and then pulling out at the last moment.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker''. Terry finds his ass kicked by the Dee Dee Twins every time he confronts them, so in the final battle when they both charge him from opposite directions, he just activates his rocket boots and launches straight into the air, causing them to crash into each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E26ShadowPlayPart2 Shadow Play – Part 2]]": [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicHistoricalFigures Somnanbula]] pulls this on [[Characters/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsVillains the Dazzlings]] in a flashback. By circling around the Sirens, she annoys them enough that all three give chase to her. Thus Somnambula leads them toward the interdimensional portal that Star Swirl just opened, and feints at the last moment by flying up. The Sirens, bigger and less agile than a pegasus, can't stop in time and fly straight through the portal, banishing them to the human world.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E2TheBeginningOfTheEndPart2 The Beginning of the End – Part 2]]": Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy trick the pursuing mind-controlled pegasi Royal Guards into WatchWhereYoureGoing, letting them crash into one another and fall to the ground below. Luckily, Twilight uses her magic to set them down gently.

* This is essentially done a few times in ''ComicBook/SinCity'' in which a character lures one or more cop cars into Old Town where cops are not allowed. This ends with the cops turning and leaving... usually. The cop cars unfortunate enough to land in the neighborhood get blasted apart.
* In "The Power of Point Dread" (a ''Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse'' pack-in minicomic), He-Man manages to defeat Skeletor, who was piloting the faster and more heavily-armed Talon Fighter, and Beast-Man who is using the guns of Point Dread itself by taking advantage of the superior maneuverability to the Wind Raider to slam the Talon Fighter ''into'' Point Dread itself.
* In ''ComicBook/AthenaVoltaire'', Athena seems to favor this tactic for disposing of attackers. The fight in ''The Brotherhood of Shambala'' is typical; she's out-gunned by two Japanese fighter planes, but thanks to being a better pilot, is able to arrange matters so that one fails to pull out of a dive and hits a river, while another doesn't turn quickly enough to avoid a cliff.
* Played with in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' #104 (Oct. 1972) - Quicksilver runs full-speed into a wall while being chased by a Sentinel. The Sentinel thinks that he is playing this trope. He wasn't--instead, he was gambling that he would survive hitting the wall at speed, but the far more massive Sentinel wouldn't.

* In ''Comicbook/DCOneMillion'', Superman pulls this when being chased by "icon jockeys" (superhero wannabes who, thanks to 853rd century science, can buy temporary powers) who think he's a Bizarro.

* One ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' comic strip had the titular feline chasing a bird at ground-level, at full speed, only to have the bird pull up sharply (90° angle!) at the base of a tree. Garfield did not dodge.

* ''Fanfic/TheGreatAlicornHunt'': Chased by bullies, Scootaloo finds an updraft. Her glider's much larger wings catch the air better than the bullies' wings, sending her hurtling up fast while the bullies continue going forward and crash into a dumpster.

* Appears in the movie of ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon''. It helps that [[spoiler:the Red Death's wings were shot full of holes so it ''can't'' pull up]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', Nigel the pelican pulls this to get away from a swarm of seagulls that are after Marlin and Dory (who are riding in Nigel's mouth) by flying through the space between the mast and sail of one of the many sailboats in the harbor. [[TooDumbToLive The]] ''[[TooDumbToLive entire]]'' [[TooDumbToLive flock of seagulls fall for it]] and get their beaks stuck in the sails.

* The Lightcycles in ''Film/{{TRON}}'' use a unique variant, creating their own walls for their pursuers to crash into. They use the standard version when there's a wall already in place.
* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', the 4x4 Light Runners do the same, as do the aerial Light Bombers and Fighters, but improvements in digital technology allow them to create ''curved'' walls instead of the straight angles of the ENCOM Lightcycles. Light Bombers are especially dangerous to pursuers because they produce ''two'' light walls in midair, trailing twisting and turning constructs as the plane corkscrews and barrel-rolls.
* In the movie ''Film/BlueThunder'', the hero (flying the titular BlackHelicopter) dodges two heat seeking missiles fired at him by military F-16s by luring them into, respectively, the heat from a Japanese barbecue shop and the sun reflecting off a skyscraper. Under the circumstances, he had no real choice, but the film rather jarringly avoids [[NoEndorHolocaust dealing with the consequences]].
* In ''Film/IndependenceDay'', Steven Hiller uses the canyon ploy to escape from the alien dogfighters. He then uses the actual Wronski Feint on his last pursuer, ejecting and deploying his plane's drag chute, causing both plane and alien fighter to crash. Mostly justified since the chute obscures the alien's sight, and by the time it slides off the alien craft, it's too close to the canyon wall to pull up in time.

* In a variation without canyon walls, the heroes of ''Film/PearlHarbor'' do this by flying their planes directly at each other, and then swerving at the last minute, causing their pursuers to crash into each other.
* Terrestrial variant: ''Film/BatmanForever'' shows the Batmobile accelerating into a brick wall before using a combination of rocket boosters and a grappling hook to drive ''up the wall.'' The pursuers drive right into it.

* ''Film/TheHuntForRedOctober'':
** Captain Ramius pulls this when a torpedo locks on to the sub while it is in its canyon run -- he purposefully delays a turn by several seconds, then turns very hard (for a sub, anyway), causing the torpedo to impact into a canyon wall.
** Repeated by Captain Mancuso late in the movie, with one difference: the torpedo [[HoistByHisOwnPetard hit the Alfa sub that originally fired it]].
--->'''Mancuso:''' The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch.
* Upwards variation in ''Film/TheWolverine'': the TraintopBattle has Wolverine and the Yakuza mooks jumping and ducking to avoid the overhead signs above the train. At a certain point, Logan makes it like he's going to jump... so the other guy does so and gets struck by a higher up sign.
* ''Film/TheGreatWaldoPepper'': Kessler attempts to use this against Waldo during their final flight.
* ''Film/{{Condorman}}'': At the end of the speedboat chase, Woody's boat is damaged and out of gas. [[TheDragon Morovich]], whose weapons are also disabled, elects to [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram him]] in a final attempt to finish the hero off. Unfortunately for Marovich, the speedboat is airlifted away just in time, causing him to crash spectacularly into the rocks.
* ''{{Film/Outbreak}}'': Colonel Daniels and Major Salt manage to pull this off on two UH-1 Hueys while flying an OH-6 Loach. Both Hueys survive, but it distracts them long enough for the Loach to fire some missiles into the forest, keeping them even further distracted while they work on a cure for the virus.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', Hawkeye advises Iron Man that this is the way to get rid of the Chitauri bogeys on his six, because "they can't bank worth a damn."
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Falcon finally gets rid of the [[MacrossMissileMassacre dozen or so]] heat-seeking missiles behind him by flying directly toward the glass frame of [[spoiler:the Project Insight helicarrier's targeting core]], then suddenly retracting the suit's wings and shutting off the jets. He immediately drops out of the way and the missiles slam into the glass, leaving him totally unharmed and now with a convenient way in.

* ''Film/JasonBourne'' does a CarFu version; while [[HeroStoleMyBike riding a motorcycle]] down some narrow streets in Athens during a riot, Bourne drives down a dead-end street and then suddenly turns and rides the bike up a stairway, causing his pursuer to crash. However, the car's airbags absorb the impact and [[TheDeterminator he's soon after Bourne on foot]].
* In the original ''Film/TheTerminator'', Sarah and Reese are driving flat-out in a parking garage with the Terminator just behind them. Sarah spots the wall but Reese is too distracted to listen to her (with the gunfire and all). Sarah slams her car into park, but the Terminator doesn't react in time to avoid hitting the wall at top speed. Of course, being a cyborg, this is just a minor inconvenience for him.
* ''Film/DeathRace2000''. LaResistance is trying to bomb [[BadassDriver Frankenstein]] with a small low-flying aircraft. Frankenstein spins his car around a large rock and the aircraft follows, only to find the rock is jutting out from a cliff face which he flies straight into.

* ''[[Literature/TheAdversaryCycle Nightworld]]''. While flying over the Atlantic Ocean a GiantFlyer swoops down on their Lear jet, which escapes by flying close to the water then banking hard at the last second. The creature's huge wingspan causes it to clip the water and crash as it tries to follow.
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/LuckyStarrAndTheRingsOfSaturn'': Lucky tries to evade pursuit first by hiding behind {{UsefulNotes/Saturn}}'s rings, but the Sirian ships are still able to detect the ''Shooting Star'', so he flies directly at Mimas, the ([[ScienceMarchesOn second/third]]) nearest moon of Saturn. He dives down so steeply, it looks like he's going to crash, until he activates the [[RayGun fusion beam, a close-range "heat ray"]]. The weapon vaporizes the icy substance of the moon ahead of him, giving him sufficient room to come to a stop beneath the moon's surface.

* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'': In ''Literature/OneGoodKnight'', one of the creatures native to Arcadia is the Kyryxes, a bloodsucking insect the size of a bird, and with barely enough brainpower to tell which potential meal is closer.
--> More than one hero of the Wars had turned the tide by leading a swarm of the wretched creatures into the enemy's side of a battle.

* Creator/SMStirling and Creator/JamesDoohan's ''Literature/TheFlightEngineer'': In ''Literature/ThePrivateer'', The [[TheBattlestar light carrier]] ''Invincible'' jumps into a barely explored system that happens to have a pulsar dangerously close to the jump point. Since they're expecting it, they're able to slingshot around the pulsar at high speed and back to the jump point. The enemy flotilla pursuing them is ''not'' expecting the pulsar and ends up smearing itself across its surface.

* Koba and Mizuki both pull it off in ''Series/UltramanMax''.
* Subverted in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "The Message". Wash tries to lead the pursing Alliance gunship on an AerialCanyonChase. [[spoiler:The gunship doesn't take the bait; instead it simply flies ''over'' the canyon and bombards them from afar with missiles and bombs.]]
--> '''Wash:''' I didn't think of that.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. During the Klingon CivilWar, Worf's brother Kurn does this against two pursuing Bird of Prey spaceships ''by diving at a sun!'' Only Kurn's vessel pulls up in time. Specifically, he goes to warp REALLY close to the sun, causing a plume of solar gas to erupt in front of the pursuers.

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* In the ''Series/{{Stingray|1964}}'' episode "The Man from the Navy", the titular super-sub is being used as the target vessel for a new underwater homing missile. In all previous tests, ''Stingray'' hasn't been able to shake off the missile, so an annoyed and frustrated Troy Tempest charges at a large rock formation on the ocean floor, only veering off at the last second. The missile can't follow the insane turn and crashes into the rocks. Just as well, because [[spoiler:while the other missiles have been inert test rounds, this one has a live warhead courtesy of Titan's agent X20]].
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* In ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' Team Starwolf would tail you unmercifully. You COULD pull an Immelmann Turn and shoot whoever was following you that way -- but it's way more fun to fly almost right into a pillar, ''then'' pull an Immelmann, and have Wolf die an instantaneous death. Cue ''EvilLaugh''. However, due to technical limitations, this would only work if you had the victim in your sight.
* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', during the SuicideMission, Joker will pull one of these to deal with several Oculus drones engaging the Normandy by flying into the [[AsteroidThicket wreckage of thousands of other ships]] that entered the Omega-4 relay. How it plays out depends on [[spoiler: whether or not you bought Tali's shield upgrade. If you did the Normandy makes it through needing a new coat of paint, but otherwise intact. If you didn't however, the Normandy's drive core overloads and vents into the engineering compartment, killing a squadmate, possibly Tali herself.]]
* ''[[{{VideoGame/Tribes}} Tribes: Ascend]]'' allows nimbler classes to escape the Shrike aircraft's attacks this way. Especially common sense a lot of pilots will aim to [[RammingAlwaysWorks ram]] the infantry since its cannon are slow and hard to aim.
* In the intro for ''VideoGame/WingCommanderPrivateer'', the player character lures a [[SpacePirate pirate's]] missiles around an asteroid, and then sends them back at the firing craft. How he did that in a ship that can't outrun or outturn the missiles is an exercise best left for those who forget the MST3KMantra.

* An infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twMmSSB3HME trick]] in ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'''s multiplayer, known as "ground pounding", is essentially this.
* This has no-doubt happened a lot in ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' from people being unfamiliar with how their plane handles or from becoming too used to Arcade Mode's flight models when entering their first Realistic Mode game.
** A effective tactic to use with bombers equipped with adequate ventral/tail protection when a fighter glues themselves to their tail is to fly fast and low towards a valley, then suddenly dip altitude and pull up, intending for the pursuer to follow. If they do, two possibilities then exist: Either the pursuer plows themselves into the ground, or they find themselves in the perfect position for those mention tail and ventral turrets to ''tear them apart.''
* This is used in ''VideoGame/Jak3Wastelander'' when Daxter is accidentally testing a missile and must destroy the trailing heat seekers from his tail. While a majority of these are dealt with by 'flare defense' the last one is destroyed by pulling off a Wronski Feint with a giant statue of Daxter.

* The finale of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' had Franchise/{{Batman}} do this with the Omega Effect (self-guided EyeBeams of RetGone); he throws down a {{Mook}} he passes trying to elude it so said Mook bounces into the Effect's path at just the right moment.
* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' use this trick against the Steel Clan a couple of times. Late in the second season, one of them even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] it: "It's amazing how many times that works."
* The good guys fall for this in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot''. Two web creatures on a collision course going around the Principal office, each followed by half a dozen CPUs. Web creatures escape, all CPU's crash and explode.

* Dive bombers such as the Stuka and SBD Dauntless had remarkable turn rates when not carrying ordnance (their wing area is very generous, to provide the lift to carry bombs and to pull out of their dive runs, so when the payload is gone, their wing-loading numbers approach or exceed contemporary fighters). The US Navy used [=SBDs=] as fighters during the early days of WWII when its supply of Wildcats was limited. One of the episodes of ''Dogfights'' ("The Long Odds") focused on a Dauntless pilot holding off a whole passel of Zero fighters, and shooting down a couple, and returning alive.

** He does perform a similar move in the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban third book]], where he fakes seeing the snitch to cause Cho to fly in the wrong direction (it lacks the large solid object to truly be considered this trope). His tactic against [[spoiler: the dragon]] in Goblet of Fire was similar as well.

* The Wronski Feint is available by name in ''TabletopGame/FlyingCircus'' through the Slipstream Mastery - the move triggers upon trying to escape a pursuer by diving to the ground, and causes them to crash on a full success.