Deadly Dodging in Live-Action Films.
- Batman:
- In Batman: The Movie, during the big free-for-all fight at the end, Batman ducks under a punch from the Joker, that hits the Riddler who was behind and sends him tumbling in the sea.
- In The Dark Knight Rises, Batman manages to trick one of the missiles launched by one of the stolen Tumblers into blowing up one of the others after leading it on a long chase in the Bat.
- In The Batman, Batman tricks two of the Riddler's goons into shooting each other by side-stepping.
- Blind Fury: During the fight in the corn field, Blind Weaponmaster Nick Parker emerges behind the back of two mooks, makes a noise with his scabbard, and slips back out of sight. The mooks turn around, and one shoots the other by reflex.
- DC Extended Universe: In Zack Snyder's Justice League, Superman does a Nonchalant Dodge to the Flash who is running at super speed! This causes Barry to crash into Aquaman who is charging up behind Superman at the time. It puts them both out of the count for the rest of the battle, and Aquaman gives Barry a Death Glare afterwards.
- The Drunken Knight's introduction in Come Drink With Me have him being cornered by six thugs, who decide to gang up on this drunkard all at once. Unfortunately for the thugs, they have severely underestimated the Knight, who nimbly dodges all their strikes - and make them stab each other at the same time.
- Duan versus the Sword Spirits Duo in The Deadly Breaking Sword. A side-step from Duan leaves the Red Spirit Left Stuck After Attack, and another dodge Duan causes the Blue Spirit to skewer his partner. The Blue Spirit is then easily taken down afterwards.
- In Dragonball Evolution, when Goku is forbidden to fight, he defeats some bullies by tricking them into hitting each other and hard surfaces.
- Eagleman The Warrior Of Heaven, a Korean toku film, has the titular hero displaying his ability to dodge bullets by flipping around, and in the final shootout tricks the main villain into shooting his own Dark Action Girl Love Interest by jumping in front of her (and side-stepping as the main villain shoots).
- During the climactic confrontation in Galaxy Quest, the heroes' spaceship drags magnetic mines and, at the last possible moment, dodges Sarris' onrushing flagship which in turn crashes right into the heap of mines and explodes.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has a subtle variant: When McGonagall attacks Snape for his (feigned) Death Eater allegiance, he deflects her spells slightly, so they happen to strike the two genuine Death Eaters standing behind him.
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army: Hellboy dodges Wink's fist and it hits what appears to be a giant meatgrinder. Wink doesn't live much longer after that, obviously.
- Pulled off in The Hunt for Red October. By a submarine. Here's a rundown: When the Konovalov fires a torpedo at the Red October, the USS Dallas passes between the torpedo and the October, causing the torpedo to switch targets, the Dallas then blows its ballast and rises to the surface. The torpedo reacquires the October, but Commander Mancuso (in temporary command of the October) uses that time to get close to the Konovalov and passes over her, resulting in the torpedo returning right back at the sub that fired it. The only reason it works, though, is that Captain Tupolev previously removed all safeguards from the torpedo to prevent Captain Ramius from making use of them by getting the October to within the "safety range". The last words Tupolev hears are his Number Two telling him "You arrogant ass... you've killed us.".
- Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark. At one point during the fight in Cairo, a bad guy attempts to stab Indy with his sword. Indy dodges the attack, causing him to stick the blade into a second bad guy.
- I, Robot: The robot Sonny invokes this as an Informed Ability to Spooner, who has a gun pointed at Sonny's head, during an apparent Face–Heel Turn where he holds Susan Calvin at gunpoint; by the time Spooner fires, he can move Susan's head there instead. He quickly conveys to Spooner that taking Susan hostage is only a ploy. Doubles as Dodge the Bullet.
- The '90s Jackie Chan film Island of Fire has Chan doing this in an Accidental Murder moment from his flashback. After beating up some punks in a nightclub, the punk's leader tries attacking Chan with a switchblade, only for Chan to side-step and cause the punk to hit a swinging door, with his knife through the throat. This leads to Chan's subsequent arrest and being sent to the titular prison.
- Also appears in the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. When being "interrogated", he shifts sideways from a punch and Mook #1 ends up punching Mook #2 instead, giving Bond the opening he needs to beat up the numerous baddies.
- Johnny English Reborn: Part of Johnny's effortless curbstomp of a whole group of Chinese assailants. Each time one of them grapple him, he maneuvers the thug so that he's the one hit by the staff-wielding fighter.
- Mr. Miyagi pulls this trick in the opening "fight" of The Karate Kid Part II, tricking his opponent into punching car windows and injuring himself.
- The Karate Kid (2010) features quite a bit of it in the initial fight between Mr. Han and the six boys who'd beaten up Dre. Han barely shows any actual offense at all, mostly maneuvering the boys into hitting each other. When Dre remarks on this in the next scene, Mr. Han replies, "When fighting against angry blind men, best to just stay out of the way."
- Kong: Skull Island: During the helicopter battle, Kong at one point leaps out of the way as two helicopters try to attack him from in front and behind. This causes them to rake each others' cockpits with machinegun fire, then crash into each other.
- In Kung Fu Hustle, the Landlord defeats the pair of kung fu villains who double as Musical Assassins by throwing his arms over their necks in the way friends often do. Then he moves his hips, causing their punches to strike the other one. He is even able to seemingly dodge strikes that land by causing them to slide off his body and strike the other.
- Jet Li's character invokes this by accident in the final battle of Lethal Weapon 4 when he reflexively dodges a bullet which hits and kills his brother.
- Early in Machete, the title character is lured into a streetfight. He wins it by dodging several attacks, then stepping aside just at the right time for his opponent to shatter his arm on a concrete post.
- Early in Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Max slams on the brakes and tricks two enemies on either side of his car into shooting each other. Also see Dodge by Braking.
- Marlowe: Winslow Wong is defeated when he attempts a flying kick on Phillip Marlowe while they are on a balcony. Marlowe dodges, causing Wong to fly over the edge to his death.
- Marvel Cinematic Universe:
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier: During the elevator fight, Captain America gets one arm stuck to the wall by a magnetic wrist-cuff, limiting his movements. When a mook tries to take advantage of it with a taser baton, Cap grasps his arm with his free hand and redirects the attack, tasing another mook.
- In Captain America: Civil War, as Captain America and Bucky are escaping the airport, Iron Man and War Machine start to pursue, while the Falcon intercepts them. War Machine asks Vision to disable Falcon's glider, but Falcon dodges, causing the blast to hit War Machine instead, crippling his arc reactor, causing him to fall to earth and resulting in him being paralyzed.
- Avengers: Endgame: During the climactic three-versus-one fight against Thanos, Thor uses Stormbreaker to bat a lightning-charged Mjölnir at their foe. However, the Mad Titan is tangling with Iron Man at the same time, and he grabs Tony to interpose him as a shield against the hammer.
- As The One, Neo used his speed, martial arts mastery and agility to easily dodge attacks by sinister mooks of the Merovingian in The Matrix Reloaded's chateau fight scene, often causing them to maim and kill each other.
- In Princess Warrior (1989), Ovule sidesteps one of Currette's kicks and it hits a pillar. Currette angrily staggers away clutching her shin.
- Rage Of Honor, an action movie starring Sho Kosugi, have a scene where Kosugi gets trapped in a warehouse full of mooks. Avoiding gunfire, Kosugi then performs a midair summersault between two thugs, and both thugs ends up shooting each other's faces while aiming for Kosugi.
- The Return of the Pink Panther: A couple of examples of it happening unintentionally. Clouseau bends over at just the right moment, resulting in Sharki getting shot by Dreyfus instead, and Kato in the restaurant turning around a corner just as Clouseau jumps at him. Clouseau does a rather spectacular plunge into the kitchen.
- In Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Robin and Achoo (Bless you!) dodge four soldiers while on a hanging platform, leaving them suspended off the ground atop their swords.
- RoboCop has the death of one of Clarence's prominent henchmen, Emil. In an attempt to run over RoboCop with his transport, RoboCop side-steps Emil's vehicle in time — which causes Emil to crash into a tankard of toxic waste leading to one of the film's goriest onscreen deaths.
- In The Rock, John Mason is in a fist fight with one of the bad guys, and is losing badly until he ducks a punch. The bad guy then solidly hits a metal pipe, and while he is in pain, the protagonist takes advantage of the distraction to resoundingly trounce his opponent.
- The battle at the docks in Royal Warriors has Peter tricking a sledgehammer-swinging mook into smashing another mook's guts by ducking.
- River Tam from Serenity, in both the Maidenhead fight and Mr. Universe's complex, uses this, although she isn't above shoving people into the way as well.
- Done in The Shallows, as this is how Nancy ultimately kills the shark, by making it lunge at her and then making it impale itself with a metal rebar protruding from the bottom of the seabed.
- Special Female Force: The fight between Ho and Tung Zi ends with Tung Zi grabbing a long, metal re-bar in an attempt to skewer Ho, but she dodges it in time, resulting in Tung Zi impaling a fuse box instead. A High-Voltage Death quickly follows.
- In the climax of Spider-Man, when Spider-Man manages to overpower the Goblin, the latter reveals himself as Norman Osborn to halt the fight. He begs for forgiveness, but at the same time programs his glider to impale his foe from behind. Sensing the danger, Spider-Man instinctively dodges, and the glider impales Norman, killing him.
- Star Wars: In Rogue One, Blind Weaponmaster Chirrut uses his quick reflexes to dodge blaster shots fired by several Stormtroopers, causing them to accidentally kill a few of their own. He also uses one as a human shield against the others during the struggle.
- Top Gun: Maverick: During the final dogfight, as Maverick and Rooster are trying to escape the enemy planes in a stolen F14, Maverick dodges an enemy missile and gets it to take down the second plane of the formation, which he had previously damaged.
- In Tremors, Kevin Bacon outwits a giant worm by luring it
off ofout of a cliff. - Tucker & Dale vs. Evil: Tucker is loading logs into a wood chipper when one of the co-eds comes up behind him with intent to stab him. Tucker, completely oblivious to this, ducks out of the way to get more wood as the kid charges past and goes straight into the wood chipper.
- During the climax of Ultraman Cosmos 2: The Blue Planet with Ultraman, the humans, and the Alien Gyasshis Jin and Shau battling the Scorpiss horde, Jin managed to trick one of the Scorpiss into blowing up two of its comrades by dodging its fireball attacks.
- The protagonist of Ultraviolet incorporates this into her Gun Kata in the rooftop shootout in order to take out a group of gangster-looking Mooks.
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit:
- Eddie Valiant dodges Judge Doom's punch, leading to Doom getting glued to a slowly moving steamroller.
- And then later subverted, as Doom dodges a punch from a boxing-glove mallet wielded by Valiant... only to have that glove punch open the spigot for the deadly Dip to kill its creator.
- X-Men Film Series:
- Used by Kitty Pryde against Juggernaut in X-Men: The Last Stand, as she tricks him into crashing into a wall behind her; due to their powers being temporarily nullified by Leech, he's promptly knocked out.
- And again in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, with Wade Wilson dodging and slicing bullets to take out foes on either side of him with their own bullets.
