Basic Trope: A bullet headed for a character moves in an unnatural way to avoid hitting them.
- Straight: Alice grabs a gun and aims perfectly at Bob, but the bullet moves around him.
- Exaggerated: Alice shoots Bob with an assault rifle, and every single bullet changes direction to avoid hitting him.
- Downplayed: The bullet only tilts its angle mid-air a tiny bit, and it's just enough to miss Bob.
- Justified:
- Bob is using telekinesis to make the bullet change direction.
- The bullet has a mind of its own and doesn't want to hit Bob.
- Inverted:
- Dodge the Bullet
- Alice aims poorly, but the bullet changes direction to hit Bob.
- Subverted: The bullet goes around Bob... but then turns back to hit him after all.
- Double Subverted: The bullet changes direction at the last second during the return trip to miss Bob yet again.
- Parodied: The bullets, once facing Bob, immediately start flying away, and Alice could hear faint cries of "Oh hell no, I'm not going towards HIM!!!".
- Zig-Zagged: The bullet makes several turns and near misses around Bob before finally deciding whether to hit him or not.
- Averted:
- Bullets behave as they do in real life, so they never change direction after being fired.
- No one uses ranged weapons.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: "What was that? Did the bullet just... turn away on its own?"
- Invoked: Bob learns telekinesis so he can force bullets to miss.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- Alice sneaks up on Bob to shoot him before he can use his telekinesis.
- Bullets have a mind of their own, but actively decide to never change course during a shot that will hit its target.
- Discussed: "Telekinesis has plenty of uses, Bob. For example, you could force a bullet to miss you".
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: ???
- Deconstructed:
- Bob can't use telekinesis on too many things at once, so enough bullets at the same time will still down him.
- No one uses guns anymore due to the bullets always going out of their way to miss.
- Reconstructed: Bob trains to improve his superpowers, allowing him to use telekinesis on as many bullets as necessary at the same time.
- Played for Laughs: ???
- Played for Drama: ???
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