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High-Speed Missile Dodge

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High-Speed Missile Dodge	comment	This is quite similar to Cutscene Power to the Max in that it showcases a character's sheer skill, or the abilities of their Cool Vehicle. A swarm of seeking projectiles is flying right at a character, and they're almost certain to be rendered into a fine paste by the attack ... but through an extreme display of evasive maneuvers, the character escapes without the slightest scratch. Sometimes the dodging is merely swerving from side to side or taking sharp turns, sometimes it's done like in Macross, where the pilot puts his Valkyrie through aerial acrobatics that would logically cause unbearable G-forces. At other times, the pilot maneuvers so as to cause the missiles to hit each other and explode, or supplements his evasive maneuvers with the use of some weapon to actually shoot down the missiles instead of being Point Defenseless (but merely being able to shoot down missiles doesn't make for a High Speed Missile Dodge). Although High Speed Missile Dodging can and does happen in Real Life, real-world anti-aircraft missiles are designed to not actually hit the target, but instead explode in close proximity to it and fill the entire vicinity with high-velocity shrapnel. Thanks to the Rule of Perception, though, most anti-aircraft missiles in fiction only damage targets if they hit directly. Aircraft pilots in Real Life have two basic tactics for dodging missiles; the most common method, as described in the opening quote, is to maneuver the aircraft in such a way that the missile overshoots—so that when its warhead explodes, the shrapnel from the blast won't actually impact the intended target. There are several methods for accomplishing this, depending on the situation and the kind of aircraft involved. Even the massive B-52s are capable of using this tactic to defeat missiles. The other tactic is pure speed; some aircraft are (or were) capable of successfully outrunning air-to-air missiles, such as the MiG-25 and the SR-71 Blackbird, whose official missile evasion procedure was "just go faster, duh" (lightly paraphrased). In this case, it's less about the pilot's skills and more about the abilities of the aircraft itself. May not work against a Super-Persistent Missile. Compare the Wronski Feint, which uses the local landscape as an accessory. The same skills used in dodging missiles are also handy for dodging lasers. See also Smoke Shield, where it's sometimes implied that although the missiles exploded, the character dodged while obscured from the camera. See also Misguided Missile, where the missiles are led back to their launcher or into each other. On a smaller scale there's Dodge the Bullet, which is about, well ... dodging bullets.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_159be4c7	comment	Usagi-chan de Cue!!: Every time Dekao is rebuilt, he gets a new set of missiles, which he launches against Mimika. However, being a bunny-girl, Mimika is too fast and agile to be hit by any missile, so three times Dekao runs out of missiles without hurting Mimika.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_1973b10a	comment	Sonic Unleashed's opening cutscene.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_1b604019	comment	Area 88 pilots attempt this frequently. It doesn't always work and the g-forces involved actually kill Mario in the manga.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_1cc09117	comment	A variation in Bleach: In the climactic battle between Ichigo Kurosaki and Byakuya Kuchiki on Sokyouku Hill, Byakuya unleashes his Bankai, which transforms his Zanpakuto into a cloud of razor-like blades. Ichigo responds by demonstrating the insane speed boost of his Bankai for the first time, knocking every one of the millions of blades to the ground. Ultimately Averted however when Byakuya responds by increasing the amount of blades he's using by 100-fold, whilst chiding Ichigo of making the same mistake that Renji did; he has a bankai as well, and he's still better with it. It takes Ichigo's Superpowered Evil Side to save him here.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_1cdeea1d	comment	This is possible in Battlestar Galactica Online, most often with Strikes, but you'll still want to pack decoys because it is not very reliable.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_222a8847	comment	In RoboCop (1987), the titular cyborg does this a few times during his Executive Suite Fight with ED-209 in OCP headquarters.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_23633967	comment	Top Gun: Maverick has a scene showing one of the enemy "Felon" pilots pull off a Kvochur's bell to evade Maverick's missile during their escape in the climax.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_247422c7	comment	Attempted by a Pinnace pilot in Honor Harrington: Flag in Exile. Unfortunately, they still took a glancing blow from the missile, cutting the ship in half rather than simply disintegrating it. The pinnace crash-lands and most aboard and several people on the ground are killed. The Made of Iron Honor survives.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_2acb12c5	comment	This is a regular occurrence in the X-Universe games, since missiles are often slower than the ships they're fired at. In fact, one of the most effective tactics in an Old-School Dogfight is to use the missile as a distraction and make the kill with guns. "Swarm" missiles, which have Recursive Ammo, are significantly more effective.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_2fddfb10	comment	Played straight and subverted in Superman III when looking for Gus and Webster. He dodged a few missiles sent his way, kicked others in mid-air which collided with other missiles, and finally was briefly stunned when a bigger one exploded.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_2fee008d	comment	Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann manages to use every means of missile dodging available the first time they're able to fly against the Airborne Aircraft Carrier Dai-Gunten: The first volley is destroyed by the Gurren Lagann's own volley (tiring out the primary pilot), the second volley is dodged by the secondary pilot (while he's screaming in fear) and the final two supermissiles collide with one another after the first one is grabbed and thrown back at the ship.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_3133ae78	comment	The SWAT Kats do this sometimes. They didn't make it once, but they recovered somehow.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_36f699c5	comment	This trope is a very large part of gameplay in any After Burner game. Interestingly, some missiles do seem to have a proximity fuse and go up in a blast with a not-insignificant Aoe, so you do need to put some distance from them.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_39136df1	comment	Parodied in School Rumble, where Harima races downhill at high speed, in the snow, on a giant curry bowl, dodging a battery of large, apparently heat-seeking frozen fish projectiles with an impressive sequence of maneuvers and aerial acrobatics. Not to mention while wearing a Santa Suit.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_3bce4381	comment	In Trigun, not content to merely Dodge the Bullet, Vash the Stampede actually kicks a rocket-propelled grenade fired at him out of the way.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_3cf15492	comment	A capable pilot can juke through missile volleys in MechWarrior. Short-range missiles are dumb-fired, so a sufficiently agile 'Mech, such as the Raven, can make sharp, sudden turns and get out of the way. Long-range missiles have homing systems, but some enemies (and players) fire them without locking just to get a volley out. These too can be dodged if you are capably agile.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_3e374b30	comment	At the climax of The Dark Knight Rises, Batman must maneuver the Bat to dodge a set of missiles that were fired at him. The first two are stopped by flares, the next are tricked into crashing into buildings, and the last is maneuvered back to its sender. This is especially shocking because Batman is flying the Bat, which is some kind of helicopter designed for urban operation and should have no way to outmaneuver or outrun a rocket-propelled missile.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_432dcf2f	comment	In Episode 7 of Super Mario Bros. Z, Sonic is busy dodging bullets from Mecha Sonic's machine gun (rather easily) when Mecha decides to send 2 missiles his way. In a slo-mo encounter, Sonic rebounds off a wall, and leapfrogs one of the missiles in mid-air. The move's coolness is detracted from when the missiles hit the wall and the explosion sends Sonic flying.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_43a9c333	comment	Spike in Cowboy Bebop dodges missiles, asteroids, even laser beams in his spacecraft.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_440dc0fd	comment	In the 5th episode of Overman King Gainer, the Yapan city forces shoot surface to air missiles, which King Gainer dodges while flying towards them to defeat the invisible Blackmail. While Yassaha tried to do the same in Blackmail, he was quickly shot down.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_467c89f7	comment	Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which gave us both Macross Missile Massacre and Roboteching, also naturally features plenty of missile dodging.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_49aa2aa4	comment	Ace Combat: Players must master this before taking on the higher difficulty levels. Particularly fun when outnumbered five or ten to one. The enemy will do it too. It's not clear why the missiles act so oddly, as they can take out a tank with one "shack on the target" but need two to blow through a plane, at least in Shattered Skies. Strangereal is weird. Notably Ace Combat Zero has one exception to this: the ADFX-02 Morgan will for the first two thirds of the final mission adhere to this but in the last third will simply deflect all attacks fired at him... except for missiles that come at him head on.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_4a8a8f85	comment	Contrary to what some battleship players may protest, it is entirely possible to dodge torpedoes in World of Warships. Here is just one (actually fairly mild) example with eight torpedoes. There's footage of players dodging entire torpedo curtains from higher-tier Japanese shipsnote Possible in Real Life, see below.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_4b790c79	comment	In Iron Man, during the saving of Golmera, the titular character narrowly avoids a missile fired from a tank by sidestepping it in the nick of time. Iron Man fires a smaller missile back at it, and walks away as it explodes behind him.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond In Octopussy, 007 is in a small jet in hostile territory and the enemy launches a surface to air missile at him. With the missile chasing him, Bond heads for the hangar where he was caught trying to destroy a plane. The commander realizes what he is about to attempt and orders the hangar doors closed. But it's too late, Bond successfully flies through the hangar just in time while the pursuing missile collides with the interior and destroys the hangar. Die Another Day has Bond dodge one of Zao's missiles (and right his upside-down Aston) with a well-timed Ejection Seat.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_5b4f5fdc	comment	Explained by the narrator in Flight of the Intruder: For the A-6 Intruder, the preferred strategy was to dive towards the missile while ejecting decoys and attempting to jam the enemy's radar. The trickiest parts were of course spotting the incoming missiles early enough to know which way to dive, and running out of enemy missiles before you ran out of altitude.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_5c622d7f	comment	Likewise, Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening had Dante dodge a missile by bending over Neo-style...and then leaping atop it and surfing around the room on it before aiming it at a wall and jumping off.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_5d96b889	comment	It is not exactly an aircraft missile, but the Red Shell from the Mario Kart series is a Homing Projectile that can be very hard to avoid. In Mario Kart Wii the homing shell must be blocked with another item, as it is next to impossible to dodge due to how the shell mechanics work. In earlier installments like Double Dash, however, it can be dodged by doing a mini-turbo boost at the right moment. The shells will chase you down, then "hover" for a second behind your kart, and then speed up to ram into you. Just as it does so, it breaks the homing effect, meaning that ending your power slide drift (with the added drift boost) is enough to make the shell pass behind you at an angle instead of striking the vehicle.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_5e15e203	comment	Ace Online has the Idle Sniper I-Gear, the fighter type Gear that can outrun most missiles from levels as low as 40-50. I-Gear top speed= 500 (before lvl 86), most missile top speed=450. Enter Episode 3 and the introduction of Speed Card missile upgrades. Now most I-Gear pilots rely not only on pure high speed, but also a healthy dose of Wronski Feint and barrel rolls. Any I-Gear that manages to hit 94 however, will still be able to outrun most missiles except highly customized ones.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_61de95d6	comment	Another Western example is Freelancer. As soon as you hear the loud beeping and your ship screaming "INCOMING MISSILE!", you know it's time to swerve with afterburners at max!
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_68c7e5cd	comment	Macross Frontier episode 7 gives us this clip, which provides examples of an attempted High Speed Missile Dodge, Macross Missile Massacre, Roboteching, Theme Music Power-Up, BFG, Attack Drones, a partial Cold Sniper, Transforming Mecha, Real Robots, Sapient Ships, Humongous Mecha, Ace Pilot, Vapor Trail (in space), and The War Sequence. All in the space of three minutes.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_69085a0	comment	The Macross series has at least one example of this in each series. Super Dimension Fortress Macross, which gave us both Macross Missile Massacre and Roboteching, also naturally features plenty of missile dodging. Macross Frontier episode 7 gives us this clip, which provides examples of an attempted High Speed Missile Dodge, Macross Missile Massacre, Roboteching, Theme Music Power-Up, BFG, Attack Drones, a partial Cold Sniper, Transforming Mecha, Real Robots, Sapient Ships, Humongous Mecha, Ace Pilot, Vapor Trail (in space), and The War Sequence. All in the space of three minutes. In the YF-21's initial test run in Macross Plus, a truly enormous swarm of self-guided decoy missiles is shot at it to display its maneuvering capabilities. Since the YF-21 is controlled via neural link, Guld merely has to plot the missiles' individual trajectories and think his way through the gaps in a massively complex vector. They even comment on the proximity fuses of the missiles and wonder why they have not detonated as the YF-21 is dodging them. It seems the YF-21 is traveling too fast for the triggers to engage. Ironically, when he shoots an impenetrable wall of real missiles at Isamu, the latter merely shuts off his engines, drops some countermeasures for the missiles to hit, and glides peacefully above the ensuing inferno. Macross Zero: To show off the Valkyrie's rarely-used head cannons, Roy Focker uses an eye-tracking interface to shoot down dozens upon dozens of micro-missiles shot at him by his nemesis at almost point-blank range. Shin Kudo, who managed to dodge a similar swarm in a normal F-14 using pure badassery and skill (as well as plenty of tolerance for high-G maneuvers). On the other hand, he kinda had no other choice as the missiles mostly ignored his flares.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_730bdef3	comment	Rushuna dodges bullets and missiles in virtually every episode of Grenadier. Subverted when a stray bullet rips off her panties leaving her defenseless, as she is unable to perform acrobatics without exposing herself.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_755b343f	comment	In Halo, it is quite possible for fast and agile flyers like the Banshee to dodge homing projectiles if they flip or boost out of the way in time.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_76b91d49	comment	Hotsuma of Shinobi (2002) not only dodges a missile matrix style, he uses Akujiki two slice it in two, in mid-flip. Said missile halves then explode as Hotsuma lands.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_7ddbc888	comment	Eureka Seven: Just about every time the Nirvash typeZERO mech is deployed , it pulls off at least one of these, usually butchering several hapless KLF units in the process. In fact, most, if not all, of the openings also depict it. The series also features homing lasers, which receive similar identical treatment. Does this make any sense whatsoever? No. Is it awesome? Oh yeah!
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_7f5e00d9	comment	Halo: The Fall of Reach: Part of the famed "Keyes Loop" maneuver involves dodging homing plasma torpedos and having them hit an enemy ship instead. The book emphasizes that Keyes came up with the maneuver out of desperation against a vastly superior force, and Keyes himself notes that he would have failed any student who suggested the idea to him in his starship tactics class. The Master Chief does this on foot when when testing the new MJOLNIR Mark V armor, by slapping the missile aside just before it hit him. No, his armor and physical augmentations don't give him reflexes that ridiculous: his AI Cortana handled the timing. He wasn't completely undamaged by the missile's explosion, though.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_7f88571c	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Kira while in the Strike Gundam is known to do this from time to time, awesomely at that. To the point that he will have a barrage of missiles flying towards him, and he will dodge through the gap in their position, causing them to collide amongst each other, behind him.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_88b348e8	comment	An example of a magical projectile dodge is in the Watery card episode of Cardcaptor Sakura.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_9068877a	comment	Episode 10 of Red vs. Blue Season 8 brings forth the return of Tex, who then delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to the Reds and Tucker. Simmons fires a heat-seaking missile to Tex, who outruns it and goes through a portal and runs right back to the "heroes", missile in tow. She clotheslines Sarge, Simmons and Tucker who were conveniently standing in single-file at the time... for some reason... and she slides under Grif. She then leads the missile into a bunch of exploding barrels.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_933be5cb	comment	In Octopussy, 007 is in a small jet in hostile territory and the enemy launches a surface to air missile at him. With the missile chasing him, Bond heads for the hangar where he was caught trying to destroy a plane. The commander realizes what he is about to attempt and orders the hangar doors closed. But it's too late, Bond successfully flies through the hangar just in time while the pursuing missile collides with the interior and destroys the hangar.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_9432814f	comment	Done a few times in Flight of the Intruder, though, as The Boxman demonstrates, you can only dodge the missile when you can see it to know which way to go. The film also nicely demonstrates the "near hit" reality of surface-to-air missiles, as the missile explodes a fair distance away from the plane in question, which is still destroyed by the blast.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_99bab75a	comment	In the YF-21's initial test run in Macross Plus, a truly enormous swarm of self-guided decoy missiles is shot at it to display its maneuvering capabilities. Since the YF-21 is controlled via neural link, Guld merely has to plot the missiles' individual trajectories and think his way through the gaps in a massively complex vector. They even comment on the proximity fuses of the missiles and wonder why they have not detonated as the YF-21 is dodging them. It seems the YF-21 is traveling too fast for the triggers to engage. Ironically, when he shoots an impenetrable wall of real missiles at Isamu, the latter merely shuts off his engines, drops some countermeasures for the missiles to hit, and glides peacefully above the ensuing inferno.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_99bf2868	comment	Macross Zero: To show off the Valkyrie's rarely-used head cannons, Roy Focker uses an eye-tracking interface to shoot down dozens upon dozens of micro-missiles shot at him by his nemesis at almost point-blank range. Shin Kudo, who managed to dodge a similar swarm in a normal F-14 using pure badassery and skill (as well as plenty of tolerance for high-G maneuvers). On the other hand, he kinda had no other choice as the missiles mostly ignored his flares.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_9b1333a5	comment	Top Gun has this happen a couple times during the climactic dogfight. Iceman dodges an air-to-air missile from one of the MiGs, while Maverick snap-fires at a MiG chasing Ice without waiting for a lock and his shot goes wide.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_9d41fc3b	comment	Despicable Me: Gru does this when Vector launches a Macross Missile Massacre at him. The missiles redirect and blow up Vector's house. And then he punches a shark.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: In The Red Sea Sharks, the Big Bad orders his Submarine Pirates to sink one of his own freighters that's been appropriated by our heroes, killing the meddlesome Tintin and destroying all the evidence against him. Haddock has to keep turning the ship to avoid the torpedoes being fired at them, only to have an Oh, Crap! moment when the handle of the engine order telegraph breaks off in his hand.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Used repeatedly in Code Geass by some of the more talented aces. Kallen even pulls one off while still on the ground.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_a4c36b62	comment	In Planetside 2, the tiltjet fighter-bombers are nimble enough that players can do this.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_a659470e	comment	Vector Thrust makes heavy use of this trope by nature of being a Spiritual Successor to Ace Combat, but future updates may phase this out with upgrades to missile seekers that make them more perceptible to increased engine heat (such as when you're trying to speed away).
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_a6658fee	comment	Most submarine movies will have at least one scene of the heroes performing a last minute turn to escape an incoming torpedo. The Hunt for Red October accomplishes this in two different scenes, once by Red October reversing an engine to turn so tightly that the torpedo cannot compensate and hits an underwater canyon wall, and once by USS Dallas launching countermeasures and simultaneously blowing ballast so that they quickly rise vertically. Captain Ramius also once destroys a torpedo by closing the range before its safety measures switch off and arm the warhead, essentially ramming it with his sub. In real life, submarines will attempt to turn to face the torpedo so that they present the smallest possible target while discharging countermeasures, or employ high-speed maneuvers that create agitated areas of water which reflect sonar. The lack of submarine-vs-submarine battles, at least when armed with homing torpedoes, means this tactic remains historically untested. One of the purposes behind the development of the VA-111 Shkval supercavitating torpedo (which is itself unguided as we still have no idea how to steer when going so fast underwater) is to force the enemy sub that has just launched a wire-guided torpedo to evade, cutting the wire.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_a78fff6d	comment	Averted in SeaQuest DSV, despite it being a show all about submarines and featuring a number of sub combat scenes (especially in the third season). The titular sub preferred to simply shoot down the torpedoes with countermeasures.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_a796bde8	comment	Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes had Solid Snake dodge a missile by leaping on top of it.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_a81325d3	comment	There's also a couple of examples from more recent Final Fantasy games, such as Dirge of Cerberus and Final Fantasy IX.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_abf4c9b3	comment	Ryu Hayabusa's ending in Dead or Alive 4. He dodges two missiles.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_aedc983a	comment	Generally one of the ways to survive in the Wing Commander series, given the limited amount of decoys you generally get (at least pre-Prophecy), particularly when they get significantly more fatal in WC4. In something of a "huhwha...?" situation, your slow-ass, stock clunker of a Tarsus, the starting ship in Privateer, can simply afterburn away from missiles that are supposedly twice as fast as the ship they're targeting, even without much ECM help.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_b0282745	comment	In Buck Danny the titular hero, being an ace pilot, performs this a lot. Even the admiral in one of the book realize it's buck flying, due to the unknow plane dodging two missiles in a row.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_b0bb89d8	comment	Inverted in a deleted scene from Superman: The Movie. Superman tried to stop the Hackensack missile in mid-air, but the missile just flew past. It dodged him. This scene led to the one in the theatrical cut where said missile is chased and sent into outer space before the second one hit San Andreas' Fault.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_b11e29d2	comment	The Outlaw Star manages this occasionally.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_b5a03cec	comment	According to the rules of the official Robotech RPG by Palladium (and other Palladium games with missiles), it is possible to dodge volleys of up to three missiles, but never more than four, allegedly because no one did it in the show; however, Max dodges a twenty-plus swarm from Miryia's FPA at least once in the actual show (of course, Max is the best pilot living to the point where it's explained as him being just that good).
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_b5a2b326	comment	In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, ranged magic attacks are Painfully Slow Projectiles so this is a valid strategy for combating enemy mages. Begin to strafe at the end of their casting animation, dodge the projectile, and move in on the (typically squishy) mage for the kill. The only thing you have to watch out for are large Area of Effect spells, such as the Daedroth's Poisonbloom spell, which will still cause damage even if the main projectile is dodged.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_b98da5d2	comment	Subverted in Love Hina when Naru, screaming and arms flailing, flees from Kaolla Su's Macross Missile Massacre.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_c11cd8ab	comment	Attempted in Behind Enemy Lines when Serbian troops fire two SAMs at Burnett and Stackhouse's F-18 after they inadvertently spot the Serbs covering up a mass grave. They manage to evade one by tricking it into crashing with their dropped auxiliary fuel tanks, but the other one lands a near-miss and takes the plane down.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_c41875bc	comment	In Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, he caught nuclear missiles in mid-flight, put them in a big net, and slung the net into the sun.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_c699cb15	comment	One of the training missions in Janes USAF has you firing a HARM (High Speed Anti-radiation Missile) at an enemy SAM radar, then learning to dodge a â€œsmokyâ€� SAM. In most other missions, you will be fired on and will have to shake off enemy missiles. The most difficult missiles to dodge are AIM-120 AMRAAMs fired at you by F-16 Aggressors encountered only in the Red Flag missions. This is because AMRAAMs have radars mounted on their seeker heads, making it easier for them to track their target and guide themselves to it. Fortunately, you always carry that same missile as your own armament, so you can fire at an enemy, then sit back and watch as the missile guides itself to its target and kills it.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_c7018cd8	comment	Parodied in Project A-Ko, where Eiko Megami not only dodges missiles, but in the final scene uses the enormous barrage of the alien ship as stepping stones up to the ship.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_c7d0169f	comment	Justified in An Entry with a Bang!!: the armour on Battletech aerospace fighters means the blast fragmentation shrapnel and continuous rods from normal air-to-air missiles are much less effective. Contact-detonated shaped charges are mounted in replacement, so it's possible to evade the blasts. It is noted that the g-forces involved aren't healthy, though... and you can dodge one missile, maybe two, but not a whole swarm of them.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_c9c09a21	comment	Space maps in Star Wars: Battlefront II essentially require anyone flying a fighter, interceptor, or bomber to do this or you will blow up.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_ca8f6821	comment	Wings to Fly has pilots employing countermeasures and the classic missile-avoidance maneuvers used by real pilots, and their own missiles, to deal with incoming missiles. In the last case it's demonstrated that this can also be done for missiles aimed at others.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_cbf0ee94	comment	EVE Online: The Interceptor class of ships are the fastest ships in the entire game. It's quite common for Interceptors to outrun missiles fired from other players. this has been repeatedly showcased and commented on in the annual tournaments between player alliances, where it's referred to as "Benny Hill-ing". With the speed nerf included in the Quantum Rise expansion, this is now harder, if not outright impossible, to pull off, making Defender anti-missile missiles the only reliable way to stop missiles from hitting you. At Alliance Tournament 6, a Vigil class frigate(arguably the fastest ship of its class and price range) pulls this off and escapes beyond the targeting range of enemy missile ships. The commentators, while cracking up, commented that they should bring their own Vigils to start a new kind of race, and at the end offered the Vigil pilot a bribe to self destruct his ship so that the next match can start in schedule. After this incident, the act of outrunning enemy fire with a cheap frigate(especially a Vigil) is being called "Vigil Racing." Or at least they would, if they worked. While ships cannot outrun missiles anymore, fast enough ships can still outrun the explosions, reducing the damage caused. For the largest missile type, "fast enough ships" used to mean anything that moves.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_cc027b45	comment	In Gamer 2's streets level, Hailey will find her way blocked by a tall fence, and a faraway police officer will repeatedly call airstrikes on her position. To progress, she needs to stand near the fence, wait for an airstrike to be called in, then escape the blast radius in the few split seconds between the missile appearing on screen and destroying the fence.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_cf2068cf	comment	Ultraman Max is very fond of this trope, although it's usually the DASH planes that do it.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_d1710608	comment	Done with cannonballs in Sharpe. Truth in Television, in that cannonballs travel slow enough that someone far enough away can realistically be able to get out of the way. Also subverted in that, whenever characters just dodge cannonballs, it inevitably ends with a concussion or unconsciousness from the wind of the cannonball's passing.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_d461f757	comment	Subverted in the pilot miniseries for the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica—though Boomer's Raptor and Apollo's Viper manage to avoid being directly hit by Cylon missiles, the subsequent explosions take both their ships offline, if not destroying them. Adama does seem to comment it's possible in his speech to Starbuck after she's injured and working out to get back in shape. He grounds her when she can't simulate holding the high-gee turn long enough.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_d4c98d63	comment	This happens in the cinematic trailer for Brink!, though Splash Damage assures us you can't do this in-game.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_d5f34c70	comment	Generally averted in the X-Wing series. Proton torpedoes and concussion missiles lock on to targets before firing, will swerve to match dodges, and have a proximity fuse. Still, it's possible to avoid a lock, and fancy enough moves can let a pilot survive. There's only three consistent methods to keep a locked on missile from hitting in the older X-Wing and TIE Fighter games: You can try to dump all power into the engines and pray you outrun it. If it was fired from far enough out, you can turn toward it and blast it out of the sky. Or you can do the sensible thing and use your chaff/flares, which is generally far more effective than either of the other options. Fancy flying sometimes works, but the lighter missiles are generally just as maneuverable as your craft, so don't count on it.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_d75de3b5	comment	Ether Vapor not only embraces this trope wholeheartedly, it made this trope an art form by making the missile dodge sequence not just a cutscene, but a bonus minigame where the AI takes control of your craft and all you need to do is destroy as many missiles as you can. You'd still be invincible, but hey, it's just THAT cool!
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_de8ae019	comment	A variation in the Star Carrier series. Missiles are actually pretty darn hard to shake (they're flown by Artificial Intelligences and have a huge array of sensors to beat any ECM), so a dodge by itself doesn't work. Instead, you use the dodge to lead the missile to where you want it, then dump "sand"note granules of gravitically compressed lead and let the missile fly into it.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_e5d6f40d	comment	H.A.W.X. incorporates a lot of this: In "OFF" mode, in order to shake missiles, the plane performs maneuvers that would more than likely paste the pilot. The player must fly through an ERS "Low-altitude" tunnel through a zone covered in SAM sites. While all the player sees is himself flying through the tunnel avoiding the missiles, some replays of the mission may show the pilot's craft zooming near ground level and outrunning or outflying six or seven SAMs locked on the player. So what LOOKS like a normal tunnel flight to the pilot seems like a high speed missile dodge to the observer. There's also the almost constant chorus of "Missile evaded" and the also constant alarm that plays when there's a missile coming at you. You actually earn points towards Challenges for dodging missiles without using flares. Evading the missiles is trivial regardless of the mode you're in; when the wingmen tell you to break right, they're not saying it for effect, just roll hard to one side and pull back for a U-turn. It works. Pilots can dodge missiles coming straight at them with a little skill and luck too. Contrary to the trope name, slowing down is often the best option, as it allows for tighter turns or even drift and stall turns in OFF mode.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_e60954ea	comment	Players of Armored Core had better learn to do this themselves, or suffer the consequences. In fact, careful research on the appropriate wikis will usually reveal guides to some common missile-evasion maneuvers; depending on the type of missile and its movement pattern, the evasion pattern is different. Which is why some players (and AIs) take to launching several swarms of different types of missiles simultaneously. The Macross Missile Massacres can be fun. Even more fun is dodging fire from the automatic flak gun, which is easier than one would think if you have a decent flyer, since the gun's AI is easy to predict. Earlier games has missile barrages about 12, or maximum 16 missiles at a time. In For Answer, a dedicated missileboat can launch a whopping 128 missiles continously, at a single target, with fire-and-forget capability (meaning that once a lock-on is ensured and the trigger is pulled, each missiles launched will track the locked on target even when it's no longer on the lock-on arc). This makes missile dodging paramount to survival itself. For Answer also has VTF missiles, which were meant to avert this trope by possessing proximity detonation capabilities. However, a particularly fast AC can still dodge it.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_ec52a5b9	comment	Ironhide dodges Decepticon missiles in Transformers (2007) by shooting his cannons into the street during the climactic battle.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_f01c0730	comment	A fairly common feature in the RCN novels. The matter/antimatter-fueled kinetic impact missiles used in the series are guided until the point of burnout and extremely lethal when they hit: even the missiles from a corvette like Princess Cecile can do serious damage to large capital ships. Evading incoming fire is easier at long range than short since the missile cannot change course after burnout, but thanks to Einsteinian physics missiles are conversely more damaging after burnout (about .6c, assuming a straight-line course) than at closer range. The main purpose of plasma cannon is to either deflect or destroy incoming missiles that cannot be outright dodged.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_f0841a69	comment	In Primeval series 5, Matt, Abby, Connor and the sole surviving/conscious naval officer pull one of these off in a sub with next to no warning, after the sub had been damaged travelling twice through an anomaly and essentially had to be jump started. Extra levels of awesome for doing this in reverse and firing off a jury rigged anomaly locking torpedo that went through the anomaly before the nuke!torpedo that was fired at them did.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_f412ce55	comment	Unreal Tournament 2004: The AS-Mothership map features spacefighters with homing missiles as secondary armament. Dodging them is not especially hard: their tracking abilities are rather pathetic, merely flying directly at the missile on a narrow angle will do the job. Man-portable AVRiL missiles however are VERY hard to dodge: they automatically lead a moving target and are capable of pulling extremely sharp 180Â° turns. Either pull off a Wronski Feint or break line of sight with the launcher to make the missile lose guidance. Mantas are notorious for being able to outmaneuver an AVRiL by positioning themselves in front of an obstacle, waiting for the missile to get close then leaping over it. Cicadas drop the issue by being equipped with chaff specifically for defeating AVRiLs.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_f6da9a18	comment	Sgt. Frog: Powered 723.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_f85575fd	comment	In A.S.P. Air Strike Patrol (AKA Desert Fighter), both ground and air-launched missiles can be avoided by the player through some fancy maneuvers. Valuable because not only do your missiles, bombs, and countermeasures count as the same universal ammo reserve, but using countermeasures affects your supplies rating just like expended munitions.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_fb8549c	comment	In a Deadpool comic, Deadpool is driving a pickup when Bullseye shoots at him with a rocket launcher. Deadpool does a 90-degree brake turn, opens the windows, and watches the missile sail harmlessly through the cabin. Even Bullseye, who usually gets very upset if he misses, is impressed.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_fcfa999b	comment	FLCL sees Haruka dodge hundreds of bullets at once, while cutting every single one of them neatly in two halves with a razor. Talk about going over the top.
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High-Speed Missile Dodge / int_fd49dcff	comment	Die Another Day has Bond dodge one of Zao's missiles (and right his upside-down Aston) with a well-timed Ejection Seat.
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