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Off Like a Shot
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Any character who is about to dash off on a high-speed run inevitably takes — just for a moment — a pose that looks like they're winding up for a pitch in a baseball game: one leg raised, the other bent slightly, the body twisted at the waist away from the direction of travel, with arms raised and bent at the elbows and often canted at an angle. Although their entire upper body is turned away from the direction they'll be running in, their head is always facing that way. This posture is held for a moment, just long enough to be seen, and then the character is off and running, accompanied by a sound not unlike that of a ricocheting bullet. The "Charge" Fanfare would be a Standard Snippet. Note that, depending on the level of "cartooniness," this can even be extended to vehicles, which will bend into an S-shape to mimic this behavior before taking off. Compare Running on the Spot, Wheel o' Feet and Speed Echoes. Whoosh in Front of the Camera usually occurs after this. |
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Some depictions of Sonic The Hedgehog use this. | |
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Wile E Coyote chasing the Roadrunner tends to start off this way in Looney Tunes. Bugs Bunny demonstrates a typical cartoon "zip" in a host segment of his cartoon show. He first does a proper zip in and out of the shot and then what it looks like in slow motion. |
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Mashiro responds to an opportunity to mock Arika in episode 5 of My-Otome by running off in a classic Off Like a Shot. | |
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Animaniacs, particularly when the Warners ran from Ralph. In the first video game, you had to press a button twice to dash; the first press would get you in this position. |
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Christopher Reeve almost did this when he appeared on The Muppet Show, leaving Veterinarian's Hospital "Faster than a speeding bullet" | |
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Work It Out Wombats!: The characters frequently assume this pose before they dart off somewhere. | |
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Parodied in Freakazoid! by the titular character ending the stance by running at normal speed with hands extended in a superhero-in-flight pose and voicing a 'whoosh' sound. The parody is furthered whenever Freakazoid proves he really can move with super speed. There is little regard given as to why he does the first or how he does the second. Because it's funny. |
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The Landlady in Kung Fu Hustle | |
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Starships going into warp in Star Trek will rarely do a running start, instead seeming to stop, orient themselves in the preferred direction, and then snap off into the distance. | |
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Averted in Iron Man, in which he takes off and lands in the Mark II armor in a fairly stupid pose. This is fixed for the Mark III. | |
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Con Smith in Killer7 takes exactly this pose when he activates his extra-speed power. | |
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Done by Mr. Jinks in the Cartoon Network Shortie, Harasscat in order to try to get Pixie and Dixie. However, he doesn't do the pose. | |
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The title hero of The Mask often gets going with that kind of gesture. Furthermore, it was referenced in a little comic scene of Clark Kent in Lois & Clark getting dressed and leaving the same way, complete with the same self compliment, "Smokin'!" | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Fluttershy, of all ponies, strikes this pose just before attempting to catch up to a brainwashed Rainbow Dash in the second half of the two-parter "The Return of Harmony." | |
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Attempted by a panicked Dinobot in Beast Wars Season One episode Dark Voyage, declaring "You won't get me! and zips off screen. This is followed immediately by a loud bang and the camera panning to said Dinobot flattened on a tree. | |
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Neo in The Matrix Reloaded does a version of this before he starts flying. | |
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Homestar Runner: Homestar does this in the 2014 April Fool's cartoon when he decides to finally update the website, starting with the Hairstyle Runner gallery. | |
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This is done quite often in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, most often by but not limited to the two chipmunks. | |
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