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* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' has this as a common attack for vampire type enemies who like to lunge out of walls.

* In ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys 2'', the original Foxy can kill you this way.
* The regular zombies in ''VideoGame/DyingLight'' fit this trope to a T, jumping at the player character anytime he gets too close. Volatiles and Night Hunters, while they're always fast, are capable of extreme bursts of speed when they they want to kill the protagonist.

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tueller_Drill Tueller Drill]]; e.g. NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight meets RealityEnsues.

** The deadly lunge is also, rather oddly, a common attack for [[FoeYay Smith/Smith copies in later parts of the game.]]

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* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry''
** The Stinger and its variants are examples courtesy of the protagonist, though some enemies also have this sort of move.
** Shadows, with the lunging spike and the lunging bite they do when they are low on life.

* This is the special movement ability of [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranid]] bioships in ''VideoGame/BattlefleetGothicArmada2'', and one of two damn good reasons to keep the critters as far away from your ships as possible at all times (the other being their insance [[BoardingParty boarding strength]]). All Tyranid ships are naturally stealthed, and some types get massive boosts to ramming damage, which combined with their lunge ability can destroy fully intact Imperial battlecruisers in a single hit virtually out of nowhere. You don't know pain until you've witnessed a Tyranid cruiser OneHitKill your flagship that's twice its size and tonnage.

* This is the special movement ability of [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranid]] bioships in ''VideoGame/BattlefleetGothicArmada2'', and one of two damn good reasons to keep the critters as far away from your ships as possible at all times (the other being their insance [[BoardingAction boarding strength]]). All Tyranid ships are naturally stealthed, and some types get massive boosts to ramming damage, which combined with their lunge ability can destroy fully intact Imperial battlecruisers in a single hit virtually out of nowhere. You don't know pain until you've witnessed a Tyranid cruiser OneHitKill your flagship that's twice its size and tonnage.

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** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil6'' gives us the C-virus zombies and their evolved forms, the bloodshots (which are essentially the new virus' strain of Lickers, only tongue-less). A CounterAttack on both is an instant kill - a lightning fast [[PistolWhipping weapon whip]] for the zombies, while the bloodshot gets a setpiece [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome where it's picked up off the air by the]] PlayerCharacter [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome and flipped over their shoulder so that it lands on its back, at which point the human performs a]] FinishingStomp [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome on its exposed chest organs]].

* The Fiends from ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' love to leap across distances to get at you, and can OneHitKill you with this attack.

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}} 2'' has some skeletons walking around slooowly with very long swords, and suddenly slashing at you. And they rise again after being defeated.

* In the Assyrian wall relief the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion_Hunt_of_Ashurbanipal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal]]'' has several scenes where viscous Asian Lions lunge at the king. One of the scenes has a dying lion lung at the chariot, each muscle beautifully defined, as it becomes impaled upon Ashurbanipal's assistants spears. Another scene has Ashurbanipal kill a lion in mid-jump by grabbing it by the neck and stabbing it in the gut.

* ''Videogame/DeadSpace'': Most of the enemies, frankly. There is a varied pattern between [[MightyGlacier strong foes being slow]], and weak, low damage output but quick and agile ones.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}'', a few zombies (and animals) can pull this on the player, though a harmless "leap" ability to close the distance is far more common. The experimental builds add feral predators, an upgrade to the [[Left4Dead feral hunter]] with a very nasty version that can knock the target over and inflict blood loss.

* Pretty much every zombie in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' is a [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation disheveled muddy-colored marathon runner]], but the Hunters (as seen in pic) are particularly bad about this. He's also the only one that can actually jump on you. There's also the Charger; clumsy most of the time, but can charge at remarkable speed.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}''
** Promethean Knights in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'', who are normally quite slow-moving, will sometimes suddenly lunge, sprint or zig-zag-hyperspeed-charge at you to attack you in melee (or with their Scattershot), usually after you've broken their shield at longer ranges. Also, as in all Halo games, the Energy Sword can trigger a lunge at a certain range. The Thruster Pack armor ability in ''Halo 4'' can also be used to suddenly close distance for a melee or shotgun attack, or to board a vehicle. And finally, the Flood creatures from the War Games Flood playlist possess significantly boosted Thruster Packs, higher base movement speeds, and blade-arms that act like Energy Swords, so deadly lunging is pretty much their baseline tactic.
** In earlier ''Halo'' games, lunging was commonly used by various Flood forms, and was basically all that [[PersonalSpaceInvader Infection Forms]] really did, to particularly lethal effect against unshielded enemies.

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