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17If the ridiculously SlowDoors in your ElaborateUndergroundBase close downwards, rest assured that some character will inevitably make their way through a doorway JustInTime by rolling under an almost-closed door.
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19Sometimes, they make it a little faster, but in doing so execute their escape a little too recklessly, leaving something lying on the floor just inside the door. At which point there will be just enough time for their hand to come reaching back in and pulling it out. This is usually an explicit ShoutOut to the {{trope nam|ers}}ing moment in ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom''.
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21Rarely do people make the doors close upwards to prevent this exploit. In that case, the character will throw themselves through the gap.
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23Another problem for the captors: The doors close in sequence, instead of all at once (or, perhaps better, outside doors first, then the rest, moving inward). If they all closed at once, the hero would make it through one or two doors before being completely locked in. Although there is still the option of making it past all the doors except for the last where you have the Roll.
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25If there is a LockDown occurring, it is extremely likely that someone will attempt this.
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27May or may not involve a FedoraOfAsskicking. {{Iconic Item}}s, {{Plot Coupon}}s, {{MacGuffin}}s seem particularly prone to needing this sort of retreival, with their importance justifying the risk, matched on the SkewedPriorities side by whatever shiny object the LovableRogue is currently willing to risk their life for and the BigEater's bag of snacks.
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29See DeathByMaterialism for cases where the character doesn't ''quite'' nail the timing.
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31Often combined with an IndyEscape in a RaidersOfTheLostParody.
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40* A 2022 Nissan Rogue commercial starring the actress Creator/{{Awkwafina}} has her running toward a lowering door. She slides under it, then reaches back under it to grab the electronic key for the title vehicle, which she then drives away in.
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44* ''{{Manga/Bleach}}'' anime episode 263. The zanpakuto spirits Senbonzakura & Zabimaru are trying to escape the Research Division's building as walls are coming down to trap them. Just before the last wall reaches the floor they slide under it and through a suddenly-opening door.
45* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''. Rico and Henrietta slide under a closing door during the attack on the terrorist-occupied nuclear power plant.
46* In ''Anime/MacrossPlus'', we get the "corridor of doors closing in sequence" version as Myung and Guld race through; the doors are justified as being firewalls (and there IS a fire going on); unfortunately for them, one closes on Guld, who stoically uses his back as a barrier to protect Myung. Which is only possible because Guld, [[HalfHumanHybrid being half-Zentraedi]], is [[TheBigGuy more accurately described as a mountain]] -- though it ''still'' causes him quite the injury there.
47* In the OVA adaptation of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', Lloyd does this to get to Kvar alone. Unfortunately, he then proceeds to get his ass handed to him until Kratos and Sheena show up to save the day.
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51* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': As [=BoBoiBoy=] escapes an alien spaceship, Adu Du's RobotBuddy Probe chases him while the exits are being secured, causing the corridor's doors to slowly close. One of the doors closes on Probe's hand, which shoots out two homing missiles towards [=BoBoiBoy=]. He just manages to barrel roll down the last door before the missiles hit the closed door instead.
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55* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': When Damian infiltrates the batcave he sneaks in through the cave system, sliding, running and rolling his way through several doors that slam closed when a proximity sensor is triggered by his presence on the way. The last one actually slams shut on his fingers, meaning his hand is bloody by the time he burst into the cave demanding to see his father.
56* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader''. Given that Dr Aphra is an EvilCounterpart to Han Solo and Harrison Ford's other famous role, this happens on a couple of occasions when dealing with those famous SlowDoors. The only difference is that she's wearing a close-fitting aviator's cap, so doesn't lose it in the process.
57* ''ComicBook/Superboy1994'': In the cross-over with ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'' Deadshot slides through a blast door Captain Boomerang figured out how to close just before it slams shut, shooting at his attackers in the room he was coming from the whole way.
58* In ''{{ComicBook/Violine}}'', Violine's father uses soap to slide under a quickly closing door. No hats are involved, though.
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62* In ''WesternAnimation/AprilAndTheExtraordinaryWorld'', Darwin runs at full speed and then dives, flattening himself out, to pass under the rapidly closing blast door of the rocket.
63* In ''WesternAnimation/ChickenRun'', Ginger gets to the closing oven door easily, but Rocky is stuck falling into pies. She wedges the door open and runs back for him, then makes it out of the oven with the Indy Hat Roll. Complete with Ginger reaching back for her hat.
64* In ''WesternAnimation/CinderellaIIIATwistInTime'', the prince ''rides a horse'' under a closing gate of iron spikes. The horse audibly sighs in relief after they make it through.
65* Massively spoofed in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', where Elastigirl manages to get stuck in a whole series of SlowDoors ''[[RubberMan simultaneously]].''
66* In ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'', the kids manage to escape Dr. Benedict's base, as the door is closing, save for TJ.
67* Gnomeo and Juliet desperately slide under the descending manhole cover as they follow Sherlock and Watson into the sewer in ''WesternAnimation/SherlockGnomes''.
68* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', when Shrek, Donkey and Puss escape the Fairy Godmother's potion room, Puss pulls this to grab his hat before the door closes.
69* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tangled}}'' does this with Rapunzel and Flynn escaping into the cave from beneath the giant falling rock pillar. Flynn manages to grab the previously discarded frying pan at the last second.
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73* In a variant, Tamara from ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'' slips into a rapidly-closing opening in the hull of TheArk after reclaiming her dog, then briefly reaches back through it at the last second to [[FlippingTheBird flip off]] Yuri, the {{sugar daddy}} who'd left her behind to die.
74* ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'': Marty [=McFly=] makes use of the maneuver. At the school dance in 1955, Marty dives under a table to escape Biff's gang, leaving just enough time to grab his own Indy-esque hat before trouble arrives.
75* ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'' has this as one of several obvious shout-outs to Harrison Fords' earlier movies.
76* ''Film/{{Fanboys}}'' does a combo parody of ''both'' the above examples, by having Hutch dive through the blast-door-style security door of Skywalker Ranch's memorabilia room, then reach back through the shrinking diamond-shaped opening for an instant to [[FlippingTheBird flip off the Ranch's guards]].
77* ''Film/TheFifthElement'': Subverted. The archaeologist's panicked assistant opens fire on the peaceful aliens inside the Egyptian temple, unwittingly activating a self-defense locking mechanism in the Element's chamber. Although most of the aliens and their human contact escape, the last one is too slow to make it through and shoves its hand between the stone slabs to pass the key on to the human monk. (Presumably, the alien itself was crushed by the door.)
78* In ''Film/{{Hanna}}'', as the eponymous character escaped the CIA holding facility.
79* Occurs in the [[TheFilmOfTheBook the movie of the comic book]] ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}''. At one point, Hellboy and another character are running to get through a door in an underground catacomb system. Both make it, but just as the door is about to close on Hellboy's tail, he flicks it out of the way JustInTime.
80* The classic example is ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheTempleOfDoom'', with the addition of reaching back for [[FedoraOfAsskicking his hat]] at the last second (hence the trope name). In ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' he reaches back for his whip. Parodies often mix the two movies. They use the ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' setup, i.e the giant boulder, but have the stand-in for Indy reach for a hat instead of the whip. They might be confused, or they might simply be [[AdaptationDistillation combining the more memorable trap and the funnier thing to reach for]].
81* Played for drama in ''Film/{{Justice League|2017}} ''. When Steppenwolf shows up to take the Mother Box from the Amazons, Queen Hippolyta orders the chamber sealed. As she runs past them holding the Mother Box, her Amazons smash the supports bringing down huge stone doors, with the last two using their SuperStrength to hold one up long enough for the Queen to slide underneath just before it crashes to the ground. Steppenwolf is breaking out moments later, so it's implied that every one of those Amazons was killed doing a YouShallNotPass. The same happens in ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'', but this time the chamber collapses into the ocean, giving the Amazons who remained prisoners inside less chances of surviving.
82* Rather more mundanely than some of the other examples, Martin Riggs nonchalantly drops to the floor and rolls sideways under a shutter at the villain's embassy front in ''Film/LethalWeapon2''. Still very much a badass action when performed by him though.
83* ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy'' uses this sort of thing a few times: a notable example is during the climax of the [[Film/TheMummy1999 first movie]], where a trap causes the temple to collapse, and in trying to escape the treacherous Beni makes an impressive just-in-time slide under the crushing ceiling... only to end up trapped in a room with thousands of man-eating scarabs.
84* In ''Film/Paddington2014'', the main character attempts to escape in the Natural History Museum as a lockdown was triggered. His iconic red hat falls off during his slide under the closing door, and he manages to retrieve it just in time.
85* In the opening museum heist scene in ''Film/RedNotice'', Creator/DwayneJohnson's FBI profiler rolls under a nearly-closed security door after Creator/RyanReynolds' art thief. (Who then deploys a [[SmokeOut smokescreen]], before both characters [[DestinationDefenestration crash through an ornate window]] and wind up [[{{Cliffhanger}} hanging from a rooftop]] by their fingertips.)
86* ''Film/TheReturnOfThePinkPanther''. After the guard discovers the theft of the Pink Panther diamond, he triggers the activation of the security system and causes the door to the room to close. The thief rolls under the door and out of the room just before it closes.
87* In the film ''Film/{{Saturn 3}}'' starring Kirk Douglas, Kirk and his girlfriend are alone on a space station that is being taken over by a robot. There's one sequence where they have to run through a corridor full of closing doors that close in sequence, as the trope dictates; however, they don't quite make it and the last door closes in front of them.
88* A scene from ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'' parodies the ''Star Wars'' example. The characters dive through a blast door just in time, but there's a cadre of Spaceballs waiting for them. They get away anyway, though, because, as the lieutenant shockingly points out, "You idiots! [[NoFourthWall You've captured their stunt doubles!]]" The door also closes notably faster after the characters jumped through.
89* ''Film/StarTrekGenerations''. When there's a coolant leak in the warp core reactor, the Enterprise engineering crew evacuates the area. Geordi La Forge is the last person out, rolling under the descending door just before it closes. Unlike the example with him below, the door ''was'' almost closed this time making it more justified.
90* Another Harrison Ford example, predating ''Indiana Jones'', is the original ''Franchise/StarWars''. Avoiding a security lockdown and being followed by stormtroopers, Han Solo jumped through the diamond-shaped opening that was formed by the blast doors closing. Interestingly enough, later movies depict the blast doors closing far too fast for any sort of maneuver like this -- even ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', whose events predate ''Film/ANewHope'' chronologically by 32 years.
91* ''Film/{{Swarmed}}'' has a variation. Washburn takes cover from the wasps inside an empty plastic dumpster... then opens the lid again to snatch his hat, which fell off during his escape.
92* J.B. at the climax of ''Film/TenaciousDInThePickOfDestiny''. He has the Pick but security is trying to lock him in, so he does a Power Slide through the door as it shuts.
93* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'', just after the iceberg hits, the workers in that particular engine room flee before the watertight doors close. Unfortunately, one or two don't make it...
94* In the original ''Film/TotalRecall1990'', Quaid does this right after arriving on Mars, while the doors are going down to seal off the area from the outside atmosphere (or lack thereof).
95* In ''Film/{{Witness}}'', Amish boy Samuel Lapp, who is hiding in a toilet cubicle after [[TitleDrop witness]]ing a murder, crawls underneath the wall to the neighboring cubicle by the time [[TheDragon McFee]] (who is kicking the cubicle doors open) gets to his cubicle. Samuel reaches and grabs his hat just as [[ScaryBlackMan McFee]] opens the door.
96* In ''Film/X2XMenUnited'', Mystique slides under a door while flipping off the men shooting at her.
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100%%* In ''Literature/TheAndromedaStrain'' (book and film), this is attempted but he is too slow to succeed.
101* The Creator/NancyKress novel ''Literature/ProbabilitySpace'' includes literary equivalents of this. An act of great stupidity requires our protagonists to fly their ship through a closing jump gate to escape annihilation. [[spoiler: They repeat this just in case. Then they realize ''all'' the jump gates, everywhere, are closing, and they must fly through a series to get back to Earth before they're stranded. All but one of these is a close enough call to qualify for an Indy Hat Roll.]]
102* In ''Literature/TheRelic'', panicked party guests try to flee the museum as the security doors are activated. Some don't make it and are caught and crushed by the steel doors. Seeing as what the rest were [[EldritchAbomination trapped with]], they were probably the lucky ones.
103* In ''Literature/SorcererConjurerWizardWitch'', Edwin and Geneviève escape under a lowering portcullis in the nick of time on a motorcycle, leaning over so far to fit under that they'd certainly have fallen off if it hadn't been a CoolBike borrowed from a [[TheCowl sinister vigilante]] who had it designed specifically to be able to pull off stunts like that. Even so, one of the teeth of the portcullis catches Geneviève a nasty gash, so it's a good thing she has a HealingFactor.
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107* In ''Series/BabylonFive'', Zack Allen dives under the docking bay doors in the third series [[spoiler:after he has led most of the station's Night Watch members there in a double-double cross]]. This clip also appears in the titles.
108* ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. Boomer (in a stolen Raptor) flies out of Galactica's landing pod as it's retracting into jump drive position (to prevent her taking off). She doesn't make it undamaged though, smashing one wing and having to jump while still dangerously close to Galactica.
109* A subversion in ''Series/BlakesSeven'', when they raid the [[spoiler:decoy]] Star One base -- they get out, but only because [[spoiler:Gan]] sacrifices himself to hold the door for them.
110* Spike does this while escaping the Initiative on ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''.
111* Subverted in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Dalek". Adam and Rose are fleeing from the Dalek while the Doctor is forced to close the door to the room where he, Van Statten and Diana Goddard are hiding. Adam makes it in time by rolling under the door. Rose ''doesn't''.
112** In "Asylum of the Daleks", Rory doesn't roll; he does a ''power slide''.
113** The Doctor does one under the closing tomb door in "The Rings of Akhaten"; rolling back to retrieve his sonic screwdriver.
114** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS35E3UnderTheLake Under the Lake]]", the Doctor dives under a rapidly closing door as the base floods.
115* Averted on ''Series/{{Lost}}''; instead of diving under the Swan Station's closing doors (which are quite fast), Locke pushes a toolbox under it to wedge it open. Further averted/subverted when his leg gets crushed while he tries to crawl through the opening and the toolbox collapses.
116* ''Series/MacGyver1985'' has one moment of the hat roll when they are trapped in an [[BambooTechnology Ancient Indian Death Trap]] and Dalton reaches back to grab his pilot hat, much to Mac's irritation.
117* ''Franchise/IndianaJones'' is nicely parodied in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' when Hal ditches his job at a department store to attend a party. While the ''Indiana Jones'' theme plays, Hal outruns a beach ball rolling after him, dives under the closing shutters, and reaches back for his car keys in the nick of time.
118* Jordan does it in an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' to escape a hospital quarantine lock-down. She even, for the first and last time in the series, wears a fedora to grab.
119* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
120** The [[MemeticMutation Epic Geordi Maneuver]], used by [=LaForge=] when the big blast doors close around the warp core on "The Best of Both Worlds".
121** The Enterprise herself pulls [[RecycledINSPACE the nearest available equivalent]] to escape a Dyson sphere in "Relics".
122* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''
123** Gwen Cooper in the episode "Ghost Machine".
124** Subverted in the episode "Exit Wounds", in which [[spoiler:Owen gets trapped in a nuclear power station that's about to go up, and doesn't make it to the door in time. He actually does die]]. He was [[spoiler:technically dead already. But there was that glove...]]
125* On the ''Series/WhiteCollar'' episode "Countdown", Neal slips into an elevator just as the doors close, complete with the Indy homage as he reaches back to grab his hat.
126* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', episode "The Xena Scrolls": Alice is Gabrielle's [[IdenticalGrandson umpteenth granddaughter]] in 1940ish. She is an archaeologist and so she does the hat-roll.
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130* The penultimate mission of ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has sliding doors that close off the tunnel after you destroy your target. They all close in different directions and there are other obstacles, so flying through the tunnel at top speed is a bit tricky. The trope is inverted when entering the tunnel: You can run into doors as they're opening.
131* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': After the party restores power to Proto Dome while inside the Factory, they soon have to escape as security goes haywire and the doors in the corridor leading to the power generator start to close. They slip through the first set of slow doors in time, but Robo has to race ahead and hold the last set open.
132* Used in ''VideoGame/FZeroGX''. In one of the story missions, you have to escape from a reactor that's about to explode, all while the twenty something blast doors in a straight line are slowly closing in sequence. If the player stops (and doesn't mind dying), you can see the doors never actually close, they leave barely enough room for the player to drive through.
133* In ''VideoGame/JakIIRenegade'', the Tomb of Mar refuses to allow the young heir to go through the trials and starts to close. Jak then dives underneath the stone door, grabbing Daxter ''just'' as it slams down.
134* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', this is done by ''an airship'' through quickly-closing ''humungous'' doors. Doubly awesome in that a much faster craft, which is chasing it, fails to make it through the doors and crashes spectacularly.
135* Reference to original example: a lot of doors make you do this in ''VideoGame/IndianaJonesAndTheEmperorsTomb''.
136* ''VideoGame/LEGOJurassicWorld'': Owen does one early in the ''Jurassic World'' section; since he doesn't wear a hat, the thing he drops and has to reach back for is the LEGO piece representing his hair.
137* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', Jack pulls an Indy Slide during her rampage through Purgatory.
138** Shepard also gets one in the third game on the geth dreadnought. S/he and his/her team are walking directly toward a giant gun that they disabled - only suddenly it's not disabled anymore, and about to fire. The team runs through a nearby door and Shepard dives underneath it just as it slams shut.
139* In ''VideoGame/OriAndTheBlindForest: Definitive Edition'' and ''VideoGame/OriAndTheWillOfTheWisps'', the Dash is primarily used to dodge sequential SmashingHallwayTrapsOfDoom and slide under timed doors, and even has a rolling animation when performed on the ground in the latter game.
140* The doors/grates in ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia1'' and ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersia2'' open when you step on the appropriate pressure plate, then slowly start closing after a few seconds (unless you step on another pressure plate which makes the door close instantly). Sometimes you have to use this stunt to get through. In the ''Classic'' remake, the Prince has a dive-roll move to aid in this.
141** There is a notable subversion in the first game where there is no way you can reach the door in time. If you wait some time though, [[FissionMailed you get rescued]].
142* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil''
143** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilCodeVeronica'', you have to escape the general area of a breached biohazard containment room. On the first time, Claire does this. [[AvertedTrope Strangely enough, she doesn't at the second time.]]
144** Used in a ridiculous manner in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''. While escaping a {{Mayincatec}} death trap, Chris and Sheva feel the need to ''dive across one another'' under a {{Slow Door|s}}. Such is their style, the [[PressXToNotDie Quick-Time Event]] involved cuts straight to three cutscenes of the move from different angles, in case you didn't see how ridiculous it was the first time.
145* ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' has a scene similar to the above, involving an airship and an enormous gate.
146* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', one of the stages forces you to outrace timed doors as Sonic. While most doors give you plenty of time to slip through, there are some that'll force you into doing this.
147* The point-and-click adventure game ''VideoGame/{{Spud}}!'' has this in a cutscene, complete with hat retrieval.
148* ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' has two hallways each with a sequence of doors slowly closing from the top (one of which even adds a collapsing bridge). You're not supposed to be able to get past them until you have the Speed Booster item, but a speedrunning technique called [[https://wiki.supermetroid.run/Mockball Mockball]] allows you to roll under the closing doors just in time.
149* The ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series does this from time to time.
150* In ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'' one late-game sequence has Majima trying to pull this on gates in the Den of Desires. How well it works depends on if the player [[PressXToNotDie pushes a button in time]].
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154* Furry sci-fi webcomic ''WebComic/{{SSDD}}'' did this one, using the "[[http://poisonedminds.com/d/20070706.html Door comes up from the ground]]" version, much to the chagrin of the protagonists.
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158* Sunny Bridges does it in the ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'' episode "Eddie's Money"; grabbing his hat with his feet for a few extra style points.
159* One of the many trademark Indy moves executed by Numbuh Five of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''. Complete with reaching back for her fallen hat in "Operation: L.I.C.E." [[spoiler:-- although this time it's a trap: this is not her hat]].
160* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'': In "Masterstroke of Malevolence", Fillmore and Ingrid slide under the closing security door in the museum as they chase after Leo.
161* Spoofed in an episode of ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}''; a falling door is stopped by Zoidberg, who throws himself forward and wedges his claw between the door and the floor. Hermes then uses his [[ChekhovsSkill previously-referenced]] ''[[ChekhovsSkill Olympic-level]]'' [[ChekhovsSkill Limbo ability]] to make it through the gap.
162* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' TOS episode "The Fraudulent Volcano". Jonny and Hadji crawled on their hands and knees under a closing security door -- Hadji just made it by throwing himself forward.
163* On the ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Task Force X", Plastique and Deadshot do this to escape [[spoiler:from a nuclear reactor on The Watchtower they sabotaged]] as blast doors are closing. They pull off with the first door but don't make it in time for the second (Captain Atom saves them).
164* Bobby and Joseph played this in ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''. Joseph quickly rolled under the closing garage door, but Bobby, being chubby and physically inept, rolled and crawled too slowly and damaged the door.
165* Done in the original ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' cartoon of all things, as part of an IndyEscape scene.
166* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
167** Toyed with in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E16ReadItAndWeep Read It and Weep]]", where the adventurous, hat-wearing pony in [[ShowWithinAShow Rainbow Dash's book]] slides toward a closing door, only makes it about halfway through, and quickly slides out from under it as it closes. When Daring Do stands up, her hat is still on.
168** Played straight in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS9E21DaringDoubt Daring Doubt]]". Rainbow Dash and Daring Do (again) fly through a mobile floor atop a temple as it is closing; Daring Do leaves her pith helmet behind but grabs it just in time.
169* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''
170** Similarly, Homer Simpson once recognized that a couple of suspicious-acting men were in fact chiropractors, because of their skill at getting under a closing garage door.
171** Bart also does this when he lifts Homer's change jar in a specific send-up of Indy's adventures, complete with ''actual Indiana Jones music'' and Bart grabbing his hat from under the closing door.
172** Marge did one of these with the closing garage when she finds the police career to be exciting in "The Springfield Connection."
173* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Once Upon A Planet". Captain Kirk leaps through a sliding rock door in the side of a mountain just before it closes.
174* Several times in ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'':
175** In "Blue Shadow Virus", Ahsoka Tano leaps through the doors just as they're about to be shut to contain the titular virus.
176** In "Children of the Force," Obi-Wan and Mace Windu have to dive beneath a closing door to escape. Mace drops his lightsaber and has to use the Force to pull it back just before the door slams shut.
177* In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPahkitewIsland'' episode "[[Recap/TotalDramaScarlettFever Scarlett Fever]]", Jasmine and Shawn slide under a closing door while being chased by robot animals inside the island's underground base. Jasmine then realizes she dropped her hat on the other side of the door and reaches for it just before it closes, and then punches out a robot head that was biting onto the hat. It helps that [[AwesomeAussie Jasmine]] is a ShoutOut to ''Franchise/IndianaJones''.
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