'''Basic Trope''': The hero is one step ahead of weapon fire.
* '''Straight''': Bob runs across the room. Emperor Evulz shoots at him from the middle of the room, but only hits the wall behind him.
* '''Exaggerated''': Bob walks across the room, slowly and casually. Emperor Evulz and his small army of {{Mooks}}, all equipped with MoreDakka, hit the wall behind him.
* '''Downplayed''': Evulz corrects his aim after a few missed shots, forcing Bob to dive at the end to survive.
** Bob is able to accelerate and decellerate so fast that he remains behind Evulz no matter how he tries to adjust the turret's rotation.
* '''Justified''':
** Evulz is using a slowly-traversing turret.
** Evulz is concentrating on aiming and firing his gun rather than noticing that he's behind Bob.
** Evulz is tracking Bob correctly, but Bob keeps speeding up, meaning Evulz only hits where he **thinks** Bob will be.
** Evulz is toying with Bob.
* '''Inverted''': Evulz [[DefiedTrope overcompensates]] and [[LeadTheTarget leads]] Bob excessively, shooting the wall in front of him.
* '''Subverted''': The shakycam shows the wall full of bullet holes behind Bob as it pans towards him... then shows Bob running with bullet holes hitting around him, and then a bullet headed straight for Bob...
* '''Double Subverted''': The bullet goes right through Bob's afterimage.
* '''Parodied''': ???
* '''Zig Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''':
** Bob evades the bullets another way.
** Evulz misses for [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy another reason]].
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Evulz's mounted gun won't be a problem. We could probably walk right past him and he'd still only hit behind us."
* '''Invoked''': Evulz's mounted gun is sabotaged, in particular its rotation speed.
* '''Exploited''': knowing how Evulz's aiming tends to be, Bob tricks him into hitting critical components of his KillerRobot in his attempts to hit him.
* '''Defied''': Evulz uses LeadTheTarget.
* '''Discussed''': "And Bob outruns the bullets again..."
* '''Conversed''': "Because bullets travel that slowly, and it's that hard to fix your aim? Bob should have died..."
* '''Deconstructed''': SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs and Bob gets swiss-cheese-ified.
* '''Reconstructed''':
** Bob learns from Emperor Evulz to LeadTheTarget.
** Emperor Evulz improve his turrets.
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???
%%* '''Played For Laughs''': ???
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