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Something's going on in your plot, and it's not good. Maybe there's a dramatic confrontation, maybe your best bud is losing a fight, but whatever the case, you need to get in there, fast, dramatically, and *THUMPCRASH!!!*
All of you, listen up! For these cases, you need the Dynamic Entry!
The Dynamic Entry has three main elements: Speed - It has to be fast; Surprise - They can't see it coming until it's too late; and Violence - It's gotta hurt.
The most common form is a diving kick from offscreen, usually directed mostly horizontally, hitting whoever happens to be on-screen at the time. Most of the time, it's not clear how exactly they launched themselves thusly. Often suggests a Large Ham or some-such. May overlap with Big Damn Heroes.
Named after a real-life tactic of SWAT teams, referring to the use of battering rams or guns to enter a locked area.
Contrast Diving Save. The Hey You Haymaker is a subtrope of this.
If the entry kills someone, you may have attracted a Deadly Guest. Can be a form of Wait What Whoa. If somebody else throws you, then it's a Fast Ball Special. If you need a rope, it's Fast Roping.
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Anime and Manga
- Done twice practically back-to-back in epic style in episodes 39/40 of Gao Gai Gar. First, Soldato-J inadvertently saves Guy by riding a missile through a wall to fight the Arm and Eye Primevals. In the opening sequence of the very next episode, Mamoru bursts through the floor of the Main Order Room riding Galeon to rescue Mikoto and the GGG bridge crew from the Nail and Ear Primevals.
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Maito Gai Might Guy from Naruto, seen here .
- Haruhi Suzumiya (proud owner of the two legs in the picture above), just before accepting the Computer Research Society President's challenge, delivers a leaping kick to the head.
- Ken Akamatsu seems to like this trope:
- This was Su's standard greeting to Keitaro in Love Hina.
- Asuna to Ayaka twice in chapter 14 (volume 2) of Mahou Sensei Negima - once breaking Negi's Marshmallow Hell, and once in the subsequent flashback to snap her out of her grief at her brother's stillbirth.
- Come to think of it, the girls of 3-A will do this for just about any reason. Even to say "hello" in at least one case.
- This happens a lot in Negima, whenever someone barges in a scene. It's sometime justified, such as when Asuna socks Eva to stop her from drinking Negi's blood, but it just gets bizarre when Little Miss Snarker Yue does it as she interjects in a perfectly mundane conversation between her classmates. Asuna is really fond of it. Recently, Chisame seems to be picking it up, too.
- Even the Shrinking Violet Nodoka's done it, but she used a big heavy book. Justified because she was stopping Haruna creating different out-of-character versions of herself — for a laugh. It's that kind of manga.
- Nodoka and Yue do the above simultaneously when the same Haruna attempts to create more mischief. Albeit, they were already in the same room, so it's less on the entry part.
- Then there's Anya, who enters with a Freaking Flying Fire Kick that Negi barely dodges. Granted, she appeared two panels before between Nodoka and Yue, but they were watching from afar.
- Vegeta in Dragon Ball Z when he saves Son Goku from being drained to death by Android 19.
- He gets a pretty good one in Movie Seven too.
- Done spectacularly well at the end of volume 34 of Groove Adventure RAVE when Haru comes crashing through a stone wall to kick Lucia in the face just before he can execute Elie. And then he screams "BRING IT!!!" in an extreme close-up. (The effect is slightly lessened if you realize Hiro Mashima copied the Dynamic Entry shot WHOLE from an early chapter of Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle.)
- After Fate from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's manages to injure the mysterious masked man, a second masked man appears and does this to her.
- Earlier in the same season, Nanoha is interrupted from firing her Starlight Breaker by Shamal shoving her arm through Nanoha's chest from behind.
- In the anime/manga Busou Renkin, Mamoru Sakimori (Captain Bravo) is fond of doing this. Sometimes he says the phrase, sometimes he eschews it in favor of simple buttkickery.
- Kamina's "WHO-THE-HELL-DO-YOU-THINK-I-AM KICK" from episode 2 of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
- It was so hard, in fact, that it broke the legs of the Gunmen he was riding in.
- More spectacularly, Gurren Lagann's first-ever hyperspace jump in episode 23. Simon uses the momentum to leap out of the robot, skid across a cavern and deliver a tooth-loosening Get A Hold Of Yourself Man punch to the suicidally remorseful Rossiu in the last second before the latter can shoot himself.
- Also, Yoko's introduction in the first chapter. She crashes through the ceiling while firing her huge rifle. Along with a freakin' Gunmen.
- Hiruma from Eyeshield 21 does this when he feels the Devil Bats aren't being awesome enough.
- Kuchiha to Kon in Amatsuki.
- Margery Daw in episode 13 of Shakugan No Shana.
- Kyouka, given her general personality, kicks down a door twice in episode seven of Kyouran Kazoku Nikki. As she explains, for a god such as herself, such an entry is expected.
- Caren in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch always does her rescues - er, "rescues" - this way. Then again, it's not as dynamic as most, considering she, and most everyone else in this series, uses The Power Of Rock.
- Futaba does this to Gargoyle with amazing frequency in Gargoyle Of The Yoshinagas. Probably one of the younger dynamic kickers on this page.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion. Episode 19. Misato and co. are about to be eaten by an Angel, when Unit 01 bursts through a wall and punches it in the face. You read that right. Dynamic Entry, as performed by a Humongous Mecha. That's what happens when you make Shinji mad.
- Ryoma's Dynamic Entry in the Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo OVA, which involved jumping from the head of a 200 feet tall robot to dropkick a dinosaur in the face.
- In episode 3 of Ouran High School Host Club, Tamaki does this to a guy dressed as a doctor whom everyone assumes is a pervert.
- Done by Kyou to Sunohara when the latter was messing with her pet boar - immediately preceded by a well-aimed textbook to the face.
- Arihiko of Tsukihime manages to compress the statement "Good morning, Shiki. I'm disappointed that you never told me you had a sister" into a running dropkick (and dismisses Shiki's insistence that this might have been a bit excessive).
- In Manabi Straight, Manabi makes this her greeting to her homeroom-teacher-ally upon learning that her much-awaited, blood-and-sweat-planned School Festival was to be canceled out of nowhere.
- Gundam 00's Graham Aker seems to love this, most notable being during ep4 of S2 where he crash tackles the 00 Gundam just as it's about to destroy the A-laws carrier.
- Isshin Kurosaki from Bleach does this to his son Ichigo every morning. It was even featured in one of the openings for the series. Hell, it happened in the very first episode ever when the poor boy walks into his house! (Although My Way Entertainment managed to make it even awesomer in one of their parodies...)
- Saito from Zero No Tsukaima crashes through an expensive-looking glass window and slashes downward at Viscount Wardes just in time to interrupt a wedding. Although most dynamic entries seem random and deus-ex-machina-ish, this one was justified because of Saito's variant of the Evil Eye allowing him to hear and see through his master's senses.
- What, no Outlaw Star yet? I think it was episode 14: after an episode full of a thief masquerading as a terrorist talking down to Gene and acting like an Insufferable Genius while robbing a jewelry shop on a space station, Gene gets back at him . . . by crashing his ship into the space station right in front of where the criminal is standing, and jumping out of the ship just to punch the criminal so hard his teeth are knocked out!
- Suzaku from Code Geass has a couple of these. Once in the first season, when he smashes through a window to attack Mao as part of Lelouch's Xanatos Gambit, and a really epic one in R2 episode 21, when he drops from the ceiling to knock out all the guards after Lelouch declares himself Emperor.
- Otcho from Twentieth Century Boys leaps through a church window to plant himself between his ally Kanna and a Mook pointing a shotgun at her.
- In Darker Than Black, when Wei is just about to kill Kirihara and Saito, Hei blasts a hole in the wall and flies out of the smoke feet first, directly into his face.
- The heroine of Flunk Punk Rumble, and her best friend too.
- Episode 23 of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is basically Dynamic Entry: The Episode. Pretty much everyone gets one, though it's hard to beat Ling bursting up from the sewers to shove a grenade down Gluttony's throat as the best.
- D.Gray-Man featured a truly epic scene in chapter 139 when, during Lulu Bell's assault on the Black Order HQ, Allen dropped down from overhead and sliced a Skull in half lengthwise, then announced that This Is Unforgiveable while still standing on top of his BFS.
Comic Books
- Apparently Batman does it on purpose to distract crooks from would-be victims.
- In one Elseworlds comic, his pirate incarnation does it to a shark. Just because.
- Shockwave in the Marvel Comics Transformers series makes his debut by attacking the Autobots when Prime's making a victory speech.
- In Watchmen, Rorschach ambushes poor Moloch by jumping out of his refrigerator and tacking him.
Fanfiction
Film
- The steroid-popping Dragon from Ong-Bak ambushes Tony Jaa this way when when the hero was about to go after his boss.
- This is only fair, as Tony Jaa is a grandmaster of this technique and uses it in both Ong-Bak (outside the cave), and even more impressively in Warrior King / The Protector (party club on the river).
- Monkey in the TV adaptation of Journey To The West (which despite the Gag Dub, was Adaptation Distillation) never did not do this. He was like a Bad Ass Keet.
- Referred to as "the element of surprise" in the Inspector Gadget Movie. The surprise, in this case, being the Gadgetmobile slamming into the back of Claw's limo.
- In Equilibrium, Preston makes his entrance by having two SWAT team members shoot the hinges off a door as he leaps at it, timing it so that he kicks in the hingeless door and slides into the pitch black room, into the midst of a dozen or so men armed with automatic weaponry. They stop shooting, the whole room goes dark, and for a moment we think nothing's going to happen.... then there's a 30 second scene comprised entirely of muzzle flashes illuminating Preston blowing all of his enemies away with no effort whatsoever.
- The Transporter series is made of Dynamic Entry, sometimes with kicks, and sometimes with cars.
- Hilariously subverted in Memento, a movie otherwise steeped in serious Film Noir. Leonard knocks on a guy's hotel room door, and kicks the door open and knocks him out as soon as he looked through the peep-hole. Then Leonard looks at the unconscious man, and realizes that he just kicked in the wrong door.
- Scorponok gets a very effective one of these in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It makes an awesome return for the character, who hadn't been mentioned since disappearing in the first film, but doesn't end well for him.
- That scene was actually a Double Dynamic Entry, as just seconds before, Jetfire took out (a?) Mixmaster with one.
- Yor The Hunter From The Future has quite possibly the most awesome example of any Dynamic Entry in the history of fiction: After the Damsel In Distress gets captured by a group of purple cavemen and dragged to their cave, Yor decides to use the instantly frozen-in-rigor-mortis carcass of a giant bird lizard he killed not five minutes ago to glide in through the enterance to their cave and dropkick a purple caveman in the face, all while his theme music blares up to inform the audience that yes, Yor is, in fact, the man. Just watch it for yourself.
- Brannigan (1975) opens with John Wayne kicking down the door and saying "Knock, knock!"
- In the Fist of the North Star Live Action movie, this occurs to great effect. Well, its more of a dynamic exit then entry: as a pair of Zeed's thugs take a woman into a house to be raped, Kenshiro kicks through the freaking wall and dislocates a thugs jaw, knocking him out, in what this troper thought was the funniest moment in the movie.
Literature
Live Action TV
- This is Chuck Norris' favorite way of pulling a Big Damn Heroes moment.
- In Dollhouse, Echo's handler has managed two, one of which is cross-referenced under Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
- Used by the Green/Dragon Ranger in both Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and it source, Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger. He jumped onto the Megazord, opened the door, trashed up the Megazord, and threw the rangers out onto the ground. Has been subjected to severe Memetic Mutation.
- Ban pulls this as well in an early episode of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger. Hoji becomes exceptionally depressed over a mistake he made in combat, and Ban, unable to talk him out of it, simply waits for his depression to become a complete distraction before letting loose with "SNAP OUT OF IT" scream and a dropkick.
- Kramer, from Seinfeld.
- In Firefly, Dobson is holding River at gunpoint, threatening to kill her if her brother doesn't drop his weapon...at which point Mal casually walks into the room and shoots Dobson in the eye without blinking. Or even slowing down.
- And Jubal Early knocks out Shepherd Book with a flying kick entrance.
- This is the way Vyvyan is initially introduced on The Young Ones. As an added bonus, he came in through a wall.
- Lord Flashheart prefers this method of introduction in Blackadder II and Blackadder Goes Forth
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons And Dragons 3.5 Ed has the 'Flying Kick' feat, which turns any unarmed charge attack into this, along with an additional 1D12 damage.
- GURPS has the Flying Kick and Pole-Vault Kick skills. Flying Kick can be combined with Flying Leap for spectacular entries.
- This◊ custom model for Warhammer 40K representing a Tau Crisis suit entering play via Deep Strike. It's a shame they can't actually do that in game.
- Ork Stormboyz led by Boss Zagstruk can.
Video Games
- Pikachu to Jigglypuff in the opening sequence of Pokemon Gold/Silver.
- The Pokemon move Fake Out is a low-powered move with decent PP that is guaranteed to make the opponent flinch and miss their turn, with the catch that it can only be used if the user has just entered the battle.
- This is how Captain Falcon first appears in The Subspace Emissary in Super Smash Bros Brawl. Those poor Pikmin... *sniff*
- On a related note, his Falcon Kick is a great way to introduce yourself in a free-for-all Brawl.
- Also in the Subspace Emissary, this is how Sonic makes his appearance, spin-dashing from nowhere and quite literally clipping Tabuu's wings (along with his Total Party Kill wave attack).
- Even MMORPGs fall into this trope. Final Fantasy XI, at the very least.
- The "Drop Bear technique" in World Of Warcraft may count as a Dynamic Entry too. It involves a druid flying above an enemy target, switching to bear form in midair, and using a charge ability to slam into the enemy, conveniently avoiding any damage from the fall. Warriors can do much the same thing, but don't have the option of switching back to flight if the enemy's wandered out of charge range.
- This troper has heard stories of the "Magical Snowman of Zangarmarsh," who fell out of the sky screaming "FOUND YOU!" to one of his friends, and proceeded to one-shot a monster he was having trouble with before flying away. People now say in general chat: "If you pray hard enough, maybe the Magical Snowman of Zangarmarsh will help you."
- City Of Heroes has this in two powers: Shield Charge and Lightning Rod, where you teleport into a group of foes and do a fair amount of Ao E damage. Of course, with a fair bit of lag working in your favor, you can queue just about any attack and rush into a group of foes and hit before any of them know you're there.
- Just about every tag-in in a Marvel/Tatsunoko vs. Capcom game comes in the form of a Dynamic Entry where the character who's getting into the fight kicks or punches the rival (or in Hakushon Daimaou's case, dives into them with his ass headfirst) in their entries.
- Super Robot Wars loved this trope and know how to use it, usually combining with Theme Music Power Up. There are so many instances of this trope, both by friendly and enemy characters, that listing them all would be almost impossible task. This troper's favorite one happened in this scene of Original Generation 2, complete with Catchphrase and BFS to the face. And if that wasn't enough, OVA rises stakes by giving you a Dynamic Entry performed by battleship!
- Super Robot Wars Alpha 3 also gives you the DaiRaiOh's ultimate move Jinrai, which combines this with Hot Wings. While it doesn't look like a real invoking of this trope, there's this last scene on the scenario of the robot's pilot Touma. Big Bad Keisar Ephes tried to attack the ship his girlfriend Minaki is in. Touma gets super furious and then executes this trope immediately, STRAIGHT ON KEISAR EPHES' FACE.
- Nero's first blow to Dante in Devil May Cry 4 was a dropkick. With both feet. To the face.
- Touhou Project's Wriggle Nightbug is sometimes seen in fanworks performing a Dynamic Entry or some other form of flying kick, usually specifically called "Wriggle Kick." (Her Touhou Puppet Play counterparts have two such moves, the one named number 2 being a take on Fake Out.) The technique's origin is not often apparent, but it surprisingly has roots in the games: while playing as the Magic Team (or Marisa solo) in the eighth game, players can auto-collect onscreen items by going to the top of the screen at any time, where normally it would be limited to when the character is at full power. This is often disastrous when Wriggle descends from the top of the screen for her midboss appearance, leg extended, into Marisa's face.◊ There's also Kisume, Stage 1 midboss of the eleventh game, who does the same thing while in a bucket.◊ And she almost touches the bottom of the screen at times.
- Worse than this is Chen, in her appearance in Shoot the Bullet. Usually, the player is encouraged to spend the first seconds before the boss appears stationary, charging his camera. This is usually well and good... except that Chen then proceeds to enter screen by falling like a brick in the exact same vertical line the player spawns at, usually ending with the first-time player eating a catgirl to the face.
- In one point in Zidane's story in Dissidia: Final Fantasy, Squall is busy giving a heroic monologue to Garland with his back turned. Just as he finishes his big speech and is about to turn around and fight, Zidane leaps from off-screen and plows into Garland. See it here. Hilarity Ensues about 27 seconds in.
- Also happens at a similar point in Squall's story (since they overlap). The best part is that Squall is all set to fight two powerful end-bosses, and gives a speech about how he'll do it, no matter how hard it might be, if it'll make things easier for his allies, and then Zidane does his Dynamic Entry and tells Squall to stop stealing the spotlight (starts at 1:13 in English here; both sides of the story edited alongside each other).
- It may even be better in Squall's story, because from his perspective, Zidane comes completely out of frickin' nowhere. And just before he crashes in, Garland turns slightly. The poor sap saw it coming.
- Project Origin. Snake Fist. You know the scene I'm talking about.
- This is how Akuma from Street Fighter first appeared. Poor M. Bison...
- He repeats the process to Dan in Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo.
- If the plot calls for X to be defeated, Zero is almost certainly about to make an entrance beam-saber-first.
- Giro inherits this ability with Zero's saber in Megaman ZX.
- Alex Mercer from Prototype has various moves conducive for this and a lethal strike from one of 'em often turns Deadly Guest on the enemy.
- The original Mercenaries opens with the player mercenary of choice driving his/her humvee out the back of a C-130. While it is flying. Into a war zone. You then have to power through enemy blockades to reach the Coalition HQ.
- Your allies in Persona 4 are all too happy to push you out of the way to take a shot that would have killed you; Kanji, however, insists on a flying kick to your head to move you out of the way.
- Gwendolyn in Odin Sphere does this twice with her diving spear attack, first to save Velvet from General Brigan and later to save her husband Oswald from the infant Levanthan.
- Halo 3. Level: The Covenant. Miranda Keyes makes a Dynamic Entry with a Pelican.
- In King Of Fighters Maximum Impact 2, Chae Lim enters her stage in story mode by kicking through the screen door. And splitting it in two. And leaping into the stage.
Webcomics
Web Original
- An Internet demotivator recommends "Practice on Emo kids. No-one will miss them."
- In Super Mario Bros Z episode 7, Metal Sonic at first ambushes Mario and Sonic in the tunnels this way (or he would have, if Mario hadn't heard him), but then in his appearance in the Minus World he delivers a standard villainous speech before attacking. Then invoked again when Shadow suddenly appears and pummels Metal Sonic before stealing his Chaos Emerald.
- Wouldn't Mecha Sonic's massive haymaker on Mario have been a Dynamic Entry?
Western Animation
- In Avatar The Last Airbender episode "The Earth King" Aang jumps off Appa and lands, creating a giant shockwave and tossing a bunch of Elite Mooks in the air.
- Venom performs this on Spidey in The Spectacular Spider Man episode "Identity Crisis".
- Tigger from Winnie The Pooh enters like this all the time.
- In Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Captain Marvel strikes Superman in such a manner.
Real Life
- Dynamic Entry performed in a football game.
- [1] some times wall arent that hard.
- In an IRC channel, a Dynamic Entry can be performed by an op that enters a room and immediately kicks someone.
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