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Something's going on in the 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.
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.
Examples:
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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 . DYNAMIC ENTRY IS THE VERY NAME.
- 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.
- When Jin in Kannagi simply could not put a foot in his mouth and was about to blow Nagi's cover, she dutifully shuts him up with a "Shaato Youar Mowthu" flying kick.
- 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' Ganmen.
- 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.
- In one episode of Ghost In The Shell:Stand Alone Complex, Batou is under fire by invisible assassins while trying to protect a witness. When the Major comes to the rescue, she drives her fancy sport car right into the lobby and up a short flight of stairs, only to jump out and shot the attackers. Which in fact is just the buildup for the true Crowning Moment Of Awsome that follows immediately.
- 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.
- Kaname does this multiple times. In a broader definition, Sousuke also pulls one off with the Arbalest in Khanka: he leaps over a Savage, stabbing it's neck in the process then runs off without stopping for a moment.
- Spain from Axis Powers Hetalia gets his pet bull to pull one of these against Turkey.
- Although Big O is probably one of the slowest moving robots in anime, it manages to score several throughout the series. In episode 13, Big O rises from beneath the ground to save Roger from psychopath android Red Destiny. Big O does this by smashing said android into the ceiling of the subway tunnel both Roger and Red Destiny were standing in.
- Additionally, Big O punches through a wall to save Dorothy from a spider-mech in season 2.
- For Durarara's Shizuo, jump-kicking people is simply too ordinary an introduction. Instead, he throws vending machines at their heads.
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.
- If you had a nickel for every time Superman has crashed through a wall into an unsuspecting foe, you'd be a rich man.
Fanfiction
Film
Literature
- Lyra from His Dark Materials meets Will in the second book by tackling him. In case you missed the first one, this is her Little Miss Badass Establishing Character Moment.
- In the Spider-Man novel "Darkest Hours", Spider-Man yells "Boot to the head!" as he swings in and kicks the Rhino in the stomach.
- In Sergey Suhinov's Shadows on Mercury novel, the heroes arrive too late to stop the Big Bad from finding and taking a hyper-advanced Precursor ship, which they plan to use to Take Over The World, in the middle of a hazardous Asteroid Thicket. While the Big Bad is chatting with the heroes, a UN cruiser bursts in and launches a nuclear barrage at the Precursor ship before they even have a chance to turn on the Deflector Shields. In short, the only thing the heroes ended up doing is calling for help and creating a distraction.
- In The Dresden Files book Dead Beat, Harry Dresden does this for the team of Wardens when he has Sue the T-Rex leap over them and stomp an oncoming car.
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
- In the Stargate Atlantis series finale, there are two partial cases of Dynamic Entry. The first occurs when the Big Damn Heroes realize that the Invisibility Cloak on their shuttle is useless against the Big Bad's sensors. As they are attempting to outrun alien Energy Weapons, the Daedalus arrives to cover them. Unfortunately, the Daedalus Beam Spam does little to hurt the Big Bad's ship. A similar case occurs near the end of the episode with the Atlantis city-ship arriving seconds before the Big Bad can unleash a barrage aimed at Earth. Once again, there is little humans can do against the enemy.
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
Webcomics
Web Original
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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