History Main / DoABarrelRoll

* ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': The Pterodactyl Dinozord performed the occasional barrel roll. The Crane Ninjazord was fond of a loop-the-loop that finished out with some shooting.

*** ( The space battle, where Anakin actually shouts out "I'll try spinning! [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning That's a good trick!"]] This makes more sense if you've read the book, in which the escape from Naboo is completed by spinning the ship, which disrupts the "pulsar tracking" the Trade Federation uses for its weapons.

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** [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome The Adama Maneuver.]] For sheer ballsy things you can do with several megatons of militarized metal, there is no substitute.

* The pilot for ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' showed us a 180-degree reversed-thrust Crazy Ivan. Then they went to "hard burn" -- which according to the literature consists of setting off a small thermonuclear explosion behind your ship -- while still atmospheric. It was a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Wash, Kaylee, and ''Serenity'' herself.

*** ( The space battle, where Anakin actually shouts out "Let's try spinning! [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning That's a good trick!"]] This makes more sense if you've read the book, in which the escape from Naboo is completed by spinning the ship, which disrupts the "pulsar tracking" the Trade Federation uses for its weapons.

** Website/{{Google}} has jumped on the bandwagon as of late. Typing in "do a barrel roll" for a search query [[spoiler:makes the resulting page do a barrel roll.]] However, this only works on browsers with HTML5 support.

* Any number of scenes in ''Film/Mad Max II'' (a.k.a. ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'').

* Any number of scenes in ''Film/MadMax II'' (a.k.a. ''Film/TheRoadWarrior'').

[[IThoughtItMeant You may also be looking for]] SpinToDeflectStuff, or SphereFactor for when you are ''on'' the barrel.

* Pugachev's Cobra: making the plane stand on its tail. You don't just have to be a masterful pilot to be able to do it, as most planes just aren't maneuverable enough to pull this trick (the ones that can do this are 4th or 5th generation fighters).
** Pugachev's Cobra however is not a combat maneuver, and is generally reserved for wowing audiences at air-shows. Coming to what essentially amounts to a dead stop in an environment where a common mantra is "speed is life" is a good way to get your dumb-ass blown out of the sky, whether your opponent is TheAce, or simply a rookie willing to take advantage of the target that was inexplicably nice enough to hold still for him.
** The Cobra is a frequently misunderstood maneuver; by itself, it's not very useful, it's a move that shows off the plane's capabilities. Slow-speed control, which the Cobra showcases, is a surprising but crucial element of air combat. In aerial gunfights and even with some early IR missiles, getting behind the enemy plane is the key; the plane in the lead is threatened and cannot threaten their tail in return. If the other plane is coming in faster, you may maneuver and let the enemy overshoot. If they're tailing you at about your speed, you may attempt to slow down and let the enemy overshoot. Or, you may attempt what's known as a hammerhead, where both you and your enemy engage in a climbing fight (usually rolling or spiraling up to stay out of the pursuer's guns) until one of you stalls and the other pounces. In all three of those tactics, if you can retain control at low speeds then you retain the advantage; and that's what the Cobra demonstrates.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'': Launchpad has to pull off the "Tree-Top Be-Bop Tuck And Roll" in order to stop the Beagle Boys from robbing Scrooge's money bin.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven'' was notorious for having NoBudget for special effects, so in "The Harvest of Kairos" the Liberator is shown rotating on its X-axis to imply the dramatic space maneuvers that AcePilot Tarrant is [[TakeOurWordForIt supposedly putting her through]].

* During a dogfight in ''[[HandOfThrawn Specter of the Past]]'', Han and Leia put the ''Millennium Falcon'' into a modified "smuggler's reverse", a [[HoldYourHippogriffs bootlegger's turn in space]]. Specifically, the ship cuts thrusters, turns 180 degrees, and then kicks in the engines again to turn in a much narrower space than normal. Han's modification is a fake-out: cut engines, turn a full 360, and then continue in the direction you were already going while the enemy hares off in the other direction, having anticipated the regular reverse, and ''then'' do it again for real this time. It partially works: Han shoots down one of the attacking fighters, but the other fighter is tricked a little too well and hits the ''Falcon'', crippling her.

->''"Do a Barrel Roll!"''
-->-- '''Peppy Hare''', ''VideoGame/StarFox64''

* Doing a barrel roll in a fighter, where maneuverability is an essential component of design, is not very exceptional in and of itself. Barrel-rolling a prototype four-engine commercial jet is something else entirely. While it was actually quite safe for the pilot and plane,[[note]]A manoevre perfected by British heavy bomber pilots in WW" which was later taught to Americans[[/note]] it was not something one sees on a regular basis. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_367-80#The_barrel_roll here]], on TheOtherWiki, for details of pilot Tex Johnston's antics. Boeing President Bill Allen wasn't very happy about it--but he wasn't in a position to complain, as the maneuver totally sold the plane and cemented Boeing as undisputed the market leader in jet airliners for the next 20 years.[[note]]At which point the Airbus A300 appeared on the scene in 1974, declaring Aribus' intention to seriously challenge the Boeing 7x7 family's dominance. Before then, some models kinda sorta challenged Boeing, but it was always clear they couldn't bring it to Boeing.[[/note]] This was a tremendous coup at a time Boeing had become practically a nonentity in the commercial piston-engine airliner market thanks to its previous focus on military contracts[[note]]Indeed, the Dash 80 was a huge gamble, intended to demonstrate both a new jet airliner and a new model for a military tanker aircraft. It worked, being developed into the Boeing 707 airliner and the KC-135 Stratotanker military air tanker.[[/note]].

Regularly confused with an Aeleron Roll.

* UsefulNotes/{{WWII}} U.S. fighter pilots found that the Thunderbolt, Wildcat and Corsair's superior high-speed roll rates often allowed them to gain the upper hand over otherwise more maneuverable enemy fighters like the Zero (and gave them a good way to escape when they couldn't.) They also developed defensive tactics that exploited this advantage like the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thach_Weave Thach weave]] and the horizontal scissors.

* A part of ''VideoGame/StarFox'' since the very first game. Peppy Hare's command to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIkJvY96i8w "do a barrel roll!"]] to get yourself out of trouble became a big [[MemeticMutation Internet meme]], and [[TropeNamers gave this trope its name]]. For some unfathomable reason, doing a barrel roll gives your ship 95% immunity to any attack an enemy might throw at you. Put simply, SpinToDeflectStuff. The Player's Guide for ''Star Fox 64'' {{handwave}}s it by saying the roll amplifies the effect from the Arwing's G-diffuser, using it to boost the ship's shields.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales}}'': Launchpad has to pull off the "Tree-Top Be-Bop Tuck And Roll" in order to stop the Beagle Boys from robbing Scrooge's money bin.

** "Fanfic/TheUniverseDoesntCheat" has Eleya attempt to flip a virtual ''Constitution''-class end-for-end while taking the KobayashiMaru, referring to it as a "Sulu Flip" (in reference to the novel ''[[Literature/{{Rihannsu}} My Enemy, My Ally]]'').

* Creator/DianeDuane's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novel ''[[Literature/{{Rihannsu}} My Enemy, My Ally]]'' has a scene where Hikaru Sulu makes the ''Enterprise'' do a 180-degree backflip ''while traveling at high warp'', in order to bring the ship's stronger forward phasers to bear on a Romulan warbird.

-->--'''Peppy Hare''', ''VideoGame/StarFox64''

* Seaborne example: anchor turn in ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean''.

** ( The space battle, where Anakin actually shouts out "Let's try spinning! [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning That's a good trick!"]] This makes more sense if you've read the book, in which the escape from Naboo is completed by spinning the ship, which disrupts the "pulsar tracking" the Trade Federation uses for its weapons.