History Main / HighSpeedMissileDodge

* Attempted in ''Film/BehindEnemyLines'' when Serbian troops fire two [=SAMs=] at Burnett and Stackhouse's F-18 after [[spoiler: they inadvertently spot the Serbs covering up a mass grave]]. They manage to evade one by tricking it into crashing with their dropped auxiliary fuel tanks, but the other one lands a near-miss and takes the plane down.

** The SR-71 "Blackbird" was designed to not need an escort or any kind of defense, as it could fly so high and fast that any missile would run out of fuel before it caught it. Standard evasive action was simply to accelerate.[[BadAssCreed "Though I fly through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For I am at 80,000 feet and climbing."]] The only plane ever to even get a radar lock on one is the Swedish JA-37 Viggen, whose pilots routinely used the spy plane's flights in the Baltic Sea to practice interception tactics.

* In a ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} comic, Deadpool is driving a pickup when Bullseye shoots at him with a rocket launcher. Deadpool does a 90-degree brake turn, opens the windows, and watches the missile sail harmlessly through the cabin. Even Bullseye, who usually gets ''very'' upset if he misses, is impressed.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}''. In ''The Red Sea Sharks'' the BigBad orders his SubmarinePirates to sink one of his own freighter that's been appropriated by our heroes, killing the meddlesome Tintin and destroying all the evidence against him. Haddock has to keep turning the ship to avoid the torpedoes being fired at them, only to have an OhCrap moment when the handle of the engine order telegraph breaks off in his hand.

* Dobbs, AcePilot from the German TV action show ''Der Clown'', manages to evade two surface-to-air missiles with a helicopter (neither an Apache nor Airwolf) in the movie ''Payday''. He even [[MisguidedMissile sends one flying back into the SAM mortar]].
* In the 2008 ''Film/IronMan1'' film, during the saving of Golmera, the titular character narrowly avoids a missile fired from a tank by sidestepping it in the nick of time. Iron Man fires a smaller missile back at it, and [[UnflinchingWalk walks away as it explodes behind him]].

* In ''ComicBook/BuckDanny'' the titular hero, being an ace pilote performs this a lot. Even the admiral in one of the book realize it's buck flying, due to the unknow plane dodging two missiles in a row.

** ''Film/TopGunMaverick'' has this happen as well. Special mention goes to [[spoiler: one of the enemy "Felon" pilots pulling off a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tailslide Kvochur's bell]] to evade Maverick's missile during their escape in the climax]].

* Ironhide dodges Decepticon missiles in the 2007 ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' LiveActionAdaptation. Could be the movie being true to the source material. Decepticons were pretty lousy shots.

* Inverted in a deleted scene from ''Film/{{Superman}}''. He tried to stop the Hackensack missile in mid-air, but the missile just flew past. It dodged ''him''. This scene led to the one in the theatrical cut where said missile is chased and sent into outer space before the second one hit San Andreas' Fault.

* A cycle of tales in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal deals with the [[BadassBiker Air Service]] of Ankh-Morpork. Initially a division of the City Watch staffed by Witch Police Constables, it evolves over the course of the tales (spanning two decades) into something like an efficient and combat-ready Air Force. Its test as an Air Force is in the fighting between Witches and Elves, which happens in the canonical novel ''Literature/TheShepherdsCrown''. The Air War sees the whole of the Air Watch taking a "grandmother's funeral". All at once, to fight in Lancre. Vetinari permits this, and Sam Vimes has no choice other than to accept it. During the air fighting, one Witch, pursuded by an overwhelming number of Elves and dodging arrows and missiles being fired at her, has an epiphany born out of desperation: her Feegle air crewman, normally a navigator, craw-steps her briefly into "Feegle Space" [[note]]a parellel dimension used by the [=NacMacFeegle=] when "craw-stepping", ie taking their Witch out of this dimension and re-entering our world in a different place, which could be thousands of miles away by the direct route[[/note]]. The Feegle counts to "tetra" and brings her back in exactly the same place - except for the fact all the Elves have overshot and are now in front of her. Where she can fire back and get them from behind with a combination of crossbow bolts and air-to-air fireballs. This becomes a standard Air Service fighting tactic.

* ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe'': Gru does this when Vector launches a MacrossMissileMassacre at him. The missiles redirect and blow up Vector's house. And then he punches a shark.

** British Harrier pilots in the 1980s UsefulNotes/FalklandsWar developed a technique for dodging the Argentine anti-aircraft missiles. Known as "viffing"--for Vectoring In Forward Flight--it involved canting the nozzles of the Harrier, producing a sudden change in altitude while maintaining course,causing the missile to be unable to react and fly beneath the target Harrier.

* Episode 10 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' Season 8 brings forth [[spoiler:the return of Tex, who then delivers a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to the Reds and Tucker. Simmons fires a heat-seaking missile to Tex, who ''outruns it'' and goes through a portal and runs right back to the "heroes", missile in tow. She clotheslines Sarge, Simmons and Tucker who were conveniently standing in single-file at the time... [[FridgeLogic for some reason...]] and she slides under Grif. She then leads the missile into a bunch of exploding barrels.]]

* A cycle of tales in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal deals with the [[BikerBabe Air Service]] of Ankh-Morpork. Initially a division of the City Watch staffed by Witch Police Constables, it evolves over the course of the tales (spanning two decades) into something like an efficient and combat-ready Air Force. Its test as an Air Force is in the fighting between Witches and Elves, which happens in the canonical novel ''Literature/TheShepherdsCrown''. The Air War sees the whole of the Air Watch taking a "grandmother's funeral". All at once, to fight in Lancre. Vetinari permits this, and Sam Vimes has no choice other than to accept it. During the air fighting, one Witch, pursuded by an overwhelming number of Elves and dodging arrows and missiles being fired at her, has an epiphany born out of desperation: her Feegle air crewman, normally a navigator, craw-steps her briefly into "Feegle Space" [[note]]a parellel dimension used by the [=NacMacFeegle=] when "craw-stepping", ie taking their Witch out of this dimension and re-entering our world in a different place, which could be thousands of miles away by the direct route[[/note]]. The Feegle counts to "tetra" and brings her back in exactly the same place - except for the fact all the Elves have overshot and are now in front of her. Where she can fire back and get them from behind with a combination of crossbow bolts and air-to-air fireballs. This becomes a standard Air Service fighting tactic.