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Typically shot from a [[HitlerCam slightly lower]] than normal angle to add stature to the characters in the shot. Extra power can be gained from a dramatic backdrop, especially flames or explosions. The walk often continues until the characters are out of frame, and is often followed by an ActBreak. Alternatively, it can be preceded by a slow build-up of the group, with just the lead walking at first, with others noticing and hurrying to his/her side one by one.

Typically shot from a [[HitlerCam slightly lower]] than normal angle to add stature to the characters in the shot. Extra power can be gained from a dramatic backdrop, especially flames or explosions. The walk often continues until the characters are out of frame, and is often followed by an ActBreak.

Sometimes (especially when used in the opening credits) called a ''Hero Shot'' (although there can be other types of hero shots -- e.g. a shot from a low angle to make a character look larger than life)

* Done quite a bit with ''BostonLegal'', although the number and importance of the characters in the lineup (besides Denny Crane front and center) will vary depending on the case.

* In an episode of the show ''DharmaAndGreg'', we see two of these, first a straight one of the male characters (who have gotten fairly drunk and decided the manly thing to do is go bobsledding), and then one of the females... who have decided to go to a bar full of Navy men pretending to be bimbos. Identical shot and music... but rather different effect.

* In "{{CSI:CrimeSceneInvestigation}}" season 6 premiere, the team does this to signify that they are unified and together once again after being split up in the previous season.

* The opening credits of ''{{The Professionals}}'' ended with one of these, with Bodie and Doyle flanking Cowley as he literally walked into the camera.

* In ''Series/{{Community}}'' Abed has the entire group do one in slow motion walking towards a space simulator. They end up being very late because he keeps making them redo it until it's sufficiently dramatic.

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* Given [[FanService new meaning]] in ''{{Baywatch}}''.

The Power Walk is a wide shot of the main cast, shoulder to shoulder, suited up for battle and looking cool/determined/fierce as they walk towards the camera and often in slow motion. the Power Walk is mostly used in order to convey the unity of the group, as they walk in an orderly fashion in a single line.

* Played with on the cover to the first issue of the ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'': ''[[ADayInTheLimelight Pixie Strikes Back]]'' miniseries. All the other girls on the cover have the standard determined expression of a normal PowerWalk. Pixie, by contrast, is smiling happily and her head is turned to one side sort of jauntily.

* ''TheMagnificentSeven'' (1960)
** And its inspiration ''SevenSamurai'' (1954), sort of.
* Averted (at least in part) in the film ''TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension''. The end credits roll features Team Banzai gathering together ([[spoiler:even the member who died during the film]]) and marching in unison to the peppy "Team Banzai March". Not a true PowerWalk in that the team walks across the screen from right to left, there is not a dramatic shot of the team walking towards the camera, much of the sequence focuses in on individual members of Team Banzai, and the tempo of the entire sequence is a bit too peppy to be as dramatic as a PowerWalk should be.

* ''TheRightStuff''. This is probably the single most-parodied (or ripped off) PowerWalk ever.

*** ''{{Armageddon}}'' (1998). Slightly subverted as someone in the background complains, "Talk about the 'wrong' stuff", during the thuggish heroes' power walk. Also, at the end of the mission, it's contrasted by the heroic lineup being about 60% thinner than at the beginning.

*** WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb did a parody of this in one of the episodes where they went to space.
*** Parodied in TheSimpsons episode "Deep Space Homer". When Homer gets close up during his PowerWalk and sees the shuttle, he gets cold feet and runs all the way back down the hall (...out of the building, and across the street) to call his wife.
*** Also parodied in WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}, wherein, during their Power Walk, Fry and Leela hold their space helmets while Bender holds his own head.
*** WesternAnimation/MonstersInc, as the monsters enter the power company, and then again in its blooper reel as the monsters stumble and bowl each other over in slow motion.

* Chow Yun Fat makes the simple act of walking into a high stakes poker game epic in GodOfGamblers.
* ''{{Tombstone}}'' (1993). The Earps with Doc Holliday walking towards the O.K. Corral to confront the Cowboys. The image of Val Kilmer, Sam Elliott, Kurt Russell, and Bill Paxton in [[BadAssLongcoat Bad Ass Longcoats]] has been used in posters and video covers for the film. It even replays a more BadAss version of the walk during the end credits. Since the Earp crew [[TruthInTelevision really did walk halfway across town]] to confront the Clanton crew, ''every'' movie featuring the O.K. Corral includes such a scene.
* 1999's ''MysteryMen'' also parodies the Power Walk, with one character (Mr. Furious) suddenly turning around and trying to flee only to be grabbed by his fellows on either side and forced to continue to walk with them. Their facial expressions never change.

* In one scene of HardCoreLogo the band Power Walks towards the camera in slow motion with The Ramones handling the music.

* ''GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' does this briefly, before Ripcord turns and says "[[LampshadeHanging Damn, we look good!]]"

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQy15VtPb50 This]] scene from ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', complete with Western music.

* ''TheHouseBunny'' after the girls get their makeovers.
* ''DeliverUsFromEva'' when Ray and the Dandridge sisters do the chick flick version of the power walk with their very angry boyfriends trailing behind.
* ''KingdomOfHeaven'': Saladin after [[spoiler: the Muslim capture of Jerusalem.]]
* Parodied in ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' during the propaganda film that Steve was participating in. Later, it was played straight (also as a CallBack) when Steve liberates the POW camp.
* Done twice in ''ThisIsEngland''. The first time is very light-spirited, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming highlighting Shaun's acceptance into Woody's gang of skinheads.]] This was in [[TheEighties the '80s]], just before neo-Nazism and racism infiltrated the skinhead movement. The second time is much darker in tone, when Shaun [[spoiler: joins Combo's gang of skinheads, who are much more violent and racist than Woody's.]]

* The film adaptation of ''WarmBodies'' features one where a group of zombies do the slow-motion version of this. Except that [[ZombieGait the shot isn't actually done in slow motion]].
* ''{{Sorority Row}}'': Done by the surviving girls at the end of the film. Bonus points for walking away from [[spoiler: ''a burning mansion'']].

* The WesternAnimation/{{X-Men}} do this, along with a VFormationTeamShot[[hottip:*: [[MundaneMadeAwesome On top of an active volcano]]!]] in the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El0H26Gxak0 Japanese dub's second opening]].

* ''KamenRiderDecade: [[TheMovie All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]]'' has a '''nineteen-man''' Power Walk at the beginning of the climatic battle featuring '''nearly every''' ''Franchise/KamenRider'' hero at that point ([[Series/KamenRider the Double Riders]] and Series/KamenRiderV3 led the power walking ''on their bikes'' to Decade and Diend who were already getting their asses whooped on the battlefield, KamenRiderKuuga [[spoiler:was BrainwashedAndCrazy when the battle began]], and KamenRiderDouble and KamenRiderJ had their separate moments at the end).

* ''KamenRiderDecade: [[TheMovie All Riders vs. Dai-Shocker]]'' has a '''nineteen-man''' Power Walk at the beginning of the climatic battle featuring '''nearly every''' ''KamenRider'' hero at that point ([[Series/KamenRider the Double Riders]] and KamenRiderV3 led the power walking ''on their bikes'' to Decade and Diend who were already getting their asses whooped on the battlefield, KamenRiderKuuga [[spoiler:was BrainwashedAndCrazy when the battle began]], and KamenRiderDouble and KamenRiderJ had their separate moments at the end).

* The ''MassEffect'' game cover shows Shepard flanked by Ashley and Garrus.

* The title sequence of ''ReservoirDogs'', as the criminals all walk out to their cars to begin the heist, with "Little Green Bag" playing on the soundtrack. This scene is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qBWc8FCEEM often parodied]].
* ''ThreeHundred'' (2007). As with everything else in ''300'', beaten into the ground and kicked a few times for good measure.

* An [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqJnA5HoW1w episode]] of the BBC's ''{{Coupling}}'' parodied the Power Walk, with the leading men strutting slowly down the sidewalk in dark suits, narrow ties, and sunglasses, to be brought to a screeching halt by their girlfriends saying, "Stop playing ''ReservoirDogs''!"

* ''BubbaHoTep'' (2002). Once Elvis and Jack (as in JFK) decide to challenge the titular soul-sucking monster, they do a PowerWalk of sorts through the corridor of their rest home. Kinda. Elvis needs a walker, and Jack rides a powered wheelchair. But it's still badass.

* It's not the main cast, but the scene of thousands of V's converging on the Houses of Parliament in the film version of ''VForVendetta'' is awesome.