Deadly Dodging / Comic Books

Deadly Dodging in Comic Books.

---

• Asterix:
  • In "Asterix in Spain", Asterix succeeds in defeating a wild aurochs with this method — after some spectacular Spanish bullfighting, of course.
  • In "Asterix and the Magic Carpet", a stalemated Beam-O-War between two fakirs on magic carpets is resolved when the heroic Watziznehm makes his carpet fly straight upwards, causing the sudden lack of resistance to send his villainous opponent Owzat hurtling into the side of a minaret.
• Astro City:
  • In "Yesterday's Heroes", Wolfspider goads Krokolite into charging at him, then shrinks out of the way so Krokolite would destroy the machine giving his powers.
    "Oi! Kroko! Didja hear? You've been elected mayor of Yirrawanka!"
  • One story in "Thumbtacks & Yarn" has Mr. Cakewalk goad Dame Progress into firing a pair of missiles at him. He knocks them off-course to hit a nearby warehouse, revealing the chained prisoners inside.
• In Avatar: The Last Airbender - The Rift, Aang beats a group of Earthbenders by getting them to surround him and then jumping high above them, causing all four to crash into each other. He gives them a little push with airbending to make sure it happens.
• Blacksad does it when drug dealers are being uncooperative. Since he is a cat he can swivel his ears to spot better the threats by sound.
• DC Comics:
  • All-Star Comics: In the Justice Society of America story "Two New Members Win Their Spurs" Dr. Mid-Nite ducks out of the way of Professor Elba's two associates while tossing one of his black-out bombs and they knock each other out while trying to attack him.
  • Batman:
    • During a fight near the demolished Gotham bridge in Batman: No Man's Land Batman ducks a thrown rock which ends up hitting the guy behind him. It sends him off the bridge and into the water, landing straight on one of the mines the government has placed to keep Gotham sealed off. Hopefully that wasn't intentional on Batsy's part...
    • When Batman fights a mind-controlled Superman in Batman: Hush, he uses this tactic to get Superman to punch an electrical panel, though this only delays Superman temporarily.
  • The Flash: One of the favorite tricks of . Makes sense, with Super-Speed.
  • Red Robin: When fighting the Council of Spiders, Tim Drake is able to get some of them to deal with each other by dodging since only "Goliath" and "Sac" seem to have any idea how to fight alongside each other while the rest have no clue how to fight alongside allies as they're used to working alone.
  • Supergirl:
    • Strangers at the Heart's Core: Supergirl lets her enemy Shyla Kor-Onn hit her, so the backlash throws Shyla back into the path of the Phantom Zone Projector's ray, and she's sent her back in the Phantom Zone.
      Supergirl: Luck had nothing to do with it, Shyla... I knew you couldn't control your flying ability yet, so I let you get in that last punch... Then I used Newton's Law of Motion— for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction— It forced you back into the Projector's ray!
    • The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor: When Blackrock is surrounded by security guards and shot, he becomes intangible to let a gunshot pass right through him. Unfortunately, another guard was behind Blackrock and in the bullet's path. Fortunately, Supergirl flew in front of the bullet.
    • In Day of the Dollmaker, Supergirl defeats Baroness Blitzkrieg's charging tactics by stepping aside and tripping her into a row of trees.
    • Supergirl's Greatest Challenge: Kara cannot attack directly two giant eldritch abominations due to their intangible bodies being composed of sheer energy; so Kara baits one of them into chasing after her, flies towards the second energy creature and then gets out of the way quickly, with the result that both creatures collide with each other and their energy bodies explode.
  • Superman:
    • Superman can be found employing this on the frequent off chance he finds himself depowered. Takes for example this instance from Who Took the Super out of Superman? Lex Luthor shoots his ray gun at Superman, but Superman just ducks out of the way and lets the energy blast pass over him and hit the Parasite.
    • "Brainiac Rebirth": Superman is trying to escape from Brainiac's ship after being depowered and captured. Superman has found the access leading to the hangar, but the door is locked, and Brainiac's attack drones are hot on his heels. So, Superman leans against the door, waits for them, and ducks right when the drones shoot their energy weapons, shattering the door.
    • Legion of Super-Heroes: During the climax of The Great Darkness Saga, Chameleon Boy sees a Daxamite child swooping towards him (Daxamites being a race of Kryptonians). Quickly Chameleon Boy grabs the kid's belt and exploits his momentum to spin him around and make him crash through a wall.
• In the Lone Wolf graphic novel The Skull of Agarash, Lone Wolf sidesteps two Lakuri Isles pirates attacking from both sides, and they bump heads together. Then, they are taken out of the fight by the same arrow (from the Rain of Arrows released by the other pirates) going through both their skulls.
  Mazrah: ... Nothing between the ears to stop it, you see...
• Marvel Universe:
  • Used by Deadpool to impale the Hulk on a broken pole.
  • Hawkeye: A talented acrobat, Hawkeye uses his agility against his enemies, especially when he's outnumbered. In a training session with the Thunderbolts, Hawkeye uses this technique against Jolt and Moonstone to demonstrate the importance of teamwork.
  • The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk himself has pulled this trick a couple of times, including ducking the Constrictor's cybernetic whips and causing them to hit an electric streetlight behind him and electrocuted the snakelike killer, or rolling out of the way of an electrically-charged Absorbing Man and letting him hit a large pool of water.
  • Spider-Man:
    • In both The Night Gwen Stacy Died and the Spider-Man film, Green Goblin remotely launches his hovercraft at Spider-Man, who gets out of its way in time for it to hit Green Goblin himself.
    • This is also his common technique for taking down stronger opponents such as Scorpion or the Rhino.
    • During a fight with the serial killer known as the Sin-Eater, Spider-Man dodged a blast from the villain's shotgun. Unfortunately, their fight was in a crowded area and the shot hit a civilian. Spider-Man being rattled by this greatly affected his performance in the battle and the following issue reveals the civilian died.
• In The Shadow Hero, Hank doesn't seem to do this intentionally, but his opponents manage to repeatedly shoot their own allies trying to hit him.
• In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), this is how Sonic wins the very first fight we see him in, tricking Dr. Robotnik into hitting Caterkiller.
• In one Transformers comic, a rhino-shaped decepticon (Stranglehold) charged against an autobot, who very politely introduced him to the wall.

---