Deadly Dodging / Webcomics

Deadly Dodging in Webcomics.

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• Just a few Instances in The Beast Legion:
  • Xeus barely dodges an Arthropod
  • Xeus dodges Gorgorath's attack in Issue 04 by managing to counter the Fear Effect.
• Bob and George:
  • Bob and George teleport out of the way, and he hits the wall.
  • Also used against the heroes, where a villain moves out of the way and Proto Man accidentally shoots and kills George.
• Girl Genius: Two giant monsters are trying to attack an airship flying between them, but thanks to some Mad Science propulsion, it avoids them by propelling downward very fast, leading to the one-eyed monster punching the other in the face.
• Grrl Power:
  • During a superhero free-for-all, Math the martial artist dodges a super attacking him with Eye Beams, the ray hitting another brawler behind him. Definitely part of his "three moves ahead" bag of tricks.
  • Hench Wench manages to catch Maxima shortly off-guard, getting her in a headlock by controlling both her real body and a concrete body. But Maxima is still too strong and fast, moving her head away when the golem attempts to punch her, resulting in a (doubly) broken nose for Hench Wench.
• The Order of the Stick:
  • Inverted when Roy confronts a half-ogre who uses a Game-Breaker from the 3.5th edition rules to attack him twice a round while dodging backwards. The half-ogre eventually falls off a cliff.
  • Roy dodges an eldritch blast from an annoyed warlock by leaning down, and it ends up hitting Gannji in the back, precipitating the already-brewing Bar Brawl.
  • In "Five Rows Down, Three Columns Over", Roy tricks his Dumb Muscle Evil Counterpart Thog into crashing into a series of columns in order to bring part of the roof down on him. Although it's not exactly dodging, since the D&D rules of Thog's attack specify that it cannot do any arena damage unless the attack works.
    Roy: That's how I use my Intelligence score in combat, dumbass!
  • Attempted, but averted, when Belkar is fighting a goliath vampire without weapon: he's planning on tripping it and sending it tumbling down the mountain; even if it's unlikely to kill it, it would get it out of the way for Belkar to enter the temple. But Roy just shows up without warning and cleaves the vampire in half, followed by Vaarsuvius flying by and incinerating the vampire completely.
• Outsider: With several torpedoes closing in fast and no other available options, Talon flies Highland-Seven at full speed through the open superstructure of the space station they'd intended to simply dock at, letting it take the torpedo impacts while the shuttle escapes.
• Sluggy Freelance:
  • In "That Which Redeems", initially the only creature standing against the demons invading the Dimension of Lame is an alternative counterpart of the ferret Kiki, who's from some third dimension still and has more attitude than everyone in the Dimension of Lame put together. She's seen jumping quickly between the demons, causing them to skewer each other on their bladed weapons when trying to hit her.
  • Bun-bun pulls this thrice during "Oceans Unmoving". The first time Bun-bun dodges Calix's throwing axe so that it cuts part of the ship's rigging instead, allowing him to do a dramatic rope swing attack. The second time, Bun-bun dodges another (assumed) axe throw, this time positioning himself so that the axe will hit his enemy, Blacksoul, instead. Unfortunately, Calix has been persuaded to leave by a third party and does not hear the insult that's supposed to incite his attack, leaving Bun-bun looking pretty silly in front of his archnemesis. Shortly after in the same fight, Bun-bun dodges Blacksoul's blades to cause him to get them stuck in the barrel behind him; Blacksoul retaliates by picking up the barrel and using it like a hammer.
• This is pretty much the extent of Kit's fighting style in The Story of Anima. You'll only hit him when he wants you to.

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