Deadly Dodging in Western Animation.
- Angel Wars:
- Eli and Kira rush right into a battle between two powerful demons, and right in between them, Eli kneels to pray for help—and the act of kneeling is itself an example of Deadly Dodging, causing the magic the two demons were shooting at the angels to hit each other squarely, defeating both demons. Eli admits this wasn't even what he'd been aiming for, and credits God for the victory.
- Archangel Michael dodged a sword swing from Eli's Superpowered Evil Side, letting Eli's sword slice into an electrified sign to electrocute Eli. This electrocution removed the corruption from Eli and disintegrated his corrupted wings. Michael didn't even have to use his own sword to win.
- Avatar: The Last Airbender: Put simply, Deadly Dodging is a big part of Airbender martial arts.
- "The Deserter": When fighting Admiral Zhao, a powerful firebender with a rotten temper and poor self-control, Aang taunts and insults him in order to get him to start carelessly slinging fireballs around, and then simply dodges the blasts until he's managed to get Zhang to set fire to his own fleet of questionably wooden ships.
- Also occurs unintentionally during an episode where Aang is training with Katara and Toph, where he ducks a boulder from Toph by burrowing into the ground, which proceeds to hit Katara, who is standing behind.
- And again in "The Headband", wherein Aang is attacked by the school bully. He manages to defeat the bully with his hands held behind his back and an innocent smile on his face, by dodging in such a way that causes his opponent to throw himself to the ground.
- Averting this is a major aspect of Aang's Earthbending training, as Earthbending is both the physical and philosophical opposite of Airbending. In the episode "Bitter Work", Aang has a hard time figuring out Earthbending because his natural instinct is to dodge and weave around a target rather than facing it head on. Sokka is trapped in a crevasse while a Saber-Toothed Moose-Lion is looking to attack him. Aang tries distracting it by Airbending it away, but the creature is stubborn, dead set on killing Sokka anyway. Aang has to stand his ground and directly attack the Moose-Lion to get it to leave them alone. Toph tells him that standing his ground is the first step, and as a result, Aang proceeds to perform proper Earthbending for the first time.
- Batman: The Animated Series: Poison Ivy's debut episode sees Batman evade her crossbow arrow, which hits her giant flytrap instead, making it fatally bleed out.
- Classic Disney Shorts: Chip 'n Dale use it against Donald Duck in the short "Out on a Limb", when he chases them with a lawnmower and they lure him into a power line.
- Code Lyoko:
- Before Season 3 Aelita has no proper attack power, and the only real way she can damage the monsters (when not counting on the Lyoko Warriors) is by Deadly Dodging. In Episode 39, "A Bad Turn", alone on Lyoko, Aelita manages to get rid of a whole swarm of Frelions by flying on the Overboard and having them ram the mountain or each other.
- This is the main tactic used against the Megatanks. They're invulnerable to the Lyoko Warriors' attacks as long as their two half-shells are closed, but a fall in the Digital Sea will readily dispatch one. Thus, pushing them past a cliff or letting them fall victim to their own momentum whenever possible is the favored option.
- In episode 86, William dodges both Aelita's Energy Field and Odd's Laser Arrow by ducking. The Energy Field harmlessly flows above him, continues its course, and hits Odd in the chest, devirtualizing him.
- DC Super Hero Girls: In "#SheMightBeGiant", after noting that her stingers are too weak to harm Giganta in any way, Bumblebee opts to use her small size and mobility to trick the giantess into hitting herself in the face.
- Dungeons & Dragons: This is Sheila's main tactic in a fight, thanks to putting her Invisibility Cloak to very good use. All the monsters charging her are sure to end up slamming against a wall or each other after she turns invisible. In fact, it can sometimes look like the cloak is turning her fully immaterial, so adept she is at escaping enemies even in tight spots.
- In Freedom Fighters: The Ray, Ray confronts a pair of bank robbers and knocks one out. The other one aims a gun at him, while another (unseen) robber aims his gun at him from behind. Ray uses his ability to become intangible, causing both robbers to shoot one another.
- An episode of Futurama has Leela fighting her old martial arts master as he remotely controls a giant kill-bot fighting Bender in the wrestling ring just above him. Leela tricks the guy into punching through the floor of the ring, hitting himself in the head.
- Used three times in Disney's Gargoyles, Hudson and Elisa both execute the version causing mooks charging from opposite directions to crash into each other, while the trickster Coyote baits his robotic namesake into toppling the steel skeleton of an unfinished building onto himself. Lampshaded by Brooklyn:Brooklyn: It's incredible how often that move works.
- Jackie Chan Adventures: Tohru Wouldn't Hit a Girl so, when forced to face a female criminal, he uses Deadly Dodging to defeat her.
- Josie and the Pussycats: In "A Greenthumb Is Not a Goldfinger", two mooks lunge at Alexandra at the same time. She ducks and they bump heads and collapse in a heap.
- Looney Tunes:
- Bugs Bunny pulls this trick a couple of times while fighting the bull in the classic short "Bully for Bugs".
- Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner: The Road Runner makes Wile E. Coyote run off a cliff in almost every episode several times.
- Since Secret Squirrel can't fight the endangered One-Ton Panda without getting arrested, he tricks the villain into whacking himself with various objects by acting as an unhelpful bodyguard. And then arrests him for putting himself in danger like that.
- Spider-Man:
- Used to defeat more than a few supervillains Spidey faces in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, due to the fact that he isn't allowed to punch anybody thanks to Executive Meddling. At the end of the Hobgoblin's debut two-parter, Spidey tricks him into smashing his glider against an exhaust tower at Oscorp, causing him to lose control and crash into the river.
- The Spectacular Spider-Man:
- Spider-Man does this while mocking Shocker, goading him into unwittingly blasting a building's supports, causing it to collapse.
- Spidey also uses this in a sewer system, making the Rhino punch so many holes in the pipes that the steam overheats him, and leaves him exhausted and delirious.
- Referred to and subverted in one of the later episodes, where Rhino attacks Spider-Man. Spidey believes that he is able to dodge each and make Rhino look foolish. However, it turns out that Rhino isn't expecting to hit anyone; his attacks are mainly aimed at the supports of the carpark they are fighting in, with having someone to aim at a distraction and a bonus. When Rhino points out his plan to bring the building crashing down on top of them, Spider-Man laments that he fell for a variation of the above trick he used to defeat Shocker. When the dust settles, Rhino tosses off the rubble on top of him with ease, Spider-Man has a bit more trouble.
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In the episode "Cat and Mouse", Anakin manages to defeat Admiral Trench by using Trench's own tracking missiles against him. He uncloaks his Stealth Corvette and uses his piloting skills to outrun the missiles chasing him and lead them straight into the bridge of Trench's flagship, destroying the ship and breaking the Seperatist blockade of the planet.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
- The 1987 version has the title characters do this when Bebop and Rocksteady are charging, causing the two to collide head-first into each other. The first arcade game has a Boss Battle where this scene can be duplicated.
- Splinter likes doing this in the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. In one episode, he uses it to defeat the Shredder by bringing down a wooden water tower on him; in another, he combines it with Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors against a group of elementals.
- In the season 2 finale of Transformers: Prime, the US government liaison Agent Fowler attempts a heroic holding action against the approaching Decepticon hordes while the Autobots and their human allies evacuate their base. His helicopter is quickly damaged and he's pursued by an Insecticon. When an Air Vehicon flies at him, he uses the smoke from his damaged copter to obscure the two Decepticons from each other before pulling up at the last moment, leading to the Insecticon and Vehicon colliding and exploding.
- Wakfu:
- In the first episode, "The Child from the Mist", Yugo jumps on top of the Rubilax-possessed Sadlygrove, who tries to punch him but only ends up hitting himself.
- This is another common use of Yugo's portals, by going through them or having the enemy going through them. A good fighting tactic against Igole in season 1 episode 21, which finally results in the beast going down a chasm (this only slows it for a while, though).
- Two episodes later, Yugo is fighting against a massive stone Golem, again using his portals to intercept its arm or leg and redirecting them in order for the Golem to punch or kick itself.
