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Eat your heart out, Kool-Aid Man.
Therkla:
Elan, I left the door open for you, you know.
Elan:
Right, that's why I had to go around and find another way to crash dramatically into the scene.
Something's going on in the plot, and it's not good. Maybe there's a dramatic confrontation, maybe your best bud is losing a fight, but whatever the case, you need to get in there, fast, dramatically, and — *THUMPCRASH!*
All of you, listen up! For these cases, you need the Dynamic Entry!
The Dynamic Entry has three main elements:
- Speed — It has to be fast.
- Surprise — They can't see it coming until it's too late.
- Violence — It's gotta hurt.
The most common form is a diving kick from off screen, usually directed mostly horizontally, hitting whoever happens to be on-screen at the time. Most of the time, it's not clear how exactly they launched themselves thusly. Often suggests a Large Ham or some-such (in which case the Dynamic Entry indicates an Incoming Ham as well). This may overlap with Big Damn Heroes.
Contrast Diving Save. The "Hey, You!" Haymaker is a Sub-Trope of this. See Your Door Was Open for the not-dynamic-but-just-as-sudden-or-unexplained entry. Sometimes combined with There Was a Door or Super Window Jump, for when the Dynamic Entry comes through a wall or window to increase the surprise factor. Can overlap with Attack Hello.
If the entry kills someone, it is probably a Surprisingly Sudden Death. If somebody else throws you, then it's a Fastball Special. If you need a rope, it's Fast-Roping. It's almost always a key part of a Big Damn Heroes moment, and frequently a Big Entrance.
Compare Chandler's Law. See also Stealth Hi/Bye and *Click* Hello which are equally surprising but not immediately violent. Also compare Begin with a Finisher, where a combatant starts a fight with one of their most powerful moves to either instakill their opponent or catch them off guard by forcing them to defend. In the Back can be used this way if the attacker isn't seen until he strikes.
This should not be confused with Feet-First Introduction.
Examples:
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Comic Books
- Batgirl: In Batgirl (2011) #6, Detective McKenna is introduced by pistol-whipping Batgirl over the head.
- Batman:
- Black Knight: Curse of the Ebony Blade: Elsa Bloodstone makes her entrance into Dane's home by riding her motorcycle through a stain glass window.
- Dark Reign: Captain America, having come back from the dead, makes his presence known to Norman Osborn (wearing an Iron Man armor) by hurling his shield at him, shown in slow motion as the shield reflects off of Osborn's faceplate.
- Earth 2: The Atom combines this with Goomba Stomp when he jumps out of a plane, grows to giant size, and lands on Grundy's head.
- In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992), Roam plugs two of Trinexx's heads with arrows, just in time to save a hapless Link.
- Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D: They don't get much more dynamic than this Jim Steranko double-page spread◊ from #1, with a shirtless Fury crashing a Cool Bike through a wall, Guns Akimbo.
- Paperinik New Adventures: Xadhoom— although, did she actually need to punch through that brick wall?
- All of the heroes in Sin City do this at one time or another. The most notable example would be Marv in his very first appearance. The police are knocking on his hotel door. They know exactly where he is and are demanding that he come out... and yet he still manages this.
- Robin (1993): Mather's group of Private Military Contractors is first seen rappelling into a room, guns blazing, to kill the huddled surviving victims of Strader Pharmaceuticals' illegal drug trails.
- Spider-Man:
- Supergirl:
- In The Strange Revenge of Lena Luthor, as Lena Colby confronts a villain named Mind-Bomber, Supergirl dives in and punches the back of Mind-Bomber's head.
- In Death & the Family, Silver Banshee is attacking Inspector Henderson when Supergirl suddenly bludgeons her from behind with a chunk of wall, demanding that Banshee put her friend down.
- In The Hunt for Reactron, while Kara, Thara and Chris are paralyzed like a deer in the headlights after learning they have been framed by murder, the Guardian introduces himself with a double flying kick aimed at the back of Nightwing's head.
- In Good-Looking Corpse, one of Big Bad's drones is holding Miss Martian hostage when Supergirl flies through a wall and lands onto it, smashing its body into the ground and frying its circuits.
- In Bizarrogirl, Supergirl does this twice. When it looks like Bizarrogirl is about to hurt Jimmy Olsen, Kara bursts into her lair, swoops in on her twin and slugs her from behind. Shortly afterwards, she repeats the maneuver when Bizarrogirl is about to fry Gangbuster.
- In Last Daughter of Krypton, Reign wreaks havoc in New York in spite of the U.S. Army's futile efforts to fight her off. After tearing her way through another unit, Reign is about to kill a soldier when Supergirl suddenly arrives and punches Reign from behind so hard than she goes flying several dozens of feet until crashing into a building.
- In Supergirl: Crucible, Roho and his men are beating Kon-El down when Kara suddenly flies into the fight and bludgeons Roho. Later on, Korstus has just captured Kara and is gloating about his evil plan and her imminent death when all of sudden a teleport warp opens right after him. One second later Tsavo and Comet burst into the place, punching and kicking him and his right-hand man.
- In Red Daughter of Krypton, Sheko is about to Mind Rape several more innocent bystanders when a heat blast hits her from behind. Cue Supergirl swooping in on her.
- In Supergirl (2016), Kara interrupts the battle between werewolf Lar-On and the DEO agents when she suddenly swoops in on the werewolf, grabs him and flies away with him.
- Superman:
- If you had a nickel for every time that Superman has crashed through a wall into an unsuspecting foe, you'd be a rich man. Even when there is a door. An open door, occasionally!
- In Superman (1939) #95, Poindexter Walls, son of the Daily Planet's publisher and unfunny prankster, realized this tendency, and put a Bucket Booby-Trap above the wall.
- In Superman: Brainiac, an army of Brainiac's androids are invading an alien city when all of sudden the Man of Steel swoops in and punches one of them.
- During The Final Days of Superman, this is how Supergirl barges in on the battle between her cousin and the Energy Superman: she dives from the sky and double-kicks the false Superman while yelling "Leave my cousin alone!"
- The Transformers (Marvel): Shockwave makes his debut by attacking the Autobots when Prime's making a victory speech.
- Ultimate Marvel:
- In Watchmen, Rorschach ambushes poor Moloch by jumping out of his refrigerator and tackling him.
- Wonder Woman:
- Wonder Woman (1942): Right as the Emperor of Saturn is about to have Steve arrested, Wonder Woman smashes through the window to the throne room and forces peace talks with the Emperor, resulting in him agreeing to make owning, selling or trading human slaves illegal and a treaty between the Empire and the United States.
- Wonder Woman (1987): During Medusa's attack, Diana enters the embassy by catching Medusa in a flying tackle as the gorgon tries to kill her employees and friends just inside the window.
- X-Men:
Comic Strips
- Calvin and Hobbes: Hobbes looks at it kinda sideways as he pounces Calvin almost every time the boy tries to get into his house.
- Star Fox: At the Papetoon spaceport, Peppy mentions that Slippy is spending the trip in a cryo-mud bath. Later, as the hostage-taker is about to escape, Slippy bursts out of one of the bath tanks. The lid falls on top of the lizard's head, knocking her out cold.
Films — Animation
- Near the end of Don Bluth 's 1989 classic, All Dogs Go to Heaven, provided by the Big-Lipped Alligator himself, King Gator. As Carface, the gangster pug, corners Charlie at the edge of a burning pier in an attempt to murder him for stealing Anne Marie, a little girl who can communicate with animals, and exploit her gift at Carface's expense to win it big at animal-related sporting events, King Gator, who was last seen in a very bizarre, show-stopping musical number, comes charging out of nowhere, reprising the aforementioned song as he barrels into the support beams, causing the dock to sway and Carface to sink and be at the mercy of King Gator.
King Gator: [singing] AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH~! Let's make MUSIC TOGETH-AAAAHHHHHHH~! [rams headfirst into dock, causing dock to sway and Carface to fall in the water]
- Discussed at the beginning of Kung Fu Panda 3 and lampshaded by Shifu: Po:
You guys aren't doing the dramatic pose, are you?
Mantis:
Do we have to strike a pose every time we land?
Po:
You guys, never underestimate the power of a dramatic entrance. I've heard about some masters who can win a fight just by throwing open a door. Oh-
[Shifu opens the door, and stops Po from accidentally kicking him in the face]
Shifu:
Dramatic entrance?
Po:
Master Shifu.
Shifu:
The Dragon Warrior is correct.
Po:
Really? I was just making.. Uh, I mean, yeah, I am.
Shifu:
Before the battle of the fist comes the battle of the mind;
hence the Dramatic Entrance
.
-
Two rows of goose archers illuminate the room by shooting a number of flaming arrows, lighting up the cauldrons.
- The Lion King:
- The hyenas chased Simba and Nala into a corner, where Simba attempted to chase them off with his "roar". They laughed and encouraged him to do it again. Only this time, it was someone they didn't expect.
- Simba later gets one himself when he rescues Timon and Pumbaa from Nala as an adult. As Nala charges towards the duo ready to eat them, Simba suddenly leaps over them and lunges at Nala with a mighty roar. His sudden appearance actually gets Nala to pause for a moment, with a look of shock visible on her face, and Simba tackles her to the ground, managing to pin her under him for a moment before she begins fighting back.
- Megamind's epic entrance when challenged by Titan. Remember folks, it's all about PRESENTATION! Followed by Metro Man saving Roxanne from a bus thrown at her. However, it's actually Megamind in disguise.
- Leon S. Kennedy appears to save Chris Redfield from Arias in Resident Evil: Vendetta on a motorbike.
- In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Prowler is introduced when he tackles Peter from the other side of the Super-Collider.
- In Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, Captain Marvel strikes Superman in such a manner.
- Winnie-the-Pooh: Tigger enters "enthusiastically" all the time.
Literature
- Around the World in Eighty Days: Fogg arrives back at the Club literally less than a second away from running over his deadline, throwing the doors open and walking in calmly.
Fogg: "Well, gentlemen, I'm here."
- In Beautiful Creatures, Macon blasts open the doors to the gymnasium to interrupt Lena's trial, striding in with Marion on his arm and not a single drop of water on him despite the raging storm.
Macon: I'm so sorry we are late. The weather is just treacherous out there tonight.
- Dawn of Steam: The favoured method of deployment for the Coltrane Battle suit – being dropped on the adversary from the Dame Fortuna.
- The Dresden Files:
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He follows this up by slamming his staff onto the floor, causing a noise like thunder to roll through the Deeps, followed by a wave of silent fire acting as an improvised red carpet. Harry and Ramirez stride through the tunnel together, boots drumming on the stone, and Harry calls out the bad guys and challenges them to a Duel to the Death.
Utter silence fell on the Deeps.
Damn, there ain't nothing like a good entrance.
- Goblins in the Castle: During the final battle, Igor arrives just in time (courtesy of Herky going and freeing him) and comes flying through the door, whereupon he gets his bear back and starts fending off the goblins trying to attack William.
- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Lupin busts the door open — "EXPELLIARMUS!" The book specifically states that his spell creates a shower of red sparks.
- A Night in the Lonesome October: The Count gets one of the best entrances in the book.
- Parellity: What do you get when you combine this with Super Window Jump and Destination Defenestration? Archer's introduction.
- Rainbow Six does this quite frequently as part of their trademark hostage rescues. Generally, the sequence of events opens with the teams' resident Cold Snipers scoring headshots on any terrorist who's pointing his gun at the hostages. Moments after that come the flashbangs, the detcord ripping open the doors/windows, and Rainbow team members emerging from nowhere (or so it would look like from the inside).
- Reign of the Seven Spellblades: In volume 1 (episode 3 of the anime), Student Council President Alvin Godfrey announces his presence on the scene of two rogue upperclassmen fighting over who gets to make the Sword Roses their playthings by incinerating both of their summoned creations with a single fireball. Lampshaded by Cyrus Rivermoore, who derisively complains, "I see you still fire first and ask questions later, Purgatory."
- Safehold: In book 1, Off Armageddon Reef, Merlin rescues Earl Grey Harbour from his traitorous son-in-law by smashing through the skylight of the room they're in and taking off the arm of the Earl's bodyguard, who secretly worked for the traitorous Duke. In the middle of a thunderstorm.
- In Shadow of the Conqueror, Daylen plows right through a roof before castrating an incestuous rapist with his bare hands. For bonus points, he then throws said rapist straight through a brick wall and out into empty air to plummet to the street below.
- In Sergey Suhinov's Shadows on Mercury novel, the heroes arrive too late to stop the Big Bad from finding and taking a hyper-advanced Precursor ship, which they plan to use to Take Over the World, in the middle of a hazardous Asteroid Thicket. While the Big Bad is chatting with the heroes, a UN cruiser bursts in and launches a nuclear barrage at the Precursor ship before they even have a chance to turn on the Deflector Shields. In short, the only thing the heroes ended up doing is calling for help and creating a distraction.
- In Jim Butcher's novel Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours, Spider-Man yells "Boot to the head!" as he swings in and kicks the Rhino in the stomach.
- Star Wars Legends: Such is Grand Admiral Thrawn's tactical acumen that he can pull off a Dynamic Entry with spaceships. By using an Interdictor-class ship, which was designed to pull enemy ships out of hyperspace and keep them there, he can jump his own ships in with otherwise unimaginable accuracy. This, along with some judicious use of combat telemetry from other ships, allows his Star Destroyers to revert from hyperspace already firing at enemies they know will be there, who cannot respond in time. Only a few commanders, such as Garm bel Iblis, can keep up with Thrawn's use of the technique, and it's very devastating to the Republic cause.
- The World's Fastest Level Up: Right before Rei almost dies to a Nameless Knight, Rin does something previously thought impossible and enters the boss room while someone else is challenging the boss using his Dungeon Teleportation skill and kills the Nameless Knight and saves Rei.
Pro Wrestling
- High Flyers love to do this in a large number of ways.
- Christopher Daniels made his return to TNA by doing this to Immortal.
- Many, many backstage brawls start this way. One wrestler will be either conducting an interview or be involved in a (usually unrelated) conversation with another wrestler when he/she will suddenly be ambushed by the wrestler with whom he or she is currently feuding. This is often combined with Behind the Black, as the ambushing wrestler will often come from behind the camera, and logically in full view of the interviewee.
Roleplay
- In Roll to Roll to Dodge, Frelock fails to do this to the goblin tower; Derm succeeds, with the comment, "Pyrotechnics will be heavily involved."
Tabletop Games
- Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition:
- The 'Flying Kick' feat, which turns any unarmed charge attack into this, along with an additional 1d12 damage.
- There's also the Leap Attack feat, which allows a player to combine a Power Attack with a jumping charge to do up to three times their normal damage.
- There's also the Blood Magus from Complete arcane, who can be called the King of this trope. His "Blood Walk" ability allows him to enter any creature with blood's bloodstream then essentially teleport to any other creature in range (which is a long way, basically a teleport spell). Upon arrival you burst out of the target, forcing a fortitude save and huge damage (though you can choose not to if you're going to an ally). So his dynamic entry is BURSTING out of an enemy's body in a shower of blood from miles away.
- Umber hulks in general are really bad about this. Due to their ability to burrow through rock easily and their tremorsense, along with their deceptive intelligence, most encounters with umber hulks begin with the creature bursting through a nearby wall without warning.
- Fudge Firefight presents us with the following: Glass Dancer: You're a master of leaping through plate glass windows, guns blazing, grim determination spread across your face. Apparently the glass protects you by disorientating enemies, or maybe it deflects incoming bullets, but regardless of its actual function it makes you completely immune to incoming attacks while you smash through it.
- GURPS has the Flying Kick and Pole-Vault Kick skills. Flying Kick can be combined with Flying Leap for spectacular entries.
- Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined has the move "If There's No Door, Then I'll make One" from The Prodigy lets you create your own path forward, be that metaphorical or literal.
- Kossite Woodsmen in Iron Kingdoms use this as their primary tactic, stalking an enemy and ambushing them when they least expect it.
- Magic: The Gathering just so happens to have a card for this exact purpose, aptly named "Dramatic Entrance". Combos with this tend to err towards the ridiculous.
- Any "enters the battlefield" effect arguably counts as this — Rakdos, the Showstopper is a particularly good example.
- Warhammer 40,000:
- During the animated cinematic trailer for the game's 9th Edition, a Ultramarines Assault Intercessor Sergeant makes his entry into the scene by impaling a Necron through the chest with his chainsword, saving the Sororitas Sister Superior that it had been duelling with.
- The Tau have it as potential rule for their leader characters, allowing them to deep strike without the chance of scattering off target. This is the signature tactic of Commander Farsight, who'll drop in with a dozen other battle suits obliterate everything in sight.
- Ork Stormboyz led by Boss Zagstruk can.
- Tyranid Mawlocs can enter play on top of units already on the tabletop, symbolizing them burrowing underground and eating whatever poor sod happens to be standing where it exits.
- Space Marines usually specialize with this as they usually act as shock troops. However, they usually do it from orbit.
- Pretty much any case of a unit arriving on the battlefield via Deep Strike, which can involve teleportation, airdrops, burrowing, or a myriad array of other more outlandish methods. Special mention, however, goes to the Deathwing, designed to arrive en masse and shred the enemy in a hail of More Dakka, and Space Marine Vanguard Veterans, whose Descent Of Angels rule allows them to fall out of the sky and start stabbing people right away without giving them a chance to shoot back.
- Wazdakka Gutsmek did this in his background story: this Ork biker drove his TANK SIZED WARBIKE off an overlooking mesa at full speed and slammed directly into the cockpit of a Warlord Titan, through its void shields (which set him on fire). Needless to say, he slaughtered the entire crew in seconds. He also kept 3 skulls from this encounter as throphies and they are still on fire, decades later!
- As of 6th Edition (or before?) there is a special rule, Hammer of Wrath, which is mostly used by jump infantry to bump their first melee attack up to initiative 10 (normally the maximum possible under the rules) when they... jump into the fray. To put this into perspective, even the Eldar don't usually go above 6 except with their fastest units when those are buffed.
- Dawn of War 2: Retribution based on the franchise loves the trope as well. Several melee units have passive ability "Leap into combat" allowing them to jump on top of the enemy instead of charging them.note Which only gives a small speed buff. It ignores suppression, knockbacks and speed debuffs and sends the opponent (and everything that happen too stand close to him) flying. Some melee jump troops note ASM, Raptors, Interceptors with Justicar present, Autarch and Lictor/Lictor Alpha. Raveners and Ravener Alpha do it as well, but from below. create violent disruption upon landing/telepotring. The top prize goes to Eldar Autarchs. They can do everything listed above and only arrive on the field from the stratosphere via global ability in a hail of plasma grenades and stunning everything around with massive Ground Pound.
- Space marine player can request Battle Barge to send a drop pod on the field. Aiming the thing on top of enemy mob can be quite rewarding. Even more so if it carries Venerable Dreadnought instead of mere super soldier reinforcements.
- Warhammer Fantasy 8th Edition has a few versions of this. The ambush rule, if it goes off right, allows you to place a unit where ever you want (like behind the enemies' precious cannons); scouts can now be deployed as close as 12 inches from an enemy unit; assassins' hidden rule allows them to hide in their unit then pop out at any time. Because assassins always strike first, they hit hard first.
- Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Brokk Grungsson, one of the more powerful up-and-coming political figures among the Kharadron Overlords and also an ace combatant clad in Steampunk Power Armor and armed heavily enough to take on a Bloodthirster, has this as one of his rules; whenever he charges into the fray, one unit (not model; entire squads are vulnerable) can be picked for him to land right into, and since he is a very large dwarf in a very heavy suit they will take plenty of damage from it.
Web Animation
- The Academy of Magic: When Aura discovers the reason Xavier is acting so strangely, she rushes to tell her friends immediately. She kicks down the door to the dorm, screaming "YEET!". This greatly shocks Faith, who was in the middle of comforting Dezi.
- In Bionicle Adventures, during "The Kid Torturing Bionicle At Wal-Mart": Brandon: [drawing their assassination plan on a piece of paper]
So this is the guy — this is the strange guy at Wal-Mart. And this guy is gonna be Paul... and this guy is gonna be me. And we're both distracting—
[Daniel takes the pen and draws himself doing a Dynamic Entry, hitting the Torturing Guy]
Daniel:
AND THEN I COME IN AND KILL HIM! AND HE'S GONNA BE LIKE "AAH MY HEAD! I HATE YOU!"
- A scene in The Lazer Collection 3 has Detective Randall coming out of nowhere, hitting Dr. Octogonapus with a flying side kick — a rare case of a Dynamic Entry being countered by another Dynamic Entry.
- Red vs. Blue:
- In Revelation, Chapter 3:
- In the same series, Chapter 9, after a three season absence, Tex proceeds to make her return by smashing up a metal door in front of a terrified group of Reds not knowing who's on the other side, before she kicks it completely clear of the frame. The next episode is a 7-minute long Curb-Stomp Battle.
- Super Mario Bros. Z:
- In Episode 7, Metal Sonic at first ambushes Mario and Sonic in the tunnels this way (or he would have, if Mario hadn't heard him), but then in his appearance in the Minus World he delivers a standard villainous speech before attacking. Then invoked again when Shadow suddenly appears and pummels Metal Sonic before stealing his Chaos Emerald.
- Luigi sort of gets one of these in the short clip from the unfinished Episode 9, when he uses his Tanooki Suit powers to break out of his petrification offscreen, before wallopping Basilisx with his hammer to save the weakened Mario.
Webcomics
Web Videos
- In Jerma985's "Jermania 2014", The Turkey, The Chicken's long lost rival, made his debut into Jermania by doing a splash body slam on The Chicken during The Chicken's entrance from on top of the titantron.
- LoadingReadyRun: In the "Meatshroom" episode of Man Cooking, Morgan opens the segment by very calmly saying "Hello, and welcome to another edition of Man Cooking.", at which point Paul runs in from off-camera and slaps him while shouting "MANLY!"
Western Animation
Real Life
- Dynamic Entry performed in a football game. Bonus for the voice-overs, straight lifted from the Trope Namer.
- Bruce Bowen's foot, meet Wally Szczerbiak's face.
- Sometimes, wall aren't that hard.
- In an IRC channel, a Dynamic Entry can be performed by an op that enters a room and immediately kicks someone.
- The usual tactic for ambush predators such as big cats and crocodiles. The animal uses stealth to get as close as possible to its prey to minimize its escape. At the right moment, it bursts forward for the kill.
- Similarly, fast-moving predators hide their approach behind cover, so when they suddenly loom into view, charging at high speeds, it is all the more unexpected.
- Not just big cats. Your domestic moggy stalking a mouse. Or your ankle.
- The peregrine falcon is an expert at this with it's famous 200 mph dive. If it's going up against something too big that it can't take out with its claws alone, it will curl its talons into a fist and hit them with a diving "punch" hard enough to shatter bone.
- A useful strategy for military or police forces who need to enter a building occupied by bad guys. Often preceded by a "flashbang" (a kind of grenade that makes a lot of noise and a bright flash to disorient your enemies) or sometimes just by blowing a hole in the wall using explosives, a technique known as "mouseholing". Everything mentioned as criteria for Dynamic Entry is also vital to military and police success, since a defensive position is pretty much always at an advantage over the attackers, thus properly utilizing speed, surprise and violence is necessary for a clean and effective sweep.
- This man is not having a good day.◊
- This◊ isn't one way to end a fight. It is THE way to end a fight.
...Can someone check and see if that first guy's okay?
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