My favorite thing about Jackie Chan movies is exactly this. He usually spends most of the fight backing off, hands up, going “no no no I don’t want to do this” until he has no choice but to clothesline someone with a ladder (remorsefully).

It’s a trope Avatar the Last Airbender did great with too.

Nathan Drake in Uncharted is like “Hey guys, can’t we just talk this out?!” as he guns down 50 people with a minigun

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