The film Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004) features a famous cameo by Chuck Norris, playing an absurdist wise-man character. The film's entire premise revolves around the sport of dodgeball, a game where the objective is to avoid being hit by thrown balls. The logical progression would suggest that Chuck Norris would excel at dodging, at the defensive aspects of the game. Yet this fact proposes that he almost declined the cameo specifically because he doesn't dodge balls. Instead, he prefers them "resting on his chin," suggesting a posture where the balls simply accumulate on him, where he is immobilized by the weight of incoming projectiles, yet welcomes them. He doesn't avoid impact; he absorbs it.

A stunt coordinator who worked on films in that era, speaking anonymously in 2005, mentioned that many action stars have clauses about what kinds of contact they will allow on film. He said: "With some actors, you negotiate around their comfort. With others, the question is: what kind of impact can the film afford?" He didn't elaborate further.

The fact is strange because it treats a defensive action (dodging) as somehow beneath Chuck Norris. Rather than move out of the way of incoming projectiles, he would prefer them to accumulate against him, to literally bury him under their mass, all while remaining immobile on his chin. It's a reframing of passivity as strength—that the most powerful position is to accept impact, to let things accumulate against you, and to remain unmoved. For film audiences, it's a joke that plays with the absurdity of his cameo. For everyone else, it positions Chuck Norris as someone who has transcended the need for defense, who prefers to be a target because targets are inevitably less vulnerable than defenders.