Firestorm said:
Skidding unintentionally (well, unexplainably) is something that I've never seen happen. The trajectory thing is only something I've seen with Marth's counter but I remember Dr. Hadji saying it happens in other circumstances too.
Yup. From vertical smashes there's a very small chance that you can bounce off an "invisible wall" and come straight back down. There's also a small chance that you can just STOP.
I think I have a youtube video of Falco getting smashed from behind, but then he takes the momentum and turns it into an attack to hit a jigglypuff. I'll see if I can find it. This kind of momentum based transfer is probably the rarest example I can think of.
Besides those trajectory quirks in Melee, there's a lot of other kinds of interactions that we take for granted. Like.... when you throw an item straight up at an opponent, why do they fly horizontally and out. Shouldn't they fly straight up. It's the same with bombs and explosions. Why when you are hit in the head by a blast do you fly up and out. Shouldn't you be crushed downward.
This new, more natural type of interaction is already present in the 15 second video. I'll see what I can do about getting some clear pictures.
