History Main / BackingAwaySlowly

This trope sees the most use as a gag in comedies and cartoons, but it can also be used in serious moments as as well.

For instances where a person slowly backs away from a wild or aggressive animal, see NiceKitty. When a person enters a room, sees another person in a compromising position, and immediately closes the door again, that's SorryToInterrupt. Contrast BackingIntoDanger, which is where a person backs right ''into'' a monster or trap.

* ''Literature/TrappedInADatingSimTheWorldOfOtomeGamesIsToughForMobs'': In the ''Marie Route'' AlternateTimeline, after Julius makes an arrangement for Leon ThrowingTheFight in their MiniMecha duel and then double crosses Leon, Leon approaches Julius in a TranquilFury, causing Julius to back away like this until he has nowhere to go and gets a MetronomicManMashing that obliterates his mech and leaves him a BandageMummy.

* ''Fanfic/HistorysStrongestShinobi'': When Naruto guilt-trips Ma Kensei to go see his daughter Renka, Naruto sticks around just long enough to see how happy Renka is at seeing her father before he silently exiting the buidling. Later on when Renka confronts him on this and asks why he left, Naruto admits that he felt like a third wheel intruding on their private moment only for Renka to say he didn't have to leave and how she's a little annoyed that she had to hunt him down just so she could thank him for bringing Ma Kensei to her.

* ''Film/TheForceAwakens'': In one scene, two Stormtroopers walks in on Kylo Ren having a fit and both slowly walk away.

* In ''Literature/AdrianMole'': Adrian tries to back away from being rebuked by his environmentally-fanatic manager Brown about his toilet seat.

* On the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode "Conspiracy" Picard starts to do this when he realizes that Starfleet has been infiltrated by worm eating aliens. Riker shows up behind him and convinces hims to stay for dinner.

** This is one of the player's options at finding [[ItMakesSenseInContext Sten and the dog barking at each other]].

* Walking backwards in the classic ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' games would have your character instead cautiously back away if you were close to a monster. It had a practical purpose of warning you when an enemy was right around a blind corner or just out of the camera's view.

* ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIslandThePowerOfTwo'': In the episode "Outbreak at Stake", when Gaty and Pin discuss finding the good qualities in their zombified friends, Eraser butts in and explains in detail about how Pen bit him and is "always biting something," prompting Gaty and Pin to slowly back away from him.

* In the ''Website/CollegeHumor'' short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1Dyqas6Sm8 Furry Superheroes Are Super Gross - FURRY FORCE]], the bad guys back away slowly as the cow girl (as in half girl-half cow) demonstrates some martial arts, resulting in some pretty extreme bouncing.
* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'': At the end of the second part his review of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', Spoony is singing [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} "A Whole New World"]] when Dr. Insano walks in to tell him that [[Creator/{{Linkara}} Mechakara]] has stolen Neutro, sees him singing, and slowly backs away.

** Lulu bites down on a plush Momo toy a little too eagerly. Chuchu approaches to see what he's going and when she sees him wrestling with it, decides to leave him to it and backs away slowly.

** In Season 2 "The Junkman Cometh", when Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, and Goddard sees a "Moonie Man", Carl ask what should they do. Sheen thinks the only three choices they have are [[TearsOfFear crying]], [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere running]], or [[BringMyBrownPants having an embarrassing accident]], Carl says he might do all three, making Jimmy, Sheen, and Goddard move away from him.

* In "Beach Blanket Bogus" from ''[[WesternAnimation/TotalDrama Total Drama Action]]'', when Beth offers Trent a friendship bracelet, he starts counting to nine while poking his head with the bracelet, which causes her to back away slowly. When she whispers to Lindsay that Trent is kinda weird, Lindsay mishears that Tyler is back in game and thinks she has a "dental block" instead of mental block, which also causes Beth to back away.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E94FourOClock Four O'Clock]]" features a woman doing this when she meets Oliver Crangle, the early 1960s incarnation of a right-wing conspiracy theorist.

* ''FanFic/{{Historys Strongest Shinobi}}'': When Naruto guilt-trips Ma Kensei to go see his daughter Renka, Naruto sticks around just long enough to see how happy Renka is at seeing her father before he silently exiting the buidling. Later on when Renka confronts him on this and asks why he left, Naruto admits that he felt like a third wheel intruding on their private moment only for Renka to say he didn't have to leave and how she's a little annoyed that she had to hunt him down just so she could thank him for bringing Ma Kensei to her.
* In ''[[Fanfic/FullCircleOddSquad Full Circle]]'', Oona tells Oprah, Olympia and Otis that with the ability to tug on her lab coat's lapels and trigger an InstantCostumeChange, she hasn't had to change her clothes in months. The trio respond by glancing at each other and then slowly backing away into their respective dressing rooms, to which Oona protests by clarifying what she said.
* In ''Fanfic/OSMUFanfictionFriction'', the Mobile Unit agents all back away in response to seeing Todd talk to one of his shoes. Orla changes her mind and tries to stay to inquire about why he talks to his shoe, but she's shunted out before she can do so.

* Played for laughs in ''Film/{{Evolution}}''. One character, after witnessing a JumpScare from an alien that's somehow gotten into a water tank, reacts by slowly backing out of the room and closing the door, as if to say, "I was never here. This is somebody else's problem."