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* ''LightNovel/FateRequiem'': Koharu tries to attack Nzambi from behind while she she is busy talking to Erice, but Nzambi swats her out of the air without turning around.
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* Rafiki in ''Disney/TheLionKing'' knocks a hyena flat with his stunning blind behind the back fist raise.
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*** ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'': [[TurtlePower Rainy Turtloid]] will always have his back facing out towards the screen, showing off the two crystals in his shell. This is to highlight his powerful defenses which can only be compromised by destroying both crystals.
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*** ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'': [[TurtlePower Rainy Turtloid]] will always have his back facing out towards the screen, showing off the two crystals in his shell. This is to highlight his powerful defenses which can only be compromised by destroying both crystals.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManZero4'': [[PlayingWithFire Heat Genblem]], another turtle-based boss, will also show off his back in order to block Zero's attacks. Keep up the assault, and he'll eventually face-forward to launch a CounterAttack, which also leaves him open to attack.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'': [[KingOfBeasts Fistleo]] will occasionally show off his back to Vent/Aile while glowing with an ominous BattleAura in a manner highly reminiscent of [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Akuma]]. It's so badass, in fact, that if you try to attack him he'll launch a devastating CounterAttack.
*** ''VideoGame/MegaManX6'': [[TurtlePower Rainy Turtloid]] will always have his back facing out towards the screen, showing off the two crystals in his shell. This is to highlight his powerful defenses which can only be compromised by destroying both crystals.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManZero4'': [[PlayingWithFire Heat Genblem]], another turtle-based boss, will also show off his back in order to block Zero's attacks. Keep up the assault, and he'll eventually face-forward to launch a CounterAttack, which also leaves him open to attack.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'': [[KingOfBeasts Fistleo]] will occasionally show off his back to Vent/Aile while glowing with an ominous BattleAura in a manner highly reminiscent of [[VideoGame/StreetFighter Akuma]]. It's so badass, in fact, that if you try to attack him he'll launch a devastating CounterAttack.
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* Legolas drops Wormtongue's final henchman with a casual backhand blow in Creator/PeterJackson's ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]''.
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* Legolas drops Wormtongue's final henchman with a casual backhand blow in Creator/PeterJackson's ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings The Two Towers]]''.''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers''.
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** In an early ComicBook/XWingSeries comic, agent Winter dodges a StabTheScorpion moment and [[http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1452/swrstro207.jpg fires behind herself without looking]] to hit the creature sneaking up on her. A little later she splashes another one in the face with the equivalent of scalding coffee, but she [[http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4379/swrstro209.jpg turned around]] to do it.
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** In an early ComicBook/XWingSeries ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'' comic, agent Winter dodges a StabTheScorpion moment and [[http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/1452/swrstro207.jpg fires behind herself without looking]] to hit the creature sneaking up on her. A little later she splashes another one in the face with the equivalent of scalding coffee, but she [[http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/4379/swrstro209.jpg turned around]] to do it.
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* Used by both Wrestling/ChrisJericho and Wrestling/{{Christian}} in their entrances.
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* Wrestling/AJStyles, Paul Burchil and Bellito Calderon each have their on variation of the [[IKnowMaddenKombat pele kick]] and are all fairly difficult to approach from behind for this reason, as Wrestling/KazuchikaOkada can attest in the case of the former.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in at least one match where April Hunter was caught in Portuguese Princess Ariel's Dariel approaching from behind but was able to counter into her own head hunter.
* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in Gateway Championship Wrestling, where Wrestling/MsChif was likely to strike allies reflexively and once kicked then best friend and TagTeam partner [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] in the groin while he tried to help her up.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} during Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s World Elite vs Main Event Mafia feud where Wrestling/SamoaJoe always stood with his back to World Elite. Whenever a brawl erupted between the two Joe ''always'' kicked major World Elite ass and had them licking their wounds even in the brawls World Elite won. Joe was [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only in Main Event Mafia for the money]]. The message he was trying to send was that World Elite was of no concern to him unless they forced him to do his job but they never got the hint.
* [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] won Ring Warriors' Battling Bombshells Title belt by turning to catch Wrestling/SuYung in a power slam as Yung charged her from behind while Negra was talking trash to Sienna Duvall after knocking Duvall out of the ring. Negra dared Duvall to come try as she climbed the turn buckle to finish Yung with a frog splash. Duvall waited for Negra to do a {{victory dance}} later and ''[[SubvertedTrope then]]'' attacked her from behind successfully.
* On the 7-20-2019 ''WWC Super Estrellas'', La Comandante of La Revolucion interfered with Orlando Colon's match with "El Rebelde" Noriega, trying to hit Orlando from behind while he was giving the ten corner punches to Noriega only to get hit with the cannonball twister. La Violencia then tried to attack Orlando from behind but was punched off of the apron before he could step through the ropes. The numbers game caught up to Orlando though as Noriega then successfully hit him from behind.
* {{Subverted|Trope}} in at least one match where April Hunter was caught in Portuguese Princess Ariel's Dariel approaching from behind but was able to counter into her own head hunter.
* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in Gateway Championship Wrestling, where Wrestling/MsChif was likely to strike allies reflexively and once kicked then best friend and TagTeam partner [[Wrestling/HunterJohnston Delirious]] in the groin while he tried to help her up.
* {{Invoked|Trope}} during Wrestling/{{TNA}}'s World Elite vs Main Event Mafia feud where Wrestling/SamoaJoe always stood with his back to World Elite. Whenever a brawl erupted between the two Joe ''always'' kicked major World Elite ass and had them licking their wounds even in the brawls World Elite won. Joe was [[OnlyInItForTheMoney only in Main Event Mafia for the money]]. The message he was trying to send was that World Elite was of no concern to him unless they forced him to do his job but they never got the hint.
* [[Wrestling/BlackRose La Rosa Negra]] won Ring Warriors' Battling Bombshells Title belt by turning to catch Wrestling/SuYung in a power slam as Yung charged her from behind while Negra was talking trash to Sienna Duvall after knocking Duvall out of the ring. Negra dared Duvall to come try as she climbed the turn buckle to finish Yung with a frog splash. Duvall waited for Negra to do a {{victory dance}} later and ''[[SubvertedTrope then]]'' attacked her from behind successfully.
* On the 7-20-2019 ''WWC Super Estrellas'', La Comandante of La Revolucion interfered with Orlando Colon's match with "El Rebelde" Noriega, trying to hit Orlando from behind while he was giving the ten corner punches to Noriega only to get hit with the cannonball twister. La Violencia then tried to attack Orlando from behind but was punched off of the apron before he could step through the ropes. The numbers game caught up to Orlando though as Noriega then successfully hit him from behind.
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* Szark from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' does a ''[[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/chapter/chapter-22/ lot]]'' of things from behind.
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* Szark from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' does a ''[[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/chapter/chapter-22/ lot]]'' lot]]''[[labelnote:note]]January 6, 2018[[/labelnote]] of things from behind.
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* Szark from ''Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' does a ''[[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-01-06 lot]]'' of things from behind.
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* In a Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse comic, Vader fights a clone or copy of [[spoiler:Darth Maul]], and in order to win [[DeliberateInjuryGambit stabs himself through the torso]] to get at [[spoiler:Maul]], who's behind him at the time. It's an attempt at symbolism through the trope, because the Dark Side Adepts who provided his opponent say he is unworthy as a Sith, as he doesn't hate purely enough - they say that his love for Padme is still there and weakens him. After he's defeated their champion, said champion asks in his last breath who or what he can hate so much to defeat him. Vader's answer? [[spoiler:"Myself."]]
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* In a Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse Franchise/StarWarsLegends comic, Vader fights a clone or copy of [[spoiler:Darth Maul]], and in order to win [[DeliberateInjuryGambit stabs himself through the torso]] to get at [[spoiler:Maul]], who's behind him at the time. It's an attempt at symbolism through the trope, because the Dark Side Adepts who provided his opponent say he is unworthy as a Sith, as he doesn't hate purely enough - they say that his love for Padme is still there and weakens him. After he's defeated their champion, said champion asks in his last breath who or what he can hate so much to defeat him. Vader's answer? [[spoiler:"Myself."]]
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* Subverted in the first chapter of ''Anime/MazingerZ'' Creator/GoNagai manga. Sayaka sorties in Aphrodite-A to stop a mysterious HumongousMecha that is trashing the city [[spoiler:that mysterious HumongousMecha being Mazinger-Z, "piloted" by a Kouji Kabuto that [[FallingIntoTheCockpit had just gotten into the robot and had absolutely no idea of how to actually control the damned thing]].]] When she strikes it, the HumongousMecha easily withstands its attack, heaves Aphrodite-A and throws her away... and then it turns its back towards her. Sayaka is incensed, believing that robot thinks Aphrodite is not good enough to fight and is making fun of her. Her father is worried and requests her to be careful because it is a monster is dangerous even if he has its back turned to her. She gets ready to attack, when the HumongousMecha suddenly turns around... and Kouji manages to communicate with her and explain that he did all that because he did not know how to pilot the robot.
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** See Also: Aang, whose specialty is evasion, doing this in many of his big fights: vs. Zuko in "Bato of the Water Tribe", vs. the bully kid in "The Headband," a hilarious OffhandBackhand against Sokka in "The Runnaway" [[spoiler:which foreshadows how he beats [[BigBad Ozai]] in the finale.]] The latter two he learned from [[CuteBruiser Toph]], where it's completely [[HandicappedBadass justified]] for the same reason as [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Voldo]] above.
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** See Also: Aang, whose specialty is evasion, doing this in many of his big fights: vs. Zuko in "Bato of the Water Tribe", vs. the bully kid in "The Headband," a hilarious OffhandBackhand against Sokka in "The Runnaway" Runaway" [[spoiler:which foreshadows how he beats [[BigBad Ozai]] in the finale.]] The latter two he learned from [[CuteBruiser Toph]], where it's completely [[HandicappedBadass justified]] for the same reason as [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Voldo]] above.
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Similarly, for a finishing move in a sword fight, the user can thrust their sword under their shoulder, stabbing the opponent in the process. Characters with [[HealingFactor super regeneration]] have even been known to stab the enemy through themselves. This displays how badass they are, in that they have no problem with being so close to their dying enemy. In a SingleStrokeBattle, started and finished as his opponent charged him, the victor can sheathe his sword [[UnflinchingWalk and walk away]], paying no mind to the lifeless body of the person he defeated in seconds as it falls to the ground.
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Similarly, for a finishing move in a sword fight, the user can thrust their sword under their shoulder, stabbing the opponent in the process. Characters with [[HealingFactor super regeneration]] have even been known to stab the enemy through themselves. This displays how badass they are, in that they have no problem If the hero is fighting against an opponent before him simultaneously, he may nevertheless wreck a rear attacker with being so close to their dying enemy. a DangerousBackswing.
In a SingleStrokeBattle, started and finished as his opponent charged him, the victor can sheathe his sword [[UnflinchingWalk and walk away]], paying no mind to the lifeless body of the person he defeated in seconds as it falls to the ground.
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* Genki Sudo, a retired UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts fighter, would often turn his back to opponents in the ring, as well as [[CrazyAwesome do the robot]].
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*** In a blink-and-you'll miss-it moment in the final battle with the Reavers, River turns her back to most of the Reaver horde. Six of them close in on her from behind, at which point she suddenly leans over backward, her sword slicing around in a single motion, and kills ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome all of them]]''.
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* Archer of ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has a sprite that features him facing away from the camera. When you see this, you know he's about to [[BadassBoast say something incredibly badass]] and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome do something incredibly badass.]]
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** King Bumi had what may be the most over-the-top example ever when he uses earthbending to pull this off against [[spoiler:''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome eight tanks at once]]''.]]
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* The readers' first indication that Ruby of ''Manga/PokemonSpecial'' [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass isn't as wimpy as he looked]]? When he performed this trope against the not-so-unconscious Seviper after he had finished treating Sapphire's wounds.
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* ''Videogame/Injustice2:'' Darkseid, fond as he is of the ReverseArmFold, actually pulls one for his Super attack, looking away with a chuckle before casually sending out a particularly strong burst of [[EyeBeams Omega]] [[HomingLaser Effect]], which goes all the way over him to hit his hapless enemy anyways.
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* The tail gunner's position on a bomber is the military aviation equivalent of this. One of the first things German pilots were taught when attacking B-17's and B-24's was to ''NEVER'' approach the bomber directly from behind unless you wanted a windscreen full of lead.
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* In ''Film/WonderWoman2017'', during the beach battle, Steve Trevor shoots a German soldier without looking at him.
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* Done by Teana during the final battle of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS''. Expecting the ambush-happy {{Cyborg}} Deed to attack from behind, Teana blindly blocks Deed's [[DualWielding Twin Swords]] with her own daggers, then guides [[BoomHeadshot an energy bullet to Deed's head]] while she's staring in shock.
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* [[https://youtu.be/geaWb37ZzrQ?t=6m10s Certain variants of Bajiquan]] actually emphasize training the back for the sake of using a Tetsuzanko[[labelnote:*]]A usually considered apocryphal Bajiquan move that involves striking with one's back[[/labelnote]] when necessary.
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** Leo Whitefang's entire gameplay revolves around a "stance change" mechanic whereby certain attacks leave him with his back facing the opponent and completely change his moveset.
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* Ogres in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' are able to deliver backward kicks in combat, which makes flanking them with a rogue something of an unrewarding experience...unless your rogue considers serious bruising to be "rewarding", anyway.
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* Done by Teana during the final battle of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikerS''. Expecting the ambush-happy [[HollywoodCyborg cyborg]] Deed to attack from behind, Teana blindly blocks Deed's [[DualWielding Twin Swords]] with her own daggers, then guides [[BoomHeadshot an energy bullet to Deed's head]] while she's staring in shock.
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* In ''VideoGame/MetroidSamusReturns'', you can shoot at a 360 angle, so its possible to shoot behind you without turning around. [[ExcuseMeWhileIMultitask You can even do it while running]].
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** [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Turtonator]] has a critical weak point on its chest, and its shell is incredibly tough.
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** [[VideoGameRemake Mega]] [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Sceptile]] can fire off the pointy end of its tail like a missile.
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