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* In the AfterTheEnd proto-SolarPunk setting of ''Literature/AlwaysComingHome'', the "Backward-Head" is "a literalization of a metaphor" about the people [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad who killed the world]] in the distant past. Backwards-Heads thrive on poison and are driven by irrational fear and malice, because it makes no sense to the inhabitants of the Valley for anyone to cause that much lasting damage under any ''other'' circumstances.

* In the AfterTheEnd proto-SolarPunk setting of ''Literature/AlwaysComingHome'', the "Backward-Head" is "a literalization of a metaphor" about the people [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad who killed the world]] in the distant past. To the inhabitants of the Valley, it makes no sense for anyone to cause that much lasting damage unless they thrived on poison and were driven by irrational fear and malice.

* In the AfterTheEnd proto-SolarPunk setting of *Literature/AlwaysComingHome*, the "Backward-Head" is "a literalization of a metaphor" about the people [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad who killed the world]] in the distant past. To the inhabitants of the Valley, it makes no sense for anyone to cause that much lasting damage unless they thrived on poison and were driven by irrational fear and malice.

-->So these things human beings had done to the world must have been deliberate and conscious acts of evil, serving the purposes of wrong understanding, fear, and greed. The people who had done these things had done wrong mindfully. They had had their heads on wrong.

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* In the AfterTheEnd proto-SolarPunk setting of *Literature/AlwaysComingHome*, the "Backward-Head" is "a literalization of a metaphor" about the people [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad who killed the world]] in the distant past. The inhabitants of the Valley can't imagine that people would cause that much lasting damage unless they thrived on poison and were driven by irrational fear and malice (and thus, ''figuratively'' had "their heads on wrong").

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': In a season 2 episode, David dies from [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath getting decapitated by a viking.]] Hilda and Frida manage to reattach his head to his body and resurrect him, but fail to put it on correctly, resulting in this trope. They end up having to decapitate him and reattach it properly before reviving him again.

* ''WesternAnimation/Hilda'': In a season 2 episode, David dies from [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath getting decapitated by a viking.]] Hilda and Frida manage to reattach his head to his body and resurrect him, but fail to put it on correctly, resulting in this trope. They end up having to decapitate him and reattach it properly before reviving him again.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': A crossover with ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' in "Say Uncle" leads to a sight gag involving characters' heads detaching from their bodies. This ends up happening briefly to Amethyst when the heads come back down to Earth.

* Happens to Amethyst briefly in ''[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven Universe's]]'' [[BizarroEpisode crossover]] with ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa''.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "Neptune's Spatula", King Neptune blasts Patrick to cinders. He revives him, only with his face on his butt.

* Happens to Moredcai in ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', caused by a rap battle of all things.

When a [[{{Telefrag}} freak teleportation accident]], [[LosingYourHead head reattachment]] [[EpicFail gone wrong]] or some other strange occurrence ends up with a character's head on or turned the wrong way. Very likely to happen after a CraniumChase.

Should not be confused with ExorcistHead, which is about the head turning around abnormally on purpose, and usually in a horrofic context.

* Deliberately invoked in ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', where some of Motley's moth-keepers are reMade this way to allow them to safely view the moths through mirrors while the rest of their bodies are directed towards them.

* There's a Creator/LaurelAndHardy short where they run into some big guy who threatens to "turn their heads north and south" if they don't stop annoying him. The final scene shows them with their heads on backwards.

* The hero of "The Two Brothers" from the Creator/BrothersGrimm collection is beheaded in his sleep by a wicked marshal. When [[TheBeastmaster the hero's]] train of [[LoyalAnimalCompanion animal companions]] find him, they send the hare to fetch a magic root that can restore people back to life. It works, but the not-too-bright animals have put his head on the wrong way. The hero does not immediately realize this due to being lovesick, and only when he tries to eat lunch he notices there is something amiss. The animals fess up to their mistake, and the lion mends the damage by [[DeathIsCheap ripping the head off]], then putting it back on the right way with the magic root.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'': During their Tournament match, Videl manages to kick Spopovich so hard in the head that it turned his head 180 degrees. As he falls over, everyone in the arena is horrified, including Videl, who thinks she's just killed him. He's [[ImplacableMan only stunned]], though, as just a few seconds later he gets up and violently jerks his head back in place.