History Main / NearMissGroinAttack

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'', Phoebus and Esmeralda are fighting, he with his sword, she with a candlestick. At one point she tries to hit him in the crotch with the candlestick, but Phoebus successfully blocks it with his sword, only for Esmeralda to then hit him in the face with the other end.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'', Spider-Man just misses a pike at the top of a building during an aerial chase scene.

* In the ''Series/GetSmart'' movie ''The Nude Bomb'', Agent 86 accidentally fires his gun while [[PantsPositiveSafety stowing it in his pants]]. He [[{{Beat}} hesitates]], discreetly checks, and repeats his {{Catchphrase}}, "Missed it by ''that'' much."

* ''Film/Bedazzled2000'': During the scene where Elliot meets [[HotAsHell The Devil]] as she's playing billiard, and she makes a point to emasculate him by hitting the cue ball right where he's standing on the pool table, just below his crotch, causing him to jump back in discomfort.

* ''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'': When Bond arrives in Russia, he goes to a crime lord called Valentin Zukovsky, with whom he has a history, for information. Unfortunately, that history includes Bond shooting Zukovsky in the knee and stealing his girlfriend, a fact that hasn't been forgotten, and Zukovsky pulls out a gun and shoots at Bond's legs. Bond dodges to one side, then the other, then frantically shouts that he has something to ''offer'' for information as Zukovsky aims at his crotch.
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in another Bond film, ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun''. Bond visits a gunsmith, who has just completed a custom-made rifle for a client who is missing two fingers; if fired by anyone else, it would shoot an inch below the target. Bond then aims the rifle at the gunsmith and orders him to tell him what he knows about a different client, the assassin Scaramanga. The gunsmith is scared but won't give up the info. Bond fires -- between the man's legs.
--->'''Bond:''' You're right -- one inch too low!

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990'': Raphael, in heated response to Donatello's teasing of him getting televised credit for saving April's life, hurls one of his Sai at his brother. It lands right between the latter's legs, prompting him to quickly cease.

[[caption-width-right:350:'''Fry:''' I almost neutered you!\\

-->'''Fry:''' I almost neutered you!\\

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': In [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection season 8]] episode 10, Tex beats the living shit out of the Reds and Tucker. Every time Tex goes after Grif, she makes sure to hit him in the 'nads. The one time this is subverted, she is running away from a missile and slides between Grif's legs, and Grif covers up and whimpers at what is about to happen... only for the missile to harmlessly fly between his legs as well.

-->'''Elmont''': ''I had this...''

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'''s [[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheRecollection eighth season]], there is an episode where Tex beats the living shit out of the Reds and Tucker. Every time Tex goes after Grif, she makes sure to hit him in the 'nads. The one time this is subverted, she is running away from a missile and slides between Grif's legs, and Grif covers up and whimpers at what is about to happen... only for the missile to harmlessly fly between his legs as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/WonderPark'': At one point, Steve's quills very nearly hit Gus's groin.

* ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie'': One of the gatekeepers throws its spear at Adam, who leaps up to avoid it, doing the splits. The spear lands just below, with Adam noting that it was "too close for comfort".

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': Raphael, in heated response to Donatello's teasing of him getting televised credit for saving April's life, hurls one of his Sai at his brother. It lands right between the latter's legs, prompting him to quickly cease.

* Subverted in ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'' series 2, when Baldrick is holding up an archery target for Blackadder and Percy, and Percy accidentally shoots way too low. Baldrick then reveals that "the arrow didn't in fact enter my body. ... No, by a thousand-to-one chance, my willy got in the way."

* ''Series/TheTonightShowStarringJohnnyCarson'': One of the more infamously hilarious bits during the prime of Johnny Carson's run. Ed Ames was trying to show Johnny how to throw a tomahawk at a cardboard target. On his first throw, Ed's ax landed just right below the groin area much to Johnny, the audience and Ed's amusement, the latter who was even surprised that happened.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Roswell That Ends Well", Fry, while trying to protect his future grandpa, causes a fork to slide off the table of the diner they're at. The fork embeds itself in the seat, inches from grandpa's groin, causing Fry to freak out.

-->-- '''Toby''' taking this trope philosophically, ''Series/{{Scorpion}}'', s4e01 "Extinction"

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* ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'': In the last fight scene, Gonzo pins one of the pirates to the side of the ship using starfish as throwing stars. Shortly after, various other pirates get their swords knocked out of their hands, and each time the sword flies towards the pinned pirate, landing disturbingly close to his crotch.

-->'''Don''': Hey, look! ''Nyuk Nyuk!!'' I think he's blushing!\\
'''Raph''': I am not!\\
'''Don''': I think he's actually turning red -- ''[Raph hurls his Sai, landing it point-first between Donnie's legs]'' -- uh, [[VerbalBackspace maybe not.]]

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', this happens in the ShowWithinAShow "Somethin's Cookin'". Apparently every knife in the kitchen goes flying and pins Roger to the wall. The last knife is a giant meat cleaver that hits the wall in between his legs, barely missing his crotch. Roger [[LoudGulp gulps loudly]].

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In ''Recap/DoctorWhoS31E1TheEleventhHour'', while hanging on to the out-of-control TARDIS for dear life at the beginning, the Doctor very narrowly avoids the spire of Big Ben passing between his legs.

** Bayonetta 2 has Enzo's groin very nearly run over, complete with scooting back, when Jeanne makes her entrance via motorcycle.

* In one ''WesternAnimation/{{AvatarTheLastAirbender}}'' episode, Aang falls into a floor of stalagmites, managing to stop himself between two moments before a third would have impaled between his legs.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan'', Spider-Man just misses a pike at the top of a building during an aerial chase scene.

-->'''Phoebus:''' That's hitting a little below the belt, don't you think?\\

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': When Max's step-brother, Billy, confronts the group at one point and gets too physical with them that he beats up Steve and pushes Lucas into a shelf. She stops him by injecting him with a syringe full of sedatives, then threatens him to never harm them again by using a spike bat and hitting the ground near his groin.

'''Eniz:''' Well, t'ain't as bad as gettin' killed.\\
'''Fry:''' [[TimeyWimeyBall For me it is!]]]]

->"That could have been worse!"
-->-- Toby taking this trope philosophically in ''Series/{{Scorpion}}'' s4e01 "Extinction"

Now THAT was close! This trope describes circumstances where the ''narrow'' aversion of a GroinAttack is PlayedForLaughs.

* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': Lotton avoids a significant GroinAttack by Roberta by wearing a metal codpiece beforehand. However, said codpiece was dented after the attack.
* ''Manga/Change123'': In Chapter 29, Kosukegawa is bitten in seemingly bitten in the crotch by a viper which causes him to FaintInShock. But when Fujiko and Hino [[UndressingTheUnconscious strip off his shorts]] in order to SuckOutThePoison, they notice he doesn't have any bite marks and that viper actually missed him only managed to bite his shorts due to him having a TeenyWeenie.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'': Female Example. Nana is chopping lettuce, but as she's using too much force, her ArtificialLimbs holding the cleaver pops off, and it barely misses Yuka, who has the front of her skirt cut.
* ''LightNovel/{{Shimoneta}}'': A NightmareFuel moment that ended in this occurs when Ayame Kajou was held hostage by her "friend" [[{{Yandere}} Anna Nishikinomiya]] with a pair of scissors since she thought Ayame was ''too close'' to [[LoveInterest Tanukichi Okuma]], which was cleared by them being JustFriends. This ends with Anna leaving Ayame and throwing scissors... [[https://youtu.be/9p1M-ufHROA?t=48 that very narrowly missed Okuma's crotch]].

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-->'''Phil:''' Rule number 95: Concentrate!
-->''[Teen Hercules throws half a dozen swords at the targets and misses, surrounding Phil with swords, who's on the tip of his hooves avoiding one between his legs]''
-->'''Phil:''' Rule 96: Aim!

-->'''Phoebus:''' That's hitting a little below the belt, don't you think?
-->'''Esmeralda:''' No, this is!

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* A non-comedic example in ''Film/{{Hannibal}}'' (film sequel to ''Film/SilenceOfTheLambs''), Hannibal stabs a thief, aiming for the groin. However, the thief managed to dodge... so the blow lands [[OutOfTheFryingPan in the complicated mass of arteries feeding the groin]]. He dies.
* ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': After the Quidditch match in which Harry has been targeted by a rogue Bludger, Harry ends up on the floor with a broken arm, dodging the Bludger as it keeps coming for him. It hits the ground to one side of him, then the other, then between his legs as he dodges.

--> '''Don''': Hey, look! ''Nyuk Nyuk!!'' I think he's blushing!
-->'''Raph''': I am not!
-->'''Don''': I think he's actually turning red -- ''(Raph hurls his Sai, landing it point-first between Donnie's legs)'' -- uh, [[VerbalBackspace maybe not.]]

-->'''Fry:''' I almost neutered you!
-->'''Enis:''' Well, t'ain't as bad as gettin' killed.
-->'''Fry:''' [[TimeyWimeyBall For me it is!]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'': While attepting to board a moving stagecoach, Rango briefly straddles between the coach and his roadrunner steed. A stalagmite-like rock formation protrudes from the ground and he almost runs groin-first into it before narrowly jumping to avoid it.

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''Fry:''' I almost neutered you!\\

* Kai narrowly avoids getting stabbed in the crotch by a booby-trap triggered stalactite in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' episode ''Recap/NinjagoS5E52GraveDanger''.