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* ''Comicbook/DetectiveComics Annual'' #7, the "Captain Leatherwing" pirate {{Elseword}}, has a young stowaway on the ''Flying Fox'' overhear two of the crew plotting mutiny. They see him running to inform the captain, and while he manages to dodge them for a while, they soon have him cornered. When he draws his sword, however, they drop in terror, and he gloats that they know better than to fight "Robin Redblade, bloody terror of Kingston docks!" While, of course, Leatherwing himself is looming behind him.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': A group of Numamon attack Mimi and Palmon, then when Palmon turns to fight, the Numamon run away. Unfortunately, the pair soon realize the Numamon were actually afraid the Monzaemon behind them.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': A group of Numamon attack Mimi and Palmon, then when Palmon turns to fight, the Numamon run away. Unfortunately, the pair soon realize the Numamon were actually afraid the Monzemon behind them.

* The French film ''Film/TheBear (L'Ours)'' ends this way. The cub is being chased by a cougar, who corners it near a stream. The cub gives little roars trying to scare the cougar away... only to last unleash a powerful roar that turns out to be coming from [[BearsAreBadNews a full grown grizzly bear]], who is the younger cub's surrogate parent. Terrified by the adult grizzly, the cougar runs away.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'': Rango thinks he's scared off Big Bill and his fellow mooks, but quickly realized they actually were running from the hawk.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' Helga tried to get her friend Phoebe to be more agresive so she could be an effective hall monitor. Phoebe tried to assert her authority to another kid who was about to backtalk to her, but then he saw Helga menacinly behind and just told Phoebe she was in the right.

* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyTheMove'': Before the heroes find out why Adu Du and Probe are swimming away, they demand them to tell where Ochobot is. Before Adu Du can warn them, he yelps in fear, and Papa Zola presumes that he intimidated him, but the others can see the GiantSquid rising from behind him.

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* In ''Manga/SlamDunk'', there's one instance where Hanamichi's gang run into a couple of passing girls. Takamiya attempts to ask them out and they're put off by his advances. He tries to say "Don't be scared, we're not creeps", but Noma points out to ''Hanamichi'' standing behind him, practicing a DeathGlare and sending the poor girls running off, much to Takamiya's chagrin.

* In ComicBook/TheMaxx, a group of kids scare off some older people because of Maxx towering up behind them. The kids just think they were intimidating.
* Happens to [[GalacticConqueror Ord of the Breakworld]] twice. First with Lockheed the Dragon, then a newly resurrected and extremely pissed off Colossus.

* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'' by Garth Ennis: Frank is being pursued by a low-level mobster and amateur cryptozoological oceanographer who's being coerced into revenge by the ghosts of all his friends Punisher killed (that [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane might just be hallucinations resulting from a brain injury]]). He finally corners Punisher on a dock, and Frank looks uncharacteristically scared, but not of the mobster. It turns out he finally found a living [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_squid Colossal Squid]].
* The issue of ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'' where he's looking for Bullseye on a smuggling gang's ship, and finds a cell with a captive young girl (Yuriko Oyama, who would later become [[ComicBook/XMen Lady Deathstrike]]):
-->'''Yuriko:''' Behind you!\\
'''Daredevil:''' I know, a guard. Where there's a prisoner, there's usually -\\
''(Spins and kicks the mook)''\\
'''Daredevil:''' '''A GUARD!''' And when there's ''one'' guard, there's usually more, so let's go!
* In ''ComicBook/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSearch'' Part 1, Azula escapes and the gaang has to capture her again, and Sokka is, as often, ridiculed for being the only non-bender trying to compete with them with a ''boomerang''. When Azula is captured, she suddenly looks very scared into Sokka's direction. He of course thinks she finally understood the force of mighty Mr. Boomerang, but it's actually a huge wolf spirit that escaped from the spirit world.

[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', Simba and Nala get trapped by the hyenas while exploring the elephant graveyard. Simba tries to roar at them to scare them off, but only a little wimpy roar comes out, him being a cub and all. Amused, the hyenas encourage him to try again, and this time there's a [[MightyRoar huge, scary roar]]. The hyenas, Simba and the audience all have a moment to be shocked before [[PapaWolf Mufasa]] (obviously the real source of the second roar) jumps in [[BigDamnHeroes to save the day]].
* In the opening of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', Mike, [[AMinorKidroduction as a kid monster]], gives a little roar that all his classmates turn around at. At first he thinks he's got them all impressed, but then also turns to see that they're actually in awe of the scarers marching in behind him.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'', the BigBad, [=McLeach=], starts bragging about having "whooped" a bunch of crocodiles...only to turn around and see that they were really trying to avoid the InevitableWaterfall. He tries to escape, but the current's too strong and he [[DisneyVillainDeath plunges down the waterfall to his watery grave]].

* At the climax of ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', the babies are cornered on a bridge by the escaped circus monkeys. Suddenly, the monkeys flee, shrieking with fear. The babies start cheering...only to turn and spot a huge vicious wolf ready to pounce at them. Thankfully, Spike saves them just in time.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'': Dash lands on a goon's hovercraft and starts giving him rapid-fire punches, but suddenly stops with a terrified look on his face. The goon, believing he caught Dash off his guard, knocks him off the hovercraft with a single punch... only to turn around and notice at the last second that his hovercraft is heading straight towards a cliff, and the hovercraft promptly explodes on impact.
* In a particularly trippy scene from ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'', after Flint basically betrays her, Samantha dismisses Earl's warning that a Cheese Spider (a hamburger-spider monster) is hiding behind an old sign, as she dismisses it as "acting weird" (which refers to Earl "lying") It slowly creeps up to her only for it to roar and make her scream like a parrot.

[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* In ''Film/{{Doom}}'', [[spoiler: Pinky]] has a brief moment of believing he's on the winning side of a MexicanStandoff, before [[GenreSavvy realizing]] why the other two participants seem far more concerned than expected.
--> ''[DramaticDeadpan] "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck There's something behind me, isn't there?]]"''
* In ''Film/{{Willow}}'', MasterSwordsman Madmartigan prepares to make a LastStand against the EvilArmy. He does some fancy sword kata and the army rushing at him stops, then starts running away. Madmartigan grins until he notices a shadow and turns to see a giant, two headed dragon that [[EnemyRisingBehind rose up out of the moat behind him]].
* Towards the end of the ''Film/StreetFighter'' film, Guile gets cornered by a bunch of Bison's {{mooks}}, who are all armed with assault rifles. Guile pulls the only weapon he has; a knife. The mooks start backing up. Guile acts cocky until [[TheLancer Cammy]] calls to him and he sees that TheCavalry arrived behind him without him noticing it, at which point he deflates like a balloon that's been pricked with a pin.

* ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1993'': At the end, our heroes are confronted by the [[TerribleTrio goons]] that have been pursuing D'Artagnan throughout the movie. Suddenly the goons' leader screams like a girl and the goons turn and run away. The heroes think they scared the goons away when suddenly the entire Musketeer Corps appears from behind the heroes, chasing after the goons. The goons could see them coming but the heroes couldn't.
* During their trek through Moria in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing'', the fellowship gets surrounded by every orc in Moria and prepares to make a LastStand. Suddenly the Balrog is heard growling from out of sight, which causes the orcs to panic and flee. [[BoisterousBruiser Gimli]] jeers at them as if the orcs were running from the party, but everyone else is [[FromBadToWorse much more concerned about the new threat]].

* Happens in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' during the battle in the Geonosian arena when two battle droids suddenly run away from Obi-Wan after seeing the acklay behind him. His response is to slice the thing to pieces.

* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice''. While in Gotham, Clark Kent sees a satirist cartoon showing a criminal apparently cringing in fear before a cop wielding a night-stick, [[CopsNeedTheVigilante when he's actually reacting to the]] BatSignal.

* In ''Film/TheOverTheHillGangRidesAgain'', the Baltimore Kid attempts to cow some cowhands who have been FiringInTheAirALot with his reputation. The cowboys aren't impressed and are about to throw down, but Nash tells them that he always finds it advisable to look heavenwards before starting trouble. The leader does so, and immediately backs down, as he sees Agnew and Fitch on the roof with a rifle and a shotgun aimed at them. The Kid thinks it is his reputation that caused the change of mind.
* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': Chapman is confronted an enormous stick-bug-like insect, which he opens fire at. It doesn't really seem hurt the creature, but the insect shies back, turns tail and runs after a short pause anyway. Chapman realizes something's not right, hears a growling sound, turns around [[spoiler:and is instantly devoured by a Skullcrawler.]]
* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'': During the battle against [[GiantMook the huge mechanic]], Indy gets knocked to the ground and suddenly starts cowering instead of getting back up. Confused, the mechanic looks behind him, but is too late to notice [[CruelAndUnusualDeath the airplane propeller closing in on him...]]

* In an episode of ''Series/{{Mortified}}'', Taylor attempts to scare off some bullies with her (non-existent) martial arts skills. After going through some WhatTheFuAreYouDoing moves, the bullies suddenly back off and leave. Taylor is convinced of her martial arts prowess, unaware that the bullies had left because of two cops walking up the beach behind her.

* Also crossing with ThrowEmToTheWolves, in ''VideoGame/Uncharted2AmongThieves'', after Nathan beats the final boss, the latter taunts the former to pull the trigger and finish him off. Nathan suddenly lowers his gun and starts walking backwards, causing the boss to mock him for not having the will. It turned out that actually Nathan saw a bunch of guardians approaching his way and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere was getting his ass out of there]], while the final boss saw it too late and gets brutally killed.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Dash lands on a goon's hovercraft and starts giving him rapid-fire punches, but suddenly stops with a terrified look on his face. The goon, believing he caught Dash off his guard, knocks him off the hovercraft with a single punch... only to turn around and notice at the last second that his hovercraft is heading straight towards a cliff, and the hovercraft promptly explodes on impact.

** ''The Mysterious Island'': Littlefoot gets angry because he believes someone ate a treestar he was saving for later. When he confronts them about it, Cera gasps "Oh no!", seemingly scared of Littlefoot. But it's actually the Sharptooth sneaking up on them that they were cowering from.
** ''The Secret of Saurus Rock'':, Cera starts snapping at Ducky and Petrie. They wince, and Cera doesn't notice the Sharptooth right behind her...at least until [[DroolHello it drools on her]].