History Main / SpectacularSpinning

* [[WhatAreRecords Vinyl records.]] Tapes. UsefulNotes/{{Compact disc}}s.

* Creator/MichaelBay believes that this is the case with the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movies (combined with StuffBlowingUp, of course).

'''Puppet General Hammond:''' What? It has to spin - it's round! Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. I am the General, and I want it to spin! Now!

'''Puppet General Hammond:''' What? It has to spin. It's round! Spinning is so much cooler than not spinning. I am the General, and I want it to spin! Now!

This trope shows off the awesome power of spinning things at high speeds, or flying around in a circle. In skilled hands, this ability can be used to [[TornadoMove create tornadoes]] or even bend the space-time continuum.

* OrbitingParticleShield

* ''VideoGame/FZero'': In the [[MemeticMutation infamous]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw Falcon Punch]] scene, this is part of the real reason for the explosion. Rick was driving around [[{{Satan}} Black Shadow's]] DoomsdayDevice thing at high speeds. While spinning. While his engine was spinning inside his vehicle. This somehow made it unstable, which is a pretty serious design flaw when your arch-enemy is a racer with a lot of racer friends.

* The "Mark Jensen Family Christmas" sketch from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' features Creator/WillFerrell singing a Christmas song in front of a choir while inexplicably standing on a revolving platform. {{Hilarity|Ensues}}, [[VomitIndiscretionShot and vomiting]], ensue.

** The Dizzy Dummies game involves spinning the contestants around at high speeds for 40 seconds, then gets them to do a small obstacle course whilst completely dizzy. HilarityEnsues.

* ''Series/RobotWars'' had plenty of spinning metal. House robot Dead Metal's saw blade cut through most armor like butter, Hypno Disc's spinning disc weapon did its fair share of massive damage (their [[CatchPhrase slogan]] was "Spin to win"), and Carbide's spinning bar destroyed nearly everything in sight, including parts of the [[TrashTheSet arena]]. Some robots used spinning in one place as their main attack or defense mechanism.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesKuroNoKiseki Trails of Black]]'': Van's "Stun Slash" Craft, as well as it's upgrade "Magna Slash," has him turn in a circular motion as he slashes the target.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesDiamondAndPearl'', this is introduced as a strategy by Dawn, who uses this technique for her contests, and Ash uses this strategy when he faces Roark in their Gym Battle rematch. It eventually evolves into the Counter Shield tactic, which can be described as "Spin really fast while spamming your attacks."

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', this was introduced as a strategy just before Ash battled Roark.
** Piplup also has a spinning bubble attack that it uses to battle Team Rocket in one episode.
** Also, the Counter Shield, which can be described as "Spin really fast while spamming your attacks"