Between My Legs

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A standard shot where someone or something is framed between the legs of another person. Widely used for movie posters◊ and VHS/DVD covers.

The most famous example is probably the poster for the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only and subsequent parodies thereof. The poster designer for this film decided to put the one-piece swimsuit of the woman on back to front, exposing quite a bit more of her rear. This attracted quite a degree of controversy and in several locales shorts were painted on. The second most common takes after the shot in The Graduate and the famous line "Mrs. Robinson — you're trying to seduce me... Aren't you?"

Sometimes this is used to introduce the hero of the story ready to take on his nemesis, or the nemesis that the hero must eventually face, without showing who that person is. The legs of that person could belong to a literal "bigger bad".

Also a standard shot for Dress Hits Floor. This shot is commonly used to establish either The Vamp and/or a Dominatrix. Can very often overlap with Male Gaze, if the shot is used to draw attention to a character's backside and legs, and generally includes Leg Focus. Note however, that the person whose legs are used as a frame is not always a woman, and the legs are not always bare.

In fight scenes the shot is often followed by a Groin Attack. In Westerns, this is usually the harbinger of the Showdown at High Noon.

Referred to as "The A Frame" in this article. Lots of posters can be seen here.

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Examples

Advertising

• Alyssa Milano in one of the Eva Savelot commercials.
• G. Gordon Liddy, a former Nixon Administration official, released a calendar consisting of images of girls with guns, ostensibly to support gun rights. One of the calendar images... well, it's this trope. Unfortunately, the girl's legs are framing Liddy. NSFW, can be viewed here◊.
• This Lego commercial uses it in sort of a Western-showdown type scenario.
• Used in this Canadian PSA about sexting.

Anime & Manga

• Mimiru is introduced with this shot in the first episode of .hack//SIGN.
• A Channel has one of Nagi in episode 2.
• An unpleasant example in episode 11 of Another when Takako dies, showing her legs slowly stop moving, and Mei's reaction to the happening through her legs.
• The first poster of the third season of Attack on Titan features this trope. The legs belong to Kenny and the person below him is Levi.
• Bamboo Blade has this in episode 14, of Miya-Miya framing Azuma, the shot emphasizing Miya's intimidation of Azuma.
• Black Lagoon:
  • Done at one point with Revy framing a very unlucky guy about to get what's coming to him in what's probably a For Your Eyes Only reference.
  • Also used when Gretel tries to show her gratitude to Rock for being the first person who was ever nice to her and crying for her... by dropping her panties and sexually proposing to him, thinking that is the only way an adult could ever appreciate her in return. Needless to say Rock is less than pleased. Given that Hansel and Gretel occasionally change roles as to who is the "brother" and who is the "sister," and both children were sexually abused in snuff films, "Gretel" may be showing Rock his/her true gender, or maybe something worse...
• Seen in the Power Card episode of Cardcaptor Sakura for a good long while. Also briefly seen in the episode with the Change Card.
• The Case Files of Yakushiji Ryoko loves to use the title character's legs as framing devices. She does have very nice legs, admittedly.
• The James Bond version is referenced in the opening sequence to City Hunter season 1, among other Bond style poses.
• The first of Date A Live has three instances.
  • Kotori in episode 1 while she's standing on Shido's bed.
  • Kurumi in episode 8 when she tries on lingerie during her date with Shido.
  • Origami in episode 9 when she confronts Kurumi.
• This shot is used very often in Dragon Ball Z, mostly during fight scenes.
• In the fifth Fairy Tail OVA, this shot is used of Flare framing Lucy.
  • A later OVA (and the manga omake it was based on) also used this shot in a bath house scene, with Erza's legs framing a half submerged Mavis.
• FLCL uses it three times, of Mamimi in episode 2, Haruko in episode 4, and Ninamori in episode 6.
• Chidori gets this shot in several episodes of Full Metal Panic! and episode 11 of Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu.
• In a sort-of twist in Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, Lust is framed by Barry's legs.
• The anime Golden Boy uses this when Kintaro imagines getting dominated by an attractive woman. Naturally, she's framing him.
• At the end of episode 00 of Haruhi Suzumiya, this shot is seen of Haruhi while she's standing on a table.
• Used fairly often in Hentai Prince and the Stony Cat, of Tsukiko and Tsukushi.
• Shows up often in How Clumsy you are, Miss Ueno, usually of the titular character.
• Ikki Tousen uses this on occasion, with one notable example occurring at the end of the second episode of Dragon Destiny with Ryomou as the framer and Ekitoku as the framee.
• The first episode of Inukami! includes one of these — on a man — who's going around using a ray to make other men suddenly become naked. It's a very, very strange first episode.
• What may be the longest example of this shot can be seen in episode 6 of I My Me! Strawberry Eggs, viewable here at 4:20. It lasts about 35 seconds.
• Turns up in episode 1 of K-On! of Yui when she first arrives at the school.
• Lies of the Sheriff Evans: Dead or Love uses it for a cover for Chapter 78. The titular Sheriff in between is framed in a way that legitimately makes it resemble he's about to duel the woman, but it instead just implies what actually happens in the chapter: trying to look under the woman's skirt because he's suspecting she may be concealing something stolen under it..and because it's a good excuse for how he also wants to look under her skirt.
• The intro of Mazinger Z... with Humongous Mecha instead of The Vamp.
• In the OVA of My Mental Choices Are Completely Interfering with My School Romantic Comedy, used of Furano upon her introduction (albeit when she's upside down).
• In Nadia The Secretof Blue Water, when Nadia stands up in the bath her legs frame Daphne.
• Being the Panty Fighter that it is, Najica Blitz Tactics has several of these to make it easier to see the panties of skirted characters.
• Pearl of all characters has this shot in volume one of the Phoenix Wright Casebook manga.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • There is a between-the-legs shot of Misty in the episode Forest Grumps.
  • Also of May in the episode A Ruin With a View, when she spots an Azurill.
  • The very beginning of episode 33 of Pokémon the Series: Black & White has this to introduce The Rival to Iris, Georgia. Episode 35 of the same series has one of Officer Jenny.
  • Bianca's legs frame a wild Mincinno in episode 13 of the same season.
• Most scenes involving Meiko in Prison School use this angle.
• Akane gets a moment of this (while wearing a Modesty Towel, no less) in episode 112 of Ranma ½.
• Episode 1 of Re: Cutie Honey. Even more obviously for fanservice because the title character's bare butt also takes up half of the shot.
• A double whammy from the Revolutionary Girl Utena artbook show Anthy and Utena as both the one framed and the one standing.
• This page◊ in Saint Seiya's Manga Volume 28.
• Sen Tokugawa in the first episode of Samurai Bride.
• In Samurai Champloo, Mugen confronts Shoryuu in this manner.
• In episode 2 of School-Live!, of Yuki when she runs outside to give the group the idea for a test of courage.
  • Again in episode 8, when Kurumi walks in to help Yuki give Taroumaru a bath.
• There's one such shot of Musubi in episode two of Sekirei.
• In the manga Shaolin Sisters, this shot is used several times in nearly every issue, usually of the heroine, Julin.
• And the first page of a chapter of Shin Mazinger Zero, with Kouji and two Gamias being seen between the legs of Minerva-X.
• Used a few times in Squid Girl, usually of the eponymous character, including Squid Girl's first appearance.
• Strike Witches has two of these in season 2, episode 7, both on characters whose underwear are pulled down.
• The first episode of the Urusei Yatsura anime has a brief shot of this during the tag competition as Ataru prepares his attempt to catch Lum.
• In Uta∽Kata, Manatsu's legs frame Ichika during her fourth and seventh transformation. Also in episode two, again of Manatsu, when she confronts Ichika.
• Vampire Knight: A panel at the end of chapter 71.
• Vividred Operation: No less than five of these shots have been used so far in the series, with usually Rei's legs doing the framing. The first two occur in the first two episodes; One of the sun rising and one of the first Alone are framed between Rei's legs.
• Welcome to the NHK has this shot of Misaki in episode 3.
• A rather disturbing example appears in the manga adaptation of Your Turn to Die; there's a shot of Sara framed between Joe's legs - as Joe is impaled by the Wrigglers and he's subsequently drained of blood.
• In Yuri!!! on Ice, after Victor demonstrates the "Eros" routine for the first time, there's a shot of Yuri framed between his legs.
• In YuYu Hakusho Togashi (the creator) seemed to love this trope since it's used on Kurama many times to frame his opponents and even has other characters in "crotch shots."

Comic Books

• Such shots are common within those compilations of covers from Bully's Blogspot:
  • Marvel Comics: Look at my butt!
  • DC Comics: Buttocks Reduttox
• Homage to For Your Eyes Only on the cover of the second issue of a Chuck comic book adaptation.
• The cover of Crisis on Infinite Earths issue 8 has the Anti Monitor framing Flash and Psycho Pirate.
• Somehow Gen¹³'s Fairchild has legs longer than she is tall◊.
• The cover◊ of Green Arrow #32.
• The title page of Girlfrenzy: Lois Lane has Lois framed by Superman's legs, complete with a spoof Bond-style logo in which the "gun" is made from a pen and notepad.
• Justice League: Also seen when Booster Gold joins the Justice League◊.
• The cover for Knights of the Dinner Table Illustrated #17 (NSFW)
• This is a popular shot in Lucky Luke, especially before a gunslinger duel. Take for example the covers of Lucky Luke vs. Phil Defer◊, Le 20ème de Cavalerie◊, or the Kid Lucky album L'Apprenti cow-boy◊. About all adaptations, whether animated or live-action, will include at least one such shot.
• The cover◊ for Tome 4 of the French-Canadian comic Les Nombrils.
• The cover◊ of Savage She-Hulk #2.
• Spirou & Fantasio: The cover of Who Will Stop Cyanide? shows Spirou and Fantasio through the legs of Cyanide, who is standing in the foreground facing them, feet planted apart.
• Supergirl
  • The first post-Crisis Supergirl, a.k.a. Matrix, was introduced in The Supergirl Saga with this◊, which also served to hide her face.
  • Also seen in Supergirl vol 4 issue 21.
• Zatanna (2010): When Zatanna first teleports into Brother's Night hideout, we get a shot of Zatanna's legs framing Brother Night as he slouches in his couch.

Film — Animation

• DC Showcase – Constantine: The House of Mystery. John Constantine is taking a casual stroll through the World Between Worlds when he runs into The Spectre like this...because he's a huge God-like figure towering over John.
• The lake scene of Mulan employs this during "And I'm Yao, king of the rock!", with Mulan clearly uncomfortable at what is* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'': This shot is used upon the reveal of the villain [[spoiler:Doctor Olivia Octavius, a.k.a. "Doc Ock", when she sheds her lab coat to reveal her mechanical bodysuit underneath. visible from her side]].

• In The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, this is parodied in a scene during the Goofy Goober Rock. SpongeBob is shown framed by a pair of legs wearing fishnets and high heeled boots. The camera then zooms out to show that the legs belong to Patrick. It's also played with: Patrick is actually standing directly over SpongeBob, and his legs are huge.
• Toy Story 2: Used with Andy when he comes into his room to talk to Buster just before he gets ready to go to Cowboy Camp.

Film — Live-Action

• In 42nd Street, for instance, the "Young and Healthy" number has the singers emerging from beneath a whole tunnel of Chorus Girls' legs. The image was also used for the film's poster.
• In The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl, this shot is seen with Lavagirl's legs doing the framing.
• The 1992 French movie L'Amant (The Lover, adapted from the eponymous novel by Marguerite Duras). At the beginning of the movie the female protagonist stands with one leg up on the rail of a river ferry, and the car chauffeuring her future lover drives into view between them.
• An example in American Pie, showing Jim's reaction through Nadia's legs.
• In an Affectionate Parody of a Busby Berkeley Number in The Big Lebowski, about 2 minutes into the Disney Acid Sequence.
• Shows up three times in Bring It On: All or Nothing, with Britney framed by the legs of each the three members of the cheer leading team as they do a routine on the table.
• The Burning: When Cropsy confronts Sally, she is initially shown between his legs before he goes for the killing strike.
• The film Closer features one of these shots of Natalie Portman's character, Alice, though the shot is appropriate considering it's in a strip club.
• A little over an hour into Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Steve Martin's character, the con-artist Freddy, fakes riding a wheelchair down a set of stairs to the beach, and starts crawling his way to the water to drown himself. Janet (played by Glenne Headly), steps in front of him to stop him, and his face is framed by the backs of her calves.
• The poster of zombie movie Doghouse features three protagonists armed with golf clubs and a water pistol standing in the background in between the zombie woman's spread legs.
• The Disney Channel original movie Double Teamed has a shot of one of the protagonists between her rival's legs as they prepare to play one-on-one.
• During the Training Montage in The Eiger Sanction, there's a shot of Clint Eastwood between the legs of George, his Cute Mute climbing instructor, as she waits above him on the rocks (and then keeps climbing the moment he catches up).
• Everything Goes Wrong: Mr. Nanbara is framed this way, between Jiro's legs as an angry Jiro stands on a bed staring down at him, right before their final violent confrontation. (Jiro hates Mr. Nanbara, who keeps Jiro's mother as his mistress.)
• In Fun Size, with the Galaxy Scout cosplayer's legs during the party scene. This scene was used in much of the commercials.
• Gentleman's Fate: Jack has a fistfight with his Separated at Birth gangster brother Frank. Jack is framed on the floor between Frank's legs after Frank lays him out with a punch, establishing that Frank is flat-out stronger than Jack is. After that they make friends.
• The camera pans through Spalko's when she sees Indy blow up one of the Soviet vehicles in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
• Inspector Gadget 2: In the scene where G2 splits herself in a half, her torso flies into a chain on the warehouse ceiling, and in the next shot, Squint and Jungle Bob are between G2 "disembodied" legs while she taps her right foot.
• James Bond:
  • Seen in You Only Live Twice, with one of the women from the bathhouse.
  • Happens In-Universe in The Spy Who Loved Me. Soviet agent Anya is holding Giant Mook Jaws at gunpoint and forces him to hand over the MacGuffin. He drops it on the ground in front of him, and there's a shot like this as she crouches down to pick it up, before Jaws kicks the gun from her hand.
  • As mentioned in the intro, a Trope Codifier is For Your Eyes Only. The two principal actresses argued over the poster, saying "those are MY legs". In fact, they were an artist's rendering of a third woman. Weirdly inverted in the DVD cover◊, with the Bond Girl between 007's legs!
• In Kill Bill, when The Bride just finishes off the Crazy 88 leader, Johnny Mo, the latter falls to the bloody pond and is shot between her legs.
• In Killer's Kiss, Davey the boxer's opponent is framed between Davey's legs as they sit on their stools before the fight. Davey promptly gets knocked out.
• Kingpin has this, but with the two main characters' heads between the legs. "And the girl's!"
• Used in a homage to For Your Eyes Only with posters for Kingsman: The Secret Service where characters are framed between Gazelle's bladed, prosthetic legs. This is appropriate considering the film is a Decon-Recon Switch of the Roger Moore-era James Bond films.
• This shot occurs in the film Kinky Boots when Lauren models the prototype pair for Charlie. In the commentary, the director mentions that he couldn't resist making it. Also, there isn't any peek-a-boo because Lauren is completely clothed and the boots go all the way up her thigh.
• Done in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, with a shot between Angelina Jolie's legs while she's fighting a robot.
• In Minority Report, after Lamar shoots Witwer, he stands up as Witwer falls into a couch, and the scene cuts to Witwer seen from between Lamar's legs as he gets another bullet.
• Art Lean's introduction to Goro in Mortal Kombat: The Movie is with one of these.
• Used on the poster for Ms. 45. It depicts one of the White Gangbangers cowering, framed between Thana's stocking-clad legs.
• Done with Barbossa in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End while standing on the table at the Brethren Court. He is also holding a chain-shot in one hand, and lets the two cannonballs hang during the shot.
• Used in The Proposal in the scene where Margaret is trying to get the dog to go away.
• Silent film The Racket has an interesting variant on this, in which a hoodlum is framed from beneath a table, between the table's legs, while the hoodlum sitting at said table in the foreground is shown reaching for a gun in his pocket.
• Jesus crawls through a tunnel of legs in Reefer Madness: The Musical.
• The alternative DVD cover for Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise.
• Shortly after Dr. Scott enters the castle in The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again, we see a shot of him through Frank's legs.
• The cover◊ of the biker comedy Running Cool.
• Parodied in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, with Michael Cera in between Satya Babha's legs.
• This poster◊ for the Richard Pryor/Gene Wilder flick See No Evil, Hear No Evil.
• A non-fanservice example is in The Singles Ward, which has a shot where the car of Jonathan's ex-wife is framed between his legs.
• On the original poster of The Slumber Party Massacre, with killer's would-be victims in the shot. Also, the killer's drill is hanging there.
• Starship Invasions. When the beautiful nude female Human Alien Sagnac enters the room in the flying saucer where the farmer is being held, she walks between the camera and the farmer so the camera can see him between her legs.
• The Super Troopers promo material? Nice.
• The poster◊ of Transporter 2. Through Lola's legs, Frank is seen firing his pistols in mid-air. This mirrors the scene in the movie where Psycho for Hire Lola gives the audience a good look at her black stockings and red Combat Stilettos before going Guns Akimbo on the protagonist for the first time.
• In James Cameron's True Lies, this shot is seen during a sequence where Jamie Lee Curtis' character, Helen Tasker, dances seductively for a supposed foreign criminal (who's really her husband in the shadow).
• Variation happens in Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, when the duo drags the remains of the guy who jumped into the woodchipper and the sheriff appears.
• The Visitor, a low-budget Atlanta-filmed horror picture from 1980, has a little girl using her telekinetic powers to overcome some boys bullying her at an ice skating rink. There is a shot between the girl's legs (with a questionable but brief shot at her yellow panties) as the boys attempt to rally against her.
• A lesbian example can be seen in Russ Meyer's Vixen! (1968), with a frustrated wife who's about to be seduced by the title Vamp framed in that way.
• Wild Wild West. After Jim West falls naked out of a water tank in front of three men, we get a shot of two of the men seen between West's legs.
• A spider woman crawls through a tunnel of legs in the "All Over The World" segment of Xanadu.
• Parodied on promotional pictures of You Don't Mess with the Zohan: the camera is positioned under Zohan's very unattractive, hairy legs, while Zohan himself is about to dry your hair.

Literature

• The cover art on Kate Angell's baseball-themed Romance Novel Strike Zone shows a batter squaring off against a high-heel-wearing woman, framed between her legs. This was nominated in the "worst" category of at least one cover-art contest; voters felt it made for a bad combination of sex and (implied) violence.

Live-Action TV

• Done in Ashes to Ashes (2008) as an Homage to the For Your Eyes Only poster (which appears in the background of the next shot).
• 1960's Batman (1966) episode "It's the Way You Play the Game". During the climactic showdown between The Wild West style villain Shame and the Dynamic Duo, we get a shot of Batman and Robin as viewed between Shame's legs. As noted in the Film section this was often done in Western movie showdowns, and was thus an homage to those scenes.
• In the episode of The Big Bang Theory, The Cooper-Hofstadter Polarization, this shot is used with Penny's legs framing a remote control car with a camera that's trying to see... well, between her legs.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Played With in "Anne". It's the very first shot of season 3. A vampire crawls part-way out of his grave, only to be framed by two leather-clad legs. Reverse angle and it's not the title character, but Willow. Same thing happens in the first shot of Season 6, too, only this time it's the Buffybot.
  • The shot is used in "Family" when Buffy is fighting Spike. It turns out to be a Daydream Surprise sex fantasy of Spike's, hence the Sex Is Violence vibe.
• The DVD boxset for season 2 of Chuck gives us a fine view of Sarah's legs.
• Seen in a promo for season seven of Desperate Housewives.
• Doctor Who:
  • Inverted in "The Caves of Androzani". The mercenary gunrunner Stotz is snoozing on the ground, and one of his men stands over him like this in intimidation. Stotz quickly establishes his badass credentials by turning the tables on him.
  • In "Pond Life" episode 1, the Doctor is framed by Mata Hari's legs at one point.
  • "A Town Called Mercy", being a Cowboy Episode, has such a shot as promotional image, the Gunslinger's legs framing the Doctor, Amy and Rory in the style of good old Western duels.
  • Victorian Ninja Maid Jenny Flint is shown this way in "The Snowmen" and "The Crimson Horror", wearing her leather catsuit. It's clearly played for fanservice — on the latter occasion, even the Doctor is Distracted by the Sexy.
• In an episode of ER, this shot is used when Abby is taking pictures of Neela.
• Farscape
  • In "Suns and Lovers", Aeryn Sun suggests to Crichton that they resolve their Unresolved Sexual Tension on the spot despite the fact that they're busy crawling through a space station that's breaking up. We get a shot between Crichton's leather-clad legs of Aeryn unzipping her top... then the floor collapses under her.
  • In "Scratch 'N Sniff", John Crichton and D'Argo wake up after a night of drunken carousing to find they've been drugged, robbed and dumped in a store window for people to gawk at. Crichton unsteadily gets to his feet, giving us this shot re D'Argo that reveals Crichton is also wearing ladies stockings.
• A rare non-fanservice version: In the pilot for the original Knight Rider, Michael Knight is wandering through a dark warehouse, looking for Devon Miles. At one point he stops, legs framing the camera (playing the trope straight). Then, in the darkness of the warehouse, we see KITT's red LED light, strobing back and forth.
• Played for laughs in the Living Single episode "The Glass Ceiling", as while Max poses nude for a painting, there's a shot of Khadijah and Synclaire framed by Max's legs to show their reactions, with Khadijah noting "Max, you pierced your belly button!".
• Midsomer Murders: In "Country Matters", Tom Barnaby's face is framed between the legs of "Mr. Hundsecker," when the latter mistakes Barnaby for a Dom (there has been a lot of sexual escapades around the village) who is going to whip him with a riding crop.
• My Name Is Earl likes to use these shots. In one early example, Earl is framed by the legs of a character who wasn't supposed to be able to use them.
• This shot is taken of Charlotte Ross in her infamous shower scene on NYPD Blue, showing the reaction of the kid that walked in on her through her legs.
• Scrubs
  • After Jordan's "take off your pants" we see her framed by JD's legs, although Jordan was quite clearly The Vamp in this situation.
  • Scrubs uses this again when J.D. imagines having male strippers in his house (don't ask).
• The season 9 opener of Stargate SG-1 has a short shot of General Landry and Cameron Mitchell framed by Vala's leather-clad legs after she comes through the Stargate.
• In Xena: Warrior Princess (Episode 3x12, "The Bitter Suite"), after Xena wakes up naked in Illusia, there’s a shot between Xena's bare legs showing Callisto enjoying Xena's nude behind.

Music

• In the music video of Sean Combs a.k.a P Diddy featuring Nicole Scherzinger "Come To Me" start from 3:15.
• Used on the cover of Deep Throat's The Devil in Miss Jones◊, with a dominatrix and her slave.
• In the music video for "Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring, while the protagonist is tied to a chair, three Nazi chic dancing girls enter. Two snuggle up to him, and we see a shot of this from between the legs of the third. We then see that she is holding a syringe. She injects him, causing him to hallucinate.
• Subverted in the video for "Tell Me Something I Don't Know" in which the very attractive Selena Gomez is framed between the legs of an unattractive woman several times.
• A shot of Murray Head framed by some pairs of legs in the video for "One Night In Bangkok".
• Used in Lady Gaga's "Bad Romance" about 2:25 into the video.
• In Lit's music video for "Miserable", the band is at one point framed by Pamela Anderson's legs. This served multiple purposes. One was of course fanservice, since it gives us a great view of Pam's toned legs and her platform heel stripper shoes. Another was to further emphasize her gargantuan stature (since she is a giantess and most of the video is the band using her scantily clad body as a performance stage ). The third is to show how much power she wields over all the all-male band members and why she was able to so easily hunt them down and devour them at the end.
• Prince's character Gemini (a Batman/Joker composite) crawls through a tunnel of Vicki Vale clone legs in the music video for "Batdance".
• Several shots in Rod Stewart's video for "Hot Legs" feature him being framed by a woman's legs in various positions.
• Taylor Swift crawls through a tunnel of legs in the music video for "Shake It Off".
• Used in the video for Sublime's "Santaria" in the part where two characters are seen in a Wild West setting, ready for a showdown.
• The music video of "Kids" by Robbie Williams and Kylie Minogue features Kylie's legs framing Robbie towards the end.

Pinball

• In The Big Lebowski, The Donny Lane is capped with a row of spread-legged girls from the movie's Disney Acid Sequence.

Print Media

• An article◊ displaying various pulp magazines covers, humorously titled "Spread 'Em."

Pro Wrestling

• For yet-unknown reasons, The Naturals' entrance in TNA Wrestling was often framed by So-Cal Val's legs. TNA tried to get at least one camera shot of So-Cal Val per show back then, resulting in several other wrestlers getting the "frame" treatment. We're guessing it was for fanservice reasons.
• A few WWE Divas have had this shot, including Stacy Keibler, Sable and Miss Jackie.

Video Games

• Christie's ending in Dead or Alive 4.
• A framing shot in a cutscene from Dragon Age II has two boys in the Undercity running away from a woman who is a blood mage, who end up running into her.
• In this commercial for Heavenly Sword.
• In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, during one of the ending cuetscenes, the camera is placed between Link's legs, which frame Ganondorf.
• Near the end of "Lair of the Shadow Broker" in Mass Effect 2, Shepard and Liara confront the titular Shadow Broker, who knocks them to the ground. The camera cuts to a quick shot of the Broker standing up and Shepard and Liara between his legs, showing how huge the Broker is. (He's at least 10 feet tall, and his legs look to be about a foot in diameter.)
  • In the third game's Citadel DLC, after Wrex wrecks the C-sec shuttle full of mooks, he jumps off the shuttle roof, frames the camera angle of the open side hatch, and then he rushes in and has his way with the mooks inside.
• In Metal Gear Solid, Otacon is framed this way between Snake's legs when Snake first releases him from the locker, to emphasise Snake's strength compared to Otacon.
• A very, very long sequence in every Parodius game (usually in the last or next-to-last stage) involves the player's ship/penguin/octopus/paper plane flying between the legs of a humongous belly dancer as she stomps around, filling the screen. This was originally a parody of the giant mechanical spider from Gradius II.
• A fan-made remake of Starcraft using Starcraft II's engine has Raynor and Kerrigan's meeting start with this shot.
• The MMO Star Trek Online uses the Mrs. Robinson version on the icon for the "Seduce" trait.
• In one of the solo modes for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the win screen for Captain Falcon has Captain Falcon framing... Captain Falcon.
• The cutscene at the end of the Temple of Xian level in Tomb Raider II ends with a shot of the exit that the followers of the Big Bad carried him through, followed by Lara landing in front of said exit and having it displayed between her legs.

Web Animation

• Parodied in the Gotham Girls episode "Cat Sitter", with Catwoman's new kitty between Harley Quinn's legs.
• Red vs. Blue:
  • Season 8's Episode 10 gives us this shot after Tex slides through Grif's legs. He looks up, and sees the heat-seeking rocket fired earlier going for his crotch. (It doesn't hit him, which is a good thing, as he suffered about six of them earlier in quick succession).
  • Season 10 Episode 5 gives us another one with North providing the A-Frame and Washington's head peering in between (at Theta, North's shy AI). A hilarious scene commences where Wash mentions he thought "it" (Theta) would be "bigger".

Webcomics

• Miss Melee: Used in the issue 3 cover image.
• Ronin Galaxy: When Taylor gets caught by the Akuma gang
• Sluggy Freelance does this in a rather bizarre fashion, naturally.
• Trying Human, in this page when 8 and Glasner hook up

Web Original

• In the commodoreHUSTLE video "The Gay Chicken", this kind of shot is used when Morgan tries to unsettle Bill by calling him over and then dropping his pants. When Bill responds by doing the same, Morgan's reaction is also shown through Bill's legs.
• Used in a Reckless Tortuga video.

Western Animation

• In Archie's Weird Mysteries, the episode "Dream Girl" has this shot twice, once of Veronica in school and once of Betty while confronting the title "dream girl".
• Seen on Toph in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Not surprising since lots of shots focus on her feet.
• Black Widow and Zarda from Avengers Assemble
• The comic book/episode "Mad Love" in Batman: The Animated Series parodies this, with Harley's legs framing the Joker, who of course has his back to her and is too busy planning Batman's death to even notice.
• Happens twice in Code Lyoko with Aelita's legs: "Unchartered Territory" has a shot of Sissi between them when she walks outside, and "Wreck Room" has a quickly-approaching William framed.
• Danny Phantom
  • There is a shot of Danny between Dash's legs in episode "Lucky in Love".
  • Also Danny between Sam's legs in "Memory Blank".
• Parodied in the promotional artwork for The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, as seen here◊.
• Seen in the title card◊ of "New Squid in Town", an episode of The Fairly OddParents!.
• Bonnie in the Family Guy episode "High School English", in The Great Gatsby segment. She stands in the middle of the road as a drunken Lois drives towards her.
• An episode of Futurama parodies the James Bond example in a movie poster for the Show Within a Show All My Circuits.
• Justice League Unlimited
  • The show seems to have an obsession with doing this with Black Canary, as it happens at least three times alone in the episode "The Cat and the Canary". Must be the fishnets (which she never even wears here, unlike the comics).
  • Wonder Woman also receives this in the episode "Hawk and Dove", and Hawkgirl in the episode where Wonder Woman is fighting against her, Vixen, Huntress and Canary.
  • Galatea also gets this a few times during her appearance in "Panic in the Sky", which only adds to the fuckton of Les Yay between her and Supergirl when they fight.
• Seen in a KaBlam! episode where Mr. Foot was in a James Bond parody movie. The end of the trailer has Mr. Foot standing in between the legs of another sasquatch.
• In the Kim Possible episode "October 31st", where the Centurion Project suit completely covers her entire body (due to the heavy stress from lying) and completely shredded her princess costume. There's a shot of Josh Mankey and Monique between her legs.
  • This shot shows up fairly often on Shego as well.
• In episode 1 of The Life and Times of Juniper Lee, of the title character.
• Nani in Lilo & Stitch: The Series.
• In the The Loud House episode "Along Came a Sister", of Lori.
  • The title card of "Changing the Baby" has Lincoln between Lily's legs.
• Happens frequently in Miraculous Ladybug, usually (but not always) with Ladybug
  • "Stormy Weather", of Stormy Weather in the first half of the episode, and Ladybug in the second half.
  • Alix frames her classmates as she approaches the finish in her race against Kim in Timebreaker. While it's not a faming device, there are several shots of the eponymous villain from a similar perspective.
  • In Stoneheart when Ladybug tells off Hawkmoth, who has been using a cloud of akumas in the shape of his face to threaten Paris.
  • Kagami, when she confronts Mr. D'Argencourt's fencing students in Riposte.
  • In Gang of Secrets when Ladybug confronts the villains at the entrance to the swimming pool.
• Molly of Denali: In "The Funny Face Competition," when Merna arrives at the tribal hall, the townspeople are framed between her legs as they gasp.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the episode "Bridle Gossip", after Pinkie Pie sings her Evil Enchantress song, there are two shots framed by her legs showing Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy's (somewhat confused) expressions.
  • EQUESTRIA GIRLS: When Twilight wants to stop Sunset Shimmer from bulling Human!Fluttershy, she confronts her this way, with her legs framing Sunset. Later on, shortly before the climax, Sunset's legs frame the Humane Six as she threatens to destroy the portal to Equestria if they don't give her the crown.
  • In the season 4 episode "Somepony to Watch Over Me", Applejack confronts the chimera that wants to eat Applebloom this way, with her hind legs framing the monster.
  • In "Pinkie Pride", both Pinkie and Cheese are seen framed by their respective legs when they challenge each other.
• Seen a strangely large amount of times in The Powerpuff Girls (1998). Often on Blossom, also seen on Buttercup, Bubbles, Princess or Ms. Bellum.
• Phineas and Ferb: During the end of the musical montage in "Hey Ferb", an entire line of dancers frames Phineas in this way.
• Done in an episode of Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" when Ren is shaving a woman while posing as a bathroom attendant and he proceeds to shave her down there; note this version of the show is catered to a more mature audience.
• In Sabrina: The Animated Series, a stand-off between Sabrina and her rival Gem has a shot of Sabrina framed by Gem's legs.
• The Simpsons
  • The show sent up the shot from The Graduate in the episode "Lisa's Substitute" replacing Mrs. Robinson with Mrs. Krabapple.
  • Homer's legs between the trampoline while he's trying to get rid of it in "Bart's Inner Child".
• In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Black Cat receives this in the episode "Secret Wars: The Gauntlet of the Red Skull" when her long muscular legs frame a vent where one of Doc Ock's mechanical arms were about to exit from in order to grab her from behind.
• An episode of the Super Mario World cartoon has one where Kootie Pie (Wendy O.) walks up to the scene where Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Yoshi are between her legs.
• Sym-Bionic Titan: Kimmy's legs (with Newton in the shot) during the infamous "Booty Quake" scene.
• El Tigre has an example of this with Maria (Manny's mom) in the episode "A Mother's Glove".
• In addition to pretty much every other Fanservice trope, Totally Spies! uses this trope often. In addition to all three girls having this shot several times (sometimes even framing each other), an assload of other one time characters have had it. Oh, and Jerry.
• In Transformers: Prime episode "Speed Metal", this is how Sierra is first framed◊ when she starts the race between Jack (driving Bumblebee) and Jerk Jock Vince.
• White Tiger and Dagger from Ultimate Spider-Man
• The Venture Brothers uses this shot at least once, usually with Brock being the framer. Oh, and he's usually naked.
• Occurs in several episodes of Winx Club.
  • Both Stella and Musa in the episode "Spelled".
  • Flora in "The Nightmare Monster".
  • Bloom in "Island of the Dragons".
  • Stella again in "At the Last Moment".
• In the X-Men: Evolution episode "Shadowed Past'', Rogue's legs frame Mystique when she stops her from escaping.

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