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It's a situation anyone who spends much time with other people has experienced: another person does something so strange or off-putting that you can't help but feel intensely uncomfortable. Perhaps a Cloudcuckoolander is on top of their weirdness game, or maybe the Nervous Wreck is nattering on and on about nothing significant, or perhaps you're stuck with someone who, while harmless, doesn't have a much of a concept of interpersonal boundaries.
So you're uncomfortable and want to get away, but you don't want to cause a scene, call the offender's attention to yourself, or make your situation worse. Sometimes, all you can do is Back Away Slowly until you're a more comfortable distance away.
The Backing Away Slowly trope occurs when a character slowly moves away from another character whose words or actions are making them feel awkward, embarrassed, or weirded out. They're not necessarily acting out of fear so much as trying to discreetly remove or distance themselves from an uncomfortable situation before it gets even more uncomfortable.
This trope sees the most use as a gag in comedies and cartoons, but it can also be used in serious moments as as well.
For instances where a person slowly backs away from a wild or aggressive animal, see Nice Kitty.... When a person enters a room, sees another person in a compromising position, and immediately closes the door again, that's Sorry to Interrupt. Contrast Backing into Danger, which is where a person backs right into a monster or trap.
May be accompanied by Screw This, I'm Outta Here, I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That, or I Have Nothing to Say to That.
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The Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy episode "Bot Blog" ends with Heatwave slowly backing away after he walks in on the Rescue Bots recruits acting like chickens.
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Brother Bear: Kenai, who had just been turned into a bear, asks a pair of chipmunks how they can talk. The pair back away slowly partly because of this question and the fact that he's, well, a bear.
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The Simpsons:
In "Mr. Plow", Homer and the kids back away from an unhinged Adam West when he tries to do a campy 60s dance for them.
In "The Principal and the Pauper", a man bursts in claiming to be the real Seymour Skinner at a celebration honoring the Skinner we know. As our Skinner confesses to being an impostor, Homer thinks to himself, "Keep looking shocked and move slowly towards the cake".
Exaggerated in "The Sweetest Apu", when Homer catches Apu having an affair at the Kwik-E-Mart and walks backward all the way to his house. Then he dreams about walking backwards upon seeing the affair. The scene is repeated at the end, when Homer spies on Apu and Manjula having sex in their apartment and hops back home on his ladder.
In the episode "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder," Homer goes into Lisa's room and offers to help with her homework, when Lisa says he can help her find words where "y is the vowel," Homer, not understanding what she said, backs out of her room.
"The Great Money Caper," has this exchange:
In "Homer the Moe", Bart inexplicably begins digging a hole in the backyard. When Lisa asks him why, he claims he's making a hole for more digging, causing her to back away from him.
Towards the end of "Lisa's Wedding," the Fortune Teller who showed Lisa a vision of the future lets out an Evil Laugh and throws down a smoke bomb to vanish...but when the cloud fades, she's still sitting there. After an awkward moment, Lisa slowly backs away from her table.
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Questionable Content: In 'Nothing Good Can Come', Martin demonstrates a textbook example of backing away slowly when asked to weigh in on a lover's quarrel between his ex-girlfriend and his current boss. The eyes really sell it.
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On an episode of Rescue 911 a man with a portable phone (late eighties) was second in line at the bank when the teller said "Please don't shoot! I just work here!" The man quietly backed out of there and called 911.
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In George's Marvellous Medicine, there is a creepy scene in the first chapter in which eight-year-old George's bad-tempered Grandma frightens him by hinting that she is a witch, causing George to tremble and take one step backwards after another, before finally fleeing into the kitchen.
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: This happens a few times after some of Ami's pronouncements, like responding to a protesting orc in "A New Home":
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In "Beach Blanket Bogus" from Total Drama Action, when Beth offers Trent a friendship bracelet, he starts counting to nine while poking his head with the bracelet, which causes her to back away slowly. When she whispers to Lindsay that Trent is kinda weird, Lindsay mishears that Tyler is back in game and thinks she has a "dental block" instead of mental block, which also causes Beth to back away.
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Final Fantasy XIV: Upon completing The Wanderer's Palace (Hard), the now-freed tonberries interrupt your victory cutscene to rush in and stab the defeated Mamool Ja boss that had been enslaving them. We don't see the act, but the Tonberry trademark 'doink' stabbing sound effect is heard numerous times and your character is visibly unnerved and one of your party members can be seen backing away slowly.
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: In "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Hotel", as the Tipton guests and staff fight with each other over a treasure hidden in the hotel, Arwin randomly shouts "DOGS HAVE CLEANER TONGUES THAN PEOPLE!", making everyone pause for a moment and take a step away from him.
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A well-known example takes place in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, as Brad and Janet back away from Dr. Frank N. Furter and his crew while they sing "The Time Warp".
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The Twilight Zone (1959): "Four O'Clock" features a woman doing this when she meets Oliver Crangle, the early 1960s incarnation of a right-wing conspiracy theorist.
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Girl Genius: During the Castle Heterodyne arc, everyone currently present does this when Theo and Sleipnir start doing.. Science.. together. Well, except for Krosp, who has to be dragged away.
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Walking backwards in the classic Resident Evil games would have your character instead cautiously back away if you were close to a monster. It had a practical purpose of warning you when an enemy was right around a blind corner or just out of the camera's view.
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Cream Heroes:
Lulu bites down on a plush Momo toy a little too eagerly. Chuchu approaches to see what he's going and when she sees him wrestling with it, decides to leave him to it and backs away slowly.
Coco walks into the bathroom to complain to Claire about all the noise. Then he sees Lala being given a bath and backs away.
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In Turning Red, Jin does this when he realizes that Ming is about to discuss periods with Mei.
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Dragon Age: Origins
This is one of the player's options at finding Sten and the dog barking at each other.
The player can also invoke this when Leliana first claims that she is acting on a vision from the Maker.
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In OSMU: Fanfiction Friction, the Mobile Unit agents all back away in response to seeing Todd talk to one of his shoes. Orla changes her mind and tries to stay to inquire about why he talks to his shoe, but she's shunted out before she can do so.
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In Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Horton shouts, "I'm talking to the mayor!", but because the mayor is invisibly small and the bird he was next to is not the mayor, the bird is confused and slowly backs away.
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In Full Circle, Oona tells Oprah, Olympia and Otis that with the ability to tug on her lab coat's lapels and trigger an Instant Costume Change, she hasn't had to change her clothes in months. The trio respond by glancing at each other and then slowly backing away into their respective dressing rooms, to which Oona protests by clarifying what she said.
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In Cool Cat Saves the Kids, a man can be seen in the background leaving his house, before seeing a man dressed as a cat shouting at some kids about why Graffiti is wrong and backing away.
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Chapter 169 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has Fujiwara try to inject herself into a discussion that Shirogane, Ishigami, and Maki are having about love. At first, she seems to be following what's going on, but when she hears that Maki is debating whether she should seduce Tsubasa away from Kashiwagi, she backs out of the room without any change in expression.
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Played for laughs in Evolution. One character, after witnessing a Jump Scare from an alien that's somehow gotten into a water tank, reacts by slowly backing out of the room and closing the door, as if to say, "I was never here. This is somebody else's problem."
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In the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Chase", when Aang tries to intercede between Katara and Toph's arguments:
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History's Strongest Shinobi: When Naruto guilt-trips Ma Kensei to go see his daughter Renka, Naruto sticks around just long enough to see how happy Renka is at seeing her father before he silently exiting the buidling. Later on when Renka confronts him on this and asks why he left, Naruto admits that he felt like a third wheel intruding on their private moment only for Renka to say he didn't have to leave and how she's a little annoyed that she had to hunt him down just so she could thank him for bringing Ma Kensei to her.
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In Quest for Glory I's EGA version, returning the Healer's ring results in her suddenly grabbing the hero from across a table and kissing him. To escape being kissed again, the hero has a unique animation with wide eyes, nervous grin, and hands up as he steps backward. Although about the same thing happens in the VGA version, the animation on it isn't quite as exaggerated.
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In Mass Effect 2, an unnamed quarrian can be seen doing this when Tali storms up to Admiral Shala'Raan demanding an explanation for why Tali wasn't told about her father's expected death.
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After EDI gains an android body in Mass Effect 3, Commander Shepard can talk to her on the bridge. After he/she inquires whether the new experience could be distracting, EDI says that she only forgets to recycle the ship's oxygen when she finds something truly interesting. The Commander gets a horrified look and slowly backs away.
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Steven Universe: In "Lion 3: Straight to Video", Lars goes into the backroom to check on Steven and Sadie, only to find them staring at a TV filled with static. When they turn to him, tears in their eyes, Lars puts his hands up and slowly backs away into the shop.
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In Adrian Mole: Adrian tries to back away from being rebuked by his environmentally-fanatic manager Brown about his toilet seat.
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In Mass Effect 2, an unnamed quarrian can be seen doing this when Tali storms up to Admiral Shala'Raan demanding an explanation for why Tali wasn't told about her father's expected death.
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Rebuild World: When Sheryl's gang gets taken on an expedition by Akira into the wilderness, Nasha talks to Selba about what's going on, and he starts raving like a madman about how he's The Resenter of Akira, prompting Nasha to do this and try and stay out of any trouble (which Selba does indeed cause).
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A notable asdfmovie fan submission New dog........? ends with two men growling at each other, with a third man awkwardly backing away. Strangely enough, once the video was adapted into an official asdf sketch, the third man was removed for some reason.
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Lackadaisy: When going to Ivy's school Rocky starts to realize Ivy is upset with him and slides behind Calvin, and backing away slowly with his arms raised as she runs at them claiming that "Whatever I did it wasn't me!" before she launches herself at him and starts hitting him with a magazine. (He is indeed responsible for what she is upset over.)
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In the Lost episode "Sundown," The Temple is being attacked by the Smoke Monster. Sayid has just killed Dogen and Lennon and Ben comes in to say "Come on, I know a way out of here. There's still time." In response to this, Sayid smiles like a madman and says "Not for me." Ben then quietly backs out of the room without a word.
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Auralnauts Star Wars: In "Attack of the Phantom Past", Darth Vader chews out his daughter Leia for not phoning him to let him know she was still alive (he thought she'd been killed when Laser Moon blew up). Boba Fett walks into the room shortly after Leia — then as the family argument gets awkward, he slowly walks backwards, the way he came.
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In the CollegeHumor short Furry Superheroes Are Super Gross - FURRY FORCE, the bad guys back away slowly as the cow girl (as in half girl-half cow) demonstrates some martial arts, resulting in some pretty extreme bouncing.
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius:
In Season 1 "Raise of the Oozy Scab", Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, and Cindy go underwater in a submarine to look for treasure. When they get lost, Sheen panics saying they don't have enough food and he's not going to eat Carl. Carl says he's not going to eat Sheen, but then retracts his statement saying maybe a bite, which freaks Sheen and Cindy out making them back away from him.
In Season 2 "The Junkman Cometh", when Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, and Goddard sees a "Moonie Man", Carl ask what should they do. Sheen thinks the only three choices they have are crying, running, or having an embarrassing accident, Carl says he might do all three, making Jimmy, Sheen, and Goddard move away from him.
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Independence Day: While Jimmy demonstrates to Steve how kneeling makes it easier to kiss a superior's butt, Steve's engagement ring for Jasmine falls out of his locker and Jimmy picks it up for him. Another airman walks in just in time to see what looks like Jimmy proposing to Steve and slowly backs away.
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Quizzical: From Thweet Geniuth's "And the Winner Is..." Reprise:
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Loading Artist: "Dead End" features a couple of aliens in a spaceship who are lost. They consider asking a nearby planet (Earth) for directions, but after seeing they're currently in the middle of a nuclear war they put the ship in reverse and start backing up.
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The Fairly OddParents!: In "That's Life!", Mrs. Turner wins a gardening contest and is awarded a prize tulip, which instantly wilts because "Everything I touch DIIIIIIES!" Everyone present takes a step back.
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In The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Link's response to Darunia dancing to Saria's song is to back away slowly.
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The Force Awakens: In one scene, two Stormtroopers walks in on Kylo Ren having a fit and both slowly walk away.
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Invader Zim:
In "Bolognius Maximus", Gaz backs away from Dib when he yells "Gaz! Taste me--I'M DELICIOUS!"
In "Bestest Friend", Zim goes up to a kid and says he's looking to see if he's interested in being his friend. The kid says "I was born with webbed fish toes, like some kind of horrible fish boy. Wanna see?" and Zim quickly backs away with a disturbed look on his face.
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Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: In the Marie Route Alternate Timeline, after Julius makes an arrangement for Leon Throwing the Fight in their Mini-Mecha duel and then double crosses Leon, Leon approaches Julius in a Tranquil Fury, causing Julius to back away like this until he has nowhere to go and gets a Metronomic Man Mashing that obliterates his mech and leaves him a Bandage Mummy.
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SpongeBob SquarePants:
Such a moment occurs in "Arrgh!".
In "Chocolate with Nuts", when SpongeBob and Patrick first meet the Chocolate Guy, they start backing away slowly as he gets more agitated, then start running when he chases after them.
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In Season 2 "The Junkman Cometh", when Jimmy, Carl, Sheen, and Goddard sees a "Moonie Man", Carl ask what should they do. Sheen thinks the only three choices they have are crying, running, or having an embarrassing accident, Carl says he might do all three, making Jimmy, Sheen, and Goddard move away from him.
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Chipper & Sons Lumber Co..: Every date scene (save for the last one) ends with Tyke backing away uncomfortably from dinner with incompatible suitors his father keeps hooking him up with... while still glued to his chair.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
In "Call of the Cutie", a recurring background character known as Time Turner slowly backs away from Apple Bloom when she gets a bit pushy while selling apples.
Similarly, in "Party of One", Rainbow Dash has a similar reaction when she witnesses Pinkie Pie's Sanity Slippage while throwing a one-person birthday party.
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Central Park: In Season 1 "Garbage Ballet", Owen tries to comfort Molly after her disastrous first kiss with Brendan, but Molly is too frustrated with what happened to be comfort. Owen backs away from Molly, but he assures her it's not her it's him.
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The Spoony Experiment: At the end of the second part his review of Final Fantasy X, Spoony is singing "A Whole New World" when Dr. Insano walks in to tell him that Mechakara has stolen Neutro, sees him singing, and slowly backs away.
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In Super Mario Maker 2, if you screw up the slide matching mini-game, the mismatched item you created pops out, causing Mario to back away slowly.
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Ghostbusters: In the elevator, Egon activates Ray's proton pack and attempts to back himself and Peter away... but they're in a cramped elevator, so there's nowhere for them to go.
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In the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "Momma's Little Ed," Double D excuses himself from Ed's embrace this way after Ed insists that they move in together, be like brothers and "share the same bathroom." For added comedy, there's even the sound of a truck backing up in the background.
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The T.U.F.F. Puppy episode "The Dog Who Cried Fish" has Dudley, Kitty and Keswick back away from the Chief after he blames the flood on ghost rain.
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Homestar Runner: At the end of "The Homestar Runner Goes For the Gold", after Strong Sad turns into Strong Glad and sprouts a pair of long, feminine legs, everyone else awkwardly backs away as he does a victory dance.
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Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi: Wei Wuxian is so perturbed to see his Love Interest Lan Wangji stripped down (as he's about to take a bath) that he starts slowly backing away to create some distance between the two. Lan Wangji however keeps walking towards him, and eventually Wei Wuxian finds himself against the wall while trying hard to not ogle at the naked man.
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Samantha Who?: In one episode, Samantha confronts the woman who tried to run her over, a Psycho Ex-Girlfriend of her then-current boyfriend. As she prepares to leave, she is told "You shouldn't turn your back on me again", to which Sam scoffs, fails to be fearless and instead backs slowly.
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games, during the archery contest, after Twilight finally hits the bullseye, Spike goes and congratulates her... in front of Sour Sweet, who's quite taken aback by the talking dog. She's then seen slowly slinking away in the background.
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In the Friends episode "TOW the Lesbian Wedding", everyone except Rachel, who was sitting down, does this when Phoebe claims that she was possessed by a massage client who died on the table.
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Dexter's Laboratory: At the end of "Dollhouse Drama", Dee Dee gets Mom to confront Dexter for accidentally breaking her Darbie doll. As they barge into his room, they see that Dexter (who had been having some major Sanity Slippage throughout the episode) has hooked Darbie to a medical device and he tells them to be quiet so she can "sleep", causing both to slowly walk out with disturbed expressions.
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On the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Conspiracy" Picard starts to do this when he realizes that Starfleet has been infiltrated by worm eating aliens. Riker shows up behind him and convinces hims to stay for dinner.
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