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Some fighters are so badass that they don't even have to look. They can beat you with their back to you. If both opponents attempt to fight each back to back, this may lead to dizziness on the part of the combatants. This would not make them Back-to-Back Badasses. It would celebrate the joys of spinning around like idiots. Sometimes, to show how much stronger their kung fu is, one fighter turns around condescendingly to expose their weak spot. The other, incensed by this, runs up and starts throwing everything they have at them. However, their attacks are all avoided or parried easily, usually with a single hand, and without even looking. Similarly, for a finishing move in a sword fight, the user can thrust their sword under their shoulder, stabbing the opponent in the process. Characters with super regeneration have even been known to stab the enemy through themselves. If the hero is fighting against an opponent before him simultaneously, he may nevertheless wreck a rear attacker with a Dangerous Backswing. In a Single-Stroke Battle, started and finished as his opponent charged him, the victor can sheathe his sword and walk away, paying no mind to the lifeless body of the person he defeated in seconds as it falls to the ground. Compare Offhand Backhand (suddenly striking someone behind you without even looking), Unflinching Walk (which can overlap with this trope), and also to In the Back. |
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Link from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess gains the Mortal Draw late in the game. He performs it by sheathing his sword and shield, not targeting an enemy, and turning his back to them. When they attack, he spins and delivers an instant kill. | |
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In Devil May Cry 4 Nero impales the final boss with a sword held backhand while facing away. Dante also has Shotgun skill, which lets him literally shoot behind himself without looking there. The above is a Mythology Gag. When we first see Vergil draw Yamato in Devil May Cry 3, he slices a Hell Vanguard into several pieces without even turning to face it, establishing himself as every bit the badass his brother is. Makes sense, since Word of God confirms that Nero is Vergil's son. |
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Samurai Shodown: Tachibana Ukyo fights like this all the time. He's pretty good at it, too. | |
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Ranma ½ In an extreme example, Ranma Saotome defeats rival Ryouga while asleep, without ever consciously being aware that he was in a fight. Another example is when Ryoga is able to counter any attack thrown at him in two episodes/chapters, even when completely unguarded, shackled to steel prison balls, (which admittedly wouldn't be heavy for him anyway) and with his back turned. This is, however, completely justified in that a Martial Arts Calligraphy master has given him "the mark of the battling gods", which amps his fighting abilities to ultra high levels but is also an immensely embarrassing doodle that can only be removed if someone defeats him. |
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In The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, John Bigboote knocks a guy out with a solid punch while standing perfectly still, without even turning or looking in his direction. | |
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Gin of Bleach once released his extending sword from its sheath without looking behind him and impaled Aizen in the heart. | |
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In Epic (2013), Ronin blocks an attack from behind with the scabbard of his sword, without even a flinch. | |
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Evil Ryu also does this after a Shun Goku Satsu in Alpha 3, CvS2, and SFIV, though no kanji appears on his back. Meanwhile Kage in V has the kanji for "destruction" appear on his back after his Shun Goku Satsu. | |
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The climactic drug factory shootout in RoboCop (1987) features the titular character shooting a thug standing above him by firing over his own right shoulder, and explicitly being able to shoot another thug while looking in the opposite direction. Having a targeting system helps; prior to becoming RoboCop, Murphy was a terrible shot. | |
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Szark from Dominic Deegan does a lotnote January 6, 2018 of things from behind. | |
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In the SNK vs. Capcom series, Akuma does this, as mentioned above—whether in his regular form or in his Shin form, and either as a victory pose or after pulling off his Shun Goku Satsu. Rugal does this as well in his God/Ultimate form after pulling off his Shun Goku Satsu, though he does not have a kanji appear on his back, like Evil Ryu. | |
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Bloody Roar: While Shenlong's backward stance doesn't give him a lot of options and is mostly for comboing into moves that you can't perform facing forward. However, his backwards punch is abnormally fast and hilarious to spam. It works great against human players who don't see it coming. Both he and Long also have a powerful beast-form attack where they smash the opponent with their back. Naturally, a few of their combos end with their backs turned. |
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The almost-final scene in The Matrix. Doubly badass because the rest of the film is pretty much establishing how awesome the Agents are, and triply badass because Neo (not Mr. Anderson) looks utterly bored while doing it. | |
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In The Phantom Menace, Darth Maul finds himself with his back to Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and flips his double-bladed lightsaber back and forth to perfectly deflect both their attacks in quick succession. | |
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In an early X-Wing Rogue Squadron comic, agent Winter dodges a Stab the Scorpion moment and fires behind herself without looking◊ to hit the creature sneaking up on her. A little later she splashes another one in the face with the equivalent of scalding coffee, but she turned around◊ to do it. | |
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Lara does this to Larson in the original Tomb Raider. | |
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In D.Gray-Man, General Cross Marian is so badass that he can one-shot three Akuma that try to jump him from behind at once, without looking. Do not mess with Cross. | |
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In a flashback in Naruto we saw that, as a kid, Killer Bee thwarted an assassination attempt against himself by simply turning around to deflect a kunai with the handle of a sheathed sword on his back, which he apparently did completely by accident without even realizing what was going on. | |
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Guilty Gear -Strive-: Leo Whitefang enters Brynhildr stance, turning his back to his opponent, after a Zweites Kaltes Gestöber or holding S after Turbulenz. In Brynhildr, Leo has more offensive options but cannot jump or block. | |
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In The King of Fighters, one of the characters, K, has a backward walking animation which is just him turning around and walking the opposite way. | |
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In Trigun, an encounter between the hero Vash and the villain Brilliant Dynamite Neon, ends with BDN having his back turned towards Vash while firing a surprise gun underneath his shoulder. | |
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Chase Young from Xiaolin Showdown does this several times, mostly while fighting/"training" Omi during the second season. | |
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It's eventually lampshaded in Power Rangers Samurai, where the monsters find it insulting. | |
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There are many cases of characters turning their back on an enemy after delivering the finishing blow but not seeing the consequences. This almost never backfires. The Power Rangers are particularly guilty of this. It's eventually lampshaded in Power Rangers Samurai, where the monsters find it insulting. The one time it does backfire is in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. The Rangers turn, and don't see that the monster was staggering but recovering and not about to fall down go boom as usual. The Rangers get blasted from behind, possibly a first in all of Tokudom. |
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Gigantamax Blastoise keeps its back turned to its opponents, the better to use its myriad cannons against them. | |
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Iron Man 2: After plowing through a wall while fighting Rhodey (and landing with an elegant palm-thruster-boost while Rhodey sprawls on his ass amongst Tony's gym equipment), Tony does this along with an equally condescending "Now, put that back where you found it before somebody gets hurt." Rhodey responds by chucking a barbell weight disc at Tony's head. Tony glares at him over his shoulder, and the fight is back on. | |
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Injustice 2: Darkseid, fond as he is of the Reverse Arm-Fold, actually pulls one for his Super attack, looking away with a chuckle before casually sending out a particularly strong burst of Omega Effect, which goes all the way over him to hit his hapless enemy anyways. | |
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La Rosa Negra won Ring Warriors' Battling Bombshells Title belt by turning to catch Su Yung in a power slam as Yung charged her from behind while Negra was talking trash to Sienna Duvall after knocking Duvall out of the ring. Negra dared Duvall to come try as she climbed the turn buckle to finish Yung with a frog splash. Duvall waited for Negra to do a victory dance later and then attacked her from behind successfully. | |
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Subverted in the first chapter of Mazinger Z Go Nagai manga. Sayaka sorties in Aphrodite-A to stop a mysterious Humongous Mecha that is trashing the city that mysterious Humongous Mecha being Mazinger-Z, "piloted" by a Kouji Kabuto that had just gotten into the robot and had absolutely no idea of how to actually control the damned thing. When she strikes it, the Humongous Mecha easily withstands its attack, heaves Aphrodite-A and throws her away... and then it turns its back towards her. Sayaka is incensed, believing that robot thinks Aphrodite is not good enough to fight and is making fun of her. Her father is worried and requests her to be careful because a monster is dangerous even if he has its back turned to her. She gets ready to attack, when the Humongous Mecha suddenly turns around... and Kouji manages to communicate with her and explain that he did all that because he did not know how to pilot the robot. | |
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Used by both Chris Jericho and Christian in their entrances, though inverted in that they are technically facing the direction sneak attacks come from. It's straighter when one is defending champion and thus comes out last. | |
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The readers' first indication that Ruby of Pokémon Adventures isn't as wimpy as he looked? When he performed this trope against the not-so-unconscious Seviper after he had finished treating Sapphire's wounds. | |
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Ogres in Dragon Age: Origins are able to deliver backward kicks in combat, which makes flanking them with a rogue something of an unrewarding experience. | |
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In the first season of Slayers, Gourry pulls this off while alone and searching for Lina after she gets kidnapped by Zelgadis. Accidentally disturbing a huge Beast Man in the form of a cat-man with horns and sabre fangs, he turns his back to it upon realizing it isn't Lina and, after effortlessly dodging its blows, reaches back with one hand and breaks a fang clean out of its mouth with a single flick of the finger. Said Beastman promptly decides to beat a hasty retreat. | |
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Sin City: Miho purposefully shows her back to a mob enforcer in order to enrage him enough to attack. The fight ends with her kicking his head off his shoulders. | |
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Balalaika from Black Lagoon also gets in on this in the Washimine Arc. When the leader of the Washimine Clan tries to kill her by drawing a sword and attempting to kill her from behind he finds himself having been stabbed instead and with a knife at his throat. She throws in a Pre-Mortem One-Liner, which she asks Rock to translate, just before snapping the leader's neck in a display of pure evil badass. | |
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In an episode of Stargate SG-1 a Brainwashed and Crazy Teal'c is fighting off a Replicator invasion. He has defeated seemingly all of them. Then one quietly crawls along the wall behind him. Teal'c doesn't even bother turning around. He turns his staff weapon (notoriously difficult to aim) around and blasts it. It helps that the Replicators make a distinctive metal-on-metal clang when moving. The very next episode showed flashbacks of Teal'c being trained to fight blindfolded by his Old Master Bra'tac. | |
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In Wonder Woman (2017), during the beach battle, Steve Trevor shoots a German soldier without looking at him. | |
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In the anime adaptation of Haruhi Suzumiya, Yuki defeats Asakura with her back turned to her? The fact that she keeps her stoic attitude despite being pierced through by metal spears and energy lances doesn't lower the awesomeness. | |
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Done by Teana during the final battle of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS. Expecting the ambush-happy Cyborg Deed to attack from behind, Teana blindly blocks Deed's Twin Swords with her own daggers, then guides an energy bullet to Deed's head while she's staring in shock. | |
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Elizabeth does a backward under-shoulder thrust with two swords in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, impaling two of Davy Jones' men behind her. | |
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Pulp Fiction has this as well. Butch slashes the pawn-shop owner with a katana, walks past him, then finishes him off by thrusting it behind him. | |
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Lyn as a Blade Lord in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade will turn her back to the screen before delivering a critical hit unto her enemy, if she is wielding a sword other than the Sol Katti. | |
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In Zatch Bell!, Tia and Megumi were amazed to see that Kiyo cast Zaker on Maruss and his book holder without even turning around to face them. | |
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Batman: Bruce and his various protégés are rather fond of this one, to the point that it almost seems as though thugs are less likely to hit him if their attack comes from behind. | |
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John Preston in Equilibrium does this a lot, only with guns. | |
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AJ Styles, Paul Burchil and Bellito Calderon each have their on variation of the pele kick and are all fairly difficult to approach from behind for this reason, as Kazuchika Okada can attest in the case of the former. | |
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Rosette does this in the very first chapter of Chrono Crusade, shooting a humongous demon while in the middle of conversation without bothering even to turn around and then nonchalantly chiding it for interrupting. | |
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Fate/Requiem: Koharu tries to attack Nzambi from behind while she she is busy talking to Erice, but Nzambi swats her out of the air without turning around. | |
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Swordsman Zatoichi (2003 film included) routinely impales attackers coming from behind without turning or looking. But then again he does the same to all attackers since he is blind. | |
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Similar to the above example, in Melty Blood Act Cadenza onwards, Kishima Kouma's backward walk is just turning around and walking away. He doesn't even look directly at his opponent when he guards. | |
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In The Lion King (1994), Rafiki knocks a hyena flat with his stunning blind behind the back fist raise. | |
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In The Fifth Element, Leeloo gets several of these during the opera scene. The most amusing example is at the end: she's lining up a dazed mook (in front of her) for a final blow when another approaches from behind, seemingly unnoticed. She takes them both out with a one-two punch right in time with the music. | |
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Red vs. Blue: Tex (who else?) pulls this off during the training session against three other Freelancers in Season 9. Rather than actually attacking her opponent though, she simply ducks and lets his punch hit the opponent in front of her. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: In "Beware the Creeper", Batman is actually decked by the Creeper while the latter tries to hit up Harley Quinn, being sent across the room without the Creeper even acknowledging his presence. | |
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Pretty much every protagonist in Madness Combat. | |
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Ash in Army of Darkness kills his first deadite with an over-the-shoulder boomstick shot. | |
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Blackthorne has the titular character able to shoot his shotgun behind the back, using what amounts to the gunner equivalent to an Offhand Backhand. | |
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Archibald Cunningham in Rob Roy will occasionally step past his opponents, blocking their final shot over his shoulder, and then arrogantly saunter away before re-engaging. This exposes one of his Fatal Flaws: overconfidence, and nearly gets him killed in his very first scene when Guthrie makes to backstab him after their duel. | |
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Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: Anyonenote below Master-Class who approaches Miu from behind normally finds themselves on their back. | |
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There are a number of Pokémon that keep their backs turned towards the enemy in battle for varying reasons: Mawile's main method of attack is a set of huge steel jaws protruding from the back of its head. Mega Sceptile can fire off the end of its tail like a missile. Turtonator has a critical weak point on its chest, while its shell is incredibly tough. Gigantamax Blastoise keeps its back turned to its opponents, the better to use its myriad cannons against them. |
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The most badass version? Yoshimitsu in the Tekken series and his same-named ancestor in the Soul Series. Why is it the most badass? Well, the move's English names are Suicide and Turning Suicide ... The series also has several characters who enter a different series of moves based on having their back turned. Keep in mind that with Feng Wei (Kempo), such techniques do exist. |
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Mega Man X6: Rainy Turtloid will always have his back facing out towards the screen, showing off the two crystals in his shell. This is to highlight his powerful defenses which can only be compromised by destroying both crystals. | |
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Mega Man ZX: Fistleo will occasionally show off his back to Vent/Aile while glowing with an ominous Battle Aura in a manner highly reminiscent of Akuma. It's so badass, in fact, that if you try to attack him he'll launch a devastating Counter-Attack. | |
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In the Dead or Alive fighting game series, several of Ayane's most powerful attacks require her to have her back turned towards her opponent before they can be executed. In the same series, Brad Wong has a whole slew of attacks that are only effective when his back is turned, or even when he's laying down. This is more the result of his fighting style: Drunken Boxing, than badass-ness. |
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The Moonwalker version of "Smooth Criminal" has Michael Jackson shooting down the bad guys from behind while grooving and flirting with the ladies. | |
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It's not turning his back on an enemy but in the introduction to Vagrant Story we get to see Ashley Riot striding into certain danger, his back to the camera (and the person he's talking to) while delivering my favourite badass line ever. "Reinforcements? I am the reinforcements." | |
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River also pulls this one a couple of times in the famous Maidenhead bar fight in Serenity. In a blink-and-you'll miss-it moment in the final battle with the Reavers, River turns her back to most of the Reaver horde. Six of them close in on her from behind, at which point she suddenly leans over backward, her sword slicing around in a single motion, and kills all of them. Earlier, in War Stories, she takes out three enemies each with a single shot with only a single glance several seconds earlier to check their locations. She even says "Can't look" as she does this. |
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In The Force Awakens, Han Solo manages to shoot a First Order Stormtrooper without even looking at them. Goes to show that even old age won't stop Han from shooting first. | |
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Practically all of the characters in Capcom's fighting games back away in a defensive retreat, but Dio/Shadowdio of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure will turn his back on his opponent to casually saunter away. Many of his special moves include the back-turning animation, crossing his arms over his chest before unleashing the power. | |
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In Tales of Graces F, once all of the conditions are met, Malik can perform the Blast Caliber Malik Beam, which has him turning his back to the enemy and FIRING A HUGE LASER AT THEM WITH HIS BACK. | |
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Achilles blocks several arrows without looking by throwing his shield on his back in Troy. | |
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The Soft Master from G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (Marvel) does this against Destro... who has just fired rockets at him. | |
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Archer of Fate/stay night has a sprite that features him facing away from the camera. When you see this, you know he's about to say something incredibly badass and do something incredibly badass. | |
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Ezio can do this in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. One kill animation involves him killing one guard, attacking a second, moving on to a third, then finishing the second off with a throat stab. | |
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The one time it does backfire is in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder. The Rangers turn, and don't see that the monster was staggering but recovering and not about to fall down go boom as usual. The Rangers get blasted from behind, possibly a first in all of Tokudom. | |
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The Chronicles of Riddick: Riddick does this ad nauseam. | |
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The sixth series of Doctor Who does this with River Song shooting one of the Silents from behind whilst in mid-conversation. Doubly awesome because she can't remember that it's there or that there's even an enemy. | |
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The Dog Stars: Bangley kills a raider with a blast of submachinegun fire while looking directly at his sniper partner in the distance. He does it to make a point. | |
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Played straight in that the player can do it too, but it takes serious practice to get the angle right (mis-firing can result in shooting yourself in the head, several YouTube videos give a good example). | |
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On Person of Interest Root is able to do this against Hersh when escaping from the mental institution. It helps that she has Improbable Aiming Skills courtesy of a supercomputer. | |
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In Ronin (1983), the main character actually stabs himself through the side in order to kill a demon who was attacking from behind. (This is necessary: to kill the demon requires the blood of an innocent.) | |
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The Avengers (1998): While Mrs. Peel is swordfighting with Steed, she briefly turns her back to him but continues to block his blows over her shoulder. | |
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Blindness, a built-in radar and keen enough senses to follow an opponent's moves through scent or air displacement, makes this a standard routine for Daredevil. For years the word on the street was that DD was telepathic. | |
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If Diamond Dallas Page, Steve Austin, or Randy Orton are showing their back to you, do not run up on them. All three use a Finishing Move that's a variation of "grab opponent's head while it's over your shoulder and drop", and are in fact easier to perform when approached/grabbed from behind. | |
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In Beast Wars, when Cheetor reaches Transmetal 2 level, he shows off how badass he is by casually shooting Waspinator, who was sneaking up behind him, over his shoulder without looking. | |
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In Gradius V, a few bosses, most notably the third boss in the boss rush of Stage 2, can fly behind your ship and attack you. Unless you have a tail gun or directional aiming, our only hope is to dodge until they fly back in front of you. | |
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The blind warrior Voldo, in the later Soul Calibur/Soul Edge games, is the only fighter in the series who can fulfill this trope. He has a full array of moves he can use with his back to an opponent, including throws, and, unlike every other member of the cast, can block attacks directed at his back (at least, as a normal part of his gameplay. Other CPU-controlled characters who shouldn't be able to do this can in Soulcalibur III). Another fighter, Yoshimitsu, is a kind of... undead cyborg alien samurai... thing. Anywho, one of his attacks is turning his back to his opponent, and stabbing his sword through his gut (which does also hurt him). The attack has a very short range, justified in that it is hilarious every time it is pulled off. |
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In Identity Crisis (2004), Deathstroke manages to skewer the Flash on his sword with a blind strike behind him, despite the fact that the Flash at that point is moving so much faster than Deathstroke that the villain must have looked like an inanimate statue to the hero. | |
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Rigwarl the Bristleback from Dota 2 has a back covered in quills. One of his abilities means he takes 40% less damage from attacks that hit his back and if he takes enough damage from the back, he sprays some of his quills, damaging anyone close enough. Considering he can also cast the Quill Spray independently every 3 seconds and that the damage from the quills increases each time an enemy is hit, it is not unheard of for Bristleback to take down multiple enemies with his back to them. | |
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Turtonator has a critical weak point on its chest, while its shell is incredibly tough. | |
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Starting with Halo 2, the Hunters in Halo acquire a behind-the-back melee, which is an instant kill on Legendary difficulty. | |
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Mega Man Zero 4: Heat Genblem, another turtle-based boss, will also show off his back in order to block Zero's attacks. Keep up the assault, and he'll eventually face-forward to launch a Counter-Attack, which also leaves him open to attack. | |
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Zero teleports in facing away from his opponent in Marvel vs. Capcom 3. | |
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A flashback from True Blood features Eric killing one of the werewolves attacking his family with a backward sword thrust. Mind you, this is before he became a vampire. | |
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In Tsukihime, Nrvnqsr's back literally sends Shiki flying without the former even realizing it. | |
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A variant of this is done in a season 3 episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Fencing, Giles is reading, his head turned away from his opponent. Of course, his opponent is Wesley. | |
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Star Wars Legends: In one comic, Vader fights a clone or copy of Darth Maul, and in order to win stabs himself through the torso to get at Maul, who's behind him at the time. It's an attempt at symbolism through the trope, because the Dark Side Adepts who provided his opponent say he is unworthy as a Sith, as he doesn't hate purely enough - they say that his love for Padme is still there and weakens him. After he's defeated their champion, said champion asks in his last breath who or what he can hate so much to defeat him. Vader's answer? "Myself." In an early X-Wing Rogue Squadron comic, agent Winter dodges a Stab the Scorpion moment and fires behind herself without looking◊ to hit the creature sneaking up on her. A little later she splashes another one in the face with the equivalent of scalding coffee, but she turned around◊ to do it. |
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In The Dinosaur Lords, when one of the nobles standing behind Falk declares general retreat before the battle even begins, Falk decapitates him without even looking back, then dares anyone else to defy Emperor's orders. The others, predictably, fall silent. | |
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Apparently deciding that taking out a dragon wasn't enough for proving her badass credentials, Yue Ayase of Negima! Magister Negi Magi managed to do this to a demon trying to sneak up on her by stabbing it in the torso with a BFS she pulled out of thin air. | |
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Firefly: Atherton Wing does this to a sorely outmatched Mal, who tries to attack and gets stabbed. Despite this, Wing later gets distracted and loses. River also pulls this one a couple of times in the famous Maidenhead bar fight in Serenity. In a blink-and-you'll miss-it moment in the final battle with the Reavers, River turns her back to most of the Reaver horde. Six of them close in on her from behind, at which point she suddenly leans over backward, her sword slicing around in a single motion, and kills all of them. Earlier, in War Stories, she takes out three enemies each with a single shot with only a single glance several seconds earlier to check their locations. She even says "Can't look" as she does this. |
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In Metroid: Samus Returns, you can shoot at a 360 angle, so its possible to shoot behind you without turning around. You can even do it while running. | |
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ZOE Commander in Ace Combat 2 and Mobius One from Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War's bonus mission, The Gauntlet, of fly birds that can fire missiles backwards at the presumably tailgating player. They aren't the only ones, though. Truth in Television: Some AAMs, like the Python 4/5 and AA-11/R-73, have 360-degree targeting capability. | |
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Battle Royale, at least in the book, has Kiriyama pull one of these. When Inaba Mizuho tries to sneak up on him from behind and stab him, he points his gun behind him, shoots her, and walks off without even looking at her once. Technically, he does something similar with Sho, who thought he was stalking Kiriyama without having been noticed. Instead, Kiriyama leads him into a trap that gets his collar detonated, with Sho not realizing Kiriyama even knew he was there until the very end. |
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Street Fighter 's Akuma tends to do this after winning a fight, especially if he ends it with his lethal signature attack, the Shun Goku Satsu. The back of his gi also glows with the kanji for "heaven," where some of his opponents surely get sent after being felled by his fist. He takes it even further in Street Fighter V and with his Shin incarnation in the SNK vs. Capcom series. In those games, after either winning or successfully pulling off the Shun Goku Satsu, his back becomes emblazoned with a unique kanji that means "GODLIKE." Evil Ryu also does this after a Shun Goku Satsu in Alpha 3, CvS2, and SFIV, though no kanji appears on his back. Meanwhile Kage in V has the kanji for "destruction" appear on his back after his Shun Goku Satsu. Ryu in Alpha 3 will turn his back towards the screen if he finishes his opponent with a Shin Shoryuken or Metsu Shoryuken. Cammy also turns her back as part of one of her victory poses. In some games she does it while flashing a peace sign at the screen with her hat off, and in others she does it while giving a thumbs up and with her hat still on. |
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Mega Man: Mega Man X6: Rainy Turtloid will always have his back facing out towards the screen, showing off the two crystals in his shell. This is to highlight his powerful defenses which can only be compromised by destroying both crystals. Mega Man Zero 4: Heat Genblem, another turtle-based boss, will also show off his back in order to block Zero's attacks. Keep up the assault, and he'll eventually face-forward to launch a Counter-Attack, which also leaves him open to attack. Mega Man ZX: Fistleo will occasionally show off his back to Vent/Aile while glowing with an ominous Battle Aura in a manner highly reminiscent of Akuma. It's so badass, in fact, that if you try to attack him he'll launch a devastating Counter-Attack. |
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Mawile's main method of attack is a set of huge steel jaws protruding from the back of its head. | |
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Kitsune of Housepets! pulls this off twice against two consecutive foes. Once as part of his Fist of the North Star parody, and once as a triad with his fellow godly beings. | |
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A technique that puts a football-spin on this is used in Eye Shield 21. It's called the "Devil Bat Backfire," and is used by Monta. By memorizing Hiruma's passes to perfectly, he can catch the ball from behind, obliterating pretty much every cornerback he'll ever face. | |
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The Eternal Fighter Zero character Unknown, takes this trope even further by having her default standing animation face away from the players and her opponent. | |
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