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Behind a Stick
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The ability of animated characters to hide behind items clearly smaller than they are, be it a tree, a lamp post or a drawing pin. Perhaps they disappear into hammerspace? Sometimes two characters will lurk behind the same narrow object, clearly unable to see each other back there. Frequently the front end of one will emerge from one side, while the rear end of the second waggles out the other side. Or both front ends will emerge, spot one another, and resume the Chase Scene. Tree Cover is a related trope, done seriously, and generally at least plausibly (courtesy of a nice thick tree). Not to be confused with Driving Stick. |
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Makoto in Kanon tries this. It doesn't work — she is quite obviously behind the lamp post. | |
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In "Northwest Hounded Police", an escaped convict has been trying in vain to get away from Droopy, and eventually ends up on a tiny island with only two small rocks. | |
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Invisible, Inc.: All cover objects are treated equally in terms of concealment. Things like bookshelves, lockers, refrigerators and sofas make good cover, but agents can also use floor lamps, coffee tables, folding chairs, and even transparent glass holding cells just as effectively. | |
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Done in at least one Tom and Jerry short (and probably many more), in which the front and rear ends of the titular characters emerged from round the side of the pole in various combinations before either of them realised what was happening. | |
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Spoofed in, what else, The Simpsons, in which Fat Tony steps out from behind a tree sapling after hearing that the school would need construction for a wheelchair ramp. Played straight later in "The Fool Monty" when Mr. Burns steps out from behind the microphone stand. An EPA agent pops out from behind a thin tree when the Simpsons find a screamapillar in their backyard. In "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming", Sideshow Bob manages to hide behind a sculpture of jet planes in flight that conveniently resembles his silhouette. |
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The cat in Coraline can do this, teleporting by vanishing behind one object and then appearing from behind another. | |
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The Villain: Cactus Jack, being primarily inspired by Looney Tunes, does this at one point, with the title character and his horse hiding behind a cactus. | |
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The Yellow Submarine does this a couple of times to hide from Ringo behind lampposts. | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: One strip shows Hobbes hiding behind a standard lamp as he sneaks up on Calvin. Lampshaded when Calvin tries hiding behind a swing set but notices that the poles don't do a good job of hiding him. |
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Parodied in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends when Bloo is trying to sneakily follow Uncle Pockets, we see an object the perfect shape and size for him to hide behind, but he instead hides behind a lamp that doesn't cover him at all (also he's on the wrong side). When Bloo mentally revisits this scene he was properly hidden behind the lamp because he was wearing an invisibility cloak. | |
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In an episode of Shaun the Sheep, Shaun and Bitzer hide behind a very narrow tree while trailing a fox who raided the henhouse. | |
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Both Garfield and Odie hide behind a lamp in one Sunday strip. | |
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At one point, Sesame Street had a closing credit sequence in which Barkley the dog played hide-and-seek with a large group of children, who hid behind a tree too narrow to conceal them all. | |
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In the Silent Movie Big Moments from Little Pictures, a group of policemen (an imitation of The Keystone Cops) dash behind a stack of barrels, which is large enough to hide them all with the right camera angle. But the stack is nowhere NEAR big enough to hide the car that then drives out from behind it (around the 23 second mark). | |
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Total Drama: Lindsay's first hiding spot in "Hide and Be Sneaky" is behind a thin tree. She has her arms stretched to look like branches, but all the same the tree should be too thin by a quarter for her head, chest, and hips. Yet it isn't, which is blatant when Lindsay leaves her hiding spot to join Heather in the main lodge. | |
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Improbable Island: Your first encounter with the sneaky bastard lion starts with you spotting its signature tail poking out from behind a two-foot-wide tree. Upon hearing your terrified mutterings, the seven-foot-long feline leaps at you. Lions are sneaky bastards, of course they can do that. Later encounters find the lion hiding in such diverse places as a sandwich and your underwear. Subverted in a later encounter with the same lion: You find a flowerpot with a suspicious pair of feline ears sticking out of it and call the lion out for thinking it's so clever — only to be pounced In the Back, as the lion had actually stuck an Animal-Eared Headband on the pot so it could ambush you while you were distracted thinking you'd figured it out. It actually mocks you for thinking it could possibly have fit in the pot. |
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In one Krazy Kat Sunday strip, Krazy hides (from the stork) behind an egg roughly the size of Krazy's head. | |
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Explicitly possible in the tabletop RPG Toon. If you succeed on a Hide/Spot Hidden skill check, then you are hidden. Somehow. It doesn't matter whether there's something you could have plausibly hidden behind. In fact, the skill is demonstrated in the rule book by an illustration of an elephant hiding from a hunter behind a parking meter. | |
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The Fanboy and Chum Chum episode "Total Recall" has the rotund Oz hide behind a thin lamppost. | |
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The 1933 Ub Iwerks Willie Whopper short Spite Flight provides the current page image, in which its Simon Legree-type villainous landlord leans out of his improbable hiding spot behind a 2-inch-thick tree trunk. | |
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In The Peanuts Movie, Snoopy hides behind a lamp while spying on the Little Red-Haired Girl. | |
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In Undertale, Sans tells the player character to go hide behind a "conveniently-shaped lamp" as Papyrus approaches. It fully conceals the player character, but only during the cutscene. | |
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Parodied in Bar'd, where the entire staff of the Leafy Bar sans Shelia tries to hide behind a tiny plant from Dejero, the true boss of the joint. | |
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Molly of Denali: In "Tooth or Consequences," Tooey uses a branch to hide his face while sneaking into the bunkhouse. | |
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Starting in 3rd Edition, some character classes in Dungeons & Dragons could get the Hide In Plain Sight ability, which allowed them to hide even if there was nothing for them to hide behind and even while hostile creatures were looking directly at them. | |
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In Mass Effect 2, as Thane's loyalty mission starts, he manages to vanish completely behind two passers-by, each walking in opposite directions. | |
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The Wacky Races episode "Beat the Clock to Yellow Rock" at one point has a scene where Dick Dastardly and Muttley manage to hide behind a cactus that's much thinner than both of them. | |
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Private Snafu: In "A Few Quick Facts about Fear", Snafu and his warhorse manage to behind a tree trunk that is far narrower than the horse is wide. | |
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A few years later, Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes stable were fond of this. A common joke they would also have is where a character based on Frank Sinatra would be able to do this behind his microphone stand. Not as a trick, but because he's just that skinny. In Confusions of a Nutzy Spy, Missing Lynx manages to replicate himself for a moment by looking out from both sides of a tree at once. |
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Done subtly in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. In the scene where the hobbits are hiding from a Black Rider, the Rider actually emerges from behind a tree instead of riding in from the right side of the screen as you would expect, despite said tree being too small to hide the Rider and his horse. | |
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ReBoot has Bob do this while inside a pirate ship's prison cell to make the pirates think he's escaped. It's implied that Mouse had hacked that cell when she was previously forced to occupy it and installed hammerspace into it. | |
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Played with in Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire. At one point, an alien ninja (and the narration points out that every culture in the universe has its own version of ninja) is sneaking down a passage, then decides to hide in a small, somewhat shady corner... which shouldn't by any rationale be able to hide him. When he gets close to it, however, the dozens of other ninja already hiding in there tell him to go away. He also pulls it off straight shortly after. |
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The Killer Angels (and the film adaptation Gettysburg). General Pickett amuses his fellow officers with a tale of how he witnessed a long line of soldiers taking shelter from artilery fire behind a single tree, and how the line would sway from one side or the other every time a cannonball shot past. | |
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Subverted in a 1958 cartoon, Sick, Sick Sidney. In it, Sidney the Elephant tries to hide from safari hunters by getting behind a very thin tree. However, Sidney is too fat and thus unsuccessful, saying "Oh they just don't make trees like they used to." | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Voice", when Gumball admits to asking Darwin to make a surrogate confession to Penny, he comes out from behind a football goalpost. The former two try to do this in "The Guy", but are still visible. | |
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Thirty Hs: A ten-foot-tall character appears "from behind nothing much". | |
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Spoofed in two early Peanuts strips — Charlie Brown first tries this with a normal-sized tree but it doesn't work because his enormous round head protrudes on both sides of the trunk, so in the second example he finds a tree with a big square sign nailed to it at the right height... | |
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Used in the same manner as many cartoons in Justice League Heroes: The Flash. Occasionally, when you break a traffic light, a Mecha-Mook will be revealed as either having been hiding behind it or inside of it, despite the fact that the robot is several times wider than the post. | |
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1d4Chan, taking the Warhammer 40,000 rule that "tactical genius" Lord Ursarkar Creed can infiltrate anything (except cavalry), notes that he could hide a Baneblade behind a light post, a Titan in a swimming pool, or an army under your desk. | |
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Averted for humour in Beetle Bailey twice. Beetle has a hunch Sarge is watching him from hiding... mainly because Sarge is far too obese to fit behind the object he's standing behind, and the attempt just looks silly. Another time, inverse to the above, Beetle annoys Sarge by letting him know he's hiding behind a pole that can hide him because he's so much thinner. (Kind of played straight, sort of accidentally, in that the pole doesn't quite look thick enough to really cover him. But it's nothing like as extreme as the usual example, and the idea is that only someone so skinny could do it.) |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Green Isn't Your Color", Pinkie Pie repeatedly hides in places where she can't possibly fit, such as a small apple stand and a basket of sponges. Pinkie Pie is seen hiding under a rock in "Feeling Pinkie Keen", despite the rock still touching the ground with no gap underneath. In "The One Where Pinkie Pie Knows", Pinkie Pie hid herself and a large wagon loaded up with baked goods behind a thin tree. |
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Doctor Who: In "Time-Flight", the Master's TARDIS takes the form of a black classical column that is only just wide enough for him to stand behind unseen, and too narrow to include any kind of normal door. | |
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Used on Jimmy Two-Shoes, including Heloise popping out of the thin-as-a-pole Jimmy. | |
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A non-stealthy variation occurs in True Lies, when Butt-Monkey Gib is forced to step behind a lamppost when a terrorist opens fire on him. Despite said terrorist scoring several hits on the lamppost — and Gib being noticeably wider than it — he emerges unscathed when the terrorist runs off (though he does a quick body check to make sure everything is intact). | |
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Played with in Ed, Edd n Eddy, "Three Squares and An Ed", which features a rare example of displaying the back of the pole. The Eds are shown to somehow be able to alter their anatomy to resemble that of spaghetti while using the banisters in Ed's house to sneak past Sarah and Jimmy (who are trying to make sure the grounded Ed stays in his room). This manages to look hilarious and oddly creepy at the same time. Played straight in The Ed-Touchables. Eddy and Edd hide behind a pole while Ed keeps banging into it. |
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Seemingly spoofed in Power Connection, with three people (the two Cowboy Cop protagonists and an innocent nurse bystander in between them) hiding behind a narrow pillar during a shootout. The shooter is firing away with an Uzi, and all three of them try to align themselves to avoid being shot. | |
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This is one of the oldest tropes in animation history, dating back to Charles-Émile Reynaud's pioneering 1894 cartoon Pauvre Pierrot. When Harlequin's romantic rival Pierrot shows up, Harlequin hides behind an impossibly thin marble column. | |
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Tex Avery shorts: In "Northwest Hounded Police", an escaped convict has been trying in vain to get away from Droopy, and eventually ends up on a tiny island with only two small rocks. In the short Caballero Droopy, the villain jumps out from behind a cactus to stick Droopy up. Later, he goes behind the cactus and comes back out riding his horse. One Ham's Family has the wolf hiding behind a thin tree, then coming out disguised as Santa Claus. |
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Grand Theft Auto IV has a button that will result in the player taking cover behind walls, unrealistically bulletproof cars...and random detritus like fire hydrants and miniature bookshelves. | |
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Done a few times on Homestar Runner. At least twice, characters have managed to hide behind The Stick, an aptly-named local "landmark" consisting of a stick stuck in the ground. In one Strong Bad Email, "hiding", as part of a game of hide-and-seek, Strong Mad hid behind himself hiding behind The Stick. However, the fake Strong Mad was visible. | |
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In The Mercury Men, Edward attempts this, hiding behind a two-inch-wide narrow pole. | |
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Danger Has Two Faces, a police drama, has a final shootout in a forest with the protagonist, his Friend on the Force, and the hero's young son (kidnapped by the baddies and just rescued) taking cover from enemy fire by standing a straight row behind a tree. They eventually decide to stand on each other's shoulders because said tree isn't wide enough. | |
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A Gravity Falls short features Dipper investigating the Hide-Behind, a tall, skinny creature that can fold its body up so as to hide behind just about anything. | |
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