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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A common Weaksauce Weakness is flipping something or someone on their back. While it is possible to reorient, it usually takes a significant amount of wobbling to do so, leaving one vulnerable. In video games, this is very effective against Stone Wall enemies, especially shelled ones. A problem that tends to happens to turtles and tortoises (and Bender) from time to time. Examples: |
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The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Armogohma lands on her back when you shoot her in the eye with an arrow. This gives you an opportunity to control the nearest statue to her and deal a damaging blow by smashing her belly with its hammer. Also, the giant insect in twilit Lanayru lands this way once you've gotten it twice, allowing you to jump on it and use the area attack on its legs, thus dealing the finishing blow. | |
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Commented on in Get Fuzzy, when Bucky loses his trademark fang, and Rob's friend compares him to a flipped-over "wedge-bot" on Battlebots. "He's got nothin'." | |
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RoboCop (1987): ED-209's Weaksauce Weakness to stairs also displays its total inability to right itself after tipping over. It's left helplessly flailing and squealing. | |
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The Simpsons: When Selma takes Bart & Lisa to Duff Gardens, Surly (one of the costumed mascots, dressed as a Duff Beer bottle) falls over and can't get back up again. | |
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Tecmo Knight has andromorphic turtle-men enemies who flails about helplessly if knocked over on their shells. | |
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In TierZoo's episode on the Dinosaur Tier List, this trope was the Achilles' Heel of Ankylosaurus. While Ankylosaurus had superb defence in its armord back and a powerful club tail that could easily cripple enemies, it was left helpless and vulnerable if it was flipped over. For this glaring weakness, TierZoo placed it in A-Tier and not S-Tier. Notably, in the episode which speculated how dinosaurs would fare in the modern day, it was considered S-Tier, presumably due to far fewer animals that could flip it over. | |
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Epic Battle Fantasy 4: When Mighty Oak is defeated, and therefore, tipped over, Anna says: | |
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In Amada Anime Series: Super Mario Bros, Mario helps a Boomerang Brother who was stuck on his shell. In his gratitude, the Boomerang Brother travels with Mario to defeat Bowser. | |
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Alice: Madness Returns: The Hobby Horse and, in a New Game Plus, the Teapot Cannon, are good for inflicting this on Cannon Crabs. | |
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Dead Rising 3: The cutscene after defeating Darlene has this happen to her after her mobility scooter runs over some of her puke, before she's killed by choking on her own vomit. Justified due to her obesity. | |
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Super Mario 64 (DS): Whenever Mario or his friends defeat him by throwing him into a bomb, Bowser lands on his shell and groans in exhaustion in the original version, and helplessly flaps his arms and legs in the DS version. Bowser realizes there's nothing else he can do and promptly escapes while leaving behind a special key or the Giant Star. | |
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In Jurassic World, the Indominus rex picks a fight with a group of Ankylosaurus. Most of them scatter, but one stands her ground and uses her armor and tail to fend off the invader. After failing to bite through her back, the Indominus flips her over to kill her. | |
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Elementary: Sherlock brings home the pet turtle which used to be owned by the Victim of the Week, claiming he is going to make turtle soup out of it (after fattening it up first). At one point he uses it as a paperweight by putting it shell sidedown on a stack of papers. Joan is not pleased and puts poor Clyde back on his feet. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil: Buggy, a Sentient Vehicle built by Doraemon just for this adventure, is helpless when flipped over its back, which is how Doraemon and Nobita restrains it when it starts misbehaving. | |
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Dinotrux: Zigzagged. Ankylodumps can right themselves with their dump truck beds but only if a certain bolt is in place, without it they cannot right themselves. | |
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Persona 4: Teddie has a nearly spherical body, so struggles to get up when pushed on his back. | |
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My Name Is Earl: Crabman's pet turtle Mr. Turtle is scared of being flipped on his back, at least according to Crabman. It also describes Randy, according to Earl. | |
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Mario Bros.: Mario and Luigi can flip turtles (Shellcreepers) over by jumping up from directly below and hitting the level that the turtle's walking on. If neither Mario nor Luigi runs into the turtle and knocks it off, it eventually jumps out of its shell, kicks the shell over, gets back in and continues walking. This can be done with crabs (Sidesteppers) as well, but requires two hits. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Flumphs are saucer-shaped and not terribly strong, and if knocked prone have a chance to land upside-down and remain helpless and incapacitated until they're able to rock themselves rightside-up again. | |
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Shadow of the Colossus: This is the weakness of two bosses. The eighth Colossus is only vulnerable when it falls and lands on its back, while the ninth is flipped. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Aang tries to invoke this trope by flipping over the Fire Nation's Tundra Tanks with his airbending powers. However, this doesn't end up working like he hoped for: for the sole purpose of averting this trope, the design of the Tundra Tank includes a rotating cabin. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Spiked Beetle, Terrorpin, and Snapper are various enemies that are based on turtles and thus have this weakness. Typically they can be flipped with the hammer or the shield, or in the latter case, by getting underneath them using a Deku flower. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages: The boss of the fourth dungeon is beaten by flipping it with the Switch Hook. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Armogohma lands on her back when you shoot her in the eye with an arrow. This gives you an opportunity to control the nearest statue to her and deal a damaging blow by smashing her belly with its hammer. Also, the giant insect in twilit Lanayru lands this way once you've gotten it twice, allowing you to jump on it and use the area attack on its legs, thus dealing the finishing blow. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Walking Skullatulas, unlike their more difficult-to-hit hanging cousins, are easily flipped to expose their soft under belly for a Finishing Strike. |
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The A-Team was very fond of flipping over the vehicles of the bad guys in rather spectacular fashion; no matter what the stimuli was, they would normally fly into the air, flip 180 degrees and land upside-down. It even had its own camera angle to show this happening. | |
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Paladins: Makoa is a bipedal turtle whose "stunned" animation has him flailing about while stuck on the back of his turtle shell. | |
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Blood Bowl: In the video game versions, you can see a player get knocked down for whatever reason. When that happens, they need to get back on their feet otherwise they're vulnerable to getting stomped on. It's especially bad if a player with a drawback like Stupidity gets knocked over, as their condition might kick in and prevent them from getting up that turn. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: Mario Bros.: Mario and Luigi can flip turtles (Shellcreepers) over by jumping up from directly below and hitting the level that the turtle's walking on. If neither Mario nor Luigi runs into the turtle and knocks it off, it eventually jumps out of its shell, kicks the shell over, gets back in and continues walking. This can be done with crabs (Sidesteppers) as well, but requires two hits. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: The brothers can't get past the giant Koopas (known as Ankoopas, as in anchor Koopas) until they've learned the fire dash attack. Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: Certain enemy attacks could knock Bowser on his back, costing him several turns. Super Mario 64 (DS): Whenever Mario or his friends defeat him by throwing him into a bomb, Bowser lands on his shell and groans in exhaustion in the original version, and helplessly flaps his arms and legs in the DS version. Bowser realizes there's nothing else he can do and promptly escapes while leaving behind a special key or the Giant Star. Paper Mario: Koopas can be flipped on their backs when Mario jumps on them, which also lowers their defense. Beware, though: This can happen to Koopas in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which includes your own Koopa ally, Koops. This is subverted by the "Shady Koopa" enemy in this game, as they gain a more dangerous attack when flipped on their backs. This is how you defeat Hookbill the Koopa in Yoshi's Island and (adult) Bowser's first form in Yoshi's Island DS; Flip them over, then Ground Pound their underside to cause damage. |
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Gamera: In Giant Monster Gamera, the army attempted to invoke this to stop him. In their defense, no one could have anticipated the giant turtle would fire rocket boosters out of its shell and fly away. Gamera vs. Viras (AKA Destroy All Planets): the giant turtle Gamera is trapped lying on his back (shell) and a giant alien with a pointed head repeatedly spears him in the stomach while he's helpless. |
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Walking Skullatulas, unlike their more difficult-to-hit hanging cousins, are easily flipped to expose their soft under belly for a Finishing Strike. | |
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In an episode of M*A*S*H, an ambulance-truck flipped on its back demonstrates to Colonel Potter the general unfitness of his camp: after everyone pushing together can't get it rightside up, a group of six Marines happens by and rights it all by themselves. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles: This is a status effect called "Topple" which can only be activated after triggering another status called "Break". | |
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BattleTech: Mechs can be knocked over if they fail a piloting check after taking enough damage or suffering certain critical hits. Once on the ground, it may be very difficult for a mech to get back to its feet. Having a Small or Torso-Mounted Cockpit, Modular Armor, Hardened Armor, or damage to the mech's gyro or leg actuators all cause cumulative penalties on the piloting check needed to get back to its feet. If the optional Quirks rule is used, the No/Minimal Arms quirk causes additional penalty. This makes the Stalker II particularly vulnerable to being stuck on the ground- it combines Hardened Armor, a Torso-Mounted Cockpit, and those stubby little missile pods it has for arms for a serious penalty to attempts to right itself. Fortunately, thanks to its Hardened Armor, it's also fairly hard to inflict enough damage to force a piloting check to avoid knockdown in the first place. | |
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This is how you defeat Hookbill the Koopa in Yoshi's Island and (adult) Bowser's first form in Yoshi's Island DS; Flip them over, then Ground Pound their underside to cause damage. | |
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Paper Mario: Koopas can be flipped on their backs when Mario jumps on them, which also lowers their defense. Beware, though: This can happen to Koopas in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which includes your own Koopa ally, Koops. This is subverted by the "Shady Koopa" enemy in this game, as they gain a more dangerous attack when flipped on their backs. | |
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Moana: This happens to Tamatoa while he's pursuing Moana and Maui. Also a case of Hoist by His Own Petard in that his shell is so heavy due to all the gold he's attached to it because of his vanity. Earlier in the film, a young Moana ignores a beautiful conch shell to save a baby turtle that has been stranded on its back. It is implied that this kindness is what made the Ocean choose her to restore the Heart of Te Fiti. |
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Pikmin 2: Anode beetles are protected by their hard shells, which prevent Pikmin from damaging them when they're upright. However, they can be flipped over by throwing a Pikmin directly onto their backs, exposing their unarmored bellies to attack. The armor-plated Segmented Crabwster boss can only harmed by goading it into rolling into the side of its cave, which flips it upside-down and exposed the vulnerable bulge on its underside. |
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Pikmin 3: In order to harm a bugeyed crawmad, a lobster-like enemy whose shell makes it impossible to harm over most of its body, the player must flip it over by attacking its eyes and attack its soft, vulnerable belly. | |
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Even robots designed to operate when inverted can fall prey to this trope. In the 2021 season of Battlebots, Malice lost a fight to Madcatter when it got tipped onto its back end, teetering like a coin balanced on its edge, but unable to tilt itself upright or onto its top. | |
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In A Christmas Story, Ralphie's little brother is dressed up in so many layers for the Indiana winter, he can't get back up when he falls down. The narrator even mentions he looks like a turtle on his back. | |
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Futurama: In "Crimes of the Hot", Bender rescues a turtle because he feels a kinship with it, because he too can't get up when laid on his back. (He claims that all those times he got up from his back he was actually slightly on his side.) At the climax, when all the robots have to vent their emissions upward to save themselves, Bender and the turtle are on their backs, unable to get up. Then the turtle manages to flip over, which gives Bender the incentive to do the same. | |
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This was a common weakness in the early seasons of Robot Wars, which made wedges a popular shape and hydraulic flippers their weapon of choice. However, eventually competitors started entering robots which were either able to work both ways up, rolled or (for maximum Rule of Cool) use a SRIMECHnote Self RIghting MECHanism to flip themselves back over (after Cassius was able to do so with its flipper in the second season). Even robots designed to operate when inverted can fall prey to this trope. In the 2021 season of Battlebots, Malice lost a fight to Madcatter when it got tipped onto its back end, teetering like a coin balanced on its edge, but unable to tilt itself upright or onto its top. |
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Mega Man X8: The Mascot Mook Mettaurs are flipped over when hit by an Armor-Piercing Attack. | |
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In Giant Monster Gamera, the army attempted to invoke this to stop him. In their defense, no one could have anticipated the giant turtle would fire rocket boosters out of its shell and fly away. | |
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Questionable Content: Robot Buddy Winslow had been deliberating whether to upgrade to a humanoid body or stick with his current iPod-shaped one (a flat rectangle with stubby arms and legs). After spending about half a day stuck on his back, unable to get up until Hannelore came home and helped him, he decided that yeah, it's time to upgrade. | |
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In Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island, the protagonists found a giant sea turtle in this condition. However, while they went to bring a cart and carry it home, the turtle was carried away by a high tide. | |
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Naruto: As a part of their preparations for the Fourth Shinobi World War, the Allied Shinobi Forces send Naruto and Killer Bee to hiding on an island in the Land of Lightning. In reality, this island is a gigantic turtle. When Kabuto attacks the island, he uses the fact that it's a living creature to his advantage by flipping the turtle upside down with the combined effort of Manda II (a genetically altered giant snake summon) and Deidara (who Kabuto brought Back from the Dead with his Impure World Reincarnation technique). | |
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My Little Pony 'n Friends: They Crabnasties vulnerable to being turned on their backs, as they can't move or right themselves when in this position. | |
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Ash's Squirtle from Pokémon has frequently wound up helpless after landing on its back—until Ash taught it how to use Hydro Pump to both free himself and counterattack from that position. | |
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Drowtales: This trope is lampshaded when Kiel'ndia Val Vloz'ress' turtle golem gets flipped upside down by the Beldrobbaen spellcasters: | |
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In This Is Where I Leave You, protagonist Judd's wife is having an affair with his boss. When all of the above are at a hospital (it makes sense in context), Judd offers to pay a group of college athletes who are also there to flip over his boss's expensive sports car. When he explains why, they do it for free. It does not end well for the car. | |
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In Stitch!, Experiment 602 (Sinker) has a blind spot on his large fin that makes him immobile on land if he falls over to his side. | |
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Blade Runner: In the Voight-Kampff test that Holden gives to Leon, one of the questions involves a flipped tortoise. | |
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de Blob: Graydians can be seen rolling around on their backs trying to right themselves, as the heavy metal suits they're trapped in barely allow them to move. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, to defeat the fire crabs, Harry must cast Rictusempra to flip it over on its back, and then cast Flipendo while it's on its back to push it somewhere it can't reach him. | |
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Pikmin: Pikmin 2: Anode beetles are protected by their hard shells, which prevent Pikmin from damaging them when they're upright. However, they can be flipped over by throwing a Pikmin directly onto their backs, exposing their unarmored bellies to attack. The armor-plated Segmented Crabwster boss can only harmed by goading it into rolling into the side of its cave, which flips it upside-down and exposed the vulnerable bulge on its underside. Pikmin 3: In order to harm a bugeyed crawmad, a lobster-like enemy whose shell makes it impossible to harm over most of its body, the player must flip it over by attacking its eyes and attack its soft, vulnerable belly. |
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Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story: Certain enemy attacks could knock Bowser on his back, costing him several turns. | |
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Happens to Beetle in Kubo and the Two Strings, as seen in the page image. | |
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Gamera vs. Viras (AKA Destroy All Planets): the giant turtle Gamera is trapped lying on his back (shell) and a giant alien with a pointed head repeatedly spears him in the stomach while he's helpless. | |
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Goblins: Subverted with Kore, whose 24-hour plate armor and oversized tower shield getup includes a mechanical apparatus that stands him back up when he's knocked over. | |
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Om in Small Gods. Having been a powerful God once, and being that someone who proclaimed to serve him faithfully had been the one to flip Om over, he took it hard. | |
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DOOM Eternal: One Glory Kill has Doomguy grab an Arachnotron by the legs and flip it upside-down. Given that an Arachnotron's organic body is mostly exposed brain matter and it's mounted on a heavy, robotic spider chassis, this instantly squishes the monster dead. | |
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In Way of the Tiger, your ninja hero Avenger can flip enemies on their backs with different throw techniques. Avenger then follows up with an attack that gets significant bonuses to hit and damage. | |
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Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga: The brothers can't get past the giant Koopas (known as Ankoopas, as in anchor Koopas) until they've learned the fire dash attack. | |
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Super Smash Bros.: In Brawl and Ultimate, if Squirtle is footstooled while using its Side B special, it will become helpless on its back. | |
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