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Either by accident or design, a swarm of sharp objects (such as knives, arrows or axes) are hurtling toward the character. They somehow pin the character to the wall without actually cutting the character (one by each side, arm, leg, etc.). One final object — and it's always the final one — may land disturbingly close to the head or, in comedic cases, the crotch. Sometimes, especially in animated versions, the character has to go through increasingly complex contortions to make sure they don't get hit. This trope is frequently used in animated media meant for younger viewers to show the target has been incapacitated without injuring or killing them. Their clothes may or may not be affected; sometimes they really are pinned in place, and other times they can simply walk away, leaving a noticeably person-shaped silhouette of projectiles on the wall. Contrast William Telling. See also Pinned to the Wall. Related to the Inverse Law of Sharpness and Accuracy and, if the target is pinned, an inversion of the Inverse Law of Utility and Lethality. If intentional, usually requires Improbable Aiming Skills. Usually the end result of a Knife-Throwing Act. |
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Variant subversion: In a cutscene of the John Woo game Stranglehold, the main character, Inspector Tequila, ends up in an unexpected shootout in a teahouse with a band of vicious gangsters, one of whom takes cover behind an overturned wooden table. Tequila fires a series of shots through the table, creating an outline of the gangster, then pauses... and just as the gangster realizes he wasn't actually hurt and is about to leave, Tequila puts a final bullet into the middle of the outline and through his heart. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): In the Huntress feature "Into Darkness Once More" Helena pins the fence Sidney to the wall to question him by firing about ten arrows into his sleeves while not hitting his arms. | |
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In CLAMP School Detectives, during a kidnapping situation, Suoh does this to a mook with some kunai, in order to find out where Nokoru is. His last hit manages to break the mook's glasses in half, without even scratching his face. | |
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Ranma ½: The above picture is from the fifth season of the anime, where Ukyō ends up pinned to a tree by Shampoo throwing forks. Mousse also does this with knives to a patron flirting with Shampoo in another episode of the anime. And he also does it to Ranma's female form in another episode. Shampoo does it to two Muggles in an early manga story, by deflecting a barrage of knives thrown at her back with her serving plate. And she doesn't move an inch or spill a single bite of the food she's serving. The Musk Dynasty warrior Mint does this to Mousse as an opening move. The Dojo Destroyer can do this by throwing the wooden signs of the dojos he has conquered. |
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Saruhiko to Douhan in the end of K: Missing Kings, to stop her from walking through a wall. (Specifically, he used the knives to create points, then used his Blue Aura to create a barrier between those points that stops her Green... not-quite-Aura-powers that allowed her to walk through walls.) | |
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Appears in Disney's Hercules, when the hero tries throwing knives and nearly hits Phil: | |
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This happens in The Adventures of Willy Beamish. If you are caught by the chef, they will throw a bunch of knives at you, resulting in this trope. | |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons send-up episode of ReBoot, three characters run through a corridor filled with Death Traps. One section involves a hail of arrows, which all miss and leave perfect silhouettes of the running figures. | |
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In Starlight and Shadows, when Liriel learns that the sea elf Xzorsh has formed a positive opinion of the drow based on his interactions with her, she creates a close outline around him with throwing knives to demonstrate how the typical drow would behave towards a sea elf. | |
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In an episode of The Simpsons, Maggie pins Homer to a wall with a nail gun. She even went as far as to pin his ears and the palms of both hands. | |
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Happens in an episode of Totally Spies!, when the Big Bad pins the girls' outfits to the wall with a nail gun. He must have had very good aim, considering the characters wear skintight catsuits. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist, Riza Hawkeye does this to her new dog Black Hayate with bullets as her way of toilet-training. | |
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In Muppet Treasure Island, Gonzo pins one of the pirates to the side of the ship using starfish as throwing stars. The gag gets revisited later in the same fight scene, as various other pirates get their swords knocked out of their hands, and each time the sword flies towards the pinned pirate, landing disturbingly close to his crotch. | |
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Gosalyn does this to Negaduck in the Darkwing Duck episode "Darkwing Duck S 1 E 59 The Quiverwing Quack". Negaduck ends up pinned to a wall in his costume with arrows, but somehow escapes when Darkwing isn't looking. Because he did the obvious thing to do when only the costume is pinned. | |
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DC Comics Green Arrow & Speedy have been known to catch crooks with arrow outlines. | |
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There was a somewhat disturbing scene in Escape from New York where the Duke of New York has the president tied to a wall, and is casually chatting with his fellow prisoners in between shots. We only see him fire two or three times, but the unfortunate President is surrounded by bullet holes. | |
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Subverted in Hero — Nameless's outline is left in negative on a wall by thousands of arrows from the King of Qin's army, not because he was intentionally outlined, but because his body intercepted all of those arrows.. | |
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Used for comedic purposes in School Rumble. Tenma decides to admit her feelings to Karasuma via love letters attached to arrows, which she proceeds to shoot at him. Hilarity Ensues. At times, it seems like he's posing for the arrows. | |
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Early use in the Mickey Mouse short "Mickey's Nightmare" (1932), complete with head near-miss. Babies are throwing the (huge) knives at Mickey, and the scene was edited out of TV prints for many years. | |
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Variant in Trigun when the Bad Lads surround Vash perfectly with bullet holes. | |
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Subverted in Shadow's Cinekill in Eternal Champions: Challenge From The Dark Side. The Dark Champion does this with shuriken... but he's aiming for her body. The first four hit her hands and ankles, the fifth one hits her chest, and then he throws one last one. It's a headshot. | |
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In the Scrubs episode "My Fifteen Minutes", Carla uses throwing stars to do this to J.D. in one of his fantasies. | |
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This happened to Dilbert of all people once, when Dogbert's "animal magnetism" reverses. Dilbert gets pinned to the wall by everything in his silverware drawer. (This was before the strip's theme shifted to making fun of business idiosyncrasies.) | |
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King of the Hill. Dale Gribble has gone further around the bend this time and has arranged traps to catch a rogue singer (no, really). Hank gets a mess of arrows shot around him, then is pulled to the floor and one final arrow hits where his forehead was a second ago. It turns out later that Dale was completely right. | |
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Mahiro from Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! is good enough with forks that he does this to Nyarko once when she gets overly amorous. In an earlier episode, we see that one of her attempts to... "make their love take form" ends with her pinned to a table by both forks and a bedsheet. | |
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In a non-humorous Takahashi example from Inuyasha, Kikyou does this to Inuyasha on at least one occasion when he tries to steal the Shikon Jewel from her soon after they first meet. Rather than being humorously frightened, he would like to know why she doesn't just kill him when she's clearly capable of it. She has no real answer. | |
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In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, this happens in the Show Within a Show "Somethin's Cookin'". Baby Herman accidentally sends every knife in the kitchen flying just as Roger pops out of an ironing board, and the knives pin Roger to the wall. A pairing knife parts his hair and a large meat cleaver hits the wall in between his legs, barely missing his crotch. Roger gulps loudly at the Near-Miss Groin Attack. | |
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Fanboy and Chum Chum do it to Boog in the episode "Monster in the Mist". Made funnier by that Boog only screams when there's a fork flying towards his crotch. | |
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Mio of MM! managed to pull this off in the very first episode with baseballs, leaving behind an outline in the concrete wall behind Taro. | |
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Practically Kuroko Shirai's whole fighting style in A Certain Scientific Railgun, being a teleporter rather than throw her razor sharp weapons she instead teleports them into positions that would incapacitate opponents. | |
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Realistic film example: Not quite an outline, but James Bond ends up pinned to a door thanks to a couple of thrown knives in Octopussy. In fairness though, the guy who did this was a circus knife-thrower. However the trope backfires when Bond pulls one of the knives free (seeing as it's handily stuck in the door next to him) and uses it to kill the knife-thrower. | |
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In the Red Dwarf episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse", Lister pins a gangster to the wall with thrown knives in this manner. Just to really rub it in, he grabs an apple and flicks that into the gangster's mouth. | |
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Inadvertently done in Dwarf Fortress. Thrown items will miss any character that the thrower considers "friendly". In adventure mode, if you have a collection of knives you can keep tossing them at somebody and it will just go through, hitting the opposite wall. | |
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Nuriko gets a comedic arrow outline in Fushigi Yuugi. There is a serious Mood Whiplash in the scene as the same Rain of Arrows wipes out all nearby civilians. | |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure: Cruella throws knives around Lars when he refuses to paint on a canvas that Cruella planned to make from Dalmatian skin, resulting in this trope. | |
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Inverted in Kouka And Bibi, when all six mouse gangsters get the drop on the raccoon. She runs away, just before the mice riddle the space she'd been standing with bullet holes, filling in her exact silhouette (rather than just the outline). | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Mai's specialty is pinning people's clothes to the wall with throwing knives. The creators stated it's entirely deliberate on her part, both to avoid killing and also for the challenge. The Yu Yan archers also pin Aang this way. They were ordered to capture him alive and are snipers par excellence in their world. According to General Zhao the archers are "capable of pinning a fly to a tree from 100 yards away, without killing it." Katara and other water-benders pull it off on occasion by bending water into ice-knives. Pakku once did it to Katara with a bunch of icicles, which the DVD Commentary noted was a Shout-Out to a similar scene in House of Flying Daggers involving large stalks of bamboo. |
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Pinky and the Brain: This happens to the title mice in "Funny, You Don't Look Rennish". There is no blood, but Pinky does mention they are "piercing our flesh. Poit!" | |
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During one incident in Samurai Deeper Kyo, the villain does this to Kyoshiro, who plays dead. Then his stomach rumbles. | |
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In the Lucky Luke episode "The Rivals of Painful Gulch", there is a feud between two clans. The fact that all of them are very lousy marksmen is hilariously underlined by a bullet outline which has a form of a typical member of one of these clans. | |
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In Frozen, Elsa pins a guard to the wall with icicles. | |
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Part of Catherine's and Trowa's circus act in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing involves this (Trowa is pinned, Catherine throws the knives). In this case it's used to show just how fearless Trowa is, as when Catherine accidentally throws a knife close enough to draw blood, he doesn't flinch in the slightest. He doesn't even blink. | |
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Chainsaw Man: The Nail Fiend is introduced pinning the Chainsaw Man Church's teenaged gunmen to the wall, managing to incapacitate them without injury. Then they bash one's head in for not speaking formally enough when he surrendered. | |
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Batman: The Long Halloween has this with bullets leaving an outline around the Riddler. Approximately five times as many bullets as the weapon in question could actually hold. And no explanation of why the Riddler wouldn't run away while the shooter was reloading. (Except the Rule of Cool.) | |
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In Fate/Parallel Fantasia, Gilgamesh ends up accidentally doing this to False Caster with legendary weapons from his Gate of Babylon. He really was aiming for her, but overdramatically fired off a large volley of weapons rather than a single properly-aimed one, and he misjudged the size of his target due to her billowing cape. | |
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The Popeye short "The Organ Grinder's Swing" has Bluto throwing knives at Popeye, but he shield's himself with a wooden board. He fires the knives back at Bluto, which give him a Close-Call Haircut. | |
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In episode 6 of Pani Poni Dash!, after irritating Becky one too many times with her opening and closing of the door to her private lab without saying anything, Akira Miyata gets this treatment with a bunch of pens, although in her case the pens blow past her and cut a perfect outline on the wall behind her. Becky does this while saying Miyata would make a hole in the door by doing that. | |
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The Wheel of Time: Mat asks to play "Maiden's Kiss" with the local Amazon Brigade... and winds up pinned to a wall by spears. Somewhat off-kilter, in a way — they didn't throw the spears, merely pinned him while still holding them and forced him to demonstrate calmness under pressure. If he didn't kiss well enough, they moved the spears a bit. Birgitte does this to Nynaeve as a circus act. With arrows shot from 100 paces. |
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Done with porcupine quills in the lion episode of Wild Kratts. To remove a bunch of quills from Martin quickly, Chris wraps him in rope and then activates the rope's power winch. The rope yanks the quills out and sends them flying everywhere, including at Chris, whose shape is left outlined in quills on a ridge behind him. | |
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In Revolutionary Girl Utena lots of random things happen in the background during the Student Council meetings. One of them involves Touga throwing knives at Miki, who doesn't react, even though he had to switch positions at the last second to not be injured. The outline also keeps shifting as he changes position. | |
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BoBoiBoy: In episode 5, Super Auntie Probe shoots five kitchen knives towards Yaya, and they pin her by her clothes to a tree behind her. | |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights: After saving Dave Chapelle's character from the Sheriff's thugs, Robin Hood hears one of them yell, "You haven't seen the last of us!" Robin promptly fires six arrows at once in a similar method to the picture above, causing the thug to concede, "You've seen the last of us." Will Scarlett O'Hara later pins a mook to a door with his knives, and then decks the goon before retrieving them. "Am I good? I'm good!" |
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Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition: 3.5 has the "Ranged Pin" feat that allows you to make a grapple attempt with a ranged weapon. The flavor text describes it as pinning the target's clothes to the ground or wall. | |
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Valerie does this to Vlad Plasmius in Danny Phantom with large needles. He phases out of them. Better luck next time. | |
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Sakuya does this on several occasions in FREAKIN GENSOKYO, with enough knives to immobilise even Byakuren. | |
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In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Read It and Weep", Indiana Jones Expy Daring Do triggers an arrow-barrage deathtrap inside a temple, which make a pony-shaped pattern on the opposite wall. | |
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Doctor Who. In "Hell Bent", Rassilon orders the Doctor's immediate execution by Firing Squad. But some of the soldiers are Fire-Forged Friends of the Doctor, and to the rest he's The Dreaded, so they fire around the Doctor instead, leaving an outline of scorch marks on the wall behind him. | |
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Mélusine: The cooking teacher Charles Rimbaut, doing a demonstration of proper knife use, pins down Mélusine to a door with height knives as she is trying to slip away. | |
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Parodied three time in the Stroker and Hoop episode "Ninja Worrier": first when a female ninja shows off by doing this to Hoop with ninja stars, including one on his crotch which actually nicked his testicle because "that one leans left". When she shows him again and he's luckily wearing a crotch guard. Then he practices it on her, and misses several times, though she thought this was funny. | |
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During the final battle in Aladdin, shortly before he turns into a giant snake, Jafar actually sends a barrage of swords he created from his own magic at Aladdin while mocking him, "Get the point?!" | |
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Subverted in the Sam and Max adventure games from Telltale games. There is a bullet outline of Max in the office wall, except there is a bullet hole right where his brain is. Would explain a few things though. | |
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Against All Flags: When his sailing master is accused of stealing booty, Roc interrogates him by throwing knives around him so they just miss. | |
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In The King and I, Master Little, the Kralahome's comical henchman/assistant, attempts to let Lewis Leonowens have an "accident" in the royal armory, and (naturally) fails spectacularly. At one point, six flying knives pin him, one by one, to the armory wall. Little hilariously exclaims "A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y!" as they hit. | |
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M.A.S.K.: The Stiletto Mask used by the villain Sly Rax has the ability to fire small darts. Whenever Rax uses his Mask on people, this is the only thing that ever happens. | |
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In Martian Successor Nadesico: Prince of Darkness, Ryoko gets her mech pinned to the hull of a space station like this. | |
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In the Belisarius Series, Ousanas puts three javelins into a wall against which Prince Eon is standing, from a range of about twenty yards. One is two inches from his left ear, one two inches from his right ear, and the third two inches below his crotch. | |
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Invoked in one episode of I Love Lucy, where Lucy ends up auditioning as the assistant to a professional knife-thrower. In a twist, it's quickly revealed that the knife-throwing is an illusion; the knife-thrower palms the knives and false handles are pushed through the back of the wall. | |
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Garibaldi does this with his PPG to intimidate a thug in a second season episode of Babylon 5. | |
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The Taiwanese martial arts movie, Duel With The Devils, have the protagonist fighting a rival knife expert who uses a whole bunch of flung knives on the hero. Who proceeds to turn the tide of battle and pin his enemy to the wall behind him with his own knives. | |
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Not at all played for laughs in Carrie with her mother's knife crucifixion. | |
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In Sailor Moon, certain members of the Dead Moon Circus perform this attack to pin one of the heroes. In the anime, Tiger's Eye pins down Mamoru. In the manga, the twins, Xenotime and Zeolite, pin down Minako. | |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 3 episode 5, the princess having food with the Superstar School students throws away a knife after being given one, saying she doesn't use it for dinner. Headmaster Tele and the other students decide they don't have a need for knives either; the barrage of knives pins Big M. and Little M., who are behind them, into uncomfortable poses on the wall. | |
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In The Rescuers Down Under, one of McLeach's attempts to break Cody is to deliberately make one of these around him. | |
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