History Main / BackToBackBadasses

* In the original ''Series/KamenRider'' series anytime Riders 1 and 2 teamed up this would happen, whether it's [[http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5279/vlcsnap2011061122h37m40.png untransformed]] or [[http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/1097/vlcsnap2011061121h12m55.png transformed]]. The rest of the series would do this in a similar fashion (e.g. [[Series/KamenRiderV3 V3 & Riderman]], [[Series/KamenRiderStronger Stronger & Tackle]], [[KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga & Ichijou]], etc.), most of the time with some of the previous Riders returning, to the point it has escalated into a BadassCrew.

** Yuu and Shougo in chapter 164.

** Odd example here: In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Sword of Flame]]'', there are two characters, Dart (a Pirate/Berserker) and Geitz (a Warrior), who're like BloodBrothers, and also two of the strongest characters in the game. On the overworld map, if you place them adjacent to one another, their sprites are back-to-back. Whether or not this was intentional or pure coincidence isn't clear.

* ''DannyPhantom'': In "Prisoners of Love," [[StrangeBedfellows Danny and Skulker]] against Walker's prison guards.

* Jack and the Scotsman pull this one pretty much every time the Scotsman shows up on ''SamuraiJack''.

* In ''{{Halo 3}}'', although the gameplay quickly degenerates into "run around and kill all the Flood you can see", the Master Chief and the Arbiter, quite possibly the two most {{badass}} characters in the universe, strike this pose after [[spoiler: killing the Prophet of Truth and the Gravemind's sudden but inevitable betrayal.]]

* Althought it never actually happens, much of the promotional artwork for the fifth (and so far final) ''LegacyOfKain'' game, Defiance, featured Kain and Raziel doing this. Also invoked, but again not actually shown, in Blood Omen 2 when Kain was remembering the backstory of the boss he had just defeated, his former [[TheDragon Dragon]], Magnus.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', as the protagonists are accosted by a small army of changelings. Twilight Sparkle and Applejack back up against each other and rear up, and it looks like they're about to kick some serious faerie butt - [[spoiler: And then Twilight was a changeling.]]

->'''Kodlak''': Would you raise your shield in [[PlayerCharacter his]] defense?
->'''Farkas''': I would stand at his back, so that the world might never overtake us.

* In the movie DogSoldiers, Spoon and Joe share a moment like this, keeping each other covered as they pepper the werewolves attacking the house with machine gun fire.

* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' when Applejack and Twilight Sparkle are surrounded by [[VoluntaryShapeshifter changelings]]. They go back to back, and "Twilight" turns back into a changeling and tackles Applejack, leading to her being dog-piled by the others. At least Applejack gets a nonchalant and rather bad-ass one liner for the effort:
--> '''Applejack:''' Okay, this is gettin' ''weird''!

* KamenRiderTheFirst: the Double Riders back-to-back before a face-off with a group of Shocker goons.

* In the original ''Series/KamenRider'' series anytime Riders 1 and 2 teamed up this would happen, whether it's [[http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/5279/vlcsnap2011061122h37m40.png untransformed]] or [[http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/1097/vlcsnap2011061121h12m55.png transformed]]. The rest of the series would do this in a similar fashion (e.g. [[KamenRiderV3 V3 & Riderman]], [[KamenRiderStronger Stronger & Tackle]], [[KamenRiderKuuga Kuuga & Ichijou]], etc.), most of the time with some of the previous Riders returning, to the point it has escalated into a BadassCrew.

-->-- ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', about the Dragonborn.

* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney'': The titular duo does a back-to-back [[MundaneMadeAwesome unnecessarily dramatic]] [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger point]] in the courtroom. Of course, this is more of a display of intellectual badassery, but it fits the spirit of the trope. Then again, [[Franchise/ProfessorLayton one of them]] is an accomplished sword fighter/[[{{Macgyvering}} improv weapons maker]], and [[Franchise/AceAttorney the other one]] is a [[MadeOfIron super-resilient]] fighter [[MarvelVsCapcom3 who has tangled with The Hulk, among others]], so they're not exactly slacking with the physical badassery either.

* In the Polish RPG Neuroshima, there is a system of friendship, with on of the highest levels being named "Let's stand back to back and pull out the guns".

* {{Batman}} and {{Superman}} show us how it's done in [[http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae93/Lady_Quintessa/Batman/PE10.gif?t=1299813454 Public]] [[http://i961.photobucket.com/albums/ae93/Lady_Quintessa/Batman/PE11.gif?t=1299813471 Enemies]]. Completed with CasualDangerDialogue!

* {{Superman}} and {{Batman}} in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies''

* [[LukeCageHeroForHire Luke]] and [[ImmortalIronFist Danny]] [[http://www.comics.org/issue/34139/cover/4/?style=default show]] [[http://www.comics.org/issue/36450/cover/4/?style=default us]] [[http://www.comics.org/issue/36763/cover/4/?style=default how]] [[http://www.comics.org/issue/37608/cover/4/?style=default it's]] [[http://www.comics.org/issue/106062/cover/4/?style=default done]].

* [[StarWars Luke Skywalker]] and [[StarWarsExpandedUniverse Mara Jade]] had a "BackToBackBadasses" moment in ''[[HandOfThrawn Vision of the Future]]''. They were only surrounded by two droids, but the droids weren't [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy the kind that sucked at shooting]].
** Three years later in [[OutboundFlight Survivor's Quest]], they were [[HappilyMarried married]] and went back-to-back while linking minds in order to strike at the exact same instant to cut [[WireDilemma both wires]] in an [[EvilElevator elevator of death]].
*** Ben Skywalker, and [[DarkActionGirl Vestara Khai]], on the cover of [[FateoftheJedi Fate of the Jedi: Ascension]].

* The InDeath series has Eve and Roarke doing this on at least two occasions.

* Happens sometimes in {{Redwall}}. The Guosim crank it UpToEleven in ''Outcast'' with the Guosim Windmill, in which dozens of them form a circle which works in roughly the same way.

* In ''Bound in Blood'', the fifth novel in P.C. Hodgell's ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath series, Jame and Gran Cyd hold off a good number of assailants like this. A rare moment of teamwork for Jame, who's better known as a loner.

* As revealed in the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' book ''Secrets Of The Clans'', young warriors are taught this as a tactic.

* In ''Assassin of {{Gor}}'', the climactic fight scene in the Stadium of Blades begins with Tarl facing down six of the enemy single-handed, then as more enemies appear first the enigmatic gladiator Murmillius helps with this trope, then Relius, Ho-Sorl and Ho-Tu join in, forming a pentagon of extreme badassery.
* In PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians, Annabeth and Percy do this against, amongst others, Ethan Nakamura

* In SamuraiDeeperKyo, [[spoiler: half-brothers and]] rivals Shinrei and Hotaru do this in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, each striking out with his strongest technique to defeat a room full of giant automatons.

* Aragorn and Eomer against orc troops several times in Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.

-->-- ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim''

* [[GuiltyCrown Shu and Ayase]] strike this pose after taking down a few intruders.