History Main / KnifeThrowingAct

* Hines in The Pajama Game does a KnifeThrowingAct at the picnic, but Babe wisely ducks because his aim is a bit drunken. Later he goes AxCrazy with his knives in the pajama factory.

* Hines in ''ThePajamaGame'' does a KnifeThrowingAct at the picnic, but Babe wisely ducks because his aim is a bit drunken. Later he goes AxCrazy with his knives in the pajama factory.

* An episode in ''HumanWeapon'' that dealt with Ninjitsu had one of the masters they talked to (and who tried to teach them a bit of his art) specializing in throwing various sharp objects ranging from knives, star-knives, caltrops, and nails.

* Model Karen Elson is seen spinning on a "wheel of death" target in a picture by photographer Steven Meisel that formed part of a series titled "The Greatest Show on Earth" in the April 2007 issue of the Italian edition of ''{{Vogue}}'' magazine.

* Actress Jennifer Ellison appeared strapped to a "wheel of death" target and surrounded by knives in the UK edition of ''{{Maxim}}'' magazine in 2005.
* Singer and musician {{Shakira}} appeared standing against a target with knives around her in a photo in the April 2002 issue of ''{{FHM}}'' magazine (UK edition).

* In the television series ''{{Nikki}}'', the episode titled "The Jupiter and Mary Chain", first aired in 2001, featured the characters played by Nikki Cox and Susan Egan taking jobs as target girls.

* In the ''SoldiersOfFortune'' episode "The Danger Sisters", a sister knife-throwing act working in North Africa hire Tim and Toubo as bodyguards.
* Knife throwing, with a celebrity acting as target girl, was a regular feature on ''CircusOfTheStars''.

* The movie ''BroncoBilly'' features Clint Eastwood as a sharpshooter and knife thrower who runs a travelling circus. A key plot element involves Sondra Locke as a character who becomes a target girl.

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* ThisTroper was at a Renaissance Fair and saw a show with a knife thrower. It was real and he did throw knives at his adult son. Needless to say, [[DontTryThisAtHome not something any non-professional should try]].

* "Conspiracy of Silence", an episode of the television spy series ''TheAvengers'', featured a knife throwing act played by real artists Elizabeth and Collins.

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* The arrested-maturation character Cassian from the CountCain manga, who looks like a boy but is really thirty-five, and therefore has a weird sort of two-way paternal relationship with his early-twenties commander Jizabel Disraeli, was sold to the circus and performed in one of these for some time. During the series his main weapon remains throwing knives. (Not a very practical primary weapon in real life.)

* {{Touhou}} fanart sometimes has [[{{Meido}} Sakuya]] [[KnifeNut Izayoi]] do this ''to'' Hong Meiling. Sometimes (usually depending on Sakuya's mood) the poor girl ends up becoming a HumanPincushion.

* {{Touhou}} fanart sometimes has [[{{Meido}} Sakuya]] [[KnifeNut Izayoi]] do this ''to'' Hong Meiling. Sometimes (usually depending on Sakuya's mood) the poor girl ends up becoming a pincushion.

* {{Touhou}} fanart sometimes has [[{{Meido}} Sak]][[KnifeNut uya]] do this ''to'' Hong Meiling. Sometimes the poor girl ends up becoming a knifecushion.

* ''{{Kuroshitsuji}}'' had Dagger, a knife thrower in [[CircusofFear Noah's Circus]]. He was quite skilled at it. Ciel tried to throw knives for his entrance exam to get into the circus so him and Sebastian could investigate a case involving missing children. He only hit the mark because Sebastian flicked pebbles at the knives so they would make it to the wooden target, since Ciel wasn't strong enough to chuck them that far himself.

* The target in question is a painting, not a live person, but Count Carl-Magnus has a knife-throwing scene in ALittleNightMusic. It's ''almost'' completely irrelevant to the plot. (He's demonstrating his prowess with weapons to a romantic rival.)

* Knife throwing was one of the skills mastered by the Gambler, a GoldenAge foe of the GreenLantern, during his time at the carnival.

* One is performed in the court of the Kingdom of the Cats in ''TheCatReturns'', using cuttlefish instead of knives. It doesn't go wll and the knife thrower gets tossed out of a window.

* Part of Lon Chaney's act as Alonzo the Armless in the classic SilentFilm ''The Unknown''.

* The Marionettes in {{Disgaea}} use this as an attack.

* A filler episode of RurouniKenshin had Kaoru attempt this, only to hit Sanosuke in the arm on her first try.

* The film ''GangsOfNewYork'' features a confrontation between the main protagonists in which Cameron Diaz's character Jenny Everdeane acts as a target girl in an impromptu knifethrowing act with the villain, Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting, played by Daniel Day-Lewis.

* The Mexican MindScrew ''Santa Sangre'' takes place in a circus: the knife-thrower husband is having an affair with his target. His wife resents this, so the husband sets the wife at the bulls-eye and, with his throwing knives, chops off both her arms.