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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': Dio Brando is very, very fond of this, and his ability to use it was the first major clue as to the nature of his [[TimeStandsStill Stand ability]].

** [[spoiler: This is also the ability of the Vindice, combined with a side order PortalCut, thanks to their eight type of flame]].

* In ''LightNovel/GonnaBeTheTwinTail'', Crab Guildy has a fetish for the back of girls' necks. As a result, he specially trained to get behind people.

-> Nothing personal, kid...

* Used fairly often by fighters in ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn''! most notably Tsuna after his NextTierPowerUp.

* Done often in ''WebComic/OnePunchMan''. Even lampshaded in the fight between Sonic and Genos, as the former became enraged when he realized that the latter was deliberately trying to do this to him just to show that he was faster.

* In the story [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10096343/1/Invisible-Fox Invisible Fox]], Shisui and Naruto pull this by prior agreement during the opening of the Chunin Finals. While Shisui plays it straight, using his [[FlashStep Shunshin]], Naruto uses his naturally-invisible clones, pre-positioning them and having them switch with him to make it look like he's doing the same.

* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': In the manga version of Kazuki's fight with Shusui, the two of them chain a long string of flashes behind each other's backs until they are in [[ParodiedTrope at the other side of the school entirely when they stop]]. The in-universe explanation for this is that Kazuki did it on purpose so that the fighting wouldn't destroy the school, and Shusui was humouring him but [[Creator/NobuhiroWatsuki the mangaka]] admitted that he did it because he was having trouble plotting out a 2-on-2 duel, so he came up with an amusing way to separate the fighters to make two simultaneous, but separate, 1-on-1 duels.

* ''Manga/BusoRenkin'' plays with this in the manga version (shown in the page image), where Kazuki and his opponent chain a long string of flashes behind each other's backs... to the point where they've wound up somewhere else entirely when they stop. (Kazuki did it on purpose so that the fighting wouldn't destroy the school, and the opponent did it to humor Kazuki. From a Doylist perspective, the mangaka did it because he was having trouble plotting out a 2 on 2 duel, so he came up with an amusing way to separate the fighters to make two simultaneous but separate 1 on 1 duels)

[[quoteright:350:[[Manga/BusouRenkin https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tooslow1_2832.jpg]]]]

* ''Manga/BusouRenkin'' plays with this in the manga version (shown in the page image), where Kazuki and his opponent chain a long string of flashes behind each other's backs... to the point where they've wound up somewhere else entirely when they stop. (Kazuki did it on purpose so that the fighting wouldn't destroy the school, and the opponent did it to humor Kazuki. From a Doylist perspective, the mangaka did it because he was having trouble plotting out a 2 on 2 duel, so he came up with an amusing way to separate the fighters to make two simultaneous but separate 1 on 1 duels)

-> Nothing personnel, kid...

* In one of the [[UnbuiltTrope earliest examples]] predating ''all'' other works on this page, ''Literature/CreaturesOfLightAndDarkness'' by Creator/RogerZelazny has the Steel General, Wakim [[spoiler:(Set)]], and several other characters practice a martial art known as "temporal fugue", which has the practitioner project himself through space and time behind his opponent to strike. Unfortunately, duels between two practioners invariably degenerate into recursive replications of hundreds of consecutive duplications, straining the time-space continuum.

* ''Manga/BusouRenkin'' plays with this in the manga version (shown in the page image), where Kazuki and his opponent chain a long string of flashes behind each other's backs... to the point where they've wound up somewhere else entirely when they stop. (Kazuki did it on purpose so that the fighting wouldn't destroy the school, and the opponent did it to humor Kazuki.)

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* ''Manga/BusouRenkin'' plays with this in the manga version, where Kazuki and his opponent chain a long string of flashes behind each other's backs... to the point where they've wound up somewhere else entirely when they stop. (Kazuki did it on purpose so that the fighting wouldn't destroy the school, and the opponent did it to humor Kazuki.)

* In the WheelOfTime books this is a staple of the duels between Perrin and Slayer, due to their ability at shifting from one place to the other immediately when in [[DreamLand Tel'aran'rhiod]]. [[spoiler:...Or outside of it.]]

* Towards the end of ''Film/SmokeyAndTheBandit'', after Sheriff Justice has chased the Bandit back to Atlanta and ''still'' hasn't captured him, Bandit radios to him and tells him he's at the bottom of the hill dressed in a yellow cowboy outfit with a little guy who looks just like him (actually Big and Little Enos). After a change of heart, he tells Sheriff Justice to look over his left shoulder. He does so and sees Bandit, Carrie, Cletus and Fred (the basset) in another car en route to Boston.

* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': The Skipper tries to send out a radio call, with Gilligan standing behind him:
-->'''Skipper:''' (''into radio handset'') Can anybody hear me?\\
'''Gilligan:''' I can hear you fine! (''Skipper gets excited'')\\
'''Skipper:''' Where are you?\\
'''Gilligan:''' Right behind you! (''Skipper deflates; gives Gilligan a DopeSlap'')

* Papa Smurf to Hefty and Handy in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "The First Telesmurf" through the telesmurf.
-->'''Papa Smurf:''' Handy, Hefty, where are you?\\
'''Handy and Hefty:''' We're here, Papa Smurf.\\
'''Papa Smurf:''' Where is "here?"\\
'''Handy and Hefty:''' Behind you.\\
'''Papa Smurf:''' (''looks behind and sees them'') Oh, there you are.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima''
** [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v17/c157/2.html Negi vs Chao.]]
** [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v13/c111/6.html Kaede vs Ku:nel Sanders.]] During the university festival tournament. FlashStep combined with DoppelgangerAttack. Sanders was impressed.

* ''BusouRenkin'' plays with this in the manga version, where Kazuki and his opponent chain a long string of flashes behind each other's backs... to the point where they've wound up somewhere else entirely when they stop. (Kazuki did it on purpose so that the fighting wouldn't destroy the school, and the opponent did it to humor Kazuki.)

** [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v17/c157/2.html Negi vs Chao]].
** [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v13/c111/6.html Kaede vs Ku:nel Sanders]]. During the university festival tournament. FlashStep combined with DoppelgangerAttack. Sanders was impressed.

* A variant involving [[TeamFortress2 backstabs]] is seen in [[https://youtu.be/Lq2dEAToq18?t=195 this source animation.]]

* Kakashi does this to Zabuza in ''{{Naruto}}'' during the fight on the river, at least, although with the number of doppelgangers the characters throw about you'd expect this to be really frequent...
** Some ''Naruto'' video games permit you to do this with the push of a button, usually the same one as block. With careful timing, a fight can turn into an endless repetition of Smoke, Log, Punch!.

** This is an actual mechanic in some of the later video-games.
** There's a scene during the fight between Goku and Tien where this is competently PlayedForLaughs. It goes something like "I'm standing behind you!" "No, ''I'm'' standing behind ''you''!" "No, ''I'm'' standing behind ''you'' standing behind ''me''!".