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* ''SaturdayNightLive'' once did a skit, featuring John Goodman, of a group of ninjas talking about their work. One lamented to the others, "I tried sneaking up behind him, going real, extra careful and quiet, y'know, but he always gives me one of THESE!" while making the Offhand Backhand motion. One of the other ninjas chimes in, "Yeah, how do they do that?"
* In ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', a villain casually kicks Malone away when he tries a ClickHello on him.
* Similarly to the first Literature/{{Discworld}} examples above, in one episode of ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'', Teal'c outmaneuvers a Person of Interest by not following his partner to the back door and instead waiting on the lee side of a Dumpster and sticking his arm out right in the suspect's face as he sprinted past.
** Subverted in a later episode, however. Teal'c hears a Replicator coming up behind him and shoots it dead on with his staff weapon without turning around. The Replicator is totally immune to staff weapons and continues attacking, to Teal'c's shock.[[/folder]]

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* MichaelJackson shoots a guy like this in the "Smooth Criminal" video.

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* In ''Manga/DragonBall Z'', when Frieza fights with Nail, he {{Flash Step}}s, intentionally exposing his back to Nail ''just'' so that he can do this.
** It's unknown if Vegeta was intending to do this trope by turning his back on Semi-Perfect Cell when dominating him, but given his taunting him, it's likely that's exactly what what he planned to do, although Cell seemed to wise up and just deal with Ki attacks.
** In Buu's Reincarnation, Vegeta does this to his would-be opponent when the latter foolishly attempts to taunt him, knocking him far enough back to hit a billboard, severely injuring him and [[MomentOfAwesome/DragonBall has the other opponents inform the referees that his opponent has decided to forefeit the match without turning around even]] ''[[MomentOfAwesome/DragonBall once]]''.
* In the original ''{{El Hazard|TheMagnificentWorld}}'' {{OVA}}, Ifurita demonstrates her newfound independence by laying out Jinnai with a no-look pimp-slap.
* In ''FistOfTheNorthStar'', one would-be Hokuto Shinken wielder is stalking Kenshiro through a town. When he pounces, Kenshiro backhands the faceplate of his helmet in. The punk grabs his ears, announces "You are already dead!", and counts down from ten... [[spoiler:exploding on the zero. When Kenshiro backhands you, he knows where to hit.]]

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* In the original ''{{El Hazard|TheMagnificentWorld}}'' {{OVA}}, Ifurita demonstrates her newfound independence by laying out Jinnai with a no-look pimp-slap.
* Dutch does this to a panicking Rock in the first chapter of ''BlackLagoon''. Roberta does the same later during a gun battle, when a thug made the mistake of trying to attack her from behind after she agreed to stop shooting.
* At the beginning of ''MidoriNoHibi'', the main character is ambushed from behind by the girlfriend of a gangster he beat up at the story's start... and smacks her down without looking. Or, rather, ''he'' wasn't looking - Midori, attached to his right arm, heard her coming and acted defensively.
* In ''FistOfTheNorthStar'', one would-be Hokuto Shinken wielder is stalking Kenshiro through a town. When he pounces, Kenshiro backhands the faceplate of his helmet in. The punk grabs his ears, announces "You are already dead!", and counts down from ten... [[spoiler:exploding on the zero. When Kenshiro backhands you, he knows where to hit.]]

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* Livio the Double Fang from ''{{Trigun}}'' has two cross shaped miniature machine guns that allow him to fire in four directions simultaneously.
** Vash does it to a robot with his gun in episode 9. He even manages to hit it's weak spot dead on.
* Episode 6 of ''Anime/ValkyriaChronicles'': a fistfight breaks out between the members of Squads 1 and 7. During the fight, a soldier (that appears be to be [[OptionalPartyMember Jung]]) attempts to sneak up on Isara (who was eating at the time) before she knocks him out with a hereto-unforeseen {{wrench|Whack}}.
* Used by TheStoic Thors to put down TheBerserker Bjorn in VinlandSaga.
* Botan, of all people pulls it off in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''. Even if Kuwabara warned her, she still didn't even look back before thwacking the mook with a metal bat.
* C.T. Smith, from ''ZombiePowder'', while in the middle of a gunfight, using GunsAkimbo. Flips one of his guns over his shoulder and headshoots a mook threatening another main character, then switches back without missing a beat.

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* There are a lot of heroes who have done this, but CaptainAmerica is especially fond of it. In his case, however, he's far more likely to whack you in the face with his shield. IronMan has done his fair share of this as well. Unlike Captain America, Iron Man will hit you with his fist. Either way, though, you're still going to get a face full of metal.
** One of the funniest times with Captain America was, while in conversation with Ms. Marvel outside Avengers' Mansion on a snowy day, Cap flings his shield to the side, which bounces off a wall, passes behind him—incidentally intercepting the snowball thrown at him by a daring kid who climbed to the top of the outer wall—bounces off the opposite wall, then [[PrecisionGuidedBoomerang flies back to Cap's hand]]. Ms. Marvel remarks on Cap's unexpected show of humor.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''. It's practically a {{signature|Move}} of his to leave one mook not a complete heap so he can backhand him when he tries to sneak up.
* Apparently, the rest of the Batfamily has picked this up from him. Cassandra Cain (Batgirl II) and Steph (Spoiler, later Batgirl III) do this ''in sync'' [[http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzhhkwmFSG1qbujox.jpg at one point.]]

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* Doesn't Bruce Lee also this in ''TheBigBoss''? (Unrelated to the ''Franchise/MetalGear'' character.) He does it in one of his movies, anyway -- to two Mooks ''at the same time''.
** He does it multiple times, with nunchaku and a short staff, in his big MultiMookMelee fight scene in ''ReturnOfTheDragon''.
* ''BuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension''. John Bigbooté does it to one of the hunters.
* Nice dual example with Sir James and Ransome in ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'', during the climactic fight scene, with no break in their conversation.
* ''[[MichaelCrichton Congo]]''. The female ex-CIA protagonist is bribing a corrupt army officer when one of his soldiers starts running his hand through her [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt long blonde hair]]. She promptly elbows him in the groin without looking, much to the amusement of his CO.
* Despite showing no inclination toward being combat proficient throughout the entire first part of the movie, the main character of ''Film/{{Dagon}}'' (based on ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'') somehow manages one of these during a fight when his girlfriend is threatened.
* GunKata practitioners in ''{{Equilibrium}}'' and works influenced by it do this all the time.
** In that film, Preston even pulled off one backhand with a sword: as two mooks attempt to off him, he stabs one sword forwards and one sword back, instantly killing both attackers. Prior to that, he began the same fight by unsheathing the sword of the mook standing behind him and slashing the one in front of him in the face.
** The sword to the back was a sheath that he pulled off one attacker and ''sharpened into a killing point by blocking an attacker with it such that half the sheath was sliced off.''

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* Darth Vader does something similar in ''RevengeOfTheSith'': when he's on Mustafar [[LeaveNoSurvivors slaughtering]] [[AssholeVictim the Separatist council]], a [[MechaMooks battle droid]] shoots at him from behind, and without turning around, he just puts his lightsaber behind him, [[ImplausibleFencingPowers deflecting the blaster bolt back]] and destroying the droid. This occurs right before he turns to [[BreakingTheFourthWall face the camera]], showing off the [[GlowingEyesOfDoom red-rimmed yellow eyes]] of DarkSide corruption.
** This is actually a pretty common Jedi ability, and forms the basis of their defense against blaster bolts. A better example would be how Yoda disposed of Sidious's PraetorianGuard in the same movie, offhandedly smacking them both against a wall with the force without even turning around.
* Trinity does this in ''Film/TheMatrix''. With her FOOT.
** This variation was parodied as a RunningGag in ''AustinPowers: Goldmember'': every time Foxxy Cleopatra tries to attack Goldmember from behind, he manages to kick her in the face, at one point ''[[RuleOfFunny raising both legs at the same time.]]''
** Neo also pulled one off during the chateau fight in ''The Matrix Reloaded'': when one mook attempted to backstab him, he blocked over his shoulder.
* Doctor Octopus takes it to another level in ''Film/{{Spider-Man}} 2''. When Mary Jane grabs a 2x4 and starts advancing on him, he uses two of his mechanical arms to snatch it out of her hands and knock her to the floor, all without taking his eyes off Peter. Of course, it's possible the independently intelligent tentacles did it all on their own.
** Well, the film seems to imply that since the tentacles are basically connected to his mind; they can feed him information about his surroundings from their own built-in sensors (and if you watch closely, one of the tentacles was indeed "looking" at MJ before she struck). A similar thing happens during his first battle with Spider-Man. His back is turned completely to the direction Spidey is coming from, yet one of his tentacles seems to spot him coming. Ock then turns around throwing bags of money at Spidey as an attack.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Legolas does this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tlkrR_hasU#t=2m13s during the hand-to-hand fight in Edoras.]]Finishes off one, another's approaching from behind... '''bam'''
** Aragorn also stabs people without looking at them, the idea being that he's been trained in the elvish martial arts.
*** It also helps that he's been fighting for longer than any of the mooks have been alive.

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* In ''{{Roxanne}}'' (based loosely on ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''), CD (Steve Martin) pulls this off after his CrowningMomentOfAwesome showing up the bar fly who (poorly) insulted his nose. After the humiliated guy tries to hit him, CD counters and brings his fist up backwards into the guy face. As the guy stands there stunned CD walks nonchalantly back to his table, not looking back and asks his companions "Has he fallen yet?" just as the guy drops to raucous cheering.
* Despite showing no inclination toward being combat proficient throughout the entire first part of the movie, the main character of ''Film/{{Dagon}}'' (based on ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'') somehow manages one of these during a fight when his girlfriend is threatened.
* Parodied in the ''Do You Know Praying Mantis?'' scene from ''RobinHoodMenInTights''.
* [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine Wolverine]] elbows Gambit in the face as he's coming up behind him to deliver an angry speech.
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}''. The hero is being constantly hassled at the airport by cultists offering [[strike:free]] flowers in exchange for donations. After his love rejects him and flies off in the ill-fated airplane, another cultist leans over his shoulder offering a flower...without changing expression, Stryker slams his fist backward into the man's face.
* In ''{{Troy}}'', Achilles parries several blows on the upswing thanks to a BadassBack. Then he [[UnflinchingWalk walks away without looking]].
* After being made to concede defeat to General Miura, [[spoiler: Zealot Lin]] from ''IpMan'' attempts an attack InTheBack. General Miura successfully [[TryingToCatchMeFightingDirty catches him fighting dirty]]. When he still refuses to give in, General Miura proceeds to show him that cheaters don't prosper on his watch.
* ''[[MichaelCrichton Congo]]''. The female ex-CIA protagonist is bribing a corrupt army officer when one of his soldiers starts running his hand through her [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt long blonde hair]]. She promptly elbows him in the groin without looking, much to the amusement of his CO.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' has River pull this on the captain, just to show how CrazyAwesome she is. Likewise bounty hunter Jubal Early on Simon Tam. On both occasions no one is shot; it's just a less-than-subtle way of saying "Back off".
* ''UndercoverBrother''. Sista Girl strikes someone behind her with a fist twice: Undercover Brother (while he's sexually harassing her) and a golf course security guard.
* ''BuckarooBanzaiAcrossTheEighthDimension''. John Bigbooté does it to one of the hunters.
* ''Film/JudgeDredd''. While Dredd and Herman Ferguson are trying to sneak through the Judge headquarters, Dredd does this to another Judge who is trying to arrest him.

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* ''Film/JudgeDredd''. While Dredd and Herman Ferguson are trying to sneak through the Judge headquarters, Dredd does this to another Judge who is trying to arrest him.
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': Legolas does this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tlkrR_hasU#t=2m13s during the hand-to-hand fight in Edoras.]]Finishes off one, another's approaching from behind... '''bam'''
** Aragorn also stabs people without looking at them, the idea being that he's been trained in the elvish martial arts.
*** It also helps that he's been fighting for longer than any of the mooks have been alive.
* Trinity does this in ''Film/TheMatrix''. With her FOOT.
** This variation was parodied as a RunningGag in ''AustinPowers: Goldmember'': every time Foxxy Cleopatra tries to attack Goldmember from behind, he manages to kick her in the face, at one point ''[[RuleOfFunny raising both legs at the same time.]]''
** Neo also pulled one off during the chateau fight in ''The Matrix Reloaded'': when one mook attempted to backstab him, he blocked over his shoulder.
* In ''MuppetTreasureIsland'' Polly Lobster is thrown into the side of the ship and loses consciousness. Some minutes later he recovers, and Mr. Arrow (Sam the Eagle) slams him back against it with a wing, without taking his eyes off the duel between the two captains.
** Minutes later, Sam does it again, while performing a FacePalm.

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* Darth Vader does something similar in ''RevengeOfTheSith'': when he's on Mustafar [[LeaveNoSurvivors slaughtering]] [[AssholeVictim the Separatist council]], a [[MechaMooks battle droid]] shoots at him from behind, and without turning around, he just puts his lightsaber behind him, [[ImplausibleFencingPowers deflecting the blaster bolt back]] and destroying the droid. This occurs right before he turns to [[BreakingTheFourthWall face the camera]], showing off the [[GlowingEyesOfDoom red-rimmed yellow eyes]] of DarkSide corruption.
** This is actually a pretty common Jedi ability, and forms the basis of their defense against blaster bolts. A better example would be how Yoda disposed of Sidious's PraetorianGuard in the same movie, offhandedly smacking them both against a wall with the force without even turning around.
* Parodied in the ''Do You Know Praying Mantis?'' scene from ''RobinHoodMenInTights''.
* ''Film/RoboCop'' too shoots without looking, but he pre-targets the bad guys in his computerized head. Given the satirical tone of the series, this is almost certainly done tongue-in-cheek.
* In ''Film/{{Rollerball}}'', the protagonist does this, then points out that he could hear the other guy.
* In ''{{Roxanne}}'' (based loosely on ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac''), CD (Steve Martin) pulls this off after his CrowningMomentOfAwesome showing up the bar fly who (poorly) insulted his nose. After the humiliated guy tries to hit him, CD counters and brings his fist up backwards into the guy face. As the guy stands there stunned CD walks nonchalantly back to his table, not looking back and asks his companions "Has he fallen yet?" just as the guy drops to raucous cheering.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' has River pull this on the captain, just to show how CrazyAwesome she is. Likewise bounty hunter Jubal Early on Simon Tam. On both occasions no one is shot; it's just a less-than-subtle way of saying "Back off".
* Doctor Octopus takes it to another level in ''Film/{{Spider-Man}} 2''. When Mary Jane grabs a 2x4 and starts advancing on him, he uses two of his mechanical arms to snatch it out of her hands and knock her to the floor, all without taking his eyes off Peter. Of course, it's possible the independently intelligent tentacles did it all on their own.
** Well, the film seems to imply that since the tentacles are basically connected to his mind; they can feed him information about his surroundings from their own built-in sensors (and if you watch closely, one of the tentacles was indeed "looking" at MJ before she struck). A similar thing happens during his first battle with Spider-Man. His back is turned completely to the direction Spidey is coming from, yet one of his tentacles seems to spot him coming. Ock then turns around throwing bags of money at Spidey as an attack.
* In ''{{Troy}}'', Achilles parries several blows on the upswing thanks to a BadassBack. Then he [[UnflinchingWalk walks away without looking]].
* ''UndercoverBrother''. Sista Girl strikes someone behind her with a fist twice: Undercover Brother (while he's sexually harassing her) and a golf course security guard.
* [[Film/XMenOriginsWolverine Wolverine]] elbows Gambit in the face as he's coming up behind him to deliver an angry speech.
* Makes an appearance in [[http://www.ifilm.com/video/2884382 this short]] featuring {{TNA}} wrestler Kurt Angle.
** "Less talk, more action"? Pot, kettle, black.

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* The title character of ''XenaWarriorPrincess'' does this constantly.
* Worf stabs one of the boarding-party Klingons in "Way of the Warrior", his first episode on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
** [[spoiler: Fake]] Martok stabs two Klingon gards at the same time in this way in the episode Apocalypse Rising.
* A skit in the MST3K episode, ''Overdrawn At the Memory Bank'' has Observer attempting to attack Bobo while the latter is sitting down at a table, eating a fast food meal. As Observer rushes forward with a mighty yell, Bobo calmly holds his fist behind him, which Observer promptly smashes his own face into.
* Part of Spike's EstablishingCharacterMoment in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer.'' Step one: swagger into the current villain's lair and make fun of a mook's overly dramatic speech. Step two: reminiscence about ContemplatingYourHands at Woodstock, then knock out the mook without even looking at him. Step three: stop to fawn over [[IllGirl Ill Vampire Girlfriend]].
** There was a variation in which Wesley fenced with Giles and kept ineffectually lunging at him while Giles faced the other way and read a newspaper with his other hand the whole time.

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* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' uses it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZXfMnPp30c at least once.]] (Check around :55 into the video).
* Worf stabs one of the boarding-party Klingons in "Way of the Warrior", his first episode on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''.
** [[spoiler: Fake]] Martok stabs two Klingon gards at the same time in this way in the episode Apocalypse Rising.
* The title character of ''XenaWarriorPrincess'' does this constantly.
* ''SaturdayNightLive'' once did a skit, featuring John Goodman, of a group of ninjas talking about their work. One lamented to the others, "I tried sneaking up behind him, going real, extra careful and quiet, y'know, but he always gives me one of THESE!" while making the Offhand Backhand motion. One of the other ninjas chimes in, "Yeah, how do they do that?"
* In ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'', a villain casually kicks Malone away when he tries a ClickHello on him.
* Similarly to the first Literature/{{Discworld}} examples above, in one episode of ''Series/{{Stargate SG-1}}'', Teal'c outmaneuvers a Person of Interest by not following his partner to the back door and instead waiting on the lee side of a Dumpster and sticking his arm out right in the suspect's face as he sprinted past.
** Subverted in a later episode, however. Teal'c hears a Replicator coming up behind him and shoots it dead on with his staff weapon without turning around. The Replicator is totally immune to staff weapons and continues attacking, to Teal'c's shock.[[/folder]]

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* MichaelJackson shoots a guy like this in the "Smooth Criminal" video.

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* The intro cinematic for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: The Burning Crusade'' features a variant on this, with a [[TheUndead Forsaken]] mage obliterating a trio of murlocs coming up on him from behind with a Blast Wave spell, and a more regular example with a draenei paladin and his [[DropTheHammer hammer]]. One watching might feel that "THAT HAS TO HURT!"
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', the weakest attack of [[RyuAndKen Ialdabaoth and Valefor]] starts out with this... only to continue with [[SpamAttack spamming kick attacks]], finished with a Falcon Punch. Of course, they FlashStep behind the enemy beforehand, so it's less "I know you're behind me" and more "Hey, I'm right behind you".
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'', [[spoiler: Lloyd]] does this to the main character, Emil, just about every time they meet. Unusually for this trope, both are using swords.
* In ''VideoGame/RainbowSix: Raven Shield'', terrorists can shoot you without turning around. It also doesn't help that they spawn right behind you.
* In ''{{Halo 2}}'', Jackal Snipers (instant death on Legendary) can shoot at you without directly aiming, as well as bounce their shots off of walls.
* In ''TheMovies'', one of the scenes allows a character to do this, in {{defi|edTrope}}ance of the scene's standard "bad guy sneaks up and chokes the character to death."

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* In ''VideoGame/DragonsLair II: Time Warp'', Dirk the Daring does this a few times -- a snake tries to attack him from behind, and he gives it a quick bop with his sword in such a way that it looks like it was on accident -- but it's a player command, and [[PressXToNotDie you die if you don't]]. Dirk even does this while ''GRIEVING'' when he thinks Daphne is dead, his head buried in despair... but when an imp moves in to attack -- smack! -- and Dirk doesn't even acknowledge it.
* ''DynastyWarriors'': Sun Ce does this to a {{mook|s}} in a cutscene in the fifth installment.
** He does this ''again'' to two mooks on either side of him in one of the seventh game's scenes.
* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' spinoff ''DirgeOfCerberus'', Vincent is struggling with his SuperpoweredEvilSide Chaos when a mutated hound-like enemy tries to take advantage of his distraction and ambush him from behind. Vincent sends it flying with a casual backhanded swipe.
* One type of demon in ''GodHand'' has an attack where it teleports in behind you and tries to slam you. Hitting the {{Action Command|s}} at this point results in Gene doing this ([[CrazyAwesome with an over-the-shoulder axe kick]]) and sending the demon flying about a thousand yards back.
* ''[[{{Gungrave}} Beyond the Grave]]'' does this sort of thing too when using his Burst Attack, and in some cutscenes.
* In ''{{Halo 2}}'', Jackal Snipers (instant death on Legendary) can shoot at you without directly aiming, as well as bounce their shots off of walls.

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* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', one of the possible counterattack animations when an enemy is behind him is a variant of this. Unfortunately, it isn't the specific version he's known for in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''... He saves ''that one'' for a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZHKUVTraWg#t=1m26 cutscene]].
** He does two in that cutscene, once while walking towards Joker and the second standing in front of him.
** He also does it to one of Ivy's plants in another cutscene.
* In the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' spinoff ''DirgeOfCerberus'', Vincent is struggling with his SuperpoweredEvilSide Chaos when a mutated hound-like enemy tries to take advantage of his distraction and ambush him from behind. Vincent sends it flying with a casual backhanded swipe.
* [[BigBad Crow]] does this to [[TheDragon Trejo]] in ''[[DefJamSeries Def Jam: Fight For New York]]'' when he laughed at one of his jokes.
* ''[[{{Gungrave}} Beyond the Grave]]'' does this sort of thing too when using his Burst Attack, and in some cutscenes.
* Kyle Blackthorne from ''VideoGame/{{Blackthorne}}'' could do this as a standard move, even though it was for the most part completely useless.

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* In ''TheMovies'', one of the scenes allows a character to do this, in {{defi|edTrope}}ance of the scene's standard "bad guy sneaks up and chokes the character to death."
* In ''VideoGame/RainbowSix: Raven Shield'', terrorists can shoot you without turning around. It also doesn't help that they spawn right behind you.
* In ShadowsOfTheDamned, when an enemy attacks Garcia from behind a button prompt will appear to make Garcia elbow said mook.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', the weakest attack of [[RyuAndKen Ialdabaoth and Valefor]] starts out with this... only to continue with [[SpamAttack spamming kick attacks]], finished with a Falcon Punch. Of course, they FlashStep behind the enemy beforehand, so it's less "I know you're behind me" and more "Hey, I'm right behind you".
* It's technichally possible to do this from the viewpoint of certain characters in SuperSmashBrosBrawl. Finishing off the [[TeleportSpam Teleport spamming]] Tabuu this way is extremely satisfying.
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld'', [[spoiler: Lloyd]] does this to the main character, Emil, just about every time they meet. Unusually for this trope, both are using swords.
* In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' trailer for the Soldier, said Soldier manages to backhand a Spy ready to backstab him with a shovel.
** Soldiers and Demomen tend to do this when [[RocketJump explosive jumping.]]
* The intro cinematic for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: The Burning Crusade'' features a variant on this, with a [[TheUndead Forsaken]] mage obliterating a trio of murlocs coming up on him from behind with a Blast Wave spell, and a more regular example with a draenei paladin and his [[DropTheHammer hammer]]. One watching might feel that "THAT HAS TO HURT!"

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* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=24&issue=14 Against a Pterosaur.]]
** He also does the gun version. With a ''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p26 shotgun.]]''
* Svafa, a minor character in ''TheAdventuresOfWiglafAndMordred'', does it in [[http://liliy.net/wam/2008/09/19/thats-like-a-lot-of-blood/ this]] strip
* A [[EliteMook MANTIS agent]] pulls this on Crossroad in [[http://www.antiheroforhire.com/d/20080425.html this]] ''AntiheroForHire''.
* [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_11/ You should learn this]] if you want to be on Webcomic/AxeCop's team.
* Ritz of BoxerHockey manages to pull off an offhand [[CurbStompBattle CURBSTOMP]] [[http://boxerhockey.fireball20xl.com/?id=159 here]].
* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', the first clue that the protagonist is [[CuteBruiser not to be trifled with]] is that she pulls off an OffhandBackhand ''[[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=34 in her sleep]]''.
* DominicDeegan does it [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2004-01-24 with plants.]]
** Melna does this simultaneously to two dimwitted guards.
** [[CampGay Szark]] [[MasterSwordsman Sturtz]] - [[http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-01-06 "I do a lot of things]] [[DoubleEntendre from behind."]]
* Vaelia of ''{{Drowtales}}'' is the local BadassNormal and the main human character among the fae, [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7159 and delivers an offhand]] GroinAttack to a human man who made the mistake of harassing her.

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* ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=24&issue=14 Against a Pterosaur.]]
** He also does the gun version. With a ''[[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p26 shotgun.]]''
* In ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', the first clue that the protagonist is [[CuteBruiser not to be trifled with]] is that she pulls off an OffhandBackhand ''[[http://www.diggercomic.com/?p=34 in her sleep]]''.
* Svafa, a minor character in ''TheAdventuresOfWiglafAndMordred'', does it in [[http://liliy.net/wam/2008/09/19/thats-like-a-lot-of-blood/ this]] strip
* The first panel of [[http://www.lfgcomic.com/page/302 this]] [[LookingForGroup LFG]] strip has Richard do this. Interestingly, it's a literal offhand backhand at the same time as an offhanded cast, since he seems to have lit his hand on fire.
* [[LackadaisyCats "Viktor?]] Is anyone in th--" '''''[[http://lackadaisy.foxprints.com/comic.php?comicid=88 WHOK]]'''''
* Vaelia of ''{{Drowtales}}'' is the local BadassNormal and the main human character among the fae, [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=7159 and delivers an offhand]] GroinAttack to a human man who made the mistake of harassing her.
* Ritz of BoxerHockey manages to pull off an offhand [[CurbStompBattle CURBSTOMP]] [[http://boxerhockey.fireball20xl.com/?id=159 here]].
* [[http://axecop.com/index.php/acask/read/ask_axe_cop_11/ You should learn this]] if you want to be on Webcomic/AxeCop's team.
* More like "Offhand YourHeadASplode" , but [[http://www.errantstory.com/2008-04-11/794 don't try to sneak up]] on Webcomic/ErrantStory's Ian.

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* Slappy Squirrel in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', as quoted above, pulling a huge club out of her purse and....
* WesternAnimation/{{Archer}} [[http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/archer-grenade.gif does this with a net to catch grenades being thrown at him]] in "Heart of Archness, Part II."
* Occurred twice in {{Asterix}}:
** During the last of ''The Twelve Tasks of Asterix'', Obelix and Unhygienix start beating dozens of Romans this way, totally unaware of their presence, and while arguing about who should get the fun on this last task.
** During ''Asterix Versus Caesar'', Obelix asks if he can be nice to the other gladiators, while taking them out with offhanded attacks.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** [[spoiler:Aang does this with the BigBad in the finale using the skills he learned from Toph.]] He also does this to a ''boulder'' when he was [[spoiler:storming the Earth King's palace.]]
** Much earlier, Admiral Zhao does this to a North Water Tribe warrior wannabe who tries to attack him during the Siege of the North. Of course, one would have had to be blind and deaf not to see that idiot coming after he announced that he was attacking.

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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** [[spoiler:Aang does this with the BigBad in the finale using the skills he learned from Toph.]] He also does this to a ''boulder'' when he was [[spoiler:storming the Earth King's palace.]]
** Much earlier, Admiral Zhao does this to a North Water Tribe warrior wannabe who tries to attack him during the Siege of the North. Of course, one would have had to be blind and deaf not to see that idiot coming after he announced that he was attacking.
* Brian uses the kicking variation at the end of the "Patriot Games" of ''FamilyGuy''. A neat little subversion, as he sets it up so that Stewie thinks he is going to receive some kind of offhanded karmic retribution for constantly and mercilessly beating Brian until the fifty dollars that he bet on a boxing match was going to happen when he least suspected it: As Brian and Stewie are walking down a sidewalk in London, a double-decker bus passes by, and without a single word uttered and without attracting the attention of Chris, Peter, Meg, or Lois, Brian swiftly juts his left leg out so that Stewie trips and is run over by said double-decker.
* Occurred twice in {{Asterix}}:
** During the last of ''The Twelve Tasks of Asterix'', Obelix and Unhygienix start beating dozens of Romans this way, totally unaware of their presence, and while arguing about who should get the fun on this last task.
** During ''Asterix Versus Caesar'', Obelix asks if he can be nice to the other gladiators, while taking them out with offhanded attacks.

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