History Main / RadialAsskicking

* In ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', Asuna and Setsuna's battle against the demons in Kyoto played out like this. Once they began to realize that either girl could [[OneHitKill cut them down with a single stroke]], they kept their distance and attacked more strategically in this fashion.

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': Meta Knight and Marth combine this with BackToBackBadasses in the Subspace Emissary.

* The Creator/BruceLee film ''Fist Of Fury'' has an early example.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': [[spoiler:the Balrog chases them off before the fight actually happens]] but in the Mines of Moria, the Fellowship finds itself completely surrounded by a really absurd number of goblins.

* Chanmi from Music/{{AOA}} in ''Series/{{Queendom}}''. She's not only surrounded by mooks who fight here, but also by a second circle of people aiming at her.

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* ''Film/TheDarkKnightSaga'' is full of this as well. Franchise/{{Batman}} seems to find himself surrounded on all sides rather frequently; however, they don't just [[MookChivalry wait for the next guy to get knocked down]] but rather [[ZergRush attack all at once]]. Fortunately, ConservationOfNinjitsu is in full effect each time.

* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' has the page image example, along with a few other examples.

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* The Multi Mook fights in ''Film/TheMatrix'', particularly the fight against the Smith clones in the second film, pretty much define this trope. They notably do a reasonable job of averting or justifying MookChivalry, and in the most extreme instances, we see hundreds of Smiths crowding around and dancing circles around Neo as he violently brandishes his [[ImprovisedWeapon tetherball pole]], thrashing anyone who gets too close. [[spoiler:Then he [[OhCrap loses the pole]] and everything goes downhill from there.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'' engages in this frequently, with [[IdiotHero Coop]] in the middle and a ''lot'' of Aliens, Robots or Alien Robots surrounding him in nearly every battle that isn't a DuelBoss. Coop typically then [[CrazyAwesome would casually rip the arms or legs off the nearest]] {{Mook}}, [[UpToEleven (Or just pick up said Mook,)]] before laying down some serious GrievousHarmWithABody.
** When this happened in the pilot (1000 Glorft robots), Kiva's robot was standing next to Megas. Kiva said the odds weren't good, Coop agreed and ''trashed her robot'' to even the odds.
* During the big fight scene at the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Robots}}'', Cappy and Piper become encircled by {{mooks}}. They do a literal version of this trope: Cappy swings Piper around in a circle, smashing every mook that has the misfortune to come in contact with her feet.
* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' with Fiona and the Merry Men as well as the wrestling scene in Farquaad's arena.

* ''ComicBook/RichardDragonKungFuFighter'': The cover of issue one shows ComicBook/RichardDragon and Bronze Tiger back to back surrounded by goons they're about to tear through. The actual fight depicted goes a bit differently in the comic itself since it mostly takes place in hallways and while traveling through a base, but Dragon and Tiger still make short work of the bad guys.

* ''PowerRangers'' do this [[OnceAnEpisode in EVERY EPISODE]].

* In the Battle of 1000 Heartless in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Sora, Donald, and Goofy are shown surrounded by tons Heartless, before splitting off to fight. You control Sora fighting the aforementioned 1000, with Donald and Goofy presumably fighting the rest off sceen.
* Meta Knight and Marth combine this with BackToBackBadasses in [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros the Subspace Emissary]]
* ''VideoGame/KickBeat'' is literally nothing BUT a series of RadialAsskicking Arenas. Set to various Indie-rock and Metal tracks. And it is AWESOME.

* The bigger MultiMookMelee fights in the VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries often turn into these, especially on the [[EndlessGame endless fight]] challenge maps.

* ''KickBeat'' is literally nothing BUT a series of RadialAsskicking Arenas. Set to various Indie-rock and Metal tracks. And it is AWESOME.

* ''''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'': [[spoiler:the Balrog chases them off before the fight actually happens]] but in the Mines of Moria, the Fellowship finds itself completely surrounded by a really absurd number of goblins.

* The BruceLee film ''Fist Of Fury'' has an early example.

* In ''{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'', the Toa Hordika are surrounded by a horde of [[GiantSpider Visorak]] this way in the Coliseum arena. [[spoiler:The fight goes on and on with the ConservationOfNinjitsu in place, until they're finally overwhelmed by the spiders and surrender.]]

* Happens in ''{{Shrek}}'' with Fiona and the Merry Men as well as the wrestling scene in Farquaad's arena.

* [[SummerGlau River]] in ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' fights off Reavers coming at her from all sides.

* ''KickBeat'' is literally nothing BUT a serious of RadialAsskicking Arenas. Set to various Indie-rock and Metal tracks. And it is AWESOME.

* Seen in ''SetoNoHanayome'' by Nagasumi after he gets to be affected by Sun's singing during an episode.
* Most of {{Naruto}}'s opponents usually pull off this trick due to his preference of using Shadow Clones.

* In the Battle of 1000 Heartless in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', this is how Sora, Donald, and Goofy begin the fight.
** Actually, it's just Sora. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesome]] ensues.

* ''MegasXLR'' engages in this frequently, with [[IdiotHero Coop]] in the middle and a ''lot'' of Aliens, Robots or Alien Robots surrounding him in nearly every battle that isn't a DuelBoss. Coop typically then [[CrazyAwesome would casually rip the arms or legs off the nearest]] {{Mook}}, [[UpToEleven (Or just pick up said Mook,)]] before laying down some serious GrievousHarmWithABody.

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[[caption-width-right:350:The ''other'' type of [[SugarWiki/HaveANiceCupOfTeaAndSitDown sharing circle]].]]

* In ''MahouSenseiNegima'', Asuna and Setsuna's battle against the demons in Kyoto played out like this. Once they began to realize that either girl could [[OneHitKill cut them down with a single stroke]], they kept their distance and attacked more strategically in this fashion.

* VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo has the page image example, along with one or two other examples.

[[quoteright:350:[[Film/TheMatrix http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tyy_9546.jpg]]]]

** The tactical... originality of this manouver in RealLife is lampshaded in ''DMOfTheRings''.

* This happens in ''KillBill'' (Volume 1) in the Crazy 88 fight scene.