History Main / SecondPersonAttack

* ''HeroFactory'' episode ''The Trials of Furno'' has a shot showing Rotor's point of view as Furno lays a few punches on him

* In the latest commercial for WorldOfWarcraft featuring ChuckNorris, he does not one, but two Second Person Attacks! The first time, he punches one of the enemies in the game, and the second time, he punches the camera after the line, "I'm Chuck Norris, and I approve this game."

* ''CowboyBebop'' combines this with the HeyYouHaymaker in "Cowboy Funk."

* Used in ''{{Scrubs}}'' during [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxUmrPH2d4 this particularly awesome scene]].

* Quite a few attacks in ''SuperRobotWars'' do this, probably so the animations can play fine regardless of how the target looks. A good example would be ''{{Mazinkaiser}}'''s Final Kaiser Blade.

* Often done in ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''.

* Subverted in the ''DextersLaboratory'' cartoon "Beard To Be Feared". Action Hank was about to punch an enemy through the POV of that enemy, and just when he was throwing the punch, it cuts to a TV showing the episode of Action Hank that Dexter was watching. Dexter was then shown wincing at the punch.

* In the ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode, "Pizza Delivery", when the fish ordering the Krusty Krab pizza refused to pay for the pizza because Spongebob and Squidward forgot to bring him his soda, Squidward comes back at his door and shoves the pizza in the customer's face, "Well, this one's on the house!"

* Used several times in ''TheFairlyOddParents'': at least two in the TV movie ''Abracatastrophe''; one in the beginning of the movie Channel Chasers; the episodes "Mighty Mom and Dyno Dad", "Scary Godparents", "Kung Timmy" (and several others), and occasionally in the Crimson Chin bridging sequences in the Season 0 episodes.

* In the ''LooneyTunes'' cartoon "My Little Duckaroo"", Daffy Duck gets punched in the face by Nasty Canasta.

* The ''{{Arthur}}'' episode [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWT_jbyA7co Arthur's Big Hit]] is one of the rare cases where no HitFlash was used.

* Occurs in ''[[WesternAnimation/X-MenEvolution X-Men: Evolution]]'', when Storm punches Mystique out in "The Cauldron, Part One".

* Occurs in ''Main/X-MenEvolution'', when Storm punches Mystique out in "The Cauldron, Part One".

* Occurs in ''X-MenEvolution'', when Storm punches Mystique out in "The Cauldron, Part One".

* Occurs in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'', when Storm punches Mystique out in "The Cauldron, Part One".

* Occurs in ''WesternAnimation/X-MenEvolution'', when Storm punches Mystique out in "The Cauldron, Part One".

While sometimes this is purely for stylistic reasons, other times its a form of censorship in action shows directed at younger audiences because you never see the hit. A character punches the screen, cut to another character flying across the room, but you never see the point of contact.

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* Used frequently during the battle scenes in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime.
* Also used in the 17th episode of ''SonicX'' during the fighting sequences.
** In episode 46, Cream the Rabbit finishes off the robot Emerl with a double stomp, knocking it into the ocean.
* ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' has a lengthy one at the end of Chun Li's fight with Vega; during which, she kicks him repeatedly. It's shown almost entirely from Vega's POV, excluding when she puts him through the wall with both feet!

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* ''TheGreatTrainRobbery'' can be considered the ''UrExample'' to this trope, as its last shot has director Edwin Porter, in a very early kind of cameo (not the leader of the outlaw band as was mainly believed), taking aim and firing point blank at the audience. The film is well known for the scene.

* In Lou Ferrigno's film ''Film/{{Hercules}}'' the title character was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvYhw_0xjhcshown punching a bear]] multiple times through the POV of the animal, complete with ridiculous strobe HitFlash effects.
* The film ''{{Hidalgo}}'' has at least one instance of a SecondPersonAttack, as seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnjRUVYRY8 this trailer around 2:08]].
* The gun-barrel sequence in JamesBond films, naturally. Only the attack is viewed from the barrel of the gun. In one variation, the bullet actually goes THROUGH the barrel itself!
* In ''Series/TalesFromTheDarkside TheMovie'', we see the cat lunging at his victim, with the camera going right to the victim's mouth, just to make it clear that it's an OrificeInvasion.
* In a DeletedScene from ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie is caught snooping in Jessica's dressing room and there's a POV shot of the gorilla bouncer as he knocks him out cold.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mzbb7_vE2Y This clip]] from the ESPN documentary show, E:60, gives viewers the virtual effect on what it would be like to be attacked by a thrown knife. Only difference being that a large sheet of glass was used, and there's no enemy here.
* The first season finale of ''SaluteYourShorts'' featured departing character, Michael, leaving to avoid a large and very aggressive bully. In the episode's climax, Michael decides to face the bully ddown. The camera switches to Michael's POV for the confrontation just before the bully [[spoiler: delivers an anticlimactic OneHitKO]] and the screen goes black.
* In ''Series/{{Wipeout}}'' they use what's called the Smash Cam. This is intended to show how the contestant fell from their own point of view (or at least the point of view of their lifejacket).
* Used in ''{{Scrubs}}'' during [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxUmrPH2d4 this particularly awesome scene]].

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* The opening of the game ''SonicRiders'' has Knuckles punching Storm a few times like this.
* A gruesome example occurs in ''NoMoreHeroes''. [[spoiler: When Travis cuts off the head of Rank 3 assassin Speed Buster, we see it fly to the ground from her POV.]]
* The SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem and {{Wii}} versions of the game ''PunchOut'' essentially use this perspective, with only a transparent version of the player visible in the foreground. Most boxing games, in fact, seem to use this perspective.
* The ''FightNight'' series of video games use this trope when boxers get stunned during matches. Players get to view through the eyes of that boxer as his opponent knocks him out with a brutal punch.
* The video game ''{{Teleroboxer}}'' is fought in first-person view, obviously since it was released for Virtual Boy. When you get knocked out, the robot's view screen gets turned off like a television.
* Also done a lot in the 3D ''{{Pokemon}}'' games because battle animations weren't built for two Pokémon to ever hit each other or even be on the same side of the arena.
* ''4-D Boxing'' offers two first-person cameras, from the viewpoint of either you or your opponent. {{Hit Flash}}es abound.
* Quite a few attacks in ''SuperRobotWars'' do this, probably so the animations can play fine regardless of how the target looks. A good example would be ''{{Mazinkaiser}}'''s Final Kaiser Blade.

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* The ''{{Arthur}}'' episode [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWT_jbyA7co Arthur's Big Hit]] is one of the rare cases where no HitFlash was used.
* In the ''LooneyTunes'' cartoon "My Little Duckaroo"", Daffy Duck gets punched in the face by Nasty Canasta.
** BugsBunny short "Rabbit Punch". While in a boxing match, Bugs hands a sling shot to his opponent and pulls back on the sling. He then puts a boulder in the sling and launches it into the opponent's face. We see the attack from the opponent's POV: watch it [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guS2-q3ELfQ#t=2m20s here]].
*** The same effect happens to the bull in the short ''BullyForBugs.''
** Also occurs twice in the cartoon Homeless Hare when Bugs Bunny drops a brick on the antagonist's head, and later, when he, himself gets whammed in the head by a large I-beam thrown by the antagonist, temporarily leaving Bugs dazed and confused.
** In the Porky Pig cartoon, The Lone Stranger and Porky, the unseen narrator annoys the villain so much that he fires his guns at the camera, shooting the narrator to death.

* Used and abused in ''ThePowerpuffGirls'', especially in certain cases where the viewer can suffer the virtual effects of getting punched and kicked DOZENS OF TIMES IN A ROW.
** Especially used in the opening sequence to some extent.
* Often done in ''BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''.
* Also frequently used in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.
** The title sequence even has Cyborg making a huge punch.
* This is done at least OnceAnEpisode in ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}'' and its spinoffs.
* At the end of the ''CodenameKidsNextDoor'' episode, Operation: S.P.A.C.E., Numbuh 1 points his mustard gun toward one of the characters, and his blast fills the entire screen and fades to black.
** Operation: E.N.D.: Numbuh 4 to Chad: "Don't ever call me SQUIRT!" Cue punch that sends Chad flying.
** Operation: R.O.B.B.E.R.S.: Numbuh 5 uses the S.P.L.A.N.K.E.R. to knock out one of the members of the Six-Gum Gang.
** Operation: L.U.N.C.H.: Lizzie uses Numbuh 1's combat machine to punch Robin Food and the lunch robbers.
** Operation: N.A.U.G.H.T.Y.: A Wolverine-like character uses his candy cane claws to slash one of the villains.
* Used in an episode of ''FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' when Bloo gets punched in the face by a young girl for taking some toy glow-in-the-dark vampire teeth.
** In another episode where Bloo was spying on who was supposed to be "the best imaginary friend ever", in one scene, that best imaginary friend knocks out Bloo with a shovel.
* An episode of ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' titled "Chicken Ball Z" begins with Mandy repeatedly punching Billy in the face at a karate dojo.
** Towards the end of the episode "Sister Grim", the giant nun (formed by many regular sized nuns) sends Grim home with a big punch after they find out that he wasn't actually a nun the whole time.
** At the end of the episode "Hoss Delgado: Spectral Exterminator", Hoss fights a werewolf. They jump up, and the camera pans, [[Matrix]]-style, to (almost) the POV of the werewolf. Hoss fires his slime gun at the werewolf, filling the screen to a fade-to-black.
* Subverted in the ''DextersLaboratory'' cartoon "Beard To Be Feared". Action Hank was about to punch an enemy through the POV of that enemy, and just when he was throwing the punch, it cuts to a TV showing the episode of Action Hank that Dexter was watching. Dexter was then shown wincing at the punch.
** Played straight, however, in "Dexter Detention", when a bully Dexter was sitting next to in detention punches him in the face.
** In the episode "A Mom Cartoon", Dexter's mom fights another woman at the supermarket for some new gloves. At one point, Mom punches and kicks the other woman multiple times through the POV of that woman.
* ''BeavisAndButthead'' does this at least twice -- once in the episode "Nosebleed", and again in the introduction to the 3D ''Series/{{Jackass}}'' movie. Both times it was Butt-Head punching Beavis.
* Happens in the Christmas special, ''Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer'', where, of course, Grandma got run over by Santa's reindeer and sleigh through her POV.
* At the end of the ''EdEddNEddy'' episode, "Who Let The Ed In?", Eddy hits Ed with an invisible potato in an invisible slingshot.
** This trope also occurs in the Valentine's Day special when Kevin tosses the end of the gym rope towards Eddy, and it hits him in the face.
** In the episode, "The Good, The Bad, and the Ed", Rolf challenges Eddy to a series of dangerous challenges. One of the challenges involved Eddy and Rolf getting giant boulders smashed against themselves in a giant Newton's Cradle. At the start of that challenge, Eddy's POV shows Ed tossing one of the boulders, smashing him hard.
* In the ''SpongebobSquarepants'' episode, "Pizza Delivery", when the fish ordering the Krusty Krab pizza refused to pay for the pizza because Spongebob and Squidward forgot to bring him his soda, Squidward comes back at his door and shoves the pizza in the customer's face, "Well, this one's on the house!"
** Also occurs twice in the episode "Sandy's Rocket", with Spongebob and Patrick's use of the net guns to capture Mr. Krabs, then Sandy.
* All [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In5MdvzLY-Y the bumpers]] in Cartoon Network's AcmeHour feature cartoon slapstick and violence in the first person. Several bumpers involve Second-Person Attacks - to name a few: getting run over by a steamroller or a train, getting whacked in the face by a plank, falling from a skyscraper, and getting knocked in the head by a falling weight.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P3ZACNxtQI&feature=related infamous scene]] from an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' that has a double Second-Person Attack, plus the ImpairmentShot of seeing double and falling over after the punch occurred.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', in the episode "Husbands and Knives", a triple Second-Person Attack is made by Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes and Alan Moore, who all simultaneously punch Comic Book Guy when he was trying to destroy a rival comic book store that's ruining his business. "Worst Second-Person Attack ever."
* Occurs in the ''CourageTheCowardlyDog'' episode, "1000 Years of Courage". Here, Courage picks up a banana, attempting to eat it, but it turns out to be a living baby creature. Courage makes a dash for it as its mother hits him over the head twice with her purse.

* In an episode of SesameStreet's segment show Elmo's World called "Water", a boy is shown squirting a jet of water at the camera with a hose during a montage of kids playing with water.

* ''Film/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' has a lengthy one at the end of Chun Li's fight with Vega; during which, she kicks him repeatedly. It's shown almost entirely from Vega's POV, excluding when she puts him through the wall with both feet!

* In ''TalesFromTheDarkside TheMovie'', we see the cat lunging at his victim, with the camera going right to the victim's mouth, just to make it clear that it's an OrificeInvasion.

* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P3ZACNxtQI&feature=related infamous scene]] from an episode of BeastWars that has a double Second-Person Attack, plus the ImpairmentShot of seeing double and falling over after the punch occurred.

* At the end of the ''EdEddNEddy'' cartoon, "Who Let The Ed In?", Eddy hits Ed with an invisible potato in an invisible slingshot.

* In the latest commercial for WorldOfWarcraft featuring ChuckNorris, he does not one, but two Second Person Attacks! The first time, he punches one of the enemies in the game, and the second time, he punches the camera after the line, "I'm Chuck Norris, and I approve this message."

* A common sight in ''Series/DonkeyKongCountry'' is a POV shot from the villains as DK throws a haymaker at their face.

*** The same effect happens to the bull in the short "Bully for Bugs".

* This is done at least OnceAnEpisode in ''{{Ben 10}}'' and its spinoffs.

* In ''GodOfWar 3'', one part of the Poseidon battle has you seeing Kratos' brutality through Poseidon's eyes.

* In ''TheSimpsons'' episode "Husbands and Knives", a triple Second-Person Attack was made by Art Spiegelman, Daniel Clowes and Alan Moore, who all simultaneously punch Comic Book Guy when he was trying to destroy a rival comic book store that's ruining his business. "Worst Second-Person Attack ever."

* The opening of the game ''SonicRiders'' has Knuckles the Echidna punching one of the Babylon Rogues a few times.

* ''{{4-D Boxing}}'' offers two first-person cameras, from the viewpoint of either you or your opponent. {{Hit Flash}}es abound.

* The ''Arthur'' episode, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWT_jbyA7co Arthur's Big Hit]] is one of the rare cases where no HitFlash was used.

* Quite a few attacks in ''SuperRobotWars'' do this, probably so the animations can play fine regardless of how the target looks. A good example would be ''{{Mazinkaiser}}'''s Final Kaiser Blade.

* Used frequently during the battle scenes in the ''{{Pokemon}}'' anime.