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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS24E1TimeAndTheRani "Time and the Rani"]], the Rani drugs the newly-regenerated Seventh Doctor with a memory-impairing drug and dresses herself up as his companion, Mel, in order to dupe him into helping her with her latest scheme. On several occasions, the drug's effects are represented by first-person shots where the Doctor sees the Rani's face morph into Mel's; when the drug starts wearing off, he sees the opposite. The camera cuts to his reaction immediately before returning to his viewpoint as the Rani slaps him to the floor to get the drug working again.
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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCO0DXAc0tk&t=67s The Boss B*tch Challenge]]'' was done by Zoe Bell and several fellow stunt workers during the 2020 COVID-19 situation where many people are unable to leave their house.

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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCO0DXAc0tk&t=67s The Boss B*tch Challenge]]'' was done by Zoe Bell and several fellow stunt workers during the 2020 COVID-19 situation where many people are unable to leave their house. It consist of each person pretending to be knocked back by the attack in the previous clip, and then delivering their own attack in the direction of the camera.
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* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In "The Killer Robot Instability", Howard is depressed after Penny gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and Penny is asked to apologize. After she does and Howard still tries to cop a feel, there is a shot of Penny punching at the camera, followed by Howard with a broken nose.
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* Several level-up animations in ''VideoGame/LegendsOfRuneterra'' are given from the perspective of someone encountering the champion, particularly [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Kindred firing an arrow directly into the camera]], and [[ShakyPOVCam the camera looking left to right in terror before Nocturne charges into the foreground]]. Nocturne's victim even screams!
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* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' features a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'' with Tommy in place of the cowboy.

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* ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' features a ShoutOut to ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery'' ''Film/TheGreatTrainRobbery1903'' with Tommy in place of the cowboy.
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Compare SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou and TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.

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Compare See also SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou and TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou.
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** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Spellbound", [[MasterOfIllusion Spellbinder]] has an electronic MagicEye built into his glove's palm, and when Terry tries to chase him, he flashes the electronic eye and tricks him into believing he's diving off a waterfall when he's flying into the ground before Bruce awakens him at the last second.

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** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Spellbound", [[MasterOfIllusion Spellbinder]] has an electronic MagicEye built into his glove's palm, and when Terry tries to chase him, he flashes the electronic eye and [[PsychicAssistedSuicide tricks him into believing he's diving off a waterfall when he's flying into the ground ground]], before Bruce awakens him at the last second.
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* ''Franchise/{{DCAU}}: Often done in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.

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Often done in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', and ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''.
** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': In "Spellbound", [[MasterOfIllusion Spellbinder]] has an electronic MagicEye built into his glove's palm, and when Terry tries to chase him, he flashes the electronic eye and tricks him into believing he's diving off a waterfall when he's flying into the ground before Bruce awakens him at the last second.
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* In ''VideoGame/PokkenTournament'', the beginning of Garchomp's Burst Attack, Outrage Smasher, shows the slashes from the victim's point of view.

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* In ''VideoGame/Persona5 [[UpdatedReRelease Royal]]'', part of Makoto and Haru's [[CombinationAttack Showtime attack]] is seen from the perspective of the unlucky Shadow they're attacking, ending with Makoto [[ChairmanOfTheBrawl smashing it over the head with a chair]] and [[CameraAbuse shattering the camera]].



* The opening of ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' has Sonic punching Dr. Eggman like this as well.

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* The opening of ''VideoGame/SonicColors'' has ends with Sonic punching Dr. Eggman like this as well.leaping at the camera to punch it.
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Can be a form of GoryDiscretionShot if the attack is particularly violent.
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* ''Pinball/GodzillaStern'': Activating the Heat Ray depicts Godzilla unleashing his BreathWeapon against the camera, incinerating part of the on-screen text.
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* In ''Pinball/GodzillaSega'', starting Godzilla Multiball prompts an animation of Godzilla lunging toward and biting the camera.

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** 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.
** The episode "The Two Faces of Squidward" involved [=SpongeBob=] slamming the door repeatedly on Squidward's face in order to restore his face to normal after he had a hard time being handsome. The trope doesn't apply at the end, however, when Mr. Krabs tried doing the same thing to him, only this time, to make him handsome again.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'':
** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E20TwilightOfTheApprenticePartII "Twilight of the Apprentice"]]: [[spoiler:Maul's [[EyeScream blinding]] of Kanan is shown in this fashion, as a GoryDiscretionShot.]]
** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E05ImperialSupercommandos "Imperial Supercommandos"]]: Fenn Rau is shown knocking out one of the titular supercommandos like this.

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** Also occurs twice in the episode "Sandy's Rocket", Rocket": This occurs twice, with [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick's use of the net guns to capture Mr. Krabs, then Sandy.
** The episode "The Two Faces of Squidward" involved [=SpongeBob=] slamming the door repeatedly on Squidward's face in order to restore his face to normal after he had a hard time being handsome. The trope doesn't apply at the end, however, when Mr. Krabs tried doing the same thing to him, only this time, to make him handsome again.
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** ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': In "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS1E5Rookies Rookies]]", Sergeant O'Niner's death is presented from his point of view as the commando droids who knocked him down aim their blasters at his face.
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** *** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS2E20TwilightOfTheApprenticePartII "Twilight of the Apprentice"]]: [[spoiler:Maul's [[EyeScream blinding]] of Kanan is shown in this fashion, as a GoryDiscretionShot.]]
** *** [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS3E05ImperialSupercommandos "Imperial Supercommandos"]]: Fenn Rau is shown knocking out one of the titular supercommandos like this.

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* "The Fight", TheBoxingEpisode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', ends with Chakotay throwing a punch at the camera.

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* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' does this a couple of times by varying methods:
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"The Fight", TheBoxingEpisode of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', in the fifth season, ends with Chakotay throwing a punch at the camera.camera while training on the holodeck.
** Earlier, "Hope and Fear", the fourth season finale, BookEnds the episode with Janeway and Seven playing a game called Velocity on ''Voyager'''s holodeck (sending a holographic disc at each other using phaser fire). [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMRB8PA_JU8 The episode, and thus the season, closes]] on a SmashToBlack when the disc moves towards the camera's point of view and Seven fires on it.

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* Many episodes of ''WesternAnimation/DragonBooster''.



* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' episodes

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* Also frequently used in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.
** The title sequence even has Cyborg making a huge punch.



* Twice in the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub''



* The third episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}''.
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**We see Dr. Hibbert's fist coming out a picture frame in the Treehouse of Horror segment "The Thing and I" but the actual connection to Hugo's face is shown in the third person.
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** At the end of the episode "Hoss Delgado: Spectral Exterminator", Hoss fights a werewolf. They jump up, and the camera pans, TheMatrix-style, to (almost) the POV of the werewolf. Hoss fires his slime gun at the werewolf, filling the screen to a fade-to-black.

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** At the end of the episode "Hoss Delgado: Spectral Exterminator", Hoss fights a werewolf. They jump up, and the camera pans, TheMatrix-style, Franchise/TheMatrix-style, to (almost) the POV of the werewolf. Hoss fires his slime gun at the werewolf, filling the screen to a fade-to-black.
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* Missing a Hawkeye Challenge shot in ''Pinball/AvengersInfinityQuest'' shows an Outrider attacking the camera (presumably from Hawkeye's perspective).
* Several animations in ''Pinball/JurassicParkStern'' depict dinosaurs attacking the camera (for instance, the first ''T. rex'' mode shows it eating a goat from the latter's perspective).
* Tilting in ''Pinball/StrangerThings'' displays an animation where a monster attacks the camera.
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* The "Femme Fatales", episode "Something Like Murder" where the wife kills her husband with a shovel and her accomplice buries his body in a "Bury Cam" shot.
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* ''Animation/BoonieBears'': In the first episode, "A New Neighbor", the camera very briefly shows Briar from Logger Vick's point of view as the former is about to punch the latter.
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* The gun-barrel sequence in ''Film/JamesBond'' films, naturally. Only the attack is viewed from the barrel of the gun. In the ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' variation, the bullet actually goes THROUGH the barrel itself!

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* The gun-barrel sequence BondGunBarrel in ''Film/JamesBond'' TitleSequence of''Film/JamesBond'' films, naturally. Only the attack is viewed from the barrel of the gun. In the ''Film/DieAnotherDay'' variation, the bullet actually goes THROUGH the barrel itself!

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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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While sometimes this is purely for stylistic reasons, other times its it's 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.



* In the console video game adaptation of ''VideoGame/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', one of [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Buckethead King Neptune]]'s attacks is to use his trident to shoot [=SpongeBob=] with a sniper laser, which is shown from Neptune's POV. To defeat him, you have to [[BossArenaIdiocy use the tables in the Krusty Krab]] to reflect the beam back at him to stun him, leaving him susceptible to a counterattack.



* Likely inspired by the Looney Tunes example below, an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has Darkwing tricking Negaduck into coming down an elevator, which Darkwing has attached a large rubber band to the entrance of. We switch to Negs POV when Darkwing lets loose the anvil he had been holding in the sling shot.

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* Likely inspired by the Looney Tunes ''Looney Tunes'' example below, an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has Darkwing tricking Negaduck into coming down an elevator, which Darkwing has attached a large rubber band to the entrance of. We switch to Negs Neg's POV when Darkwing lets loose the anvil he had been holding in the sling shot.slingshot.
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* Done to a gratuitous degree in ''Film/SpyKids3DGameOver'' to show off the 3D effects of the time. One such scene takes place during the Mega Race, where Rez uses a boxing glove gun to punch the camera three times, before punching Juni Cortez on the fourth shot.
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* In ''[[Disney/{{Mulan}} Mulan II]]'', Ling is punched by a girl for having chop sticks in his nose.
* ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'': During the scene where Cinderella's stepsisters tear apart her dress, there are a couple of quick shots of them lunging toward the camera.

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* In ''[[Disney/{{Mulan}} Mulan II]]'', ''WesternAnimation/MulanII'', Ling is punched by a girl for having chop sticks in his nose.
* ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}}'': During the scene where Cinderella's stepsisters tear apart her dress, there are a couple of quick shots of them lunging toward the camera.
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* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCO0DXAc0tk&t=67s The Boss B*tch Challenge]]'' was done by Zoe Bell and several fellow stunt workers during the 2020 COVID-19 situation where many people are unable to leave their house.
* Wrestling has similarly spawned off the Manitoba Melee as seen [[https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2957695800946632 here]] and [[https://www.facebook.com/zander.gabriel.5811/videos/244962253378142/ here]].
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* Occurs twice in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossibleMovieSoTheDrama'' during the endgame, first when Kim punches Drakken across the room and later when she [[spoiler:kicks Shego off the roof of the Bueno Nacho HQ]]. Both come with a HitFlash.
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* Used in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxUmrPH2d4 this particularly awesome scene]].

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* Used in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' during [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlxUmrPH2d4 this particularly awesome scene]].a scene]] where Dr. Cox is inspired to demonstrate a little PapaWolf instinct against Dr. Kelso berating his interns.
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* ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'': Occurs at the end of "Nothing is Simple Anymore", when [[spoiler: the peeper beetle about to [[EyeScream feast on the Scientist's right eye]]]].

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