History Main / SecondPersonAttack

A SuperTrope to ShakyPOVCam.

* ''Film/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.

* The {{"Series/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.

* The {{"Series/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.

* The {{"Series/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.

* The "Series/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.

* 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.

* It happens in {{Film/HowToRobABank}} when Jessica punches Jason in the face after he was deceived into setting her free.

* This happens in "Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse" where a Sniper has Carlos in his cross hairs until the scope is covered by Alice's hand, causing the sniper to look up to see her giving him a brief smile before punching is lights out P.O.V style.

* In ''Film/{{ResidentEvil:Apocalypse}}'', a sniper is taken out by Alice.
* A man gets murdered with an axe in ''Film/ShadowsOfOurAncestors'', shown from his perspective as red runs over the camera lens.

* This happens in "ResidentEvilApocalypse(film)" where a Sniper has Carlos in his cross hairs until the scope is covered by Alice's hand, causing the sniper to look up to see her giving him a brief smile before punching is lights out P.O.V style.

* In ''Film/{{Resident Evil:Apocalypse}}'', a sniper is taken out by Alice.

* In ''Film/Resident Evil:Apocalypse'', a sniper is taken out by Alice.

* In ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'', a sniper is taken out by Alice.

* This happens in "ResidentEvilApocalypse" where a Sniper has Carlos in his cross hairs until the scope is covered by Alice's hand, causing the sniper to look up to see her giving him a brief smile before punching is lights out P.O.V style.

* This happens in "ResidentEvil:Apocalypse" where a Sniper has Carlos in his cross hairs until the scope is covered by Alice's hand, causing the sniper to look up to see her giving him a brief smile before punching is lights out P.O.V style.

* This happens in "Resident Evil:Apocalypse" where a Sniper has Carlos in his cross hairs until the scope is covered by Alice's hand, causing the sniper to look up to see her giving him a brief smile before punching is lights out P.O.V style.

* ''VideoGame/{{Teleroboxer}}'' is fought in first-person view (obviously, since it was released for UsefulNotes/VirtualBoy). When you get knocked out, the robot's view screen gets turned off like a television.

* ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie'' has a lengthy one at the end of Chun Li's fight with Vega, during which she kicks him repeatedly for 7 seconds. It's shown almost entirely from Vega's POV, excluding the final blow when she shoves him through the wall by kicking him with both feet.

* 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).

* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:

** 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.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' combines this with the HeyYouHaymaker in "Cowboy Funk." The episode "Pierrot Le Fou" looks to have another example with a gun, but it switches to Spike's POV before he actually fires.
* The fourth opening of {{Manga/Naruto}} ends with the titular character throwing a punch at the screen, which then fades to white.
%%* Used frequently during the battle scenes in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime.
* Taken to the [[spoiler: gory]] extreme in ''Anime/SchoolDays'', where [[spoiler: the viewer is treated to the view from '''inside the stomach/womb of a character being sliced open.''' ]]
* ''Anime/SonicX''

** 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 for 7 seconds. It's shown almost entirely from Vega's POV, excluding the final blow when she shoves him through the wall by kicking him with both feet.

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* ''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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* In ''Film/{{Sneakers}}'', Martin is pistol whipped, thrown in the trunk of a car, driven to what turns out to be the BigBad's hideout, and is pistol whipped again when Wallace finds him awake. This second pistol whipping is shown from Martin's perspective, using the CutToBlack version.

* An InUniverse version happens in the ''Film/HarryPalmer'' films. The former British agent is now working as a sleazy private eye, and we see some photos he's taken where he's burst into a room and photographed a couple in bed together. The last photo shows the man now out of bed hurling a fist at the camera.

* The 3D-animated ''WesternAnimation/AstroBoy'' film seems to have a SecondPersonAttack, as shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AhqOHom9BY this trailer]].

** There was also a SecondPersonAttack at the end of the 1978 Creator/RalphBakshi adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/TheLordOfTheRings'' with Gandalf killing one of the orcs with his sword (complete with a blood-red HitFlash), just before he throws the sword up in triumph.

* The film ''Film/{{Hidalgo}}'' has at least one instance of a SecondPersonAttack, as seen in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urnjRUVYRY8 this trailer around 2:08]].

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_w4dUS0_p8 opening sequence]] of the UFC on FOX has a SecondPersonAttack with one of the two robots fighting in the octagon throwing a punch at the camera.

* All [[https://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.