1 | [[quoteright:250:[[Manga/CorpsePrincess https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shikabanehime_invertedportrait.jpg]]]] |
2 | [[caption-width-right:250:Do you think she's getting a headache?]] |
3 | |
4 | This is when a character's full-body portrait is shown, as commonly seen in {{Title Sequence}}s, only they're upside-down. May also appear in other parts of a work as well. |
5 | |
6 | Used for artistic effect or perhaps to symbolize something about the character, such as [[ImHavingSoulPains being in pain in strange ways]], or in [[PaintingTheMedium deep thought]]. Whether the character is really upside-down, or is lying on his or her back (or floating) and is merely seen from a perspective that puts their head down, is not necessarily clear. |
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8 | Note that this only applies when the character is seen in a stylized portrait. Although it could appear anywhere within a work, if the character is literally floating upside-down within the ''story'', it is not an example of this. |
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11 | !!Examples: |
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13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
14 | |
15 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
16 | * In the opening to ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', it happens with Yukari upside-down and Nyamo right-side up. Then Yukari glares at Nyamo, and their positions are switched. |
17 | * Some of the main female characters in ''Anime/BaldrForceEXEResolution'', along with upright and sideways variations. |
18 | * Sakura briefly in the third OP of the anime of ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura''. |
19 | * Makina in ''Manga/CorpsePrincess'' in the TitleSequence, as seen in the page picture to the right. |
20 | * In the anime of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'': |
21 | ** In the first season's opening, two images of Mion appear, lying on their side, nude, and curled in fetal positions, each with her head by the other's knees. [[PinkySwear Their pinkies are interlocked]]. [[spoiler:Actually, one is Mion (a very large tattoo can be seen covering her entire back), and the other is Shion (her back is normal).]] %% Yeah, I know there's an extra twist to their names in the VN, but maybe we can leave it at this. |
22 | ** In the ending of ''Kai'', Rena and Mion are lying next to each other in empty space, facing opposite directions, framed by flowers. |
23 | ** In the visually symbolic intro of episode [[spoiler:6]] of ''Kai'', each member of the circle of friends is displayed, one by one, except Mion and Shion, who appear back-to-back, with Shion upside-down. |
24 | ** And in the same intro, [[spoiler:Rika]] herself appears upside-down, with a closeup of her eyes opening. |
25 | * Rai in ''Manga/JyuOhSei'', with his twin brother Thor upright next to him, in almost perfect symmetry. |
26 | * ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': |
27 | ** Rei's naked silhouette can be seen, reflected upside-down in water, spinning against the dark blue background of the ClosingCredits. |
28 | ** The OP too: at an early point, Asuka and Rei's [[BarbieDollAnatomy naked silhouettes]] pan over the screen in the background. Asuka is upside-down while Rei is upright. |
29 | ** The MindScrew portion of Episode 12 also features this, during the "I am I" stanza of Rei's poem, using an upside-down version of Rei's silhouette from the opening sequence. |
30 | * ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'': Near the end of the season 1 opening, the "camera" pans over Moka floating upside down naked underwater and surrounded by fruit, her rosary glowing. |
31 | * Arcueid in the OP of ''[[VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}} Shingetsutan Tsukihime]]'', for quite a while even. |
32 | * Several examples from the ''Literature/SwordArtOnline'' anime: |
33 | ** Asuna in the ClosingCredits of the first season's Aincrad arc, diagonally below a right-side up Kirito. |
34 | ** And in the Phantom Bullet arc, Shino in the ClosingCredits and her game character Sinon (along with Death Gun) in the TitleSequence. Twice over in the former, in fact: once as her present self, then again as her 11-year­-old self, when she [[spoiler:shot and killed a would-be robber who threatened her mother]]. |
35 | ** Leafa in the Caliber arc's ClosingCredits. |
36 | * [[VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry Battler]] in the ''Umineko'' Motion Graphic 6 has a couple of seconds where he's shown upside down, flashing through a sea of memories. |
37 | [[/folder]] |
38 | |
39 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
40 | * ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Black Widow shows up upside down on the cover of ''Ultimates'' #7. |
41 | [[/folder]] |
42 | |
43 | [[folder: Music]] |
44 | * ''Music/BedtimeStories'' by Music/{{Madonna}} also features her upside down. |
45 | * ''Music/TheCommercialAlbum'' by Music/TheResidents has an album cover like this. The eye ball heads of the upside down standing band are actually the eyes of a giant couple (Music/BarbraStreisand and Creator/JohnTravolta) in normal view. |
46 | [[/folder]] |
47 | |
48 | [[folder: Video Games]] |
49 | |
50 | * In ''VideoGame/DreamingMary'': |
51 | ** Mary herself on the title screen. |
52 | ** Most endings have the end credits with Mary being pictured in this fashion behind them, [[spoiler:surrounded by images of her [[FalseFriend 'friends']] as she descends into darkness]]. An unusual example in that the player has to move her down the portrait with the arrow keys to make the credits scroll and end the game. |
53 | * Claude from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' is [[MemeticMutation well known]] for being depicted upside-down on the game's box art. |
54 | * Sora briefly in the OP to ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''. |
55 | * Happens late in the story with the [[ProtagonistTitle title protagonist]] of ''VideoGame/{{Wadanohara}}'', when [[spoiler:Princess Mikotsu]] briefly manages to [[spoiler:trap her in a LotusEaterMachine]]. |
56 | * In the opening to ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', Shiki is shown upside-down next to mirror image of her right-side up. [[spoiler:This is an outright [[SpoilerOpening spoiler]] that can only be seen in hindsight. Shiki has Eri's appearance, so there really are two Shikis. [[MindScrew We're confused too]].]] |
57 | |
58 | [[/folder]] |
59 | |
60 | [[folder: Visual Novels]] |
61 | |
62 | * The TitleSequence of ''VisualNovel/TwentyTwoThirtySixAD'' has this on C.S. next to an upright Shirasaki, and on the telepathic Haru Shion next to an upright non-telepathic Haru Shion. C.S. also appears later both upright ''and'' inverted in the same picture. |
63 | * In ''[[VisualNovel/InputOutput I/O]]'': |
64 | ** In the TitleSequence, Ishtar appears simultaneously upright ''and'' inverted, side-by-side. [[spoiler:One is Ishtar α, the other Ishtar ω (actually Yumi carrying Ishtar's Shadow Null and altered to look like her).]] One picture also gets flipped repeatedly in time to the beat of the song, with a random person standing in it each time. |
65 | ** In route E, a dream sequence depicts [[spoiler:the quantum computer Marduk's Shadow]] in a fetal position, positioned with their head down. |
66 | |
67 | [[/folder]] |
68 | |
69 | [[folder: Other media]] |
70 | |
71 | * The [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bf/FunnyGirl1.jpg/215px-FunnyGirl1.jpg cover art]] for the musical ''Theatre/FunnyGirl''. |
72 | |
73 | [[/folder]] |
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