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  • 2012. Russian oligarch Yuri Karpov leaves his young mistress Tamara behind to die when it's time to board the evacuation ships. She's able to sneak onto the ship via another entrance, and while doing so catches sight of Yuri who's been left behind to die on the docks. They lock eyes and just before the Slow Doors slam shut, she sticks out a hand and gives him the bird.
  • In 8 Mile, Alex and B-Rabbit give each other the Finger cordially.
  • In Ace Ventura, Ace is looking for the Miami Dolphin player with the stone missing in his championship ring. He gets to look at one player's ring by acting like enough of an asshole to get the player to flip him off in response.
  • In The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, John Bigbooté flips off Dr. Emilio Lizardo behind his back.
  • In Aliens: (He is smoking at the time, which makes it hard to spot.)
    Hudson: Man, this floor is freezing!
    Apone: What do you want me to do? Fetch your slippers for you?
    Hudson: Gee, would you, sir? I'd like that.
    [Apone points at his own eye with his middle finger]
    Apone: Look into my eye.
  • In Ali G In Da House, Ali G thinks he's being rebellious by giving the V-sign to a cop car just below the rim of his car window, so it's completely hidden.
  • In Aloha, Bobby and Rose, Buford flips off some jerks in a pickup truck who damaged his car and almost got in a fight with him.
  • Angel Terminators have Yukari Oshima flipping off a mob boss during a confrontation scene.
  • A variation in Another Cinderella Story:
    Natalia: [after throwing her coke on Mary] I am so sorry, Mary. I didn't even see you standing there. It's like you were totally invisible.
    Tami: [shows her fist] Check out my totally invisible finger!
  • The South Korean King Kong rip-off, A*P*E features a giant monkey giving the finger to an exploding helicopter. Seen here.
  • Attack of the Killer Donuts: Veronica flips off Michelle after the two have a bitter interaction early in the movie.
  • Films two and three of the Austin Powers trilogy had examples of this, both of which involved Mini-Me.
  • In a deleted scene in Avatar, Max Patel cheerfully flips the bird at Parker Selfridge, just before ripping through the command center's windows with a titanic slash cutter, letting in the rogue avatar team. Dileep Rao does get a second shot at bird-flipping villains before doing something awesome in Inception.
  • In Avatar: The Way of Water Lo'ak responds to Quaritch demanding to see his fingers by flipping a double bird. Quaritch takes that as confirmation he's Jake's sonnote 
  • Axe Murdering with Hackley: Hackley exchanges a few of these with Rival to show their animosity for each other.
  • Bad Girls from Valley High: Tiffany dies during Witt's revelation, and Danielle flips the bird to Witt in response and then dies shortly afterwards.
  • One of the aliens in Bad Taste does this on the movie poster. (Peter Jackson, you mad genius you.)
  • In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, CIA operative "Python" flips off his superiors via the camera on a drone passing him, after they launched it to blow up the compound of an African warlord, despite Python explaining that there is at least one civilian in the compound.
  • In Bean, the biker gave the bird to Mr. Bean while taking a picture of him and giving him a thumbs up from the car. Unaware of the gesture, Mr. Bean gives the bird to everyone he passes by.
  • The Beverly Hillbillies movie: After a driver gives them the finger, the Clampetts mistake it as a show of how people in California say "howdy" and give it to others without knowing better.
  • Beware the Woods: Josh's sister flips him off while he's leaving the house to get his friends together for their trip.
  • Blade: Trinity. Vampires clad in full-body protective gear enter a tomb in the desert. Before going in, one of them flips the bird at the sun. 'Cause, y'know, it's not able to kill him for a change.
  • Blood Work. Clint Eastwood had Mexican-American actor Paul Rodriguez show him a culturally-appropriate version for when he flipped off his character during the movie.
  • The Bloody Man: After the Bloody Man's arm has been severed, we see it flip off the cast.
  • Bring It On:
    • The first film has two examples of this. The first one was when a Toros cheerleader flipped off her ex-boyfriend after they lost a game. The second had the main character's little brother doing it after being taunted for sneaking into the girl's locker room.
    • Missy does one after a Toros cheerleader mockingly points out that tattoos aren't allowed. She rubs off the "tattoo" with her middle finger.
  • Bruce Almighty: "Do you like jazz, Evan? Well, let me play something for you. [...] I can hold that note all day, buddy."
  • Bullshot: During a World War I air battle, Captain Bullshot Crummond salutes his Worthy Opponent, only for the dastardly Hun to respond with what's described by the narrator as an "ancient Teutonic gesture".
  • In Cannonball Run II, an orangutan chauffeur gives an old lady one when she waves to him!
  • Capps Crossing: When the group is having fun at the waterfall, Kyle can be seen flipping the bird.
  • In The Car, a hitchhiker does this to the eponymous demonic vehicle after it swerves at him... it would be the last thing he would EVER do...
  • Cheech uses this as a Stealth Insult in Cheech & Chong's Next Movie. It's directed at a telephone. On the other end is his boss who's just fired him.
  • The Child's Play movies:
    • Kyle to Chucky as he's being backed into the limb machine at the factory in Child's Play 2...
    • ...Chucky to Sheldon when the latter finds him during the war games in Child's Play 3...
    • ...Chucky to a stoner as he's crawling away from the police car he'd set to blow up in Bride of Chucky...
    • ...And then, while he and Glen are driving the car, Chucky and Britney Spears to each other when the latter cuts in front of him in Seed of Chucky.
  • Christmas Blood: During the Montage of the group having fun at Julie's, Elisabeth flips someone off as they're driving away on a motorcycle.
  • Clownface: When Jenna's friend asks her why she's working in "a dump like" Amy's cafe, Amy playfully flips her off in response.
  • In Constantine (2005), John Constantine does this while he's exorcising a demon from a little girl, and to Satan himself when he is rising to Heaven.
  • Corsage: One piece of promotional art for the film shows Elisabeth, coiffed befitting of an empress, giving the audience the middle finger while looking straight at them. It reflects the film's themes of her frustrations with her public image.
  • The page image comes from the final shot of Crank: High Voltage. Main character Chev Chelios finally gets to return the favor after repeated occurrences of, "Fuck you, Chelios!"
  • Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star: When the mother decides to make Dickie have cereal instead of coffee for breakfast, Dickie looks in, remarks that there's a surprise inside, reaches inside, and flips her the bird.
  • Dog Soldiers: Wisecracking Spoon at one point does the two-fingered variant.
  • Doll Factory: Yegor flips off Melvine upon regenerating his finger.
  • In Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Melissa, the Tomboy of the family does this to Mrs. Sturak when she forces her to put on a dress and act like a girl.
  • The movie adaptation of Dragnet had an interrogated suspect flip off Friday and his partner, Pep Streebeck. Friday leaves to get coffee, Streebeck then teaches the thug a lesson in manners.
  • In Easy Rider, a redneck hassles Billy from a truck. Billy flips him off. The redneck shoots him and then Wyatt dead.
  • Event Horizon. A shirtless Cooper offers Starck a cup of coffee.
    Cooper: Want something hot and black inside you?
    Starck flips him off
    Cooper: Is that an offer?
    Starck: It is not.
    Cooper: Well, how 'bout some coffee, then?
  • Ash in Evil Dead 2 gets this from his own demon-possessed severed hand. This was parodied in Return of the Living Dead Part II at the end of the "zombie hand in the car" scene.
  • Fanboys combines this with an Indy Hat Roll in a combo Homage to Harrison Ford's work for George Lucas. Hutch leaps through the closing blast-door-style hatch of Skywalker Ranch's memorabilia room, then reaches back through just before their diamond-shaped opening scissors shut to give the finger to Lucas's security guards.
  • The younger sister of the heroine in Final Destination 3 flashes the double-deuce when her big sister takes her picture at the amusement park.
  • Force 10 from Navarone: When Force Ten infiltrate a German base to steal explosives by posing as Wehrmacht soldiers, one of them is accosted by a German soldier. Since he doesn't actually speak German, he compromises by giving him the finger instead.
  • In Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, when Freddy Krueger slices off his fingers one by one, he gives Doc the middle finger, noting that it's his favorite.
  • Ghost in the Shell (2017) has Major testing Batou's eye implants by doing this while asking "How Many Fingers? am I holding up?"
  • Ghost Note: Mallory does this to her mother on the car ride to her grandmother's house to voice her displeasure at being brought to it against her will.
  • In Ghost Rider (2007), the titular hero escapes the cops by jumping off a bridge and into a river. He quickly flips them off as they look after him.
  • Cobra member Firefly from G.I. Joe: Retaliation flips both middle fingers after this line:
    Zartan: [as the President of the United States] Ah, good to see we have the required crazy in this plan! So, you still have all 10 fingers?
    Firefly: Sure do. [waves his fingers toward Zartan's face, then flips him off]
  • The Gingerweed Man: At the start of the film, when the professor is ordered to hand over his project to Smokahontas, he reaches into his pocket... and pulls out his middle finger.
    • Hi flips Smokahontas off later in the movie.
  • Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019): Scientist Emma Russell and her daughter Madison are kidnapped by eco-terrorists led by Alan Jonah. At one point, Jonah tries to put on a friendly face for Madison. She replies by rubbing her eye with her middle finger. He finds this Actually Pretty Funny.
  • In GoldenEye, after Zukovsky asks his mistress "Irina! Take a hike!" after James Bond insults her singing, she does the "arm of honor" version.
  • Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum: Ji-Hyun straps one of the cameras the Horror Times crew breaks out on her middle finger. She states at the start of the movie it's for a "fuck-you-mentary".
  • Good Morning, Vietnam. Robin Williams' character teaches this trope to the Vietnamese taking his English class.
  • In the 1985 action-comedy film Gotcha, the protagonist is leaving East Berlin only to be held up at Checkpoint Charlie by a gauntlet of Obstructive Bureaucrats. After a long delay...
    Jonathan: Am I in West Berlin now?
    American border guard: Sure.
    Jonathan: [extends middle finger to DDR guard tower] FUCK YOU! [to American guard] Good night. [walks off]
  • Grandpa's Psycho: When Murry offers to take a look at Kelly's car after it breaks down (which it shouldn't have, since it got a tune up at his shop earlier), she obliges him to, and then discreetly flips him off when he's not looking at her.
  • Green Lantern (2011) has a scene where Hal Jordan is asked by Tom Kalmaku to demonstrate how the Green Lantern ring works. During the demonstration, Hal takes advantage of having to show that he needs to put the ring on his finger by using it as a chance to blatantly give Tom the middle finger.
  • Grindhouse
    • Planet Terror: Cherry gives one to her boss upon quitting the club, per the note reading "Any girl leaving early must check out with their finger & have a bye-bye slip!"
  • In Groundhog Day, in at least one loop, Phil does a countdown to filming on his fingers, the middle finger is used for "one".
  • Guns Akimbo. Nix loses a couple of fingers trying to catch a throwing knife. This causes some confusion when she tries this trope, so she has to pick up a severed finger to do it properly.
  • In The Hangover, a little girl flips off Alan on the highway while the gang is on their way to Las Vegas.
  • Happy Death Day: Tree's response to her teacher/ex-flame threatening her grade in his class, delivered over her shoulder while she's walking away from him with a cheery "Already dropped it".
  • Heathers: Near the end, shortly before the bomb goes off, Veronica responds to one of these from JD by shooting it off.
  • Hercules Returns. When the protagonist decides to resign from the Kent Corporation, he carries a large sketch board into the executive boardroom, sets it up on an easel before Sir Michael Kent and flips up the paper covering to reveal a drawing of a fist with raised middle finger and the words I QUIT. Sir Kent does not take this well, and fires him instead.
  • In High Fidelity, Barry replies to Rob by downing his fingers one by one alongside gunshot noises until only the middle one remains.
  • Parodied in High Risk, when tabloid reporter Helen tries snooping around wannabe kung-fu star Frankie's mansion to expose Frankie for using stunt doubles in his action scenes. Helen's assistant reminds her she still needs to deal with Frankie's hyper-competent bodyguard, Li Kit, and Helen responds with the middle finger... but then, Helen's cameraman reminds her she's "educated", so Helen changes her gesture to Blowing a Raspberry instead.
  • In Highlander II: The Quickening, a random bar patron flips Connor off right before bashing him over the head with a bottle.
  • Hitchhiker Massacre: Tom's girlfriend does this to a guy who shouts at her not to hitchhike as he's driving by, not aware that she's just doing some sexy role-playing with her boyfriend.
  • Hot Fuzz: Nicholas Angel does the British variation, accompanied by an raspberry and the phrase "Jog on!" He picked it up from his partner Danny.
  • In Inception, Yusuf does this to a projection when he drives off the bridge to set off the kick in Fischer's first dream layer.
  • Disabled Snarker Maya does this to Mr. Smith as she gets on the bus in Jack the Reaper.
  • John Wick: Chapter 2. After carrying out an assassination, John Wick finds The Dragon of the man who hired him blocking his escape route. The dragon is also The Speechless, so when Wick asks, "Loose ends?" she responds using sign language: "Just...One..." using the middle finger for the 1 while blowing him a kiss so it's this trope. Then her Redshirt Army attacks.
  • John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum. John Wick is dumped severely injured at the feet of the Bowery King, who tells Wick to raise a hand if he can hear what the Bowery King is saying. Wick does so, displaying his severed ring finger in the process. When the Bowery King jokes about it, Wick raises a middle finger instead.
  • Jurassic World Dominion, Henry Wu tries to sympathize with how Maisie's been hidden for years and then kidnapped out of the blue. Her response are two middle fingers, with an expression that basically counts as a third.
  • The Kentucky Fried Movie: From the "AM Today" segment:
    Sheila Hamilton: I've been listening to that horse shit of yours for months, and you can take that crap and blow it out your ass. And for good measure, sit on THIS! [Finger] ...John.
  • Kingsman: The Secret Service: Eggsy does a lot of this, both the middle finger and the British two-finger bird.
  • After getting Thrown Out the Airlock and blown apart at the end of Leprechaun 4, the Leprechaun's disembodied hand does this from outside of the space station's window.
  • One character does this in Liar Liar.
    Fletcher: [desperate to keep his secretary around] I'll give you the raise!
    Gretta: Here's your raise! [flips it to him]
  • In the precode film The Lost Squadron, one of the pilots is trying to signal another pilot to land because his aircraft was sabotaged. The other pilot responds by giving him the finger. Pretty risque stuff for 1932.
  • Machete Kills. Luz is frozen by the Darth Vader clone villain. When the slab of carbonite hits the ground a la Han Solo, her finger is frozen in the bird position.
  • In Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, Ironbar flashes one of these as he dies under the wreckage of his crashed car.
  • Marvel Cinematic Universe:
    • In Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Peter Quill jokingly does this, using the "crank" method, to a couple of Nova Corps members through a window while he's being detained. In the trailers, it's lampshaded by being blurred a couple of seconds early with the words "OBSCENE GESTURE DETECTED" on the Nova Corps' HUD. In the theatrical release (which was rated PG-13), it goes completely uncensored.
    • In Black Panther (2018), Shuri does this to her brother, prompting a scolding from their mother.
    • In Spider-Man: Homecoming, when Peter Parker and Liz arrive at the Homecoming dance, Michelle "MJ" Jones gives Peter the finger in such a casual manner it could just as easily be her way of waving "Hello".
    • In Avengers: Infinity War, Peter Quill (again) gives the middle finger to Thanos after putting a bomb on his back, while doing a backflip into one of Doctor Strange's portals.
    • In Eternals, when Kingo, doing an Eternals documentary, tries to interview Sprite, she annoyedly "draws" her middle finger from her coat.
  • The Matrix:
    • Agent Smith in the first film offers Neo a deal in the interrogation room scene:
      Neo: Yeah. That sounds like a really good deal. But I got a better one. How about... I give you the finger... and you give me my phone call?
      Agent Smith: Mr. Anderson... you disappoint me.
      Neo: You can't scare me with this Gestapo crap. I know my rights. I want my phone call.
      Agent Smith: Tell me, Mr. Anderson, (pause) what good is a phone call if you're unable to speak?
    • In The Matrix Reloaded, The Architect's screens show every possible future. One screen depicts Neo flipping him off.
    • In The Matrix Resurrections, Thomas Anderson's office has a hand flipping the bird.
  • In Meadowland, Phil, a police officer, intervenes in a domestic dispute, which involves a couple yelling insults at each other. At one point the boyfriend flips off the girlfriend.
  • Men in Black features Agent J giving an obfuscated flip, as Agent K responds to the younger agent's questions about advanced Men in Black privileges with "When you grow up." J replies with "Oh... okay" while scratching his head with his middle finger.
  • One of the earliest examples of this in a mainstream film would be The Miracle Woman, a Frank Capra drama made in 1931 (in other words, prior to the implementation of The Hays Code), which has a scene where the chauffeur of Barbara Stanwyck's title character does this to their boss.
  • In the film version of Misery, after assorted traumas, Paul does this to Annie through a window. She laughs about him kidding around with her.
  • In Mr. Ricco, Purvis flips off a fellow detainee at the police station who makes threats of Prison Rape. Later, a cop flips off Ricco as he holds up a newspaper with a headline about an accused Cop Killer who was released because of Ricco.
  • In the movie My Science Project, one guy flips off an ass-hat honking at him from behind... with a light-up one!
  • The first movie of The Naked Gun series has a memorable scene where a driver instructor (played by John Houseman) deadpanly instructs his meek girl student, "All right, Stephanie, gently extend your arm. Extend your middle finger. Very good. Well done" in response to a fellow driver angry at her for driving the wrong way on a one-way street. The girl feels truly empowered after this.
  • Early in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Clark has an on-the-road disagreement with a pickup truck, so as the truck passes alongside, he points the other way and says, "Look, a deer!" While everyone else is distracted, he gives the truck the Highway Salute. They don't take it well, and Hilarity Ensues.
  • Nothing Sacred uses this for a pretty amazing joke in 1937. Hazel is attending a fancy stage show where the performers are dressed like great women of history. One is Katinka, "the Dutch girl who stuck her finger in the dike." The MC urges the actress to "show them the finger, babe", and she shows her bandaged but definitely upraised middle finger.
  • In Now You See Me 2, after Merritt is insulted by his twin, he rubs his eyes using only the middle fingers.
  • In The Odd Way Home, Maya's carjacking victim flips her off as he drives away. Duncan mimics the gesture, then asks Maya what it is. She tells him that it means "Fuck you." At the end of the movie, Maya throws her rapist father's ashes off a bridge into a ravine. Duncan flips off the fallen ashes.
  • Throughout Office Space, the manager of Chotchkie's tries to get employee Joanna to express herself by wearing more than the minimum required "pieces of flair". Joanna eventually gets fed up and "expresses herself" using this trope instead before quitting.
  • In One Crazy Summer, Hoops and his friends do this to Teddy and his sailing crew as they pass by him in their sailing ship refitted with part of Teddy's convertible as its outboard motor.
  • One Night in October: Kate playfully does this to her girlfriend Charlie in response to something she says.
  • Parachute Jumper: This 1933 film is an example of how this trope was sometimes used before The Hays Code was enforced. Toodles (Frank McHugh) who is trying to avoid being arrested, is attempting to hitchhike away. When a motorist ignores his thumb, Toodles switches from showing the thumb to flipping the bird.
  • Pitch Perfect: In each movie, Fat Amy flips off someone during a riff-off.
  • In one of the Police Academy movies, a snarky guy flips off a mounted police officer twice, once vertically and again horizontally (i.e. for the officer and the horse he rode in on).
  • Power Connection: A mob boss actually does this in the middle of a shootout (after discovering he just got double-crossed by his contact, an informant). With both hands.
    "You betrayed me? Damn you!"
    (flips both middle fingers)
  • In Problem Child 2, Junior Healey is driving his dad home, and an unseen driver cuts him off. The kid knows how to make use of "the highway salute".
  • Bialystock and Bloom in the latest The Producers respond this way while taking the Siegfried Oath (while Franz isn't looking).
  • The garden gnome in Project X (2012) has its middle finger raised.
  • The poster for Putney Swope depicts this, with a model representing the "finger".
  • In Queens Logic, a woman in her car does this to Al (Joe Mantegna), who's in the car next to hers, when he tries coming on to her. Al, of course, is turned on by this:
  • Unintentionally in Rat Race, when Randy burns his finger in the cigarette lighter of Hitler's car and holds it up while next to a biker. His wife tries to explain while wagging hers. He next tries explaining the situation to World War II veterans.
  • Red 2. In a car chase through the streets of Paris, Sarah and Marvin are competing with Frank and Katya to catch a Knowledge Broker called The Frog, who's driving a stolen motorcycle. The Frog races down a narrow alley and when Sarah tries to follow her car gets stuck. The Frog stops and turns to flip them the "V" only to get hit by Frank and Katya in their car.
  • Shilo Wallace dual-wields two birds to her father to rebel in Repo! The Genetic Opera
  • In Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, when the heroes infiltrate the Hive, they notice a security camera and Abigail defiantly flips it off. In response, Albert Wesker activates a Deadly Rotary Fan that sucks her in and shreds her to pieces.
  • Retroactive: When Frank initially drives past Karen's broken vehicle, she gives him the clenched-fist salute. This starts the chain of events in the movie, as he would likely have just ignored her otherwise.
  • Return of the Scarecrow: Claire flips off Janelle when the latter goes off with one of the boys.
  • Return of the Secaucus Seven: Done twice. First, when J.T. is pretending to be a student in Mike's class, he flips Mike off, which Mike admits is the kind of thing he normally has to put up with. Then, near the end of the movie, when Frances comes back from spending the night with Ron, the others all sing "Hey There", and she good-naturedly flips them off.
  • In Revenge of the Pink Panther, Inspector Clouseau throws a bomb, injuring one of his disguise assistants. In a later scene, the assistant's hand is all bandaged up — except for the middle finger sticking out.
  • Rise of the Scarecrows: Pete's first scene in the movie had a fat kid come along and shoot him the double bird.
  • Road Trip had a blind girl giving Seann William Scott's character the bird after he feeds her seeing-eye dog a Slim Jim.
  • Early in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, a prison guard lashes at the hands of prisoners reaching up through a floor grate. After he walks away, their hands pop back up to give him the 1-finger salute.
  • In RoboCop, the title character offers a version of The Finger when a technician insists that RoboCop is not allowed in the computer records room. Granted,it is only a data probe, but its position on RoboCop's hand gives it a dual-purpose role.
  • Running Scared (1986): When Danny is interrogating a woman to try and find Julio (the Big Bad of the movie), her son keeps flipping of Ray, who gets more and more upset, but doesn't say anything. After Danny gets the information he needs, he and Ray start to go, but Ray goes back up to the door and knocks on it. When the son answers, Ray flips both of his middle fingers at him.
    Ray: YES!!!
  • Rush is bookended by Niki Lauda flipping the bird to James Hunt. In the first case, it's in anger over being called a chicken, in the second it could almost be considered affectionate, as James had just joked that Niki's burn scars made him look better and Niki's grinning as he does it.
  • Scarred: When Asia asks Jess to get her something, Jess gives her the finger.
  • In School of Rock, after finding out that he's being booted from his own band, Jack Black holds up three fingers. "Read between the lines, my friend."
  • In Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, drummers seem to like this gesture.
    • Kim flips off Gideon before the Sex Bob-Omb plays, and does it by using her middle finger to rub under her eye.
    • Earlier before the Matthew Patel fight, the drummer flips Wallace off.
      Wallace: [heckling] Is that girl a boy, too?
      Crash: Yes. [drummer immediately flips the bird]
  • The original Shaft opens with John Shaft flipping the bird at a cab driver who's honking his horn at him and yelling "Up yours! Get out of the way!"
  • Sharkenstein: After Duke, Coop, and Madge get away from Sharkenstein on the dock, one of them flips it off.
  • Shoot 'Em Up:
  • In Short Circuit, Newton Crosby does this to his co-worker Benjamin Jubituya with his robotic hand. Benjamin asks Newton if he's showing the number of his IQ with that finger.
  • Smokey and the Bandit: After Cledus is pulled over by a motorcycle cop, Bandit and Carrie rear back, screech to a halt in front of the cop, and Carrie gives the cop the finger.
  • Snatched (2017): When Jeffrey thanks Morgan for helping him and his family, Morgan salutes him and then flips him off.
  • In the first Sniper movie, rookie sniper Miller claims to have shot El Cirujano, when he actually pulled the shot and missed him. When El Cirujano turns up alive later on, Miller looks through his scope at Beckett who mouths You lying bastard! Beckett then puts his own scope on Miller to see his response, which happens to be a raised middle finger.
  • Spaceballs:
    • Barf does this at two guards when he and Lone Starr park at the Spaceball Prison Complex.
      Guard: All right, hands up. You're under arrest for illegal parking!
    • The titular villains use a slight variation of the bras d'honneur as a salute. This means they greet their President (played by Mel Brooks) with an insult, which he then returns in kind.
  • An early example comes in Harold Lloyd's silent 1928 comedy Speedy, which has a scene where Lloyd does this to his own reflection in a funhouse mirror.
  • Stand and Deliver: Chuco (a Maravilla gang member) does this to Escalante in an attempt to be clever. Escalante does him one better, showing him how to quickly multiply by nine on his fingers.
  • Starman: Throughout the movie, the alien tries to learn human customs and sayings, and when to use them. At a gas station, he gives a trucker a thumbs up in the men's room and tells him to "take it easy," having learned the gesture from the station attendant. The trucker flips Starman off and says, "Up yours." Later in the movie, at the diner where Starman runs afoul of a group of hunters, Jenny chases them off with her pistol, helps him into her car, and fools the hunters into thinking she means to run them down. One of them yells out, "Take it easy!" Starman doesn't miss a beat and flips him off, "Up yours," as Jenny drives off.
  • In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, the punk on the bus gives Kirk the finger after Kirk asks him to turn down the music on his boombox... and gets a Vulcan Nerve Pinch for it — to the applause of the other passengers!
  • In Stealth, Gannon tries to take a picture of Wade while she is in a bikini. She gives him a double bird.
  • The infamous scene on the N.W.A biopic Straight Outta Compton: "Yo, Dre! I got something to say..."
  • In The Strawberry Statement, a protester flips off a cop during a protest at the playground.
  • Street Fighter has Guile, talking to M. Bison on the news, signing off with the bras d'honneur (See Real Life, below), further emphasized with the American flag tattooed on his forearm.
  • The Suicide Squad. Bloodsport flips Peacemaker off as they sneak into a rebel camp. In response, Peacemaker mimes masturbating and flings his imaginary semen in Bloodsport's face, making him wince in disgust.
  • In Tank Girl, the title heroine (played by Lori Petty) says this to the Head of Water and Power (Malcolm McDowell):
    Rebecca: There is a great, big, humongous honking booger in your left nostril... I suggest you use this finger to get it out!
  • Roddy Piper does this in They Live! as he lies dying, having exposed the true, unpleasant form of the aliens.
  • Alec Baldwin does this while playing a character in Thomas and the Magic Railroad. Yes, you read that right.
  • In Titanic, Rose gives the middle finger to Lovejoy. This led to some complaints of Anachronism Stew by viewers who thought the gesture wasn't in common use in 1912. As noted in the intro, however, it's actually Older Than Dirt.
  • Top Gun had Maverick and Goose tell the story of when they "flipped the bird" at a Soviet pilot (at the beginning of the film). Maverick originally decides to refer to it euphemistically ("improving international relations") until Goose both explains and demonstrates the gesture by flipping off the officers holding the briefing.
  • The Toxic Avenger has a scene where a criminal named Cigar Face tries to get even with the Toxic Avenger by shooting him alongside five other thugs. Toxie jumps out of the way quickly enough that the crooks instead shoot themselves down and he then gives them the bird.
  • The Tournament have this occuring when Lai Lai Zhen fights Yuri Petrov. Lai managed to knock Petrov over, and flips him off... while revealing one of Petrov's grenade pins is dangling off her middle finger. Petrov can only react with a This Is Gonna Suck look before he blows up.
  • The poster for Trainspotting includes Begbie giving the V-sign to the viewer.
  • Exactly what Frenzy does in Transformers after sneaking from Air Force One, past the cops!
  • Tremors. The protagonists have decided to make a run for the bulldozer so they can make their escape, but they need something to distract the man-eating Graboids away from them. Melvin (an annoying minor character) is nearby.
    Earl: Hey, Melvin, you wanna make a buck?
    Melvin: Aww, eat it! [gives him The Finger]
  • Undercover Brother. The title character and Sistah Girl are being chased by two security guards in golf carts. The guards try to warn some senior citizens (also in golf carts) to clear out of the way, and one elderly woman gives them The Finger.
  • Universal Soldier: The Return: When SETH's human operators command him to relinquish control of the base, he projects a hand on the viewscreen giving them the middle finger.
  • In the horror movie Vamp!, the bloodsucking exotic dancer gives the hero the middle finger in a final act of defiance after being reduced to a skeleton by the light of the sun.
  • In War, Inc., some little boys set Hauser's truck on fire. As they run away, one of them flips him off.
  • In The War of the Roses, Barbara does a stealth flip to her husband at the dinner party while pinging a crystal glass.
  • Werewolves Within: Cecily shoots the double bird when everyone's in the inn.
  • When the Bough Breaks (1994): When Jordan becomes annoyed at Macleah, he holds up his doll's hand and bends down all the fingers except the middle one.
  • The World's End. When it's Andy's turn to show a scar to prove that he's human instead of a new and "flawless" Blank copy, Gary tells him to show the scar he left him in '86 after they attempted to "reenact the knife game from Aliens", but Andy goes on a furious tangent bringing up instead his injuries after he attempted to drive a heavily intoxicated Gary home in '97 but then crashed and got arrested after being hospitalized while Gary 'miraculously' woke up and just ran off into the night. Gary nonchalantly responds that either would do and Andy furiously shows his middle finger scarred by the botched knife game.
  • X-Men Film Series:
    • In X-Men, Wolverine flips Cyclops off with one of his claws during the climax.
    • He also does it to Gambit in X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
    • In X2: X-Men United, Mystique flips off Stryker and his soldiers as she escapes them by sliding behind a locking gate.
    • Deadpool:
      • This is Deadpool's reaction to a motorcycled mook putting a bullet-hole into his arm.
        Deadpool: MOTHERFUCKER!
      • When he decides to cut his own wrist in order to escape from Colossus's manacle, Deadpool leaves his severed hand in a flipping-the-bird position as a parting gift to the X-Man.
    • Deadpool 2: Many, many times.
      • Deadpool's hand has the finger up as it's blown (fitting to the narration rambling against Wolverine).
      • Negasonic Teenage Warhead gives the middle finger to Deadpool after calling him a "trainee" and he yells "SHUT IT!"
      • Another scene has Russell giving both middle fingers, despite Deadpool seeing it coming and urging him not to do it.
  • In You and Your Stupid Mate, a news helicopter flies low over the caravan park. Thinking he's being spied on, Jeffrey flips the double bird and yells, "Piss off!" Then he tries to spray the helicopter with a garden hose, although the wind only blows the water in his face.
  • In Zebrahead (1992), Nut and one of his friends make faces at a school security camera. Nut flips the camera off.
  • In Zombieland, Tallahassee gives two aces to Wichita and Little Rock after they rob him at gunpoint, and later uses a dismembered hand to playfully flip off Columbus.

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