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* This happens to Sheen Estevez in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' episode "Vanishing Act" when he reattaches his head after finding his body, which also heavily [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope, as well as being the page image.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In ''Bender's Big Score,'' Hermes gets decapitated in a limbo accident. Zoidberg reattaches it later, with his usual brand of incompetence.

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes, ''WesternAnimation/RabbitFire''. One of Elmer's gunshots turns Daffy's head upside down.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Neptune's Spatula", King Neptune blasts Patrick to cinders. He revives him, only with his face on his butt.
-->'''Patrick:''' ''(To [=SpongeBob=])'' Say, have you gotten taller?
* In one episode of ''Popetown'', it happens to the Pope after a (harmless) beheading. He has his head sewed back, but backward.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': A crossover with ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' in "Say Uncle" leads to a sight gag involving characters' heads detaching from their bodies. This ends up happening briefly to Amethyst when the heads come back down to Earth. Notably, due to her outfit, it can be hard to tell her head ''is'' on backwards until she points it out.

* In the anime of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'', this is how [[spoiler: Yoshikage Kira]] meets his grisly end. And the audience gets to see it happen to make sure they know he died.

* The people being owls in ''Webcomic/RealmOfOwls'', [[https://realmofowls.com/comics/das-law heads turning backwards]] are [[https://realmofowls.com/comics/greater-glarer-of-the-crater a norm]] rather than an exception, but it still [[https://realmofowls.com/comics/fan-mail-to-lord-part-7 works as a comedic effect]].

* In the final battle of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', you fight [[spoiler:King Boo in a mechanical Bowser suit. You blow the head off the suit so King Boo comes out and you can start sucking him up. Once you get his HP down to a certain point, though, he'll start attaching the head to the Bowser suit backwards, causing him to run and flail around for several seconds before twisting it back around.]]

* ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'': After demonstrating that having Ezra's head loped off isn't going to stop her, Cube counters this by letting it fall backwards on her neck, and her regeneration power immediately glues it in position, putting a serious damper on her combat capability. Until her brother turns said head the right way, in a move that would be a NeckSnap if they weren't undead.

* At least two victims of the NeckSnap have been found this way on ''Series/{{NCIS}}''. This then leads to Gibbs demonstrating the technique on one of his agents.
* Very subtly done with a dead body in Series/TheMist where dark pants obscure what direction the legs are facing and there is a close-up of the shirt tag sticking out directly below his chin.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''. In one instance, in ''Bender's Big Score'', Zoidberg affixes Hermes' head wrong.
-->'''Zoidberg:''' I thought you were happy. Look, your tail is wagging.

* In the AfterTheEnd proto-SolarPunk setting of ''Literature/AlwaysComingHome'', the otherwise human-looking demon called the "Backward-Head" is "a literalization of a metaphor" about the people [[Film/MadMaxFuryRoad who killed the world]] in the distant past. Backwards-Heads thrive on poison and are driven by irrational fear and malice, because it makes no sense to the inhabitants of the Valley for anyone to cause that much lasting damage under any ''other'' circumstances.