Shaking the Rump

♫ Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle, yeah! ♫

"Bend over, let me see you shake your tail feather!"

— The Five Du-Tones, "Shake a Tail Feather"

This is the trope where a character moves their buttocks around, which can be done in a few variants — sexual arousal, cockiness, or celebration.

• Sexual arousal: A character does this to sexually arouse another character. When a male character invokes this trope for this particular reason, it's seen as being either jarring or humorous, unless he's Mr. Fanservice (and sometimes even then). Female examples of this are generally played as straightforward Ms Fan Service.
• Cockiness: A character does this as a way of being, well, cheeky to another character, particularly when they're annoying or taunting them. This is commonly done by unruly and/or childish characters, showing that because insulting people isn't enough, then moving the buttocks in front of the character will do the job.
• Celebration: A character does this as a part of celebrating their success or achievements, although this can overlap with the second variant if winning means the character is arrogant enough to rub it in on other competitors.

A Sultry Belly Dancer will often incorporate this trope in their dance, shaking their buttocks along with their belly and hips. Taking this trope too far would also overlap with Mooning. Related to Supermodel Strut and possibly also Three Minutes of Writhing. May also overlap with Joke of the Butt, when Played for Laughs rather than for Fanservice.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Crayon Shin-chan: Shin's trademark "butt dance" involves him pulling his pants down and shaking his butt to taunt someone.
• In Fairy Tail, when Lucy, Wendy and Flare are fighting a trio of rather sexist treasure hunters, they say that as women they should be shaking their butts for them instead of fighting. Virgo quickly complies, and with a smile on her face, no less!
  • In an anime exclusive arc, Team Natsu faces off against a gang of men in bodysuits who shake their butts at people, in a later episode, Erza, Wendy, Cana and comically Carla dress up in these suits shaking their butts at the camera while having a picnic. Natsu also participates in this when he meets the gang in prison and they have a group huddle.
• In a rare example of this trope being used for Female Gaze, Satoshi Isshiki from Food Wars! often does a routine where he dons a Naked Apron and shakes his bare butt in front of his dorm mates. What's even funnier is that none of them find this strange at all—In fact, they all cheer him on as he does so, even the male ones!
• Everyone in the opening theme of Galaxy Angel Rune.
• High School D×D has the character Koneko performing a rump-shaking pole-dance as the credits roll.
• In Kamisama Minarai: Himitsu no Cocotama, the titular Cocotamas shake their butts whenever they cast their magic.
• Kazumi is implied to be doing this on the cover of the 12th manga volume of Negima! Magister Negi Magi.
• Pokémon: The Series:
  • Misty's Psyduck's tail whip attack consists of him just moving his butt complete with him blushing.
    Misty: HOW CAN YOU CALL THAT LAME TAIL WAG AN ATTACK?!
  • In Pokémon the Series: Sun & Moon, Ash does this as a training exercise with Rockruff, and the camera even zooms in on his butt as he does it!
  • In one episode of Pokémon Journeys: The Series, when Mimey tries (and fails) to hitchhike so that a car stops as to get Mimey and Pikachu a ride back to Pallet Town, Pikachu has a shot at hitchhiking...which involves Pikachu shaking his rear. And it actually gets a car to stop.
• The opening sequence of Potemayo starts with Potemayo herself shaking her butt, followed by the rest of the main cast in the background.
• From Soul Eater, Kim does this in order to turn it into a portal to another world in Chapter 98, using the motion of her butt to spell out the kana for the word "Majou" (witch). She's not particularly thrilled to have to do this, as apparently the witch in charge of setting up the portal had a rather twisted sense of humor.
• Yo Kai Watch:
  • Jibanyan does this in Episode 9.
  • Also, Katie has done this several times.
• Plastic Nee-san:
  • In Episode 12, Nee-san's imagination leads to Okappa and Makimaki trying to seduce the same boy. It quickly goes from an innocent confession on Okappa's part to both Okappa and Makimaki stripping down to their lingerie and literally shaking their asses in front of their "target".
• in the anime Fight ippatsu! Juuden chan Plug Cyrostat shakes her butt a few times

Comic Strips

• One of The Boondocks strips depicts "a black woman's gyrating rear end", as an example of typical programming on the BET TV channel.
• Phoebe and Her Unicorn has one strip with Marigold performing "The Dance of the Glittering Hindquarters."

Fan Works

• Anger Management: Lynn shakes her butt when she steals Lincoln's victory undies.
• In Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space, a Sex Bot employed as a Sexy Secretary advises the protagonists to "Please follow the bouncing buttocks" when leading them to her boss.
• In The Cultist, Zatanna likes doing this to entice Solomon and Charlie.

Films — Animated

• In The Aristocats, Duchess (during the song "Everybody Wants to Be a Cat") briefly (and seductively) shakes her booty at the camera. This animation was recycled for Maid Marian in Robin Hood (1973) due to the studio's limited budget at the time.
• In Horton Hears a Who! (2008), after Horton finishes crossing the bridge, he proceeds to bounce his butt around while he's observing it. A few moments later, he starts to vigorously twerk to hip hop/techno music while jumping closer and closer to the camera.
• Scratte from Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs has a habit of shaking her big butt.
• The Land Before Time:
  • The Land Before Time V: The Mysterious Island: Cera shakes her tail at a sharptooth after the log connecting both sides of the chasm falls... until it jumps over the gap.
  • The Land Before Time XIII: The Wisdom of Friends: A trio of Yellow Bellies are shown shaking their butts twice during the song "Yellow Belly Bounce".
• Ursula from The Little Mermaid (1989) does this while explaining to Ariel how she will attract Eric without her voice, exclaiming "BODY LANGUAGE! HA!" as she does it. It's extremely noticeable because of how much she has to work with. This use is an odd combination of Ursula's usual flirtatious mannerisms around Ariel, cockiness (how confident she is that Ariel will take her deal), and actual explanation.
• The Lorax (2012): During the song "How Bad Can I Be?", the Once-Ler sings, "Shake that bottom line" while his aunt wiggles her butt with a dollar sign painted on the back of her dress.
• Gloria from the Madagascar movies tends to do this, one notable example being right in the beginning of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (along with the rest of the main characters) and during the Dance Party Ending.
• My Little Pony: A New Generation: Izzy Moon teaches her friends how to shake their unicorn butts in the song "Fit Right In".
• Rarity does this briefly in My Little Pony: Equestria Girls during the 'Big Night' scene.
• The titular polar bear from Norm of the North twerks at least twice in the film. He also lampshades the first time he does so while talking to Socrates the seagull.
• Boog does this in Open Season when he and Elliot are going on a bender trashing the store. Mrs. Bobbie also does this when teaching Mr. Weenie how to beg.
• Linda does this briefly by accident in Rio. This serves as a comedic contrast to her quiet midwest upbringing.
  Linda: No! We don't shake our tushies in Minnesota!
• Shrek has Dragon shaking her rear end while Donkey is singing "Baby Got Back" in the Shrek Karaoke Dance Party.
• Starship Troopers: Invasion: Two of the male troopers are discussing the need to watch each other's ass in combat. Two female troopers then enter in their scanty underarmor, and their asses get a lot of attention when they're walking past.
• Turning Red:
  • Mei does this at the beginning of the movie when the title is displayed and she's dancing around it.
  • The climactic scene at the end of the movie has Mei doing it to get a rise out of her mother after Ming has become a raging giant red panda; her friends cheer her on as she dances.
    Miriam: Shake that money-maker!
    Abby: Destroy her with your big butt!
• We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story: During the song "Roll Back the Rock", Rex briefly leans forwards with his butt high in the air and vigorously twerks. At the same time, the kids do the same and effortlessly match his movements.
• While the song "Yellow" by French DJ 20syl plays during the credits of Yellowbird, Karl, Sam, Delf, and Anton incorporate some tail feather shaking into their dance routines.

Films — Live-Action

• Alvin and the Chipmunks:
  • Parodied in The Squeakquel when the Chipettes shake their tails.
  • Also, in the fourth film, Theodore shakes his butt in front of his brothers while singing "Baby Got Back" in order for the fat boy to return him to Alvin and Simon. See for yourself.
• In an iconic scene from Beetlejuice at a fancy dinner with guests, the Deetz are possessed into dancing around the table. Concluding with a bit of everyone at the table shaking their butts to the music. Including a particularly funny shot of one of the fancy guests staring in horror at her butt moving out of her control, all while daughter, Lydia laughs in the background.
• Zula in Conan the Destroyer shakes her rear end after emerging from water, to shed droplets from the furry tail that hangs at the back of her "tribal warrior-woman" costume.
• A subversion occurs in the indie comedy from the 90's, Friends and Lovers. Alison Eastwood (yes, the daughter of Clint Eastwood) combines this with Sexy Coat Flashing as she reveals her *ahem* assets and shakes them for her lover.
• In The Eiger Sanction, Clint Eastwood's character turns down sexual bribery from a student worried about her grade, telling her to "go home and study your ass off" instead. As she walks off in a snit we get a Male Gaze look at her rear, causing Clint to say, "Don't study it all off."
• Freaky (2020): Millie shakes her behind while in her mascot costume as apart of the school cheer routine. She does this later while in the Blissfield Butcher's body to prove to her friends that it's actually her.
• Gentleman's Fate: Mabel, who is putting out all sorts of mating signals to Mike, literally shakes her butt at him in an attempt to draw his interest. She fails.
• Kona Coast: This film is set in Hawaii and has multiple scenes with local Fanservice Extras hula dancing. Every time, it's an excuse for the camera to linger on their bottoms.
• Played for Drama in Local Skirmish, a Russian movie set on the Eastern Front in World War II. In an extraordinarily tense situation, with the Russian soldiers hiding as the Germans mill around the farm, Stryapukhin tells Nastonya to leave the sauna to get firewood, and wiggle her butt at the Germans. She then goes back into the sauna, followed by a horny German, whom Stryapukhin kills.
• 1933 film Parachute Jumper has a shot of a woman's bottom filling the entire camera frame as she shakes it. She's a local girl in a Nicaraguan cantina, probably a hooker, who is partying with Marine pilots Bill and Toodles.
• And in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, Clint Eastwood and Jeff Bridges check out the behind of a short-skirted waitress as she walks away after taking their order. Jeff declares it "poetry in motion." Ah, The '70s...
• What Price Glory: Shanghai Mabel bends over to go through her suitcase. When she notices the Marines of Flagg's unit watching her, she shakes her behind at them. Of course, she's a hooker, so it's advertising.
• In the portion of Not Another Teen Movie parodying Bring It On, the (white) cheerleaders do some serious rumpshaking:
  We're black, we know it, we shake our big booties and show it, we ain't white, we ain't white, we definitely ain't white. Break it down niggas!
  • Done to show they did not steal that routine from the black cheerleaders
• Chloe does this in front of Beca as she walks away in one scene of Pitch Perfect, which explains the former's ambiguously bisexual lifestyle.
• In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Felicity Shagwell shakes her rear for Austin during their first encounter, in an attempt to seduce him.
• Carry On Spying: Our heroes are taken to the villain's Elaborate Underground Base, which is full of catsuited females bustling about.
  Dr Crow: This is our headquarters.
  Charlie Bind: Looks more like hind-quarters to me!
  • Also seen in the animated Title Sequence for Carry On Behind.
• Wayne's World 2: Honey Hornee does this in front of Garth while wearing a tight white dress, causing Garth's glasses to fog up.
• The Infiltrator: The protagonist lampshades how he's going to look at the ass of his 'favorite waitress' as she walks away after taking his order. She puts on an exaggerated shake for him.
• The Framing Device of Kermit's Swamp Years has Horace D'Fly taunt Kermit by shaking his butt at him in the beginning.
• Garfield does this to Lord Dargis twice in Garfield: A Tail Of Two Kitties.
• Safer at Home: As part of a remote birthday celebration, members of a group chat hold a dance battle. Ben and Jen prove to be proficient at twerking.
• The Sin of Nora Moran: An unbelievable closeup shot of the butts of all the women in the chorus, as they kick their legs in line.
• In future cops (a parody of street fighter) the version of chun li does shakes her bum in the last fight

Literature

• In Hank the Cowdog: The Case Of The Raging Rottweiler, Hank sees the titular rottweiler unable to get out of his owner's truck. His response? He makes fun of him and even waves his butt at him, much to Drover's dismay and the rottweiler's outrage. They even sing a song about it, basically Bullying a Dragon, the song: "It's Not Smart To Show Your Heiny To A Bear".
• In one of the Ramona Quimby books, Picky-Picky shakes his rear end while planning to jump. Truth in Television-he's a cat, and cats do that.
• in Tara June Winch's swallow the air May describes how her and her brother used to wiggle their bottoms on the beach

Live-Action TV

• Deputy Chief Johnson of The Closer (s4e2) gets carried away while leaving a flirty phone message for her cohab Fritz.
• In That '70s Show, Eric is upset that Donna mooning Jackie during a school event made it into the yearbook. Donna's response is to shake her ass during their "circle." The Stinger involves everybody engaging at this as they shake it at the camera.
• "The Big Bang Theory": At the end of "The Empathy Optimization ", Raj is on the stripper pole shaking his ass on Penny and Bernadette as they jokingly spank him and stuff dollar bills in his pants.
• Between the Lions: Leona and Lionel are seen doing this in the intro.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
  • Averted by Harmony in "Crush" when she breaks up with Spike, saying that the only thing Spike will see of her from now on is her ass walking away — unwilling to give him even that pleasant sight, she decides to back away instead.
  • In the Angel spin-off, Harmony becomes Angel's Sexy Secretary after he becomes CEO of Wolfram & Hart. In the Day in the Life episode "Harm's Way", the audience is gifted with a Male Gaze close-up of Harmony's behind in a tight skirt as she bustles about in her daily routine.
  • In "Killed by Death", Cordelia is jealous of the way Xander is obsessed with Buffy. Xander says he's just watching Buffy's back, which Cordelia turns round on him by claiming Xander is always checking out Buffy's butt. When Xander denies this, she says, "Fine, watch my back" and walks off. Xander obediently checks out her behind.
  • When Wesley first meets Cordelia in "Bad Girls", he notes that she's quite "cheeky" after watching her walk away from him.
• New Girl: In the episode, Tomatoes. When Nick gets back with his ex, him and Jess get into an argument that quickly devolves into nonsensical shouting, topped off when the two of them compete over who can shake their butt the fastest.
  Nick: What are we doing!?
  Jess: Stop looking at my ass!
• Lizzo's Watch Out for the Big Grrrls: The choreographies for the aspiring Big Grrrls involve plenty of this, as is to be expected if you are going To be onstage with Lizzo.
• My World… and Welcome to It: Two examples appear in "The Middle Years":
  • When John first sees comely new widow Mrs. Bessinger (who has just moved in next door), he daydreams a Fantasy Sequence where she dances seductively and then opens her long coat, the better to show off her tight and skimpy red dress while accompanied by classic strip-tease music. Just before she does so, she turns her back to John and seductively wiggles her behind in time to the music.
  • Later, John is shown at his drawing desk looking at an unflattering cartoon drawing of his wife. He imagines a Fantasy Sequence where the woman in the picture scolds him for ogling Mrs. Bessinger. She shakes her bottom in exaggerated fashion, making fun of him for finding the same thing attractive about the new neighbor.
• Done in the Orange Is the New Black episode "Fucksgiving", where Piper and Alex happily shake their butts to "Milkshake" at Taystee's goodbye party, even grinding on each other towards the end. As it occurs late in Season 1, it's one of the signs of Piper putting aside her distrust of Alex and rediscovering her feelings for her.
• The X-Files: In "First-Person Shooter", an entire police precinct is all over Ms. Fanservice stripper Jade Blue Afterglow, including Mulder. As she leaves the interrogation room, Mulder leans sideways out of his chair to check out her ass as she walks down the corridor. An amused Scully leans sideways in unison, to block his view.
• UFO (1970): Our first view of the 1980s is a mini-skirted dolly bird sashaying away from the camera, which is positioned at hemline level.
• Dark Matter (2015): The men on the ship are well aware of Two's Supermodel Strut (that's only accentuated by her twin thigh holsters and midriff-baring outfit). In the second episode she's walking away from One and without turning round tells him to "stop staring at my ass."
• In the Doctor Who episode "Aliens of London", Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen, compressed within the skin of Margaret Blaine, does this whilst letting off some gas, quite literally.
  Blon: I'm... shaking my booty!
• She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: At the end of the third episode, She-Hulk signs Megan Thee Stallion as a new client. The two of them celebrate their deal by twerking. She-Hulk's boss walks past and sees them through the window, but sighs and leaves them to it.
  Megan: Oh, you are way more fun than my last lawyer.
• in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air episode "you bet your life" one of the gamblers does a bum wiggle after winning poker
• In Wandavison Agnes does a booty shake in one episode

Music

• This will surely pop up in many Hip-Hop music videos if the songs focus on that certain body part.
• While you won't see it in every single music video clip of hers, it's Shakira's stock in trade.
• Early in the Cat Hairballs features Stimpy doing a twerk-like butt shake while seated on the floor. This showcases the happier tone the video starts with before Stimpy starts to run out of hairballs and the tone gets darker.
• Heavily parodied by French comedian Michaël Youn, under his fake rapper persona "Fatal Bazooka", in the clip J'aime Trop Ton Boule (Shake Ton Booty)."
• The Five Du-Tones's "Shake A Tail Feather."
• Possibly the Trope Codifier and the song played over the aforementioned scene in That '70s Show would be "Shake Your Booty," by KC and the Sunshine Band.
• Taylor Swift and her backup dancers in her video for the aptly named "Shake it Off".
• Meghan Trainor's "All About That Bass" has both female and male dancers twerking.
• Numberock: In the "Angles Song", when it's stated the obtuse angle has "a big caboose", the pizza boy turns to the camera and shakes his posterior, with the angle emphasised.

Pinballs

• Done by the playfield Tube Dancer toy in Big Bang Bar.
• Tee'd Off:
  • The game starts with a close-up of the golfer shaking his rear, limbering up for the tee-off.
  • Gunther dances on top of the backbox during the game to distract the player.

Pro Wrestling

• Shawn Michaels used to do this back in the 90's as a part of his "Sexy Boy" gimmick. This dissipated in his 2002-2010 run.
• Rikishi did this frequently. This is the first of many reasons why his Face–Heel Turn was an utter failure. It's hard for people to buy you as a "bad man" when even your jumbo tron clips feature your ass prominently.
• The reason Pitbull's Culo and Shakira's My Hips Don't Lie used to be used during Black Rose's entrances; she always does this.
• Frankie V did this in a show of how seriously he wasn't taking World Xtreme Wrestling's Elite 8 in 2003, while making an "entrance" into a battle royal he wasn't even allowed in.
• In WWE Taboo Tuesday 2004, Trish Stratus does this cockily after retaining the Women's Championship in the Fulfill Your Fantasy Battle Royal.
• TNA's Velvet Sky always does it in her entrances, especially between the apron. As Taz would say "Let the pigeons loose!" When entering the ring during the 2012 WWC Anniversario, Melina Perez mimed smelling something terrible, which caused Velvet to go back to the second rope and keep shaking her rump over it until Melina spanked her.
• The phrase "There's nothing wrong with showing off if you can back it up." took on new meaning thanks to Dolph Ziggler's gyration.
• Radiant Rain did so when Homicide called out the WSU roster for a challenge (he wanted to be in Queen and King Of The Ring), which generated giggles even from Jessicka Havok.
• Ryusuke Taguchi had a tendency to taunt his opponents by shaking his money maker in New Japan Pro-Wrestling, something his rival Low Ki would eventually turn back on him.
• Taya Valkyrie of Los Perros Del Mal is prone to doing so, in annoyance to some of her more "serious" stablemates.
• This is one of Eve Torres' signature moves. She pops her butt up and down in a squatted position right before performing a moonsault on her opponent. In WWE '13, this is called the "Booty Popping Moonsault".
• At TNA's Genesis Pay Per View, rather than brag about how well Bad Influence would wrestle or how badly they would beat their opponents, Christopher Daniels decided to return the company's roots and promised to shake his rump.
• Seleziya Sparx has been known to bounce her butt while making an entrance, as well as on people's heads.
• Initially subverted at Vintage End Of The Line Where Brittney Savage tried "twerking" but ended up falling on her butt while trying to pop it. Aforementioned La Rosa Negra was there to play it straight though.
• On the unauthorized ROH A Night Of Hoopla, Davey Richards shook his butt while holding Silas Young in a reverse Indian death lock.
• "Portugal's Perfect Athlete" Shanna took to "twerking" after it became a dirty word to much of America, following a certain someone's performance (and resolved to kicking La Rosa Negra's "derriere" when she proved "better" at it).
• Jaider Lee, to the delight of many fans attending New Xtreme Order's shows.
• The New Day always gyrate their hips during their entrances and whenever they celebrate their wins.
• Faye Jackson's rump shaking can prove hazardous, as Solo Darling and Sumie Sakai learned the hard way after being accidentally ejected from the ring by the rookie on the first Women Of Honor live show.
• Sonny Kiss usually follows his forced ass to face scissor hold by twerking for the crowd.
• Aja Perera took no selling to it's logical extreme when she did a handstand while "caught" in a head scissor by Kimber Lee at SHINE 63 and then twerked upside down in front of Lee's face.

Toys

• Four of the titular birds do this at the end of the first commercial for Fairy Tails. It's celebratory and gives an opportunity to show off their tails.

Video Games

• In The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures, this was done by some of the women in the "Beat It and Eat It" level.
• In BlazBlue, Platinum the Trinity has an attack where she'll shake her butt at the enemy tauntingly.◊ If the enemy attacks, she'll counter-attack with a doll.
• Crash Bandicoot:
  • Koala Kong from the first Crash Bandicoot is constantly flexing his muscles during his boss battle, including showing off his assets by turning around and wiggling them at Crash. He again does it for his award podium animation when getting 1st place in Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled.
  • In Crash of the Titans, Crash does a little shaking routine left and right when he holds up Aku Aku for protection.
  • Fake Crash does this in his version of the Crash Dance.
  • Crash himself adds some booty shaking to his signature Crash Dance after defeating N. Tropy and his alternate dimension counterpart in Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time.
• The Huntress from Dungeon Defenders does a butt-shaking dance which is one of the qualities that goes well with her status as the game's Ms. Fanservice.
• Granblue Fantasy: Whether Medusa readies a skill or her charge attack, she will be doing this in her playable version.
• In Heavy Rain, Madison does this when Paco forces her to strip at gunpoint. She does it to distract him so that she can club him with a lamp, though.
• Jak and Daxter: One of Daxter's various dance animations when he and Jak find a Power Cell is to turn around and shake his butt at the camera. Humorously, a cowbell can be heard in the background.
• In Kirby games, recurring mini boss Mr. Frosty shakes his butt when he is preparing for an attack, and his overalls usually exposes his butt. On the other hand, in Kirby Triple Deluxe and Kirby Star Allies, his overalls has a blue rear patch.
  • Elline also does this upon beating a boss in Kirby and the Rainbow Curse.
• In Miitopia, there are turkey-like enemies named Twerkey, Twergull and Twerkpea. Their name do include the word "twerk" for a reason.
• In Multiversus, Reindog has a taunt that involves him wiggling his rear end at the other competitors.
• Persona 5 Royal: Ann Takamaki does this in the opening cutscene.
• Pizza Tower: During his boss fight, The Noise will sometimes shake his rear end at Peppino when vulnerable to attack.
• Vanessa Z. Schneider from P.N.03 does this while firing semi-auto and automatic blasts. The Aegis Suit she wears is connected to her spine and central nervous system, so one can theorize she is generating energy. More cynically of course, she's probably doing it for the player, or perhaps her client.
• Pokémon Stadium:
  • Flareon does this when called into battle.
  • Quagsire and Aipom in the second game do this as an attack animation, and Quilava also does it before attacking.
• The peacock-like Quaquaval from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, based on Brazilian Carnaval dancers, has this as its idle animation in battle, and it has quite the fat rump to shake.
• Project Spark: Conker (of Conker's Bad Fur Day fame) does this in a fanmade game created by Invisibledoogey and Zztarg called "Conker Multiplayer Arena". Conker performs the move when chosen on the character select screen.
• Ratchet & Clank (2016): Big Al will do this when under the influence of the Groovitron.
• Shantae: In every game, Shantae sees fit to do this in conjunction with a glare whenever she's crouching. Maybe she thinks it's intimidating.
• In Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, the Macaque, Steer Bull, and Dodo guards can occasionally do this as a victory taunt. Carmelita Fox also does this to distract some guards during her belly dance scene.
• In Snowboard Kids, when someone uses the rare Rat Face item, a rat appears to steal everyone else's coins, while doing a dance that ends with it shaking its rump.
• Summertime Saga:
  • If MC completes Miss Dewitt's route, she'll reward him by giving him a private lapdance in her office, shaking her curvy behind before having sex with him.
  • Consuela does the same thing while cleaning MC's beach house, dancing to a Spanish song.
• Super Mario Bros.
  • Wario is frequently seen doing this as a taunt in the various sports spinoff games. In Mario Strikers Battle League, he does this during his Special Shot animation before doing a Ground Pound on the ball to send it flying all over the field. This also carries over into Super Smash Bros. where it is one of his taunts.
  • Yoshi has also taken to doing this in spinoff games starting around Mario Superstar Baseball as well as Mario Party 9, where he'll turn around and wag his rear at the camera in celebration for winning. He again does it in Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle.
  • In Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, the Cow costume for the Mii can have them shaking their backsides during a jump animation.
• Super Robot Wars X-Ω has this happen during a few Super Move Portrait Attack cut-ins and is part of the Fanservice present in the game.
• In Team Fortress 2, if the Demoman taunts while holding the Scottish Resistance, he turns around and shakes his posterior while squeaking noises are heard.
  • Players can also abuse animation quirks to have the Sniper to a rump-shake/hip thrust by repeatedly squatting and zooming in on the sniper rifle at the same time.
• This is one of Anna Williams' taunts from Tekken towards an enemy. Not to mention, this also goes along with her butt attack in Tekken 6.
• Wario Land: As said above, this has become a sort of signature trait for Wario, who will often shake or slap his butt as either a taunt or victory pose. Most infamously, Wario Land: Shake It! has him in a constant cycle of shaking his rump at the camera in the game's main menu, and it's as lovingly animated and rendered as the rest of that game is.

Visual Novels

• In Double Homework, when the protagonist and Lauren run into Ms. Walsh at a nightclub, their teacher is doing a booty-shaking dance for which Lauren is quick to express disgust.

Web Animation

• The Neurotically Yours episode "The Jiggly Butt" has Germaine shaking her butt, watching it jiggle to see if she gained weight and she does it again happily after Foamy encouraged her to be proud of being a Fat Bastard. Foamy soon regrets this and wonders who wrote this episode.
• In the Helluva Boss episode "Unhappy Campers", Barbie Wire does this in her human form to seduce and manipulate a camp counselor to help her sell heroine.
• Homestar Runner:
  • Homestar's character video ends with him randomly doing a "butt-dance".
  • Homestar later interrupts the ending of the Strong Bad Email "bottom 10" to show Strong Bad his "bottom", which makes SB so sick that he throws up.
    Homestar: Butt-dance again, like the rhythm's down your pants, now!
  • The music video for "Fish-Eye Lens" has Coach Z shaking the "considerable rear shelf" given to him by the fisheye lens effect, again to Strong Bad's discomfort.
  • The music video for "Trogdor Was a Dragon Man" features a lot of gratuitous booty-shaking.
• HFIL gives us the Ginyu Force Twerkarena, which combines this trope with the macarena. Both Cell and Freeza are disturbed by it.
• In the third video of The Vampair series, Missi Spiderwebs sways her hips a lot during her song to show just how confident and in control of the situation she feels, gleefully dancing as she takes further revenge on the Duke.

Webcomics

• Girl Genius: Zeetha does the cocky version of this to mock Agatha over the convoluted sitution that ended up with Agatha being named ambassador to a bunch of face-blind Fish People who think Agatha is a Mermaid, she suggests rump shaking to help nail down the similarity. It just annoys Agatha.
• Meadowhawk has Drizzle doing this to attract more views to her and Tater's Youtube channel. She comes to regret it later.

Web Videos

• The mailbox segment from the first episode of Medaka MENT has Medaka, who is wearing bra and panties, sings the mail song from Blue's Clues while shaking her butt to emphasis herself "waging her tail".

Western Animation

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series: In one episode, Lucky and Rolly do this to taunt a Sheriff. Lucky, Rolly, Cadpig and Spot later do this together.
• In the 101 Dalmatian Street episode "It's My Party", Dolly briefly shakes her butt while dinging about her and Destiny winning the bet that they will have the best birthday party.
• One episode of Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog shows Sonic shaking his butt on Dr. Robotnik's monitor screen, looking over his shoulder.
• King Julien from All Hail King Julien shakes his "royal booty" a lot.
• The "Macarena" parody "Macadamia Nut" from Animaniacs features booty shaking from some characters doing the Macarena dance, especially from Hello Nurse and Minerva Mink.
• In the Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "The Deserter", Aang taunts General Zhao by shaking his butt at him, which ends up in Zhao burning his own ship.
  Aang: Ahoy! I'm Admiral Zhao!
• One scene from the Adventure Time episode "Bad Little Boy" has Cake morphing her body into a voluptuous one and proceeds to shake her butt at the camera for a couple of seconds during Marshall Lee's song. Marshall Lee himself also wiggles his bum seductively at Fiona during the same scene. Fiona is not amused and quickly shoves him away.
• The Boondocks: In the episode "The S-Word", Granddad tells Huey how "traumatized" Riley is for being called a "nigga" by a third-grade teacher, but what Riley is really doing is what Huey believes to be the "celebratory booty dance" due to the fact Granddad will sue the teacher for restitution.
• Brandy & Mr. Whiskers: In "Funky Bunny", Whiskers' titular dance is just standing in place and shaking his butt back and forth. The dance is used toward the end to save the rainforest's Harrington Ball when it begins to fall apart.
• The two main characters of Breadwinners do this almost constantly, seemingly for its own sake.
• The Cramp Twins: In the episode "Pantaloonacy", towards the end when Wayne finds out that he is wearing the same kind of yellow pants that Miss Hissy is wearing, Miss Hissy comments on how good they feel while shaking her butt.
• The Cuphead Show!: During the Devil's Villain Song in "Carn-Evil", he wears a hat and tuxedo and does his dance routine, including his twerking. Henchman, however, manages to interrupt the dance routine to tell him about the Spanner in the Works...
• In the DuckTales (2017) episode "The 87 Cent Solution!", Glomgold does this to Scrooge's casket in order to mock his pretending to be dead enemy as part of his Last Disrespects.
• Dragon Tales: The Dragons, along with pretty much every other character in the show, does this during the song "Shake Your Dragon Tail".
• In the end credits sequence of an Evil Con Carne episode, General Skarr and crew are in a traffic jam (which they were in an episode earlier in that particular program). Next to him is a car with Billy and his family. Billy continually taunts Skarr, and in one instance, Billy drops trou and waves his bare fanny at Skarr.
• The Ewoks episode "A Warrior and a Lurdo" has Wicket taunt the Blog by shaking his behind at it.
• The Fairly OddParents!: In the episode "Smarty Pants", A.J. mocks Timmy by doing this after receiving yet another A+, and after wishing to be the smartest kid in the world, Timmy does this in front of A.J. in return after teaching the class about the Alamo and the state of Texas, which he receives an A+ for.
• Family Guy:
  • In one episode, Peter does this as a part of his goofy impression of Winston Churchill, much to the annoyance of Lois and the other flight attendants.
  • Everyone at a beach party that Quagmire brings Chris to. There's even a close-up of one woman's bikini butt during the number.
• In Famous Fred, Fred the cat does this while trying to do a dance.
  Kenneth: Wiggle your belly — not your bum!
• Milo does this pretty often in Fish Hooks as a Running Gag throughout the series.
  • In "Milo on the Lam", Oscar catches Clamantha's attention by reluctantly shaking his rear as a distraction so Bea could rescue Milo from getting detention.
  • Bea and her friends are seen doing this during the sleepover rap in "Fish Sleepover Party".
• The Loud House:
  • In "Come Sale Away", the sisters (including Lucy and Lisa) all imitate Lincoln's victory dance as they all proceed to shake their booties right on the spot in the living room, until their parents also join in to show them how it's really done! Lincoln notes that it's definitely hereditary.
  • During her initial round of Unsportsmanlike Gloating in "Lynn-er Takes All", Lynn repeatedly thrusts her ass in Leni's face. As this behavior is typical of Lynn, her sister is just annoyed at having to see this again.
• The eponymous character of Kaeloo does this frequently while chanting "Booty booty booty dance!"
• Martha Speaks: Martha the dog lists "shaking your fanny" as part of a greeting ritual.
• The Mickey Mouse (2013) short "Good Sports" has a football player Goofy taunt the opposing team by shaking his rear in front of them.
• The My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "Tradeshow Showdown" has Jenny Wakeman do this as an insult to several robots chasing her.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Sweetie does a bit of this during her singing and cleaning-up routine in "The Show Stoppers".
  • In "Baby Cakes", "wiggling your rump" is listed in Pinkie Pie's "Piggy Dance" song.
  • In "Ponyville Confidential", Snips and Snails do this a bit to show off their shaved rears after being stuck together by gum.
  • In "A Canterlot Wedding - Part 1"/"Part 2", this is part of Twilight Sparkle and Cadence's Secret Handshake, involving both ponies shaking their rumps together.
  • "Apple Family Reunion" has Apple Bottom do a bit of this as dancing.
  • Applejack does a bit of this while showing off her fancy outfit in "Simple Ways".
  • "Filli Vanilli" sees Fluttershy do this a few times, dancing along with the music she's singing.
  • At one point in "It Ain't Easy Being Breezies", Fluttershy dresses up like a bee and asks a swarm of them if it "brings to mind any images" for them while wiggling her butt at them.^note That's really how bees communicate.
  • Part of Sapphire Shores' dance routine in "For Whom the Sweetie Bell Toils".
• My Little Pony: Pony Life:
  • In "The Great Collide", Rainbow and Twilight do this in a dog-like way as they prepare to compete in Buckball.
  • In "Sportacular Spectacular Musak-ular", Twilight pretty much twerks as part of her dancing for the big show.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • An unintentional example in "Comet Kermillian" when Candace shakes her rear all because she has squirrels in her pants. The extended version of the song has extra ass-shaking action!
  • In "Bee Story", the Fireside Girls learn to communicate with bees by doing the "Waggle Dance".
• In The Powerpuff Girls (1998), Professor Utonium makes fun of HIM and starts taunting him, shaking his rear and everything.
• The Powerpuff Girls (2016):
  • Blossom and Bubbles do this with Allegro the panda in "Painbow", much to Buttercup's disgust.
  • Bubbles also briefly does it in "Somewhere Over the Swingset" with one of Allegro's minions.
  • Bubbles shakes her rump at a sabertooth tiger while turned into a mouse with her aura powers in "15 Minutes of Fame".
• In the Quack Pack episode "Hit the Road, Backwater Jack", Donald Duck taunts a beetle that can't get to him after he's put on a protective suit by shaking his butt at the beetle. Unfortunately for Donald, the suit's pants begin to sag, which enables the beetle to retaliate by flying into his suit and then stinging him.
• In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Sean's Neptune Tune", Sean briefly shakes his butt at the camera during the "Neptune Kind of Day" song.
• Rick and Morty: Rick, Morty and Summer do such a dance at the end of season 1. The song they're dancing to is even titled "Shake That Ass, Bitch".
• Sabrina: The Animated Series: In the episode "What Becomes of the Brokenhearted", Quigley does this when he's trying to adjust his camera to take a picture of his plant.
• The Seven Little Monsters episode "All's Quiet on the Monster Front" ends with the monsters' Mama shaking her backside.
• The Simpsons:
  • In one episode, Homer walks in on Lisa shaking her butt and is not amused by it, but then sees the girls on TV doing the exact same thing, which Lisa was copying.
  • A more humorous example occurs during a discussion about an ad featuring Marge that makes her butt look big because it supposedly sells, to which Bart claims it works for the 'Lumber King'. Cue an animatronic sign featuring nothing but (aha) a builder shaking his ass at the viewer.◊
    Homer: [mesmerized] Lumber... We need lumber...
  • This trope is also referenced by Homer in "Brother from the Same Planet", though he isn't allowed to go through with it.
    Homer: Marge, when kids these days say "bad", they mean "good". And to "shake your booty" means to wiggle one's butt. Permit me to demonstrate...
    Marge: No.
  • In "Team Homer", Mrs. Krabappel does this blatantly while adjusting her desk to taunt Bart, who's wearing a uniform that forces him to behave and not shoot her butt with his slingshot.
  • The Stupid Sexy Flanders incident in "Little Big Mom", when Ned Flanders shakes his ass as he's wearing a tight ski suit.
    Ned: Feels like I'm wearing nothin' at all! Nothin' at all! Nothin' at all!
    Homer: [screams, cringes] Stupid sexy Flanders...
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • The earliest example is in "Pizza Delivery", in which SpongeBob jiggles both cheeks independently while he freestyles his song.
  • SpongeBob also does it to Sandy when he wants her to chase him to the Krusty Krab in "Texas".
  • Squidward does this on a few occasions (for example, "Christmas Who?" and "Club SpongeBob"), particularly when he mocks SpongeBob's mishaps.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil: In "School Spirit", Brittney Wong and the other cheerleaders for the Echo Creek Awesome Opossums plan to distract the Silver Hill Warriors with their "booty-shaking dance moves" during the big game. Star, under the impression that football game is an actual battle, is a bit distracted when they throw in a demonstration but still reprimands them for their plan — "Do you know nothing of combat?! No warrior is going to be distracted by Chantelle's booty!" When it's time for the actual game, Star turns out to be right, as that the Warriors aren't distracted whatsoever. Fast-forward a few episodes, though, and the joke comes back as a background gag where Chantelle walks by with groupies who are indeed enraptured by her booty.
• In the Steven Universe episode "Giant Woman", Amethyst does this during her Fusion Dance with Pearl, to the latter's disgust.
• Supernoobs: This is one of Roach's dance moves in "Noob Kids on the Block".
  "Shake your booty-butt! Shake, shake, shake it!"
• The Sym-Bionic Titan episode "Lessons in Love" has the infamous "Booty Quake" scene where Kimmy, annoyed by his attempts to make her actually study, tries to get Octus to just do her homework for her by doing an enticing dance. Octus isn't impressed and glares at her for the attempt.
• Happens frequently in Teen Titans Go!:
  • In "Nose Mouth", when Raven's statement that using her dark magic to stop Robin from disturbing people's sleep could cause some issues is apparently proven wrong, Cyborg does this as part of the "You were wrong" dance to Raven.
  • In "Legs", Starfire does this in front of Raven, who isn't that keen on joining along to dance with the other Titans. However, Raven, whose cloak was taken away from Robin, does a little hip shaking after renaming herself "Lady Legasus", and later when all of the Titans are dancing again.
  • In "The Fourth Wall", Beast Boy does this while wearing his underwear in front of the fourth wall, only for an annoyed Raven to smash his head on it.
  • Robin doing this became a Running Gag for a few seasons. The episodes "Mr. Butt", "Two Bumblebees and a Wasp", "Operation Tin Man", "Hey You, Don't You Forget about Me in Your Memory", and "Arms Race with Legs" are just a handful of the many instances when he twerks his behind for any of the three reasons listed in the trope description.
  • And of course, the Booty Scooty.
• Total Drama:
  • Gwen and Bridgette spend much of "X-treme Torture" sleuthing around for the identities of the writer and the addressee of the love letter they found. It turns out that the letter is for Leshawna. She notes that they could've deduced that themselves by turning around and gyrating her behind while asking either who else has a "booty as luscious as an apple" (Canada) or who else has a "kick-butt attitude" (America).
  • While Duncan goes wild to the music at the party in "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island", Courtney sees no cause for celebration because she didn't win. Partly to tease her, he shakes his rear in her direction longer than any other dance move while she rants away.
  • Courtney tries to bond with her shark buddy in "Top Dog" by performing a cheer with it. The cheer includes a moment in which she turns around and bounces her butt. It doesn't have the intended effect of getting the shark to cheer along, but it does catch Duncan's attention.
  • Blaineley turns her back to the camera for a little lower shake at the start of her "I Am Great!" Song "Blainerific" in "Niagara Brawls". Her motivation is three-fold: she's sexy and she knows it, she arrogantly establishes herself to the veteran contestants, and she celebrates joining Total Drama for a shot at the grand prize.
• Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race: Don announces the challenge to make a carnival-worthy costume in "Brazillian Pain Forest" by donning a flashy outfit himself and lightly shaking his cheeks at the camera.
• The Transformers: Animated short "Starscream Heckles Megatron" has Starscream make fun of Megatron behind his back while he's giving a speech to the other Decepticons, acting innocent whenever his boss turns around. The mocking gesture Starscream performs that gets him caught is shaking his butt in Megatron's direction.
• The Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy episode "Metal Munchers" had Boulder shake his rear to get the attention of the scraplets.
• The titular character in Velma twerks over the body of the series' chief antagonist.
• Wander over Yonder:
  • "The Hat" has Sylvia shake her rear end to provoke a giant worm.
  • Dominator shakes her rump at the beginning of her Villain Song in "My Fair Hatey"; Wander and Hater respond by glancing toward each other uncomfortably.

Real Life

• Many dances involve shaking one's butt in a provocative or enticing manner.
  • The Charleston during The Roaring '20s is one such example.
• "Twerking" is a phenomenon that started in urban and African-American communities that involves taking a squatted (or any other posterior-emphasizing) position and twisting the buttocks up and down. On a butt that is sufficiently round or fat, it will wobble up and down. The appeal is both in how much flesh moves and how fast, and in fantasizing about those same hip movements during sex.
• The Chicken Dance is a famous German dance made for Kids that involves wiggling your butt like a tail

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