Basic Trope: A character rotates their head to face behind them, often 180 degrees or more.
- Straight: Alice rotates her head 180 degrees.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice rotates her head further than 360 degrees.
- Alice rotates her head 180 degrees... vertically, with her eyes on the bottom and her mouth on the top.
- Alice rotates her head at the speed of a Demonic Head Shake.
- Downplayed: Alice rotates her head to around 130 degrees. For comparison, the average person can rotate their head around 90 degrees.
- Justified:
- Alice is an animal that can rotate its head rather far, such as an owl or praying mantis.
- Alice is a demon, or is at least possessed by one.
- Alice is an undead being that died of breaking her neck, and has this ability as a result.
- Alice is a living toy of some sort.
- Alice is a robot whose mechanical joints at her neck allow her to do so without any wear and tear to her chassis.
- Alice is a flexible, multiple jointed woman who can rotate any body part in any degree she likes.
- Inverted: Alice can't turn her head at all. (This may be because she's a Cephalothorax.)
- Subverted: It's just a portal effect Alice is doing, using a portal that links her head and body.
- Double Subverted: ...until she removes the portal that links the head to the body, which reveals her to be capable of a 180-degree head rotation.
- Parodied: Alice gets this power when she is turned into a living doll.
- Zig-Zagged: Sometimes Alice cannot rotate her head, sometimes she can.
- Averted: Nobody rotates their neck too far beyond 90 degrees.
- Enforced:
- The work Alice is from is Merchandise-Driven, with action figures that can rotate their heads around completely.
- Can be a reference to the Trope Namer, The Exorcist.
- Lampshaded: "Did Alice turn her head 180 degrees?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "I wonder why Alice can rotate her head like that."
- Implied: Alice had her body locked in place from the shoulders down relative to the room, but she claims to have seen something else in the room behind her.
- Deconstructed: Alice ends up injuring herself (or worse, breaking her neck) as a result of trying this.
- Reconstructed: Alice manages to dominate it and turns it into an ability.
- Played for Laughs: Alice does this to prank people.
- Played for Horror: Alice can do this because she's been possessed.
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