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- Happens to Dr. Wenhut with a broken stalacite in an action scene in Love, Death & Robots: "Sucker of Souls".
- Also happens to Kai with a booby-trap triggered stalacite in the Ninjago episode "Grave Danger".
- In an episode of Ultimate Spider-Man, Spider-Man just misses a pike a the top of a building during an aerial chase scene.
- I think this happens to Grandpa Max once in the original Ben 10 series (or possibly Omniverse), with Diamondhead's crystal spikes (or possibly something else) landing all around his body and he keeps backing up to avoid it hitting his groin. I may be remembering wrong though.
Sorry I can't remember the episodes for last 2.
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Wouldn't this just be a subversion of Groin Attack?
- In the Doctor Who episode The Eleventh Hour, while hanging on to the out-of-control TARDIS for dear life at the beginning, the Doctor very narrowly avoids the spire of Big Ben passing between his legs.
^ Maybe. It just seems like I've seen this exact thing - guy backing up, narrowly missing debris to the family jewels - quite a few times and wondered if it was mentioned anywhere.
It's happened in Avatar: The Last Airbender, too.
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This trope often coincides with Knife Outline (and is mentioned in the trope description): The character gets their clothes pinned to the wall by a bunch of knives or other sharp objects, then the very last knife lands disturbingly close to their crotch. Off the top of my head, Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Muppet Treasure Island both did that gag.
Edited by MetaFour
I think this could be work taking to TLP, it has enough examples and is distinct enough to count as its own thing in my opinion (not just a variation of another trope).
If you do take this to TLP, you'd get a lot of examples just combing through Groin Attack. That would... come to think of it, that would be a lot of grunt work, meaning most of the thinking work would be concentrated on making a good title, description and laconic. You might want to find another official forum like Trope Repair Shop or something and ask for official sanction / elbow grease splitting off your idea from that trope.
Edited by Miss_Desperado If not for this anchor I'd be dancing between the stars. At least I can try to write better vampire stories than Twilight.
Bob is on the floor, scooting backwards. A piece of debris or similar strikes the ground between his legs, exactly where his groin was a moment earlier. Bob gets an Oh, Crap! look on his face.
One obvious example is in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, where Harry is on the ground and the rogue bludger that's been attacking him keeps coming, hitting the ground to one side of him, then the other, then between his legs as he dodges.
There's also a Scorpion episode where a piece of exploding machinery buries itself in the ground between Toby's legs. Not sure of the episode.