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* ''ComicBook/KidEternity'': At the conclusion of the 1991 miniseries by Creator/GrantMorrison, Kid Eternity signifies his and Mr. Keeper's defiance towards Mr. Keeper's masters by raising his middle finger at them.
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* At ''Summerslam 2012'', Fred Durst of Music/LimpBizkit fame was in the audience. When the camera focused on him, he gave the Finger.
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** Then, in the 07 November 2010 race at Texas, Kyle Busch did this to a NASCAR official who was enforcing a penalty on him. One (lap penalty) plus one (finger raised) equalled three (lap penalty).
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** Then, in the 07 November 2010 race at Texas, Kyle Busch did this to a NASCAR official who was enforcing a penalty on him. One (lap penalty) plus one (finger raised) equalled three (lap penalty). Busch should consider himself lucky, in just about any other sport giving the finger to an official would result in an immediate ejection/disqualification and likely suspension.
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* When [=LeBron=] James played his first game back in Cleveland after signing with the Miami Heat in 2010 several newspapers ran an AP photo of James doing his old pre-game chalk toss routine.[[note]]Some NBA players like to cover their hands in powdered chalk to help grip the ball, James used to toss a big handful of it in the air to create an effect similar to Wrestling/TripleH's water spitting during his entrance.[[/note]] In the background of the photo were '''three''' Cavaliers fans in the audience giving [=LeBron=] the one finger salute.
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* ''Realms of Arcania'' has a stealth version, at least in the German original. There is an Assassins Guild called the Fellowship of Tsa's Second Finger [[labelnote:*]]Bruderschaft vom zweiten Finger Tsas[[/labelnote]]. People easily disregard the fact, thet when you talk of ''fingers'', the thumb doesn't necessarily count.
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* ''Realms of Arcania'' has a stealth version, at least in the German original. There is an Assassins Guild called the Fellowship of Tsa's Second Finger [[labelnote:*]]Bruderschaft vom zweiten Finger Tsas[[/labelnote]]. People easily disregard the fact, thet that when you talk of ''fingers'', the thumb doesn't necessarily count.
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* In some production of ''Theatre/TheRockyHorrorShow'', Riff Raff does this to Frank when Frank isn't looking. In the Geekenders version he turns a salute into this gesture; in the 90s version with Creator/EdwardTudorPole as Riff Raff and Creator/AnthonyStewartHead as Frank, he does it after Frank faints.
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** The Vertigo run's 1993 annual (a tie-in to ''ComicBook/TheChildrensCrusadeVertigo'') has Buddy's son Cliff flip off the police with both hands.
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* Kurt Cobain does this in a photograph in the packaging of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''.
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* ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'': Buddy Baker, of all people, flips off a turkey at the end of his story in ''Vertigo Jam''. The context is that he had a conversation with the turkey and was not amused by the turkey's sentiment that HumansAreBastards and dismissing Buddy's vegetarianism as doing nothing to change that.
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* In one of Comicstrip/BigNate's "The Snuggles Family" comic strips, the family goes on a road trip and the kids in the family wave to truck drivers. Punkin wonders why [[FlippingTheBird one driver is waving with only one finger.]]
* As ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' author Scott Adams has noted, you can get away with a lot of things in comics if you do them off-panel, such as [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-02-11/ Alice's none-too-subtle pun]] concerning how many digits she expected her bonus to be as opposed to what she actually got:
-->'''Dilbert:''' How many digits?\\
'''Alice:''' I used one on each hand.
* From ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', Peter's pitching in a baseball game and looking at the catcher's signals:
-->'''Peter:''' Two fingers? Shake him off. Three fingers? Shake him off. Two fingers? Shake him off again. Three fingers? Shake him off again. One finger?... Hey, same to you, pal!
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2002/03/30 Mentioned but not shown in the March 30, 2002 strip]]:
--->'''Jon:''' Garfield! Get your paw out of the cookie jar! (''Jon then looks surprised'') Who taught you that gesture?!\\
'''Garfield:''': (''off-panel'') You, in the car, when you drive.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/03/27 the March 27, 1995 strip]], when Jon and Garfield go on a vacation on Guano-Guano island:
--->'''Jon:''' Look a native! Aloha, dude!\\
'''Native:''' (''off-panel'') [[VerbThis Aloha this!]]\\
'''Jon:''' Uh, must be an obscure Guano-Guano greeting.\\
'''Garfield:''' No, I think that's pretty universal.
* In ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy,'' one storyline had an ''Series/AntiquesRoadshow''-esque curator mistake Bucky's [[SecurityBlanket teddy bear]], Smacky, for a rare Steiff teddy bear. When another curator later tells Bucky that Smacky is [[EpicFail virtually worthless]] (on ''live TV''), Bucky angrily responds "How about a birdie? I got a little birdie for you." as his paw is blurred. In the next strip, Rob's friend Joe [[LampshadeHanging wonders out loud]] how a cat with FourFingeredHands was able to give the Finger.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'':
** In the strip for November 26, 2006, Pig tries doing Rat's variation on the peace sign, but Rat doesn't want Pig copying him and limits him to one finger, which results in Pig getting pummeled for unintentionally flipping off a large man.
** In [[http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2016/07/21 this]] strip, Stephan's ex-wife isn't telling him he's number 1.
* Implied in [[http://shermanslagoon.com/comics/april-4-2005/ this]] ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'' comic in which Megan makes a recipe for finger sandwiches from Martha Stewart's new cookbook. Sherman asks, "Are they supposed to be gesturing like that?"
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'':
** When Jeremy gets a cut on his middle finger, the nurse advises him to keep it elevated; she changes her mind when she starts hearing students proclaiming [[AccidentalUnfortunateGesture "Same to you, Duncan!"]] in the hallway.
** Jeremy decides to point out that Zuma (a member of the Posse) says all her sentences like questions. When Zuma gets offended, Jeremy claims he was just making an observation, causing Zuma (off-panel) to respond "Why don't you just observe ''this''?"
** One strip has Jeremy's mom, Connie, offer to take a picture to celebrate another first day of school. And then...
--->'''Connie:''' And now, one without the finger.
** Another strip has Jeremy and Pierce meet someone from the robotics club. The club member tells them that his robot, which has a five-fingered hand, can toss frisbees and play the drums. Pierce was not amused by the latter, so he asks to bend all the fingers except the middle one.
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* In one of Comicstrip/BigNate's "The Snuggles Family" comic strips, the family goes on a road trip and the kids in the family wave to truck drivers. Punkin wonders why [[FlippingTheBird one driver is waving with only one finger.]]
* As ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' author Scott Adams has noted, you can get away with a lot of things in comics if you do them off-panel, such as [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/1997-02-11/ Alice's none-too-subtle pun]] concerning how many digits she expected her bonus to be as opposed to what she actually got:
-->'''Dilbert:''' How many digits?\\
'''Alice:''' I used one on each hand.
* From ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'', Peter's pitching in a baseball game and looking at the catcher's signals:
-->'''Peter:''' Two fingers? Shake him off. Three fingers? Shake him off. Two fingers? Shake him off again. Three fingers? Shake him off again. One finger?... Hey, same to you, pal!
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
** [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2002/03/30 Mentioned but not shown in the March 30, 2002 strip]]:
--->'''Jon:''' Garfield! Get your paw out of the cookie jar! (''Jon then looks surprised'') Who taught you that gesture?!\\
'''Garfield:''': (''off-panel'') You, in the car, when you drive.
** In [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1995/03/27 the March 27, 1995 strip]], when Jon and Garfield go on a vacation on Guano-Guano island:
--->'''Jon:''' Look a native! Aloha, dude!\\
'''Native:''' (''off-panel'') [[VerbThis Aloha this!]]\\
'''Jon:''' Uh, must be an obscure Guano-Guano greeting.\\
'''Garfield:''' No, I think that's pretty universal.
* In ''ComicStrip/GetFuzzy,'' one storyline had an ''Series/AntiquesRoadshow''-esque curator mistake Bucky's [[SecurityBlanket teddy bear]], Smacky, for a rare Steiff teddy bear. When another curator later tells Bucky that Smacky is [[EpicFail virtually worthless]] (on ''live TV''), Bucky angrily responds "How about a birdie? I got a little birdie for you." as his paw is blurred. In the next strip, Rob's friend Joe [[LampshadeHanging wonders out loud]] how a cat with FourFingeredHands was able to give the Finger.
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'':
** In the strip for November 26, 2006, Pig tries doing Rat's variation on the peace sign, but Rat doesn't want Pig copying him and limits him to one finger, which results in Pig getting pummeled for unintentionally flipping off a large man.
** In [[http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2016/07/21 this]] strip, Stephan's ex-wife isn't telling him he's number 1.
* Implied in [[http://shermanslagoon.com/comics/april-4-2005/ this]] ''ComicStrip/ShermansLagoon'' comic in which Megan makes a recipe for finger sandwiches from Martha Stewart's new cookbook. Sherman asks, "Are they supposed to be gesturing like that?"
* ''ComicStrip/{{Zits}}'':
** When Jeremy gets a cut on his middle finger, the nurse advises him to keep it elevated; she changes her mind when she starts hearing students proclaiming [[AccidentalUnfortunateGesture "Same to you, Duncan!"]] in the hallway.
** Jeremy decides to point out that Zuma (a member of the Posse) says all her sentences like questions. When Zuma gets offended, Jeremy claims he was just making an observation, causing Zuma (off-panel) to respond "Why don't you just observe ''this''?"
** One strip has Jeremy's mom, Connie, offer to take a picture to celebrate another first day of school. And then...
--->'''Connie:''' And now, one without the finger.
** Another strip has Jeremy and Pierce meet someone from the robotics club. The club member tells them that his robot, which has a five-fingered hand, can toss frisbees and play the drums. Pierce was not amused by the latter, so he asks to bend all the fingers except the middle one.
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* Kevin Rudolf's "Let It Rock":
-->''Now the son's disgraced, he who knew his father.\\
When he cursed his name, turned and chased the dollar.\\
But it broke his heart so he stuck his middle finger\\
to the world, to the world, to the world.''
* During a 1969 concert at San Quentin, Music/JohnnyCash was asked to take a picture for the warden and flipped off the camera. The picture gained notoriety in 1998 when, after Cash's album ''Unchained'' won the Best Country Album Grammy despite little love from the country mainstream, producer Rick Rubin ran a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Johnny_Cash_Billboard_Ad.jpg full-page ad]] in ''Billboard'' with the picture and the caption, [[SarcasmMode "American Recordings and Johnny Cash would like to acknowledge the Nashville music establishment and country radio for your support."]]
* In "Born to Lose", the Great Luke Ski recommends that the [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Browns]] of the world do this to Lucy when she pulls the football away.
* Music/{{Eminem}} uses this as part of his image and theming. He's frequently seen flipping the bird in photoshoots as a substitute for throwing gang signs (which was popular at the time he was coming up, but that doesn't suit his background), flips off his audience at concerts as a greeting, sells merchandise with a flipping off hand graphic on it, and tweets 🖕 emojis. He has a distinctive way of flipping people off in which his thumb remains untucked, which possibly came about due to his hypermobile joints, but he taught Creator/BrittanyMurphy how to flip people off for a scene in ''Film/EightMile'' and as a result she does it in his style.
** "Role Model":
--->My middle finger won't come down, how do I wave?
** "The Way I Am."
--->''And all of this controversy circles me\\
And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me\\
So I point one back at them\\
But not the index, or pinkie, or the ring, or the thumb;\\
It's the one you put up\\
When you don't give a fuck and you just won't put up\\
With the bullshit they pull, cause they full of shit too...''
** And again, more blatantly, in "The Real Slim Shady"...
--->''So would the real Shady please stand up\\
and put one of those fingers on each hand up...''
* Music/EltonJohn's "Made in England":
-->''You had a scent for scandal, well here's my middle finger''
* In a World War II propaganda musical short, [[Music/SpikeJones Spike Jones and His City Slickers]] sing "Der Fuhrer's Face": "Ve Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer's Face." The heil gestures are accompanied by the middle finger. The palm was facing outwards, but the gesture was just as rude.
* "The One in the Middle" by CountryMusic singer Sarah Johns:
-->''I would've given you the finger on my left-hand \\
The one you use for a wedding band\\
But now I'm giving you the one in the middle\\
The one that's a little bit longer\\
And I've got another one on my other hand\\
So I can say it even stronger...''
* Music/KidRock's trope page includes a photo of him doing this.
* The cover art of ''!!!Fuck You!!!'' by Music/{{Overkill}}.
* Kurt Cobain does this in a photograph in the packaging of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''.
* Music/CobraStarship's "Middle Finger". [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's exactly what you think it's about]].
* Music/ChelyWright's "The Bumper of My SUV" is about the narrator getting the finger by a driver who opposes her Marines bumper sticker.
* The Peter Alsop song "It's Only a Wee-Wee, So What's The Big Deal?" has a woman do this to some boys this during the "special adult verse", who mistake the gesture for one meaning "penis".
* Music/JoDeeMessina's "Peace Sign":
-->''I'm not coming undone\\
I've got nothing but love\\
[[YouPutTheXInXY You put the FU in fun]], it's all good\\
I'm not trying to fight\\
I'm not wasting my time\\
I'm just saying goodbye\\
One finger shy of the Peace Sign''
* The cover of Anders Osborne's ''Peace'' shows a little girl doing this.
* In a routine by Creator/TheCapitolSteps routine, there's an announcement that henceforth, "The New York State Bird will no longer be a ''hand gesture''."
* Music/BlakeShelton mentions getting the finger from an angry driver in "Some Beach".
* Shellac, "The Bird is the Most Popular Finger" (1994).
* Music/{{Rihanna}}'s [[Music/RatedRRihannaAlbum "Rockstar 101"]]:
-->"Got my middle finger flying, I don't really give a fuck."
* Music/KaceyMusgraves, "The Trailer Song":
-->''You say that you're watching the birds out the window\\
Well, I got a bird you can watch''
* The Music/BloodhoundGang song "I Hope You Die" has the singer hoping that the character they're addressing goes to jail for (accidental) vehicular homicide caused by the person flipping a guy off and the guy retaliating by cutting them off on the road. This is given a callback later when the singer describes the person [[PrisonRape being subjected to uncomfortable and obscene acts by his cellmate]] and states that the prison guard chooses to do nothing because they were the guy the person gave the bird earlier.
* Music/PeterGabriel: The single cover for "Road to Joy" depicts a cavalcade of arms and hands flipping each other off.
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* Kevin Rudolf's "Let It Rock":
-->''Now the son's disgraced, he who knew his father.\\
When he cursed his name, turned and chased the dollar.\\
But it broke his heart so he stuck his middle finger\\
to the world, to the world, to the world.''
* During a 1969 concert at San Quentin, Music/JohnnyCash was asked to take a picture for the warden and flipped off the camera. The picture gained notoriety in 1998 when, after Cash's album ''Unchained'' won the Best Country Album Grammy despite little love from the country mainstream, producer Rick Rubin ran a [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Johnny_Cash_Billboard_Ad.jpg full-page ad]] in ''Billboard'' with the picture and the caption, [[SarcasmMode "American Recordings and Johnny Cash would like to acknowledge the Nashville music establishment and country radio for your support."]]
* In "Born to Lose", the Great Luke Ski recommends that the [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charlie Browns]] of the world do this to Lucy when she pulls the football away.
* Music/{{Eminem}} uses this as part of his image and theming. He's frequently seen flipping the bird in photoshoots as a substitute for throwing gang signs (which was popular at the time he was coming up, but that doesn't suit his background), flips off his audience at concerts as a greeting, sells merchandise with a flipping off hand graphic on it, and tweets 🖕 emojis. He has a distinctive way of flipping people off in which his thumb remains untucked, which possibly came about due to his hypermobile joints, but he taught Creator/BrittanyMurphy how to flip people off for a scene in ''Film/EightMile'' and as a result she does it in his style.
** "Role Model":
--->My middle finger won't come down, how do I wave?
** "The Way I Am."
--->''And all of this controversy circles me\\
And it seems like the media immediately points a finger at me\\
So I point one back at them\\
But not the index, or pinkie, or the ring, or the thumb;\\
It's the one you put up\\
When you don't give a fuck and you just won't put up\\
With the bullshit they pull, cause they full of shit too...''
** And again, more blatantly, in "The Real Slim Shady"...
--->''So would the real Shady please stand up\\
and put one of those fingers on each hand up...''
* Music/EltonJohn's "Made in England":
-->''You had a scent for scandal, well here's my middle finger''
* In a World War II propaganda musical short, [[Music/SpikeJones Spike Jones and His City Slickers]] sing "Der Fuhrer's Face": "Ve Heil! Heil! Right in Der Fuehrer's Face." The heil gestures are accompanied by the middle finger. The palm was facing outwards, but the gesture was just as rude.
* "The One in the Middle" by CountryMusic singer Sarah Johns:
-->''I would've given you the finger on my left-hand \\
The one you use for a wedding band\\
But now I'm giving you the one in the middle\\
The one that's a little bit longer\\
And I've got another one on my other hand\\
So I can say it even stronger...''
* Music/KidRock's trope page includes a photo of him doing this.
* The cover art of ''!!!Fuck You!!!'' by Music/{{Overkill}}.
* Kurt Cobain does this in a photograph in the packaging of Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Music/{{Nevermind}}''.
* Music/CobraStarship's "Middle Finger". [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin It's exactly what you think it's about]].
* Music/ChelyWright's "The Bumper of My SUV" is about the narrator getting the finger by a driver who opposes her Marines bumper sticker.
* The Peter Alsop song "It's Only a Wee-Wee, So What's The Big Deal?" has a woman do this to some boys this during the "special adult verse", who mistake the gesture for one meaning "penis".
* Music/JoDeeMessina's "Peace Sign":
-->''I'm not coming undone\\
I've got nothing but love\\
[[YouPutTheXInXY You put the FU in fun]], it's all good\\
I'm not trying to fight\\
I'm not wasting my time\\
I'm just saying goodbye\\
One finger shy of the Peace Sign''
* The cover of Anders Osborne's ''Peace'' shows a little girl doing this.
* In a routine by Creator/TheCapitolSteps routine, there's an announcement that henceforth, "The New York State Bird will no longer be a ''hand gesture''."
* Music/BlakeShelton mentions getting the finger from an angry driver in "Some Beach".
* Shellac, "The Bird is the Most Popular Finger" (1994).
* Music/{{Rihanna}}'s [[Music/RatedRRihannaAlbum "Rockstar 101"]]:
-->"Got my middle finger flying, I don't really give a fuck."
* Music/KaceyMusgraves, "The Trailer Song":
-->''You say that you're watching the birds out the window\\
Well, I got a bird you can watch''
* The Music/BloodhoundGang song "I Hope You Die" has the singer hoping that the character they're addressing goes to jail for (accidental) vehicular homicide caused by the person flipping a guy off and the guy retaliating by cutting them off on the road. This is given a callback later when the singer describes the person [[PrisonRape being subjected to uncomfortable and obscene acts by his cellmate]] and states that the prison guard chooses to do nothing because they were the guy the person gave the bird earlier.
* Music/PeterGabriel: The single cover for "Road to Joy" depicts a cavalcade of arms and hands flipping each other off.
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* Taking {{Wrestling/Madusa}} by the hair, Wrestling/SherriMartel flipped off the crowd before delivering a fatal knee shot. This was late in her {{Wrestling/A|mericanWrestlingAssociation}}WA reign.
* Its first appearance on {{Wrestling/WWF}} TV was with the Mountie being ordered to provide his fingerprints after losing to the Wrestling/BigBossMan at Summerslam 91. "You want the finger? THERE'S the Finger"!
* [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after costing Wrestling/TheUndertaker the title at Wrestling/RoyalRumble 1996, which was notably before the Wrestling/AttitudeEra.
* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's "Stone Cold Salute" in the Wrestling/{{WWE}}. As famous as any other gesture (Diamond Dallas Page's "BANG!", the New World Order's "4 life", the Wolfpac symbol, "Suck it!", etc.), Austin literally gets over with the audience by telling them to screw themselves on live television (and they happily do it back to him in support).
* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon does this a lot.
** He was [[BullyingADragon idiotic enough to flip off]] Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/{{Kane}} once. They broke his leg.
** During a Steel Cage Match against SCSA, Austin nearly escaped twice. Vince flipped him off both times to enrage him into coming back.
** After being defeated by Wrestling/ShawnMichaels at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 22'', Vince was loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled away. Vince defiantly flipped Shawn off right before he disappeared.
** He did the same thing after losing to Hulk Hogan at [=WrestleMania=] 19.
* [[Wrestling/MontelVontaviousPorter Antonio Banks's]] catchphrase was "Read Between The Lines!", which he usually said while holding up three fingers.
* [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Mr. America]] flipped off Vince [=McMahon=] in the middle of their arm-wrestling match.
* During their 2003 Iron Man Match, Wrestling/BrockLesnar tried to call for a time out, only for Wrestling/KurtAngle to give him the double bird and keep attacking him.
* At ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2004'', a man in the audience flipped off The Undertaker during his entrance.
* Upon elimination from the 2004 Wrestling/WWEDivaSearch, Wrestling/{{Maria|Kanellis}} gave the finger to [[EliminationHoudini Carmella]].
* At ''Judgement Day 2005'', JBL flipped off Wrestling/JohnCena. Following his victory over Wrestling/MattHardy at ''Armageddon 2005'', [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]] flipped off the referee and the audience.
* Wrestling/RicFlair flipped off Wrestling/TripleH at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2005''.
* After revealing she had Wrestling/AjaKong in her corner at ''[[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 ZERO1 Celebration Return in Zeros]]'', Wrestling/AmazingKong gave Team SUN the double bird.
* At the 2007 ''[[Wrestling/{{TNA}} Turning Point]]'' Wrestling/JamesStorm put perennial baby {{face}} Eric Young in a Fujiwara armbar and then forced Young to flip off his own fans.
* At ''Victory Road 2008'', Wrestling/SamoaJoe flipped off Wrestling/{{Sting}}.
* At ''Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank 2011'', after Wrestling/CMPunk left through the crowd with the WWE Championship, a fan flips off Wrestling/VinceMcMahon.
* Since mid-2012, Wrestling/{{Christopher|Daniels}} [[SmugSnake Daniels]] has adopted the tendency to tape his fingers in black and show the handoff to the crowd, but not his thumb and middle fingers.
* At ''Summerslam 2012'', Fred Durst of Music/LimpBizkit fame was in the audience. When the camera focused on him, he gave the Finger.
* Wrestling/RandyOrton flipped off Wrestling/SethRollins after turning on him in March 2015.
* At ''Summerslam 2015'', Brock Lesnar flipped off The Undertaker right before he passed out from Undertaker's hold.
* During Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}} Chapter Twenty-Four: Hit The North!, El Ligero threw his cape at co-owner Jon Briley during The Origin’s entrance. Jon responded by silently flipping him off.
** Whenever Paul Robinson enters, the majority of the crowd will do this.
** Wrestling/JimmyHavoc did this a lot as well.
* At ''Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Volume 80'', Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa smiled and waved to the crowd while holding Wrestling/CandiceLeRae in a kondo clutch, so more eyes would be looking when she flipped them off. Being more "[[LighterAndSofter family friendly]]" than most of the other shows running in Dallas that weekend, it was met with gasps and admonitions of "that's not nice".
* At the 2016 ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor Aftershock]]'' Kenny King ducked under the ropes to high five all his "fans" after knocking over Will Ferrara, but aside from those [[AstroTurf he had hired]], he pulled away just within arm's reach to give them something else.
-->'''Matt Taven:''' I'm pretty sure he told that kid in the front row he's number one twice.
* At ''Bound For Glory 2018'', after Wrestling/AustinAries lost his match, he walked to the back flipping off and insulting everybody. This was not in the script and everybody was shocked, especially his opponent [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Impact]], who mouthed, "Are you kidding me?" The only reason why Aries was able to get away with this was that this was his last match before his contract expired, meaning he didn't have to worry about being fired.
* At ''Death Before Dishonor XIV'', Wrestling/AdamCole gave Wrestling/JayLethal the double bird.
* On the April 8, 2019 edition of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'', Elias cut a promo to John Cena during his concert and conversed this trope to the Doctor of Thuganomics.
-->'''Elias:''' I'm sitting here holding up three fingers, John. The middle one is for you.
* Starting in June 2019, Wrestling/SamoaJoe ambushed and attacked Wrestling/KofiKingston several times in order to set up a title match between them at ''Extreme Rules 2019''. At one point, Joe promised to leave Kofi alone until the title match if Kofi would shake his hand. Instead, Kofi flipped him the bird and then knocked him out.
* This is more of a blink-and-miss, but at ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'', Wrestling/BeckyLynch double flipped the bird to both Wrestling/CharlotteFlair and Wrestling/RondaRousey during the Winner Takes All Triple Threat Match for both Raw and [=SmackDown=] Women's Championships.
* Wrestling/BrockLesnar double flipped the bird to Wrestling/CodyRhodes after an unprovoked brutal attack in what was supposed to be the main event of the post-Wrestling/WrestleMania 39 ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' that [[FaceHeelTurn turned the Beast heel]].
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* Taking {{Wrestling/Madusa}} by the hair, Wrestling/SherriMartel flipped off the crowd before delivering a fatal knee shot. This was late in her {{Wrestling/A|mericanWrestlingAssociation}}WA reign.
* Its first appearance on {{Wrestling/WWF}} TV was with the Mountie being ordered to provide his fingerprints after losing to the Wrestling/BigBossMan at Summerslam 91. "You want the finger? THERE'S the Finger"!
* [[Wrestling/KevinNash Diesel]] after costing Wrestling/TheUndertaker the title at Wrestling/RoyalRumble 1996, which was notably before the Wrestling/AttitudeEra.
* Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's "Stone Cold Salute" in the Wrestling/{{WWE}}. As famous as any other gesture (Diamond Dallas Page's "BANG!", the New World Order's "4 life", the Wolfpac symbol, "Suck it!", etc.), Austin literally gets over with the audience by telling them to screw themselves on live television (and they happily do it back to him in support).
* Wrestling/VinceMcMahon does this a lot.
** He was [[BullyingADragon idiotic enough to flip off]] Wrestling/TheUndertaker and Wrestling/{{Kane}} once. They broke his leg.
** During a Steel Cage Match against SCSA, Austin nearly escaped twice. Vince flipped him off both times to enrage him into coming back.
** After being defeated by Wrestling/ShawnMichaels at ''Wrestling/WrestleMania 22'', Vince was loaded onto a stretcher and wheeled away. Vince defiantly flipped Shawn off right before he disappeared.
** He did the same thing after losing to Hulk Hogan at [=WrestleMania=] 19.
* [[Wrestling/MontelVontaviousPorter Antonio Banks's]] catchphrase was "Read Between The Lines!", which he usually said while holding up three fingers.
* [[Wrestling/HulkHogan Mr. America]] flipped off Vince [=McMahon=] in the middle of their arm-wrestling match.
* During their 2003 Iron Man Match, Wrestling/BrockLesnar tried to call for a time out, only for Wrestling/KurtAngle to give him the double bird and keep attacking him.
* At ''Wrestling/SummerSlam 2004'', a man in the audience flipped off The Undertaker during his entrance.
* Upon elimination from the 2004 Wrestling/WWEDivaSearch, Wrestling/{{Maria|Kanellis}} gave the finger to [[EliminationHoudini Carmella]].
* At ''Judgement Day 2005'', JBL flipped off Wrestling/JohnCena. Following his victory over Wrestling/MattHardy at ''Armageddon 2005'', [[Wrestling/JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]] flipped off the referee and the audience.
* Wrestling/RicFlair flipped off Wrestling/TripleH at ''Wrestling/SurvivorSeries 2005''.
* After revealing she had Wrestling/AjaKong in her corner at ''[[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 ZERO1 Celebration Return in Zeros]]'', Wrestling/AmazingKong gave Team SUN the double bird.
* At the 2007 ''[[Wrestling/{{TNA}} Turning Point]]'' Wrestling/JamesStorm put perennial baby {{face}} Eric Young in a Fujiwara armbar and then forced Young to flip off his own fans.
* At ''Victory Road 2008'', Wrestling/SamoaJoe flipped off Wrestling/{{Sting}}.
* At ''Wrestling/MoneyInTheBank 2011'', after Wrestling/CMPunk left through the crowd with the WWE Championship, a fan flips off Wrestling/VinceMcMahon.
* Since mid-2012, Wrestling/{{Christopher|Daniels}} [[SmugSnake Daniels]] has adopted the tendency to tape his fingers in black and show the handoff to the crowd, but not his thumb and middle fingers.
* At ''Summerslam 2012'', Fred Durst of Music/LimpBizkit fame was in the audience. When the camera focused on him, he gave the Finger.
* Wrestling/RandyOrton flipped off Wrestling/SethRollins after turning on him in March 2015.
* At ''Summerslam 2015'', Brock Lesnar flipped off The Undertaker right before he passed out from Undertaker's hold.
* During Wrestling/{{Progress Wrestling}} Chapter Twenty-Four: Hit The North!, El Ligero threw his cape at co-owner Jon Briley during The Origin’s entrance. Jon responded by silently flipping him off.
** Whenever Paul Robinson enters, the majority of the crowd will do this.
** Wrestling/JimmyHavoc did this a lot as well.
* At ''Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} Volume 80'', Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa smiled and waved to the crowd while holding Wrestling/CandiceLeRae in a kondo clutch, so more eyes would be looking when she flipped them off. Being more "[[LighterAndSofter family friendly]]" than most of the other shows running in Dallas that weekend, it was met with gasps and admonitions of "that's not nice".
* At the 2016 ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor Aftershock]]'' Kenny King ducked under the ropes to high five all his "fans" after knocking over Will Ferrara, but aside from those [[AstroTurf he had hired]], he pulled away just within arm's reach to give them something else.
-->'''Matt Taven:''' I'm pretty sure he told that kid in the front row he's number one twice.
* At ''Bound For Glory 2018'', after Wrestling/AustinAries lost his match, he walked to the back flipping off and insulting everybody. This was not in the script and everybody was shocked, especially his opponent [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Impact]], who mouthed, "Are you kidding me?" The only reason why Aries was able to get away with this was that this was his last match before his contract expired, meaning he didn't have to worry about being fired.
* At ''Death Before Dishonor XIV'', Wrestling/AdamCole gave Wrestling/JayLethal the double bird.
* On the April 8, 2019 edition of ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'', Elias cut a promo to John Cena during his concert and conversed this trope to the Doctor of Thuganomics.
-->'''Elias:''' I'm sitting here holding up three fingers, John. The middle one is for you.
* Starting in June 2019, Wrestling/SamoaJoe ambushed and attacked Wrestling/KofiKingston several times in order to set up a title match between them at ''Extreme Rules 2019''. At one point, Joe promised to leave Kofi alone until the title match if Kofi would shake his hand. Instead, Kofi flipped him the bird and then knocked him out.
* This is more of a blink-and-miss, but at ''[=WrestleMania=] 35'', Wrestling/BeckyLynch double flipped the bird to both Wrestling/CharlotteFlair and Wrestling/RondaRousey during the Winner Takes All Triple Threat Match for both Raw and [=SmackDown=] Women's Championships.
* Wrestling/BrockLesnar double flipped the bird to Wrestling/CodyRhodes after an unprovoked brutal attack in what was supposed to be the main event of the post-Wrestling/WrestleMania 39 ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]'' that [[FaceHeelTurn turned the Beast heel]].
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* [[https://www.azsnakepit.com/2018/11/17/18094326/footnotes-of-baseball-history-charles-old-hoss-radbourns-insane-1884-season-and-a-photographic-first This photo]] of pitcher Old Hoss Radbourn and the rest of the 1886 Boston Braves is believed to be the oldest recorded instance of someone flipping off a camera. (Back row all the way to the left, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_finger#/media/File:Old_Hoss_Radbourn_finger.jpg here's a zoom-in.]])
* Cyclist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cavendish Mark Cavendish]] gave us this post-win [[http://cdn3.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net/2010/04/29/2/par3206415_600.jpg British variant]].
* A 1972 ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' game between the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers had an incident in which Creator/{{ABC}} cameras caught several Oilers fans leaving (the putrid Oilers were losing badly to then-AFC powerhouse Oakland). One guy that stayed happened to be caught on camera and, [[MediumAwareness seemingly aware of it]], raised the middle digit. This incident also provided commentator Don Meredith's "We're number 1 in the nation" quip.
** Similar to this incident, the late newscast for UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Creator/{{ABC}} station KGO following UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XIX (won by the hometown 49ers) shows a clip of some Miami Dolphins fans in a hotel to support the defeated Dolphins and one fan on an escalator flips the bird briefly ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TanoA3QTp8Q around the 1:51 mark]]).
* Bud Adams, longtime owner of the Tennessee Titans (and formerly a Houston/Tennessee Oilers) was caught on camera shooting off repeated birds at the other press box - probably at old American Football League rival, Bills' owner Ralph Wilson... with Commissioner Roger Goodell in Adams' press box watching him. Whether this is an example of BrassBalls depends on your point of view. Given the fact that Adams was 86 at the time, it might have been a case of just not caring.
* Michael Vick actually got in quite a bit of trouble for throwing up a double deuce to a fan in 2006. Of course, the $20,000 fine he paid and the media savaging was only a warm-up act compared to what happened to him the following offseason...
* Has cropped up a couple of times in UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}}. One was in Dale Earnhardt's last race, done rather like an irate driver in traffic (which, in a way, he was), on Kurt Busch. Mike Joy interpreted it as Earnhardt telling Busch, "Kurt, you're number one."
** Then, in the 07 November 2010 race at Texas, Kyle Busch did this to a NASCAR official who was enforcing a penalty on him. One (lap penalty) plus one (finger raised) equalled three (lap penalty).
* UsefulNotes/FormulaOne had a few infamous cases:
** Heinz-Harald Fretzen did it to Mark Blundell after passing him, and his finger itself was caught on the on-car camera. Johnny Herbert [[http://www.atlasf1.com/2000/mal/preview/cunliffe1.jpg did one on the podium]].
** Kimi Raikkonen is no slouch either. He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBdJ0WWhu4g gives one]] to Lewis Hamilton during the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix upon passing by him as Hamilton goes off track. And at the same Grand Prix two years later, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/psrz0i5n_kc?feature=share he flips off Nikita Mazepin]], who just happens to be in Kimi's way.
** The first time Nikita Mazepin was on the receiving end of a middle finger from an F1 driver was during Free Practice for the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYoG82kHC18 courtesy of Lance Stroll]]. Stroll would raise his middle finger ''seconds after'' passing through the Russian driver, followed by his remark on the radio: "[[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] Mazepin has no idea what he's doing!"
* During a 1992 race in the British Touring Car Championship, 2nd placed John Cleland let leader Steve Soper know exactly what he thought of him, right as the feed cut to his on-board camera. How did the BBC deal with this? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwsK5NU2C0 Murray Walker, it's over to you!]].
* During Game 4 of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens, which took place in Montreal, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKggtLYecU Andrew Ference of the Bruins let the Habs fans have it by flipping them off after scoring Boston's second goal in the second period]]. Since this was a matchup between [[ArchEnemy two hated rivals]] trying to gun their way for the Cup, it is a classic case of TakeThat to the Montreal fans. Needless to say, [[SeriousBusiness the fans got pissed off]] and Ference would later be fined $2500 for the unsportsmanlike gesture. The funny irony here is that Ference himself is born a Canadian (he's from Edmonton).
* The grand old all-American pastime of baseball isn't immune to the finger, either. [[http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2003/10/baseball_and_the_bird.html Here's an article]] detailing the gesture's, er, singular history in the sport.
* In UsefulNotes/IndyCar, at the 2011 New Hampshire Indy 225, a very unpopular decision to restart the race under wet conditions resulted in a crash which took Will Power out of the race. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScDjyS7SYZU He gave both barrels to the race officials in response.]] He got a ''lot'' of support after that (and his team owner even paid the fine Power was given for the birds).
* During the 2001 Japanese Motorcycle Grand Prix, which was held in Suzuka Circuit, rising motorcycle phenom Valentino Rossi flipped the bird to then-rival Max Biaggi after the latter attempted to force a bike crash on him by forcing him off the gravel. Rossi was mentally disoriented by this interference, but eventually he caught up to his rival and then flashed the gesture as a TakeThat for cutting him off.
* Johnny Manziel flipped off the Redskins' bench during a pre-season game in his rookie year.
* Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy once flipped the bird at a linesman after a blown call.
* German midfielder Stefan Effenberg showed his middle finger to jeering fans while being subbed off in the 1994 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]]. [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor He was then banned from the German National team for life.]]
* During their 2018 college football rivalry game, a Harvard running back gave the bird to a Yale defenseman as he scored a touchdown. The touchdown was retracted as the result of an ensuing unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
* After knocking out James Vick in the first round of their UFC fight in 2018, an irate Justin Gaethje [[https://usatmmajunkie.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/20-Justin-Gaethje-def.-James-Vick.jpg?w=768 gave him a double deuce]]. After the incredibly personal build up to their fight, including Vick making fun of his recent losses, Gaethje had a couple of statements to make after beating him very decisively.
* In the 2022 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]], when goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was booed by French fans, he used his own Golden Glove award he had just received, held it near the crotch, in the view of FIFA and Qatari officials no less, and thus we got an interesting variation of the finger. [[https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/emiliano-martinez-explains-vulgar-world-cup-trophy-gesture/ It must be seen to be believed]].
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* [[https://www.azsnakepit.com/2018/11/17/18094326/footnotes-of-baseball-history-charles-old-hoss-radbourns-insane-1884-season-and-a-photographic-first This photo]] of pitcher Old Hoss Radbourn and the rest of the 1886 Boston Braves is believed to be the oldest recorded instance of someone flipping off a camera. (Back row all the way to the left, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_finger#/media/File:Old_Hoss_Radbourn_finger.jpg here's a zoom-in.]])
* Cyclist [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cavendish Mark Cavendish]] gave us this post-win [[http://cdn3.media.cyclingnews.futurecdn.net/2010/04/29/2/par3206415_600.jpg British variant]].
* A 1972 ''Series/MondayNightFootball'' game between the Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers had an incident in which Creator/{{ABC}} cameras caught several Oilers fans leaving (the putrid Oilers were losing badly to then-AFC powerhouse Oakland). One guy that stayed happened to be caught on camera and, [[MediumAwareness seemingly aware of it]], raised the middle digit. This incident also provided commentator Don Meredith's "We're number 1 in the nation" quip.
** Similar to this incident, the late newscast for UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Creator/{{ABC}} station KGO following UsefulNotes/SuperBowl XIX (won by the hometown 49ers) shows a clip of some Miami Dolphins fans in a hotel to support the defeated Dolphins and one fan on an escalator flips the bird briefly ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TanoA3QTp8Q around the 1:51 mark]]).
* Bud Adams, longtime owner of the Tennessee Titans (and formerly a Houston/Tennessee Oilers) was caught on camera shooting off repeated birds at the other press box - probably at old American Football League rival, Bills' owner Ralph Wilson... with Commissioner Roger Goodell in Adams' press box watching him. Whether this is an example of BrassBalls depends on your point of view. Given the fact that Adams was 86 at the time, it might have been a case of just not caring.
* Michael Vick actually got in quite a bit of trouble for throwing up a double deuce to a fan in 2006. Of course, the $20,000 fine he paid and the media savaging was only a warm-up act compared to what happened to him the following offseason...
* Has cropped up a couple of times in UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}}. One was in Dale Earnhardt's last race, done rather like an irate driver in traffic (which, in a way, he was), on Kurt Busch. Mike Joy interpreted it as Earnhardt telling Busch, "Kurt, you're number one."
** Then, in the 07 November 2010 race at Texas, Kyle Busch did this to a NASCAR official who was enforcing a penalty on him. One (lap penalty) plus one (finger raised) equalled three (lap penalty).
* UsefulNotes/FormulaOne had a few infamous cases:
** Heinz-Harald Fretzen did it to Mark Blundell after passing him, and his finger itself was caught on the on-car camera. Johnny Herbert [[http://www.atlasf1.com/2000/mal/preview/cunliffe1.jpg did one on the podium]].
** Kimi Raikkonen is no slouch either. He [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBdJ0WWhu4g gives one]] to Lewis Hamilton during the 2019 Austrian Grand Prix upon passing by him as Hamilton goes off track. And at the same Grand Prix two years later, [[https://youtube.com/shorts/psrz0i5n_kc?feature=share he flips off Nikita Mazepin]], who just happens to be in Kimi's way.
** The first time Nikita Mazepin was on the receiving end of a middle finger from an F1 driver was during Free Practice for the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYoG82kHC18 courtesy of Lance Stroll]]. Stroll would raise his middle finger ''seconds after'' passing through the Russian driver, followed by his remark on the radio: "[[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] Mazepin has no idea what he's doing!"
* During a 1992 race in the British Touring Car Championship, 2nd placed John Cleland let leader Steve Soper know exactly what he thought of him, right as the feed cut to his on-board camera. How did the BBC deal with this? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svwsK5NU2C0 Murray Walker, it's over to you!]].
* During Game 4 of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens, which took place in Montreal, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlKggtLYecU Andrew Ference of the Bruins let the Habs fans have it by flipping them off after scoring Boston's second goal in the second period]]. Since this was a matchup between [[ArchEnemy two hated rivals]] trying to gun their way for the Cup, it is a classic case of TakeThat to the Montreal fans. Needless to say, [[SeriousBusiness the fans got pissed off]] and Ference would later be fined $2500 for the unsportsmanlike gesture. The funny irony here is that Ference himself is born a Canadian (he's from Edmonton).
* The grand old all-American pastime of baseball isn't immune to the finger, either. [[http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2003/10/baseball_and_the_bird.html Here's an article]] detailing the gesture's, er, singular history in the sport.
* In UsefulNotes/IndyCar, at the 2011 New Hampshire Indy 225, a very unpopular decision to restart the race under wet conditions resulted in a crash which took Will Power out of the race. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScDjyS7SYZU He gave both barrels to the race officials in response.]] He got a ''lot'' of support after that (and his team owner even paid the fine Power was given for the birds).
* During the 2001 Japanese Motorcycle Grand Prix, which was held in Suzuka Circuit, rising motorcycle phenom Valentino Rossi flipped the bird to then-rival Max Biaggi after the latter attempted to force a bike crash on him by forcing him off the gravel. Rossi was mentally disoriented by this interference, but eventually he caught up to his rival and then flashed the gesture as a TakeThat for cutting him off.
* Johnny Manziel flipped off the Redskins' bench during a pre-season game in his rookie year.
* Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy once flipped the bird at a linesman after a blown call.
* German midfielder Stefan Effenberg showed his middle finger to jeering fans while being subbed off in the 1994 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]]. [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor He was then banned from the German National team for life.]]
* During their 2018 college football rivalry game, a Harvard running back gave the bird to a Yale defenseman as he scored a touchdown. The touchdown was retracted as the result of an ensuing unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.
* After knocking out James Vick in the first round of their UFC fight in 2018, an irate Justin Gaethje [[https://usatmmajunkie.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/20-Justin-Gaethje-def.-James-Vick.jpg?w=768 gave him a double deuce]]. After the incredibly personal build up to their fight, including Vick making fun of his recent losses, Gaethje had a couple of statements to make after beating him very decisively.
* In the 2022 [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup FIFA World Cup]], when goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was booed by French fans, he used his own Golden Glove award he had just received, held it near the crotch, in the view of FIFA and Qatari officials no less, and thus we got an interesting variation of the finger. [[https://nypost.com/2022/12/19/emiliano-martinez-explains-vulgar-world-cup-trophy-gesture/ It must be seen to be believed]].
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* [=YouTube=] personality WebVideo/{{AlphaOmegaSin}} is known to do this during his rants about things that really annoy him, sometimes combined with a ClusterFBomb. He also has a tiny 8-bit graphic image of himself holding up two middle fingers that appears in one of his intros.
* Pat the NES Punk has a thumbnail of WebVideo/AngryJoe holding up two middle fingers, both censored out with Nintendo logos, for his commentary about one of Angry Joe's rants about Nintendo blocking one of his gameplay videos.
* WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd does this constantly. This extends to his more mundane actions, such as loading in an NES cartridge... with his middle finger, specifically.
* Japanese-British virtual vlogger WebVideo/AmiYamato digitally inserts herself into the torture chair scene in ''Film/StarWarsTheForceAwakens'' and gives Kylo Ren the British two-fingered variant, complete with a cheeky [[BlowingARaspberry raspberry]], when he tries to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eN1fu9IrTE bully her into giving up her turn in the "massage chair"]].
* During ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'''s Marville #5 review, the issue takes a potshot at scientists. Cut to Dr. Linksano doing this trope to the screen (and, presumably, the comic). Later, when the issue outright calls anthropologists people without jobs, Linkara invites the audience to do the same to the comic.
* All over the place in ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'':
** Lady Gaga flips off Sarah Palin a split second before the battle begins.
** At the end of above battle, John [=McCain=] flips off the whole world.
** Master Chief gives a long one to Leonidas at the end of his rap.
** Barack Obama stealthily does this to Mitt Romney. While commenting on how it would be awkward to have a 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Lady, he counts off with his middle finger, pinky, and ring finger, in that order.
** Bruce Lee shows Clint Eastwood his two-finger push-up. "KUNG F-U!"
** Pablo Picasso can be seen [[FunnyBackgroundEvent painting this in the background]] during his battle with Bob Ross.
** Jack the Ripper performs the British variant at the end of his second verse.
* ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' exploited the scene where Vegeta flips off one of Frieza's men, to no one's surprise
-->''Look at your men, now back to me, [[AffectionateParody now look back at your men, BACK to me.]] [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike I am not your man.]] I am flipping you off.
** In Episode 60 this is how Trunks and Vegeta say goodbye to each other. Never did a bird flip come across as so heartwarming.
* ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'': Grenier's conclusion of his test for ''VideoGame/XPerts'' is to give the finger to the makers of the game. And then, in a scene reminiscent of the early days of this web video series, he destroys the game cartridge by [[FingerGun firing an energy beam from his raised middle finger]].
* The StrangeSalute for the Republic of WebVideo/{{Kickassia}}.
* WebVideo/{{Markiplier}} and his "Double Finger Defense" from his ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' playthrough.
* In the ''WebVideo/NintoasterInstructionalVideo'', Richard Daluz, playing himself, flips off the narrator after putting on a makeshift anti-static wrist strap.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': The thumbnail for the review of ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' (1998) shows the Critic standing next to a giant footprint and flipping the bird upward.
* ''WebVideo/PhilosophyTube'': In "Data", when the Patron demands that Ellis follow the nightclub's legally-required procedure to provide a copy of any data they hold on them, Ellis responds with one of these.
* In ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', when Joey notices Kaiba doing a LyingFingerCross, he changes it to this.
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** John Constantine (who used to be pictured above) [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gives the finger to the Devil]] in the 45th issue during Creator/GarthEnnis' run. However, many issueslater in the same run, later, the Devil managed to give the finger back at John.John.
** In issue 83, John's friend George Ridley flips John off for calling him the N-word while insisting that George not call him "whitey".
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* ''Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}}'': John Constantine (who used to be pictured above) [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gives the finger to the Devil]] during Creator/GarthEnnis' run. However, many issues later, the Devil managed to give the finger back at John.
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* ''Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}}'': John Constantine (who used to be pictured above) [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gives the finger to the Devil]] during Creator/GarthEnnis' run. However, many issues later, later in the same run, the Devil managed to give the finger back at John.
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* ''Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}}'': John Constantine (who used to be pictured above) knows the [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu appropriate moment]] on the devil. However, many issues later, the Devil managed to give the finger back at John.
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* ''Comicbook/{{Hellblazer}}'': John Constantine (who used to be pictured above) knows [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu gives the [[DidYouJustScamCthulhu appropriate moment]] on finger to the devil.Devil]] during Creator/GarthEnnis' run. However, many issues later, the Devil managed to give the finger back at John.
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Even in cartoons where characters have FourFingeredHands, it's still possible to flip the bird by singularly elevating the finger between the index and pinky fingers, which is still censored on local and regular cable television. In addition, the gesture will never be referred to by its actual name nor explictly described, often subject to the NarrativeProfanityFilter; when implied to occur, it will be referred to as an non-descript "rude gesture".
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Even in cartoons where characters have FourFingeredHands, it's still possible to flip the bird by singularly elevating the finger between the index and pinky fingers, which is still censored on local and regular cable television. In addition, the gesture will never be referred to by its actual name nor explictly described, often subject to the NarrativeProfanityFilter; when implied to occur, it will be referred to as an a non-descript "rude gesture".
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* ComicBook/FritzTheCat does this in ''WesternAnimation/TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat'' by flipping off a ''telephone'' after the operator hangs upon him. Much like Homer Simpson, he only has four fingers.
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* ComicBook/FritzTheCat does this in ''WesternAnimation/TheNineLivesOfFritzTheCat'' by flipping off a ''telephone'' after the operator hangs upon up on him. Much like Homer Simpson, he only has four fingers.
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%% Trope was declared Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease via crowner by the Real Life Maintenance thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php?crowner_id=6gq9so7v
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* FlippingTheBird/RealLife
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* In [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oPvzcBtvNTc a parody]] of the Creator/{{PBS}} [[Creator/PBSKids P-Pals]] logo, the P-Pals' [[EvilCounterpart evil counterparts]] flip off the viewers while singing, "This is '''NOT''' PBS!"
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* In [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oPvzcBtvNTc com/watch?v=C4Ld441NJbA&pp=ygUQcGJzIGRpcnR5IHAgcGFscw%3D%3D a parody]] of the Creator/{{PBS}} [[Creator/PBSKids P-Pals]] logo, the P-Pals' [[EvilCounterpart evil counterparts]] flip off the viewers while singing, "This is '''NOT''' PBS!"
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* The first issue of ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' has Freida Goren flip off Hotstreak.
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* ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'':
** The first issueof ''ComicBook/{{Static}}'' has Freida Goren flip off Hotstreak.Hotstreak.
** In issue 26, Static gives the finger to Bad Betty, Tarmac and Pyre (Holocaust forced to use a different codename after the events of ''My Name is Holocaust'').
** The first issue
** In issue 26, Static gives the finger to Bad Betty, Tarmac and Pyre (Holocaust forced to use a different codename after the events of ''My Name is Holocaust'').
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** Lucius Reynolds gets flipped off in volume 6, issue 8.
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* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Crazy Jane flips off The Fog in issue 28 of volume 2.
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* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'':
** Crazy Jane flips off The Fog in issue 28 of volume2.2.
** Coagula gives Niles Caulder the finger in volume 2, issue 71.
** Crazy Jane flips off The Fog in issue 28 of volume
** Coagula gives Niles Caulder the finger in volume 2, issue 71.
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* ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'': Buddy Baker, of all people, flips off a turkey at the end of his story in ''Vertigo Jam''. The context is that he had a conversation with the turkey and was not amused by the turkey's sentiment that HumansAreBastards and dismissing Buddy's vegetarianism as doing nothing to change that.
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* ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'': Crazy Jane flips off The Fog in issue 28 of volume 2.
