History Main / KnifeOutline

* Mio of ''LightNovel/{{MM}}'' managed to pull this off in the very first episode with baseballs, leaving behind an outline in the ''concrete wall'' behind Taro.

* Mahiro from ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' is good enough with [[ForkFencing forks]] that he does this to Nyarko once when she gets overly amorous. In an earlier episode, we see that one of her attempts to...[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale "make their love take form"]] ended with her pinned to a table by both forks and a bedsheet.

[[caption-width-right:333:A fork [[MemeticMutation is fine too.]]]]

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 3 episode 5, the princess having lunch with the Superstar School students throws away a knife after being given one, saying she doesn't use it for dinner. Headmaster Tele and the other students decide they don't have a need for knives either; the barrage of knives pins Big M. and Little M., who are behind them, into uncomfortable poses on the wall.

* [[SamusIsAGirl Tex's introduction in]] ''Machinima/RedVsBlue''. She is seen using Caboose as target practice, and bullet holes outline his body.

* During the final battle in''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', shortly before [[OneWingedAngel he turns into]] [[ScaledUp a giant snake,]] [[BigBad Jafar]] actually sends a barrage of swords he created from his own magic at Aladdin while mocking him, [[HurricaneofPuns "Get the point?!"]]

* The martial arts film ''Film/TheSwordOfSwords'' have the hero being ambushed by several enemy archers, and against a wall, avoids their shots while an arrow outline (made of twenty or so missed arrows) forms an outline around him.

* Subverted in ''Film/{{Hero}}'' -- [[spoiler:Nameless]]'s outline is left in negative on a wall by thousands of arrows from the King of Qin's army, [[spoiler: not because he was intentionally outlined, but because [[HumanPincushion his body intercepted all of those arrows]].]].

* Mio of ''[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/LightNovel/MM?from=Main.MM MM!]]'' managed to pull this off in the very first episode with baseballs, leaving behind an outline in the ''concrete wall'' behind Taro.

* In ''Sailor Moon'', certain members of the Dead Moon Circus performed this attack to pin one of the heroes. In the anime, Tiger's Eye pinned down Mamoru. In the manga, the twins, Xenotime and Zeolite, pinned down Minako.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 has the "Ranged Pin" feat that allows you to make a grapple attempt with a ranged weapon. The flavor text describes it as pinning the target's clothes to the ground or wall.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]]'' send-up episode of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', three characters run through a corridor filled with {{Death Trap}}s. One section involves a hail of arrows, which all miss and leave perfect silhouettes of the running figures.

Either by accident or design, a [[FlechetteStorm swarm of sharp objects]] (such as knives, [[RainOfArrows arrows]] or axes) are hurtling toward the character. They somehow pin the character to the wall without actually cutting the character (one by each side, arm, leg, etc.). One final object -- and it's always the final one -- may land disturbingly close to the head or, in comedic cases, the [[GroinAttack crotch]]. Sometimes, especially in animated versions, the character has to go through increasingly complex contortions to make sure they don't get hit.

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* The above picture is from the fifth season of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''.
** Mousse also does this with knives to a patron flirting with Shampoo in another episode of the anime.
** And he also does it to Ranma's female form in another episode. Shampoo does it to two {{Muggles}} in an early manga story, by deflecting a barrage of knives thrown at her back with her serving plate. And she doesn't move an inch or spill a single bite of the food she's serving.

* In a non-humorous Takahashi example from ''Manga/InuYasha'', Kikyou does this to Inuyasha on at least one occasion when he tries to steal the Shikon Jewel from her soon after they first meet. Rather than being humorously frightened, he would like to know why she doesn't just kill him when she's clearly capable of it. She has no real answer.

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* One Creator/CharlesAddams comic (the man whose work inspired ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'') involved a nice couple in a hotel room, noticing (with understandable concern) the tips of knives protruding through their wall in a human shape. The suggestion was that this trope had occurred in the next room.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfic [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/74587/ponies-and-throwing-knives Ponies and Throwing Knives]], Applejack does this to Rainbow Dash as part of a knife throwing competition.

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* This happened to ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} of all people once, when Dogbert's [[ArtisticLicensePhysics "animal]] [[RuleOfFunny magnetism"]] reverses. Dilbert gets pinned to the wall by everything in his silverware drawer. (This was before the strip's theme shifted to making fun of business idiosyncrasies.)
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** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3.5 has a feat Ranged Pin that allows you to make a grapple attempt with a ranged weapon. The flavor text describes it as pinning the target's clothes to the ground or wall.

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* Variant subversion: In a cutscene of the John Woo game ''{{VideoGame/Stranglehold}}'', the main character, Inspector Tequila, ends up in an unexpected shootout in a teahouse with a band of vicious gangsters, one of whom takes cover behind an overturned wooden table. Tequila fires a series of shots through the table, creating an outline of the gangster, then pauses... and just as the gangster realizes he wasn't actually hurt and is about to leave, Tequila puts a final bullet into the middle of the outline and through his heart.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons D&D]]'' send-up episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{ReBoot}}'', three characters run through a corridor filled with {{Death Trap}}s. One section involves a hail of arrows, which all miss and leave perfect silhouettes of the running figures.
* Gosalyn does this to Negaduck in the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E59TheQuiverwingQuack". Negaduck ends up pinned to a wall in his costume with arrows, but somehow escapes when Darkwing isn't looking.[[spoiler:Because he did the ''obvious'' thing to do when only the ''costume'' is pinned.]]

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* In the MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fanfic [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/74587/ponies-and-throwing-knives Ponies and Throwing Knives]], Applejack does this to Rainbow Dash as part of a knife throwing competition.

* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' do it to Boog in the episode "Monster in the Mist". Made funnier by that [[{{Groin Attack}} Boog only screams when there's a fork flying towards his crotch]].

* [[http://i1.squidoocdn.com/resize/squidoo_images/590/draft_lens9069491module79982991photo_1263869317Ratatouille_Movie_Food_Po This poster]] for ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''.
* During the final battle from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'', shortly before [[OneWingedAngel he turns into]] [[ScaledUp a snake,]] [[BigBad Jafar]] actually sends a barrage of knives he created from his own magic at Aladdin while mocking him, [[HurricaneofPuns "Get the Point?!"]]

* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': in second movie Cruella throws knives around bounded painter [[spoiler: when he refused to paint on canvas that Cruella planned to make from dalmatian's leather]] and it ends like this trope.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheKingAndI'', Master Little, the "BigBad"'s comical henchman/assistant, attempts to let Anna's son have an 'accident' in the royal armory, and (naturally) fails spectacularly. At one point, six flying knives pin him, one by one, to the armory wall. Little hilariously exclaims 'A, E, I, O, U, and sometimes Y!' as they hit.

* Gosalyn does this to Negaduck in the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E59TheQuiverwingQuack Quiverwing Quack]]". Negaduck ends up pinned to a wall in his costume with arrows, but somehow escapes when Darkwing isn't looking.[[spoiler:Because he did the ''obvious'' thing to do when only the ''costume'' is pinned.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' do it to Boog in the episode "Monster in the Mist". Made funnier by that [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Boog only screams when there's a fork flying towards his crotch]].

Either by accident or design, a [[FlechetteStorm swarm of sharp objects]] (such as knives, [[RainOfArrows arrows]] or axes) are hurtling toward the character. They somehow pin the character to the wall without actually cutting the character (one by each side, arm, leg, etc.), with one final object disturbingly close to the head (or, in a lot of comedic cases, the [[GroinAttack crotch]]). Sometimes, especially in animated versions, the character has to go through increasingly complex contortions to make sure they didn't get hit.

* Gomez and Fester dance with knives in the first ''[[Series/TheAddamsFamily Addams Family]]'' movie which ends with Fester getting outlined while upside-down.

** there is a serious MoodWhiplash in the scene as the same RainOfArrows wipes out all nearby civillians.

* Mahiro from ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' is good enough with [[ForkFencing forks]] that he does this to Nyarko once when she gets overly amorous. In an earlier episode, we see that one of her attempts to...[[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale "make their love take form"]] ended with her pinned to a table by both forks and a bedsheet.

Contrast WilliamTelling. See also PinnedToTheWall. Usually the end result of a KnifeThrowingAct.

* Happens in the ShowWithinAShow “Somethin’s Cookin”” in Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit, Roger is pinned to the wall by flying knives after popping out of an ironing board. A pairing knife parts his hair and a large meat cleaver hits the wall in between his legs bairly missing his crotch resulting in a GroinAttack near miss, which makes him gulp loudly.

* In ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', Gonzo pins one of the pirates to the side of the ship using starfish as throwing stars.