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1->''"I even hold the speed record for running backwards!"''
2-->-- '''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''', ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'', "[[Recap/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehogS01E010BigDaddy Big Daddy]]"
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4[[SelfDemonstratingArticle Ereh era seport gnivlovni sgniht taht era enod ni esrever.]]
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6Translation: Here are tropes involving things that are done in reverse.
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8Not to be confused with InvertedTrope or OppositeTropes.
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10!!Seport:
11[[index]]
12* SixIsNine: Misreading a letter or number by looking at it in the wrong angle.
13* {{Alucard}}: Dracula spelled backwards, usually used either to hide his true identity, or by his son.
14* BackingAwaySlowly: Slowly backing away from an uncomfortable or awkward situation.
15* BackingIntoDanger: Backing right into the very thing you were trying to avoid.
16* BackToFront: A story presented in reverse order.
17* BackwardsFiringGun: A gun designed or modified to fire backwards, tricking the user into shooting himself.
18* TheBackwardsR: Plays on the Cyrillic letter ''Я'' ("ya") resembling a reversed Latin ''R''.
19* EdgyBackwardsChairSitting: A character sits on a chair backwards to show his rebellious or untraditional behavior.
20* ForeignersWriteBackwards: A foreign language is written in a different direction, usually to show just how foreign it is.
21* HadTheSillyThingInReverse: The character mistakenly puts the vehicle, or uses an item or technique, in reverse.
22* HeadTurnedBackwards: A character's head is turned backwards, usually due to some experiment malfunction.
23* LevelInReverse: A video game level is mirrored or has the route reversed.
24* MerlinSickness: A character who lives his life in reverse.
25* NowDoItAgainBackwards: Fixing a problem by doing the same thing in reverse.
26* OppositeDay: The day when you say and do the opposite of what you normally would.
27* PersecutionFlip: A privileged group's and a non-privileged group's roles in society are reversed.
28* RandomlyReversedLetters: Showing that someone (usually a child) is of limited literacy by occasional letters being reversed in his writing.
29* ReverseGrip: Holding a weapon with the blade end towards the pinky finger.
30* ReversePolarity: A type of {{Technobabble}} where a futuristic machine works by reversing its polarity.
31* ReversePsychology: Manipulating someone by telling them to do the opposite of what you want them to do.
32* ReverseTelescopicVision: The character (usually TheDitz) looks through a telescope or binoculars backwards, which makes the target look farther away than it actually is.
33* RewindGag
34* RushedInvertedReading: A book is held upside down, in an attempt to cover nefarious behaviour.
35* RussianReversal: A common joke in which subject and object are reversed.
36* SdrawkcabAlias: A character creates a pseudonym for himself that's a reversal of his real name.
37* SdrawkcabName: A character whose name is meaningful when spelled backwards.
38* SdrawkcabSpeech: Something is spoken or written backwards.
39* UpsideDownBlueprints: A building is made wrong by following upside-down instructions.
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