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9	[[quoteright:350:[[Manga/VoicesInTheDark https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/binzo.png]]]]
10	[[caption-width-right:350:"Oh my gawd! [[TheyKilledKennyAgain He ate Kenny!]]"]]
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13	The heroes are looking for something suspicious. Possibly a murderer.
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15	They find him busy at work on his grisly deed, but he perks up and notices our heroes.
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17	Bonus points if the murderer is [[ImAHumanitarian having lunch]] in the process.
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19	This is pretty much always shot from behind the murderer for dramatic reasons--it partially obscures the victim, lending ambiguity and tension to the scene and [[NothingIsScarier helping the audience's imagination to fill in the grisly details]]. As a result, it's a SubTrope of OverTheShoulder.
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21	May involve a FaceRevealingTurn.
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23	!!Examples:
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27	%%[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	%%* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Eva 01 does this to an Angel in an incredibly disturbing scene.
29	%%* ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'': [[spoiler:This occurs in an episode where Batou recognizes the tactics of a serial killer from a CIA black op during a war. During the flashback, they come upon a whole village brutally flayed alive and left to die. The killer in the flashback demonstrates this trope as Batou reaches out to touch him.]]
30	%%* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has a similar one, except it's a family of three devouring their newborn. Alive.
31	%%* Creator/JunjiIto [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Binjo_Tsuji_4918.jpg shows us how it's done.]]
32	%%* In the manga version of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'''s Tsumihoroboshi arc, this is how Keiichi stumbles upon Rena chopping up the corpses of Teppei Hojo and Rina Mamiya.
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35	%%[[folder:Comic Books]]
36	%%* Possibly happened in ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' more than once.
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39	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
40	* Commonplace in ZombieApocalypse films. The heroes see somebody crouched over a body, then the zombie looks up and it's obvious they are eating from the body.
41	* Partial example in ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' when Harry, Draco and Fang accidentally interrupt Voldemort's unicorn meal in the Forbidden Forest. He doesn't turn around, but he does look up, and there is blood on his lips.
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44	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
45	* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has the [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=157419 Desecrator Hag]] of [[CrapsackWorld Shadowmoor]]. The illustration shows it crouching over a skeleton, holding the skeleton's necklace, and looking up at the viewer.
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48	[[folder:Webcomics]]
49	* ''Webcomic/{{Appetite}}'': Dohoon learns of Aji's inhuman nature when he finds her chowing down on a man's head. She turns and glances at him, mouth bloodied.
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52	[[folder:Video Games]]
53	* In ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'', Father Gascoigne is introduced hacking a beast to death with his Hunter's Axe.
54	* One of the most iconic moments in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' franchise. In the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 first game]], a zombie (the first one you ever encounter in the game) does this as he's eating Kenneth. This example gets bonus points since you can later [[spoiler: find and watch a video of it from Kenneth's perspective filmed on his camera]].
55	* In ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters'', [[SuperpoweredEvilSide 'Riot of the Blood' Iori]] does this in one of his desperation moves: tackling his enemy to the ground, clawing at them, then momentarily looking back towards the camera before slamming his fists into them.
56	* Early in ''VideoGame/{{FEAR}}'', Paxton Fettel is occupied over a labcoat's body. He looks back at the camera to reveal the blood smeared around his mouth.
57	* ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'' has Saya doing this. Fuminori doesn't catch it because of his warped vision.
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60	[[folder:Western Animation]]
61	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Parodied in the episode "[[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS4E14BummerVacationWigstruck Bummer Vacation]]", in which [=SpongeBob=] goes crazy after being forced to [[{{Workaholic}} take a vacation]], with Patrick taking his place at the Krusty Krab. Near the end of the episode Patrick finds [=SpongeBob=] maniacally mumbling to himself, when Patrick calls for him, [=SpongeBob=] faces him and screams "I've been waiting for you, Patrick!".
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