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Without a link, OP's description reminds me of Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You.
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^^@{{4tell0life4}}: I kinda get what the OP is referring to. It's the montage scenes where the cast seem to be attacking the screen, like Ryu and Ken ( seen at the beginning of Street Fighter II V's OP
).
FullMetal Alchemist's OP has a similar montage segment where Riza Hawkeye appears in the foreground and shoots directly at the viewer, followed by Mustang setting the screen ablaze by snapping his fingers.
The closest trope I can think of would be Second-Person Attack, but that's for when someone's actually being attacked in-universe. The audience simply sees it from the victim's perspective.
Bumping out of curiosity (is there a trope for this one?).
I always figured those were shots of the characters practicing. Training Montage?
^That'd only fit the Street Fighter example.
Riza, Roy, Armstrong, and Ed aren't training during FMA's OP, they'e posing in the foreground and take turns launching attacks at the screen (@0:59 - 1:11).
Well, those are definitely Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You.
I don't know if this one part is enough for its own trope. Maybe as part of the larger trope (possibly aversions only) about what goes into most action anime opening sequences in general.
The first opening of My Hero Academia (THE DAY) has this near the end of the OP. Several One Piece openings have had this too, there's also one "attacking the fourth wall" example in one of the Hunter × Hunter E Ds.
I saw this on Twitter, helpful compilation of examples to start with.
^ That's actually where I got the idea to ask about this in the first place.
Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
The OPs for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure do this a lot. For example, this one from part 3 and this one from part 5.
Just Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You.
By the way, thanks for the examples.
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I meant when they're not actually directed at the viewer? Like they're just attacking sideways while falling in the sky for seemingly no reason?
Well, that’d be jus’ a waste. Why would ya want to deprive the world of such anomaly as yourself?
Because said attacks are dynamic and are generally used to characterize the ensemble vs. a character's badassery, I think "opening montage of the ensemble's abilities" has potential to stand on its own as a Sister Trope to SCIATSY if broadened a bit (for example, not necessarily against the sky but that's probably common since skies are easier to animate and have an 'epic' feel).
A common anime trope, where in the opening theme the cast of characters fight seemingly nothing (or alternatively, fight the screen a.k.a where the fourth wall is) while in the air, usually just to show off their abilities.