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Basically, a small, weak person attempts to disable a big guy by jumping on their back and wrapping their arms around their neck. May overlap with [[Cranium Ride]].
 
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== Anime ==
* So yeah, Chao-Zu might be the [[Shaped Like Itself|midgiest midget in midgetville]], and his arms don't quite, like, reach around a person's neck, he's stuck to the back of [[The Dragon|Nappa]] in ''[[Dragonball Z]]''.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* In [[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]], Quatermain attempts this against Mr Hyde. It doesn't work, so he feeds him a mouthful of laudanum.
* [[Spider -Man]] is famous for going up larger opponents so it's no surprise that he has pulled this move. The most famous example being his first fight against [[The Juggernaut]]. {{spoiler|He did it as a distraction to trick Juggy into sinking in wet cement.}}
 
 
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* You'd expect [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] to have done a few of these in his career. What you might not expect is for him to be the little guy. Admittedly the big guy in that scene (in ''[[Conan the Barbarian|Conan the Destroyer]]'') was played by Wilt Chamberlin.
** ''[[Total Recall]]'' has him as the big guy and [[Sharon Stone]] as the little... er, girl, trying to choke him.
* A subversion occurs in ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]'' when Thor jumps on Hulk's back and begins choking him with his hammer. The subversion comes from the fact that, despite the size difference, the two are very close in strength.
* This is how Westley defeats Fezzik when they first meet in ''[[The Princess Bride (film)|The Princess Bride]]''.
* One of the tactics used by Thor against the Hulk in ''[[Thor: Ragnarok]]''.
 
 
== Literature ==
* Happens in ''[[The Princess Bride (Literaturenovel)|The Princess Bride]]'', with The Man in Black doing this to Fezzik. It works, too; according to Fezzik, it's because he's got used to fighting crowds and is out of practice with one-on-one duels.
 
 
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== Real Life ==
* Properly applied, this move is usually called a "rear naked choke" and is common in [[Useful Notes/Mixed Martial Arts|Mixed Martial Arts]]. Of course, it's much easier to pull off as the bigger guy against the smaller one without the whole rodeo business.
 
 
== Video Games ==
* [[Halo 3: ODST|Buck]] does this to save Romeo from a [[Oh Crap|Brute Chieftan]]. Taken to a more practical extreme when he stabs it in the neck with a bowie knife.
* In ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Meet the Scout]]'', the Scout is seen doing this to a Heavy, with the added help of his baseball bat.
* Sort of played in ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', where killing a Gigante involves riding its back.
* Batman can do this to Titan inmates in ''[[Batman Arkham Asylum|Batman: Arkham Asylum]]'', causing them to flail wildly. You can even get an achievement for smacking enough goons while doing this; appropriately enough, the achievement is named "Freakshow Rodeo".
* The Jockey from ''[[Left 4 Dead 2 (Video Game)|Left 4 Dead 2]]'' does this to survivors to force them into inconvenient places (such as ''other zombies'').
* Spidey does this to Rhino, complete with steering through concrete walls and hordes of [[Mooks]], in ''[[Spider-Man: Web of Shadows]]'' in order to break into a prison.
 
 
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