Flipping the Bird: Difference between revisions

* The original novella for ''[[The Running Man (novel)|The Running Man]]'' by [[Stephen King|Richard Bachman]] ends with the hero presenting the double-deuce to his enemy while performing a suicide attack via jumbo jet, aimed at his enemy's skyscraper headquarters. He had earlier flipped off the camera in an image used to present him to the viewing audience.

* Performed by a ''cleaning robot'' in ''The California Voodoo Game'', in which the machine has been disguised as a cyborg octopus (long story) and sent to hinder S.J. Waters' crawl through a ventilation duct. The machine has no voice synthesizer, so the Game Master uses this robot's hologram-illusion tentacles to express its defiance after S.J. cripples it in hand-to-pincer combat.

{{quote|"I can read your mind," he said darkly. "You only have three ideas, and all of them are wrong."

"Huh?"

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Arya lists a number of things she's learned in Braavos, including obscene gestures such as "the fig."

* In ''[[Stephanie Plum|Plum Spooky]]'', Stephanie comments "getting and giving the finger is a way of life in Jersey". She does, however, find it a bit odd to be getting this gesture from a pet monkey she's babysitting.

* In ''The Boy Who Lost His Face'' by Louis Sachar, David, in the middle of helping a group of friends pull a prank on an elderly woman reputed to be a witch, flips her the bird. This results in the woman pronouncing a "curse" on David.

* In [[Ken Kesey]]'s ''Sometimes a Great Notion'', the protagonist displays his late father's amputated arm from a pole atop his house, with all the fingers save the middle one tied down, as a gesture of defiance against the union loggers with whom he's feuding.