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== [[Film]] ==
* One of the earliest examples of this in a mainstream film would be ''The Miracle Woman'', a Barbara Stanwyck drama made in 1931 (in other words,
** An even earlier example comes in [[Harold Lloyd]]'s silent 1928 comedy ''Speedy'', which has a scene where Lloyd [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4w77jd1KEQ does this to his
* In a deleted scene in ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', Max Patel cheerfully flips the bird at Parker Selfridge, just before {{spoiler|ripping through the command center's windows with a titanic slash cutter, letting in the rogue avatar team.}}
* In ''[[Highlander II the Quickening]]'', a random bar patron flips Connor off right before bashing him over the head with a bottle.
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* The poster for ''[[Trainspotting]]'' includes Begbie giving the V-sign to the viewer.
* In ''[[Ali G Indahouse]]'', Ali G thinks he's being rebellious by giving the V-sign to a cop car just below the rim of his car window, so it's completely hidden.
* In ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]'', John Bigbooté flips off Dr
* The 1980 comedy ''Used Cars'' has a scene where a student driver is instructed to do this by her teacher (played by the distinguished John Houseman, of ''The Paper Chase'') when another driver cuts them off.
* The garden gnome in ''[[Project X]]'' has its middle finger raised.
* In ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy]]'', Peter Quill gives this to a couple of Nova Corps members. Despite Disney having the rights to the film, it went uncensored in the films, even as the OBSCENE GESTURE DETECTED alert goes off.
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* ''[[Alien vs. Ninja]]'': Mika had a message for the defeated alien.
* During the chase in ''[[6 Underground]]'', Six, who was driving, almost collides with a group of nuns during a car chase. Six hopes they would forgive him for doing that. One of the nuns had this as a response.
* ''[[Deadpool (film)|Deadpool]]'', the titular character cuts off his own wrist
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