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Sometimes, when a character is angry or deranged and is just about to snap, they start moving head down, everything limp, lurching as if they were a marionette that's had its strings cut. [[Kubrick Stare]], and [[Angrish|inability to form coherent sentences]] optional. This is sometimes taken as a sign of [[Unstoppable Rage]]—any character that dares to get close risks serious injury, especially if the character is also [[Sword Drag|dragging a weapon across the ground.]]

 

 

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* Occurs a few times in ''[[Code Geass]]''.

* Since the two main female leads of ''[[School Days]]'' are [[Yandere]] for Makoto, they do this towards the end.

* Done by the more [[Woobie]] characters in ''[[Naruto]]''. Namely Sasuke, Gaara, and Naruto.

* ''[[The Wallflower]]'' - Sunako cracks after her chocolate is destroyed by the [[Instant Fanclub]].

** She also does this when the four main [[Bishonen]] characters first meet her.

* In ''[[Elfen Lied]]'', whenever Nyuu flips over to Lucy her head drops so her hair covers/shades her eyes.

* When brutally questioned by [[The Men in Black]] about her family, Lain from ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' does this. {{spoiler|And then reverts to her Wired persona and chews him out.}}

** The Evangelions themselves could be considered to ''always'' be assuming this pose.

* Most of the main cast in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]'' tend to do this eventually, but Satoshi and Keiichi usually bring their [[Weapon of Choice]], the [[Batter Up|baseball bat]] with them.

** [[Yandere|Shion]] walks around like this whenever she's pacing about the Sonozaki Theater and Torture Chamber during Maekashi-hen.

* Kuro, an early villain from ''[[One Piece]]'', goes like this and sways back in forth in order to put himself into a blind trance where he slashes up everything around him.

** Luffy himself does it in [[The Movie|Movie]] 6, after {{spoiler|Lily eats his friends, turns into millions of arrows, and shoots them all into his skin}}. It's one of the [[Nightmare Fuel|creepiest things]] in [[One Piece]] history.

** The 'marionette' description is particularly apt for Crona's first appearance. Firstly, they look as though being dragged by Ragnarok rather than wielding him, secondly they're being at least provoked into killing Maka by Medusa, if not physically controlled by her.

* ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' uses this in one of the [[Original Video Animation|OVAs]].

* Noa briefly in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''.

* Sumire in ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'' gets this when fighting Luca. Her [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Berserker mode]] gets shot with [[Shock and Awe|lightning]] to [[Shooting Superman|no effect]].

** It's worth noting it could stem from the fact that he seems two steps away from falling on the floor and going into cardiac arrest at this point, presumably due to neglecting even his most basic health needs in favor of working on his pet project.

* [[Invoked]] by Haruko in the first episode of ''[[FLCL]]'', while attacking Naota in the hospital.

** Majin Vegeta

 

 

== Film ==

* This is Septimus' fighting style in ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]'' after {{spoiler|Lamia kills him and uses him as a [[People Puppets|puppet]]}}.

 

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Riot of the Blood Iori's (''[[The King of Fighters]]'') default stance is this, complete with [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] and steam coming out of his mouth.

* Zappa from ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' adds some additional [[Nightmare Fuel]] into [http://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters4/zappa-a.html his version].

* The Tails Doll from ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic R]]'' isn't ''overtly'' malevolent, but the way it remains almost constantly limp has given it a legendary reputation.

* ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' does this to [[Final Fantasy VI|Terra]] in the [[Final Fantasy III|Onion Knight]]'s storyline. However, it doesn't quite work due to [[Going Through the Motions|the limited expressive range]] of the character models used, and she ends up looking hung over more than anything.

* ''[[Persona 4]]'' In the battle against {{spoiler|Adachi.}}

* Oichi in the third ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' game, due to being little more than a living puppet animated by malevolent shadows. Mitsuhide and Mitsunari also have tendencies towards acting like this, highlighting their mental instability.

** Also [[Player Character|you]] in [[Way of the Samurai|WOTS]] 2 and 3, if you obtain [[Berserk Button|Okyo's]] sword, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD_PcuRquFI Biteikotsu].

* Asura from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' does this when in {{spoiler|Wrath Form}}. Goes into a [[Primal Stance]] occasionally, too.

 

 

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