Over-the-Shoulder Pose: Difference between revisions

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# Lets you see the character's face. Having them look at the audience is more engaging.

# Can be used to give a coy impression ("Oh, what are you doing back there?") or to make the character look mysterious.

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* ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' demonstrates that the T&A pose is [http://img546.imageshack.us/img546/6456/unleddy.png no longer just for women].

 

== Art ==

* ''Judith'' by Jan Sanders van Hemessen, circa 1540CE, may be [[Ur Example]]. A nude in the "spine twisting exercise" pose and holding a sword overhead, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/eloisemason/6944793473/ all right]. That being Renaissance, however, she ''doesn't'' look gutted and with broken spine. In fact, she got enough of muscles that [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]] is not needed to see she can lift that sword in one hand without falling over and even decapitate something significantly bigger and tougher than a chicken.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[Rob Liefeld]] is an artist well known for drawing busty women posing in such a way that you can see their ass and breasts at the same time. As they use to say on the late lamented ScansDaily, "anatomy doesn't work that way".

* As shown above, Psylocke does this in almost every panel she appears in. Seriously, look her up in Google Images and you'll find several shots in this position. The page picture in particular shows off the impossible extremes of this trope. What freaky [[Body Horror]] is going on with her spine?

 

== Film ==

* Frequently used in film posters and promotional material:

* [[Scarlett Johansson]] strikes this pose in the ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man 2]]'' posters. [http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1197264/photo_28_hires.jpg Have a lookie.]... and try not to melt.

* At the beginning of ''[[Sixteen Candles]]'', Sam tries to strike a pose like that in front of her mirror, but she's unsatisfied with the results.

 

== Live Action TV ==

* Played with on ''[[3rd Rock from the Sun]]'' when Harry teaches Sally how to pose. His explanation is that men like women who look "sleepy and paranoid".

* Several of the promotional pics for ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' have [http://www.summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/normal_Maxim2_sept08.jpg used] [http://www.summer-glau.net/gallery/albums/scc_hq/normal_promo_new01.jpg this] to show off [[Summer Glau]]'s fantastic rear end.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

* The picture for the Dragonmarked Heir prestige class in the ''[[Eberron]]'' book shows a half-elven woman in a [[Sexy Backless Outfit|backless dress]] posing like this.

 

== Video Games ==

* Jade, on the cover of ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]''

* Ashley Riot does something similar on the cover of ''[[Vagrant Story]]'', though it's a bit more [http://robertjbrooks.com/graphic/Vagrant%20Story.jpg spine-breaking] than normal.

 

== Web Original ==

* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A67ZkAd1wmI this clip], the English version of Caramel Dansen, one of the dancers must have a spine made of rubber to do some of the moves on the video.

* "[http://justsayins.tumblr.com/post/14957660366/this-needs-to-stop-and-let-me-tell-you-why This needs to stop... and let me tell you why!]"—an article by a martial artist ''and'' a contortionist from childhood, has examples of these and attempts to repeat. Next to some a pair of photographed poses he ''can'' do.

 

== Web Comics ==

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'':

** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071221 Agatha].

{{quote|'''Lady Diamondback:''' That pose offends me both as a woman and someone who knows how spines work. }}

* ''Commissioned Comic'' -- "[http://www.commissionedcomic.com/?p=4766 Tits, ass and lens flare!]{{Dead link}}"

 

== Western Animation ==

* Much of the [[Disney Princess]] merchandise has some of the girls doing this, especially [[Sleeping Beauty|Aurora]] and [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]].

 

== Real Life ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20101215092945/http://filmposters.it/imgposter/grandi/ritahayworth.jpg Rita Hayworth]

* Paul Manship's (the guy who sculpted the Prometheus statue in Rockefeller Plaza) nude bronze ''[http://flickr.com/photos/alixking/311563525/ Diana the Huntress]'' not only twists around so her face, breasts and buttocks are all visible from the same side, she even does it ''while she's running full tilt so she can shoot an arrow at something (or someone) behind her''. And she's running ''away'' from her quarry? What's that about?!

** Perhaps she's hunting a [[Bullfight Boss]] beast or one of those other creatures that have to be tricked into charging. Plus, you have to get some distance to properly use a bow, so perhaps she's just getting to the optimal range.

* Male sculpture example: [http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/archim/0008/dafanch99_76573201_2.jpg Henri Peinte: Orphée endormant Cerbère]

* The artist Luis Royo [https://web.archive.org/web/20110908124849/http://www.russianpaintings.net/upload1/author/royo/Luis_Royo_Eyeliner_Labyrinth_large.jpg sometimes] [http://fan-tas-tic.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Gladius-The-Devil-Beneath-by-Luis-Royo.jpg does this] [http://www.bookapex.com/images/Luis-Royo-2005-12-month-Wall-Calendar-1932413081-L.jpg in his]{{Dead link}} [http://static.europosters.cz/image/460/1255.jpg works]{{Dead link}}. Note that all of these are probably NSFW.

 

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[[Category:Stock Poses]]

[[Category:Nothing Butt an Index]]