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Remember how your mom always said to stand up straight? ''This is why...''
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So while if done right, this can strike fear into our hearts, too often this falls short and strikes [[Narm]] into our hearts.
Compare [[Limp and Livid]], [[Three
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Viral]] does this while fighting Kamina. Justified in that he's part cat, and fights like one when he's on foot.
* [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Eva-01]] does this on a few occasions when it goes [[Unstoppable Rage|berserk]], most notably when fighting the 14th Angel.
** As well as a fair amount of [[Three
* This is [[Death Note
* Be ''very, very afraid'' if you see a Diclonius in ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' walking like this.
* Ed from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' does this, though more because she's the [[Team Pet]]; she also hisses and jumps around when pissed off.
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* Yammy from [[Bleach]] does this sometimes.
** Whereas Grimmjow does it constantly.
* Shmion from the first season of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* The [[Sealed Inside a Person
* Orson from ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' when he enters his [[Unstoppable Rage]].
* Negi Springfield of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' whenever his monstrous side starts to take over.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Jack Kirby]] loved this pose. Usually with more "primal" characters, like [[New Gods|Kalibak]] or [[The Incredible Hulk]].
* [[Wolverine]] often uses this as his "pre-asskicking pose". Coupled with his extended claws, naturally.
* [[X
* Nightcrawler too, [[Depending
* [[Spider-Man]] does this from time to time, usually symbolizing that the villain isn't dealing with their Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man anymore.
== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* In Cat Bountry's [[
== [[Film]] ==
* [[The Hulk]] in ''[[The Avengers (
* Jack Nicholson in the first film of ''[[The Shining]]'' is one of the few successful uses of this.
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' has the Joker doing a subtle version of this.
* Coolio as [[The Dragon]] in ''Dracula 3000''.
* The two evil sons taunting Lavinia after they mutilate her in the 1999 film ''Titus''.
* ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'', and the sequels and weak remake thereof, had the apes walk like this, supposedly to make them more, well, apelike.
* Averted in the Disney version of ''[[Tarzan (Disney film)|Tarzan]]''; he ''actually'' moves like an ape, complete with knuckle-walking despite the fact that the human body isn't designed for it and in reality he'd be suffering from horrible joint and back problems if he did that since childhood. But it [[Rule of Cool|looked cool]].
* The [[Peter Jackson]] ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
** Gollum, who is permenently hunched over and often lopes on all fours when running. One orc describes him as "rather like a spider himself, or perhaps like a starved frog."
* The [[Affably Evil]] Rattigan from '[[The Great Mouse Detective]]'', after having a severe [[Villainous Breakdown]], begins running on all fours to get to the protagonist and [[No
* Dominic Greene in ''[[
* ''[[Interview
* [[Combining Mecha|Devastator]] from ''[[Transformers (
* Inverted in ''[[Beauty and
* The skeletons in [[Ray Harryhausen]]'s ''[[Jason and
* [[Kung Fu Panda|Tai Lung]] normally assumes a two-legged stance during most of the film, like all of the other animals, but in most of his fight scenes he will actually revert to a four-legged stance just like an actual snow leopard would.
* Kayako Saeki from [[The Grudge]] and Sadako Yamamura from [[Ringu]] do this when crawling down the stairs and out of a TV, respectively.
== [[Literature]]
* {{spoiler|Rochester's first wife, Bertha}} in ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' walks like this: "What it was, beast or human, one could not, at first sight, tell; it grovelled, seemingly, on all fours..."
* The woman in the wallpaper, [[Nightmare Fuel|creeping and creeping]], from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's ''[[
* The Shadow King in [[
* Roger Chillingworth in ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' by the end.
* {{spoiler|Wes Maggs under the Chaos witch's control}} in the ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The Ferengi in their first episode of ''[[Star Trek:
* The savage people in the ''[[
* The First Slayer in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. [[Nightmare Fuel|Done a little too well, perhaps.]]
* Wild-animal-themed ''[[Super Sentai]]'' teams ''[[Seijuu Sentai Gingaman|Gingaman]]'' and ''[[Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger|Gaoranger]]'' use this instead of the typical [[Super Sentai Stance]].
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== Toys ==
* [[Bionicle]] has the Hordika doing this, though you wouldn't have known if you hadn't seen the movie or read the books.
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* [[First Encounter Assault Recon|Adult Alma]].
* The [[Our Orcs Are Different|Orcs]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' are exactly like this.
* Wolf from [[Star Fox (
** Also Donkeykong which isn't surprising considering he's an ape.
* Riot of the Blood Iori and Leona in ''[[The King of Fighters]]''. Also combined with blood-red hair, pure white eyes, unearthly howling, double the normal amount of speed, and gouts of smoke/steam from the mouth. Fun stuff.
* With the exception of the [[Our Elves Are Better|Blood Elves]] and tauren, all the male models for the Horde races in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' exhibit this.
** And on the Alliance side, [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Worgen]].
* ''[[Guilty Gear]] X2'''s Robo-Ky had this stance before he was completely overhauled into a [[Lethal Joke Character]] in the [[Capcom Sequel Stagnation|later versions of the game]]. He crawls on the ground as his walking animation. This, combined with his distorted theme song, made him seem a little more threatening than his later incarnation...
* Devil Jin of ''[[Tekken]]'' has been known to do this.
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* [[God of War|Kratos]] has this pose when he gets his blades out.
* [[Left 4 Dead|HUNTER!]]
* ''[[Prototype (
* Blanka from ''[[Street Fighter]]''.
* [[Spider
* Raziel starts out walking relatively upright in ''[[Soul Reaver]] 1'', but by the time ''Defiance'' rolls around, he's adopted a noticeably more hunched posture.
* Most enemy vampires in ''[[Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines]]''. A Gangrel PC can do it too by using Protean to give themselves claws, which are then used with this stance.
* The newly-designed hurlocks of ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' utilize this trope. They tend to shamble rather than walk or run.
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] with the new genlocks, who are constantly hunched over and prone to [[Running
*** [[Magic Knight|Fe]][[Badass|nr]][[Good Is Not Nice|is]] is a mild example, but there's still a noticeable difference between his posture and that of the other companions. Get him to stand near, say, [[Black Magician Girl|Me]][[Cute Clumsy Girl|ri]][[Morality Pet|ll]] or [[The Archer|Seb]][[Knight in Shining Armor|ast]][[Government in Exile|ian]] and you can clearly see a difference, as Fenris stands with his shoulders hunched forward, like he's constantly ready to pounce into action in an instant. And given his [[Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!|circ]][[Living MacGuffin|umst]][[Stern Chase|ances]], it's probably [[Justified Trope|justified]].
* Monkey in [[Enslaved]]. He even runs in this position sometimes - and manages to make it look cool.
* Cipher Admin. Gorigan of ''[[Pokémon XD]]: Gale of Darkness'' adopts a pose similar to an ape's pose at all times (as seen above). He also bangs his fists against his chest when angered.
* Keats in ''[[
* {{spoiler|Adachi}} of [[Persona 4]] enters this stance during his boss fight.
* Asura from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' does this in his {{spoiler|Wrath Form}} on occasion, especially when he's in greater pain. Also does [[Limp and Livid]] as well.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Played with by Bumi of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' who is always hunched over: most of the time it just makes him look more feeble and decrepit, but this trope comes into play when he [[Walking Shirtless Scene|takes his shirt off]] to [[Let's Get Dangerous|start fighting]] as when combined with all that muscle is quite intimidating.
* Nightcrawler in [[X
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* Compare old depictions of the [[Tyrannosaurus Rex]] to newer ones. The old ones are all in kangaroo-esque positions, tails dragging along the ground, while the newer ones have the entire body more or less parallel to the ground.
* Some people hunch over [[Limp and Livid|when livid]]. They start seething and hissing.
* Rock music has always though it was cool to have your guitar slung low. Naturally [[
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