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Remember how your mom always said to stand up straight? ''This is why...''
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Compare [[Limp and Livid]], [[Three-Point Landing]], [[Running on All Fours]].
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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.
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** Whereas Grimmjow does it constantly.
* Shmion from the first season of ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.
* 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-Men|The Beast]], as well.
* Nightcrawler too, [[Depending on the Artist|sometimes]].
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* [[The Hulk]] in ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' assumes a hunched, almost gorilla-stance. He even slams both fists into the ground and grunts at one point.
* 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''.
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* 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-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beat the living crap out of him.]]
* Dominic Greene in ''[[Quantum of Solace]]'' uses a very subtle version of this, betraying his sinister nature over his high society, charitable facade. After his [[Villainous Breakdown]], it becomes far more obvious when he [[Narm|screams like a demonic monkey]] while [[Axe Crazy|attacking Bond with an axe.]]
* ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]'': Vampires usually turn
* [[Combining Mecha|Devastator]] from ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' actually stands and walks like this.
* Inverted in ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' where the Beast at first stands and walks like this, but gradually begins to stand and walk upright as the film progresses to show the fact that he is gradually becoming more civilized. Played straight with Gaston, however, where he actually does the complete opposite (first, he stands and walks upright, but near the end of the film, he reveals his evil self and starts to stand and walk like this).
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== [[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 Yellow Wallpaper]]''. {{spoiler|[[Paranoia Fuel|And, eventually, the narrator.]] [[Fridge Logic|How she manages to finish writing the story while creeping is another question]].}}
* The Shadow King in [[Walter Moers]]'s ''City of Dreaming Books'' walks on all fours like a gorilla when he's angry.
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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 (series)|Star
** 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 (video game)|Prototype]]'''s Alex Mercer has exceedingly bad posture, and that's before he shifts his biomass into his arms, making them heavy enough to smash tanks. Among other things.
* Blanka from ''[[Street Fighter]]''.
* [[Spider-Man]] is always bent over in the ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom]]'' games, which seems a little more fitting than the heroic poses he usually strikes in the comics.
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