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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-Point Landing]], [[Running Onon All Fours]].
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* [[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-Point Landing|Three Point Landings]].
* This is [[Death Note (Manga)|L's]] modus operandi when [[Genius Ditz|not sitting in uncomfortable positions on staring at a computer screen for hours on end]].
* 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 Nini]]''.
* The [[Sealed Inside a Person Shaped Can|Jinchuriki]] from [[Naruto]] do this when they go [[Unstoppable Rage|berserk]], and Naruto himself in particular is strangely similar to Eva unit 01 in this regard.
* Orson from ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' when he enters his [[Unstoppable Rage]].
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* [[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 Onon the Artist|sometimes]].
* [[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 [[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]] fanfic "Surrogate", Medic ends up so overwhelmed by the disgusting and horrible things he's just witnessed that he can't stand up and has to crawl on all fours.
 
 
== [[Film]] ==
* [[The Hulk]] in ''[[The Avengers (Filmfilm)|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.
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* 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 (Filmfilm)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' films both played this straight, with the Moria orcs and goblins, and averted it in the design of the Uruk-Hai and Mordor orcs. According to the behind-the-scenes features, quite a bit of time went into training the stunt actors portraying orcs to ''not'' walk like monkeys due to the possibility of making them more [[Narm]]-inducing than fearsome.
** 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-Holds-Barred Beatdown|beat the living crap out of him.]]
* Dominic Greene in ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|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 Withwith the Vampire]]'': Vampires usually turn inhuman--demonic and beastly--when they are about to feed. You rarely see one stroll across the ceiling; usually they go on all fours when they're skirting across the ceiling. Lestat and Louis, repeatedly.
* [[Combining Mecha|Devastator]] from ''[[Transformers (Filmfilm)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'' actually stands and walks like this.
* Inverted in ''[[Beauty and The Beast (Disney)|Beauty and Thethe 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).
* The skeletons in [[Ray Harryhausen]]'s ''[[Jason and Thethe Argonauts]]'' stand at attention when they first emerge, but when Aeetes exerts them to [[Large Ham|"KILL KILL KILL THEM ALL!"]], they all hunch over. ''In unison.''
* [[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.
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== [[Literature]] (Now with a 50% lower chance of [[Narm]]) ==
* {{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 (Literature)|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 (Creator)|Walter Moers]]'s ''City of Dreaming Books'' walks on all fours like a gorilla when he's angry.
* Roger Chillingworth in ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]'' by the end.
* {{spoiler|Wes Maggs under the Chaos witch's control}} in the ''[[GauntsGaunt's Ghosts (Literature)|Gaunts Ghosts]]'' novel ''Blood Pact''.
 
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The Ferengi in their first episode of ''[[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]''. People laughed so hard at them, they were later turned into [[Planet of Hats|a race of]] [[Plucky Comic Relief]] [[Honest John's Dealership|conniving merchants]].
* The savage people in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Utopia".
* The First Slayer in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''. [[Nightmare Fuel|Done a little too well, perhaps.]]
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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 (Video Gameseries)|Star Fox]] assumes one in ''[[Super Smash Bros]]''.
** 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.
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* [[God of War|Kratos]] has this pose when he gets his blades out.
* [[Left 4 Dead|HUNTER!]]
* ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|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.
* 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 Onon All Fours]].
*** [[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 ''[[Folklore (Video Game)|Folklore]]'' takes on this stance in combat, especially while in his [[Super Mode|Transcended form]].
* {{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 -Men: Evolution]] is often seen sitting or standing hunched over, but usually only when he's not wearing his holographic human disguise. This is because, like in the comics, he walks on his toes rather than the soles of his feet which changes his posture.
 
 
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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 [[Heavy Metal (Music)|Heavy Metal]] musicians tend to take to its natural evolution by assuming this stance whenever possible.
 
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