Knife Outline: Difference between revisions

* Modern use, but inspired by classical cartoons, in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', this time with crotch near-miss.

* Appears in Disney's ''Hercules'', when the hero tries throwing knives and nearly hits Phil:

* In ''[[The Rescuers Down Under]]'', one of McLeach's attempts to break Cody is to deliberately make one of these around him.

* Sort of half-humorous example in [[Hayao Miyazaki|Hayao Miyazaki's]] ''[[The Cat Returns]]''. The darts cut the cat's "bra" straps (even though most other cats wear no clothing at all) and the guy throwing them gets defenestrated.

** Birgitte does this to Nynaeve as a circus act. With arrows shot from 100 paces.

* In the ''[[Belisarius Series]]'', Ousanas [http://www.baen.com/library/0671878654/0671878654__15.htm puts three javelins] into a wall against which Prince Eon is standing, from a range of about twenty yards. One is two inches from his left ear, one two inches from his right ear, and the third two inches below his crotch.

"Fuck the spear work," growled Valentinian. "The kid never even blinked! ''That's'' amazing. I may never fuck again, just from watching." }}

* In [[Garry Kilworth]]'s ''The Silver Claw'', a knife-thrower is on the list of murder suspects. At the beginning of his act he does a Knife Outline on another suspect's arm. The victim reacts with anger and is booed offstage. The detective hero then observes the knifethrower during his act and sees that, when challenged to hit the centre of a playing card pinned to the wall, he simply outlines it and can't hit the centre, because "he has trained all his life to ''miss'' things, not to hit them."

* In [[James Barrie]]'s [[Sherlock Holmes]] parody ''"The Adventure of the Two Collaborators"'' Watson describes how he and Holmes were relaxing one evening in Baker Street, and Holmes was amusing himself with a little revolver practice:

* In ''[[Forgotten Realms|Tangled Webs]]'' by Elaine Cunningham one naive sea elf got this treatment from Liriel, simply to keep from dropping his guard around other drow, should he meet any.