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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'',
* Subverted in ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', where Vicious does this to Gren (with a literal scorpion, and a big old bowie knife) during the war on Titan to gain his trust, only to frame him for Vicious' spy activities.
* In the second episode of ''[[Claymore]]'', Claire throws her [[BFS]] at a lizard behind
* In an early episode of ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' before the pilots become allies, Heero points his [[BFG]] at Duo's Gundam during a battle. Duo assumes that the other pilot has turned on him and they get into a [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Mexican Standoff]]...only for Heero to blast the enemy machine that was sneaking up on Duo before flying off.
* Done in ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' with Hol Horse and Boingo, the latter of which has a comic book that predicts the future. It foresees Hol Horse kicking a woman, something he denies doing, even though it claims he will be rewarded with a great deal of treasure. Turns out said woman had a scorpion on her back, and Hol Horse did it immediately upon realizing what would happen otherwise.
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* In ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', after {{spoiler|Mest}} is revealed to be the final member of Grimoire Heart's 7 Kin, he teleports next to [[Token Mini-Moe|Wendy]], grabs her, and then {{spoiler|pulls her out of the way of an attack form the ''real'' 7th Kin. It turns out he was a spy, but for the ''mage council.''}}
* In ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'', after {{spoiler|Miaka runs away from Tamahome out of shame by the pretense that she had been raped by Nakago}}, Amiboshi shows up, raises his dagger, and aims at Miaka.... or rather the huge ass polecat that was behind her.
* At one point in ''[[Samurai 7|Samurai Seven]]'', the heroes are hiding out in the Guardians' underground city, and attempting to treat a gravely wounded Katsushiro. The Guardians are creepy-looking [[Gas Mask Mooks]] and one of them has been observing the group and crawls up to the ceiling and fires a dart into Katsushiro. It turns out the dart was some kind of advanced medicine which saves Katsushiro and reveals the Guardians are along the lines of [[Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold]]
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* In ''[[Deryni]] Rising'' Morgan kills a Stenrect crawler that was inches from Kelson's hand. A lady-in-waiting sees him draw and use his sword, but not the creature; she screams, guards come, and Morgan's [[Hero with Bad Publicity|reputation]] is invoked.
* In the ''[[Warhammer 40000]]: [[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'' novel ''Sabbat Martyr'', Milo raises his lasgun and appears to fire at Saint Sabbat. It turns out that {{spoiler|he hits a Chaos trooper who had survived the Saint's attack on a Baneblade.}}
** Earlier, in ''Ghostmaker'', Rawne (who despises Gaunt and wants him dead) sneaks up on Gaunt while he's sleeping, holds his knife to Gaunt's throat, and quickly brings it
* In ''[[Ranger's Apprentice|Erak's Ransom]],'' Will saves a child from a poisonous snake in this way.
* [[Discworld/Interesting Times|Lord Hong]]...kinda. At one point a servant brings him bad news while he's forging a sword. He orders the guy to stand up straight and open his eyes wide, as if he's about to [[Bad Boss|Shoot the Messenger]]. Turns out he was using the guy's eyes as a mirror to target the assassin sneaking up on him ('him' being [[Evil Chancellor|Lord Hong]]).
* Rennie does this to Wick in ''The Crush''. "Move and you're a dead man." Of course he does move, prompting Rennie to shoot the bobcat about to pounce on Wick from behind.
* In a rare double-sided version, the climax of ''[[The Dresden Files|Fool Moon]]'' had Harry and [[Cute Bruiser|Karrin Murphy]] have been at odds for the majority of the book because Harry kept finding himself suspiciously linked to a series of attacks around the city. Later, they find themselves hunted by two of the [[Our Werewolves Are Different|three kinds of Werewolf,]] and they run into each other, only for Harry to see the more dangerous of the two sorts of werewolf coming up behind Murphy. When he prepares to attack it, she raises a gun and begs him to get down. He doesn't, thinking he'll [[Heroic Sacrifice|go out in a blaze of misunderstood glory.]] When he wakes up after the event, thinking he's dying of a gunshot wound, she tells him that she shot at one of the other werewolves that was behind him and he was only hit on the head, [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and promptly mocks him for being such a melodramatic idiot.]]
* In a [[Sarah Dessen]] novel ''Just Listen'', Annabel gets into a car with Owen, who has a reputation for anger management issues. He takes out a hammer and she starts imagining headlines of her murder when he carefully buckles her
* Happens in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', almost literally. Daenerys is given a box from a stranger. She opens it, when an old man hits her hands with a staff, knocking the box out of them. It turns out that the box contained a manticore, a highly venomous, (possibly) scorpion-like creature.
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* Seriously, almost every time anyone does ''anything'' in ''[[Harper's Island]]'' it seems to be following this trope. That's what you get when you have 22 characters and every single one of them is a murder suspect.
* ''[[Castle]]'' has a double Stab The Scorpion. Beckett and Castle are facing each other, both apparently pointing guns at the other. They fire simultaneously, and both hit a bad guy that was sneaking up to take the other unawares.
** For impact, the setup to
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Ninja Gaiden]] II'' (the NES game), the first time we meet Robert, he pulls a gun on the hero Ryu and fires. But his target isn't Ryu, but the nasty demonic creature that was sneaking up behind the ninja. (This is in contrast to the first NES game, where the first time Ryu meets Irene, she pulls a gun on him and shoots him...with a tranquilizer.)
* Something like this occurs in ''[[Baten Kaitos]]''. After a boss battle, the characters start talking about the possibility that there might be a spy for [[The Empire]] among them who is leaking their locations to the villains and allowing them to steal the [[Plot Coupon
* In ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Warrior Within'', the Prince evades an axe thrown at him by a strange creature. Later it is revealed that the creature is {{spoiler|[[Stable Time Loop|the Prince from the future]]}}, who threw the axe at an enemy sneaking up behind the Prince.
** Also done by {{spoiler|Farah}} in ''The Two Thrones''.
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* The opening cutscene of ''[[Devil May Cry]] 2'' has Dante take aim at Lucia with a pistol... then shoot a harpy that was attempting to attack her from behind.
** Dante and Lady also do this to each other in 3 right before going [[Back-to-Back Badasses]].
* Amaterasu in ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'' snarls, growls, leaps up and catches Mr. Orange by the
== [[Web Animation]] ==
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* Done in an episode of ''[[Mighty Max]]''. When the main heroes are gathering a team of heroes, one of them is an old man with a bow. When Max tries to doubt his skills, the guy aims the bow at his direction...
* In the second season opening for ''[[The Superhero Squad Show]],'' Hulk and Thor look like they're about to beat the crap out of each other. The camera backs away just as the two heroes attack... the previously-offscreen villains they were ''actually'' getting ready to duke it out with.
* On the ''[[American Dad]]'' episode "Camp Refoogie," Steve is sent to Africa and is currently moping by the river. He suddenly sees a random girl running at him with a
* ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' episode "A Small Matter of Pygmies". A man under a basket approaches Hadji (who's tied to a stake) and pulls out a knife. Hadji squirms to try to escape, and the man cuts the rope tying Hadji to the stake. He was the pygmy the protagonists had earlier saved from being sacrificed.
* In an episode of ''[[King of the Hill]]'', everyone fears that Bobby's "pet" raccoon has given Ladybird rabies, which causes friction between Hank and Bobby when each of them is concerned for their own pet's well-being more than the other. At the end of the episode, Ladybird shows up and Bobby is prepared to shoot her if she ''is'' rabid in order to protect his father. As she leaps at Hank, Bobby fires; initially it looks like he missed, but [[Exactly What I Aimed At|he reveals]] that he shot the raccoon, which was sneaking up on Hank. (For the curious, it turned out not to be rabid.)
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