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** there is a serious [[Mood Whiplash]] in the scene as the same [[Rain of Arrows]] wipes out all nearby civillians.
* In episode 6 of ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', after irritating Becky one too many times with her opening and closing of the door to her private lab without saying anything, Akira Miyata gets this treatment with a bunch of pens, although in her case the pens blow past her and cut a perfect outline on the wall behind her.
** Becky does this while saying [[Hypocritical Humor|Miyata would make a hole in the door by doing that]].
* In ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' lots of random things happen in the background during the Student Council meetings. One of them involves Touga randomly throwing knives at Miki who doesn't react even though forming of the knife outline depends on him switching positions in the last second. Notably, the outline also keeps shifting as he changes position. [[Mind Screw|It's probably deliberate.]]
* In ''[[CLAMP School Detectives]]'', during a kidnapping situation, [[The Stoic|Suoh]] does this to a mook with some kunai, in order to find out where [[Great Detective|Nokoru]] is. His last hit manages to break the mook's glasses in half, ''without even scratching his face.''
* During one incident in ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]'', the villain does this to Kyoshiro, who plays dead. Then his stomach rumbles.
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* One [[Charles Addams]] comic (the man who went on to create ''[[The Addams Family]]'') involved a nice couple in a hotel room, noticing (with understandable concern) the tips of knives protruding through their wall in a human shape. The suggestion was that this trope had occurred in the next room.
* ''[[Batman]]: [[The Long Halloween]]'' had this with bullets leaving an outline around the Riddler. Approximately five times as many bullets as the weapon in question could actually hold. And no explanation of why the Riddler wouldn't run away while the shooter was reloading. (Except the [[Rule of Cool]]).
** ... maybe the shooter had spare pistols on him? Besides, Loeb's Riddler was always a spineless wimp anyhow, so maybe he was just petrified by fear.
* In the ''[[Lucky Luke]]'' episode "The Rivals of Painful Gulch", there is a [[Family Feud]] between two clans. The fact that all of them are very lousy marksmen is hilariously underlined by a bullet outline which has a form of a typical member of one of these clans.
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* This poster for ''[[Ratatouille]]''.
* During the final battle from ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', just right before he even [[One-Winged Angel|he turns into]] [[Scaled Up|a snake,]] [[Big Bad|Jafar]] actually sends an entire barrage of knives he created from his own magic at Aladdin while mocking him, [[Hurricane of Puns|"Get the Point?!"]]
== Films -- Live Action ==
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* A character in the Chinese martial-arts comedy ''The Duel'' accidentally fires off a knife-launching device; another character is somehow pinned to the nearest wall ''five feet off the floor'', with one knife caught in his teeth.
* Realistic film example: Not quite an outline, but [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] ends up pinned to a door thanks to a couple of thrown knives in ''[[Octopussy]]''. [[Justified Trope|In fairness though]], the guy who did this was a circus knife-thrower.
* Subverted all to hell and gone in ''[[Hero (film)|Hero]]'' -- {{spoiler|Nameless}}'s outline is left in negative on a wall by thousands of arrows from the King of Qin's army, {{spoiler|not because he was intentionally outlined, but because his body intercepted all of those arrows.}}.
* Terrifying live action example in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s ''[[Gangs of New York]]''. "Whoopsy-daisy!"
* Played straight as an <ahem> arrow in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtgcJBXD4sA Bedknobs and Broomsticks]'' (at 7:00).
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In the superhero [[Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'', a feat (Ranged Pin) can be taken that allows this trope. Note that it only works on one attack. I'm pretty sure there's some special action you can take to allow an outline, though...
** [[Dungeons
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== Web Animation ==
* [[Samus Is a Girl|Tex's introduction in]] ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''. She is seen using Caboose as target practice, and bullet holes outline his body.
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* Also showed up often in ''[[Looney Tunes]]''.
* This is Mai's specialty on ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''.
** The Yuu Yan archers also pin Aang this way. They were ordered to capture him alive and are snipers ''par excellence'' in their world. According to General Zhao the archers are "capable of pinning a fly to a tree from 100 yards away, without killing it."
** Katara and other water-benders pull it off on occasion by bending water into ice-knives. Pakku once did it to Katara with a bunch of icicles, which the [[DVD Commentary]] noted was a [[Shout-Out]] to a similar scene in ''[[House of Flying Daggers]]'' involving large stalks of bamboo.
* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Maggie pins Homer to a wall with a staple gun. She even went as far as to pin his ears.
** Actually a subversion of this trope, because she pins him to the wall with a '''Nail Gun'''. ''By the palms of his hands'', and ''then'' both his ears.
* In the ''[[Dungeons
* Gosalyn does this to Negaduck in the ''[[Darkwing Duck]]'' episode "Quiverwing Quack". Negaduck ends up pinned to a wall in his costume with arrows, but somehow escapes when Darkwing isn't looking.
* Valerie does this to Vlad Plasmius in ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' with large needles. He phases out of them. Better luck next time.
* Happens in an episode of ''[[Totally Spies!]]!'', when the [[Big Bad]] pins the girls' outfits to the wall with a nail gun. He must have had very good aim, considering the characters wear [[Spy Catsuit|skintight catsuits.]]
* ''[[King of the Hill]]''. Dale Gribble has gone further around the bend this time and has arranged traps to catch a rogue singer (no, really). Hank gets a mess of arrows shot around him, then is pulled to the floor and one final arrow hits where his forehead was a second ago. {{spoiler|It turns out later that Dale was completely right.}}
* Parodied three time in the ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]'' episode "Ninja Worrier": first when a female ninja shows off by doing this to Hoop with ninja stars, including one on his crotch which actually nicked his testicle because "that one leans left". When she shows him again and he's luckily wearing a crotch guard. Then he practices it on her, and misses several times, though she thought this was funny.
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