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** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120716 Tarvek to Othar] while the latter was blathering.
** After a Geisterdame decided she gets to call guards [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160812 when the crazy underground king is knocked out]. In the next panel Larana's elbow is at shoulder height and the Geister is neither seen nor heard (bonus points too, because she's a normal human and Geisterdamen are [[Amazon Brigade|far from pushovers]]).
* A [[Elite Mook|MANTIS agent]] pulls this on Crossroad in [httphttps://wwwweb.archive.org/web/20100104110857/http://antiheroforhire.com/d/20080425.html this] ''[[Antihero for Hire]]''.
* Subverted in a somewhat early storyline in ''[http://www.faans.com Fans!]'': Shanna Cochran is the Mundane being slowly drawn into a world where truly strange things happen and she is less prepared than her somewhat [[Genre Savvy]] friends, so at one point when she is about to be attacked by government agents, she attempts an Offhand Backhand, not considering that the agent is bigger, stronger, and more skilled than she is. He proceeds to catch her arm and, with the help of his partner, actually lift and carry her bodily away- while she is still in the Offhand Backhand pose.
* In ''[[Order of the Stick]]'', Xykon is fond of offhandedly blasting enemy [[Red Shirt]]s with spells; the one on [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0446.html this page] suits the trope perfectly.