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* [[Badass Grandpa|Old Man Fuu]], [[Spell My Name With an "S"|Ling Yao]]'s manservant from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', wields his sword this way.

* Take a look at the standard cover for ''[[Princess Mononoke]]''. Either dude has the strongest wrists in the world, or things will become very unfortunate, very quickly.

* Shiki of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai]]'' often switches her grip several times over the course of a fight, and at one point even throws her knife from a reverse grip.

* Kureha from ''[[Tokko]]'' usually wields her twin daggers with a reverse grip.

* In ''[[Dragonheart]]'', Bowen briefly uses [[Dual-Wielding]] two broadswords, holding one in a reverse grip.

* ''[[Twelve Angry Men]]'' uses the trope as a point of contention between the jury. Allegedly the accused stabbed downwards into the victim using the reverse grip. However, one of the jurors who is from the slums points out that nobody who had experience in knife fights would ever use that grip with a switch blade as it is awkward, unwieldy, and dangerous for the user.

* In ''[[The Chronicles of Riddick]]'', this is how the eponomous [[Anti-Hero]] holds his blades.

* Per the below example,. [[Reverse Grip]] [[Dual-Wielding]] ''[[Rule of Cool|of lightsabers]]'' is actually seen briefly in the background in ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''.

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