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{{quote|''"This is my victory pose!"''|'''Raven''', '''''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'''''}}
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=== Video Game Examples
* In ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario 64]]'' and ''Super Mario 64 DS'', every time you grab one of the level's stars, Mario spins around, throws up the V-hand-sign, and says "Here we go!".
** He has slightly different victory poses in later games. In ''Sunshine'' he catches the Shine Sprite and holds it toward the screen after collecting it. In ''Galaxy'', his victory pose is identical to ''Sunshine's'', with the added bonus of Antigravity.
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*** And again late in the game when one of the Seven Stars is intercepted mid-victory animation by a boss.
* Similar to Mario's V-hand-sign, Wario (particularly in recent games with him as the protagonist) performs a W-hand-sign when he does something particularly awesome.
* Luigi's
* At the end of the ''[[Metroid Prime|Prime]]'' games, ''[[Metroid]]'s'' Samus Aran tends to raise her [[Arm Cannon]] above her head like the victor of a wrestling match would raise his/her arm (putting her free hand on her hip is optional).
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games have had these since the sprite days. Back then, the heroes would merely pump their fists, looking like they were running in place. As the technology progressed, the characters' poses gained variety, detail, and even sound, and in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', each character has a multitude of victory poses available after boss fights, depending on the type of weapon used or some little thing the character does independent of weapon.
** ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'' has a variation: The characters dance twice, then walk off the screen.
** ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' is the first game in the series to give some characters different pose animations (most noticeable with Cid.)
** [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', while passing as a soldier, Cloud is commanded by a superior officer to come up with a special salute for the President. He offers his
Once you reach the Submarine mission in the Underwater Mako Reactor, you meet them again and get a bit of dialogue and see them practice <s>their</s> Cloud's victory pose for the last time. Now you got two choices: Take them as "hostage" and let them live, or fight them to the death while Rufus' March is playing on the background, complete with in-battle dialogue. An odd mix of comedy and making the player appear a [[Complete Monster]].
The game has a decent example of a specific nature of the victory pose: one from a busty female. After all, zooming in on Tifa as she leans back isn't exactly a subtle way of featuring her bust.
The Victory Fanfare is available on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCN-a0NsNk youtube.]
** Interestingly, in ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' certain characters will stop doing their victory pose between certain plot points, usually when something is upsetting them.
** ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'': when Lulu finishes off the last enemy, the camera may focus on her, and unlike Tifa, [[Jiggle Physics|physics]] really come into play with her. The pose itself? ''She leans forward''. Needless to say, her outfit is low-cut enough that plenty becomes readily visible. Finish any battle with the party on Haste in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' and you get to see their poses done in hyper speed. Just look at Wakka's...Ahh, yes. Wakka's air humping.
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* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess]]'', if the player puts away the sword immediately after killing an enemy, Link will spin it around and sheathe it in a classy, [[Badass]] way. He also does this in a [[Cutscene]] after each [[Boss Battle]] - this is [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] slightly in one case where he does this then realises that the boss is [[Not Quite Dead]] after all. This particular pose also returns as one of Link's [[Taunt Button|taunts]] in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' and can also be performed right before the end of a match.
** There is also a scene where {{spoiler|Link participates in a joust on horseback, in which he must force his opponent to fall off of a bridge. When he wins the joust, there is a Victory Pose of Link and his horse Epona on the bridge; Link stares down after his fallen adversary while Epona [[Rearing Horse|rears up on her hind legs]].}}
* The movie version of ''[[Street Fighter]]'' included a closing scene wherein all the "good" characters were celebrating the [[Load-Bearing Boss|destruction]] of the [[Big Bad]]'s
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'', each victory at the Colosseum is celebrated with a shot of one of the characters doing one of three victory poses. Sora's victory poses echo those of [[Final Fantasy VII|Cloud]], [[Final Fantasy VIII|Squall]], and [[Final Fantasy IX|Zidane]].
** Also, in the sequel, in [[Boss Battle|boss battles]] and other important fights, the camera gives a slo-mo close-up of the character who lands the final blow. Not quite a
*** A similar thing occurs in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]'' upon the final blow, which is then followed by a more traditional victory pose by the winner.
** ''358/2 Days'' manages to give every playable character a victory pose upon winning a round in the Colosseum.
** Ditto for ''Birth by Sleep'' and the Mirage Arena.
* ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' has a ton of these, naturally. There are ones that are always with certain characters from game to game, and even character-vs-character specific ones. Orochi Iori's is just him howling, and Shingo just collapses, exhausted and amazed that he won.
* Manabi and friends do a
* ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' strike a victory pose whenever they acquire a power cell in ''[[Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy]]''.
** At one point in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'', another Sony second party game, the titular characters do the same dance as a nod/in-joke.
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* ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'' generally has at least three Victory Poses for each of its playable characters, including a 'weary' victory pose if they win with low HP.
** Also there are set victory poses in the game where Vyse, Aika, and later Fina all get together, do a lot of hand slapping and then all point and smile for the camera when they find a [[Plot Coupon]]. Funny as you've normally got four characters, leaving the fourth person in the background; poor Enrique looks like he wants to be part of it!
* Ash in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' invokes a ''Zelda''-ish, spinning
** In the ''[[Pokémon Ranger]]'' games, every Ranger has his or her special pose. In fact, one of the things you learn in Ranger school is to develop your own pose for yourself.
* In ''[[Modern Warfare]] 3'', the first thing Priece does after {{spoiler|killing Markarov}} is to sit up, pull out a cigar, and light it.
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** While the original ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' game just froze the Blue Bomber in place (and, depending on where you touched it, in midair) once you grabbed the end-of-level orb, in the [[Video Game Remake]] ''[[Mega Man Powered Up]]'' your character jumps into the air and assumes a victory pose.
** In sequels, Mega Man just freezes in places while the victory music plays, so most players have him jump up into the air and take an impressive-looking pose.
* The ''[[Tales (series)]]'' is very fond of this in general. Later games in the series have refined this to giving specific teams of active characters their own post-battle combination taunts, who are near [[Easter Egg]] in rarity and take creative party
{{quote|'''Colette:''' Victory...
'''Lloyd:''' ...Belongs to...
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'''[[The Hero|Asbel]]''': ''*camera shows him behind the girls, sitting rejected*'' Cry even if left alone... }}
** ''[[Star Ocean]]'', the [[Tales (series)]]' bastard brother, also features various victory quotes as well as victory poses.
* In ''[[One Must Fall]]'', the competitors didn't have individual
* In the ''[[Naruto Clash of Ninja]]'' (Gekitou Ninja Taisen) games, each character has a collection of victory poses and lines they use after fights (some are opponent specific). However not all of them are 'dramatic', Choji falls over with an upset stomach in some of his, when Lee loses to Tenten sometimes Tenten will be seen shaking Lee by the collar to see if he's okay, Guy vs. Lee ends with a hug if Lee wins. Shikamaru looks bored. Naturally, the characters that are more badass (Sasuke, Naruto, Kakashi, etc) do proper victory poses.
* The ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'': in versus, the victor will be shown doing a victory pose (sometimes awesome, sometimes humorous) while the losers (with some exceptions) clap politely.
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** And Dixie goes APEsh... well, let's just say she gives a mean guitar solo when it's her that completes the level.
** All 5 playable kongs also have a shorter animation in [[Donkey Kong 64]] after getting a banana.
* ''[[Soul Series|Soul Blade'' and ''Soul Calibur'']] had two to three
** Soul Calibur IV introduces the Critical Finish, an ability that scores a one-hit KO if used. Winning the match by using one will prompt a unique victory pose.
* ''[[Lost Odyssey]]'' ends each successful battle with a pan over the party members, ending on the one who dealt the final blow, as they perform their various
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] [[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|3]]'' and ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic and Knuckles]]'' have your chosen character (or characters, if you play as Sonic and Tails together) adopt a victory pose once [[Big Bad|Dr. Robotnik/Eggman (or the Robo-Robotnik/Eggrobo, for Knuckles)]] is defeated and the animal pod is opened - or, with Act 1 bosses, just after they're defeated. This is probably a result of these games having areas more 'linked' than in previous installments - Act 2 follows straight after Act 1 (as opposed to have the screen 'black out' between Acts) and there's usually a cut-scene to show the character moving from Zone to Zone, which probably requires that the character is in a certain spot to trigger it.
** Most of the 3D games <ref>[[Sonic Adventure]], [[Sonic Adventure 2]], [[Sonic Advance Trilogy]], [[Sonic Heroes]], [[Shadow the Hedgehog (video game)|Shadow the Hedgehog]], [[Sonic Rush Series]], Sonic Rush Adventure, [[Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (video game)|Sonic the Hedgehog 2006]], [[Sonic and The Secret Rings]], [[Sonic Unleashed]], [[Sonic the Hedgehog 4]], [[Sonic Colors]], and [[Sonic Generations]]</ref> do this as well. Those usually have victory poses for playable characters, including what appears to be a seemingly failed victory pose by Team Chaotix in ''[[Sonic Heroes]]''. Basically, Charmy hits Vector while spinning, then Espio trips him. He and Charmy pose while Vector sits up.
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* In ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'', Amaterasu usually does a victory howl whenever you defeat a boss. She doesn't do one after defeating Crimson Helm, due to being in a hurry, and in the fight against Yami, she stops mid howl as soon as she realizes that Issun shouldn't be standing on her nose right now.
** This continues in ''[[Ōkamiden|Okamiden]]''. And it's ''[[Ridiculously Cute Critter|adorable]]''.
* While playing a MMORPG in the ''[[Lucky Star]]'' [[OAV]], Konata suggested to the rest of her party members that they should create a
* In ''[[Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg]]'', upon receiving an emblem, Billy will spin around on one foot, before holding out a thumbs-up and yelling "Good Morning!".
* In ''[[Wild Arms 2]]'', Lilka celebrates solving her Millennium puzzle by throwing up the V-sign.
* ''[[Tomica Hero Rescue Force]]'' has Kyosuke and Hikaru deciding that they need a new victory pose because their new [[Combining Mecha]] is just that awesome.
** There's even an episode where they spend their free-time trying to synchronize their
* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', Snake will punch the air upon completing a VR mission. After completing the final mission in a bracket, he'll jump up and punch the air enthusiastically, yelling "''yeah!''" He does the same pose in all the later games (with minor variations, like putting his other hand on his hip in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 2''), and his father does the same in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 3'' after completing a Duel. In ''Brawl'', he sneaks it in after scoring a successful hit with the NIKITA.
* In ''[[Total War|Rome: Total War
* In ''[[Populous the Beginning]]'', your units form a ''conga line'' upon victory.
* Every character does this when he/she makes a touchdown in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Football]]''.
* Every character in ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' has their own
* In [[Dance Dance Revolution]] Hottest Party 3/MUSIC FIT, during one-player mode, at the end of a song when your score is being tallied, your character will wait for the results of their score. It's even different depending on gender!
** The best score, AAA, the character is obviously very triumphant. The girls gesture to the audience around them, then throw their arms out proudly; the guys do an "ooh yes yes yes" pose before punching the sky.
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* ''[[Daemon Bride]]'' is one of the few fighting games to avert this trope at all.
=== Non-Video Game Examples
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]],'' Judai/Jaden has a
* During the Legendary Heroes arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', the heroes overcome a powerful enemy in the virtual world they're exploring. There's then a cut to the villains monitoring their progress via a viewscreen... which shows the heroes as 16-bit sprites doing a "jump up and down"
* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]],'' [[Meta Guy]] Tomoyo ''insists'' that Sakura come up with a pose because every [[Magical Girl]] has one.
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