Stab the Scorpion · Stab the Scorpion (trope). A who's loyalty may be in doubt, perhaps temporary ally or former enemy, sneaks behind the protagonist.

A type of attack that gives you a chance to use stealth and surprise your victim, dealing massive, often lethal damage with a single hit.

Only a Dirty Coward would shoot someone in the back. Or knife them. Back-to-Back Badasses is to prevent this — provided the other character is trustworthy.

Tends to happen among more warlike or savage-type factions. May overlap with Decision Darts if a character blindly stabs a map to choose their next destination, ...

Stab The Picture is when someone damages a picture of someone, which is usually used to symbolise that they do not like the person at all and would like to see ...

The Stab the Sky trope as used in popular culture. This is a standard pose of a character (usually The Hero) raising one or both arms up, holding a sword or ...

The Stab the Salad trope as used in popular culture. A character wields something in a threatening manner, the music builds, and then... the character does ...

A character attacks with a rapid series of slashes or stabs, either with a bladed weapon or with natural claws.

This trope is for when someone gets stabbed in a really big way. The defining element of this trope is the shock value of the impalement.

One possible trope: Our Hero Is Dead. While not explicitly stabbing, it serves a similar purpose of a supposedly fatal injury turning out not to ...