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{{quote|''Composition wise this cover is actually more interesting than the ones we're used to seeing. We actually have something that catches the readers attention, with the menacing villain holding the symbols of the heroes by knives.''|[[Atop the Fourth Wall
Box art or advertisement that features [[Floating Head Syndrome|the villain's head]] "watching" the hero.
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* [[media:maho-sensei-negima-mo-hitotsu-no-sekai.jpg|A promotional poster]] for the ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' [[OVA]] ''Mō Hitotsu no Sekai (Another World)'' shows Negi and Asuna posing in front with Fate Averruncus overlooking. What makes this example unusual is that Fate's head and line of sight is turned slightly to the side to show his [[The Stoic|effectively apathetic nature]] (rather than diabolic or megalomaniacal).
* ''[[Dragonball Z]] Budokai'' has Cell doing this with a [[Magnificent Bastard]] smirk on his face.
* Early promotional material for ''[[
* One of the Pokémon [[Pokémon:
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** And ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' has Malak glaring down at Bastila
** The sequel does the same with Nihilus.
* The poster of ''[[Star Trek
** The poster to ''[[Star Trek VI:
** [http://www.aceshowbiz.com/images/still/star_trek_poster08.jpg And one poster] for the 2009 ''[[Star Trek (
** Oddly, most of the posters and DVD covers for the 2009 film do this with ''Kirk''; one could be forgiven for assuming that Christopher Pine plays the villain (although that film's Kirk is arguably an [[Anti-Hero]]).
* ''[[
* ''[[Fright Night]]'' uses [http://toassistindo.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/fright_night.jpg a variation]: villain as an evil cloud.
* [http://dannylim.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/inglourious-basterds-new-poster1.jpg This] movie poster for ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]''.
* The original poster for ''[[
* The film adaptation of ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'' portrays Anton Chigurh this way. The effect is actually ''very'' creepy, especially since {{spoiler|this is one story where, justice and logic be darned, [[The Bad Guy Wins]]}}.
* [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/6f/Time_machine.jpg/220px-Time_machine.jpg The 2002] adaption of ''[[The Time Machine]]''.
* The poster for ''[[The Haunting of Molly Hartley]]'' does this with {{spoiler|Joseph, who is revealed in the last ten minutes to be part of a Satanic cult}}.
* The poster for ''[[The Untouchables]]'' has a giant Al Capone in shades, smoking a cigar and smirking over the Untouchables.
* The Poster for the film "Lion of the Desert", about the life of Libyan anti-colonial rebel Omar Mukhtar, depicts Benito Mussolini glowering over his troops and tanks as they clash with the rebels, with central villain General Rodolfo Graziani in the [http://www.soundtrackcollector.com/images/cd/large/Lion_of_desert_TADLOW008.jpg foreground.]{{Dead link}}
* And also with the zombie nazis flick "Horrors of War", which [http://www.moviesonline.ca/movie-gallery/albums/userpics//poster_HorrorsOfWarPoster061007.jpg does this] with Adolf Hitler and his zombie hordes.
* The posters for ''[[Halloween (
* ''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]]'', as seen [[Media:200px-Battlefield earth poster.jpg|here]].
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', the Season 1 graphic novel collection has 2 different front covers, both of which feature Sylar's head looming over the main cast of Heroes.
** On the cover for the Season 2 DVD, the main cast of Heroes stands in the foreground at Times Square while Sylar's head grins down at them from an overhead billboard.
* The Troll King is doing this on the DVD cover for ''[[The Tenth Kingdom]]''
* Every ''[[
* An inversion: Upon opening it, the ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'': Season One box set features the main cast looking down at you in a circle with a surgical light over all of their heads, as if you were a patient.
== [[Music]] ==
* Likewise, [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
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** The 3rd game's box art is pretty much reused for Shadow Dragon's. [http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y208/Starwolf_UK/Fe_stuffs/XmasthruMarch.jpg point of sale]
* One of the unlockable backgrounds in ''[[Metal Slug]] Anthology'' has Morden looming over Marco, Tarma, Eri, and Fio.
* The cover of ''[[
** The [[Ace Attorney|games]] themselves feature this with the artwork unlocked after beating each case. This can in fact spoil who the guilty party is for people who haven't played the games before.<ref>You can erase saved data on the cartridges to avoid this. See the manual on how to do it; it involves holding certain buttons pressed when loading the game from the DS start screen.</ref>
** A piece of promotional artwork for ''Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations'' shows Godot in this role.
* The complete works rereleases for ''[[
** ''[[
** The European box art for ''[[
* The [http://www.magicball.net/files/images/j/a/q/jaquette.preview.JPG box art] for ''[[Little Big Adventure]] 2'' contains a cloud, shaped like Dark Monk looking menacingly over Twinsun.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]] 2'''s Mega Drive version does this on the cover, with Robotnik slamming a "2" into the ground.
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** The box art for ''[[King's Quest VII|King's Quest 7]]'' 1.0 (for DOS 5/Windows 3.1) features Malicia looking down over a tornado sucking in Rosella and Valanice. Version 2.0 (for Windows 95) has different box art.
* Done on the cover of the ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' video game, with Megatron looking on from the background.
* ''[[Shining Force]] [
* ''[[Soul Series|Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny]]'' arguably [http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/image/959863.html?box=124368 does this]... the "arguably" coming from whehter you see ''[[God of War (
* The box art for ''[[Sacrifice]]'' features Charnel ominously looking down on the [[Player Character]], [[Hello Insert Name|Here Eldred]], holding a Manalith in his long clawlike fingers. Easily the evilest of the game's five gods, he's notably not the [[Big Bad]] of the game.
* Cackletta for ''[[
** A promotional poster for ''[[
** This is also true with one promotional artwork for ''[[
* The boxart for the ''[[Overlord]]'' games often feature the [[Evil Overlord]] posing menacingly in the background while the Minions take the forefront.
* Some of the ''[[Kirby]]'' games have this, like ''Kirby's Epic Yarn''.
* [[Banjo
** Specifically, ''Nightmare in Dreamland'' [http://www.emuparadise.me/GBA/boxart/0775.jpg does this] with Meta Knight.
* Wii version of ''[[A Boy and His Blob]]'' has the main villain boss watching.
* The covers for all of the ''[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon]]'' series games show the main characters being watched by evil-looking Pokemon with glowing red eyes and are completely covered in shadow.
* The box art for [[Advance Wars]] 2 shows the Orange Star Commanders (main heroes) in the foreground, the Black Hole Commanders (bad guys) behind them looming over them, and a giant [[Big Bad]] behind and above ''them''.
* The [[X
* [[Late Arrival Spoiler|While the original box art avoided this]], [[Resident Evil Code: Veronica|Resident Evil Code Veronica X]]'s box art features Wesker in the background.
* [[Fahrenheit (
* [[Professor Layton]] examples:
** Occurs in the box art for [https://web.archive.org/web/20130404015703/http://www.bigbadbob113.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/professor-layton-and-the-diabolical-box-ds-boxart.jpg the Diabolical Box].
** And again with [https://web.archive.org/web/20130401062001/http://lusipurr.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Professor-Layton-and-the-Last-Specter-Box-Art.jpg the Last Specter].
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* A widely circulated fan poster of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' Season 3 features the head of [[Big Bad]] O'Malley doing some Evil Overlooking of the main cast. A similar fan poster of Season 4 featured the Alien in a similar position, although it was revealed rather early in the season that the Alien was actually ''not'' the new villain (it was still O'Malley).
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** The poster for [[All Dogs Go to Heaven]] 2 has Red attempting to grab Gabriel's Horn.
* The interior art for ''[[The Venture Bros]]'' season two DVD features the Monarch looming over portraits of the main characters.
* Plenty of Disney movies, including ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White]], [[The Little Mermaid]]'', and ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|The Return of Jafar]]''.
** By the same vein, so does [[Affectionate Parody]] ''[[Enchanted]]''.
** Used to great effect on ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'''s [http://www.logoi.com/pastimages/img/hunchback_of_notre_dame_4.jpg poster]. [[media:hunchback-disney.png|A video cover]] practically shoehorns it in, to the point of Frollo being almost shunted off the top of the cover.
** One of ''[[Beauty and
** One of the posters for ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]''. [http://www.moviegoods.com/Assets/product_images/1020/248267.1020.A.jpg had one of these.]{{Dead link}}
** And since it was a clear case of [[Follow the Leader]], the non-Disney effort ''[[The Swan Princess]]'' [http://somepeoplelikemovies.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/sss1.jpg did this] with Rothbart.
* ''[[
** Also the poster for Season 3, which has Ozai looming behind Aang in the Avatar State.
** The SDCC poster for ''[[
* The film posters for 1986's ''[[Transformers:
* The box art for ''[[Batman Beyond]]: Return of the Joker'' has Joker's (green-tinted) head doing this.
* The American cover of ''[[Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron]]'''s DVD case features the Colonel's ethereal head looking over his shoulder at the heroes. Thing is, his expression and the semi-transparency makes him look downright benevolent...
* The film poster/VHS cover of ''[[
* A variation on the cover of [[Filmation]]'s animated movie ''Happpily Ever After.'' Snow White and the Dwarfelles are front in center, with The Shadow Man glaring malevolently at them from behind a tree. This is a case of [[Covers Always Lie]], as the character in question is actually Snow White's very-harmless, mute [[Stalker
* One of the posters for the [[Hanna-Barbera]] feature film ''Heidi's Song'' features two of them.
* The film poster/video/DVD cover of ''[[Hey Arnold!]]: The Movie''
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