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{{quote|''Dragon kick your ass into the Milky Way! (Milky Way)''|''[[God Hand]]'' [[Theme Tune]]}}

 

 

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== Anime and Manga ==

* Whenever "Team Rocket is Blasting Off Again!" in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''. This happens when they're blasting off from almost anything: Pokémon attacks, human intervention, high water pressure when springing a leak in a water pipe, doing honest work for an honest day's pay, etc. In the Advance seasons, they've sometimes blasted off multiple times in one episode. This may be why the trope has been greatly reduced in the current series, where they have yet to be blasted off, preferring a more traditional villain escape instead.

** In ''Double-Time Battle Training'', they [[Gone Horribly Wrong|blasted themselves off when Jessie tried to combine Pokémon attacks together]] like how Dawn just learned.

* Happens to [[Small Annoying Creature|Ko]][[Sleep Mode Size|tengu]] in ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de|Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou]]'' [[OAV]] episode "Kokoro no Yukue", after he is struck by lightning as a punishment for losing a tengu competition.

* The explosion variant happens [[Once an Episode]] to [[Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain|Prince Collection]] in ''[[Mon Colle Knights]]''. More specifically, when blasted over the horizon, his machine explodes, with the ensuing cloud turning into a rose with one of its "petals" falling off.

* Guame ends up becoming a twinkle '''underground''' when he falls through a hole in ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''.

* With any minor [[Monster of the Week]] villain that doesn't contribute majorly to the plot in ''[[Wedding Peach]]'', this happens (the major ones dissolve into sparkles and "are destroyed")...

{{quote|'''{{spoiler|Gildarts}}''': "[[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|If you want to fly so badly how about I send you flying?]]"}}

** Natsu get this when {{spoiler|Erza}} stepped on the trap which was intended for Gray in the 2nd OVA

* [[Sekirei]], in the second season's of the anime's third episode, to members of the disciplinary squad, launched by Kazehana.

** Yume does it to them at the end of episode 12 in Season 1 as well.

 

== Film ==

* Happened in ''[[Shaolin Soccer]]'' when Sing demonstrates his kicking ability by kicking a beer can towards the sky later to be seen again on impact.

* It also happens in ''[[Kung Fu Hustle]]'' during the final battle. The film uses a lot of [[Animation Tropes]] despite being live action.

 

* This is part of the Warp Drive effect in the various ''[[Star Trek]]'' series.

* This happens to the [[Monster of the Week]] in episode 14 of ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]''. (It was a humorous episode and a tribute to the very silly ''[[Gekisou Sentai Carranger]]''.)

 

== Video Games ==

* Slayer's Instant Kill in ''[[Guilty Gear|Guilty Gear XX]]'' involves punching an opponent into the sky and then reciting a haiku. When he completes the poem, there's a twinkle in the sky right before "Destroyed" is announced.

* If someone is hit upwards out of the arena in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'' or its sequels ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', this is the result...unless they fly forwards and bounce off the screen (only from ''Melee'' onward). It's actually pretty satisfying, especially since they scream the whole time; after a long and bitter fight, hearing a morose, "Pika ''piiiiikaaaaa''..." makes the whole thing seem worthwhile.

** Especially gratifying in that particular instance if you are a fan of Team Rocket... which accounts for, oh, [[Rooting for the Empire|99% of the fanbase]].

* [[Super Mario Bros.]] examples:

** Happens to the player in ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'' when they're launched into the sky from a cannon. It happens again to Lord Crump when his robot explodes.

** Happens in reverse when Mario returns from a galaxy in ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]''.

* Happens to Wario in the "Punch!" minigame in ''[[Wario Ware]]: Touched''.

 

== Web Animation ==

* In the [[Homestar Runner|sbemail]] "winter pool", Pom-Pom becomes this after [[It Makes Sense in Context|bouncing off of Strong Bad's pool]]. He's later shown flying through space.

 

== Web Comics ==

* Subverted in ''[[Dominic Deegan]]''. A minor villain is thrown into the sky by an angry animal and Stunt expects nothing but [[Amusing Injuries]]. Then it turns out he was thrown directly up and he comes crushing down, landing on his neck and dying instantly.

 

== Web Original ==

 

== Western Animation ==

* Zero, the Ghost Dog does this at the end of ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' {{spoiler|as he turns into a star}}.

* ''[[The Amazing Spiez]]'' episode "Operation: Twins of Trouble". When a WOOHP jet flies off into the distance, it disappears in one of these.

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