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=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''[[Discworld]]'': At the end of ''[[Discworld/Interesting Times|Interesting Times]]'', when Rincewind ends up on Fourecks, he runs into some natives who offer him a boomerang. Thinking it's yet another Call to Adventure, Rincewind throws it away in disgust and starts complaining that he's not going to do anymore heroics ever again, only for the book to end in mid-sentence with Rincewind apparently being clonked on the head by the returning boomerang.
* It's stated that this is likely to happen to [[Lensmen]] without the Sense of Perception who use energy weapons on the planet Trenco. Because the entire planet is so energistically charged, even sight is unreliable and energy beams have been known to enter the backs of the people who fire them. Perceivers are able to sense and correct for the distortion, knowing where the target really is and how not to shoot themselves.
* ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]:'' This is how {{spoiler|Haymitch}} won his game. {{spoiler|He made it to the edge of the arena, where he discovered there was a force field that reflected back everything that was thrown at it. The other remaining competitor caught up with him, threw an axe, Haymitch ducked, the axe bounced back, and killed the thrower.}}
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