Hey, Catch!: Difference between revisions

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* Tristan distracts Yami Bakura by throwing him the unconscious body of Mokuba, long enough to let him hit him for a K.O. It was one of the rare action scenes that didn't involve children's card games in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''.

* A Hey Catch is used to distract the Villain of the Week on ''[[Case Closed]]''. Lucky it worked, too, because the man was armed.

* Subverted in two ways in ''New [[Grappler Baki]]''. Yanagi throws a teapot full of boiling water to his old foe Shibukawa and, while he is distracted, Yanagi stops his attack just before Shibukawa's face, showing how easily he could have killed him. Soon after that, while Yanagi was in the middle of a fight against Baki, Shibukawa appears from nowhere and throws a teapot all over Yanagi, who starts screaming... before realizing that it was, in fact, cold water. Then Shibukawa sports some laughs and the fight is resumed, without using the surprise attack to.

 

== Comic Books ==

* [[The Joker]] does this with ''a baby'' to kill {{spoiler|Gordon's wife Sarah}} at the end of the ''No Man's Land'' storyline.

 

 

== Film ==

* In the film adaptation of ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'', Atticus throws a drinking glass at Tom to show that Tom can't use his left hand, so couldn't have attacked Mayella Ewell.

* John Robie in ''[[To Catch a Thief]]'' uses this to disarm one of his resistance comrades. Now working as a chef, the comrade aproaches him with two cleavers. John tosses two bottles of fine wine to him, and the chef in the comrade takes over, dropping the cleavers to catch the bottles.

* On ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]'', Mike throws a sock at the CDA agents (who gather around the poor schlub who caught it for decontamination) as a distraction while Sulley escaped with Boo.

* [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] does this to distract a henchman during the marketplace chase sequence in ''[[Octopussy]]'' before then punching him out.

* ''[[Terminator 2]]'' has the titular [[Determinator]] launching tear gas at cops wearing gas masks. He eventually approaches them, hands the tear gas launcher off with a, "Here, hold this," and rips the mask off of the cop to whom he hands it. Much earlier, Sarah distracted a guard this way during her escape.

* In ''[[Total Recall]]'', Schwarzenegger tries to slip onto Mars undetected by disguising himself in an animatronic suit [[Disguised in Drag|resembling a fat woman]]. When his [[Large Ham|Covah is again blown]], he takes off the mask and tosses it to his pursuers, upon which it cracks wise [[Your Head Asplode|and then explodes]].

'''Jack Nicholson''': "A mobster's bodyguard." }}

* In ''[[Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man]]'', Harley throws his gun at one of the armored car guards, and then punches him out when the guard catches it. He does this because he can't shoot very well.

** Marlboro uses this trick later in the movie.

* ''[[Serenity]]'': while Mal and the Operative are facing off at the Companion lodge, the Operative threatens to have his cruiser lock onto ''Serenity'''s "pulse beacon" and launch missiles. Mal responds by tossing him the beacon in question.

 

== Literature ==

** Specifically with the bureaucrat, {{spoiler|is that the assassin didn't react at all to the orange. It hits him, and fell to the floor. Vimes repeated it with his dwarf subordinate later sending said cop ducking under a table. Later it is explained most people at least flinch or dodge the orange if they aren't going to catch it.}}

* In Neal Stephenson's ''[[Cryptonomicon]]'', Bobby Shaftoe throws Japanese counterpart Goto Dengo his helmet on impulse as he and his regiment are leaving Shanghai. Dengo, in response, demonstrates what he learned from Shaftoe (who taught him how to pitch baseballs in return for learning some martial arts) by pitching him a hand grenade wrapped in a headband. Fortunately, Dengo hadn't pulled the pin.

* In the ''[[Malus Darkblade]]'' series, a Nurgle lord is taken out when the hero's lackey throws him a sack with a vial of the greek fire equivalent.

* Used in Mark Twain's ''[[Huckleberry Finn|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'', making this [[Older Than Radio]]: Huck disguises himself as a girl but the woman he tries to deceive tests him by tossing him a ball of yarn to see if he knows how to catch things in his skirt.

* An especially malicious variant is pulled by Chamdar in [[David Eddings]]' novel ''Belgarath the Sorcerer,'' a spin-off to the [[Belgariad]] series. {{spoiler|When Belgarath finds that Chamdar has murdered a young couple by setting their house on fire, Chamdar distracts him long enough to escape by throwing their infant son at him.}}

* In [[Patricia C. Wrede]]'s ''The Raven Ring'', the heroine's thrown weapons are being blocked by the villain's [[Time Stop]] spell. So she tosses him [[MacGuffin|the titular ring he'd been after]], and the ring's magic interrupts the spell. At which point he takes a dozen high-speed knives to the face simultaneously.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Supernatural]]'': Dean does this to Bela {{spoiler|by throwing her a lucky rabbits foot that makes the wielder insanely lucky... but causes fatally bad luck when it is lost again.}}

* In ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', this is one of the tests performed in an attempt to discover which of the two David Listers on board is the real one, and which is a hungry alien who can change how it is perceived to appear and sound.

* In an episode of ''[[Angel]]'', the title character throws a pair of sunglasses at a woman who is supposedly completely blind. She catches them.

* [[Buffy]] once faced a [[Physical God]] who could be weakened with a certain magical orb... so Buffy simply tossed it to the god in question, who, not being "the brightest star in the heavens", caught it by reflex.

 

== Newspaper Comics ==

* One of this troper's favorite ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'' comics involves Calvin bragging about how he has three water balloons, and Hobbes has only one. Hobbes' response is this trope, and Calvin loses his hold on all four, resulting in him being soaked by all of them.

 

== Professional Wrestling ==

* This is the set-up for Rob Van Dam's Van Daminator - he throws a chair to his opponent, who catches it just in time for Van Dam to kick it into their face.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

 

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* ''[[Resonance of Fate]]''. The opening cutscene has Vashyron toss his opponent a loaded gun to replace his empty weapon. While the surprised target fumbles to aim it, Vashyron dashes forward, slams him into a wall, and puts a gun in his mouth.

* Wesker throws his sunglasses at Chris in a ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' cutscene. The glasses themselves were harmless, but the split-second Chris needed to [[Look Behind You!|catch the glasses]] was enough to give Wesker an opening for a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|vicious assault]].

* ''[[Fallout 2]]'' has an example you can pull on Pretty Boy Lloyd if you force him to dig up the stash he's hidden in a grave in the New Reno graveyard. After a while, he'll circumvent and dig up a land mine he left to protect the stash (but not disarm it). Once [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|he's done exhuming the grave and retrieved the goodies for you]], well, might as well make use of the mine, right?...

* In [[Uncharted|Uncharted 3]], Nate can sometimes perform this kind of attack in hand-to-hand combat; throwing his gun at an enemy and then knocking him out as he's catching it.

 

* In ''[[Darwin's Soldiers]]'', [[The Dragon|O'Neill]] hurls a lit flare at his captors, who try to get out of the way to avoid being set on fire. He then makes his escape while they are tripping over each other.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'': Terry thinks Willy Watt has developed telekinesis and is terrorizing people from his jail cell. Terry's Test? Throw a glass of water. It stops mere inches from Willy's head. Yup, [[Monster of the Week|found the bad guy.]]

* ''[[Justice League]]'': [[The Joker]] throws a doll at [[Wonder Woman]], who reflexively catches it. It explodes in her face.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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