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This is an action trope. It is performed by a character who throws something to another character (usually an enemy) to make him catch
Can also reveal that an impersonator is [[I Am Not Left-Handed|Not Left Handed]]. Or ''is'' left-handed. Works not only for impersonators, but also for
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== Anime & Manga ==
* 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!]]''.
* In ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]? Fumoffu,'' Sousuke accepts a challenge from his high school's karate club and, after it's finally made clear to him that he's expected to fight hand-to-hand, performs a
* When Rei challenged [[Fist of the North Star|Raoh]] with a technique that was powerful enough to defeat even him, Raoh responded by throwing his cape at him while he was in midair, distracting him long enough to hit him with a fatal technique of his own.
* A Hey Catch is used to distract the Villain of the Week on ''[[Case Closed]]''. Lucky it worked, too, because the man was armed.
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* In ''[[The Man Who Knew Too Little]]'', Wallace [[And You Thought It Was a Game|mistakes a corpse for an actor playing the part of a corpse]], and tries to make him break character:
{{quote|'''Wallace''': You've gotta see just how dead they are. You never know, they might be able to '''catch this!''' [Throws a soda can at the corpse.]}}
* In ''[[Willow]]'', the titular character throws a magic petrifying acorn at Queen Bavmorda. (Willow wasn't actually trying for a
* 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.
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* In ''[[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets]]'' Harry throws Lucius the diary wrapped in an old sock, thereby freeing Dobby.
* A small subversion is used in ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'' where Vimes throws an orange at a harmless-looking bureaucrat who DOESN'T catch it. This is later subverted even further when Vimes proves his suspicion that the bureaucrat {{spoiler|is an assassin, who opted not to catch the orange based on the fact that it was not a threat.}}
** Vimes later uses the
** 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.
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* 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.
* In David Wingrove's ''[[Chung Kuo]]'' novels Stefan Lehmann brings a baby along to a meeting with a rival gang boss, purely so he can use it as a
* 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.
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== Web Originals ==
* [[The Demented Cartoon Movie]]: "Oh, Juliet!" "Oh, Romeo... catch!" '''[[Stuff Blowing Up|* BOOM*
* 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.
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