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Hot Potato is when characters toss around an object because they don't want it, Keep-Away is when they want the item.
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If he can make a plausible threat of getting them in trouble, expect them to transparently lie and claim that it was only a game; otherwise, they might just keep the [[MacGuffin]]. One way or another, the protagonist will need to find an effective way to deal with the bullies.
Polar opposite of the [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]] and [[Hot Potato]]. Hot Potato is when characters toss around an object because they don't want it, Keep-Away is when they want the item.
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* In chapter 166 (the [[No Dialogue Episode|No Dialogue Chapter]]) of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', several of Negi's students play keep away with his ring-wand (They're 14/15, he's ten, teasing him is their favorite sport, <s>it seems</s>) until Akira, who was helping him look for it in the first place, brings it to a [[Beware the Nice Ones|surprisingly abrupt end]].
** It is also done several chapters later with Negi's unconscious body at a sleep over. Boy's a deep sleeper.
* There is a ''[[Pokémon (
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Jonouchi/Joey and Honda/Tristan throw around a piece of Yugi's Millennium Puzzle before Joey tosses it into a pool. Later on, when Yugi stands up for the two of them, Joey gives the piece back.
** [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* In one of the animated adaptations of [[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* [[Ranma
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* Happens with Satoko and several classmates with Rika's book in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
== [[Film]] ==
* At the end of ''[[The Incredibles]]'', {{spoiler|the heroes do this with Syndrome's remote control, keeping it away from the Omnidroid it controls.}}
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (
* ''[[The Muppet Show|The Great Muppet Caper]]'' has loads of fun with this in the heist foil scene; once that diamond starts getting tossed around the muppets start bragging about their throwing skills, the host of The Wide World of Muppet Sports shows up, theme music starts playing...
* The climax to the second live-action ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' movie features {{spoiler|the gang trying to keep a piece of machinery away from a group of monsters.}}
* The [[Dead Baby Comedy]] / [[Body Horror]] movie ''[[Street Trash]]'' does this with a homeless guy's ''severed penis.''
* The bullies in ''[[Beethoven (
* ''[[Titan
** Specifically, they're running away from the villains, and they're passing Cale to each other [[Heroic Sacrifice|as they're shot down by the bad guys]].
* Mr. Toad and his friends Mole, Water Rat, and Angus [[Mac Badger]] actually do this to the deed for Toad Hall at the end of ''[[The Wind in
* Baloo and Bagheera actually do this to Mowgli near the middle of ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney film)|The Jungle Book]]'' in order to rescue him from King Louie and the other monkeys. Curiously enough, the animation for this scene was actually taken from the above film.
* [[Aladdin (Disney film)|''Aladdin: The Return of Jafar'']] ends with Aladdin and his friends attempting to get [[Jackass Genie|Jafar's]] lamp away from Jafar and [[Harmless Villain|Abis]] [[Punny Name|Mal]] in order to destroy it, because according to Genie, the only way to kill a genie is to destroy his lamp before his summoner can wish him free (at which the genie becomes invincible afterwards). Jafar finds out about this, and as a result he traps the heroes in a pit of lava, with the lamp just out of reach. Fortunately, [[Heel Face Turn|Iago the parrot]] shows up in time, grabs Jafar's lamp, and throws it into the lava. [[Family-Unfriendly Death|Cue Jafar getting electrocuted, turning into a skeleton, screaming throughout, and exploding violently.]]
* The climax of [[Shrek|''Shrek 2'']] did this with the Fairy Godmother's magic wand.
== Literature ==
* In
* In ''[[
== Live Action Television ==
* The Doctor and [[Action Girl|Ace]] with the Bow of Nemesis in the ''[[
* ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]'' has a memorable sequence of yoinks as the Wind and Thunder Rangers fight for the Wind Rangers' [[The Obi-Wan|mentor]], currently [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock|a guinea pig]] in a pet ball-sized force field.
* Apparently ''[[
* Used as a spoof of Rugby in ''[[
* ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'' try this with a remote control in "Foul Bull" when they attempt to stop the former's father from seeing that they have something to do with Ron Harper's injury. It ends quickly when Roger grabs on Kel to get the remote.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' does this in the episode "Kid Stuff" to keep the "Amulet of First Magic" away from Mordred.
* Given the [[Gotta Catch Them All]] nature of ''[[
* ''[[Kim Possible]]'' does it a few times. In "A Sitch In Time", it's the head of the Tempus Simia idol. In "Adventures In Rufus Sitting", everyone's after the microchip that the token naked mole rat has swallowed. They do the schoolyard version in A Sitch in Time, first [[The Movie]].
* This is directly used as a spoof of American Football in season 3 of ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' as Blurr, Wheelie and the others throw Metroplex's conveniently egg-shaped Transformation Cog to one another while running.
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** In the pilot of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', the Autobots do this trying to keep the AllSpark away from Starscream.
* And the ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' do this with a football-shaped bomb.
* ''[[
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
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** Another episode has a group of girl bullies doing this with Lisa's shoes.
* In ''[[
* Near the end of one episode of [[
* In an episode of [[Recess]], the Ashleys steal Gus's harmonica and toss it amongst themselves while getting Gus to jinx himself.
* In an episode of ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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