Precision-Guided Boomerang: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Sailor Moon]]''

** "Moon Tiara Action!" Note that it obeys her commands—Sailor Moon once ordered to stop right before it'd hit an ally.

** Zoisite used an actual boomerang when he was impersonating Sailor Moon (and it came back after it hit).

* Used in the first episode in ''[[Trigun]]''. Unfortunately, the wielder is incapacitated shortly after throwing it, leading to a landslide.

* Chikuma Koshirou from ''[[Basilisk]]'' [[Dual-Wielding|dual wields]] kama scythes. He once threw them so that both of them cut off half a human head and still returned to his hands. They work solely by [[Rule of Cool]], no magic involved, since when Kisaragi Saemon and Kasumi Gyoubu knocked the weapons off course, they just fell to the ground.

 

== Comic Books ==

* ''[[Tintin]] in America'' features a Chicago gangster with a literal boomerang doing this.

 

* The [[Predator]]'s disk and shuriken weapons are a high-tech version, though occasionally they won't come back due to being lodged in a wall. Or somebody's chest.

* ''[[The Road Warrior]]'' has the Feral Kid's sharp metal boomerang. It slices off fingers and returns to him without a problem. Partially subverted when it gets buried in a dude's head.

* Subverted in the movie ''[[Batman Returns]]''—Batman takes a Batarang, ''programs'' it to hit multiple targets, and lets fly. A small dog catches it like a Frisbee before it can return so that it can be used to frame him later.

* In the 1963 movie ''[[Jason and the Argonauts]]'', throwing a discus (metal frisbee) out to a faraway rock is a test of strength for those who want to join the Argonauts. One slender young fellow asks to be given a try, despite his comparative lack of muscles, and hurls the discus with a gesture that definitely isn't the standard technique. But lo and behold, a few seconds later everyone hears the '''clang!''' of his discus hitting the rock. OK, they acknowledge there's more to this guy than they thou— oh, wait, the discus just came flying ''BACK''!

 

== Literature ==

* Wulfgar's warhammer in R.A. Salvatore's ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' novels always returns to him after he throws it. In this case, it's not a matter of the hammer flying through the air, though—the hammer, being magical, simply ''rematerializes'' in Wulfgar's hands after it falls to the ground.

** This is based on the ''returning'' enchancement in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'', see below.

* Ian Cormac, the lead protagonist of Neal Asher's ''Polity'' series, has a shuriken that is programmable and can fly under its own power, returning to the user and even being remote controlled in flight. Another character in the first book has a knife that will return to his hand as long as he is wearing the ring that comes with it.

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* In ''[[Warehouse 13]]'', an artifact football will always return to where it was thrown... a few hours later, after circling the ''entire world''.

* Some weapons wielded by the main characters in several [[Ultra Series]], such as the [[Ultra Seven|Eye Slugger]] and the [[Return of Ultraman|Ultra Bracelet]].

 

== Music ==

== Puppet Shows ==

* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' has Lew Zealand and his boomerang fish act. "I throw the fish, and they come back to me."

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** The magical Devastator Spear will return to its owner after being thrown.

** The Hawk Hatchet has a kernal of True Air forged into it that causes it to return to the thrower's hand.

 

== Video Games ==

** Chief has a spear that materializes in his hand after throwing it. It also splits into lots of spears when thrown.

** Kin also had a crossbow with bolts that regrow in the quiver... but that takes an hour.

 

== Web Original ==

* In the [[That Guy With The Glasses]] Anniversary Video, That Aussie Guy whips out "The Stereotype of Doom", throwing a boomerang that knocks down [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara]], Handsome Tom, [[Marz Gurl]], and Ma-Ti, before he effortlessly reclaims it, spouting a menacing "Oi" at the end.

* In ''The Gods of Arr-kelaan'', this is a major plot point that Satan triesto plan around. The magical pink mallet still goes through him to return to Ronson.

 

== Western Animation ==

* In both ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' and ''[[The Batman]]'', the Batarangs are much more often just bladed throwing weapons that may or may not curve. And sometimes they're not. However, ''The Batman'' might also be a justified case, since here the Batarang is equipped with the same kind of [[Applied Phlebotinum|weird technology]] found within the [[Grappling Hook Pistol]], the BatWave, etc. -- remember that strange zinging noise the Batarang makes.

* In ''[[Krypto the Superdog (animation)|Krypto the Superdog]]'', Ace the Bat-Hound also has a teleguided batarang.

 

== Real Life ==

* A guilt-ridden American who stole a boomerang from an Australian museum in 1983 returned it. Just goes to show you that boomerangs really do come back, even after 25 years.

* [[Just for Fun]]: R.W. Wood (physicist, enthusiast of boomerang and surfing, and sort of daredevil) at one of his open demonstrations decided to show how the boomerang flies [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|and sent it into wide loop over tribunes]]. Then one of his students raised an umbrella high enough to be in the way. Boomerang cut it down.

 

 

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