Tap on the Head: Difference between revisions

** Also from Naruto is the Waterfall Village OVA. Sakura is put in charge of guarding the children while Naruto and Sasuke are off doing other things. A little while later, cue karate chop to the back of Sakura's neck and her being knocked out. Her attacker then let's out a scoff, saying he can't believe she's actually a ninja if she got caught off guard that easilly.

* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' plays it straight and parodies it. Tamahome seems to like striking people smack over the head, punching their jaws out, and taking out their guts. However, he gets a taste of this in the middle of the series from fellow Suzaku Seishi [[Super Strength|Nuriko]].

'''Nuriko''': (smiles innocently) That's funny! I just meant to give you a little tap on the head! }}

* Subverted in ''[[Le Chevalier d'Eon]]'' in the scene where Robin tries to [[Pistol Whip]] a guard unconscious. He only succeeds in hurting the guard, and has to resort to a more vigorous attack to bring him down.

* ''[[Big Trouble in Little China]]''. Wang and Eddie take out some female guards with judo chops and karate kicks to the head, and Wang knocks out multiple Wing Kong guards with punches and kicks to the head. Amusingly, Jack Burton knocks himself out by shooting the ceiling and dropping masonry on his head.

* In ''[[Arsenic and Old Lace]]'', [[Ax Crazy]] Jonathan is knocked out in this manner by the police, and the trope itself is brilliantly [[Lampshaded]] by the [[Genre Savvy]] protagonist, Mortimer.

* In ''[[From Dusk till Dawn]]'', sick of Richie's psychotic behavior when the family whom they've held hostage's van hits a bump, Seth uses this opportunity to punch him out.

* ''[[Star Trek Generations]]''. While in the Amargosa Observatory, Dr. Soren knocks out Geordi LaForge with a punch to the face.

== Machinima ==

* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'' had this when someone would need a brief time unconscious.

 

 

*** Except for ''Gouge.'' If you got stabbed in the eye, you'd most certainly stop whatever you were doing to just hold your hands over your eye and scream your head off, though arguably for much longer than a few seconds. And being hit again would do hardly anything to make you forget. You know, that you got ''stabbed in the fucking eye.''

* Delita uses the 'sharp shot to the solar plexus' to subdue Ovelia while the latter was being kidnapped by the former in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]''.

* The main point of the ''Commandos'' games is to knock out the enemy [[Mook|mooks]] instead of killing them.

* In ''[[Overblood]]'' Raz gets knocked out in a single punch when Milly gets kidnapped.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]] in [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-08-14 this] ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' strip. Elliot is of course completely fine after having been knocked out, but he flips out about silly things like "brain damage" and "concussions."

* Subverted in ''[[Narbonic]]''. Mell clonks Titus Misanthropie with the butt of her gun... and he yells "Ow!" He then proceeds to give her advice:

'''Helen:''' Sorry, Titus. She's an intern. }}

* This becomes a running gag during a ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures|DMFA]]'' arc, nicknamed "head-clunking." Then Aliyka [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_896.php tries it] on Dan...

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'', Oggie cures Lars' panic attack with a brick to the head. Of course, Og is a Jager and they are superhumanly tough, so by his lights this might be an acceptable form of discipline.

** "Effective," perhaps; "acceptable," no. When Lars wakes up and asks about his rather obvious concussion Oggie claims a brick from the bridge flew wide and hit him. He even holds up the brick in question for proof.

* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', [http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-30/ how Camille takes out Hartmann]

 

* ''[[Stroker and Hoop]]'' has fun with this in one episode: The titular Stroker and Hoop knock out two guys to steal their clothes. One, though in pain, stays conscious and becomes despondent when he believes that Stroker had accidentally killed his friend with the blow to the head. After several moments of arguing ("Dammit, I know how to knock someone out!" "Well, do you check? Like, what if they have a concussion??"), the conscious man pretends to be unconscious just to avoid being hit again.

* [[The Venture Brothers]] lampshades this phenomenon as well:

'''Red Mantle:''' Good one. Six bucks says he has [[Easy Amnesia|amnesia]] when he wakes up. }}

* One episode of ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' featured a health inspector getting knocked out in various ways over the course of the episode.