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* In ''[[Mazinkaiser]] vs. Ankoku Daishogun'', a badly-damaged [[Great Mazinger]] kills the Warrior Beast generals attacking New York like this.
* Subverted in episode 3 of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]''. Kamina throws Simon as a [[Fastball Special]] while fighting Viral. Viral dodges; Kamina expects to win the fight when Simon comes back again from behind, but Viral dodges the second attack as well. Mind you, the previous episode played it straight.
* In the first season of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Ikkakumon launches his Harpoon Torpedo at the [[Monster of the Week]], then when it's not looking, the torpedo opens up and fires a guided missile that comes back and tags him.
* In episode 3 of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', Kira Yamato's ([[Mecha Expansion Pack|Sword]]) Strike Gundam uses this against an attacking suit whose pilot is vastly more experienced. The inevitable return {{spoiler|takes off the enemy machine's leg, stunning the awesome minor character Miguel Aiman inside it long enough for Kira to slice him clean in half}}.
* Not exactly a boomerang, but in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'', in a last ditch effort to beat Hiei, Yusuke goad him into the path of a point blank [[Ki Blast|Reigun]] shot. It would have hit any other opponent, but Hiei manages to use his extreme speed to get out of the way. He then takes the time to gloat about how Yusuke was almost good enough, only to be hit in the back by the return shot a few seconds later; as it turns out, Yusuke figured Hiei would dodge, so he positioned himself so the shot would hit the Mirror of Darkness behind him and ricochet back when Hiei wasn't paying attention. Good thing it worked, too. Because if his shots ''didn't'' work that way, he had no other plans left.
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== Comic Books ==
* ''[[DC Vs Marvel]]'' shows a fight between Bane and [[Captain America (comics)]], with Cap missing a shield toss, and Bane closing in and grabbing him, only to get struck by the returning shield before he can break Cap's back.
* There's also the ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' comic where Cap is fighting Hydra agents, stands on a pile of them, takes off a glove and licks a finger to hold up, throws his shield up into the air, and looks at his watch. "Two... one..." The last standing Hydra agent shows up with a hostage and goes into a standard Hydra rant about the organization's plans. He stops when he realizes that Cap is without his shield, Cap tells him that "It'll come if I whistle for it", the agent pulls a gun, Cap whistles... and his shield arcs down to hit the Hydra agent, leaving the hostage standing. That issue is full of him doing things like that; naturally, it's also the issue where it is lost.
* Meanwhile at the Hall of Just... ahem, [[The DCU]], Captain Boomerang pulled this stunt against a member of the Jihad in the second issue of the original series of ''[[Suicide Squad]]''.
* In both film and comic version, Green Goblin tries something like this against [[Spider-Man]] using his glider and attempting to hold/distract Spidey in place long enough for the glider to hit him. It doesn't work and Goblin gets impaled on his own glider for his trouble.
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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* In ''[[Jingle All the Way]]'', the main character -- in a Turbo Man costume that [[Crazy Prepared|includes all the weapons]] -- throws what is a high-tech boomerang. The villain lets go with one of his hands, while the other hangs on. He grabs the Turbo Man toy out of the boy's backpack and shouts "Victory is mine!", before the boomerang hits his other hand, causing him to fall. He lands on a parade float and is promptly arrested.
* Occurs in ''[[Captain America (comics)]] II: Death Too Soon'', a made-for-TV film from 1979 starring Reb Brown as [[Captain America (comics)]], where the Captain foils a mugging attempt by tossing his trademark shield at a perpetrator, missing him at point-blank range, and the thug gives his shield enough time to curve back and knock himself out.
* In ''[[The Brothers Grimm (film)|The Brothers Grimm]]'' movie, there is the magic handaxe seized from the lycanthrope woodsman, that can come back to the thrower. Toward the end, Jakob Grimm uses it to fight the French general's aide-de-camp, and miss -- but the soldier is struck in the back by the axe returning before he could kill the hero.
== Live-Action TV ==
* Variation in the infamous scene in ''[[The Goodies]]'', where Bill is proving "Ecky Thump" is superior to other martial arts. Graeme misses with a boomerang, but later when Tim has disarmed Bill with some bagpipes, it comes back and clouts Tim from behind.
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* In the [[Batman Cold Open]] of an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', Batman pulls this off against KGBeast.
* Yumi of ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' sometimes uses this trick when she misses with her tessen fans, usually helped by telekinesis. She vanquishes William twice this way: once by kicking him into the fan's return trajectory, and another time nailing him in the back just as he is devirtualizing her.
* In an episode of ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' ("Duel Personality"), Jerry tosses a bent rapier at Tom; Tom dodges, but the rapier comes around and hits him.
* In an episode of the 1994 ''[[Mega Man (animation)|Mega Man]]'' TV series, Megaman fires a buster shot at Protoman which misses and enters a steam pipe. The steam pipe loops again behind Megaman, who ducks just as the shot comes out the end of the pipe, hitting Protoman.
* The scene quoted at the top of this page comes from Thor's introductory episode of ''[[The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes]]''. Thor manages to hit three of the Wrecking Crew's four members by throwing his hammer. Then, he magically summons it to fly in the opposite direction, pummeling the fourth.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* One episode of ''[[Blackadder]] II'' has Edmund giving a boomerang to the Queen as a present from his expedition around the world. She's unimpressed by it, and tells Percy to throw it away. He lightly tosses it out the door behind him, and a few seconds later, it miraculously emerges to strike Percy on the head. (Which, of course, amuses the Queen immensely.)
* ''[[Sherlock]]:'' A side case in "A Scandal in Belgravia" involves a man found dead from a blow to the head by the bank of a stream. He had been seen standing there, all alone, with no one anywhere near him, seconds before he was seen dead. {{spoiler|he had received a boomerang as a gift, and had been experimenting with it. He had just thrown it, when he was distracted by a car backfiring, turned to look, and was hit in the back of the head. The boomerang landed in the stream, and floated away.}}
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== Western Animation ==
* Double-Subverted in a ''[[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner|Wile E Coyote and The Road Runner]]'' cartoon. Wile E. buys "One (1) Acme Boomerang" to use against the Road Runner, but when he hurls it, it seems to come and smack him from the other side of the screen... until the camera pans over to show the Road Runner standing next to a box for "Another Acme Boomerang". Wile E. starts to give chase... then his original boomerang comes back and hits him.
* In an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', Captain Boomerang sends a swarm of boomerangs flying at [[The Flash]], who catches them and throws them back. They turn around and fly back at him (suggesting that these boomerangs are ''so'' good that it doesn't take any skill to use them, they return whether you want them to or not). Upon seeing them going back towards him, Flash's response is a "DUH!"
* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' shows us that the hero of ''[[Krull]]'' has had this problem with the Glaive.
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