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Home Run Hitter describes the act or capability of one character to strike a blow so powerful that it literally knocks the opponent or target [[Out of Sight, Out of Mind]], usually leaving [[A Twinkle in
Named of course for the ability of many baseball players to knock a few outta the park!
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*** It ''is'' the entire point of the game. You don't win by hitting your opponent, you win by hitting them so hard that they fly off the edge of the screen!
** Actually, you don't even have to hit them hard. Just make it impossible to get back to the stage. It's the entire philosophy behind shine-spiking.
* Gamof Gohgry from the games ''[[Star Gladiator]]'' and its sequel, Plasma Sword, has a super move that will knock his opponent off into the extreme distance as well, and ending with [[A Twinkle in
* Featured in the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' EX games, with Cracker Jack and his baseball bat. The victim bounces off the moon and lands behind you.
** Makoto's ''Seichuzen Godanzuki'' in ''[[Street Fighter|Super Street Fighter IV]]''.
** Pocket Fighter not only allows you to bounce your opponent around the screen, you could hit them so hard, they'd orbit the Earth before crashing back into the arena.
* In ''[[Eternal Fighter Zero]]'', this is one of Rumi Nanase's Final Memory moves, the "Big Bang Hitting Method", in which she tosses her opponent in the air and delivers a huge home run hit. It's potentially the game's most powerful attack. She also has a normal version called the "Rapture Full Swing."
* ''[[
* In ''[[Naruto]]: Ultimate Ninja 3'' the version of Naruto wearing the green suit of Gai and Lee has an ultimate Jutsu which shows him punching his opponent through some clouds to twinkle in the sky.
* ''[[Power Stone]] 2'' has this with the tennis racket weapon. One smack is powerful enough to send people flying high into the air and bouncing all over [[Invisible Wall|Invisible Walls]].
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** In ''[[Fallout]] 3'', people's heads can fall off rather far. [[Gorn|Potentially by bullets.]]
** ''[[Fallout]] 3'''s downloadable content adds the Gauss Rifle as a weapon. It's horrifically slow to fire compared with a lot of the other energy weapons, but on a reasonably strong hit it will knock ''any opponent in the game'' a long way back and throw them to the ground so hard it takes them several seconds to get up. That includes twenty-foot-tall Behemoths.
* Knock-back effects are common in ''[[
* Potentially available in the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' games, particularly to the Adept class. Hitting an enemy with a Lift/Pull followed by a Throw (with maximum boosts to biotic power and Throw) can send the hapless enemy literally out of sight. Particularly impressive and useful in outdoor combat environments, especially on Illium in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''.
* [[Dead Island]] is more a FP Survival Horror than a standard FPS, but it does have the Homerun Bat developer's mod weapon, which if properly aimed will literally hurl zombies in the great azure - or at least far enough away you'll have trouble seeing them.
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== Platformers ==
* [[Super Mario Bros.|Princess Peach]] of all people does this to [[Big Bad|Bowser]] at the end of ''[[
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== Third-Person Shooters ==
* In ''[[Grand Theft Auto]] [[Grand Theft Auto III
== Turn-Based Tactics ==
* The Baseball Bat from the various ''[[
* This is how Mao loses the keys to the Getter Mao to Fuka in ''[[Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten
** Fuka also has two unique skills, usable in battle, that play with this. One where she uses a baseball bat to smack a bomb into someone's face, and the second involves placing three targets onto the bases of a baseball field and tackling them out of the park. (and then she casually walks from third to the home plate, scoring an actual home run)
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** The Manga has Kotaro launching Mei out of the [[Tournament Arc]] arena by using the air pressure generated by his punch.
* Fate does this to [[Big Bad|Jail Scaglietti]] at the end of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', swinging her [[BFS]] like a baseball bat and sending Jail flying hella far with the flat of her blade until he crashed into a wall. Unsurprisingly, the Japanese fanbase gave the scene the [[Fan Nickname]] of "Home Run".
* In the third season of ''[[The Slayers]]'', Filia launches both Gourry and Zelgadiss into a ricochet up a bell tower/up a street of houses, respectively, using her massive mace. They, of course, fade into [[A Twinkle in
* ''[[Excel Saga (
* ''[[Dageki Joi Saori]]'' is a Manga where the Doctor combines this trope with [[Healing Shiv]]. Get knocked a few miles away and fix whatever's ailing you!
* In [[Fight Ippatsu! Juuden
* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Orihime Inoue]], from ''[[Bleach]]'', pulled this off on Kon, leaving him a twinkle in the sky. Though it wasn't intentional, since she was busy playing a game of her own invention, named "Yakka", a baseball/soccer combo.
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