Looks Like Team Rockets Blasting Off Again!

"Looks like Team Rocket'south blasting off agaaaiiiiin...!" *ding*

Any object, if launched with sufficient force, volition canvass make clean over the horizon and vanish into the distant sky. A moment later on it disappears, a four-pointed "twinkle" will appear in the spot where it was final seen, sometimes rotating briefly, forth with a high-pitched "ringing" noise. If the object is potentially explosive, information technology will blow upwardly after the twinkle. It'south also sometimes used to show that something is coming down from the heaven. This item employ may be true, as in the Second World War, Japanese AA gunners on ships were trained to watch for the gleam of an approaching dive bomber'south canopy. Because after that, the only indication that something was coming was the whistling of bombs falling.

In some media, specially anime and video games, this volition happen to characters. Comedic recurring villains seem to be especially prone to this trope, as it's an easy way to bear witness that they're clearly defeated and out of the fashion for at present without having to kill or otherwise permanently inconvenience them. Information technology's likewise a mutual fate of anybody on the receiving end of a powerful enough Megaton Punch or Dwelling house Run Hitter. Regardless of how far they're launched, they can be expected to bear witness up over again with no lasting damage, usually with no word on how they survived or where they landed.

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    Anime & Manga

• Soreike! Anpanman:
  • Baikinman and his cohorts are ordinarily taken intendance of in this manner — sent flying to the horizon screaming their Catchphrase "Bai baikiiin!" at least once per episode.
  • Anpanman himselfs gets this, either if Baikinman successfully punches him back, or but an inverse from flight.
• Bleach anime:
  • Episode 37. After Tatsufusa Enjoji, the assistant aide and 3rd seat of the Eighth Division confronts Chad and does a lot of boasting, Chad knocks him into the heaven with a single dial.
  • Episode 127 when the Vizard Hiyori Sarugaki jumps into the sky while conveying Orihime Inoue.
  • Twice in Episode 205 during the kemari game. Once when the referee Ururu Tsumugiya throws the ball up into the sky, and once when Jinta Hanakari knocks Kon (in Ichigo's trunk) into the sky.
  • Episode #213, later Tessai throws Kon (in Ichigo'due south body) through a hole in the ceiling of Kisuke Urahara's underground.
• Played straight in A Certain Magical Index's second season, when an awakened Accelerator destroys Kihara Amata. It wasn't simply a twinkle in the sky, though, just a fire trail equally the man burned to ash from atmospheric friction.
• Cowboy Bebop:
  • Episode 3 "Honky Tonk Woman". Afterwards Faye blasts out of the casino in her ship with Fasten and Jet clinging to her windshield, she flies straight up and disappears in a twinkle.
  • Episode xix "Wild Horses". When a pirate spaceship escapes Faye and Jet, it flies off into the distance and disappears in a twinkle.
• Happens to Suzuo once in Dokkoida?! after an over-enthusiastic greeting of Marilyn Ronmoe.

• Doraemon: In "Machine Copy Machine", when Large G turns Doraemon into an airplane, the latter flies abroad and disappears with a twinkle. Afterwards in the aforementioned episode, when Noby uses the Car Copy Automobile to turn into a rocket, he too disappears with a twinkle.
• Happens at least once in Dragon Ball Z: Trunks blasts Vegeta into the altitude so that he can have time to kill Prison cell earlier he absorbs Android 18. We get a lovely twinkle out of it. The situation and the music provide a dainty contrast to the lighthearted celebration inspired when it happens in Pokémon.
  • And Dragon Ball Z Abridged turns this into a Call-Dorsum to Goku and Vegeta'southward first battle.
• Excel Saga hangs a lampshade on this trope in episode xviii, where Iwata gets punched and says "Look for the twinkle!" only before he disappears into said twinkle.
• Fairy Tail is rather fond of this.
  • Episode 24, Elfman punches Totomaru, who was frozen past Gray. Added with Elfman'due south Spoken language during the punch and a 'wow' sound effect when a twinkle appeared

    Elfman: "If you're a man..." (punches Totomaru to the sky)
    Elfman: "...fly to the heavens and become a star!"
    Totomaru: "What is that supposed to mean?" (followed with a twinkle and a "wow" sound furnishings)

  • Episode 51: Happy becomes a twinkle also when he makes a annotate well-nigh Grayness beingness shirtless and stalking girls. Before he could get to end his sentence of Gray is a behemothic pervert, he got punched into the sky past Grayness.
  • This is also the fate of Bluenote Stinger after being defeated by an angry Gildarts Clive.
  • Natsu get this when Erza stepped on the trap that was intended for Gray in the 2d OVA.
  • In Episode 126, this happens to the Jiggle Butt Gang once Natsu gets over his motion sickness. They launch themselves over again, accidentally, and, despite missing the twinkle this time, it is accompanied past the trio shouting "Nosotros'RE FLYING OFF AGAAAAIIIINNN!".
  • In Episode 154, Happy gets this again after he mocks and epically trolls Erza.
• Fate/Grand Carnival: During episode ii, a quick cut shows Sherlock Holmes investigating a chalk outline of the in one case-again killed Cu Chulainn. The Stinger reveals what happened to him. Jaguarman got upset well-nigh the carnival catastrophe, so she used her Jaguar Kick skill on him, turning him into a twinkle.
• Fist of the North Star: Kenshiro once kicked a guy in the nuts, he flew high enough to become this trope. No, seriously.
• A sort-of Running Gag in Fushigi Yuugi. Occasionally, the Nyan-Nyans will try to help the protagonists or their boss Tsiitsukun, only to mess upwards or say the incorrect thing - and more than than once they've gotten punched through the roof equally punishment.
• In some animated episodes of Getter Robo, the titular robot's Getter three form has a special "Dai-Setsu-Zan-Oroshi" movement that involves wrapping enemies in its extending arms and hurling them sumo-style into the air in a whirlwind. The enemy is thrown to the air so far, he disappears in a twinkle. This was even used in Getter 3's appearances in some Super Robot Wars games.
• Hanaukyō Maid Team La Verite
  • Episode 2, when Taro is kicked into the sky past Ryuuka he ends up as a twinkle of light.
  • Episode 7, when Ryuuka uses a grenade clandestine she becomes a twinkle.
• Parodied in Haruhi Suzumiya when Yuki lost against Mikuru in a boxing. "Curses."
• Happens to Kotengu in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou OAV episode "Kokoro no Yukue", after he is struck by lightning equally a punishment for losing a tengu competition.
• In Hetalia: Axis Powers, when Italia was launched into the sky by an Ejection Seat, the final thing we saw of him was a twinkle.
• In Higurashi: When They Cry Kira'due south 2nd episode, this happens to Takano as well later Magical Girls Oyashiro Rika & Trap Satoko destroy her current Ritual Tool Devil, Boom Ripper, with their 07th Explosion set on (whose name is a Shout-Out to 07th Expansion, which the franchise belongs to). As Takano goes flying into the horizon, just before becoming a twinkle herself, she screams, "Sad, Brother!" all the while.
• In JoJo'southward Bizarre Chance: Stardust Crusaders, this was used to dispatch Alessi, courtesy of a double-squad No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Jotaro and Polnareff's Stands.
• Happens in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, whenever Kenichi attempts to spar with Appachai.
• Ueki from The Law of Ueki manages to pole vault twinkle out in Episode 17.
• Happens to Keitaro in Love Hina. Not as often equally yous'd think, though. He gets flung skyward regularly, just unremarkably comes crashing dorsum downwards rather than disappearing into the sky. It does happen this style on rare occasion, though.
• Played with in Martian Successor Nadesico. In an episode titled The Lukewarm Common cold Equation Akito's robot was thrown into the altitude during a fight, creating the twinkle. This had happened a couple of times in previous episodes, just this fourth dimension the remainder of the episode focused on where he went, with Yurika and Megumi actually going out to search for him.
• At the beginning of Mazinkaiser this happened to none other than Kouji Kabuto, when the Mechanical Brute attacking the Institute grabbed Mazinger's Pilder with Kouji inside and threw information technology away. Way to ruin the until-then tense scene. And they country in the secret laboratory where Mazinkaiser is stored.
• Mobile Accommodate Gundam 00:
  • Happens twice while Setsuna is piloting Gundam Exia. The first during the very first episode. The second during the final episode. Although it is justified considering that the Gundams in question actually emit sparkles.
  • Patrick is often existence diddled away. Kind of played with though, in that unlike Team Rocket, information technology's really surprising that he survives when this happens.
• The explosion variant happens In one case an Episode to Prince Collection in Monday Colle Knights. More than specifically, when blasted over the horizon, his machine explodes, with the ensuing cloud turning into a rose with ane of its "petals" falling off.
• Used to great effect in My Hero Academia when All Might does this to a super-durable genetically engineered monster. All Might was on a strict fourth dimension limit and didn't take time to subdue his opponent, so to remove it from the equation, he pummeled the monster faster than information technology could absorb the impacts until it was weak enough to be sent into the fucking stratosphere. That's how you get to exist the globe'south best hero.
  • During the physical exam for hero schoolhouse, Uraraka gets the high score for distance throwing by using her zilch-gravity power to gently toss the ball out of orbit, catastrophe in a twinkle.

  Aizawa: Distance... infinite.

• When Haruka hurls the "airplane" far from Windbloom in episode four of My-Otome. Co-ordinate to a bonus feature on the first DVD, the thing concluded upwardly in orbit.
• During a baseball game in Ninja Nonsense, one of Shinobu'due south home run hits does this. It ends up reaching some other galaxy!
• This happens to Buggy the Clown early in One Piece as well, where Luffy defeats him for the first time by sending him flying afterwards Nami interrupts and messes up his pulling of himself back together.
• Whenever "Team Rocket is Diggings Off Once again!" in Pokémon: The Series.
  • This happens when they're blasting off from about annihilation: Pokémon attacks, human intervention, high water pressure when springing a leak in a h2o pipage, doing honest work for an honest mean solar day's pay, etc. In Advanced Generation, they've sometimes blasted off multiple times in one episode. Squad Rocket's pretty much the Trope Codifier, which may explicate why the trope has been profoundly reduced in the Best Wishes series in which they rarely get blasted off, preferring a more traditional villain escape instead. In the X and Y serial, this trope has made a comeback.
  • Lampshaded in "Noodles! Roamin' Off!"; Team Rocket was trying to capture a shiny (or "oddly-coloured") Metagross, and got blasted off in the try. Ash and his friends watched the "shooting star" fly across the sky. Hither is the conversation that follows:

  Ash: Hey, what if that star is actually Team Rocket, sent flight by that oddly-coloured Metagross and yelling "we're diggings off agaaaiin?
  Dawn: Nah, there's no way information technology's that.

  • In "Double-Time Boxing Training", they blasted themselves off when Jessie tried to combine Pokémon attacks together like how Dawn just learned.
  • "Malice in Wonderland" subverts this. Team Rocket gets blasted off for half the episode bouncing back and forth between various causes. They never get this trope. Ouch.
  • At that place's likewise "The Treasure Is All Mine!", when Team Rocket wanted to go sent flying; well, James does anyway (considering it'south the simply way he tin get away from his dreaded fiancée, Jessebelle). He fails, though; Jessebelle ends upward getting blasted off with him instead of Jessie.
  • In several circles, internet and otherwise, this trope has become known as "Pulling a Team Rocket".
  • This happened to Meowth by himself in "The School of Hard Knocks", afterwards Team Rocket abuses him physically once again. He comes dorsum down, consummate with a 2nd twinkle, right on cue afterwards Jessie and James say their respective concluding lines in the motto later in the episode. He lands in the pool, gets out, and (at least in the Japanese version) says his line.

    Meowth: [translation from original Japanese] Something like that, Meowth!
    Meowth: [English language dub line] I love a splashy archway!

  • Even a Pikachu Short had this: Meloetta did this when it flew upwards into the sky.
  • In 1 episode, they are launched in a block of ice. Near the end of the episode, they are seen, still in the ice cake, floating in the water. They and then say the phrase they say in a somber voice, with Meowth maxim "With no sparkle..." a flake after.
  • Squad Rocket aren't the only ones to become this treatment. In "Cerulean Blues", the Invincible Pokémon Brothers use their three Tentacruel to try and Toxicant Sting both Misty and her Gyarados into submission. Misty and Gyarados respond by blasting off the Tentacruel with a Hyper Beam, and so giving the same handling to the brothers with a Hydro Pump. They even lampshade this past saying, "We're non Team Rocket, just we're blasting off!"
  • Every bit has Dario at the end of "The Flame Pokémon-a-Thon", following a confrontation with Ash over his methods in the race. Though he comes back down but in time to blame his defeat on the Rockets themselves and hunt them away.
  • Burgundy likewise suffers this fate in "Clash of the Connoisseurs", when Crustle accidentally hits her with its Rock Wrecker. Ash overhears this (though he doesn't see who it was) and comments that it sounds familiar.
  • The Cosplay Pikachu side special (promoted to normal episode in the dub) has Masked Pikachu and his minions blasting off, although in-universe, it was a movie.
  • Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea. While Squad Rocket is fleeing on a bicycle-powered balloon, a Fearow controlled by Jack Walker (the titular Pokémon Ranger) pierces their balloon with its beak and sends them zooming abroad into the sky.
  • An early on episode in Advance Generation has this fate befall Ash's Corphish after Treecko attacks him to become him out of a hole.
  • Surprisingly, the Sun & Moon has it averted altogether, instead having a wild Bewear showing up to take hold of them then run off. It even gets defied at one point, when Bewear catches them in midair but when it seems they're gonna get blasted into the sky.
  • Red's Clefairy had this by being punched from a Ursaring in "Lights, Camerupt, Activity!"
  • Brock got this when his Bonsly tackled him from getting horny due to Nurse Joy in "Off the Unbeaten Path".
  • Clemont had this handling too in "A Blitz of Ninja Wisdom!" when he tested out the Muscle Mass Magnifying Machine.
  • Fifty-fifty Ash gets this handling in "Alola Kanto!" when he gets ran over by his herd of Tauros.
  • Pikachu was non safe from this during the episode with Buzzwole; Buzzwole's uppercut sends Pikachu into the heaven with this.
  • In the manga Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Adventure!, when Hareta'southward Regigigas defeats Flint's Rapidash with Mega Punch, the Mega Punch ends upwards blasting Flint'south Rapidash off.
• This happened to PaRappa in episode 3 of PaRappa the Rapper, after a failed endeavor to stop the teacher, who is at present really insane after some other saucepan makes him Really crazy.
• Pretty much every villain from Powerpuff Girls Z gets this treatment by the Powerpuff Girls, especially Mojo Jojo.
• Oftentimes comes upwards in the Pretty Sammy series. Both Rumiya and many of the Honey-Love Monsters get out this manner.
• Whatsoever time someone gets booted into low earth orbit in Ranma ½. Inverted in an episode where Kuno delivers a bulletin tied to an arrow, which appears out of a twinkle.
• In The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another Earth, Misty is subject to this subsequently getting hit with the air current from Tougo'due south Humongous Mecha's Giant Kizuna Sword, landing in a wood far away enough that Tougo has to use his mech to fly over.
• Hanagata frequently gets sent flying into a twinkle by Otaru's marionettes in Saber Marionette J to 10.
• Sekirei: In the third episode of the anime'south 2d flavour, to members of the disciplinary squad, launched by Kazehana.
  • Yume does it to them at the finish of Episode 12 in Season i as well.
• This happened to Dr. Eggman a couple of times in the early episodes of Sonic Ten, either because he was retreating or Sonic and the others had just given him the Team Rocket treatment.
• Ram-Dass launching from the Cool Ship in Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry.
• This happens twice in Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends episode seven. When Coffretchi applies makeup to Elephantotchi, the pulverisation makes him desire to sneeze, causing him to run around; right before he does so, he flings his owner off his dorsum and into the sky, and he disappears with a twinkle. A few minutes later, Smartotchi and 10 are hit by Elephantotchi and also disappear into the sky with a twinkle.
• Guame ends up becoming a twinkle hush-hush when he falls through a pigsty in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
• Happens to giant robots frequently in Transformers Cybertron. Unsurprisingly, the Team Rocket-ish Ransack and Crumplezone experience it a time or two, complete with mail-booting dialogue on one occasion:

  Crumplezone: Why us, Ransack?
  Ransack: It's the wheel of fate, my friend.
  Both: It ran right over us!

  • However, it can also happen to beau comedic villain Thundercracker, and the serious villain Scourge. Sideways does it voluntarily, his zigzagged departures often catastrophe in this.
• Ultimate Muscle has this happen to Mantaro sometimes, usually courtesy of Roxanne.
• A car twinkles out in an episode of Usavich. A later episode has a police force officer twinkle out afterwards being hit past a barrel.
• Thorfinn and Thorkell's terminal fight in Vinland Saga about comes to an abrupt stop when Thorkell kicks Thorfinn into the distance. The male child slams into a tree, breaks his arm, most of his ribs, and so gets back up.
  • Thorkell also pulls of a reversed one, when Askeladd's men notice a Twinkle in the Sky that turns out to exist a spear thrown past Thorkell from several miles away and completely impales a man through his chainmail and through his heart. Aye, that man is a pure monster.
• With whatsoever minor Monster of the Week villain that doesn't contribute majorly to the plot in Wedding Peach, this happens (the major ones deliquesce into sparkles and "are destroyed")…
• Happens a few times in Yo-Kai Sentry. Prominent examples include Jibanyan a few times in the first episode when he tried to fight against a truck. Whisper suffered the same fate in episode 16 subsequently Nate smacked him with a newspaper fan, and finally Nate himself at the receiving ends of a paws of fury from Jibanyan in episode 44.
• At the start of the Demon Tournament of YuYu Hakusho, all the demons on Yusuke'south group decide to gang up on their mutual boogey-man. Yusuke welcomes the attention and then proceeds to just dial all 48 opponents clean out of sight. Yusuke and so comically lampshades the trope (and reveals his actions were intentional) by calling out the judges because none of his opponents fainted, died, or surrendered (which were the just loss conditions the rules had stated). They declare him the winner of that round anyway.
• When Zatch Bell! was riding on a cart tied to the bumper of the bus, both him and another character are launched into the altitude cheers to the instability of the cart and the rope breaking.

    Asian Animation

• In Guardian Fairy Michel, this happens frequently to the Black Hammer Gang equally they're defeated. Bonus points for information technology happen to their castle, too.
• In Happy Heroes, information technology's not uncommon for characters sent flying in the sky to disappear with a brief twinkle.
• In the Noonbory and the Super 7 episode "Hide and Become Squeak", one of these appears later Rosygury is blown away past Pongdybory's Sneeze of Doom.
• In Pleasant Goat and Large Big Wolf, this happens a lot to Wolffy, who oft gets blasted into the air somehow (his married woman Wolnie hit him with her Frying Pan of Doom is one possible crusade).
• Elementary Samosa: In "Khelo Samosa", when Dr. Goti Sodawala is launched into the distance past Vada bouncing into him (to save him from being forcefully puppeteered as a video game enemy) and shouts "Thank you, Samosa!", he disappears with a twinkle.

    Fan Works

• Brother on Lath: Sabo wins his fight against Miss Midweek and Mr. 9 past hitting them with his Knock Dorsum assail which sends them both flight off into the heaven. The author fifty-fifty includes the Twinkle sound effect.
• In Dial information technology happens to Ulik when Thor and Iron Homo hit him with a combination attack, much to Hill's chagrin every bit it caused them to lose track of him.
• Kid Icarus Insurgence ii: Hades Revenge does this to Teem Chaos almost every fourth dimension they announced. Fitting considering they are clearly a parody of the Squad Rocket Trio.
• Muffet The Mom: Happens to Muffet in the sixth affiliate, courtesy of Frisk and a see-saw.
• My Piddling Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic My Footling Mommies: This is how many stars were made - if you anger Princess Luna, you will go A Twinkle in the Heaven and stay there.
• New Game Plus (One Slice): How the "fight" with Luffy ends for Alvida. Lampshaded:

  Luffy admired the twinkling star she made. He always wondered why that happened. Eh, mystery twinkle.

• Opening Dangerous Gates: This happens to Natsu when a drunk Rangiku punches him. Master Makarov wisely takes a careful step back.
• Paper Mario X: This is Kirby's leave at the terminate.
• Pokémon: Clefairy Tales: Equally is par for the form, whenever a Rocket (ordinarily Jessie, James, and Meowth, who first appear in chapter nine) get blasted off.
• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines:
  • Equally usual, this happens to Squad Rocket, though not as often as in canon since they're not actively trying to steal Pikachu from Ash.
  • Played for Drama during Chapter 18. Paul ends upwardly blasting Ash's Primeape into the heaven. Unlike about examples, it's hinted that such an action might actually have fatal consequences.
• In Tantabus Mark 2, this is how Sombra leaves Rainbow'southward dream.
• It happens in the last chapter of The Vampire of Steel to Kryptonian vampire Zol-Am when a Supergirl's uppercut sends him flying off real high into the sky.
• Twelve Cerise Lines:
  • In Chapter 32, this happens to Jones when she absorbs too much force from Wyper'southward missiles. They become sent flying from the backfire, and Usopp, who grabs them right before they're sent flying, gets dragged along for the ride.
  • In Chapter 36, this happens to Enel when Jones and Usopp shoot him out of a cannon aimed at the moon.
• Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series:
  • Subsequently Tristan defeats Florence, he gets rid of the evil band (Millennium Ring) "by throwing it randomly in a careless direction." Every bit information technology flies through the air, Florence'southward voice can exist heard shouting "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....", and and then says "Twinkle" when the ring vanishes into the forest.
  • Afterward, Marik kicks Crump out of Tea'south listen. We then come across Crump's spirit fly into the distance. As he becomes a Twinkle In The Sky, he actually screams, "AAAAAAaaaaaaah! Twinkle!"

    Films — Animation

• Parodied in The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales. The Delivery Stork, upon beingness revealed every bit a lazy bastard who faked his fly's injuries, is catapulted into the heaven and makes this. Nevertheless, since he's an player in a play, he lands in front end of the stage and, upon being asked if he'due south okay past a co-worker, dismisses this as only an acting pull a fast one on.
• Zero, the Ghost Canis familiaris does this at the terminate of The Nightmare Earlier Christmas as he turns into a star.

    Films — Alive-Action

• It happens in Kung Fu Hustle during the final battle. The moving picture uses a lot of Blitheness Tropes despite being live action.
• Happened in Shaolin Soccer when Sing demonstrates his kicking ability by kick a beer can towards the sky later to be seen again on bear upon.
• In the first Ultraman Zearth movie, Ultraman Zearth managed to defeat the main villain, Alien Benzene, with a Megaton Punch that sends Benzene into the stratosphere - cue twinkling star.

    Live-Action TV

• This is reversed by Glory in one episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When Willow and Tara teleport Glory out of the hospital, she appears in the sky above Sunnydale in a starburst, then can be seen plummeting to earth as a meteor.
• This happens to the Monster of the Week in episode 14 of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. (It was a humorous episode and a tribute to the very silly Gekisou Sentai Carranger.)
• This is part of the Warp Drive upshot in the various Star Trek series.
• Some installments of the Ultra Series, particularly if they were made after the 2010s, does this...
  • Ultraman Ginga has Ginga and Victory fighting Bemlar and Bemstar, simultaneously. Afterwards Ginga destroys Bemlar, Bemstar gets stunned for a moment... until Victory unleashed his Ex-Cherry Rex Knuckle and socks Bemstar in the face up until the monster ends upwards in the stratosphere, consummate with a twinkle.
  • Ultraman X: In the episode "We Are Nebula!", the opposing alien team consisting of the aliens Babalou, Dada, Kemurian and Zettonian, decides to cheat by turning themselves kaiju-sized, necessitating Ultraman X to interfere... by using his Gomora armour to send all iv aliens vanishing into the skies, complete with four twinkles.

    Mythology and Religion

• Classical Mythology: This trope is Older Than Feudalism — some sources claim Karkinos, the crab which would get the Cancer constellation after performing its chore of distracting Hercules while he was trying to kill the Lernaean Hydra, got in that location because Hera gave it a place in the stars...after Hercules kicked it off into space!

    Theatre

• In Pokémon: The Mew-sical, the Twinkle in the Sky has get part of Team Rocket's planning process:

  "We'll steal the Dragonite, hop on its back, and ride it to the ding!"

• Matilda uses this effect when Trunchbull swings and throws Amanda by her pigtails.

    Video Games

• Played around with in Asura's Wrath In the DLC Lost Episode 2, Akuma punches Ryu then far away it seems similar this would have happened. He flies back into the portal he came from in the distance instead.
• Blaster Main uses a twinkle (on the ground) in its intro as Sophia zooms off into battle.
• BlazBlue: Makoto's Astral Finish ends in a uppercut that turns the opponent into a twinkle in the sky, and then leaves a huge impression on the moon... and smashes it apart.
• In BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, the boss of Chapter 4 becomes one of these later on he's defeated and gets launched out of his skyscraper headquarters.
• In Jiff of Fire Iv, Ryu eventually learns to summon up to eight other dragons, whose attacks are short FMV's. The Sand Dragon'south attack sends enemies flying off into the sky like this. Much similar the God Hand case above, they will exist dorsum afterwards to accept damage usually.
• In Carrie'southward Social club Up!, one of these tin can exist seen atop the impossibly tall stack of plates Carrie is holding on the Endless Mode bill of fare graphic.
• How Animal Contra is defeated in Neo Contra.
• DLC for Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten gives us Mao bringing in his Getter Mao and showing information technology off to the Hades Political party... before condign sidetracked and showing an "interest" in Desco and, subsequently, losing the keys to Fuka.
• After boss battles in Donkey Kong Land, starting in Ass Kong Country Returns after a boss fight. Donkey Kong will exist complimentary to punch the bosses up to 25 times before sending them off into the sky. Follows in the sequel, Ass Kong Land: Tropical Freeze.
• Concluding Fantasy:
  • At ane point in the original Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, y'all're confronted by the game's resident Goldfish Poop Gang, who demand a toll to continue down the road. Before on, the team's resident Moogle declared a wish to become a star - if y'all choose not to pay the toll, y'all'll barge onwards, knocking the Moogle into the sky. Although yous're never shown the Moogle "turning into" a star, you lot do become this gem:

  Selkie A: And so, he became a star.
  Selkie B: Big time.

  • Last Fantasy Xiv has the Hildibrand Adventures which take place subsequently the stop of each expansion'south chief story. Past the time the overarching Hildibrand story is done in Patch X.5, Hildibrand is launched like this in some class or another to the side by side expansion's region for further adventures.
• In God Manus, Gene's more powerful God Roulette attacks (Dragon Kicking, 100 Fist and Homerun God to name a few) stop with the enemy being launch in the galaxy (where they already are), like the awesome credit song puts it. However, different other examples said enemies will actually end up back in front of you every bit if the attack was played backwards, even if information technology's but to let out a decease cry.
  • As well, Evil Boisterous Bruiser Elvis does this earlier his second fight confronting Gene. He punches two of his henchmen into the skies for disrespecting the body of one of their victims.
• Slayer's Instant Impale in Guilty Gear XX involves punching an opponent into the heaven and then reciting a haiku. When he completes the poem, there's a twinkle in the sky right before "Destroyed" is announced.
  • May'south Instant Kill does this as well in later games, as the girl cheerfully blasts her opponent out of a cannon into the wild blue yonder.
• The first dominate of Gunstar Heroes is defeated in this way.
• This happens to the Rock Titan after being blasted off past Hercules in the opening cutscene for Olympus Coliseum in Kingdom Hearts Ii.
• Happens quite a few times in the Kirby serial:
  • The icon for "Throw" power in Kirby'due south Take a chance depicts Kirby tossing something so hard that it becomes a twinkle in the heaven.
  • In Kirby's Epic Yarn, Kirby and Prince Fluff dispatch Yin-Yarn by hurling him into the sky.
  • In Kirby: Planet Robobot, it's possible to get knocked past a large enemy or stage obstruction into the background, where this is the issue. (If said enemy or obstacle doesn't knock you into the screen.) May likewise utilize to its predecessor game, Kirby: Triple Deluxe (where the latter definitely practical).
  • In Kirby Star Allies, this happens to Francisca and Flamberge afterward you beat them for the second time.
  • When Kirby delivers the final blow to King Dedede in Kirby Fighters Deluxe, the latter goes flying into the sky.
  • In Kirby Battle Royale, Dedede is given the Team Rocket handling over again after his Dededestroyer Z is destroyed.
  • And in Kirby Fighters two, Dedede and Meta Knight are sent flying after Kirby and his partner cease them with the Buddy Star Blaster.
• Happens to a hapless minion of Mashtooth's in The Legendary Starfy after existence punched away by his lord.
• In Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, subsequently the party fights the Doom Eye, Dekar shows upward to send information technology flying into orbit with his Exploding Sword assail. The twinkle'southward even accompanied by the "puzzle complete!" melody.
• Get hit by Chuck Norris' One-Hitting Kill uppercut in M.U.Thousand.Eastward.N, and this happens to your grapheme.
• Happens to DJ Subatomic Supernova in No Directly Roads later on his defeat at the easily of Bunk Bed Junction. Appropriate, given his whole cosmic/infinite theme.
• Persona:
  • Persona 4: Chie'southward Galactic Punt Follow-upwardly Attack ^annotation a special, souped-up concrete assail that has a gamble of triggering when a party member lands a critical hit or hits an enemy's weak spot, unlocked by hit rank iii in their Social Link allows the Cute Bruiser to kicking an enemy (and the occasional Mini-Dominate) into the orbital frame. This makes hers the most powerful in the game, as every other character's but deals a huge amount of harm and renders a target dizzy, whereas Chie's is an instant kill attack. The movement returns as Chie's instant decease special attack in Persona iv: Loonshit.
  • Persona 5: In the pyramid dungeon, Ann throws Morgana so high into the air it results in Morgana temporarily disappearing in a tiny flash of lite, before the cat hurdles back towards Globe.
• In Portal 2, a twinkle, complete with the standard sound event, is created when a portal opens upwardly very very far away - specifically, on the Moon.
• Pokémon Sun and Moon introduces the aptly-named Fairy-Blazon Z-Movement, "Twinkle Tackle". The animation for which depicts the user launching the target into orbit similar so... with but a low-cal tap.
• Rayman Legends: This happens to The Magician after each boss fight, where they and then land on a tiny planet to be used as instruments by the inhabitants.
• River Urban center Girls: In the normal ending, Kunio and Riki point out Misako and Kyoki are stalking them, the girls uppercut them into the stratosphere.
• In Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Joachim has a damage-or-OHKO attack that launches an enemy high into the heaven. The role player will know it succeeded if the enemy creates a twinkle.
• Shantae: In a sprite comic made by Matt Bozon during Shantae GBC's release chosen "Bolo gets taken out", Shantae wanted to invite Bolo to a festival trip the light fantastic toe. However, Bolo already invited Risky Boots, and Shantae boots him into the heaven.
• Super Mario Bros. examples:
  • The Goomba King suffers this fate when the bridge of Goomba Fortress unfolds in Paper Mario 64, sending him away.
  • Happens to the role player in Paper Mario: The 1000-Year Door when they're launched into the sky from a cannon. Information technology happens again to Lord Crump when his robot explodes.
  • Bizarrely, the giant Scritch Chomp from Long Fall Falls, in Paper Mario: Sticker Star flies abroad later reaching the high falls, cue this trope.
  • When y'all utilise a secret cannon in New Super Mario Bros. and New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
  • Happens in opposite when Mario returns from a galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy.
  • In Mario Political party 3, there's a scene where Bowser sneaks upwardly and startles Princess Daisy. She slaps him and so difficult that she sends him flying. That's probably the reason why Bowser only kidnaps Peach.
  • In Super Princess Peach, Princess Peach sends Bowser flying by whacking him with her Parasol of Pain afterward defeating him in the final battle.
  • Can happen to Mario in Paper Mario: The Origami King if he fails the Sudden Death round of the Shy Guys Finish Concluding quiz show: the poor lad get blown out of a cannon direct through the roof into the skies before this trope occurs.
• If someone is striking up out of the loonshit in Super Nail Bros. or its sequels, this is the result... unless they fly forwards and bounce off the screen. It's actually pretty satisfying, especially since they scream the whole time; subsequently a long and bitter fight, hearing a morose, "Pika piiiiikaaaaa..." makes the whole matter seem worthwhile. Especially gratifying in that detail instance if you are a fan of Team Rocket. This can sometimes look a scrap weird in stages that take place entirely indoors/underground. Starting in the quaternary game, it will stop occurring during the final seconds of a lucifer, to avoid the scenario where an assured victory turns into a tie because the match ended before the long animation finished playing out. In Ultimate, if Snake uses his Final Smash, which is essentially Macross Missile Massacre, and someone gets star KO'd while the missiles are firing, a stray missile volition follow them off into the distance.
• In Tales of Xillia ii, this happens to the target of Leia and Ludger's linked mystic arte at the end.
• Roger Sr.'s typical fate in later Tekken games.
• Happens to Lammy in the United states of america version of Um Jammer Lammy.
• Happens to Wario in the "Punch!" minigame in WarioWare: Touched.
  • Several times in the Wario Land series. Happens to Captain Syrup in some of the ending for Wario Land II and to the 2d dominate in Wario State: Milk shake It!, Hot Roderick, subsequently Wario's final attack against him.
• Post-obit the 2d boss fight against them in Xenoblade Chronicles two, this happens to Zeke and Pandoria after being chased by a bedrock that falls and rolls into them.
• What happens to Pamela once she'south finally defeated in Milanor'due south chapter of the Yggdra Unison phonation drama.
• Raphael the Raven'due south death animation in Yoshi's Island. Skip to 2:38 for the boss battle and 3:50 for the actual twinkle.
• In Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure, this is a possible way to die in "Operation Takeback!"

    Web Animation

• Homestar Runner:
  • In the Stiff Bad Electronic mail "winter pool", Pom-Pom becomes this after billowy off of Strong Bad'south gelatin-filled pool. He'south subsequently shown floating through infinite.
  • At the stop of "The Next April Fools Thing", Stinkoman punches Bubs and so hard he goes flying into space, leaving behind a twinkle that becomes the words "Happy April Fools' Day".
• Sonic Mania Adventures: In episode iii, Ray gets curious about the Master Emerald and tries to affect information technology. Knuckles responds by chucking him skyward.
• Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers
  • In The Wacky Wario Bros.: The Welcome Invitation, Mario kicks Wario and Waluigi off into the heaven at the finish, both of the Wario Bros. twinkling instantly subsequently.
  • At the finish of 101 Ways for Mario to Die, SMG4 kicks Mario into the heaven. Mario and so screams before turning into a star and losing his last life.

    Spider web Comics

    Spider web Original

• In The Impossible Man, when Yuki use her most powerful assault, the villains are sent into the sky until "stars flashed in the distance."

    Web Videos

• Spoony/Gandalf gets sent flying when he attempts to fight Malacite in Suburban Knights. He comes back later on, unharmed, after having orbited the Earth at to the lowest degree twice.

    Western Animation

• Hazard Time "The Political party'due south Over, Isla De Señorita": The Party God leaves a twinkle after the Ice King flings him into outer space.
• The Astonishing Spiez! episode "Operation: Twins of Problem". When a WOOHP jet flies off into the altitude, it disappears in one of these.
• Sokka's boomerang twinkled before returning in the second episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
• Atomic number 26 Man becomes this in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes! after Graviton launches him into outer space.
• Beep Prepared: Taken to the farthermost. Wile Eastward. Coyote is shot into space by his rocket sled. After he zooms by Sputnik and the Moon, the rocket explodes...and the Coyote has go the constellation Sagittarius. We even hear "Twinkle, Twinkle, Trivial Star".
• Bibleman: Its solution to the question of how Bibleman can defeat the villains without resorting to imitable violence: launching the villains into the sky and out of sight.
• Happens in the Flower County animated special "A Wish for Wings That Work" when Santa Claus'southward sleigh takes off.
• Centaurworld: in "My Tummy, Your Hurts", Comfortable Doug disappears in the sky in a flash of lite subsequently existence kicked by a equus caballus named Becky Apples.

  Doug: In all my years, I have never encountered such sublime forcefulness, Rebecca Apples!

• An inverse of this shows upwards in The Christmas Tree, courtesy of Santa Claus.
• Happens to Sissi's baton in Code Lyoko's "Zero Gravity Zone", where information technology keeps going through the sky into outer infinite.
• Happens to the characters on Kaeloo, unremarkably Stumpy or Mr. Cat, when they are thrown, kicked or launched into the sky.
• Mighty Magiswords: In "Collection Infection", Vambre Warrior falls victim to this when she accidentally drops her Radiator Magisword into the river of fangs, causing the ground beneath her to turn into a geyser with fangs.

  Vambre: That's non how geysers woooorrrrk! *ding*

• Some characters from The Mr. Men Show would often be shown blasted off into outer infinite, merely without a twinkle. The only one who completely did this trope with the twinkle is Mr. Bump in the episode "Games".
• The plot of the season two finale of My Lilliputian Pony: Friendship Is Magic is resolved by Princess Cadance and Shining Armor using The Power of Beloved to nail Queen Chrysalis and her army of Evil Minions over the horizon line - complete with a twinkle from the quondam.
• Ned's Newt
  • In "Planes, Trains, and Newtmobiles", a rocket launches off to Russia with Ned and Newton in information technology, and when it flies off nosotros pan upwardly to the heaven where it vanishes into a star before we cut to a view from space.
  • A similar rocket launches and twinkles in "Live and Let Dad" with Ned and Newton inside like last time, only it follows Dad's rocket and halfway though it initiates ejection sequence.
• OK G.O.! Let'southward Be Heroes:
  • In "We're Captured", this happens when the heroes concede defeat and fly off into the sky at the end of the episode.
  • This as well happens to Fink in the episode "K.O. vs Fink" after being defeated by the heroes' Love Beam attack, and though it is hard to see, a ding can still be heard.
• The Owl House: In "Hunting Palismen", Hunter ends upwards shooting off into the distance this way after Luz slams a fire glyph onto his back.
• Steven Universe: In "Reunited", Garnet tosses her wedding bouquet so loftier that information technology becomes a twinkle. A few minutes later, it lands on Bismuth's head, who catches it with a confused expression.
• In the episode "Stars in their Eyes" of The Super Mario Bros Super Evidence!, the Mario Brothers' space ship does this equally it heads towards planet Quirk at the beginning of the episode.
• Happens to some of Lord Dregg's infinite ships sometimes, in later seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987).
• In The Transformers finale of the 3-part episode, "Rebirth, Part 3", Galvatron opens the Plasma Energy Sleeping accommodation on Earth intending to destroy World, Cybertron and possibly the whole galaxy with the plasma energies. He and the other Decepticons try to escape aboard Scorponok's ship mode, but they accept off also late, and are striking by a wild flux of energy from the sleeping accommodation, which whips Scorponok and the whole Decepticon crew inside far, far away, making them a twinkle at the distance in the darkness of infinite.
• Happens to Hayaku in the Turbo F.A.S.T. episode "Turbo Drift" when she goes too fast and flies off the track in an effort to outrace Turbo.

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