Looks Like Team Rockets Throwing Up Again

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

Whatsoever object, if launched with sufficient force, will sail clean over the horizon and vanish into the distant sky. A moment after it disappears, a four-pointed "twinkle" will announced in the spot where it was last seen, sometimes rotating briefly, along with a high-pitched "ringing" noise. If the object is potentially explosive, it will blow up after the twinkle. It'due south also sometimes used to show that something is coming downwardly from the sky. This particular use may be true, equally in the Second World War, Japanese AA gunners on ships were trained to watch for the gleam of an approaching dive bomber's canopy. Because after that, the simply indication that something was coming was the whistling of bombs falling.

In some media, especially anime and video games, this will happen to characters. Comedic recurring villains seem to be especially prone to this trope, as information technology's an easy style to bear witness that they're clearly defeated and out of the fashion for now without having to kill or otherwise permanently inconvenience them. It's also a common fate of everyone on the receiving end of a powerful plenty Megaton Punch or Dwelling Run Hitter. Regardless of how far they're launched, they tin can be expected to bear witness up again with no lasting impairment, 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 usually taken care of in this manner — sent flight 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 just an inverse from flight.
• Bleach anime:
  • Episode 37. After Tatsufusa Enjoji, the banana adjutant and 3rd seat of the Eighth Division confronts Chad and does a lot of boasting, Chad knocks him into the sky with a single punch.
  • Episode 127 when the Vizard Hiyori Sarugaki jumps into the sky while carrying Orihime Inoue.
  • Twice in Episode 205 during the kemari game. Once when the referee Ururu Tsumugiya throws the ball up into the heaven, and once when Jinta Hanakari knocks Kon (in Ichigo's trunk) into the sky.
  • Episode #213, after Tessai throws Kon (in Ichigo's 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 heaven, though, but a burn trail every bit the man burned to ash from atmospheric friction.
• Cowboy Bebop:
  • Episode 3 "Honky Tonk Woman". After Faye blasts out of the casino in her ship with Spike and Jet clinging to her windshield, she flies straight up and disappears in a twinkle.
  • Episode 19 "Wild Horses". When a pirate spaceship escapes Faye and Jet, it flies off into the distance and disappears in a twinkle.
• Happens to Suzuo in one case in Dokkoida?! after an over-enthusiastic greeting of Marilyn Ronmoe.

• Doraemon: In "Automobile Re-create Motorcar", when Big G turns Doraemon into an airplane, the latter flies away and disappears with a twinkle. Later in the same episode, when Noby uses the Machine Copy Machine to plow into a rocket, he also disappears with a twinkle.
• Happens at to the lowest degree in one case in Dragon Ball Z: Trunks blasts Vegeta into the distance and then that he can have time to kill Cell earlier he absorbs Android xviii. We get a lovely twinkle out of it. The state of affairs and the music provide a prissy dissimilarity to the lighthearted celebration inspired when it happens in Pokémon.
  • And Dragon Ball Z Abridged turns this into a Call-Back to Goku and Vegeta's offset battle.
• Excel Saga hangs a lampshade on this trope in episode 18, where Iwata gets punched and says "Await for the twinkle!" just earlier he disappears into said twinkle.
• Fairy Tail is rather fond of this.
  • Episode 24, Elfman punches Totomaru, who was frozen by Gray. Added with Elfman'due south Speech communication during the punch and a 'wow' sound effect when a twinkle appeared

    Elfman: "If yous'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 as well when he makes a comment about Gray being shirtless and stalking girls. Before he could get to terminate his sentence of Gray is a behemothic pervert, he got punched into the sky past Gray.
  • This is also the fate of Bluenote Stinger later on existence defeated past an angry Gildarts Clive.
  • Natsu go this when Erza stepped on the trap that was intended for Greyness in the 2nd OVA.
  • In Episode 126, this happens to the Jiggle Barrel Gang once Natsu gets over his motion sickness. They launch themselves again, accidentally, and, despite missing the twinkle this time, it is accompanied by the trio shouting "We'RE FLYING OFF AGAAAAIIIINNN!".
  • In Episode 154, Happy gets this again after he mocks and epically trolls Erza.
• Fate/Grand Carnival: During episode 2, 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 most the carnival ending, so she used her Jaguar Kick skill on him, turning him into a twinkle.
• Fist of the N Star: Kenshiro one time 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 up or say the wrong thing - and more than than once they've gotten punched through the roof as penalisation.
• In some animated episodes of Getter Robo, the titular robot's Getter 3 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 iii'southward 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 every bit a twinkle of light.
  • Episode 7, when Ryuuka uses a grenade underground she becomes a twinkle.
• Parodied in Haruhi Suzumiya when Yuki lost against Mikuru in a battle. "Curses."
• Happens to Kotengu in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou OAV episode "Kokoro no Yukue", subsequently he is struck by lightning as a punishment for losing a tengu competition.
• In Hetalia: Axis Powers, when Italia was launched into the heaven by an Ejection Seat, the last thing we saw of him was a twinkle.
• In Higurashi: When They Weep Kira'due south second episode, this happens to Takano as well afterward Magical Girls Oyashiro Rika & Trap Satoko destroy her current Ritual Tool Devil, Nail 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, "Sorry, Blood brother!" all the while.
• In JoJo'due south Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, this was used to acceleration Alessi, courtesy of a double-team 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 Police of Ueki manages to pole vault twinkle out in Episode 17.
• Happens to Keitaro in Love Hina. Not as often as you'd think, though. He gets flung skyward regularly, but ordinarily comes crashing back down rather than disappearing into the heaven. It does happen this way on rare occasion, though.
• Played with in Martian Successor Nadesico. In an episode titled The Lukewarm Cold Equation Akito's robot was thrown into the distance during a fight, creating the twinkle. This had happened a couple of times in previous episodes, simply this time the residuum 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 Beast attacking the Institute grabbed Mazinger'due south Pilder with Kouji inside and threw information technology away. Way to ruin the until-and then tense scene. And they state in the secret laboratory where Mazinkaiser is stored.
• Mobile Suit Gundam 00:
  • Happens twice while Setsuna is piloting Gundam Exia. The first during the very showtime episode. The second during the final episode. Although it is justified considering that the Gundams in question actually emit sparkles.
  • Patrick is often beingness blown away. Kind of played with though, in that different Team Rocket, it'south actually surprising that he survives when this happens.
• The explosion variant happens Once an Episode to Prince Drove in Mon Colle Knights. More specifically, when blasted over the horizon, his automobile explodes, with the ensuing cloud turning into a rose with ane of its "petals" falling off.
• Used to swell effect in My Hero Academia when All Might does this to a super-durable genetically engineered monster. All Might was on a strict time limit and didn't accept fourth dimension to subdue his opponent, so to remove it from the equation, he pummeled the monster faster than it could absorb the impacts until it was weak enough to exist sent into the fucking stratosphere. That's how y'all get to exist the world's all-time hero.
  • During the concrete exam for hero schoolhouse, Uraraka gets the loftier score for distance throwing past using her zippo-gravity power to gently toss the ball out of orbit, ending in a twinkle.

  Aizawa: Distance... infinite.

• When Haruka hurls the "plane" far from Windbloom in episode four of My-Otome. Co-ordinate to a bonus feature on the first DVD, the thing ended up in orbit.
• During a baseball game in Ninja Nonsense, ane of Shinobu'south habitation run hits does this. Information technology ends upward reaching another galaxy!
• This happens to Buggy the Clown early on in One Piece too, where Luffy defeats him for the first fourth dimension past sending him flying after Nami interrupts and messes up his pulling of himself back together.
• Whenever "Team Rocket is Blasting Off Again!" in Pokémon: The Series.
  • This happens when they're blasting off from nigh anything: Pokémon attacks, human intervention, high water pressure when springing a leak in a h2o pipe, doing honest piece of work for an honest mean solar day's pay, etc. In Advanced Generation, they've sometimes blasted off multiple times in one episode. Team 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 10 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 attempt. Ash and his friends watched the "shooting star" wing beyond the sky. Here is the chat that follows:

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

  • In "Double-Fourth dimension Battle 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 betwixt diverse causes. They never get this trope. Ouch.
  • There's likewise "The Treasure Is All Mine!", when Team Rocket wanted to get sent flying; well, James does anyhow (because it's the only way he tin go away from his dreaded fiancée, Jessebelle). He fails, though; Jessebelle ends up getting blasted off with him instead of Jessie.
  • In several circles, net and otherwise, this trope has go known as "Pulling a Team Rocket".
  • This happened to Meowth by himself in "The School of Hard Knocks", after Team Rocket abuses him physically again. He comes dorsum downwardly, complete with a second twinkle, right on cue later Jessie and James say their corresponding last 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 similar that, Meowth!
    Meowth: [English language dub line] I love a splashy entrance!

  • Even a Pikachu Short had this: Meloetta did this when it flew upwards into the sky.
  • In one episode, they are launched in a cake of ice. Well-nigh the end of the episode, they are seen, notwithstanding in the water ice block, floating in the h2o. They then say the phrase they say in a somber voice, with Meowth saying "With no sparkle..." a bit after.
  • Team Rocket aren't the merely ones to become this treatment. In "Cerulean Blues", the Invincible Pokémon Brothers use their three Tentacruel to effort and Toxicant Sting both Misty and her Gyarados into submission. Misty and Gyarados reply by blasting off the Tentacruel with a Hyper Beam, and so giving the same treatment to the brothers with a Hydro Pump. They even lampshade this by maxim, "We're non Squad Rocket, only we're diggings off!"
  • As has Dario at the end of "The Flame Pokémon-a-Thon", post-obit a confrontation with Ash over his methods in the race. Though he comes back downwardly just in time to blame his defeat on the Rockets themselves and chase them abroad.
  • Burgundy as well 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 diggings off, although in-universe, it was a movie.
  • Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Bounding main. While Team Rocket is fleeing on a bike-powered balloon, a Fearow controlled by Jack Walker (the titular Pokémon Ranger) pierces their balloon with its beak and sends them zooming away into the sky.
  • An early episode in Advance Generation has this fate befall Ash'south Corphish after Treecko attacks him to get him out of a hole.
  • Surprisingly, the Sun & Moon has it averted birthday, instead having a wild Bewear showing upwards to grab them then run off. It even gets defied at one signal, when Bewear catches them in midair merely when it seems they're gonna get blasted into the sky.
  • Red's Clefairy had this by existence punched from a Ursaring in "Lights, Camerupt, Action!"
  • Brock got this when his Bonsly tackled him from getting horny due to Nurse Joy in "Off the Unbeaten Path".
  • Clemont had this treatment besides in "A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!" when he tested out the Musculus Mass Magnifying Auto.
  • Even Ash gets this treatment in "Alola Kanto!" when he gets ran over by his herd of Tauros.
  • Pikachu was not 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's Regigigas defeats Flintstone'due south Rapidash with Mega Dial, the Mega Punch ends up blasting Flint'due south Rapidash off.
• This happened to PaRappa in episode three of PaRappa the Rapper, after a failed try to terminate the teacher, who is now actually insane after another bucket makes him Really crazy.
• Pretty much every villain from Powerpuff Girls Z gets this treatment by the Powerpuff Girls, especially Mojo Jojo.
• Frequently comes up in the Pretty Sammy series. Both Rumiya and many of the Love-Beloved Monsters go out this way.
• Whatever time someone gets booted into low globe orbit in Ranma ½. Inverted in an episode where Kuno delivers a message tied to an arrow, which appears out of a twinkle.
• In The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, Misty is subject to this afterwards getting hit with the wind from Tougo's Humongous Mecha's Behemothic Kizuna Sword, landing in a woods far abroad enough that Tougo has to use his mech to fly over.
• Hanagata often gets sent flight into a twinkle by Otaru'southward marionettes in Saber Marionette J to X.
• Sekirei: In the third episode of the anime's second flavor, to members of the disciplinary squad, launched past Kazehana.
  • Yume does it to them at the end of Episode 12 in Season 1 equally well.
• This happened to Dr. Eggman a couple of times in the early episodes of Sonic X, 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 7. When Coffretchi applies makeup to Elephantotchi, the powder makes him want to sneeze, causing him to run around; right earlier he does and then, he flings his owner off his dorsum and into the sky, and he disappears with a twinkle. A few minutes later, Smartotchi and X are hitting by Elephantotchi and besides disappear into the heaven with a twinkle.
• Guame ends upwards becoming a twinkle undercover 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 post-booting dialogue on one occasion:

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

  • However, it tin also happen to fellow comedic villain Thundercracker, and the serious villain Scourge. Sideways does information technology voluntarily, his zigzagged departures often ending in this.
• Ultimate Muscle has this happen to Mantaro sometimes, usually courtesy of Roxanne.
• A car twinkles out in an episode of Usavich. A subsequently episode has a police officer twinkle out afterward being hit by a barrel.
• Thorfinn and Thorkell's last fight in Vinland Saga almost comes to an abrupt end when Thorkell kicks Thorfinn into the altitude. The male child slams into a tree, breaks his arm, most of his ribs, and then gets dorsum 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 abroad and completely impales a human through his chainmail and through his heart. Yep, that man is a pure monster.
• With any minor Monster of the Week villain that doesn't contribute majorly to the plot in Wedding Peach, this happens (the major ones dissolve into sparkles and "are destroyed")…
• Happens a few times in Yo-Kai Picket. 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 sixteen after Nate smacked him with a paper fan, and finally Nate himself at the receiving ends of a paws of fury from Jibanyan in episode 44.
• At the beginning of the Demon Tournament of YuYu Hakusho, all the demons on Yusuke's 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 then comically lampshades the trope (and reveals his deportment were intentional) by calling out the judges because none of his opponents fainted, died, or surrendered (which were the only loss weather 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 jitney, both him and another character are launched into the distance thanks to the instability of the cart and the rope breaking.

    Asian Animation

• In Guardian Fairy Michel, this happens ofttimes to the Black Hammer Gang equally they're defeated. Bonus points for it happen to their castle, too.
• In Happy Heroes, it'due south not uncommon for characters sent flight in the sky to disappear with a brief twinkle.
• In the Noonbory and the Super seven episode "Hide and Become Squeak", one of these appears later on Rosygury is blown away by Pongdybory'southward Sneeze of Doom.
• In Pleasant Goat and Big Large Wolf, this happens a lot to Wolffy, who often gets blasted into the air somehow (his wife Wolnie striking him with her Frying Pan of Doom is one possible cause).
• Simple Samosa: In "Khelo Samosa", when Dr. Goti Sodawala is launched into the distance past Vada bouncing into him (to relieve him from being forcefully puppeteered every bit a video game enemy) and shouts "Thanks, Samosa!", he disappears with a twinkle.

    Fan Works

• Blood brother on Board: Sabo wins his fight against Miss Midweek and Mr. 9 by striking them with his Knock Back assault which sends them both flying off into the sky. The author even includes the Twinkle sound effect.
• In Dial information technology happens to Ulik when Thor and Atomic number 26 Human being hit him with a combination assail, much to Hill's chagrin as information technology caused them to lose track of him.
• Kid Icarus Uprising two: Hades Revenge does this to Teem Chaos most every time they appear. Fitting considering they are clearly a parody of the Squad Rocket Trio.
• Muffet The Mom: Happens to Muffet in the sixth chapter, courtesy of Frisk and a see-saw.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic My Footling Mommies: This is how many stars were made - if you anger Princess Luna, you lot will get A Twinkle in the Sky and stay there.
• New Game Plus (One Piece): How the "fight" with Luffy ends for Alvida. Lampshaded:

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

• Opening Dangerous Gates: This happens to Natsu when a drunk Rangiku punches him. Main Makarov wisely takes a conscientious step back.
• Newspaper Mario 10: This is Kirby's exit at the finish.
• Pokémon: Clefairy Tales: As is par for the form, whenever a Rocket (ordinarily Jessie, James, and Meowth, who first appear in chapter 9) get blasted off.
• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines:
  • Every bit usual, this happens to Team Rocket, though non as often equally in canon since they're non actively trying to steal Pikachu from Ash.
  • Played for Drama during Chapter eighteen. Paul ends upward blasting Ash'due south Primeape into the heaven. Dissimilar most examples, information technology'due south hinted that such an action might really have fatal consequences.
• In Tantabus Mark 2, this is how Sombra leaves Rainbow's 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 existent loftier into the sky.
• Twelve Ruby Lines:
  • In Affiliate 32, this happens to Jones when she absorbs too much forcefulness from Wyper'southward missiles. They get sent flying from the backlash, and Usopp, who grabs them right earlier 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:
  • After Tristan defeats Florence, he gets rid of the evil ring (Millennium Ring) "by throwing it randomly in a devil-may-care management." As it flies through the air, Florence's voice can be heard shouting "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....", and and so says "Twinkle" when the ring vanishes into the woods.
  • Later on, Marik kicks Crump out of Tea'south heed. We and so meet Crump'south spirit fly into the distance. Every bit 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 as a lazy bastard who faked his fly's injuries, is catapulted into the sky and makes this. However, since he's an actor in a play, he lands in front of the stage and, upon being asked if he'south okay by a co-worker, dismisses this as just an acting trick.
• Nix, the Ghost Dog does this at the stop of The Nightmare Before Christmas as he turns into a star.

    Films — Alive-Activeness

• It happens in Kung Fu Hustle during the final battle. The movie uses a lot of Animation Tropes despite being live activity.
• Happened in Shaolin Soccer when Sing demonstrates his boot ability by kicking a beer can towards the sky subsequently to be seen again on impact.
• In the outset Ultraman Zearth motion-picture show, 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 Telly

• 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 tin can be seen plummeting to globe as a falling star.
• This happens to the Monster of the Week in episode fourteen of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. (It was a humorous episode and a tribute to the very lightheaded Gekisou Sentai Carranger.)
• This is part of the Warp Drive effect in the diverse Star Trek serial.
• 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. Subsequently Ginga destroys Bemlar, Bemstar gets stunned for a moment... until Victory unleashed his Ex-Red Male monarch Knuckle and socks Bemstar in the face until the monster ends up 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 past turning themselves kaiju-sized, necessitating Ultraman X to interfere... by using his Gomora armour to ship 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 later on performing its chore of distracting Hercules while he was trying to kill the Lernaean Hydra, got there considering 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 become role of Team Rocket's planning process:

  "Nosotros'll steal the Dragonite, hop on its dorsum, 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'south Wrath In the DLC Lost Episode two, Akuma punches Ryu so far abroad it seems like this would have happened. He flies dorsum into the portal he came from in the distance instead.
• Blaster Master uses a twinkle (on the ground) in its intro equally Sophia zooms off into battle.
• BlazBlue: Makoto'due south Astral Finish ends in a uppercut that turns the opponent into a twinkle in the heaven, then leaves a huge impression on the moon... and smashes information technology apart.
• In BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, the boss of Chapter four becomes one of these after he's defeated and gets launched out of his skyscraper headquarters.
• In Breath of Fire IV, Ryu eventually learns to summon up to eight other dragons, whose attacks are short FMV'south. The Sand Dragon'southward attack sends enemies flight off into the sky like this. Much similar the God Manus example in a higher place, they will be back afterwards to take harm ordinarily.
• In Carrie'south Lodge Up!, one of these tin can exist seen atop the impossibly tall stack of plates Carrie is property on the Endless Mode bill of fare graphic.
• How Creature Contra is defeated in Neo Contra.
• DLC for Disgaea iv: A Promise Unforgotten gives us Mao bringing in his Getter Mao and showing it off to the Hades Party... before becoming sidetracked and showing an "involvement" in Desco and, subsequently, losing the keys to Fuka.
• Subsequently dominate battles in Donkey Kong Country, starting in Donkey Kong State Returns later on a dominate fight. Donkey Kong will be free to punch the bosses upward to 25 times before sending them off into the sky. Follows in the sequel, Ass Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
• Final Fantasy:
  • At 1 point in the original Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, you lot're confronted past the game'due south resident Goldfish Poop Gang, who need a price to go along down the road. Earlier on, the squad's resident Moogle declared a wish to get a star - if you cull not to pay the price, you'll clomp onwards, knocking the Moogle into the sky. Although you're never shown the Moogle "turning into" a star, you practice go this jewel:

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

  • Terminal Fantasy XIV has the Hildibrand Adventures which accept identify after the end of each expansion'south master story. Past the time the overarching Hildibrand story is done in Patch 10.5, Hildibrand is launched like this in some form or another to the adjacent expansion's region for further adventures.
• In God Hand, Gene's more powerful God Roulette attacks (Dragon Kicking, 100 Fist and Homerun God to proper name a few) end with the enemy being launch in the galaxy (where they already are), like the awesome credit song puts it. However, dissimilar other examples said enemies volition really end up back in front of y'all equally if the assault was played backwards, even if it's just to let out a death cry.
  • Likewise, Evil Boisterous Bruiser Elvis does this before his second fight confronting Gene. He punches two of his henchmen into the skies for disrespecting the torso of 1 of their victims.
• Slayer's Instant Kill in Guilty Gear XX involves punching an opponent into the sky and then reciting a haiku. When he completes the poem, there'southward a twinkle in the heaven correct before "Destroyed" is announced.
  • May's Instant Impale does this also in later games, as the girl cheerfully blasts her opponent out of a cannon into the wild blue yonder.
• The beginning dominate of Gunstar Heroes is defeated in this way.
• This happens to the Stone Titan after beingness blasted off by 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 Adventure depicts Kirby tossing something then difficult that it becomes a twinkle in the sky.
  • 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 by a large enemy or stage obstacle into the background, where this is the effect. (If said enemy or obstacle doesn't knock yous into the screen.) May too utilise to its predecessor game, Kirby: Triple Deluxe (where the latter definitely practical).
  • In Kirby Star Allies, this happens to Francisca and Flamberge after yous beat them for the 2d time.
  • When Kirby delivers the final blow to Male monarch Dedede in Kirby Fighters Deluxe, the latter goes flying into the sky.
  • In Kirby Battle Royale, Dedede is given the Team Rocket treatment again after his Dededestroyer Z is destroyed.
  • And in Kirby Fighters two, Dedede and Meta Knight are sent flying after Kirby and his partner finish them with the Buddy Star Blaster.
• Happens to a hapless minion of Mashtooth'due south in The Legendary Starfy after being punched away by his lord.
• In Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, later the party fights the Doom Eye, Dekar shows up to send information technology flying into orbit with his Exploding Sword attack. The twinkle's even accompanied by the "puzzle consummate!" melody.
• Get hit by Chuck Norris' I-Hit Impale uppercut in Chiliad.U.Chiliad.E.N, and this happens to your character.
• Happens to DJ Subatomic Supernova in No Straight Roads afterwards his defeat at the easily of Bunk Bed Junction. Advisable, given his whole cosmic/space theme.
• Persona:
  • Persona 4: Chie's Galactic Punt Follow-upwardly Set on ^note a special, souped-up physical assail that has a chance of triggering when a party member lands a critical hit or hits an enemy'southward weak spot, unlocked by hit rank 3 in their Social Link allows the Cute Bruiser to kick an enemy (and the occasional Mini-Boss) into the orbital frame. This makes hers the most powerful in the game, as every other character's simply deals a huge amount of impairment and renders a target dizzy, whereas Chie'southward is an instant kill set on. The move returns as Chie's instant death special attack in Persona 4: Arena.
  • Persona five: In the pyramid dungeon, Ann throws Morgana so loftier into the air it results in Morgana temporarily disappearing in a tiny flash of lite, before the cat hurdles dorsum towards Earth.
• In Portal 2, a twinkle, complete with the standard sound effect, is created when a portal opens up very very far away - specifically, on the Moon.
• Pokémon Sunday and Moon introduces the aptly-named Fairy-Type Z-Move, "Twinkle Tackle". The animation for which depicts the user launching the target into orbit similar so... with simply a calorie-free tap.
• Rayman Legends: This happens to The Sorcerer later each dominate fight, where they then land on a tiny planet to be used equally instruments by the inhabitants.
• River City 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 impairment-or-OHKO attack that launches an enemy high into the heaven. The thespian will know it succeeded if the enemy creates a twinkle.
• Shantae: In a sprite comic made by Matt Bozon during Shantae GBC'due south release called "Bolo gets taken out", Shantae wanted to invite Bolo to a festival trip the light fantastic toe. Nevertheless, Bolo already invited Risky Boots, and Shantae boots him into the sky.
• Super Mario Bros. examples:
  • The Goomba Male monarch suffers this fate when the bridge of Goomba Fortress unfolds in Newspaper Mario 64, sending him away.
  • Happens to the player in Paper Mario: The 1000-Year Door when they're launched into the sky from a cannon. It happens again to Lord Crump when his robot explodes.
  • Bizarrely, the giant Cheep Chomp from Long Fall Falls, in Paper Mario: Sticker Star flies away after reaching the loftier falls, cue this trope.
  • When you employ a secret cannon in New Super Mario Bros. and New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
  • Happens in reverse when Mario returns from a milky way in Super Mario Galaxy.
  • In Mario Party 3, there's a scene where Bowser sneaks upward and startles Princess Daisy. She slaps him 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 subsequently defeating him in the final boxing.
  • Can happen to Mario in Paper Mario: The Origami Male monarch if he fails the Sudden Death circular of the Shy Guys Finish Last quiz show: the poor lad get blown out of a cannon straight through the roof into the skies before this trope occurs.
• If someone is hit upwards out of the arena 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, specially since they scream the whole time; after a long and bitter fight, hearing a morose, "Pika piiiiikaaaaa..." makes the whole thing seem worthwhile. Peculiarly gratifying in that particular instance if you are a fan of Team Rocket. This can sometimes await a bit weird in stages that take place entirely indoors/undercover. Starting in the 4th game, it will finish occurring during the last seconds of a match, to avoid the scenario where an assured victory turns into a tie considering the match concluded before the long animation finished playing out. In Ultimate, if Snake uses his Last Boom, which is essentially Macross Missile Massacre, and someone gets star KO'd while the missiles are firing, a devious missile will follow them off into the altitude.
• In Tales of Xillia two, this happens to the target of Leia and Ludger's linked mystic arte at the terminate.
• Roger Sr.'southward typical fate in later on Tekken games.
• Happens to Lammy in the U.s.a. version of Um Jammer Lammy.
• Happens to Wario in the "Dial!" minigame in WarioWare: Touched.
  • Several times in the Wario Land series. Happens to Captain Syrup in some of the catastrophe for Wario Country Two and to the second boss in Wario Land: Shake It!, Hot Roderick, afterwards Wario's concluding attack against him.
• Following the second dominate fight against them in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, this happens to Zeke and Pandoria after being chased by a boulder that falls and rolls into them.
• What happens to Pamela once she's finally defeated in Milanor's chapter of the Yggdra Unison voice drama.
• Raphael the Raven's expiry animation in Yoshi'south Island. Skip to ii:38 for the boss battle and 3:50 for the actual twinkle.
• In Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure, this is a possible manner to die in "Operation Takeback!"

    Spider web Animation

• Homestar Runner:
  • In the Strong Bad E-mail "winter pool", Pom-Pom becomes this after bouncing off of Strong Bad's gelatin-filled pool. He's later shown floating through space.
  • At the terminate of "The Adjacent April Fools Thing", Stinkoman punches Bubs and then hard he goes flying into space, leaving backside a twinkle that becomes the words "Happy April Fools' Day".
• Sonic Mania Adventures: In episode 3, Ray gets curious about the Chief Emerald and tries to bear upon it. 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 cease, both of the Wario Bros. twinkling instantly after.
  • At the end of 101 Means for Mario to Dice, SMG4 kicks Mario into the heaven. Mario then screams before turning into a star and losing his terminal life.

    Web Comics

    Web Original

• In The Incommunicable Man, when Yuki apply her most powerful attack, the villains are sent into the sky until "stars flashed in the altitude."

    Web Videos

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

    Western Animation

• Hazard Time "The Party'southward Over, Isla De Señorita": The Party God leaves a twinkle after the Ice Male monarch flings him into outer space.
• The Astonishing Spiez! episode "Functioning: Twins of Problem". When a WOOHP jet flies off into the distance, it disappears in i of these.
• Sokka'due south boomerang twinkled before returning in the 2d episode of Avatar: The Concluding Airbender.
• Iron Human becomes this in The Avengers: World's Mightiest Heroes! afterward Graviton launches him into outer infinite.
• Beep Prepared: Taken to the extreme. Wile Eastward. Coyote is shot into space by his rocket sled. After he zooms past Sputnik and the Moon, the rocket explodes...and the Coyote has get the constellation Sagittarius. We even hear "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star".
• Bibleman: Its solution to the question of how Bibleman tin can defeat the villains without resorting to imitable violence: launching the villains into the sky and out of sight.
• Happens in the Bloom Canton animated special "A Wish for Wings That Piece of work" when Santa Claus's sleigh takes off.
• Centaurworld: in "My Tummy, Your Hurts", Comfortable Doug disappears in the sky in a flash of light later existence kicked by a horse named Becky Apples.

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

• An inverse of this shows up in The Christmas Tree, courtesy of Santa Claus.
• Happens to Sissi's baton in Lawmaking Lyoko'due south "Cipher Gravity Zone", where information technology keeps going through the sky into outer space.
• Happens to the characters on Kaeloo, commonly Stumpy or Mr. Cat, when they are thrown, kicked or launched into the sky.
• Mighty Magiswords: In "Drove Infection", Vambre Warrior falls victim to this when she accidentally drops her Radiator Magisword into the river of fangs, causing the basis below her to turn into a geyser with fangs.

  Vambre: That'southward not how geysers woooorrrrk! *ding*

• Some characters from The Mr. Men Show would oftentimes be shown blasted off into outer space, only 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 2 finale of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is resolved by Princess Cadance and Shining Armor using The Power of Love to boom Queen Chrysalis and her army of Evil Minions over the horizon line - complete with a twinkle from the former.
• 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 we pan up to the heaven where information technology vanishes into a star earlier we cut to a view from space.
  • A similar rocket launches and twinkles in "Live and Let Dad" with Ned and Newton inside similar last time, only information technology follows Dad's rocket and halfway though it initiates ejection sequence.
• OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes:
  • In "Nosotros're Captured", this happens when the heroes concede defeat and wing off into the heaven at the cease 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 information technology is hard to see, a ding tin still be heard.
• The Owl House: In "Hunting Palismen", Hunter ends upward shooting off into the altitude this manner afterwards Luz slams a fire glyph onto his back.
• Steven Universe: In "Reunited", Garnet tosses her nuptials bouquet so loftier that it becomes a twinkle. A few minutes afterwards, information technology lands on Bismuth's head, who catches information technology with a confused expression.
• In the episode "Stars in their Optics" of The Super Mario Bros Super Show!, the Mario Brothers' space send does this as information technology heads towards planet Quirk at the beginning of the episode.
• Happens to some of Lord Dregg'southward space ships sometimes, in after seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987).
• In The Transformers finale of the 3-part episode, "Rebirth, Part 3", Galvatron opens the Plasma Free energy Bedchamber on Earth intending to destroy Globe, Cybertron and possibly the whole galaxy with the plasma energies. He and the other Decepticons effort to escape aboard Scorponok's ship mode, but they accept off besides late, and are hit past 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 space.
• Happens to Hayaku in the Turbo F.A.Southward.T. episode "Turbo Drift" when she goes likewise fast and flies off the track in an endeavour to outrace Turbo.

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