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** In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'', killing enemies using guns with the "Explosive" legendary mod will result in their body parts flying everywhere, especially if said gun is an [[MoreDakka automatic rifle]] or a [[GatlingGood minigun]]. This goes for all weapons as well if you have the "Bloody Mess" perk. HilarityEnsues when you load the Junk Jet with teddy bears, use it to kill a Super Mutant, and the impact causes it to explode into [[ChunkySalsaRule chunky salsa]].

** Becuse it meets certain important numerical thresholds (dealing enough damage to kill a 125-HP class in a single shot at close range) while not crossing ''other'' important thresholds (not dealing more than 10 damage above their health pool), the Direct Hit rocket launcher can reliably blast the corpses of lightweight classes into the distance rather than [[LudicrousGibs gibbing]] them. This is especially hilarious with Scouts and Spies, two classes who ''have'' to get in close to the Soldier to fight, but whose stick-thin bodies get launched the furthest when subjected to firepower of this magnitude.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'': "Dodge this!" [[BangBangBANG BANG!]]

* "Series/TheSopranos": [[spoiler: When Tony S shoots Tony B with a shotgun, he dramatically flies several feet across his porch and lands on a pile of logs]].

* "Series/TheSopranos": spoiler: When Tony S shoots Tony B with a shotgun, he dramatically flies several feet across his porch and lands on a pile of logs]].

* [["Series:TheSopranos"]: [[spoiler: When Tony S shoots Tony B with a shotgun, he dramatically flies several feet across his porch and lands on a pile of logs]].

* "Series:TheSopranos": [[spoiler: When Tony S shoots Tony B with a shotgun, he dramatically flies several feet across his porch and lands on a pile of logs]].

* Played straight in ''[[WebVideo/ShockTroopers2011 ShockTroopers]]'' when the [[MagicalDefibrillator defibrillators]] the soldiers are using instead of guns launches the enemy soldiers at least two stories into the air (with no recoil, either!). Later invoked when the protagonists combine the power of two defibrillators to "boost" one of their number over a small hill.

* Played straight in ''WebVideo/ShockTroopers'' when the [[MagicalDefibrillator defibrillators]] the soldiers are using instead of guns launches the enemy soldiers at least two stories into the air (with no recoil, either!). Later invoked when the protagonists combine the power of two defibrillators to "boost" one of their number over a small hill.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': An upgrade available to the Warlock class's Eldritch Blast makes it do this, allowing the CheeseStrategy of sending a MagicMissileStorm at a boss to send them over a cliff or into lava. Though that will mean [[AwesomeButImpractical you cannot loot them]]...

* The weak spot in one of the better shoot out scenes in movie history: the disco scene in ''Film/TheTerminator''. The Terminator, being an android with an armored chassis and probably weighing several hundred kilograms, is knocked about repeatedly by blasts from a 12 gauge shotgun. The impact should not have done more than mess up his skin a bit. (If the Terminator weighs the same amount as a human, he still shouldn't have been thrown around the way he was.)

* It wasn't done with a gun, but in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' Marty tries to use an electric guitar attached to a huge amplifier and speaker. After he does one strum on his guitar, the audio from the speaker blows him across the room.

** In a not projectile-related entry we have the Unrelenting Force [[MakeMeWannaShout shout]]. A single word in the shout makes the enemy stagger. Two words, they may fall to their knees. Utter the full three words? They fly ass-over-head backwards for twenty yards, into walls, off of cliffs, and tumbling down stairs. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential And it's so entertaining to watch.]]

* ''Videogame/BattleForge:'' An essential advantage of ranged AOE attacks is the knockback effects they can have on varying sizes of units; since units that get knocked around get both relocated (bad for a formation) and stunned until they've gotten up (bad in general), a decent enough artillery array can keep much of an army in a CycleOfHurting they won't get up from. Higher levels of knockback are appreciated for this reason; T4 Frost's [[MovingBuildings Constructs]] and their giant arcane cannon for example can knock ''anything'' in the game into the ground, even XL units, and so having two of them in one army can be a massive problem for any enemy.

* ''[[VideoGame/MaxPayne Max Payne 2: The Fall Of Max Payne]]'' plays this trope up as far as it will go, allowing the eponymous protagonist to ''air juggle'' enemies with his guns in BulletTime Mode, just like Dante. In one level midway through the game, you can launch a Mook standing on a ledge all the way across a construction site with a few rapid-fire M5 rounds to the back. The first ''Max Payne'' game actually had specific death animations for kills with the shotgun and Desert Eagle where enemies usually get sent flying.

* In ''Videogame/TeamFortress2'', one of the Scout's alternate weapons is the Force-A-Nature, a shotgun whose purpose is to do precisely this, coupled with a [[LawOfInverseRecoil wicked kickback]] that's likely to send the Scout flying just as far.

* ''VideoGame/JustCause 2'' fully endorses this trope with "juggle kills". If you yank an enemy into the air with your grappling hook, you can keep them there for a short while by shooting them. Automatic weapons or shotguns tend to work the best.

* Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', when a powerful Dream Eater called the [[{{RobeAndWizardHat}} Spell]][[{{AttentionWhore}} ican]] attacks [[{{TheHero}} Sora]] and kicks him out of the book it's possessing. In the very next cutscene, Sora attacks the book with his Keyblade... and is [[{{ButtMonkey}} again]] send flying!
* ''VideoGame/HogsOfWar'', being as ridiculous as it is, features a weapon called the Super Shotgun, capable of knocking your targets backwards for quite some distance. Firing this weapon up a slope at an enemy standing above can send them skywards and possibly even completely off the map, [[{{MadeOfExplodium}} where they will explode of course]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF14J478QsM A demonstration can be seen in this video.]]

* Most of the guns in ''Videogame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' don't noticeably knock down or back enemies on their own, but one sniper rifle art, "[[https://xenoblade.fandom.com/wiki/First_Down First Down]]," has a chance of inflicting the Topple status on humanoid enemies hit with it, knocking them off their feet and making them vulnerable for a few seconds.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Doom 3}} Doom 3]]'', melee attacks will send zombies flying. The shotgun Z-secs will do this to you and possibly [[CycleOfHurting "juggle" you to death]].

* The more damaging enemy attacks in ''VideoGame/{{PN 03}}'' will do this to Vanessa, if they don't kill her outright.

[[caption-width-right:350:The bullet flies out of the gun into her and sends her flying back!]]

* The Franchise/{{DCAU}} was pretty bad at this:

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': When [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs Sheryl’s base is being raided]] to steal the relics she’s selling, Akira waits behind a door in ambush wielding two assault rifles loaded with ArmorPiercing rounds, while four robbers in PoweredArmor stack up to breach it. Before they can open it, Akira lets loose, turning two robbers to LudicrousGibs, and sending a third flying up against a wall until he stops shooting.

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