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** In "The Yodelnapper", during Larry-Boy's final fight with Greta Von Gruesome, Larry-Boy fires his plunger ear directly at Greta, who ducks out of the way. As she laughs at Larry-Boy's failed attempt, the plunger ear ricochets multiple times and latches onto Greta's giant bowl of smelt-flavored pudding. LarryBoy pulls on the plunger ear's cord to dump the pudding on Greta, incapacitating her.

** In "Leggo My Ego", LarryBoy attempts to apprehend the villain Mother Pearl by shooting one of his plunger ears, which misses her and ricochets off the walls multiple times, surrounding her with the plunger ear's cord. As Mother Pearl mocks him for his multiple misses, LarryBoy pulls on the cord, causing it to tie up around her.
** In "The Yodelnapper", during LarryBoy's final fight with the villain Greta Von Gruesome, LarryBoy fires his plunger ear directly at Greta, who ducks out of the way. As she laughs at LarryBoy's failed attempt, the plunger ear ricochets multiple times and latches onto Greta's giant bowl of smelt-flavored pudding. LarryBoy pulls on the plunger ear's cord to dump the pudding on Greta, incapacitating her.
** In "The Good, The Bad, And The Eggly", the returning Greta Von Gruesome is once again a victim of this trope. As she tries to make her escape, LarryBoy and fellow superhero Dark Crow work together to fire LarryBoy's replacement plunger (as the two's regular superhero costumes were destroyed earlier in the episode), which hits the exit door. Greta mocks them for the missed shot, only for LarryBoy and Dark Crow to pull on the string attached to the plunger, slamming the door against Greta and knocking her down.

* In the Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem version of ''VideoGame/BatmanReturns'', the player (as Batman) can repeat the feat mentioned above in Film. The grappling gun is all but useless in Act 1-2, but using it on the wall just past the clown holding Selina hostage, and pulling the chunk of masonry on him, will knock off a significant amount of his life bar.

* At the climax of ''[[Literature/JackelianSeries Jack Cloudie]]'', Omar hurls a knife at the villain whom he's fighting in the drak stable. The villain mocks him for missing, only to find out the hard way that Omar'd been aiming for the rope holding the gate to the untrained draks' corral. The ferocious riding reptiles ignore Omar because he smells like a drak-rider, but don't hesitate to tear the villain to pieces.

* In the UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem version of ''VideoGame/BatmanReturns'', the player (as Batman) can repeat the feat mentioned above in Film. The grappling gun is all but useless in Act 1-2, but using it on the wall just past the clown holding Selina hostage, and pulling the chunk of masonry on him, will knock off a significant amount of his life bar.

* Done in several {{RPG}}s, where you are encouraged to destroy a support, to cause the enemy to fall or get crushed, such as the chandelier chain at the beginning of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. Usually not very subtle, since the support will be one of the options when you cycle through the enemies, at which point you can be sure that destroying the support will be helpful. It's more commonly done near the start of the game.

* ''Film/JonahHex''. The BigBad is testing his [[GatlingGood rotary]] bombard cannon [[TestedOnHumans on an innocous town]]. The weapon fires a salvo of cannon balls, but they all land harmlessly in the middle of the street. When the townspeople emerge from their homes to gawk at the smouldering cannonballs, he then fires the detonator shell which [[WeaponOfMassDestruction explodes all the others and obliterates the town]].

* In ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', Holmes and Watson are being attacked by Moriarty's mooks and pinned down by fire from a gattling gun. When the gun jams thanks to some earlier sabotage by Holmes, Watson stands up and shoots one of the mooks, and retreats as the gunner clears the jam and resumes shooting. Holmes chastises Watson for not taking the chance to shoot the gunner; unbeknownst to him, the mook Watson just shot was carrying a primed grenade that has now fallen into a satchel full of similar looking grenades. Moments later, the prime grenade blows up the train carriage the mooks are standing in.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan,'' Spidey does this (as described in the ComicBooks section) OncePerEpisode, and it's almost his signature takedown. It's not entirely absent from the other ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' series, but this version absolutely loves it.

* ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}} uses this against a variety of foes including speedsters with his boomerang arrow. He expected it to work in ''ComicBook/JLAAvengers'' on Franchise/TheFlash but unfortunately for him, Wally is used to dealing with such attacks because of Captain Boomerang.

* In ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'', [[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter]] shoots a clearly telegraphed web that the Prowler easily dodges, only for him to tug on it to reveal that he'd been aiming at the bag of wet cement behind her, slamming her in the back.

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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'', Enzo is placed in a cartoony setting where he and the others must kill Rocky the Rabid Racoon. He reboots into Elmer Fudd. Everyone laughs at him, until he steals Fudd's signature line-"Be vewy vewy quiet-I'm hunting wacoons"-and takes aim, firing one shot and setting up a chain reaction of impossible proportions that ends with Rocky getting killed by a dead vulture.

--->'''17''': Um, I stopped dodging. Are you even trying to hit me?\\

-->'''Bond:''' [[DeadpanSnarker I do hope that wasn't for me.]]
-->'''Silva:''' ''[laughs]'' No... but ''that'' is.
-->[''A train falls through the hole in the roof, narrowly missing Bond'']

** Haley uses a variant in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0716.html one comic]]: About to be captured by bounty hunters, she apparently tries to throw her dagger at one of them, but really she's aiming at the bounty notice in his hand so their allies will find it together with her dagger and guess what happened.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0470.html This one too]], albeit the villains don't have time to make a "You missed!" remark.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0164.html Here's]] one for Roy.
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0933.html Nice shot, kid.]]
** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1172.html #1172]] shows what looks like a HopeSpot, with Durkon [[spoiler: punching a hole in the ceiling of a dwarf meeting hall in order to stop a vampire from brainwashing dwarfs into allowing the gods to un-make the world, only to get petrified for his trouble.]] [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1173.html The very next strip]] shows what his actual plan was: [[spoiler: to break the table where the meeting was being held, forcing the Council of Clans to suspend the vote until they can replace the table. Which, given the table is made from a single unbroken slice of an enormous oak tree, will take a while...]]