History Main / FoeTossingCharge

* Luffy from ''OnePiece'' does this often. Most notably when he charges through ''5000 people'' to get to [=CP9=]. Later, he tries this when trying to save [[spoiler:his brother Ace from execution]], along with several other pirates, including all of [[spoiler:Whitebeard]]'s crew. However, it doesn't work so well when some of the foes he's trying to toss are Vice-Admirals and the Shichibukai. Whitebeard has more luck with it, though.

** Malphite and Vi's ultimates involve rushing to a target. Malphite blasts everyone at the impact point into the air, while Vi sends anyone in her path to the target (and her target) flying.

* ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha [=StrikerS=]'':

* One of the most awesome parts of ''{{Spider-Man}}: Reign'' was the Foe-Tossing Charge Spidey performed on the reformed Sinister Six ([[TookALevelInBadass Now the Sinner Six]]) after comming out of his retirement and once again putting on the Red and Blue suit. Even Mysterio's usual trick of using an image of Mary-Jane to put Peter down didn't work.

* Luffy from ''OnePiece'' does this often. Most notably when he charges through ''5000 people'' to get to [=CP9=]. Later, he tries this when trying to save [[spoiler:his brother Ace from execution]], along with several other pirates, including all of [[spoiler:Whitebeard]]'s crew. However, it doesn't work so well when some of the foes he's trying to toss are Vice-Admirals and the Seven Warlords of the Sea. Whitebeard has more luck with it, though.

Bad guys don't always need a battlefield for a Foe Tossing Charge; they'll just as happily use this tactic in a nightclub or shopping mall, basically any time there are people between them and their target. Another variant is when an ally of the hero stands up to the bad guy and says "If you want to kill him you'll have to [[GoThroughMe go through m-]]" and gets tossed aside, being NotWorthKilling.

Alternatively, the good guy would kick off a Foe Tossing Charge if he sees someone dear to him surrounded by enemies, in an attempt to get to them. For some reason, it ends badly more often than vice versa, so expect a SlowMotionFall somewhere along the way.

* One of the biggest, and most destructive {{Foe Tossing Charge}}s in fiction is probably ''{{Gunbuster}}'''s Super Inazuma Kick, which they use to tear through hundreds, if not thousands, of aliens to get back to their ship.

* ''{{Berserk}}'':
** Guts. In the early days of the Band of the Hawk Griffith gave Guts his own cavalry unit, the whole point of which was to smash through enemy lines and scatter them for the rest of the army. Later on, when confronting an especially powerful EliteMook named Gen. Bascon, Guts and the general perform a foe tossing charge ''at each other!'' When they meet, soldiers on both sides keep well clear for fear of being caught in the middle of the two monsters. Eventually when he upgrades to an even bigger BFS, he does this to ''real'' monsters, and with the Berserker armor, even to full-fledged ''Apostles!''

* Played for laughs in ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', when [[{{Tsundere}} Yoko]] does a Foe Tossing Charge... to punch Kamina in the face. Reason? He got so DistractedByTheSexy his opponents ''jacked his HumongousMecha from him''.

* One of the most awesome parts of ''{{Spider-Man}}: Reign'' was the Foe Tossing Charge Spidey performed on the reformed Sinister Six ([[TookALevelInBadass Now the Sinner Six]]) after comming out of his retirement and once again putting on the Red and Blue suit. Even Mysterio's usual trick of using an image of Mary-Jane to put Peter down didn't work.

* A variant: In ''Film/{{Spider-Man}} 2'', a train-car of people stand united to keep Doc Ock from getting to Spidey...to no avail, as he shoves them all aside with ease.
* Double example: In the climactic fight scene of ''Film/{{Willow}}'', Madmartigan and General Kael spot each other across the battlefield at the same moment, and each of them initiates a Foe Tossing Charge toward the other.

** In the battle before the Black Gates, Legolas attempts a Foe Tossing Charge when Aragorn is about to be crushed by a troll. Unfortunately, being an elf, he lacks the muscle mass for proper foe-tossing and doesn't get very far. Pity none of them are dwarves.

** In the film of Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (2005), after Peter witnesses the White Witch [[spoiler:fatally stab his brother Edmund]], he charges her, smacking a minotaur aside in the process with one wild swing of his sword. Just before he began his Foe Tossing Charge, he had been fighting another minotaur (and had considerable trouble killing it), so this could also count as a LetsGetDangerous moment.

* Juggernaut, whose superpower is the Foe Tossing Charge in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', is played by Vinnie Jones, who started out in ye olde British football.

* At the finale of ''[[{{Dune}} Children of Dune]]'', Leto II fights his way through Alia's elite guards before smashing down the door to her chambers, his extreme strength (due to sandworm-based enhancements) letting him sweep them aside. Since he was dragging his sister along during all of this, it means his Foe Tossing Charge was ''one-handed''!

* In the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' season five episode "Requiem", in what may be his personal CrowningMomentOfAwesome, Tony [=DiNozzo=] does a Foe Tossing Charge with a gun, charging full-tilt at two bad guys and dropping them both with his handgun without stopping, then throwing his gun aside and diving off of a dock after the car that's just gone into the water with Gibbs and the DistressedDamsel in it.

** Actually, a lot of cards have art where the creature shown is doing some serious foe tossing trampling. Giants tend to do this a lot.

* ''{{Nethack}}'' gets very much like this later in the game, with many of the more nastier enemies summoning monsters at the player, and killing them just gives the summoner time to summon more. Then there's the big room full of monsters before facing the Wizard of Yendor, Yendor himself calling a bunch of nasties (or even a clone of himself), another such room full of undead, and after that some demons and a bunch of [[GoddamnBats bug-summoning]] priests, right before the amulet-carrying High Priest of Moloch, and as the ultimate example, the Astral Plane with more priests summoning annoying little insects, angels and other astral beings, a gang of former heroes, and three Riders of the Apocalypse ganging up against the player. In all of these examples, beating all of your enemies would be quite crazy, when all you need to do is to get through them - and sometimes back again.
* ''BloodlineChampions'' has a few examples of charges in the game, though it's less tossing enemies aside and more causing anything hit to be temporarily incapable of defending themselves from the force.
* The opening cinematic of ''{{Drakengard}}'' shows Caim doing this to a group of enemy soldiers and then flashing his SlasherSmile. The player can also do several attacks in the game that qualify as {{Foe Tossing Charge}}s.

* ''DynastyWarriors'' is probably the video game poster child for this trope.

** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yqq0jp6O91g opening]] for ''Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends'' features Gan Ning performing a Foe Tossing Charge... down the side of a cliff.

** Even ''DynastyWarriorsGundam'' followed suit with applying this trope.

* This trope is the entire basis of the combat system in ''VideoGame/RondoOfSwords''. Rather than moving, then attacking, one fights by selecting a path for a character to follow, then executing the move action. Then, as the character runs along the path, he attacks each enemy he passes through. ''Every'' non-ranged attack can be a Foe Tossing Charge in that game.
* In ''DeadRising'' there are several ways to do this. Just grab a nearby skateboard, shopping cart, parasol or any other handy melee weapon and off you go.

* In ''DawnOfWar II'':

* The XMenLegends and MarvelUltimateAlliance games:

* The ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic]]'' games:

* ''KingdomHearts'': This is practically [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast The Beast's]] signature move. If you hear him yell "ASIDE!", don't get too attached to whatever's standing in front of him.

* In CityOfHeroes, it's possible to do something similar with a number of powers. These powers cause Knockback on enemies unfortunate enough to be caught in their area of effect, launching them away (but generally causing little to no damage unless they are slotted with Chance for X damage procs).

* In "VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3" Captain America can do this with his Charging Star move and its Hyper variation

* In [[FireEmblemElibe Fire Emblem: Blazing Sword]], a few turns after your arrival to the Dread Isle you'll meet up with the Pegasus Knight Fiora, who in her pain after having lost her wingmates, tries to perform one of these. If you don't send out her sister Florina to convince her to stop and join the crew, she'll fight your enemies until either she dies or the stage is done.

* In ''MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', Bowser gets one in the final boss battle. His opponent knocks him back and summons dark versions of all of Bowser's minions and the big guy has to march all the way back, beating aside {{Mooks}} like they were mosquitoes.
* The ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' franchise:

* How to use WarElephants in ''[[VideoGame/RomeTotalWar Rome: Total War]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar Medieval II: Total War]]'' -- select your pachyderms, double-click the ground behind the enemy lines to order them to charge-move, and watch your enemy scatter like bowling pins.
* The Battle Charge spell in ''Videogame/FableI''.
* ''LeagueOfLegends'':

* Overdrive Ostrich from ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man X}}2'' runs so fast that he will cause X to be knocked backwards should he collide when running!
** Spiral Pegasus/The Skiver from ''X5'' is even worse- if he flies into you, he knocks you back really far. Since you're fighting on an airplane with BottomlessPits on both sides, this is a ''very'' bad thing.
* In the first ''Videogame/FistOfTheNorthStarKensRage'' , [[BigBad Raoh]] has a special move called Equine Fury, summoning his [[CoolHorse giant horse]] Kokuoh to ride and oneshot any Mooks in his path by charging.

* Animated film example: In the 1986 ''TransformersTheMovie'', Optimus Prime does a surprisingly dramatic version of this before confronting Megatron.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', all of the kung fu masters get to pull this off during the climactic battle against Lord Shen's forces, but it's Master Shifu who pulls off the most classic version, sprinting through several ships' worth of wolves and gorillas before we even ''see'' him.

* Norman does this in ''MightyMax'' during one zombie episode to help Max get to Virgil.
* Aragh has quite an epic foe tossing charge in ''TheFlightOfDragons'' animated film when he charges through possibly hundreds of Sandmurks to reach and then kill the queen Sandmurk.

* ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'': Coop does this on a regular basis, especially using Megas's jet-boosters, such as knocking an entire line of hulking rhino-{{Kaiju}} into the air like bowling pins in "Department of Megas Violations".

* Alexander the Great, in his final battle with Darius of Persia, is said to have performed a Foe Tossing Charge to reach the enemy king. Darius, feeling less bold, fled the scene; it is likely that Alexander would have caught him, but for a desperate message from his own general that he was needed elsewhere.
* Cyrus the Younger tried to pull this during the Battle of Cunaxa, charging into the Persian emperor's bodyguard of 6000 horsemen with his own escort one-tenth that size. His charge came as a complete surprise and scattered his opponents, but his foe tossing was cruelly interrupted by enemy javelin tossing, with fatal effect.

* ''GangsOfNewYork''s opening melee involves Daniel Day-Lewis wading through Mooks towards LiamNeeson.

* In ''StarWars: Revenge of the Sith'', when ''Yoda'' enters ''Palpatine'''s chamber he knocks two guards unconscious by using TheForce. Hmm, a power that belies his stature, he shows.

* The novel ''StarWars: TheOldRepublic: Deceived'' start with the novelization of the Sith sneak attack on Coruscant, specifically the attack on the Jedi Temple, which is shown in a trailer for the MMORPG. As the Jedi and Sith disciples battle in the temple's entrance hall, Darth Malgus spots the most experienced Jedi currently at the temple, Jedi Master Ven Zallow. Both are having little trouble killing the other side's acolytes. Malgus rushes towards Zallow, killing Jedi left and right, while Zallow is busy slaughtering Sith warriors. Unfortunately, after an intense fight, Malgus ends up killing Zallow and destroying the temple.

* ''{{Asterix}}'': As shown in the page image, this is the Gauls' signature move after everyone in the village has gotten their share of the magic potion. The lead characters (especially Obelix) also occassionally do it with unfortunate sentries when getting into one of the Roman camps, though then, the MegatonPunch is the traditional approach.

* Makes an appearance during the wedding scene in the first ''{{Shrek}}'' movie. The eponymous ogre and Fiona find themselves beset by Mooks; Shrek starts 'wading' through them, throwing them off as necessary. They manage to slow him, but we never get to find out the ending thanks to a GunshipRescue moment.

* The Standard-Reaction of a very pissed [[KingdomHearts Keyblade-Wielder.]] In one especially memorable instance, it involved ''cutting their way through large, LARGE buildings''.

* ''KingdomHearts'': This is practically [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast The Beast's]] signature move. If you hear him yell "ASIDE!", don't get too attached to whatever's standing in front of him.

** It's also the basic assault method of the Boar Gods [[spoiler:until Jigo's engineers took advantage of it]]. [[BigBadassWolf Moro]] herself indulged in it when attacking Eboshi's convoy in the mountain, killing more people by shoving them off the cliff than by mauling them.

* In CwensQuest, Riddly Lancer spots the #1 BigBadassWolf across the battlefield while he's "In the Zone". Anyone in his way [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Cwens_Quest/index.php?p=523111 goes air-born.]]

* In the season 2 finale of {{Carnivale}}, [[spoiler:[[BigBad Justin Crowe]] hacks his way through a crowd of ''[[KickTheDog his own]]'' followers with a sickle, to reach [[TheHero Ben Hawkins]]]]

* The Ancient Near East knew a type of cavalry which the Greeks called Kataphraktoi ("the armored ones"). They were custom-built for this trope; both horse and rider were completely covered in scaled armour and chainmail. Their moment of glory was the Battle of Carrhae, in which a mere few hundred of them completely steamrolled a Roman army that had been previously weakened by arrow fire.

** In the Multiplayer section of VideoGame/MassEffect3, aside from the Vanguard's Biotic Charge, Krogans can do a running charge that is guaranteed to kill CannonFodder in a single hit. The Resurgence Pack means we now have Vanguard Krogan.
* Rogues can learn this ability in ''DragonAgeII''. At first it's just a basic attack to close the distance with opponents, but when upgraded it knocks back any enemies that are standing in front of the target.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'':

** When Gandalf approaches Theoden, it's actually Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli who are smacking people aside who are rushing up behind Gandalf.

* This trope is the entire basis of the combat system in the DS game ''RondoOfSwords''. Rather than moving, then attacking, one fights by selecting a path for a character to follow, then executing the move action. Then, as the character runs along the path, he attacks each enemy he passes through. ''Every'' non-ranged attack can be a Foe Tossing Charge in that game.

* King Taur Urgas in Creator/DavidEddings' Literature/{{Belgariad}} and Adus in Elenium. For the protagonists, Belgarion and Polgara and Barak.

** Another example of this is when Luffy is fighting Zolo [[spoiler:because he apparently killed the nice folks who gave them food, even though they were spies that were hellbent on killing them]], as Mr. 5 tries to fight Luffy, but is quickly cast aside with little to no effort. This occurred again close after the encounter as Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine tried to attack both Zolo and Luffy, only to be [[spoiler:completely cut down with a single punch from both Luffy and Zolo, commenting that they should "Shut the hell up."]].

* ''SengokuBasara'' does this on a large scale. Every. Single. FIGHT.