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* In ''FanFic/BetweenMinds'', done from [[{{Videogame/Portal}} Chell]] to [[HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] with a Xen crystal to distract him.

* One ''CalvinAndHobbes'' comics involves Calvin bragging about how he has three water balloons, and Hobbes has only one. Hobbes' response is this trope, and Calvin loses his hold on all four, resulting in him being soaked by all of them.

* ''Terminator2JudgmentDay'' has the titular {{Determinator}} launching tear gas at cops wearing gas masks. He eventually approaches them, hands the tear gas launcher off with a, "Here, hold this," and rips the mask off of the cop to whom he hands it. Much earlier, Sarah distracted a guard this way during her escape.

* An especially malicious variant is pulled by Chamdar in DavidEddings' novel ''Belgarath the Sorcerer,'' a spin-off to the {{Belgariad}} series. [[spoiler:When Belgarath finds that Chamdar has murdered a young couple by setting their house on fire, Chamdar distracts him long enough to escape by throwing their infant son at him.]]

* In ''BloodBowl'', some players can use and throw bombs. If a bomb touches the ground, it explodes, so it quickly becomes a game of GrenadeHotPotato as the teams keep throwing the bomb at each other till one drops it.

* In FanFic/BetweenMinds, done from [[{{Videogame/Portal}} Chell]] to [[HalfLife Gordon Freeman]] with a Xen crystal to distract him.

* Subverted in ''Prizzi's Honor'' hitwoman Kathleen Turner tries to distract a bodyguard by tossing a baby (actually a life-size baby doll) to him. It doesn't work, causing the hit to get very messy before the shooting's done.

* In the Isaac Asimov short story [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singing_Bell "The Singing Bell"]] this is used to [[spoiler: catch a thief and a murderer.]]

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Mash}}'', Hawkeye was temporarily blinded by an exploding heater. At the end, after he's regained his vision, he strolls into the nurses' tent with a cane, claiming to have had a relapse, so they can go ahead and change since he can't see them. One of the nurses throws him a coffee cup, which he catches...Oops.

* In ''BloodBowl'', some players can use and throw bombs. If a bomb touches the ground, it explodes, so it quickly becomes a game of hot potato as the teams keep throwing the bomb at each other till one drops it.

* In [[{{Uncharted}} Uncharted 3]], Nate can sometimes perform this kind of attack in hand-to-hand combat; throwing his gun at an enemy and then knocking him out as he's catching it.

** Similarly, taunts and insults have [[MarkedBullet printed or drawn]] on modern bombs and missiles.

** Similarly, taunts and insults have printed or drawn on modern bombs and missiles.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker does this with ''a baby'' to kill [[spoiler: Gordon's wife Sarah]] at the end of the ''[[BatmanNoMansLand No Man's Land]]'' storyline.

* An unusual form in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''. Haley Starshine says "Catch." while firing ''two arrows'' [[spoiler:at Tarquin. Of course, she knows full well [[ArrowCatch he can catch them both]], but Tarquin is hanging for his dear life at the side of an airship at the time, and it results in him plummetig to the ground]].

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* In the [[{{Goblins}} webcomic]] ''[[http://www.goblinscomic.com/tempts-fate-8/ Tempts Fate]]'', a goblin defeated an adversary whose god forbade him to wield any weapon by tossing him one.

* In David Wingrove's ''ChungKuo'' novels Stefan Lehmann brings a baby along to a meeting with a rival gang boss, purely so he can use it as a HeyCatch distraction to make ganking him easier. Real nice guy.

* In an episode of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Data discovers that he and Captain Picard are in a holodeck simulation by throwing a tool to a holographic, and apparently left-handed Geordi [=LaForge=]. ([[ChekhovsGun Earlier in the episode]], Data had discovered a bug in which the holodeck would get handedness wrong.) Of course, Data threw the tool crosswise right-to-left across 'Geordi's' body, which most people would catch with their left, regardless of their dominant hand.

* When in ''Film/{{Star Trek IV|The Voyage Home}}'', ChekhovsGun fails to work due to interference from radiation, he tosses it at the marine officer who was interrogating him a minute earlier before legging it.

* When in ''Film/{{Star Trek IV|The Voyage Home}}'', ChekovsGun fails to work due to interference from radiation, he tosses it at the marine officer who was interrogating him a minute earlier before legging it.

* In ''HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' Harry throws Lucius the diary wrapped in an old sock, thereby freeing Dobby.

* Used in Mark Twain's ''[[HuckleberryFinn The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'', making this OlderThanRadio: Huck disguises himself as a girl but the woman he tries to deceive tests him by tossing him a ball of yarn to see if he knows how to catch things in his skirt.

* John Robie in ''ToCatchAThief'' uses this to disarm one of his resistance comrades. Now working as a chef, the comrade aproaches him with two cleavers. John tosses two bottles of fine wine to him, and the chef in the comrade takes over, dropping the cleavers to catch the bottles.

* In the film adaptation of ''ToKillAMockingbird'', Atticus throws a drinking glass at Tom to show that Tom can't use his left hand, so couldn't have attacked Mayella Ewell.