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** In "To Beep or Not To Beep", the Road Runner's speed burst causes telephone poles and cactus plants beside the road to be uprooted and causes a bridge to contract just after he passes over it. When Wile E. falls through where said bridge used to be, one of the cacti falls as well. The standard top-down view of Wile E. falling is reversed with Wile E. coming back up all the way back up to the top of the cliff [[EatTheCamera howling in pain]].

* This happens to Mario whenever he touches the lava in Mario 3D platform games, beginning with the LethalLavaLand in ''SuperMario64''.

A common [[AmusingInjuries Amusing Injury]] in cartoons is for a character receiving an injury to the posterior to jump impossibly high into the air, usually accompanied by a drawn-out YEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW. Occasionally happens in live-action wacky comedy as well.

* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'':

WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes is the TropeCodifier. Though it was used in other cartoons, Looney Tunes is the one that most people recognize as the source of the popularity of this trope, as well as the reason that perhaps its most common method of execution is needle pricks to the hindquarters.

* Pity the veterinarian who has to deal with a pain intolerant cat, if the assistant's grip isn't good enough and it's not a high cabinet that it jumps on, it'll usually stick itself to the ceiling with its claws.

* The Egyptian-themed levels in ''VideoGame/CrashBandicootWarped'' feature spears erupting from the ground as a recurring trap. If Crash is standing above them at the wrong time, he'll get spiked on the behind and catapult straight up in true cartoon fashion, before nervously [[CeilingCling clinging to the ceiling]]. This technically doesn't kill him but is nonetheless counted as a death, sending you to the previous checkpoint.

A common [[AmusingInjuries Amusing Injury]] in cartoons is for a character receiving an injury to the posterior, to jump impossibly high into the air, usually accompanied by a drawn-out YEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW. Occasionally happens in live-action wacky comedy as well.

A character just jumping away from the source of pain is not this trope - the leap has to be something he or she never could have achieved if not for the painful experience. Also, it doesn't have to involve needles or cactus spines or that sort of thing - it also often coincides with a RumpRoast or a LiteralAssKicking. May cause secondary effects such as RightOutOfMyClothes.

A common [[AmusingInjuries Amusing Injury]] in cartoons is for a character receiving an injury - especially to the posterior - to jump impossibly high into the air, usually accompanied by a drawn-out YEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW. Occasionally happens in live-action wacky comedy as well.

WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes is the TropeCodifier for Pain Powered Leaps. Though it was used in other cartoons, Looney Tunes is the one that most people recognize as the source of the popularity of this trope, as well as the reason that perhaps its most common method of execution is needle pricks to the hindquarters.

* In ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'', Team 7's bell test challenge against Kakashi involved the [[FakeSpecialAttack unveiling of his secret technique, "One Thousand Years of Death"]]. The move actually isn't what it sounds like - Kakashi simply strikes Naruto in the rectum before propelling him several feet away into air (with much hollering from Naruto). [[ChekhovsSkill It turns out later that the skill has a much more practical application beyond comedy.]] During his climactic battle with Gaara, Naruto realizes that the technique's goal is to target the blind spot of the user's opponent; Naruto decides to get behind Gaara, substitute exploding tags for his fingers, and [[StuffBlowingUp Stuff Blowing Up ensues.]]

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' in the episode "Up a Tree." The porcupine invokes this trope for Finn as a way of trying to get the latter's frisbee from the former's tree, but Finn doesn't think that would actually work. The porcupine does it anyway and fails, but it ''does'' provide Finn with convenient climbing tools in the form of the porcupine's spines.

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* In the HotSpringsEpisode of ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Kamina is trying to look into the lady side of the bathhouse through the [[RuleOfFunny impossibly tall]] wall that separates both sides. While he tries to see while riding on Simon's shoulders, he asks Gimmy to "find a hole". Gimmy ends up finding Simon's..." personal hole" and sticks his finger in it, which causes Simon to jump in pain high enough to get a glimpse of the other side. When Kamina finds out what he managed, he asks Gimmy to poke him as well.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail: Fievel Goes West'', Cat R. Waul jumps straight through the ceiling after Fievel stabs him in the behind with a fork.

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* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin does this moments after Hobbes assures him that there isn't a bee about to sting him--it's OppositeDay, and there was one.
** Basically, anytime a bee lands on Calvin's back, this results. There was another time when Hobbes reassured Calvin that a bee didn't land on his back... it was a hornet. Then there was the time Hobbes told Calvin not to imagine the bee very well crawling down his shirt and into his pants, with expected results.
** Hobbes was once on the receiving end of one of these - Calvin told him that a "big hairy caterpillar" was about to bite him, and then stomped on it for him. Given that the "caterpillar" was Hobbes's own tail, of course, the resulting leap isn't quite as extreme as the other examples in the strip.

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* On the ''AndyPanda'' cartoon "Fish Fry", a fish bites a cat on the finger, who reacts by jumping up hundreds of feet in the air.
* In ''RedHotRidingHood'', Wolfie sticks Grandma in the butt with a needle and she jumps through the roof of her penthouse. The sticking is usually edited out when shown on television, so you just see Wolfie holding the needle and then it cuts straight to the jump.

** The second act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E8BogusToTheRescue Bogus To The Rescue]]" combined this with an inversion of AgonyOfTheFeet, when Bogus gets his foot smashed by a mallet that pops out from the back of a toy train.

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-->'''''What Kinda Cactus Izzat?'':''' When the victim comes to earth, he may be some distance from the offending plant...and, invariably, he will swear that the piece sticking to him JUMPED across the intervening space to make the attack.

A character just jumping away from the source of pain is not this trope - the leap has to be something he or she never could have achieved if not for the painful experience. Also, it doesn't have to involve needles or cactus spines or that sort of thing - it also often coincides with a RumpRoast or a LiteralAssKicking. See also SurpriseJump and DeathThrows for similar effects.

* Near the end of the ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'' episode with the Dedede dolls in it, Tiff buries one of the said Dedede dolls in the ground to prevent it from menacing anyone, since the doll's movements are actually based on King Dedede's own movements. This results in King Dedede nosediving into the ground as well, but then a mole shows up and bites the doll, causing King Dedede to leap back out screaming in pain, and starts menacing other people one last time using the doll as a pawn. {{Kirby}} then stops the doll once and for all by swallowing it up, and this causes King Dedede to for some reason get shot up into space and orbit a planet shaped like him.

* Near the end of ''{{JackToMameNoKi}}'', Tulip the giant has caught Jack and prepares to smash him with his fist, at the last second Jack's dog Crosby pulls him out of Tulip's hand and replaces him with a tack, as he brings his fist down on the tack, he slowly reacts to the pain and leaps up into the air and disappears into the sky.

* In the HotSpringsEpisode of TengenToppaGurrenLagann, Kamina is trying to look into the lady side of the bathouse through the [[RuleOfFunny impossibly tall]] wall that separates both sides. While he tries to see while riding on Simon's shoulders, he asks Gimmy to "find a hole". Gimmy ends up finding Simon's..." personal hole" and sticks his finger in it, which causes Simon to jump in pain high enough to get a glimpse of the other side. When Kamina finds out what he managed, he asks Gimmy to poke him as well.
* Near the end of {{JackToMameNoKi}}, Tulip the giant has caught Jack and prepares to smash him with his fist, at the last second Jack's dog Crosby pulls him out of Tulip's hand and replaces him with a tack, as he brings his fist down on the tack, he slowly reacts to the pain and leaps up into the air and disappears into the sky.

* This is a plot point in the animated version of ThePhantomTollbooth. King Azaz is asking if there are any volunteers to help Milo on his quest, and at first no one comes forth. However, the Spelling Bee sneaks up and stings the Humbug in the butt, [[GotVolunteered causing the Humbug to stand up suddenly and making everyone think he was volunteering]]. Later on, in Milo's car Humbug exhibits a delayed reaction and finally leaps up in the air with a scream (and apparently lands right back in the car).

* This happens to Captain Hook in ''Disney/{{PeterPan}}'' when Mr. Smee accidentally lets the water Hook is soaking his feet in get too hot while Hook is unconscious from Smee unwittingly knocking him out earlier.

* On the AndyPanda cartoon "Fish Fry", a fish bites a cat on the finger, who reacts by jumping up hundreds of feet in the air.
* In "RedHotRidingHood", Wolfie sticks Grandma in the butt with a needle and she jumps through the roof of her penthouse. The sticking is usually edited out when shown on television, so you just see Wolfie holding the needle and then it cuts straight to the jump.
* Many was the time in WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry when Tom would get his butt pricked with a pin by Jerry or have something heavy fall on his tail, always resulting in one of two hilarious {{Stock Scream}}s.