History Main / PercussivePrevention

** And in the [[TeamFourStar Abridged Series]], Goku does this to Jace while Jace is giving a monologue. Only Goku wasn't trying to stop his speech, he was trying to get Jace to fight.

Nine times out of ten, this will [[TapOnTheHead render Bob unconscious]], and if it doesn't, it subdues Bob long enough for Dave to take Bob's place or remove him from danger. Dave may get yelled at for this or punched in return if Bob is ''really'' put out, but Dave will most likely respond that he [[IDidWhatIHadToDo did what he had to do]].

-->--''WhoFramedRogerRabbit''

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* In ''OnePiece'', Luffy knocks out Mayor Boodle when the old man tries to challenge Buggy the Clown. In a later episode, Zoro knocks Sanji out to keep Sanji from effectively sacrificing his life to a high-powered government thug in Luffy's place.

* In ''DragonballZ'', Vegeta knocks Goku, Trunks and Goten out (In that order) to keep them from fighting Buu.

* In ''{{Inuyasha}}'', the "sharp shot to the solar plexus" move was once used by Miroku to subdue a peasant girl whom he was trying to move to safety.

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* During a Walt Simonson arc of the ''FantasticFour'', Reed Richards refuses to escape from a site targeted for imminent destruction without rescuing Sue and Johnny first, prompting Ben Grimm to knock him out and cart him off to safety. After the place blows up and [[DisneyDeath (apparently)]] kills the Storms, Reed predictably flips out at Ben, who justifies his actions in an unexpected reversal of their usual RedOniBlueOni roles by reminding Reed that while the two of ''them'' would would have gladly died rather than leave Sue and Johnny behind, the entire universe is about to be annihilated and without Reed, the others along for the ride — Thor, Iron Man, and Ms. Marvel — would have no chance in hell of saving it.

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* As the title quote illustrates, Jessica Rabbit hits Roger with a frying pan in ''WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' to keep him out of harm's way.
** It does make perfect sense for Roger, who is only temporarily incapacitated by physical violence, to keep him out of the way of villains using Dip, which could kill him.
* Joe punches Polly to stop her from helping him destroy an art-deco flying rocket-ship ark in ''SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004).
** Subverted, as she isn't really knocked out, and ends up saving his ass...right before punching him back.

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* [[{{Discworld}} Vimes]] does this in ''Discworld/NightWatch'' at one point to stop [[TimeTravel his younger self]] from getting himself killed.

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** "The Empath": [=McCoy=] knocks out Kirk and Spock with InstantSedation drug injections so he will be the one to be taken and tortured by the Vians.

* In ITV's adaptation of [[HoratioHornblower ''Hornblower'']] ''An Even Chance'', Mr Midshipman Clayton does this to Mr Midshipman Hornblower just before Hornblower is due to go fight a duel with Mr Midshipman Simpson, knocking him out with a pistol butt and taking his place as his second. [[spoiler: Simpson is wounded, Clayton is gutshot, living just long enough for Hornblower to come round, reach the shore and listen to his LastWords.]]
** Later in the same film, when [[spoiler: Mr. Midshipman Kennedy]] is suffering a seizure while they attempt to sneak up on a French warship, Mr. Midshipmen Hornblower gives him a TapOnTheHead, before leaving the unconscious man in the boat while they board the ship. Mr. Midshipman Simpson casts the boat adrift and we don't see the man again until [[ChekovMIA two movies later.]]

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* In ''EverydayHeroes'', Mr. Mighty [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=149953 knocks out]] Iron Jane to prevent her from committing murder for revenge.

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** Homer himself is then, of course, pulled over for drunk driving and the cops send Barney on his drunken way behind the wheel.

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* In ''MetalGearSolid 3'' punching out Eva and dragging her is the best way to keep her from doing something stupid that might attract enemy guards.
** Also saves on food since her stamina doesn't go down while asleep.
** Likewise for E.E. in ''MGS2''. Even MissionControl suggests that you knock her out and drag her in order to get past some scary bugs on the floor.
* Happens twice in SuikodenII once early in the game, Tsai of the Holy Spear may knock out two of the main characters to preventing them from fighting against Luca Blight, and later on the game Flik knocks out e major of Greenhill to prevent her turning herself in to the enemy army.

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* Dr. Yei does this (or rather, ''tries'' to do this) to Bruce Van Atta to stop him [[spoiler:firing at the quaddie habitat]] in {{Lois McMaster Bujold}}'s ''[[VorkosiganSaga Falling Free]]''.

* In ITV's adaptation of [[HoratioHornblower ''Hornblower'']] ''An Even Chance'', Mr Midshipman Clayton does this to Mr Midshipman Hornblower just before Hornblower is due to go fight a duel with Mr Midshipman Simpson[[hottip:* : in a piece of AdaptationDecay that renders the UK title (and a brief piece of dialogue lifted from the original story) pretty much meaningless (the original had the terms of the duel set so that neither participant could miss, but only one of the pistols was to be loaded). The US release went by the name ''The Duel'']], knocking him out with a pistol butt and taking his place as his second. [[spoiler: Simpson is wounded, Clayton is gutshot, living just long enough for Hornblower to come round, reach the shore and listen to his LastWords.]]

** Later in the same film, when [[spoiler: Mr. Midshipman Kennedy]] is suffering a seizure while they attempt to sneak up on a French warship, Mr. Midshipmen Hornblower gives him a TapOnTheHead, before leaving the unconscious man in the boat while they board the ship. Mr. Midshipman Simpson casts the boat adrift and we don't see the man again until [[ChekovsMIA two movies later.]]

** Later in the same film, when [[spoiler: Mr. Midshipman Kennedy]] is suffering a seizure while they attempt to sneak up on a French warship, Mr. Midshipmen Hornblower gives him a TapOnTheHead, before leaving the unconscious man in the boat while they board the ship. Mr. Midshipman Simpson casts the boat adrift and we don't see the man again until [[ChekhovsMIA two movies later.]]

* Joe punches Polly to stop her from helping him destroy an art-deco flying rocket-ship ark built by robots and containing the holographic consciousness of Laurence Olivier in ''SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004).
** Wait, what?
*** You read it right. ItMakesSenseInContext.

** Also it wasn't actually Laurence Olivier, it was a character he was playing ten years after he died, digitally recreated.

** Subverted, as she isn't really knocked out, and ends up saving his as$...right before punching him back.

* Dr. Yei does this (or rather, ''tries'' to do this) to Bruce Van Atta to stop him [[spoiler:firing at the quaddie habitat]] in LoisMcMasterBujold's ''Falling Free''.

** When Ishigo tried to confront Captain Kuchiki outside Rukia's place of imprisonment, Yoruiki rendered him unconscious and escaped with him. She knew he wasn't strong enough to fight Captain Kuchiki yet and would just get himself killed.

* At the climax of ''Star Trek: TheWrathOfKhan'', the Enterprise's warp engines are damaged, and repairing them would require exposing someone to large amounts of radiation. Spock immediately heads to the engine room to try to make the repairs himself. McCoy attempts to stop him, but Spock nerve-pinches him [[spoiler:and ends up sacrificing his life so the crew can survive]].

->'''Eddie Valiant:''' Makes perfect sense.

* ''{{Bleach}}'' Soul Society arc. While getting Orihime away from the scene of a battle between Uryū Ishida and Captain Kurotsuchi, a Soul Reaper knocks her out to keep her from going back to help Uryu.

A common reason for this is that the character punching you out is MoreExpendableThanYou. Compare GetAholdOfYourselfMan and DontSaySuchStupidThings.

'''Examples:'''

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