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'''Man-snake:''' ''''I'M BLIND!''''

* Some Foots in the first stage of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles III: The Manhattan Project'' can stun you by throwing sand in your eyes.

* ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' has Batman use this against the Mutant Leader in his second fight. After realizing the hard way that being past his physical prime makes a direct confrontation suicidal, Batman lures him into [[MuckingInTheMud a mud pit]], evening the odds between them. He then gives the guy a superficial but extremely fast-bleeding cut above the eyes, and proceeds to beat him down whilst he is wiping blood and mud from his vision.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Point of View," Det. Flack approaches a perp on a rooftop and the guy attempts to get away by scooping up a handful of sand and grit from the surface and flinging it in Flack's face. Fortunately Danny is sneaking up behind the guy and nabs him.

* Sherlock does this twice in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''. During the opening sequence, he steals handfuls of rice and beans from a market stall and later throws them into the faces of a group of thugs who attack him (comically, the beans [[NoSell just cause the thug concerned to pause in confusion]] before clobbering Holmes). Much later, he blows a cloud of tobacco ash into Moriarty's face as he lights his pipe, in order to distract him [[spoiler:so he can drag Moriarty over the edge of Reichenbach Falls]].

** In "[[Recap/GameOfThronesS4E9TheWatchersOnTheWall The Watchers on the Wall]]", Jon Snow gets a bloody lip, then later spits the blood into Styr's eyes.

* Sherlock does this twice in ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows''. During the opening sequence, he steals several handfuls of rice and beans from a market stall and later throws them into the faces of a group of thugs who attack him. Much later, he blows a cloud of tobacco ash into Moriarty's face as he lights his pipe, in order to distract him [[spoiler:so he can drag Moriarty over the edge of Reichenbach Falls]].

* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'': Dale Gribble can do this trick any time he wants, [[CrazyPrepared thanks to his]] [[CallingYourAttacks "Pocket Sand!"]]

* In ''VideoGame/SpiderManPS4'', successfully performing a Perfect Dodge against someone who's trying to shoot you will cause Spider-Man to automatically web their face while dodging the shot, stunning them as they try to get the webbing off. An upgrade, Payback Strike, allows Spider-Man to leap over to them for an [[OneHitKill instant knockout]].

* The Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse fic "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/39334239/ What If...Multiverse of Madness: The Clea Cut]]" sees Peter Parker face the Maya Hansen of Earth-717, who has acquired the Iron Man armor after Tony Stark's death. While Maya assumed that Spider-Man would go down quickly given his current lack of Stark tech, Peter manages to blind her with webbing twice, first hitting her mask and then striking her face when she raises the mask to see, allowing him to kick Maya out of a nearby window while she's blinded.

* Manga/LoveStage: [[{{Uke}} Izumi]] throws a handful of dirt in the face of one of three men who [[AttemptedRape try to rape him;]] the other two get [[GroinAttack a kick to the groin]] and an [[HandbagOfHurt artist bag to the face.]]

* This is one of the abilities that Ezio learns in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII''. Considering that dirty fighting seems to be genetic, he improves on [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedI Altair's]] already sneaky tactics. Then in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'', the guards (Seekers specifically) learn to do it to ''you''. It's to encourage the player to be more aggressive. Or to just jump out of the way.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* ''Fanfic/VowOfNudity'': When Fiora attempts to use her recently-purchased red, yellow, and blue sand as the material component to cast ''color spray'', she discovers the shopkeeper had merely glamoured ordinary sand to look multicolored...so she blinds him with the sand instead.

* In the ''Series/{{Angel}}'' episode "I Will Remember You", Angel throws salt into the Mohra Demon's eyes.