History Main / DopeSlap

* The tiger of kai from {{Sengoku Basara}} isn't content to deliver a simple dope slap to {{Idiot hero}} Yukimura Sanada. When he says something truly dumb, he delivers a dope PUNCH, usually sending Yukimura through the nearest door, or into a wall. He always up a second later though.

** Technically, it probably would have, except that he kept getting smacked by the person that he hadn't "declared" his dodge on.

* You normally wouldn't expect someone like Grace of ''ElGoonishShive'' to perform the dope-slap on someone, [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2009-05-19 but when your friend's been acting like a dummy...]]

** And the more {{egregious}} example from ''Ice Age 3'': Ellie is going into labour; when Crash asks if she can just hold it in for a while, Ellie (being a long distance away and unable to reach him with her trunk) yells down: ''"Can somebody slap him for me?"'' Needless to say, Eddie obliges immediately and delivers a resounding smack to Crash's head.

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** In the ''{{Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince}}'' movie, Hermione Granger explains to Harry about the girls trying to slip him love potions. When Harry doesn't seem to mind the attention, she reminds him that they only want him because they think he's "TheChosenOne".
--->'''Harry:''' But I ''am'' the chosen one.\\

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** Honorable mention to Gibbs's reaction to catching Tony looking at "Page 57" of a men's magazine -- since Gibbs was too far away to deliver a dope-slap, he caught Tony on the back of the head with a scrunched-up ball of paper. Certainly got his attention.

* Dick Dastardly to Muttley on WackyRaces. Usually, Dick's retaliation for Muttley snickering at him comes by a bop on the head, dumping water on him, or other variations.

The DopeSlap is a lighthearted slap (or knuckle tap) to the back of the skull that is intended as a disciplinary move by one character when another character does, says, or even ''thinks'' something that is uniformly stupid. The slap is almost always in some way played for laughs; think of it as an attempt at PercussiveMaintenance on somebody's brain, and thus occasionally overlaps with {{Get a Hold of Yourself Man}}.

* As opposed to a full-handed slap, Uncle of ''JackieChanAdventures'' delivers a hard, two-finger hit to the forehead for anyone whose foolishness has earned his disapproval. Be they Jackie (many times), allies, ''enemies'', or even himself.

The DopeSlap is a lighthearted slap (or knuckle tap) to the back of the skull that is intended as a disciplinary move by one character when another character does, says, or even ''thinks'' something that is uniformly stupid. The slap is almost always in some way played for laughs; think of it as an attempt at PercussiveMaintenance on somebody's brain, and thus occasionally overlaps with GetAHoldOfYourselfMan.

It could be considered a subtrope of {{Slapstick}}. In a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, it's most often done with a PaperFanOfDoom.

** And the more {{egregious}} example from ''Ice Age 3''. Ellie is going into labour; when Crash asks if she can just hold it in for a while, Ellie (being a long distance away and unable to reach him with her trunk) yells down: ''"Can somebody slap him for me?"'' Needless to say, Eddie obliges immediately and delivers a resounding smack to Crash's head.

* In ''{{Back to the Future}} II'', Old Biff dope-slaps Young Biff for mangling a joke.
-->Young Biff: "Why don't you make like a tree and get out of here?
-->Old Biff: (smack) "IT'S LEAVE, YOU IDIOT! Make like a tree and LEAVE! You sound like a damned FOOL when you say it wrong!"

** Gibbs once dope-slaps a cardboard cutout of Tony, and tony reacts if he'd been hit.

* ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'' Spike pulls off a memorable one when, due to a spell, he has to explain a crucial plot point to Xander for roughly the 37th time. Note that Spike has a chip in his head which causes him extreme pain if he hurts a human.

* ''GirlGenius'': [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090327 Zeetha smacks Gil]] for the extremely corny lines he's asking her to tell Agatha.

** Technically, it probably would have, except that he kept getting smacked by the person that he hadn't 'declared' his dodge on.
* Happened in ''ElfOnlyInn'' when Lord Elf was trying to prove that Nimoy (a vulcan) was not actually an elf, and Nimoy tried to calm him down with a Vulcan Neck Pinch. When it had no effect and Lord Elf asked if it was a Jedi mind trick, Nimoy responded with the Vulcan Dope Slap.

* Frequently used in the ''WhateleyUniverse'', called a [[{{NCIS}} Gibbs]] slap.
** When?!? Has anyone done this, other than Peeper to Greasy?

** Cecil does a less comedic one to Edward to snap him out of crossing the DespairEventHorizon.

* ''FinalFantasyIV'': Porom dope slaps her twin brother Palom quite a lot.

* ''TalesOfSymphonia'': Raine has a problem dealing with this trope. Being a teacher, it's more or less her duty to keep her brother Genis and her pupil Lloyd on the right route. She slaps/kicks them whenever they do something wrong. However, she loves overdoing it on unlikely situations which causes her actions to not be funny in a long run, if it's even intended to be funny in the first place.

* ''FinalFantasyIV'' has Porom dope slaps her twin brother Palom quite a lot.

* Marena applies this to Secret in ''{{Keychain of Creation}}'' #[[http://keychain.patternspider.net/archive/koc0202.html 202]].

* In ''{{Back to the Future}} II'', Old Biff dope-slaps Young Biff for wrangling a joke after giving him the GraysSportsAlmanac. And no, [[NeverTheSelvesShallMeet they don't explode]] (specially since Young Biff is too stupid to recognize himself).

** There's another early episode, where Lois has put on some weight. Peter considers telling her he's not attracted to her anymore. In a brilliant roll reversal, Brian rolls up a newspaper he was reading, and with a stern "NO!" he whacks Peter on the nose.

TruthInTelevision, obviously. Which one of us hasn't been on the giving or receiving end of this at least once?

* Kogoro does this to Conan in ''CaseClosed'' quite often when he catches the boy snooping where he shouldn't. More often than not he uses his fist (and sometimes even gives Conan a full noogie), resulting in a [[CranialEruption painful-looking lump]]. (But this is still played for laughs.)
* Used in ''OnegaiMyMelody'', when a mother thought her young son's apology to the VictimOfTheWeek wasn't heartfelt enough.

* In the manga ''MahouSenseiNegima!'', Setsuna actually pulls out a paper fan (apparently from hyperspace) to dope-slap Chao, in response to Chao [[SarcasticConfession explaining that she's a martian from the future]] seemingly [[CassandraTruth sarcastically]]. Twice.

* Hyde doing this to Kelso is a RunningGag in ''[[ThatSeventiesShow That 70's Show]]''.
** Red did this to Eric on occasion too.

* Happens so often ''{{Gilligans Island}}'' that some refer to it as a "Gilligan Slap".
* In ''StargateAtlantis'', Sheppard has dope-slapped [=McKay=] on two occasions: once in the second season for doubting Rono's tracking skills, and again in the third season for telling too much to the still-imprisoned and therefore MindProbe victims O'Neill and Woolsey.

* I dare you to name an episode of ''TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' where this doesn't happen at least once.
* The Big Guy in ''{{Sanctuary}}'' does this to Will and Henry a lot.
** However, in Big Guy's case, it's only occasionally a dope slap. Usually it's just his way of demonstrating affection. Once in a while, Will or Henry will return the favor, either in DopeSlap or Bromance context.

* From ''{{Webcomic/SequentialArt}}'': the dope-slap can also be used to reset the tune of an [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=222 annoying squirrel girl]].

In ''[[Balto]]'', Kaltag has a habit of hitting Star on the head whenever he interupts one of his rants as their RunningGag. Star is well aware of this and on one occasion does it to himself and at the end of the film [[spoiler: he expects to recieve one, only for Kaltag to actually agree with him.]]

** Honourable mention to Gibbs's reaction to catching Tony looking at "Page 57" of a men's magazine -- since Gibbs was too far away to deliver a dope-slap, he caught Tony on the back of the head with a scrunched-up ball of paper. Certainly got his attention.

* ''{{Friends}}'': Chandler manages to earn a five-person dope-slap (or at least two or three plus some stuff thrown at him...) after a particularly flagrant bit of HypocriticalHumor when he criticises a LoveInterestOfTheWeek for being "desperate" -- after he's spent the whole episode literally watching the phone.

* What?! Nobody is going to mention ''{{Gilligans Island}}''?! Shoulda called this a Gilligan Slap...

* ''SCPFoundation'': Once a person is depossessed of [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-572 SCP-572]], "all psychological effects can usually be expunged by a single swift blow to the back of the subject's head."

{{Truth in Television}}, obviously. Which one of us hasn't been on the giving or receiving end of this at least once?

The complete inverse of FacePalm.

* In the last issue of ''KingdomCome'', one of the metahumans on Themyscyra spits, and another metahuman gives him a dope-slap for being rude.

* I dare you to name an episode of ''Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'' where this doesn't happen at least once.

TruthInTelevision, obviously. Which one of us hasn't been on the giving or receiving end of this at least once?

* ''{{Science Ninja Team Gatchaman}}'': Jinpei got a few of these, usually after saying something stupid or smart-alecky.

** And the more {{Egregious}} example from ''Ice Age 3'': Ellie is going into labour; when Crash asks if she can just hold it in for a while, Ellie (being a long distance away and unable to reach him with her trunk) yells down: ''"Can somebody slap him for me?"'' Needless to say, Eddie obliges immediately and delivers a resounding smack to Crash's head.

* The Dope Slap became one of the best character signatures of Soledad from the Spanish sitcom 7 Vidas.

-->'''Sheila:''' Did you just give me a "dope slap" with your tail?
-->'''Kell:''' Somebody had to.

* From ''YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'': It's not that [[DoesNotLikeMen Arachne]] [[http://yafgc.net/?id=1438 disprove of Gren leaving Bob... ]] but that she'd do it for another '''guy'''.
* In Ctrl+Alt+Del, Lucas applies this to Ethan a couple of times.

* As opposed to a full handed slap, Uncle of JackieChanAdventures delivers a hard, two-finger hit to the forehead for anyone who's foolishness has earned his disapproval. Be they Jackie (many times), allies, ''enemies'', or even himself.

* [[BeavisAndButthead Butt-head]] from does this to Beavis on a regular basis which sometimes leads Beavis to [[GroinAttack retaliate]].