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* ''Film/TheGreatMuppetCaper'' has loads of fun with this in the heist foil scene; once that diamond starts getting tossed around the muppets start bragging about their throwing skills, the host of The Wide World of Muppet Sports shows up, theme music starts playing...

* In Judy Blume's ''Blubber'', Jill joins the class AlphaBitch and her crowd in a game of keep-away with Linda's notebook. Later on, when Jill herself becomes the target the same crowd plays catch with her math book before throwing it in the street.

* At the end of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' episode "The Funeral to End All Funerals", the Janets play this with the Judge's "Earth Rebooter thingy".

In one scenario, the heroes are trying to keep the {{MacGuffin}} away from the villain or villains. Said villain is so focused on the item that they're not fighting the heroes who don't have it.

The answer is to throw the {{MacGuffin}} from hero to hero, with the villain being frustrated as he barely misses it each time. If there's a group of villains, expect multiple "yoink!" moments as the groups intercept it from each other.

In another scenario, the protagonist might be quietly minding his own business on the schoolyard when a group of [[TheBully bullies]] come up and take something of his, then pass it around to another one whenever he gets close. If he can make a plausible threat of getting them in trouble, expect them to transparently lie and claim that it was only a game; otherwise, they might just keep the {{MacGuffin}}. One way or another, the protagonist will need to find an effective way to deal with the bullies.

Polar opposite of the {{MacGuffin Delivery Service}} and HotPotato.

* In one of the animated adaptations of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', Satako and a couple other students do this with one of Rika's books. [[{{Beware the Nice Ones}} Cue Rika beating the stuffing out of Satoko with a chair]].

* The climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'' does this with the Fairy Godmother's magic wand.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'':

* In one of the ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' OVA's, [[HarpingOnAboutHarpies Papi]] and [[SlimeGirl Suu]] does this while playing with [[HeadlessHorseman Lala's]] head.

* Mr. Toad and his friends Mole, Water Rat, and Angus [=MacBadger=] actually do this to the deed for Toad Hall at the end of ''Literature/TheWindInTheWillows'' segment of ''Disney/TheAdventuresOfIchabodAndMrToad'' in order to get rid of the evil innkeeper Mr. Winkie and his army of weasels, who have taken over the mansion after framing Toad for allegedly stealing a car. Toad complicates matters enormously during the scuffle by tossing out dozens of paper-airplane decoy deeds, confusing everybody.
* Baloo and Bagheera actually do this with Mowgli near the middle of ''Disney/TheJungleBook'' in order to rescue him from King Louie and the other monkeys. Curiously enough, the animation for this scene was actually taken from the above film.
* ''Disney/AladdinTheReturnOfJafar'' ends with Aladdin and his friends trying to get [[JackassGenie Jafar's]] lamp away from him and [[HarmlessVillain Abis]] [[PunnyName Mal]] in order to destroy it, because according to Genie, the only way to kill a genie is to destroy his lamp before his summoner can wish him free (at which the genie becomes invincible afterwards). Jafar finds out about this, and as a result he traps the heroes in a pit of lava, with the lamp just out of reach. Fortunately, [[HeelFaceTurn Iago the parrot]] shows up in time, grabs Jafar's lamp, and throws it into the lava. [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath Cue Jafar getting electrocuted, turning into a skeleton, screaming throughout, and exploding violently.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'', The [[HarmlessVillain Beagle Boys]] and the [[BrattyHalfPint triplets Huey, Dewey and Louie]] ended up doing this with a [[MacGuffin bag of form-changing powder]], while engaged in a {{Shapeshifter Showdown}} on top of that!

* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Roger and his gang play keep-away with AV nerd Larry's hat. This kicks off the main plot; when the hat lands on Doug's pencil and he holds it up, Larry mistakes him for playing along with the game [[MisplacedRetribution and lashes out at him]].

In another scenario, the protagonist might be quietly minding his own business on the schoolyard when a group of [[TheBully bullies]] come up and take something of his, then pass it around to another one whenever he gets close.

If he can make a plausible threat of getting them in trouble, expect them to transparently lie and claim that it was only a game; otherwise, they might just keep the {{MacGuffin}}. One way or another, the protagonist will need to find an effective way to deal with the bullies.

* ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'' has the title turtles playing keep-away from the Foot with the last canister of mutagenic ooze. It eventually finds its way into Tatsu's hands when one of the defeated Foot lays a staff across the floor, causing Donatello to wipe out.

* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Roger and his gang play keep-away with AV nerd Larry's hat. This kicks off the main plot; when the hat lands on Doug's pencil and he holds it up, Larry mistakes him for playing along with the game and lashes out at him.

* In the ''Literature/BerensteinBears'' chapter books, this is just one of the ways the bullies pick on Ferdy.

** Another episode has a group of girl bullies doing this with Lisa's shoes. They end up throwing them completely out of reach, forcing Lisa to walk home bearfoot, causing a social worker [[AbuseMistake to think]] she was suffering from BarefootPoverty.

* ''Series/PowerRangersNinjaStorm'' has a memorable sequence of yoinks as the Wind and Thunder Rangers fight for the Wind Rangers' [[TheObiWan mentor]], currently [[ShapeshifterModeLock a guinea pig]] in a pet ball-sized force field.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' fight between Music/OzzyOsbourne and RobZombie, Ozzy and Mills do this with Rob's brain. (ItMakesSenseInContext, seriously. [[KentBrockmanNews Nick Diamond]] calls it a "game of HotPotato", but Ozzy is trying to keep it away from Rob, so it more fits this Trope.)