History Main / LiteralAssKicking

* An episode of ''TheSmurfs'' involved a spot that appeared on someone's face and (apparently magically) made them unhappy. It could only be removed by kicking them in the butt, but this transferred it to the kicker. Cue an episode of the Smurfs unusually full of ass-kicking. Brainy even devised a machine to do the kicking, only to find the machine's operator was considered the kicker. [[spoiler: It turned out that kissing the spotted person made the spot vanish without a transfer.]]

* In an episode of ''The Parent 'Hood'', the father gets shot during an attempted mugging. After the prerequisite drama is wrung out of his subconscious watching his family crying over him in a hospital bed, the angel that comes to take him to heaven stops when he learns he was shot in the ass, and it was non-fatal.

** It was still a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the Dinobots. Another example would be in ''TransformersCybertron'' when [[KillItWithFire Scourge]] lights [[ButtMonkey Thundercracker]]'s aft on fire.

* [[Hancock "If you don't move, YOUR head is going up HIS ass."]]

* It happened very regularly in almost all of CharlieChaplin's films.

-->'''Lisa''': Why do you have to be such a pain all the time? Don't you
realize you're getting a bad reputation?

* When ''TheSimpsons'' go to [[LandDownunder Australia]], "Booting" (administered by an angry-looking man wearing an over-sized boot) is a form of corporal punishment. It's even on the country's flag (shown atop this page).

* A CrowningMomentOfAwesome in ''[[CiaphasCain Cain's Last Stand]]''. [[spoiler:Cain is losing the fight badly with [[BigBad a mutated Chaos Warmaster]] until her reverses the situation with a solid boot to the fundament--that sends the villain right over a several-hundred-foot drop. Bonus point for [[ExactWords fulfilling one of his students' last wish in doing so.]]]]

Related to AssShove, which happens when something goes ''into'' the butt.

* Happened in ''{{Spaceballs}}'' with a reflected blaster shot.
* ''TheThreeStooges'' were constantly getting stabbed, shot, and dynamited in their rears.
* Marcus gets shot in the ass early on in ''BadBoys 2''. This causes a later scene where he and Mike discuss it to seem like a [[HoYay gay conversation]].

* And of course there's ''ForrestGump''.

* In ''BlazingSaddles'' the Waco Kid, burned out by too many quick draw duels, explains why he became an alcoholic after a run-in with a little kid: "The little bastard shot me in the ass!"
* Though it doesn't actually occur in the film, in ''TheMummy Returns'' the zeppelin pilot continually moans about how the last time he helped O'Connell, he got shot in the ass.
* Felix in ''The 51st State'' gets a bullet in the arse, courtesy of his ex-girlfriend who just happens to be a contract killer. The fact that she doesn't blow his head off is the first clue that she still has feeings for him.

* In the {{western}} ''That Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend,'' the heroine continually shoots at her no-good boyfriend-- only to perpetually hit the ''town judge'' in the butt.

* When testing the myth that a penny dropped from the top of the Empire State Building would kill anyone it hits, [[MythBusters Jamie]] adapted a staple gun to fire pennies at their terminal velocity. Adam ''volunteered'' for a butt shot. [[spoiler:He wasn't injured, Myth Busted.]]

* In an episode of ''NYPDBlue,'' Andy Sipwics is shot several times by an enemy and left for dead; as a parting-shot, the enemy then shoots him once in each buttock as a final insult. Sipowics lives, but he's forced to sit on an inflatable donut for some time.

* When characters in ''MarioKart: Double Dash'' are on the receiving end of an incediary attack, they hop around yelping with smoke emanating from their posteriors.

* Justified in ''{{Dr McNinja}}'', After analysing Franz Rayner's movements, Dan Macninja's son decides he actually has a Nerve Cluster in his Left Buttock, striking this point is the key to winning the fight for leadership of the Ninja clan.