History Main / PunchedAcrossTheRoom

** In ''[=StrikerS=]'', Subaru (a Belka-type mage) proves herself PARTICULARLY apt at this. During her CrowningMomentOfAwesome, where she [[SuperMode activates her hidden potential]], she knocks several high-class Combat Cyborgs across the room. And through walls.

* In ''ReBoot'', Matrix punching Megabyte across the room - leaving a fist-sized dent in his chest - was the exact moment Megabyte [[OhCrap realized]] just how much trouble he was in.

** AllStarSuperman was once punched so hard he slammed into the moon with enough force to ''break it in half''.

** The same applies for the ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' [[FightingGame Fighting Games]] (which were also developed by Creator/{{Capcom}}), but only the "flying across the stage" type is featured in them.

* Drinking the magic potion in ''{{Asterix}}'' makes you able and eager to do this.

* [[spoiler: Darquesse and Lord Vile]] from ''Literature/{{Skulduggery Pleasant}}'' are rather partial to throwing each other into anything that doesn't move out of their way fast enough.

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* ''MagicTheGathering'': In ''MagicTheGathering/TestOfMetal'', Nicol Bolas casually backhands Tezzeret when he wakes up, knocking him across the room and smashing him against the jagged cave wall.

* In the ''MassEffect[=/=]{{FEAR}}'' crossover ''Fanfic/{{Harbinger}}'', Shepard's [[BulletTime Slo-mo]] abilities let him punch someone so fast and with such force that he can send them flying dozens of meters away. However, [[RequiredSecondaryPowers punching that hard can shatter his own arm]], so Shepard's armor has to be modified to generate a dual-layer mass effect field to absorb the impact.

* ''Film/PacificRim'': Sometimes it's a Kaiju getting thrown. Once it was Gipsy Danger.

* ''{{Popeye}} the Sailor'', anyone?
* The ''JusticeLeague Unlimited'' GrandFinale sees a '''VERY''' pissed-off {{Superman}} punching {{Darkseid}} ''across the whole of Metropolis'', through several buildings and finally several feet into the ground.
** The "Crisis on Two Earths" movie had a ''lot'' of collateral damage caused by this kind of thing. It's just as well the building where the League first fought the Crime Syndicate was pretty much condemned anyway, given the amount of it that was reduced to rubble by things like Superman throwing Superwoman through walls.

* A staple trope of many large wrestlers, especially monster heels. For them, ordinary punches and kicks are more powerful than such moves by "normal-sized wrestlers," but the finishing moves often knock the opponent from one side of the ring to the other with a single blow ... and clear sometimes outside the ring! Of course, said impact of moves are always greater on jobbers, but that the top-shelf wrestlers are always more able to absorb the blow and thus it doesn't have as great of effect.

* In older versions of ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'', it was not at all uncommon to see a soldier dwarf hit an enemy ([[AxeCrazy or another dwarf]]) so hard that it would leave a bloody trail several tiles long before impacting a wall and [[LudicrousGibs exploding]].

* [[spoiler: Darquesse and Lord Vile]] from ''Literature/{{SkulduggeryPleasant}}'' are rather partial to throwing each other into anything that doesn't move out of their way fast enough.

* Practically everyone BruceLee sparred with regularly said he did this to them. The famous "One Inch Punch", while not exactly sending someone flying across the room, would knock them back several feet which is an impressive distance when you realize that Bruce Lee's fist quite literally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin only moved an inch.]]

* Practically everyone Bruce Lee sparred with regularly said he did this to them. The famous "One Inch Punch", while not exactly sending someone flying across the room, would knock them back several feet which is an impressive distance when you realize that Bruce Lee's fist quite literally [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin only moved an inch.]]

* Pretty much every {{Terminator}} ever made will do this to someone/something at least once.