History Main / PunchedAcrossTheRoom

** Luffy punches the Celestial Dragon Saint Charlos on the Sabaody islands. Charlos had ''really'' [[BerserkButton pissed him off]].

* ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' has a memorable cutscene where [[FakeUltimateHero Steel Massimo]]'s BerserkButton is pushed by the sadistic [[FatBastard Silver Horns]], a tank-sized Triceratops. After the latter gloats at length about his ColdBloodedTorture of Massimo's mentor, the original Steel Massimo, his response is to [[TalkToTheFist belt Silver Horns sqaure in the gut while he's busy laughing mockingly]], sending him flying back across his boss room.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': Over the course of the series, distance gradually increases from punches across the room to punches across the town, to punches across continent -- and even this was proven to not be the limit, when titular character punched [[spoiler:[[BigBad Acacia]]]] so hard, that he ''[[UptoEleven circled the planet]]''. In fact, [[TheParalyzer Jiro]] sometimes disposes of tough enemies, by simply ''uppercutting them into space''.

** ''Chronophantasma'' [[UpToEleven pumps eleven kinds of drugs]] into the matter with the "Galaxian Impact" Overdrive -- ''every Drive attack'' is at maximum power (level G) for the duration.

* In ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', Warriors or Guardians who equip a hammer will get a skill that does this (called "launching" in the game). It's about as satisfying as it sounds.
* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', Muradin Bronzebeard from {{VideoGame/Warcraft}} has ''Haymaker'' as one of his [[LimitBreak heroic abilities]]. Also doubles as a MegatonPunch, Muradin punches his target so hard that they got knocked back a significant distance away, can be used to forcibly throw an enemy into your teammates, or worse, behind your [[TrappedBehindEnemyLines fortifications]].
* Similarly, in ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction'', Hulk can send normal soldiers [[MegatonPunch flying into the stratosphere with one hit]], and punch Hulk-sized enemies far away. There's even a mini-game about seeing how far you can send someone flying by smacking them with a steel girder that Hulk is using like a baseball bat.
* The Tank in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' hits the survivors so hard they go flying. This is can end badly if you happen to be standing on a building or a cliff, to say the least. Meanwhile, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03BhXOYM6h0 this video]] shows that doing a jumping melee against a pouncing Hunter will send it flying back.
** In fact, one of the Steam Achievements (or Xbox achievements, whichever system you're on) is to hit a Hunter with a melee attack just before it lands on you. It literally stops the Hunter dead in its tracks, and if it's a player in Versus, they usually have no idea what just happened and are easily killed. The achievement is appropriately called Dead Stop.
* Exaggerated in the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' -- in the last potental power struggle, the last hit sends the boss flying from the ring you're in all the way to the audience stands. A helicopter then picks up the boss from the stands, now dazed, and lets you kill him off for real.

* In every installment in the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series (excluding ''[[VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom CotA]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 MvC3]]''), specific attacks would hit the characters so hard that they'd be sent flying across the stage, all while the camera [[{{Pan}} panned]] along with them. Their off-screen opponent would run after them and show up on-screen shortly after to continue the fight. After an air combo, characters can also be spiked towards the ground with a Type A MeteorMove (the camera would {{Tilt}} downward along with them.) It really made battles [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome look more intense]]. On a side note, a literal example of this trope is the Juggernaut, who can send his opponents flying with his Juggernaut Punch.

Subtrope of {{Knockback}}. In video games, this may result in a RingOut.

** Exaggerated, to the point of characters getting punched into different countries and even [[RecycledINSPACE INTO SPACE!]].
** Kicked Across The Room: characters are also prone to kick others in the same way. One example: Filemón is almost dead after being shot in the stomach, and is on a wheelchair. The Súper (who was the indirect cause of him being shot) asks him how he is. The next frame has the Súper with a shoe-mark on his back after having landed on an igloo, asking himself how it could happen.

* ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' has a memorable cutscene where [[FakeUltimateHero Steel Massimo]]'s BerserkButton is pushed by the sadistic [[FatBastard Silver Horns]], a tank-sized Triceratops. After the latter gloats at length about his ColdBloodedTorture of Massimo's mentor, the original Steel Massimo, his response is to [[MegatonPunch belt Silver Horns sqaure in the gut]] and send him flying back across his boss room, screaming furiously at the top of his lungs.

** A hilarious example in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'', when [[spoiler:Hulk offhandedly punches Thor across the room at the end of the climactic battle]].

* In ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'', Mr. Mighty does this to Hornswoggle [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2133432/ch12-18/ during an attempted heist.]]

* In the finale of Joey's duel against Valon in ''Anime/YuGiOh'', their armored fists collide, but Valon is the one knocked back.

* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'':

** In the vein of the movies, any character with super strength has done this. The ''Film/IronMan'' movie subverts this by adding the sounds of breaking bones when a punch connects, pointing out that hitting someone that hard would be fatal.
** Film/TheIncredibleHulk, in the 2008 movie, kicks Emil Blonsky across a field and into a tree. Slight subversion, though, in that the impact shatters almost all of his bones, and he only survives due to the healing factor given by the supersoldier serum he took earlier.

* A fight in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' involved Kiyomaro and Gash fighting against a man with a mother who had died, Shinichi, and his demon, a snotty self-proclaimed elite named Eshros. At one point in the fight, Kiyomaro gets so sick of Eshros manipulating Shinichi's love of his mother that he punches him across the room (or in this case, the schoolyard where they were fighting). He then says he just wants to beat the crap out of this guy.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'', [[spoiler:Hunter O’Nion]] discovers his newfound SuperStrength by [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Devastation5_THOK!.jpg punching a Machination scientist so hard]] that the man flies out of the room, breaking the door on his way out, and crashes into a wall with enough force to crack it.

* In the early ''VideoGame/MortalKombat'' games, this was Shao Kahn's NORMAL punch. He also had an uppercut that knocked you offscreen as well.

* Anyone who takes [[MightyGlacier Big]] [[TopHeavyGuy Band]]'s heavy [[PunnyName Brass Knuckles]] special in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' will get launched across the stage in an unavoidable, inescapable slide knockdown. Considering he's hitting them square in the face with a giant PowerFist made of [[InstrumentOfMurder brass instruments]] larger than any other member of the cast, it's to be expected. His "Take the A-Train" special is a variation, where he grabs them with the same arm, then slams them with a weaponized trombone slide built into said arm to launch them bodily across the screen.

* Drinking the magic potion in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' makes you able and eager to do this, the hapless Roman victims generally being punched [[SmolderingShoes straight out of their sandals]].

** Several examples in ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton''. In the first chapter, a random guy harasses Kara. She shoves him away and he goes flying and crashes into a pile of boxes. Later on, a Doomsday clone punches Superman so hard that Kal-El goes flying. And Darkseid does this to Batman several times during their fight.

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* ''Every single fight'' in ''WebAnimation/SuperMarioBrosZ'' sees each combatant being punched, kicked, thrown or otherwise sent flying hundreds of feet in any given direction. Usually the victim then crashes into a wall, which may or may not break. In the really extreme cases, they are sent flying through ''several'' walls or even ''hills''. Everyone in the cast seems to be [[NighInvulnerability Nigh Invulnerable]]. Of course, this ''is'' a ''Manga/DragonBall Z'' semi-parody we're dealing with here.

* ''WebAnimation/MysterySkullsAnimated'': Lewis punches Shiromori's head clean off and over a wall into the surrounding forest when he wakes up to find her messing with his locket.
* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'': Anyone punched by [[DumbMuscle Strong Mad]] tends to get sent flying, as seen with the King of Town in "Where's the Cheat?". In "The Next April Fools Thing", Strong Mad manages to punch ''[[KickingMyOwnButt himself]]'' offscreen, while [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext trying to psyche himself up to talk to a glass of orange juice]].

* Both heroes and villains alike in the web fiction serial ''Literature/DimensionHeroes'' find themselves being victims of this trope.
* In the ''Roleplay/AvatarAdventures'' RP, a whole group of heroes get punched all the way from New Mexico to London in a single blow by the 65-year-old ex-superhero/war veteran Commie Buster. As you might have guessed, it's a pretty damn awesome RP.
* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', Phase once had a fight where she was thrown across a large room, ''through'' a capture cage, and through the far wall. And it was just sparring in class.

* WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}} did this to Bluto pretty much all the time after eating spinach.

* A fortunately armored Batman gets a milder version of the same treatment (in an obvious reference) in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' when Superman is under the effects of Red Kryptonite. In another episode, Batman challenges Darkseid into a fistfight ''without'' any special equipment. First, he gets punched through the air in the regular manner, and later Darkseid just hits the ground, letting the pressure wave blow Batman away.

* The ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' short "WesternAnimation/JerrysCousin" has cousin Muscles inflate his fist and punch Tom across the room. His EstablishingCharacterMoment had him doing this trope to an alley full of cats, only stopping when the mailman delivers Jerry's letter for him asking for help.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': [[SuperStrength Bad Kaeloo]], [[DoAnythingRobot Serguei]], [[AcademicAthlete Mr. Cat]] and [[TheAce Quack Quack]] can send people flying in the air with just one punch. In various episodes, one of these four has punched someone to the opposite side of a room, usually making the other person crash into a piece of furniture.
* The debut episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpiderMan1967'' had Spidey confronting Uncle Ben's murderer in a warehouse, saying "This is for the man you killed!" and [=KOing=] him clear across the building.

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Hand-to-hand variations of BlownAcrossTheRoom. In movies and videogames, punches and kicks send you flying, [[KungShui usually in the direction of something breakable]]. Never results in anything worse than BloodFromTheMouth, though in real life such strikes have been known to cripple, concuss or even kill the victim.

* ''Manga/DragonHalf''. Mink gets ''really'' angry when ClothingDamage happens to her (she wanted her love interest to be the first one to see her boobs), and winds up not only doing a RingOut to her opponent, she ''also'' breaks through his magical WaveMotionSword. ''With a single punch''.
* ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'':
** Done in a dramatic scene by Satoshi to Shion, when she beats his sister Satoko. Also done by Satoko to Keiichi; the latter is particularly jarring because Keiichi is twice her size and seems to be pushed back at least five feet.
** Done in another not-so-serious scene in Rei, where Satoko gets launched AT LEAST 10 feet by a Rena-paunch for trying to break up the LesYay between Miyo and Rena.
* A male-on-female example in ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool'' Despair Arc. Hajime Hinata, in his alternate identity as Izuru Kamakura backhanded Mukuro Ikusaba which sent her flying and hitting a wall after he had knocked her sister Junko Enoshima to the floor and stepped on her. His actions were justified since he was defending himself from both Junko's and Mukuro's attempted assaults.
* Tenchi punched his friend Kazuhiko, who was twice his size, across the classroom to smash into the lockers in the first ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' {{OVA}}. If it hadn't been a parody, it would have been a heinous act, because: they weren't in a fight; Tenchi was a martial artist and knew that the obese Kazuhiko wouldn't defend himself; Kazuhiko's sole crime was to make a lewd joke; and he wore glasses. And, of course, Tenchi was supposed to be the good guy. Tenchi also doesn't realize yet that he has superhuman strength (since all of his sparring is with his equally superhuman grandfather, he's got no frame of reference), though this incident really should've clued him in.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Luffy punches the Celestial Dragon Saint Charlos on the Sabaody islands. Charlos had ''really'' [[BerserkButton pissed him off]].
** Luffy demonstrates Gear Fourth by decking [[spoiler:Doflamingo]] hard enough to send him to the town center. The actual punch happened in a castle ''outside the town entirely''.
** A comedic example that happens ''to'' Luffy is in the Drum Island arc, when he suggests chucking a barrel of cold water on a then-ill Nami to make her fever drop. Vivi and Sanji weren't amused, and promptly sent him flying to the other side of the room before casually resuming their conversation.
** Luffy defeated Charlotte Cracker this way using his Gomu Gomu no Cannonball technique. He sent Cracker plowing thought the remaining [[{{mooks}} cracker soldiers]], the [[TheLostWoods Seducing Woods]] and all the way to Sweet City, the capital of Whole Cake Island several miles from where the fight took place.
* At one point in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Super Saiyan [[spoiler:Kid]] Goku literally ''punched'' [[SuperMode Super Android 17]] across the world.
* In ''Manga/DeathNote'', when L and Light [[spoiler: are handcuffed together, they have a fistfight that leads to a few moments like this. Of course, since they are handcuffed together, they send themselves flying as well. The only furniture harmed is a couch]].
* The [[BeastMan Familiars]] and [[MagicKnight more melee-oriented Belkan magic users]] of ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' can do this, sometimes accompanied by a magic boost or a PowerFist to give their punches and kicks that extra oomph.
** In ''[=StrikerS=]'', Subaru (a Belka-type mage) proves herself PARTICULARLY apt at this. When she [[SuperMode activates her hidden potential]], she knocks several high-class Combat Cyborgs across the room. And through walls. [[spoiler:Subaru is [[SuperPrototype a higher-class Combat Cyborg]].]]
** ''[=StrikerS=]'' also has Signum doing this to Teana, as a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan.
** Einhart does this to Vivio during their first match in ''[=ViVid=]''. Vivio's reaction: "[[LoveAtFirstPunch Amazing!]]"
* The ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'' anime features Takeda Shingen doing this a ''lot'' to his BattleButler Yukimura, usually while [[SayMyName shouting his name out loudly]].
* A fight in ''Manga/ZatchBell'' involved Kiyomaro and Gash fighting against a man with a mother who had died, Shinichi, and his demon, a snotty self-proclaimed elite named Eshros. At one point in the fight, Kiyomaro gets so sick of Eshros manipulating Shinichi's love of his mother that he punches him across the room (or in this case, the schoolyard where they were fighting). He then says he just wants to beat the crap out of this guy.

* Black Star does this to Maka after a HitMeDammit[=/=]MyFistForgivesYou moment after an argument in ''Manga/SoulEater''.

* In the finale of Joey's duel against Valon in ''Anime/YuGiOh'', their armored fists collide, but Valon is the one knocked back.
** This is also the usual result of [[PhysicalGod Obelisk the Tormentor]] pounding an opponent with Fist of Fate.
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' takes this trope, like it does with so many others, SerialEscalation when [[spoiler: the newly-formed Arc Gurren-Lagann punches its enemy so hard ''that it falls out of the universe.'' Put simply, ''it hit emptiness so hard, emptiness'' '''broke'''.]]
* A few times in ''Manga/LovelyComplex'' when mad at Otani, Risa punches him so hard he flies back several feet.
* In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', Unit 01 uses a made-of-sheer-willpower replacement left arm, that transforms into a projectile AT-Field and shoots an Angel halfway across the Geofront and Shinji could probably have punched Zeruel even further, if the EldritchAbomination hadn't hit the side.
* Happens surprisingly rarely in ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'', considering the amount of super-strong characters. Probably because they tend to punch ''through'' people and get their arms stuck.
* [[spoiler: Naru]] gets one of these in ''Manga/LoveHina'', from a very upset [[spoiler: Kanako]].
* When ''Anime/AfroSamurai'''s Afro goes into a tavern and orders a lemonade, a huge hulking brute approaches him from behind to take the No. 2 Headband for himself. When he smashes Afro's drink in an attempt to intimidate him, Afro signals for another drink on the man's tab. Enraged, he attacks Afro, only for the warrior to backhand him so forcefully that he flies across the bar and through the front wall. Oh, and he dies, too.
* In ''Manga/HajimeNoIppo'' it's more like punched across the ring, but Ippo sends Hisato flying across the mat, flipping in the air until he finally rolls to a stop and is declared K.O.'d. It was Ippo's first and last punch in that match to boot, after taking a counter that was considered to be the equivalent of Two Tons of weight behind it.
** Later, during the climax of the Taihei arc, Ippo [[spoiler:slaps Taihei so hard that he goes flying a good 15 feet away and knocks him unconscious. It was damaging enough that upon recovering, Taihei didn't even know what had happened.]]
* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': During the battle between [=GaoGaiGar=] and Palparepa, it is first Genesic [=GaoGaiGar=] that gets punched around. Then the table turns, and Palparepa gets punched through 2 skyscrapers and a bridge, in just one punch, during a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, and a quite awesome one at that.

* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'': Ranma gets punched across the room in the first movie.

* In the preliminaries of the Demon World Unification Tournament in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', Yusuke punches all his opponents into the sky and out of the arena. While the objective was to remove the opponents' rings, either by making them say the number or killing them and removing the ring, all of Yusuke's opponents are disqualified by ring-out and he wins. Younger Toguro punches [[spoiler:his own brother]] high into the sky, far away from Hanging Neck Island to [[spoiler:prevent him from interfering with his fight]]. Younger Toguro can also punch the ground to rip up huge sections of it; in the English dub this is attributing to him releasing demon energy out through his punch for extra damage, but the Japanese original has him attribute to the ''air pressure'' created by the force of his attacks.
** In the movie ''Poltergeist Report'', this happens to resident badass Hiei - he gets slammed into a skyscraper, then falls into a river, although he's perfectly fine a few moments later when he rescues the others from their impending boss fight.
* ''Anime/MekakucityActors'': This happens to Kido when [[spoiler:Kuroha emerges]] [[TalkToTheFist as she tries to get the others to run]].

* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Touma Kamijou often launches people through the air when he punches them, especially if he gets a running or jumping start. The punchee sometimes makes a crater on landing. Taken to the extreme when he punches [[spoiler:Princess Carissa]] after getting a warm up from being used as a FastballSpecial by [[spoiler:Acqua of the Back]], where his punch not only breaks her weapon, but hits her in the face so hard she goes flying ''clean through part of the wrecked Buckingham Palace'' and ''lands several kilometers away''.
** Accelerator once knocked Awaki into a building in the distance by punching her.
* The Rogue Titan does this a couple of times in ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', punching various Titans and sending them flying.
* For a HaremComedy protagonist, Kimihito Kurusu of ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' fame is quite strong, as demonstrated when he sends flying both a racist dude and his girlfriend with one punch at the beginning of the manga/anime. He does this again with the con man posing as a director of documentaries later on, also breaking his camcorder in the process.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': Over the course of the series, distance gradually increases from punches across the room to punches across the town, to punches across continent - and even this was proven to not be the limit, when titular character punched [[spoiler:[[BigBad Acacia]]]] so hard, that he ''[[UptoEleven circled the planet]]''. In fact, [[TheParalyzer Jiro]] sometimes disposes of tough enemies, by simply ''uppercutting them into space''.
* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'': It happens to Dazai a couple of times at the hands of his current and former partners. When Kunikida does it, it's usually PlayedForLaughs as his reaction to Dazai annoying him; when Chuya does it, it's more serious, as they're actually fighting and Chuya happens to be the best martial artist in the Port Mafia.
* In ''Manga/BarefootGen'', the children fight a lot, and even adults beat them regularly. Gen is nearly always thrown into a wall because of a grown-up's uppercut.
* ''Manga/HereIsGreenwood'': In the drama, Mitsuru starts the library fight with one of these, sending Shinobu into a bookcase.
* ''Anime/YattermanNight'': Boyacky's mecha flicked the first two Yattermen they encountered across the room and straight into another building.
* In ''Manga/KemonoMichi'', this is one of many fates that have befallen those who have called Genzo the Demon Beast Killer to his face.

* ''Anime/{{Charlotte}}'': Nao is subjected to this in episode 11, when some rogue ability users attack her in her apartment at night. She is hit rather hard, and is knocked out by said punch.
* ''Manga/MedakaBox'': Mainly [[RuleOfFunny done for comedy]], but this happens to Medaka's [[KnightTemplarBigBrother older brother]] after he hugged her, resulting in her instantly entering her [[SuperMode Perses mode]]. [[MadeOfIron He's fine, though]].
* ''Manga/AyakashiTriangle'': Matsuri flies up directly in front of Sosuke as he pursues Suzu, catching him by surprise before punching him in the face so hard he bounces along the ground.

* ''Franchise/XMen'' has Juggernaut get punched ''across the U.S.'' as a bit of foreshadowing for its ''ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}'' arc.
* ''ComicBook/ScottPilgrim'':
** Scott once hit a guy so hard he saw the curvature of the Earth, never mind getting punched across the room.
** Lynette punches Knives across a room so hard that her highlights fly out of her hair.

** Superman, ComicBook/{{Superboy}}, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, ComicBook/PowerGirl and other Kryptonians do this fairly frequently, except they are strong enough - and a lot of their enemies are tough enough - for "punched across the room" to become "punched across ''the city''".

* Drinking the magic potion in ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'' makes you able and eager to do this, the hapless Roman victims generally being punched [[SmolderingShoes straight out of their sandals]].

* Franchise/TheFlash Wally West once punched someone so hard that he/she was sent flying to somewhere in Africa, and they were in Mount Rushmore. He did it with the [[http://www.comicbookmovie.com/images/users/uploads/12521/1245663123804.jpg Infinite Mass Punch]] in which he travels at the speed of light.
* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'':
** The Hulk when fighting the X-woman M: "Go be invulnerable in Jersey."
** Also in the Punisher story "Confederacy of Dunces" set in New York. The Hulk punches Wolverine, but thankfully for him, he lands in a lake...before he's promptly arrested by the Boston PD.
** Green Scar sends Deadpool into another state with a finger flick.
** Hulk's cousin ComicBook/SheHulk once punched Titania into Utah... from New York City.
** A punch from ComicBook/TheSentry threw She-Hulk from Manhattan to New Jersey where She-Hulk catches a cab back to New York and pays back the favor to Sentry. He also opens his fight with World War Hulk by punching him across a city block.
* In the 1980s parody comic ''DESTROY!!'', the Red Basher goes berserk and demolishes Manhattan. When Captain Maximum tries to stop him, he ticks off the Red Basher so much that he winds up his famous "Big Bang" punch -- which sends Captain Maximum all the way to the moon.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Powers}}'', Walker once punched a guy so hard he flew into the moon and ''bounced off it at more than escape velocity''.
* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'':
** Exaggerated, to the point of characters getting punched into different countries and even [[RecycledINSPACE INTO SPACE!]].
** Kicked Across The Room: characters are also prone to kick others in the same way. One example: Filemón is almost dead after being shot in the stomach, and is on a wheelchair. The Súper (who was the indirect cause of him being shot) asks him how he is. The next frame has the Súper with a shoe-mark on his back after having landed on an igloo, asking himself how it could happen.
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanTheHiketeia'': Diana punches Batman across the street when he refuses to budge or go track down a career villain instead of the downtrodden woman Di is protecting who killed the unrepentant men responsible for her sister's death whom the police refused to even look at.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': After Medusa rips off Diana's helmet during their duel Diana punches her across the arena, essentially from one end of the football field to the other.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': In a battle with a mind-controlled Power Girl, Wonder Woman gets punched into Canada.
* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] had a punch that was ''called'' the Megaton Punch. He only used it as a last resort on enemies that he thought could survive it.
* ''ComicBook/DoubleDuck'', The first time we see Agency's hand-to-hand combat instructor Bruce Wong, he announces Donald he'll fake hitting him with a punch and then ''kicks'' him across the gym.
* ''ComicBook/BenoitBrisefer'': Since the titular character is superhumanly strong, it inevitably happens to a lot of bad guys.
* ''ComicBook/TheHaloGraphicNovel'': One Flood Combat Form is able to knock Johnson across an entire room with its tentacles. Our good Sergeant's none the worse for wear, however, considering that (again) he's actually a Spartan-I.
* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMegaseries'', [[spoiler:Hunter O’Nion]] discovers his newfound SuperStrength by [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/File:Devastation5_THOK!.jpg punching a Machination scientist so hard]] that the man flies out of the room, breaking the door on his way out, and crashes into a wall with enough force to crack it.
* Maddie of ''ComicBook/RatQueens'' catches these twice in quick succession: once knocking her off a mountain precipice, and again by the Once and Future King.

* Played in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Mr. Huph deserved it (given that he just forced Bob to leave a citizen getting mugged just outside the building), but Bob still gets fired.

* Bupkus does this to Marvin the Martian in ''Film/SpaceJam'', [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse ejecting him from the remainder of the film]].

* In the 2001 television movie ''Film/EarthVsTheSpider'', Quentin does this to a burglar he finds in his apartment block after injecting himself with spider DNA. Played (surprisingly) realistically in that the impact involved breaks the neck of the punchee.

* The final battle in ''Film/AManCalledTiger'' ends with Chin-fu kicking the Yakuza boss across a rooftop... over a set of railings, with a twenty-storey drop on the other side. ''SPLAT''.
* Any fights done in ''Film/TheMatrix'' fought by, with, or against people who know the Matrix for what it is. In particular Neo, although being The One, he's explicitly allowed to break the rules.
* Creator/JackieChan explicitly uses a lot of this in his movies.
* Almost every single Kryptonian punch or kick in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' has this effect.
* ''Film/FromDuskTillDawn'' - Santinca clocks Seth in the jaw hard enough to throw him a good twenty feet.
* Will Smith tends to suffer this a lot in his movies: it occurred in both ''Film/IRobot'' and ''Film/MenInBlackII''. Technically it also occurred in ''Film/{{Hancock}}'', but that [[FlyingBrick doesn't really count]].

* In the kung-fu film ''Film/SecretServiceOfTheImperialCourt'', the villain, [[EunuchsAreEvil an evil Eunuch]], gets warned by a minister on his dictatorial policies right in his face. Not impressed, the Eunuch responds by delivering a slap across the minister's face... that results in the latter getting Slapped Across the Room. Landing with enough impact to actually kill him.
* ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''
** Eddie dispatches Smart-Ass Weasel by [[GroinAttack kicking him in the crotch]] hard enough to send him flying into an enormous vat of "Dip".
** During their big climactic fight, Judge Doom hits Eddie with [[spoiler:an anvil-fist]]...knocking him across an entire factory warehouse. [[spoiler: Justified because he's [[ToonPhysics a toon]].]]
* In ''Film/FatalInstinct'', Lola Cain does this to Ned Ravine after he calls her a "sure thing".
* In ''Film/TheCrush'', Nick grabs the crowbar out of Adrienne's hand and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBiTfI9heFQ gently taps her off the carousel and across the room]].

* Pretty much every {{Franchise/Terminator}} ever made will do this to someone/something at least once.
* Creator/MarlonBrando, of all people, is punched across the room by Karl Malden in ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'' when Brando tells Malden, a priest, to go to hell.

* ''Film/UndercoverBrother''
** White She Devil does it with a kick to Sistah Girl during their CatFight.
** Undercover Brother also kicks Mr. Feather quite a distance during their final fight at the end.

* ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''
** During the fight in Dorian Gray's library, Captain Nemo twice kicks opposing {{mooks}} and knocks them back, once into a wall.
** After Hyde is captured and chained he repeatedly hits Nemo's sailors with his fists and sends them flying into walls and through a door.
** During the battle inside the fortress, the Fantem's TheDragon drinks an overdose of Jekyll's formula. He later hits both Hyde and Captain Nemo and knocks them a long way into walls.
* In ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'', Kermit meets Benjamina Gunn again after several years apart from each other. Immediately afterwards, she hits Kermit and sends him flying into the gong.
* A [[spoiler:possibly]] fatal version in ''Film/LifeBlood'' as Rhea delivers an uppercut to Brooke that propels her into the air and leaves her ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice as she comes down on top of a stop sign.
* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow''. Doctor Totenkopf's ActionGirl TheDragon does this several times to Joe (Sky Captain). When she first faces off against him in Dr. Jennings's lab, she backhands him across the face and knocks him across the room. When she fights him on Doctor Totenkopf's island, she knocks him up into the air and back about ten yards using a metal quarterstaff. Her tremendous strength makes more sense after it's revealed that she's a [[spoiler:RobotGirl]].

* ''Literature/EncyclopediaBrown'': In book 2's "The Case of the Stomach Puncher", sixteen-year-old bully Biff Logan hits Encyclopedia in the stomach. Fortunately, Encyclopedia was warned of Biff's habits and so wore a piece of sheet metal under his clothes. As a result, he's knocked backward seven feet by the blow but emerges unharmed.

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

* In ''Literature/DoubleElimination'', this is Heavyweight's preferred method of handling close range opponents.

* Angel vs. anyone, really. ''Series/{{Angel}}'' was full of fights where people got PunchedAcrossTheRoom.
* ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': Cameron does this quite often, though its justified by the fact that she's a super-strong killer cyborg
* This commonly happened during battles on ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. Once a pair of combatants seated next to each other (facing the same way) punched each other in the chest and both flew backwards.

* Castiel does this with Dean in ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', but in an alley. Justifiable, because he's an angel in a human vessel.
* Find an episode of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' that doesn't use this trope. In the Season 9 finale, Clark demonstrates that he's strong enough to do this even when he's BroughtDownToNormal.
* Punched/Struck by a [[Series/StargateSG1 Goa'uld]]? Yep. You're going flying. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] because they give their [[PuppeteerParasite hosts]] SuperStrength.
** Same thing goes for getting whaled on by a [[Series/StargateAtlantis Wraith]]. Or an [[MechanicalLifeforms Asuran]]. Or your own doppelgänger. Or pretty much anything you meet off-world, actually. Pegasus Galaxy can be a pretty rough place, I hear.

* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}'': In the episode where [[spoiler:Arthur accidentally brings back Uther from the dead, Merlin blasts Uther's ghost across the room and ''through the door'']]

* In ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'' humanoid Cylons ''sometimes'' do this, but inconsistently, and apparently only in the later seasons. The Final Five (who [[TomatoInTheMirror thought they were humans]]) could do this too, but only after they realized they're Cylons (for instance, Tory punching [[spoiler: Callie]] down a launch tube).

* "Coward of the County" by Kenny Rogers – implied during the climatic fight scene involving the main hero, Tommy, and the villainous Gatlin brothers ... that his pent-up rage and anger over their having raped Becky leads to Tommy beating the boys severely, and with blows so powerful they are knocked back farther and with greater force than ordinary punches and kicks could do.

* Due to the [[RuleOfCool cinematic nature]] of the game, any powerful attack in ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' stands a chance of knocking an enemy back a few feet. Magical effects can extend this to dozens of feet, or miles. Note that due to the supernatural durability of most characters and the ease of the roll required to prevent this, it rarely happens.
* Any sufficiently powerful impact will send the target flying in ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''. The ''Supers'' book suggests that it's genre appropriate to give the "double knockback" enhancement to any and all attacks.

* In ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'', a target who fails a Toughness save by 5 or more may suffer knockback. However, the complexity of keeping track of how far you got knocked back and calculating extra damage from any collisions caused it to be regarded as a ScrappyMechanic and thus it was frequently ignored in normal gameplay, even in official games run by the game's writers.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Inquisitor}}'', characters have a "Knockback" value equal to 1/10th their Strength. If you get hit by something that does at least that much damage, you go flying or (just as often) get knocked ''down''. Big weapons like [[DropTheHammer hammers]] effectively halve the effort it takes to do a knockback. There exists the BlownAcrossTheRoom variant, as well.

* In the various incarnations of the ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' games, certain attacks from certain characters (like Akiha's Forward+C kick) can blow an opponent clear across the screen. In the same vein, [[ComboBreaker Circuit Sparks]] will usually break the opposition's attacking string and blow them clear away, making them hit the opposite end of the screen at the cost of 200% (two bars) of your Magic Circuit meter.
* In the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, as the objective of the fight IS to send your foe [[RingOut flying off the stage]]. The more damage you take, the more each blow knocks you around, and once your damage goes over 100%, the knockbacks increase significantly. In fact, if an opponent's damage meter is high enough (generally about 300%, or in Sudden Death mode), even bouncing them off the ground will knock them off the screen ''so fast'' that you can barely see it, much less follow it. As an added bonus, this can also be used for the "Corpse Missile" attack, allowing one to not only fire their opponent, but the guy s/he slams into: this is mentioned as a bonus in ''Melee''; in which case, it's called a "Dead-Weight KO".
* ''VideoGame/MagicalBattleArena'' gives us one of the least expected users of this trope in the ''titular character of Manga/CardcaptorSakura'', who uses The Fight in one of her moves to unleash a SpamAttack that ends with a powerful kick that sends her opponent flying across the battlefield.

* The Tank in ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'' hits the survivors so hard they go flying. This is can end badly if you happen to be standing on a building or a cliff, to say the least. Meanwhile, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03BhXOYM6h0 this video]] shows that doing a jumping melee against a pouncing Hunter will send it flying back.
** In fact, one of the Steam Achievements (or Xbox achievements, whichever system you're on) is to hit a Hunter with a melee attack just before it lands on you. It literally stops the Hunter dead in its tracks, and if it's a player in Versus, they usually have no idea what just happened and are easily killed. The achievement is appropriately called Dead Stop.

* Tsukika Izayoi of ''VideoGame/MugenSouls'' series has a habit of unintentionally doing this to people, especially the person she cares about the most,Shirogane. She is well aware of this, and being a YamatoNadeshiko in all but marriage, her incredible strength actually is a source of depression for her.
** Oddly, this is included in her gameplay too. She has the highest strength and is the only character that gains a passive to the Blast Off effect, which is a mechanic to launch an enemy across the battlefield.
* With enough buildup, Eddie can do this to most toons and, to a lesser extent, humans in the NES version of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit''.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' Alex Mercer can do this to any human or human-sized infected. However, it is usually fatal to people. Alex himself can survive getting punched halfway across Manhattan, but that's justified as he's NighInvulnerable.
** The last strike of a full Hammerfist combo usually results in human-class enemies flying yards.
** Evolved infected civilians cannot be dismembered in normal combat. This results in them being sent flying away after receiving quick follow-up strikes from even the Claw power.
** Two of the more fun (and more sadistic) abilities in the game are based on this. The first is an uppercut which launches the unfortunate target about twenty feet straight into the air. The second is a snapkick that sends them flying blocks away. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential It is so much fun to simply drop into a crowd of random civilians and start punting them left and right.]]
** The Snapkick Launcher also works on vanilla hunters and [[spoiler: supersoldiers]]. The Flipkick Launcher is amusing to use on throw-able vehicle targets if only because of the questionable physics involved.
* Similarly, in ''VideoGame/TheIncredibleHulkUltimateDestruction'', Hulk can send normal soldiers [[MegatonPunch flying into the stratosphere with one hit]], and punch Hulk-sized enemies far away. There's even a mini-game about seeing how far you can send someone flying by smacking them with a steel girder that Hulk is using like a baseball bat.
* In ''VideoGame/GodHand,'' this is just one of the things Gene can do with the power of the title PowerFist.
* As of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', Chris Redfield packs enough of a wallop to send ordinary Majini flying several feet back with a straight punch. His heavier haymaker punch can only be used against the Gatling-toting Majini, but it's strong enough to knock them off-balance, and they're built ''like a freakin' tank''.

* Jecht punches Tidus like this in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy''. Right after literally shrugging off a sword-slice to the chest.
** It's also a gameplay mechanic: If you hit your opponent hard enough, you can send them flying into the wall, ground, or ceiling of the stage, causing extra damage. Cloud is especially good at this due to his combat style being centered around it; almost every HP attack he has is guaranteed wall-rush. The purest example is in Firion's punch follow-up, which (especially in the sequel) has a ''ludicrous'' base damage and will send the opponent flying at the nearest wall at ''very'' high speed.
* If you use the Lighter Gravity and Milk Bones cheat in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow2'', and perform pretty much any move on someone, be it with a chair, sledge hammer, or the sole of your foot, you will send your victim ''flying, floating, and falling'' into the ocean on the other side of the island.
** Also hilarious when used in the Insurance Fraud missions, with the Lighter Gravity cheat on, and your pratfall energy completely maxed out, you enter a super-knockback effect whenever you're hit by ''anything''. If you run in front of a truck on the freeway, you can fly like a ragdoll superman across the island and slam into a building, only to float somewhere else at 90Ks/h, bonus points if it's back into another truck on the freeway.
** Also invoked in ''VideoGame/SaintsRowIV'' when the player gets superpowers, allowing them to send enemies and random passersby alike flying across Steelport with a good [[GroinAttack punch in the nads]].
* VideoGame/{{Deadpool}} gets this in his own game when mistakenly motorboats the chest of a very unimpressed Cable.
* One zombie in ''VideoGame/{{Overblood}}'' does this to Raz, leaving Milly to fight it. It's hilarious.
* There's a few bosses in the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series that have attacks which do this. One in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia OrderOfEcclesia]]'' even does an attack chain of seven of them.
* Barta in ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' can knock the heroes flying, but [[FridgeLogic somehow they always end up where they last were]].

* Just about any weapon can knock people around in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'', but punches are one of the worst offenders, especially since the humble unarmed strike is better than most weapons for about half the game. This can be particularly annoying to users of combat Disciplines, as prone opponents generally can't be struck in melee and the time they take to stand back up consumes precious seconds from the Discipline timer. Spend too much time knocking someone around, and you'll have to burn more blood to finish them off.
* In ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'' you can punch anything across the map.
* ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'': Makoto's "Impact" Drive is all about this trope. Level 1 blows don't do much, but level 3 hits knock opponents from one side of the screen to the other, blast them into the air, or [[MeteorMove spike them into the ground]], and that's just the ''standard'' fare. You ''can'' block them, but you ''will'' forfeit a Guard Primer on a level 3 hit, so it's really not recommended. Not even if you're [[MightyGlacier Iron Tager]].
** And don't even get us ''started'' on [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill Pla]][[MegatonPunch net]] [[ATwinkleInTheSky Cru]][[DetonationMoon sher]].
** ''Chronophantasma'' [[UpToEleven pumps eleven kinds of drugs]] into the matter with the "Galaxian Impact" Overdrive - ''every Drive attack'' is at maximum power (level G) for the duration.
** Sirius Jolt in ''Central Fiction'' allows Makoto to do this at any time, and it is both unrelated to her Drive and {{unblockable|Attack}}.
* In ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', Warriors or Guardians who equip a hammer will get a skill that does this (called "launching" in the game). It's about as satisfying as it sounds.

* ''VideoGame/DarkMessiah'' uses this as a key gameplay mechanic. Your ability to kick enemies off of ledges into spiky objects or off of cliffs can make for a much simpler and easier way to fight your enemies than using weapons or magic. If you're paying close attention, you may notice that your kicks are context-sensitive; kick a person when there's nothing to knock him into/off of, and he'll just stumble back a bit. Kick a person when they're in close proximity to a deathtrap, and they'll fly back up to ten feet into whatever trap that happens to be behind them.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s Heavy landing a CriticalHit with his fists can send opponents (or rather their corpses) across a room. The Gunslinger (a prosthetic robot hand) landing its three hit combo can get even more ridiculous, sending the unfortunate person's ragdoll shooting off into whatever direction the Engineer was aiming at the time, even if it's ten feet up in the air.
* In every installment in the ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom'' series (excluding ''[[VideoGame/XMenChildrenOfTheAtom CotA]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 MvC3]]''), specific attacks would hit the characters so hard that they'd be sent flying across the stage, all while the camera [[{{Pan}} panned]] along with them. Their off-screen opponent would run after them and show up on-screen shortly after to continue the fight. After an air combo, characters can also be spiked towards the ground with a Type A MeteorMove (the camera would {{Tilt}} downward along with them.) It really made battles [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome look more intense]]. On a side note, a literal example of this trope is the Juggernaut, who can send his opponents flying with his Juggernaut Punch.
** Starting with ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'' and later added to both versions of ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'', the former (being sent flying across stages) was [[AvertedTrope replaced]] with characters bouncing off the [[InvisibleWall Invisible Walls]] on the sides of the screen. This gave players more opportunities to set up combos. However, these games still retain the air combo spikes (along with the camera tilts).
** The same applies for the ''[[VideoGame/JojosBizarreAdventureHeritageForTheFuture JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' [[FightingGame Fighting Games]] (which were also developed by Creator/{{Capcom}}), but only the "flying across the stage" type is featured in them.
* In the early Mortal Kombat games, this was Shao Kahn's NORMAL punch. He also had an uppercut that knocked you offscreen as well.
* ''VideoGame/{{Something}}'': Used as the main gimmick in Punches on Cold Ice. Mario has to be punched by the titular enemies in order to cross the massive pits.
* Any of your [[{{Cyborg}} MEC troopers]] in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'' with a [[PowerFist Kinetic Strike module]] is pretty much guaranteed to do this every time they punch a target. The ''minimum'' travel distance is two tiles, and they'll ignore light cover as well (as in, you can punch your opponent ''through'' thinner walls and into the next room). It's possible to punch an enemy into a car so hard that the car explodes.
* All [[Franchise/StreetFighter Street Fighter]] games. You get punched in the gut, you go flying. You get punched in the head, you go flying. You get punched in the groin, you go flying. You get punched in the toe, YOU GO FLYING!
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': This one happens often, depending on what hits, and who's hit. Super Mutants and Giant Radscorpions will often send you sliding a few feet back, and on the return, a good V.A.T.S. finisher strike will send the corpse of the poor sap that you hit sailing through the air. Two weapons in the game, the Displacer Glove and its variant Pushy, actually invoke this one, too, by being a glove hooked up to a sonic-boom speaker that will activate on hit, making for one amazing PowerFist that can launch people over barricades even if they aren't dead.
* Exaggerated in the FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/MadWorld''--in the last potental power struggle, the last hit sends the boss flying from the ring you're in all the way to the audience stands. A helicopter then picks up the boss from the stands, now dazed, and lets you kill him off for real.
* ''VideoGame/TheMatrixPathOfNeo'' in an extened level Smith does this to Neo in a cutscene. It ends up sending him flying through a concrete wall.
* ''VideoGame/MegabytePunch'' allows you to do this horizontally and vertically. Even the titular weapon allows you to do this.
* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', Muradin Bronzebeard from {{VideoGame/Warcraft}} has ''Haymaker'' as one of his [[LimitBreak heroic abilities]]. Also doubles as a MegatonPunch, Muradin punches his target so hard that they got knocked back a significant distance away, can be used to forcibly throw an enemy into your teammates, or worse, behind your [[TrappedBehindEnemyLines fortifications]].
* Anyone who takes [[MightyGlacier Big]] [[TopHeavyGuy Band]]'s heavy [[PunnyName Brass Knuckles]] special in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'' will get launched across the stage in an unavoidable, inescapable slide knockdown. Considering he's hitting them square in the face with a giant PowerFist made of [[InstrumentOfMurder brass instruments]] larger than any other member of the cast, it's to be expected. His "Take the A-Train" special is a variation, where he grabs them with the same arm, then slams them with a weaponized trombone slide built into said arm to launch them bodily across the screen.
* In ''VideoGame/UltraToukonDensetsu'', the Ultras can fire a Charged Punch by having the players hold down the attack button, and release it when near an enemy. Regular-sized mooks will be sent flying to the opposite side of the screen, most of them dying immediately.
* A good part of why hulks, brutes, shocker brutes, and skeletal juggernauts in ''VideoGame/{{Cataclysm}}'' are so dangerous is because of their smash attack that sends characters flying back several spaces (potentially through walls), inflicting HP and equipment damage, increasing the pain counter, and causing the downed status effect.
* The Tiger Drop from the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' series is a powerful counter move that can OneHitKO most lesser enemies and send them flying across the screen. In a specific story related example, in ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza 6}}'' Kiryu punches Yuta out of the Hirose offices and into the street (several meters) to [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan snap Yuta out]] of his HeroicBSOD near the beginning of the third act of the game.

** ''ComicBook/TheHiketeia'': Diana punches Batman across the street when he refuses to budge or go track down a career villain instead of the downtrodden woman Di is protecting who killed the unrepentant men responsible for her sister's death whom the police refused to even look at.

* Played in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Mr. Huph kind of deserved it (given that he just forced Bob to leave a citizen getting mugged just outside the building), but Bob still gets fired.

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* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'', Jean [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110604.html does this to Slick.]] He really had it coming. He's [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20110607.html surprisingly fine with it.]]