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Where a character is given or is holding an item, considers it for a second and then dismisses it as worthless, unimportant, or irrelevant and subsequently rids themselves of it, frequently by tossing it over their shoulder without a glance.

Sometimes results in item breaking or secondary character chasing after it as it may actually be important. Sometimes it is a part that was broken off of something else, and is accompanied by an "Oh, well," or "Whatever." Can be PlayedForLaughs if discarded item unintentionally hits something, such as ThatPoorCat. If it's a disguised explosive, expect it to detonate on impact. When this trope is in action, don't expect any form of proper disposal to occur anytime soon as LitteringIsNoBigDeal.

The item may just not be what a character is looking for, especially if sought item is thought to be buried in a closet or other clothing storage place. Expect something similar to a toned-down RansackedRoom but usually done by a forgetful owner who can't remember where they hid something.

Often used to show an impatient or careless character trait, or a moment of frustration.

While this does happen in Real Life, sometimes intentionally like a BouquetToss or for a SuperstitionEpisode with salt, most people will simply put or hand an item back. If they do toss it, it usually isn't over the shoulder (a blind-spot). If it's actual garbage, might be used as a WastebasketBall. May come back later as a BrickJoke. Compare and contrast BillBillJunkBill.

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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Creator/VinceOffer does this to a competitor's product in his ad for the [=SlapChop=], with the chopper cleanly landing in the sink to his back. Hilariously, the Spanish-language version has him almost miss the sink and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b86SOHZ0nIA accidentally rip the blinds off the window behind him while Offer continues his pitch undeterred.]]
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In one episode of ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'', Urumi throws an empty bottle over her shoulder; [[GrievousBottleyHarm It hits a Yakuza boss on the head.]]
* Keyne Aqua gives ''Anime/{{Photon}}'' a bath in her starship's pool, beginning by pouring shampoo onto Photon's head at the start of chapter two. She simply lobs the bottle over her shoulder to free up both her hands to begin lathering Photon's hair. Neither shampoo nor bottle are seen nor mentioned thereafter.
* Done in ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesBlackAndWhite'' by Iris, with an oversized Basculin. She has grabbed it out of a river with her bare hands during a fishing contest after getting bored with fishing the normal way, and throws it back after she is told she has broken the rules.
* This is how Usagi initially meets Mamoru in ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' -- she crumples up and tosses away a bad test paper, and hits him.
* An Omake in ''[[VideoGame/SengokuBasara Sengoku Basara: Ransei Ranbu]]'' has Mitsuhide trying to use his joke weapon (oversized cutlery) to eat some food. After spilling pretty much everything on the table, he calls them useless and throws them behind the shoulder as a shocked Nobunaga watchs.
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[[folder:Card Games]]
* ''Tabletopgame/MagicTheGathering'': [[http://magiccards.info/m13/en/146.html Rummaging Goblin]] is seen tossing a book over his shoulder.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'':
** One issue has Jughead who refuses to be superstitious on Friday the 13th. After bad luck following each attempt to disprove the notion, he finds a horseshoe, scoffs at the idea it's lucky, and casually throws it away. It hits a passing driver in the head -- who turns out to be tall, muscled, and none too pleased.
** Another has Archie spill salt and Jughead advise him that he should toss some over his shoulder for luck. Archie does it, which hits a fairly big fella right in the eyes, and he punches Archie in the mouth.
--->'''Archie:''' You call that good luck?!\\
'''Jughead:''' Yeah! [[InsaneTrollLogic Imagine what he might have done to you if you hadn't thrown the salt!]]
* As seen in the page image for FourOneNineScam, in a ComicBook/BartSimpson comic, Bart receives a "letter from a Nigerian prince," which he details to his sister, Lisa, before tossing it over his shoulder in disgust.
* In one Disney comic, a superstitious Donald Duck [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spilling_salt spills a salt shaker and declares it's bad luck, unless you toss some above your shoulder.]] He promptly does so, only for the salt to land in someone's ice cream. Cue angry customer.
* In the comic continuation of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', Broadway disarms the club-wielding clone Burbank. He then blindly tosses the club over his shoulder, to knock out the clone known as Malibu.
* ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'': In ''Fingers'', at his trial, the eponymous magician/escape artist starts his pleading by casually tossing aside [[SlippedTheRopes the handcuffs that were binding him]].
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'': [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1995/ga950625.gif Garfield tosses a flower after sniffing it.]] A bee nearby him gets offended at this, so he grabs the flower, flies to Garfield, and hits him with it.
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[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'': At the end of Kuzco's funeral, all the "mourners" casually toss the candles they were holding behind them and go back to work, clearly not distraught in the least.
* In the "Wayne Manor" teaser for ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'', Batman tosses the laptop he was using to check "The Website/{{Twitter}}sphere" straight over his head and into the background once he's done with it, at which point it snaps in half.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsRollercoasterOfFriendship'': As they depart Flim and Flam's ring-toss game in defeat, Sunset Shimmer throws the last ring she and Twilight Sparkle had blindly behind her. It lands perfectly on one of the bottles.
* ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': While WALL•E is looking for treasure, he comes across a diamond ring in a hinged box. However, after pulling the ring out of the box, he tosses the ''ring'' over his shoulder, being fascinated with the box.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'', while rummaging inside Tapper's lost-and-found box, Ralph finds a ''VideoGame/MetalGear'' exclamation point and tosses it over his shoulder.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/AlienResurrection'' has one memorable scene where Ellen Ripley tosses a Basketball into a hoop as if it was no big deal. Sigourney Weaver actually got the ball in the hoop for the shot, but that doesn't mean the scene wasn't unedited: they had to edit out one of the actors exclaiming "Oh shit!" at the fact that she got it in the hoop, which would have been an OutOfCharacterMoment. Doubles as a RealLife example in this case.
* ''Film/BillionDollarBrain''. General Midwinter sends his private army to liberate Communist-controlled Latvia, but the Soviets are waiting for them, as shown by the attack being plotted on a table map--a single black counter marked with Mindwinter's symbol, surrounded by an [[CurbStompBattle array of red bomber-shaped counters being moved into position around it]]. After Midwinter's force is destroyed, KGB colonel Stok picks up the black counter and contemptuously tosses it over his shoulder.
* ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'': Early on, when Jake tries out the cigar-lighter in the police car his brother came fetch him out at the prison, he finds it not working and impatiently tosses it by the window.
* In the remake of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', Mr. Salt hands Wonka a business card, which Wonka promptly whips over his shoulder without even a glance at it.
* In ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'', Negasonic Teenage Warhead types a tweet on her smartphone just as she is about to fight Angel Dust (who, along with Deadpool, politely wait for her to finish), then she tosses the phone aside. Partially justified, though, since as we see right afterward, using her power just vaporizes her clothes with the exception of her X-Men uniform underneath, so the phone would have likely been totaled too if she'd kept it on her.
* ''Film/DumbAndDumber'':
** Lloyd tells Harry that, in order to get rid of bad luck, he should toss some salt over his left shoulder. Harry, without a thought, tosses an entire salt ''shaker'' [[YourOtherLeft over his right shoulder]]. This, of course, beans "Sea Bass", a very large and angry gentleman.
** In the end of the sequel ''Film/DumbAndDumberTo'', [[spoiler:they throw away their milkshakes because they get "wrong" flavors. Each one got the flavor the other wanted. They hit Sea Bass again]].
* ''Film/TheHungerGamesMockingjay'': In the beginning of Part 2, Haymitch tells Katniss they prepared a speech for her, but she doesn't like it and refuses. Haymitch says he isn't really surprised, and just toss the speech tablet.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', while Tony Stark is in captivity and building a weapon, he carefully pulls apart a warhead for .13 grams of palladium and tosses the rest of it behind him with a comment of "Don't need that."
** ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'': Rocket is discussing what he will need for escaping the prison of Kyln, including a quarnyx battery behind a black casing with a yellow light. Without waiting, Groot cluelessly goes for it behind Rocket's back, ripping out the casing and tossing it behind him; it lands on the head of another inmate, knocking him out.
* In ''Film/PoliceAcademy'', an apple core thrown over the shoulder hits a gangbanger and starts a chain reaction that results in huge riots.
* In the film adaptation of ''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld'', Scott buys an item from the internet for the sole purpose of talking to Ramona. When she delivers it, he casually tosses it into the trashcan behind him without looking. Notable because no special effects were involved: Michael Cera had to do about 40 some odd takes in order to get the package to land exactly in the trash can. Shown in the outtakes, along with a throw counter and, at one point, moving the bin closer to him.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** ''[[Film/StarTrekGenerations Generations]]'': After [[spoiler:the Enterprise-D crash-landed]], Picard is seen in his ready room looking for his photo album, and he picks up a ceramic object, casually putting it back down in a dismissive manner. It was his [[PricelessMingVase priceless]] [[http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kurlan_naiskos Kurlan naiskos]] from the show, used here as a random prop. Notable from the WebVideo/RedLetterMedia review, including dubbing a glass shatter over the discard.
** ''[[Film/StarTrekFirstContact First Contact]]'': After having a glass of "the good stuff" with Troi, and gagging on it, Cochrane decides it wasn't so good and tosses the bottle away.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** In ''Film/RogueOne'', K2-SO catches a ''live thermal detonator'', and then casually tosses it over his shoulder at a bunch of incoming stormtroopers, blowing them up. Thus mixing up this trope with a kind of OffhandBackhand.
** At the end of ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Rey arrives on Ahch-To with Luke Skywalker's old lightsaber and presents it to him. When this scene resumes in ''Film/TheLastJedi'', [[spoiler:the first thing he does is toss the lightsaber over his shoulder (and the cliff behind him) before stalking off.]]
* The 1960 Disney version of ''Film/SwissFamilyRobinson'', Francis tosses a lit-up coconut bomb at the pirates, where the pirate captain grabs hold of it looks at it for a second, then tosses it away. It hits another pirate on the head, and explodes.
* ''Film/ThreeAmigos''. When the title characters are riding through the desert, Lucky Day and Ned Nederlander run out of water. Dusty Bottoms [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJmesqycoQU#t=3m11s takes a drink from his canteen and casually tosses it away]] ''even though it's still full of water'', to the stunned disbelief of Lucky and Ned.
* This often occurs in ''Film/TheThreeStooges'', whatever was being tossed aside would end up hitting Moe and giving him a reason to DopeSlap someone.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'': Bad Luck Betty, a superstitious deputy, manages to put the sheriff in a full body cast after tossing salt over her shoulder just as he comes in, which makes him lose his footing and a grandfather clock fall on him.
* Played with in ''Series/{{Andor}}''. Luthen is willing to buy the stolen Starpath Unit from Cassian but is more interested in recruiting him for the Rebellion, as the kind of man who can just walk into an Imperial base and steal restricted technology is much more useful. When they're forced to RunOrDie, he repeatedly tells off Cassian for trying to run back and fetch the Starpath Unit when they should be escaping.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek Dalek]]":
*** An EstablishingCharacterMoment for the rich obstructor, van Statten, who confers with the Ninth Doctor on an alien device that turns out to be a delicate musical instrument. He plays a few notes, then, content that he knows all he needs about it, casually tosses it aside.
*** The Doctor tosses away items in this fashion while looking for a weapon to fight the Dalek with "[[BillBillJunkBill Broken, broken, hairdryer]]..."
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E1SmithAndJones Smith and Jones]]": The Doctor is lamenting his broken sonic screwdriver when he realizes that Martha is trying to tell him something, so he immediately tosses the screwdriver behind him.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E15PlanetofTheDead Planet of the Dead]]": After the ClassyCatBurglar companion goes to great lengths to pilfer a big, expensive-looking crystal from an alien spaceship, the Doctor later offhandedly discards the crystal: all he needs is the piece of ArtificialGravity machinery it was mounted in.
** Likewise in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E1HorrorOfFangRock Horror of Fang Rock]]", the Doctor casually throws aside a fortune in diamonds having found the one perfect diamond he needs to focus a RayGun. Another character can't resist stopping to gather up the diamonds, and [[DeathByMaterialism gets killed]] by the MonsterOfTheWeek.
* ''Series/ForeverKnight''. In "Dance by the Light of the Moon", the VillainOfTheWeek is a FemmeFatale who gets Nick Knight to steal the casebook of the investigation into one of her previous murders, then tosses it in the fire without reading it. It's not a FieryCoverup; she just gets a thrill out of enticing men to break the rules. It's later mentioned that the casebook didn't have any evidence pointing at her anyway.
* ''[[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'': The newsreader announcing Zaphod Beeblebrox's theft of the Infinite Improbability Drive spacecraft casually throws aside each page of his script once he's finished reading it. So it's not just the Big Z who is flipped.
* ''Series/MythBusters'':
** During a build-off, [[NeatFreak Jamie]] pulled the outer shell off a radio and tossed it over his shoulder.
** Happens again, this time by Adam with a matchbook jacket, with the 1,000,000 match bomb [=YouTube=] special.
* ''Series/OddSquad'':
** In "Totally Odd Squad", Oprah's story is interrupted by the sound of Oscar crying and blowing his nose into a tissue because he's afraid that Odd Squad will go out of business forever. Once Olive assures him that isn't the case because the organization is still around in the present day, he tosses the used tissue to the side and lets his boss continue.
** A rather cool example in "Moustache Confidential", which has Olive and Otto crumple their paper cups in their hands then simultaneously throw them into a wastebasket behind them and make the shots (albeit after a couple misses), all while keeping the same hardened expressions on their faces.
** In "Not OK Computer", this is how Olympia changes her desktop wallpaper while stuck inside her computer. On Otis's suggestion, she takes a photo from her Photos folder of her visiting Pieta San Marco and tosses it behind her, where it instantly applies as her new wallpaper.
** In "Rookie Night", Orchid asks Ocean, who is on a phone call with Olympia, to see his phone. He hands it to her, and she promptly tosses it over her shoulder as she declares "no calls on Rookie Night!" Since they're in the Bubble Room, this renders his phone unusable.
* ''Series/PersonOfInterest'': Root steals a HandcuffedBriefcase from an international courier containing a priceless Faberge egg. Which on the orders of the Machine she then smashes, as the objective was the indestructible Kevlar case.
* On the June 23, 1960 telecast of ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'', a contestant stood to win bonus money by selecting which out of three glasses of champagne was most expensive through tasting each. At the end of the show as host Bill Cullen says goodnight, he tosses one of the glasses over his shoulder and it shatters against the turntable wall behind him.
* ''Series/TheProfessionals'': A KGB agent blackmails a politician into providing a top secret document. Later he reveals that he already delivered that document months ago to UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre, but by handing it over to a foreign agent the politician will be committing treason and thereafter be under the KGB's thumb.
* Alan Davies occasionally does this on ''Series/{{QI}}'' when the guests are given cards to interact with. In particular, he disgustedly threw away his diagram of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_map tongue map]] after learning that its theory is now discredited, and did the same with a silhouette of an elephant after incorrectly labeling its knees (the joints of an elephant's front legs are considered elbows).
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}''. In his first showdown with Moriarty, Sherlock presents him with the stolen submarine plans that were surely his objective all along. Moriarty casually chucks the flash drive in the swimming pool, saying he could get them any time.
* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'':
** Played comically in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS02E06Melora Melora]]", where the title character and Doctor Bashir have a date in a Klingon restaurant. Unimpressed, Melora argues over the food quality with the chef. The chef, impressed by a woman who knows what she likes, takes the food back, gleefully tosses it, and serves up good stuff.
** There is also the classic moment in "[[Recap/StarTrekDeepSpaceNineS05E06TrialsAndTribbleations Trials and Tribble-ations]]", where Dax and Sisko are scanning tribbles in the grain storage area to find the one with a hidden bomb, and tossing some out of the way behind them while doing so, resulting in tribbles landing on Captain Kirk's head through the hatch.
* ''[[Series/SuperDave The Super Dave Osborne Show]]'': Sometimes Super Dave is given an award that he feels reflects badly on him in some way, or a memento of an earlier event that he'd rather forget about. As soon as the person who gave him said item isn't looking, Super Dave will toss the object over his shoulder.
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[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
* During a filmed ''Wrestling/{{WWE}}'' promo, Wrestling/CurtHennig in his "Mr. Perfect" character throws a basketball behind his back and gets nothing but net.
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[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
* The Swedish Chef from ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' tosses food over his shoulder almost every time he appears. The puppeteers had a SelfImposedChallenge to dislodge everything on the rear wall this way.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadowMirrorOfFate'' Simon comes across a magical relic: a blue crystal ball. After picking up and staring at it for a bit, nothing happens, causing him to give a disappointed "Bah." and tossing it over his shoulder with a deadpan look, breaking it. After breaking however, the Spirit of Belnades appears from inside and starts to help him out.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', no sooner have you gotten the three {{Plot Coupon}}s than the apparent BigBad Zant shows up, takes them, looks at them for a moment, and then tosses them away in disdain, leaving you to find four more {{Plot Coupon}}s to find him again.
* In ''VideoGame/LegoDimensions'', in the cut-screen after the battle with Karlof, while Master Chen triggers a TrapDoorFail, then another, then another, Gandalf munches an apple and then tosses it over his shoulder. It happens to be launched into one of the many misfired trapdoors, right as it's opened.
* Characters in ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' do this with items they don't want.
* In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 Battle'', If you try giving a Chao fruit and they don't finish it, they toss it away.
* In the thirty-second ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Mists of Pandaria'' short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jon4GV1u3uM "Bottoms Up"]], the human does this with an empty tankard. Surprisingly, he actually does look where he tosses it... but it still manages to trigger ThatPoorCat. Still follows the trope in that tankards are not normally discarded in this manner.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* During the 4th trial in ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'', Prosecutor van Zieks closes his eyes and calmly flings his freshly uncorked bottle of wine into the public gallery behind him, just to emphasize an objection.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} tosses away the disembodied head of ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} -- after having used it like a macabre hand puppet -- both at the conclusion of their ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'', and in episode 8 of ''WebVideo/SuperPowerBeatDown''. Hard to say if it's coincidental, of if the latter influenced the former, which is more recent.
* WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends: In "[[Recap/HTFTheWrongSideOfTheTracks The Wrong Side of the Tracks]]", there is a recurring scene where Sniffles walks through the amusement park with a metal detector. When he finds useless junk he tosses it behind his shoulder. During one scene, Lumpy is fixing a hole in a fence while Mime is watching. Sniffles finds a nail and throws it behind his back, accidentally popping the balloon that Mime is holding, causing Lumpy to turn around and hit Mime with the plank of wood that has nails on it.
* Several instances in ''WebAnimation/{{Lackadaisy}}:''
** When VenturousSmuggler Rocky is digging around in the back of the Lackadaisy car in search of his [[SenselessViolins violin case]], he tosses everything he gets his paws on over his shoulder, including a flask, some pancakes, and a creepy [[FreezeFrameBonus Cactus]].
** When TheHighwayman Nico nearly [[SwallowedAFly swallows]] a piece of windshield [[SoftGlass glass]] during the subsequent shootout, he promptly sets it aside upon identifying it.
** At least half the dynamite Rocky throws out of a steam shovel bucket he rides in during a ConstructionVehicleRampage is done without the slightest care for where it lands, which is exactly how one stick he flings away [[DeconstructedTrope comes back]] at him by way of bouncing off a water tower leg, necessitating his hasty exit from the bucket.
** Lackadaisy Speakeasy proprietor Mitzi tosses away the cork from a bottle she'd opened.
** {{Inverted}} when Rocky takes his hat from TheDragAlong Freckle, despite never looking at him the entire time.
* ''WebAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirlsSummertimeShorts'': In "A Photo Booth Story", Photo Finish seems to have a habit of tossing things, as she does it first with a drink bottle, and then with ''her own camera'' (which is thankfully caught by Pixel Pizazz). You'd think a photographer like her would take better care of her equipment.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': When he discovers the Any Mug in the poorly locked chest, Minmax declares the mug "lame", tosses it blindly behind his shoulder and hits Forgath on the helmet. It's not until a later scene that they realize the mug is a magical item.
* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0032.html strip #32]], a pair of lawyers for Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast show up to drag away the monster, as it isn't open ''D&D'' content and thus copyright infringement. As a result, on the next page Roy Greenhilt is seen tossing away the script for strip #33 while saying they're finding themselves with no plot for today.
** In [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1215.html strip #1215]], Xykon tosses the beheaded head of Kraagor's statue in the chasm behind him with one hand, while firing an ''energy drain'' at Durkon with the other.
* ''Webcomic/RealmOfOwls'':
** A couple of characters [[https://realmofowls.com/comics/das-law throw the original Das Law book behind]].
** The third member of Tip-Top Tempo Crusaders [[https://realmofowls.com/comics/homebound throws her broken lute away]].
* ''Webcomic/WeenieLicked'': Paul does this with the [[SkeletonKey Key to the Arg]].
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[[folder:Web Videos]]
* [[Website/VoxMakers Mickael J]], for the 100[[superscript:th]] episode of his web show ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfML0jTRlzM Fermez-La !]]'', starts out planning to tackle the polemic around the old ''[[Recap/TintinTintinInTheCongo Tintin in the Congo]]'' comic, only to get a phone call from another youtuber telling him ItsBeenDone a few times already, recently, and it would be a waste to use it for this MilestoneCelebration. Thus Mickael J calls his secretary for a brainstorm while tossing aside the ''Tintin in the Congo'' album.
* In a parody of Music/DaftPunk's "Get Lucky" ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43k7vWmMYmo "Get Loki"]] by Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}), at the beginning Loki picks up the sign "PROPERTY OF S.H.I.E.L.D. (please do not steal)" that's above the Tesseract and tosses it away.
* ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'':
** In the ''Papy Grenier'' episode for ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', the captain of a ship trying to find the other "hidden" continents of Azeroth can't tell what is starboard or the stern, and he finally tosses his spyglass in the sea behind him in defeat.
** For the ''Film/MenInBlack'' game, to illustrate how the Olmec statuette found at the end of level 1 has no relevance to the plot, we get a sketch of Seb briefly describing it, before tossing it away and sending the player to a mission in Antarctica. Later, he also does it with the "rare molecule" vial found at the end of level 2, which once again is irrelevant to level 3.
* ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic'': The review of ''Film/TheLastJedi'' recreates the scene of Luke Skywalker discarding the lightsaber, with Doug (as Luke) even more disdainful about it, and Tamarra (as Rey) completely baffled by the whole thing.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: "WesternAnimation/TheLitterbug" is a short film featuring WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck as the titular Litterbug and throwing trash behind their shoulders is a common method of them littering, even while driving.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DogCity'', Ace buys a newspaper, reads the headline, then disgustedly wads the paper and tosses it over his shoulder. [[FridgeLogic Makes you wonder why he bothered wasting a quarter]]....
* Appears as a RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget''. At the beginning of each episode, Chief Quimby gives the title character a mission briefing written on [[ThisPageWillSelfDestruct self-destructing paper]]. After reading it, Gadget invariably crumples it up and obliviously throws it over his shoulder on his way out, where it blows up in Quimby's face.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' where [[TheDitz Stumpy]] is pretending to be a detective, he lights a pipe and carelessly tosses the lighter away. It lands on some poor guy offscreen who catches on fire.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Discord creates a glass of chocolate milk. He drinks ''the glass'', leaving the milk behind and suspended in air and then casually tossing it behind him. The milk ''explodes''. And the explosion creates ''darkness'' instead of light. Not a shadow -- actual darkness.
** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E2SchoolDazePart2 School Daze – Part 2]]": While the Mane Six are explaining to the students that they're reopening the school, but this time teaching their own ways and not following the EEA's rules, Fluttershy blindly tosses the rulebook behind her... where it hits a straggler pukwudgie.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', "Two Bad Neighbors":
-->'''Homer:''' Good old Evergreen Terrace: the swankiest street in the classiest part of Pressboard Estates.\\
'''Bart:''' Well if you love it so much, why are you always littering?\\
'''Homer:''' ''[finishing a canned drink]'' It's easier, duh. ''[tosses can on ground]''
* In the first season ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Mecha-Streisand", Cartman tosses aside a triangle that he digs up on a school excavation trip. Said triangle turns out to be an ancient artifact.
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', Jack Spicer opens a [[SealedEvilInACan puzzle box]] containing "A mask? Lame." and tosses them behind him.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* [[https://luxeadventuretraveler.com/legend-of-the-trevi-fountain/ The Trevi Fountain coin toss]] tradition in UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}.
* During a tribute to a [[Music/{{GeorgeHarrison}} George Harrison]] performance of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Music/{{Prince}} steps up and delivers a face-melting solo. As soon as he's finished, Prince just chucks his guitar over his shoulder, presumably into [[HammerSpace hammerspace]].
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