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[[caption-width:351: It's a UFO! It's a star! It's...Team Rocket...]]

-->''Dragon kick your ass into the Milky Way! (Milky Way)''
-->--''GodHand'' ThemeTune

-->''Looks like Team Rocket's blasting off agaaaiiiiin....! [[AudibleGleam *ding*]]''
-->--''[=~Pokémon~=], [[OnceAnEpisode every episode or movie ever]]''

Any object, if [[HomeRunHitter launched with]] [[MegatonPunch sufficient force]], will sail clean over the horizon and vanish into the distant sky. A moment after it disappears, a four-pointed "twinkle" will appear in the spot where it was last seen, sometimes rotating briefly, along with [[AudibleGleam a high-pitched "ringing" noise]]. If the object is potentially explosive, it will blow up ''after'' the twinkle.
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!!Examples:

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* When Haruka hurls the "airplane" far from Windbloom in episode four of ''{{Mai-Otome}}''.
** According to a bonus feature on the first DVD, the thing ended up '''in orbit'''.
* Any time someone gets booted into low earth orbit in ''[[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]''. Inverted in an episode where Kuno delivers a message tied to an arrow, which appears ''out of'' a twinkle.
* Likewise, whenever "Team Rocket is Blasting Off Again!" in ''{{Pokemon}}''. This happens when an attack, like Thunderbolt is used, or there a wreck in their so called "mecha".
* [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries Go, Millennium Frisbee!]]
* ''{{Excel Saga}}'' [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on this trope in episode 18 where Iwata gets punched and says "Look for the twinkle!" just before he disappears into said [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Twinkle_1.gif twinkle]].
* Played with in ''MartianSuccessorNadesico''. In an episode titled ''The Lukewarm Cold Equation'' Akito's robot was thrown into the distance during a fight, creating the twinkle. This had happened a couple of times in previous episodes, but this time the rest of the episode focused on ''where he went'', with Yurika and Megumi actually going out to search for him.
* Hanagata often gets sent flying into a twinkle by Otaru's marionettes in ''SaberMarionetteJToX''.
* Happens all too often to Keitaro in ''LoveHina''.
* Ram-Dass launching from the CoolShip in ''SoukouNoStrain''.
* Happens at least once every episode of ''Soreike! Anpanman''. Baikinman and his cohorts are usually taken care of in this manner - sent flying to the horizon screaming their CatchPhrase "Bai baikiiin!"
* Ueki from ''TheLawOfUeki'' manages to ''pole vault'' twinkle out in episode 17.
* An entire car twinkles out in an episode of ''{{USAVICH}}''. A later episode has a police officer twinkle out after being hit by a barrel.
* When ''ZatchBell'' was riding on a cart tied to the bumper of the bus, both him and another character are launched into the distance thanks to the unstability of the cart and the rope breaking.
* Frequently comes up in the ''PrettySammy'' series. Both Rumiyo and many of the Love-Love Monsters go out this way.
* During a baseball game in the anime ''NininGaShinobuden'', one of Shinobu's home run hits does this. [[spoiler:It ends up reaching another galaxy!]]
*Happens to ''giant robots'' frequently in ''{{Transformers}} Cybertron.'' Unsurprisingly, the [[{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]]-ish Ransack and Crumplezone experience it a time or two, complete with post-booting dialogue on one occasion:
-->'''Crumplezone''': "Why us, Ransack?"
-->'''Ransack''': "It's the wheel of fate, my friend."
-->'''Both''': "It ran ''right over'' us!"
**However, it can also happen to fellow comedic villain Thundercracker, and even the ''serious'' villain Scourge. Sideways does it voluntarily, his zigzagged departures often ending in this.
* In some animated episodes of ''GetterRobo'', the titular robot's Getter 3 form has a special "Dai-Setsu-Zan-Oroshi" move that involves wrapping enemies in its extending arms and hurling them sumo-style into the air in a whirlwind. The enemy is thrown to the air so far, he disappears in a twinkle. This was even used in Getter 3's appearances in some SuperRobotWars games.
* Occurs in ''{{Bleach}}'' anime episode 127 when the Vizard Hiyori Sarugaki jumps into the sky while carrying Orihime Inoue.
* In ''YuYuHakusho'', during Yusuke's first (mass elimination) match of the Demon World [[TournamentArc Tournament]], he blows away every other competitor in the match with one punch, causing about 43 separate twinkles ''at the same time''.
* Thorfinn and Thorkell's last fight in ''VinlandSaga'' almost comes to an abrupt end when Thorkell kicks Thorfinn into the distance. The boy slams into a tree, breaks his arm, most of his ribs, and then [[{{Determinator}} gets back up]].
* Happens in ''KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', whenever Kenichi attempts to spar with Appachai.
* Happens in ''{{Gundam 00}}'' twice while Setsuna is piloting Gundam Exia. The first during the very first episode. [[spoiler: The secong during ''[[WhereItAllBegan the final episode]]''.]]
* Happens to [[SmallAnnoyingCreature Ko]][[SleepModeSize tengu]] in ''{{Harukanaru Toki no Naka de}} - Hachiyou Shou'' OAV episode "Kokoro no Yukue", after he is struck by lightning as a punishment for losing a tengu competition.
* The explosion variant happens {{Once an Episode}} to [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Prince Collection]] in ''MonColleKnights''. More specifically, when blasted over the horizon, his machine explodes, with the ensuing cloud turning into a rose with one of its "petals" falling off. {{So Yeah}}.

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* Slayer's Instant Kill in ''[[GuiltyGear Guilty Gear XX]]'' involves punching an opponent into the sky and then reciting a haiku. When he completes the poem, there's a twinkle in the sky right before "Destroyed" is announced.
* If someone is hit upwards out of the arena in ''SuperSmashBros'' or its sequels ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', this is the result...unless they fly forwards and bounce off the screen. It's actually pretty satisfying, especially since they scream the whole time; after a long and bitter fight, hearing a morose, "Pika ''piiiiikaaaaa''..." makes the whole thing seem worthwhile.
**Especially gratifying in that particular instance if you were a fan of Team Rocket... which accounts for, oh, [[RootingForTheEmpire 99% of the fanbase]].
** ...unless ''you'' happen to get [[BigNo KOed by a stage hazard]] while your opponent is gently floating off toward the horizon. Remember: it doesn't count as a KO until you leave the screen.
* Happens to the player in ''PaperMario: The Thousand Year Door'' when they're launched into the sky from a cannon. It happens again to Lord Crump when his robot explodes.
* Happens to Wario in the "Punch!" minigame in ''WarioWare: Touched''.
** Happens to the second boss in WarioLand Shake It, Hot Roderick after Wario's final attack against him.
* In ''ShadowHearts: Covenant'', Joachim has a damage-or-OHKO attack that launches an enemy high into the sky. The player will know it succeeded if the enemy creates a twinkle.
* At one point in the original ''FinalFantasyCrystalChronicles'', you're confronted by the game's resident GoldfishPoopGang, who demand a toll to continue down the road. Earlier on, the team's resident [[TeamPet Moogle]] declared a wish to become a star - if you choose not to pay the toll, you'll barge onwards, knocking the Moogle into the sky. Although you're never shown the Moogle "turning into" a star, you do get this gem:
-->'''Selkie A:''' "And so, he became a star."
-->'''Selkie B:''' "Big time."
* In ''GodHand'', Gene's more powerful God Roulette attacks (Dragon Kick, 100 Fist and Homerun God to name a few) end with the enemy being launch in the milky way (where they already are), like the awesome credit song puts it.
** Also, Evil BoisterousBruiser Elvis does this before his second fight against Gene. He punches two of his henchmen into the skies for disrespecting the body of one of their victims.
* Chie's Galactic Punt from ''{{Persona 4}}'' allows the CuteBruiser to kick an enemy (and the occasional MiniBoss) into the orbital frame.

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* Non-anime example: This is part of the Warp Drive effect in the various ''StarTrek'' series.

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* Yahtzee of ''ZeroPunctuation'' invokes this trope, both in his verbal simile to [[{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]] and the visual effect, while describing the cathartic ragdoll physics of SaintsRow 2.

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* Looks like the Robster's blasting off again! Or, at the very least, being thrown by a big, naked purple guy in this ''DrMcNinja'' [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=42&issue=13 strip.]]

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