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** 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.

* 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.

* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': Played comically in "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.

* WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends: In "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.

* WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends: In "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.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': 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 the 2008 ''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/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': 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.

** Lackadaisy [[LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub Speakeasy]] proprietor Mitzi tosses away the cork from a bottle she'd opened.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': 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.]]

* [[Characters/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.

** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Rocket is discussing what he will need for escaping the prison of Klyn, 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.

* ''Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981'': 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/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.

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* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: In the 2008 ''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."

* Done in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' 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.

** In ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', 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.

* In ''Film/StarTrekGenerations'', 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.

* Played with in ''Series/{{Andor}}''. Luthen is willing to buy the 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 this kind of 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.

* Played with in ''Series/{{Andor}}''. Luthen is willing to buy the 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 such 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.

* Played with in ''Series/{{Andor}}''. Luthen is willing to buy the 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.