Take a cartoon, preferably an older one, and find a pair who always end up in fights.
Tom and Jerry, Dick Dastardly and Muttley from
Wacky Races or virtually anyone from
Looney Tunes. Somehow, one character always has a fist which can stretch across an entire country. Or a universe. This is a type of
Toon Physics, and is often used with revenge.
Not to be confused with
Rubber Man
Examples:
Film
- In an exceedingly rare live-action example, in the Chinese kung-fu movie Master of the Flying Guillotine, an Indian fighter enters a tournament with the power to extend his arms to an absurd length.
- Michael Jordan uses this to make a slam dunk in Space Jam.
- Freddy briefly extends both his arms to scare his victim in the first A Nightmare on Elm Street film.
Western Animation
- In The Thief And The Cobbler, the Witch uses this to pull down a hesitant character (who s much bigger than she is) for examination.
- Tom And Jerry demonstrates this several times, often when Tom tries to reach for Jerry inside one of the walls.
- Used by Dick Dastardly whenever Muttley starts laughing at him, outside the range of a typical human being.
- Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic has these, but she uses them to pull her friends in for a group hug.
- On Family Guy, Lois's father once punched Peter through an email.
- Though it doesn't involve combat, the mid-1980s Scooby-Doo series had Daphne restrain a fleeing Shaggy by extending her arms from off screen.
Video Games
- This is one of Dhalsim's special abilities in the Street Fighter series—he can punch you from the other side of the screen.
- In Sonic Unleashed, Sonic has arms that extend in his werehog form.
