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Taaaaaake THAT!
When she hits him, he goes flying. Not just across the yard — across town. Sometimes he reaches Low Earth Orbit — or at least vanishes in A Twinkle In The Sky.
This is usually an adapation of a one-panel gag the animators end up having fun with, although the usual treatment is to make it so over the top that it's not mistaken for real violence.
Compare Armor Piercing Slap, which this trope is often combined with, or Hyperspace Mallet for another option an angry anime girl might try. If they're using a weapon of some sort, they may be a Home Run Hitter instead. Not to be confused with Rocket Punch, although it's only a matter of time before the two are combined. May cause a Nose Bleed if hit in the face.
Punched Across The Room is a more low-key, 'serious' version of this trope, despite being no less physically implausible.
Not to be confused with the Mini Game of the same name from Kirby Super Star, and its remake Kirby Super Star Ultra.
Examples
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- Akane Tendo (and most of the other female martial artists) in the anime adaptation of Ranma 1/2. Not so much in the manga, but then the anime tended to exaggerate everything.
- At least two of the instances in the manga are shown by the plot to be literal, so this troper assumes that all instances in the manga are literal. The anime probably treats it more as an amusing gag than something to be taken literally.
- Also Megaton Kicks are just as common as Megaton Punches. They're all taken literally, and sometimes the target even has time to muse on the current state of affairs and smooth out their clothing while sailing peacefully through the air.
- Wasn't this series the Trope Namer? Due to having Shinnosuke's Grandfather explicitly call his Megaton Punch, well, "Megaton Punch"?
- The obscure F Zero anime, of course, included one in which there is an explosion comparable in size to one eight of the galaxy, which both kills the Big Bad and acts as a Heroic Sacrifice for the Captain (Of course, He Got Better by the GBA game
- Love Hina often used surprisingly-involved animation for these. Its frequent use by Naru Narusegawa means this trope is also sometimes known as the "Naru Punch". Again, didn't happen as often or as dramatically in the manga, but much more frequently than in Ranma 1/2.
- In the first episode, Naru somehow manages to deliver the Megaton Punch... from the ground-level hot spring, up to the balcony where Keitaro was standing, two floors up, without her feet leaving the ground. As he flies off, Keitaro begs to know how she reached that far.
- The "Naru Punch" makes a cameo in Mahou Sensei Negima, following a Thanks For The Mammary moment during Asuna's practice date with aged-up Negi.
- In the manga Motoko does a literal Home Run Hitter, so mangaverse Naru's Megaton Punches might be literal as well.
- This troper's fondest memory of this trope in this series is the scene where a nerd-disguised Naru punches Keitaro through a corridor with him bouncing off the walls and one doorframe (while every bystander just watches and stares without getting bowled over by him) before coming to a smashing halt at a closed door, one of many scenes that earned Keitaro his reputation of being immortal.
- In an episode of Soul Eater, Maka recieves one from Black*Star of all people.
- Lime and the other marionettes in Saber Marionette J and its sequels frequently belt their annoying neighbor so hard he vanishes into the distance.
- Rekuta in Duel Masters. In the American dub, at least, he would be sent flying into the sky when he was so much as clipped by someone's bike.
- Even though it is not necessarily a punch (at least most of the time), Team Rocket on the Pokemon series always ends up flying into orbit, even if the attacks that sent them weren't necessarily that powerful.
- As a bonus, the Japanese name of the move "Mega Punch" is "Megaton Punch" (and it's mentioned in the second series opening theme in Japan).
- One episode of Tenchi in Tokyo featured Amagasaki continually trying to talk to Tenchi and Sakuya, only to be attacked by the spirit of a female wrestler. While the wrestler used a different move every time, the result was always the same shot of Amagasaki flying off into the distant city, even when he was inside.
- In Magical Project S, Ramia frequently does this to her little brother Rumiyo to send him to Earth.
- Subverted in Full Metal Panic. Chidori hits Sagara, then the camera suddenly changes to the sky with a big contrail. This makes an impression, that Sagara himself just left the contrail while crossing the atmosphere.
- In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Arc Gurren-Lagann Megaton Punching an enemy Mugan so hard it smashes a hole in the very fabric of space-time, into which the Mugan falls and promptly explodes.
Captain Falcon, eat your heart out. Not quite as strong as Falcon Punch, of course, but still an awesome way to Divide By Zero.
- Another one is probably one of the more memorable moments of the series. Simon teleports halfway through the world, rips the Gurren Lagann through a wall, ejects from his cockpit, slides across the ground for a good hundred feet, brings his hand back, and with a fantastic scream of "ROSSIU!!!!! CLENCH THOSE TEETH!!!!" he slugs Rossiu right in the goddamn face. All at once he honors fallen brothers, puts the Scrappy of the series in his place with gusto, acknowledges Rossiu's basic decency and good intentions, and punches a man so hard his headband holding his hair in that Fei-like style explodes from the sheer ungodly awesome of the punch. Rossiu's lucky he had a HEAD after that.
- In Sengoku Basara, especially in the Heroes expansion, Takeda Shingen pulls this off and sent Sanada Yukimura flying. "OYAKATA-SAMAAAAA!!!!!"
- In the anime adaptation, he did it again to Fuuma Kotarou, but since the way to the sky was obstructed by a castle, he crashed there, leaving quite a hole. Also later, his Megaton Punch catches on fire and turns Hojo Ujimasa into a twinkle in the ash.
- One Piece: After the Straw Hats brutal defeat at the hands of Kuma and his allies, Kuma chooses not to kill them, but instead use this on each crew member, separating them over who knows how many islands. He's even able to use his powers to create a safe landing for them.
- Luffy also does this after his fights with Buggy and Wapol.
- This is actually pretty much the preferred method of defeating villains in the anime. Always with a little star twinkle as they disappear into the blue.
- In the anime version of Naruto, Sakura does this to Naruto in Shippuuden when he's being particularly perverted. Somewhat subverted by the fact that she is physically able to send him flying due to the fact that she's gained super strength.
- This mere possibility gives Naruto the chills in the original manga - once again when he's being perverted.
- Naruto's also known to use this move for seriousness whenever he's using the Nine-Tails' power. The battle against Sasuke at the Valley Of The End has two: one when he first slips into One-Tailed Form and hammers Sasuke in the face, sending him tumbling through the air; and another where he grabs hold of a distant Sasuke with a chakra arm and yanks him in for a massive blow. [[hottip:I know Megaton Punch is supposed to be for funny, with Punched Across The Room being the serious variant, but the latter blow was just too high-powered - and the distance Sasuke's sent flying too much - to be classed as anything other than a full-blown Megaton Punch]]
- In the anime adaptation of Bleach, Chad punches the third seat of Squad 8 into the sky, making a star. In the manga, he punches him through a wall.
- In the preliminaries of the Demon World Unification Tournament in Yu Yu Hakusho, 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 his own brother high into the sky, far away from Hanging Neck Island to 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 Fushigi Yuugi, the Nyan Nyan girls (Taiitsukun's assistants) often ended up in the receiving end of these when they seriously screwed up.
- In Tona Gura, both Kazuki Arisaka and Marie Kagura, albeit through use of her paint-ball gun, can knock Yuuji Kagura clean across a room. Very very rarely, he can even become A Twinkle In The Sky. Subverted at least once, when Marie was about to punish Genki Girl Nina Isokawa. Yuuji effortlessly disarms her, and only gives her weaponry back when he shames his younger sister into attacking only him. Fridge Logic or Rule Of Funny? You decide.
- Heroic Age. Bellcross punches a BLACK HOLE. That is all.
- Seto No Hanayome has San's "Mermaid Voice", which isn't a literal punch but functions the same way.
Comic Books
- In one of the few cases meant to be taken literally, Rogue of the X-Men was struck by Binary (the former Ms. Marvel, whose life had been ruined by Rogue before she became a reformed bad guy) so hard that she ended up nearly hitting the Moon.
- Similarly in Garth Ennis' The Pro. The guy's jaw was never found.
- The reader can see it though. It's on a a ledge a story or so above the ground.
- In the famous comic-book series Asterix, the magic-potion-powered Gauls frequently send Roman Legionnaires flying so high that they don't come down for several more panels.
- In the same vein, most of the time their sandals, shields and sometimes also the complete armour stays on the ground with their owner forcibly removed, so that when the legionnaire finally comes down, he does so in underwear only.
- The video game Asterix and Obelix: XXL and its sequel incorporate this: whenever an enemy is defeated, they fly off the screen at high speed, stretching like elastic. However, only a helmet (which constitutes in-game currency) is left behind, as opposed to a full set of armour.
- Alice's Fist of Death from Dilbert. Not always flying off, but she hit For Massive Damage.
- She once hit a guy so hard she knocked him into next week.
- Similar to the Dilbert example above, Garfield once punted Odie into next week.
- Garfield used to do this a lot early on to other characters who made him mad including Nermal on one occasion one punch sent him flying into the moon.
- Superman once punched Lobo so hard that he broke the atmosphere. Justified, because he's Superman.
- Likewise Captain Atom once punched Superman so hard that Superman landed "somewhere in Connecticut" (the punch had been delivered in Manhattan).
- The villain Paragon knocked Superman into orbit once. Justified because Paragon adapts the super-powers of everyone around him... including Superman.
- All Star Superman was once punched so hard he slammed into the moon with enough force to break it in half.
- Marvel Comics baddie Onslaught punched Juggernaut across North America at one point.
- 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.
Live Action TV
- In The Muppet Show, Miss Piggy sends Kermit (and anyone else, for that matter) flying with a karate chop whenever she's mad at him.
- In "Star Trek" the trouble with tribbles, Scotty does this with someone who insults the Enterprise, after stopping Chekov from doing the same when someone insulted Kirk. "Twas a matter of pride, sir!"
- In Smallville, Clark does this to Bizarro twice. The first time, it knocks him into the horizon. The second time, it knocks him into outer space.
Video Games
- NanacaCrash. (There goes your afternoon.)
- In Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. games, one of the ways a character can be defeated is by hitting them so hard they fly off into the horizon and vanish in a twinkle.
- Or else they fall from above and bounce off the Fourth Wall.
- And take a wild guess who has a Megaton Punch-type move themselves.
- Guybrush Threepwood suffered this quite badly at the end of The Secret of Monkey Island, getting repeatedly punched into the air during his confrontation with LeChuck.
- Amy Rose has her Megaton Hammer, which is useful for knocking around Sonic.
- In God Of War: Chains of Olympus, if you get the Gauntlet of Zeus and level it up all the way, you can get one hell of a Megaton Punch going.
- Several of the Jack characters from the Tekken series actually have a move called Megaton Punch, which is a powerful punch that does 40 damage. In addition, there is the Gigaton Punch, which is one of the most damaging (unblockable and 199 damage, meaning it'll only not take you out if you're playing with a 100% handicap and have full health) and difficult (a "lever spin" is required to pull it off in the PS 2 version, but it is never explained what exactly that is) to execute, but, yes, sends the opponent flying across the stage until they hit the invisible wall.
- In The King of Fighters, Ralf Jones has a similar move named Galactica Phantom, which is practically unblockable (though fairly easy to avoid by jumping in the right moment) and, if connected, sends the opponent flying across the stage a la Megaton Punch.
- It gets worse in the GBA spinoff The King of Fighters EX 2: Howling Blood, where the Galactica Phantom has a much, much shorter charge time and is a regular move instead of a SDM, meaning you can conceivably OHKO someone right off the bat with it on a counterhit...
- Ryo Sakazaki has this as well, with Tenchi Haoken, which has the added benefit of STUNNING your opponent.
- By luck or if you feel you're pure awesomeness, have these as a counter attack and you'll shit bricks from the damage it causes to your enemy. Especially Galactica Phantom SDM. Lethal even for bosses.
- In Super Robot Wars Original Generation 2, Excellen playfully invokes this trope if you have her perform a certain mecha's punching attack, pretending that the enemy is her boyfriend being stubborn. The Original Generations remake even has her screaming out: "Kyosuke no BAKA!" as she delivers the final blow.
- Seolla follows this suit when she rides the hot blood inducing machine Gespenst Mk II S. Have her execute the Gespenst Kick, and she'll pretend the enemy is Arado and yells out "A-ra-do no.... BAAAAKKKAAA!!" and delivers a Megaton Kick to the enemy.
- In Original Generation Gaiden, first we have Folka's Iadabaoth which one move start with Rapid Fire Fisticuffs but end with Punched Across The Room which broke the mountain in background. Then Shura King Alkait's Raha Exteem ditch the spam part and just punch once, send enemy through several mountains.
- Don't forget the Dragon Kick in God Hand, which is an instant kill to normal enemies and does sizable amounts of damage to bosses. The victim goes flying into the air and disappears with a twinkle before a parallel Gene in France Dragon Kicks them back. 100 Fists and Home Run God have a similar effect.
- Guilty Gear's Potemkin has an Instant Kill in XX that fits this trope - he takes off his power-limiting collar and kills the opponent with a single punch.
- In the same game, the vampire Slayer has an Instant Kill where he literally punches his opponent into space, turning them into A Twinkle In The Sky. Then recites a haiku.
- In Primal Rage, the character Blizzard has the aptly-named To Da Moon fatality.
- This is Yui's favorite move to use on Ryo in Brass Restoration. She's apparently been using it on him since childhood, so his intense training has made him immune to any damage he would otherwise suffer.
- The Berserk Pack from Doom was like this, only instead of sending your enemies flying it made them splatter into a million pieces.
- Grand Theft Auto San Andreas had a cheat which turned your standard melee punch into a Megaton Punch, allowing you to send enemies flying a hundred feet straight ahead when you punched them.
- Fire Emblem has one in path of radiance: when Boyd teases Mist for weighing more than Leanne, she knocks him across a pool of water and into a tree. the animation for the "Smite" ability, which, ingame, is available only to the largest character in the game (disregarding shifted dragons), is used for this scene. note that the only other character to knock someone out with a shove is the friggin' Black Knight!
- This is Bowser's basic attack in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. If done right he can punch enemies across the screen and if done wrong he trips on the enemy instead. This is also used as a Finishing Move for the Final Boss of the game, in which he manages to rival Captain Falcon himself in Incredibly Epic Punches.
- In Fallout 3 the pneumatic Power Fist can actually make an enemy to explode, just like this.
- Blaz Blue's Bang Shishigami performs one as his ultimate finisher.
- Bayonetta has the mother of all Megaton Punches in the ending, where Bayonetta binds Jubileus, the god of her universe, with her hair, does an elaborate magical dance... and summons a gigantic avatar of herself, also from her hair, which proceeds to kiss her fist, wind up and PUNCH GOD IN THE SUN from past Neptune's orbit at faster-than-light speed. I'd say that about takes the cake...
- How bad is this punch, you ask? Most of Bayonetta's hair-demon attacks have damage calculated in terms of Gigatons, with Megatons being used for the Torture Attack finishers on mooks. The final hit on Jubileus? It's measured in Infinitons!
Webcomics
- In a recent Homestuck update, Cans punches Diamonds Droog into next week. Literally. DD just sort of finds himself in the middle of next weeks grocery shopping.
- He takes it even further with Hearts Boxcars, who gets punched into a completely different outdated calendar.
Western Animation
- Pick a Popeye cartoon, and half the time, after pummeling him into a bruised, battered shell of a man (or woman... or alien...), Popeye will deliver one last, huge punch, often with humorous results upon landing.
- In Justice League Unlimited, taking a punch from one of the more powerful characters easily sent the victim several miles or further (of course, this is probably what is expected, considering some punches are capable of breaking the sound barrier).
- Played Extra Straight in Giant Robo in which Chujo the Silent has a literal one of these, complete with mushroom cloud. His friends prevent him from using it because it would kill him. However, it is implied that he could destroy the ersatz Death Star with one punch.
- Once on Yin Yang Yo, Yin lost control of her aura and sent Coop all the way across the world. She`s normally done a Megaton Punch on several occasons (mainly Card Carrying Villains and Coop the Chicken).
Real Life
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