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* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon3: Side Order'', one of Marina's hacks allows Agent 8 to invoke this when her armor is shattered. The height gained can be used in conjunction with Pearl's glide to get out of a dangerous location.

** In "WesternAnimation/ToBeepOrNotToBeep", the Road Runner's speed burst causes telephone poles and cactus plants beside the road to be uprooted and causes a bridge to contract just after he passes over it. When Wile E. falls through where said bridge used to be, one of the cacti falls as well. The standard top-down view of Wile E. falling is reversed with Wile E. coming back up all the way back up to the top of the cliff [[EatTheCamera howling in pain]].
** In "Tired and Feathered," the Coyote attaches a motor and propeller to his back to fly, but the propeller chops his tail and causes him to jump out of the shot.
** "Highway Runnery" has him standing behind a cactus as he prepares to dash off. Bonus: we get to hear a real coyote yowl.
** In yet another Wile E. cartoon, "Soup or Sonic", Wile E. sticks a firecracker into the center hole of a Frisbee (from the Freleng Manufacturing Co.) and throws it at his prey, but the firecracker drops out of the hole before he does so. The Coyote is left dazed after the inevitable explosion, but apparently unhurt. Wile E. then walks away; unfortunately for him, his tail is on fire. Only when he passes the horizon does he leap up with a yelp of pain.

** In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short "A Tale Of Two Kitties", Babbitt [[InvokedTrope gets his partner Catstello up a ladder by pricking him in the butt with a needle]].
** "Napoleon Bunny-Parte" has a number of these. One such example is on the bannister Bugs slides down with Nappy in hot pursuit.
** WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester? Try "Tweet Tweet Tweety."
** In "Hare Splitter" Bugs launches romantic rival Casbah a couple of times, first with a mousetrap to the fingers, then a well-aimed arrow to the butt.
* On the ''WesternAnimation/AndyPanda'' cartoon "Fish Fry", a fish bites a cat on the finger, who reacts by jumping up hundreds of feet in the air.

* In the HotSpringsEpisode of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Kamina is trying to look into the lady side of the bathhouse through the [[RuleOfFunny impossibly tall]] wall that separates both sides. While he tries to see while riding on Simon's shoulders, he asks Gimmy to "find a hole". Gimmy ends up finding Simon's..." personal hole" and [[AssShove sticks his finger in it]], which causes Simon to jump in pain high enough to get a glimpse of the other side. When Kamina finds out what he managed, he asks Gimmy to poke him as well.

* In the HotSpringsEpisode of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', Kamina is trying to look into the lady side of the bathhouse through the [[RuleOfFunny impossibly tall]] wall that separates both sides. While he tries to see while riding on Simon's shoulders, he asks Gimmy to "find a hole". Gimmy ends up finding Simon's..." personal hole" and sticks his finger in it, which causes Simon to jump in pain high enough to get a glimpse of the other side. When Kamina finds out what he managed, he asks Gimmy to poke him as well.

* In the second ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' movie, Weslie and Wolffy are in the temple containing the totem they are looking for and are suddenly surrounded by flames. Weslie jumps up to a pole that is hanging on the ceiling, but Wolffy cannot reach it, so he grabs a cactus and jumps on it to boost the height of his jump.

* ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'': Outside of [[NintendoHard Hardcore Mode]], the eponymous young heroine loses some health and bounces back onto stage if she falls off during the Magic Carpet Race, holding on to her hurting butt. Surprisingly enough, while all playable characters leap back onto the stage after falling off, only the [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender female characters]] grab their butts in pain on the way back up.

* In the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, fighters get launched and [[ManOnFire set ablaze]] when they touch [[LavaIsBoilingKoolAid lava]]. That in itself doesn't qualify as this trope because they don't exhibit the comical reaction it entails in the game proper, but [[http://fav.me/dddsif3 one fanart]] based on one of [[https://www.youtube.com/user/alpharadd Alpharad]]'s [[https://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?https://youtu.be/aDmn6O4tVHk?t=97 videos]] featuring ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'''s Stage Builder [[RuleOfFunny interpreted it as such]].

* In ''Anime/{{Naruto}}'', Team 7's bell test challenge against Kakashi involved the [[FakeSpecialAttack unveiling of his super secret technique, "One Thousand Years of Death"]]. The move actually isn't what it sounds like - Kakashi simply kanchos Naruto (striking him in the rectum) propelling him several feet away into air (with much hollering from Naruto). [[ChekhovsSkill It turns out later that the skill has a much more practical application beyond comedy.]] During his climactic battle with Gaara, Naruto realizes that the technique's goal is to target the blind spot of the user's opponent; Naruto decides to get behind Gaara, substitute exploding tags for his fingers, and [[StuffBlowingUp Stuff Blowing Up ensues.]]

* Anime/UltimateMuscle in an episode when Wally Tusket was reluctant to fight Pumpinator Kid Muscle pokes him in the butt which causes him to leap into the ring.

** ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 The Lion King]]'': Banzai jumps about 30 feet into the air after he is knocked into a bramble thicket by Shenzi and Ed.

* "Literature/OfficerBuckleAndGloria": Gloria leaps three feet straight up into the air to illustrate the safety tip to not leave thumbtacks on sitting surfaces.

* This happens to Mario whenever he touches the lava in Mario 3D platform games, beginning with the LethalLavaLand in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''. Interestingly, this can be used as a [[InASingleBound Super Jump]] CastFromHitPoints, especially in the [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy Galaxy]] [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 games]], since it goes far higher than any of Mario's moves and the damage can be healed off using Coins.

* Link does this in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'', and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' when he lands in lava. In the latter game, you can inflict this on your enemies with the Fire Rod.
* In ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo SUN]]'', Draco Centauros does this in her ending when she gets [[EmbarrassinglyPainfulSunburn sunburned on the rock she's laying on]], complete with red-hot skin and her being launched into the air, with her yelling out "YEEEOOOOOOOW!!".

* In the ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' series, if Yoshi falls in lava, then he will jump high with his butt on fire and fall down out of the screen losing a life.

* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''': While [[RocketJump blast jumping]] doesn't qualify since the explosion is what propels the character, the Scout's Boston Basher's [[SelfDamagingAttackBackfire self-damage when he misses]] causes the scout to propel himself upward, giving him effectively a potential [[DoubleJump third or even fourth jump]].

* Happens to WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck in his shorts with Spike the Bee.

* In the 1962 [[WesternAnimation/{{Noveltoons}} Noveltoon]] short ''The Sheepish Wolf'', a wolf tries to pass himself off as a sheepdog and prepares a stewpot to cook sheep in. When the shepherd catches him in the act, the wolf claims that he's actually fixing up a bath for himself, so the shepherd decides to light a fire to warm up the water, causing the wolf to get StewedAlive and blast off into the air. As the shepherd tries to shoot at the mid-air wolf, he says to the audience "The best way is to [[{{Pun}} get them on the rise]]."

* Happens occasionally in the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' franchise. A few such examples include during the Frieza fight in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', first when Goku falls into a volcano and burns his butt and later when Goku bites Frieza's tail when he's strangling him with it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}: Half-Genie Hero'': Outside of [[NintendoHard Hardcore Mode]], the eponymous young heroine loses some health and bounces back onto stage if she falls off during the Magic Carpet Race, holding on to her hurting butt.
** Surprisingly enough, while all playable characters leap back onto the stage after falling off, only the [[SlapstickKnowsNoGender female characters]] grab their butts in pain on the way back up.

* While ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'''s [[RocketJump blast jumping]] doesn't qualify since the explosion is what propels the character, the Scout's Boston Basher's [[SelfDamagingAttackBackfire self-damage when he misses]] causes the scout to propel himself upward, giving him effectively a potential [[DoubleJump third or even fourth jump]].
* The volcano level of ''[[Franchise/HugoTheTVTroll Hugo: Jungle Fever]]'' has lava constantly rising under the player. If it catches up, Hugo will rocket out of the volcano, resulting in an instant GameOver regardless of extra lives.

A common [[AmusingInjuries Amusing Injury]] in cartoons is for a character who receives an injury to the posterior to jump impossibly high into the air, usually accompanied by a drawn-out YEEEEEOOOOOWWWWW. Occasionally happens in live-action wacky comedy as well.

* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' in the episode "Up a Tree." The porcupine invokes this trope for Finn as a way of trying to get the latter's frisbee from the former's tree, but Finn doesn't think that would actually work. The porcupine does it anyway [[RealityEnsues and fails]], but it ''does'' provide Finn with convenient climbing tools in the form of the porcupine's spines.

** In the Disney film version of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', when Lefou had Lumiere cornered and was about to murder him with a torch (due to his head being made of wax). Luckily, Cogsworth successfully comes to Lumiere’s rescue by sliding down the stair banister and jabs Lefou in the butt with a pair of scissors he was using like a sword, causing this to happen by making Lefou scream while painfully jumping in the air. Less than 20 seconds later, after being rescued by Cogsworth from Lefou, Lumiere rescues Fifi from having her feathers (“skirt”) plucked apart by one of Gaston’s four stooges by spewing a blast of fire from the top of his head at Tom’s butt, causing this to happen again (Tom also gets this abuse by being launched into the air while screaming in extreme pain, just like Lefou), allowing Lumiere to gracefully catch and scoop his cute Fifi, much to their delight.
** Banzai the hyena in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' jumps about 30 feet into the air after he is knocked into a bramble thicket by the other hyenas.

** In the Disney film version of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', when Lefou had Lumiere cornered and was about to kill him with a torch (due to his head being made of wax), Cogsworth slides down the stair banister and jabs Lefou in the butt with a pair of scissors he was using like a sword, causing this to happen. Less than 20 seconds later, Lumiere spews a blast of fire from the top of his head at one of the nameless villagers (who also gets launched into the air), saving the feather duster who was getting her "skirt" ripped out.

** This happens to Captain Hook in ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan'' when Mr. Smee accidentally lets the water Hook is soaking his feet in get too hot while Hook is unconscious from Smee unwittingly knocking him out earlier.