History Main / DopeSlap

* In ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'', Crown of Thorns repeatedly dope slaps Hibisicus when Hibiscus keeps making stupid and thoughtless comments when Rose recieves a FingerInTheMail.

* In ''Videogame/MarioPowerTennis'' Yoshi' s defeat animation is accidentally doing this to himself with his racket, knocking himself out and collapsing on his side.

* ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'':
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza0'': In chapter 5, if you fail the QuickTimeEvent to give a client your business card, Kiryu will hand over his card incorrectly [[note]]Proper business card etiquette is ''extremely'' SeriousBusiness in Japan[[/note]] and also introduce himself as a {{Yakuza}} when he's supposed to be a perfectly legitimate real estate agent. Oda promptly slaps Kiryu upside the head.
** One of Haruka's minigames in ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' has her playing the tsukkomi half of a BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine, so she'll slap her partner a lot. If you do very well, she'll pull out the PaperFanOfDoom.

** [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10049#32412 Artie smacks Dave]] for inadvertently causing a self-destruct sequence in the space station ''they're on''.
** And five strips later, [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=10051 Dave smacks Artie in return]], for having psychologically empowered the resident army of robot minions such that they no longer feel the need to, for example, help humans get off a self-destructing space station. Thus leading to [[http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v463/HobbitUnderfoot/smackOw.gif this]] glorious animation.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' had a strip where the PointyHairedBoss explained that he was going to punish people for bad ideas by smacking them. Dilbert calls it "the dumbest idea I've ever heard", [[TooDumbToLive which causes the Boss to promptly smack himself in the face]] and makes Dilbert consider giving the policy a second chance.

** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0089.html "Invisibility: The Lazy Artist's Friend"]] features a rare aversion of the dope slap.

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* Offhand example in [[http://www.wordstudio.net/gist/fodder/penguin_animated.gif this animated GIF]].
* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Pucelle needs them from time to time, as said in [[http://whateleyacademy.net/index.php/378 Boston Brawl II]]:
--> "Just another example of the blatant preference that this school gives to those who embody an arbitrary and pointless physical ideal of -- " Pucelle stopped as Foxfire held a cupped hand in front of her and a bar of pale blue fire formed in the cup of her hand. It solidified into a crude 2x4 board, with which Foxfire tapped Pucelle none-too-gently on the forehead.\\
"Believe me, this is the only way to get her to shut up, once she gets wound up," Foxfire said dryly. Slyboots rose up partially out of Foxfire's tote and stuck a pink tongue out at Pucelle. <nyeh!> Pucelle bridled and started to say something, but the 2x4 grew into a gnarled club with a long spike driven through the end, à la ''Li'l Abner''.
* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Grue subjects Regent to a few of these when he won't stop wisecracking during [[spoiler:the fight against Behemoth]].
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* ''Fanfic/TheProblemWithPurity'': Remus Lupin is in a meeting where he has to be polite to Severus Snape. When Lupin's first reaction to Snape's entrance is a growl, first Hermione then Tonks slap the back of Lupin's head to remind him to behave.

* ''[[Fanfic/ANewspaperSolvesEveryponysProblem A Newspaper Solves Everypony's Problem]]'' ([[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/348586/1/a-newspaper-solves-everyponys-problem/every-little-thing-she-does-without-supervision-often-ends-in-disaster Link]]): This fic practically ''runs'' on this trope, the [[OnlySaneMan only sane mare]] rolls up a newspaper and thwarts harebrained ideas by whacking the newspaper against her friends' heads.

* An off-screen case happens in ''Film/{{Mulan}}'' after Yao replies to "[[StupidQuestionBait Any questions?"]] with "DoesThisMakeMeLookFat"

* In ''WebAnimation/SonicShorts'' Volume 4, after Franchise/{{Sonic}} fails at getting a chaos emerald before a goat-man swiped it, Knuckles smacks him in the head. Until he notices that he accidentally set the area on fire after tossing his cigarette.

->'''Paulie:''' WHAT WAS THAT FOR!?\\
'''Tony Pajamas:''' For being an idiot!\\
'''Paulie:''' Okay.
-->-- ''Series/TheAmandaShow''

Not to be confused with a Pimp/Bitch slap, which is an either-handed (back or front), ''hard'' slap applied directly to the cheeks in order to [[DudeWheresMyRespect assert one's]] [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Authoritah]]. The difference is explained, naturally, by Gibbs himself in an ''NCIS'' episode:

->''"A slap in the face would be humiliating. Back of the head's a wake-up call."''
-->-- "[[Recap/NCISS02E05 The Bone Yard]]"

* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfTheDragon'' ([[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9796877/8/Harry-Potter-and-the-Order-of-the-Dragon link]]) (''ComicBook/{{Firebreather}}'' & ''Franchise/HarryPotter''): In Chapter 8, Ron comes in for a double dose of this from Ginny and Tracy.

* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/10951206/chapters/24463638 Ninja Wizard Book 5]]'' (''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' & ''Franchise/HarryPotter''): Lavender and Parvati do it to Ron when he comments that Harry's owl Hedwig, who'd been missing for two weeks, probably got eaten by something.

The Dope Slap is a (generally) light slap (or knuckle tap) to the back of the skull that is intended as a disciplinary move by one character when another character does, says, or even ''thinks'' something that is uniformly stupid, or just to [[BeQuietNudge shut them up]]. The slap is almost always PlayedForLaughs in some way; think of it as an attempt at PercussiveMaintenance on somebody's brain, and thus occasionally overlaps with GetAHoldOfYourselfMan. Another variation is [[BeQuietNudge a "shut up" poke]] [[CherryTapping to the ribs with the elbow]]. Finally, it may also be performed simply by making a slapping motion in the direction of the target, without any actual physical contact occurring.

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'':

** In the prequel book ''Recap/OnTheOriginOfPCs'', after a fair warning to Vaarsuvius (who was getting annoying), Haley performs a "Sneak Attack Upside the Head".

* ''Fanfic/TheChildOfLove'': During an emergency Misato orders the pilots’ friends hurry to the nearest shelter as she takes the three Eva pilots with her. Kensuke says there are only two pilots only because Asuka is an inactive pilot, disregarding she is very sensitive about the issue. Asuka hit him on the back of his head.

* ''Escape from the Hokage's Hat'' has Tsunade give Manga/{{Naruto}} a gentle bop on the head as a BeQuietNudge, when Naruto does something stupid or is too [[BrutalHonesty forward and direct]].
* ''Fanfic/KitsuneNoKenFistOfTheFox'' has Ino do this to Naruto whenever he does something completely moronic.

* In ''[[WebAnimation/EpicPonyTime Epic Rage Time: The Incredible Derp]]'', [[Characters/FriendshipIsMagicBackgroundPoniesSpecialPonies Octavia Melody gives a good wallop to Vinyl Scratch]] when the latter calls for "more lasers" just as Derpy is calming down.

** [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120402 Moloch giving a dop slap to a rather scary Spark inmate]] is what settle his role as chief minion of the new Heterodyne.

** Nale dope-slaps his twin brother Elan in [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0050.html "The Semi-Secret Origin of Elan & Nale!"]]. Apparently, that's a reflex from early childhood.

'''Paulie:''' [[{{Touche}} Okay.]]

* In ''Film/{{SWAT}}'', a random gangbanger gets one from a cop while Street and Hondo are going to visit Sanchez. Said gangbanger had been beat-up by Sanchez during the arrest.

* ''Film/PrincessDiaries2RoyalEngagement'': Clarisse is trying to teach Mia about the "art of the fan", and Mia starts to make faces at her grandmother while the latter has her face covered with the fan. While Clarisse is amused by this, she responds by using the fan to whack Mia.

* [[DopeSlap/AnimeAndManga Anime & Manga]]
* [[DopeSlap/LiveActionTV Live-Action TV]]

* Even fishes can get into it. In ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' Bloat gives a dope slap to Gurgle with his fin.
* It goes by pretty quickly, but in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', Gobber gives Hiccup a light one on the back of the head after the boy's father tells him to go home after screwing up (and, heavily suggested, not for the first time). Hiccup also gets one from ''Toothless'' after nearly crashing them into a cliff during flying practice.

* In ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'', when the heralds show up to deliver an invitation to Shrek and Fiona to see Fiona's parents, one herald keeps trumpeting after the others stopped, so the lead herald hits his rolled-up scroll on the back of his head to shut him up.

* ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. When Neytiri is trying to teach Jake the word "nari" (eye), he keeps saying "nadi" (which is not even a possible word in the Na'vi language), earning him an irritated (and [[ThrowItIn ad-libbed]]) whack to the forehead.

* Towards the end of ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'', [[MissionControl Cortana]] figures out how to use Halo's teleportation system in order to rapidly move the Chief to Keyes's position. Unfortunately, she teleports him in after mixing up the ceiling of the ship with its floor, leading to the Chief landing on his head once he phases in. He proceeds to knock his helmet, since [[VirtualGhost Cortana]] is an AI program that was currently housed inside it.

** ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars''. In "The Empire Strikes Out" Darth Vader uses the Force to make his [[SurroundedByIdiots admirals dope-slap each other]] instead of choking them to death.

* An interesting case in ''Kohta the Samurai'' (a NSFW webcomic): a dark elf lieutenant explains how magical rings of illusion are working while a subordinate demonstrates by taking the appearance of a dwarf. The lieutenant insists on the fact that it's an illusion, and dwarves being shorter and wider they should be wary of hitting something they shouldn't and give themselves away. Meanwhile, the subordinate is goofing around ("Oh look at me, I'm a short stupid hairyman!") and the lieutenant gives him a dope slap -- by aiming ''above'' the illusory dwarf's head, proving her point.

'''Paulie:''' Okay.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLorax'', after the Once-Ler cuts down the first tree, two Humming Fish go near it, and one knocks on the stump with its fin to indicate nothing has really changed, only for the sky to suddenly turn black and begin to rumble (indicating the summoning of the Lorax). The other fish then slaps the first one in the back of the head for apparently causing the current thing.