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* The psychic version is frequently averted in ''DarkerThanBlack'', where most of the Contractors are incredibly direct with offensive use of their power. For example, a Contractor with the ability to switch two objects via teleportation kills someone by switching their heart for a rock, another one can teleport whatever is covered by his blood so he just splatters it on people and rips them apart, and another that can freeze any water he touches will just freeze the water in your body and kill you or [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale you with an icicle]] (he even has a partner that can cover the area in water, letting him do it from a distance).

* An incredibly egregious case in ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}} 3'': during a fight on a plane, a GiantMook catches Drake, pins him against the wall... and, for no apparent reason, decides to ''open up the cargo bay in mid-flight and throw Drake out''. Drake manages to get free and uses a parachute deployment system to hurl a truck into the mook's face.

* The telekinetic version of this is averted in ''ElfenLied'', where it would take a miracle to stop Lucy from just snapping your head off from the get-go.

* In Film/Arachnophobia, the spiders are repeatedly shown to have venom that kills instantly with just a small bite anywhere, and they frequently bite the very moment they land on their target. In the climax, thousands of these spiders are swarming over the hero's house and quite a few land on him, but even the "Queen" and "General" that are guarding their egg sac never bother to bite him.

* The movie ''Sidehackers'' has a baffling good guy example. Upon infiltrating the villain's camp, the [[TheBigGuy big guy,]] Big Jake stealths his way over to one guard and silently snaps his neck. So far, so good. He then tries to do the same thing to another guard but the guard notices him. Big Jake runs over and instead of killing the mook before he can make too much noise, inexplicably grabs him by the lapels and holds him up against the wall, while he sets off enough of a holler to attract another mook who [[spoiler:fills Big Jake with buckshot.]]

* Happens with Big Bob-omb in Super Mario 64, where the boss will only ever try to throw Mario out the arena (aka off the moutain, although not a massive drop in most cases) and has to be defeated by Mario throwing him to the ground (in the arena). Averted in the DS remake where he actually throws Bob-ombs against Yoshi, although [[TacticalSuicideBoss only because Yoshi can't pick up anything in said game]].

* In ''Film/{{Chronicle}}'', Andrew would have succeeded in [[spoiler: killing his abusive father]] had he just did a telekinetic dismemberment or such rather than drop him from height, [[spoiler: which allowed Matt to save the man.]]

* Averted in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress''. Sure, wrestling enemies might go right ahead your dwarves (or you, when playing an adventurer), but skidding along the ground tends to hurt like hell. And that's if they don't just go for jointlocks instead.

* Occurs in issue #4 of ''TheAwesomeSlapstick''. During the Neutron Bum's explosive rampage, The New Warriors, Daredevil, Comicbook/GhostRider, the Comicbook/FantasticFour, and Comicbook/TheAvengers were trying to formulate a proper attack plan. Slapstick simply went to a coffee shop, bought a cup of coffee, gave it to the bum, than knocked him out in mid-sip.

** Or not. The fist fight portion began when that NS-5 tried hitting Spooner with his own car. The only time the robot started trying to beat Spooner to death he revealed that he had a robot arm.

* Film/{{Megamind}}, being GenreSavvy, makes use of this trope. When he's grabbed and about to get finished by his super-powered yet dumb nemesis Titan, he taunts him (with a massive dose of BrutalHonesty), and, instead of ripping him apart or melting his face with EyeBeams, angered Titan tosses him across the square, [[spoiler: right next to Megamind's invisible car [[NiceJobFixingItVillain containing the depowering device]]]]. A minute later, Titan grabs and throws Megaming ''yet again'', [[spoiler: this time a several hundred meters up, so the fall would kill him, but instead it just gives Megamind enough time to save himself and get a surprise attack and for depowering device to fully charge up]].

* ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' has two separate fights involving an unarmed Terminator fighting John Connor, and despite being a killer robot with extensive knowledge of human anatomy, repeatedly throws Connor far away and thus giving him the time to pull out a weapon.

* Film/IRobot: In a fight with Spooner an NS-5 robot just throws him about a bit, even with one arm missing it could have done better.

* Justified in ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', where the Manton Effect prevents most parahumans from using their powers directly on living beings.

* In ''DigimonFrontier'', Mercuremon has an attack called Generous Mirror that reflects an attack to the attacker while Mercuremon remains unharmed. He uses this once to defeat a very powerful digimon. He might as well apply for the BigBad position and repel any opponent with Generous Mirror but he doesn't do it.

* The Russian hitman from ''Film/ThePunisher'' was also an offender.

* Justified and subverted in ''{{Holyland}}''. Iwado is a judoka, so it makes sense that he would be better at throwing than striking. At the same time, it's shown that getting hurled into a concrete wall or onto asphalt can be as fight-ending as a good strike combo.

TheHero is fighting against the GiantMook. He might be slow, but he sure is strong -- he doesn't seem to even notice the hero's blows. The hero can hold him off for a while, but before too long, the mook has knocked away his weapon and taken hold of him. With this enemy's strength, this is surely the end for our hero. He'll just snap the hero like a twig, crush the life out of him, or hold him still with one hand and punch his head right off his shoulders...

* In ''LyricalNanoha'' works, characters can apparently be slammed through multiple floors of a concrete building without significant loss of combat capability, but are somehow threatened by melee strikes.

* Not TruthInTelevision. Despite common belief in the might of the striker, it's not that easy to get a OneHitKill on an opponent who's built conditioning and pain resistance. At the same time, consider when you took a nasty tumble onto concrete or asphalt. Not pretty, was it? Now imagine a trained and experienced grappler or wrestler doing that with intention to hurt. Ouch. There are good reasons why many street fights are over the moment one guy kisses the tarmac.

Nope, he's just holding the hero up in the air [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeckLift by the throat]]. Oh, and now the hero has [[GroinAttack kicked him in the groin]]. You'd think the mook would have seen that coming. However, unfazed, he...

Nope, he's just holding the hero up in the air by the throat. Oh, and now the hero has [[GroinAttack kicked him in the groin]]. You'd think the mook would have seen that coming. However, unfazed, he...

* Averted in the {{Batman}} story-arc {{Knightfall}} [[spoiler: when Bane breaks Batmans back]].

* Sickle makes this mistake in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. Not too many villains can say "I got the drop on the [[{{Batman}} Dark Knight]], had my hand around his throat, was choking him to death, and he wasn't able to get free even though he was trying like hell." Almost any villain with a shred of pride would be embarrassed to admit "And then I threw him across the room, allowing him to catch his breath, get back on his feet, and kick my ass."

* ''TerminatorSalvation'' has two separate fights involving an unarmed Terminator fighting John Connor, and despite being a killer robot with extensive knowledge of human anatomy, repeatedly throws Connor far away and thus giving him the time to pull out a weapon.

* Jaws from the JamesBond films ''The Spy Who Loved Me'' and ''Moonraker'' and the game ''Everything or Nothing'' is fond of this tactic.