History Main / ThisIsMyBoomstick

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* Lampshaded in a joke where a man is caught by a CannibalTribe, and says he can make a miracle. He takes out a lighter and produces a flame. The chief says "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint A miracle indeed. First time I ever saw a lighter igniting at first try]]."
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[[caption-width-right:720:That is his BOOMSTICK!]]

* Played straight and almost verbatim with ""FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality"" when Rationalist!Harry [[spoiler: improvises a rocket-broomstick in order to break out of Azkaban with Professor Qurrell and Bellatrix Black]], he remembers the movie trailer and flies away, not before shouting the epic line:

* He also invents the sitcom. Though it is eventually made obsolete when the heroes invent reality programming.

* This trope sets up ''Your Mother was a Neanderthal'', part of the ''TimeWarpTrio'' series of children's books. The trio get it into their heads that if they travel as far back in time as possible and impress the natives with their modern equipment (including a Swiss Army knife, a thermometer, and a deck of cards), they will be worshipped as magical beings and have a much more comfortable adventure than their previous ones (in each of which they have come close to grisly death at least twice). Since time travel never goes well for these kids, they discover upon their arrival in the time of the cavemen that all of their modern possessions, even their clothes, have disappeared. This is never adequately explained; the idea is that the materials for these items did not exist at the time that they travelled to, but that still leaves the question of why their stuff didn't disappear when they travelled to King Arthur's court in the first book of the series.

* Similar to, but earlier than, the ''PinkyAndTheBrain'' example below ... one episode features ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' being kidnapped by a primitive tribe in present-day Washington (OK, the 'Pacific Northwest'). Darkwing and his daughter, once the truth of the situation (it involves volcanoes) is explained, try this. Honker tries a flashlight, but finds the effect ruined by the natives' Klieg lights. They try to invoke an eclipse via a rogue airship from earlier. The natives say they can't see the eclipse since the airship's in the way. In the end, they get away in their airplane... since the natives' own business jet suffers a breakdown on the runway.

* [[http://www.partiallyclips.com/index.php?id=1065 This strip]] from ''PartiallyClips'' showcases a unique subversion of the concept.

* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': As Harry is being pursued through the air by twenty [[spoiler: Aurors]] on racing broomsticks faster than his own, more than a hundred Dementors, a giant winged flame-creature, and someone has just cast an Anti-Anti-Gravity Jinx disabling the lift on his broom: [[spoiler: "All right, you [[MugglesDoItBetter primitive screwheads!]] Listen up! You see this? This... is... my... BROOMSTICK!" And Harry hits the ignition switch on the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome solid-fuel rocket booster attached to his broomstick.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Harry does not actually say the line, he merely thinks it while he ponders the similarity of his situation with the situation the trope namer found himself in. He does not say it out loud to the Aurors because he wants to keep his identity secret (which speaking would not help with) and he doesn't want to spend time taunting the Aurors right behind him firing spells at him. This is actually a notable aversion: none of the Aurors seem to guess what he used to escape, the commander of the group in charge of catching him seems to think Harry was using a unique form of magic, possibly a twist on the Fiendfyre spell. When they later guess what happened (it turns out one of the Aurors chasing him was a Muggle-born), they immediately start researching the science behind rockets to create a spell to counter it, so nobody can flee them that way again.]]
*** He actually thinks of the line earlier, when he was making the thing, which caused the words to form on the [[spoiler: rocket]] when he transfigures it. Turns CrowningMomentOfFunny when [[spoiler: the Aurors]] contact Arthur Weasley, who tells them it is a "rocker" (since you would have to be off your rocker to use one) and one of the Muggles's rockers had a few years before exploded, killed a few hundred people and nearly set the moon on fire. Snape later tells Dumbledore to ignore all of that information and merely tells him what it was.

** Subverted a short time later: Sheppard takes out his lighter to light a torch, only to have Teyla take out some sort of infrared laser and light the torch herself. An amused Teyla then comments "We have discovered fire a long time ago..."

** And perhaps somewhat subverted in a much later episode when O'Neil's team delivers several crates filled with modern firearms to help supply a group of rebel Jaffa they're allied with. The Jaffa, more used to the flashy energy weapons they'd been trained with by the Goa'uld they'd previously served, are quite skeptical of the value of the Earth-made weapons. O'Neill has to convince them that they're worth using by having Carter (wielding a FN[Fabrique Nationale] P-90) do a side-by-side comparison with a Jaffa marksman wielding a staff weapon at the shooting range.

* Part of the narrative of Gary Crew's 1991 novel ''StrangeObjects'' is a fictitious diary discovered in the present day, written by a real life Dutchman named Jan Pelgrom, who became marooned on the west coast of Australia in 1629 with another man named Wouter Loos. In the diary, Pelgrom tells of hunting with Aborigines and his attempt to impress them with his blunderbuss. He misses his target, scaring the game away, after which one of the Aborigines grabs the gun and smashes it on a rock.

* Hardcore Techno musician, Scott Brown, aka Plus System, sampled the "This is my Boomstick" speech in a Gabber song aptly named, "BOOMSTICK". It's pretty good.

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* ''FanFic/TheOpenDoor'' gives us this line: [[spoiler: People of Nesme, I present to you the Kalashnikov!]]
* ''FanFic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'': As Harry is being pursued through the air by twenty [[spoiler: Aurors]] on racing broomsticks faster than his own, more than a hundred Dementors, a giant winged flame-creature, and someone has just cast an Anti-Anti-Gravity Jinx disabling the lift on his broom: [[spoiler: "All right, you [[MugglesDoItBetter primitive screwheads!]] Listen up! You see this? This... is... my... BROOMSTICK!" And Harry hits the ignition switch on the [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome solid-fuel rocket booster attached to his broomstick.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Harry does not actually say the line, he merely thinks it while he ponders the similarity of his situation with the situation the trope namer found himself in. He does not say it out loud to the Aurors because he wants to keep his identity secret (which speaking would not help with) and he doesn't want to spend time taunting the Aurors right behind him firing spells at him. This is actually a notable aversion: none of the Aurors seem to guess what he used to escape, the commander of the group in charge of catching him seems to think Harry was using a unique form of magic, possibly a twist on the Fiendfyre spell. When they later guess what happened (it turns out one of the Aurors chasing him was a Muggle-born), they immediately start researching the science behind rockets to create a spell to counter it, so nobody can flee them that way again.]]
*** He actually thinks of the line earlier, when he was making the thing, which caused the words to form on the [[spoiler: rocket]] when he transfigures it. Turns CrowningMomentOfFunny when [[spoiler: the Aurors]] contact Arthur Weasley, who tells them it is a "rocker" (since you would have to be off your rocker to use one) and one of the Muggles's rockers had a few years before exploded, killed a few hundred people and nearly set the moon on fire. Snape later tells Dumbledore to ignore all of that information and merely tells him what it was.
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* The ''[[{{Batman}} Return of Bruce Wayne]]'' miniseries features an amnesiac Batman being mistaken for a sorceror when he uses his utility belt gadgets against some cavemen while stranded in the neolithic past.

* The Man Who Would Be King - rifles, masonic talismans and a lucky hit with an arrow convince the Kushians that Sean Connery is the reincarnation of the Demi-god Iskander (Alexander the Great)

* Played straight in all of Larry Niven's Ringworld books. Justified in that the explorer's third millennium technology truly IS godlike by the standards of most of the subsistence level natives. Subverted in that at first they frequently trip over the EXISTING religious dogma / cargo cult of the previous owners.

->''Yeah. All right, you primitive screwheads, listen up. See this? [[TropeNamer This...is my]]'' '''''[[TropeNamer BOOM]]'''''''[[TropeNamer stick!]] It's a twelve gauge double barreled Remington, S-Mart's top-of-the-line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart. YA GOT THAT!?''

* Stuck on a backwater planet in ''StarOceanTheSecondStory'', space cadet Claude unthinkingly uses his laser pistol to dispatch a monster threatening a local girl. Worse, it turns out the natives have a prophecy about a "hero from the skies" bearing a "Sword of Light". Eventually the gun's battery runs out, and he's forced to make do with an actual sword.

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* In the third-person zombie survival game ''Evil Dead: Fist Full Of Boomstick'', You play (of course) as Ash, and the first weapon you can use is his trademark sawed-off shotgun. He even says this during the beginning cutscene.
* In Blizzard's PC game ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} III'', repeated selection of the human Rifleman results in him saying this to you.
* In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'', if you kill six necromorphs at once with the Line Gun's alternate fire, you get an achievement/trophy titled, "This Is My Boom Stick."

In a GodGuise or TimeTravel scenario, a modern person with some technological convenience uses it to try and impress the locals. Guns and cigarette lighters are common versions, with Polaroid cameras not far behind.

* In ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'', Oscar uses his talent as a StageMagician and knowledge of gunpowder to convince everyone he has great power. Fitting since the film is directed by ''Army of Darkness'' director SamRaimi, [[WordOfGod who does not deny the similarities]].