# Movie trope - beaning someone at a distance with a thrown object **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675 "2021-09-30T18:30:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/41 "2023-03-12T17:09:21Z")
> [@naita](#): > > Has anyone suggested this for addition to TVTropes yet? And are there any good examples of subversion? (I.e. someone makes a ridiculously long throw, but you expect it to hit because that’s what happens in movies, but then it doesn’t.) I’m sure this existed before this thread and I’m surprised no one linked to it. > **[Improbable Aiming Skills - TV Tropes](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImprobableAimingSkills)** > > A character picks up a gun, bow, crossbow, throwing-knife, shuriken, or other ranged weapon, and gains Improbable Aiming Skills. This enables such feats as Blasting It Out of Their Hands, creating a Pinball Projectile, knowing how to Lead the … ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/42 "2023-03-12T17:13:43Z")
I don’t think that’s the same thing, though. I’m looking for a very specific trope where someone is running away, and someone hurls something at them at a great distance. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/43 "2023-03-12T17:17:10Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > I don’t think that’s the same thing, though. I’m looking for a very specific trope where someone is running away, and someone hurls something at them at a great distance. - From the TVTopes link > In _[“Crocodile” Dundee](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/CrocodileDundee)_, Mick Dundee can hit just about anything he wants precisely. Shown by his knife throw against one of the punk kids and later killing off a security camera feed with a _stone_. > > He threw a can of food at a purse thief from a full NYC block away, and conked him on the head. On a single try. In a VERY heavily crowded sidewalk. And the thief was zig-zaggily running away at top speed. After throwing the first can, he never even thought about throwing a second can as he knew one would be enough. Cue applause. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/44 "2023-03-12T17:17:54Z")
There are a bunch of examples in that TV trope that don’t match what I was looking for, but I see your point, there are some examples that do. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/45 "2023-03-12T17:32:27Z")
_The Simpsons_, again: The blue haired lawyer and his goons show up on behalf of Disney to sue Skinner for calling the school Fall Festival (or something similar) **The Happiest Place On Earth**. Seymour mops the floor with them but one of the goons makes a break for it and gets nailed with the briefcase after running a good distance. Skinner makes a Schwarzenegger quip. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/46 "2023-03-12T17:40:58Z")
That’s it! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xbGio8FSdzY/hqdefault.jpg "Copyright Expired (The Simpsons)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbGio8FSdzY) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/47 "2023-03-12T17:46:02Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F1VPJA3ZQwc/hqdefault.jpg "Charlie Brown Thats It Clip") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1VPJA3ZQwc) ---
**Author:** ![SailorHG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecae2f/32.png) [@SailorHG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SailorHG)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/48 "2023-03-12T19:41:28Z")
My favourite example is this one: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/8dkFokxWrdE/maxresdefault.jpg "S04E5 Lucifer humor: He got tired") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dkFokxWrdE) Precision throw, plus the excellent pun at the end! ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/49 "2023-03-12T19:46:43Z")
hahaha You could see the pun coming from miles away, but I still laughed ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/50 "2023-03-12T19:49:49Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > hahaha You could see the pun coming from miles away Especially since it was, y’know, the title of the clip. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/51 "2023-03-12T19:50:09Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > a not-very-comic version Another serious version in _Apocalypto_. This serious version should probably be a trope all its own - give the good guy and friends an apparent small chance to escape, for the sport of killing them while they are trying. Friends are duly killed, but the good guy actually escapes. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gj7O6rPJ-14/maxresdefault.jpg "Apocalypto (2006): Great Escape Scene") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj7O6rPJ-14) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675/52 "2023-03-12T19:57:30Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Especially since it was, y’know, the title of the clip. I clicked it without, you know, reading the title, so there you are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movie-trope-beaning-someone-at-a-distance-with-a-thrown-object/951675.md?page=2)