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"Looks like Squad Rocket'due south diggings off agaaaiiiiin...!" *ding*

Whatever object, if launched with sufficient forcefulness, volition sheet clean over the horizon and vanish into the distant heaven. A moment later it disappears, a four-pointed "twinkle" will announced in the spot where it was last seen, sometimes rotating briefly, forth with a loftier-pitched "ringing" racket. If the object is potentially explosive, it will blow up after the twinkle. It'southward also sometimes used to evidence that something is coming down from the sky. This particular utilise may exist true, as in the Second World War, Japanese AA gunners on ships were trained to spotter for the gleam of an approaching dive bomber's canopy. Because afterward that, the only indication that something was coming was the whistling of bombs falling.

In some media, particularly anime and video games, this will happen to characters. Comedic recurring villains seem to be especially prone to this trope, as information technology's an easy manner to show that they're clearly defeated and out of the way for now without having to kill or otherwise permanently inconvenience them. It's also a mutual fate of anybody on the receiving stop of a powerful plenty Megaton Punch or Home Run Hitter. Regardless of how far they're launched, they can be expected to testify up again with no lasting damage, unremarkably with no give-and-take on how they survived or where they landed.

Examples:

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    Anime & Manga

  • Soreike! Anpanman:
    • Baikinman and his cohorts are ordinarily taken care of in this manner — sent flying to the horizon screaming their Catchphrase "Bai baikiiin!" at least once per episode.
    • Anpanman himselfs gets this, either if Baikinman successfully punches him back, or only an inverse from flying.
  • Bleach anime:
    • Episode 37. After Tatsufusa Enjoji, the assistant adjutant and 3rd seat of the Eighth Sectionalisation confronts Republic of chad and does a lot of boasting, Chad knocks him into the heaven with a single punch.
    • Episode 127 when the Vizard Hiyori Sarugaki jumps into the sky while carrying Orihime Inoue.
    • Twice in Episode 205 during the kemari game. In one case when the referee Ururu Tsumugiya throws the brawl upwardly into the sky, and once when Jinta Hanakari knocks Kon (in Ichigo's trunk) into the sky.
    • Episode #213, after Tessai throws Kon (in Ichigo's torso) through a hole in the ceiling of Kisuke Urahara's underground.
  • Played straight in A Certain Magical Index's 2d season, when an awakened Accelerator destroys Kihara Amata. It wasn't just a twinkle in the sky, though, but a burn down trail equally the human being burned to ash from atmospheric friction.
  • Cowboy Bebop:
    • Episode 3 "Honky Tonk Adult female". After Faye blasts out of the casino in her transport with Spike and Jet clinging to her windshield, she flies straight upward and disappears in a twinkle.
    • Episode 19 "Wild Horses". When a pirate spaceship escapes Faye and Jet, it flies off into the distance and disappears in a twinkle.
  • Happens to Suzuo once in Dokkoida?! subsequently an over-enthusiastic greeting of Marilyn Ronmoe.
  • Doraemon: In "Machine Copy Car", when Large Thousand turns Doraemon into an airplane, the latter flies away and disappears with a twinkle. Later in the aforementioned episode, when Noby uses the Automobile Copy Machine to turn into a rocket, he also disappears with a twinkle.
  • Happens at least once in Dragon Ball Z: Trunks blasts Vegeta into the distance and so that he can have fourth dimension to kill Cell earlier he absorbs Android 18. We go a lovely twinkle out of it. The situation and the music provide a squeamish dissimilarity to the lighthearted celebration inspired when it happens in Pokémon.
    • And Dragon Ball Z Abridged turns this into a Phone call-Dorsum to Goku and Vegeta'due south first battle.
  • Excel Saga hangs a lampshade on this trope in episode 18, where Iwata gets punched and says "Look for the twinkle!" just earlier he disappears into said twinkle.
  • Fairy Tail is rather fond of this.
    • Episode 24, Elfman punches Totomaru, who was frozen by Gray. Added with Elfman's Speech during the punch and a 'wow' audio effect when a twinkle appeared

      Elfman: "If you're a man..." (punches Totomaru to the sky)
      Elfman: "...fly to the heavens and become a star!"
      Totomaru: "What is that supposed to mean?" (followed with a twinkle and a "wow" sound furnishings)

    • Episode 51: Happy becomes a twinkle also when he makes a annotate well-nigh Gray being shirtless and stalking girls. Earlier he could get to finish his sentence of Greyness is a giant pervert, he got punched into the sky by Gray.
    • This is too the fate of Bluenote Stinger after existence defeated by an angry Gildarts Clive.
    • Natsu get this when Erza stepped on the trap that was intended for Grayness in the 2nd OVA.
    • In Episode 126, this happens to the Jiggle Butt Gang once Natsu gets over his motion sickness. They launch themselves over again, accidentally, and, despite missing the twinkle this fourth dimension, it is accompanied by the trio shouting "We'RE FLYING OFF AGAAAAIIIINNN!".
    • In Episode 154, Happy gets this once more after he mocks and epically trolls Erza.
  • Fate/Thousand Carnival: During episode two, a quick cutting shows Sherlock Holmes investigating a chalk outline of the one time-again killed Cu Chulainn. The Stinger reveals what happened to him. Jaguarman got upset about the carnival ending, so she used her Jaguar Kick skill on him, turning him into a twinkle.
  • Fist of the North Star: Kenshiro once kicked a guy in the basics, he flew high plenty to become this trope. No, seriously.
  • A sort-of Running Gag in Fushigi Yuugi. Occasionally, the Nyan-Nyans will try to help the protagonists or their boss Tsiitsukun, only to mess up or say the wrong affair - and more than once they've gotten punched through the roof as punishment.
  • In some animated episodes of Getter Robo, the titular robot's Getter 3 form has a special "Dai-Setsu-Zan-Oroshi" movement that involves wrapping enemies in its extending arms and hurling them sumo-mode into the air in a cyclone. The enemy is thrown to the air so far, he disappears in a twinkle. This was even used in Getter 3's appearances in some Super Robot Wars games.
  • Hanaukyō Maid Squad La Verite
    • Episode ii, when Taro is kicked into the sky by Ryuuka he ends upwards as a twinkle of calorie-free.
    • Episode 7, when Ryuuka uses a grenade underground she becomes a twinkle.
  • Parodied in Haruhi Suzumiya when Yuki lost confronting Mikuru in a battle. "Curses."
  • Happens to Kotengu in Harukanaru Toki no Naka de - Hachiyou Shou OAV episode "Kokoro no Yukue", after he is struck past lightning as a penalization for losing a tengu competition.
  • In Hetalia: Centrality Powers, when Italy was launched into the sky by an Ejection Seat, the last matter nosotros saw of him was a twinkle.
  • In Higurashi: When They Cry Kira's second episode, this happens to Takano as well subsequently Magical Girls Oyashiro Rika & Trap Satoko destroy her electric current Ritual Tool Devil, Smash Ripper, with their 07th Explosion attack (whose proper name is a Shout-Out to 07th Expansion, which the franchise belongs to). Equally Takano goes flight into the horizon, only before becoming a twinkle herself, she screams, "Lamentable, Blood brother!" all the while.
  • In JoJo'southward Bizarre Gamble: Stardust Crusaders, this was used to dispatch Alessi, courtesy of a double-team No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Jotaro and Polnareff's Stands.
  • Happens in Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple, whenever Kenichi attempts to spar with Appachai.
  • Ueki from The Law of Ueki manages to pole vault twinkle out in Episode 17.
  • Happens to Keitaro in Love Hina. Not as often as you'd remember, though. He gets flung skyward regularly, merely usually comes crashing dorsum down rather than disappearing into the sky. It does happen this mode on rare occasion, though.
  • Played with in Martian Successor Nadesico. In an episode titled The Lukewarm Cold Equation Akito's robot was thrown into the distance during a fight, creating the twinkle. This had happened a couple of times in previous episodes, just this fourth dimension the residue of the episode focused on where he went, with Yurika and Megumi actually going out to search for him.
  • At the beginning of Mazinkaiser this happened to none other than Kouji Kabuto, when the Mechanical Beast attacking the Institute grabbed Mazinger's Pilder with Kouji inside and threw it away. Fashion to ruin the until-and so tense scene. And they state in the secret laboratory where Mazinkaiser is stored.
  • Mobile Suit Gundam 00:
    • Happens twice while Setsuna is piloting Gundam Exia. The first during the very first episode. The 2d during the final episode. Although it is justified considering that the Gundams in question actually emit sparkles.
    • Patrick is often existence blown away. Kind of played with though, in that unlike Squad Rocket, it'south actually surprising that he survives when this happens.
  • The explosion variant happens Once an Episode to Prince Drove in Mon Colle Knights. More specifically, when blasted over the horizon, his machine explodes, with the ensuing cloud turning into a rose with one of its "petals" falling off.
  • Used to smashing outcome in My Hero Academia when All Might does this to a super-durable genetically engineered monster. All Might was on a strict time limit and didn't accept time to subdue his opponent, so to remove information technology from the equation, he pummeled the monster faster than information technology could blot the impacts until information technology was weak enough to be sent into the fucking stratosphere. That'due south how you get to be the world's all-time hero.
    • During the physical exam for hero schoolhouse, Uraraka gets the high score for distance throwing past using her zilch-gravity ability to gently toss the ball out of orbit, ending in a twinkle.

    Aizawa: Distance... space.

  • When Haruka hurls the "airplane" far from Windbloom in episode four of My-Otome. According to a bonus feature on the first DVD, the matter concluded upward in orbit.
  • During a baseball game in Ninja Nonsense, ane of Shinobu's habitation run hits does this. It ends up reaching some other galaxy!
  • This happens to Buggy the Clown early in One Piece equally well, where Luffy defeats him for the outset time past sending him flight after Nami interrupts and messes upwards his pulling of himself dorsum together.
  • Whenever "Team Rocket is Blasting Off Again!" in Pokémon: The Series.
    • This happens when they're blasting off from near anything: Pokémon attacks, human being intervention, high h2o pressure when springing a leak in a h2o pipage, doing honest work for an honest day's pay, etc. In Advanced Generation, they've sometimes blasted off multiple times in one episode. Team Rocket'southward pretty much the Trope Codifier, which may explain why the trope has been greatly reduced in the All-time Wishes series in which they rarely get blasted off, preferring a more traditional villain escape instead. In the Ten and Y serial, this trope has fabricated a improvement.
    • Lampshaded in "Noodles! Roamin' Off!"; Team Rocket was trying to capture a shiny (or "oddly-coloured") Metagross, and got blasted off in the attempt. Ash and his friends watched the "meteor" fly beyond the heaven. Here is the conversation that follows:

    Ash: Hey, what if that star is really Team Rocket, sent flying by that oddly-coloured Metagross and yelling "nosotros're blasting off agaaaiin?
    Dawn: Nah, there'southward no way it's that.

    • In "Double-Time Boxing Training", they blasted themselves off when Jessie tried to combine Pokémon attacks together similar how Dawn just learned.
    • "Malice in Wonderland" subverts this. Team Rocket gets blasted off for half the episode bouncing back and forth between various causes. They never get this trope. Ouch.
    • In that location's also "The Treasure Is All Mine!", when Team Rocket wanted to get sent flying; well, James does anyway (considering it'south the merely way he tin get away from his dreaded fiancée, Jessebelle). He fails, though; Jessebelle ends up getting blasted off with him instead of Jessie.
    • In several circles, cyberspace and otherwise, this trope has become known equally "Pulling a Team Rocket".
    • This happened to Meowth by himself in "The School of Difficult Knocks", later on Team Rocket abuses him physically again. He comes back downward, consummate with a second twinkle, right on cue after Jessie and James say their respective last lines in the motto later in the episode. He lands in the pool, gets out, and (at least in the Japanese version) says his line.

      Meowth: [translation from original Japanese] Something like that, Meowth!
      Meowth: [English dub line] I love a splashy archway!

    • Even a Pikachu Curt had this: Meloetta did this when it flew up into the sky.
    • In 1 episode, they are launched in a cake of ice. Almost the end of the episode, they are seen, yet in the ice block, floating in the water. They then say the phrase they say in a somber voice, with Meowth saying "With no sparkle..." a bit later on.
    • Team Rocket aren't the only ones to go this treatment. In "Cerulean Dejection", the Invincible Pokémon Brothers employ their three Tentacruel to try and Poison Sting both Misty and her Gyarados into submission. Misty and Gyarados respond by blasting off the Tentacruel with a Hyper Axle, and then giving the same treatment to the brothers with a Hydro Pump. They even lampshade this past saying, "We're not Team Rocket, but we're diggings off!"
    • As has Dario at the end of "The Flame Pokémon-a-Thon", following a confrontation with Ash over his methods in the race. Though he comes back down just in time to blame his defeat on the Rockets themselves and chase them away.
    • Burgundy as well suffers this fate in "Disharmonism of the Connoisseurs", when Crustle accidentally hits her with its Rock Wrecker. Ash overhears this (though he doesn't see who information technology was) and comments that it sounds familiar.
    • The Cosplay Pikachu side special (promoted to normal episode in the dub) has Masked Pikachu and his minions blasting off, although in-universe, it was a film.
    • Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea. While Squad Rocket is fleeing on a cycle-powered balloon, a Fearow controlled by Jack Walker (the titular Pokémon Ranger) pierces their balloon with its beak and sends them zooming away into the sky.
    • An early episode in Advance Generation has this fate befall Ash's Corphish later on Treecko attacks him to get him out of a hole.
    • Surprisingly, the Dominicus & Moon has information technology averted altogether, instead having a wild Bewear showing up to catch them and and so run off. Information technology fifty-fifty gets defied at i indicate, when Bewear catches them in midair just when it seems they're gonna get blasted into the sky.
    • Blood-red's Clefairy had this by being punched from a Ursaring in "Lights, Camerupt, Action!"
    • Brock got this when his Bonsly tackled him from getting horny due to Nurse Joy in "Off the Unbeaten Path".
    • Clemont had this handling as well in "A Rush of Ninja Wisdom!" when he tested out the Muscle Mass Magnifying Auto.
    • Even Ash gets this treatment in "Alola Kanto!" when he gets ran over by his herd of Tauros.
    • Pikachu was non safe from this during the episode with Buzzwole; Buzzwole's uppercut sends Pikachu into the sky with this.
    • In the manga Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl Risk!, when Hareta's Regigigas defeats Flint's Rapidash with Mega Punch, the Mega Dial ends up blasting Flint'south Rapidash off.
  • This happened to PaRappa in episode 3 of PaRappa the Rapper, later on a failed endeavor to terminate the teacher, who is now really insane subsequently another bucket makes him REALLY crazy.
  • Pretty much every villain from Powerpuff Girls Z gets this treatment by the Powerpuff Girls, specially Mojo Jojo.
  • Frequently comes up in the Pretty Sammy series. Both Rumiya and many of the Love-Love Monsters get out this way.
  • Any fourth dimension someone gets booted into depression earth orbit in Ranma ½. Inverted in an episode where Kuno delivers a message tied to an arrow, which appears out of a twinkle.
  • In The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another Globe, Misty is subject to this after getting hit with the wind from Tougo's Humongous Mecha's Giant Kizuna Sword, landing in a wood far abroad enough that Tougo has to use his mech to fly over.
  • Hanagata oftentimes gets sent flying into a twinkle by Otaru'south marionettes in Saber Marionette J to X.
  • Sekirei: In the third episode of the anime'southward 2nd season, to members of the disciplinary squad, launched by Kazehana.
    • Yume does information technology to them at the end of Episode 12 in Season 1 equally well.
  • This happened to Dr. Eggman a couple of times in the early on episodes of Sonic X, either because he was retreating or Sonic and the others had just given him the Squad Rocket treatment.
  • Ram-Dass launching from the Absurd Ship in Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry.
  • This happens twice in Tamagotchi! Miracle Friends episode 7. When Coffretchi applies makeup to Elephantotchi, the powder makes him want to sneeze, causing him to run around; right before he does so, he flings his owner off his dorsum and into the sky, and he disappears with a twinkle. A few minutes later, Smartotchi and X are hit by Elephantotchi and also disappear into the heaven with a twinkle.
  • Guame ends upward becoming a twinkle underground when he falls through a hole in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
  • Happens to behemothic robots often in Transformers Cybertron. Unsurprisingly, the Team Rocket-ish Ransack and Crumplezone experience it a time or two, complete with mail service-booting dialogue on one occasion:

    Crumplezone: Why usa, Ransack?
    Ransack: It's the cycle of fate, my friend.
    Both: Information technology ran right over us!

    • However, it can besides happen to swain comedic villain Thundercracker, and the serious villain Scourge. Sideways does it voluntarily, his zigzagged departures ofttimes ending in this.
  • Ultimate Musculus has this happen to Mantaro sometimes, commonly courtesy of Roxanne.
  • A car twinkles out in an episode of Usavich. A after episode has a police force officer twinkle out after being hit by a barrel.
  • Thorfinn and Thorkell'south last fight in Vinland Saga most comes to an abrupt stop when Thorkell kicks Thorfinn into the distance. The boy slams into a tree, breaks his arm, nearly of his ribs, and so gets support.
    • Thorkell also pulls of a reversed one, when Askeladd's men notice a Twinkle in the Heaven that turns out to be a spear thrown past Thorkell from several miles away and completely impales a man through his chainmail and through his heart. Yes, that human is a pure monster.
  • With whatever small-scale Monster of the Week villain that doesn't contribute majorly to the plot in Wedding Peach, this happens (the major ones dissolve into sparkles and "are destroyed")…
  • Happens a few times in Yo-Kai Scout. Prominent examples include Jibanyan a few times in the showtime episode when he tried to fight confronting a truck. Whisper suffered the same fate in episode xvi later Nate smacked him with a paper fan, and finally Nate himself at the receiving ends of a paws of fury from Jibanyan in episode 44.
  • At the beginning of the Demon Tournament of YuYu Hakusho, all the demons on Yusuke'southward group decide to gang up on their mutual boogey-man. Yusuke welcomes the attending and then proceeds to merely dial all 48 opponents clean out of sight. Yusuke and so comically lampshades the trope (and reveals his actions were intentional) past calling out the judges because none of his opponents fainted, died, or surrendered (which were the only loss weather condition the rules had stated). They declare him the winner of that round anyway.
  • When Zatch Bell! was riding on a cart tied to the bumper of the bus, both him and another graphic symbol are launched into the distance thanks to the instability of the cart and the rope breaking.

    Asian Blitheness

  • In Guardian Fairy Michel, this happens frequently to the Black Hammer Gang equally they're defeated. Bonus points for information technology happen to their castle, too.
  • In Happy Heroes, information technology'southward not uncommon for characters sent flying in the heaven to disappear with a brief twinkle.
  • In the Noonbory and the Super seven episode "Hibernate and Go Squeak", ane of these appears later Rosygury is diddled away past Pongdybory's Sneeze of Doom.
  • In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, this happens a lot to Wolffy, who frequently gets blasted into the air somehow (his married woman Wolnie hitting him with her Frying Pan of Doom is one possible cause).
  • Uncomplicated Samosa: In "Khelo Samosa", when Dr. Goti Sodawala is launched into the altitude past Vada bouncing into him (to save him from beingness forcefully puppeteered as a video game enemy) and shouts "Thank you, Samosa!", he disappears with a twinkle.

    Fan Works

  • Brother on Board: Sabo wins his fight against Miss Wed and Mr. 9 by hitting them with his Knock Back assault which sends them both flying off into the sky. The author even includes the Twinkle sound effect.
  • In Dial it happens to Ulik when Thor and Iron Homo hit him with a combination assault, much to Hill'south chagrin as it acquired them to lose track of him.
  • Kid Icarus Uprising two: Hades Revenge does this to Teem Chaos virtually every fourth dimension they appear. Fitting because they are conspicuously a parody of the Squad Rocket Trio.
  • Muffet The Mom: Happens to Muffet in the sixth chapter, courtesy of Frisk and a see-saw.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic My Trivial Mommies: This is how many stars were fabricated - if you anger Princess Luna, you volition become A Twinkle in the Sky and stay in that location.
  • New Game Plus (One Slice): How the "fight" with Luffy ends for Alvida. Lampshaded:

    Luffy admired the twinkling star she made. He e'er wondered why that happened. Eh, mystery twinkle.

  • Opening Dangerous Gates: This happens to Natsu when a drunk Rangiku punches him. Principal Makarov wisely takes a careful step back.
  • Paper Mario X: This is Kirby's exit at the end.
  • Pokémon: Clefairy Tales: As is par for the class, whenever a Rocket (usually Jessie, James, and Meowth, who beginning announced in chapter 9) get blasted off.
  • Pokémon Reset Bloodlines:
    • As usual, this happens to Team Rocket, though not as often equally in canon since they're non actively trying to steal Pikachu from Ash.
    • Played for Drama during Chapter eighteen. Paul ends up blasting Ash's Primeape into the heaven. Different most examples, it's hinted that such an activeness might actually take fatal consequences.
  • In Tantabus Marking Ii, this is how Sombra leaves Rainbow's dream.
  • It happens in the last affiliate of The Vampire of Steel to Kryptonian vampire Zol-Am when a Supergirl'southward uppercut sends him flying off real high into the sky.
  • Twelve Red Lines:
    • In Chapter 32, this happens to Jones when she absorbs also much strength from Wyper'southward missiles. They get sent flight from the backfire, and Usopp, who grabs them right before they're sent flight, gets dragged forth for the ride.
    • In Chapter 36, this happens to Enel when Jones and Usopp shoot him out of a cannon aimed at the moon.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series:
    • After Tristan defeats Florence, he gets rid of the evil ring (Millennium Band) "by throwing it randomly in a careless direction." As it flies through the air, Florence's voice tin can be heard shouting "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO....", and so says "Twinkle" when the band vanishes into the forest.
    • Afterward, Marik kicks Crump out of Tea's heed. We and so encounter Crump'southward spirit wing into the altitude. Equally he becomes a Twinkle In The Sky, he actually screams, "AAAAAAaaaaaaah! Twinkle!"

    Films — Animation

  • Parodied in The Big Bad Pull a fast one on and Other Tales. The Delivery Stork, upon being revealed every bit a lazy bastard who faked his fly'southward injuries, is catapulted into the sky and makes this. However, since he's an actor in a play, he lands in front end of the phase and, upon beingness asked if he'southward okay past a co-worker, dismisses this equally but an interim trick.
  • Cypher, the Ghost Domestic dog does this at the end of The Nightmare Before Christmas as he turns into a star.

    Films — Alive-Action

  • It happens in Kung Fu Hustle during the last boxing. The film uses a lot of Animation Tropes despite being live action.
  • Happened in Shaolin Soccer when Sing demonstrates his kicking ability by kick a beer tin towards the heaven later to be seen again on bear upon.
  • In the offset Ultraman Zearth pic, Ultraman Zearth managed to defeat the main villain, Alien Benzene, with a Megaton Punch that sends Benzene into the stratosphere - cue twinkling star.

    Live-Action Television

  • This is reversed by Glory in ane episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When Willow and Tara teleport Glory out of the hospital, she appears in the sky above Sunnydale in a starburst, then can be seen plummeting to earth as a falling star.
  • This happens to the Monster of the Week in episode fourteen of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. (It was a humorous episode and a tribute to the very silly Gekisou Sentai Carranger.)
  • This is office of the Warp Drive effect in the various Star Trek series.
  • Some installments of the Ultra Series, particularly if they were made later the 2010s, does this...
    • Ultraman Ginga has Ginga and Victory fighting Bemlar and Bemstar, simultaneously. After Ginga destroys Bemlar, Bemstar gets stunned for a moment... until Victory unleashed his Ex-Cherry-red King Knuckle and socks Bemstar in the face until the monster ends upwardly in the stratosphere, complete with a twinkle.
    • Ultraman X: In the episode "We Are Nebula!", the opposing conflicting team consisting of the aliens Babalou, Dada, Kemurian and Zettonian, decides to crook past turning themselves kaiju-sized, necessitating Ultraman X to interfere... past using his Gomora armour to ship all four aliens vanishing into the skies, complete with 4 twinkles.

    Mythology and Faith

  • Classical Mythology: This trope is Older Than Feudalism — some sources merits Karkinos, the crab which would become the Cancer constellation afterwards performing its job of distracting Hercules while he was trying to kill the Lernaean Hydra, got there because Hera gave information technology a identify in the stars...after Hercules kicked it off into space!

    Theatre

  • In Pokémon: The Mew-sical, the Twinkle in the Sky has become part of Team Rocket's planning process:

    "We'll steal the Dragonite, hop on its back, and ride information technology to the ding!"

  • Matilda uses this effect when Trunchbull swings and throws Amanda by her pigtails.

    Video Games

  • Played around with in Asura's Wrath In the DLC Lost Episode 2, Akuma punches Ryu so far away it seems like this would have happened. He flies back into the portal he came from in the altitude instead.
  • Blaster Master uses a twinkle (on the ground) in its intro as Sophia zooms off into battle.
  • BlazBlue: Makoto'south Astral Finish ends in a uppercut that turns the opponent into a twinkle in the sky, and so leaves a huge impression on the moon... and smashes it autonomously.
  • In BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, the boss of Chapter 4 becomes 1 of these subsequently he's defeated and gets launched out of his skyscraper headquarters.
  • In Breath of Fire IV, Ryu somewhen learns to summon up to eight other dragons, whose attacks are short FMV'south. The Sand Dragon'due south attack sends enemies flight off into the heaven similar this. Much similar the God Hand example higher up, they volition be back afterwards to take damage normally.
  • In Carrie'due south Order Up!, one of these can be seen atop the impossibly tall stack of plates Carrie is holding on the Endless Mode bill of fare graphic.
  • How Animate being Contra is defeated in Neo Contra.
  • DLC for Disgaea iv: A Hope Unforgotten gives us Mao bringing in his Getter Mao and showing information technology off to the Hades Party... earlier becoming sidetracked and showing an "interest" in Desco and, subsequently, losing the keys to Fuka.
  • After boss battles in Ass Kong Country, starting in Donkey Kong Land Returns after a boss fight. Donkey Kong volition be gratis to punch the bosses up to 25 times earlier sending them off into the heaven. Follows in the sequel, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze.
  • Final Fantasy:
    • At one point in the original Last Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, you're confronted by the game's resident Goldfish Poop Gang, who demand a cost to continue down the road. Earlier on, the squad's resident Moogle declared a wish to become a star - if you choose non to pay the price, y'all'll barge onwards, knocking the Moogle into the heaven. Although you lot're never shown the Moogle "turning into" a star, you lot practise get this gem:

    Selkie A: And then, he became a star.
    Selkie B: Big fourth dimension.

    • Final Fantasy XIV has the Hildibrand Adventures which take identify after the finish of each expansion's main story. Past the time the overarching Hildibrand story is done in Patch X.5, Hildibrand is launched like this in some course or another to the next expansion's region for further adventures.
  • In God Manus, Gene'southward more powerful God Roulette attacks (Dragon Kick, 100 Fist and Homerun God to name a few) finish with the enemy being launch in the galaxy (where they already are), similar the awesome credit vocal puts it. However, unlike other examples said enemies volition actually end up back in forepart of yous as if the attack was played backwards, even if it's just to let out a decease weep.
    • Too, Evil Boisterous Bruiser Elvis does this earlier his second fight against Gene. He punches 2 of his henchmen into the skies for disrespecting the trunk of ane of their victims.
  • Slayer'southward Instant Kill in Guilty Gear XX involves punching an opponent into the heaven then reciting a haiku. When he completes the poem, there'southward a twinkle in the sky correct before "Destroyed" is announced.
    • May's Instant Kill does this likewise in afterward games, as the girl cheerfully blasts her opponent out of a cannon into the wild blue yonder.
  • The first dominate of Gunstar Heroes is defeated in this mode.
  • This happens to the Rock Titan after being blasted off by Hercules in the opening cutscene for Olympus Coliseum in Kingdom Hearts Two.
  • Happens quite a few times in the Kirby series:
    • The icon for "Throw" ability in Kirby's Gamble depicts Kirby tossing something so hard that it becomes a twinkle in the sky.
    • In Kirby'south Epic Yarn, Kirby and Prince Fluff dispatch Yin-Yarn past hurling him into the sky.
    • In Kirby: Planet Robobot, it's possible to get knocked by a big enemy or phase obstacle into the background, where this is the event. (If said enemy or obstacle doesn't knock yous into the screen.) May also apply to its predecessor game, Kirby: Triple Palatial (where the latter definitely applied).
    • In Kirby Star Allies, this happens to Francisca and Flamberge after you beat out them for the second time.
    • When Kirby delivers the terminal blow to Rex Dedede in Kirby Fighters Deluxe, the latter goes flying into the heaven.
    • In Kirby Boxing Royale, Dedede is given the Team Rocket treatment once again after his Dededestroyer Z is destroyed.
    • And in Kirby Fighters 2, Dedede and Meta Knight are sent flying later on Kirby and his partner stop them with the Buddy Star Blaster.
  • Happens to a hapless minion of Mashtooth's in The Legendary Starfy afterward beingness punched away by his lord.
  • In Lufia: Curse of the Sinistrals, afterward the party fights the Doom Eye, Dekar shows upwards to transport it flight into orbit with his Exploding Sword attack. The twinkle'due south even accompanied by the "puzzle consummate!" tune.
  • Go hit past Chuck Norris' I-Hit Impale uppercut in M.U.G.E.Due north, and this happens to your character.
  • Happens to DJ Subatomic Supernova in No Straight Roads after his defeat at the hands of Bunk Bed Junction. Appropriate, given his whole cosmic/space theme.
  • Persona:
    • Persona iv: Chie'south Galactic Punt Follow-up Attack note a special, souped-up physical attack that has a chance of triggering when a party member lands a disquisitional striking or hits an enemy'southward weak spot, unlocked past hitting rank 3 in their Social Link allows the Cute Bruiser to kick an enemy (and the occasional Mini-Boss) into the orbital frame. This makes hers the most powerful in the game, as every other character's simply deals a huge corporeality of damage and renders a target dizzy, whereas Chie's is an instant kill assault. The move returns equally Chie's instant death special attack in Persona 4: Arena.
    • Persona 5: In the pyramid dungeon, Ann throws Morgana so high into the air it results in Morgana temporarily disappearing in a tiny flash of light, before the cat hurdles back towards Globe.
  • In Portal 2, a twinkle, complete with the standard sound effect, is created when a portal opens upward very very far away - specifically, on the Moon.
  • Pokémon Lord's day and Moon introduces the aptly-named Fairy-Type Z-Move, "Twinkle Tackle". The animation for which depicts the user launching the target into orbit similar so... with just a light tap.
  • Rayman Legends: This happens to The Magician later each boss fight, where they then country on a tiny planet to exist used as instruments by the inhabitants.
  • River Urban center Girls: In the normal catastrophe, Kunio and Riki point out Misako and Kyoki are stalking them, the girls uppercut them into the stratosphere.
  • In Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Joachim has a damage-or-OHKO attack that launches an enemy loftier into the sky. The thespian will know it succeeded if the enemy creates a twinkle.
  • Shantae: In a sprite comic made by Matt Bozon during Shantae GBC'south release called "Bolo gets taken out", Shantae wanted to invite Bolo to a festival dance. Withal, Bolo already invited Risky Boots, and Shantae boots him into the sky.
  • Super Mario Bros. examples:
    • The Goomba King suffers this fate when the bridge of Goomba Fortress unfolds in Paper Mario 64, sending him away.
    • Happens to the actor in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door when they're launched into the sky from a cannon. Information technology happens again to Lord Crump when his robot explodes.
    • Bizarrely, the giant Cheep Chomp from Long Autumn Falls, in Paper Mario: Sticker Star flies away afterwards reaching the loftier falls, cue this trope.
    • When y'all use a secret cannon in New Super Mario Bros. and New Super Mario Bros. Wii.
    • Happens in reverse when Mario returns from a galaxy in Super Mario Galaxy.
    • In Mario Party iii, in that location's a scene where Bowser sneaks up and startles Princess Daisy. She slaps him so difficult that she sends him flying. That's probably the reason why Bowser merely kidnaps Peach.
    • In Super Princess Peach, Princess Peach sends Bowser flying by whacking him with her Parasol of Pain after defeating him in the terminal battle.
    • Can happen to Mario in Newspaper Mario: The Origami Male monarch if he fails the Sudden Decease round of the Shy Guys Finish Final quiz show: the poor lad get diddled out of a cannon straight through the roof into the skies before this trope occurs.
  • If someone is hit upwardly out of the arena in Super Smash Bros. 64 or its sequels, this is the result... unless they fly forwards and bounce off the screen. Information technology'southward really pretty satisfying, specially since they scream the whole fourth dimension; after a long and biting fight, hearing a morose, "Pika piiiiikaaaaa..." makes the whole affair seem worthwhile. Particularly gratifying in that detail case if you are a fan of Squad Rocket. This tin can sometimes look a bit weird in stages that take place entirely indoors/underground. Starting in the 4th game, it will stop occurring during the last seconds of a match, to avoid the scenario where an assured victory turns into a necktie because the lucifer ended before the long animation finished playing out. In Ultimate, if Snake uses his Terminal Blast, which is essentially Macross Missile Massacre, and someone gets star KO'd while the missiles are firing, a devious missile volition follow them off into the distance.
  • In Tales of Xillia ii, this happens to the target of Leia and Ludger'due south linked mystic arte at the end.
  • Roger Sr.'s typical fate in afterwards Tekken games.
  • Happens to Lammy in the United states of america version of Um Jammer Lammy.
  • Happens to Wario in the "Dial!" minigame in WarioWare: Touched.
    • Several times in the Wario Land serial. Happens to Captain Syrup in some of the ending for Wario Land II and to the second boss in Wario Land: Milkshake It!, Hot Roderick, after Wario's final set on against him.
  • Following the 2d boss fight against them in Xenoblade Chronicles two, this happens to Zeke and Pandoria after beingness chased by a boulder that falls and rolls into them.
  • What happens to Pamela once she's finally defeated in Milanor's chapter of the Yggdra Unison voice drama.
  • Raphael the Raven'due south expiry animation in Yoshi'due south Isle. Skip to ii:38 for the boss battle and iii:50 for the actual twinkle.
  • In Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure, this is a possible fashion to dice in "Performance Takeback!"

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  • AstroLOLogy: Happens to Aquarius in "High Jinks" when the extendable pole that he created for a pole vault extends a piddling too well, sending him into the sky.
  • Homestar Runner:
    • In the Strong Bad Email "winter puddle", Pom-Pom becomes this after bouncing off of Stiff Bad'south gelatin-filled puddle. He's subsequently shown floating through space.
    • At the terminate of "The Next April Fools Thing", Stinkoman punches Bubs so difficult he goes flying into infinite, leaving behind a twinkle that becomes the words "Happy Apr Fools' Day".
  • Sonic Mania Adventures: In episode three, Ray gets curious nearly the Master Emerald and tries to affect information technology. Knuckles responds past chucking him skyward.
  • Supermarioglitchy4's Super Mario 64 Bloopers
    • In The Wacky Wario Bros.: The Welcome Invitation, Mario kicks Wario and Waluigi off into the heaven at the end, both of the Wario Bros. twinkling instantly after.
    • At the end of 101 Ways for Mario to Die, SMG4 kicks Mario into the sky. Mario and then screams earlier turning into a star and losing his last life.

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  • In The Impossible Man, when Yuki use her most powerful attack, the villains are sent into the sky until "stars flashed in the altitude."

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  • Spoony/Gandalf gets sent flying when he attempts to fight Malacite in Suburban Knights. He comes dorsum afterwards, unharmed, afterwards having orbited the Globe at least twice.

    Western Blitheness

  • Adventure Time "The Party's Over, Isla De Señorita": The Political party God leaves a twinkle subsequently the Ice King flings him into outer space.
  • The Amazing Spiez! episode "Operation: Twins of Trouble". When a WOOHP jet flies off into the distance, it disappears in one of these.
  • Sokka'southward boomerang twinkled earlier returning in the second episode of Avatar: The Final Airbender.
  • Atomic number 26 Man becomes this in The Avengers: Earth'southward Mightiest Heroes! afterwards Graviton launches him into outer space.
  • Beep Prepared: Taken to the extreme. Wile E. Coyote is shot into infinite by his rocket sled. Subsequently he zooms past Sputnik and the Moon, the rocket explodes...and the Coyote has become the constellation Sagittarius. We even hear "Twinkle, Twinkle, Trivial Star".
  • Bibleman: Its solution to the question of how Bibleman tin defeat the villains without resorting to imitable violence: launching the villains into the sky and out of sight.
  • Happens in the Bloom County animated special "A Wish for Wings That Piece of work" when Santa Claus'due south sleigh takes off.
  • Centaurworld: in "My Tummy, Your Hurts", Comfortable Doug disappears in the sky in a flash of lite after beingness kicked by a equus caballus named Becky Apples.

    Doug: In all my years, I take never encountered such sublime strength, Rebecca Apples!

  • An inverse of this shows up in The Christmas Tree, courtesy of Santa Claus.
  • Happens to Sissi'due south baton in Lawmaking Lyoko's "Nix Gravity Zone", where it keeps going through the sky into outer space.
  • Happens to the characters on Kaeloo, commonly Stumpy or Mr. Cat, when they are thrown, kicked or launched into the sky.
  • Mighty Magiswords: In "Collection Infection", Vambre Warrior falls victim to this when she accidentally drops her Radiator Magisword into the river of fangs, causing the basis beneath her to turn into a geyser with fangs.

    Vambre: That'south not how geysers woooorrrrk! *ding*

  • Some characters from The Mr. Men Show would oft be shown blasted off into outer space, but without a twinkle. The only one who completely did this trope with the twinkle is Mr. Bump in the episode "Games".
  • The plot of the flavor ii finale of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is resolved by Princess Cadance and Shining Armor using The Power of Beloved to blast Queen Chrysalis and her army of Evil Minions over the horizon line - consummate with a twinkle from the former.
  • Ned'south Newt
    • In "Planes, Trains, and Newtmobiles", a rocket launches off to Russia with Ned and Newton in it, and when it flies off we pan up to the sky where information technology vanishes into a star before we cutting to a view from infinite.
    • A similar rocket launches and twinkles in "Live and Permit Dad" with Ned and Newton inside like last time, only it follows Dad's rocket and halfway though it initiates ejection sequence.
  • OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes:
    • In "Nosotros're Captured", this happens when the heroes concede defeat and fly off into the sky at the cease of the episode.
    • This also happens to Fink in the episode "K.O. vs Fink" later on being defeated past the heroes' Love Beam set on, and though it is difficult to see, a ding can still be heard.
  • The Owl House: In "Hunting Palismen", Hunter ends upwardly shooting off into the altitude this manner after Luz slams a fire glyph onto his back.
  • Steven Universe: In "Reunited", Garnet tosses her wedding bouquet and then high that it becomes a twinkle. A few minutes after, information technology lands on Bismuth'south head, who catches it with a dislocated expression.
  • In the episode "Stars in their Eyes" of The Super Mario Bros Super Evidence!, the Mario Brothers' infinite transport does this as it heads towards planet Quirk at the first of the episode.
  • Happens to some of Lord Dregg'due south infinite ships sometimes, in later seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987).
  • In The Transformers finale of the three-part episode, "Rebirth, Role iii", Galvatron opens the Plasma Free energy Sleeping room on Globe intending to destroy Earth, Cybertron and perchance the whole galaxy with the plasma energies. He and the other Decepticons try to escape aboard Scorponok's ship mode, but they accept off also belatedly, and are hit by a wild flux of energy from the chamber, which whips Scorponok and the whole Decepticon crew inside far, far abroad, making them a twinkle at the distance in the darkness of space.
  • Happens to Hayaku in the Turbo F.A.S.T. episode "Turbo Drift" when she goes as well fast and flies off the track in an endeavor to outrace Turbo.

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