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At Arm's Length
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Alice (a tall person) is being attacked by Bob (a shorter person) and does one of two things: Plonks a hand down on top of Bob's head (or a foot if he's that short) and holds him away from her, safely out of reach of those flying fists. Picks Bob up and holds him at arm's length while he kicks and flails helplessly in midair. This is more common in comedic situations, or other situations in which a humorous resolution is preferred to a merciless beatdown. This works best on characters who are attacking in panic or incoherent fury (Tsunderes are the most likely candidates), since it holds them safe until they can cool down. It is less effective when Bob has enough presence of mind to realize that he can just hit Alice in the arm. Or duck under her hand. Or take advantage of the fact that legs tend to be longer than arms... If you're looking for the webcomic of the same name, click here. |
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Vampire Knight: Happens to Yuuki Cross when she tries to hit Zero. | |
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Seen used on Hermia by Lysander in a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. | |
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Happens hilariously in an episode of House, where the eponymous character is keeping Taub away from the latter's phone while texting Taub's wife to take her clothes off. | |
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In Shake it Up, CeCe does it to Henry when she joins his karate class, even taking the time to apologize to Rocky while switching hands to keep holding him back. Made even funnier when she lets go and Henry keeps running until he falls over Flynn. | |
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Done by Sideshow Bob to Lisa on The Simpsons. Nelson also does this to Bart in an early episode. | |
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Subverted in an episode of Extras where Andy tries this when Warwick Davis attacks him and he punches him in the wrist. Andy says it works in cartoons. | |
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The ColSec Trilogy: In Exiles of ColSec, Cord (who's not stated to be taller than the other character involved but is definitely bulkier and stronger) intervenes in a potential squabble between Jeko and Heleth by doing this to Jeko. | |
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A The Kids in the Hall sketch has a lazy thief robbing a lazy man whose idea of self-defense is to hold out his hand so the robber can't reach him. It works as the thief walks right into the hand, twice, and then uses his "street smarts" to simply brush the hand away. | |
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Naruto: Itachi's "finger-to-forehead" flicks he gave to little Sasuke. | |
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Slightly twisted in Fullmetal Alchemist. When Ling calls Edward a little runt, Edward's attacks are deflected by Ling with little effort. Instead of physically holding him back, Ed's blows are deflected mid-air with Ling's palm reflecting the repeated kicks. | |
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Jefferson implies this will be the outcome if Adams tries to make him write the Declaration of Independence "by physical force" in 1776. | |
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In the Classic Disney Short "Knight for a Day", Cedric uses a makeshift lance made from a sword handle and the arm from his suit of armor to hold back Sir Cumference when he brings out his sword. It's an interesting flip-flop considering Cedric is the small and vulnerable protagonist, pushing back the hulking Sir Cumference. | |
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The House of Mouse episode "Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation" has the Pink Elephants doing this to Winnie the Pooh while eating his honey. | |
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Can be seen in the Just Dance clip for "Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting", with the sifu keeping his student at bay. | |
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In the second season finale of What We Do in the Shadows (2019), the Vampire Council levels an accusation against the characters (in the form of a play) about them killing the Baron. They claim that it was actually their familiar Guillermo who killed him. The Council dismisses this by having a child playing Guillermo attempt to attack a vampire, but he is easily held away by the vampire placing his hand on the kid's head. | |
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The Law of Purple: At one point, Blue does this to Dex in order to keep Dex from attacking Lette. In a variation, Blue opts to plant a foot in Dex's face. | |
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In a Homestuck fan comic, Karkat does this to Feferi when she tries to hug him. | |
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A Beagle Boy does this to Mickey Mouse in Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers. The fact that Mickey has a sword to swing around fails to make the slightest difference. | |
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The Walking Dead: Protagonist Lee has a joking argument with his friend Omid that leads to a challenge to a fight. As Omid is much shorter than Lee, Lee says that if he tries anything, he'll just do this. | |
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Sonic Generations: Amy is trying to hug Sonic, not attack him. She gets stiff-armed anyway. | |
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In All Monsters Attack, Gabara does this to Minya, then electrocutes him. | |
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Sarah does this to Hoggle after grabbing his bag of treasures in Labyrinth. | |
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In the Vorkosigan Saga short story "Winterfair Gifts", Sergeant Taura describes how she invokes version two of this trope when on bodyguard detail and simply looming (she's 8') or smiling (her fangs are scary even when she is not trying to be intimidating) do not make someone back down. | |
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Subverted in 300. Leonidas tries this when training with his son, who is apparently smart enough to realize that his arms are quite capable of reaching the arm on his head. | |
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Uttamatomakkin one-ups this trope in Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World. He holds two soldiers at arm's length simultaneously, then bangs their heads together. | |
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Played straight to type in Macross Frontier, complete with attempted windmill punching, with the only variation being that the character being held at bay is at other times capable of stepping on the offender. | |
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Grrl Power: Dabbler keeps Sydney at bay with a hand on her face after stealing her glasses and fooling around with them. Besides Sydney being short, Dabbler is advantaged by having four arms. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Toph does this to Sokka. Unusually, Sokka is actually the taller and longer-limbed party, but Toph is keeping him from taking back his club, which she has in her other hand, sticking out in the opposite direction. | |
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In Aria the Scarlet Ammo the titular Tsundere gets subject to this by Kinji (who's One Head Taller than her). | |
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Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: Dengakuman gets treated like this by Don Patch during his very first fight. | |
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In one possible way for Gabriel Knight to die in Sins of the Fathers, Gabe is held at arm's length by a bad guy, swinging ineffectually, before his brutal death. | |
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Occurs in one version of the story in Diff'rent Strokes's "Rashomon" episode. | |
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In Mulan, Yao, a short guy, is trying to fight, but is held up at arm's length by Chien Po, a tall fat guy... and Chien Po uses the opportunity to try to teach Yao how to defuse his anger. | |
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Wakfu gives us the lovers' spat variant. Evangelyne is held at bay by Sadlygrove as he's reading her diary, which she'd written while thinking he was dead — and thus is saying way-too-nice things about him to Eva's taste. | |
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This happens to Lupin during his short-lived boxing career in a Lupin III: Part II episode. | |
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Happens to Pretty Sammy in the fight against "Team Lovely Madams". She can't reach even though she's swinging her magical baton. | |
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Appeared in the Battlebots reboot when Ghost Raptor fought Icewave — the driver of Ghost Raptor jury-rigged a long metal arm called the "de-icer" to his robot that reached over the top of Icewave's deadly spinning blade and caught on its body, holding it off and preventing it from tearing into his machine. Eventually, Icewave overbalanced and suffered Death by Falling Over. | |
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Big City Greens: In the episode "Chipwrecked" when Cricket sees Chip's bouncer squad dismantle the cafe and threaten his family, he has a Berserk Button and jumps at him to interfere, but one of the bouncers holds him back by an arm and tosses him back to Bill. | |
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Subverted in the Halloween episode of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. Amy's boyfriend Ray does this on Nick, but Nick punches him in the stomach. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd briefly employs this technique against The Nostalgia Critic during the TGWTG Year One Brawl. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Green Giant Legend: Nobita's attempt to grab the abducted Kibo is stopped by Baruna, a giant eggplant alien who holds Nobita at length with a single hand. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents!, this happens repeatedly to Timmy (usually done by Vicky). | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy Jack Rabbit does this to Dudley Puppy in "The Wrong Stuff" when he tries to fight him to rescue Kitty Katswell from him. | |
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In Questionable Content, Brun apparently gets a bit combative when she drinks. Gentle Giant Elliott finds this trope a reasonable solution. | |
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Aqualad does this to Beast Boy in Teen Titans. Eventually, Beast Boy stops flopping around and just swats Aqualad's hand away. | |
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Wonder Woman (1975): In "The Man Who Made Volcanos", a Russian operative who Wonder Woman is trying to talk to attacks her rather than listening to her. Instead of beating him up, she lifts him into the air and holds him up with her outstretched arms. This finally gets his attention and he starts listening to her. | |
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Tomo-chan Is a Girl!: Misuzu often does it to Carol when the latter tries go hug her. | |
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Scooby-Doo: Version 2 is frequently employed against Scrappy Doo. | |
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In Delusions of Grandeur (La Folie des grandeurs, 1971), Blaze (Yves Montand) holds the much smaller Don Salluste (Louis de Funès) at bay this way while the latter tries to slap him as he's firing his valet. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Frequently done by Mr. Krabs when his microscopic business rival Plankton attempts to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. Instead of holding him at arm's length, however, Krabs simply picks him up and tosses him bodily back to the Chum Bucket — sometimes by creative means, such as blowing him through a straw. Once done to SpongeBob trying to get to work, when Mr. Krabs Lost Him in a Card Game. |
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Warhammer 40,000: One of the propaganda illustrations in the Imperial Infantryman's Uplifting Primer shows an imperial guard holding a gretchin at bay this way. | |
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls, during the Keep Away scene, Rainbow Dash keeps Snails at bay with a hand on his face as he's trying to seize the crown. Yes, he has shorter arms than a girl. | |
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Asterix: In Asterix and Obelix All at Sea, a Roman centurion does this to Obelix. Now, this would usually result in a short trip to the stratosphere, but Obelix has been de-aged into a kid at the time. | |
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Grandpa Stinky does this to Max in Sam & Max: Freelance Police "The Penal Zone". See the video. | |
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In Fruits Basket, a group of gangster girls try to attack Uotani (a former gang member herself) to build their reputation. Uotani hardly pays them any attention until the group's leader tries to punch her... at which point Uotani employs this trope. When the attacker is confused, Uotani even lampshades it by pointing out their height difference means that she has longer arms. She then proceeds to lecture the girls on how pointless gang life is, and how they should grow up and actually do something useful with their lives. | |
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In the Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child episode "Robinita Hood" when Robinita meets Little Juanita she picks a fight with her, as she attempts to punch her Little Juanita holds her back with one finger. | |
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Parodied in one Five Second Film, "Beach Bully". | |
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Lone Starr uses this on Dark Helmet in Spaceballs. It's quite effective since Helmet is 5'4". | |
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Family Guy: In "Ocean's Three and a Half", Carter does this to Bill Gates when he taunts him by saying he doesn't own a Zune and has an iPod "like the rest of the world". | |
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During the Rainbow Rocket arc of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, Guzma holds back 2 Rainbow Rocket grunts this way, one on each side. | |
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law: Jen Walters and Bruce Banner get into a fight about his attempt to help her learn how to manage being a Hulk. At one point Bruce does this to Jen, but she turns the tables by grabbing his outstretched arm and using it to judo flip him. | |
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In Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, when Pop smacks Chu for his attempt at getting Pop to separate from Maam for good with 2 gold pieces, Chu decides to pummel Pop in retaliation. Unfortunately for Chu, he's so short that Pop simply stops him in his track by placing his hand on Chu's forehead.note At least Pop only stops him — when Chu decides to confront his tournament opponent with his fists prior to his interaction with Pop, said tournament opponent, who's no shorter than Pop but is much better at melee fighting, knocks Chu out with a punch of his own due to his longer arm reach. | |
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Friends: In one Thanksgiving episode Rachel gets into a Cat Fight with her sister Amy and ends up doing this to her while Amy swats futilely at Rachel. | |
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Pokémon: The Original Series: Happens repeatedly to various characters, like Ash (pictured above). For a creature example, Ash's Snivy once held the newly-hatched Scraggy away effortlessly with her Vine Whip. Ash's Charizard does a leg variant to Casey's much smaller and weaker Chikorita. Anthony's Hitmonchan does this to Ash's Pikachu when Ash attempts to capture him before finding out he belonged to Anthony. |
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In the Deadpool Bi-Annual, the Merc with a Mouth blocks Dr. Echo, the dolphin leader of Brute Force, from striking him by putting a hand on his head — since his cybernetic arms are jutting from the sides of his armor, they just aren't conceived to reach the front... | |
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In Dexter's Laboratory, DeeDee does this not only with her arm but with her leg, putting her foot on Dexter's forehead. He's just that short. | |
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