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Knockout Ambush
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A group of characters is suddenly ambushed, but they're either knocked out with concussive force or shot with Tranquilizer Darts, Knockout Gas, Static Stun Guns or something with a similar effect, and not lethal weapons, because the ambushers want them alive. Usually, the scene will involve the darts coming out of nowhere before those being shot at even see their attackers. The heroes are walking along, when all the sudden - zip!, Alice goes down. Followed by Bob and Charlie, and the screen fades out. When this happens in video games, the player's weapons and items are usually taken away. In some games, there will be an opportunity for the player to get their items back shortly after the Knockout Ambush, in others the game might give different items to replace the ones lost. A Sub-Trope of I Want Them Alive!. Often involves Instant Sedation. |
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In S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, Scar is knocked out by a tripmine set up by Bandits in the basement containing Fang's PDA, the Bandits also take all of the player's equipment and money, although it is possible to get all of the stolen equipment back shortly afterwards, the money cannot be retrieved. | |
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In Arrow, Oliver has Diggle knock him and his mother out with tranquilizer darts so that Diggle can interrogate her as The Arrow and use the threat of harm to Oliver against her, with the added bonus of Moira apparently seeing Oliver and The Arrow in the same room. | |
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Bones: Zach does this to Bones, because he's no match for her in a fair fight and he knows it. | |
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Mega Man Battle Network 5: Team Colonel and Team ProtoMan: In the first chapter, Lan and his friends visit his dad's office as the latter is going to show something. Suddenly, gas grenades roll from outside and burst, knocking them all out. Then some Gas Mask Mooks enter the room to confirm the gas concentration before their boss, Dr. Regal, walks in and orders them to kidnap Lan's dad and confiscate Lan's friend's PET devices. Lan himself, meanwhile, escaped notice because he's in a closed part of the room (in his dad's personal workspace, as he's told to take something from there). | |
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Frequently used in Heroes when taking down superhumans. | |
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At one point in Half-Life, you're knocked out from behind by a couple of soldiers. | |
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Rick and Morty: In "Mortyplicity", when the Smiths try to hide out in a forest from rogue decoys, Rick realizes the forest is too quiet just as they are shot with Tranquilizer Darts. | |
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In Supernatural 'Swap Meat' this happens to Sam. | |
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A scene in Daybreakers has a convoy of humans being ambushed by the vampire military. They stop to change a tire, only to have an Oh, Crap! moment when a dart is found sticking out of it. Then crossbow bolts, arrows and tranquilizer darts start flying between the two sides, until all the humans are captured for use in the blood banks. | |
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In My Name Is Earl, after Darnell is identified as a former secret agent, Earl and Randy keep being shot at with tranquilizer darts as a Running Gag. | |
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Marvel Super Heroes supplement Uncanny X-Men boxed set "Adventure Book" In chapter 4 "Time Out" the PCs are at a charity basketball game when the supervillain Arcade floods the gymnasium with Knockout Gas in order to capture them. Chapter 5 "Nightmare in New Guinea". The PCs are at an audience with the Mandrill when he decides to capture them. He and his soldiers open fire on them with neurostunner pistols that cause unconsciousness. While the PCs are escaping from Mandrill's base, one of his soldiers wearing Powered Armor attacks them. She uses a neurostunner built into her armor to knock them out. At the end of Chapter 8 "Terror in the Amazon" the PCs are knocked out by Arcade's Knockout Gas again the same way they were in Chapter 4. |
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Dungeons & Dragons, module A3 Assault on the Aerie of the Slave Lords. If the PCs will be playing in module A4, at the end of A3 the entire PC party will be rendered unconscious by a green gas and captured by the Slave Lords. | |
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In Fallout 3 you are knocked out by a stun grenade from nowhere after recovering the G.E.C.K. | |
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In Firestarter, agents of The Shop capture Andy and Charlie McGee by shooting them with tranq darts from long range. Which was smart considering Andy can control minds and Charlie is pyrokinetic. | |
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Happens constantly in The Perils of Enhancegirl. The main character's super-senses make her very vulnerable to chloroform, so she's often captured and subdued in this fashion. It's not limited to her. At one point Spectra is knocked out by being konked on the back of the head by a semi-crooked cop. | |
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In Star Wars: A New Hope, the Jawas ambush R2-D2 and C-3PO with ionization blasters designed specifically to disable droids. | |
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Monsters vs. Aliens: "Is he talking about Area fifty..." *zip!* *thud!* | |
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Happened on Lost when Michael leads Sawyer, Kate, Jack, and Hurley to the Others' camp. The Others ambush them from the trees using tranq darts, then gag them and put bags over their heads. | |
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At the beginning of Wings of Fire: The Hidden Kingdom, everyone in the main group except for Glory and Starlight gets ambushed and hit by tranquilizer darts courtesy of the RainWings. Later done to one of the villains under Glory's command, but Icicle stays awake long enough to realize that she's going to have to face Queen Scarlet and possibly find out that she is going to kill her brother for failing her. | |
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Regularly happens to Tintin, via Tap on the Head. | |
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In Postal 2, two rednecks sneak up on The Postal Dude while he's urinating on his father's grave and knock him out with a shovel to the back of the head. | |
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In Medal of Honor: Vanguard at the end of 'Behind Enemy Lines', Keegan is knocked out with a Buttstroke from a Karabiner 98K by a Fallschirmjager. | |
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In the Stargate movie, soldiers are knocked out by the blunt ends of staff weapons one by one. | |
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Happens to Vanessa and Madlax in Madlax, when they are captured by Enfant. | |
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Happened in an old issue of The Bionic Woman comic. Thugs shot Jamie Sommers, apparently killing her. Then the thugs mention that she was shot with "medicated wax pellets", drugging her into unconsciousness. | |
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Goblins in the Castle: Played with — while William and Igor are on their way to see Granny Pinchbottom, they get ambushed twice by goblins. The second time, William is briefly knocked out, awakens in time to see Igor get carried away, then gets hit from behind and is knocked out again. The goblins, not realizing who William is at the time, are only interested in carrying Igor away though. | |
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Blake's 7 In "Bounty", Blake teleports up to the Liberator to find it deserted except for an apparently distraught woman who claims that the crew have been killed. He finds out the real reason she's holding her hands over her face when Space Pirates spray him with Knockout Gas. In "Horizon", the crew teleport down to the eponymous planet one-at-a-time and get ambushed by natives with blowguns. Finally Avon is smart enough to teleport down elsewhere, which is just as well as he's the last one left. |
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In The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, Spyro, Cynder, and Sparx are shot with enchanted arrows by Hunter's tribe that immediately renders them unconscious. Sparx only had enough time to react with a Slow "NO!" | |
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In Surf's Up, the Pen-Guans take out Chicken Joe (and the cameraman) with blowdarts, right after Joe says that "the jungle is the most peaceful place on the planet." | |
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The Legend of Korra: In the episode "The Voice In The Night", Korra challenges Amon to a duel. When he doesn't show up, she assumes he chickened out and starts walking home... at which point she's jumped by dozens of Amon's mooks and knocked unconscious. | |
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In Hudson Hawk, Almond Joy takes out Eddie, Tommy Five-Tone and Anna using curare-tipped blowgun darts. | |
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In Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman and King Julien are ambushed with tranquilizer darts by Captain DuBois and her team of animal control officers. | |
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Merlin had Merlin and Arthur hit by tranquilizer darts by a band of slave-traders. | |
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: Overlaps with Cutscene Incompetence when the vampire player character gets clubbed unconscious by an enemy as they climb out of a cab, requiring them to be rescued before they're dealt a Cruel and Unusual Death. Why a Tap on the Head affects the character more than a bullet through the brain does is left unexplained. | |
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