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You're in the middle of a Stealth-Based Mission. Your path is blocked by an inconveniently placed patrolling guard; he turns around too quickly for you to sneak past him while his back is turned, and if you knock him out his body will raise suspicion. What do you do? Easy: you pick up a rock, a coin, a bottle, or some other nearby object capable of making a noticeable sound when it hits something and toss it past him. When it lands, the noise will catch his attention, and he'll go to investigate, giving you ample time to slip past. This trick is what we call Throwing the Distraction. Alternatively if you're making an action movie, you can pass on the low budget rock and use a grandiose explosion or a massive fire instead. It's less likely to be dismissed and looks cooler. In almost all cases, expect the guard to investigate the noise even if they've seen the object being thrown, rather than heading towards where it was thrown from. In real life, tropish as it is, admit it; if you're patrolling solo you're a lot more likely to investigate where the sound came from than the opposite side of the room. Of course if there's more than one of you, it should be only one who goes to check. Subtrope of The Guards Must Be Crazy. Closely related to So Much for Stealth, where this is done by accident and alerts every guard to your presence. Both tropes depend on guards being incredibly sensitive to noise, even though It's Probably Nothing. See also Go Fetch when this is done with an Angry Guard Dog or any other sort of animal. Not to be confused with Cat Scare, nor Throw the Pin. Ninjas call this "throwing the toothpick". |
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Predator: During the final confrontation with the Predator, already hard to spot thanks to the mud covering him, Dutch throws a rock to distract the alien hunter and gets a chance to spear him. | |
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In The Incredibles, Mr. Incredible beans a guard in the head with a rock—all the other guards nearby leave their post to look at the unconscious guard. In fairness, it looks like the guard slipped and fell from an upper landing. | |
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In the book and film of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry distracts some Ministry workers with a rambunctious Weasley toy in order to sneak into Umbridge's office. Justified, both because that's what the toy was built for and because, apparently, the Ministry sees that sort of thing fairly often. | |
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In the first mission of Blood Money, you're encouraged to toss a coin to distract some guards. 47 seems to have a Mint in his back pocket - a coin is always available in the inventory, no matter how many you've already thrown. You can even carry them through metal detectors without setting them off. | |
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No One Lives Forever: One of the gadgets Cate can equip for any mission is a few coins. That's all, just coins. Plain, ordinary currency. Not even enhanced in the usual ridiculous manner other common items are made into spy gadgets in this game. At first, it seems absurd that carrying a few coins in your pocket takes up an equipment slot that could be held by, say, lipstick grenades, until you see just how stupid the guards can be when a coin is chucked across the room... | |
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As in the book Harry uses a loud Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes product to distract Ministry of Magic workers so that he can sneak in and search Umbridge's office in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. | |
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Monsters University: When Sullivan's reckless attempt to retrieve the flag in the library attracts the Librarian's attention, Mike and the Oozma Kappa create a series of noisy activities in various parts of the library to distract her from Sullivan and the flag. | |
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Subverted in an episode of Dark Angel, Max throws a stone to distract the guard, who goes to investigate where the stone came from. | |
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The PC and console versions of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring give Frodo an unlimited number of stones to throw. While they can be used to (eventually) kill enemies, their main purpose is to distract those enemies and send them rushing over to wherever the stone landed. They are especially necessary for avoiding the Black Riders in the nighttime section of the Shire level. | |
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RoboCop: RoboCop opens the fight in the abandoned factory by throwing a piece of trash to distract the bad guys. They start firing in the wrong direction, and the cyborg uses this to gun down one of them. | |
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Toyed with in Ace Ventura: The Animated Series — Ace tries this by throwing a rock to distract the Burly Guard. The Guard looks over at the sound, turns to where the rock came from and shouts "I know you're over there and I'm coming to get you!" | |
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The Last of Us has bricks, bottles, etc that can be thrown to distract/attract enemies or simply smack them in the head. | |
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In the Dark Souls games there's both an item and a spell that does this. The item is called the Alluring Skull, a skull that when thrown, will burst and releases lingering souls that grab the enemies attention. Though this only works on some enemies. The spell, known as Aural Decoy in '’Dark Souls & ‘'Dark Souls III, Yearn in '’Dark Souls II'', does the same thing as the skulls, but usually affecting many move enemy types than the skull. Bloodborne continued this trend with the Pungent Blood Cocktail and the Pebble. The Pebble is only able to distract a single enemy, while the Blood Cocktail when thrown, “releases a pungent odor when thrown that attracts blood-thirsty beasts." |
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Bloodborne continued this trend with the Pungent Blood Cocktail and the Pebble. The Pebble is only able to distract a single enemy, while the Blood Cocktail when thrown, “releases a pungent odor when thrown that attracts blood-thirsty beasts." | |
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Alien: Isolation: Amanda has a few options for doing this, including lighting up a flare and tossing it, or MacGyvering up a noise-maker. These work on various armed humans and Working Joes, but they also work on getting the xenomorph's attention away from her. However, in its case it will not fall for the same trick twice in a row, requiring her to mix it up with different methods of drawing it offnote And on Hard or Nightmare difficulty, if you use it too much, the Alien won't fall for it at all, so you have to be careful with how you use them. | |
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Specifically mentioned in-universe in Batman Begins as a "cheap parlor trick" to distract and confuse one's enemies. | |
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Archipelago: In book 10, Credenza distracts the insane raven spirits (long story) by throwing a sword. It's not like she needs it at this point. In the sequel, City of Somnus, Paollo tries this with a pebble when the Feyn are chasing him and Odette, but lacks the hand-eye coordination to do it right. Fortunately, Odette chucks another pebble far enough to serve as a distraction. |
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In Cold Prey, Tobias throws a spanner at the door to the Mountain Man's hidden room in the cellar to attract his attention. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW): In issues #22, Trixie uses a timed smoke bomb to lure away the two police ponies that are guarding the museum. | |
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Harry Potter: In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Hermione instructs Harry and Ron to cause mayhem in Snape's class to distract him while she steals ingredients for Polyjuice Potion. They throw a firework into a cauldron. In the book and film of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry distracts some Ministry workers with a rambunctious Weasley toy in order to sneak into Umbridge's office. Justified, both because that's what the toy was built for and because, apparently, the Ministry sees that sort of thing fairly often. |
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Early in Spider and Web, you throw your electronic lockpick to sneak past a guard. Subverted as part of the Unreliable Narrator theme of the game. You actually left the pick in a lock when the guard came along and you were forced to hide. | |
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Escape From St. Mary's: A thrown bottle of tang does the trick. | |
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Commandos allows you to throw rocks to distract the guards. You can also throw them on the guards if feeling suicidal. | |
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Ultimate Wolverine: Black Box threw the video will of Wolverine during the fight with Wildchild, modified to display several holograms of Wolverine at once instead of one. This distracted Wildchild for a second, enough for Jimmy to destroy his artificial claws. | |
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World of Warcraft: The "Distract" skill Rogues have. It doesn't cause a monster or guard to walk toward the noise, but it does turn them around, leaving you free to stab them in the back. | |
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Bubble Guppies: In "The Puppy and the Ring", Molly and Gil, who are making lemon slushies, get chased by an army of soldiers sent by the episode's Big Bad. They climb up a tree, and Gil throws a lemon on the ground to distract the soldiers. | |
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Splinter Cell has this in spades, allowing you to pick up items for no other purpose than to throw them and distract the enemies. However, the AI is smart enough to register not only the point of impact, but also the trajectory they have seen, therefore, doing the same thing as on the image above would actually make any guard run towards you. Even if they don't find you, they'll be more vigilant. Of course, if you nail them in the head with the object, they simply get knocked out. In Conviction, where there aren't any throwable objects, a silenced pistol can serve the same purpose, as pistols get unlimited reloads only in that game. Fire a shot and nearby guards will investigate the point of impact. |
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During a flashback sequence in MADNESS: Project Nexus 2, Jebediah tries distracting a guard by throwing a rock. Said guard ends up leaving the room to tell his colleagues about the rock, letting Jeb sneak past. | |
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Dinotrux has Ty throw a small bolt to distract Scraptool guards. As they are scrap collectors easily Distracted by the Shiny, they aren't going to investigate a suspicious noise, they are going to fetch the extremely attractive spare part. | |
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Robin: Tim lets go of his whistling staff and kicks it to ensure it spins to make its signature sound in the middle of attacking Blind Weaponmaster Edmund Dorrance, which allows him to misdirect his larger, stronger better-trained opponent enough to allow Tim to kick him out a window. | |
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The Decalogue: Majka, while hiding behind a wall, throws a small wooden ball down the stairs, thus distracting an old woman watching over the entrance to the back of the stage. | |
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Naruto arranges a very elaborate one in A Growing Affection, tying his jacket to a kunai and throwing it through tall grass, so the person in question will not only hear the sound, but will see a flash of orange, too. | |
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Ultimate Marvel Ultimate Wolverine: Black Box threw the video will of Wolverine during the fight with Wildchild, modified to display several holograms of Wolverine at once instead of one. This distracted Wildchild for a second, enough for Jimmy to destroy his artificial claws. Ultimate X-Men: Storm summoned some rain inside the Indian complex, so Nightcrawler could teleport inside while the guards were distracted and open the main gates. |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Duel of the Droids", Ahsoka escapes Grievous' notice (at first) be making a box fall further into the room she's hiding in with the Force, so Grievous walks past her hiding place. | |
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Water: Michael Caine's character sees a mercenary attaching limpet mines to the oil well, so he throws a bolt, then sneaks up behind the mercenary while he's pointing a gun in that direction and hooks a crane hook into his belt, lifting him into the air. | |
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Death to Spies: This stealth game allows you to do this with cutlery and dishes. The mini-map even shows you how far the sound travels. | |
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Dracula vs. Frankenstein: During the fight in Dr. Durea's Mad Scientist Laboratory,, Mike throws a bottle across the room where it smashes, causing Durea to shoot at the noise, while Mike makes a break for the stairs. | |
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The Order of the Stick: This is the subject of one of "Tarquin's Tips", a handy guide distributed to all his guard patrols. "Sound in the Bushes: Someone is throwing a rock to distract you. Try looking in the opposite direction." | |
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In Skyrim you can fire an arrow into a room and any enemies present will visible on your compass while rushing to investigate it. | |
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All Metal Gear games have some sort of variant. Can even be done with grenades, but enemies will freeze in terror or take cover, depending on the soldier. In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and later, you can throw empty ammo magazines to distract guards. The only way to get one is to fire all the bullets in a full mag, which isn't very useful in a stealth game. | |
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In the SWAT Kats episode "The Giant Bacteria", the villain Morbulus does a variant of this trope wherein he is dropped in the water and takes off his clothes, then reassembles them to make it look like he's still in them. While the Enforcers are fishing what they think is his body out of the water, he is able to slip away in his underwear unnoticed. | |
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In Heroic Myth, Bell realizes that Ryuu and Syr had gotten into a fight with Terry Cervantes' men at the casino over the lives of the girls Terry enslaved. To distract the Ganesha Familia, Bell decides to abuse his Luck skill to win an utterly massive number of chips before knocking them all over as the girls spill out of the VIP area. This gets the down-on-their-luck adventurers and gods to pounce on the chips, starting a ruckus that security is forced to contain rather than investigate Ryuu's fight. | |
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Johnny of Johnny Mnemonic throws a small rock, which sends Baldy looking for him in the wrong direction. | |
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This is one of the uses of the Bat-Shuriken in The Dark Knight Trilogy. *thwing* "Huh, what was that? Oh, it's a little metal ba-" [Vertical Kidnap] | |
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In keeping with its theme, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon replaces the stones with throwable dice. Being tounge-in-cheek they are refered to as "nerd rocks"... and Rex's onboard A.I. calls him a nerd for having them. | |
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Harry Potter: In The Movie of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Harry tosses a broken stone to distract the blinded basilisk who was cornering him. As in the book Harry uses a loud Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes product to distract Ministry of Magic workers so that he can sneak in and search Umbridge's office in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. |
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Used against the good guys in The Name of the Rose, after they've unwittingly stumbled across the book that's the motive of the murders. The assistant librarian (who was reading it, and is now hiding in a dark corner) picks up a hammer with the apparent intention of doing violence, but then tosses it across the flagstones. When Brother William and novice Adso run to investigate, the librarian steals the book and flees. | |
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Sly 2: Band of Thieves has the alarm clock gadget as Sly, trigger bombs as Bentley, and other guards as Murray. | |
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Sniper Elite V2, Sniper Elite III and Sniper Elite 4 allow you to throw rocks to distract enemies. Like the Hitman example, you're encouraged to do so in the tutorial stage and have an infinite number of them in your inventory. Unlike most examples, this will only get the guards out of your hair for a second or two before they start searching the area just to be sure — you have a pretty small window if you want to actually get past anyone that way. Sniper Elite 5 however replaces rocks with empty bottles instead. | |
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Dead by Daylight has the learnable perk "Diversion", which causes the survivor to throw a rock several meters in front of them; the Killer is given a noise notification and various scratch marks where it lands. | |
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Code Name: Gravedigger: In Men of War #19, Gravdigger throws rocks across a clearing to cause a German soldier to turn in the wrong direction: allowing Gravedigger to slam him with a rifle butt. | |
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You can do this in Beyond Good & Evil with the disk-launcher, but the guards are so stupid it's usually easier to just walk slowly around them. | |
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In Rubbernecker, Patrick is snooping in the dissection room when someone else walks in and turns the lights on before Patrick can see who they are. Patrick is afraid whoever it is is the murderer, so he throws his trainer across the room and then leaves while the person is following the sound. | |
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Happens twice in Apache. When returning to the mine, Massai throws a rock to draw one of the soldiers out of hiding so he can shoot him. Later, while hiding in the cornfield, he throws his empty rifle to distract Sieber, and then tackles him. | |
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In the sequel, City of Somnus, Paollo tries this with a pebble when the Feyn are chasing him and Odette, but lacks the hand-eye coordination to do it right. Fortunately, Odette chucks another pebble far enough to serve as a distraction. | |
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An episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues does this — earlier, Kwai Chang is showing Peter how to blow a candle out using the gust of air from a palm strike. Later, when facing sentries in the woods, Peter sarcastically asks, "what are we going to, throw a rock and divert their attention?" as Kwai Chang performs a palm strike and rustles a bush instead to distract the guards. | |
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Part of chapter 4 of Bendy and the Ink Machine requires you to distract the Butcher Gang by throwing empty cans of bacon soup. | |
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Basingstoke: The Player Character can throw items like food and flares to distract the undead. | |
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Variant: Batman sometimes rolls a marble from his utility belt down a flight of stairs to simulate the sound of descending footsteps. | |
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In Rose Madder Rosie distracts Erinyes the blind bull from killing her by throwing a blood-soaked rock and running in the opposite direction. | |
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Capture the Flag: Amy distracts the night guard at the retirement home with a rock so she and Mike can get inside and meet Mike's grandfather. The guard ignores the first rock, but investigates the second one (which hits a lamp post), and when doing so discovers 3 residents secretly working on their own model rocket. | |
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Half-Life: Alyx: A must when confronting Jeff, who hunts through hearing but is both completely blind and relatively stupid. Since he's found around an abandoned distillery, there's thankfully a big bunch of empty beer bottles to toss around and shatter to keep him off your way. Just watch when you open something and one of them falls off before you can catch it. | |
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The Thrawn Trilogy: Luke Skywalker uses the Force to make a guard think he heard a noise, which allows the group he's with to sneak past. A much more Justified example than most, as he's actively altering the guy's mind rather than merely hoping that he's easily-distracted. | |
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Endless Nightmare: A unique feature in the entire series, where enemies like zombies and monsters can be distracted by throwing objects (rocks, porcelain cups, coins, etc). They'll shamble away, allowing you to either sneak past them or execute monsters from behind. | |
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The Far Cry series gives the player an infinite amount of throwable stones. Just don't throw them in a trajectory that the mook you want to distract sees, because he'll figure out where it came from and beeline towards your position with his buddies. In keeping with its theme, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon replaces the stones with throwable dice. Being tounge-in-cheek they are refered to as "nerd rocks"... and Rex's onboard A.I. calls him a nerd for having them. |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo, Merry, Pippin and Sam are hiding from a black rider (Nazgûl/Ringwraith) under some tree roots. As the rider is peering overhead, and it seems they are close to being discovered, Merry throws his and Pippin's sack of (stolen) vegetables, which gives the four of them enough time to escape the scene. | |
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A puzzle late in Space Quest 2 requires you to get past a guard to a door. You can just sneak by with careful movements, but it's easier to throw a stone to distract him and get him to leave. But the most points are for throwing a stone with your athletic supporter and pegging him in the head, killing him. | |
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Subverted in ¡Three Amigos! One of the amigos throws a rock to distract a guard they're trying to sneak past, but accidentally hits the guard's head and knocks him out. | |
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In the first Alternamorphs book, the unnamed second-person protagonist uses a thrown rock to escape aliens in a dark construction site. As they're doing it, they think about what a cliche it is and hope the aliens have never watched any TV or else they'd probably recognize the trick. | |
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Wild Kratts: In one Season 3 episode, Martin tosses a stone to distract a panther so he can steal its food cache (to feed some panther cubs the Kratts are babysitting, in case you're concerned). Panthers are known for their stealth, so it's only natural that some stealth tropes would pop up in an episode about them. | |
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In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Hermione instructs Harry and Ron to cause mayhem in Snape's class to distract him while she steals ingredients for Polyjuice Potion. They throw a firework into a cauldron. | |
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Pony POV Series: Diamond Tiara attempts to throw a rock to distract guards, but Discord warns her they will head to the opposite direction of the sound and find her. Instead, she drops the rock where she is standing. The guards assume the rock was thrown from somewhere else and walk away, allowing her to sneak in. | |
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A recurring gag in Dragon Tails: involves Lemuel throwing rocks in the bushes to distract enemies. The targets found the sound to be distracting but never investigated the noise beyond standing and thinking about how annoying it is, opening a window of opportunity for the other dragons. | |
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The high-tech version occurs in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol — the IMF team use a sound projector to make a Kremlin guard leave the corridor he's guarding and go into the next room. | |
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Both Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry and Assassin's Creed Rogue provide the player character with firecrackers, which can be used to distract guards or, in the latter case, draw enemy assassins out of hiding. | |
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Toy Story 2: Very early on, Al does this with a skateboard. Justified in that it does create an audible crash, and the person he's distracting (Andy's mother) isn't a highly trained guard. | |
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The Dangers in My Heart , Ichikawa tosses his bike down a hill as a distraction to stop Nanjou from pressuring Yamada into giving him her LINE, which successfully divides the two and gets a lot of people's attention when the bike falls into a drainage ditch. | |
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Ultimate X-Men: Storm summoned some rain inside the Indian complex, so Nightcrawler could teleport inside while the guards were distracted and open the main gates. | |
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Done in Girly to sneak into a women's dorm, with some heavy lampshading: | |
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Parodied in Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension. When Perry the platypus needs to slip away without his owners noticing him, he throws a rock, leading to this exchange: | |
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In an episode of Game of Thrones, Arya throws a book across the room to distract the white walkers prowling the library. | |
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In Absolution, you lose the coin but can pick up other random objects to throw around. It has the same effect, but you won't always have something to throw, and can only carry one throwable object at a time. | |
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In the Starsky & Hutch episode "The Committee," Starsky throws his pet rock away so he can get the drop on one of the villains. Once everyone has been arrested, he runs back to look for it. | |
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Zatanna: Everyday Magic: Nimue throws the (actually fake) MacGuffin toward Zatanna in order to distract her while she uses the opportunity to stab her with a magic absorption needle (the real MacGuffin). | |
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution: Can be done as well although downplayed a bit - the closest guard only investigates unless it is something extra heavy and loud and they will go to the origin if they saw it thrown and only to the destination if they only heard it. | |
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Godzilla vs. Kong: In their battle in Hong Kong, Kong uses the buildings to hide from Godzilla. Kong hurls a construction crane at a building. When Godzilla turns toward the noise, Kong attacks him from behind. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Imitation Krabs", to get Mr. Krabs out of the way, Plankton throws a penny, and the greedy Krabs follows it as it rolls out the front door. Unfortunately, the penny eventually rolls back, leading Krabs to Plankton and his robotic Krabs imposter. | |
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In Tiger House, Kelly throws Mark's alarm clock (one of the ones built into a ball and designed to be thrown against a wall to turn it off) across the room, where it beeps and distracts Shane and Callum long enough for her to make her Not So Great Escape from under the bed to the bedroom door. | |
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In Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2, the default loadout includes three coins in the third inventory slot that can be used as a distraction of this kind. While they are perfectly usable, and very useful, they are sort-of an Infinity -1 Sword in 2016 and 2, as coins are made redundant by the latter games' briefcase (which can be thrown like coins can, store weapons, and guards/ NPC's will take it away from the area it lands to somewhere else in the level), and even without the briefcase, as in Absolution and 2016, you can just pick up and throw pretty much any item in a level that isn't intel or nailed down, and it'll cause a distraction, meaning the tool slot can be used on something else instead, like say, a lockpick. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Stranger Than Fan Fiction", while he and Rainbow Dash are Caballeron's prisoners, Quibble Pants throws a pin away to make a suspicious noise, alerting the goons. Quibble then pretends that it's Daring Do coming to rescue them. It works, and they disperse in search of their nemesis. As Quibble points out, they're stupid enough to leave nopony looking after the captives. | |
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In Doctor Who Series 4, the Doctor distracts a guard with a wind-up mouse. Almost as soon as he picks it up, he is knocked unconscious by the Doctor's cloned daughter Jenny. The Doctor is quick to call her out on what she's done. | |
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Deus Ex: Can be done, as pointed out in the training mission by Anna Navarre. | |
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Bloody Homecoming: While hiding on top of a bank of lockers in the change room, Loren throws one of her shoes into the lockers on the far side of the room to distract the killer. | |
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In Call of Duty: Black Ops, there is a tactical grenade that is called a decoy that can be used to simulate gunfire and shows up on the enemy's radar, making it seem as if there is someone firing in that location. | |
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The Progenitor Chronicles (Resident Evil): The MC relies heavily on this tactic to get past B.O.W.s, as he’s very much incapable of fighting them off. For example, he concocts a plan to throw a metal signpost into an airport security checkpoint, setting off the metal detectors. | |
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Hitman series: In the first mission of Blood Money, you're encouraged to toss a coin to distract some guards. 47 seems to have a Mint in his back pocket - a coin is always available in the inventory, no matter how many you've already thrown. You can even carry them through metal detectors without setting them off. In Absolution, you lose the coin but can pick up other random objects to throw around. It has the same effect, but you won't always have something to throw, and can only carry one throwable object at a time. In Hitman (2016) and Hitman 2, the default loadout includes three coins in the third inventory slot that can be used as a distraction of this kind. While they are perfectly usable, and very useful, they are sort-of an Infinity -1 Sword in 2016 and 2, as coins are made redundant by the latter games' briefcase (which can be thrown like coins can, store weapons, and guards/ NPC's will take it away from the area it lands to somewhere else in the level), and even without the briefcase, as in Absolution and 2016, you can just pick up and throw pretty much any item in a level that isn't intel or nailed down, and it'll cause a distraction, meaning the tool slot can be used on something else instead, like say, a lockpick. |
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Jurassic Park: In the middle of the film, Alan tries to lure the Tyrannosaurus away from the kids — who were trapped in one of the cars that is attacked by the same dinosaur — with a torch flare. This almost works, until Ian Malcolm intervenes with another flare. Later, Lex uses something like this to draw a Velociraptor's attention away from Tim (and very bravely, closer to herself). |
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Jonny Quest: In "The Dreadful Doll", Hadji throws a rock to distract Korbay so Jonny can free Race Bannon. In "Terror Island", Race Bannon throws a coin to distract some guards. |
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Lampshaded on Battlestar Galactica when Apollo throws a grenade into a passageway, yelling for everyone to clear out (they do). It turns out he didn't pull the pin, and tells Starbuck that she would have thought it was a brilliant idea if she'd come up with it. | |
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Thief likewise has throwable objects. It also has noisemaker arrows, which do just that: cause a lot of noise upon impact. Even normal arrows can work as distractions if fired at a hard surface. However, trying this trick isn't always a good idea; while it may draw the guards' attention elsewhere, it will also make them alert for intruders, which mitigates the advantage to some degree. | |
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In the second game, throwing money will distract the guards just as well as a body. | |
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A viable strategy in Shinobido: thrown objects are an excellent way to distract a guard on patrol and lure him/her away, so that you can sneak past them or stealth-kill them as they're distracted. Sometimes, the distraction is even explosive, so that it will damage (and possibly kill) the victim and draw even more guards on the spot. | |
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In the Warrior Cats book Battles of the Clans, there's a story about how RiverClan develops a move called the "Rushpaw Splash" where a cat makes a splash to distract their opponent away from their attacking Clanmates - originally done by accident during training when Rushpaw falling into a stream makes the perfect distraction for the other apprentices to sneak up on Mistyfoot. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons (2000) has the heroes distract a patrolling Beholder — a creature covered in eyes — with a thrown rock. | |
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In The Iron Giant, Hogarth throws a penny into the kitchen to divert his mom's attention away while he sneaks out one of the Giant's hands, which has detached and is wandering around the house. The penny knocks over the spice rack by accident. | |
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In the video games, A Plague Tale: Innocence and A Plague Tale: Requiem, there are several missions and quests in the game that involve you throwing various items to distract the guards and send them running after the noise you created so you can stealthily sneak past them. This is justified since much of the game series relies on stealth missions almost as much as it does on combat. | |
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Dragon Age II: One of Hawke's options during the stealth section of the Mark of the Assassin DLC. | |
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This is an option in the Tenchu games. Throwing bombs, or shuriken, or rice balls can distract guards letting you sneak past them, or kill them. | |
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Henry Stickmin Series: This is one of Henry's few tricks that consistently works (probably because it's so mundane). He distracts a guard by throwing a penny in Stealing the Diamond, and two guards by throwing a guard's hat in Fleeing the Complex. | |
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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew: Mooks can be temporarily distracted by throwing a coin, or firecrackers. Quentin can throw his golden skull on the ground, and a mook who sees it will walk towards it to investigate. | |
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Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues: Hyeon throws his iPod away in the hopes that the music will distract the smoke snakes that are attacking him. It does manage to halt them for a few seconds, though it doesn't last long. Elly sets off her personal alarm and then throws it aside in the hopes that Daigo's monster will follow it rather than her. It gives her and her brother a few seconds, but the monster eventually turns its attention back to them. |
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Once a Thief: The two protagonists, Joe and Jim, are in the middle of raiding a vault, Joe having rigged the vault's exterior with C4, when a bunch of thugs intending to kill them (having gunned down the guards outside which Joe and Jim avoids) enters. As Joe and Jim beats a hasty retreat, an unarmed Joe, realizing one of the thugs is approaching, throws his shoe. The thug mistakenly thought the shoe is an IED and dives into an adjacent room... which is the vault's entrance, crammed with C4, accidentally triggering them in the process. One massive Oh, Crap! on the mook and... BOOM. | |
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In Bolt, Penny (the character on the show) likes to roll an actual penny into the field of vision of whomever she's trying to sidestep. Eventually, Bolt (in reality) would try the same trick — yes, it really does work. | |
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Breaking Bad: Mike does this in the episode "Full Measure" while taking back one of Gus's warehouses from several cartel members that had taken it over. He rolls a high-heel shoe down the hall, making it sound like a person running, and sure enough, a cartel member jumps out from the other end screaming and firing wildly, only to be easily taken out by Mike when he rounds the corner. | |
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MacGyver (1985): In "Slow Death", MacGyver takes his shoe off and throws it on top of the train to make the bad guy think that he was up there when in reality he came up the stairs after him. It didn't work as he is hit with a gun and knocked down. | |
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Horizon Zero Dawn has rocks Aloy can throw to distract enemies and draw them closer to her for stealth takedowns or further away to get past them. Some enemy bases also have alarms that opponents will activate if they spot you and get back to it before you stop them, but Aloy can also set it off herself in order to draw all her opponents to the same location. | |
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Mission: Impossible: Used in "The Council, part 1", to draw someone away from a buried man that the team needed access to. | |
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Code Lyoko's "Lyoko Minus One" has Odd pick up a small rock to throw away from himself in order to get away from a Tarantula to help Aelita. Luckily, the monster shoots it instead of him. | |
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Assassin's Creed In any game, kill a guard and other guards will come by to investigate so you can sneak around them or use the hidden blade on them. In the second game, throwing money will distract the guards just as well as a body. Assassin's Creed: Revelations ups the ante considerably by including a dozen different possible types of harmless distraction bombs. There's a weak smoke bomb designed to look like a smoldering fire that will only attract guards facing that direction but make no noise, a cherry bomb that just makes a loud bang that draws guards, and even a coin bomb that attracts a crowd to a spot by exploding money there. Both Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry and Assassin's Creed Rogue provide the player character with firecrackers, which can be used to distract guards or, in the latter case, draw enemy assassins out of hiding. |
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In the Midnight Caller episode "Wait Until Midnight'', Annie Driscoll, who is blind, manages to knock her attacker unconscious and steal his gun. After he regains consciousness, he throws his shoes past her, causing her to fire in the wrong direction. | |
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Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 gives you grenades in the forms of pipe bombs and Boomer Bile. The Infected are distracted by the Loud beeping and/or scent and will chase after them, even if they were just clawing you apart a second ago. | |
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