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Tree Buchet
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In animation, seeing a tall, skinny tree anywhere is a sure sign that someone is about to go flying. In the world of cartoons, any sufficiently tall, flexible tree can be transformed into a trebuchet. The formula is generally as follows: Have the villain chase the hero through a forest, tree farm, or any other sufficiently wooded area. In an attempt to escape the villain, have the hero run up the tallest, skinniest tree available. Have the villain chase the hero up the tree. The fairly fragile tree will begin to bend beneath the weight of both people trapped within it, frequently doubling over. The hero must now jump out of the tree. We have a few seconds to register the look of terror on the villain's face before the tree, freed of the excess weight, snaps back up. Thwwwwpp! The villain goes flying. A frequent variation is for a character to use a tree snare — a tree purposefully bent low, with a trap tied to one end. Usually, the hunter will find himself either riding the tree out of town, or thrown back and forth after they get caught in their own trap. Another variation is the villain choosing to catapult himself with a tree, either to reach something higher or to jump over a wall. The effect varies from catapulting directly into the ground to missing the target by one inch. Yet another variation is the hero using it to launch himself. This works, unless it's too early in the story for success. Tree Buchets are named after trebuchets (pronounced 'treh-byu-shay'). Note that the classic Tree Buchet is not an actual trebuchet: trebuchets work using a lever with heavy counterweights. Tree Buchets work because trees are apparently perfectly elastic. The tree snare variant does work, but only with very young softwood saplings. Mature trees might still be skinny, but just aren't this flexible. Most likely to appear in worlds where Bamboo Technology is prevalent. Can be a result of Watch Out for That Tree!. Compare Catapult to Glory, where this is done with an actual catapult. Note that to some extent this has been deemed "Busted" by MythBusters. |
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In episode 23 of Ultraman Taro, Kotaro Higashi and his fellow ZAT teammates use a tree to launch him up onto the face of Rodera, the episode's Monster of the Week, so that he can attempt to rescue a family who were trapped up there. Once in place, Kotaro hacked away at Rodera's eye with a bamboo weapon, dislodging everyone, but fortunately he was able to transform into Taro to rescue the falling people. | |
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In Sonic Unleashed, the Werehog uses this method to get around various stages by bending the trees or lampposts himself, then relaxing his grip. | |
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Happens to one of the two dogs that were constantly pursuing Edgar during their first chase scene from The Aristocats. | |
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In the Tom and Jerry short "Mouse Trouble", Tom rigs up a tree snare with a piece of cheese set as bait inside the noose. Jerry replaces the cheese with a saucer of milk, which Tom happily sets to drinking when he sees it, and... yep. | |
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The Simpsons: The season 1 episode "The Call Of The Simpsons" had Homer attempt to make a tree snare and end up launching a bunny rabbit over a mile into the horizon. In the "Treehouse Of Horror XVI" segment "Survival of the Fattest", Homer did it with a full-size tree and essentially the entire supporting cast. |
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Done on the first one of The Fox and the Crow cartoons — the fox tries to launch himself this way, but just gets smacked back and forth on the ground. The cartoon was a direct inspiration for the Road Runner/Coyote series. | |
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MythBusters tested this trope in one episode, and found that the right sort of evergreen tree, stripped of its limbs and bent over to the breaking point, could toss Buster the test dummy about a hundred yards. However, it still failed to clear a "castle wall" and this trope was deemed "busted". | |
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Fortean Times reported on the strange case of a man in England who was clearing up damage after a serious storm which had uprooted trees. The unfortunate man was engaged in cutting up a felled tree with a chainsaw, so as to make the pieces easier to remove and dispose of. Unfortunately, he did not realize that in the tangled debris where one tree had fallen into and entangled with another, the net effect of a second uprooted tree falling into the first had been to compress a bough and bend it back on itself. The effect of the chainsaw removing the tension at one end of the bent bough caused it to catapult back into the man with the chainsaw, with horribly predictable effects. The largest part of his body was found in a garden about five hundred yards away. | |
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In The Secret of Monkey Island, you can make Guybrush fall off a cliff to his presumed doom, and a parody of Sierra's Have a Nice Death screens pops up, only to disappear when Guybrush flies back up out of the jungle and onto the cliff, unscathed. His only explanation: "Rubber tree." | |
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Looney Tunes: This has happened to Wile E. Coyote a time or two with trees or cacti. In one case, rather than launching Wile E. himself, a cactus launched a misaimed explosive back at the unfortunate coyote. A Foghorn Leghorn cartoon played with this one, with Henry the Chicken Hawk setting up the "snare" trap, and putting corn in it. Foghorn mocks him roundly, about how a smart chicken would just pick up the corn, and then ends it with "A smart chicken would jump over it, like so!" and demonstrates. Too bad he hadn't thought of Henery building a pitfall trap right next to the snare. |
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When Things Were Rotten: In "The Capture of Robin Hood", Robin and the merry men use a tree to launch Bertram out of Sherwood Forest and headfirst through the Sheriff's door. | |
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A Foghorn Leghorn cartoon played with this one, with Henry the Chicken Hawk setting up the "snare" trap, and putting corn in it. Foghorn mocks him roundly, about how a smart chicken would just pick up the corn, and then ends it with "A smart chicken would jump over it, like so!" and demonstrates. Too bad he hadn't thought of Henery building a pitfall trap right next to the snare. | |
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Francis X. Bushlad uses one in one of his plans to catch Taz in Taz-Mania. It fails as spectacularly as all of his other plans to catch Taz. | |
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In Baahubali 2, an entire army uses trees to fling themselves into enemy territory. Six men per tree, forming an impromptu cannonball using their shields in midair. | |
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Garfield: During a short arc where Garfield was hanging from a tree by his mouth, Odie tries repeatedly to get him down. His final idea was to simply bend the tree branch down, lowering Garfield, who congratulates him for doing something right. Odie lets go to do a victory clasp, which causes the branch to snap back, sending Garfield flying. | |
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Total Drama Pahkitew Island: Sugar manages to get ahead in a race where touching the ground was forbidden by accidentally launching herself with a tree that somehow didn't snap under her weight. | |
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This has happened to Wile E. Coyote a time or two with trees or cacti. In one case, rather than launching Wile E. himself, a cactus launched a misaimed explosive back at the unfortunate coyote. | |
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Kung Fu Panda: Po tries to launch himself with a bamboo catapult, but he's just too heavy. When he gets off, the bamboo hits him in the face as it snaps back, then hits him again in the head on the rebound. When escaping from prison, Tai Lung does this with a huge ballista bolt embedded in the floor to give him initial thrust for his Stepping Ballista Bolt scene. Tai Lung cops a tree in the face when Po uses this technique against him once they've fallen to the bottom of the temple steps. |
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Dick Kinney's 1965 Donald Duck story The Pioneer. An hungry bear chases Donald's cousin Fethry up a tree; the tree bends down and Fethry jumps off, sending the bear flying. Later, though, the bear gets even, chasing Fethry up another tree and beating him to jumping off. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, Belkar does this to Durkon after the dwarf had already climbed onto a palm tree (to fight it, of course). As a variant, the tree doesn't send him flying, but instead unbends even further and smacks the dwarf into the ground on the other side. And then his own hammer falls on him. | |
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The Way Things Work, in its introduction to "Springs," depicts this as the consequence of when a woolly mammoth applying the power of its trunk to a rope attached to a tree to aid a farmer in harvesting coconuts from it became startled by a mouse. | |
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Done with a giant cactus and a cruise liner in Digimon Adventure episode 17. | |
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One issue of the old Sgt. Rock comic has a soldier obsessed with Superman comics use a tree to launch himself over a gunner's nest so he can grenade it. | |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: Subverted in Carl Barks' 1953 Uncle Scrooge story "Back to the Klondike". A hungry bear chases Donald Duck up a tree; the tree bends down... but rather than Donald jumping off the tree, the bear falls off... and Donald is sent flying. Dick Kinney's 1965 Donald Duck story The Pioneer. An hungry bear chases Donald's cousin Fethry up a tree; the tree bends down and Fethry jumps off, sending the bear flying. Later, though, the bear gets even, chasing Fethry up another tree and beating him to jumping off. |
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Horton gets rid of Vlad the vulture this way in the 2008 film version of Horton Hears a Who!. The elephant manages a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner ("Sorry, this is where we get off!") before he does, then mentions that he usually doesn't come up with those until later. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean: While under the effects of Made In Heaven, Enrico Pucci bends a palm tree to launch himself at the heroes, with him only being stopped through Jotaro Kujo finding him out using Star Platinum: The World. | |
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Code Name: Gravedigger: In Men of War 12, Gravedigger bends back a tall, skinny tree and uses it to hurl a grenade far ahead of German patrol as a distraction. | |
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Simple Samosa: In "Dhokla's Typewriter", one of Samosa's attempts to reach the window outside Dhokla's bedroom is to have Jalebi and Vada catapult him with a tree. In "Toast Malone", as Dhokla mindlessly wanders through town while listening to Toast Malone's music, he climbs a tree and ends up being catapulted into the air by it. |
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Ice Age: The first two movies do something with this. In one it uses a tilting rock to launch Sid the Sloth. In the other, the classic tree. The tree in question is not only a full-grown pine, but also being held down by Manny the Mammoth. Crash asks Manny to do this to him with a skinny tree in Ice Age: The Meltdown. It doesn't go well. |
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In the first Shrek movie, Shrek bends a tree to use as a bridge for Fiona. After she crosses, he lets the tree go... unwittingly (or maybe not) sending poor Donkey flying. | |
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The Herculoids episode "The Raiders". In a light-hearted moment, Igoo uses his great strength to turn a tree into a catapult to throw Dorno into a really high dive into the water. | |
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In Little Men, the boys are playing by climbing up young trees until they bend all the way down and drop the boys back onto the ground. Jack picks too big a tree, leaving him dangling several feet in the air. Dan climbs up after him, and their combined weight lowers Jack safely on the ground, but as soon as he lets go, Dan goes flying. This game is also referenced in Robert Frost's poem "Birches". | |
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Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget: After his and Ginger's daughter, Molly, is kidnapped by a new farm, Rocky decides to go in and get her out before anyone can even come up with a plan. With some help from Fowler, he uses a tree as a catapult to launch himself over the electric fence. However, unfortunately, a rope on his leg swings him back towards the other side, getting him painfully (but non-fatally) electrocuted. | |
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In the Motu Patlu episode "Motu Banega Don", John the Don and his minions, Number 1 and Number 2, are running away from Motu and Patlu, who are chasing them on pogo sticks. Motu and Patlu hit the opposite end of the cart John the Don's gang is using, sending them flying onto a big, skinny tree... only for them to get catapulted off of the tree and into the sky. | |
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In the VeggieTales episode "Madame Blueberry", the main character's treehouse is eventually flung off its tree in this manner. | |
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Super Friends episode "Professor Goodfellow's G.E.E.C.". When Wonder Woman and the Dynamic Duo need to get past a force field, Batman uses a grappling hook to pull down the top of a tree. Wonder Woman climbs onto the tree and when it's released, she is hurled over the top of the force field. | |
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In Tak and the Power of Juju, orangutans are forever flinging sheep and Tak with banana trees while they try to get the fruit. At the very end of the game, the Juju Flora, who has been transformed into an orangutan by Tlaloc, uses this trick to fling Tlaloc into his own pool of Bad Juju, breaking his curse and turning him into a sheep. | |
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In the beginning of Enchanted, a troll chases after Giselle in a tree to eat her. As she progresses along a thinning branch, he follows and the branch starts bending. Then Giselle falls, and the troll is sent flying. | |
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Winnie the Pooh, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In "Luck Amok", Tigger picks all the apples from Rabbit's trees to decrease Rabbit's chances of getting hit on the head by one. He then sees an apple on the top branch he claims has a worm on it and pulls it down to give to Rabbit for him to see. This, of course, sends him flying across his garden. | |
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The Mysterious Cities of Gold: Upon the main characters' arrival in China at the start of season 2, Pedro ends up clinging to a bamboo stalk that Sancho is holding, and when the latter let go, Pedro is sent flying. This gives to Tao the idea of using a catapult to escape pirates in the next episode. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: The plot for "Club SpongeBob" kicks off when Squidward tries to get out of SpongeBob and Patrick's cramped clubhouse, which is on top of a tall tree. When he can't get out through the small window, he grabs a smaller, thinner tree to use as a rope to climb down, causing the larger tree to double over. As Squidward is about to step out, the smaller tree snaps at the base, causing the bigger tree to fling the clubhouse, and everyone inside, through the air and down into a dense kelp forest. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Jack launches himself from palm tree to palm tree to get across the Spaniards' encampment and escape. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Applejack uses a handy tree branch to catch up with Rainbow Dash in a race in the episode "Fall Weather Friends". In "Family Appreciation Day", the Cutie Mark Crusaders get launched by a tree while trying to pick Zap Apples. |
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Happens in the Jimmy Two-Shoes episode "Lucius Lost". Trapped on a "Far Side" Island, Jimmy's plan is to use this trope to catapult him and Lucius to safety. When Lucius cuts the rope prematurely (he'd rather leave Jimmy on the island), the tree doesn't move. Once he gets off and complains, then the tree whips, slamming him into the sand. | |
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In the wuxia film The Twelve Gold Medallions, protagonist Miao Lung use a bamboo tree to launch himself flying a few hundred meters horizontally so that he can reach the main villain with his sword. It works. | |
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In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons episode 45, Paddi triggers a Hair-Trigger Avalanche to escape from Wolffy and Wolnie. Paddi is still in their cauldron when the snow from the avalanche is dragging him around, and the cauldron ends up hitting a tree that the wolves climb to avoid the snow, causing it to catapult them into the sky. | |
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In The Brave Little Tailor, a giant the tailor encounters bends a tree nearly to the ground and puts the fruit in the tailor's hands so he can eat. When the giant lets go the tailor is sent flying and the giant belittles him for his lack of strength, to which he retorts that he jumped over the tree to avoid being shot by a couple of hunters. | |
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Tex Avery MGM Cartoons: George and Junior try this in the MGM short "Henpecked Hoboes". Junior cuts the rope too early, while George is trying to explain the plan... | |
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In the Mike, Lu & Og pilot "Crash Lancelot", Mike and Og climb a palm tree to get coconuts from the top, but it bends over so that they're now upside-down on the ground when they reach the top. Alfred holds onto it so the kids can get off and it catapults him into the air. | |
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In one of the Little House on the Prairie Rose sequels, Swiney shows Rose how to grab the top of a young sapling and jump up and down until their momentum and the springiness of the tree carries them all the way over the top. Rose accidentally lets go at the apex of her flight. Wheeee! | |
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A slightly more realistic version is used in the MacGyver episode "The Road Not Taken". When he needs to throw off some pursuers in the jungle, MacGyver builds a tree-based catapult to throw stones, and puts a light-based fuse on it. First he pulls four flimsy trees together and bends them down to the ground. He routes them under a solid tree branch and ties them together with a thin vine. Then he sets down his friend's rosary to refract sunlight onto the thin vine, creating a fuse. He stakes the thin vine into the ground with a good knot on a pointed stick, and attaches the pockets from his jacket (filled with rocks) to the tree trunks. | |
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In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, an amphibian vehicle lands on a huge tree that was growing on the ravine's side. The car is gently lowered into the river below, then the tree recoils and hits the cliff wall, knocking down several Soviet soldiers. | |
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In "The Devil's Daughter" in Rulah, Jungle Goddess #17, the villains bind their victims to flexible tree which they then use to fling them into the ocean where they are eaten by a Threatening Shark. | |
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In My Little Pony: The Movie (1986), Megan does this with a giant sunflower to escape the Smooze. | |
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Happens to Agent Pleakley in Lilo & Stitch when he sits in a tree with Jumba, spying on Stitch. | |
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Crash asks Manny to do this to him with a skinny tree in Ice Age: The Meltdown. It doesn't go well. | |
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The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure uses it as a way to close up a hole in the Great Valley wall. Littlefoot was in awe of his grandfather earlier in the film for being able to bend a large tree, and it turns into a sort of Chekhov's Skill by the end, when Littlefoot uses it on a smaller tree to knock stones down over the hole. | |
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