Extendable Arms

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    Take a cartoon, preferably an older one, and find a pair who always end up in fights. Tom and Jerry, Dick Dastardly and Muttley from Wacky Races or virtually anyone from Looney Tunes. Somehow, one character always has a fist which can stretch across an entire country. Or a universe. This is a type of Toon Physics, and is often used with revenge.

    Not to be confused with Rubber Man

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    Examples of Extendable Arms include:

    Film

    • In an exceedingly rare live-action example, in the Chinese kung-fu movie Master of the Flying Guillotine, an Indian fighter enters a tournament with the power to extend his arms to an absurd length.
    • Michael Jordan uses this to make a slam dunk in Space Jam.
    • Freddy briefly extends both his arms to scare his victim in the first A Nightmare on Elm Street film.

    Western Animation

    • In The Thief and the Cobbler, the Witch uses this to pull down a hesitant character (who s much bigger than she is) for examination.
    • Tom and Jerry demonstrates this several times, often when Tom tries to reach for Jerry inside one of the walls.
    • Used by Dick Dastardly whenever Muttley starts laughing at him, outside the range of a typical human being.
    • Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic has these, but she uses them to pull her friends in for a group hug.
    • On Family Guy, Lois's father once punched Peter through an email.
    • Though it doesn't involve combat, the mid-1980s Scooby Doo series had Daphne restrain a fleeing Shaggy by extending her arms from off screen.

    Video Games

    • This is one of Dhalsim's special abilities in the Street Fighter series—he can punch you from the other side of the screen.
    • In Sonic Unleashed, Sonic has arms that extend in his werehog form.
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