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* In ''Film/TheRescuersDownUnder'', Orville the albatross crashes and is brought to a hospital where the creepy nurse mice try to use a syringe that requires six of them to move across the room. Upon seeing it he breaks his restraints in panic and flies away.
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* ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'': The Dr. Klot enemies, which are {{Monster Clown}}s in doctor outfits, are sometimes seen using giant syringe needles as weapons. If not a needle, their other WeaponOfChoice is a giant bonesaw.

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* ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'': The Dr. Klot enemies, which are {{Monster Clown}}s in doctor outfits, are sometimes seen using giant syringe needles as weapons. If not a needle, their other WeaponOfChoice weapon of choice is a giant bonesaw.



* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' GaidenGame ''Guilty Gear Petit'' has a blonde nurse called Fanny, whose WeaponOfChoice is a huge syringe she can use both as an attack and [[StanceSystem as a standing post]].

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* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' GaidenGame ''Guilty Gear Petit'' has a blonde nurse called Fanny, whose WeaponOfChoice weapon of choice is a huge syringe she can use both as an attack and [[StanceSystem as a standing post]].



* In the ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' games where she is playable, a comically oversized syringe is Compa's WeaponOfChoice.

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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' games where she is playable, a comically oversized syringe is Compa's WeaponOfChoice.weapon of choice.
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* From the 18th and into the early 20th century, enema syringes resembled giant hypodermic syringes, though with a tube instead of a needle. Some CommediaDellArte ''lazzi'' (think "schticks" or "routines") involved a comedy medical exam from Il Dottore that involved one of these. These routines got {{Bowdlerized}} by the 19th century but remain in the form of the Giant Medical Syringe and the feared {{Injection|Plot}} [[PainToTheAss in the rear]].

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* From the 18th and into the early 20th century, enema syringes resembled giant hypodermic syringes, though with a tube instead of a needle. Some CommediaDellArte ''lazzi'' (think "schticks" or "routines") involved a comedy medical exam from Il Dottore that involved one of these. These routines got {{Bowdlerized}} by the 19th century but remain in the form of the Giant Medical Syringe and the feared {{Injection|Plot}} [[PainToTheAss in the rear]].Rear]].
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* From the 18th and into the early 20th century, enema syringes resembled giant hypodermic syringes, though with a tube instead of a needle. Some CommediaDellArte ''lazzi'' (think "schticks" or "routines") involved a comedy medical exam from Il Dottore that involved one of these. These routines got {{Bowdlerized}} by the 19th century but remain in the form of the Giant Medical Syringe and the feared {{Injection|Plot}} [[PainToTheAss in the rear]].

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* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': BB's Noble Phantasm C.C.C. (Cursed Cupid Cleanser) transforms BB into a nurse with a huge syringe she needs an underarm grip for and injects the enemy with what appears to be a bunch of Ascension materials. The actual process is apparently much more complex, with BB turning into a nurse and injecting the enemy using a needle just being what outsiders observe.

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BB's Noble Phantasm C.C.C. (Cursed Cupid Cleanser) transforms BB into a nurse with a huge syringe she needs an underarm grip for and injects the enemy with what appears to be a bunch of Ascension materials. The actual process is apparently much more complex, with BB turning into a nurse and injecting the enemy using a needle just being what outsiders observe.observe.
** Greek god of medicine Asclepius reveals that he has his own comically huge syringe in the seventh summer event for when he needs to treat certain cases. All characters he wants to treat with it on-screen are terrified.
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* ''VideoGame/GourmetSentaiBarayaro'' have a floating giant robot boss whose main weapon is a gigantic syringe... [[PhallicWeapon attached to it's groin]]. Which it will use to repeatedly stab at you.

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* ''VideoGame/GourmetSentaiBarayaro'' ''VideoGame/GourmetWarriors'' have a floating giant robot boss whose main weapon is a gigantic syringe... [[PhallicWeapon attached to it's groin]]. Which it will use to repeatedly stab at you.
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* ''VideoGame/GourmetSentaiBarayaro'' have a floating giant robot boss whose main weapon is a gigantic syringe... [[PhallicWeapon attached to it's groin]]. Which it will use to repeatedly stab at you.
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* Show up regularly in large animal veterinary medicine. It takes a ''big'' syringe to hold enough of most meds to treat half a ton of cranky horse/cow/whatever.
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* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': One monster that appears in Chapter 19 is based on {{trypanophobia}}, or the fear of needles. As such, its arms are two massive syringes that function as {{Arm Cannon}}s.
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* ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''[=/=]''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'': During the Rescuezords/VRV Machines' first battle, Wind Rescue/V Rescue (which is in the form of an ambulance) fires a giant syringe at Metallosaurus/Braking.

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* ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''[=/=]''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'': During the Rescuezords/VRV Machines' first battle, Wind Rescue/V Rescue (which is in the form of an ambulance) fires a giant syringe at Metallosaurus/Braking.Metallosaurus/Braking's... [[ShotInTheAss rear]], whose eyes [[EyePop bug out]] as a result. (And in ''Carranger'', it also prompts [=RitchiRitchihiker=] to let out a startled "Aiiiiii!".)
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* ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. Mystique [[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction seduces and then knocks out]] a guard working in the prison where Magneto is being held, then yanks the unconscious man's pants down and jabs a huge needle filled with liquid iron into him. Magneto then uses his powers to rip the iron out of the poor man's blood ''through his body'', so he can and use it to escape.

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* ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. Mystique [[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction seduces and then knocks out]] a guard working in the prison where Magneto is being held, then yanks the unconscious man's pants down and jabs a huge needle filled with liquid iron into him. The following day Magneto then uses his powers to rip the iron out of the poor man's blood ''through his body'', so he can and use it to escape.
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* ''Manga/CrayonShinchan'' has Shinchan's dad, upon having his hemorrhoid surgery, being shocked into fainting by a giant syringe held by the nurse before getting the actual anaesthetic injected.

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* ''Manga/CrayonShinchan'' ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'' has Shinchan's Shin-chan's dad, upon having his hemorrhoid surgery, being shocked into fainting by a giant syringe held by the nurse before getting the actual anaesthetic injected.
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* ''ComicBook/SimoneTheBestMonsterEver'': In "Take Your Medicine", Simone is trying to get Morris to get over his fear of getting shots from the doctor. She tells him it's just one tiny needle, presumably unaware that the one the doctor has is so big, he has to sling it under his arm.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} Chapter 2'': Susie brings one out whenever she dresses up as a nurse to give the [[ComputerVirus ViroVirokuns]] "tender loving care", as per the ACT command.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} Chapter 2'': Susie brings one out whenever she dresses up as a nurse to give the [[ComputerVirus ViroVirokuns]] Virovirokun]] "tender loving care", as per the ACT command.command. There's also the enemy Ambyu-Lance from the same chapter, an antivirus program with a giant syringe for a head, topped with a siren light.
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** Faust also uses a giant syringe of his own in one of his attacks.
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* ''Anime/{{Digimon}}'': Demi-Devimon has an attack called Demi-Dart which has him hurling a (for him) over-sized syringe at an opponent. He tried to use it on TK in an effort take him forget about Patamon, so presumably it's filled with something less beneficial than medicine.

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* ''Anime/{{Digimon}}'': ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'': Demi-Devimon has an attack called Demi-Dart which has him hurling a (for him) over-sized syringe at an opponent. He tried to use it on TK in an effort take him forget about Patamon, so presumably it's filled with something less beneficial than medicine.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} Chapter 2'': Susie brings one out whenever she dresses up as a nurse to give the [[ComputerVirus ViroVirokuns]] "tender loving care", as per the ACT command.
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* The large-gauge syringes used for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow#Donation_and_transplantation bone marrow transplants]] look like they are used to bast turkeys due to needing to penetrate deep into flesh and bone.

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* The large-gauge syringes used for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow#Donation_and_transplantation bone marrow transplants]] look like they are used to bast baste turkeys due to needing to penetrate deep into flesh and bone.
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* ''Manga/CrayonShinchan'' has Shinchan's dad, upon having his hemorrhoid surgery, being shocked into fainting by a giant syringe held by the nurse before getting the actual anaesthetic injected.
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* Mika Mizumi from ''Usagichan De Cue'' has volunteered to perform cosplay as a school fundraiser, choosing to portray a Naughty Nurse, complete with a giant syringe as a prop. The mostly male crowd reacts strongly when Miku straddles the thing coquettishly.

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* Mika Mizumi from ''Usagichan De Cue'' ''Anime/UsagichanDeCue'' has volunteered to perform cosplay as a school fundraiser, choosing to portray wear a Naughty Nurse, NaughtyNurseOutfit, complete with a giant syringe as a prop. The mostly male crowd reacts strongly when Miku straddles the thing coquettishly.
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* ''Film/X2XMenUnited''. Mystique [[TheSchlubPubSeductionDeduction seduces and then knocks out]] a guard working in the prison where Magneto is being held, then yanks the unconscious man's pants down and jabs a huge needle filled with liquid iron into him. Magneto then uses his powers to rip the iron out of the poor man's blood ''through his body'', so he can and use it to escape.
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Giant medical syringes tend to occur alongside the NaughtyNurseOutfit in Japanese media as a form of [[VisualPun visual wordplay]]: "chu" means kiss, while "chuusha" means injection.

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Giant medical syringes tend to occur alongside the NaughtyNurseOutfit in Japanese media as a form of [[VisualPun visual wordplay]]: "chu" means kiss, while "chuusha" "'''chu'''usha" means injection.
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Giant medical syringes tend to occur alongside the NaughtyNurseOutfit in Japanese media, as a wordplay is involved: "chu" means kiss, while "chuusha" means injection.

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Giant medical syringes tend to occur alongside the NaughtyNurseOutfit in Japanese media, media as a wordplay is involved: form of [[VisualPun visual wordplay]]: "chu" means kiss, while "chuusha" means injection.
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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had Bart get a bunch of novelty props glued to his face. After being taken to Dr. Hibbert, Hibbert pulls out one of these and proclaims he can treat it with "a series of ''painful injections'' directly into Bart's spine!", resulting in Bart sweating in terror and causing the props to fall off. Hibbert then reveals that the sweat dissolved the glue, and that the syringe was actually a button applicator.
-->'''Bart:''' [[LampshadeHanging Couldn't you have just turned up the heat a little?]]
-->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' Oh, heavens no! It had to be terror sweat!

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* One episode The subplot of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had episode "Lost Our Lisa" has Bart get a bunch of novelty props glued to his face.face with toxic industrial adhesive. After being taken to Dr. Hibbert, Hibbert pulls out one of these a bizarre gun with ''ten'' oversized needles and proclaims he can treat it with "a series of ''painful injections'' directly into Bart's spine!", resulting in spine!". As Bart sweating in terror and causing is terrified at the idea, the props to fall off. Hibbert then reveals that the sweat dissolved the glue, and that the syringe was actually a button applicator.
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* A flashback in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'' shows the rats being experimented on using syringes that would be unusually large for use on humans, but are proportionally ''extremely'' oversized for rodents.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Grow}} nano vol.3'', one of the items used to heal the sick Onky is a giant syringe. The sick Only need to sleep to receive his shot, or else he'll [[AfraidOfNeedles avoids it]].

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* In ''VideoGame/{{Grow}} nano vol.3'', one of the items used to heal the sick Onky is a giant syringe. The sick Only need Onky needs to sleep to receive his shot, or else he'll [[AfraidOfNeedles avoids it]].
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* Downplayed in ''[[VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival Love Live! School Idol Festival]]''. One of Kotori?s costumes has her dressed as a nurse and carrying a giant two-handed syringe, but it?s just a prop. It doesn't actually do anything.

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* Downplayed in ''[[VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival Love Live! School Idol Festival]]''. One of Kotori?s Kotori's costumes has her dressed as a nurse and carrying a giant two-handed syringe, but it?s it's just a prop. It doesn't actually do anything.
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* In ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode ?Kitten Kong?, the titular trio have to resort to one of these to inject a kitten, who?s grown to giant size after being fed a growth formula, with the antidote.

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* In ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode ?Kitten Kong?, "Kitten Kong", the titular trio have to resort to one of these to inject a kitten, who?s who's grown to giant size after being fed a growth formula, with the antidote.

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* In [[Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka]], Kurumi Mugen is a nurse-themed MagicalGirl who uses a giant syringe as one of her primary weapons. While she is the group's healer, she also doubles as their TortureTechnician and at any given time her syringe could be loaded with anything from truth serums to flesh-melting chemicals.

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* In [[Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka]], ''Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka'', Kurumi Mugen is a nurse-themed MagicalGirl who uses a giant syringe as one of her primary weapons. While she is the group's healer, she also doubles as their TortureTechnician and at any given time her syringe could be loaded with anything from truth serums to flesh-melting chemicals.


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* One episode of ''Series/GilligansIsland'' involved Gilligan causing the others to sneeze around him due to his skin absorbing an allergic compound. The Professor comes up with a solution and Gilligan agrees to be injected with it. The Skipper and Professor decide to mess with Gilligan a bit by pretending they have to use a fake giant syringe first before Gilligan accidentally injects himself with the real solution by backing into the needle they were going to use.
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Want something to cause someone's [[AfraidOfNeedles trypanophobia]] to really act up? A needle so big, it's almost as big as the person using it! Never mind that such a huge needle would be very hard to target a vein with or how injecting an amount of serum over half of the human body's mass into the bloodstream probably isn't practical, because this is fiction. RuleOfCool and RuleOfFunny are king! Expect the needle to be so big that it requires ''at least'' two hands to carry, which carries a lot of impracticality on its own.

This might be used in an InjectionPlot to immediately justify a character's reluctance to get a shot; they might be willing to get a prick from a regular needle, but not ''that'' big ol' needle.

Giant medical syringes tend to occur alongside the NaughtyNurseOutfit in Japanese media, as a wordplay is involved: "chu" means kiss, while "chuusha" means injection.

Such a huge syringe can probably make for an easy ImprovisedWeapon, if it's not just made as a weapon to begin with.

May involve PlayingWithSyringes, which is for unethical medical experimentation.

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* ''Anime/{{Digimon}}'': Demi-Devimon has an attack called Demi-Dart which has him hurling a (for him) over-sized syringe at an opponent. He tried to use it on TK in an effort take him forget about Patamon, so presumably it's filled with something less beneficial than medicine.
* In ''Anime/HealinGoodPrettyCure'', the Healing Good Arrow is a giant syringe that is used as a weapon.
* In [[Manga/MagicalGirlSpecOpsAsuka Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka]], Kurumi Mugen is a nurse-themed MagicalGirl who uses a giant syringe as one of her primary weapons. While she is the group's healer, she also doubles as their TortureTechnician and at any given time her syringe could be loaded with anything from truth serums to flesh-melting chemicals.
* Ako's Artifact in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is a massive syringe (the needle alone is noted to be ''1.8 cm wide'') that can bestow effects like boosting her allies abilities or messing with an enemy's sense of direction. [[AssShove Oh, and it has to be injected through the butt.]]
* In one episode of ''Anime/SailorMoon'' R, the droid Pharmacon attacks by shooting giant syringe needles, and the same applies to the phage "Sailor Doctor" from Stars.
* Mika Mizumi from ''Usagichan De Cue'' has volunteered to perform cosplay as a school fundraiser, choosing to portray a Naughty Nurse, complete with a giant syringe as a prop. The mostly male crowd reacts strongly when Miku straddles the thing coquettishly.
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* ''Animation/NoonboryAndTheSuper7'': Discussed in "Pongdybory's Cold Feet" when Cozybory and Jetybory claim that Doctorbory gave them injections with very long syringes (much to Pongdybory's dismay).
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* Magazine/{{MAD}} Magazine Issue #198 had a catalog for school supplies, such as a 2-speed drinking fountain ("Feeble Drip" or "Soaking Splash"). One item was a set of 4-foot-tall hypodermic needles for the school nurse's office, designed to encourage kids who are faking being sick to recover quickly. The syringes are actually designed for tranquilizing elephants, but the kids don't need to know that!
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* One ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' Sunday strip has Liz administer shots for Garfield and Odie. Subverted for Odie, whose shot was smaller than what Garfield told him in the waiting room. Once it's Garfield's turn, however, Liz is carrying a needle that's almost as long as she is tall.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' when the army arrives to deal with the [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever newly giant]] Susan, they bring along a needle of sedative so large it needs to be administered via ballista. After getting hit in the leg, Susan pulls it out and throws it, impaling a soldier's foot.
* The 2002 spinoff of the ''Manhua/OldMasterQ'' Manhwa, titled ''Master Q's Fantasy Zone Battle'', introduces the sidekick, Chin, who works as a doctor, his first scene teasing a flu patient with a humongous syringe as large as himself. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere The terrified patient predictably bolts out of the clinic]] just as Chin pulls out a smaller syringe, says "[[JustJokingJustification Nah, just kidding]]!" before realizing the patient had left.
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* In ''Film/TheAmazingColossalMan'', the heroic scientists use a giant syringe to inject phlebotinum into the bone marrow of a fifty-foot-tall giant, in order to stop his growth. The giant inevitably pulls the syringe out, looks at it (a real normal-size syringe in the actor's hand) with increasing disgust, and flings it down at the scientists, impaling one of them.
-->'''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]]:''' Ooh! This is exactly why lawn darts were taken off the market.
* A famous gag scene from ''Film/KidnappingCaucasianStyle'' is when the heroes, disguised as medics, are giving the trio of villains sedative injections under the guise of vaccine. [[TheBigGuy The Pro]] is injected with a huge syringe which the hero then struggles to pull out. In reality, it is called a Janet Syringe, and is used not for injections, but to flush out all kinds of filth like pus or earwax.
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* ''Series/{{Bottom}}'': In the third live show ("Hooligans' Island"), Eddie tries to cure Richie of poison from a dart fired by the natives using a medical kit from a Japanese bunker housed on the island. Said kit includes a syringe which is over a foot long (which Richie is naturally none too pleased at the prospect of being jabbed with).
* In ''Series/TheGoodies'' episode ?Kitten Kong?, the titular trio have to resort to one of these to inject a kitten, who?s grown to giant size after being fed a growth formula, with the antidote.
* ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'': In the episode "Bailout", April has to ask Ann for a favor and does so in her own inimitable style:
-->'''April''': I have to tell you a secret, but if you tell anyone I will kill you with a giant syringe. ''[brandishes giant syringe]''
* ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo''[=/=]''Series/GekisouSentaiCarranger'': During the Rescuezords/VRV Machines' first battle, Wind Rescue/V Rescue (which is in the form of an ambulance) fires a giant syringe at Metallosaurus/Braking.
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* Magazine/MAD Magazine Issue #198 had a catalog for school supplies, such as a 2-speed drinking fountain ("Feeble Drip" or "Soaking Splash"). One item was a set of 4-foot-tall hypodermic needles for the school nurse's office, designed to encourage kids who are faking being sick to recover quickly. The syringes are actually designed for tranquilizing elephants, but the kids don't need to know that!
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Doks (more commonly known as Painboyz due to their [[HarmfulHealing madcap sense of what counts as "medicine"]]) are the Orks' medical specialists. Their kit often includes huge syringes called 'Urty Syringes that are either used in medical procedures on other Orks or to inject foes with nasty chemicals in melee combat.
* [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Injection_Fairy_Lily Injection Fairy Lily]] in ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' is a fairy nurse that is carrying a massive syringe. As a card, she is a Spellcaster-type card with 400 Attack and 1500 Defense with the effect of granting herself 3000 Attack whenever she attacks or is attacked at the cost of 2000 Life Points on the player. Despite the card depicting her with a syringe in the actual card game, the English version of the anime replaces it with a rocket.
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* ''VideoGame/BraveNine'': Galania happens to be called a genius psychopath nurse and her weapon of choice is a giant syringe. It seems she can use it to extend a patient's immortality by two seconds at the expense of being 120% the pain.
* ''VideoGame/BugFables'': When Team Snakemouth accepts [[MadScientist Patton's]] services to reassign their stats, he pulls out a massive syringe out of [[BagOfHolding his tiny bag]] to extract the team's stats, and then the scene irises out right before he literally starts PlayingWithSyringes. In the aftermath, Team Snakemouth clearly appears to be in pain from his experimentation.
* ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'': The Dr. Klot enemies, which are {{Monster Clown}}s in doctor outfits, are sometimes seen using giant syringe needles as weapons. If not a needle, their other WeaponOfChoice is a giant bonesaw.
* The Nyx enemies in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' are demon nurses wielding giant syringes that inflict [[UniversalPoison poison status]] if they successfully stick the player character.
-->'''Nyx''': "Medicine time!" ''*Jab*'' "Don't you feel better now?"
* In ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'', Mikan Tsumiki's execution has Monokuma approaching her with a giant syringe of glowing green liquid... [[BaitAndSwitch which he then uses to fill a giant arm-shaped rocket up with fuel and launch Mikan into the stratosphere]].
* ''VideoGame/DarkDeception'': The Reaper Nurses from "Chapter 4: Mortal Ramifications" wield giant syringes as their main weapons.
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': BB's Noble Phantasm C.C.C. (Cursed Cupid Cleanser) transforms BB into a nurse with a huge syringe she needs an underarm grip for and injects the enemy with what appears to be a bunch of Ascension materials. The actual process is apparently much more complex, with BB turning into a nurse and injecting the enemy using a needle just being what outsiders observe.
* ''Founders Fortune'': Your settlers can get injured or fall ill. If you trained one of them as a doctor, he/she can administer various cures to help them recover. One of the animations features the doctor injecting the patient with a syringe that is about half the size of an adult settler.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Grow}} nano vol.3'', one of the items used to heal the sick Onky is a giant syringe. The sick Only need to sleep to receive his shot, or else he'll [[AfraidOfNeedles avoids it]].
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' GaidenGame ''Guilty Gear Petit'' has a blonde nurse called Fanny, whose WeaponOfChoice is a huge syringe she can use both as an attack and [[StanceSystem as a standing post]].
* Downplayed in ''[[VideoGame/LoveLiveSchoolIdolFestival Love Live! School Idol Festival]]''. One of Kotori?s costumes has her dressed as a nurse and carrying a giant two-handed syringe, but it?s just a prop. It doesn't actually do anything.
* One of the weapon types in ''VideoGame/MakaiKingdom'' is giant Syringes. These weapons are particularly useful for healers, because their damage is based on the Resistance stat, which also determines the power of healing spells. A Syringe allows your healer to deal ample damage without sacrificing their healing capabilities.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Neptunia}}'' games where she is playable, a comically oversized syringe is Compa's WeaponOfChoice.
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': The Medic's Crusader's Crossbow is a crossbow that fires a giant syringe, which can heal allies in addition to hurting enemies.
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* ''Webcomic/AwfulHospital'': Doctor Phleboto Mizer's [[NonHumanHead head]] is a huge [[https://bogleech.com/awfulhospital/658.html rusty syringe]] atop an [[LongNeck extensible neck]], with his eyeballs floating inside. He actually uses it to inject medications, which might or might not [[AnatomicallyIgnorantHealing be at all appropriate]] to the physiology of his patient.
* ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'': Grape faints when she sees the vet get out [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2009/01/28/unorthodox-medicine/ a giant syringe]]. Turns out it's actually an industrial foam syringe, used to make pets faint in shock as a makeshift anesthetic, and the actual injection is done using a regular-size syringe.
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* ''LetsPlay/SkyDoesMinecraft'': In an episode of "Do Not Laugh" with [=YourPalRoss/House_Owner, Mithzan, and RedVactor=], Sky jokes about Ross' trypanophobia by presenting him with a several-story tall syringe, claiming he is just going to "draw a little bit of blood".
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* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': In "Candy Streets", Lumpy Space Princess arrives panicking because she has supposedly been robbed. Princess Bubblegum goes to find something to calm her down, and returns with a needle almost three times bigger than herself that she uses to inject LSP with a tranquilizer. PB says that [[{{Understatement}} she might have given her too much]], as LSP faints from the injection, but not before saying part of a name that Finn and Jake have to work off of to find the thief.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' episode "This Won't Hurt an Ed", Eddy learns that Kevin is afraid of needles and uses this to torment him by convincing everyone it's Booster Shot Day. Ed and Eddy use a crudely made giant medical syringe in one of their torment attempts.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': In "Chicken Poofs", Poof gets the titular sickness and runs off when Dr. Rip Studwell presents the cure in the form of a needle as big as the doctor himself. Studwell breaks the syringe while chasing after Poof, so he and Wanda have to travel to a jungle in Fairy World to get a flower for more. Wanda gets fed up when not only does it turn out that the humiliating trip into the jungle was pointless because Studwell just uses the flower to get a 20% discount for a pre-made serum at the pharmacy, but the syringe is merely a dispenser to pour the medicine into a cup.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': In "A Lot Going On Upstairs", Stewie's nightmare includes a version of Dr. Hartman carrying an oversized syringe chasing Stewie.
*''WesternAnimation/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' features this in the episode "K'nuckles is a Filthy Rat." Said episode has Flapjack adopt a flea-ridden rat and name it after Captain K'nuckles. The fleas eventually infect everyone with the Bubonic Plague. Saddened, Flapjack agrees to take the rat to Plague Island and after releasing it is told that as he's the only healthy person left, the doctor needs his blood to make an antidote for the plague. [[WideEyedIdealist Flapjack]] remarks that it's nice to be needed and maintains a happy disposition even after seeing the doctor holding a needle several times his size.
-->'''Doctor:''' Don't you mean nice to be ''[[{{Pun}} needled?]]''
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had Bart get a bunch of novelty props glued to his face. After being taken to Dr. Hibbert, Hibbert pulls out one of these and proclaims he can treat it with "a series of ''painful injections'' directly into Bart's spine!", resulting in Bart sweating in terror and causing the props to fall off. Hibbert then reveals that the sweat dissolved the glue, and that the syringe was actually a button applicator.
-->'''Bart:''' [[LampshadeHanging Couldn't you have just turned up the heat a little?]]
-->'''Dr. Hibbert:''' Oh, heavens no! It had to be terror sweat!
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* The large-gauge syringes used for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone_marrow#Donation_and_transplantation bone marrow transplants]] look like they are used to bast turkeys due to needing to penetrate deep into flesh and bone.
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