History Main / GrapplingHookPistol

* TabletopGame/{{LegendSystem}} gives these out to Rangers as part of the [[CrazyPrepared Professional Soldier]] track. In addition to the usual [[MundaneUtility wall scaling duties]] it lets you [[SimpleYetAwesome make a short range attack that knock opponents down]] [[YouWillNotEvadeMe and drags them over to you.]]

* [[Franchise/Batman Batman]].

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* [[Franchise/Batman Batman]].

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series: Three words, Chaos/Athena Blades.

* The ''{{Half-Life}}: Opposing Force'' expansion features a grappling hook weapon, although not a pistol. Rather, it's an alien barnacle that's been detached and that can be used on some maps to latch onto biological outcroppings.
** And in ''FreemansMind'', Gordon Freeman's InternalMonologue continually laments that his HEV suit doesn't have one.

* H.G. Wells' Grappler in ''{{Warehouse 13}}''. Self-made thank you very much.
** Strangely, it's put into the Warehouse after she gives it to Myka. It's hard to believe a grappling gun would be a dangerous Artifact, especially since it would be fairly easy to check for its "Artifact-ness" (simply dunk it into the purple liquid they use; if there's a flash, it's an Artifact). On the other hand, some of the items kept in the Warehouse are not Artifacts per se but simply ingenious inventions that some Warehouse agent has decided not to give to the world (the Tesla, for example, would be extremely useful for crowd control or hostage rescue; and the Farnsworth would make cell phones obsolete; then there's the electric car that can be powered by a person's bio-electricity).

* Hilariously and realistically used in an issue of ''{{Deadpool}}''. Yes, he has the gun. But using it to go up 90 floors of a building takes ''forever''.
* Night Raven in the MarvelUniverse wields one of these.
* In ''{{PS 238}}'', Moonshadow's costume includes a built-in grapple gun. He is getting better at using it.
* In ''LeScorpion'', the title character uses a grappling hook crossbow.

* [[http://www.hhenriksen.com/Inventory/Navision/BE002442_Launcher.htm REBS Launcher]] -- up to 50 m upwards or 80 m horizontally.

* [[http://www.rebs.no/Products/Grapnel_Launcher/HH_Grapnel_Launcher.htm OBS Launcher]] -- up to 50 m upwards or 80 m horizontally.

* DeffSkwadron: Killboy has one built into his bionik arm, which he uses to hijack a plane (while it's still flying).

** In ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'', Batman opts for a grappling-hook ''rifle''.
*** Of course, that was made before Batman's grappling gun was standard fare.
* ComicBook/SpiderMan's webshooters are similar, but it uses a special strong adhesive chemical called "web-fluid" instead. [[Film/SpiderManTrilogy The Raimi movie]] replaces the web fluid with "natural" spider webs. The [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan other movie]] goes back to the webshooters.

* Rorschach from ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' has a GrapplingHookPistol that operates on compressed carbon dioxide gas; not only is it his trademark tool, [[ImprovisedWeapon he actually]] ''[[ImprovisedWeapon shoots someone]]'' [[ImprovisedWeapon with it at one point]]. It's also quite big, nearly lifesize to the real versions.\\
Rorschach was actually given the grappling hook by Nite Owl, a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob, [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys gadgets galore]] type of hero who ends up appearing very similar to Batman -- even though he's actually a CaptainErsatz for the second BlueBeetle.\\
Rorschach's gun is a lot more realistic than Batman's. It's much bigger, and it also doesn't have a motor in it to elevate him.
* In the 1940s, [[SandmanMysteryTheatre The Sandman]] had a GrapplingHookPistol called a "wirepoon gun". His [[LegacyCharacter successor]], Sand, has used it as a weapon a couple of times.
** As a younger hero once pointed out: "Wirepoon. Sounds kinda dirty."

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* {{Franchise/Batman}}.
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Also, [[OverlyLongGag Batman]] uses one.

* Hilariously and realistically used in a recent issue of ''{{Deadpool}}''. Yes, he has the gun. But using it to go up 90 floors of a building takes ''forever''.

* Adding a grappling hook is a common mod for first-person shooters such as ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament'' and ''{{Quake}}''.

* Batman in [[WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC The Randomverse]].

* The Hookshot from Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda series, a SchizoTech-tastic item that shoots out a VariableLengthChain that latches on to wooden objects or specialized targets. It first appeared in ALinkToThePast and has appeared, in some form or another, in nearly every game in the series afterwards.
** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' has both the basic Hookshot and the upgraded Longshot, which, obviously, is quite a bit longer. The ''Majora's Mask'' version has a range that is average between the two ''Ocarina'' versions.

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Phantom Hourglass]]'' have regular old [[InstantKnots Grappling Hooks]], though the former also has a Hookshot as well.

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Also, Batman uses one.

* Generator (Jade Sinclair) at the SuperHeroSchool Whateley Academy in the WhateleyUniverse has one in an arm bracer. But she can cheat. [[spoiler:She can cast a psychokinetic copy of herself into objects, so she can always make the "grappler" end do what she wants.]]

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* In the ''StarTrekTyphonPact'' novel ''Zero-Sum Game'', Bashir and Sarina Douglas have "bolt-launchers" which resemble tiny harpoon-guns trailing monofiliment wire. They can also be set for zero-recoil for use in space, although at one point Bashir intentionally ''doesn't'' do this to use it as a low-power personal thruster.

* [[OnePiece Usopp]], being a sometime GadgeteerGenius, debuted something along these lines in the Skypiea arc: it fired from his belt, enabling him (in theory) to swing from tree to tree. It was called something along the lines of "Usopp [[{{Tarzan}} AaahAahAahAahAahAah]]!"