History Main / HumanCannonball

* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' Roberto Benigni [[AchievementsInIgnorance accidentally wins]] his bout with Benito Mussolini this way.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons: Virtual Bart'', the goal of the Baby Bart level is to get Baby Bart into the cannon at the end of the circus tent. The cannon fires him out of the tent and into the ice cream truck he pursues in the following cutscene.

* ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} had to use a cannon as transportation when his company was cutting back on travel budgets.

** In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'', Yunobo has an ability to [[BeehiveBarrier become immune to any form of damage]]. As a result, he makes a very good cannonball and contributes to the Rudania fight by being used as ammo for the Goron Cannons.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'' and in a similar minigame in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Skyward Sword]]'', although the catapult used before the stealth scene in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'' might also count.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Yunobo has an ability to [[BeehiveBarrier become immune to any form of damage]]. As a result, he makes a very good cannonball and contributes to the Rudania fight by being used as ammo for the Goron Cannons.

** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'', Marioo can get blown out of a canon if he answers incorrectly in the Sudden Death question in the ''Shy Guys Finish Last'' quiz show. However, since the show takes place on a Floating Continent, Mario gets blown through the roof straight into a NonStandardGameOver.

* In the ''Film/LoveAndDeath'' LovableCoward [[Creator/WoodyAllen Boris Grushenko]] hides in the cannon barrel. During the [[UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars battle of Austerlitz]]...

* ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' is a very badass example. At one point in the story, the Doom Slayer loads himself up to a giant cannon and shoots himself out of it!

** ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' had Wario's Battle Canyon in the original, where this was the only method of transport between areas.

* The Mistralton Gym in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' is rife with this kind of transportation. The second-to-last one before your meeting with Skyla is... [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments maladjusted]].

* Comes up occasionally in the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series:

** ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' features cannons where how it fires will depend on who the team leader is when you enter it.
** Also in ''Sonic Heroes'', during the Bullet Station Zone the player team will occasionally use a really big cannon, which is the size of an entire building.

** In the ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' episode, "[[CircusEpisode Circus of Plunders]]", Knuckles becomes one of these when he, along with Sonic, Amy, and Sticks get jobs at T.W. Barker's Circus of Wonders.
** In the episode, "[[Recap/SonicBoomS1E13UnluckyKnuckles Unlucky Knuckles]]" from the same series, in an attempt to shift the luck balance of the universe (the idea given to him by [[ConspiracyTheorist Sticks]]), Knuckles fires himself out of a cannon at the bottom of a deep pit.
** In "Role Models", another episode from the same series, Knuckles launches Tails out of a cannon and Tails lands in a trash can. Before Knuckles can do the same with Amy, he is stopped by [[MoralGuardians D.B. Platypus]]. When Sonic protests against D.B. calling him and his friends bad role models, he hits the cannon, launching Amy into a tree.

* Comes up occasionally in the ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'' series:

* In ''FanFic/{{Fractured}}'', a ''MassEffect''[=/=]''StarWars''[=/=]''VideoGame/{{Borderlands}}'' [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover crossover]], Lilith is placed in a canister and blasted out of a magnetic railgun. In a nod to what would [[RealityEnsues normally happen]] in such situations, it's [[HandWave handwaved]] by saying the gun fired at "minimum power." Plus, she's a Siren, so her physiology is [[SuperToughness more robust]].

* Cannon travel is a staple of ''VideoGame/WorldOfMana'' games (featured in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyAdventure'', ''VideoGame/SecretOfMana'', and ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3'')--just hop in and shoot off, as your characters don't ever have to worry about fall damage!

* ''Film/{{Le Voyage dans la lune}}'' has out heroes blasted to the Moon in a capsule fired from an enormous cannon.