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* Need to go up against one of the scariest insects in the world, the ''suzumebachi'' or [[http://www.japanprobe.com/2007/09/23/terrifying-japanese-giant-hornets/ Japanese giant hornet]], whose stings kill about 70 Japanese people a year? A vacuum cleaner is your best bet. (If you have [[http://www.japanprobe.com/2009/09/03/elderly-exterminator-vs-giant-japanese-hornets/ balls of solid titanium]], that is.)
* Black holes, if you think about it a certain way.
** [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay Black holes do not work that way!]] Good night!
** They'd work that way if they're inside an atmosphere, mainly because the gravity would pull air into the singularity, creating the mother of all pressure differentials. Of course, that's the least of your problems if it's a stellar-mass black hole...
* This is a fairly popular method of capturing prey for various submersible critters. Its primary advantage is that theres no need to actually come into contact with the prey before snaring it, just get within a certain distance of it. It also helps with multiple small prey items. An additional means of killing the prey is recommended for anything dangerous, as the mere act of "vacuuming" it up usually leaves it alive and quite angry.

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* The Poltergust 3000 in ''[=~Luigi's Mansion~=]''.

** On that note, in ''[[{{ptitlepf9wvkpu}} Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' Bowser gains the ability to do this, where he'll either use this to consume parts of the enemies or to suck up smaller enemies so that Mario and Luigi can deal with them.

* [[HowDidWeMissThisOne Belatedly]] fulfilling this page's requisite ''DoctorWho'' entry, the Daleks' multi-purpose "plunger arm" has this as one of its functions.

* One of [=SonSon=]'s abilities in ''MarvelVsCapcom 2'' is to suck an opponent into a vase....thing she's carrying, then cook it. Given [=SonSon=]'s origins, this is likely a reference to the vase from ''JourneyToTheWest'' above, possibly combined with Laozi's eight-way trigem cauldron, given the "cooking" aspect.

** On that note, in ''[=~Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story~=]'' Bowser gains the ability to do this, where he'll either use this to consume parts of the enemies or to suck up smaller enemies so that Mario and Luigi can deal with them.

* There are quite a few examples of [[WeaponsThatSuck Magical Artifacts That Suck]] in the ancient Chinese epic JourneytotheWest, including magical gourds and jade vases that suck people in and slowly digest them with the container's equivalent of stomach acids, making this trope OlderThanSteam.

* One of [=SonSon=]'s abilities in ''MarvelVsCapcom 2'' is to suck an opponent into a vase....thing she's carrying, then cook it. Given [=SonSon=]'s origins, this is likely a reference to the magic bottle from ''JourneyToTheWest'' above, possibly combined with Laozi's eight-way trigem cauldron, given the "cooking" aspect.

* One of [=SonSon=]'s abilities in ''MarvelVsCapcom 2'' is to suck an opponent into a vase....thing she's carrying, then cook it. Given [=SonSon=]'s origins, this is likely a reference to the vase from ''JourneyToTheWest'' above, possibly combined with Laozi's eight-way trigem cauldron, given the "cooking" aspect.

* WeaponsThatSuck have a role in [[{{Ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville's]] ''UnLunDun'' [[spoiler:Specifically, the UnGun, which sucks up the Smog at the climax of the novel.]]

* One of [=SonSon=]'s abilities in ''MarvelVsCapcom 2'' is to suck an opponent into a vase....thing she's carrying, (likely some variation on Laozi's eight-way trigem cauldron, a reference to ''JourneyToTheWest'')) then cook it.

* One of SonSon's abilities in ''MarvelVsCapcom 2'' is to suck an opponent into a vase....thing she's carrying, then cook it.

* The Suck Cannon from ''RatchetAndClank''.

->"This s... sucks!"
--> --'''Fatso''' (being sucked into a vacuum cleaner) in ''{{Film/Casper}}''

* [[LeisureSuitLarry Miroku]] from ''InuYasha'', cursed with a black hole in his hand.

* The Vacuum Gun from ''{{Shadow the Hedgehog}}''

* WeaponsThatSuck have a role in China Mieville's ''Un Lun Dun'' [[spoiler:Specifically, the UnGun, which sucks up the Smog at the climax of the novel.]]

* Similar to the ''Jumanji'' example, the end of ''CoolWorld'' features cartoonist Jack Deebs, [[RogerRabbitEffect transmogrified into a cartoon superhero]], returning the Spike of Power to the roof of the Las Vegas Plaza Hotel, thus curing everyone in the city who had been [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting involuntarily transformed]] into cartoon characters and sucking all the denizens of the Cool World back where they belong with a vacuum cleaner-like effect. (It makes some semblance of sense, but you gotta watch it)

* In the first episode of ''{{Reaper}}'', Sam is given a demonic dirt devil vacuum in order to recapture a soul that escaped hell.

** TheSims 2 has the SimVac aspiration reward, which sucks skill points and aspiration points out of another Sim, or if the sim using it has a low aspiration meter it may backfire and transfer them to the target sim instead.

* The Poltergust 3000 in ''[[LuigisMansion Luigi's Mansion]]''.

* The Vacuum Gun from ''[[SonicTheHedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog]]''

* [[LegendOfZelda Link]]'s Gust Jar in ''The Minish Cap''.
* One of SonSon's abilities in Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 is to suck an opponent into a vase....thing she's carrying, then cook it.

* MegaMan[=\=]Rockman Trigger's Vacuum Arm in the Rockman Dash[=/=]MegaManLegends series. Comes with three levels of suckitude, from "why don't you just walk up and grab the Zenny" to "Whoa, there was money behind me on the other side of the room?"
* In ''[[SagaFrontier SaGa Frontier]]'', characters of the mystic race get the Mystic Sword, Mystic Glove, and Mystic Boots. Dealing the finishing blow with any of these three weapons sucks the monster inside of them, allowing the character to gain boosted stats and a skill of the monster's.

** On that note, in [[MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga Mario & Luigi]]: Bowser's Inside Story Bowser gains the ability to do this, where he'll either use this to consume parts of the enemies or to suck up smaller enemies so that Mario and Luigi can deal with them.
* The third {{Disgaea}} game has an attack where you shoot the enemy with an energy ball, suck them into the gun, shake the gun around (doing damage in the process) and then shoot them back out. The attack is called 'Cocktail Shaker'. It's that kind of game.