History Main / WeaponsThatSuck

* OlderThanSteam: There are quite a few examples of Magical Artifacts That Suck in the Chinese epic ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', including magical gourds and jade vases that suck people in and slowly digest them with the container's equivalent of stomach acids.

* A jar-o-demon-sucking showed up in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' during the Demon Arc.

* ''{{ComicBook/Transmetropolitan}}'' features someone trying to sell Channon the "Chupacabras", a gun that can drain a target of blood in 4 seconds. Channon, who is a highly professional gun-for-hire, comments that 4 seconds to kill someone is far too long, and that she wouldn't be caught dead packing a "Goatsucker".

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''

* ''VideoGame/TheSims 3'' expansion ''Ambitions'' adds new professions to the game, one of those being Ghost Hunter, and your main tool of a the trade is the Banshee Banisher which is used to suck up spirits or ghost Sims.
** ''VideoGame/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.

* ''Videogame/{{Borderlands}}'' has the singularity grenades, which draw enemies into the area of effect before detonating.

* In ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', Dingodile [[PromotedToPlayable as a playable character]] switches his flamethrower out for a vacuum cannon capable of sucking up and tossing explosives as well as being able to use it to hover and double-jump.

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* [[Manga/HunterXHunter Shizuku]] uses an actual ''vacuum cleaner'' as a weapon, albeit infused with her BattleAura. She calls it "Deme-chan" ("Blinky" in the translated manga).

* In one episode of the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' anime, Soun Tendo intends to use a magical gourd to swallow up and imprison Ranma's shadow, which has come to life and has started making trouble (long story). The problem is, it only works if he can call out the Shadow Ranma's name... and he doesn't know it. This is a reference to the ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' example below. In a different story, Ranma uses a magical box to catch an oni that's currently possessing the body of Happosai, sucking both of them into it.

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The Golden Policewomen use a suction based non-lethal weapon called the Inhilerator to capture foes.

Sometimes, in a work of fiction, the good guys will use FrickinLaserBeams to defeat the bad guys or the monster. Usually, said laser beams work like some [[SciFi science-fictiony]] approximation of a bullet. Occasionally, though, the beam will do something totally different: suck the target into the weapon.

Most of the time, this doesn't kill or otherwise destroy the target, it just [[SealedEvilInACan traps]] them, to (presumably) be disposed of or imprisoned elsewhere later. A lot of the time, when some supernatural menace won't go down under {{Frickin Laser Beam|s}} fire, you need a [[ViciousVac Frickin Vacuum Cleaner]] to get the job done!

* The ''WesternAnimation/MonsterBusterClub'' and their [[FrickinLaserBeams vacuuvators]].

For when a character uses ''themselves'' as the vacuum, see VacuumMouth.

* ''Borderlands'' has the singularity grenades, which draw enemies into the area of effect before detonating.

* In ''Videogame/CrashBandicoot4ItsAboutTime'', Dingodile [[PromotedToPlayable as a playable character]] switches his flamethrower out for a vacuum cannon capable of sucking up and tossing explosives.

Most of the time, this doesn't kill or otherwise destroy the target, it just [[SealedEvilInACan traps]] them, to (presumably) be disposed of or imprisoned elsewhere later. A lot of the time, when some supernatural menace won't go down under {{Frickin Laser Beam|s}} fire, you need a Frickin Vacuum Cleaner to get the job done!

We mean ''literally''.

* In ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'', Aladdin defeats Jafar by tricking him into wishing he were a genie. Jafar is promptly sucked into his new lamp in a Frickin Vacuum Cleaner effect, because genies must be released by new masters.

* ''Film/AntMan'': The shrinking technology is combined with C4 explosive to create a form of compression bomb, utterly destroying a research facility and any information inside while avoiding collateral damage (the staff has been evacuated).

* Koon's [[BagOfHolding Manbarondenna]] from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' proved it self surprisingly effective against [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifters]] by sucking them up mid-transformation.

* ''WebOriginal/HowToHero'' at one point when discussing the pros and cons of having a retired superhero for a mentor, mentions a new-fangled villain who has a giant vacuum that sucks up cars and compares them to an old-fangled villain who had a giant vacuum that sucked up horses and buggies and notes that the lessons learned from the older case are completely irrelevant to this newer case.

* There are two weapons like this in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog''. Somehow, they have limited ammunition.

* After Videogame/{{Anodyne}} gave it's protagonist a broom, ''Anodyne 2'' gives new protagonist Nova a vacuum. Nova was created to shrink down to microscopic size and purify the corruption of the various characters by vacuuming up the evil dust.

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* After [[Videogame/Anodyne the first game]] gave it's protagonist a broom, ''Anodyne 2'' gives new protagonist Nova a vacuum. Nova was created to shrink down to microscopic size and purify the corruption of the various characters by vacuuming up the evil dust.

* After VideoGame/[[Anodyne the first game]] gave it's protagonist a broom, ''Anodyne 2'' gives new protagonist Nova a vacuum. Nova was created to shrink down to microscopic size and purify the corruption of the various characters by vacuuming up the evil dust.

* After [[VideoGame/Anodyne the first game]] gave it's protagonist a broom, ''Anodyne 2'' gives new protagonist Nova a vacuum. Nova was created to shrink down to microscopic size and purify the corruption of the various characters by vacuuming up the evil dust.