History Main / WeaponsThatSuck

-->--Description of the '''Suck Cannon''', ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 Ratchet & Clank]]'' [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002 (2002)]]

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}''

* Team Rocket uses vacuums now and again in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime.
** The Poké Balls can also be considered as this trope.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' manga features the Space Pirates using an artificial singularity as a weapon at one point.

* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': the [[{{Gonk}} Unsho Sisters]] own the Paopei Kongen Kinto (Golden Coalescence Ladle), a large pot which they can use to suck people and things inside, storing them in as prisoners or to protect them. The pot's suction is indiscriminate, and cannot store excessively big items. In fact, Bukichi manages to smash it by throwing a massive boulder at the pot's mouth, closing it up and causing the Kongen Kinto to overheat and explode.

* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:

* The Dark Elves in ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'' have grenades that create powerful implosions.

* ''Film/AntMan1'': 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).

** The Poltergust 3000 in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''.

** The third game had the Rift Inducer, which shot out a black hole that was an insta-kill to any small or medium-sized enemy. In "A Crack In Time" however, it was changed to summoning an EldritchAbomination that grabbed mooks with its tentacles.

* The Persephones in ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' use vacuum cleaners with skull-shaped canisters. For fun, let one of them catch Charlotte in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin''...
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'':

* ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' 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/RedAlert3'':

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* In the ''Franchise/MassEffect'' series, the Biotic power named "Singularity", specialty of the [[SquishyWizard Adept]] class and [[HotScientist Liara T'Soni]], creates a miniature black hole that sucks all unshielded enemies into its orbit and keeps them helplessly suspended in the air while you pick them off.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' have a number of high-powered Super Vacuums, which was used by the gang to contain an expanding artifical sun to prevent it from causing a meltdown in the finale.

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 [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beam]] fire, you need a [[ViciousVac Frickin Vacuum Cleaner]] to get the job done!

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{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.

* ''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).
** Actually, it's not an actual vacuum cleaner: she creates it with her [[BattleAura nen]]. ''It has teeth and barks.''

* In the climactic fight of ''Film/KungFuZohra'' that's full of ImprovFu, the eponymous Zohra uses a vaccum cleaner to momentarily incapacitate Omar (her [[DomesticAbuse violent husband]]), by having his mouth blocked in its power nozzle by the sucking.

** Yuanshi Tianzun holds the Jade Coffer, which can drag people inside them and quikcly melt them into red goo.

* ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' introduces the [[https://twitter.com/splatoonna/status/1518659285248397312?s=21&t=zlW4s634sfGMUufEUT4QAA Ink Vac]], which allows you to suck up enemy shots and then fire them back with a powerful explosive blast.

** Which makes the sole ShoutOut on ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' so jarring for its accuracy.
** An arcade game of ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' has the ghost sucked in by the proton beams as well.

** At least until it goes from suck to blow.

* 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. In the specific case of the Crimson Gourd and the White Jade Pot, for the tool to work you have to [[SayMyName call the victim by name and the victim has to answer.]]

Sometimes, in a work of fiction, the good guys will use [[EnergyWeapon Energy Weapons]] 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.

* One of the mini-games of the PC adaptation of ''TableTopGame/{{Monopoly}} Junior'' involves a vacuum cleaner sucking up ghosts in a [[BigBoosHaunt haunted house]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'', Roll has a vacuum cleaner attachment on her arm that she uses as a weapon.

* In the climactic fight of ''Film/KungFuZohra'', the eponymous Zohra uses a vaccum cleaner to momentarily incapacitate Omar (her [[DomesticAbuse violent husband]]), by having his mouth blocked in its power nozzle by the sucking.

* ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' has implosion grenades, apparently activated by AntiMatter. It's the only weapon that proves effective against the [[FogOfDoom Project Cerebus]].

* ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' has implosion grenades, apparently activated by AntiMatter. It's the only weapon that proves effective against the [[FogOfDoom Cerebus defense system]] that guards the [[ForbiddenZone Darks]].

* The [[TheEponymousShow titular]] board game in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' uses strange magic to this effect. First, it sucks in Alan Parrish into its fictional jungle, then it releases a series of creatures, villains, and strange meteorology into the [[RealLife real world]]. In the end, everything is sucked back in one huge vaccum cleaner-like effect.

* In ''Series/TheMightyBoosh'' the evil spirit of Jazz is subuded by being sucked into a vacuum cleaner. Sadly this doesn't stop the spirit as he just rolls the cleaner to Howard and "Get's inside him."

** The Poltergust 3000 appears briefly in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' during the coffee sidequest along with Professor Gadd, who also shows off a Poltergust 3001, which also doubles as a sort of hoverbike.

* Suction is a fairly popular method of capturing prey among aquatic organisms. Its primary advantage is that there's 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 the victim alive and quite agitated. While suctioned prey is often suffocated in the process of being swallowed, specimens of deepsea fish have been found killed by their struggling prey while in the process of trying to swallow them.

** ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion3'' gives yet another upgrade, the Poltergust G-00, which can use the vacuumed ghost protoplasm to create a clone of Luigi named "Goo-igi"
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank''

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda''

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* The Magic Lamp in the ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series. Initially used by Risky in ''Risky's Revenge'' [[spoiler:to suck out [[BroughtDownToNormal Shantae's genie powers]]]], later used by Shantae in ''Shantae and the Pirate's Curse'' to suck up Dark Magic, different kinds of smells, and various items dropped around the area.

** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankAll4One'' features the Vac-U-Suk, a non-combat version of the Suck Cannon, which is ([[ImprovisedWeapon mos]][[{{Griefer}} tly]]) used for picking up bombs or fellow players and throwing them around to solve puzzles.

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

* The Persephones in ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' use vacuum cleaners with skull-shaped canisters. For fun, let one of them catch Charlotte in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin''...''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow''.

* The various sweepers in the ''VideoGame/BlinxtheTimeSweeper'' series.