Deadly Force Field

One of many exciting ways to misuse force fields for fun and profit.

"Did you know I can create a force field inside someone's body and expand it until they explode?"

— Susan Storm, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Deflector Shields are usually a defensive measure, protecting a person, object, installation, or ship from harm. But sometimes, force fields can be dangerous, either intrinsically or through using them in creative ways. Force fields opening and closing may cut objects or beings into pieces, or a Containment Field may shrink around an object, crushing it into oblivion. If the capability exists to create force fields within another object (like a person), those fields may interrupt vital connections (such as blocking a human's carotid artery, starving the brain of oxygenated blood) or be expanded to tear the unfortunate subject apart. If the force field in question is strong enough, hitting it may be like hitting an indestructible barrier, smashing the crashing object into bits.

When a Barrier Warrior decides to get dangerous, chances are good they will invoke this trope. Technical Pacifist versions can non-lethally disable their enemies with such attacks, while less scrupulous ones may end up invoking the Chunky Salsa Rule.

Related to Portal Cut, when dismemberment happens as a result of a teleport portal. Subtrope of Lethal Harmless Powers. Related to Absurd Cutting Power. Compare Orbiting Particle Shield. If the force field is used as a melee weapon, it's a kind of Shield Bash.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Aldnoah.Zero: The Nilokeras Kataphrakt that Trillram pilots uses its impenetrable forcefield both defensively and offensively. It's ability to essentially disintegrate anything that comes into contact with the field can also be used to allow it to instantly destroy anything by grappling with it.
  • This void barrier is also used by the Dioscuria, the personal Kataphrakt of Count Saazbaum.
• Bleach:
  • Hachigen "Hachi" Ushoda is a Kido master who specializes in using barrier magic for offensive and defensive purposes. His "Standing Ovation Spell" creates kido barriers around the opponent's head to decapitate them. He was able to defeat Barragan by transferring a barrier containing his rotting right arm into the Arrancar's body, having deduced that Barragan uses Required Secondary Powers to protect himself from his Make Them Rot power and wonders what will happen if it's reintroduced to his body beyond that protection. The results are fatal once the rot eats through the arm and barrier and starts destroying Barragan from the inside-out.
  • Orihime has an offensive spell called Koten Zanshun ("Solitary Sacred Cutting Shield"). It works by placing an energy shield within the opponent and splitting them in two.
• Dragon Ball Z: Broly's signature technique is his barrier, which he first used as a day-old baby to save his and his father's life, and by the time of Dragon Ball Z: Broly – The Legendary Super Saiyan he's skilled enough in its use to harm opponents with it by expanding it suddenly in their vicinity. He doesn't use it this way very often, though, having learned much more damaging ways to attack opponents with.
• Goblin Slayer: The titular slayer repeatedly uses the priestess' barrier powers offensively (much to her unease, because she'd very much prefer to remain a White Mage) such as casting an impenetrable barrier over the only exit to a goblin stronghold he'd set on fire so they can't escape death by asphyxiation, or summoning two barriers on either side of a goblin lord and crushing him between them.
• In Kekkaishi, the main method of dispatching monsters is to form a force field around them and then crush them with it. The cutting method described above also sees use.
• Neon Genesis Evangelion: EVAs have to use their AT Fields offensively to neutralize that of an Angel so they can make the kill. It turns out that all humans make their own AT Fields, which aren't capable of shielding them physically, but do keep their minds separate from each other. Using Lilith's AT Field to neutralize all of those is the cornerstone of SEELE's Assimilation Plot.
• In the Rebuild of Evangelion continuity, Zeruel the tenth angel uses its AT Field as its main offensive option by either releasing powerful blasts that sends enemies flying or as a ranged projectile, crushing whatever poor sap happened to get hit.
• One Piece:
  • A variant: Doflamingo's Birdcage technique is to surround a city-sized area with his impenetrable Razor Floss. Near the end of the Dressrosa arc, he decides to shrink it to kill everyone inside Dressrosa City. Fortunately he's defeated before it fully shrinks, making the Birdcage disappear.
  • Bartolomeo ate the Bari-Bari no Mi (Barrier Barrier Fruit) which lets him create translucent barriers. Aside from defense, he can use the barrier powers to attack, such as sending it to collide with the enemy or coating his fist with barrier to empower his punches.
• In an episode of Sailor Moon, Kunzite traps the Sailor Senshi in a contracting force field. Fortunately for them, Sailor Venus shows up and manages to disrupt it before they are crushed.
• The Daedalus Maneuver in Super Dimension Fortress Macross has the Macross focus its Deflector Shields on the "fist" so it can ram opponents without damaging itself.
• Jake Martinez from Tiger & Bunny, has the power to create Deflector Shields and uses it offensively creating tiny shields that act like a bullet on contact, applying a large pushing force in a small surface.

Comic Books

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Giles and Faith are fighting a rogue Slayer and her warlock ally. Giles grabs a book and starts chanting, the warlock mocks him for grabbing a book of defensive spells. Then Giles says he just created an expanding forcefield... inside of the warlock.
• Fantastic Four: Sue Storm is the poster girl for Took a Level in Badass precisely because of this trope. In the original comics, she had a more passive role, often playing the Damsel in Distress. The writers gave her invisibility powers a force field aspect to make her more active and useful, other writers gave her more creative ways to use them, and now "lil' Suzie" is one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe, period. Notably, she can deal out all four main manners of death this trope describes: cutting, crushing, popping, and internal blockage.
• Legion Of Superheroes: In the "End of an Era" storyline that led to the first reboot, an evil Brainiac 5 from a Mirror Universe used his forcefield belt to crush several Legionnaires, while commenting on the "lack of imagination" the mainstream Brainy showed by using it purely for defense.
• Marvel Zombies:
  • Ultimate Sue blocks the light from reaching some zombies' retinas, rendering them blind, and later, rapidly creating and dissipating bubbles in the zombie FF's brains, causing them to collapse.
  • Pre-zombie Sue uses the popping variant on zombie She-Hulk's head.
• Planetary: Kim Süskind of the Four can use her force field powers in very dangerous and ruthless ways like exploding people from within or shaping her force fields into spikes. As she is a Corrupted Character Copy of the above-mentioned Sue Storm, the story shows just how scary such powers can be in the hands of a less moral person.
• The Infinity Gauntlet: Thanos creates an indestructible force cube around Cyclops's head to counter the latter's eye beams. Unfortunately for Cyclops, it also cuts off Doctor Strange's spell that allowed him to breathe in space, and he suffocates to death despite Captain America's desperate attempts to free him.
• X-Men:
  • This is essentially the mutant power of junior X-Man Armor, as well as the Acolyte Unuscione.
  • Played with in Unuscione's father, Unus the Untouchable. He had a personal barrier that made him completely invulnerable to harm, but after the Beast built a device to amplify it the barrier prevented him from touching things, and in the end was deadly to him as it finally cut off his ability to breathe.
  • In Blood Ties, Exodus creates a barrier around the entirety of Genosha and threatens to crush the island and everyone on it unless the mutants rise up against the humans. He's not kidding, either — skyscrapers start collapsing under it just before Professor X and the Black Knight take him down.
  • Cecilia Reyes can mold her force field into spikes or use it as a blunt weapon. However, she rarely uses her power in such an offensive manner.

Fan Works

• All For Luz: One the Quirks Luz has stolen called "Forcefield Projection": This allows Luz to create a near-invincible forcefield in front of her that can withstand almost any kind of attack. Alternatively, Luz can shoot these forcefields at a target, and the more kinetic energy they have absorbed from attacks or just from being fired from a distance, the more devastating the blows from the forcefields become in the form of explosions. At their most powerful they can level a multi-storey building and can turn people into Ludicrous Gibs.
• In From Bajor to the Black, Eleya orders her chief engineer to adjust USS Kagoshima's Deflector Shield waveform until it is precisely 180 degrees out-of-phase with the shields of a Borg probe, which lets her ram their shields together so they cancel each other out and open a hole she can beam a photon torpedo through.
• In The Potter Family Grimoire, that's how Lord Voldemort dies. Harry cast an old family spell, creating a completely impenetrable shield destroying all it touches. Then he shrinks it around Voldemort's wraith.
• Attempted in Clash of the Titans against the entire Jump City as a final act of a defiant villain.
• Oversaturated World: From Oversaturation, in Clashing: Sunset's reflexive shield spell is a green barrier "that redirected the force, combining offense and defense".
• One of Dubior's new Adaptational Skills in Kirby: Revenge of Dream Land involves the mini-boss firing its force field at Kirby as a huge projectile.

Films — Animation

• In The Incredibles, Violet is able to use her force fields offensively. She can project them so that others crash into them, like she does with Dash. She and Dash can also combine their powers to form the "Incredi-Ball", where Dash uses his Super-Speed to run inside Violet's force field, which results in an unstoppable sphere hurtling along and bowling everything in its path out of the way. Incredibles 2 has her using them like blades and battering rams.

Films — Live-Action

• Avengers: Infinity War: The Outriders breaking through Wakanda's shield through sheer force of numbers are cut to pieces. Even the ones who make it through intact have large amounts of flesh burned off.
• In Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Sue threatens Dr. Doom by informing him she has the ability to create a force field inside of someone and then expand it until the person explodes (an ability well within the range of her comic counterpart). Both movies have Sue using her force fields to knock people back.
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: In the final battle, the teachers create a magic force field around the school. When a couple of Death Eaters run into it, they disintegrate.
• The Predator: Predator ships have Some Kind of Force Field. As our heroes are trying to bring the ship down after jumping on its hull, the shield comes on. One slides under, another jumps over, but a third ends up Half the Man He Used to Be. Later, the quick, well-timed activation of the now-crashed ship's shield lops one of the Ultimate Predator's arms off, which provides the key to finally killing it.
• Star Wars:
  • Return of the Jedi: Palpatine lures the Rebels to Endor with the hope of getting most of their fleet to crash into the Death Star II's deflector shield, which the Rebels thought Han's team had brought down. Lando Calrissian and Nien Nunb deduce that the shield is still up with seconds to spare and order the fleet to break off. According to the novelization, not everyone pulled up in time.
  • And Rogue One shows what happens when you fail to evade such a large-scale deflector shield, as several Alliance fighters attempting to plunge through Scariff's closing shield are smashed to pieces.

Literature

• In The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Bartimaeus gets trapped in a Containment Field that slowly shrinks, forcing him to shapeshift into smaller and smaller forms. (He escapes.)
• Deathstalker: Force shields, round energy barriers worn on the arm to defend against disruptor and sword attacks, have Absurd Cutting Power at their edge. This is used a handful of times throughout the series.
• The Dresden Files:
  • Carlos Ramirez uses a water-based shield spell that disintegrates anything that tries to pass through it instead of directly stopping attacks. At one point, he uses this to liquify a Troll that tries to jump him.
  • In Battle Ground (2020), Harry is utterly pissed off and out for blood after Rudolph manages to accidentally and fatally shoot Murphy. So he slips into Tranquil Fury, chases down his victim, and uses his shield bracelet's forcefield to slowly crush them against the wall until Butters gets him to stop.
• Ex-Superheroes: This is what makes Hunter, a Barrier Warrior, so dangerous. He doesn't just use defensive force fields. He uses them to crush, slice, slam, smash, and any number of other ways of killing enemies in gory ways. It also helps that the force fields are invisible to anyone but Hunter. He once killed a speedster by creating razor-sharp force fields around him, and the speedster ran straight into them.
• Robert A. Heinlein short story "Lost Legacy". At the end of the story, two of the protagonists confront a council of evil psionics, one of whom is some kind of alien/mystical creature. One of the protagonists traps the creature inside a telekinetic sphere and reduces the size of the sphere until the creature is crushed to a bloody jelly.
• Fortunes of War: Downplayed. Sarda and Piper are being held in Rittenhouse's brig, when a sudden power outage occurs. Sarda acts fast, and darts out the now-deactivated force field door. The power comes on as he's just over halfway through, zapping him tremendously before spitting him out into the hallway. Sarda takes quite awhile to recover from the damage this did, though the implication is that the fact he was caught within the force field is what did the damage; just touching it wouldn't cause any serious harm.
• The Hunger Games: In "Catching Fire", the arena is surrounded by a barely-visible force-field that electrocutes tributes on contact. Peeta was almost killed walking into one and Blight, the male from District 7, died running straight into it.
• Spots the Space Marine: Early on Spots jumps into a swarm of Crabs swinging her shield like a large blade (one is supposed to avoid the edges on the setting's shields). After that incident the squad's attached Violinist (species that gave humanity advanced tech) technician starts working on a shield specifically designed to be used as a melee weapon and they train to use them that way.
• From the Star Wars Legends:
  • In The Courtship of Princess Leia, while fending off an assassination attempt against himself and Leia, Hapan Crown Prince Isolder makes use of a handheld personal deflector shield. As it begins to overheat he throws it at one of the assassins and burns the poor bastard to death.
• From the The Sword of Truth series:
  • A spell capable of doing it is used against Richard in the first book. The spell could have crushed him, although it's also poisonous (in his case, it was intended for capture, not killing). He manages to change it so that the caster is crushed to death instead.
  • One of the magical barrier types featured in the books is a so called light spell. It can be set as a simple incinerating barrier, but it can also be set to expand, breaking all in its path. Out of the cases shown of that happening, one leveled a house, one destroyed a palace... and one was an outright Fantastic Nuke.
  • The background of the books has Zedd stopping a war between Midlands and D'Hara by erecting a magical boundary between the two regions, one instantly killing anyone attempting to enter it. A prequel short story set at the time shows that he originally claimed he intends to drive the boundary over the whole D'Hara as a wave of death, but ultimately decided that such indiscriminate and complete genocide is way too much.
• The Zombie Knight:
  • Roman kills Hanjir's reaper by surrounding him with an inward-facing spherical shockwave.
  • Ivan's favorite killing technique is to catch the opponent in a cage of his odd weak-force fields, and then collapse the cage and disintegrate them.
• Appears in Mercedes Lackey's realm of Valdemar. In the Tarma & Kethry novel Oathbreakers, the mage Kethryveris learns that when a Herald-Trainee has an active mind-magic Gift that they won't or can't control, the Heralds cast a spherical shield around the Trainee, and make the inside of the shield is a mirror. After that, everything the Trainee sends out gets reflected right back at them - a very effective teaching technique. Kethry figures out how to create such a spherical mirror-shield for magical energy, and uses this new spell to trap a number of enemy mages so they can't interfere with her and Tarma's plans.

Live-Action TV

• In The Flash, Block is a Villain of the Week capable of creating cubical force fields which she projects around a victim and then reduces the size until they have been crushed and compressed into a tiny block.
• Loki: In "Breaking Brad", Loki interrogates Hunter X-5, a.k.a. Brad Wolfe, by using a machine that create a rectangular forcefield, encasing him in it. And then Loki toys with the controls, shrinking the forcefield side by side, threatening to slowly crush Brad to death with it if he doesn't start releasing information.
• In the Stargate SG-1 episode "Beachhead" the Ori use a force field transmitted through a stargate to crush a planet until it becomes a black hole, which they use to power a supergate to bring their starships from their home galaxy to the Milky Way. Vala Mal Doran foils this attempt, but it's a big galaxy and the Ori succeed offscreen in "Camelot".
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: Deep Space Nine establishes that certain types of force fields, like those used by the Jem'Hadar (and possibly the Cardassians), are lethal to the touch. Mind you, in the case of the Jem'Hadar, we hear this from someone who turns out to be a mole for the Dominion, so there's room for doubt.
  • Star Trek: Picard: Vashti's security net is extremely dangerous because it will obliterate anything that comes into contact with it, and that's exactly what happens to Seven of Nine's vessel. On impact, it disintegrates into several pieces of fiery debris.
• Under the Dome: When the Dome first appears, it drops out of the sky and cuts anything in its path cleanly in half, starting with a cow that is gorily split lengthwise. We're also shown destroyed houses and a woman who lost a hand.

Tabletop Games

• Champions. A Force Field power can be given the advantage Damage Shield. Anytime the force field touches an opponent (e.g. by the character grabbing or running into the opponent) the opponent will take the appropriate damage.
• Dungeons & Dragons:
  • Defied by the scroll of protection: It acts as a force field, preventing a specified type of creature from entering the protected area. If the user of the scroll tries to use it to push the creature(s) around or trap them, the protection immediately fails.
  • The prismatic sphere spell is normally stationary. If it can be made mobile (perhaps by modifying it so it can be cast on a movable item/creature) it can be touched to an opponent, inflicting a variety of massive types of damage on the victim.
  • The Forgotten Realms 3.5E supplement Lost Empires of Faerun contains the spell crushing sphere, which envelops the target and crushes it over several rounds. The spell originally appeared in the 2nd Edition The Ruins of Myth Drannor boxed set.
  • The Compleat Arduin, Book 2: Resources. Phandelume's Spell of the Sphere of Doom contracts at a rate of 3 feet per melee round. Any creature trapped in it is pulverized and incinerated to dust.
• Earthdawn. The Circle 8 Wizard spell Compression Bubble forms around an opponent and contracts, causing damage to the opponent.
• In the original Villains & Vigilantes game, a character with the Force Field power can use it as a weapon.
• In Warhammer 40,000, the orks have a weapon called the "bubblechukka," which can be used as artillery or mounted on vehicles, and fires unstable force field "bubbles" at enemy units. In older rules, this trapped targets in spheres that could cause their own shooting to ricochet back and hit them, while contemporary rules makes the attack highly unpredictable, with some big, huge bubbles hitting with minimal effect, while slow, tiny bubbles could burst for catastrophic damage.

Video Games

• Several of the shield types in Borderlands 2 are weaponized in some way. The most obvious examples being the nova shields (which were also in the first game), which unleash blasts of energy when they're depleted and spike shields (which hurt enemies which use melee attacks on them). The third DLC also features "traps" which are basically activate-able bubble shields that explode when they're destroyed.
• Conan Exiles: The Exiled Lands are surrounded by the "Ghost Fence," which prevents those wearing certain bracelets (like your Player Character) from crossing it. If you do, you die. If you take your bracelet off, you die.
• In Crash Team Racing, the powershield power-up can be either used as a forcefield to negate one attack or launched ahead to attack another player.
• The entire idea of the Crushing Prison spell from Dragon Age.
• The shoot-em-up Flying Tigers has a "shield" weapon which, when activated, not only makes your ship immune to all damage, but also damages all enemies you come in contact with.
• Honkai Impact 3rd: Yamabuki Armor (one of Bronya's "Valkyrie Suits") has a passive skill that creates a Deflector Shield for the team, which will block incoming damage until it's destroyed. She also has another passive skill that lets the "burst" of the bubble shield damage nearby enemies.
• All over the place in Magicka. The shield spell can be mixed with any other spell type, allowing you to create walls of fire, electricity, etc...or just build a rock wall where your foes are standing.
• Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Dormammu's lv 3 Hyper Combo (Dark Dimension) encases his victim in a dark bubble which he then shrinks and then pops with his fingers.
• Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. One of Green Lantern's Heroic Brutalities involves him using his ring to form a compacting bubble of green energy that shatters the bones of the unfortunate victim. Notably this is the only Heroic Brutality that doesn't give any indication that the victim survived.
• The old Lucasfilm game Rescue on Fractalus! has your ship usually protected by an "energy field" that burns all nearby life forms to a crisp. It can be turned on to incinerate an alien who was attempting to get into your ship... or one of the unlucky pilots you're trying to rescue in the game.
• Pokémon: The attack "Spiky Shield" will negate any damaging attack thrown at its user, and will also damage any foe that uses an attack which makes contact with the shield. "King's Shield" works similarity, but instead of damaging the target that makes contact, it cuts their Attack stat in half.
• Sengoku Basara: One of Motonari Mori's skills is to create a circular green barrier. Enemies would get knocked back if they run (or get knocked toward) said barrier, dealing some damage; one common tactic of using it is to place another barrier at a distance in front of the first one, knock some enemies to one barrier and watch as the barriers deflect the enemies towards each other while dealing constant damage.
• In Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption, the Gargantuan hero vehicle can use "Shield Flare", completely depleting its shields... but unleashing a shockwave that destroys most nearby enemy units.
• Street Fighter V: G's V-Skill "G Barrier" has him creating a force field momentarily that covers his body. It can deal damage if done at close range, and if he has activated his V-Trigger 1, he can also launch the barrier forward as a projectile.
• In Super Smash Bros. Fox's and Falco's down-B move is Reflector, which will reflect ranged attacks and knock around anyone close to them.
• Team Fortress 2: In Mann Vs. Machine mode, one of the Medic's upgrades is an Ubershield, which, in addition to reflecting projectiles such as rockets and grenades, is capable of disintegrating robots that come into contact with it rather quickly, being able to dispatch weaker robots such as Scouts and Spies after only a second or two of contact.
• The bubble-like "Telekinetic Shield" is the main character's method of attack in Vivid Conceptions. When activated, it destroys nearby enemies and fragile blocks.
• Warframe
  • Rhino's Iron Skin creates ablative armor that renders him invulnerable and immune to status effects up to a cap. With the Iron Shrapnel mod, Rhino can shatter it to impale his foes on a storm of shrapnel.
  • Nezha's Warding Halo works similarly to Iron Skin, nullifying status effects and absorbing almost all incoming damage. In addition, any foe who approaches the forcefield gets blasted with fire, stunning them and dealing damage.
  • Gara's Shrapnel Storm creates a field of orbiting glass shards that sharply reduces the damage taken by Gara or an ally on top of shredding any foes nearby. Its damage can be further enhanced by shattering the protective glass wall created by Mass Virify, which itself deals massive damage to all foes unfortunate enough to be standing outside as it does.
• Most of Mega Man's Shield-type weapons operate like this, destroying incoming foes rather than just deflecting them. Sometimes they can even be fired outwards or in a specific direction to turn the shield, or fragments of the shield, into projectiles.
• This is the secondary use of the Final Fantasy spell "Reflect". Protecting yourself from incoming magic is all well and good, but it's even better if you reflect that spell right back at its caster. Reflect can also be used offensively by casting it on enemies who have a healer in their party, or are healers themselves, so their Cure spells bounce off the shield and restore your party instead. Final Fantasy IV very pointedly required both of these tactics to defeat the Magus Sisters, Bahamut, and Asura, respectively, and they became series staples ever since.^note The Magus Sisters are your first introduction to this technique, casting Reflect on one of the sisters, then a powerful magic attack on her to bounce it to your party. As the combat goes on, one sister casting Reflect on the other will keep bouncing the Reflect spell to your party, randomly Reflecting them and curtailing your "Cast Cure on everyone" basic healing strategy, and meaning that casting powerful attack spells will bounce them off your target on to you. Reflect your party straight away, and you can bounce damage spells off your party to the Magus Sisters, and Cures off the Sisters to your party. Asura casts powerful healing spells on herself very rapidly, Reflecting her bounces those spells on to you (while also making it hard to hit her with damage spells. . . unless you Reflect your whole party and bounce five attack spells off them onto one target.
• Mass Effect:
  • In Mass Effect 2, the Sentinels' unique power is Tech Armor, which allows them to create a protective Instant Armor shield around them. If the shield breaks (or in the third game, you must break it manually), it explodes, damaging any enemies in the vicinity.
  • The third game also gives you the ability to purge the biotics' Barrier ability like this to damage nearby opponents. In multiplayer mode, the Asari Justicar's Biotic Sphere ability, in addition to protecting allies, also damages any enemies that step into the field, while the Geth Juggernaut Soldier's Hex Shield releases an electric pulse when deployed that damages enemies, and can also be upgraded to damage any enemies that try to walk through it.
• In the first two Fallout games, yellow force fields were completely impenetrable, while red forcefields could be crossed but would cause damage. Canonically, this is how Dogmeat died in the first game, according to the Fallout 2 manual.
• The final level of Troggle Trouble Math features one of these, which blocks the most obvious way to reach the Muncher. Like the other stationary hazards in the game, it empties one of Sparky's boxes of dog food and stuns him briefly. This forces the player to bypass it with the nearby Portal Door, which requires solving math problems to get through.

Web Animation

• DEATH BATTLE!
  • This shows up in the episode "Cable vs. Booster Gold" as one of the applications of the latter's force field. It also serves to deliver the finishing blow, with Booster Gold crushing Cable into nothingness.
  • Shows up again in the episode "Steven Universe vs. Star Butterfly" as one of the applications of the former's shield powers when he's being particularly ruthless (and unstable in his Super Mode). Said Super Mode Steven also tries to use it as the finishing blow, even bubbling Star's wand to stop her from using magic to fight back. Unfortunately for him, Star in her Golden Super Mode can use her magic even without her wand and her magic's much stronger than even his strongest shield, which results in her blasting her way out and incinerating Steven.

Webcomics

• Schlock Mercenary: Most Deflector Shields in-setting are bubbles of applied Artificial Gravity projected around objects, which deflect away munitions and diffuse beam weapons. Sufficiently large and well-fueled ships (like the "plate"'-class ships of the UNS, the Ob'Enn and the Plenipotent Dominion) can use the same principle against opponents, "bubbling" and squeezing them to pieces while automatically destroying any attempt to fire back.

Web Original

• In The Salvation War, Yahveh is killed in that manner by an energy attack. His body is stated to be considerably smaller once it's done.

Western Animation

• Some alien invaders attempt to sweep away The Herculoids by generating a wide force field wall. This barrier is shown to reduce trees to toothpicks and boulders to gravel on contact. Fortunately, Igoo the rock ape deduces that such a force field would be equally deadly to those on its other side, and uses a treebuchet to push the aliens from behind into their own force field.
• Justice League: When Green Lantern fought Volcana and Firefly, he used his ring to form an airtight container around them, causing their fire to burn up all the oxygen and make them pass out.
• In the Miraculous Ladybug episode "Anansi", Nino — now Carapace via the Turtle Miraculous — activates the power "Shellter" for the first time to create a Beehive Barrier around him, Alya and Chat Noir, cutting through the webbing that has them all trapped.
• Steven Universe has found a surprisingly large number of offensive uses for the bubble shield:
  • In the third season, Steven discovered he could make the shield grow spikes, which he uses in "Reunited" to make himself more damaging when thrown as a projectile.
  • When a pair of Topazes fuse together to trap people inside their combined body, Steven lets himself be captured so he can form his bubble from the inside and force the Topazes apart.
  • Pink Steven can make the shield explode into a shockwave, something Steven figures out how to do regularly by the movie.
  • Also in the movie, Steven puts a small bubble around each fist to act as knuckle dusters, though he was still using them defensively.
  • In the Steven Universe: Future episode "Little Graduation", Steven unwillingly creates an enormous dome shield that cuts a stage in half and begins contracting, nearly crushing everyone inside (himself included).
  • When he was sparring with Jasper, she goaded him into using his full power. It culminated in a giant impenetrable spiked wall of doom descending on her while smaller fields kept her in place. He ends up outright killing her, though his healing powers combined with the other three Diamond essences were able to restore her.
• In Transformers: Prime: Knockout eventually gets his hands on a portable shield generator. After a bit of experimentation, he uses it to block his enemies off on one side... with the opposite side leading straight off a cliff's edge. With his enemies unable to retaliate, he starts to force the shield closer and closer to the edge, intending to shove them right over it.
• In The Venture Brothers episode "Tanks for Nuthin'", Brock manages to make it up to the residential area where he proceeds to fight off the villain Think Tank. During their scuffle, Think Tank manages to stop Brock's knife-strike with a force-field, his upper arm stuck in the force-field. Brock thinks they are still evenly matched, only for Think Tank to retort that if he wanted to, he could cut his arm off through the bone and blast the rest of him point-blank. Brock isn't too concerned about it.

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