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Not to be confused with [[Rounded Character]]. See also [[Accordion Man]], [[Squashed Flat]], [[Rolling Attack]].

* Berry Good, a Marine captain in ''[[One Piece]]'', combines this with [[Detachment Combat]]. He can transform into several small floating balls that he controls at will.

* Majin Buu in ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' performs his ball attack when fighting Gotenks.

 

 

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The fat kid in ''[[Hook]]'' can do this. [[Sarcasm Mode|How clever]].

* In ''[[Sky High]]'', the kids of Superhero parents are divided into those with the abilities of heroes and those of sidekicks. One girl's power is to turn into a giant rubber beach ball. The [[Bruce Campbell|unimpressed Coach]] kicks her away shouting "SIDEKICK!"

* It was also done in ''[[The Toxic Avenger]] Part II'', [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWaqfmlTwu4 with a midget].

* Occurs in ''[[Godzilla]] Final Wars'' in which Godzilla and King Seesar have an imprompteau soccer match using Anguirus as the ball.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* Hedgehogs are famously used as croquet balls on ''[[Alice in Wonderland|Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]''.

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The enemy Wendigo in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' does this to a random party member as an attack.

* Another ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' example, but [[Final Fantasy IX|IX]] this time. The Mimic enemy does this in it's "Eat" attack, but instead of playing around after squishing them to a ball, it chomps down it's victim into it's big gaping treasure chest mouth, crunches a few times and then belches them out whole with some random gold coins.

* One boss in the ''[[Wario Land]]'' games is all about this. In ''Wario Land 2'' you face him in a basketball game- each player tries to jump on the other one and throw them into the basket for points. In ''3'', it's a soccer game instead.

* [[Kirby|Ball Kirby]]

** ''Kirby's Pinball Land'', the third game in the series, already had him in a nigh-permanent ball shape; ''Kirby's Dream Course'' and ''Kirby's Block Ball'' did this as well.

* Mario Pinball Land. [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]], [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] gets turned into a ball in a fairground game, and has to save Princess Peach from Bowser by being used as a living pinball.

* The Orat monster can do this to the player character in ''[[Space Quest]] I''. This being SQ1, [[Have a Nice Death|it's lethal]].

* Lord Raptor from ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' has a special move named Hell Dunk, where he transforms the opponent in a ball and next slam dunks them into a hoop provided by his partner Le Marta.

* Turning into a ball is a Sonic staple. [[Sonic Spinball]] is a full game based around him acting as a pinball, and other games have pinball-themed zones.

* Yooyuball from ''[[Neopets]]''.

* A commercial for ''[[Pokémon]] Pinball: Ruby and Sapphire'' actually showed Treecko being launched into a pinball machine

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* There's a variation in ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. In the episode featuring the return of the Rowdyruff Boys, the poor girls get squeezed into a hockey puck instead of a ball.

* This happens to Dojo in ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]''. Unfortunately for him, he has about two seconds to realize it.

* [[The Legion of Super Heroes]]' Bouncing Boy has this as his superpower.

* On ''[[The Road to El Dorado]]'', Miguel and Tulio are playing a Mayan ball game to prove they're gods. They switch the regular ball for a rolled-up armadillo, which then scores all their goals for them.

* In the ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "I Taw a Putty Tat", Tweety hides from Sylvester in a can of shuttlecocks, resulting in his being hit back and forth during a game of badminton.

 

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