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If some characters have been in the dark for a while, this can occur with much weaker lights than normal, while leaving other characters unaffected, since [[Day Hurts Dark-Adjusted Eyes]].
An example of [[Truth in Television]], since the use of flashbang grenades is highly prevalent in modern police forces and armies have been using natural light in various ways to blind and hinder their enemies for centuries.<ref>The modern flashbang emits approximately two million candlepower when it goes off. By comparison, a 25 watt light bulb emits 1700. This is exactly as devastating to your eyes as it sounds</ref>
Compare: [[A Handful for An Eye]], [[Tap on the Head]], [[Inescapable Net]], [[Stun Guns]], [[Instant Sedation]]. Has nothing to do with the battle theme for [[Final Fantasy XIII]].
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** During the first episode, [[Ace Pilot]] Eika got defeated by a new, Sonic Diver-piloting test pilot when her target [[Transforming Mecha|transformed]] and attacked from the direction of the sun. Granted, she is using a conventional fighter jet at the time and her opponent is ''very'' nimble.
** In a true show of piloting ability, Eika used the exact same tactic combined with careful maneuvering against a [[Teen Genius]] who very nearly beat her through sheer talent later in the series.
* The characters on ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' sometimes use this, calling it "Solar Flare".<ref>In the original Japanese, 'taiyo-ken', meaning 'fist of the sun'.</ref>
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** It only happens once in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', when you first properly activate the Helios One facility, you get blinded for just one second.
* ''[[Wizardry]]'': The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Blinding Flash]] spell in the final trilogy. Simple and very effective throughout the early through middle parts of the games.
* Flashbang grenades are, appropriately enough, a common tool in your arsenal in ''[[SWAT 4]]''. Just make sure you're out of the doorway when you use one and that your NPC teammates don't, y'know, [[Artificial Stupidity|just drop it at their fee]]
* ''[[Battlefield 3]]''' features the tactical flashlight and laser sight. The latter is a red laser that is primarily used to boost the effectiveness of hip fire, but also causes an annoying red spotlight to cover the targets vision if it is aimed at them. The former, on the other hand, is purely used for blinding foes. [[Absurdly Bright Light|By blinding foes, I mean melting the eyes of the person controlling the target to a molten liquid, and setting their hair alight.]]
* Weaponized as a secondary function Spark Manbow in ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]''. If you hold up when you press the fire button, Mega Man holds up a lightbulb and causes a bright flash of light to cover the screen, which makes enemies stand still for a few seconds.
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* During the age while armies still utilized campfires at night, it was not uncommon for those to be used as a means of deception. Merely looking at a light source at night temporarily ruins the eye's low light adjustments, meaning that while looking at such a campfire (or for that matter any other light source at night), it was impossible to actually see the people (if any) that existed around it; only the light source would be visible. Armies got pretty creative with this back in the day, from setting up false camps (the enemy won't know theres no one by the fire until its too late), to lighting a minimal number of fires to hide their number (sometimes going as far as just one big fire; good luck guessing how many people are sharing it), to ordering the camp to make several times its number in flames. A cunning general may even combine the various methods, essentially rendering the enemy's attempts to scout his position at night futile or downright counterproductive. Even in warfare, there are [[Subverted Trope|uses for fire]] [[Kill It with Fire|other than killing]].
* One of the armored vehicles used in the Normandy landings in [[World War Two]] was essentially an outdated tank with the gun replaced with a very high intensity lamp, entirely encased in the turret save for a narrow vertical slit. The turret would pan back and forth, perodically painting the German defenses with blinding light to make it impossible for them to see the troops on the beaches. They also had various filters they could put onto the light while in action, so as to make it harder to determine how far away the vehicle was if you wanted to [[Pun|put its lights out]].
* In [[World War II]], the British "hid" the Suez Canal with an array of spotlights and shifting reflectors intended to dazzle the eyes of bomber pilots. When they tested it by having two British planes fly into the area, they found the effect disoriented the pilots so much that both planes nearly
Eventually, a chain of twenty-one searchlights covered the Suez Canal for its entire length. When illuminated, they created a curtain of swirling light over more than a hundred miles of Egyptian sky. In the following months enemy aircraft made a number of attempts to penetrate the curtain, and failed, and the canal remained open to Allied shipping throughout the war.
* The LED Incapacitator, a rather recent non-lethal weapon which works by creating a bright pulsing light with continously changing colours to dazzle and disorient an opponent when violence is not permitted. Again a very valid self defense tactic, very bright hand held torches might be expensive but stun\flash grenades operate on the same principle, making them worth every penny.
* A more mundane example: pilots who fly at night have to avoid any bright lights for upwards of 20 or 30 minutes before a flight in order to maintain their night vision. Their cockpit lights are run at the lowest setting that lets them see their instruments, because any bright light will force them to start all over again trying to readjust to the darkness of night. As a result, airports will often actually be ''much'' more dimly lit than some folks might expect, as the last thing they want to do is to blind a pilot who is trying to take off or land.
** Similar to the above, go out some night to visit a group of stargazers out doing their thing, and you will quickly learn that they do ''not'' like it when folks use any bright or white light near where they are stargazing. Stars are bright, but they are not ''that'' bright compared to closer light sources on Earth. The use of red-filtered light is common as it does not have the same negative effect on human night vision.<ref>
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[[Category:Grenade Tropes]]
[[Category:Blinded by the Light]]
[[Category:Lighting Tropes]]
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