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* In the second issue of ''[[Global Frequency]]'', one of the characters carries non-lethal weaponry, such as EMP grenades, when they are going against a full-body enhancile. {{spoiler|They are... not exactly non-leathal.}}
* In [[The Dark Knight Returns]] the Soviets launch a single nuclear missile at the contested island of Corto Maltese. Superman knocks it off course, but, as Batman points out, this is not a [[Nuke'Em]] weapon - the 'Coldbringer' is designed to knock out the enemies' ability to fight, without damaging infrastructure. The weapon detonates, Superman gets [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|almost dead]], and the electrics fizzle out in most of the Americas.
* In ''[[All Fall Down]]'', the [[Colony Drop]]-sized asteroid Penumbra seems to be radiating this, making any missile attack impossible.
* ''[[Iron Man]]'' has one built into his armor. It disables his own gear as well, which then takes about six minutes to fix itself. The exact same thing is in the ''[[War Machine (Comic Book)|War Machine]]'' armor.
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* An EMP is used to disable the robot angels in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Voyage of the Damned".
** "Age of Steel", Mrs. Moore uses an EMP bomb to disable a cyberman, who revealed to {{spoiler|bride to be}}. This gives the Doctor a clue on the effects of humans being [[Unwilling Roboticisation|"upgraded"]].
* In the first season of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', {{spoiler|HRG got Nuclear Ted to emit an EMP instead of his normal nukes in order to shut out the power at Primatech so they could escape.}}
* In ''[[Dark Angel]]'' the United States is a third world country because of a terrorist EMP attack.
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== Real Life ==
* Naturally occurring magnetic storms can be quite rough. The strongest known was [[w:Solar storm of 1859|Carrington Event]] (1–2 September 1859) induced by solar events, that took out the entire telegraph system in Europe and North America and parts of Australia and Asia. The strongest ''measured'' was Quebec Storm (13-14 March 1989), tripped enough of fuses on the grid to leave more than six million people for nine hours. The largest geomagnetic storms of solar origin measured in the latest decades were Halloween Storms (29-31 October 2003) - a big blackout happened in Sweden, though still less than a hour long, and some transformers burned out even in South Africa. Naturally, such things happened before late XIX century too, but that's known only by auroras observed far from the polar regions.
** If you want to know what could this do now, there's a study done for the insurance industry: ''[//www.lloyds.com/news-and-risk-insight/risk-reports/library/natural-environment/solar-storm Solar storm risk to the North American electric grid]''. The conclusion is, Carrington level events are expectable once per 100-250 years, Quebec level events once per 35-70 years. Depending on things like soil conductivity in the affected area and just how thoroughly the grid is hardened, damage can vary a lot, but results of a big one can still be comparable to major earthquakes and volcano eruptions.
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