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The ability to control gravity as a superpower (or [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that serves the same purpose).

Such a power is often coupled with [[Required Secondary Powers|a large amount of leeway as to how gravity works]], such as making gravity [[Gravity Sucks|a force with an exact cut-off range]], [[Selective Gravity|only working on a specific object]], or the third law of motion being violated with only one object being attracted to another. This power is essentially [[Telekinesis]] with different flavor text.

 

 

== Anime and Manga ==

* In ''[[Bleach]]'', this is the ability of Izuru Kira's zanpakutou Wabisuke. Specifically, it doubles the weight of anything it hits, including the weight increase from the previous hit. If he hits something several times with it, its weight increases exponentially and becomes nigh-immovable. He usually hits the opponent's body.

* In ''[[Busou Renkin]]'', Victor's axe Fatal Attractions grants him this power.

** Four examples: The OVA features an unnamed female Gravity Master who can make things/people become heavier and/or fall ''up''.

* Brago from ''[[Gash Bell]]'', a primary case of gravity being associated with [[Dark Is Edgy|darkness]].

* {{spoiler|The Deva Path of}} Pain in ''[[Naruto]]'' is able to manipulate gravity to use different techniques to push objects away from him (Shinra Tensei) and pull them toward him (Bansho Ten'nin). {{spoiler|Nagato, the body's controller, can also do these as well as launch a black sphere that sucks in everything around it (Chibaku Tensei)}}. There is a period of time between each use, the length of which is dependent upon how much power is put into the technique.

** Onoki, the Tsuchikage, can greatly increase or decrease the weight of an object, though it seems he's changing it's mass instead of just its weight.

* The Dark-Dark Fruit ''(Yami Yami no Mi)'' in ''[[One Piece]]'', which is eaten by Blackbeard, can make a dark miasma which crush whatever it covers or suck anything into it (which Blackbeard can also regurgitate back out).

** A smaller example is Miss Valentine of Baroque Works. Her Kilo-Kilo Fruit ''(Kilo Kilo no Mi)'' allows her to make her own weight anywhere between 1 to 10,000 kilograms, letting her float around with her parasol or crush someone like an egg.

* {{spoiler|Asuka}} from ''[[Psyren]]''.

* Chinmei, one of the Five Stars {{spoiler|and the 2nd Red Cross Knight}} of ''[[Samurai Deeper Kyo]]'' has this power, as well as the bad guy in psycho academy.

* {{spoiler|Joker}} from ''[[Flame of Recca]]'' has a madogu which grants this ability - though {{spoiler|he initially pretends to simply possess incredible strength.}}

* Bluenote from ''[[Fairy Tail]]''.

 

== Comic Books ==

* The Wizard, a ''[[Fantastic Four]]'' villain, has [[Green Lantern Ring|vague but highly effective powers]] in this area. Basically, he can do anything [[Barrier Warrior|the Invisible Woman]] can do [[Dissimile|except turn invisible]].

* Roxy "Freefall" Spaulding from ''[[Gen 13]]''.

* [[Marvel Comics]] has a superhero named Gravity. [[Captain Obvious|Guess what his superpower is.]]

** Graviton, also from the ''[[Marvel Universe]]''.

* Hiram "Fatman" Worcester from ''[[Wild Cards]]''.

* Nova, a Marvel super hero who has control of the Nova Force, which grants him gravimetric powers.

* DC's Geo-Force, at least when on Earth.

 

* One of the minor Volturi is mentioned to have this, in a fairly limited way, in ''[[Luminosity]]''.

 

== Literature ==

* The [[Lizard Folk|K'Chain Che'Malle]] in ''[[The Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' have this as their primary [[Functional Magic|Warren.]]

* In [[The Dresden Files]], gravity control is a subset of Earth Magic. It takes awhile to pull, but the results are... impressive.

* Both Sullivan and his brother Madi have this power in [[The Grimnoir Chronicles|Hard Magic]]. Sullivan had enough time to practice with it in prison that he's able to do things that other Heavies never even dreamed of.

 

* Bunta Daichi from ''[[JAKQ Dengekitai]]'' has this as part of his powers as [[The Big Guy|Clover King]].

* Shouji of the Heavenly Gravity Star from ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]'' uses this power.

* [[Kamen Rider OOO]]'s SaGoZo Combo.

 

== Tabletop Games ==

** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' Pages from the Mages has Lessen Gravity spell.

** There is also the gravity master class. [[Magic Knight|magic knights]] capable of manipulating gravity to [[Super Strength|increase their weapon damage and make them harder to knock down]], [[Super Speed|increase their speed similar to the biotic charge from]] [[Mass Effect 2]], and [[Megaton Punch|hit the ground hard enough to knock other people over.]]

* The ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'' power "Gravity Control". It only does two things- lessen gravity and increase it in a bubble around you, making it a cheaper version of Telekinesis. It should be noted: This being ''[[Mutants and Masterminds]]'', you can buy "alternate powers" to represent different forms of Gravity manipulation.

* ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' has gravikinetic [[Psychic Powers|parapsychics]].

 

== Video Games ==

* ''[[Armed and Dangerous]]'' had an awesome gravity-controlling weapon that first anchors the player to the ground, and then somehow [[Gravity Screw|flips reality upside-down, causing any nearby enemies to fall into the sky]] then back to the ground when it turns off.

** Evie in ''[[Vindictus]]'' can acquire the power "SP: Gravity Inversion", which does the same thing.

* Gravity Control is one of the powers in the MMO ''[[City of Heroes]]'', available to the Controller and Dominator archetypes.

* In an example of this trope crossing over with [[Dark Is Edgy]], the main character in ''[[The Darkness]]'' can do this as part of his suite of darkness-themed superpowers, generating a miniature black hole that sucks everything in the vicinity into it.

** Sometimes in the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series, when gravity is not its own element, it is lumped in with [[Dark Is Edgy|shadow damage]], hence why in ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'' the Gravity [[Summon Magic|Guardian Force]] is a [[Our Vampires Are Different|giant, energy-draining demon]] and grav and drain spells tend to be cast by bats and the undead and the like.

* [[Final Fantasy X]] has [[Space Whale|Sin]], whose primary 'hat' is gravity. It is able to levitate its massive body pretty much anywhere, and it is a frequent user of the aforementioned Gravija. Sin is so powerful it can tear apart whole cities just with the gravitational force it generates, sucking everything in like a black whole. It is also capable of projecting gravitational fields that can withstand insanely powerful energy blasts, and even projects those fields outwards to [[Curb Stomp Battle|vaporize enemies]] and scar the entire planet.

** Gravity Beetle in ''X3''.

** Slightly justified in its potential failing of physics in that the 'Gravity Gun' is just a nickname. Whatever mechanism it actually uses for throwing stuff around is not explained.

* ''[[Halo]]'' has the Gravity Hammer.

** Also, Organization XIII member Xigbar is a dual-arrowgun-wielding Nobody with dominion over space. He teleports, walks in the air, and can distort dimensions.

* All biotic powers (with the exception of Reave and Dominate, that are specific to asari biology but available to the player as a bonus) in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' are achieved by mass manipulation, and thus could be called a form of gravity control. A low-mass field will lift an object or move it in any direction. A high-mass field will slam it into the ground or crush it. Biotic characters can even use the Singularity power to generate miniature black holes that will attract all loose objects and weakened enemies ([[Selective Gravity|though strangely not stronger enemies or fellow party members]]). Also, the [[Cool Ship|Normandy]] uses a similar effect to achieve thrust while still remaining [[Stealth in Space|stealthy]]. The Tantalus Drive Core generates a high-gravity field in front of the ship that the Normandy "falls into", and momentum carries it from there.

** In fact, mass manipulation (or "[[Title Drop|mass effect]]") is how ''[[Applied Phlebotinum|everything]]'' in the series works, via a strange material called "element zero" or "eezo". How it works is simple: positive charges to it increase its mass, and negative charges decrease mass. The possibilities explode from there. For example, FTL travel is achieved by making the net mass of a ship ''negative'', thereby making relativity look the other way. BioWare really [[Shown Their Work|did their homework]].

** Like he's any better in ''Other M''. The first phase, it uses a gravity field to weigh down Samus while peppering her with energy spheres and lasers until she can short out its generator with the Ice Beam. The second phase? It uses its gravity powers more defensively, including shooting a black hole from that generator that causes ALL of Samus' projectiles to warp off their path and into it.

*** But oddly enough, [[Selective Gravity|not Samus herself]]

**** To be fair though, she was useing her Gravity Feature, which means Nightmare's powers ''can't'' affect her.

** The latter could be justified if the beam's effect is to create a rapidly-shifting gravity field which causes objects inside to vibrate rapidly and hence disintegrate - sort of like a sonic weapon that works [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE!]] - or, more mundanely, if it simply fires a beam of ''gravitons''.

* The Dark element in ''[[Phantasy Star Universe]]'' takes the form of damaging gravity fields.

** Utilize a gravitational field to draw the player towards it.

** Compress and decompress itself to send out a [[Instant Death Radius|deadly shockwave]].

** "Collect and compress local particles and then project this incredibly dense material in a type of 'Density Stream' which would draw in and obliterate any nearby matter". In other words, a [[Disintegrator Ray]] that [[Oh Crap|sucks the player towards it]].

* The newest character, Ley, in [[Grand Chase]] mixes this trope up with [[Summon Magic]].

 

* One of the characters in the webcomic ''Knowledge Is Power'' has gravity manipulation as an ability.

* The aptly-named supervillain Greta Gravity in ''[[Spinnerette]]'' possesses gravity-altering powers. She has demonstrated her powers in the comic mostly by levitating objects, but has also used it to make the eponymous heroine heavy enough to crack the sidewalk just by standing on it.

 

== Web Original ==

* Several characters from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' have control over gravity. The heroes include Collapsar, Neutron Star, Orbits I and II (one is a Canadian hero, the other a Turkish hero), Gravity Man, and White Dwarf. The villains include Urania, Gravity, Black Hole, Event Horizon, Crusher, Deadweight, and Singularity.

* Solar Max II from the [[Academy of Superheroes|Academy of Superheroes Universe]] is an extremely powerful gravity-wielder, enough so that he can make black holes and bend space. Devastator, a supervillain, has power over multiple forces ''including'' gravity.

** Then there's G-Force, who is one of the Capes (the Future Superheroes of America club) on campus. When attacked by G-Force, Phase demonstrated that this power set has some distinct weaknesses.

* A supervillain known only as the Chief Designer, apparently a former head of the [[Cold War|Soviet]] space program, created a device called the Gravity Engine, strong enough to pull the Moon from its orbit, and gave it to [[The Mercury Men]] to do just that.

 

== Western Animation ==

* Gravity Girl on ''Birdman and the Galaxy Trio''.

* Gravitina from ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]'', the "Mistress of Mass and all its Attraction". Notably, her powers made her head roughly the size of a go-kart.

 

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