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== Comic Books ==
* In the British newspaper comic ''[[The Perishers (Comic Strip)|The Perishers]]'', there's a strip where Wellington is demonstrating a magnet to Marlon, and he turns it backward so it will repel things. In reality, magnets will only repel other magnets, and only when their like poles are facing each other.
* [[Archie Comics]] once had a story in which Archie acquired a very large magnet, which he carried in the back seat of his car. As he and Jughead traveled, the magnet attracted anything and everything that was made of metal.
 
== Film ==
* ''[[Top Secret]]'': Dr. Flammond develops the Polaris magnetic mine. Instead of being attracted to ships and blowing them up like a regular magnetic mine, it's so powerful it drags ships to itself from hundreds of miles away.
* Parodied in ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', where Eddie uses a large toon magnet to try and wrest a sword off Judge Doom's hands, the magnetic force depicted as lightning bolts that literally grab the sword and pull it.
* In ''[[Indiana Jones and Thethe Kingdom of The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of Thethe Crystal Skull]]'', when Indy needed to find the location of a magnetic crate, he threw gunpowder in the air and watched which way it moved. Later on, this trope is lampshaded when an object attracts gold coins.
 
== Live Action TV ==
* The ''[[Myth BustersMythBusters]]'' proved that magnets can't deflect a bullet, as in ''[[Live and Let Die]]''.
* On ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' Sigfried used a giant magnet to pull the entire Seventh Fleet to his island.
* In the ''[[Look Around You]]'' episode "Sulfur", they test to see whether sulfur has any magnetic properties. So they use a sheet of paper to "shield" the sulfur from the magnet until everything is in place.
 
== Video Games ==
* The magnet gloves in the gameboy color ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Gamesof (VideoSeasons Game)and Oracle of Ages|The Legend of Zelda Oracle Games]]''. All objects which you can attract towards you/pull yourself towards are not only magnets, but monopolar magnets (the gloves switch between a north and south magnetic charge so you can push and pull). Nothing else is affected by them.
** The gimmick for the Goron Mines in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' revolves around using the Iron Boots to walk around on areas of magnetic ore in the walls. That's plausible enough. What's ''not'' is that fact that in some places the ore emits some kind of superstrong column of magnetism that will pull you onto the wall if you fall into the beam with the boots on.
*** Well, plausible until you realize that even if you don't have them equipped, you still have to be carrying them, and would be subject the exact same attraction. It's the same thing with earlier games and having the boots allow you to sink in water and walk on the bottom, but once you take them off, you're magically lighter.
* In ''[[Mega Man 3 (Video Game)|Mega Man 3]]'', Magnet Man is able to pull Mega Man in towards himself whenever he activates his magnetic field. It'll pull Mega Man in at the same speed regardless of your location on the screen.
* Justified in ''[[Mega Man Battle Network (Video Game)|Mega Man Battle Network]] 2''. As this takes place in the cyber world, where the rules of physics are constructed of data and are therefore artificial. There's a chip called MagLine which pulls you to the panel(s). If the panels are in the lower row, the staying in the upper row will prevent it from dragging you to that panel and visa-versa.
** Also, the Battle Chip of Magnetman EXE uses his North-South Tackle, and will not work if there is no room to summon South.
 
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* Another ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short, "Bugsy and Mugsy", culminates with Bugs putting roller skates on a tied-up Mugsy, then using a magnet under the floor to move Mugsy around...and slam him repeatedly into Rocky. This, of course, won't work for the same reasons ''The Simpsons'' example above won't work.
* In the ''[[Superman]]'' (1940s) episode "The Magnetic Telescope", the title device is used to drag comets in space down to Earth.
* In the 1974-74 ''[[Super FriendsSuperfriends]]'' episode "[[Pun-Based Title|The Shamon U]]", a [[Mad Scientist]] creates small asteroids of gold out of space dust, and draws them to Earth using a "special gold-attracting magnet".
* In the pilot episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Dr.]] [[Fail O'Suckyname|Doof]][[Herr Doktor|enshmirtz]] builds a magnet so strong it even attracts ''aluminum'', a metal not normally known to react to magnetism.
* In the ''[[Tom and Jerry (Animation)|Tom and Jerry]]'' episode ''The Framed Cat'', Jerry gets Tom to swallow a magnet and then drills a screw into Spike the bulldog's bone, so the bone flies at Tom from clear across the yard to make it look as if Tom's trying to steal it.
 
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