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In fiction, particularly video games, the
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* One filler villain in ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' anime has developed a martial art based on being a human cannonball. His entire army uses it.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Circus of Crime in [[Marvel Comics]] is, you guessed it, a traveling circus that doubles as a criminal outfit. One of its mainstays is the Human Cannonball, who is fired at enemies while wearing a suit of armor that makes him invulnerable to harm.
== [[Live
* On ''[[Glee]]'', Sue decides to use a Human Cannonball as a gimmick in the cheerleading routine to win another National Championship. Sue has a very cartoonish way of looking at the world and in her delusion completely ignored how dangerous this stunt is outside a cartoon. Her top cheerleaders tell her she is crazy and quit the team in protest.
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''King David's Spaceship'' or "A Spaceship For The King" by Jerry Pournelle uses a variant of this because... supposedly they weren't sophisticated enough for orbital rockets and yet were inexplicably able to build a cannon firing a steady stream of explosive propulsion shells at the rear end of the capsule.
* Jules Verne's ''[[From the Earth
== [[Music]] ==
* "Hugo the Human Cannonball" by [[Ray Stevens]]. One of his darker songs. The title character flies 250 feet into the air, looks down and realizes he's going to miss the net, then splatters all over the upper bleachers.
* ''The Catapult Song'' filk.
{{quote|''So the 'Captain came to look,''
''And I pulled the trigger hook,''
''And my catapult, it caught him in the jaw.''}}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.]]'', probably once per game now. There are pipe cannons in ''Super Mario World'', cannons in various levels in ''Super Mario 64'', a giant cannon that launches you to Pinna Park in ''Super Mario Sunshine'', cannons in space in ''Super Mario Galaxy'', cannons used as a [[Warp Zone]] in ''New Super Mario Bros''...
** ''[[
** ''[[
** ''[[Paper Mario (
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''. Barrel cannons. Heck, the spinoff ''Barrel Blast''/''Jet Race'' uses them as [[Jet Pack
* Used as a method of transportation in ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' and ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]''
* Several stages in the Subspace Emissary mode of ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' feature the barrel cannons as a [[Shout
* ''[[Monkey Island]]'' has two of those.
* Comes up
** In the Carnival Night Zone in ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles
** ''Sonic Heroes'' features cannons where how it fires will depend on who the team leader is when you enter it.
** Also in ''Sonic Heroes'', during the Bullet Station Zone the player team will occasionally use a really big cannon, which is the size of an entire building.
* ''[[
* ''[[Rocket Knight Adventures]]'' has the <s>human</s> opossum cannonball routine as your means of getting from Stage 3 ([[Lethal Lava Land]]) to Stage 4 (airship).
* ''[[Kirby]]'' sometimes uses these to get from place to place. They serve as "beat the clock" challenges, because Kirby has to light the fuse and get inside the cannon before it goes off.
** ''Donkey Kong Country''-style floating cannons appear in ''Super Star'' (''Ultra'').
* Most matches in ''[[
* A catapult version is done in ''[[Hexen|Hexen 2]]'', to get over a wall at one point in the game. However, you have to position yourself so that it only flings you far enough to pass the wall: letting it toss you high enough into the air will cause you to take falling damage when you land.
* A good way to get around in [[
* You need to do this to cross a lake in ''[[Terramex]]''. By the time you reach the cannon, you will have collected three kegs of gunpowder of varying sizes. Use too much gunpowder and you will end up smashing yourself against a mountain, too little and you will fall into the lake. Choose wisely. {{spoiler|It's the medium sized keg.}}
* Averted in ''[[
* In ''[[Jumper (
* The artillery cannon in ''[[
* ''[[Spyro]]'' Year of the Dragon has a ninja level that allows you to do this, though ''human cannonball'' might be a bit of a misnomer.
* In ''[[
* The Mistralton Gym in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' is rife with this kind of transportation. The second-to-last one before your meeting with Skyla is... [[Crowning Moment of Funny|maladjusted]].
* In ''[[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3]]'', the only way out of the Russian unit Bullfrog is via the "Man Cannon". It's portrayed more realistically though since the infantry units descend with parachutes after being fired from the cannon.
* In the ''[[A Boy and His Blob]]'' Wii game, one of the jellybeans transforms a blob into a cannon. A boy is one of things that can go in the cannon to be shot and there occasionally happens to be an enemy that can be shot from there too.
* In the final stage of ''[[Miner
* ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]''
** Benkiman can launch the previous victims of his toilet flushing technique<ref>King Cobra, Kani Base, Cactusman, Tileman, and Lankyman</ref> out of his toilet like a cannon.
** Sunshine can launch Ashuraman out of his Cursed Rollers as one of their combination attacks.
** Cannonballer fits the description pretty well. He can launch himself at his foe in some of his attack. He even uses Leopardon as a cannon in one of his supers.
** The Mari is a living volleyball, so he can use himself as a deadly projectile.
* ''[[Maple Story]]'': In the tutorial quest for the Cannoneer, the player meets a castaway named Cutter fix a ''HUGE'' cannon that they use this way to shoot themselves back to civilization. Seeing as the player wakes up in the infirmary of ''The Nautilus'', they likely don't land very well.
** Also, the Cannoneer gets a skill that lets him use a smaller cannon to shoot himself back to ''The Nautilus'' should he need to go there; this works even if he's on a different city, [[How Is That Even Possible?| continent, world]], or [[Beyond the Impossible| even another dimension.]]
* In ''[[Secret of Mana]]'', cannons are used for quick transport. Just use one of the cannon stations, and after a hilarious cutscene with your party tumbling through the air thousands of feet in the sky, you land where you need to go, the cartoonish nature of the game giving them a safe - if rough - landing.
* One of the many devices now available to ruin your day in ''[[Happy Wheels]]'' is a cannon into which you can slide and be blown across the board.
* This is May's Fatality in ''[[Guilty Gear XRD -Sign-]]''. She and her friend April grab the defeated foe and stuff him/her into the Mayship's ''actual'' cannon and launch them over the horizon. Along with the dialogue (different for each victim), it is [[Awesome| awesome and hilarious]].
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Subverted in ''[[
* Variant in ''[[A Miracle of Science]]'': A one-man pod is shot into space with a giant cannon, design courtesy of a mad scientist. When it fails, [[Ludicrous Gibs]] result. (Fortunately the failure rate isn't very big...)
* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' Zoe dated a professional
* In one ''[[User Friendly]]'' story arc, Pitr is launched to the moon by trebuchet.
* In ''[[8-
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In the Youtube video ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4f9m4OYkCY Friendship is Magic, Bitch,]'' it turns out that this is how [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Cuddles is shot out of one in an episode of ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'', with gruesome results (due to Toothy misinterpreting Mime's instructions to put two scoops of gunpowder in; Toothy put ''two barrels'' in instead).
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''
* Krusty the Klown in ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' once shot his half brother Luke Perry out of a cannon. The shot missed, sending Luke out of the studio, through a sandpaper factory and a display of half-price acid at the Kwik-E-Mart before he landed in a mattress warehouse. Which was then blown up.▼
** Krusty the Klown would do this to Sideshow Bob a ''lot'' when Bob was his "stooge" on Krusty's show (usually unsuccessfully), one of the mitigating factors to Bob's [[Start of Darkness]] consisting of framing Krusty for armed robbery.
▲** In "Krusty
* ''[[Beetlejuice (animation)|Beetlejuice]]''; both the title character and Lydia are subjected to this in the opening credits, courtesy of a pair of [[Monster Clown]]s.
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