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== [[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]] ==
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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: Twilight Princess
* ''[[Donkey Kong Country]]''. Barrel cannons. Heck, the spinoff ''Barrel Blast''/''Jet Race'' uses them as [[Jet Pack|jetpacks]]!
* Used as a method of transportation in ''[[Secret of Mana]]'' and ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]''
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* ''[[Monkey Island]]'' has two of those.
* Comes up ocassionally in the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' series:
** 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 [[Little Kings Story|Little King's Story]] is to purchase and use giant cow cannons, which made getting back to places like the Skull Plains a lot less difficult.
* 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 ''[[Runescape]]'''s "A Clockwork Syringe" quest, firing yourself out of the cannon ''directly'' is too dangerous, so you weld a chain to the cannonball, attach a barrel to it, and ride in that instead! In "Between a rock" quest. player is launched out of the cannonball towards a rock wall with a golden helmet on.
* 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 and 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 ''[[
== [[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 [[Human Cannonball]] for a while. They met after he crash landed on another guy Zoe was trying to chat up.
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== [[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).
* Krusty the Klown in ''[[The Simpsons (
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