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A ball (or some other projectile) bounces around incredibly quickly in a small location and causes vast amounts of damage. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
Unlike the [[Pinball Projectile]], the trajectory of the [[Hyper
Confuse it with [[Happy Fun Ball]] at your peril.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* In a '90s [[Suck E. Cheese's|Chuck E. Cheese]] ad, the narrator says, "At boring restaurants, nothing goes right." A boy pokes an absurdly large pea with his fork and accidentally causes pandemonium.
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma
* In ''[[Medaka Box]]'', Unzan uses superballs as his weapon. They defy the laws of physics, breaking concrete with ease. In one instance, they also deploy wires to try and detain Medaka.
* In ''[[Katanagatari]]'', Maniwa Pengin uses this as his weapon.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' member Bouncing Boy's power is that he can use ''himself'' as a [[Hyper Destructive Bouncing Ball]].
* The [[Donald Duck]] comic [http://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=I+TL+2221-1 "Paperino contro i veggenti viola"]. Donald Duck and Fethry Duck are secret agents with a collection of nifty gadgets, including one such a ball.
== Fanfiction ==
* In a majority of Sonic the Hedgehog fanfictions, the titular character basically becomes one.
** In a related example, the Naruto fanfiction '[[Yet Again (Fanfic)|Yet Again With A Little Extra Help]]' by Thirdfang gives Choji an additional jutsu to make his body react like superpowered rubber. Pair that with Human Boulder and Needle Jizo, and the sister of the character that taught him this combo comments it to be 'bouncy spinning hedgeghog style at its finest'.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''[[Strange Brew]]'', bullets stuck up Bob Mckenzie's nose to staunch a nosebleed shoot around the courtroom after he fails to suppress his laughter.
* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', the omnidroid acts somewhat as one when it retracts it claws. It somehow could turn directions as a smooth metal sphere, and the fact that it is at least five stories tall adds to the "Destructive" bit.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* In ''[[Peter Graves]]'', Houghton Furlong invents an anti-gravity alloy named Furloy, thus a ball of the stuff bounces higher with each bounce. Tragically, the bouncing ball ends up destroying his house.
* In ''[[Harry Potter]]'', Bludgers are balls enchanted so that they do this.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Warehouse 13]]'' featured a pair of croquet balls with this property.
== [[Music Videos]] ==
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** Closer inspection reveals it to be a soccer ball. No less impressive though.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu99_ulxyFI "The Boxer"] by [[The Chemical Brothers]] has this as its main focus. That thing just ''will not die''.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* This happens in ''[[FoxTrot]]'' when Jason hurls a superball from a lacrosse racket indoors. He also mentions having once hit a golf ball in the basement.
* A ''[[Projectile Toast|piece of toast]]'' does this in ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' after Jon [[Walking Techbane|fixed the toaster]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' has Reimu Hakurei's balls, leading to inevitable [[Double Entendre]] and [[Memetic Mutation]]: "I was killed by Reimu Hakurei's balls."
** In the fighting games, Yukari can use Ran and/or Chen like this.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)|The Order of the Stick]]'', Xykon casts Symbol of Insanity on a superball and tosses it into a group of paladins to make them slaughter each other without laying a hand on them. Admittedly, the damage is not done by the ball itself, which behaves like any bouncy ball, but from the spell cast on it. This would have been a [[Moral Event Horizon]] if every single act of Xykon's didn't already [[Crosses the Line Twice|Cross The Line Twice]].
* Gregory pulls an inverted version of this in ''[[Dominic Deegan (Webcomic)|Dominic Deegan]]''. Gregory is only defense against [[Zerg Rush|an army]] of [[Chaotic Evil]] cultists. Being the [[Technical Pacifist|pure-hearted]] [[White Mage]], he casts a few spells on, I think, Dominic's [[Crystal Ball]] and lets it fly. It drops all the cultists into a mass of hysterical laughter. Their demonic leader is [[You Have Failed Me|not amused]] and [[Sphere of Destruction|kills them]].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* The [[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP Foundation]] has [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-018 SCP-018], an affront to the laws of thermodynamics-- it's a 6cm red ball that can bounce with 200% efficiency.
* Played for laughs in this well-made [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe3e5kmtduc Doctor Who video], in which a rock tossed aside by the 5th Doctor bounces around the Doctor Who universe causing mayhem.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In ''[[Recess]]'', Gretchen once made a material that could bounce cartoonishly ridiculous amounts no matter how you drop it, and the kids made a kickball out of it to have Vince kick when he was in a rut. Gus lost it, and when Ms. Finster found, she threw it into the sports shed, causing ''all'' the balls started bouncing like this.
* The power of Bouncing Boy from the cartoon adaption of ''[[Legion of Super Heroes (Animation)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' was that he could use himself as a [[Hyper Destructive Bouncing Ball]].
== [[Real Life]] ==
* As mentioned in the ''Indiana Jones'' entry above, a bullet fired inside a tank will act like this. Obviously, the bullet will slow down quickly due to energy loss on the rebounds and passing through softer objects. It's still a very bad thing.
** Or, more likely, shatter on the very first impact and shower anyone near with shrapnel. Not much better.
** The [[Myth Busters]] demonstrated that if you're bouncing the bullet off anything soft enough that it won't shatter on the first impact, by the third ricochet, it's moving so slowly that it would merely be annoying if it hit you.
* Various mobs have a method of execution which employs this principle. If you shoot someone behind the ear with a low caliber bullet, it will bounce around inside their skull eating it up like [[Pac-Man]].
* The US has developed a device called the Kinetic Fireball Incendiary that is basically this trope. As [[Cracked]] puts it:
{{quote| "The idea is to launch lots of hollow balls of rubberized rocket fuel with a hole in one side, and light them on fire... They become rocket-powered fireballs that bounce around inside the building, killing everything near them in the most cartoonish yet horrifying way possible. The thing is, the flaming balls don't actually have to hit you. The concept works something like a martini shaker; the reason the shaker cools your delicious drink faster than simply mixing in ice cubes is because they move around the liquid inside, cooling a higher volume in a much shorter time. With the KFI, you get essentially the same thing, except the ice cubes are flaming balls that raise the ambient air temperature to over 1000 degrees in seconds, not to mention knocking down doors and spreading the same horror throughout the building."}}
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