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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Used in ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' comic - when a corrupted matrix-posessed decepticon leader enters the autobot ship in one of their shuttles and starts demolishing the autobots, one of the heroes turns off the gravity and opens the airlock, allowing a single harpoon shot to push the monster out into space.
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* In ''[[Sillage]]'', while performing a mission on an alien world, Navis tumbles off a cliff during a struggle with a native. They are saved from death by an anti-gravity field generated by the local plebothinium and she quickly overpowers her opponent since she is trained in zero-gravity fighting and he is not.
== Fan Works ==
* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' fanfic ''[[Forward]]'', the crew take advantage of this when the ship suffers a malfunction that wipes out their artificial gravity systems and are being chased by Reavers. They rig the cargo doors on the belly of the ship to be partially open, luring the Reaver ship into docking at that point and boarding. The Reavers leap out into the cargo bay, but unexpectedly go from a ship with gravity to a ship without one, and their momentum leads to them flailing about helplessly in the cargo bay while the crew shoots them.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
== [[Film]] ==
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* In ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]'', Chancellor Gorkon's assassins start by firing a torpedo that disables the gravity on his shuttle. They can get around because they're wearing suits with magnetic boots; everyone else on the ship is considerably more impaired.
* In ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' during the scene on the deflector at one point Picard deactivates his magnetic boots in order to float over the heads of several borg.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S31
** More recently, the extra-universal entity House (no, not THAT House) takes over the TARDIS, and begins toying with Rory and Amy; one such method of doing so involves turning off the ship's gravity relocator, turning many of the corridors into horrendously deep pits...
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' deals with a character who comes from a planet with very little gravity who must get around in a wheelchair, because medical treatment to acclimate her to normal gravity would make it impossible for her to return to her homeworld for extended periods. In the climax, she's able to save a captured shuttle crew by turning off the gravity and kicking the hostage-takers' asses in zero-g.
* ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' presents the opposite approach to this trope, in an episode where a dangerous alien is defeated by ''increasing'' the gravity over the deck plates it was walking on. This causes the reptilian biped to heave onto the floor and remain trapped there for a few seconds before it was shot to death.
* ''[[Firefly]]'' uses a variation of this trope. Rather than turning the ship's [[Anti Gravity]] systems off, Mal and River trick a villain into going outside the ship into the Zero-G environment of outer space. One well-placed punch is enough to send him flying endlessly into space with no way of getting back.
* Referenced on the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Wormhole X-treme," when the show-within-a-show's producers are trying to scale back the special effects budget, and are stuck on a scene where the hero is supposed to become weightless and float past an alien guard. O'Neill, as their military advisor, asks [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him|"Why doesn't he just... shoot him?"]]
== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Dungeons
* ''[[GURPS]]'' has plenty of rules available determining the exact effects of zero-gee on virtually any aspect it can think of. The penalties applied generally means that anyone not used to moving in it will become a flailing pile of mess; ''Martial Arts'' even has a special zero-gee fighting style, complete with an in-universe cinematic equivalent where the practitioners replace their legs with extra arms to enhance their fighting capability.
== [[Toys]] ==
* Subverted/Defied in ''[[Bionicle]]''. [[Knife Nut|Lariska]] is [[Genre Savvy|aware of this trope]], so when she is assigned to kill a [[Gravity Master|Toa of Gravity]], she first spends quite some time using levitation disks to practice fighting/assassination/both in zero-g conditions.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* ''[[Quentyn Quinn Space Ranger]]'' in "[[Star Trek|The Federation]]" arc, when they had a disagreement:
{{quote|'''Quentyn''': Ahem. To reiterate: I have control of all your ship's systems, ''including the artificial gravity'' }}
* In ''[[Crimson Dark]]'', when {{spoiler|Sarah}} got access to her AI bugs [https://web.archive.org/web/20160329233122/http://www.davidcsimon.com/crimsondark/index.php?view=comic&strip_id=394 and a lonely guard ran in]. "I have complete control over every system on this station. Including the variable gravity plates."
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''Academy of Superheroes'': A rare case of the antagonist using this ''on himself''. The hero, a [[Gravity Master]], pins him to an asteroid that's heading for Earth and leaves him to die. Fortunately for him, the villain was [[The Smart Guy]] of his team and [http://books.google.com/books?id=89fxlVBylfEC&pg=PA8&dq=electromagnetism+%22stronger+than+gravity%22&hl=en&ei=DXHtTbeiL8TDgQfA0rXYCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=electromagnetism%20%22stronger%20than%20gravity%22&f=false an electrokinetic].
* In ''[[Pay Me, Bug!]]'', part of the drill for repelling boarders on the ''Fool's Errand'' is to switch the gravity on and off at predetermined intervals. Since the boarders wouldn't know the schedule, they wouldn't be prepared for the sudden shifts.
** A more mundane example is that, because the ''Fool's Errand'' uses older gravity technology, they can't have the artificial gravity on at all while they're [[Faster-Than-Light Travel|in tach]]. Well, they ''can'', but it's dangerous.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Love and Rockets", when the Planet Express ship's central computer goes crazy, it shuts off both the gravity and the oxygen on the ship to prevent Fry and Leela from thwarting her.
* ''[[Treasure Planet]]'', during Jim and Scroop's fight on the Legacy the gravity is turned off. Since the ship is completely open-topped Scroop goes flying out into space.
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