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== [[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 Action TV]] ==
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* 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-Out]] to ''Donkey Kong Country''.
* The only exit of the Soviet troop transport in ''[[Command
* ''[[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 3]]'', circus cannons appear throughout both acts, and allow the player to launch themselves into the air, and one is used to enter the next zone after the boss battle.
** ''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.
* ''[[Wario Land]] Shake It'' has this as a way of travel in several levels. Sometimes even with moving cannons.
* ''[[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).
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* 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
* 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
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* 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.
* In one ''[[User Friendly]]'' story arc, Pitr is launched to the moon by trebuchet.
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater
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