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* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', Bel-Shammaroth is stunned and scared off by caged Salamanders flashing lights. Salamanders whose purpose is to provide light for Twoflower's camera.
** In ''[[Discworld/The Truth|The Truth]]'', Otto Chriek's experimental camera is used to advantage in a fight scene because it uses Uberwaldean Land
* The ''only'' way to defeat the [[Big Bad]] in the book ''Golden And Grey: The Nightmares Ghosts Have'', was to capture his image in some way. The hero intended to use a pocket mirror and brought one along, but when it broke, an annoying reporter with a camera ended up saving the day.
* In [[Michael Crichton]]'s ''Prey'', the killer [[Grey Goo]] were originally designed to be nanomolecular cameras.
* In Charles Stross' ''[[The Laundry Series]]'', the CCTV cameras ubiquitous across England can be turned into "look-to-kill" weapons, operating on the same principle as [[Taken for Granite|basilisks, gorgons, etc]]. It says something about how bad [[Apocalypse How|a full-scale invasion]] by [[Eldritch Abomination
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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** "Bad Medicine". When Kolchak takes pictures of a diablero, it flees to protect its eyes from the bright light from the camera's flashbulb.
** Subverted in "They Have Been, They Are, They Will Be...". Kolchak thinks the monster is adversely affected by the light from his camera's flash bulb. It actually turns out to be vulnerable to the sound the camera's recharger makes after the flash.
* One of the ''[[CSI
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* Ran Hibiki from the ''[[Rival Schools]]'' games incorporates her camera into some of her special attacks, being a [[School Newspaper Newshound]] and all.
* In the movie studio stage of the ''[[Scott Pilgrim (video game)|Scott Pilgrim]]'' game, one of the generic [[Mooks]] attacks with a flash camera.
* In ''[[Touhou]]'' [[Gaiden Game
* There's at least one ''[[Tintin]]'' videogame adaptation where you can use the camera to scare away birds/bats and stun both men and beasts alike, allowing you to get close enough to knock them out cold.
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