Tractor Beam: Difference between revisions

** In [[The Thrawn Trilogy]], Luke got out of one by dropping a hastily reprogrammed proton torpedo, letting it get drawn up by the tractor beam to destroy its projector, and doing something unorthodox with his engines at the same time. Later in the trilogy he's caught again and escapes by making an empty freighter explode into a cloud of highly reflective particles, breaking the lock despite the operator's best efforts. Thrawn did not [[You Have Failed Me|kill that operator]], since he made a novel effort, and instead tasked him to find out how to counter that kind of trick. And evidentally he did; it doesn't work in the [[Hand of Thrawn]] duology.

** The [[X Wing Series]] makes it clear that if a ship tractors something with a larger mass, the ship is pulled towards that mass instead of the other way around. In ''Wraith Squadron'', Wedge uses this to move a ship without giving off drive emissions.

* ''[[Spaceballs]]'' has one of these, too (called a "magnetic beam" in the film).

* In ''[[Austin Powers]]: Goldmember'', both Goldmember and Dr. Evil came up with designs for a tractor beam to allow them to pull in an asteroid down to Earth. Dr. Evil calls his "Preparation H", as Preparations A-G were unsuccessful.