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When Hollywood talks about EMP, it can generally be filed under [[You Fail Physics Forever]].
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
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* ''[[X-Men]]'' villain (and [[Heel Face Revolving Door|occasional ally]]) Magneto does this from time to time. Considering how [[Green Lantern Ring|flexible]] his magnetic powers are usually depicted as being, it's not completely out of the question. Storm has done it with ''lightning bolts'' which ... [[You Fail Physics Forever|no]].
* In the second issue of ''[[Global Frequency]]'', one of the characters carries non-lethal weaponry, such as EMP grenades, when they are going against a full-body enhancile. {{spoiler|They are... not exactly non-leathal.}}
* In [[The Dark Knight Returns]] the Soviets launch a single nuclear missile at the contested island of Corto Maltese. Superman knocks it off course, but, as Batman points out, this is not a [[Nuke
* In ''[[All Fall Down (Comic Book)|All Fall Down]]'', the Colony Drop-sized asteroid Penumbra seems to be radiating this, making any missile attack impossible.
* ''[[Iron Man]]'' has one built into his armor. It disables his own gear as well, which then takes about six minutes to fix itself. The exact same thing is in the ''[[War Machine (Comic Book)|War Machine]]'' armor.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[Harry Turtledove]]'s ''[[
* In William Gibson's ''[[Neuromancer]]'', the US military flight unit "Operation Screaming Fist", led by Colonel Willis Corto (Armitage), is taken down by Russian EMP weapons.
** In the ''Neuromancer'' universe, many companies use Artificial Intelligences to run their computing needs, especially security. Notably, there is a regulatory agency (the Turings) that is aware that [[AI Is a Crapshoot]]: as such, all AI-equipped supercomputers must be built with an EMP destruct device, triggerable by any Turing agent. As one AI-savvy character puts it, "Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead." This is important, as the story revolves around two [[A Is]] (Wintermute and Neuromancer) that wish to merge into one superentity-an act that would certainly trigger the EMP bombs.
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Paranoia]]'' had the Gauss Gun, a directional EMP weapon useful against robots and other electronic equipment.
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' has EMP ''grenades'' as Tau equipment used for dealing with tanks. They rarely see that much use, due to the Tau being the inventors of the railgun -- a long-ranged tank killer that makes a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|lascannon]] look wimpy.
* ''[[GURPS]]: Ultra-Tech'' has EMP warheads for properly sized projectiles. Microwave disruptors use a similar technology but are somewhat less effective. Oddly they don't fry the system, instead the effect leaves computers temporarily "unconscious".
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