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* ''[[Star Wars]]'' universe.
** It's what pulls the Millennium Falcon into the Death Star in ''[[Star Wars|A New Hope]]''. [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tractor_beam Tractor beams] and ways to get out of them appear regularly in the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]].
** 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.
* The 1977 ''Star Wars'' [[Parody]] short ''[[Hardware Wars]]'' has one, of course -- and like the page image, it involves an actual tractor.
* ''[[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.
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* They appear in the ''[[Space Empires]]'' series, along with their opposites, Repulsor Beams.
* One of the gadgets in ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]: [[Ratchet and Clank Going Commando|Going Commando]]''. It only works on objects with a special marking.
* The final Bowser level of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' has tractor beams that pull you from one planet to the next, but a Launch Star is actually used to get from the second-to-last planet to the one you fight Bowser himself on.
** In ''[[Super Mario Galaxy 2]]'' however, tractor beams are now produced by large doors (which can only be opened by smashing meteorites into it) leading to the planet you fight Bowser on at the end of all three Bowser levels.
* The War Blimp boss in ''[[Heavy Weapon]]'' has a "Meteor Tractor Beam", it makes meteors rain on you shortly after it is fired.
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