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== [[Film]] ==
* In the film ''[[Dog Soldiers (Film)|Dog Soldiers]]'' they use a polaroid camera to blind the attacking monsters. The photographs they take show up in the end credits.
* The climatic scene in ''[[Rear Window]]''.
* ''Quarantine'' includes a scene where a character uses the POV camera to beat up a zombie lens-first.
* Done in ''[[Gremlins (Film)|Gremlins]]'' by one of the characters who knew the Gremlins were sensitive to light.
* In ''[[Dr. No (Film)|Dr. No]]'', photographer Annabelle Chung cuts Quarrel's face with a broken flashbulb. It doesn't do her much good.
* The Camerahead Cenobite from ''[[Hellraiser III Hell On Earth]]'' can make things explode by taking a picture of them with his camera eye, which can also extend with enough force to punch a hole through a man's head.
* A camera-mounted tripod is used as a stabbing and bludgeoning weapon in ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Halloween]]: Resurrection''.
* An alternate ending for ''[[Paranormal Activity (Film)|Paranormal Activity]]'' would have had a possessed Katie beat Micah to death with the camera.
* The Water Street Butcher bashes a child's head in with the camera in ''[[The Poughkeepsie Tapes (Film)|The Poughkeepsie Tapes]]''.
* When her home is plunged into darkness, Sarah from ''[[Inside (Film)|Inside]]'' uses the flashes emitted by her camera to navigate the house, and find the wounded killer.
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* Sometimes, the camera really ''does'' steal souls. See (repeatedly) ''[[Goosebumps]]''.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld (Literature)/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 (Literature)/The Truth|The Truth]]'', Otto Chriek's experimental camera is used to advantage in a fight scene because it uses Uberwaldean Land Eels -- which emit the mysterious "dark light" -- instead of Salamanders.
* 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.
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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 (TV)|CSIs]]'' had a girl die when a camera was thrown at her.
 
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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* ''[[Fatal Frame]]'', in which a camera can be used to exorcise ghosts by taking their picture with a Camera Obscura using special film.
* The small, flying camera robots in ''[[Half Life|Half Life 2]]'' often end up blinding you.
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'' one of Edgar's tools is a camera with a damaging flash.
* In ''[[Eternal Darkness]]'' there's a level where you play as a journalist in a makeshift World War I hospital. You start the level with a camera and some flash powder which you can use to stun enemies (which is useful, considering some of them can easily dodge the puny guns you're given).
* While Jade cannot actually fight using her camera in ''[[Beyond Good and& Evil (Videovideo Gamegame)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'', it does serve as a substitute for a [[Sniper Rifle]] scope for making precise long-distance shots with the disk launcher.
* Ran Hibiki from the ''[[Rival Schools (Video Game)|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 (Videovideo Gamegame)|Scott Pilgrim]]'' game, one of the generic [[Mooks]] attacks with a flash camera.
* In ''[[Touhou (Video Game)|Touhou]]'' [[Gaiden Game|Gaiden Games]] ''Shoot the Bullet'' and ''Double Spoiler'', taking enough pictures of the bosses makes them explode as though they were defeated. Taking pictures also clears away [[Bullet Hell|bullets]] in the picture.
* There's at least one ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)]]'' 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.
 
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]]'', Catalina and Rhoda use their cameras' flashes along with a loud whistle to scare off a boar.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* When ''[[The Simpsons]]'' went to Itchy & Scratchy Land and the robots went berzerk, flashes from cameras were both their [[Berserk Button]] "on" switch and "off" switch.
* It took Buzz and his gang a camera set in the baggage conveyor belt scene to temporarily paralyze ''[[Toy Story 2]]'''s villain, [[Prospector|Stinky Pete]]. [[Blinded Byby the Light|With the flash]], of course.
* In one ''[[Ed Edd and Eddy]]'' episode Eddy keeps doing this to Kevin.
* The protagonist of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' can kill with his camera, which blows up whatever he photographs.
* [[Johnny Test]] used this to defeat the Molemen in one episode.
* During a [[James Bond]] [[Parody]] episode of ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory (Animation)|Dexters Laboratory]]'' a mook at the photography company's secret lair uses a camera to shoot shuriken-photos at Dexter.
 
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
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