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== [[Film]] ==
* In the film ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* In ''[[
* 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 (
* An alternate ending for ''[[
* The Water Street Butcher bashes a child's head in with the camera in ''[[
* When her home is plunged into darkness, Sarah from ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* Sometimes, the camera really ''does'' steal souls. See (repeatedly) ''[[Goosebumps]]''.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld
** In ''[[Discworld
* 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
== [[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 ''[[
* 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
* Ran Hibiki from the ''[[
* In the movie studio stage of the ''[[Scott Pilgrim (
* In ''[[
* There's at least one ''[[Tintin
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[
== [[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
* 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 ''[[
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
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