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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The protagonist of ''[[Speed Grapher]]'' can kill with his camera, which blows up whatever he photographs.▼
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* Sometimes, the camera really ''does'' steal souls. See (repeatedly) ''[[Goosebumps]]''.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
** In ''[[Discworld/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/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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* 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 by 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 ''[[Dexter's Laboratory|Dexters Laboratory]]'' a mook at the photography company's secret lair uses a camera to shoot shuriken-photos at Dexter.
 
== [[Truth in Television]] ==
* More reasonable than you may think. Older film cameras are liablepossible because they tended to be made out of milled metals and other durable materials with a simple internal construction, while modern high-end cameras tend to have heavy-duty magnesium frames and are designed specifically so that you can drop them on rocks in the middle of an African safari and still expect them to work well enough. As for flashes, well, a professional off-camera flash is something you don't want going off in your face rapidly in the first place, and many modern flashes have enough capacitors to build several flashes' worth of charge per cycle. Plus, many photographers are liable to have [[Dual-Wielding|two or more flashes on them if they have their kit]]. Basically, don't put a photographer in a corner, it could be painful.
 
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