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* ''Orguss 02'': Young [[Humongous Mecha]] mechanic Lean has [[Falling Into the Cockpit|fallen into the cockpit]] and is barely holding his own against an enemy pilot. His solution: tackle the other Decimator mecha onto a nearby island, bend its [[Schizo-Tech|machine gun barrels]] so it can't counterattack, point his Decimator's [[Rocket Boots]] at the enemy's cockpit!

* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]]'', Kou gives Gato a face-full of his Gundam's maneuvering thrusters when locked in close combat. This doesn't actually damage Gato's Gundam, but it does blind and distract him.

** The leader of [[La Résistance]] is killed in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam The 08th MS Team]]'' when a Zaku fires it's thrusters in an attempt to escape an ambush. The backwash takes out his entire house, too. And this was ''entirely by accident'' and happened mostly because a resistance member in that house fired an anti-tank rocket at it.

** The leader of [[La Résistance]] is killed in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team]]'' when a Zaku fires it's thrusters in an attempt to escape an ambush. The backwash takes out his entire house, too. And this was ''entirely by accident'' and happened mostly because a resistance member in that house fired an anti-tank rocket at it.

** ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam]]'' gives us the Victory 2 Gundam, which carries a miniaturized Minovsky Craft System known as the Minovsky Drive System. Not only does this allow it to float in mid-air (unlike other mobile suits which have to use constant thrust to stay aloft), but the exhaust vents in the back expel charged Minovsky particles, the V2's "Wings of Light," which can expand up to one kilometer long. Fun fact: The Wings of Light [[Game Breaker|have the same properties as beam sabers and beam shields]].

** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'', one luckless Zaku was caught behind ''White Base'' as she was taking off and got vaporized by the engines.

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== Fan Works ==

* In ''[[~~An Entry With a Bang (Fanfic)|~~An Entry With a Bang]]!'', the pirates attacking Chicago use the plumes of their Dropship to toast a lot of infantry. The Fusion Torch project aims to use Dropship reactors in this fashion. The weapons' nickname, "Shipkiller", should tell you everything you need to know.

* In ''[[An Entry With a Bang]]!'', the pirates attacking Chicago use the plumes of their Dropship to toast a lot of infantry. The Fusion Torch project aims to use Dropship reactors in this fashion. The weapons' nickname, "Shipkiller", should tell you everything you need to know.

* In the ''[[Firefly]]'' fic series ''[[Forward]]'', there are several instances where the crew uses ''Serenity's'' engines as weapons. In "Business," they lured an Alliance gunboat close enough to fire the engines directly into the bridge section of the vessel, blinding its sensors and heating up the bridge canopy enough that Jayne is able to put an armor-piercing round through it. Later on, in "Adrift" Wash uses the exhaust from the ship's damaged engines to blind a Reaver pursuit craft, and in the "Fourth Interlude" River manages to exploit a flaw in an enemy ship's engines by channeling her ship's exhaust into its intakes, overheating it and causing it to shut down and sending the enemy ship into an uncontrolled spin.

* In ''[[Sleeping with the Girls]]'', in the second Tenchi arc, the SI remembers, almost too late, that standing near a spaceship about to take off is a bad idea. Cue an [[Oh Crap]] moment, followed by him running, screaming "KZINTI LESSON! KZINTI LESSON!" over and over. He almost makes it, and the backwash of the ship's takeoff knocks him off of his feet. Not the straightest example of the trope, but shows an understanding of it.