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* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Generations'' introduces the Leviathan monster Mizutsune. Its deceptively lethal attacks typically involve bubbles in some way, be it by blowing damaging bubbles at players, placing bubble "landmines", sliding around on its' own suds, etc.

** ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'': There is a small case of this with Crazee Dayzees that attack you with bubbles which do no damage, though you can [[GoombaSpringboard bounce quite high if you jump off of them]].

** Bubble Lead is also useful to get those pesky sproingy things (who are immune to most other types of weapons) out of the way. And, since it hugs the floor, it can be used to scope out the invisible pitfalls in Wily's Castle.

** ''Manga/MegaManMegamix'' rationalizes the weapon as electromagnetically-strengthened bubbles infused with sulfuric acid, which further strengthens it both in damage potential and tensile strength (meaning they would persist until it hit a target).

** Caesar Zeppeli in ''Manga/BattleTendency'' has an attack where he infuses soap bubbles with [[KiManipulation Hamon]] and launches them at his enemy.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' - The Dirty Bubble IS a bubble - who can laugh menacingly, he talks like Creator/PaulLynde and...well, he IS dangerous, really!

* The second SuperheroEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' had Heloise become Trouble Bubble Girl. Jimmy and Beezy [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway laugh at this]] until Heloise shows how effective they can be.
* The Wartmongers had this type of weapon in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981''.
* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends,'' Fizzy's power as a unicorn is limited to bubbles. However, it turns out HeartIsAnAwesomePower: she can give you an air bubble for underwater travel, or levitate things FloatingInABubble. It came in ''much'' handier than it should have.

** ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' has the Bubble Lead, which seems like one of the more useless weapons you get, until you realize [[FinalExamBoss you need it to beat the last boss]].

** Not to say Bubbles herself didn't use it efficiently. While it did have a basic spray attack (useful for covering a wide area), it also had capture bubbles,rescue bubbles, missile reflection bubbles, constricting bubbles, electro-bubbles, 100 ton bubbles, and healing bubbles. The sheer variety of moves and the power and area spread behind a lot of them made her arguably the most powerful of the PPGZ.

* Mermaids in the ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'' series uses surprisingly damaging bubbles for their long-range attack. Shantae herself gets the ability to shoot these rapid-fire while fighting underwater in Mermaid form. [[spoiler:[[EvilTwin Nega-Shantae]] one-ups her in this department as she could fire these in Mermaid form at an even faster rate in every direction while out of water for ThatOneAttack]].

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Since Sailor Mercury's Shabon[=/=]Bubble Spray is nothing more than a blast of mildly annoying bubbles ([[AC:filled with fog!]]), she prefers to be MissionControl until she gets a power upgrade.

* The Wartmongers had this type of weapon in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs''.

Compare WaterGunsAndBalloons.

* ''Franchise/SailorMoon'': Since Sailor Mercury's Shabon[=/=]Bubble Spray was nothing more than a blast of mildly annoying bubbles ([[AC:filled with fog!]]), she preferred to be MissionControl until she got a power upgrade.

** In its Japan-only sequel ''VideoGame/DoremiFantasy'', Milon's bubble weapon shot in a straight line from the player and traps any enemy in a bubble upon contact, which fly up and off the screen when the player touches them. This is especially useful during certain boss battles where the boss stays on the upper side of the screen and throws projectiles at you, which you can trap in the bubbles and bounce back at him.

** ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' features this weapon and it is largely laughable... up until the point you get hit. The attack is normally unimpressive, slow, easily dissipated and low in damage. However, when it DOES hit, it traps the target, allowing a follow up attack on the hapless target. To top it off, it DOUBLES the damage of electric attacks so you can intentionally set up a bubble starfish so that you can follow up with an Elecpulse.
*** It also features a series of water-elemental gun chips that use bubbles (Bubbler, [=BubCross=], etc) which despite their frothy appearance are no less effective than their more conventional counterparts.
** Bubble Lead is also useful to get those pesky sproingy things (who are immune to most other types of weapons) out of the way.
*** And, since it hugs the floor, it can be used to scope out the invisible pitfalls in Wily's Castle.

* Weapons in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' can be crafted from Bubblewrap ore, among other things.
** The bubblewrap crossbow subverts this: "It shoots individual bubbles, which will make your enemies' fingers sore. Eventually. It also shoots regular bolts, in case you want to use it as a regular crossbow. It's probably more effective that way."
* There is a small case of this in ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' with Crazee Dayzees that attack you with bubbles which do no damage, though you can [[GoombaSpringboard bounce quite high if you jump off of them]].
** On the other hand, bubbles shot from these fellows (and ''especially'' their [[MetalSlime Amazee]] cousins) are quite painful in the ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' series.
* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} series has the [[MakingASplash Water-type]] Bubble and Bubblebeam attacks, both of which have a chance of reducing Speed. Even though the latter's around three times as powerful as the former, it's still a middling attack at best (and the former's pretty much useless after the first Gym).

* This is [[FinalBoss Wart's]] weapon of choice in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'', flying outward then dropping rapidly. The character has to weave between where they fall to avoid getting struck.

** Actually a magic weapon in this game. It's also extremely powerful and fires very rapidly, but has short range.
** The Xenopopper, found as a random drop from the Martian Madness event, it creates a bubble that (after a short delay) pops to reveal a shotgun spread of projectiles which will converge at your mouse cursor, making it one of the most accurate ([[DifficultButAwesome albeit mechanically unusual]]) weapons in the game, with or without the [[HomingProjectile homing Chlorophyte Bullets]].

* The Bubble card in ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'', which turned out to have been created only so Clow could, uhh... [[{{MundaneUtility}} give Kero's big form a bath]].

* ''VideoGame/{{La Tale}}'' has this with the very first water spell, named Bubble Bubble.
* ''VideoGame/{{The World Ends With You}}'''s frog Noise use this attack. Certain versions include poison bubbles in each cloud, which deal greater damage. While a simple slash is enough to destroy the bubbles, it's ''very'' easy to get decked by them. Not to mention that you're usually fighting more than one at a time, and those bubbles linger.

* Several of [[SquishyWizard Patchouli's]] Water Sign spells in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fighting games utilize bubbles. Some are large projectiles which doubles as shields that can soak up a lot of the enemy's projectiles, while others can trap enemies in a giant bubble if they connect.

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* Caesar Zeppeli from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has an attack where he infuses soap bubbles with [[KiManipulation Hamon]] and launches them at his enemy.
** In Part 4, the [[{{Planimal}} cat turned into plant]] Stray Cat can control surrounding air to create bubbles that have a variety of uses, from cuffing a body and suspending it in the air, to tearing out a person's toenail. Yoshikage Kira finds a use for Stray Cat by combining this with his Stand Killer Queen's [[HavingABlast Primary Bomb]], allowing him to launch out and control explosive air bubbles.
** The stand Soft & Wet from Part 8 also utilizes bubbles. It can use soap bubbles to "steal" small objects or properties of a target temporarily until the bubble pops and whatever was inside is returned.

** In its Japan-only sequel ''VideoGame/DoReMiFantasy'', Milon's bubble weapon shot in a straight line from the player and traps any enemy in a bubble upon contact, which fly up and off the screen when the player touches them. This is especially useful during certain boss battles where the boss stays on the upper side of the screen and throws projectiles at you, which you can trap in the bubbles and bounce back at him.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', the first ranged attack you can get is one where you (in Deku Scrub form) shoot bubbles out of your mouth/nose/whatever. Incredibly weak and able to stun none but the weakest of enemies, it's primarily used to pop balloons before you get arrows.

** When playing with a three-button controller, at least.

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' has the Bubble Lead, which seems like one of the more useless weapons you get, until you realize [[FinalExamBoss you need it to beat the last boss]].
** ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' hypothesizes that the Bubble Lead actually does its damage [[EpilepticTrees because it induces lead poisoning.]]
*** For those wondering, the "Lead" in Bubble Lead has nothing to do with the heavy metal, but with the "lead" that rhymes with "feed"; a phonetic translation from Japanese to English reads ''baburu riido'' (バブル・リード). Literally translated, "Bubble Reeds" or "Bubble Leash". If it were named after the metal, the phonetic translation would have been ''baburu '''reddo''''' (バブル・レッド).

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', Aqua's starting Shotlock, Bubble Blaster, is her only [[MakingASplash water based attack]].
* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', the entirety of the [[FlyingSeafoodSpecial Tatsu Steed]] dream eater's arsenal consists of bubbles. It has a bubble spray, bubble bullets, bubble mortar, bubble shield and bubble mines, all of which pack a punch (Though especially the mortar and mines). The [[UndergroundMonkey Tatsu Blaze]] has [[PlayingWithFire FIRE Bubbles!]] Tatsu Steed also has Aqua's Bubble Blaster attack, with the Tatsu Blaze having a variation called Fire Blaster. To preform it, Sora rides on their back and bonks their heads, causing the bubbles to pop out.

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* ''{{Website/Neopets}}'' has the Bubble Blower ability and the Bubble Gun.

* [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagicaTheMovieRebellion Nagisa Momoe]] wields a trumpet that can fire a stream of bubbles. The lethality of these bubbles is clear from the effect it has on [[spoiler: Homura's barrier]], and by wearing her [[spoiler: [[SuperMode Bebe face]]]], she can exhale a literal storm of them with incredible force.

* Bubbles in ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'' uses a huge bubble rod as her main weapon. When Him got his hands on the girls' weapons in one episode, he proceeded to use them much more efficiently.

* Bubbles in ''Anime/DemashitaPowerpuffGirlsZ'' uses a huge bubble rod as her main weapon. When Him got his hands on the girls' weapons in one episode, he proceeded to use them much more efficiently...

* ''VideoGame/JustCause2'' has the bubble gun, found in a lighthouse in the middle of nowhere. does absolutely no damage to enemies but on the plus side it doubles the machine gun ammo you can carry. On the down side, using it is just as much against the law as any other actually lethal gun

* The indie comic book ''Comicbook/TheJam'' had a peculiar weapon made from a trumpet by a MadScientist--when you blew into it, it created a big bubble around the target. Scarier than it sounds, as the bubble was harder than steel and airtight.
* An issue of ''Comicbook/GoldDigger'' had Gina using a force field bubble gun as a new non-lethal weapon. It traps its target inside a floating bubble.

* Caesar Zeppeli from ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has an attack where he infuses soap bubbles with [[KiAttacks Hamon]] and launches them at his enemy.