History Main / GravityScrew

** It's not that simple: surface gravity is also dependent on the object's diameter, not just the mass. The smaller volume mass occupies, the higher the surface gravity - culminating in black holes whose infinitely small size creates a Heavy Zone that breaks physics. Even the Earth can be turned into a black hole, though the even horizon wouldn't be very big.

* "StarTrekEnterprise''. The "sweet spot", located halfway between the bow plate and the artificial gravity generator, is one place on the NX-01 Enterprise where you can sit on the roof. Captain Archer uses it in one episode to get the drop on some aliens who decided that AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs.

* ''{{Unreal 2}}'' has a ships artificial gravity play up, first allowing to jump large distances, then pulling you against different surfaces.

* [[DresdenFiles Harry]], in the center of a major Ley Line convergence, stores up a few seconds of gravity from an area the size of a small city to ''flatten an army of degenerate vampires''.

* ''{{Mass Effect|1}}'': [[spoiler: Climbing Citadel Tower]]. Witness Shepherd and his team stepping out of the elevator and onto the wall, as the camera rotates to change perspectives. Killed enemies will proceed to fall towards what would normally be down.
** Heretic Station in ''MassEffect2'' lacks any gravity; however, the player and their squadmates remain grounded by using special equipment. Thus, the lack of gravity doesn't affect gameplay...but enemies [[RagdollPhysics float away amusingly]] when you kill them.

* The mist in the maze in ''HarryPotter/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' acts as a local inverse-gravity zone to anyone who steps into it. After a few seconds of feeling like he's about to fall into the sky, Harry works up the nerve to take his feet off the "ground", at which point he snaps back to reality.

* ''KingdomHearts'' had something similar, in that the characters walked on the floor, walls, and ceiling of the first room of Wonderland at different points. The difference is that they never jumped from wall to floor and so forth; they had to go around to use doors and such.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3D'', you periodically experience this while fighting [[Film/TronLegacy Rinzler]], being forced to fight on the ceiling with inverted controls. It's disorienting enough that it tends to be better to go on the defensive until things go back to normal.

* Creator/FredAstaire[='s=] famous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8n7WQIXQDs#t=89s rotating room/"Ceiling Dance" routine]] from ''Royal Wedding''.

* Ratchet in the ''{{Ratchet and Clank}}'' gets gravity boots from the second game forward. When on a corresponding gravity surface Ratchet and his weapons have their own personal gravity.

* Ratchet in the ''{{Ratchet and Clank}}'' get gets gravity boots from the second game forward. When on a corresponding gravity surface Ratchet and his weapons have their own personal gravity.

* In ''SchlockMercenary'', gravity is a weapon, and gets used in all sorts of perspective-bending ways. One arc even involved a group of parkouring vandals who used the weird nullified gravity in the middle of an old space station to run amok throughout the station.

* In ''StuntCopter'', where you repeatedly send a man plummeting from your copter into a horse-drawn haywagon, gravity varies between levels. A helpful readout informs you of the Earth's current mass, eg. NORMAL, HEAVY, or OH BOY.

** Another ''Super Mario Galaxy'' example, of the Fun with Gravity variety, is probably the second mission of the Dreadnought Galaxy, which has platforms going normal way up, upside down and sideways at various points along a route where Mario is being fired at by various cannons. Definitely falls under the NintendoHard bit. And similar kinds of puzzles in Bowser's Dark Matter Plant.

[[caption-width-right:350:What goes up must go...clockwise. Sure.]]

* In ''A Matter of Some Gravity'', a Scrooge [=McDuck=] story by DonRosa, Magica De Spell uses a special magic wand to turn Donald's and Scrooge's personal gravity sideways. Magica escapes with Scrooge's Number one dime but despite the difficulties they give chase ([[HilarityEnsues hilarity ensues]], to say the least). When Donald and Scrooge manage to catch up with Magica she turns their gravity upside down so they're ''pulled to the sky''.

*** When the vehicle in the 1st level of the dream is [[spoiler:falling off the bridge, the gravity in the 2nd level feels nonexistant.]] This makes sense because the acceleration of the vehicle is "almost" equal to that of gravity (in practice held back by friction, but let's grant them slight inaccuracy in sci-fi) thus to the passengers, it would feel like they are weightless in the noninertial reference frame of the car, hence they would be dreaming of weightlessness.

* Outer space. The moon in particular is a well-known Light Zone.

** The Unusual Planet: Planets don't have to be round: they can be cubes, pyramids, donuts, question marks, or any kind of crazy shape. Gravity tends to pull in a direction orthogonal to the angle of the ground instead of towards its center; for example walking over the side of a cube planet will instantly flip gravity 90 degrees towards the next face (instead of the character seeming to walk over the crest of a mountain, it's more like walking over a cliff. Sasha Nein's mind, in ''{{Psychonauts}}'' is a good example.)

** The Unusual Planet: Planets don't have to be round: they can be cubes, pyramids, donuts, question marks, or any kind of crazy shape. Gravity tends to pull in a direction orthogonal to the angle of the ground instead of towards its center; for example walking over the side of a cube planet will instantly flip gravity 90 degrees towards the next face (instead of the character seeming to walk over the crest of a mountain, it's more like walking over a cliff).