History Main / LightningGun

* The old ''Xenocide'' arcade game had a LightningGun as an available weapon.

* {{Filmation}} ''{{Batman}}'' series (1966) episodes:
** "Partners in Peril". The Penguin's umbrella shoots out a lightning bolt to fry a police communications console.
** "My Crime Is Your Crime". The Penguin uses a trick rack of pool cues that fire a bolt of electricity, knocking out the Dynamic Duo.

* One of the Prawn weapon in ''{{District 9}}'' is a LightningGun that appears to home in on targets and completely incinerates them.

[[caption-width:350:[[IncrediblyLamePun SHOCKING, isn't it?]]]]

* GreatMazinger and UFORoboGrendizer both have lightning attacks, Thunder Break and Space Thunder. Even the Mass Produced Great Mazinger has Thunder Break! SuperRobotWars entries with Great Mazinger and Grendizer gives us the Double Thunder Buster and Great Mazinger shows off his incredible new power in the Mazinkaiser OVAs with ''Double Thunder Break''.

* The default weapon in ''DestroyAllHumans'' fires electricity straight ahead and zaps whatever's in your way (and goes through people, meaning you can hit two or three at the same time). Upgrades can produce a ChainLightning effect, very useful against crowds.

* The [[http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=208 Wunderland Treatymaker]] from ''KnownSpace'' is a [[KillSat Kill Sat]]-scale, double-barrelled version of a {{DisintegratorRay}}. It wouldn't fit this trope, except that Known Space Disintegrator Rays work by making all the atoms in the target temporarily positive ions. There is also a variant that makes all the atoms in the target ''negative'' ions. The Treatymaker had one barrel of each type. Correspondingly, when it was fired, a ''mile long'' bar of lightning flowed between the two points where the beams touched the planetary surface.

*** The Ballistic Weapons mod however introduced a proper lightning gun, the [=HVC Mk9=]. This gun has a continous homing electrical attack as primary fire (it can lift and swing around players and smaller vehicles; that and the gun's shape is a possible shoutout to ''HalfLife 2'''s Gravity Gun) and a chargeup red attack which has short range but massive splash damage as secondary fire. Both quickly overheats the gun but can be rectified via the manually operated heatsink.

** Video summary: It's a guy with a large tesla coil and some overused background music.

* Using the principle of the electrolaser, it is theoretically possible to create a weapon that emits plasma, and then sends a powerful electric charge through the plasma. However, it would have a very limited range, about ten feet, and the randomly dispersing gas would make electrecution of the user a very real danger. The electrolaser would be easier to control, but given the large amount of energy required, only a very large vehicle based system could generate a laser powerful enough to ionize the air. For the time being, that is.

** In ''UnrealTournament2004'', it's an oddly justified sniper rifle. In-game description states that when the trigger is pressed, the weapon [[YouFailPhysicsForever emits a proton beam]], "painting" the target with a positive charge. Milliseconds later, it emits a huge electric discharge that seeks said charge difference, hitting whatever the gun was pointed at with scary accuracy. In truth, it was put into the game so that no one can camp somewhere and snipe anything that moves without being seen.

** In ''{{Unreal}} Tournament 2003/4'', it's an oddly justified sniper rifle. In-game description states that when the trigger is pressed, the weapon [[YouFailPhysicsForever emits a proton beam]], "painting" the target with a positive charge. Milliseconds later, it emits a huge electric discharge that seeks said charge difference, hitting whatever the gun was pointed at with scary accuracy. In truth, it was put into the game so that no one can camp somewhere and snipe anything that moves without being seen.
* Found in ''Quake'' 1, 3 and 4

[[caption-width:350:[[IncrediblyLamePun SHOCKING, isn't it?]]

[[caption-width:350:[[MemeticMutation "Don't tase me, bro!"]]]]

* The Scepter of the Ancients in ''Skulduggery Pleasant'' fired lightning. Then again, it was [[BlackFlame black]], [[AWizardDidIt magic]] lightning...

* In the web game Raze, one or the ten weapons is a PIERCING LIGHTNING GUN. say good
bye to your sanity after getting this.

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* [[MahouSenseiNegima Negima]]: [[spoiler: During his recent fight with Rakan, Negi temporarily ''[[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/242/02/ transforms into lightning]]'' primarily to boost his speed. This much is HandWaved through the magic system, but then it subverts part of the usual fault: Rakan is able to [[http://www.onemanga.com/Mahou_Sensei_Negima!/244/03/ sense the momentary charge up of energy]] and counterattack accordingly.]]

* ''{{Warehouse13}}'' has a gun that shoots an electrical pulse.

* In ''DungeonsAndDragons'', blue dragons have electric breath weapons and shocker lizards electrocute their prey.

* ''DungeonCrawl'' actually tries to do electricity with a little more realism; airborne monsters resist electric attacks because the electricity can't go to ground (although, the player doesn't then get electrocuted when hitting them, which would actually be kind of hilarious)