History Main / NetGun

* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': One of Hawkeye's many {{Trick Arrow}}s Clint is a net arrow, which explodes into a net to capture the target.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hawkeye}}'': One of Hawkeye's many TrickArrows Clint is a net arrow, which explodes into a net to capture the target.

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* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' routinely uses his web shooters to capture villains, often delivering them to justice bagged in a net of webbing. (Notably, in some variations, Spider-Man's webbing is organic and produced by him biologically, but in most versions it is simply a form of technology -- a SuperWristGadget that shoots nets.)

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'': All cyborgs in the game have a gun in their "stomachs" where they shoot various kind of projectiles. One of these cyborgs, Cyrax, can throw bombs, but also a green net used to catch and bring in the opponent, being the robot counterpart of [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1 Scorpion]] (or at least until you unlock Robot Smoke and the comeback of Scorpion and Human Smoke for ''Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3'').

* ''Franchise/{{Predator}}'': ''Film/Predator2'' and ''Film/AlienVsPredator'' both showcase the Yautja's idea of netting as a hunting tool -- namely, [[RazorFloss mono-molecular wire]] nets that '''flay''' whatever is unlucky enough to get caught in them.

* ''VideoGame/TheBugsBunnyBirthdayBlowout'': Elmer Fudd fires a net from his hunting rifle during the boss fights with him. Should it catch Bugs, Elmer will immediately beeline to Bugs in order to inflict CollisionDamage. The player has to wiggle Bugs free from the net.

The archetypal non-laser (possibly even low-tech) type of FamilyFriendlyFirearms, the net gun is a thing which [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_gun actually exists]], though in reality they're not useful for much beyond catching comparatively small birds (or, more recently, drones). This is because real nets tend to be heavy and bulky, and it's very hard to pack a net capable of covering a target of any respectable size into a projectile with any amount of range. But in fiction, the net gun can capture a full-sized person or more, and may fire an InescapableNet. It may be a component of a SwissArmyGun. Sister trope to ProjectileWebbing.

* ''VideoGame/{{Legend}}'' have the medieval version of this trope. At the beginning of one stage, you're attacked by a bandit armed with a net-shooting crossbow, which ''will'' entangle you alive so you're taken to the dungeons.

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* ''Film/RaceForTheYankeeZephyr''. The protagonists who are bush helicopter pilots use these to capture deer in the mountains of New Zealand. Later one of them is running from the villains who are apparently about to shoot him with a rifle, only it's a deer net and [[CantKillYouStillNeedYou he gets captured instead.]]

* In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoFury'', Amelia has one called the "Spook Snare", which is (supposedly) meant to catch ghosts. The net can be electrified as well, which comes in handy when she turns it on Void Knight.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': In episode 13, The safety patrol officers use these against [[CanisMajor the black hound]]. The nets are too small however and just bounce off him.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centurions}}'' has a variation of this trope; Silent Arrow, one of John Thunder's Assault Weapon Systems, launches a giant arrow that opens to reveal a capture net.

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