History Main / NoGravityForYou

* In ''PayMeBug'', part of the drill for repelling boarders on the ''Fool's Errand'' is to switch the gravity on and off at predetermined intervals. Since the boarders wouldn't know the schedule, they wouldn't be prepared for the sudden shifts.

* In the ''{{Firefly}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Forward}}'', the crew take advantage of this when the ship suffers a malfunction that wipes out their artificial gravity systems and are being chased by Reavers. They rig the cargo doors on the belly of the ship to be partially open, luring the Reaver ship into docking at that point and boarding. The Reavers leap out into the cargo bay, but unexpectedly go from a ship with gravity to a ship without one, and their momentum leads to them flailing about helplessly in the cargo bay while the crew shoots them.

* Used in {{Transformers Generation 1}} comic - when a corrupted matrix-posessed decepticon leader enters the autobot ship in one of their shuttles and starts demolishing the autobots, one of the heroes turns off the gravity and opens the airlock, allowing a single harpoon shot to push the monster out into space.

* In {{Sillage}}, while performing a mission on an alien world, Navis tumbles off a cliff during a struggle with a native. They are saved from death by an anti-gravity field generated by the local plebothinium and she quickly overpowers her opponent since she is trained in zero-gravity fighting and he is not.

* An episode of StarTrekDeepSpaceNine deals with a character who comes from a planet with very little gravity who must get around in a wheelchair, because medical treatment to acclimate her to normal gravity would make it impossible for her to return to her homeworld for extended periods. In the climax, she's able to save a captured shuttle crew by turning off the gravity and kicking the hostage-takers' asses in zero-g.
* StarTrekEnterprise presents the opposite approach to this trope, in an episode where a dangerous alien is defeated by ''increasing'' the gravity over the deck plates it was walking on. This causes the reptilian biped to heave onto the floor and remain trapped there for a few seconds before it was shot to death.
* {{Firefly}} uses a variation of this trope. Rather than turning the ship's AntiGravity systems off, Mal and River trick a villain into going outside the ship into the Zero-G environment of outer space. One well-placed punch is enough to send him flying endlessly into space with no way of getting back.
* Referenced on the StargateSG1 episode "Wormhole X-treme," when the show-within-a-show's producers are trying to scale back the special effects budget, and are stuck on a scene where the hero is supposed to become weightless and float past an alien guard. O'Neill, as their military advisor, asks [[WhyDontYaJustShootHim "Why doesn't he just... shoot him?"]]

* Academy of Superheroes: A rare case of the antagonist using this ''on himself''. The hero, a GravityMaster, pins him to an asteroid that's heading for Earth and leaves him to die. Fortunately for him, the villain was TheSmartGuy of his team and [[http://books.google.com/books?id=89fxlVBylfEC&pg=PA8&dq=electromagnetism+%22stronger+than+gravity%22&hl=en&ei=DXHtTbeiL8TDgQfA0rXYCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=electromagnetism%20%22stronger%20than%20gravity%22&f=false an electrokinetic]].

* JusticeLeagueUnlimited features a fight between Mister Terrific and TheFlash who's had a FreakyFridayFlip with LexLuthor. As Mister Terrific's only superpower is that he's really smart, this proves problematic, and he evens the fights by turning off the Watchtower's AntiGravity. Flash Luthor is non-plussed, and used his SuperSpeed to turn his arms into propellers. Mr. Terrific responds by turning the AntiGravity back ''on'', causing Flash Luthor to plummet painfully to the ground, getting knocked out in the process.

* KimPossible pulled this on Monkey Fist and his army of monkey ninjas while on a space station.
* StarWarsTheCloneWars sees Cad Bane use this trick to help even the odds in a fight against Anakin, Ahsoka and some Clone Troopers.

* StarTrekEnterprise presents the opposite approach to this trope, in an episode where a dangerous alien is defeated by ''increasing'' the gravity over the deck plates it was walking on. This causes the reptilian biped to heave onto the floor and remain trapped there for a few seconds before it was shot to death. Sort of odd considering the [[{{StarTrekTheOriginalSeries}} last time]] we saw this race, it was strong enough to toss boulders bigger than itself.

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* ''{{Moonraker}}''. Drax's space station has artificial gravity due to rotation. As the NASA shuttle with the Marines aboard is about to be lasered, Bond pushes a button that fires the station's thrusters and stops its rotation. The station goes to zero G and everybody floats into the air as Bond and his allies escape.

* ''AvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'': one of Graviton's tactics.

* The Autobots shut off the gravity in their ship to give themselves a fighting chance when they first battled Megatron in ''TransformersAnimated''.

* The ''DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap.DoctorWhoS31E05FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]" is mostly set in a crashed, now-upside-down spaceship where the Doctor and friends are trying to outrun what is effectively an army of Weeping Angels (the pseudo-moving statues that first appeared in "[[Recap.DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Blink]]") ''and'' deal with a crack in time that erases its victims. The Angels [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ultimately defeat themselves]] by draining the ship of all its power causing the gravity to fail so they all fall into the crack and, as such, [[{{Retgone}} never existed in the first place]].

* The Autobots shut off the gravity in their ship to give themselves a fighting chance when they first battled Megatron in ''TransformersAnimated''.

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* ''{{Moonraker}}''. Drax's space station has artificial gravity due to rotation. As the NASA shuttle with the Marines aboard is about to be lasered, Bond pushes a button that fires the station's thrusters and stops its rotation. The station goes to zero G and everybody floats into the air as Bond and his allies escape.
* In ''StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', Chancellor Gorkon's assassins start by firing a torpedo that disables the gravity on his shuttle. They can get around because they're wearing suits with magnetic boots; everyone else on the ship is considerably more impaired.
* In ''StarTrekFirstContact'' during the scene on the deflector at one point Picard deactivates his magnetic boots in order to float over the heads of several borg.

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* Used in {{Transformers Generation 1}} comic - when a corrupted matrix-posessed decepticon leader enters the autobot ship in one of their shuttles and starts demolishing the autobots, one of the heroes turns off the gravity and opens the airlock, allowing a single harpoon shot to push the monster out into space.
* Variation in the classic 1970's {{Superman}} story "Who took the Super out of Superman?" Clark has lost his powers, but finds himself as Clark Kent having to track down a gang. He brings along an anti-gravity device and handily takes them all down because as Superman he's experienced in zero gravity and they are not.
* In {{Sillage}}, while performing a mission on an alien world, Navis tumbles off a cliff during a struggle with a native. They are saved from death by an anti-gravity field generated by the local plebothinium and she quickly overpowers her opponent since she is trained in zero-gravity fighting and he is not.

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* An inversion in ''LuckyStarr and the Big Sun of Mercury'': Bigman Jones is in a fight with another man in the low gravity of Mercury, but someone turns the gravity ''up'' to Earth-normal at exactly the wrong moment, and Bigman's opponent is killed.
* In {{Warren Ellis}}'s Ocean, the protagonist uses not only antigravity but also inverted and perpendicular gravity.
* In the ''[[{{BattleTech}} Blood of Kerensky]]'' trilogy, one of Phelan Kell's fights in his bloodname Trial turns out to be unarmed combat against an Elemental (a genetically engineered giant battle armor trooper). Since he gets to choose ''where'' to fight and they're in space at the time, he picks an empty hangar under zero-G conditions to level the playing field and ultimately wins by managing to cling to his opponent's back long enough to subdue him (while still collecting his share of bruises along the way).
* Sort of subverted in ''EndersGame''. The characters learn special tactics for fighting in zero gravity.

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* Academy of Superheroes: A rare case of the antagonist using this ''on himself''. The hero, a GravityMaster, pins him to an asteroid that's heading for Earth and leaves him to die. Fortunately for him, the villain was TheSmartGuy of his team and [[http://books.google.com/books?id=89fxlVBylfEC&pg=PA8&dq=electromagnetism+%22stronger+than+gravity%22&hl=en&ei=DXHtTbeiL8TDgQfA0rXYCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=electromagnetism%20%22stronger%20than%20gravity%22&f=false an electrokinetic]].

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* Subverted/Defied in ''{{Bionicle}}''. [[KnifeNut Lariska]] is [[GenreSavvy aware of this trope]], so when she is assigned to kill a [[GravityMaster Toa of Gravity]], she first spends quite some time using levitation disks to practice fighting/assassination/both in zero-g conditions.

* In {{Star Trek: First Contact}} during the scene on the deflector at one point Picard deactivates his magnetic boots in order to float over the heads of several borg.

* Sort of subverted in Ender's Game. The characters learn special tactics for fighting in zero gravity.

While AntiGravity is usually assumed in a science fiction setting, this trope can be a handy way of reminding the audience that yes, technically we aren't suppose to have any. Granted, this trope is almost always invoked deliberately, and is typically used by those who control the local spaceship as opposed to those who are trying to invade it. If this attack was anything except a gimmick, the viewers would [[FridgeLogic likely wonder]] why it isn't used more often considering how effective it is.

* In {{Sillage}} while performing a mission on an alien world Navis tumbles off a cliff during a struggle with a native. They are saved from death by anti-gravity field generated by the local plebothinium and she quickly overpowers her opponent since she is trained in 0 gravity fighting and he is not.

* Subverted/Defied in ''{{Bionicle}}''. [[KnifeNut Lariska]] is [[GenreSavvy aware of this trope]], so when she is assigned to kill a [[GravityMaster Toa of Gravity]], she brings a Levitation spinner along to neutralise his powers.

* The ''DoctorWho'' episode "[[Recap.DoctorWhoS31E05FleshAndStone Flesh and Stone]]" is mostly set in a crashed, now-upside-down spaceship where the Doctor and friends are trying to outrun what is effectively an army of Weeping Angels (the pseudo-moving statues that first appeared in "[[Recap.DoctorWhoNSS3E10Blink Blink]]"). The Angels [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ultimately defeat themselves]] by draining the ship of all its power (trying to drain the Crack instead), causing the gravity to fail so they all fall into the Crack and, as such, [[{{Retgone}} never existed in the first place]].

A special kind of attack a character uses when they're in space and realize something. With gravity, this week's villain is a total BadAss who can take out all of the heroes singlehandedly. But turn the gravity off, and all of a sudden he's a flailing ninny helplessly floating around in the air. All of a sudden knowing eighty forms of martial arts isn't that useful a skill.

* An episode of StarTrekDeepSpaceNine deals with a character who comes from a planet with very little gravity who must get around in a wheelchair because she's doesn't want to accept medical treatment to acclimate her to normal gravity (doing so would make it impossible for her to return to her homeworld for extended periods). In the climax, she's able to save a captured shuttle crew by turning off the gravity and kicking the hostage-takers' asses in zero-g.

* In {{Warren Ellis}}'s Ocean, the protagonist uses not only antigravity but also inverted and perpendicular gravity.