History Main / WeaponizedCameras

* The female character in ''ZombiePowder'' turned her Tripod into a cannon.

** In ''Discworld/{{The Colour of Magic}}'' Bel-Shammaroth is stunned and scared off by caged Salamanders flashing lights. Salamanders whose purpose is to provide light for Twoflower's camera.

* In Charles Stross' TheLaundrySeries, the CCTV cameras ubiquitous across England can be turned into "look-to-kill" weapons, operating on the same principle as [[TakenForGranite basilisks, gorgons, etc]]. It says something about how bad [[ApocalypseHow a full-scale invasion]] by {{Eldritch Abomination}}s is expected to be that killing (by petrifying and/or cooking) most of Britain's population is considered ''[[GodzillaThreshold the better option]].''

* These can blind foes in {{Nethack}}.

* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' of Edgar's tools is a camera with a damaging flash.

* In the film ''DogSoldiers'' they use a polaroid camera to blind the attacking monsters. The photographs they take show up in the end credits.

* Done in ''{{Gremlins}}'' by one of the characters who knew the Gremlins were sensitive to light.
* In ''DrNo'', photographer Annabelle Chung cuts Quarrel's face with a broken flashbulb. It doesn't do her much good.

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* More reasonable than you may think. Older film cameras are liable because they tended to be made out of milled metals and other durable materials with a simple internal construction, while modern high-end cameras tend to have heavy-duty magnesium frames and are designed specifically so that you can drop them on rocks in the middle of an African Safari and still expect them to work well enough. As for flashes, well, a professional off-camera flash is something you don't want going off in your face rapidly in the first place, and many modern flashes have enough capacitors to build several flashes' worth of charge per cycle. Plus, many photographers are liable to have [[DualWielding two or more flashes on them if they have their kit]]. Basically, don't put a photographer in a corner, it could be painful.

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* When ''TheSimpsons'' went to Itchy & Scratchy Land and the robots went berzerk, flashes from cameras were both their BerserkButton "on" switch and "off" switch.
* It took Buzz and his gang a camera set in the baggage conveyor belt scene to temporarily paralyze ''ToyStory2'''s villain, [[{{Prospector}} Stinky Pete]]. [[BlindedByTheLight With the flash]], of course.
* In one ''EdEddAndEddy'' episode Eddy keeps doing this to Kevin.
* The protagonist of ''SpeedGrapher'' can kill with his camera, which blows up whatever he photographs.
* JohnnyTest used this to defeat the Molemen in one episode.
* During a {{James Bond}} {{parody}} episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' a mook at the photography company's secret lair uses a camera to shoot shuriken-photos at Dexter.

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* The Camerahead Cenobite from ''{{Hellraiser}} III: Hell on Earth'' can make things explode by taking a picture of them with his camera eye, which can also extend with enough force to punch a hole through a man's head.

* Ran Hibiki from the ''RivalSchools'' games incorporates her camera into some of her special attacks, being a SchoolNewspaperNewshound and all.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Shoot the Bullet]]'' and its sequel ''Double Spoiler'', taking enough pictures of the bosses makes them explode as though they were defeated. Taking pictures also clears away [[BulletHell bullets]] in the picture.

* During a {{James Bond}} {{parody}} episode of ''DextersLab'' a mook at the photography company's secret lair uses a camera to shoot shuriken-photos at Dexter.

* In ''FinalFantasyVI'' of Edgar's tools is a camera with a damaging flash.

* While Jade cannot actually fight using her camera in ''BeyondGoodAndEvil'', it does serve as a substitute for a SniperRifle scope for making precise long-distance shots with the disk launcher.

* In ''[[{{Touhou}} Shoot the Bullet]]'' and its sequel ''Double Spoiler'', taking enough pictures of the bosses makes them explode as though they were defeated. Taking pictures also clears away [[BulletHell bullets]] in the picture.

* In ''ElGoonishShive'', Catalina and Rhoda use their cameras to scare off a charging boar.

* A camera-mounted tripod is used as a stabbing and bludgeoning weapon in ''{{Halloween}}: Resurrection''.

* In the movie studio stage of the ''VideoGames/ScottPilgrim'' game, one of the generic {{mooks}} attacks with a flash camera.

* The Camerahead Cenobite from ''{{Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth]]'' can make things explode by taking a picture of them with his camera eye, which can also extend with enough force to punch a hole through a man's head.

* During a {{James Bond}}-esque episode of ''DextersLab'' a mook at the photography company's secret lair uses a camera to shoot shuriken-photos at Dexter.

* ''ToyStory2'' has this in the baggage conveyor room.

* Ran Hibiki from the ''RivalSchools'' sequel ''Project Justice'' incorporates her camera into some of her special attacks, being a SchoolNewspaperNewshound and all.

So there's a fight scene, and someone just happens to have a camera. Not only is the camera useful for snapping photographs, its one more possible weapon out of many already present in the scene. If the camera isn't being used to phyically bonk people over the head, the flash can be used to momentary blind them. In some rare cases, the effectiveness of the camera as a weapon has to do with superstition on the part of the person whose picture gets taken ("You stole my soul!")

* ''Quarrantine'' includes a scene where a character uses the POV camera to beat up a zombie lens-first.

* In ''[[{{Discworld}} The Colour of Magic]]'' Bel-Shammaroth is stunned and scared off by caged Salamanders flashing lights. Salamanders whose purpose is to provide light for Twoflower's camera.