History Main / WeaponizedCameras

* In the horror film ''Don't be Afraid of the Dark'' in 2011, Sally was given a Polaroid SX70 OneStep camera by Kim. During the dinner party hosted by her father, she went to photograph proof of the Fairy Fold monsters. However, she becomes locked up in the library and has to keep the Fairy Fold away from her with the flashes until her father finds a way in.

* In the horror film 'Don't be Afraid of the Dark' in 2011, Sally was given a Polaroid SX70 OneStep camera by Kim. During the dinner party hosted by her father, she went to photograph proof of the Fairy Fold monsters. However, she becomes locked up in the library and has to keep the Fairy Fold away from her with the flashes until her father finds a way in.

* Although it works ''slightly'' different in both games, [[VideoGame/DeadRising Frank West]] uses a camera as one of his special moves in both VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom and Ultimate MarvelVsCapcom3.

* When ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' went to Itchy & Scratchy Land and the robots went berzerk, flashes from cameras were both their BerserkButton "on" switch and "off" switch.

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* The protagonist of ''SpeedGrapher'' can kill with his camera, which blows up whatever he photographs.

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* The female character in ''ZombiePowder'' turned her tripod into a cannon.
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* The climactic scene in ''RearWindow''.

* The killer in ''The Sleeper'' blinds two co-eds with camera flashes before attacking them.

* [[Series/BurnNotice Michael Westen]] once cracked open a disposable camera and put the case around a taser.

* Sometimes, the camera really ''does'' steal souls. See (repeatedly) ''{{Goosebumps}}''.

* 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]].''

* ''KolchakTheNightStalker''

* [[BurnNotice Michael Westen]] once cracked open a disposable camera and put the case around a taser.

* Although it works ''slightly'' different in both games, [[DeadRising Frank West]] uses a camera as one of his special moves in both VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom and Ultimate MarvelVsCapcom3.

* The climatic scene in ''RearWindow''.

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

* In MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/{{Prey}}'', the killer GreyGoo were originally designed to be nanomolecular cameras.

* During a JamesBond {{parody}} episode of ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' a mook at the photography company's secret lair uses a camera to shoot shuriken-photos at Dexter.

* The small, flying camera robots in ''[[HalfLife Half Life 2]]'' often end up blinding you.

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

* The protagonist of ''SpeedGrapher'' can kill with his camera, which blows up whatever he photographs.

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* The Camerahead Cenobite from ''HellraiserIIIHellOnEarth'' 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.

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* In one ''EdEddAndEddy'' episode Eddy keeps doing this to Kevin.

-->'''Carter''': I pretend I'm taking a picture, but inside the camera, I've got a [[BFG thirty-seven millimeter cannon]]...sawed off.

* 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.

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

* In MichaelCrichton's ''Prey'', the killer GreyGoo were originally designed to be nanomolecular cameras.

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

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 physically 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!")

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** 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.

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

* Although it works ''slightly'' different in both games, [[DeadRising Frank West]] uses a camera as one of his special moves in both TatsunokoVsCapcom and Ultimate MarvelVsCapcom3.

* 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.