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* ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''. Dr. Who plans to foil the PlanetaryCoreManipulation of the Daleks by diverting the Dalek bomb from its course down another shaft to disturb the Earth's magnetic field, which will create a powerful magnetic force that will "suck the Daleks into the core of the Earth!" Not sure if it's ''that'' powerful, but the motorized dustbins are shown going haywire or crumpling under the forces unleashed.

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* ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''. Dr. Who plans to foil the Daleks PlanetaryCoreManipulation of the Daleks by diverting the Dalek bomb meant to penetrate the Earth's crust from its course down another shaft to disturb the Earth's magnetic field, which will create a powerful magnetic force that will "suck the Daleks into the core of the Earth!" Not sure if it's ''that'' powerful, but the motorized dustbins are shown going haywire or crumpling under the forces unleashed.
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* ''Film/DaleksInvasionEarth2150AD''. Dr. Who plans to foil the PlanetaryCoreManipulation of the Daleks by diverting the Dalek bomb from its course down another shaft to disturb the Earth's magnetic field, which will create a powerful magnetic force that will "suck the Daleks into the core of the Earth!" Not sure if it's ''that'' powerful, but the motorized dustbins are shown going haywire or crumpling under the forces unleashed.
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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the Daleks' multi-purpose "plunger arm" has this as one of its functions.

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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', the ''Series/DoctorWho''. The Daleks' multi-purpose "plunger arm" has this as one of its functions.functions. When a mook taunts a Dalek threatening him with the plunger: "What are you going to do? [[TemptingFate Sucker me to death?]]", the sucker shoots out over his nose and mouth and the Dalek creates a vacuum inside it, with nasty results.
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* One of the Budget Direct adds had the detectives investigating a family being [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever attacked by a homicidal pool cleaner.]] "That sucks. It's a good thing you're covered by Budget Direct."
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* ''Literature/UniversalMonsters'': In order to trap the monsters back in their movies, the lead trio have to suck them back in via filming them with a modified camcorder, equipped with a disc that's been programmed with a reversed version of the program that fixed the faulty film projector. They have to augment it with other specialty modifications in later books:
** Book 2 has them having to film and capture the original Wolf Man and its servants ([[spoiler: John Winokea and Sheriff Marshall]]) before adding a silver dreamcatcher, with a woven-in pentagram, to the camcorder to capture the true villain -- [[spoiler: Maleva the gypsy]].
** Book 3 has them use the recording disc in Herr Frankenstein's computer, later realizing that since Herr Frankenstein had adapted to using modern technology, they had to use his own equipment against him.
** Subverted in book 4, where the camcorder isn't used at all -- instead, Captain Bob crushes the scarab representing Anck-Su-Namun's heart, and then she embraces Imhotep before both crumble to dust. Captain Bob and Joe later figure out that the scarab and the Scroll of Thoth acted as a conduit to send the pair back to the movie.
** Subverted again in book 5, as the camera isn't used this time either -- instead, after it kills its tormentor (another film escapee), the Gill Man simply finds true love, is enveloped in a beam of white light from the sky and returns to the movie.
** In book 6, the final battle ends when [[spoiler: Goldstadt Mansion blows up, and the faces of the six monsters, Herr Frankenstein and Dr. Pretorius all emerge from the smoke before the mansion and spirits are sucked into the ground, leaving only "an acre of blackened mass of smoldering cinders and dead vegetation." The epilogue implies that since the second projector and the associated [=DVD=]s were inside the mansion, everything got sucked back into them when the mansion was blown up.]]
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* ''Kyuiin'' is an old Japanese UsefulNotes/PlayStation [[HorizontalScrollingShooter scrolling shooter]] later re-released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork, in which the players fly on a magic vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner can shoot the usual beams, but also suck up enemies and bullets: this is not mandatory, but needed to power up the gauge of the Smart Bomb beam that destroys almost everything on screen.

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* ''Kyuiin'' is an old Japanese UsefulNotes/PlayStation Platform/PlayStation [[HorizontalScrollingShooter scrolling shooter]] later re-released for the UsefulNotes/PlayStationNetwork, Platform/PlayStationNetwork, in which the players fly on a magic vacuum cleaner. The vacuum cleaner can shoot the usual beams, but also suck up enemies and bullets: this is not mandatory, but needed to power up the gauge of the Smart Bomb beam that destroys almost everything on screen.



* In the ''VideoGame/{{Animaniacs}}'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, in Stage 4, the Brain uses his Vacuuminator (from "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode18 Pavlov's Mice]]") to suck up some dishes on a nearby shelf. The Warners have to dodge these dishes and avoid being sucked in until the Vacuuminator overloads and explodes.

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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Animaniacs}}'' LicensedGame for the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Platform/SegaGenesis, in Stage 4, the Brain uses his Vacuuminator (from "[[Recap/AnimaniacsEpisode18 Pavlov's Mice]]") to suck up some dishes on a nearby shelf. The Warners have to dodge these dishes and avoid being sucked in until the Vacuuminator overloads and explodes.
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* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': The [[{{Gonk}} Unsho Sisters]] own the Paopei Kongen Kinto (Golden Coalescence Ladle), a large pot which they can use to suck people and things inside, storing them in as prisoners or to protect them. The pot's suction is indiscriminate, and cannot store excessively big items. In fact, Bukichi manages to smash it by throwing a massive boulder at the pot's mouth, closing it up and causing the Kongen Kinto to overheat and explode.

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* ''Manga/SoulHunter'': ''Manga/HoshinEngi'': The [[{{Gonk}} Unsho Sisters]] own the Paopei paope Kongen Kinto (Golden Coalescence Ladle), a large pot which they can use to suck people and things inside, storing them in as prisoners or to protect them. The pot's suction is indiscriminate, and cannot store excessively big items. In fact, Bukichi manages to smash it by throwing a massive boulder at the pot's mouth, closing it up and causing the Kongen Kinto to overheat and explode.
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* Terry from ''VideoGame/{{Skully}}'' has an enchanted vase, meant for trapping elementals, whose function appears to be lifted from the gourd of ''Journey to the West'' fame. He first uses it to suck in Wanda, the Water Elemental who refuses to stop fighting, before later releasing Wanda in an EnemyMine moment; later on when ''all his siblings'', Wanda, alongside Wind Elemental Brent and Fire Elemental Fiona, turns on him, Terry promptly sucks everyone in.
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-->--Description of the '''Suck Cannon''', ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002''

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** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' have a number of high-powered Super Vacuums, which was used by the gang to contain an expanding artifical sun to prevent it from causing a meltdown in the finale.

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** ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasSecretGadgetMuseum'' have a number of high-powered Super Vacuums, which was used by the gang to contain an expanding artifical artificial sun to prevent it from causing a meltdown in the finale.
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* ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'' has a symbiotic life-form living in his left hand which can--among other things--consume and inhale various substances.

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* ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'' ''Literature/VampireHunterD'' has a symbiotic life-form living in his left hand which can--among other things--consume and inhale various substances.



* ''Manga/BusterKeel'', in a ShoutOut to ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' has Gold using a magical gourd on Keel and Lavie to suck them inside it and leave them there, at the mercy of the monster Soul Eater, a creature that forces people to assume their "original" form before consuming them. Unfortunately for Gold and the Soul Eater, Keel's origina form is that of the dreaded Dragon Ape.

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* ''Manga/BusterKeel'', in a ShoutOut to ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'' has Gold using a magical gourd on Keel and Lavie to suck them inside it and leave them there, at the mercy of the monster Soul Eater, a creature that forces people to assume their "original" form before consuming them. Unfortunately for Gold and the Soul Eater, Keel's origina original form is that of the dreaded Dragon Ape.
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* ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'': The Luigi amiibo Party board has an event that takes the form of a giant Poltergust 3000 vacuum that can suck up items taken from the other players. It allows the the player using it to either steal a few coins from all of their opponents, or they can pay coins to try and steal a Star from one of them. The drawback is that the Star steal has a chance of instead sucking up a worthless ball of paper and giving the player nothing. The chances of the star steal succeeding go up if the player chooses to pay more coins.
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Sometimes, in a work of fiction, the good guys will use {{Energy Weapon}}s to defeat the bad guys or the monster. Usually, said laser beams work like some [[SciFi science-fictiony]] approximation of a bullet. Occasionally, though, the beam will do something totally different: suck the target into the weapon.

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Sometimes, in a work of fiction, the good guys will use {{Energy Weapon}}s to defeat the bad guys or the monster. Usually, said laser beams work like some [[SciFi [[ScienceFiction science-fictiony]] approximation of a bullet. Occasionally, though, the beam will do something totally different: suck the target into the weapon.
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* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** The Poltergust 3000 in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''. Once Luigi stuns a ghost with a flashlight, he can capture the ghost by pulling it into the vac.

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** The Poltergust 3000 in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion''.''VideoGame/LuigisMansion1''. Once Luigi stuns a ghost with a flashlight, he can capture the ghost by pulling it into the vac.
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* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'': [[BonusBoss Daimon]] has a special White Hole ability that causes a shining vortex to appear right below him on the ground. Player characters and minions that are too close (or even a short distance away) will be sucked in, massively draining stamina so they can't hold onto Daimon for dear life. Any minions killed by this move can not be resurrected until the battle ends, and if the player dies to this move it's game over. Players have an ultimate-level magic called Maelstrom that sucks enemies (and only enemies) in and spits them out in the sky (if they're not massive, then it just deals ''lots'' of damage over time).

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* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'': [[BonusBoss [[OptionalBoss Daimon]] has a special White Hole ability that causes a shining vortex to appear right below him on the ground. Player characters and minions that are too close (or even a short distance away) will be sucked in, massively draining stamina so they can't hold onto Daimon for dear life. Any minions killed by this move can not be resurrected until the battle ends, and if the player dies to this move it's game over. Players have an ultimate-level magic called Maelstrom that sucks enemies (and only enemies) in and spits them out in the sky (if they're not massive, then it just deals ''lots'' of damage over time).

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