There was a barrier there of some sort.
— Fredric Brown's ''Arena''
(1948)
(1948)"They must have some kind of protective shield over their hull. Knights, pull up! Pull up!"
Noah: Some kind of force-field!
Monster of the Week: Not just "some" kind, the kind that can block anything you'll throw at me.
Monster of the Week: Not just "some" kind, the kind that can block anything you'll throw at me.
"It is a force field, Captain, the nature of which I am not familiar with."
— Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, "Wink of an Eye"
Spock: This is an access point. It would also seem to be a — [bounces off barrier]
Kirk: A force field?
Spock: Obviously.
Kirk: A force field?
Spock: Obviously.
Besides kryptonite, Superman's main weakness was forcefields. He HATED forcefields. There are episodes made up entirely of Superman ramming himself headfirst into a forcefield over and over. I've compiled some of them into this very special forcefield smacking retrospective video.
— Seanbaby, on Superfriends
Patrick: It’s some kind of wall of psychic energy.
SpongeBob: No, Patrick. It's a giant glass bowl.
SpongeBob: No, Patrick. It's a giant glass bowl.
Kara descended straight towards the cells of Darkseid's headquarters, one of which was bound to contain D'reema...
...and slammed into a resistant force so hard she thought she'd broken her ankles. It did cause a crack in the lead shielding over her feet, and she quickly bent to repair it before the pervading K-radiation could weaken her.
A force-field. It had to be. Possibly something Darkseid cooked up with his Omega Effect. Ruefully, she admitted he wouldn't be dumb enough to leave his most valued prisoner undefended against Kryptonians.
...and slammed into a resistant force so hard she thought she'd broken her ankles. It did cause a crack in the lead shielding over her feet, and she quickly bent to repair it before the pervading K-radiation could weaken her.
A force-field. It had to be. Possibly something Darkseid cooked up with his Omega Effect. Ruefully, she admitted he wouldn't be dumb enough to leave his most valued prisoner undefended against Kryptonians.
There's some kind of invisible wall!
You can't get through no matter how you try!
You can't get through no matter how you try!
"I'll bring it down in a flying tackle...! [...] I bounced off that glowing aura! It must be an impenetrable force-shield similar to the one used by Brainiac, the space villain!"
Tri-Klops: [after crashing a vehicle into something invisible] Ugh... force field.
Skeletor: How intuitive.
Skeletor: How intuitive.
The time-barrier! It's been turned into an impenetrable wall! [...] It's a force-field which seals off the Earth from the past! Not even my super-strength can shatter it!
"Oof! I...I only rebounded from an invisible wall!"
— Superman, "The Super-Duel in Space"
