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* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': The Deadly Nadder can shoot sharp spikes from its tail. It's also carried into [[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk its TV show spin-off]].

* ''ComicVine/Captainamerica'' villain the Porcupine wears a battlesuit with fake, launchable quills.

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': The various versions of Blizzard are all normal men with [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman super-suits that give them cold-based powers]], including the ability to shoot salvos of ice spikes from their fingertips.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'':
** The Spinthaak is a giant land version of the sea urchin. It can fire 1-20 of its spines at a time, and has a total of 120 spines available.
** The Teleport Rose can fire 1-20 of its thorns up to 20 feet away, doing 1-7 HitPoints of damage per hit.
* ''Creator/{{Chaosium}}'': The supplement ''All the Worlds' Monsters III'' describes the Harpooner, a carnivorous plant that grows up to 12 feet tall. It can fire a dart from the center of its flowers that does 1-6 HitPoints of impact damage and injects a poison that does 1-4 HitPoints of damage and forces the target to make as saving throw vs. poison or be paralyzed.
* ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld''. The mutations "Quills or Spines" and "Thorn Thrower" allow creatures to throw quills, spines or thorns at opponents and damage them.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' supplement ''Spacefarer's Guide to Alien Monsters''
** The nailer is a porcupine-like alien creature that can fire its quills up to eight meters away.
** The spinechucker is a four meter tall cactus-like plant which can shoot its spines up to 1 meter away.

* ''VideoGame/SporeHero'': Some body parts allow creatures to do this.

* ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'': Needle Man and his many Hari Harry (read: robot porcupines) minions. Mega Man himself gets in on the act after defeating [[PowerCopying Needle Man and taking his weapon]]. This also extends to Needle Man's [[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork alternate universe counterpart]] [=NeedleMan.EXE=]. And, of course, [=MegaMan.EXE=] too, thanks to several [[PowersAsPrograms needle/spike-themed battle chips.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Some creatures have the moves Spikes, Toxic Spikes, Spike Cannon and/or Pin Missile. There are also Icicle Spear and Icicle Crash for the Ice-types.
* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'': Kraid in both the original game and ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''. ''Super Metroid'' also has cactus-like enemies that fire spikes, rather than spines.
* Franchise/{{Kirby}} has the Needle ability. Recent games have given it the ability to fire the spikes.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'': Drones and Hydralisks spit spines at their enemies.
* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' has quillboars, a race of {{Pig M|an}}en who can throw their quills at enemies. The quilbeast, a warthog-like creature summoned by the Beastmaster, does the same.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' gives us Iron Maidens, upgraded versions of Regeneradors that can impale you on their extendable body spikes, hence their name.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': Cacti and Cattails both shoot spikes, which are useful for popping Balloon Zombies out of the sky. The Cactus appearing in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare'' shoots her spikes at [[LongRangeFighter long ranges]] with pinpoint accuracy, turning the character into a spike-shooting sniper.
* ''VideoGame/{{Amorphous}}'':
** The [[BossInMookClothing Horror]] can shoot its "teeth" in a burst. If those hit another gloople, that gloople turns into a [[GoddamnedBats Biter]] (two of which have a slim chance of combining into a Horror). If those hit [[OneHitPointWonder you]], you die unless you have Reactive Armour.
** The [[spoiler: [[TrueFinalBoss Razor Queen]]]] shoots out spikeballs that explode into a burst of spikes.
* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' has this with the Spines powerset, where a bunch of [[BuffySpeak sharp pointy things]] sprout out of your body. You can throw the spines as an attack, or let them passively explode out of you.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Cho'gath has the passive "Vorpal Spikes", which augments his basic melee attacks with a large curtain of short-range spikes.

* ''VideoGame/CreaVures'': Pokey, a porcupine-like creature, can shoot spines out of his back to frighten off animals, with no ill effect. Strangly, he can also jab individual spines into certain surfaces to make a impromptu ladder of sorts.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': Cactuars are covered in needles, and fire them by the thousand as their signature move.

* In ''VideoGame/ElementalMaster'', the boss of the Earth zone is a giant hedgehog or porcupine that shoots quills in eight directions at once.
* ''Hallowed Legends: Ship of Bones'': Garm the ice dog can launch the many icicles on his back in a burst.

* ''VideoGame/{{Glider}} PRO'': The "[=SeaCaves=]" GameMod replaced the water droplets of the normal game with sea urchins continually releasing their spines.
* In ''VideoGame/DiabloII'', there are Quill Rats, [[PaletteSwap Spike Fiends, Thorn Beasts, and Razor Spines]].
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker'', a winged [[TheSpiny Spiny]] can do this in four directions at once.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLifeOpposingForce'': The Race X "Pit Drones" have a head full of spikes which they can fire off as a ranged attack.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Dauntless}}'', two Behemoths, the Quillshot and the Nayzaga, have evolved to be able to bombard Slayers with a volley of the porcupine-like quills that sprout (and constantly regrow) from their back. Besides serving as armor and artillery, the latter Behemoth always fires them in pairs, which become a conductive organic sentry turret that hurls ball lightning at unsuspecting victims unless it is smashed. Said ball lightning can be [[TennisBoss deflected]], either at the turret to destroy it, or at the [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Nayzaga itself]], electrocuting it and leaving it open to heavy damage.

* ''VideoGame/MortalKombat11'': One of Baraka's Equip Abilities is "Spine Burst" which allows him to shoot spikes from his back.

* ''VideoGame/BroodStar'': Wasps and Yellow Jackets can launch their own stingers at the player.

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* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'': The Whispering Death possess the ability to shoot bladed spikes from its tail as a side weapon. Other dragons like the Razorwhip, the Screaming Death (a mutated Whispering Death), and the Buffalord.
* One sea urchin-like creature from ''Mars And Beyond'', a {{Zeerust}}y 1957 Disney documentary about the potential for life elsewhere in the solar system, is shown firing one of its needle-thin quills at a smaller LivingGasbag animal, then reeling its pierced prey in on the projectile's natural harpoon-line.