History Main / StaticStunGun

* ''Film/AntMan1'': Detective Paxton tases Scott, knocking him out so he can be put in the police car and taken back to jail.

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': Black Widow has her Widow's Bite, which can discharge electric blasts to stun enemies. In ''Film/IronMan2'', she uses small discs to knockout some guards with an electric jolt. ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' sees her add a pair of electroshock batons to her arsenal.

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* Head-only stunning is a type of stunning technique done to animals before slaughter. There are two basic types of stunning tongs: scissor or fork. The most widely used are scissor tongs. The arms are around 75cm long and have a maximum jaw gap of about 30cm and the handles may incorporate a switch. The design of the electrodes varies, but is generally either a parallel array of metal teeth, or a circular cup electrode with one or more central spikes. The electrodes are connected to insulated blocks at the ends of the tongs. Unfortunately, stunning tongs big enough to fit enough a human head have not been invented.
* Taser electroshock weapons obviously actually ''do'' use electricity to incapacitate people by delivering a powerful electric charge into a person's nervous system, inciting muscle spasms as well as an extremely painful sensation.
** They don't actually shoot lightning bolts like the ones in video games do, though. Any electric bolt powerful enough to move through more than an inch or so of air is going to do a lot more than just stun its target (assuming you could actually hit anything just by discharging energy at it). Instead, the Taser fires two barbs on wires at the target. The barbs pierce the skin and an electric arc is generated between them. This means that wearing body armor or protective clothing that prevents the barbs from piercing will render a Taser useless.
** They also, contrary to popular belief, do not render the target unconscious. The "tasers" you see in movies are really just props, not [[EnforcedMethodActing actual tasers]].
** Unfortunately, there is a very good reason professionals call stun guns and their ilk 'less lethal" weapons as opposed to "non lethal". Stun guns have been known to kill those with certain background diseases, especially heart conditions. Still, it sure beats shooting the person, and wrestling to the ground isn't always a practical or safe option (in which case, chances are they're healthy enough to survive the Taser).
* Electrolaser weaponry uses, as the name implies, a laser; this ionizes the air ands create a low-resistance plasma channel that an electrical discharge can then be sent down. Handheld devices aren't yet feasible due to the the energy and size requirements, but experiments have been conducted with electrolasers intended for remotely detonating improvised explosive devices.
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* ''Film/TheEnforcer''. A taser is used during the kidnapping of the Mayor of San Francisco when he refuses to leave his Limousine. As the weapon had just come onto the market when the movie was made in 1976, there's brief exposition among the villains on what it is.

* ''Film/TheEnforcer''. A taser is used during the kidnapping of the Mayor of San Francisco when he refuses to leave his limoscene. As the weapon had just come onto the market when the movie was made in 1976, there's brief exposition among the villains on what it is.

As we know all too well, LightningCanDoAnything.

See LightningGun for a more lethal way to use electricity, and TaserTagWeakness for when a Static Stun Gun proves just as useful against superpowered individuals as it does against unpowered ones (i.e. very useful).

* When trying to wake up a sleeping Bean in ''Anime/RidingBean'', Rally tries to use a stun gun on his neck to wake him up it ''[[HeavySleeper doesn't]]'' work. So she just elicits to place a burning hot pan to his face. He wakes up no worse for wear.

* ''Film/HitchhikerMassacre'': The killer has a stun gun that he uses to knock his victims unconscious before he abducts them. It makes a flashing blue light when it's in use.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': In "Meat", Torchwood use stun guns against people who they don't think are dangerous. It turns out these people have guns and Ianto ends up tasering someone in the forehead, saying "Pray you survive."

* Taser units in ''VideoGame/PAYDAYTheHeist'' can stun you with their tasers, causing you to fire you gun uncontrollably. Unless another player kills the Taser or you happen to shoot him with your uncontrolled firing, you'll get incapacitated. [[VideoGame/PAYDAY2 The sequel]] keeps them the same but the game also adds a stun gun as a melee weapon that can stun any enemy except the Bulldozer.

* ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'' has the air taser, an electroshock weapon that is notable for three major attributes--firstly, it has infinite ammo, which is quite handy in an FPS. Secondly, it has infinite range--if you can see it, you can shoot it with the air taser. Finally, while stunning opponents via electric shock, holding down the trigger too long results in the victim ''bursting into flames'' while screaming loudly and spasming wildly. Fans widely consider this 'side effect' to be gruesomely hilarious. Conversely, the hand taser available in the sequel is a standard contact-type stun weapon similar to a real-life stun gun. It doesn't have the same range, utility, or entertainment value as the air taser, and is therefore uninteresting to expound upon.

* ''EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'': An FBi agent renders Chad unconscious with a taser.

** Discussed in "Dangers on a Train". Marge skypes Ben and asks him if he's watching ''Upton Rectory''. He says he can because his wife is "Watching a show about a man who repossesses zoo animals". She is then heard yelling "Come on, taser that flamingo!" followed by an electrical buzzing sound.

* Subverted in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Pre-School". Cartman tries to stop Trent Boyett with his mother's taser gun but misses and hits Miss Claridge, overcharging her wheelchair and causing her to spin out of control.

** Played straight in "Mayored to the Mob". Homer is hired by Mayor Quimby as a bodyguard and receives a taser, which he uses to render Bart, Marge, and Lisa unconscious whenever they get on his nerves.

* ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts'' has an odd example: the Thunder spell can paralyze the Trickmaster boss on contact, but the spell is typically obtained after defeating that boss if the worlds are traveled in the intended order.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil1'': In the [[VideoGameRemake remake]], Jill can acquire one of these as a defensive weapon. In ''[[VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles The Umbrella Chronicles]]'', it is her counter move, frying a zombie by tazing them in the stomach.

* ''[[LightNovel/FullMetalPanic Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid]]''. Sousuke gives Kaname a taser weapon on her request, which she later uses to defend herself against an assassin.

* In ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', Lightning Lad/Live Wire often uses his ShockAndAwe powers this way (as does his sister when she possesses electrical power as Lightning Lass/Pulse/Spark).

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A Static Stun Gun can be considered a subtrope of {{Stun Gun|s}}, because both kinds of weapons have the ability to incapacitate. It's just that the former is [[WordOfGod explicitly]] [[AllThereInTheManual mentioned]] to be lightning-driven while the latter can use something else besides electricity to do the same job.

* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'''s electricity-based Wave Beam may disable the target if charged. Also, Samus' pistol in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' fires a bolt of what is presumably electricity which stops foes in their tracks, complete with the coursing arcs.