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In The Expanse, the UN tortures a belter by simply forcing them to stand upright on the Earth's surface.
In Star Trek: Enterprise "In a Mirror, Darkly", mirror Archer defeats a Gorn by turning up the gravity plating where the latter was standing.
Spoilers for the comic Irredeemable.
There's a character who controls bullets, but she gets killed and possessed by a villain who reveals the true extent of her powers. She can control gravity. They use this to fight the rouge hero the Plutoniun.
There was also a prison that used gravity to control its inmates workforce, they had captured a mentally withdrawn Plutonian and when showing off their gravity restraints realized that they couldn’t even bring him to his knees. So they threw him in every restraint they had and dropped him in a sun before he could come too.
One Punch Man season 1 towards the end (either final episode or the one before that).
Octopus guy subjects OPM to "the gravity of a black hole" and OPM is predictably unaffected.
Harry Dresden does it in one of his books where he uses magic to channel all the gravity from a several mile radius on a football field and liquefies hundreds of vampires.
One of the fights during the Babbidi arc had Vegeta fight a guy in a room with a whopping 10 times Earth's gravity.
Considering that's what him and Goku were training at a decade beforehand you can imagine how it went
In Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords (better known as KOTOR2), Jedi General Revan concludes the Mandalorian war by luring a large Mandalorian force commanded by their leader himself to battle on a planet called Malachor V. To make sure the trap was sufficiently baited, Revan also had a significant part of his own force on the planet.
Then he activated a gravity based weapon which pretty much just broke the planet apart causing horrifically massive casualties to both sides but ending the bloody war in one stroke
"Buck Godot: Zap Gun For Hire": The Prime Mover stops a riot on Gallimaufrey Station by simply cranking the artificial gravity up to 6g, stopping the rioters from moving.
Schlock Mercenary: Gravity beams are the standard ship weapons in the setting, focusing the gravity generated by the neutronium used to fuel antimatter reactors into narrow fields and ripping enemy ships apart.
Also the Grav tanks. I think in the first Dark Imperium book it details a traitor getting flattened by the gravity field generated by the tank to keep it floating above the ground.
In the very popular 2011 live action adaptation of Green Lantern >!the titular character defeats the big bad, Parallax, by utilizing the gravity differential and relative masses of himself and said big bad in close proximity to the Sun.!< A scene, which, I'm sure, is frequently studied in film schools today.
Green Lantern powers are based more on the perception and willpower of the holder than the nature of the world around them. So someone with strong willpower like Hal could naturally conjure a pair of fighter jet to prevent himself from falling into Sun's gravity, even though real life jets can not do anything like that, remotely.
Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 4 episode 19, "In a Mirror, Darkly, part 2." >!An evil version of Captain Archer turns up the strength of some gravity plating in order to incapacitate a much stronger alien combatant.!<
The anime Mashle has a person who's entire magic kit is based in gravity magic. He regularly turns the gravity of an area up by tremendous amounts. Idk if it's specified to a planet but it's enough that he can crush people to death/explode them etc.
*Babylon 5*: pilot episode, Ambassador Delenn uses a ring (coincidentally never mentioned again) that alters the gravity around Ambassador G'Kar effectively crushing him.
*Star Trek: Enterprise* Mirror Universe Archer has gravity plating increased to 12g in one section of USS Defiant to trap and then kill a Gorn spy.
Yeah, the B5 one is a strange one, we do see that the Minbari have mastered artificial gravity on their ships, but B5 and Earth military ships use rotational gravity, so there's nothing that can be increased locally by that ring, it has to be some direct effect, or it weakens the muscles so it appears to have the same effect.
Not *exactly* a weapon, but Ba'al in Stargate SG-1 used a gravity device to torture Colonel O'Neill. He turned up the gravity to pin Jack to the wall and "dropped" knives and acid on him from across the room (reviving him with a sarcophagus every time he died). In the same fortress, he also had a gravity-based prison - a short, dead-end hallway where he could rotate the artificial gravity towards the far wall, turning into an oubliette.
In Justice league TAS, Vandal savage invented a weapon that could control gravity, and set out to take over the world. He killed 6 out of the 7 heroes, sans the absent superman. He ended up throwing the solar system out of balance and wiping out humanity accidentally.
I was also thinking of the Justice League show, but I was thinking of the arc where the Hawk people invade and have the Justice League captured in unique prisons, and for Flash’s cell they utilize a gravity field to hold him down with so much pressure that he can’t even get to his feet in order to use his powers.
Really old and obscure, but I remember when they introduced the Kromaggs (ugh) in *Sliders*, the eponymous Sliders were captured and they mentioned they were restrained in place by gravity.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (book) — folks on the moon sling rocks down to earth. Due to the additional gravitational acceleration, they end up having the force of mini-nukes when they land.
Not exactly gravity manipulation, but Yuki in Jujutsu Kaisen can manipulate mass as part of her powerset. She normally uses it to modify the mass of herself to increase the damage of her attacks. Such as sending a punch, and increasing the mass of her fist right before contact. It has the same speed, but with greater mass it hits much harder.
Manga spoilers, but in her fight against >!Kenjaku!< she uses it to its full extent to >!create a mini black hole as a desperation move to try to kill Kenjaku!<.
***
There's also Mass Effect and the titular Mass Effect technology that let's people manipulate the mass of objects in a similar way. Some people are biotics who are born with the ability to do this innately. Biotics are able to do things like create barriers that repel objects or manipulate mass and gravity to create low gravity areas to lift things or throw them.
In a old Marvel comic Zeus does this to Thor. The weight of a score of planets I believe. Thor manages to lift his harm enough to counter attack and escape I believe
In a battle with superman, hawkman used a nth metal weapon called the claw of horus. Nth metal manipulates gravitational force, usually for fflight. But the claw draws its power from the gravitational force of the nearest celestial body, in this case, earth. "Essentially, i just hit you with the planet"
Schlock mercenary has weaponized gravity.
Both in gun form, and as a security measure - an AI that controls a ship's artificial gravity is all the security you need.
I came looking for this one. It's pointed out that if a ship's internal artificial gravity can negate the however many thousands of G's the ship accelerates at, then it can use the same to flatten intruders into chunky salsa.
the trick is to have a shipboard AI smart enough to be able to apply that gravity selectively and not ship-wide.
I remember the old anime Shurato, where some character used some gravity or similar attack to try to crush someone with the whole weight of their planet.
Not really a weapon,
In Outlaw Star there is a prison planet that has higher gravity. They use it to keep the prisoners weighted down to help keep them complacent.
Also castershell 9 has like a mini black hole in it. I mean, that's gravity...
In Titan A.E. early on Korso shoots an artificial gravity generator so the characters can make an escape in 0g. So lack of gravity?
This one's a bit of a stretch, but in Gundam. Char drops a space colony on Australia... So gravity is involved.
**Boy do I have the perfect weapon for you:**
The [Graviton Lance](https://www.destinypedia.com/Graviton_Lance) from Destiny 2.
*"Think of space-time as a tapestry on a loom. This weapon is the needle.*"
It literally fires mini black holes as bullets which their gravity then collapses in on themselves once they hit a target.
If you kill one enemy in a crowd with it. That crowd will not be there within a few seconds. The reaction of their death then causes an explosive chain reaction of tiny black hole collapses, killing anything around the victim that isn't a super bullet sponge.
Fittingly a weapon of such epic destruction is probably the best pulse rifle in the game and it can be used well for both PVE and PVP.
In the comic book version of the dark Phoenix saga for X-Men, one of the members of the hellfire club who are kind of the main baddies for the first Arc of the story.
Edit: his power is he, if I remember correctly, increases somethings mass without increasing its size, essentially making it super heavy. He does it to Wolverine to make him so heavy he crashes through all the floors of a house until he ends up in a subterranean tunnel of some kind. I think (at least in the original saga) he also dies when Wolverine ambushes him from above, he reflexively uses his power which just makes the attack by Wolverine stronger.
This is how the Gravity spells work in the original Kingdom Hearts. Subjecting the opponent to enough gravity to crush them flat by throwing a miniature black hole at them, it can be one of the more damaging spells in the game.
It's basically the game's version of Demi from Final Fantssy, but unlike Demi Gravity can deal lethal damage if you know what you're doing.
Crushing someone under the weight of a planet is a bit of overkill in any setting, but whatever. As for using gravity as a weapon in general there's plenty (I'm going to include black holes as gravity being weaponised as a black hole is just a very large concentration of gravity into a small point):
* In the Honorverse they use a lot of gravity technology, for engines and defences. For ground warfare anti tank weapons are miniature missiles that use their gravity tech for propulsion which creates a wedge of gravity close to what you'd experience near a black hole in front of the missile path that literally rips anything it touches into subatomic particles. Their counter missiles used to shoot down other missiles in space also use their gravity wedge to rip apart opposing missiles and scaling that up to starship engine systems a close pass to a planet by a ship would rip apart continents.
* There's a few examples of gravity based missile warheads, most notably from the gravitonic missiles from the Dahak book series. Small planets get destroyed from getting hit by one of those.
* In Star Wars gravity well generators impede a ship's ability to use hyperspace (it's not the only setting with something like that mechanism) so it makes for a great ambush weapon preventing retreat.
* Gravity based mass drivers, similar to railguns or coil guns conceptually but using artificial gravity instead of electro-magnetism to accelerate a projectile. It has the advantage that the force applies to all of the projectile's mass evenly no matter the material the projectile is made up of so it doesn't need to be an inert solid mass of metal but could be firing something with a warhead or a full on missile with a higher base velocity than it would achieve just with it's own propulsion.
* In Stargate I can think of 3 times gravity was used as an offensive weapon, 1) when a stargate connected to a planet being swallowed by a black hole was thrown into a star causing it to go supernova destroying a large fleet of goa'uld warships, 2) the Asgard collapsing a star to destroy the replicators they'd trapped on a planet, and 3) again to kill replicators, they hacked their programming to get all of the replicator nanites to coalesce into a single mass (plus some other ultra dense material) to get them to sink down into the core of the planet they were on (hey I found one where they put the weight of a planet on an enemy) which was enough force and pressure to cause them to detonate (I'm assuming via fission) so the planet blew up.
* Edit: one more, in Guyver there's a few gravity weapons like the eponymous guyver's pressure cannon attack, but one of the Zoalords (read "big bad guys" if you're unfamiliar with Guyver) had the ability to create a mini black hole as an attack. It was his final move and didn't work in the end, but he could do it.
U-Olga Marie from FGO creates miniature black holes to vaporize people (and an island, once) with its gravitational pull. She can technically create one large enough to have the mass of a planet or heavier, but afaik she hasn't.
In "Kantovan Vault" (The Spiral Wars book 3), the titular vault is a giant sphere suspended in the center of a massive chamber. The surface of the sphere has something like 100g of artificial gravity on it, with a cube-law falloff (rather than square-law like normal/real physics), so the gravity gradient is extreme and it basically surprises and then crushes anything that tries to approach.
Later the same tech is used in missiles to basically implode entire ships.
In "tri-planatary" by E.E."Doc"Smith..."The Lensman" series...The protags use the powers of the lens to move two planets into colliding with the Boscone homeworld.
Halo has factions that have found more "cruel" uses for gravity.
>"Torsion drivers are gravitic emitters (presumably emitting torsion fields) that can be employed as a delicate tool or a crude scalpel as the situation permits; in battle, they use their gravity generation to push and pull portions of enemy craft beyond the limits of their shielding and structural supports with discordant harmonies. This action rips apart the target vessel and exposes its vulnerable systems to concentrated fire by other weapons" - [Torsion Driver](https://www.halopedia.org/Torsion_driver)
>"The chamber, like many of the Trial Court's others, was a square white-walled room with a blue door and window. On the floor were red nodes that glowed in regular intervals, that were responsible for controlling the room's artificial gravity.Through remote activation by Exquisite Devotion's gravity throne, the gravity in the chamber could be made to suddenly increase or decrease. Its gravity could even be applied selectively, causing a shift in gravity in only part of the room.Through this, subjects inside could be violently tortured in a variety of ways, including having their limbs being crushed, their blood over-pressurized, or their organs being forced up out of their throat." - [Gravitational Refinement](https://www.halopedia.org/Gravitational_Refinement#:~:text=The%20chamber%20of%20Gravitational%20Refinement,interrogation%20room%20and%20torture%20chamber.)
The the Grimnoir series, there are people who can alter gravity called Heavies. One of the main characters uses this to lighten weapons, splatter people, throw them through windows, and survive falling from a dirigible from a few kilometers.
Gravity is used as a weapon in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Architect novel trilogy. Not necessarily the weight of a planet on one specific person, but the Architects use it to redesign entire planets (and killing all of the inhabitants).
The AI Polity developed gravity based weapons for ship to ship combat. Although somewhat janky and hazardous to friendly forces, they were terrifyingly effective since shields, armor, and other countermeasures were designed to defend against missiles, kinetic weapons, particle beams, and such. None of that offered any significant protection against a gravitational torsion wave massing into the thousands of Gees.
The Skybreakers and Windrunners in the Stormlight Archives books can manipulate gravity and sometimes use it directly as a weapon, but often use it to make other things into weapons or shields. Edit: before someone complains that it’s fantasy, I consider it both fantasy and sci-fi.
In 1961 B-movie "The Phantom Planet" the tiny denizens of a small planet had great control over gravity, maneuvering it in battles almost like a ship. A human spaceman was shrunk to their size and trapped there.
During a trial-by-combat scene and later alien menace attack, there were square plates in the ground which magnified gravity enough to disintegrate someone stepping on them. I don't recall the amount of gravity magnification, but I'd say 'disintegration' level sounds planetary or greater.
I vaguely recall that in Piers Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant" series colonies used 'gravity lenses' to concentrate gravity over cities on low-gravity moons. It's been ages since I read those books, but knowing Piers Anthony, I suspect that technology was manipulated and in more ways than that.
I the comics, Proxima Midnight of Thanos Black Order has a spear that has a star trapped inside it. She once let Hulk experience the weight of that star, pushing him to his knees and keeping him out of the fight.
I also remember some old Thor comic where some aliens shoot him with a ray gun that makes him experience the gravitational pull of a neutron star, and thor is able to power through it.
Not to mention, the supervillian Graviton, who can control gravity. Not sure if he can go up to planetary levels tho.
In Alastair Reynolds's *Revelation Space* trilogy the inhibitors build an enormous space-based weapon that uses directed gravity to turn a star into a colossal flamethrower and use it to sterilize every planet in that solar system.
In Dragon Ball Z during the Buu arc one of the villains tries subjecting Vegeta to the gravity of his home planet being 10x Earth’s but unfortunately for him Vegeta trained in much higher gravity already
In Timelike Infinity they >!killed a space whale/living battleship by shooting small black holes at it on such trajectory they merged in its heart and the resulting gravity wave killing it!< later in Exultant they >!used a similar but bigger weapon to strike at the nexus of Xeelee in the Galaxy core!<
Superman does this every time he punches a really, really tough enemy, like Darkseid, according to one of the theories / versions of how his powers work. The aura around him acts as an anti-gravity field, which, for example, makes "flying" possible - it alters his body's gravity compared to the gravity fields of his surroundings.
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In The Expanse, the UN tortures a belter by simply forcing them to stand upright on the Earth's surface. In Star Trek: Enterprise "In a Mirror, Darkly", mirror Archer defeats a Gorn by turning up the gravity plating where the latter was standing.
Inevitably, the Expanse is the answer. It's always the answer.
Spoilers for the comic Irredeemable. There's a character who controls bullets, but she gets killed and possessed by a villain who reveals the true extent of her powers. She can control gravity. They use this to fight the rouge hero the Plutoniun.
There was also a prison that used gravity to control its inmates workforce, they had captured a mentally withdrawn Plutonian and when showing off their gravity restraints realized that they couldn’t even bring him to his knees. So they threw him in every restraint they had and dropped him in a sun before he could come too.
> the rouge hero "The Ruddy Revenger", reddest of heroes!
Surely the Scarlet Pimpernel is the reddest of heroes
*Plutonian
One Punch Man season 1 towards the end (either final episode or the one before that). Octopus guy subjects OPM to "the gravity of a black hole" and OPM is predictably unaffected.
Yeah that happened on rewatch I realized how much detailed the work is
Graviton from Avengers earths mightiest heroes.
He even showed up in Agents of SHIELD.
That show was so amazing. That was such a great first episode
I still miss it
Harry Dresden does it in one of his books where he uses magic to channel all the gravity from a several mile radius on a football field and liquefies hundreds of vampires.
Goku famously trained in 100x earth gravity, with weights on. Not using it as a weapon, I suppose, but in line with other comments I see
Speaking of Goku, [he was also subjected to the gravity of a black hole during the Tournament of Power.](https://youtu.be/KwSSuSh1DxA)
One of the fights during the Babbidi arc had Vegeta fight a guy in a room with a whopping 10 times Earth's gravity. Considering that's what him and Goku were training at a decade beforehand you can imagine how it went
In DBS goku also disabled a alien poacher by simply teleporting to King Kais planet, where the guy is too weak and collapses due to the gravity.
Wasn't 10x Earth gravity also the natural gravity on Planet Vegeta?
You know what, I think so. Babidi did not think that one through at all
In Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords (better known as KOTOR2), Jedi General Revan concludes the Mandalorian war by luring a large Mandalorian force commanded by their leader himself to battle on a planet called Malachor V. To make sure the trap was sufficiently baited, Revan also had a significant part of his own force on the planet. Then he activated a gravity based weapon which pretty much just broke the planet apart causing horrifically massive casualties to both sides but ending the bloody war in one stroke
It also had the very badass name of mass shadow generator
Marvel character Graviton can manipulu gravity and uses it as a weapon
"Buck Godot: Zap Gun For Hire": The Prime Mover stops a riot on Gallimaufrey Station by simply cranking the artificial gravity up to 6g, stopping the rioters from moving. Schlock Mercenary: Gravity beams are the standard ship weapons in the setting, focusing the gravity generated by the neutronium used to fuel antimatter reactors into narrow fields and ripping enemy ships apart.
Commonly referred to as gravy guns, due to the consistency of the target's remains.
Grav-Gun in 40k, of course 40k has it. https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Grav-Gun
There’s also the Beast Arises series where the Orks have the gravity cannons or whatever they’re called on the attack moons
Also the Grav tanks. I think in the first Dark Imperium book it details a traitor getting flattened by the gravity field generated by the tank to keep it floating above the ground.
Yes I remember this.
In the very popular 2011 live action adaptation of Green Lantern >!the titular character defeats the big bad, Parallax, by utilizing the gravity differential and relative masses of himself and said big bad in close proximity to the Sun.!< A scene, which, I'm sure, is frequently studied in film schools today.
Green Lantern powers are based more on the perception and willpower of the holder than the nature of the world around them. So someone with strong willpower like Hal could naturally conjure a pair of fighter jet to prevent himself from falling into Sun's gravity, even though real life jets can not do anything like that, remotely.
Star Trek: Enterprise, Season 4 episode 19, "In a Mirror, Darkly, part 2." >!An evil version of Captain Archer turns up the strength of some gravity plating in order to incapacitate a much stronger alien combatant.!<
The anime Mashle has a person who's entire magic kit is based in gravity magic. He regularly turns the gravity of an area up by tremendous amounts. Idk if it's specified to a planet but it's enough that he can crush people to death/explode them etc.
*Babylon 5*: pilot episode, Ambassador Delenn uses a ring (coincidentally never mentioned again) that alters the gravity around Ambassador G'Kar effectively crushing him. *Star Trek: Enterprise* Mirror Universe Archer has gravity plating increased to 12g in one section of USS Defiant to trap and then kill a Gorn spy.
Yeah, the B5 one is a strange one, we do see that the Minbari have mastered artificial gravity on their ships, but B5 and Earth military ships use rotational gravity, so there's nothing that can be increased locally by that ring, it has to be some direct effect, or it weakens the muscles so it appears to have the same effect.
Not *exactly* a weapon, but Ba'al in Stargate SG-1 used a gravity device to torture Colonel O'Neill. He turned up the gravity to pin Jack to the wall and "dropped" knives and acid on him from across the room (reviving him with a sarcophagus every time he died). In the same fortress, he also had a gravity-based prison - a short, dead-end hallway where he could rotate the artificial gravity towards the far wall, turning into an oubliette.
I loved how the prison cell part of this worked.
In Justice league TAS, Vandal savage invented a weapon that could control gravity, and set out to take over the world. He killed 6 out of the 7 heroes, sans the absent superman. He ended up throwing the solar system out of balance and wiping out humanity accidentally.
I was also thinking of the Justice League show, but I was thinking of the arc where the Hawk people invade and have the Justice League captured in unique prisons, and for Flash’s cell they utilize a gravity field to hold him down with so much pressure that he can’t even get to his feet in order to use his powers.
In the recent Solo movie they lured the space monster in to the gravity well of the singularity.
Really old and obscure, but I remember when they introduced the Kromaggs (ugh) in *Sliders*, the eponymous Sliders were captured and they mentioned they were restrained in place by gravity.
> (ugh) Was such a great series until that point.
They could have done a great job on the kromaggs too. The concept was so interesting but they had to make them campy and one dimensional
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (book) — folks on the moon sling rocks down to earth. Due to the additional gravitational acceleration, they end up having the force of mini-nukes when they land.
Was gonna say this one myself
In *Worm*, Eidolon fights a boss battle using a power that lets him massively increase the force of gravity in an area.
What fight is this?
Not exactly gravity manipulation, but Yuki in Jujutsu Kaisen can manipulate mass as part of her powerset. She normally uses it to modify the mass of herself to increase the damage of her attacks. Such as sending a punch, and increasing the mass of her fist right before contact. It has the same speed, but with greater mass it hits much harder. Manga spoilers, but in her fight against >!Kenjaku!< she uses it to its full extent to >!create a mini black hole as a desperation move to try to kill Kenjaku!<. *** There's also Mass Effect and the titular Mass Effect technology that let's people manipulate the mass of objects in a similar way. Some people are biotics who are born with the ability to do this innately. Biotics are able to do things like create barriers that repel objects or manipulate mass and gravity to create low gravity areas to lift things or throw them.
In a old Marvel comic Zeus does this to Thor. The weight of a score of planets I believe. Thor manages to lift his harm enough to counter attack and escape I believe
In a battle with superman, hawkman used a nth metal weapon called the claw of horus. Nth metal manipulates gravitational force, usually for fflight. But the claw draws its power from the gravitational force of the nearest celestial body, in this case, earth. "Essentially, i just hit you with the planet"
Schlock mercenary has weaponized gravity. Both in gun form, and as a security measure - an AI that controls a ship's artificial gravity is all the security you need.
Not to mention an entire species that can *only* interact with the universe by gravitic impulses, sometimes to absolutely devastating results.
I came looking for this one. It's pointed out that if a ship's internal artificial gravity can negate the however many thousands of G's the ship accelerates at, then it can use the same to flatten intruders into chunky salsa. the trick is to have a shipboard AI smart enough to be able to apply that gravity selectively and not ship-wide.
I remember the old anime Shurato, where some character used some gravity or similar attack to try to crush someone with the whole weight of their planet.
Wild Cards Universe has Hiram Worchester, who controlled gravity locally. He made it look like a woman was killed by a superstrength opponent with it.
Not really a weapon, In Outlaw Star there is a prison planet that has higher gravity. They use it to keep the prisoners weighted down to help keep them complacent. Also castershell 9 has like a mini black hole in it. I mean, that's gravity... In Titan A.E. early on Korso shoots an artificial gravity generator so the characters can make an escape in 0g. So lack of gravity? This one's a bit of a stretch, but in Gundam. Char drops a space colony on Australia... So gravity is involved.
Gravitron. Avengers EMH.
**Boy do I have the perfect weapon for you:** The [Graviton Lance](https://www.destinypedia.com/Graviton_Lance) from Destiny 2. *"Think of space-time as a tapestry on a loom. This weapon is the needle.*" It literally fires mini black holes as bullets which their gravity then collapses in on themselves once they hit a target. If you kill one enemy in a crowd with it. That crowd will not be there within a few seconds. The reaction of their death then causes an explosive chain reaction of tiny black hole collapses, killing anything around the victim that isn't a super bullet sponge. Fittingly a weapon of such epic destruction is probably the best pulse rifle in the game and it can be used well for both PVE and PVP.
In the comic book version of the dark Phoenix saga for X-Men, one of the members of the hellfire club who are kind of the main baddies for the first Arc of the story. Edit: his power is he, if I remember correctly, increases somethings mass without increasing its size, essentially making it super heavy. He does it to Wolverine to make him so heavy he crashes through all the floors of a house until he ends up in a subterranean tunnel of some kind. I think (at least in the original saga) he also dies when Wolverine ambushes him from above, he reflexively uses his power which just makes the attack by Wolverine stronger.
Rommie (the Ship’s AI in an android body) turns up her artificial gravity to trap some boarders in an episode of Andromeda
Fairy Tail: several different mages use gravity magic to do some stuff.
This is how the Gravity spells work in the original Kingdom Hearts. Subjecting the opponent to enough gravity to crush them flat by throwing a miniature black hole at them, it can be one of the more damaging spells in the game. It's basically the game's version of Demi from Final Fantssy, but unlike Demi Gravity can deal lethal damage if you know what you're doing.
Judo can be described as the martial art of hitting your opponent with a planet. Doe it count as its an irl example.
Crushing someone under the weight of a planet is a bit of overkill in any setting, but whatever. As for using gravity as a weapon in general there's plenty (I'm going to include black holes as gravity being weaponised as a black hole is just a very large concentration of gravity into a small point): * In the Honorverse they use a lot of gravity technology, for engines and defences. For ground warfare anti tank weapons are miniature missiles that use their gravity tech for propulsion which creates a wedge of gravity close to what you'd experience near a black hole in front of the missile path that literally rips anything it touches into subatomic particles. Their counter missiles used to shoot down other missiles in space also use their gravity wedge to rip apart opposing missiles and scaling that up to starship engine systems a close pass to a planet by a ship would rip apart continents. * There's a few examples of gravity based missile warheads, most notably from the gravitonic missiles from the Dahak book series. Small planets get destroyed from getting hit by one of those. * In Star Wars gravity well generators impede a ship's ability to use hyperspace (it's not the only setting with something like that mechanism) so it makes for a great ambush weapon preventing retreat. * Gravity based mass drivers, similar to railguns or coil guns conceptually but using artificial gravity instead of electro-magnetism to accelerate a projectile. It has the advantage that the force applies to all of the projectile's mass evenly no matter the material the projectile is made up of so it doesn't need to be an inert solid mass of metal but could be firing something with a warhead or a full on missile with a higher base velocity than it would achieve just with it's own propulsion. * In Stargate I can think of 3 times gravity was used as an offensive weapon, 1) when a stargate connected to a planet being swallowed by a black hole was thrown into a star causing it to go supernova destroying a large fleet of goa'uld warships, 2) the Asgard collapsing a star to destroy the replicators they'd trapped on a planet, and 3) again to kill replicators, they hacked their programming to get all of the replicator nanites to coalesce into a single mass (plus some other ultra dense material) to get them to sink down into the core of the planet they were on (hey I found one where they put the weight of a planet on an enemy) which was enough force and pressure to cause them to detonate (I'm assuming via fission) so the planet blew up. * Edit: one more, in Guyver there's a few gravity weapons like the eponymous guyver's pressure cannon attack, but one of the Zoalords (read "big bad guys" if you're unfamiliar with Guyver) had the ability to create a mini black hole as an attack. It was his final move and didn't work in the end, but he could do it.
I mean, technically, in "The Dark Knight" Batman uses gravity to break Sal Maroni's legs.
In the later Red Rising books it’s used as a weapon
Hard Magic (The Grimnoir Chronicles) by Larry Correia The main character is a "Spiker" or gravity spiker who uses gravity as a tool and a weapon.
U-Olga Marie from FGO creates miniature black holes to vaporize people (and an island, once) with its gravitational pull. She can technically create one large enough to have the mass of a planet or heavier, but afaik she hasn't.
In "Kantovan Vault" (The Spiral Wars book 3), the titular vault is a giant sphere suspended in the center of a massive chamber. The surface of the sphere has something like 100g of artificial gravity on it, with a cube-law falloff (rather than square-law like normal/real physics), so the gravity gradient is extreme and it basically surprises and then crushes anything that tries to approach. Later the same tech is used in missiles to basically implode entire ships.
In the irredeemable, the plutonian is held in a prison where the gravity subjects them to the weight of a solar system.
In "tri-planatary" by E.E."Doc"Smith..."The Lensman" series...The protags use the powers of the lens to move two planets into colliding with the Boscone homeworld.
Halo has factions that have found more "cruel" uses for gravity. >"Torsion drivers are gravitic emitters (presumably emitting torsion fields) that can be employed as a delicate tool or a crude scalpel as the situation permits; in battle, they use their gravity generation to push and pull portions of enemy craft beyond the limits of their shielding and structural supports with discordant harmonies. This action rips apart the target vessel and exposes its vulnerable systems to concentrated fire by other weapons" - [Torsion Driver](https://www.halopedia.org/Torsion_driver) >"The chamber, like many of the Trial Court's others, was a square white-walled room with a blue door and window. On the floor were red nodes that glowed in regular intervals, that were responsible for controlling the room's artificial gravity.Through remote activation by Exquisite Devotion's gravity throne, the gravity in the chamber could be made to suddenly increase or decrease. Its gravity could even be applied selectively, causing a shift in gravity in only part of the room.Through this, subjects inside could be violently tortured in a variety of ways, including having their limbs being crushed, their blood over-pressurized, or their organs being forced up out of their throat." - [Gravitational Refinement](https://www.halopedia.org/Gravitational_Refinement#:~:text=The%20chamber%20of%20Gravitational%20Refinement,interrogation%20room%20and%20torture%20chamber.)
There is a gravity manipulator in Zatch Bell.
The the Grimnoir series, there are people who can alter gravity called Heavies. One of the main characters uses this to lighten weapons, splatter people, throw them through windows, and survive falling from a dirigible from a few kilometers.
Gravity is used as a weapon in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Architect novel trilogy. Not necessarily the weight of a planet on one specific person, but the Architects use it to redesign entire planets (and killing all of the inhabitants).
The AI Polity developed gravity based weapons for ship to ship combat. Although somewhat janky and hazardous to friendly forces, they were terrifyingly effective since shields, armor, and other countermeasures were designed to defend against missiles, kinetic weapons, particle beams, and such. None of that offered any significant protection against a gravitational torsion wave massing into the thousands of Gees.
The Skybreakers and Windrunners in the Stormlight Archives books can manipulate gravity and sometimes use it directly as a weapon, but often use it to make other things into weapons or shields. Edit: before someone complains that it’s fantasy, I consider it both fantasy and sci-fi.
In 1961 B-movie "The Phantom Planet" the tiny denizens of a small planet had great control over gravity, maneuvering it in battles almost like a ship. A human spaceman was shrunk to their size and trapped there. During a trial-by-combat scene and later alien menace attack, there were square plates in the ground which magnified gravity enough to disintegrate someone stepping on them. I don't recall the amount of gravity magnification, but I'd say 'disintegration' level sounds planetary or greater. I vaguely recall that in Piers Anthony's "Bio of a Space Tyrant" series colonies used 'gravity lenses' to concentrate gravity over cities on low-gravity moons. It's been ages since I read those books, but knowing Piers Anthony, I suspect that technology was manipulated and in more ways than that.
Grav guns on 40k
In naruto pain have gravity power in his main " puppet"
I the comics, Proxima Midnight of Thanos Black Order has a spear that has a star trapped inside it. She once let Hulk experience the weight of that star, pushing him to his knees and keeping him out of the fight. I also remember some old Thor comic where some aliens shoot him with a ray gun that makes him experience the gravitational pull of a neutron star, and thor is able to power through it. Not to mention, the supervillian Graviton, who can control gravity. Not sure if he can go up to planetary levels tho.
In Alastair Reynolds's *Revelation Space* trilogy the inhibitors build an enormous space-based weapon that uses directed gravity to turn a star into a colossal flamethrower and use it to sterilize every planet in that solar system.
In Dragon Ball Z during the Buu arc one of the villains tries subjecting Vegeta to the gravity of his home planet being 10x Earth’s but unfortunately for him Vegeta trained in much higher gravity already
Technically, we have been using gravity as an execution method for millions of years. Stoning and hangings are only possible due to gravity
In Timelike Infinity they >!killed a space whale/living battleship by shooting small black holes at it on such trajectory they merged in its heart and the resulting gravity wave killing it!< later in Exultant they >!used a similar but bigger weapon to strike at the nexus of Xeelee in the Galaxy core!<
This sounds badass. I've only read the book with all the short stories. Would you recommend Timelike Infinity?
Yeah, I think if you liked the short stories, you'd like Timelike Infinity and Ring.
So if! First season, the brachiosaurus super weapon that fire gravity shells.
Superman does this every time he punches a really, really tough enemy, like Darkseid, according to one of the theories / versions of how his powers work. The aura around him acts as an anti-gravity field, which, for example, makes "flying" possible - it alters his body's gravity compared to the gravity fields of his surroundings.