"Gravity's one mean mother, huh?" —Jacob Taylor,Mass Effect 2

The ability to control gravity as a superpower (orApplied Phlebotinum that serves the same purpose).

Such a power is often coupled witha large amount of leeway as to how gravity works, such as making gravitya force with an exact cut-off range,only working on a specific object, or the third law of motion being violated with only one object being attracted to another. This power is essentiallyTelekinesis with different flavor text.

Of note is that control of gravity is sometimes (especially in Japanese media) associated withcontrol overdarkness, letting the user createBlack Holes. Expect plenty ofArt Major Physics along the way.

Anime and Manga

• InGuyver, at least one Zoalord, Richard Guyot, has the power to manipulate gravity. His most basic attack, Gravity Bullets, fires tiny orbs of super-gravity clean through a target, while his ultimate move, Gravity Crusher, creates a black hole—when he first uses it, even the other Zoalords call him insane, warning that he could potentially consume the Earth and everything on it with that attack.
  • The Guyver units themselves have gravity control via theGravity Medal at the waist. The basic version allows flight and powers the Pressure Cannon attack but the Gigantic Exceed version can also use a black hole, with considerably more control than Guyot demonstrated.
• Maro,The Brute inBlack Cat, can both control the gravity around him and project super-dense gravity bombs.
• InBleach, this is the ability of Izuru Kira's zanpakutou Wabisuke. Specifically, it doubles the weight of anything it hits, including the weight increase from the previous hit. If he hits something several times with it, its weight increases exponentially and becomes nigh-immovable. He usually hits the opponent's body.
• InBusou Renkin, Victor's axe Fatal Attractions grants him this power.
• Darker than Black has three examples: First there's a guy who can make himself or any other person weightless in the first episode, but needs to break his finger every time he uses it; another guy can increase the pull of gravity within a certain area, and a third guy with a power similar to the first, briefly seen inthe last episode of the first season.
  • Four examples: The OVA features an unnamed female Gravity Master who can make things/people become heavier and/or fallup.
• Brago fromGash Bell, a primary case of gravity being associated withdarkness.
• Albireo Imma fromMahou Sensei Negima.
• The Deva Path of Pain inNaruto is able to manipulate gravity to use different techniques to push objects away from him (Shinra Tensei) and pull them toward him (Bansho Ten'nin).Nagato, the body's controller, can also do these as well as launch a black sphere that sucks in everything around it (Chibaku Tensei). There is a period of time between each use, the length of which is dependent upon how much power is put into the technique.
  • Onoki, the Tsuchikage, can greatly increase or decrease the weight of an object, though it seems he's changing it's mass instead of just its weight.
• Seto fromNEEDLESS.
• The Dark-Dark Fruit(Yami Yami no Mi) inOne Piece, which is eaten by Blackbeard, can make a dark miasma which crush whatever it covers or suck anything into it (which Blackbeard can also regurgitate back out).
  • A smaller example is Miss Valentine of Baroque Works. Her Kilo-Kilo Fruit(Kilo Kilo no Mi) allows her to make her own weight anywhere between 1 to 10,000 kilograms, letting her float around with her parasol or crush someone like an egg.
• Asuka fromPsyren.
• Chinmei, one of the Five Starsand the 2nd Red Cross Knight ofSamurai Deeper Kyo has this power, as well as the bad guy in psycho academy.
• Kozato Enma ofKatekyo Hitman Reborn seems to have powers based around gravity, but the full extent of these powers is not yet revealed.
• Isaac, Alyssa's Child from theMy-HiME Manga, can manipulate gravity.
• Joker fromFlame of Recca has a madogu which grants this ability - thoughhe initially pretends to simply possess incredible strength.
• Chelsea Rorec fromTokyo Underground is apparently the onlygravity Elemental User. (Fire was not cool enough, ya know)
• Biagio Busoni fromA Certain Magical Index, who increases his opponent's personal gravity until they can barely move.
• Bluenote fromFairy Tail.
• Some of the top-end combat boomers fromBubblegum Crisis are equipped with gravity guns. They can't manipulate gravity outright, but they can use it as a blunt instrument to pound their target into paste.

Comic Books

• The Wizard, aFantastic Four villain, hasvague but highly effective powers in this area. Basically, he can do anythingthe Invisible Woman can doexcept turn invisible.
• Roxy "Freefall" Spaulding fromGen 13.
• Ayla Ranzz, also of theLegion of Super-Heroes, in "Light Lass" mode.
• Marvel Comics has a superhero named Gravity.Guess what his superpower is.
  • Graviton, also from theMarvel Universe.
• Almost every version ofStarman. However, they largely derived from the gravity or cosmic rod. TheStarman Star Boy from theLegion of Super-Heroes had gravity powers of his own. Interestingly,in some versions, most notably pretty much all of the Postboot continuity, Star Boy's power is increasing (or occasionally decreasing) a specific object's gravitationalmass, thus affecting the weight of that object and that object alone.
• Hiram "Fatman" Worcester fromWild Cards.
• Nova, a Marvel super hero who has control of the Nova Force, which grants him gravimetric powers.
• Deadweight, aCIA assassin fromDP 7 #29.
• DC's Geo-Force, at least when on Earth.

Fan Works

• As part of his power upgrades, Kyon gets this inKyon: Big Damn Hero.
• One of the minor Volturi is mentioned to have this, in a fairly limited way, inLuminosity.
• Rise of the Galeforces gives usKate Squall, aka Apogee, who can wield black holes, gravity bolts, and levitation fields to great effect. It's not shown a lot, but damn, does it lookimpressive!

Literature

• Szeth son-son Vallano fromThe Stormlight Archive. Can stick two objects together, cause objects and people to 'fall' in any direction, and can cause objects to attract other objects. Also by the end of the first bookKaladin is developing these powers.
• TheK'Chain Che'Malle inThe Malazan Book of the Fallen have this as their primaryWarren.
• Dekka from theGone (novel) series.
• InThe Dresden Files, gravity control is a subset of Earth Magic. It takes awhile to pull, but the results are... impressive.
• Both Sullivan and his brother Madi have this power inHard Magic. Sullivan had enough time to practice with it in prison that he's able to do things that other Heavies never even dreamed of.

Live-Action TV

• Bunta Daichi fromJAKQ Dengekitai has this as part of his powers asClover King.
• Shouji of the Heavenly Gravity Star fromGosei Sentai Dairanger uses this power.
• Kamen Rider OOO's SaGoZo Combo.

Tabletop Games

• TheAberrant RPG power "Gravity Control".
• Anima: Beyond Fantasy has the spells in the Earth school allowing the caster to decrease, augment, and manipulate gravity-most of them very high level.
• Dungeons & Dragons has spells Reverse Gravity and Feather Fall / Anvil Fall (changes the terminal velocity).
  • Forgotten Realms Pages from the Mages has Lessen Gravity spell.
  • Spelljammer has Gravs—dwarflike (but 3x dense) humanoids who can reduce gravity, usually when hauling stuff around or suspending those who bother them too much in the air, until the grav decides to move away or affect something else.
  • There is also the gravity master class.magic knights capable of manipulating gravity toincrease their weapon damage and make them harder to knock down,increase their speed similar to the biotic charge fromMass Effect 2, andhit the ground hard enough to knock other people over.
• Mage: The Awakening features rotes allowing for the control of gravity at Forces 5.
• TheMutants and Masterminds power "Gravity Control". It only does two things- lessen gravity and increase it in a bubble around you, making it a cheaper version of Telekinesis. It should be noted: This beingMutants and Masterminds, you can buy "alternate powers" to represent different forms of Gravity manipulation.
• Cthulhu Tech has gravikineticparapsychics.

Video Games

• Armed and Dangerous had an awesome gravity-controlling weapon that first anchors the player to the ground, and then somehowflips reality upside-down, causing any nearby enemies to fall into the sky then back to the ground when it turns off.
  • Evie inVindictus can acquire the power "SP: Gravity Inversion", which does the same thing.
• Black-alignedelements inChrono Cross invoke precisely the non-distinction between gravity and darkness described in the page intro.
• Gravity Control is one of the powers in the MMOCity of Heroes, available to the Controller and Dominator archetypes.
• In an example of this trope crossing over withDark Is Edgy, the main character inThe Darkness can do this as part of his suite of darkness-themed superpowers, generating a miniature black hole that sucks everything in the vicinity into it.
• TheFinal Fantasy has the spell Gravity/Gravira/Graviga (occasionally known as Demi), whichreduces the enemy to some fraction of their current HP (Except bosses,of course). It is usually depicted as abig black ball, possibly representing a black hole.
  • Layle, the lead character ofFinal Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers, has Gravity as his magic, though the way he wields it you could be forgiven for thinking he was atelekinetic.
  • Sometimes in theFinal Fantasy series, when gravity is not its own element, it is lumped in withshadow damage, hence why inFinal Fantasy VIII the GravityGuardian Force is agiant, energy-draining demon and grav and drain spells tend to be cast by bats and the undead and the like.
• Final Fantasy X hasSin, whose primary 'hat' is gravity. It is able to levitate its massive body pretty much anywhere, and it is a frequent user of the aforementioned Gravija. Sin is so powerful it can tear apart whole cities just with the gravitational force it generates, sucking everything in like a black whole. It is also capable of projecting gravitational fields that can withstand insanely powerful energy blasts, and even projects those fields outwards tovaporize enemies and scar the entire planet.
• Gravity Man fromMega Man 5.
  • Galaxy Man's Black Hole Bomb fromMega Man 9 works in this way, even though the robot master himself does not have a particular affinity for gravity.
• Gravity Antonion fromMega Man X 8 is also a master of this trope, even turning the screen upside-down for some reason.
  • Gravity Beetle inX3.
• Five words:Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator (alias "Gravity Gun").
  • Slightly justified in its potential failing of physics in that the 'Gravity Gun' is just a nickname. Whatever mechanism it actually uses for throwing stuff around is not explained.
• Halo has the Gravity Hammer.
• Kingdom Hearts has Gravity spells in the first game andChain of Memories, and Zero Gravity spells inBirth by Sleep.
  • Also, Organization XIII member Xigbar is a dual-arrowgun-wielding Nobody with dominion over space. He teleports, walks in the air, and can distort dimensions.
• All biotic powers (with the exception of Reave and Dominate, that are specific to asari biology but available to the player as a bonus) inMass Effect are achieved by mass manipulation, and thus could be called a form of gravity control. A low-mass field will lift an object or move it in any direction. A high-mass field will slam it into the ground or crush it. Biotic characters can even use the Singularity power to generate miniature black holes that will attract all loose objects and weakened enemies (though strangely not stronger enemies or fellow party members). Also, theNormandy uses a similar effect to achieve thrust while still remainingstealthy. The Tantalus Drive Core generates a high-gravity field in front of the ship that the Normandy "falls into", and momentum carries it from there.
  • In fact, mass manipulation (or "mass effect") is howeverything in the series works, via a strange material called "element zero" or "eezo". How it works is simple: positive charges to it increase its mass, and negative charges decrease mass. The possibilities explode from there. For example, FTL travel is achieved by making the net mass of a shipnegative, thereby making relativity look the other way. BioWare reallydid their homework.
• The boss Nightmare inMetroid Fusion can control gravity, making it take longer for you to reach your full jumping height—and making your missiles fall to the ground. Only yourPure Energy beams can work in the high-gravity, never mind that gravity affectsall particles the same regardless of mass, and since your beams go at about the same speed as the missiles they should have the same arc.
  • Like he's any better inOther M. The first phase, it uses a gravity field to weigh down Samus while peppering her with energy spheres and lasers until she can short out its generator with the Ice Beam. The second phase? It uses its gravity powers more defensively, including shooting a black hole from that generator that causes ALL of Samus' projectiles to warp off their path and into it.
    • But oddly enough,not Samus herself
      • To be fair though, she was useing her Gravity Feature, which means Nightmare's powerscan't affect her.
• ThePokémon move Gravity allows severalMons to do this. Using it removes the immunity to Ground attacks Flying types and Pokémon with Levitate have, prevents use of attacks which involve jumping or flying, and reduces everyone's evasion by 2/5, all of which lasts for five turns.
• InSuper Robot Wars, Shu Shirakawa'sGranzon is able to manipulate gravity to a physics-breaking extent. In event scenes, it uses this ability tothrow its enemies around like ragdolls. In actual combat, it gets more creative, using attacks thatcreate wormholes andfire miniature black holes at the enemy. A few other mecha have lesser gravity-based powers, such as warp field barriers and weapons thatfire beams of gravity at the enemy.
  • The latter could be justified if the beam's effect is to create a rapidly-shifting gravity field which causes objects inside to vibrate rapidly and hence disintegrate - sort of like a sonic weapon that worksIN SPACE! - or, more mundanely, if it simply fires a beam ofgravitons.
• InVVVVVV, it's the only ability you have. You either flip up to the ceiling, or flip to the floor.
• TheBioShock (series) 2 DLC patchMinerva's Den introduced the Gravity Well plasmid, which allows you to throw a ball that exerts a massive gravitational pull which can suck in all the enemies and objects around it for a short period, immobilising them.
• The Dark element inPhantasy Star Universe takes the form of damaging gravity fields.
• Amorphous has theVoid Eater. It's aBlob Monster with extremely high, compressed density, allowing it to manipulate gravity- and how! It can:
  • Utilize a gravitational field to draw the player towards it.
  • Compress and decompress itself to send out adeadly shockwave.
  • "Collect and compress local particles and then project this incredibly dense material in a type of 'Density Stream' which would draw in and obliterate any nearby matter". In other words, aDisintegrator Ray thatsucks the player towards it.
• A mage player character inDragon Age II can take the Force Mage specialization, which is... well, it's this trope. The player character's mage sister Bethany will become one if she makes it to Act III of the game.
• The M-308 Gunner mecha from theNESIrem gameMetal Storm has the ability to flip gravity.
• The newest character, Ley, inGrand Chase mixes this trope up withSummon Magic.
• Quantum-Genesis heroes inDarkspore are either this orTime Master.
• InAge of Mythology Atlas' divine power is the Implosion: a sphere that use gravity to suck all the enemy units in its radius (it even bends nearby buildings) and then explodes, spitting back the surviving enemies.
• Sigma fromOverwatch has a powerset built entirely around gravity manipulation: he levitates while moving around, hurls piles of rocks with his powers, and his Ultimate has him lift anyone caught in its radius high into the sky before slamming them against the ground for heavy damage.

Web Comics

• One of the characters in the webcomicKnowledge Is Power has gravity manipulation as an ability.
• InSchlock Mercenary, gravitic technology is used for both protection and offense ("gravy-guns"), as well as sundry other usessuch asArtificial Gravity and ship propulsion. TheUNS Tunguska - between its ridiculously overengineered power supply and its AI Gus - has extremely precise control, lifting the Toughs into the air as a show of force, transmitting a message by using gravity to rattle the ship's hull, and even gravitically controllingTagon to shoot Jak in the head. All of this is notable in that it probably is NOT Art Major Physics.
• The aptly-named supervillain Greta Gravity inSpinnerette possesses gravity-altering powers. She has demonstrated her powers in the comic mostly by levitating objects, but has also used it to make the eponymous heroine heavy enough to crack the sidewalk just by standing on it.
• Wayward Sons: Hermaz can decrease gravity's effectiveness on himself and others, and somehow use it for midair propulsion. He once increased it instead, grounding and immobilizing a winged enemy.

Web Original

• Several characters from theGlobal Guardians PBEM Universe have control over gravity. The heroes include Collapsar, Neutron Star, Orbits I and II (one is a Canadian hero, the other a Turkish hero), Gravity Man, and White Dwarf. The villains include Urania, Gravity, Black Hole, Event Horizon, Crusher, Deadweight, and Singularity.
• Solar Max II from theAcademy of Superheroes Universe is an extremely powerful gravity-wielder, enough so that he can make black holes and bend space. Devastator, a supervillain, has power over multiple forcesincluding gravity.
• This is common enough in theWhateley Universe that there are standard 'moves' for gravity-wielders. Jadis' new roommate Misty can lift several tons, or can slam someone to the ground with several tons of force. Misty has (unfortunately) named herself 'Superchick' and adopted a trademark-violating costume she made herself.
  • Then there's G-Force, who is one of the Capes (the Future Superheroes of America club) on campus. When attacked by G-Force, Phase demonstrated that this power set has some distinct weaknesses.
• A supervillain known only as the Chief Designer, apparently a former head of theSoviet space program, created a device called the Gravity Engine, strong enough to pull the Moon from its orbit, and gave it toThe Mercury Men to do just that.
• The Gmod Idiot Box: Gravity Cat Not Amused.

Western Animation

• Graviton inThe Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. He gets really, reallycaught up in how awesome this is.
• The Wizard, the leader of the Frightful Four in theUltimate Spider-Man animated series has this ability thanks to his tech, specifically his gravity discs.
• Gravity Girl onBirdman and the Galaxy Trio.
• Gravitina fromBuzz Lightyear of Star Command, the "Mistress of Mass and all its Attraction". Notably, her powers made her head roughly the size of a go-kart.
• Tso Lan the Moon Demon inJackie Chan Adventures.
• TheVillain of the Week Massive fromLoonatics Unleashed.

Other Media

• Bionicle has Toa of Gravity and Kanohi Garai, Mask of Gravity and Nuhvok-Kal. The Makuta species can also control gravity, and, in turn, spawn Rahkshi of Gravity.
• Fantasy artist Robin Wood's "Theory of Cat Gravity", which holds that cats lie in the sunshine to absorb some of the sun's considerable gravitational force. They release that gravity when they're sitting on their owners, which explains why it's so difficult to get up when your cat has you pinned.
• Shouji the Tenmaranger fromGosei Sentai Dairanger.

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