Grapple Shot

Grapple hook with style!

Grapple Shot is the skill where a tether is used to grapple onto a surface. The most popular device, of course, would be a grappling hook, but other gadgets could be used. An example would be a flexible tendril that can stretch and wrap around an anchor that could be used for grapple shooting. One could use it as their primary form of transportation, where they could swing from building to building. In combat, characters use such a technique to entangle an enemy or maneuver around the area.

Examples of Grapple Shot include:

Anime and Manga

• Attack on Titan: As seen in the picture above, the 3D Maneuver Gear is standard equipment soldiers within the walls use to fight against the titles. They use a harness with retractable hooked cables shot by compressed gas stored in cans, allowing jet-propelled maneuverability.
• In My Hero Academia, Tape is the Quirk of Sero, aka Cellophane, allowing him to make an adhesive tape from his elbows that can stick to surfaces. He can use them for mobility by attaching them to a surface to swing or pull himself to another point.
  • Izuku awakens the Quirk, Blackwhip, that can create tendrils of energy that can be made from his body and are under his mental control.
• Darker Than Black: Hei uses a knife attached to a wire like a grappling hook. He also uses the wire in combat for warping around his enemies and can conduct electricity through his Contractor's power to fatally shock them.

Comic Books

• Marvel Comics:
  • Spider-Man invented web slingers that can shoot out his webs that he uses for swinging through the city. It is also his primary weapon, where he often traps his opponent.
  • Daredevil has a grappling hook in his billy clubs where he can perform his acrobatic transport.
• DC Comics:
  • Batman and his family use a grapple hook gadget that can help them get to rooftops while also being made of a strong alloy that can take on considerable weight.

Video Games

• Legend of Zelda:
  • The Hookshot introduced in A Link to the Past is one of Link's items, a machine that launches a hood on a chain that can attach to targets. Once connected, it can project Link towards the point, but there are instances where he can pull them towards him.
• InFAMOUS 2 has Cole gain the ability Lightning Tether, where he can project a bolt of electricity that can cling onto a stationary object and pull himself towards it. He also has the Lightning Hook power that can attract an enemy or object to him.
• Super Metroid introduces the Grapple Beam, which allows Samus to shoot a form of electric energy that can grapple to particular objects to swing from place to place.
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown's Skeleton Suit and Ghost Armor have a built-in gauntlet with a grappling hook that allows soldiers to reach higher ground.
  • XCOM 2 has the Wraith and Spider Suits with built-in grappling hooks like the armor from the previous game.

Western Animation

• Miraculous Ladybug: Ladybug uses a magic yoyo that can wrap anything she can swing, which she uses to transport around Paris. It is also helpful in trapping her enemies and can be used as a lift for heavy objects.