Anti-gravity gun

An anti-gravity gun makes things float... sometimes. Other times it's a powerful weapon that could possibly threaten the integrity of the planet upon which it's used. Sometimes it is Scorponok's fusion-powered sidearm. Sometimes it gets wielded by any random idiot.

Anti-gravity cannons are presumably more powerful versions of the same thing.

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity

Desert Flight

Originally developed on Cybertron, the anti-gravity gun proved too unstable to continue using. However, Megatron secretly rebuilt the weapon on Earth, where the continued integrity of the planet was much less of a concern.

The anti-gravity gun was subject to severe and uncontrollable fluctuations in the degree to which it nullified the effect of gravity. At its highest settings, it could cause objects to fly off into space. The version built on Earth was much more powerful. The unstable energies of the anti-gravity gun could potentially cause a localized rip in the space-time continuum if mishandled.

On Cybertron, the Decepticons experimented with anti-gravity gun technology, using it on many Autobot emplacements. The Autobot Smokescreen's home was almost sent floating off into space in one of these attacks. The technology was eventually abandoned after 1) even the Decepticons found its unstable nature too dangerous, and 2) Optimus Prime turned the weapon on them, using its reverse setting to send them plummeting down into Cybertron's lower levels. (The embarrassment of the latter probably had more to do with the technology's abandonment than the former did.)

Millions of years later on Earth, Megatron had a secret base constructed to develop the technology again, building a much more powerful weapon. He ordered Dirge to attract attention deliberately so that he could bring the weapon to bear on the Autobots as they approached the base.

Megatron's ultimatum was simple: Optimus Prime would deactivate himself and give himself to the Decepticons, or Megatron would send every human on the face of the Earth hurtling off into space. Desert Flight

Desert Flight was a Multipath adventure; as such, there were many outcomes to this basic conflict. In some of them, Megatron triumphed, even making good in one such victory on his threat to destroy all human life. In many others, the weapon was destroyed, and in one, Megatron himself was destroyed by the weapon, his parts repelling themselves into pieces.

Marvel The Transformers comics

For one shining moment, Skullcruncher's demolecularization gun was traded in for an anti-gravity gun. He used it to make bubbles float, as well as the Nebulan professional wrestlers inside them. Love and Steel!

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

Scorponok wielded a fusion-powered anti-gravity gun in robot mode. Scorponok's More than Meets the Eye profile

Animated cartoon

The Andellorian Anti-Gravity Cannon was the first weapon Swindle sold to Blitzwing after Lugnut furiously berated him for contacting Lockdown. Icy Blitzwing used this gun to declare war on Lugnut and sent the zealous Decepticon rocketing into a boulder. Everything Must Go

Games

3D Battle-Card Game

Scorponok had access to an anti-gravity cannon in robot mode. 3D Battle-Card Game

Toys

The Transformers

Scorponok (Headmaster, 1987)

Accessories: helmet, anti-gravity gun, gun guard, shield, Fasttrack drone, 2 ramps, 4 dual photon cannons, 4 antenna, 2 leg shields, claw arm, side gun arm, elevator

The Transformers Scorponok came with an orange gun with a gray guard, identified as an anti-gravity gun in Scorponok's instructions and specified to be a fusion-powered anti-gravity gun in his packaging bio. In Japan, it was redecoed to make BlackZarak's black hole cannon.

Notes

Gravity is one of the fundamental forces holding matter together. A weapon that could actually make gravity disappear, in even a small area, would not cause astronaut-style floating but rather would reduce its target to scattered dust flung apart at the speed of planetary rotation.

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