speculative nanotechnology theme
A technology that concerns the control of matter on the atomic and molecular scale that goes beyond our current capabilities.
Examples
Wesley Crusher made nano-machines work together and evolve in tng3x01 "Evolution" and things got a bit out of hand.
22 total · 6 major · 16 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Bloodshot (2020) | major | Ray had billions of nanobots circulating in his bloodstream. They regenerated his body from injury, gave him super human strength, and allowed him to remotely hack into computer databases. |
| movie: Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) | major | A main novelty of the film is a protein-based nanomachine human pathogen that mimics human lymphocytes and then breaks down into protein after death, making it undetectable. |
| movie: Space Sweepers (2021) | major | The child Kot-nim had special powers on account that she was full of rare nanobots. Specifically, the nanobots enabled her to communicate with other nanobots in her environment, which she used for such wholesome purposes as healing a dying plant, terraforming Mars into a lush environment, and saving the lives of the Victory crew. |
| movie: The Demolitionist (1995) | major | Alyssa's veins coursed with a synthetic solution of nanomachines that functioned to rapidly regenerate damaged cells. |
| movie: Virtuosity (1995) | major | A main novelty of the film is that SID 6.7's android body self-repaired itself by means of silicon-based nanotech. |
| rd1988e7x08 | major | The story led up to Kryten's nanobots reconfigured the Red Dwarf vessel into a planetoid. Kryten's nanobots reconfigured Lister to have the physique of a bodybuilder. |
| movie: Appleseed Ex Machina (2007) | minor | Dr. Xander hacked Briareos by infiltrating Briareos' body with nano machines. |
| movie: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | minor | Tony revealed that the new version of his Iron Man suit was nanotech-based. |
| movie: Babylon 5: The Gathering (1993) | minor | Sinclair led G'Kar to believe that he's placed a nano-sized location monitoring device inside G'Kar's digestive tract. |
| movie: Cyborg Soldier (2008) | minor | The robotics engineer Simon Hart explained Isaac's astonishing regenerative ability was due to the presence of nanobots in his body. |