speculative weapon theme
There is a futuristic weapon, such as a death ray or sentient bomb.
19 total · 1 choice · 7 major · 11 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| tas1x14 | choice | Central to the story was Spock and his party's discovery of an ancient handheld multifunction super gun of alien design. The Kzinti used a spiderweb-shaped energy field to immobilize Spock and his fellow officers. |
| ldr2019e4x02 | major | The alien tripod walkers were equipped with devastating cannons that shot miniature black holes. In their attempt to master the technology, the humans inadvertently created a black hole that swallowed up the entire Earth and a good chunk of its neighborhood in the Milky Way. |
| movie: Escape from LA (1996) | major | Snake was sent to retrieve the remote control to a super weapon that consisted of a series of satellites capable of rendering all electronic devices anywhere on the planet useless. |
| movie: Godzilla vs Megaguirus (2000) | major | The Japanese military developed an experimental satellite-based weapon that fires miniature black holes, called the Dimension Tide, to use on Godzilla. |
| movie: Kamikaze (1986) | major | Albert invented a weapon that enabled him to explode people he was watching live on television. |
| movie: Post Impact (2004) | major | A main novelty of the film was the microwave shooting satellite weapon SolStar-2. Although originally designed to beam down power from orbit, the film built up to a disgruntled military man trying to use it to annihilate Tangier, Morocco. |
| movie: Star Kid (1997) | major | The AI controlled "assault cybor suit" powered exoskeleton was made by the Trelkin Tenris De'Thar as a weapon in a bid to turn the tide of the war they were waging against the Broodwarrior aliens. |
| movie: The Airship Destroyer (1909) | major | An inventor and his assistant designed a surface-to-air missile to shoot down the airship that was bombing the town. |
| ldr2019e1x17 | minor | In one of the alternate histories, the Russian Tsar had developed a giant gun that fired gelatinous blobs to kill people from, apparently, a whole continent away. |
| movie: Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956) | minor | Russell Marvin spearheaded the development of an ultrasonic gun to use against the flying saucers. |