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** Subverted in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyMWHEpoR8s this parody video].
** The clones' helicopter gunship analogues were later shown with a turret-mounted weapon that worked similarly.
* ''[[Reign of Fire]]'': The dragons produce two chemicals in their body that are exhaled and combine to produce their fire; [[Truth in Television|there is an actual animal that does]] [
* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'': "[[Forbidden Chekhov's Gun|Do not cross the streams.]]" But they end up doing just that. And they don't cross, they, well, converge, [[You Should Know This Already|hence why they're here.]]
* The motherships' primary weapon in ''[[Independence Day]]''.
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** This is also the logic behind a phased array, we just can't do it with lasers... yet.
** And a phased array laser would be called... you guessed it, a [[Portmanteau|phaser]]!
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* Some radiotherapy devices used for treatment of highly localized brain tumors operate on this principle. The method is called "gamma knife radiotherapy". Basically, they send several hundred (usually over 200) narrow gamma ray beams into your head. Each beam is fairly weak and doesn't do much damage, but they all intersect where the tumor is located. * Sizzle!*
* Though not a weapon, this is how inertial confinement fusion reactors are supposed to work - with hundreds of laser beams converging on a tiny spherical pellet of fuel, causing it to implode and ignite a fusion reaction.
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