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** [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum|Exotic technologies]] include "Damper Field", which replaces standard deflector shields with an energy field that reduces any incoming damage by 75% and has 50% chance to kill teleporting boarders. "Reflector Field" is compatible both with shields and Damper Field and gives a chance to reflect weapons fire back at the shooter.
* The ''[[Wild Arms]]'' RPG series features the golem Asgard who seems to specialize in deflector shields. Notably, its shields completely disintegrate anything that touches them when they're on. In the original game, the characters realized that this meant that the golem who supposedly had the Ultimate Defense also had the Ultimate Offense and used the golem to break through another force field around the enemies' base. Later games simply took it for granted that Asgard would be attacking with moves like Barrier Fist and whatnot, and ''[[Wild Arms XF]]'' gave Asgard the ability Barrier Storm, which instantly killed anyone standing next to it by doing more damage than your maximum HP.
* ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'' explains ship-based deflector shields has shunting energy to a theoretical dimension based on imaginary numbers.
* Shields feature prominently in ''[[Supreme Commander]]'', where they were originally reverse-engineered from an alien race by the Aeon, then stolen and copied by the UEF and Cybran Nation. All three factions have powerful stationary shield generators that project a spherical shield around their area, but the Aeon take things a step further with a number of units sporting personal shield generators that conform over the unit. The UEF also gets in on the personal shield idea with their siege bot and Fatboy-class [[Military Mashup Machine]], then adding in a naval-based shield generator in ''Forged Alliance''. The sneaky Cybrans only use shields in stationary defensive installations.
* In the old video game ''[[Scorched Earth]]'', in addition to normal energy shields, you could use a literal Deflector Shield which would deflect missiles off course from your tank.
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* In the ''[[X (video game)|X]]-Universe'' series, shields are the only viable defense--hull is very weak and damage translates to very expensive equipment getting destroyed.
* A strategic aspect in the original ''[[Star Raiders (video game)|Star Raiders]]''. Although a single hit when the shields were down would instantly kill the player, daredevil pilots would engage the Zylons with damaged (flickering) or destroyed shields ''anyway'' just to avoid a time-consuming trip to a starbase.
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey]]'', all of the Schwarzwelt Investigation Team [[Cool Ship|Cool Ships]] --the ''Red Sprite'', the ''Elve'', the ''Blue Jet'', and the ''Gigantic''-- are equipped with a so-called "plasma shield." It's never made clear whether it's a shield ''composed of'' plasma or one that protects ''from'' plasma (seeing how the Schwarzwelt is, itself, surrounded by a plasma wall that disintegrates whatever it touches,) but not only is it explicitly enabled every time the ''Red Sprite'' jumps between dimensions within the Schwarzwelt, but presumably it's what keeps demons from tearing the ship to pieces while the Strike Team commandos are on a mission.
* [[Space Colony]] has the Space Defence Shield, which protects against meteor showers and volcanic debris.
* [[Project Eden]] and [[Descent]] (1,2 and 3) have shields, but no separate health or armor, meaning the character/player dies when the shield fails.
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== Web Original ==
* Averted in ''[[
** There are deflector shields but they're active systems that use a powerful laser to ionize particles in front of the ship and then magnetic fields to deflect the ions.
* Mostly averted in ''[[Tech Infantry]]'', although all starships have standard electromagnetic deflector shields that protect them from micrometeorites and induced cosmic rays when traveling at a substantial percentage of light speed. Some of the larger warships have gravity-based shields created by their gravitic drives, but these are of limited utility, as it's hard to shoot out through a zone of such intense gravity that it can bend weapon beams away or crush incoming missiles.
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== Comics ==
* Sue Storm from the ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' was originally just invisible, but she quickly gained the ability to produce force fields as well, making her ''extremely'' powerful.
* Brainiac 5 of the [[Legion of Super-Heroes (
** In the original, '60s comic Legion, Brainiac 5 didn't so much create the force field belt as recreate the force field technology used by his "ancestor", the original Brainiac. Said shield was so powerful that even [[Superman]] couldn't punch through it, making Brainiac one of the first villains to be effectively capable of going toe-to-toe with the Man of Steel.
** Vril Dox, or Brainiac 2, also has a force field belt, albeit a much less advanced one.
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