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== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Hellboy (film)|Hellboy]]'': Hellboy adds it to his rounds just to be complete.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* ''[[The Spiderwick Chronicles]]'' book four: Jared confronts a faerie by pulling out a steel knife. His reasoning was that faeries don't like iron, and steel is at least part iron. It worked.

* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'':

** Charity and her nail gun

** As long as they have iron, ordinary bullets do extra damage against the fae as well - even if your opponent is the size of a semi.

** And without that, a sufficiently strong Exalt is quite capable of defeating a Raksha in single combat.

*** And given that this is ''Exalted'' we're talking about, "sufficiently strong" means "a combat capable character at character generation". And a combat ''focused'' character would just wipe the floor with them.

* In [[Dungeons and Dragons]], fae and [[Chaotic Evil]] demons usually have some measure of damage resistance that applies to all attacks, except for those made with cold iron weapons.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* [[Superman]]: [[Kryptonite Factor|Kryptonite]] is [[Superman]]'s one true weakness (usually), so it's hardly surprising that it's been weaponized against him. The most spectacular being the occasionally mentioned K-Bomb, a Kryptonite tipped [[Nuke'Em|nuclear bomb]].

* In an interesting inversion, Bloodscream seems to be able to recover from attacks by Wolverine's adamantium claws. Guess what happens when he faces Wolverine without the adamantium.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Command & Conquer]]'': both Nod and GDI use specialized munitions. In Nod's case, they have a love for filling missiles with various breeds of [[Green Rocks|Tiberium]]-based explosives or gases, while GDI has developed sonic-based and EMP artillery shells and grenades.

* ''[[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier]]'': Though not particularly used against live targets, Haken's Night Fowl requires special bullets to destroy the Mild Keil crystals causing [[Broken Bridge]] antics and other chaos in-game. To ensure they're strong enough for the job, they're made from (or based on the composition of) fragments of the crystal type they're made to break.

* ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'': Task Force: VALKYRIE uses bullets treated with the power of SCIENCE! to turn them into super-high-energy rounds that can strike and harm incorporeal targets like ghosts.

 

== Silver ==

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* ''[[Blade]]'': at least the film and TV adaptations, uses silver-coated steel in his melee weapons (spikes and swords).

 

* ''[[Discworld]]'': In the undead bar of Ankh-Morpork, the bartender, Igor, has a weapon as follows:

{{quote|"Like many barmen, Igor kept a club under the bar to deal with those little upsets that occurred around closing time... Igor's weapon of choice was a little different. It was tipped with silver (for werewolves), hung with garlic (for vampires) and wrapped around with a strip of blanket (for bogeymen). For everyone else the fact that it was two feet of solid bog-oak usually sufficed."}}

* ''[[The Bartimaeus Trilogy]]'': All spirits from the weakest mite to the greatest marid can be severely hurt by silver, iron, and certain types of herbs and spices, such as rosemary. Magicians, commoners, and other spirits exploit this to no end. It gets to the point where powerful spirits are taken down by improvised use of everyday metals more often than they are by the devastatingly destructive spells these entities can employ.

* ''[[Elemental Masters|Reserved For The Cat]]'': the heroine carries a revolver loaded with two Cold Iron bullets, two Silver bullets, and two Blessed Lead bullets, plus extra ammo of all three types. It's anyone's guess which type offed the mystical [[Big Bad]] at the end of the novel.

* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'': the hunters have to improvise a variety of weapons to kill a variety of creatures. The hunter's arsenal makes use of most of the above, ''except'' [[Our Vampires Are Different|garlic]]. The most frequent example is their use of shotgun shells loaded with rock salt against ghosts. Ghosts cannot act on iron, and are killed when their remains are salted and burned. Bobby's saferoom is walled with Iron treated with rock salt. Holy weapons can be found with holy water, which cannot be crossed by demons, or holy ''oil'', which cannot be crossed by ''angels''. This has even been weaponized into a [[Supernatural (Anime)/Funny|molotov cocktail]]. Angels also can be killed by And when all else fails, there's a magical gun and knife that kill ''everything''. {{spoiler|[[Contractual Boss Immunity|Except when they don't]].}}

 

* ''[[City of Heroes]]'': this may be the only explanation for heroes with assault rifles being able to take anything down at all. Unfortunately this works the other way, too, as mooks and bosses of a high enough level can worry heroes protected by magical forces, power armour, and the like with [[Mundane Solution|ordinary guns]].

 

* ''[[Doom]]''Chex Quest [[Game Mod]]: Originally the flemoids/phlemoids (Whichever you prefer) were immune to conventional weapons. However, the "Zorcher" works by [[Reverse Polarity|remodulating the dimensional frequencies]] of the creatures, sending them back to whatever realm they came from. Therefore, [[Never Say "Die"|no killing]] the...green...slimy mucus things that want to eat the main character alive, and Ta-Da! It's kid-friendly!

* ''[[BioShock (series)]]'': has ammo for weapons ranging from (relatively) realistic things like armour piercing bullets to things like electric shotgun shells, exploding shotgun shells, a flamethrower that also fires liquid nitrogen and electric gel, and a crossbow with fire bolts and bolts that shoot wires. And then there's [[Lego Genetics|plasmids]]...

* ''[[Jagged Alliance]] 2'' v1.13: introduced AET (Advanced Energy Transfer) ammunition. They pierce armor, but behave like hollow-point rounds when they strike flesh. The developers suggest [[MST3K Mantra|not thinking too hard]] about how that works.

* ''[[Singularity]]'': is powered up with the time-warping abilities of "Element 99." Some of the weapons have special abilities because of this (like a sniper rifle that slows down time so you can shoot a moving target) but for most, it just makes their bullets hit harder.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

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