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* [[Iron Man]]'s [[Arch Enemy]] the Mandarin has ''ten'' rings of power. These rings were found on a crashed spaceship of Makluan origin.
* DC's latest [[Blue Beetle]] is made of this...
* ''[[Scarlet Traces]]'', a trilogy beginning with [[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]] and expanding into an [[Alternate History]] in which Britain is an alien-fuelled superpower, is chock full of reverse-engineered alien technology.
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* Most research options in ''[[X-COM]]: UFO Defense'' are opened up by acquiring artifacts from or interrogating aliens. If you want to build some of these artifacts yourself, you need to consume the phlebotinum.
** To be specific, Elerium 115 is the fuel of the alien spaceships, it is used in pretty much ALL high-tech manufacture you can carry out at your base, and there is ''no way to acquire it'' except as salvage from downed enemy vessels.
** Also, the [[UFO:
* The widely panned game ''[[Predator]]: Concrete Jungle'' is set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] on an Earth technologically advanced by the study of accidentally-leftover Predator equipment.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'': The Mass relays, the Citadel itself {{spoiler|and the Keepers}} having been created by the [[Precursors|Protheans]] pose as a type of Imported Alien Phlebotinum, since it was left there for the previous races so that they could better understand element zero. {{spoiler|In truth, all were created by the Reapers in order to harvest the galactic civilization of organics for their own silly machine ideals by predetermining the path of evolution and exploration.}}
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