Laser Guided Tykebomb: Difference between revisions

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'''Iczer-2:''' Your death. I was created for one purpose alone - ''kill Iczer-1''. Ready to die?|''[[Iczer]]-1''}}

 

 

 

Another scenario has a character feeling a [[Face Heel Turn]] coming on, so they need someone to kill ''them'' as a kind of [[Suicide by Cop]], except no "Cop" is strong enough so they have to make their own.

 

Subtrope of [[Tyke Bomb]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

** In the second season of the anime, Nova is one of these, aimed at Hikaru.

** To be specific, exorcism rites and binding spells don't work on hybrids, so you have to deal with something that's as strong as a demon, actively violent and can't be slowed by magic or taken down from a distance easily. Also, Arcueid with regards to the fallen True Ancestors. They're True Ancestors who aren't bothering to suppress their blood lust anymore and are therefore too powerful to be killed normally. Well, they were.

* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' all the androids were made and somehow designed to kill Goku in order to avenge the Red Ribbon army. They choose otherwise, anyway.

*** Being purely robotic (17 and 18 are Cyborgs, made by upgrading a pair of human siblings), 16 was unable to overcome his core programming. However, he absolutely refused to engage in any violence against anyone or anything ''other'' than his designated target {{spoiler|until the threat of Cell presented itself}}.

** Goku himself is an example. The Saiyans sent their infants out to conquer less powerful planets. [[Dumb Is Good|Goku just took a knock on the head when he was young and lost his Saiyan hostility]].

* Near and Mello from ''[[Death Note]]'' fall under the "created to destroy specific villains" subtrope. They were raised to compete with each other constantly and serve as L's successor, but [[Genghis Gambit|ultimately forced to work together to bring down Light]], all according to L's contingency plan.

* Schrodinger from ''[[Hellsing]]'', {{spoiler|who was created for the sole purpose of poisoning Alucard.}}

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* The Scorpion and the Spider-Slayer robots in the animated ''[[Spider-Man]]'' series as well as the comics.

* The [[Marvel Universe]] has the Sentinels, a series of robots built for the sole purpose of hunting mutants.

* Marvel also has Drax the Destroyer, created for the sole purpose of killing [[Omnicidal Maniac|Thanos]]. {{spoiler|He succeeds. Thanos doesn't seem to mind.}}

* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage|original incarnation]] of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] were originally the "good guys" version of this trope: Splinter had trained them from birth (or rather, from the moment they had been mutated) in order to kill the Shredder.

* A very unusual kind of LGT was used in ''Jabba the Hutt: The Art of the Deal''. The first issue had the Hutt travel to a meeting with another crime lord, Gaar Suppoon, to trade valuable resources. After a small ceremony in honor of Jabba, the negotiations started off with Suppoon insulting the Hutt for deigning to threaten him with a bomb. Just in case the threat had been real, he had the Empire send one of their best explosives experts, Kosh Kurp, to search the place, and he turned up nothing. The bartering then began in earnest, with each gangster double-crossing and cheating the other, until Suppoon, having been outmaneuvered by Jabba, lost his temper and attempted to have the Hutt killed. Jabba warned him that if he did not regain his temper, he would detonate his bomb. Suppoon, unimpressed, told Jabba to do so, at which point the Hutt called him "Sonopo Bomoor". After a [[Beat Panel|beat]], Kosh Kurp turned to Suppoon and asked if he really was ''the'' Sonopo Bomoor, the one who [[Doomed Hometown|razed the city of Bonaka Nueno on Intuci]], [[You Killed My Father|and encouraged his blood crazed minions to slaughter Kurp's family]] [[Forced to Watch|as he, a mere child, watched]]. [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|The whole situation does not end well for Suppoon.]]

 

== [[Film]] ==

* [[Zoolander]] is [[Brainwashed]] so that he'd become a ruthless killing machine and assassinate the prime minister of Malaysia upon [[Musical Trigger|hearing the song]] "Relax".

* The title character of [[Hanna]] fits the trope to a tee.

* In [[The Lion King]] 2, Zira raised Kovu to be this. It didn't exactly work out for her.

* [[Alternate Character Interpretation|Arguably]], the [[Star Wars|Skywalker twins]] were set up as a pair of these to take down [[The Empire]] and the pair of Sith in charge, with Obi-Wan and Yoda using a combination of [[Jedi Truth]] and [[Batman Gambit|BatmanGambits]] to set Luke against his father, even dismissing the notion of trying to redeem Vader / Anakin.

* Hit Girl of [[Kick-Ass]] has been trained by her (also badass) father to take down mob boss Frank D'Amico.

* In the 2009 [[X Men Origins: Wolverine|Wolverine]] feature film, {{spoiler|mutant Wade Wilson is [[Body Horror|transformed]] into Weapon XI (AKA The Deadpool) when [[Big Bad|Colonel Stryker]] grafts various stolen mutant powers onto him: turning him into the ultimate "mutant killer".}}

** The protagonist Spartan-IIs like the Chief count too, as they were originally kidnapped and created to crush [[The War of Earthly Aggression|colonial rebellions]] through assasination. The fact they proved useful in fighting genocidal aliens is merely a lucky accident. It's hard to notice, [[Black and Grey Morality|given the setting]], but the UNSC as a whole is far from nice.

* In light of the seventh book, ''[[Harry Potter]]''. A combination of a [[Self-Fulfilling Prophecy]] no one saw coming and the [[Xanatos Roulette]] that took advantage of it.

* In ''[[The Princess 99]]'' the [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] group Birds of Prey purposely send their assasin to Edgewood Academy {{spoiler|in order to kill Princess Aurore, a.k.a. Prof. Colette, who is currently teaching there, in the most public manner possible}}

* In ''[[Darth Plagueis]]'', {{spoiler|the midichlorians of the galaxy}} created Anakin Skywalker {{spoiler|to bring about the downfall of Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious to punish them for the unethical experiments they performed on the midichlorians.}}

 

* Connor from ''[[Angel]]'', with the Oedipal complication of being raised to kill his biological father.

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has the good guys create a gynoid to destroy a planet. She is creepily fine with it.

* {{spoiler|Melody Pond}} in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', aimed at the Doctor.

 

 

== [[Myth and Legend]] ==

* [[Older Than Feudalism]]: The monster Typhon in Greek mythology, spawned by Gaia to take down Zeus. (Failed, of ''course''.)

** ''Zeus himself'' was a tykebomb raised by Gaia to overthrow his father Cronus. He succeeded -- [[Gone Horribly Right|all too well for Gaia's tastes.]]

* In Norse mythology, Váli is born to avenge Baldr, and he kills Höðr when he is one day old.

* Bass/Forte in ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''; also {{spoiler|Maverick Zero who is supposed to destroy ''[[Mega Man X]]''.}}

** Another example would be ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]]'s'' Cybeast Falzar, created for the purpose of destroying Cybeast Gregar. [[It Got Worse]]...

** In the sequel, {{spoiler|Eleanor, ''literally'' - you can use the Summon Eleanor plasmid to drop a Tykebomb on any unruly foes.}}

* {{spoiler|''The Player Character''}} in ''[[Jade Empire]]'' is the Laser-Guided Tykebomb against the [[Big Bad]]. Of course, you can blame [[The Man Behind the Man]] for that one...apparently good guys cannot create a LGT.

** But {{spoiler|the player}} is technically a laser-guided tykebomb against the [[Big Bad]]'s rival for power.

* The Novus from ''[[Universe At War]]: Earth Assault'' are an entire species of robots made for the purpose of destroying the Hierarchy, the alien conglomerate that destroyed their creators.

* {{spoiler|''Tidus''}} in ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' is the Laser-Guided Tykebomb against the [[Big Bad]] Sin. Of course, you can blame {{spoiler|''The Fayth''}} for that one...apparently good guys can create a LGT.

* Starkiller from [[The Force Unleashed]] is a sort of subversion. He was raised like a Laser Guided Tykebomb against the Emperor, {{spoiler|but was really raised with the purpose of being bait against anyone who might try and start a rebellion.}}

* Shade Tail / Grace from ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''. A rare case of LGT targetting the [[Big Bad]], though the creators of this genetical custom build were far from innocent themselves.

* Hitlerella, [http://nonadventures.com/2007/03/24/springtime-for-hitlerella/ crafted] by [[Those Wacky Nazis]] to take out the [[Silver Age]] ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella|Wonderella]]'', awakens in the modern age with her single-minded obsession intact, only to find that the [[Legacy Character|current]] Wonderella is a flighty party girl.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In the second season of ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|The Legion of Superheroes]]'', [[Superman]] X is a heroic version whose sole purpose is to defeat [[Big Bad|Imperiex]].

* The ''[[Young Justice (animation)|Young Justice]]'' cartoon incarnation of Superboy. He was created by Project Cadmus (under the orders of the Light) to either replace a missing Superman or take out a rogue one. The villains' tendency to call him "the weapon" suggests they were leaning towards the latter.

 

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