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{{quote|''"Industrial Grade Nano-Paste, Planet's most valuable commodity, can also be one of its most dangerous. Simply pour out several canisters, slide in a programming transponder, and step well away while the stuff cooks. In under an hour the nano will use available materials to assemble a small factory, a hovertank, or enough impact rifles to equip a regiment."''
|'''Col. Corazon Santiago - "Planet: A Survivalist's Guide"''', ''[[Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]''}}
In Latin, ''nanus'' means "dwarf". In science, the prefix ''nano-'' means "one billionth" of something. Nanotechnology is technology on a scale of 1-100 nanometers (1 nanometer being one billionth of a meter.)
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Nanites themselves will usually either be [[Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence|dumb as bricks]], or [[Hive Mind|networked into a fully sentient mass]]. Some works may invoke [[Mechanical Evolution]] to make the nanomachines smarter/better/deadlier.
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== Anime
* The Otome from ''[[Mai-Otome]]'' receive their powers via nanomachine injections; they self-destruct when the female body's [[Virgin Power|exposed to semen.]]
* The series ''[[Kiddy Grade]]'' bases a lot of technology on "Nano-mist"—a fog made up of trillions of nano-scale machines, which can achieve amazing effects—from keeping a 64 thousand kilometer long starship from collapsing under its own mass, to creating a barrier, to repairing damage, to [[terraform]]ing a planet. Also known as [[wikipedia:Utility fog|utility fog]].
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* ''[[The Authority]]'' - Authority member The Engineer replaced all of her blood with nanomachines. She can [[Green Lantern Ring|create nearly anything with these]], from [[Arm Cannon]]s to [[Me's a Crowd|duplicates of herself]]. This being ''[[The Authority]]'', many of the implications of these powers are investigated.
* During Grant Morrison's ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' run, Cassandra Nova attacked the team on a cellular level with nanosentinels.
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== Fan Works ==
* The last gasp of the remaining members of the American bloc of the Collective in ''[[The Secret Return of Alex Mack]]'' is an attempt at a nanobot-based plague which goes [[Grey Goo|"worst case"]].
* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[The Arithmancer]]'', Hermione Granger creates a magical nanite weapon that she calls [[Narnia|"The Deplorable Word"]], and which she uses to defeat Bellatrix Lestrange at the climax of the story.
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* In the remake of ''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' nano-insects ([[Grey Goo|grey-goo]] style) {{spoiler|[[Kill All Humans]]}}.
* ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' was the first time the Borg were shown using nanotech as an assimilation tool (see below under Live Action TV).
* The [[MacGuffin]] in ''[[Ballistic
* ''[[Transformers Film Series]]'' - According to [[All There in the Manual|The Official Movie Guide]], Protoforms are made up of densely packed nanomachines. This is the semi-official [[Hand Wave]] for any transformation "cheats" in the films and where, for example, the rubber for Optimus' tires comes from.
* ''[[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra]]'' features the nanites, originally created for medical intents and later weaponized (sometimes ''with medical intents'', for creating [[Super Soldier]] [[Elite Mooks]] who had a minor [[Healing Factor]] and [[Brainwashed and Crazy|parts of their brains destroyed to become fearless]]). And seems like [http://gijoe.wikia.com/wiki/Nanomites they already existed] in a [[G.I. Joe]] comic.
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