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* In the remake of ''[[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: Ecks vs. Sever|Ballistc: Ecks vs. Sever]]'' is nanotech used as an assassination weapon. Roger Ebert wrote in his review: "A miniaturized assassination robot small enough to slip through the bloodstream would cost how much? Millions? And it is delivered by dart? How is this for an idea: use a poison dart, and spend the surplus on school lunches."
* ''[[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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* In Ringo's ''[[Posleen War Series]]'', the Galactic economy is based primarily on control of nanomachines used to build material from the atomic level up. With the new threat introduced in ''The Eye of the Storm'', Mike O'Neal, Jr kicks this in the head, thanks to [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Darhel]] interference with the human forces supposedly defending against hostiles making them varying degrees of useless.
* Luckily the Samothrace operative in ''Drakon'' has a small Faber which can make whatever he wants, diamonds, components for Plasma rifles, anything small enough. The Draka he's chasing was caught in an accident so it doesn't have these luxuries, and it can think of better ways to commit suicide then use the enemy's weapons.
* [[Larry Niven]], aware that [[Tech Marches On]], [[Retcon|retconned]] his [[Known Space]] [[Verse]] by saying that Carlos Wu had invented a nanotech-based autodoc with ''astonishing'' capabilities: in "Procrustes", the story where it was introduced, Beowulf Shaeffer was able to {{spoiler|have his entire body regenerated from just his severed head}}, and when it reappeared in ''The [[
* Used in various ways in the ''[[Honor Harrington|Honorverse]]'', both for good and evil, but rarely explored in detail except [[McGuffin|one specific case]].
* ''Quickies'' (or "shustrs" in original Polish text) are the mainstay of Lusanian society in [[Stanislaw Lem]]'s ''Observation on the Spot''. They do ''everything'', from providing energy and material wealth to enforcing laws of ethics as laws of physics. In Lusania [[Ape Shall Never Kill Ape|"man" doesn't kill a "man"]] -- the environment ''won't let him''. They could even provide immortality, but those who tried it generally found that [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|it doesn't worth the effort]].
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== Web Original ==
* Nanotech is a big part of everyday life in ''[[
* Diamond, a [[Powered Armor]] heroine from the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' uses as a means of situational adaptiveness. Her armor (which is thinly plated diamond over a liquid layer of nanites) can be redesigned and rebuilt in seconds, depending on the precise function she needs from the armor.
* In the ''[[League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions]]'' the heroes fought an AI that used nanites & a minor villain from the future had nanonanotechnology, amongst other uses.
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