Pure Energy: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|'''Senior Officer:''' The weird thing is, the bodies show traces of...pure energy.

'''Detective Randall:''' Energy? Like, electric, solar, or what?

'''Detective Randall:''' [[Dull Surprise|...Odd.]]

|"[[The Lazer Collection]] 3" by Dom Fera}}

* [[Hard Light]], when it's just "we [[Tim Taylor Technology|turned up the power so high]] that it became solid" as in ''Automan'', is a solid projection made of '''Pure Energy'''.

* [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] are, by and large, simply conventional pistols that fire bullets made of '''Pure Energy''', rather than being lasers or something similarly hard to dodge.

* [[Power Source]] to most advanced or magical machinery.

* Frequently a source of [[Non-Elemental]] damage.

 

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== [[Advertising]] ==

* One of the brands of Leggs® panty hose was called "Sheer Energy".

 

* The "Pure Energy items are indestructible" thing shows up all the time in the [[Marvel Universe]].

 

== [[Literature]] ==

 

* ''[[Star Trek]]'', the original series at least, might as well be the trope namer. The number of times Spock says "Pure Energy" over the course of the series is only rivaled by the number of times he says "[[Planet of Hats|Near Earth parallel]], captain."

 

** Meanwhile, in third edition at least, magic missile spells are made of force, which is basically the same thing as 'pure energy'. Other force effects include the Bigby's line of spells, and a dragon that BREATHES force energy.

* Warp Energy in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''. Technically it's ''psychic'' energy, composed of the thoughts and emotions of every sapient being, but in practice it is treated as this trope.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' has the [[Boss Battle|boss]] Atma/Ultima Weapon, which before the battle [[Badass Boast|boasts]] of being "pure energy, and [[Time Abyss|ancient as the cosmos]]." It is ''[[That One Boss|no]]'' [[Disc One Final Boss|pushover]].

** Which is why beating it by {{spoiler|draining all of its MP}} makes sense - without MP, it's as good as non-existent.

 

 

* This is a pretty common power type in the ‘’[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]’’. Victory, Evengella, Argent, both Quantums (one an American superhero with [[Physical God|vast and near-limitless power]], the other a Spanish hero with not quite as much power), Silverwing, and the Chaos Lord all use the “cosmic energy” rational, and some use the “energy can’t be destroyed” assumption as well.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''[[Transformers]]'', Energon, so near as we can tell, is Pure Energy which has been poured into a box for easy storage.

** The late G1 episode, "Call of the Primitives", featured a monster named Tornedron who was described as being made of "pure energy", thereby allowing him to assume many (apparently solid) forms and making him superior to Unicron, a being of matter... ''riiiight''.

** Other incarnations, like ''[[Beast Wars]]'', made Energon into a form of [[Green Rocks]] that generate a lot of power and have all sorts of funky effects.

** G1 Energon is weird. Any source of fuel can be poured into a cube made of... white outlines... and once inside, it promptly turns into glowy stuff that robots can ''drink'' or use to fuel stuff. All the other series (including ''[[Beast Wars]]'', which actually follows G1) treat it as a natural resource that can be mined. [[Made of Explodium|It still blows up if you rub it the wrong way]], though. Interestingly, most if not all weapons made of Pure Energy in ''Transformers'' are called "energon weapons". They seem to be quite solid. In ''[[Transformers Animated]]'', the shiny parts of a weapon that's mostly made of shiny can ''hold the solid parts in place.'' It's... pretty safe to say that it all runs on [[Rule of Cool]].

* Dexter of ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'' once tried to produce pure energy in his laboratory. In the few moments before his machine crashed, it was depicted as a giant glowing atom (you get a better view of it in [[Cloudcuckoolander|his grandfather's]] [[The Cuckoolander Was Right|Rube Goldberg machine]]).

* Megabyte in ''[[ReBoot]]'' once extracted all the energy in Mainframe's core and converted it into a liquid state which was stored in a "transformer". But since this pure energy was unnatural it caused problems when the User loaded a game, including forcing the game to land on the Principal office, corrupting the game and turning Megabyte into a Megatruck.

 

{{reflist}}

[[Category:Artistic License Physics]]

[[Category:Elemental Powers]]

[[Category:Stock Super Powers]]

[[Category:Magic and Powers]]

[[Category:Power Source]]