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== Giant Craft ==
* ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'' once had a 40 meter tall ''[[Humongous Mecha]]'', in which the fact that a mecha of it's size normally shouldn't be able to support its own weight was a major plot point. The only reason it even manages to stand up is due to it being supported by a Reinforce field. Sure enough, when it was damaged, the entire thing collapses on itself.
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== Miscellaneous ==
* The almighty [[Peter F. Hamilton]] has, in his ''[[The Night's Dawn Trilogy]]'',
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has lots of shields and force fields. On ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'', we even get to watch these get invented. Later ships have a "structural integrity" system, to or from which one can divert power. The abundance of [[Tim Taylor Technology]] coupled with the availability of force fields has led some to theorize that, in fact, ''all'' Federation technology is held together by tiny force fields.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20120619090030/http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00015.html Mentioned] in the ''Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger'' [[Take That]] aimed at Star Trek, among many other aspects of the Federation that get the treatment.
** The Structural Integrity Field [TM] first received that name on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''. Presumably, the "polarized hull plating" of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' was the forerunner to TNG's structural integrity field.
* In ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' magic items are more resilient than their mundane prototypes, and all artifacts are almost indestructible (much like [[The Lord of the Rings|the One Ring]]). There were even enchantments specifically making important things much less fragile.
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* In ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'''s "Scars of Mirrodin" expansion, the flavor text for Tumble Magnet suggests and inverts this trope: "Magnetic devices that keep massive golems and structures standing can also be used for the opposite purpose."
** Earlier in Mirrodin there is the Darksteel, magical metal that is plain Indestructible. Things made of Darksteel has eerie light balls orbiting them, be they weapons, golems, or metal fortresses.
* Strongly implied to be part and parcel of Handwavium-based spacecraft in ''[[Fenspace]]'', because they can accelerate to a significant fraction of lightspeed in moments (and decelerate just as quickly) without tearing themselves apart.
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