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*** Not only that, the "miniature sun" of inertial confinement would resemble a miniature sun the way an exploding stick of dynamite resembles a burning candle. In other words, [[Dissimile|there is no resemblance.]]
* Parodied in the fifties B-movie homage ''[[The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra]]'' with Atmospherium, a super-powerful and poorly-defined element capable of operating spacecraft, resurrecting evil skeletons, and delivering actual advances in the field of science.
* Quantonium in ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]''. The [[Big Bad]] needs it to power his cloning machine so he can execute the [[Alien Invasion]]. The only known supply is absorbed into the body of Susan Murphy, who then suffers from some [[Attack of the 50
* Fluid Karma in ''[[Southland Tales]]''. A compound found by drilling in the ocean that apparently can be used to generate electric power. Also, acts as a drug working somewhat like a [[Green Rock]].
* ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' has red matter, which can make black holes on cue.
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** That's only two of the many examples, the series frequently introducing new and exotic materials, practically whenever a new alien species is encountered. The wiki for the series alone consists of at least 150 entries for exotic materials and is by no means complete.
* [[Mithril]] in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', an incredibly strong and silvery metal mined by dwarves.
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[
** ''Scrith'', the material used to make the titular megastructure. It is nearly frictionless, blocks almost all radiation (which would take about a light-year thickness of lead) and has a tensile strength on the same order of magnitude as the strong nuclear force.
** The unnamed substance the Puppeteers make General Products hulls out of. They're actually massive molecules big enough to live in.
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** As the title quote notes, bad guys make Element Zero into a drug called "Red Sand." It's like cocaine, but it gives you limited biotic powers. [[Drugs Are Bad|Oh, and it's highly addictive, and addicts who can't pay for their habit are sometimes sold into slavery.]]
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series is also known to have various forms of Unobtainium, such as orichalcum or adamantite. In fact, every RPG ever made by Square Enix has something like that, often in the same relation as the Kingdom Hearts example.
** ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics
* The ''[[Crusader: No Remorse|Crusader]]'' games had two.
** Di-corellium, a mineral that is apparently better for use in nuclear reactors than plutonium--to the point that it almost became a metaphor for petroleum, and at the very least for energy crises in general, what with the increasing scarcity of it and power shortages on Earth because of it--and of which vast quantities, about half of all known reserves, are on the moon.
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