Wave Motion Tuning Fork: Difference between revisions

** ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' gives us a private military version of the SDF called the Macross Quarter. About 1/4 the size of Battle Frontier, she carries a Heavy Quantum Cannon. This tri-prong, splitting weapon of mass destruction is new in the pantheon of Macross wonder weapons that, though not as powerful as Battle Frontier's [[Wave Motion Gun]], it still has enough power to take out a Vajra battle ship half, even a little more it's own size. The beams cycle down the the "rail-gun" structure and seem to "twist" into a single beam when fired.

** Also in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'', we have one of the most advanced VF, the VF-27 Lucifer, with a smaller version of the Heavy Quantum Cannon. The gun splits into a dual-prong energy "rail-gun" that takes a cue from its bigger brother armed on the Quarter. While not as obviously powerful, it can take out a medium sized Vajra with one shot.

**** The Quantam Cannons used in Frontier deviate from the original trope. Inside of firing a beam from between the prongs, each prong fires its own beam which then converges together into a spiraling beam.

* In ''[[Fafner in The Azure Dead Aggressor (Anime)|Fafner in the Azure: Dead Agressor]]'' and its [[Prequel|prequel movie]], a number of the energy weapons exhibit this feature, being swords that split down the middle to fire energy blasts. The practical purpose of this feature is shown by the separating halves of the blade creating a hole in an enemy's force field through which a shot can be fired.

* [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha|Raising Heart]] does this. The explanation is [[A Wizard Did It|simple]].

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