Self-Destructing Security: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'': Light goes to great lengths to protect the Death Note. Not only is it hidden in his locked bedroom in a secret panel of his desk drawer, but opening the panel without first deactivating the failsafe will incinerate the notebook before it can be found. After all, if someone else takes it he's unlikely to get it back, and it links him to hundreds of murders.

* The Holy Grail in ''[[Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade (Film)|Indiana Jones and Thethe Last Crusade]]'' is protected by many layers of secrets, guards and traps. The final resort, however, is that the Grail can never pass beyond "The Great Seal". Doing so results in the entire place self destructing and the Grail being lost forever.

* [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]]

** ''[[From Russia With Love (Film)|From Russia Withwith Love]]'': Bond's attache case has numerous built-in gadgets including a magnetically attached tear-gas canister stored inside. Opening the case without first rotating the clasps triggers the grenade and gives any would-be-snoop a face full of the gas. {{spoiler|This turns out to be just the edge Bond needs when held at gunpoint by Red Gran, whose greed Bond uses to trick him into opening the case.}}

** ''[[Goldfinger (Film)|Goldfinger]]'': As a shout out, it's implied that Bond's case still has similar defensive measures in the following film, even though they're never explicitly mentioned. After being captured, he talks to one of Goldfinger's henchwomen on the plane.

** ''[[For Your Eyes Only (Filmfilm)|For Your Eyes Only]]'': Bond's car has an anti-theft measure which blows it up if it's broken into. Considering all the high tech gear in every car Bond drives, it's probably more to protect those things than the car itself.

* In ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'', the ancient Luxan ship is equipped with a self-destructing security mechanism powerful enough to blow up the ship it's parked in. Thankfully, it also loops through a vocal message explaining how to defuse it: It requires {{spoiler|any one of three keys only a Luxan is supposed to have}}.

* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Animated Series]]'' episode "The Slaver Weapon". The title device had an [[AI]] computer programmed to make sure its user was a Slaver authorized to operate it. When the Kzinti that found it asked ignorant questions of it, it assumed that it had captured by its master's enemies and tricked them into activating a self-destruct setting which destroyed it...and them.