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If your hero finds a long-lost ultimate artifact, there's a chance that there's somebody else around that will claim that that thing is obviously a weapon. This guy will usually be militarily
▲If your hero finds a long-lost ultimate artifact, there's a chance that there's somebody else around that will claim that that thing is obviously a weapon. This guy will usually be militarily minded and often, not very bright. Despite the name, the unknown thing could also obviously be anything else. Greedy people will assume "treasure worth millions", while somebody who's tech savvy might assume "ultimate decryption code" or something similar.
Whichever form it takes, there are two main components:
# The person making the claim had almost zero actual information about the object in question; and
# The person claims to "know" what said thing
Of course, sometimes ancient artifacts do, indeed, turn out to be weapons.
Compare [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Outlaw Star]]'', Aisha Clanclan assumes that the Galactic Leyline has to be made out of Dragonite, or otherwise affiliated with the substance.
* Jinnai from ''[[El
* ''[[Great Teacher Onizuka]]'' goes on a treasure hunt and finds what is obviously an ancient treasure worth millions. Unfortunately, this one WAS a weapon (a bomb).
== [[Literature]] ==
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* ''[[Stargate]]'' was considered to be an ancient weapon at some point. ''[[Stargate: Continuum]]'' adds some [[Fridge Brilliance]] to it: It made hole in ship's hull.
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' has the crew racing some Klingons and Cardassians for what's believed (by the Klingons at least) to be an unstoppable superweapon hidden in the genetic material of various worlds. {{spoiler|To the last two groups' disgust it turns out to be a message explaining that every sapient being in the universe comes from the same common ancestor. Especially Klingons and Cardassians.}}
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Spelljammer|The Legend of Spelljammer]]'' boxed set, "Legends and More" booklet:
{{quote|The Spelljammer? It's a weapon. Something that large, that fast, that powerful? Of course, it's a weapon. What else could it be?|Testimony of H'Carth, the Mad Beholder of Greyhawk}}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has an alien beacon which "probably" contains instructions for building a weapon.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Art and Pip in ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' grabbed the most powerful ray guns of Denizens... or at least what they expected to be these.
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[[Category:Stupidity Tropes]]
[[Category:Military and Warfare Tropes]]
[[Category:Weapons and Wielding Tropes]]
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