This Trope is Obviously a Weapon: Difference between revisions

If your hero finds a long long 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.

 

 

Of course, sometimes ancient artifacts do, indeed, turn out to be weapons.

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* 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 Hazard]]'' assumes that pretty much ''anything'' mysterious is a weapon. Eye of God? Weapon. Ancient demon? Weapon. That fancy stick over there? Ultimate weapon. The problem is that most of the time, he's right.

* ''[[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).

* ''[[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.}}

* ''[[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}}

* 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.