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{{quote|'''Dr. Sign''': Lynn, what is the one and only way to prevent being killed by the explosion of a nuclear weapon?<br />▼
'''Lynn''': I dunno, don't be there when it goes off?<br />▼
'''Dr. Sign''': Actually, that's exactly right.|Dr. Hugo Sign in [[Paul Robinson]]'s ''The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts''}}▼
▲{{quote|'''Dr. Sign''': Lynn, what is the one and only way to prevent being killed by the explosion of a nuclear weapon?
'''Dr. Sign''': Actually, that's exactly right.
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A specific type of [[MacGuffin]]. It is a thing that is just really, really ''bad'' for children and other small, living things. It may destroy entire cities or countries with the press of a button, it may just wipe out all electronics or something. Either way, expect massive amounts of damage if it's ever used, hence why it's rarely done.
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In [[Anime]], this is subject to the [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]], and will invariably be something that ''isn't'' a garden-variety present-day nuclear weapon. Many [[Speculative Fiction Series]] similarly use [[Applied Phlebotinum]] in place of real weapons of mass destruction available today.
See also [[Artifact of Doom]], [[Forgotten Superweapon]] and [[Wave Motion Gun]]. [[Person of Mass Destruction]] is when this is applied to a character. If it only destroys certain things, it's a [[Phlebotinum Bomb]]. If it's built into a famous real-world location, then it's a [[Weaponized Landmark]]. In a fantasy setting, expect a [[Fantastic Nuke]]. If a measurement or value is given to its power, expect it to use [[Hiroshima
For more on a type we can't discuss, see [[Atomic Hate]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
== Anime ==▼
* "N2 mines" in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.
* "Vegatron bombs" in ''[[
* [[Axis Powers Hetalia|Sweden's]] Surströmming.
* The various ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' series bring us "[[Colony Drop
** Bonus points to the [[Zeta Gundam|Psycho Gundam]] and [[Gundam Seed Destiny|Destroy Gundam]] which are essentially mobile, 400 tonne tactical nukes, capable of killing entire cities and armies using only their raw fire power. Both of course, are also quite vulnerable to attack by single enemy craft.
* The "Book of Eternal Darkness" in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
** Reinforce and Agito in ''[[
* The ''Ohmu'' and the God-Warrior's [[Wave Motion Gun|mouth laser]] in ''[[Nausicaa of the Valley of
* The "Dimension Eater" in ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' is a car-sized device that generates a ''planet''-sized [[Negative Space Wedgie]] that [[Sphere of Destruction|eats anything in its path]].
* Don't forget the FLEIJA warheads from ''[[Code Geass]] R2''.
** Developed by one Nina [[Named After Somebody Famous|Einstein]] no less.
* ''[[
* Pain from ''Naruto'' was planning to {{spoiler|use the tailed beasts the Akatsuki were sealing away to create this.}}
* ''[[One Piece]]'' has three of them: Pluton, Uranus and Poseidon.
** Pluton is a huge warship, said to be capable of destroying whole islands. It is hidden away somewhere, and Robin is the only person left who has the ability to awaken it. Its blueprints still exist, and even though they are meant to counteract the original Pluton, they can also be used to revive it without the Poneglyphs. {{spoiler|Its blueprints were in Franky's possession, but when he found out that Robin had no intention of awakening the weapon, he burned them, so as to prevent Spandam from reviving the weapon.}}
** Poseidon {{spoiler|is actually not a weapon in the traditional sense, but an ability. Poseidon was the name of a Mermaid Princess who lived during the Void Century, and had the power to control huge creatures known as Sea Kings. This ability came to be feared as a weapon, and all of Poseidon's descendants who had the same ability also inherited her name as a title. The current form of Poseidon is princess Shirahoshi.}}
** Uranus is the third and last Ancient Weapon. So far, the only thing we know about it is its name.
* ''[[Inuyasha]]'': [[More Than Infinite|Bakusaiga]], Sesshoumaru's true sword. When it's revealed that Bakusaiga not only destroys what it's directly cut, but the blow then [[The Virus|automatically]] [[Chain
* Just as a warm-up, The Genesis Device of ''[[Star Trek II:
* And the trope is done to death in ''[[Star Wars]]''. First, both "[[That's No Moon|Death Stars]]" were capable of [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blowing up planets]]. The Marvel Star Wars comics, which began publishing shortly after the first movie, also featured the Empire coming up with new superweapons and predictably the rebellion discovering their existence and destroying them. Of particular note is the Tarkin, which was originally meant to be another Death Star, but Lucas forbade Marvel from using that since he was going to use the ''exact same thing'' in Return of the Jedi. And during the early '90s, many ''Star Wars'' [[Expanded Universe]] writers would use the "[[The Empire]] is building a new superweapon" plot gimmick so often that things quickly got out of hand (the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|EU]]
▲* Just as a warm-up, The Genesis Device of ''[[Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan (Film)|Star Trek II the Wrath of Khan]]'' is capable of almost instantly [[Terraform|terraforming]] an entire planet. But if it used on a life-bearing planet, it would, as Spock points out, "Destroy that life in favor of its matrix." The fact that the Genesis Planet, created by using the Device on a nebula, eventually catastrophically exploded doesn't help, either.
▲* And the trope is done to death in ''[[Star Wars]]''. First, both "[[That's No Moon|Death Stars]]" were capable of [[Earthshattering Kaboom|blowing up planets]]. The Marvel Star Wars comics, which began publishing shortly after the first movie, also featured the Empire coming up with new superweapons and predictably the rebellion discovering their existence and destroying them. Of particular note is the Tarkin, which was originally meant to be another Death Star, but Lucas forbade Marvel from using that since he was going to use the ''exact same thing'' in Return of the Jedi. And during the early '90s, many ''Star Wars'' [[Expanded Universe]] writers would use the "[[The Empire]] is building a new superweapon" plot gimmick so often that things quickly got out of hand (the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|EU]] -- no, not ''[[European Union|that]]'' one -- was often referred to as the "Superweapon of the Month Club" during this time). The [[Jedi Academy Trilogy|Sun Crusher and the Prototype Death Star]], the Eye of Palpatine, the Darksaber, [[Dark Empire|World Devastators and the Galaxy Gun]]... Kevin J. Anderson was the worst with this; every single adult ''Star Wars'' novel he wrote used one. Since Lucasfilm switched publishers to Del Ray, these ''mostly'' vanished (it was hilariously lampshaded by Han Solo in one ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' novel). Whether the overall quality of EU works has improved or not is a matter of some debate, but you will be hard-pressed to find a fan reminiscing about books like ''Darksaber'' (which featured a superweapon that didn't even work to begin with), though some found it somewhat funny; Most hated that Wedge was commanding a capital ship (ok, a frigate) rather than flying a fighter, though, it almost read like a deconstruction of the premise, with the whole superweapon just a huge Shaggy Dog Story that costs the life of a movie character without accomplishing anything.
** [[Timothy Zahn]], who kickstarted the Bantam era of novels with [[The Thrawn Trilogy]] and concluded it with the massive [[Fix Fic]] [[Hand of Thrawn]] duology, had a quiet [[Take That]] when Mara Jade talked about how superweapons weren't Thrawn's style. He went for [[Xanatos Gambit|more effective means of conquest]].
*** And in in ' "[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Destiny%27s_Way Destiny's Way]", Walter Jon Williams basically had the most awesome man in the galaxy rant that [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Superweapon superweapon] s are lame, and those that attempt to build them are beyond lame.
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** In the [[Knights of the Old Republic]] comic, the Mandalorians {{spoiler|devastate a planet with good old-fashioned nuclear
** And the trend continues in ''[[The Force Awakens]]'' with Starkiller base, which can simultaneously destroy several planets while hiding ''in a different system.''
== [[Literature]] ==
* Speaking of planet-crackers, no one can beat for exuberance the science-fiction writer [[
** In his ''[[Lensman]]'' series, he went from massed fleets to a massive planet-sized sphere of antimatter to a literal "planet-cracker"
** The ''very first sentence'' of the ''[[Lensman]]'' series shows two galaxies colliding. (Though it turns out, one of them is ''ours'', and [[Science Marches On|that's where all the planets came from]].)
** Amazingly, ''Lensman'' is perhaps the ''least'' cosmically destructive series of novels he's ever written. The final book of the ''[[Skylark Series]]'' series had explosions on a pan-galactic scale.
* In the ''[[
* Done realistically in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress]]'', where the weapon involved has infinite (or close enough to it) ammo, causes mass destruction (or would, if targeted the right way), and is not stoppable by any conventional means
** Despite that, people on Earth didn't believe that the Lunar folks would do it. They went camping at the coordinates of the demonstration sites that the Lunars provided. Darwin awards all around?
* In [[Larry Niven]]'s ''[[
* ''The [[Obernewtyn Chronicles]]'' has the [[Exactly What It Says
* The Molecular Disruptor, or "Little Doctor," in [[Orson Scott Card]]'s ''[[Ender's Game]]''. The MD releases a burst of energy that tears matter apart at the molecular level. At the same time, this process releases more of that same kind of energy, meaning that once it hits an object, that thing is utterly destroyed as the energy propagates throughout it. In deep space, it's relatively safe to use, as the energy dissipates over much of any distance, meaning it's unlikely to destroy more than one ship unless they're tightly packed together. Used on {{spoiler|a planet}}, however...
* The planetoids from ''[[Empire From the Ashes]]'' by [[David Weber]] are armed with missiles that use warheads armed with everything from (super-powered) chemical explosives to gigaton-range antimatter devices. And they aren't even considered the real shipkillers, that honour falling to the gravitonic warhead, a micro-ish black hole generator. {{spoiler|Then, there is the gravitonic super-bomb, a weapon that kills everything within a light-second or so of its activation point and can cause a [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|supernova]] if activated close to a star. Oh yes, and one type of FTL drive can also nova a star if you're not careful.}}
* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'': At the state of technology in 1869, [[Cool Ship|the Nautilus]] is this: a submarine could easily destroy any ship in the sea without possibility of being persecuted when it submerges in the sea. Nemo’s [[Kick the Dog]] moment show how terrible its destructive power really is.
* HALO: In the book "First Strike", we have the NOVA Nuclear Cluster. Admiral Whitcomb described it as a "Planet Killer", and was originally to be used to even the odds against the Covenant in space battles.
* In ''[[The
* The Dakara Superweapon from ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', capable of disintegrating a lifeform of your choice by a giant wave that wraps around the planet. (The wave can be altered to target any lifeform while leaving others alone; for example, choosing between organic lifeforms and replicators.) In fact, it can even be used to delete life in the entire ''galaxy''.
▲== Live Action TV ==
**
** Carter used a gate to force [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun?|a star to go nova]], wiping out the entire star system.▼
▲** Carter used a gate to force [[Remember When You Blew Up a Sun|a star to go nova]], wiping out the entire star system.
** Then there's Project Arcturus, a failed Ancient Manhattan Project that uses the principles of a ZPM on a larger, less controlled scale to power a great big energy cannon. Throw in the fact that the power source itself is uncontrollable and ends up overloading. When McKay tries to get it working, he ends up blowing up most of a stellar system.
* ''[[
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* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'': The Cardassian-built, Maquis-captured/modified ATR-4107 'Dreadnought', a self-guided strategic missile armed with a 2000 kilo matter/antimatter charge (enough to destroy a small moon like Phobos or Deimos, or make a [[Apocalypse How|Class 1-2]] mess of a planetary surface) with its own defensive weaponry and a highly sophisticated computer system capable of adapting to any circumstance. Unfortunately, it was pulled into the Delta Quadrant along with ''Voyager'', and headed towards the first inhabited planet fitting its target profile... Then there's the long-range tactical armor unit the crew encounter in "Warhead", which is so intelligent it's not only programmed, it's also fed with propaganda on its ruthless and hostile "enemy". Plus, the Krenim temporal weapon-ship in "Year of Hell", which can erase a species from every having ''existed'', and nine Species 8472 bioships linking up to destroy an entire Borg planet in "Scorpion".
* Of course, in ''[[Andromeda]]'', the Nova Bomb takes the place of nuclear weapons today, since in ''Andromeda'' the ability to destroy an entire city is common to the point of being pedestrian. So, Nova Bombs, an antigravity device which removes the gravitational bonds keeping a sun together, so they take the place of the moral problems with nova bombs. There have been episodes where they tried to use it on the Worldship (but a godlike creature absorbed most of it and the worldship survived), a moral dilemma where a superior Admiral asks for use of a Nova Bomb without giving the reason why, a grave threat where a drift entirely of children wants to use Nova Bombs to destroy Nietzschian systems, and an episode where they have to sneak in and destroy a warlord's Voltarium factory (in other words, a uranium enrichment facility).
* ''[[Babylon
* ''[[
** "Silver Nemesis" had the Validium statue which was capable of wiping out entire Cybermen warfleets.
** "Remembrance Of The Daleks" had ''The hand Of Omega'' which could rewire stars, and was used to vaporise an entire solar system.
** Lampooned in the episode "''[[Doctor Who
** This trope is taken to its logical extreme by [[Mad Scientist|Davros]] in "''[[Doctor Who
* A somewhat tongue in cheek example, Gaius Baltar of ''[[Battlestar Galactica
== Religion / Mythology ==▼
* In [[Hindu Mythology]], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmastra Brahmastra] is essentially a nuclear bomb, a weapon that can destroy an entire army, can kill anything from Brahma's creation (ie anything) and causes massive environmental damage in a huge area. There's even a second version that's four-squared times as powerful, which never gets used; at one point, Arjuna and Ashwatthama attack each other using the four-square-as-powerful version. They're forced to retract their attacks, because if the weapons collided it would ''destroy the entire universe''.▼
▲* In [[Hindu Mythology]], the [
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In the ''[[Warhammer
** In fact, there are so many ways of utterly ruining a good planet in the 40K world, it's a wonder they've got any ''left''.
*** Because stray Orks can land on just about anything with a basic atmosphere and turn it into an Orky biosphere. Of course, they often do the same to existing biosphere, so their biosphere is a biological weapon, with individual Orks simply conscious servants of it.
* ''[[GURPS
** ''GURPS
* Blade
* The Sword of Creation (also known as the Realm Defense Grid) from ''[[Exalted]]''. Capable of targeted environmental destruction (using effects such as rains of iron needles or walls of fire) from a scale of anywhere between 10 square miles and all of Creation. Also enhances the spells of those using it, and can control the Warmanses of the Blessed Isle. Typically used to defend Creation from [[The Fair Folk|the Raksha]], although the Scarlet Empress was able to use it to establish one of the most powerful empires in history. When used by anyone other than a circle of Solar sorcerers, has severe geomantic side effects (i.e. causes natural disasters across Creation).
** On further development, it's been revealed that the Dirigible Engine Daystar (IE: the Sun) is in reality an autonomous God-Artifact that takes the form of a spherical airship sheathed in intense Solar fire. It was explicitly designed as a defensive Weapon of Mass Destruction, keeping Wyld Behemoths, Unshaped Fae, emergent Primordials, and other cosmic horrors outside Creation. One brash Solar wanted to fire the sun's primary weapon into Creation during the Primordial War, only to have the Unconquered Sun explain that he was utterly unwilling to reveal to the general populace that they were living under the barrel of a gun.
*** Also, the sun knows several varieties of kung fu, one of which was invented by a Kung Fu master explicitly for it.
* ''[[Dungeons
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* Being a
▲== Video Games ==
* Each race in ''[[
▲* Being a militar RTS [[Act of War]] has the obligatory Tactical Weapon for each faction, going from nuclear cruise missiles to Nuclear Artillery, however, in an interesting twist, the game also adds Counter-tactical Weapons, which can protect your base and forces pretty well.
** As a reference point, a single detonation of a Doomsday Device is canonically capable of extreme damage to a planet; that is, apocalyptic hellfire and brimstone on the targeted area, with a side effect of initiating the destruction of the planet's biosphere.
▲* Each race in ''[[Eve Online]]'' has its own flavor of Doomsday Device (the actual game term for the weapons class). When fired, they destroy pretty much any ship within 150 kilometers save for heavily armored battleships, which just barely survive.
▲** As a reference point, a single detonation of a Doomsday Device is canonically capable of extreme damage to a planet; that is, apocalyptic hellfire and brimstone on the targeted area, with a side effect of initiating the destruction of the planet's biosphere.
** The upcoming expansion pack "Dominion" is modifying the Doomsday Device of all four Titans: they are now going to be a focused-fire weapon. So as opposed to the area-of-effect destruction field, think [[Star Wars|Death Star superlaser]].
* The galactic federation of ''[[Mass Effect]]'' has an interesting definition for "weapon of mass destruction"
** One codex entry actually lists the various type of WMDs by tier. The most devastating tier is [[Colony Drop|asteroid bombardment]], since that doesn't just destroy a lot of stuff, but pretty much irrevocably destroys the world that it hits (not to mention being basically free). The least devastating tier is ecological alteration such that a dominant species loses dominance. The implication is that the civilized races are less worried about the overall damage inflicted, and more worried about the possibility of the (rare) habitable planets being made uninhabitable.
*** Not that surprising, given that the Council has signed off on the complete extermination of two intelligent species. The [[Encyclopedia Exposita]] doesn't say much about the ABCs - [[Nuke'Em|Atomic]], [[The Plague|Biological]] and [[Deadly Gas|Chemical]] weapons. And given that the Turians are biologically incapable of contacting diseases from any other species but the bubble-boy Quarians, it makes you wonder how much of their peacekeeping was like the genophage.
**** Put in perspective, when the Council ''authorizes'' an extinction, they must believe that race's existence will have consequences as bad or worse than upper tier WMD's.
* ''[[
* The Mako Cannon from ''[[
* "Vegnagun" from ''[[Final Fantasy X
* The Gigas in ''[[
* Along the veins of the Death Star, let's not forget ''[[Wing Commander (
** There was also the Temblor Bomb, designed with a similar use in mind. It seems having [[Mark Hamill]] play the lead meant they had to plagiarize ''[[Star Wars|A New Hope]]'' wholesale; at least they did it well.
** From the same game, the [[Mega Neko|Kilrathi]] had their own WMD, a particularly nasty bioweapon that rendered Locanda IV entirely uninhabitable for centuries.
** Secret Missions had you trying to destroy the Sivar, essentially a colony destroying Dreadnaught that the Kilrathi will use to enslave humanity.
** And in WC4, the GenSelect device, biological warfare [[Nanomachines]] that kill off up to 90 percent of the population of the targeted planet.
** And on the [[Wing Commander (
* Most of ''[[Unreal II:
* The Seeds of Resurrection in ''[[Drakengard]]''. The hierarch Verdelet seems to think they cause all of humanity, if worthy, to [[Ascend to
* The ''[[Ace Combat]]'' series uses pseudonuclear weapons a ''lot''. The weapons explode in massive fireballs, but are never explicitly said to be nuclear.
** ''Ace Combat 04'' features Stonehenge, a battery of hypervelocity cannons designed to destroy near-Earth asteroids. When fired near the Earth's surface as an area-effect antiaircraft weapon, the rounds from Stonehenge come streaking in horizontally and create large spherical blue-white fireballs, as if they were nuclear warheads set on a time delay fuse rather than solid projectiles. In one mission, you are called on to intercept and destroy a barrage of cruise missiles. The last (damnably evasive) cruise missile explodes in a massive fireball when you kill it. As it comes onto the map, the AWACS guiding you say "looks like a regular warhead, but keep your distance", which all but explicitly says that it's nuclear tipped.
** ''Ace Combat 5'' has "burst missiles" fired from very large submarines of the Yuktobanian Navy. These missiles function almost exactly like MIRV missiles from real life, coming down out of the sky, breaking into several independent warheads, and carpeting a large area with fireballs. There is no mushroom cloud, but the explosions behave more like a nuke than like any other real-world weapon. There is also a nuclear satellite explicitly equipped with a MIRV nuclear warhead.
** ''Ace Combat Zero'''s final boss is a fighter which has, among other weapons, missile that appear to be tipped with a small subcritical nuclear bomb
*** Also, during that game, the Belkans set off seven bombs on their territory that ''are'' explicitly nuclear, complete with mushroom clouds, to delay advancing enemy forces. This is only seen during [[Cutscene|cut scenes]]. This event is also mentioned in ''Ace Combat 5''.
** Strangereal doesn't seem to have nuclear proliferation; thus, when someone says the word "nuke," often after "Belkan," you know it's going to be even worse than the faux-nukes you've been dodging thus far, especially considering that if the Belkans ''dropped seven of them on themselves,'' who knows what ''else'' they'll do with them?
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* The Cannon Seed in ''[[Dolled-Up Installment|Galaxian³]]''.
* ''[[Total Annihilation]]'' ups the ante with the Galactic Implosion Device, a bomb used by the remnants of the Core in the expansion pack in an attempt to ''destroy the entire frickin' galaxy'' (except themselves) and then repopulate the reconstituted dead stars and planets.
* The eponymous [[Halo
* ''[[Command
** A major plot point of the third ''Tiberium'' game was the Liquid Tiberium Bomb, a Nod WMD that was all a part of Kane's [[Xanatos Roulette]].
*** As in Nod couldn't actually detonate it by themselves and needed {{spoiler|GDI to hit Temple Prime with the Ion Cannon to set it off and summon the Scrin.}}
** Don't forget the ''[[Red Alert]] 3'' ones: Proton Collider(shout out, anyone?) and the Sigma Harmonizer for the Allies, a nuclear-powered magnetic vacuum imploder for the Soviet Union, and a Black, schoolgirl-powered psionic [[Sphere of Destruction]] for The Empire of the Rising Sun.
*** Not to mention Generals' repeated use of the term, whether the GLA stealing American weapons of mass destruction or the USA trying to stop their use.
** The Tiberium games also point out GDI's hipocrisy, in that they outlawed all nuclear weapons soon after they developed the ion cannon.
* ''Nuclear Strike'' gives us Shiva's Dagger, a Soviet super nuke that if launched and detonated in the atmosphere would wipe out the human race. As well as a successful bid to set off a nuke in Pyonyang and blame South Korea.
* The Mana Cannon of ''[[
* The Wings of Light in ''[[
* The Forgotten Shrine of Zaude in ''[[
* The [[Kill Sat|Eclipse Cannon]] in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure 2]]'' (sure are a lot of cannons on this list).
* [[Mega Man X|Final Weapon]] and [[Mega Man Zero|Ragnarok]], although they also belong to [[Kill Sat|another trope]].
** {{spoiler|Zero, a ''hero'' himself}}, is a weapon of mass destruction. {{spoiler|Luckily, he doesn't want to be one...}}
* The Planet Buster missile of ''[[Sid
* ''[[Universe At War]]'' got [[Exactly What It Says
* Quite a few of these show up in mecha form in the [[Super Robot Wars]] games. Quite a few of them can vaporize whole galaxies while they are at it.
* Arguably, the Spire in ''[[Fable]] 2''. It's said that the Archon who commissioned its construction made a wish for the current world to be destroyed so that a new, purer one could take its place. The result: Seconds after a light bloomed in the Spire, a massive blast destroyed the Old Kingdom.
* ''[[Galactic Civilizations]] 2'' has the Terror Star, an obvious ''[[Shout
* The Stellar Converter in ''[[
** There are also bioweapons, but bombing with these makes everyone hate the user, and destruction of the population instead of invading a colony doesn't make much sense in the first place, unless one cannot invade even after bombing out the defenses or is too weak to stay on orbit until then and resorts to "scorched earth" strategy.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Minions At Work]]'': [http://www.minionsatwork.com/2006/05/minions-10-doomsday-machine.html A Doomsday Machine]
* ''[[SSDD]]'': The Tower of Babel was used by the Anarchists to destroy isolated Texan platoons and despite being a sky-scraper sized maser cannon couldn't really qualify as a
* In ''[[Chirault]]'', the mage's council accidentally created a working simulacrum of the world [[Reality-
== [[Web Original]] ==
* This has become a huge meme on [[YouTube]]. It started with the popular Downfall parodies, and more specifically, a series of videos in which Hitler uses his "Pencil of Doom" (literally a pencil that he can use to cause damage simply by ''throwing it against a table''). Since then, numerous other characters in and even outside Downfall have been given their own bizarre superweapons capable of doing just as great (if not worse) damage as the Pencil of Doom, all contained in everyday objects such as bottles, pistols, forks, ect. Considering that such weapons are in the possession of so many people ranging from ruthless dictators to generals to U-Boat sailors, it's a wonder they haven't completely destroyed their world.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Bionicle]]'', the Mask of Life (which is alive and sentient) is primarily intended to revive the Great Spirit Mata Nui, but it has a failsafe should the universe ever collapse into decay, plague, war, etc. Said failsafe is the absorption of all life in the universe, a la the ''[[Halo]]'' from the video games of the same name. However, while Halos have an activation sequence necessary, this does not. And there's only one needed, so it's arguable that it is even more powerful.
** [[Word of God]], though, says that ''Bionicle'''s "universe" usually equates to "known world"
** To be exact, the universe/known world is {{spoiler|[[Womb Level|everything inside Mata Nui's body]]. He's a roughly ''planet''-sized robot.}}
* Omega Supreme from ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' is an example thats actually been called a WMD multiple times by '''BOTH''' sides.
* Speaking of [[Transformers Generation 1|Transformers]], how much more mass-destruction can you get than Unicron, [[Planet Eater|WHO EATS PLANETS]]?
** Wasn't done as a weapon.
*** In [[The Transformers (
**** Not as a weapon, but as a sort of servant and universal tool in one. That version of Primacron was a bit of an idiot and tried doing it again after Unicron rebelled (and, of course, the NEW servant/universal tool ALSO rebelled). Grimlock called destroying Primacron's lab "the smartest thing I've ever done."
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