Favorite Doomsday Devices?

[Ranchoth]

Say, here's another ghoulish poll...What are everyone's favorite doomsday devices/weapons of mass destruction? From fiction preferably, but real life ones are welcome as well.

I, personally, have always had a special place in my heart for super-nova generating weapons, Though gigantic moon-carving lasers are a close second.



Ranchoth

[Reeder]

Then at least whatever follows us will have ready made cities.

[Little Nemo]

I liked the giant planet eating space slug on that Star Trek episode.

[Mephisto]

I used to read Marvel Comics when I was a kid (I probably still would, but now they seem to deliver less story for more buck), and was always fascinated by Galactus's World-Eating Apparatus™.

[scr4]

The Vogons and their constructor fleet.

[Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor]

Cobra Commander's Weather Dominator. Not only could he create mass destruction, but he could have sunny days for an outing, too.

Evil, and fun!

[heptapod]

The one from Doctor Strangelove.

[Czarcasm]

Originally posted by Mephisto
I used to read Marvel Comics when I was a kid (I probably still would, but now they seem to deliver less story for more buck), and was always fascinated by Galactus's World-Eating Apparatus™.

Even better is his Ultimate Nullifier, which will destroy all that the user can imagine, along with the user her/him/itself.

[NevarMore]

My personal favorite is the one that im arming now ......

MUAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAA!!!

Seriously though, Id like whatever induced the dead to come back to life in the "Living Dead" series.

[Drastic]

I'll always have a fond place in my heart for the Illudium PU-36 Explosive Space Modulator.

[ignatzmouse]

Gray Goo.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Uh, Death Star, anyone?

[Bryan Ekers]

[url="http://us.imdb.com/Title?0090094"]The Stuff[/i], because it's so damn yummy.

[Bryan Ekers]

Errr, The Stuff

That'll teach me not to preview.

[Boyo Jim]

I've always hoped for a doomsday device that gives some warning.

We KNOW we'll be dead in say, a month. But we'll feel healthy for a good 3 weeks, before we sicken and die.

Leads to lots of entertaining drama and pathos. I'm kind of picturing something like "On the Beach", but I don't think nuclear fallout is reliable enough

So I gotta go with an airborne unbelevably contagious virus with 100% lethality, that survives easily in soil and water, AND immediately turns our piss magenta colored, so we know that the countdown has started.

Then 3 weeks of: revenge, repentance, reprobate behavior, whatever. The a choice of ending it quickly, or an agonizing death on the chance the YOU might be the FIRST to actually survive it.

[Papamurf]

Unicron from the Transformers movie definitely. Not only do you get a horrible planet-sized death, it sounds like Orson Welles to boot.

[Lumpy]

A strange-matter seed that eats the earth, turning it into a lump of neutronium a mile across.

[Tranquilis]

I was always fond of the "Colliding Worlds" school of doom: One cosmic "slam", two planets extinguished!

[False_God]

Ice-Nine.

[Kybrdbrkn]

The Genesis Device! Wipe out all life on your puny enemy's homeworld, and be left with a nice, lush, new planet, ready for your colonization.

[Legomancer]

The Doomsday Machine from the Star Trek episode of the same name.

[tanstaafl]

I've always liked one they used in (I think) the Skylark series.

Use a matter transmitter to simultaniously move every star from galaxy A to close proximinity to a star in galaxy B.

At the same time, move every inhabited planet from galaxies A and B (except for our target) to a compatible orbit around some star in galaxy C.

Every star in galaxy B (along with every star moved in from galaxy A) goes supernova at the same time.

Instant quasar. Ouch.

[plnnr]

While I think Ice-Nine is a good choice (I happen to like it because Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia named their music publishing company "Ice-Nine Music"), my vote, too, goes to the device in Dr. Strangelove - "You can't fight in here - this is the War Room!"

And I'm chaning my name to Buck Turgidson.

[The Ace of Swords]

That would be the "Doomsday Device".

"Why would you create a doomsday device and NOT TELL ANYONE?!"

Personally I would create a world destroying evil and then entomb it with a seal that says, in ancient cueniform, "Ancient Gold of Hammiraba," and is a pun in even ancienter cueniform, "Ancient world-raping death monkeys," so that the sidekick/translator can say, "Wait, I think there's another.. AAAAHHHH!".

, Cue ancient tape recording of "BWAHAHA... end tape"

Why, with that plan to reveal, I wouldn't have to pick up a check at the Arch-Villan cafeteria for weeks!

[clayton_e]

I'll always have a place in my heart for the "Unbeatable Strain of the highly contageous virus". Ah... the beauty of it..

[Palve]

A Huge Comet. Simple, yet effective. Plus, we'll see it coming months in advance, but won't be able to do anything about it. I'd like to see what people do during their last months on earth.

For immediate destruction of the planet, you simply can't beat the device I'm building in my gara-- err, never mind...

[HPL]

A Giant "Lazer" put on the moon to blow up various cities unless they pay me 100 Billion dollars!

[JubilationTCornpone]

Kirk's corbomite device. I'm still trying to dope out the schematics.

[Badtz Maru]

Little black holes, used in several science fiction novels and stories (sometimes intentionally, sometimes accidentally). A good one if you like to have a period of time when you know you are doomed and can't do anything about it, as a small black hole could bob around inside the Earth sucking up matter for some time before there were any noticable changes on the surface.