# What is your favourite fictional weapon?

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**Created:** [September 17, 2008, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-fictional-weapon/463947 "2008-09-17T03:35:54Z")\
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I don’t know about a weapon, but I figure with trioxin based armor, I would at least be able to eat my killers BRAINS.

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**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-fictional-weapon/463947/142 "2008-09-30T06:09:35Z")

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> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> … an amped up Gravity Gun from Half-Life,…

Ah, but surely you mean the _organic_ gravity gun, the one that allows you to toss combine soldiers around like rag dolls.

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**Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-fictional-weapon/463947/143 "2008-10-01T00:36:44Z")

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I’ve always admired the _Sick Stick_ from **Minority Report**. It doesn’t matter how big or strong you are, no one likes to be instantly sick and forced into projectile vomiting.

Jimmy

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-fictional-weapon/463947/144 "2008-10-01T01:16:51Z")

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Bladed weapon; Klingon Bat’Leth  
Energy weapon; Federation Photon Burst (from the Star Trek Voyager Elite Force game, basically a man-portable photon torpedo launcher)  
Projectile weapon (long arm); the [Zorg ZF-1](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pxjnl1yuXk&feature=related) (gotta love Replay 🙂 ) _or_ the Cerebral Bore  
Projectile weapon (hand);Robocop’s AutoMag pistol  
Convertible weapon; Qualta Blade/Rifle  
Humorous weapon; The Point-Of-View gun

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**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-fictional-weapon/463947/145 "2008-10-01T02:46:57Z")

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> [@Nymphadora](#):
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> Sharks with fricken laser beams attached to their heads, from Austen Powers

Lego thinks [sharks with head-mounted weaponry](http://shop.lego.com/Product/?p=8633) is cool too. 😃

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**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2008, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favourite-fictional-weapon/463947/146 "2008-10-01T02:58:16Z")

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> [@ladybug](#):
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> Good suggestions in this thread, but I’m gonna have to go with the [Witchblade](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchblade).

Seriously? It may be a conduit for powerful magic, but ultimately you have to face the fact that it’s just a big scab.

Plus, if you have one, you evidently can’t wear any clothes. So it’s probably not an ideal cold-weather choice.

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