# Your Favorite Fictional Weapons? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 21, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921 "2005-01-21T15:45:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/21 "2005-01-21T18:00:05Z")
It’s never time for the Bloody Card. ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/22 "2005-01-21T18:15:07Z")
I’m quite fond of Sergeant Schlock’s plasma cannon, from Schlock Mercenary. You know, the one with the sound effect that goes “Ominous Hummmmmmmmmmm”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/23 "2005-01-21T18:19:10Z")
I want a bowel disruptor so very badly. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/24 "2005-01-21T18:38:52Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > I want a bowel disruptor so very badly. Ask, & ye shall [RECEIVE](http://www.kalyx.com/store/proddetail.cfm/ItemID/27809.0/CategoryID/10000.0/SubCatID/645.0/file.htm) 😛😃😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/25 "2005-01-21T19:27:14Z")
Not quite a weapon, but I would love to have some of Robert Heinlein’s Powered Armor. ---
**Author:** ![RogueRacer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7ab992/32.png) [@RogueRacer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RogueRacer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/26 "2005-01-21T19:32:41Z")
I’ll probably mess the quote up a little, but… “We wanted a boojum and all you give us is this… snark?!” I can’t remember which book used this Carroll reference either. Sigh! ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/27 "2005-01-21T19:41:45Z")
26 posts and no one’s said “lightsaber”?! What is this place coming to? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/28 "2005-01-21T19:42:16Z")
Who among us can say he doesn’t enjoy seeing the peasant girls cower in fear when he whips out his **Rod of Lordly Might**? ---
**Author:** ![Ol\_Gaffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Ol\_Gaffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ol_Gaffer)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/29 "2005-01-21T19:44:35Z")
Ash’s shotgun from **Evil Dead 2** and **Army of Darkness** ("_S Mart’s top of the line_). Load it with _Unerring Shells of Neverending Capacity_ and reload only when necessary for dramatic effect…it’s the adventurer’s ultimate weapon. Hail to the king baby. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/30 "2005-01-21T19:46:30Z")
A batarang, if it’s prepared. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Unkempt\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/31 "2005-01-21T20:02:43Z")
They are basic and probably quite old, but I am always in awe of the horrific stopping power of the **Gunslinger’s six-guns** from Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. When handled by the Gunslinger, they are always deadly accurate. You always know that when bullets start flying, someone is going to meet a very unfortunate end. ---
**Author:** ![Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Cornelius\_Tuggerson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cornelius_Tuggerson)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/32 "2005-01-21T20:24:03Z")
I am kind of partial to the **Crom Feyr** from BG2:SoA and BG2:ToB. If upgraded right its a +6 Warhammer that gets incredibly many criticals and is a one handed weapon. If you gave it to Minsc and developed his warhammer abilities he was bloody unstoppable. Good stuff ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/33 "2005-01-21T20:33:52Z")
The modified TR-115 shown in DS9’s seventh season is pretty cool and one of my favorites – it’s a projectile weapon and can shoot through walls with a mini-transporter attachment to the barrel. If they could make displacement phasers, it’d be the coolest weapon ever. Failing that, Iron Man’s pretty awesome too. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/34 "2005-01-21T20:35:34Z")
Certainly I’m not the only person on the SDMB to know of the **cohe wand**? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/35 "2005-01-21T20:41:00Z")
I’d vote for **Unicron,** the planet-eating demigod, but I don’t think he’d take kindly to being called a “weapon”… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/36 "2005-01-21T20:45:31Z")
I’ve always been partial to the weapon from Larry Niven’s short story “The Soft Weapon”. It’s a shapeshifting, multifunction handgun. One setting provides an energy shield. One is a flamethrower that could double as a rocket engine in space (if you could hold it steady). One is a slug-thrower. One is a matter-energy conversion beam with nearly unlimited range (very dangerous to use while on a planetary surface; there was speculation that this setting was meant for destroying cities from orbit…yes, with a pistol). And one is…well, that would be a rather large spoiler. And it was intelligent. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/37 "2005-01-21T20:53:58Z")
How about _Mankiller_ from The Misenchanted Sword? It could only be drawn by it’s owner. Once drawn it would act to kill a man. Not a woman, not an animal, not a demon, only a man (hence Mankiller). Once it had killed a man, it became a normal, even substandard sword until it was inserted into it’s scabbard again. The owner would do this 100 time (give or take one) and then he couldn’t draw it, only someone else could. That person would then kill the previous owner and become the new owner. Same rules apply except that this owner would kill one less person. Eventually, someone would draw the sword, kill the former owner, kill themselves then the sword would be normal. Also, the current owner could not be killed until his time with the sword was over. Mind you, he could be hurt, just not killed. I just loved all the rules on this thing. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/38 "2005-01-21T20:56:05Z")
Chaz from Sluggy. Unpowered, it’s capable of making its owner into a formidable swordsman. Powered, it’s an intelligent, talking sword that can kill pretty much anything out there and advise its owner regarding how to do so. The only catch is that it’s powered by the blood of the innocent… ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/39 "2005-01-21T21:08:10Z")
A powergun from David Drake’s Hammers Slammers. Of course, I’d need someone to follow me around narrating graphic descriptions full of bleak metaphors of my kills. If I can upgrade, a Slammers iridium armored fusion powered supertank armed with a 20cm powergun would be nice for the morning commute. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/40 "2005-01-21T21:14:46Z")
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