# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/41 "2005-01-21T21:18:42Z")
I kinda like the neutron bomb from the Kurt Vonnegut book. Which book, you ask? I’m buggered if I can remember. The BFG-9000 was always a blast, too. ---
**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, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/42 "2005-01-21T21:20:34Z")
> [@Priceguy](#): > > I kinda like the neutron bomb from the Kurt Vonnegut book. Which book, you ask? I’m buggered if I can remember. “Deadeye Dick”, but that’s not a fictional weapon. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/43 "2005-01-21T21:21:29Z")
[This, if used as a weapon.](http://www.baytoday.ca/content/news/details.asp?c=6657) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/44 "2005-01-21T21:50:08Z")
Ahhh, yes, the ROD. The only problem is, you have various high level fighter lackeys walking up to you and saying “Give me the ROD!” That would scare the peasants girls off, right there. ---
**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/45 "2005-01-21T21:54:54Z")
Like ninjas and hot-fudge sundaes, **sword-chucks** are incredibly sweet. That is all. Tenebras ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/46 "2005-01-21T21:55:30Z")
Skadwe, a splinter of death’s door used as a sword, if it is to be my own personal weapon. As for my favorite fictional weapon, it would be the “Very stupid weapon, do not use.” one from that Peter David star trek book. ---
**Author:** ![Sengkelat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e36b37/32.png) [@Sengkelat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sengkelat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/47 "2005-01-21T22:16:34Z")
The Black Sheepinator, from Ratchet & Clank 2. It’s a ray gun that turns enemies into black sheep, that are irresistable to other enemies and explode on contact. The chicken gun from Muppet Monster Adventure was pretty cool too. I’d second NoClueBoy’s nomination of the Tasp, but I don’t think I’d use it as a weapon. No way am I going to waste its batteries on someone else. As for actual cool-looking destructive weapons, I like the mobile fortresses from the new Appleseed movie. Very cool. And Kaneda’s laser rifle from Akira was pretty nifty. Okay, that’s five; I’m over my limit. (But I haven’t even gotten to edged weapons…oh, well) ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/48 "2005-01-21T22:26:46Z")
My first choice was the time-travel belt as used in David Gerrold’s _The Man Who Folded Himself_, but that’s not really a weapon. So I choose Space Ghost’s Power Bands, or whatever he called his gauntlets. If his flight and invisibility are provided by his costume, then I choose Space Ghost’s complete costume, Power Bands included. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/49 "2005-01-21T22:46:07Z")
I like the pistols they used in Underworld – autofire mode and infinite bullets. That’s got to come in handy. ---
**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, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/50 "2005-01-21T23:06:46Z")
The two weapons the bird people used in Mom and Dad Save The World. 1. The light grenade. You pull the pin and then set it down. Someone picks it up and they disappear, but the grenade stays. To make sure they pick it up, it says "Pick Me Up’ on the side. 2. A rock. You pick up rock and then hit people with it. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/51 "2005-01-21T23:11:44Z")
Dare I mention the dreaded and hilarious **Morph Ovum**? ---
**Author:** ![lab\_rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e495f1/32.png) [@lab\_rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lab_rat)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2005, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/52 "2005-01-21T23:49:25Z")
We should break this into two catagories, personal weapons, and weapons of mass destruction. I like the Phaser as a personal weapon, although it is also a weapon of mass destruction. Give me a Foton Torpedo when I want to destroy another ship, or do some serious damage to the inhabitants of a planet. ---
**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 22, 2005, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/53 "2005-01-22T00:23:38Z")
> [@lab rat](#): > > We should break this into two catagories, personal weapons, and weapons of mass destruction. > > I like the Phaser as a personal weapon, although it is also a weapon of mass destruction. > > Give me a Foton Torpedo when I want to destroy another ship, or do some serious damage to the inhabitants of a planet. “Photon”–P_H_O_T_O\*N–photon. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/54 "2005-01-22T01:10:42Z")
Two nominations - the gun from _The Fifth Element_ and the inertialess planets from the Lensman series of EE Doc Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/55 "2005-01-22T01:52:01Z")
C’mon – nobody wants Excalibur? (Of course, there’s some confusion as to whether that’s the sword in the anvil, or the sword proffered by the Lady of the Lake. Or both. And the scabbard is actually more remarkable.) ---
**Author:** ![Jeffro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@Jeffro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeffro)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/56 "2005-01-22T02:05:49Z")
Give me a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range. ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/57 "2005-01-22T02:10:33Z")
> [@Jeffro](#): > > Give me a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range. Hey pal, just what you see. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/58 "2005-01-22T02:15:33Z")
The nanobombs in Spider Robinson’s _Starseed_ have perhaps the most fiendishly lethal mode of delivery in fiction. Niven’s Ringworld meteor defense is perhaps the most awesome weapon. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/59 "2005-01-22T02:19:03Z")
> [@Jeffro](#): > > Give me a phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range. You mean 40 Mega Watts, right? I got light bulbs in my refrigerator that do 40 W. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2005, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921/60 "2005-01-22T02:20:14Z")
I’ll be happy if I could get my hands on the _Gravity Gun_ from Half Life 2. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-fictional-weapons/285921.md?page=4)