Wild Fictional Weapons: Interesting Lore

The 1983 fantasy adventure features Krull.KrullPrince Colwyn (Kenneth Marshall) seeks the Glaive.GlaiveThis mystical five-pointed weapon helps Colwyn defeat the Beast and rescue Princess Lyssa (Lysette Anthony). The Glaive is the ancient symbol of the Krull Kings. Colwyn inherits the Glaive's mark on a necklace from his father. Colwyn later retrieves the Glaive from a magma pool in a remote mountain cave.

The Glaive slices through any material. It kills the Beasts' minions, the Slayers, in one strike. Embedding it in the Beast's chest destroys the villain and the Black Fortress. After the Beast falls, the Glaive's fate is unclear. It likely stays buried for a future champion.

Venkman (Bill Murray) mentions inGhostbustersThe group's proton packs function like an unlicensed nuclear accelerator. Each pack has a particle accelerator that smashes positrons together. This process throws positive-charged anti-particles through the Particle Thrower, directing them at the target. A proton pack throws positive energy to capture a ghost's negative energy.

Each proton pack runs on nuclear power. They have a five thousand-year half-life. The movies never explain how they made them or got the nuclear material. Proton packs are extremely powerful. People rarely mention their danger, except for crossing two Proton streams. Crossing streams supposedly risks exploding every molecule in the user's body, but the Ghostbusters survive it in the first film.

InTronand its sequelTron: LegacyPrograms in the Game Grid and Tron system use discs for combat. These discs do more than just that.Identity DiscsEvery program records what it sees, hears, or experiences using an Identity Disc. An Identity Disc holds the program's identity.isthe identity of the program holding it.

The Identity Disc is a devastating weapon. Users can throw it from afar or wield it like a blade up close. A direct hit from its sharp, rounded edge instantly destroys a program.

Ram (Dan Shor) shows another use: he fills his disc with liquid energy to drink. He demonstrates this to Kevin (Jeff Bridges). The devices serve more functions than just being weapons.

Watch everyStar Warsmovie and believe thatblastersFire lasers look like what an average viewer calls laser-like flashes in films and games. Blasters, however, actually shoot plasma.

Viewers see that blasters do not fire a straight line of light like lasers. Instead, they shoot small, fast-traveling bits of plasma. This happens in the opening scene of The Force Awakens.Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) uses the Force to freeze a blaster bolt mid-air. This shows it is matter, not light.

The Star Wars universe has many blaster types. They do not all use the same ammunition.Star Wars.Chewbacca's bowcaster fires a metal quarrel wrapped in plasma energy.bowcaster.fires a metal quarrel wrapped in plasma energy.

Legendary weapons first appear in Star Wars: Episode IV -Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope.A lightsaber seems to cut through anything except another lightsaber.A lightsaber cuts through anything except another lightsaber.This held true in movies for a time. Details about the weapon changed over the years. Lightsabers cut through almost.anything. The few things lightsabers cannot slice through are impressive.

Lightsabers.cannot cut through Beskar, a special steel alloy made by Mandalorians. This is shown throughout the TV series The Mandalorian.. Lightsabers also cannot cut through vibro-blades, Zillo Beast hide, energy shields, Armorweave, Elite Praetorian Guard armor, Cortosis armor, Dathomir magical ichor weapons, the metal Phrik, and electro swords.

Wookiee Bowcasters.These are unique blaster weapons seen in theStar Wars.franchise, developed by the Wookiees of Kashyyyk. They look like real crossbows but lack a string. Instead, a bowcaster uses a metal quarrel. The weapon surrounds this metal with plasma before using magnetic levitation to blast targets.

Bowcasters are art and weapon; each one is hand-crafted on Kashyyyk using ancient methods. Bowcasters are stronger than regular blasters, but they are heavier, making them impractical for creatures weaker than Wookies.

The power of bowcasters shows inStar Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.. During the battle at Maz Kanata's castle, Han Solo grabbed Chewbacca's weapon and shot Stormtroopers. He blasted one back with a strong blast, and he was instantly impressed.

Lightsabers appeared inStar Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope, the franchise showed two colors: blue and red. As the franchise grew, green and purple colors appeared too.

A lightsaber's color used to show a Jedi's class once, but these differences are gone by the time most films happen. The weapon's color came from the color of its kyber crystalThe Jedi's main duties determine the colors and classes of lightsabers produced.

Blue lightsabers mark a Jedi Guardian, focused on physical fighting. Green lightsabers signal a Jedi Consular, who studies the Force's secrets. Yellow lightsabers belong to a Jedi Sentinel, balancing combat and study. Sith use red lightsabers; their negative energy turns their kyber crystals red.OrangeRarer lightsabers show a Gray Jedi, bridging the light and dark sides of the Force. Purple lightsabers belong to a Jedi who wields both sides of the Force, but for good. Jedi Master Mace Windu was the only known wielder of a purple lightsaber; this type was added.Actor Samuel L. Jackson insisted on this.

Years have brought more lightsaber colors and types that don't match any Jedi class. This includes the black blade of the Darksaber.DarksaberComics, video games, and novels show the Darksaber and several others.

Throughout the Star Trek franchise,Star TrekStar TrekPhasers stun, kill, and disintegrate targets, depending on the setting. Hand phasers are different; those on ships are much stronger. Starfleet uses phasers as main directed energy weapons; their power changes based on settings.Hand phasers stun, kill, or disintegrate a target based on the setting. Ship-mounted phasers are much more powerful. Starfleet uses phasers as primary directed energy weapons; their power depends on the settings applied.

Firing handheld phasers at the Borg damages them only 1 to 3 shots before the Borg boost shields. Changing a phaser's frequency overcomes this, but only briefly. This applies to both handheld and ship-mounted phasers.

Phasers also defend planets and fend off massive ships in orbit. Phasers are diverse weapons, but their limits change based on the situation and the specific phaser model.

In the Star Trek universe,Star TrekKlingons use the traditional weapon, the bat'leth.bat'lethThe bat'leth is a special two-handed sword with four sharp ends. Users can use it as a one-handed sword, swing it like an axe, or throw it. Worf shows all these uses during his time in the Star Trek franchise.Star TrekStar Trek

Kahless the Unforgettable, a figure like Moses who united Klingon tribes, made the first bat'leth. The myth about Kahless and his weapon gives it the same importance as the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant in Judeo-Christian myth.

Kahless supposedly made the sword by putting a lock of his hair into lava. He cooled the burning hair in the Lake of Lusor and forged it into a blade. Kahless used his sword to kill Molor, conqueror Fek'Ihri, and help start the first Klingon Empire, so every other bat'leth made that way holds great mythic weight.

Fans ofDoctor WhoThe Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver is a tool, not a weapon. It unlocks doors and hacks computers. The Doctor never uses it to hurt others. However, the Doctor once used the Sonic Screwdriver violently. This instance is often missed among the more than 860 episodes.

In the 1972 serial “The Sea Devils,” the Third Doctor (John Pertwee) and Jo Grant (Katy Manning) discover the Master (Roger Delgado) took over his prison and joined the Sea Devils. The Doctor and Jo get trapped between guards and a Sea Devil. A minefield offers the only escape. The Doctor uses the Sonic Screwdriver to detect mines. They escape. The Doctor then uses the device to make mines explode near the creature.

The Doctor still avoids using the Sonic Screwdriver to kill. This marks one instance it harms a living being, though it is indirect.

Galactus and the Silver Surfer first arrive on Earth in Fantastic Four#48-50, the superheroes defeat the World Devourerer with the Surfer's help. The Silver Surfer tells the Fantastic Four about the Ultimate Nullifier, a weapon on Galactus's ship. Johnny Storm gets the weapon, which looks like a simple metal device. Reed Richards uses it to threaten Galactus, which makes the cosmic being leave Earth.

Galactus fears the Ultimate Nullifier because it removes its target from existence. Using it means the user also vanishes from reality. Strong mental abilities might let someone save themselves, but using the weapon risks everything. A powerful being could wipe an entire timeline. The Nullifier appears a few times in Marvel Comics but rarely functions as a real threat.

Of all the gadgets, gizmos, and weapons from the many James Bond films, James Bondfilms, 1964'sGoldfingerfeatures one of the most impressive and silly items. Henchman Oddjob (Harold Sakata) wears a steel-rimmed bowler hat. Throwing it kills a human or decapitates a stone statue.

Many years later, theMythbusterscrew tried to recreate the weapon's power but found it lackingand found it lacking. While the hat could not be used to behead a marble statue, it could remove the head from a non-reinforced plaster statue.

The Oddjob bowler hat stands out because it can be made in real life. The good people of Man At ArmsRecreating the hat with a sharpened steel disc proves cool, even if it lacks the fictional character's lethality.

Ridley Scott made the 2013 thriller.The CounselorBrad Pitt's character Westray lands on the damaging end of a.bolitoCartel associates use the bolito. This weapon self-constricts around a victim's neck, decapitating them. An accomplice of Malkina (Cameron Diaz) guides the device around his neck; it works in sixty seconds. Westray tries to pry the tightening wire from his neck after realizing he is trapped, but he loses his fingers and bleeds out.

AbolitoThis is a mechanized, very strong garrote. Though this device seems buildable in reality, there are problems.physical limitationsCutting a neck requires more power than the small device shows. One can choke someone slowly. Real life, though, the device likely gets pulled off before it finishes the victim.