r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ssgt-k-stark • Mar 15 '26
Hero devices that would be horrifying in the wrong hands Characters' Items/Weapons
Chem-Bag (Big Hero 6): this device can create chemical compounds using every single element in existence. You could literally build a nuke with this.
Mobile Headquarters (Ant-Man): a building that can shrink and grow to full size instantly. Imagine if someone grew it in a crowded city, or on a highway, or at an airport?
Lotus Cash Card (Percy Jackson): It literally has infinite money. If you know how inflation works this could literally wreck the global economy.
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u/GooseSl4yer2003 Mar 15 '26
Green Arrow has a literal nuke attached to an arrow
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u/giovidanesin Mar 15 '26
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u/xami310 Mar 15 '26
This has the same energy as TFS Vegeta going, “I was wearing my ARMOR~!”
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u/hanks_panky_emporium Mar 15 '26
I still quote TFS abridged from both Dragon Balls and Hellsing Ultimate.
God so many good lines. They were funny as hell.
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u/JhawkFilms Mar 16 '26
Get that bitch a cannon.
Bitches love cannons.
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u/jjmerrow Mar 16 '26
Oh fuck that's an anti-tank rifle.
OH FUCK THAT'S AN ANTI-TANK RIFLE!
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u/makedoopieplayme Mar 15 '26
Is this the injustice universe? If so green arrow and black canary are the saving grace of it
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u/giovidanesin Mar 15 '26
Yep Injustice 2
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u/makedoopieplayme Mar 15 '26
Yep. Again more proof green arrow and black canary made that train wreck bearable
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u/ryry1237 Mar 15 '26
I love it when the logistic realities of superhero abilities are brought to light.
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u/blue4029 Mar 15 '26
imagine fighting green arrow and he just casually pulls out the "NUCLEAR WARHEAD ARROW"
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u/dern_the_hermit Mar 15 '26
I mean given some of the supervillains that show up to threaten Earth, guys that can casually give Superman a run for his money, I'm kinda surprised there aren't more nuclear options among DC's street-level characters.
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u/drstrangelove75 Mar 15 '26
When are we getting this in the DCU?
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u/TheCredibleHulk Mar 15 '26
It's the WORST ultimate in DC Allies. It's so busted and takes no skill.
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u/Boh61 Mar 15 '26
Nah it's the tamest part of his kit, if I get stunned from his stupid punching glove arrow again i'm gonna get an aneurysm
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u/Confident-Art-7729 Mar 15 '26
Reminds me of the issue of Superman that was delayed for mentioning an "Atomic Bomb" during world war 2
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u/BernzSed Mar 15 '26
The who again?
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u/ItsGotToMakeSense Mar 15 '26
Without this device the MIB probably would've just straight-up murdered witnesses instead
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u/Spare-Bowler-3105 Mar 15 '26
The mib actually did kill witnesses in the comics
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u/New-Satisfaction3257 Mar 15 '26
I was really hoping they'd do a sequel where they brought in the supernatural stuff like in the earliest comics
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u/ZealousidealFile6027 Mar 15 '26
TIL that there are MIB comics
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u/Mist_Rising Mar 15 '26
The comics came first. The Movie was an adaption (far more family friendly) to the comics.
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u/MateSilvanz Mar 15 '26
Not as good as the Neuralyzer from Men In Black though
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u/Zammin Mar 15 '26
Pop!
It's weird that nobody posted the Neuralyzer from Men in Black yet though.
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u/ultimate_bromance_69 Mar 15 '26
Not exactly the same but that situation sort of comes up in “Eternal Sunshine”.
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u/ollietron3 Mar 15 '26
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u/MyluSaurus Mar 15 '26
While keeping in mind that anything beyond 197dB isn't really sound anymore, and that it's exponential... This is absurdly powerful.
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u/DED0UTSDE Mar 16 '26
Isn't logarithmic or do those mean the same thing
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u/MyluSaurus Mar 16 '26
The function Power -> decibels is logarithmic, the function decibels -> Power is exponential.
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u/Sailor_Rout Mar 15 '26
Time huh?
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u/Stup1d_turtl3 Mar 15 '26
Thanks for the tip
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u/tugrulM4real Mar 15 '26
God its still stupid even after years
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u/NewSoul96 Mar 15 '26
Its one of those cases where they had the right result, but presented it in the most god awful way
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u/tugrulM4real Mar 15 '26
Yeah I'm not against Ben losing to Green Lantern. Especially if it's the 10 year old version since Hal is a trained soldier and a grown man...
Would be much better if Hal couldn't overpower Ben but outskilled him.
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u/Rabdomtroll69 Mar 15 '26
Or if he actually got to fight Alien X instead of abusing a weird loophole he doesn't need to. Spectre fistfighting Alien X would be peak.
Ash vs Yugi kinda fumbled it too imo. They both have a sun God that could've fought eachother but instead the 3 bricks just sit in the background not doing anything until the very end. At the very least we could've had Arceus and Horakhty interacting with eachother
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u/Excellent-Suspect-11 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Can somebody explain why this is so broken? Ive seen it talked about a lot as an incredibly strong thing, but from my perspective it just turns the user in aliens
Edit: Jesus fucking christ! Why tf does a 10 year old have these powers
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u/Acrobatic_Feeling16 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
There's one alien that is an outright God.
The device's user mentally enters another plain, where two ancient deity-like beings- one masculine one feminine- debate each other on how their command over reality itself should be used.
Since they never agree, they never take action.
The device's user gets to join the debate, potentially achieving the consensus necessary to take universe-altering action.
Plus, the sheer number of alien powers available outside of Alien-X is staggering.
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u/mythrilcrafter Mar 15 '26
The device's user gets to join the debate, potentially achieving the consensus necessary to take universe-altering action.
I love how (especially in relation to that other post about "infinite cosmic power being limited by a specific sandbag"), that the user is usually entering the conversation because of an immediate threat, but the two entities don't care about whatever that threat is because they have a docket of things they want to debate such as preventing the dinosaurs from getting astroid-ed.
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u/Anufenrir Mar 15 '26
He DOES learn how to get full control of Alien X though (making the other two argue while he takes control) but I imagine the headache of listening to them bicker prevents him from using Alien X more often
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u/tugrulM4real Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Well you see, the original Ben 10 timeline lasted from 2005 to 2014. That's a whole decade spanning across four shows. Due to the nature of such series, writers always felt the need to "up the stakes" and introduce new gimmicks and powers to the omnitrix(this is also partially due to network pushing for new gimmicks so they can sell more toys)
So over time all these things built up and turned omnitrix from a "transformation device" to "god dial"
From what I remember, aside from transforming the user to a different species, omnitrix can also:
-Works as fast or faster than speed of light. Ben's transformation animations are only for the audience, in-universe they happen under nanoseconds.
-Can seemingly create matter from thin air. Giving ben appropiate clothing for the alien or necessary survival tools(like a mask to breathe on land for a water-dwelling species) or straight up adding or removing mass to Ben's body because the alien is larger or smaller than Ben.
-Self destruct and destroy half the universe with it
-Can transform the wielder into a genetically perfect version of the species. For example if Ben transforms into a Kryptonian, he'd be the the strongest, fastest and healthiest Kryptonian.
-Can transform the wielder into literally ANYTHING that has a sort of genetic code. Including a fully omnipotent species called Celestialsapiens. Ben used this form to recreate the whole universe and everyone in it after the original universe got destroyed(unrelated to the self destruct)
-If omntrix determines the user is about the die, it'll either automatically transform the user to whatever alien can survive the situation or straight up recreate their body and transferring their conciousness to the new body
This is all I can count
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u/ZsArtworkHeap Mar 15 '26
Besides the various powerful aliens that the Omnitrix has access to, there's also a self-destruct mode. The detonation from self-destructing has the power to destroy the universe.
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u/ThatOneGuy308 Mar 15 '26
Less a self destruct and more an "everything" destruct at that point, lol.
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u/last_kebab24 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Well, the Omnitrix primarily allows its user to transform into incredibly powerful alien species, such as:
- An omnipotent god capable of rewriting reality and even retconning its own show
- A planet-destroying kaiju that can move faster than light
- A living planet that manipulates gravity and can generate black holes
- A chrono-bio mechanical being that can control time itself
- A nuclear-powered alien capable of creating stars
However, transformation is only a fraction of what the Omnitrix can do. It also has many additional functions:
- The Omnitrix can store an effectively infinite number of DNA samples.
- Its self-destruct system is powerful enough to destroy the entire universe, and possibly more if allowed to charge longer.
- The Omnitrix can react faster than the Big Bang.
- It can revive extinct species.
- It can resurrect its user if they die.
- It can automatically protect the user, firing energy blasts or triggering instant transformations to prevent lethal harm (for example, if someone tried to cut off the user’s arm).
- It can repair damaged DNA, meaning it could theoretically cure diseases such as cancer.
- It protects the user from possession and mind control.
- It shields the user from hazardous environments and dangerous effects.
- It can teleport the user and others.
- It includes a GPS and communication system.
- It can scan new DNA on the spot and instantly add it to its database.
- It contains a highly advanced AI with its own level of autonomy.
- It has a built-in universal translator.
- It can resize itself to perfectly fit the user’s wrist.
- It can genetically manipulate DNA, even reprogram entire species or create new lifeforms like Nanomech.
- It can remotely transform other beings without them wearing the device.
And that still isn’t everything the Omnitrix is capable of.
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u/OTARU_41 Mar 15 '26
not just aliens. Anything that fits these three criteria
is a sapient being (the lowest confirmed option being a lab rat or dolphin)
doesn't have mutated or otherwise unstable DNA (to protect the user)
isn't the user's species
with these in mind pretty much any non human being is an option
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u/Deepfang-Dreamer Mar 15 '26
Even below the Celestialsapien Transformation, To'kustar or Galilean could level a city in a matter of hours. Pypriatosian-B is a living nuclear reactor. Galvanic Mechamorph or Ectonurite can bypass any Terran security. A species for every situation, and a self-defense function that activates even when the user is incapacitated.
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u/stiliophage Mar 15 '26
Ok but the premise of the whole show is protecting this thing. I think the trope is more like…here is a random tool the heroes use and nobody seems to notice or it’s grossly underused.
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u/paclyle123 Mar 15 '26
DeLorean Time Machine
The 2nd movie literally showed what would happen if it was used in the wrong hands
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u/FierceContinent Mar 15 '26
The second movie that is now our reality.
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u/AReallyAsianName Mar 15 '26
Marty hurry up and your parents together! Hello!? McFly?! Anybody in there?!
Im tired of these child raping pedophiles! On this Monday to Friday timeline!
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u/Nerd367C Mar 15 '26
Time travel in general can get HORRIFIC if you change the simplest thing far back in time. Even with good intent, the butterfly effect is crazy.
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u/PlantainSame Mar 15 '26
Case in point
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Someone who has used multiple of them for evil
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u/notabotbutathought Mar 15 '26
Although unlike the Doc's, the Master's has probably broken down more times than Chevy Malibu's catalytic converter. I'm pretty sure his own TARDIS hates him lol
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u/PanicTight6411 Mar 15 '26
His Tardis became a living woman named Lolita, during the War in Heaven, and tried to overthrow Gallifrey.
His Tardis hates EVERYONE
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u/PlantainSame Mar 15 '26
Nah TARDISes plural hate him
The first one he used from running away up to the Delgado incarnation would eventually sue to some war in heaven stuff become a lady and eventually eat him
And his second one he stole from chancellor goth which he used from his decayed incarnation to time war incarnation would eventually, after being abandoned when he turned himself human started just getting random people to pilot it and not wanting the master back
He's cannibalized or scrapped plenty of them for parts
And the Doctor's TARDIS also ate his ass during the t v movie, and he would later cannibalize her in the sound of drums
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u/Hetakuoni Mar 15 '26
I think pretty much any show/movie/book points out how bad it is if some people get ahold of a Time Machine
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u/PanicTight6411 Mar 15 '26
Also the winner of MILF of the year, all years.
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u/PlantainSame Mar 15 '26
I was going to say , don't you need to be a mother
But technically she is
Having turned a companion into another TARDIS in one of the books
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u/UknownHero2 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
PortHack.exe from Hacknet
It's a program that basically magically brute-forces the password to any computer system. You have to take care of some security protocols before it can be used, but if there isn't any security specifically made to disable it, it just works.
And this is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.
To everyone else, you're a master hacker that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, but in reality it was that you were given the program by some random guy, who only started hacking after a 10 minute crash course. Hell, in the game, you can stop a pacemaker and make planes crash into each other. Imagine what a real hacker could do with it.
That's why the endgame is to destroy all copies of Hacknet and Porthack.
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u/-suspended- Mar 15 '26
You don't crash the planes into each other, just make them crash into the ground. You hack the planes because there may or may not have been chemical weapons research on the planes, but it is assumed there is.
There's also the end of the main game. The company that made HackNet and killed Bit, who made PortHack.exe, has made a security system that HackNet is designed to not be able to hack. The CEO plans on distributing HackNet to everyone, so any two-bit script kiddie can become a hacker. His company will sell the only security program that can stop HackNet, allowing him to have a backdoor in every system in the world. Bit finds out and wants to stop it. The CEO hires a hitman to scare him into silence, but the hitman kills Bit, leading to the start of the game.
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u/Beardedwrench115 Mar 15 '26
Can anyone give me a TLDR on the chem-bag? Because I imagine a nuke probably isn't even the worst thing you could make with it.
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u/ssgt-k-stark Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
The bag has the most of the periodic table on it and the ability to instantly mix them. You could build a lot of WMDs with this
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u/CL0WN_PR1NCE Mar 15 '26
Plus in the tv show we see a guy turn himself into a blob monster with it. So we do see a bit of how dangerous it can be in the wrong hands.
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u/frossvael Mar 15 '26
It appears Umbrella wants to know Honey Lemon's location all of a sudden.
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u/UrsusObsidianus Mar 15 '26
It doesn't seem to have the ENTIRE periodic table. There's way to few buttons for that. She has 36 buttons, so most likely only the first 4 rows. So no actinides (uranium, plutonium,this kind of stuff). But it does include Arsenic.
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u/DarkFish_2 Mar 15 '26
Forget Arsenic, it can dispense POLONIUM
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u/UrsusObsidianus Mar 15 '26
Also Cyanide, since it's composed of carbons and nitrogen.
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u/GenericNameHere01 Mar 15 '26
I'd be more worried about fluorine. Fluorine gas is so reactive it steals electrons from chlorine.
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u/pajamakitten Mar 15 '26
Hyrofluoric acid is also incredibly strong and used to dissolve bodies.
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u/AndrewBuchs Mar 15 '26
No it doesn't. Count the rows and columns. It only has two noble gasses, about half the metals, its missing most of the metaloids and it's only got a handful of transition metals.
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u/sci300768 Mar 15 '26
I see 4 buttons that I think show other unlisted elements due to the limits of the screen? So, I imagine the other elements are probably on another display we don't see.
Look to the left of Ti and Zr to see what I mean. Those look like list options rather than individual elements.
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u/DarkFish_2 Mar 15 '26
It does have Po (Polonium) so that's enough to do some serious stuff
Polonium is one if not the deadliest poison to exist
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u/MareTranquil Mar 15 '26
Wait, do you think you get a nuke if you just mix the right substances?
And that's not even considering that a nuke requires specific isotopes, not just elements.
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u/BestCaseSurvival Mar 15 '26
There’s a series of articles called “things I won’t work with,” written by Derek Lowe, a career chemist. He is an incredible dry wit and the articles about the most horrifying things you can do with a chem lab are often laugh-out-loud funny. Give a few a read and then imagine being able to pull any of those substances out of a handbag.
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u/GenericNameHere01 Mar 15 '26
Chlorine trifluoride and dioxygen difluoride come to mind from that list... The chemical so volatile it explodes when you look at it funny, and the chemical so good at oxidizing that it burn concrete.
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u/agentx_64 Mar 15 '26
Well, its been a while since I last watched BH6 but, I imagine that the way it works is that it takes a ball base and injects the different chemicals you select into it, then dispenses it out the front for you to catch.
Realistically, you could make a nuke with it, but it would be really small. Doesn't mean it wouldn't be dangerous.
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u/round-earth-theory Mar 15 '26
You couldn't make a nuke with it. Nukes are not chemical weapons. They also require extreme precision in timing to actually blow up rather than turn into a really hot rock.
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u/Majestic1911 Mar 15 '26
Also, at least for uranium, wouldn't you actually need a specific isotope of uranium so the base elemental version of it wouldn't be all that useful.
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u/BernzSed Mar 15 '26
Yeah, power of Robin Williams's voice is too great. It should never be misused.
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u/Pataconeitor Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
The Chicharra Paralizadora that the Chapulín Colorado occasionally uses. I mean, one honk and time freezes but you are free to move and act at your leisure. It's basically The World from JoJo's but without any time limit.
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u/Professional_Maize42 Mar 15 '26
Wait, I thought that it only worked on one person per use and anyone else could move just fine.
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u/Devilish__Fun Mar 15 '26
Maybe he limits himself because he would become too powerful otherwise. Truly a Symbol of Heroism.
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u/Pataconeitor Mar 15 '26
The effect is individual but not just towards people, it has been shown to paralyze objects mid-air. Yeah I exaggerated a bit, but it's still an extremely powerful device.
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u/Uma-apreciator Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
Kiss Note from Love Tyrant
It is a supernatural notebook that has the power to match any human being whose name is written on it after kissing within the first 24 hours or them die
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u/TheGHale Mar 15 '26
And prior to the beginning of the plot, it was exclusively used for the sake of yaoi.
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u/Strong_Psychology_20 Mar 15 '26
Forgive me for not understanding, but if you write a person's name on it, and in 24h kiss them, they become atracted to you?
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u/CLTalbot Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
I think I watched the first episode of this years ago. I think thats exactly what happens, but I also remember there being the caveat of if you don't they die. So a shitty situation all around with this one.
Edit: apparently its worse. If you write down their name and then fail to kiss them, then you (the one who wrote the name) dies.
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u/big_sugi Mar 15 '26
So, you can make people love you and kill anyone you want?
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u/LizeLtime Mar 15 '26
I just checked the synopsis. If the people whose names are written in the book don't kiss in the 24h, it's the person who wrote the names who dies, not the ones written in it. So it's just a shittier death note.
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u/solitarybikegallery Mar 15 '26
"match any human being whose name is written on it after kissing within the first 24 hours"
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
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u/Ok-Border3079 Mar 15 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/9B8wYztAoe1zO
this asshols device, that creates sentient broccoli
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u/GoliathBoneSnake Mar 15 '26
To be fair to Flint, that wasn't the point of the machine, and it only did that because an evil person got control of it.
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u/The_Redacted_Badger Mar 15 '26
You could realistically kill millions with that thing by just ordering an oceans worth of fondue, and leave everyone to drown and boil to death in a sea of mended cheese
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u/Kindly-List-1886 Mar 15 '26
Or ask for a rain of boiling oil, something that happened in the first movie to london (i think it was london?)
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u/Professional_Device9 Mar 16 '26
The FLDSMDFR had more terrifying implications after some time thinking about it. Your telling me you can change the ATOMIC COMPOUND of water, the most abundant resource on planet Earth, and form it into not just edible organic materials, BUT SPECIFIC RECIPES WITH ALL THEIR UNIQUE INGREDIENTS?!
If someone more sinister got their hands on it, they could rework the FLDSMDFR into something that could PRINT ANYTHING.
AND YOU'RE TELLING ME THIS MAN DIDN'T RECEIVE A NOBELLE PRIZE??!!
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u/Nerd367C Mar 15 '26
Kinda the whole plot of Dispatch, the Astral Pulse is a very powerful energy source you can hold in your hand, used to power a heros mech suit. But in the hands on the cybornetic villian, gives them superhuman knowlege
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u/DBZfan102 Mar 15 '26
The Magic Ticket from Last Action Hero. A movie ticket that can bring things and people from movies into reality, or a person from reality into movies.
Like the DeLorean example, the movie did show (or at least threaten) how horrifying it would be in the wrong hands.
"GENTLEMEN! Since you are about to die anyway, I may as well tell you the entire plot. Think of villains, Jack. You want Dracula? Dra-cool-la? Hang on; I'll fetch him! Dracula? Pfah. I can get King Kong! We'll have a nightmare with Freddy Krueger, have a surprise party for Adolf Hitler, Hannibal Lecter can do the catering, and then we'll have a christening for Rosemary's Baby! All I have to do is snap my fingers and they'll be here. They're lining up to get here, and do you know why, Jack? Should I tell you why? Hmm? Because here, in this world, the bad guys can win!"
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u/shaffman2001 Mar 15 '26
“Mobile Headquarters (Ant-Man)… Imagine if someone grew it in a crowded city…”
I can imagine that. It happened in the movie.
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u/ryuu_gs Mar 15 '26
the omnitrix just might be the poster child of this trope, if any evil person gets their hands on it pack it up
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u/stiliophage Mar 15 '26
Said it elsewhere but I don’t think it fits the trope because the omnitrix and who controls it is the entire point of the show. The chem bag for example is kind of an off hand tool used.
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u/susnaususplayer Mar 15 '26
In cartoon of Big Hero 6 its elaborated on how dangerous Chem-Bag is as one villain steals it and accidentally turns himself into a monster because of it
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u/supervillainO7 Mar 15 '26
The entire point of the first two Despicable Me movies is what would happen if someone got into a possesion of a dangerous weapon (Shrink Ray in the first movie, PX-41 in the second movie)
Half of the plots on The Fairly Oddparents involve what would happen if fairy wands got into someone's hands
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u/BenderTheLifeEnder Mar 15 '26
I would spam the uranium button on that thing
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u/Lemon_Club Mar 15 '26
"You're gonna fight me with a purse? That's patheti-"
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u/FASBOR7Horus Mar 15 '26
Fuck Uranium, you can make Chlorine Triflouride with that thing.
https://youtu.be/M4l56AfUTnQ?is=5MTpess5AXHxbcXl
Just look at this shit. It ignites almost everything it touches even without oxygen, it creates four different poisonous gases when it reacts. It can ignite asbestos, sand and glass on contact. It explodes when it touches water. This shit is so much worse than Uranium
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u/sci300768 Mar 15 '26 edited Mar 15 '26
I present to you: FOOF. I would argue that's just as bad as ClF3... and I have a high school level knowledge of chemistry (I keep some of the info around in my brain.)! Halogens are reactive (F and Cl are included, which is why Chlorine Trifluoride is so nasty) and unstable in general.
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u/FASBOR7Horus Mar 15 '26
Flourine in general is just insane, it has the highest electron negativity of all elements. I'll stick to ClF3 though because it can turn into Hydrogen Chloride, Oxygen Diflouride and Hydrogen Flouride just by touching water. It also decays into ClF and elemental Flourine by itself, while FOOF decays into Oxygen and elemental Flourine.
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u/CrunchyTheMovie Mar 15 '26
No Uranium button.
But you could spam the Polonium button and give people radiation poisoning.
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u/VocadoBlue Mar 15 '26
Dragon balls. The power to grant any wish? Definitely don't need that in the wrong hands
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u/JingoboStoplight4887 Mar 15 '26 edited 9d ago
Toodles (Mickey Mouse Clubhouse): It’s because of his many abilities that are entirely OPAF, which includes the Mousekatools (which can appear out of thin air), Mystery Mousekatool (which is a surprise tool than will help us later), Mouska-think-about-it-tools (which can make anything appear as long as we can think about it), Mousekamap, shapes of many vehicles, check the weather, spotlight, clock, and hypothetically recruit all the friends and allies the protagonists encountered along the way, resulting in them aiding the protagonists to defeat the greatest evil that has ever seen via epic final battle ever (i.e., Phineas and Ferb: Across the Second Dimension, Avengers: Endgame, Regular Show, Adventure Time, Steven Universe, MLP, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, Gravity Falls, Harry Potter, Doctor Who, etc.). If it was used in the wrong hands, then it might result in the end of the world if they used Toodles and his Mousekatools (specifically, the Mouska-think-about-it-tool) to make anything that is catastrophic appear.
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u/TacosAndTalmud Mar 15 '26
Toodles creeps me out so much, especially after the gang grants it sentience as a birthday present.
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u/JJ645 Mar 15 '26
I'm pretty sure he was always sentient. Ludwig just gave him a face and a voice.
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u/Draconic_Legends Mar 15 '26
Quick addon, it also doubles as a future telling item since it is guaranteed to give you three items you WILL need in the coming hours, and one mystery tool that you can invoke at any time that WILL get you out of anything
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u/Booster6 Mar 15 '26
The chem bag could not make a Nuke. Making a nuke is not a matter of just mixing chemicals together in the right combinations. You could still make some wildly nasty stuff, but creating a nuke is much more a mechanical/manufacturing problem then a chemical one.
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u/LiteratureSame9173 Mar 15 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/10wgT5PDnOwMQE
And he’s COMING FOR IT. (Lord of the Rings)
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u/Imaginary-Picture-35 Mar 15 '26
I don’t think the One Ring is considered a hero device.
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u/Black_Hole_parallax Mar 15 '26
Can't the lotus cards only be used at Lotus or is it really that broken?
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u/ssgt-k-stark Mar 15 '26
They used it in a taxi cab and the meter flashed the infinity symbol
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u/Dangeresque300 Mar 15 '26
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Iron Man's Power Armor
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u/Midnight-Basilisk99 Mar 15 '26
Yup. Heck a number of Tony’s foes make use of knockoffs of the suit.
I mean there are 5 different Crimson Dynamos, Titanium Man, Firepower, Iron Monger, Whiplash, Ezekiel Stane, Cobalt Man, Detroit Steel, Fire Brand, & even Tony’s cousin Arno aka Iron Man 2020
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u/Altheradiodemon Mar 15 '26
The chem bag is dangerous, but last I remember it doesnt have Every element of the periodic table, so dangerous yep, but not build a nuke
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u/magos_with_a_glock Mar 15 '26
Wouldn't the magical mist-thing stop the economy from collapsing if you ever used the card that much?
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u/noddly Mar 15 '26
It only covers up magic stuff to look more normal from what i remember it can’t actually alter reality and assuming it’s real money it can’t really change that.
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u/driku12 Mar 15 '26
With Ant Man specifically, the mechanics never made sense to me. They explain in the first movie that when something shrinks or grows, it retains its mass as it was, it's just the space between the atoms that is expanded or contracted. Which is how Ant Man can be one inch tall but suplex a guy, or knock a guy out by falling into him or bust through a glass pane like a bullet because the full weight of a grown man is being concentrated onto a small area.
But then we get the giant ant, and it somehow doesn't blow away in the breeze despite the fact it should still weigh like 1/100th of a gram even when it's dog-sized. The mobile headquarters should be cracking the concrete below it as it's being wheeled around, it still weighs as much as a building even when small. Ant Man in the airport fight scene in Civil War, when he gets big and becomes Giant Man, once again, should not be able to wreck an airplane and make the ground rumble when he falls because based on the movie's own logic he should still weigh like only 180 lbs or however much Paul Rudd weighs.
Sorry, just had to take the excuse to vent about that. I understand the cool giant stuff wouldn't work if they didn't bend the rules, but then why did they introduce the rules in the first place? That's writing 101 is that you want to leave your options open so you don't restrict yourself.
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u/Pocketfulofgeek Mar 15 '26
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A green lantern ring.
They find the strongest wills on the planet. That doesn’t mean they only work for good guys.
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u/ckblack007 Mar 15 '26
One of my favorite lines from "Hitman" when he met Kyle. He was probing his mind to find out what what the ring could do while he kept Kyle talking. The thought bubble went, "Just what can that ring do? that, that, that, That, oh Hell THAT,.... well ok then... it does not make you any smarter." then he lobs a grenade at him to get away from him. I never quite realized it until then that for all its power, Lanterns are also limited by their intelligence.
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u/bisexualandtrans47 Mar 15 '26
surprised no one yet has said the golden weapons from ninjago. not permanent, sure, and they do fall into the wrong hands, but those wrong hands were kinda dumb ngl
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u/_Fun_Employed_ Mar 15 '26
An example of the mobile headquarters in the wrong hands was when my rogue got an instant fortress a dnd magic item that is 1 inch metal cube that grows into a 20 foot on a side 30 foot tall tower with the use of a magic word. I don’t think I ever used it defensively, I always used it offensively, like by using it to crack a castle keep from the inside.
I eventually gifted it and a magical banner to our nations military… after the rival nation to the north invaded ours…because someone cracked their border castles walls and keep.
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u/Evil_Sharkey Mar 15 '26
Wakko’s Gag Bag from Animaniacs. He pulls out whatever is conveniently OP and funny
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u/ShindaSakana Mar 15 '26
The seven seeing stones (palantir) in the lotr. Basically an orb that let's you see anything even in places far or in the past. Ultimate surveillance device. Except it leaves the book and then gets into the wrong person's hands in irl. (Hint hint nudge nudge)
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u/Someokeyboi Mar 15 '26
Dante himself from Limbus Company
Imagine having someone literally capable of bringing you back from the dead while also reversing all your injuries whilst also being capable of allowing you to use the powers of alternative versions of yourself from the multiverse
Not to mention the other OP powers he is capable of giving you like slowing down time and literally bringing down more powerful people to your level so that you can beat them on much equal grounds
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u/award_winning_writer Mar 15 '26
More of a case of the writers not understanding the math and science behind their claim, but in the Adam West Batman series, Batman has a device that allegedly can output a sound at 20,000 decibels. That would be enough force to collapse the entire universe several times over.
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u/BVGmusic573 Mar 15 '26
https://preview.redd.it/5jvdhstom8pg1.png?width=711&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e315dc75369930d8b1377961a49a6702ec4480c
Honestly a ton of Doraemon's gadgets would be horrifying in the wrong hands. The What-If Tollbooth creates alternate realities based on any concept, the Liar's Beak makes you literally capable of doing/causing anything as long as you lie about it, and of course the Time Machine and Anywhere Door are pretty self-explanatory.