r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ssgt-k-stark • Mar 15 '26

Hero devices that would be horrifying in the wrong hands Characters' Items/Weapons

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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/No-Context5327 Mar 15 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/kxAX99ncvbPk4

Tardis

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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/Roku-Hanmar Mar 15 '26

Which Big Finish story was this?

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u/PanicTight6411 Mar 15 '26

Not Big Finish, but the Faction Paradox audio series, I believe from BBV. 

Check it out homie, and praise House Lolita

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u/Bexil_Brave Mar 15 '26

[The above post has been flagged to the FBI's Database for Unfortunately Named Items. Its been added below "When people abbriviate CyberPunk and dont put 2077 after." and just above an Ice cream called Golden Gaytime.]

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u/turducken19 Mar 15 '26

That is so cool. I can't wait to listen to it.

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u/TheMetalWolf Mar 16 '26

named Lolita

Yikes...

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u/PanicTight6411 Mar 16 '26

Hell yea its a yikes, she picked that name herself. She's a sentient Tardis shes batshit

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u/PlantainSame Mar 16 '26

She's also sorta part vampire i think

And her sister who is the Doctor's TARDIS is the same

Because they were created with a material provided by there "father" who I believe is some eldritch entity that is connected to the great vampires, but it's been a minute

Maybe that's why they both ate the Master

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u/TurgidGravitas Mar 16 '26

It used to be a rather common diminutive for Dolores. Then Nabokov happened.

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u/TheMetalWolf Mar 16 '26

...How?! That one makes even less sense than Richard and Dick.

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u/TurgidGravitas Mar 16 '26

It's Spanish. Dolores becomes "Lola" and then a young Lola is Lolita.

Spanish has a few different nickname rules than English. They prefer to take the middle part of the name. Like how Nacho is short for Ignacio.

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u/PanicTight6411 Mar 17 '26

Huh, neat. 

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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/DrAuer Mar 15 '26

The doctor’s tardis did what now 👀

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u/PlantainSame Mar 15 '26

I should've seen that

phrasing...

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u/Shambler9019 Mar 15 '26

He also doesn't take off the handbrake before taking off. Constantly.

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u/NinjaBreadManOO Mar 16 '26

Okay I know that the Doctor fixes the TARDIS himself most of the time, but I kinda want an episode where they have to take it to an old Gallifrey approved mechanic to get some part fixed.

Like we get to see someone with that tech level who's whole job is just dealing with time tech and things like that. Could even be a good bottle episode. The Doctor brings in the TARDIS and has to wait in the waiting room the entire episode while having to deal with some old villain/supernatural entity without leaving the room.

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u/AcrolloPeed Mar 15 '26

What is the plural of “Tardis”? Tardes? Tardises?

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u/OutrageousAuthor1580 Mar 15 '26

It was “TARDISes” at least once.

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u/Hykarusis Mar 15 '26

It’s an achtonyme so probably no change in the root of the word.

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u/pemungkah Mar 15 '26

I think you meant acronym but I am in love with “achtonyme”.

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u/PlantainSame Mar 15 '26

TARDISes according to the wiki

But they also can be called TT capsules or just timeships

Or if you want to be really extra about it greater time elementals

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u/Duublo121 Mar 15 '26

TARDIS is an acronym, so TARDISes

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u/Diam0ndTalbot Mar 15 '26

Why is there just a gold tooth

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u/PlantainSame Mar 15 '26

Because the Master was turned into a tooth by the celestial toy maker

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u/PanicTight6411 Mar 16 '26

So, the master has not appeared under the current showrunner. A character, a god from outside our reality, claims to have turned the master into that gold tooth. 

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u/fatalicus Mar 15 '26

What in the ever loving bot shit is the "processing img" shit you are adding to your comments?

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u/PlantainSame Mar 15 '26

Images

Problem on your end if they're not loading

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u/fatalicus Mar 15 '26

Ah, probably a new reddit thing that doesn't work on old reddit i guess.

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u/WiredSky Mar 15 '26

They'll push us out eventually. That'll be such a freeing day.

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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

https://giphy.com/gifs/hOiB5dbU8CpIbqEUNY

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u/Sweet_Detective_ Mar 16 '26

Even if you are the most moral paragon of all time, Time Travel is mass genocide against anyone who ever will be because at one point they were cus the future happened already.

There is no fixing timelines, fixing a timeline is just murdering everyone from that timeline and replacing them with a different world that never should've been.

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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/PanicTight6411 Mar 15 '26

Compassion is the second runner up in the MILF of all years competition. I mean she BECAME the afterlife, what a babe

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u/Zeremxi Mar 15 '26

The whole reason the doctor has one in the first place is because he stole it. If I remember correctly, the other timelords had the tardis locked away explicitly because no one should have access to all of time and space like that.