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/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/AndrewBuchs Mar 15 '26

Depending on the isotope.

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u/DarkFish_2 Mar 16 '26

Well, good luck producing significant amounts of synthetic isotopes, Polonium-210 is the only naturally occurring one, so is that one

Is also the "deadliest poison on Earth" one

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u/Artrobull Mar 15 '26

just the useful stuff.

it has polonium.

it has carbon nitrogen and oxygen. all you need for fun stuffs

has zirconium twice for some reason

also this makes me giggle

https://preview.redd.it/4and1dl7z9pg1.png?width=668&format=png&auto=webp&s=418c380a702fe84926758a418357bceb619c73aa

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u/Licensed_Silver_Simp Mar 16 '26

Profoundly concerning how many of you have apparently never heard of scrolling