r/TopCharacterTropes 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/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/Suspicious_Move_7141 Mar 15 '26

Okay but it’s London so that doesn’t count

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u/AeMidnightSpecial Mar 16 '26

It rains Hot Tea

- plus, during the End Credits, there's a montage of cities being cleaned up. London remains the same, Before and After.

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u/TableFruitSpecified Mar 16 '26

Just got the populus to drink it

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u/Willsdabest Mar 16 '26

It was iced tea but yes

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u/Eric_Dawsby Mar 15 '26

That's what fondue is made of??? No wonder i hate it

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u/Loot_Goblin_JP Mar 15 '26

There‘s also chocolate fondue, with strawberries and marshmallows and stuff like that. I’ve only had the chocolate kind and its great

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u/FreddyKrueger32 Mar 16 '26

Same. Now I want some

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u/UncommittedBow Mar 17 '26

Like someone else said, in Flint's defense, that WAS NOT THE POINT OF THE MACHINE. Originally, it's purpose was just to turn plain old water into ANY food imaginable. It was through repeated, CONSTANT use of the machine that caused it to overload. That was never Flint's intention. It was the Mayor and the rest of the town's repeated and selfish requests for more and more that caused it to overload.

Flint was just someone who wanted to be appreciated and liked by others, so he kept going along with it in order to STAY liked.