Freddy Krueger vs. Spiderman? I'd buy that for a dollar.
July 28, 2015 7:00 PM Subscribe
Also that really big gun the Joker used in Michael Keaton's Batman.
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:09 PM on July 28, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by turbid dahlia at 7:09 PM on July 28, 2015 [3 favorites]
What about the wrist-mounted crossbows, from Road Warrior?
posted by littlejohnnyjewel at 7:10 PM on July 28, 2015
posted by littlejohnnyjewel at 7:10 PM on July 28, 2015
No love for Dirty Harry's .44 Magnum. I see how it is.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 7:12 PM on July 28, 2015
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 7:12 PM on July 28, 2015
Beatrix was robbed. That's Hatori steel. And no Ash from "Army of Darkness"? Inconceivable.
posted by wintermind at 7:14 PM on July 28, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by wintermind at 7:14 PM on July 28, 2015 [2 favorites]
How is "virtually indestructible" a weakness of Captain America's shield or Mjolnir? While we're at it, how is "very few" a weakness of the Iron Man armor? He's got like forty and how many are you gonna wear at once.
posted by Sternmeyer at 7:29 PM on July 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Sternmeyer at 7:29 PM on July 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
It's fun to think of ones that aren't included. Some that care to mind:
* The Gristle Gun made out of weird bones in ExistenZ
* The Phantasm death orb
* The Weirding Module
* Dredd's Lawgiver
* The ZF-1 from The Fifth Element
* The Ultimate Nullifier
* The Mars Attacks! ray guns that turn people into green skeletons
The Fallout selection really should have been the Railway Rifle, and the Half-Life selection should have been the gravity gun (or the Portal gun, if it counts as a weapon).
posted by painquale at 7:43 PM on July 28, 2015 [6 favorites]
* The Gristle Gun made out of weird bones in ExistenZ
* The Phantasm death orb
* The Weirding Module
* Dredd's Lawgiver
* The ZF-1 from The Fifth Element
* The Ultimate Nullifier
* The Mars Attacks! ray guns that turn people into green skeletons
The Fallout selection really should have been the Railway Rifle, and the Half-Life selection should have been the gravity gun (or the Portal gun, if it counts as a weapon).
posted by painquale at 7:43 PM on July 28, 2015 [6 favorites]
The Fallout selection really should have been the Railway Rifle
What a weird way to spell Rock-It Launcher.
posted by Sternmeyer at 7:45 PM on July 28, 2015
What a weird way to spell Rock-It Launcher.
posted by Sternmeyer at 7:45 PM on July 28, 2015
Seeing the Minority Report and Indiana Jones weapons near each other made me think of the whiphounds from Alastair Reynolds' The Prefect.
posted by audi alteram partem at 7:57 PM on July 28, 2015
posted by audi alteram partem at 7:57 PM on July 28, 2015
They chose a fricking phaser over a bat'leth for Star Trek? Whole list is invalid.
posted by Hermione Granger at 7:57 PM on July 28, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by Hermione Granger at 7:57 PM on July 28, 2015 [4 favorites]
I am not even a KotRT fan, but no Excalibur? And I guess David's sling is too controversial?
posted by rosswald at 8:15 PM on July 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by rosswald at 8:15 PM on July 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
Well, 50+% of these are utterly wrong as is only proper for pop culture lists of this sort, so no complaints there. Love the art and some of the non-obvious picks (Shaun's Cricket Bat, yeah!).
Worth noting that tyrants, empires, galaxies, nay whole other realities have trembled before that cruellest, most implacable of threats: "Would you like a jelly baby?"
posted by comealongpole at 8:35 PM on July 28, 2015 [4 favorites]
Worth noting that tyrants, empires, galaxies, nay whole other realities have trembled before that cruellest, most implacable of threats: "Would you like a jelly baby?"
posted by comealongpole at 8:35 PM on July 28, 2015 [4 favorites]
Lazy Gun > Mewmew
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:35 PM on July 28, 2015 [8 favorites]
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 8:35 PM on July 28, 2015 [8 favorites]
this feels embarrassingly juvenile to me, but i guess i feel that way about nerd culture as a whole increasingly
posted by p3on at 8:47 PM on July 28, 2015
posted by p3on at 8:47 PM on July 28, 2015
Wabbajack!
posted by Zalzidrax at 8:48 PM on July 28, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by Zalzidrax at 8:48 PM on July 28, 2015 [6 favorites]
Cap's shield can deflect Mjolnir and take a direct punch from the Hulk without the bearer being harmed in either case. List is utterly bogus.
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:55 PM on July 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by Halloween Jack at 8:55 PM on July 28, 2015 [1 favorite]
Pffftt... Oddjob's hat is obviously better than spiderman's webs - apart from reload time. As to Jason's machete... please....
posted by pompomtom at 8:57 PM on July 28, 2015
posted by pompomtom at 8:57 PM on July 28, 2015
Wait... is that Jason's regular machete, or his space machete from (the glorious and wonderful) Jason X?
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:37 PM on July 28, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by ROU_Xenophobe at 9:37 PM on July 28, 2015 [2 favorites]
If there's no rat flail, they're just wasting everyone's time.
posted by sourcequench at 9:43 PM on July 28, 2015
posted by sourcequench at 9:43 PM on July 28, 2015
How is "virtually indestructible" a weakness of Captain America's shield or Mjolnir? While we're at it, how is "very few" a weakness of the Iron Man armor? He's got like forty and how many are you gonna wear at once.
I think they are trying to say that Cap's shield and Mjolnir have no weaknesses, and that the suit is also largely free of weakness. Which well is pretty lazy and also obviously not very clear to anyone.
posted by cirhosis at 10:00 PM on July 28, 2015
I think they are trying to say that Cap's shield and Mjolnir have no weaknesses, and that the suit is also largely free of weakness. Which well is pretty lazy and also obviously not very clear to anyone.
posted by cirhosis at 10:00 PM on July 28, 2015
Missed out on:
- Green Lantern Ring
- Cosmic Cube
- Anti-Life Equation
- Point of View Gun
and Hellboy's real weapon is his indestructible Right Hand of Doom.
posted by benzenedream at 12:00 AM on July 29, 2015 [3 favorites]
- Green Lantern Ring
- Cosmic Cube
- Anti-Life Equation
- Point of View Gun
and Hellboy's real weapon is his indestructible Right Hand of Doom.
posted by benzenedream at 12:00 AM on July 29, 2015 [3 favorites]
I stopped reading when they claimed dainty rodent-shaped pieces of thrown metal are 'more badass' than an unlicensed particle accelerator you wear on your back.
posted by danny the boy at 12:28 AM on July 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by danny the boy at 12:28 AM on July 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
My personal favorite weapon is the C-plus cannon from Fred Saberhagen's Berserker novels. It is a huge gun mounted on space battleships, and its projectiles have their own faster-than-light drives. They skip in and out of hyperspace like a torpedo on water, to approach their target faster than light. Due to relativity, the target (an evil space robot) is hit before it even has a chance to see the projectile coming, and instead sees the trace flash backwards towards the ship that fired it after the fact, as the light from the approach finally reaches it.
posted by foobaz at 1:34 AM on July 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by foobaz at 1:34 AM on July 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
I'm back from TvTropes. I'm ok
posted by yoHighness at 2:22 AM on July 29, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by yoHighness at 2:22 AM on July 29, 2015 [12 favorites]
The Lexx is the most powerful weapon of destruction in the two universes. He said so every episode, and I don't think he can lie.
posted by BinaryApe at 3:22 AM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by BinaryApe at 3:22 AM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
Also: Stormbringer. It's killed more impressive gods than Thor. It's killed all of them.
posted by BinaryApe at 3:26 AM on July 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by BinaryApe at 3:26 AM on July 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
Sometimes, I'm disappointed in what is considered "pop" culture.
posted by numaner at 5:05 AM on July 29, 2015
posted by numaner at 5:05 AM on July 29, 2015
Apparently my favorite is not iconic enough to make the list.
posted by dogmom at 5:21 AM on July 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by dogmom at 5:21 AM on July 29, 2015 [1 favorite]
Huh, I always preferred fictional megaweapons like the Death Star Laser or the Genesis Device to the handheld, but that just may be my Cold War upbringing talking.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 6:12 AM on July 29, 2015
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 6:12 AM on July 29, 2015
Lazy gun, as mentioned upthread. Beyond that, when you're getting into second tier weapon, no love for the reality bomb, the One Ring or the De-Mat gun? Or the weapon that started the improbably giant cannon archetype, Battleship Yamamoto?
List, as is inevitable, is woefully incomplete.
posted by Hactar at 6:59 AM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
List, as is inevitable, is woefully incomplete.
posted by Hactar at 6:59 AM on July 29, 2015 [2 favorites]
This list is missing way too many obvious things. Think of United States Marines in a Godforsaken swamp...
"Their trucks and tanks and howitzers are wallowing," he complained, "sinking in stinking miasma and ooze."
He raised a finger and winked at me. "But suppose, young man, that one Marine had with him a tiny capsule containing a seed of ice-nine, a new way for the atoms of water to stack and lock, to freeze. If that Marine threw that seed into the nearest puddle...?"
"The puddle would freeze?" I guessed.
"And all the muck around the puddle?"
"It would freeze?"
"And all the puddles in the frozen muck?"
"They would freeze?"
"And the pools and the streams in the frozen muck?"
"They would freeze?"
"You bet they would !" He cried. "And the United States Marines would rise from the swamp and march on!"
posted by sfenders at 8:46 AM on July 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
"Their trucks and tanks and howitzers are wallowing," he complained, "sinking in stinking miasma and ooze."
He raised a finger and winked at me. "But suppose, young man, that one Marine had with him a tiny capsule containing a seed of ice-nine, a new way for the atoms of water to stack and lock, to freeze. If that Marine threw that seed into the nearest puddle...?"
"The puddle would freeze?" I guessed.
"And all the muck around the puddle?"
"It would freeze?"
"And all the puddles in the frozen muck?"
"They would freeze?"
"And the pools and the streams in the frozen muck?"
"They would freeze?"
"You bet they would !" He cried. "And the United States Marines would rise from the swamp and march on!"
posted by sfenders at 8:46 AM on July 29, 2015 [4 favorites]
Is it me or is the ranking just completely random? Who puts the Identity Disc disco frisbee at 80%, above a bunch of actual weapons?
posted by Dr Dracator at 10:35 AM on July 29, 2015
posted by Dr Dracator at 10:35 AM on July 29, 2015
Heat-signature seeking gun from Runaway. That and some of the creepy robots in that gave me the jeebies but I think it was mostly a bad reaction from Gene Simmons.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 9:41 PM on July 29, 2015
posted by Ogre Lawless at 9:41 PM on July 29, 2015
List, as is inevitable, is woefully incomplete.
posted by Hactar
I mean seriously, a cricket bat but no Krikkit warship? Ridiculous!
posted by Panjandrum at 7:01 PM on July 30, 2015
posted by Hactar
I mean seriously, a cricket bat but no Krikkit warship? Ridiculous!
posted by Panjandrum at 7:01 PM on July 30, 2015
- The Glaive from Krull
- The T1000 from T2 (all of him)
- Frostmourne from World of Warcraft
- Blade of Grass from Adventure Time
- The Lion's Roar and the harps from Kung Fu Hustle
- The ability to make your head asplode from Scanners
posted by ostranenie at 8:52 PM on July 30, 2015
- The T1000 from T2 (all of him)
- Frostmourne from World of Warcraft
- Blade of Grass from Adventure Time
- The Lion's Roar and the harps from Kung Fu Hustle
- The ability to make your head asplode from Scanners
posted by ostranenie at 8:52 PM on July 30, 2015
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