Greatest Weapons Of Last Resort In Fiction

[cojo965]

The weapon of last resort, a power or tool meant only for if there are no options left. What do you have as your favorite? While Godzilla in the new movie only seems to use his atomic breath if his sheer muscle doesn't work, which would qualify it here, Gamera from the 90s probably has the best excuse I've seen for keeping his ultimate weapon as this. in case you're wondering, this is it:

Spoiler

Using this weapon drains Earth's life energy and makes conditions favorable to his arch enemy Gyaos, so he can't afford to lead with this.

 

[Queen Michael]

It's got to be the Ultimate Nullifier from the Marvel universe. It's what we in Sweden call an "ashäftig mackapär," which roughly means "a device which, when you gaze upon it, fills you with both respect and excitement over its unparallelled capabilities."

 

[Johnny Impact]

Spoiler: Death Blossom. Relevant portion at 2:05.

What are you worried about? Theoretically, we should already be dead!

Spoiler: Crossing the streams.

There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive.

Spoiler: Power of the Matrix

Even though the Matrix is always a symbol of hope and authority for the Autobots, none of them really knows what will happen if its power is unleashed. Their army defeated and scattered, their archnemesis returned more powerful than ever, their entire planet currently being destroyed by an implacable, impossibly powerful enemy....doesn't get more last resort than that.

Can you tell I'm a child of the 80s?

 

[Tuxedoman]

Exterminatus? Exterminatus.

Spoiler

When the Imperium of Man deems a world unable to be reclaimed/defended, or when the Inquisition feels like being a cosmic asshole to someone, they do this.

 

[gigastar]

Doctor Who seems to be having another one such weapon every series or so.

For example, UNIT has Earth itself rigged to blow as a last "Fuck You" to whatever finally conquers Earth.

And of course, The Moment. Or, as i call it, the Deus Ex Machina Button.

 

[Johnny Impact]

Doctor Who seems to be having another one such weapon every series or so.

For example, UNIT has Earth itself rigged to blow as a last "Fuck You" to whatever finally conquers Earth.

And of course, The Moment. Or, as i call it, the Deus Ex Machina Button.

And what about the TARDIS itself? Doesn't it have the power to destroy all time and space? I seem to remember one episode where it was exploding backward through time with ever-increasing force so that it took out the Big Bang itself and the whole universe never happened/would have never already happened/already never would have happened/timey-wimey stuff?

 

[gewata]

Halo rings. "Let's wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy." If that ain't last resort I don't know what is.

 

[gigastar]

Doctor Who seems to be having another one such weapon every series or so.

For example, UNIT has Earth itself rigged to blow as a last "Fuck You" to whatever finally conquers Earth.

And of course, The Moment. Or, as i call it, the Deus Ex Machina Button.

And what about the TARDIS itself? Doesn't it have the power to destroy all time and space? I seem to remember one episode where it was exploding backward through time with ever-increasing force so that it took out the Big Bang itself and the whole universe never happened/would have never already happened/already never would have happened/timey-wimey stuff?

I honestly dont remember. 10 years of entertaining nonsense is a difficult thing to memorise.

Unless its Blink. Cant forget Blink.

 

[TheVampwizimp_v1legacy]

Doctor Who seems to be having another one such weapon every series or so.

For example, UNIT has Earth itself rigged to blow as a last "Fuck You" to whatever finally conquers Earth.

And of course, The Moment. Or, as i call it, the Deus Ex Machina Button.

And what about the TARDIS itself? Doesn't it have the power to destroy all time and space? I seem to remember one episode where it was exploding backward through time with ever-increasing force so that it took out the Big Bang itself and the whole universe never happened/would have never already happened/already never would have happened/timey-wimey stuff?

Yep. Doctor 11's first series was about the cracks in the universe, those being temporal shockwaves of the TARDIS's explosion in the future. Or something. Basically, blow up the TARDIS = blow up the universe. Which really makes the Timelords seem incredibly irresponsible. Forget Davros trying to unravel the universe that one time; Timelords basically used reality bombs for cars.

 

[Shock and Awe]

Halo rings. "Let's wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy." If that ain't last resort I don't know what is.

I'll second that. "If we can't kill them with guns, we'll starve them to death by mass suicide!"

 

[You Can't Take the Sky From Me]

A mage's Final Strike from The Heralds of Valdemar series. It kills the user but is, based on extrapolating from the novels, the magical equivalent of a hydrogen bomb.