History Main / PhlebotinumBomb

* MassEffect3: [[spoiler: If you pick that option, the Citadel can become one, destroying all synthetic life in the galaxy...the Reapers, the Geth, and EDI. And you did it.]]

* The film version of ''VForVendetta'' had Biological weapons that wiped out humans in a region while keeping the resources and atmosphere intact. [[spoiler:The corrupt UK government used it on one of their own regions to control their subjects with fear]]. In a chilling case of TruthInTelevision, such weapons really are likely being developed and may be perfected in the future.

* In the last episode of ''PowerRangersInSpace'', [[spoiler: Zordon tells Andros to break open his tube, killing him, eliminating the Power Rangers' source of power, and most importantly wiping out all evil in the galaxy. It works, destroying nearly every villain that ever appeared on the show except Divatox, Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa, who are inexplicably turned into yuppies.]] Considering how many seasons there have been since then, this obviously didn't take.

A SubTrope of TrickBomb. May also be a WaveMotionGun.

* In ''Seeing Redd'', the sequel to ''TheLookingGlassWars'', there is a device called [[FunWithAcronyms WILMA]] (Weapon of Inconceivable Loss and Massive Annihilation), the exact workings of which are kept somewhat vague, but the effects of which seem to be [[spoiler:destroying the imaginative powers of anyone within range]].

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* The Halos in the ''{{Halo}}'' series, which kill all sentient life in the galaxy, but leave lower life (ie incapable of sustaining the Flood) untouched. For them to directly kill the Flood (rather than starving them out), they would have to wipe out all life period.

* One of the many powerups in ''Warblade'' turns everything on the screen into diamonds, which only give 1000 points (a good score is about 2 billion so that's not a lot) but when you catch 100 of them you get a special bonus round where giant gems drop that are worth 100000+ each. You can normally get 10000000 from such a bonus round. Diamonds that increment the counter by 5 or 2 appear in other forms of bonus levels. There are 5 different forms of bonus levels by the way. Another powerup turns everything into money, which is much, much more beneficial in the long run.
* The ''SyphonFilter'' virus is genetically engineered to kill people of certain ethnicities, sort of like Fox Die in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''.

* The Xel'Naga artifact you assemble over the course of the Terran campaign in StarcraftII kills all Zerg and only Zerg within its blast radius. As a side effect, at full power it also [[spoiler: cures infested humans and restores them to normal]].

* In ''{{Stargate SG-1}},'' the Goa'Uld planet of Dakara turned out to be home to [[spoiler:a device that could create or destroy anything, including specific lifeforms or objects. Ironically, the device was originally used to recreate life in the Milly Way Galaxy after a plague swept through it.]] While its range normally only extended to the planet it was on and the surrounding space, SG-1 managed to [[spoiler:use it in conjunction with the gate system to destroy all the Replicator nano-bots in the galaxy.]]

* ''DarkAngel'' had a massive EMP destroy the world's computer systems, creating enough record loss and confusion that Max and her fellow {{Biological Mash Up}}s could escape into normal society without immediately being tracked down.

* Bloodtox gas in ''{{Prototype}}'', which causes necrosis in those infected with the virus (including the protagonist) but is completely harmless to normal human. "In fact, it's so harmless that [[OhCrap you've been breathing it since you entered this room.]]"

* The ''SyphonFilter'' virus is genetically engineered to kill people of certain ethnicities, sort of like Fox Die in ''MetalGearSolid''.

** Subverted when [[spoiler:the actual goal was to separate Robin from the other Titans.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:that what it really did was ''break into pieces''. In the confusion this caused, the other Titans got zapped by a nanobot-inducing laser.]]

** Subverted when [[spoiler:the actual goal was to separate Robin from the other Titans.]] Not to mention [[spoiler:that what it really did was put nanomachines inside the other Titans' bodies.]]

* The Death Mask from ''VideoGame/AstroBoyTheOmegaFactor'' was a gigantic {{Mayincatec}}-looking KillSat that could generate a worldwide EMP that would kill all the robots on Earth, created as a contingency plan incase a RobotWar broke out. Unfortunately its powersource, [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum Omotanium]], could also emit radiation that was harmful to humans, making it possible for the device to eradicate humanity instead, leading to extremists on both sides trying to gain control of the weapon.

* The Death Mask from ''AstroBoy: The Omega Factor'' was a gigantic {{Mayincatec}}-looking KillSat that could generate a worldwide EMP that would kill all the robots on Earth, created as a contingency plan incase a RobotWar broke out. Unfortunately its powersource, [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum Omotanium]], could also emit radiation that was harmful to humans, making it possible for the device to eradicate humanity instead, leading to extremists on both sides trying to gain control of the weapon.

* Arclight's shockwave in the third ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' movie. She was able to target only the soldiers' guns. (In the comic books, she doesn't appear to be able to fine-tune it like that... and [[AxCrazy wouldn't have bothered]] sparing the soldiers, anyway.) At the end of the first movie, [[spoiler:Magneto tries to use a weapon that is supposed to turn normal humans into Mutants, but will actually kill them.]]
** In the second X-Men movie, ''X2'', Cerebro is [[spoiler:redesigned to kill only mutants..and then redesigned to kill only non-mutants]].

* In ''CasinoRoyale1967'', the rather height-challenged antagonist is devising a weapon that will make all women beautiful and kill all men who are taller than he is.

Name comes from a dream [[{{Tropers/Crisis}} one contributor]] had, in which he built "a Phlebotinum Bomb" from various bits of Phlebotinum to cause a planet-wide wave that would destroy all the evil [[LivingShadow shadow-monsters]].

* In [[ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog Archie Comics' version]] of [[SonicTheHedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog]], in the 21st century (which was ten thousand years before Sonic's plot started), an alien race known as the Xordas didn't take kindly to human scientists murdering and dissecting their peace-bringing emissary. They responded by detonating "gene-bombs" across the Earth, which specifically targets all of its organisms' DNA; if they're human, they were to die (a tiny fraction survived and devolved over 10,000 years into the Overlanders, like Robotnik and such), but as for non-human animals, they ''evolved'' into the Mobians during said period (ex: Sonic and pals), and were meant to be the new dominant species of the planet.

* The film version of ''VForVendetta'' had Biological weapons that wiped out humans in a region while keeping the resources and atmosphere intact. [[spoiler:The corrupt UK government used it on one of their own regions to control their subjects with fear]]. In a chilling case of TruthInTelevision, such weapons really are likely being developed and may be perfected in the future.
** But in real life only the most insane people ever would be willing to use them in practice; they are notoriously unreliable, and can easily mutate or demonstrate unexpected effects that will quickly turn against the original user, as well. They are mostly being developed for the sake of finding countermeasures against them, just in case an insane enough person ever got their hands on them.

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* One of the [[TheBible Biblical]] plagues killed every first-born son in Egypt.

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* In the last episode of ''PowerRangersInSpace'', [[spoiler: Zordon tells Andros to break open his tube, killing him, eliminating the Power Rangers' source of power, and most importantly wiping out all evil in the galaxy. It works, destroying nearly every villain that ever appeared on the show except Divatox, Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa, who are inexplicably turned into yuppies.]] Considering how many seasons there have been since then, this obviously didn't take.

* Sort-of TruthInTelevision: An EMP (electro magnetic pulse) will disable electronics without affecting humans (at least directly). However, seeing that large scale tests were never conducted (mostly due to a potential side effect of knocking out all the electronics in too large a radius to make a test feasibly safe), its true effects in any realistic scenario are not precisely determined, and may range from doing near nothing at all to total destruction of all electronic circuits on the continent. Also, seeing that the only feasible way to produce an EMP powerful enough to be of use in warfare with current technology is a high altitude nuclear explosion, we likely won't be seeing it used in anything short of a nuclear exchange.

** The justification for this was that tanks are actually very good at withstanding a nuclear blast as long as they're not right at ground zero - and the Soviet Union had a bajillion tanks they could use in a European ground war.

* The Xel'Naga artifact you assemble over the course of the Terran campaign in {{Starcraft II}} kills all Zerg and only Zerg within its blast radius. As a side effect, at full power it also [[spoiler: cures infested humans and restores them to normal]].

* In ''Webcomic/JetDream'', the mysterious [[AppliedPhlebotinum Virus-X]] is tested on the Thunderbird Squadron, changing them [[GenderBender from T-Birds to T-Girls]]. Later, the sinister forces of Z.E.R.O. detonate a weaponized Virus-X bomb over Miami Beach, Florida, turning the entire male population into women. Jet Dream finds an antidote in time to reverse the effects on the city, but [[FirstLawOfGenderBending it's too late for the T-Girls themselves]].

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* In the 1967 version of ''CasinoRoyale'', the rather height-challenged antagonist is devising a weapon that will make all women beautiful and kill all men who are taller than he is.

* The "blue-rinse" bio-bomb in the ''ArtemisFowl'' series kills all organic life, but leaves everything else untouched.

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* In JetDream, the mysterious [[AppliedPhlebotinum Virus-X]] is tested on the Thunderbird Squadron, changing them [[GenderBender from T-Birds to T-Girls]]. Later, the sinister forces of Z.E.R.O. detonate a weaponized Virus-X bomb over Miami Beach, Florida, turning the entire male population into women. Jet Dream finds an antidote in time to reverse the effects on the city, but [[FirstLawOfGenderBending it's too late for the T-Girls themselves]].

* The first movie of ''GetSmart'', titled ''The Nude Bomb'', features a bomb that only destroys clothes.

* In ''{{Stargate SG-1}},'' the Goa'Uld planet of Dakara turned out to be home to [[spoiler:a device that could create or destroy anything, including specific lifeforms or objects. Ironically, the device was originally used to recreate life in the Milly Way Galaxy after the who plague thing.]] While its range normally only extended to the planet it was on and the surrounding space, SG-1 managed to [[spoiler:use it in conjunction with the gate system to destroy all the Replicator nano-bots in the galaxy.]]