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* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has the Positron Rifle.
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* One of the main LEP weapons is the Neutrino handgun series, which has variable power settings that let it gently heat substances, stun perps, or provide lethal blasts of powerful energy.
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Often, if the writers bother with [[AllThereInTheManual background material]] they will list such weapons as having yields in the kilo-gigaton range, making this a case of NuclearWeaponsTaboo[[hottip:*:nukes are one of the few explosives that are effective in space though]]
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* ''{{Traveller}}'' largely keeps it "realistic" (with most ships only having lasers or nuclear missiles), save for the fusion gun and the [[WaveMotionGun spinal mount]] meson cannon.
* ''{{Traveller}}'' largely keeps it "realistic" (with most ships only having lasers or nuclear missiles), save for the fusion gun and the [[WaveMotionGun spinal mount]] meson cannon.
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** In the novelization, Grig states the real names involve science too advanced to translate, so he uses the game terms for the sake of convenience.
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* ''CommandAndConquer'' has the GDI's [[KillSat Ion Cannon]] in the ''Tiberium'' games and the USA's very similar Particle Cannon in ''Generals''.
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* ''CommandAndConquer'' has the GDI's [[KillSat Ion Cannon]] in the ''Tiberium'' games and the USA's very similar Particle Cannon in ''Generals''.''Generals'', and the Allies have the Proton Collider in CommandAndConquerRedAlert3.
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* ''MechWarrior'' and its related games featured the weapon known as the PPC, which stands for 'particle projector cannon', derived from the tabletop source material. It is often compared to man-made lightning, but the fiction suggests the weapon fires beams of charged particles. A large percentage of the time, it is rendered as a blue stream of energy with some lead time. The version in the ''Mechwarrior 2'' trilogy fires what the guides term 'plasma balls'.
* Amusingly enough for the page description, game developers SiliconKnights created a top down turn-based-strategy/action hybrid game called ''Cyber Empires'' which featured the Neutrino Cannon as its most powerful energy weapon.
* ''{{Starsiege}}'' and its predecessors, the ''Earthsiege'' series, featured the PBW, for particle beam weapon, which is described as an 'electromagnetic shotgun.' Bearing in mind that the weapon fires a single discrete beam, this raises some questions about how exactly the weapon operates.
** Another example from the series is the electron flux whip, or ELF, which is called the 'lightning bolt on a leash.' It is often rendered as a continuous arc of blue or yellow electricity with a short range, or occasionally as a slow, single arc that twists awkwardly through the air to damage the target's shields or armor.
* Amusingly enough for the page description, game developers SiliconKnights created a top down turn-based-strategy/action hybrid game called ''Cyber Empires'' which featured the Neutrino Cannon as its most powerful energy weapon.
* ''{{Starsiege}}'' and its predecessors, the ''Earthsiege'' series, featured the PBW, for particle beam weapon, which is described as an 'electromagnetic shotgun.' Bearing in mind that the weapon fires a single discrete beam, this raises some questions about how exactly the weapon operates.
** Another example from the series is the electron flux whip, or ELF, which is called the 'lightning bolt on a leash.' It is often rendered as a continuous arc of blue or yellow electricity with a short range, or occasionally as a slow, single arc that twists awkwardly through the air to damage the target's shields or armor.
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** In RealLife, a meson consists of one quark and one antiquark. So ''all'' mesons are also antimesons.
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* ''StarTrek'' likes to name torpedo types like this despite sometimes having an actual explanation for their payloads. There's the standard Photon Torpedo (anti-matter,) the better Quantum Torpedoes (zero-point energy,) Polaron Torpedoes, Plasma Torpedoes...
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* ''StarTrek'' likes to name torpedo types like this despite sometimes having an actual explanation for their payloads. payloads, but mostly the names just denote the [[{{ColorCodedForYourConvenience}} color of the torpedoes]]. There's the standard Photon Torpedo (anti-matter,) (anti-matter, blue in the original series, red in the movies, orange in the Next Generation onwards,) the better Quantum Torpedoes (zero-point energy,) energy, blue.) Polaron Torpedoes, Torpedoes(purplish red), Plasma Torpedoes...Torpedoes(green)...
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* ''StarTrek'' gives us 'photon torpedoes'.
** There are also quantum, plasma, and polaron torpedoes, just to name a few.
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* The gigantic {{Wave Motion Gun}}s of ''{{Freespace}}'' are typically called "beams", both in-game and out, but their technical name is "Photon Beam Cannon". There's also the Meson Bomb, a superpowerful explosive that completely vaporizes anything within three kilometers.
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* The gigantic {{Wave Motion Gun}}s of ''{{Freespace}}'' are typically called "beams", both in-game and out, but their technical name is "Photon Beam Cannon". There's also the Meson Bomb, a superpowerful explosive that completely vaporizes anything within three kilometers. [[{{Fanfic/Derelict}} One fan-made campaign]] threw it all into a blender and hodge-podged together a beam cannon using a meson bomb's energy reaction as a power source.
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* One character in ''Fantastic Voyage II'' by IsaacAsimov jokingly suggests that the military should start researching neutrino bombs. [[ActualPacifist As he sees it]], they'd have all the positive effects of weapons development -- scientific advancement, job creation, and so on -- and none of the negative effects -- such as the ability to actually kill people.
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Note just because it uses real words doesn't mean the words always fit. That means this can easily fall into {{Technobabble}}. This applies in particular to any weapon with "neutrino" in its name. Getting neutrinos to interact with ordinary matter ''at all'' is almost impossible; getting them to interact violently enough to cause damage is entirely laughable.
This is a SubTrope of SciFiNameBuzzwords.
This is a SubTrope of SciFiNameBuzzwords.
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Note just because it uses real words doesn't mean the words always fit. That means this can easily fall into {{Technobabble}}.
{{Technobabble}}. This applies in particular to any weapon with "neutrino" in its name. Getting neutrinos to interact with ordinary matter ''at all'' is almost impossible; getting them to interact violently enough to cause damage is entirely laughable.
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* From the checklist Alex ran down in ''TheLastStarfighter'', Gunstars are apparently armed with a particle beam and proton bolts.
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* ''BattlestarGalactica'' gave us "pulsar cannons." While pulsars aren't a subatomic particle, they're a type of neutron star, which does have "neutron" in its name. (The prospect of somebody shooting neutron stars at you is also pretty frightening.)
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* ''BattlestarGalactica'' gave us "pulsar cannons." While pulsars aren't a subatomic particle, they're a type of neutron star, which does have "neutron" in its name. (The prospect of somebody shooting neutron stars at you is [[MadeOfExplodium also pretty frightening.frightening]].)
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* ''CommandAndConquer'' has the GDI's [[KillSat Ion Cannon]] in the ''Tiberium'' games and the USA's very similar Particle Cannon in ''Generals''.
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** So does the Ion Cannon in ''TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
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So, you're writing science fiction. Need a weapon name? All you have to do is put the name of a subatomic particle in front of a regular modern weapon. Simple!
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So, you're writing science fiction. Need a weapon name? All you have to do is put the name of a subatomic particle in front of a regular modern weapon. Simple!
Simple! Sometimes "ion" and "plasma" are used to the same effect despite not being subatomic particles, although they may be relevant to the weapon's working in some cases. Sometimes, just "particle" is used, and sometimes, "quantum" is used despite the word by itself being utterly irrelevant to the weapon's operation (its meaning being "small(est) individual quantity").
This sometimes results in [[PhysicsGoof hilariously unrealistic]] weapon names for people with a knowledge of the properties of said particles. A "Neutrino Cannon", for example, would be a terribly pointless weapon[[hottip:*:Seeing as neutrinos almost always go straight through normal matter without doing anything to it at all.]], although its name sounds [[RuleOfCool cool]]. This however can be averted by creating your own fictional particles [[MinovskyPhysics with fictional properties]], or by simply doing a bit of research - 'Photon Beam Cannon' for example could realistically denote a laser or any electromagnetic radiation based EnergyWeapon, and 'Positron Warhead' could refer to an explosive that uses {{antimatter}} annihilation as its energy source.
This sometimes results in [[PhysicsGoof hilariously unrealistic]] weapon names for people with a knowledge of the properties of said particles. A "Neutrino Cannon", for example, would be a terribly pointless weapon[[hottip:*:Seeing as neutrinos almost always go straight through normal matter without doing anything to it at all.]], although its name sounds [[RuleOfCool cool]]. This however can be averted by creating your own fictional particles [[MinovskyPhysics with fictional properties]], or by simply doing a bit of research - 'Photon Beam Cannon' for example could realistically denote a laser or any electromagnetic radiation based EnergyWeapon, and 'Positron Warhead' could refer to an explosive that uses {{antimatter}} annihilation as its energy source.
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* ''GalacticCivilizations 2'' is rife with these.
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** Neutron guns, Ion cannons, and Tacyhon cannon
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* In the ''WingCommander'' series, neutron guns are short-range high-damage weapons available on more advanced craft.
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* In From the ''WingCommander'' series, neutron guns ''VideoGame/WingCommander'' series:
** Neutron guns, Ion cannons, and Tacyhon cannon
** ''Privateer'' gives us Proton Torpedoes, which areshort-range high-damage weapons available on more advanced craft.really just very powerful dumbfire missiles that are otherwise unrelated to the regular torpedoes of the rest of the series.
** The BackStory for "Hawk" includes his family being wiped out in the "proton bombing" of his homeworld.
** Neutron guns, Ion cannons, and Tacyhon cannon
** ''Privateer'' gives us Proton Torpedoes, which are
** The BackStory for "Hawk" includes his family being wiped out in the "proton bombing" of his homeworld.
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* The [[HumongousMecha MagiMechTech MechaMechs]] in ''KingdomOfLoathing'' use [[TropeNamer photoprotoneutron torpedoes]].
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* The [[{{Magitek}} [=MagiMechTech=]]] [[HumongousMecha MagiMechTech MechaMechs]] in ''KingdomOfLoathing'' use [[TropeNamer photoprotoneutron torpedoes]].
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* The MarvelVsCapcom series brings us IronMan's [[MemeticMutation PROTON CANNON]].
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* ''HalfLife'' has the Tau Cannon (aka the Gauss Gun) and the Gluon Gun (aka the [[{{Ghostbusters}} Egon]]).
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* ''HalfLife'' has the Tau Cannon (aka the Gauss Gun) and the Gluon Gun (aka the [[{{Ghostbusters}} Egon]]).
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* The gigantic {{Wave Motion Gun}}s of ''{{Freespace}}'' are typically called "beams", both in-game and out, but their technical name is "Photon Beam Cannon". There's also the Meson Bomb, a superpowerful explosive that completely vaporizes anything within three kilometers.
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The Trope Nemer was there, I just missed it. Oops.
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* The probable Trope Namer is "Kingdom of Loathing", in which a photoprotoneutron torpedo is a combat item that drops from a MagiMechTech MechaMech.
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* ''{{Ghostbusters}}'': Proton packs, which are "unlicensed nuclear accelerators" that shoot particles from "neutrona wands".
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* ''{{Ghostbusters}}'': Proton packs, which are "positron colliders" (or sometimes "unlicensed nuclear accelerators" accelerators") that shoot particles from "neutrona wands".
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*''GaoGaiGar'' has King J-der's finger-mounted Anti-Meson Guns.
*''GaoGaiGar'' has King J-der's finger-mounted Anti-Meson Guns.
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* Some BronzeAge Marvel titles occasionally featured a "meson disintegrator".
* Some BronzeAge Marvel titles occasionally featured a "meson disintegrator".
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* ''BattlestarGalactica'' gave us "pulsar cannons." While pulsars aren't a subatomic particle, they're a type of neutron star, which does have "neutron" in its name. (The prospect of somebody shooting neutron stars at you is also pretty frightening.)
