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* The Whisperers in Seasons 9-10 of ''[[Series/TheWalkingDead2010 The Walking Dead]]'' have a downplayed example. Alpha commands a truly monstrous horde of thousands of walkers that could easily level any of the allied communities, but she's something of a NormalFishInATinyPond. Hordes ''can'' be dealt with given enough infrastructure and manpower. However, the Whisperers threaten the communities in a time when resources and infrastructure for the communities are dwindling, and Alpha's pike massacre destroys a lot of the Coalition's morale to the point they reluctantly submit to obey Alpha's demands to stay out of her claimed territory. There's also the matter of a few hundred Whisperers who hide among the horde and are able to lead it wherever they want. Michonne outright compares the horde to a nuclear weapon. In Season 10, the horde is ''just'' able to be vanquished by the Coalition, and later a smaller horde is vanquished by heavy weaponry, showing that the Whisperer horde, while formidable, was not invincible.
* The Whisperers in Seasons 9-10 of ''[[Series/TheWalkingDead2010 The Walking Dead]]'' have a downplayed example. Alpha commands a truly monstrous horde of thousands of walkers that could easily level any of the allied communities, but she's something of a NormalFishInATinyPond. Hordes ''can'' be dealt with given enough infrastructure and manpower. However, the Whisperers threaten the communities in a time when resources and infrastructure for the communities are dwindling, and Alpha's pike massacre destroys a lot of the Coalition's morale to the point they reluctantly submit to obey Alpha's demands to stay out of her claimed territory. There's also the matter of a few hundred Whisperers who hide among the horde and are able to lead it wherever they want. Michonne outright compares the horde to a nuclear weapon. In Season 10, the horde is ''just'' able to be vanquished by the Coalition, and later a smaller horde is vanquished by heavy weaponry, showing that the Whisperer horde, while formidable, was not invincible.
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** PointlessDoomsdayDevice: An ancient device with the singular purpose of destroying the world.
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*** In the Expansion pack for ''VideoGame/RedAlert2,'' "Yuri's Revenge," the titular supervillain Yuri uses the Psionic Dominator and Genetic Mutator as his supeweapons. The Psionic Dominator fires a pulse of psychic energy that levels bases like a nuke, but permanently {{Mind Control}}s any non-robotic unit caught in its area-of-effect. It's building-destroying blast is much wider than its mind-control ability.The Genetic Mutator instantly transforms any infantry unit caught in the blast into the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk-like]] Brute.
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* PlanetDestroyer: If a weapon can destroy a planet, it will immediately be considered a superweapon by those on the recieving end, and seldom is the PlanetDestroyer that will not destroy something smaller if it gets in the way.
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* PlanetDestroyer: If a weapon can destroy a planet, it will immediately be considered a superweapon by those on the recieving receiving end, and seldom is the PlanetDestroyer that will not destroy something smaller if it gets in the way.
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* A good case can be made for ''satellites'' being an early-21st century superweapon of their own alongside nuclear weapons. While the world has yet to develop {{Kill Sat}}s, that's almost a footnote compared to their usefulness in terms of rendering [[SpySatellites battlefields incredibly transparent and facilitating communication]], because while the technology exists to shoot down satellites ''no one'' wants to be the first to do so. This is because the nature of their operation in orbit around Earth means that shooting one down [[DisasterDominoes would go a long way towards]] triggering [[DangerousOrbitalDebris Kessler Syndrome]] which would render ''any'' kind of satellite unfeasible, [[HoistbyHisOwnPetard even their own]], and [[PyrrhicVictory even those used for civilian day-to-day life]] - and even that's not to mention the political fallout. Given that even combatants without satellites of their own can simply purchase access to private satellites from the numerous companies who are willing to sell such access, this means that battlefield intelligence is incredibly affordable, and as such the battlefields of the early 21st century are so transparent that if you do not operate on the assumption that SinisterSurveillance is in full effect your life expectancy is ''[[DeadlyEuphemism severely]]'' decreased.
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* A good case can be made for ''satellites'' being an early-21st century superweapon of their own alongside nuclear weapons. While the world has yet to develop {{Kill Sat}}s, that's almost a footnote compared to their usefulness in terms of rendering [[SpySatellites battlefields incredibly transparent and facilitating communication]], because while the technology exists to shoot down satellites ''no one'' wants to be the first to do so. This is because the nature of their operation in orbit around Earth means that shooting one down [[DisasterDominoes would go a long way towards]] triggering [[DangerousOrbitalDebris Kessler Syndrome]] which would render ''any'' kind of satellite unfeasible, [[HoistbyHisOwnPetard even their own]], those owned by the one shooting them down]], and [[PyrrhicVictory even those used for civilian day-to-day life]] - and even that's not to mention the political fallout. Given that even combatants without satellites of their own can simply purchase access to private satellites from the numerous companies who are willing to sell such access, this means that battlefield intelligence is incredibly affordable, and as such the battlefields of the early 21st century are so transparent that if you do not operate on the assumption that SinisterSurveillance is in full effect your life expectancy is ''[[DeadlyEuphemism severely]]'' decreased.
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* A good case can be made for ''satellites'' being an early-21st century superweapon of their own alongside nuclear weapons. While the world has yet to develop {{Kill Sat}}s, that's almost a footnote compared to their usefulness in terms of rendering [[SpySatellites battlefields incredibly transparent and facilitating communication]], because while the technology exists to shoot down satellites ''no one'' wants to be the first to do so. This is because the nature of their operation in orbit around Earth means that shooting one down [[DisasterDominoes would go a long way towards]] triggering [[DangerousOrbitalDebris Kessler Syndrome]] which would render ''any'' kind of satellite unfeasible, [[HoistbyHisOwnPetard even their own]], and even those used for civilian day-to-day life - and even that's not to mention the political fallout. Given that even combatants without satellites of their own can simply purchase access to private satellites from the numerous companies who are willing to sell such access, this means that battlefield intelligence is incredibly affordable, and as such the battlefields of the early 21st century are so transparent that if you do not operate on the assumption that SinisterSurveillance is in full effect your life expectancy is ''[[DeadlyEuphemism severely]]'' decreased.
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* A good case can be made for ''satellites'' being an early-21st century superweapon of their own alongside nuclear weapons. While the world has yet to develop {{Kill Sat}}s, that's almost a footnote compared to their usefulness in terms of rendering [[SpySatellites battlefields incredibly transparent and facilitating communication]], because while the technology exists to shoot down satellites ''no one'' wants to be the first to do so. This is because the nature of their operation in orbit around Earth means that shooting one down [[DisasterDominoes would go a long way towards]] triggering [[DangerousOrbitalDebris Kessler Syndrome]] which would render ''any'' kind of satellite unfeasible, [[HoistbyHisOwnPetard even their own]], and [[PyrrhicVictory even those used for civilian day-to-day life life]] - and even that's not to mention the political fallout. Given that even combatants without satellites of their own can simply purchase access to private satellites from the numerous companies who are willing to sell such access, this means that battlefield intelligence is incredibly affordable, and as such the battlefields of the early 21st century are so transparent that if you do not operate on the assumption that SinisterSurveillance is in full effect your life expectancy is ''[[DeadlyEuphemism severely]]'' decreased.
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* A good case can be made for ''satellites'' being an early-21st century superweapon of their own alongside nuclear weapons. While the world has yet to develop {{Kill Sat}}s, that's almost a footnote compared to their usefulness in terms of rendering [[SpySatellites battlefields incredibly transparent and facilitating communication]], because while the technology exists to shoot down satellites ''no one'' wants to be the first to do so. This is because the nature of their operation in orbit around Earth means that shooting one down [[DisasterDominoes would go a long way towards]] triggering [[DangerousOrbitalDebris Kessler Syndrome]] which would render ''any'' kind of satellite unfeasible [[HoistbyHisOwnPetard even their own]], and even those used for civilian day-to-day life. Given that even combatants without satellites of their own can simply purchase access to private satellites from the numerous companies who are willing to sell such access, this means that battlefield intelligence is incredibly affordable, and as such the battlefields of the early 21st century are so transparent that if you do not operate on the assumption that SinisterSurveillance is in full effect your life expectancy is ''[[DeadlyEuphemism severely]]'' decreased.
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* A good case can be made for ''satellites'' being an early-21st century superweapon of their own alongside nuclear weapons. While the world has yet to develop {{Kill Sat}}s, that's almost a footnote compared to their usefulness in terms of rendering [[SpySatellites battlefields incredibly transparent and facilitating communication]], because while the technology exists to shoot down satellites ''no one'' wants to be the first to do so. This is because the nature of their operation in orbit around Earth means that shooting one down [[DisasterDominoes would go a long way towards]] triggering [[DangerousOrbitalDebris Kessler Syndrome]] which would render ''any'' kind of satellite unfeasible unfeasible, [[HoistbyHisOwnPetard even their own]], and even those used for civilian day-to-day life.life - and even that's not to mention the political fallout. Given that even combatants without satellites of their own can simply purchase access to private satellites from the numerous companies who are willing to sell such access, this means that battlefield intelligence is incredibly affordable, and as such the battlefields of the early 21st century are so transparent that if you do not operate on the assumption that SinisterSurveillance is in full effect your life expectancy is ''[[DeadlyEuphemism severely]]'' decreased.
