History Main / WeaponOfMassDestruction

* A somewhat tongue-in-cheek example, Gaius Baltar of ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' tends to cause a lot of destruction every time he gets laid. [[http://wiki.frakr.com/en/Baltar%27s_schlong WikiFrakr]] refers to this phenomenon as [[BiggusDickus "Baltar's Schlong."]]

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has "burst missiles" fired from very large submarines of the Yuktobanian Navy. These missiles function almost exactly like MIRV missiles from real life, coming down out of the sky, breaking into several independent warheads, and carpeting a large area with fireballs. There is no mushroom cloud, but the explosions behave more like a nuke than like any other real-world weapon. There is also a nuclear satellite explicitly equipped with a MIRV nuclear warhead.

** ''III'' has [[WaveMotionGun The Behemoth]], a massive energy cannon with a ship wrapped around it that was designed to destroy the Kilrathi homeworld. Was only used once, and not on the Kilrathi.

** Secret Missions had you trying to destroy the Sivar, essentially a colony destroying Dreadnaught that the Kilrathi will use to enslave humanity.
** And in [=WC4=], the [=GenSelect=] device, biological warfare {{nanomachines}} that kill off up to 90 percent of the population of the targeted planet.

* ''Manga/InuYasha'': [[MoreThanInfinite Bakusaiga]], Sesshoumaru's true sword. When it's revealed that Bakusaiga not only destroys what it's directly cut, but the blow then [[TheVirus automatically]] [[ChainReactionDestruction transfers]] to anything that comes into contact with the original victim, [[MasterOfIllusion Byakuya]] sets up a trap designed to kill Sesshoumaru. When Sesshoumaru points out a couple of {{youkai}} won't stop him, Byakuya reveals he knows and that's why he's enlisted an army of [[CrazyPrepared several thousand]]. Sesshoumaru destroys the entire army ''with a single swing'' of Bakusaiga.

* The ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'' has the Concept Killing Spear, the single most dreaded weapon in all creation. Created by a ChildProdigy to kill Love itself, it has the ability to [[RetGone erase whoever it kills from creation]]. This is played for every bit the horror as one would expect: when she killed [[DivineParentage Cupid]] with it, everypony who existed because of Cupid was erased. This amounts to the single largest amount of destruction to the universe ever known until [[spoiler:Nightmare Eclipse repeatedly erasing an ''entire'' universe several thousand times]] finally surpassed it. That was the first and only time the weapon has ever been used. The deities took it and kept it stored in Strife's domain (one of the most dangerous locations in all creation) because even ''she'' (the Concept of ''Conflict itself'') believed it to be too dangerous to remain in the mortal world. [[spoiler:Rancor, while likely holding back, managed to mortally injure a fully powered Discord in one hit with it.]] It's so deadly that the only reason the Concepts didn't destroy it was [[spoiler:Destruction was dead and he was the only one capable of destroying it. Most of the time, the moment they can do so upon regaining his power in some way, they do.]]

** The eponymous Halo Arrays will, if all seven are activated, wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy by releasing energy waves that target the nervous systems of any sufficiently-complex lifeforms in range. The [[{{Precursors}} Forerunners]] built them in order to starve [[TheVirus the Flood]] out of existence, and were forced to fire them 100,000 years prior to the games. Unfortunately, the Forerunners had kept some samples of the Flood in a number of safe-ish places for study, which unfortunately were thought to be weapon caches at first. [[SealedEvilInACan You can imagine how well that turned out once they opened said "weapon caches".]]

** The eponymous Halo Arrays will, if all seven are activated, wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy by releasing energy waves that target the nervous systems of any sufficiently-complex lifeforms in range. The [[{{Precursors}} Forerunners]] built them in order to starve [[TheVirus the Flood]] out of existence, and were forced to fire them 100,000 years prior to the games. Unfortunately, the Forerunners had kept some Flood a number of safe places for study.

** The eponymous Halos will, if all seven are activated, wipe out all sentient life in the galaxy by releasing energy waves that target the nervous systems of any sufficiently-complex lifeforms in range. The [[{{Precursors}} Forerunners]] built them in order to starve [[TheVirus the Flood]] out of existence, and were forced to fire them 100,000 years prior to the games. Unfortunately, the Forerunners had kept some Flood a number of safe places for study.

* ''Nuclear Strike'' gives us Shiva's Dagger, a Soviet super nuke that if launched and detonated in the atmosphere would wipe out the human race. As well as a successful bid to set off a nuke in Pyonyang and blame South Korea.

** That very same weapon makes an appearance in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' more than 60 years later, and this time it does get used. Its effects are a bit different though, with the explosion simply killing anything and everything organic in its huge blast zone. [[spoiler:[[EpicFail Including Godzilla, but not King Ghidorah, the actual target]], which clues in the humans that the latter is not a native part of Earth's ecosystem.]]

* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': It turns out that when the "gremlins" stole the Ytirfliks' mothership and crashed it on earth the ship was carrying a Ytirflik prototype WMD designed to strip away a planet's atmosphere which was made unstable by the crash and which the Ytirfliks really want back.

* [[Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia Sweden's]] Surströmming.

* [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Fate]] has a few of it's Servants Noble Phantasms, weapons or deeds immortalized during their lifetimes, be this. The primary ones being [[WorldsStrongestMan Gilgamesh]]'s Ea, which can literally reduce the world to the state of Genesis and [[HumbleHero Karna]]'s Vasavi Shakti, which's mere summoning causes his surroundings to repeatedly boil, explode and erupt before he even fires the all-killing death blast that it is.

* [[Anime/GunBuster Buster Machine 3]], also known as the Black Hole Bomb. It's core uses the planet Jupiter and the entire thing is a significant fraction of the size of Earth. [[spoiler:It annihilates the Galactic Core and roughly half the Milky Way Galaxy.]]

* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra'': The ''Unstoppable Rebel Superweapon'' arc has the titular device, a miniaturized and modified Death Star designed to hit targets from far enough away that even a powerful Force user couldn't sense it coming. The Rebel RenegadeSplinterFaction building it intend to [[AssassinationAttempt kill Palpatine]] with it, [[WellIntentionedExtremist regardless of the thousands of lives in collateral damage]]. [[spoiler: Except this is actual a ruse by Rebel intelligence, who are [[BatmanGambit counting on]] Aphra's ChronicBackstabbingDisorder making her steal the key component to the "weapon" and present it to the Emperor, at which point the rigged device will blow up in his face. But Aphra [[MagnificentBastard being Aphra]], she figures this all out and plays it to her advantage.]]

* ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'': Nuclear weapons may be banned by interstellar law, but the invasion by the Honored Matres brings with them a far worse weapon. Originally simply called "The Weapon", the missiles get termed "Obliterators" in later novels, and they more than live up to the name. Just a handful of these missiles can set the atmosphere of a planet on fire and burn anything on the surface to slag. It's never stated exactly what the mechanism is that these missiles use, only that they are heat-based.

* ''ComicBook/StarWarsDoctorAphra'': The ''Unstoppable Rebel Superweapon'' arc has the titular device, a miniaturized and modified Death Star designed to hit targets from far enough away that even a powerful Force user couldn't sense it coming. The Rebel RenegadeSplinterFaction building it intend to [[AssassinationAttempt kill Palpatine]] with it, [[WellIntentionedExtremist regardless of the thousands of lives in collateral damage]].

** In ''Literature/DeadBeat'', the Red Court attack a hospital that contains a large number of injured Wardens with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin Sarin gas,]] which ''is'' legally classed as a WeaponOfMassDestruction. The next paragraph shows why, when it mentions that the gas wiped out not just the hospital, but most of the city the hospital was in.

** Shown in the season 2 finale, the Minoan Trident (also known as Poseidon's Trident), which when stabbed into the ground three times opens the fault lines below. Among other things, it's capable of triggering volcanoes, even ''super''volcanoes. In fact, it's even referred to as "The ''first'' WeaponOfMassDestruction."

* ''Webcomic/{{SSDD}}'': The Tower of Babel was used by the Anarchists to destroy isolated Texan platoons and despite being a sky-scraper sized maser cannon couldn't really qualify as a WeaponOfMassDestruction [[spoiler: until they used it to take out Texas' anti-missile defenses and nuked Austin]].

* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Radiation cascade, Black Hole generator, and Burning Wrath/Matter Storm]] [[AllBlueEntry from]] ''VideoGame/UniverseAtWar''.

* Each race in ''VideoGame/EveOnline'' has its own flavor of Doomsday Device (the actual game term for the weapons class). When fired, they destroy pretty much any ship within 150 kilometers save for heavily armored battleships, which just barely survive. The upcoming expansion pack "Dominion" is modifying the Doomsday Device of all four Titans: they are now going to be a focused-fire weapon. So as opposed to the area-of-effect destruction field, think [[Film/StarWars Death Star superlaser]].

* ''VideoGame/GalacticCivilizations 2'' has the Terror Star, an obvious ''ShoutOut'' to the [[Film/StarWars Death Star]] with far more firepower, enough in fact that it blows up stars and all the planets around them when fired. Researching Terror Stars is an excellent way to get the rest of the galaxy very suspicious of your intentions, even if they are your allies.

-->-- From Creator/PaulRobinson's ''The Gatekeeper: The Gate Contracts''

** This trope is taken to its logical extreme by [[MadScientist Davros]] in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd "Journey's End"]]: [[spoiler:his planet-sized Dalek starship, the Crucible, is equipped with a "Reality Bomb", essentially a jumbo-sized, ''planet-powered'' disintegrator that can cancel out nuclear cohesion, reducing matter to nothing. One blast from it can propagate throughout the entire Universe, wiping out everything but the Crucible itself. And by setting it off next to [[OurWormholesAreDifferent the Medusa Cascade]] the blast would spread throughout TheMultiverse, wiping out ''[[ApocalypseHow everything]]'' that could possibly exist, ''ever'', leaving the [[OmnicidalManiac Daleks]] as the only [[AbsoluteXenophobe things left in existence]]]].

** ''VideoGame/AceCombatAssaultHorizon'', in keeping with its more realistic setting, gives us a bit of a downgraded version in the "Trinity Warhead". It's basically a non-nuclear nuke: all the power with none of the fallout.

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkuesUnknown'' has the Arsenal Birds' "Helios Missiles" which function in a very similar manner to the Aigaion' "Nimbus" cruise missiles from ''6'' only with a bright blue flash this time around. The "Unexpected Visitor" DLC campaign revolves around a [[RenegadeRussian rogue Erusean captain]] who hijacks the ''Alicorn'', a '''[[MilitaryMashupMachine 495-meter long submarine aircraft carrier armed with 256 nuclear missiles]].''' The first mission of the DLC mini-campaign ends with you having to shoot down a rogue fighter launched from the sub that is armed with a cruise missile stated to be a WMD.

** ''VideoGame/AceCombat6FiresOfLiberation'' features a WMD never used, but explicitly stated to need a 'catalyst' to be shipped in from elsewhere as well as having the capability of wiping out a large city. Also, there's the cruise missiles used by the Agaion (a flying aircraft carrier) and Chandelier (a gigantic railgun). The weapon of mass destruction was stated to be a chemical weapon, probably nerve gas.