History Main / WeirdScience

* The ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' films (and the entire {{tokusatsu}} genre, for that matter) tend to be full of this. In ''Film/GodzillaVsMegaguirus'', the humans have developed a hilarious new weapon to deal with Godzilla: The "Dimension Tide" is a gun that will generate a small ''black hole'' and launch it at Godzilla. The hole will suck up Godzilla, sending him into a parallel dimension, and then vanish. (In the real world, in addition to being monstrously heavy and difficult to create, black holes are also fucking dangerous. Possibly more so than a giant lizard loose in your city. And they don't just vanish into thin air... [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole#Evaporation at least not peacefully]].) At one point, Godzilla tries to defend himself against the Dimension Tide by ''[[BeamOWar shooting the hole]]'' with his energy beam breath.

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the blue/red Izzet League from the guild-dominated plane Ravnica run on this. Impossible is literally just a suggestion at best for them, and the things they create are [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=289222 weird indeed]].

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->''"From my heart and from my hand''
->''Why don't people understand''
->''My intentions..."''
-->-- '''Music/OingoBoingo [[InvokedTrope tells it like it is.]]'''

* TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} [=IOU=] had the skill, '''Science!'''

* With the creation of "Lisa" being the cornerstone, ''Film/WeirdScience'' was naturally about this trope (and in fact named the film, in an {{inverted t|rope}}wist on TropeNamer parameters).

%%* With the creation of "Lisa" being the cornerstone, ''Film/WeirdScience'' was naturally about this trope. Inversion of the TropeNamer.

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''Astounding Science Fiction'' (later ''Magazine/{{Analog}}''), ''Unknown'' (also known as ''Unknown Worlds''), and ''Galaxy'' published generally high quality fiction. ''Magazine/AmazingStories'', ''Weird Tales'' and ''Startling Stories'' and others occupied the middle strata while ''Captain Future'', ''Planet Stories'' and many, many others published the more shamelessly trashy material. (''Unknown'' and ''Weird Tales'' actually published mostly fantasy and horror, though individual ScienceFiction stories and elements would get incorporated in the stories too.) They specialized in imaginative stories of ScienceFiction, with the less highbrow magazines in particular having a good deal more "Boys Own Adventure" flair. The actual name ''Weird Science'' comes from EC Comics ComicBook, which tended to use the KarmicTwistEnding or, more rarely, the CruelTwistEnding. (EC also published ''Weird Fantasy'', actually another ScienceFiction comic, and merged the two titles later.)

* ''ForScience!''

* {{Fenspace}} basically runs on this trope.

** Odd example, ConanTheBarbarian encounters a lost civilization in "Shadows of Xuthal" which has radium lighting and an elixir that both prolonged life and healed just about any wound or injury that wasn't immediately fatal.
* Literature/{{Tarzan}} sometimes encoutered lost civilizations that used this.

* ''Film/{{Stargate}}'': the movie had a lot to do with this trope, as does the [[Franchise/StargateVerse series]]'.

Note also that Weird Science is not the same as HollywoodScience; the former throws realism to the wind in order to create spectacle whereas the latter comes from not bothering to get things right that could have been. They often have similar effects, but different causes; Weird Science springs from RuleOfCool, whereas HollywoodScience grows from [[TheyJustDidntCare poor research.]] (The extreme case, most often found in comedy, is ItRunsOnNonsensoleum.)

The stories featured exotic worlds and gee-whiz gadgetry, [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe buxom space babes]], [[GoodOldFisticuffs two-fisted heroes]] and, most important, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment plenty of gee-whiz gadgetry]]; it is this last that can be called Weird Science. Many of the most notable names in science fiction and fantasy got their start writing in these magazines, and, as the century progressed, the standards both for storytelling and scientific plausibility increased, although an exciting story was always more important than a realistic one.

* [[TheDCU DC Comics]]' anthology titles ''Mystery in Space'' and ''Tales of the Unexpected''.

* {{GURPS}} [=IOU=] had the skill, '''Science!'''
** So does ''SpiritOfTheCentury'', a celebration of the 20s pulp era.

* ''AllOverTheHouse'' veers into this trope almost every time Emily builds a new invention.

* Anything Frederick and Doctor Franky create in ''TheLifeOfNobTMouse'' fits this trope well.

** Odd example, ConanTheBarbarian encounters a lost civilization in "Shadows of Xuthal" which has radium lighting and an elixir that both prologed life and healing just about any wound or injury that wasn't immediately fatal.

-->--'''Music/OingoBoingo [[InvokedTrope tells it like it is.]]'''

* The ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise makes heavy use of this.

Not to be confused with the [[Film/WeirdScience movie]], [[Series/WeirdScience series]] or [[OingoBoingo song]] of the same name, though the premise certainly is.

* ''RatchetAndClank'' tends to run up against some pretty weird science and occasionally throws "science" to the wind because it's ''fun'' to have a tiny, furry alien with a tinier RobotBuddy wielding {{BFG}}s against an army of {{Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot}}s.

* The "Captain Proton" adventures on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' were an unabashed celebration of this trope (somehow fitting for the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' that tended to veer away the most from scientific plausibility).

* ''MomAndDadSaveTheWorld'' somewhat parodies this, but in an affectionate way.