Photoprotoneutron Torpedo: Difference between revisions

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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! 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").

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* ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'' has King J-der's finger-mounted Anti-Meson Guns.

** In [[Real Life]], a meson consists of one quark and one antiquark. So ''all'' mesons are also antimesons.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' has the Positron Rifle.

 

* Some [[Bronze Age]] Marvel titles occasionally featured a "meson disintegrator".

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[Star Trek]]'' likes to name torpedo types like this despite sometimes having an actual explanation for their payloads, but mostly the names just denote the [[Color Coded for Your Convenience|color of the torpedoes]]. There's the standard Photon Torpedo ([[Antimatter]], white in the original series, blue in ''[[Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]'', red in the subsequent movies, orange in the Next Generation onwards,) the better Quantum Torpedoes (zero-point energy, blue-white.) Polaron Torpedoes(purplish red), Plasma Torpedoes (red in the original series, green in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'')...

* Tom Servo of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' once had a "neutron machine pistol" during a sketch. [[I Call It Vera|He called it Lucille]].