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Cutting-edge technology is usually superior to the older stuff. But sometimes heroes can't use the latest equipment: it may have been destroyed, stolen, confiscated, or rendered inoperable (or obsolete) by the enemy's Applied Phlebotinum or the Alien Space Bats. So what do they do? They take the older stuff out of storage and make do with it. And more often than not, the ancient devices still work just fine. May lead to Chekhov's Gun or Chekhov's Exhibit, if said museum piece has been noted earlier in the plot. Sometimes said museum piece is a Super Prototype that was too costly for mass production — or had other flaws that they will just have to risk. There is a certain degree of Truth in Television involved in this trope. Often the newer and more "advanced" a technology is, the more points of failure it can have. Older technologies may not be as efficient, however, they can still get the job done without the drawbacks of the newer technology. For example: compare attempting to navigate by GPS versus celestial navigation. Yes, the latter isn't as precise of a method, however, it doesn't rely on complicated electronics that can malfunction, be jammed, run out of power, etc. On any clear night, a knowledgeable mariner can easily use the stars to get to where he needs to go. This trope is about using old equipment. When an old paradigm beats a new one (like pitfalls versus Humongous Mecha), it's Rock Beats Laser. When older equipment is better, it's They Don't Make Them Like They Used To when standards decline within a civilization, but Older Is Better when an older civilization or some flavor of Precursors are involved; in either case, an Archaeological Arms Race can ensue. If it's not better, it makes for an easy David Versus Goliath situation when it goes up against the newer tech, and as we all know, Underdogs Never Lose, perhaps because the user is more experienced. In SF settings, it's very possible that Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better. If the museum piece is used with something newer it's Retro Upgrade. See also Invincible Classic Car. Contrast with Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway, in which the piece of equipment is usually a prototype or one-of-a-kind that's put into service before being properly put through its paces. If it needs to be fixed up before it can be used, that's Resurrect the Wreck. |
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In Episode 5 of Batman: The Telltale Series, if you chose to stop Two-Face in Episode 4 instead of Penguin (resulting in losing all Wayne Enterprises tech), Bruce will go into battle wearing an earlier prototype Batsuit resembling the spandex suits from the earlier comics, which does little more than conceal Batman’s identity. | |
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The Titfield Thunderbolt is based around this trope. In order to run a private railway line, the villagers have to demonstrate their service to an inspector. On the day of the inspection, their only working engine is out of commission, so they have to get the antique locomotive of the title literally out of the museum to haul the train. It should be noted that the Lion, the engine that played the part of the Titfield Thunderbolt for the film was over 100 years old at the time the film was produced. A literal museum piece. There are also problems with the museum piece replacement, and they end up pushing the train with a team of volunteers for a while. This all turns out for the best when the inspector reveals that if the train had been any faster, it would have been failed for being too fast for the classification they need. | |
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In Night Watch, when the Glorious Revolution comes to fruition, several of the old (and we do mean OLD) army gentlemen decide to break out their, ahem, mementos. You know, like the swords on top of the fireplaces, or the armour that's lovingly kept polished, or the pikes that were mostly used to stoke fires. Those kinds of mementos. This poses a slight concern for Vimes, who considers that all he'd need to do is ask the lot of them to turn around, and it'd be raining limbs. | |
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In Arthur Christmas, the current Santa Claus uses a gigantic, futuristic aircraft with cloaking technology to deliver presents to all the children in the world. When Arthur discovers that one child has been overlooked, he and Grandsanta try to deliver the present using the 170-year-old sleigh that previous generations of Santa used, which looks just like the traditional version of Santa's sleigh. | |
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In the intro for the third Aero Fighters game, the enemy forces have launched a surprise assault and the heroes scramble in their jets to counterattack, but the jets are attacked and destroyed just as they're trying to take off, which is why they open up the museum hangar containing the old WW2 era piston powered planes that are used in the game. | |
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In the 00 movie, the Earth Federation whips out every battle capable machine they have available in the face of the ELS threat. As a result, brand new GN-XIV's are fighting alongside old Tierens and Realdos. | |
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In one Bolo story, there's an attack on a human outpost where aliens invade at the site of a previous battle and a Bolo tank is a museum piece that literally breaks out of the museum that was built around it. It attacks the aliens and even after suffering huge amounts of damage still manages to defeat the enemy. | |
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Star Trek Online is an interesting take on this concerning both the Federation and the Romulan Republic ships. The Tier-1 through Tier-4 ships (basically, the ships you use leveling up) are said to be ships pulled out of storage either because of the casualties caused by the Dominion War and the Federation-Klingon War that starts the game (Federation) and that these are all they really have and need time to make newer ships (Romulan Republic). Many of the ships used as end game ships are basically modern counterparts with the ability to use the old ship as skins. | |
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Arguably done in MediEvil 2. When Lord Palethorn casts his spell on London, the only one that can stop him is Sir Daniel Fortesque, a skeletal knight who had been dead for five hundred years and whose remains were put in a museum. | |
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Towasanga and the G-IT Corps: Gaza-C, Gaza-D, Zssa, Dreissen, and Doven Wolf | |
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In The Salvation War, specifically, Armageddon, most aircraft used in the war against hell are museum pieces which were long since retired. Tanks and other armoured units are also brought out of retirement and storage, a WWII Panzer showing up at one point. | |
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Starsiege's backstory, All There in the Manual, tells the tale of how the Terra Defense Force of Metaltech Earthsiege and Earthsiege 2 was formed (albeit as part of a comprehensive retcon). When Prometheus unleashed "The Fire" on humanity, ITS Cybrid forces completely decimated the remaining portion of the world's military forces still under human control. However, IT missed one important target: a decommissioned Herc base in Baja, California, turned over to the New Smithsonian for the purpose of restoring and renovating war vehicles of past ages, including manned Hercs. Many of the people at the facility, both historians and technicians, were veterans of past wars, and so had plenty of combat experience. With the skills and facilities on hand to repurpose their museum pieces for combat, they took the fight to the Cybrids. | |
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The Mighty Thor: Following Original Sin, when Thor was rendered unworthy to wield Mjolnir, he adopted his old battle-axe, Jarnbjorn, as an alternate weapon. | |
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In Battlestar Galactica Online, the Cylon War Raider is just a First Cylon War-era Raider refitted to modern specs. | |
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French film Snow and Fire is notable for using the only Königstiger tank that's still in running condition, which is preserved at the Saumur tank museum. | |
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Benoit Brisefer: Narrowly averted in the French-Belgian comic episode "Lady d'Olphine", mobsters engaged in a turf war with a rival gang in the fictional country of Monte San Sone vainly try to talk a museum curator into selling them a WW2-vintage howitzer. | |
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The high-school Sensha-do (Tankery; the Way of the Tank) teams in Girls und Panzer use exclusively World War II-era tanks. The only modern tank seen in the anime is piloted by Captain Chono. In Girls und Panzer das Finale Oarai finds and fields a World War I-era Mark IV. Not to be outdone, BC Freedom Academy has a Renault FT-17 as their flag tank. |
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In Batman: Arkham Knight, Batman pays a visit to the GCPD's evidence locker. His old REC gadget is on display, and Aaron Cash in narration says, "I hope he doesn't ask for it back." Naturally, Batman does. | |
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In Avengers: Age of Ultron, the obsolete turbine-based Helicarrier from the first film is pulled out of storage into the Battle of Sokovia to rescue civilians trapped on an airborne chunk of land, as all the newer Helicarrier models were destroyed in the above-mentioned film. | |
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In Cliffhanger, Sylvester Stallone's character uses the antique climbing gear on display in the hut where he takes shelter. | |
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Bones: Hodgins and Wendell do this (with a healthy dose of MacGyvering) when they are trapped by a blizzard without power, and they have to solve the case quickly because the murderer might be contagious. The clearest example is when Hodgins actually manages to vaporize some of the metal shrapnel and analyze it. Justified because they work IN a museum. In "The Male in the Mail", when Hodgins is unable to identify a body's bone striations by comparing them to conventional blades, he announces, "It's time to get medieval." He runs comparisons on antique weapons, finding a close match to a guillotine, which leads Booth and Bones to identify an industrial paper-cutter used at a shipping depot as the murder weapon. And in "The Corpse in the Canopy", the lab has shut down all networked computers and stopped using phones because of a psychopath computer-expert. Hodgins communicates with Booth using two WWII Enigma code machines — one from his family's private collection and the other presumably from the museum. Hodgins "borrows" another piece from the Smithsonian in a tenth-season episode: a wire-player from the era that pre-dates cassette tapes to play back some wire left over from a 1960s recording. |
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Metal Gear: Green: As the MSF expand and become more powerful and the HPSC's shipments of weapons, tanks and ammo rapidly get destroyed or captured, some Warlords become desperate enough to start using firearms from the Second World War and the Cold War. Grizzly was left in disbelief when being shown a Lugar at the sheer desperation the Warlords were showing. | |
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In an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, Vulcan soldiers in the Forge (an area where advanced technology doesn't work) carry lirpas, a traditional Vulcan polearm weapon with a circular guillotine on the end, most commonly used in ritual combat. Meta example in "In A Mirror, Darkly" in which the mirror crew take over the USS Defiant from the primary universe. From their perspective it's advanced futuristic technology, but to the viewer it's about seeing an original TOS-era Constitution-class starship powering up in all its glory. |
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While not technically museum pieces, in the Jack Ryan novel The Bear and the Dragon, the Russians, being invaded by the Chinese, call up their reserves and put them in vintage-yet-pristine, never-before-used T-34 tanks. While the T-34 was the best, most powerful tank of its day, its day was World War 2, and despite the fact that there are literally hundreds of them, no one knows if their outdated weapons will even be effective against the Chinese T-90 tanks. They then prove that they are, by catching the Chinese after cutting their supply lines and utterly immolating them with minimal losses. | |
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Top Gun: Maverick has Maverick and Rooster behind enemy lines after losing their planes. Their only way to return is to enter the enemy base and steal an F-14 Tomcat like the ones from the original, which Rooster downrights describes as a museum piece (avionics have evolved a hell lot since the days of such a plane). | |
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In Metal Max, you'll be battling a rogue A.I. in a post-apocalyptic future with the WWII or later tanks that you dug out of the sand or found in dungeons. | |
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Honor Harrington keeps a number of old-fashioned combustion-based pistols that she frequently practices with. Comes in handy when she has to meet with a pirate overlord who insists that she and her crew come unarmed. His scanners show that they don't have any modern pulser guns but were unable to detect the replica Colt M1911A1 semi-automatic pistol hidden in her briefcase. In the later books, The Solarian League realizes too late that they are doing this. It has been so long since they fought in a war that many of their frontline starships are older than their crews, predating several iterations of Game-Breaker advances in weapons, technology, and battle doctrine. They were aware of this on some level but assumed that their massive numbers would level any technological gap until long past the point where the Lensman Arms Race made We Have Reserves completely irrelevant. |
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Justice League of America: In an issue of JLA (1997), Connor Hawk (Green Arrow) discovers that the rest of the team has been put in a Lotus-Eater Machine by The Key. The Key also destroys Connor's bow and arrows, so he has to use some of Oliver Queen's equipment from the Justice League museum. Unfortunately, it's all trick arrows, which Connor had never gotten the hang of using. | |
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The premise behind the Choose Your Own Adventure book The Last Battledroid is that the galaxy is at peace, few standing armies are left, and the only thing that can stop the Big Bad is the single remaining Samurai-class battledroid currently residing in the museum. A nice touch is that you have to roll for its stats at the start, to see how badly the droid has deteriorated over the centuries. | |
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At the end of season one of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the team, cut off from their resources, resorts to using WWII-era spy gear, courtesy of Trip's grandfather. | |
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The Day After shows John Lithgow's professor character using a cobbled-together tube radio to contact people outside the blast zone after an EMP from the initial airburst destroyed nearly every other electrical system in the area (shown by a sudden power outage and cars abruptly stopping mid-evacuation). note Well, presumably any electrical system with a semiconductor in it. Vacuum tubes have lots of drawbacks, but radiation sensitivity isn't one. | |
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The Orville. A suspicious gadget is found embedded in the machinery of the ship's engines. It is resistant to scanners and seems to be shielded against energy weapons. But the engineer has an antique electric drill he had been given as a graduation present... | |
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In X3: Terran Conflict a quest chain allows you to find the ship from the first X-Universe game, the X-perimental Shuttle. Despite being over twenty years old and rather banged up, it's one of the best M3s in the game, but also irreplaceable and impossible to reverse-engineer. In X: Rebirth, the collapse of the jumpgate network isolated many colonies from their homeworld and the shipyards to build new ships. The Family Rhonkar remnant in Maelstrom and the Republic of Cantera in DeVries rely on thirty-year-old designs for defense. Some are still competitive, such as the Canteran's Sucellus due to its Terran origins and spinal railgun, while others, like the Rhonkar's Gangrene Chaser (better known as the Raptor), are seriously showing their age. |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: When COBRA has a new device that is incapacitating technology, the Joes go to fight with the U.S.S. Constitution, a wooden frigate from the War of 1812 (which is currently serving as a museum ship). | |
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A theme in Red Alert 3: Paradox. The Soviets have been forced to put some of their older vehicles back into service, while the entire Confederate faction consists of rusting vehicles stolen from a massive reserve dump in the Nevada desert. The twist is, of course, these museum pieces are the old units from Red Alert 1. | |
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In Heroes, Hiro believed that obtaining the sword of his childhood hero would allow him to control his powers. After going to the museum to steal it, they find out it's a replica, and have to steal the real one from the collector who has it. | |
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In The World Is Not Enough, an elaborate antique torture/execution chair with a neck-breaking mechanism was recovered during archaeological excavations of the Maiden's Tower in İstanbul, and Elektra King uses it on Bond, who frees himself from it after Valentin Zukovsky's intervention. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): In one episode, a character's all-powerful transformation ray can't affect gold. So Donatello arranges to borrow four ancient Roman shields that are made of gold. ("And try not to ding 'em, okay? They have to go back to the museum tomorrow.") | |
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The two main characters in the John Finnemore's Double Acts episode "The Wroxton Box" are railway signalmen in The '60s with a shared distaste for "horrible smelly diesels". They are overjoyed to receive the news that the locomotive pulling one train has broken down, and been replaced not just with a steam engine, but with a classic steam engine from the Transport Museum because that was the only one available. | |
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Star Trek: Picard: In "Absolute Candor", the Qiris sector warlord Kar Kantar has a TOS-era Romulan Bird-of-Prey. It's not particularly dangerous on its own, as Rios notes it has an outdated targeting system and is less maneuverable than La Sirena. However, fighting it is complicated by the fact that they also have to avoid Vashti's planetary defense system at the same time, and the Bird-of-Prey is fast enough that they can't simply warp away without disabling it. When a much smaller but modern fast-attack craft joins the fray, the Bird of Prey is crippled in short order. In the backstory leading to this, it's revealed that Picard tried to convince Starfleet to pull out mothballed ships for the evacuation of Romulus when the synth attack on Mars destroyed the dedicated fleet for it. Because of the sheer scale of the mission, as well as quickly changing attitudes, it was denied. In "Vox", we find out that Commodore Geordi La Forge has been working on a major project at the Fleet Museum: a completely refurbished and repaired USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, using the saucer section of the D salvaged from Star Trek: Generations and various parts from other Galaxy-class ships. Picard and the old crew of the D have to haul it out to battle a resurgent Borg threat when they take over the entire fleet, as the D isn't networked to the rest of the fleet and can't be remotely hijacked. The old horse still shows herself to be quite capable, taking on a giant Borg cube (much larger than a standard cube), although it helps that the cube is only 36% functional thanks to Janeway's actions in the Voyager finale. Still Data manages to navigate the massive vessel as she dives inside the cube in order to reach the center, while dodging protrusions and evading weapons fire. Earlier, Jack has a bright idea to steal the cloaking device from the mothballed HMS Bounty, the Klingon bird-of-prey Kirk used to go back in time to get some whales. Despite being over a century old, the cloak still works. |
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All of the Gundam frames in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans were made over three centuries ago for the Calamity War, some of which were in long-term storage when used in the present. Since the whole solar system suffered Space Age Stasis afterward, they're none the worse for it. | |
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Command & Conquer: Generals: The GLA uses old Soviet weapons and vehicles and have no air power, yet are somehow able to compete with modern Chinese and American forces (in the right conditions). | |
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Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann: Once the Mugann start attacking in force, the old pilots of Team Dai-Gurren bust out their Gunmen, which were decommissioned and replaced with the "more advanced" Grapearls during the Time Skip. But as it turns out, the Gunmen were originally designed to fight Mugann, so they fare much better than their counterparts. | |
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Dan Dare suggests this in his first story. Earth ships heading for Venus are exploding when they get near, a problem apparently related to Impulse, the wave energy they are powered with. The solution? Get one of the old rocket ships out of the museum, patch it up and go in that. Sir Hubert nearly agrees but decides to build new rockets. | |
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In one Golden Age story (and retold in The Untold Legend of the Batman), Batman confronts mobster Lew Moxon wearing his father's costume party outfit (which was a scalloped cape with a bat-eared and -nosed mask, effectively making Thomas Wayne the "first" Batman). The sight of the costume shocks the mobster, restoring his memory and causing him to flee into a passing truck in terror. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol. 2: In Cassie Sandsmark's first outing she "borrows" some ancient magical artifacts which grant her strength and flight from an exhibit her mother is overseeing in order to help . | |
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Success in the hidden object adventure game Escape the Museum often depends on this trope, as you use literal museum pieces (a cannon, a steam engine, a blowgun, a bow and arrow) to make your way from room to room. | |
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Halo Wars: The in-game encyclopedia and other background material state that the UNSC Spirit of Fire was an old Phoenix-class colony ship that was purchased by the UNSC Navy after she had reached the end of her civilian service. She was then modified to act as a hybrid warship, carrier, and troopship for combat operations during the Insurrection before participating in the early years of the Human-Covenant War. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the final battle between Setsuna and Ribbons sees them trashing their incredibly powerful new Gundams and forced to pilot their originals, Exia and 0 Gundam (albeit with some upgrades). | |
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G-IT Corps: Dwadge and Zaku III. Also, Kun uses the Alpha Azieru (with a special system to let her use its Funnels without her needing Newtype powers) instead of anything she piloted in the show. | |
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The film Robot Wars (1993) features the last of the Humongous Mecha (a Spider Tank) being used to ferry tourists across an American wasteland. Then, a Yellow Peril villain does a Grand Theft Prototype and starts using its to lay waste to everything around him. He also holds the tourists hostage. The pilot of the mech goes looking for a weapon, left over from an old war, inside a pyramid and ends up finding an intact humanoid mech. He uses it to fight the spider-mech and free the hostages. | |
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An episode of Sharpe features Spanish partisans who wear antique conquistador armour and carry swords, shields and pikes. Lampshaded when Sir Arthur meets their leader and says "he must have robbed a museum". It appears to be mostly for psychological effect, and they are eager to get their hands on guns from the British. | |
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In Moonraker, Bond is ambushed by Hugo Drax's henchman Chang with a kendo wooden sword at the Venini glass factory's museum in Venice. Plenty of centuries old glass artworks get wrecked in the process, and Bond grabs a rapier with a glass handle that was exhibited there which momentarily gives him an edge against Chang. Chang also tries to hit him with a breastplate from the same exhibition. | |
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In "The Last of Us (2023)", When the characters have to travel through a Revolutionary War museum in Boston full of "Clickers", Anna Torv's character Tess ends up killing one using a tomahawk she takes from one of the exhibits. | |
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The Dresden Files: Harry Dresden drives a classic VW Beetle because his magic wreaks havoc on modern cars' ECUs. During Dead Beat, he breaks out a literal museum piece: Sue, the most complete T. Rex skeleton found. He reanimates it as a zombie and rides it into battle. Literally 'older is better' in this case; a zombie's power is determined by its age. The oldest the antagonists have is Civil War era. Sue is 65 million years old... |
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During Batman: Cataclysm, Batman needs to get through the quake-ravaged Gotham while it is snowing and ends up pulling out the monster truck-like Batmobile from Batman: The Cult. | |
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In an episode of Power Rangers in Space, former black/green ranger Adam returns briefly to give the current black ranger Carlos some training and confidence-boosting. When a monster attacks, Adam decides to use his original black morpher to fight again, despite being warned that previous damage to it would make it risky to use. For unknown reasons, he doesn't use his green Zeo morpher note having passed the Turbo powers to Carlos Vallerte , despite the fact that it was more powerful and presumably wouldn't have carried the same risk. In the Grand Finale of Power Rangers Beast Morphers, Evox allows himself to be captured to gain access to Grid Battleforce's computers and absorb their data, allowing him to analyze their weapons and become immune to them all, harmlessly absorbing a blast from a weapon specifically designed to take him out, and later Devon's entire Beast-X Saber, digitizing it and sucking it right up! The Rangers' response? Dig into Nate's Ranger Vault (this season's Ranger tech turns out to be reverse-engineered from other teams' gear) and bring out some classic weaponry for past teams. |
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In Supernatural, there is a special revolver, made by Samuel Colt himself in the 19th century, that can kill anything with one shot. It's obviously an antique. | |
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Cowboy Bebop: In "Speak Like a Child", Faye receives an old Betamax tape that might contain clues to her past, so Spike and Jet scour the solar system looking for a working Betamax VCR. In "Wild Horses", the Space Shuttle Columbia makes an appearance — a crazy old man has spent the last couple of decades restoring it to working order, and pulls it out on one last flight to save the day when Spike's state-of-the-art Swordfish space-fighter is disabled by a computer-virus. It turns out that the old man has also given the Shuttle much-improved engines, as it's able to take off conventionally on a runway and reach orbit under its own power (without the aid of booster rockets), neither of which the real-life Shuttles could do. And for added museum-piece value, it's towed out of the hangar by a WWII-era tank. The rescue is a success, but the shuttle is thoroughly trashed during the reentry and landing (note also that this episode originally aired before the real Columbia accident.) Towards the end of Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, a number of museum piece aircraft are brought out. Some of the designs don't exist yet and some are museum pieces in the present day. Unlike usual, many of them are in... less than ideal working condition. Thankfully, the pilots all have parachutes. |
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After the release of Battleship, Slate ran an article positing whether or not it would be possible to return the Iowa-class battleships to active duty now that they're museum ships. It would actually be very easy, assuming that enough crew, fuel, and ammunition for its main guns are on hand for that. | |
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In Warzone 2100, your faction The Project, needs to find technology to build up their languishing tech knowledge. This in a post-apocalyptic future where you'll be fighting factions that have cyborgs, VTOL gunships, hovertanks and etc. A large number of your early tech found, is no different than what you find in the late 20th/early 21st century. The first tech artifact you find is the 7.62mm machine gun and a turning point for your faction is when several levels down the road, you recover the technology to make 120mm cannons. That lasts you quite a while and it's also when the more futuristic tech starts really showing up. | |
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In Incredibles 2, Dash uses his dad's remote to the Incredibile to summon it from the home of a wealthy collector to their house to help him, Violet and Jack-Jack escape from the brainwashed Dev Tech Supers. | |
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The Ace Combat series loves starting pretty much every game off with the player using at the very least an older nonmodernized aircraft like older models of the F-16, to outright retired or reserve aircraft, such as the F-4E Phantom or the MiG-21. Justified in several ways by the game's story. Air Combat and Ace Combat 2 start the player off with the F-4 (as well as the A-4 Skyhawk in 2) because the player is part of the Elite Mercenary "Scarface" Squadron hired to fight on the behalf of a small country (Air Combat) and a legitimate government overthrown by a military coup d'état (Ace Combat 2). Starting off, there's just no way the government contracting you has the resources or trust enough to offer then-current generation aircraft. Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies again starts the game with an aircraft carrier launch of the F-4E. The player in this case is taking the role of USEA/ISAF military pilot "Mobius 1", while allied forces are in the middle of a full-scale retreat after losing the main-land to the Erusean military's continent-wide assault and their use of the "Stonehenge" Anti-Asteroid Railgun array as a deadly continent-spanning Anti-Aircraft Artillery system. It's implied you're piloting the Phantom because that's all ISAF could get for you before fleeing to the last remaining allied HQ on the island of North Point. Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War gives your squadron, the Osean 108th "Wardog" Squadron, F-5 fighters which have largely been relegated to modern-day training jets because the squadron consists of all trainees who just earned their wings who get pressed into operational service after a surprise attack during a training flight. Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has the Osean Federation do this to the last surviving Stonehenge gun from 04 to shoot down at least one of the Arsenal Birds that's made breaking into Erusea a nightmare. Even after shooting down the Erusan attack force, the targeting computers are shot down, so they have to do it the old fashioned way: line of sight. That means Trigger has to get behind it and shoot the main propellers down only to slow it down so it's within sight so it gets that ONE SHOT needed to take down the flying juggernaut. |
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The entire premise of Space Battleship Yamato, although the Yamato has been extensively retrofitted with state-of-the-art weaponry (including the Wave-Motion Gun) and the engines have been replaced so it can complete its mission IN SPACE! Although the hull had some changes done during all the series, the Wave Motion Gun's place at the bow doesn't change appearances a lot. Meanwhile, the bridge is an all-new Space-age and even has pointy glass protectors, as well as a set of wings on the very top. And the funnel is now housing several missiles, and the entire stern was sort of just cut off and instead you have a massive rocket booster powered by the almighty Wave Motion Engine. Fun fact, the Wave Motion Engine actually works with vacuum as explained in the original series and the 2013 remake, making it seem like a glorified "Space vacuum cleaner" | |
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Doc Savage: 'Long Tom' Roberts got his nickname when he used an ancient cannon — known as a Long Tom — that had been on display in the town square to successfully defend a town during World War I. | |
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Iron Man: Obadiah Stane steals Tony's Arc Reactor, the power source for his suit, and his life support machine. As a result, Tony has to go into battle with the original, less powerful model. Bonus points for Pepper putting it in a glass case like an actual museum piece. James Rhodes briefly considers using the unused Mark II armor to help Tony fight the Iron Monger, but declines in order to tell the military not to intervene in the battle. He ends up breaking the armor out in the sequel to confront a drunken Tony at his birthday party. |
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James Rhodes briefly considers using the unused Mark II armor to help Tony fight the Iron Monger, but declines in order to tell the military not to intervene in the battle. He ends up breaking the armor out in the sequel to confront a drunken Tony at his birthday party. | |
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S.M. Stirling's Emberverse series posits the sudden worldwide breakdown of all advanced technology. Civilization swiftly collapses, and the survivors have to make do with what low-tech tools are available while re-adapting to a medieval technological level. Early in the first book, Dies the Fire, characters do take equipment literally from a museum, or, rather, a living history exhibit, which justifies why it's been kept in working order. | |
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Late in Tiger & Bunny Kotetsu/Wild Tiger loses access to his Powered Armor when Maverick Unpersons him and frames him for murder. Luckily for him, his friend and former boss Ben Jackson's been keeping the old spandex costume safe — although not entirely in mint condition. | |
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Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies again starts the game with an aircraft carrier launch of the F-4E. The player in this case is taking the role of USEA/ISAF military pilot "Mobius 1", while allied forces are in the middle of a full-scale retreat after losing the main-land to the Erusean military's continent-wide assault and their use of the "Stonehenge" Anti-Asteroid Railgun array as a deadly continent-spanning Anti-Aircraft Artillery system. It's implied you're piloting the Phantom because that's all ISAF could get for you before fleeing to the last remaining allied HQ on the island of North Point. | |
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One episode of Early Edition involving Time Travel forces Gary to pull a Prohibition-era pistol out of hiding when cornered. The gun doesn't fire when he pulls the trigger (actually falling apart), but the threat successfully unnerves his attackers. | |
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In one of the most literal sense, Nuclear Strike has you break out an AH-1 Cobra from a museum in Pyongyang. While the AH-1 is still used worldwide and in-game, you were initially flying a lightly armed news chopper for clandestine operation and since the North Korean army is going all out, you are instructed to get the chopper and fly it. One wonders why the chopper is fully fueled and armed, but hey. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: Batman has to use the 1940s-model Batmobile when Owlman steals the current model. It turns out that Batman keeps every vehicle, gadget, and device he's ever had in proper working order, even after it's long obsolete, just in case he needs to use this trope due to his being Crazy-Prepared. | |
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Subverted in Date Night when the protagonists steal an antique revolver for self-defence purposes. Turns out, the ammunition it's loaded with is so old that it causes a misfire. | |
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Uncommon Valor: When the CIA steps in and informs the Cambodian government of the POV rescue mission, the advanced weapons and gear that were supposed to be used for it end up being confiscated. So the mission needs to continue with a number of World War II-era weapons that were bought from the local Arms Dealer (the team didn't have enough money to buy anything more advanced). | |
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In Soviet Storm: World War II in the East, a handful of Soviet artillery pieces are shown to have been manufactured during the time of the Czar, and brought back into service due to their massive caliber. | |
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The Edelweiss used by Squad 7 in Valkyria Chronicles is a holdover from the First Europan War, which took place a few decades prior to the game's plot. However, due to Isara's regular maintenance on the tank, as well as being a Super Prototype designed by her father, a genius engineer, it can easily hold its own against modern Imperial tanks. | |
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Green Lantern: During the War of the Green Lanterns storyline, Krona the Mad Guardian manages to take over the entire Lantern Corps by reinserting Parallax into the Central Lantern Battery, forcing Hal Jordan and the other lanterns from Earth to use alternate rings (Sinestro's yellow ring for Hal, Saint Walker's blue ring for Kyle, Atrocitus's red ring for Guy Gardner, and Indigo-1's indigo ring for John Stewart). While trying to move undetected, the group finds themselves in the Guardian's vault where the original prototype for the green lantern rings is kept; a gauntlet and a backpack power source. As the prototype isn't connected to the central battery, Guy equips it to supplement the red ring and describes the surge of power as feeling like he was wearing twenty power rings at once. | |
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In Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Angela Lansbury's witch heroine enchants suits of armor to fight the Nazis. | |
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In the short-lived series Covington Cross, the landowners of the south-east have assembled at Arundell Castle to pay their taxes. Bandits invade the gathering and hold the nobles for ransom. The Grey boys and their sister have to save the day by using the old weapons from the Duke of Arundell's collection. Note that this show already takes place in the Middle Ages, so the heroes fighting the bandits are using weapons even more ancient than that! Tenth to Twelfth-century rather than Fourteenth — and yes, there was a difference! | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, you help the Boomers raise a sunken B-29 bomber from Lake Mead, which is then repaired with parts from a literal museum-piece B-29 and used during the final battle at Hoover Dam. On a lesser time scale, the player can reunite the Enclave Remnants for further support at Hoover Dam, for which they break out their old Fallout 2-era Advanced Power Armor suits(the ones with the insectoid helmets), and the Courier gets a suit as well. Another literal example is Vikki & Vance's 9mm submachine gun that was stolen from the death car exhibit, which the player can track down in an unmarked sidequest. Yet another unmarked quest earns you an M1 Garand lookalike named This Machine. Expansions to the game can have you geting BAR automatic rifles, old police magnums, Tommy guns and .45 pistols. | |
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Hellgate: London: After the Templar Grandmaster pulls off the dumbest move in human history (sending his ENTIRE army towards the literal gates of Hell), his second-in-command is scrambling to undo as much of the slaughter as he can by extracting soldiers, but doesn't have enough subway cars... until he makes a quip about going out there himself and shoving them on the trains - Ding. Cue an old steam train from the 1800s, augmented with supernatural technology to get as many soldiers out of the battlefield as possible. | |
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James Bond: In Moonraker, Bond is ambushed by Hugo Drax's henchman Chang with a kendo wooden sword at the Venini glass factory's museum in Venice. Plenty of centuries old glass artworks get wrecked in the process, and Bond grabs a rapier with a glass handle that was exhibited there which momentarily gives him an edge against Chang. Chang also tries to hit him with a breastplate from the same exhibition. In For Your Eyes Only, one of the villain's henchmen triggers the explosive anti-theft device on 007's gadget-laden Lotus Esprit, causing it (and the henchman) to blow up. 007 is then forced to rely on his wits — with the Citroën 2CV of the Girl of the Week. The movie is likely set in 1981, and that car started production in 1948. In The World Is Not Enough, an elaborate antique torture/execution chair with a neck-breaking mechanism was recovered during archaeological excavations of the Maiden's Tower in İstanbul, and Elektra King uses it on Bond, who frees himself from it after Valentin Zukovsky's intervention. Skyfall has Bond retrieve some mothballed equipment from storage: his vintage, Q-upgraded Aston Martin DB5. Complete with ejector seat and (still very lethal) machine guns. In keeping with the vintage vibe, the original James Bond Theme from the Sean Connery era plays while Bond drives it out. No Time to Die: Bond's Aston Martin DB5 suffers badly in Italy in the Action Prologue. When he's back into service in London, he gets a vintage Aston Martin V8 (the same model as in The Living Daylights) out of a garage and uses it. |
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SWAT Kats has the Pastmaster be unearthed from his grave and go looking for his Tome of Time. He finds it in the Megakat City Museum, so he smashes the glass vitrine and reclaims it. With this book of lore and spells, the Pastmaster brings a huge dinosaur into the city, and sends the SWAT Kats into the Cretaceous Period. | |
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Red Dawn +20 features many "warbirds" from previous wars being pressed back into service, as well as ships and other equipment. | |
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The Heroes of the Storm fanfic Heroes of the Desk gives us SPEAR, who retrofits at least two sunken World War II battleships with modern weapons, a premise straight out of Uchuu Senkan Yamato/Star Blazers. In fact, In-Universe SPEAR actually realizes the parallel...and decides that's exactly why they are going to carry out the plan. | |
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In Resident Evil 6, when playing as Chris and Piers, the player(s) can run into J'avo using Flackvierling 38 anti-aircraft guns and a railway gun while in Edonia. In-universe, a fictional "T-42" tank shows up, which is referred to in-game as "old", and looks like a combination of a few post-World War II tank designs. | |
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∀ Gundam has the Earth forces discover long-buried, ancient mobile suits; namely, a bunch of Zakus ("Borjanons") and Capules ("Kapools"), plus one Turn A Gundam; and use them against the invading Moonrace. The Moonrace eventually discovers a similar cache of ancient suits on the Moon, which are easily on par with modern suits (or in the Turn X's case, far superior in every way). | |
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In S.S.D.D. the Core re-commissions an old prototype railgun called "Long Tom" to take on the Anarchists' new Kill Sat system, which the Anarchists had previously used in combination with antique ICBMs (obsolete due to point defenses, which the kill sat destroyed) to wipe out the Texan military. | |
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The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: Iron Man uses this trope when Ultron hacks into all the suits — except the Mk I, which lacks a computer system. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road: all the vehicles are refurbished or cobbled together from autos from the 1970s or earlier; the film's production designer Colin Morgan said this was intentional, because in the film's post-apocalyptic world, any vehicle with electronics would be impossible to maintain. | |
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A major plot point in Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, when the only ship under the control of the US forces after Ocelot hijacks their DRM is the USS Missouri, which had literally been in a museum until its license expired and it was retrofitted with VR elements for training purposes. Mei Ling is its captain, despite being an analyst with no battle experience who is unwilling even to shoot a robotic Dwarf Gekko. Snake also reactivates Metal Gear REX for the penultimate battle with Ocelot's Ray. The Taneshigama of 4 and Peace Walker, a 'relic from the age of the Samurai'. In 4, it summons tornados that drop items and ammo, and in Peace Walker it shoots tornados that kidnap soldiers. Otacon provides Snake with two pistols, which haven't been inputted into the System that locks out people from using guns they aren't biometrically matched to. One is a 1911 clone, the other a modified Ruger MkII, both designs that are several decades old by the time the game takes place, the former more than a century old and the latter coming about less than five years after World War II ended. |
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In the first episode of Slayers Next, Martina reactivates an ancient Golem that had been built by her ancestors centuries ago as part of a plan to rule the world. Unfortunately, since the Golem hadn't undergone basic maintenance in centuries, it quickly fell apart. | |
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In Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, V is instructed to contact a FIA sleeper agent for activation and is surprised that the method to do so involves an old rotary phone. It's justified in that ancient telephone lines and decades-old codebooks are much easier to keep secure than any network, but it's still funny to see V being flabbergasted by it and Johnny walking V through operating the thing. | |
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In X: Rebirth, the collapse of the jumpgate network isolated many colonies from their homeworld and the shipyards to build new ships. The Family Rhonkar remnant in Maelstrom and the Republic of Cantera in DeVries rely on thirty-year-old designs for defense. Some are still competitive, such as the Canteran's Sucellus due to its Terran origins and spinal railgun, while others, like the Rhonkar's Gangrene Chaser (better known as the Raptor), are seriously showing their age. | |
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In Girls und Panzer das Finale Oarai finds and fields a World War I-era Mark IV. Not to be outdone, BC Freedom Academy has a Renault FT-17 as their flag tank. | |
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock: The 20-year-old (actually 40-years-old)note The reason for the age discrepancy: “The Search for Spock� was about twenty years after the premiere of the original show and the film notes the Milestone Celebration by announcing that to be Enterprise’s age. However, there were Time Skips between Pike’s era in the Cage\The Menagerie and the show’s main era, and more years In-Universe than out-of-universe between the show and the first movie, and the first and second movies, AND the ship was not said to be new in The Cage! Even before Word of God and All There in the Manual weighed in on the ship’s age years later, it was obvious even at the time that the Enterprise had to be MUCH older than the age the franchise happened to be at the time. Enterprise outruns the Young Whippersnapper Excelsior, thanks to Scotty disabling the Excelsior's engines. The 20 (or even 40) years does look quite a bit less impressive when later television shows reveals that the Excelsiors were still in common use nearly a century after their introduction (then again, a piece of wreckage shown after a major battle hints that there were still Constitution-class ships (that's the TOS Enterprise's class) available for use as late as 2367, more than a century after the first confirmed use in the original reality). Starfleet gets a lot of mileage out of its designs. (The reason we don’t consider the Excelsior-class a case of this: there’s no sign that they were ever out of service!) |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam F91, a crazy old man brings out a Transforming Mecha tank literally from a museum to fight off the Crossbone Vanguard invaders... and gets severely thrashed by their newer machines. What's left after the thrashing makes a reasonably good getaway car for a bunch of refugees to be. | |
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Air Combat and Ace Combat 2 start the player off with the F-4 (as well as the A-4 Skyhawk in 2) because the player is part of the Elite Mercenary "Scarface" Squadron hired to fight on the behalf of a small country (Air Combat) and a legitimate government overthrown by a military coup d'état (Ace Combat 2). Starting off, there's just no way the government contracting you has the resources or trust enough to offer then-current generation aircraft. | |
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Super Robot Wars: In Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, several museum-pieces pop up as 'Secret' Humongous Mecha, rewards for fulfilling more-or-less insane requirements. In almost every case, they're extremely powerful, often Hand Waved as being a Super Prototype, or having been retired originally due to being too powerful to handle. Perhaps the crown of it is the Gespenst 001 — the very first prototype of the very-first Humongous Mecha designed in the world. For comparison, by the time of the first OG game, the basic Red Shirt mecha is the mass-produced Gespenst MK-II — the weakest machine you'll ever lay your hands on. And yet, the 001 is capable of keeping up with state-of-the-art Super Robots... The 001 you use is a rebuilt version courtesy of the local Human Aliens. And considering that the entire Gespenst series are inferior copies of Gilliam Yeager's Super Robot / Eldritch Abomination XN Giest from Hero Senki, the closest copy should be a top-tier Super Robot. Super Robot Wars X: Pretty much every faction from the Reguild Century recreates old Mobile Suits from Universal Century-era blueprints in place of developing any new suits of their own (only the Capital Army's Catsith and Mass-Produced MacKnife, as well as Towasanga's Moran, make it in as grunts in the game). They are distributed as follows: Capital Army: Jegan (Kerbes of the Capital Guard also has one as his default unit when he shows up) Towasanga and the G-IT Corps: Gaza-C, Gaza-D, Zssa, Dreissen, and Doven Wolf Towasanga: Geara Doga (some Musaka-class ships are also seen in a cutscene) G-IT Corps: Dwadge and Zaku III. Also, Kun uses the Alpha Azieru (with a special system to let her use its Funnels without her needing Newtype powers) instead of anything she piloted in the show. Ameria: Klim and Mick initially pilot identical replicas of Gyunei and Quess's Jagd Dogas (though, since they're not Newtypes, they can't use their Funnels). |
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Batman Beyond: A recurrent theme : Terry's batsuit is technically a museum piece in the Batcave, although he says that "This suit may be old, but it's still cutting-edge." He uses other artifacts from Batman's crimefighting days in the series as well, e.g. in "Lost Soul", he uses Nightwing's domino mask for I.D. obfuscation when the suit was unavailable, along with some old-style Batarangs. "Blackout": Bruce takes Mr. Freeze's ice gun out of his little crime museum to stop Inque, and wears the old Gray Ghost hat and mask to keep his identity hidden. In her second appearance, Terry tries the same, but she breaks it; later, Bruce takes a huge Powered Armor suit out of retirement to go hand-to-hand with her. |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Iron Man: Obadiah Stane steals Tony's Arc Reactor, the power source for his suit, and his life support machine. As a result, Tony has to go into battle with the original, less powerful model. Bonus points for Pepper putting it in a glass case like an actual museum piece. James Rhodes briefly considers using the unused Mark II armor to help Tony fight the Iron Monger, but declines in order to tell the military not to intervene in the battle. He ends up breaking the armor out in the sequel to confront a drunken Tony at his birthday party. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cap steals his old World War II uniform from the Smithsonian. Unusually, this isn't because the old uniform is better than his current equipment, it's because his new suit was abandoned (it had a tracking device) and because he's trying to jog the memory of a Brainwashed and Crazy Bucky Barnes. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, the obsolete turbine-based Helicarrier from the first film is pulled out of storage into the Battle of Sokovia to rescue civilians trapped on an airborne chunk of land, as all the newer Helicarrier models were destroyed in the above-mentioned film. In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spidey gets his new, state-of-the-art costume confiscated by Tony Stark. So he wears his old homemade costume for his final battle against the Vulture. In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor retrieves a suit of old Valkyrie armor for Valkyrie to wear right before the final battle against Hela. |
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Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In one Paperinik comic, Paperinik is fighting the Analogue Knight, an Evil Luddite who's armed with a weapon that disables all technology more advanced than the 40s. Paperinik beats him by breaking out the weaponry of his predecessor, Fantomius, who had cutting edge tech in the 20s. | |
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Iron Man: An early comic has a thief stealing the new (red/gold) armor, so Tony has to put on the old (grey) armor to face him. The new armor is superior in almost every way, but Tony has two advantages. He's more experienced in using his armor (and thus knows the weaknesses of it), and the old suit is said to be stronger. Iron Man recycles this bit periodically; his most common 'museum piece' is the Mark IV armor that debuted in the 1970s, using variations of this suit when his latest armour has been destroyed and he lacks the time, resources, or inclination to just create a more advanced replacement immediately. Subverted in The Ultimates, when Tony brought one of his old suits out... so that he could use it to get to Iron Man Six, a heavily armed, space-capable weapons platform. Subverted with the "rehab armor" from issues #191-199; although physically resembling his original gray suit, and not as powerful as the red-and-golds Rhodey wore at the time, the internal technology was more advanced. The rehab armor even eliminated an exploit of the red-and-gold (one which Tony himself took advantage of when he had to stop a rampaging Rhodey) — it replaced the old hip-mounted power packs with an internalized power source, a design element that carried over to later armors. Exemplified in issue 300, the debut of the original Iron Legion. After the telepresence armor was trashed by Ultimo and Tony needed time to recover and complete his modular armor, War Machine enlisted Eddie March, Happy Hogan, Carl Walker, Michael O'Brien, and Bethany Cabe to don older Iron Man suits to join him in holding off Ultimo.note Cabe was the only one who hadn't previously filled in temporarily as Iron Man, but Rhodey picked her because she knew Tony's Secret Identity and could hold her own in a fight. O'Brien and Walker had also had their own armored identities, as the Guardsman and Force, respectively. Abe Zimmer, who readied the armors, noted that they had been stored without any thought of sending them into battle again. At least three of the suits were replicas re-created by Stark, as the original versions had been destroyednote March donned the original gray "Model 1" armor; Hogan donned the old red-and-gold suit with the horned mask; and O'Brien donned the Silver Centurion armor. In Iron Man #175, Rhodey slagged all of the armors except the "classic" red-and-gold suit he was currently wearing, in order to keep them out of the wrong hands after Tony had lost Stark International; the Centurion was destroyed by Firepower in #230, near the end of the Armor Wars. Walker wore the "classic" suit, which had been damaged the last time Rhodey had worn it in issues #215-216, while Cabe wore the "neo-classic" suit Tony had worn between issue #231 and #280. Turned against Tony in a time-travel adventure, where he meets Andros Stark, who in 2093 busted out his grandfather Arno's armor from storage to commit terrorism. Despite the armor being seventy years old, it's still over a hundred years on Tony's armor, so despite his lack of experience Andros still wins his first fight with Tony. In the Marvel Adventures version of Armor Wars, the first armor Tony retrieves from a group of Russian Super-Soldier terrorists is the Golden Armor. |
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In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor retrieves a suit of old Valkyrie armor for Valkyrie to wear right before the final battle against Hela. | |
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Pacific Rim: Gipsy Danger is a severely outdated Mk 3, which has to be taken out because they only had four mecha left to fight the Kaiju. There's an even more outdated Jaeger present in the form of the Cherno Alpha, a Mk 1 Jaeger, but that one gets ripped to shreds in its onscreen battle, killing the pilots. Gipsy's outdated status does give it an advantage over the newer Jaegers when Leatherback deploys its EMP. It's the only "analog" Jaeger and is therefore unaffected by the EMP, making it definitely qualify for this trope. Though, while Gipsy is called out as being outdated in the movie, she's really not all that old. Apart from Striker Eureka, there's only one "series" of Jaegar newer than Gipsy. It's just that in the Lensman Arms Race between the Kaiju and humans, Jaegers become obsolete fast. She's also been upgraded from her original Mk 3 specifications by the main part of the movie. Cherno Alpha, now, is a museum piece, but it probably doesn't quite qualify for this trope since it's never been put into storage; it's been fighting all along. | |
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Reinhardt of Overwatch still goes into battle with his Crusader Powered Armor. In the game's timeline, the suit is a little over 40 years old and starting to show its age. Much like its wielder. | |
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Fallout 3: Despite the fact that there are rare, futuristic, and powerful laser and plasma weapons, often the best weapons around are still a good old-fashioned revolver, hunting rifle, or assault rifle, which have plenty of ammo lying around. Abraham Lincoln's personal rifle (along with his hat) can be taken in the National History Museum. It's one of the best weapons in the game. At one point the transmitter dish from a literal museum-piece spacecraft has to be used to restore Galaxy News Radio's broadcast range. The T-51b Power Armor in Fort Constantine, which the player helps Mr. Crowley gain access to in the quest "Shoot 'Em in the Head". Completing Operation: Anchorage grants access to a treasure trove of unique pre-War gear, including a Chinese stealth suit, a Gauss rifle, and a non-degrading version of the aforementioned T-51b. All the laser rifles in the game are the AER9 model, which was considered obsolete before the war. The AER12 was used by most of the military at the time, with the remaining AER9's being phased out and put in reserve. However, the AER9 was considerably more durable than the other lasers replacing it, allowing its widespread use in the post-apocalyptic world. |
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Black Lagoon: Roberta does a lot of damage with a relic flintlock she took off a wall in her boss' house. The Lagoon Company uses an Elco PT boat. And even manage to destroy a Hind gunship with it. By firing a torpedo at the helicopter. |
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In the Marvel Adventures version of Armor Wars, the first armor Tony retrieves from a group of Russian Super-Soldier terrorists is the Golden Armor. | |
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Escape Velocity Classic: The Rebels' fighter class is the Manta, a craft made by a bankrupt company that until the Rebels (not exactly having many better options) got their hands on the surviving stock and re-deployed hadn't seen any real use for well over a decade (it last saw heavy use during the early days of the Great War, which was an unclear amount of time before the game but at least 23 years prior). | |
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Alluded to in Farscape: D'Argo's Qualta Blade was used by his grandfather to repel invaders after they ran out of modern weaponry. However, the Qualta Blade is more than just a sword. The blade can be split in two to reveal a working pulse rifle inside. It's also used to prove D'Argo's identity when activating an old Luxan warship. |
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This is practically mandatory for the aspiring Vampire Hunter in Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Requiem. In both games, vampires are fully dead animated corpses, which means they don't actually NEED things like their kidneys or liver, and they don't bleed out... which means bullets more or less just go right through them, and only deal Bashing damage because they're not actually doing that much damage to the vampire's essential parts... and vampires have a Healing Factor to boot. (That said, a headshot will do the trick just fine, they need their brain.) Whereas bladed weapons, like a sword, actually cut and sever flesh and tendons and tend to be more hindering, doing Lethal damage. (That, and severed limbs are much harder for a vampire to heal than a simple gash.) | |
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In Make Room! Make Room!, the police force in the decaying and effectively isolated New York City use a decommissioned school bus, gas masks, and tear grenades they took out of a closed war museum to put down a riot. | |
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Stargate SG-1: If the Planet of the Week has forgotten what the Stargate is, then it is often found at an archaeological site, in a museum, or in storage. Also in a less literal sense, one episode had Bra'tac break out an old version of the Death Glider that has a small enough wingspan to pass through a stargate. The "Needle Threader" variant was specifically designed for gate travel. However, so few Jaffa could pilot it without crashing into the gate that the model was retired. Teal'c manages to do it without any previous training. The Ancients' Puddle Jumpers are much older but are also much more superior to the Death Gliders. They can "thread the needle" as well (in fact, it's one of their primary functions, hence the nickname), but many of the control functions are automated, so it's a lot easier. |
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In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas one of the early missions involves getting weapons to restock after a police raid. The first weapons dealer the gang works with has weapons so old that CJ comments on museums having newer firearms. Funny enough, the texture and model of the pistol comes from Grand Theft Auto III. A development oversight yes, but still rather interesting that the old texture and model are still being used. |
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Terminator Dark Fate - Defiance: Quite literally. The mission at Vega allows you to loot a venerable WWII-era Sherman tank that somebody has upgraded with an enormous railgun in the turret. This thing is by a million miles the most powerful direct-fire weapon that you have available, and if there's any possibility that Legion warmachines can experience fear then it would be in the face of its incredible destructive power. Give it to Sgt. Calderon to make her Christmas and birthday all in one. Unfortunately if you want to make friends with the Integrators then you'll have to give this baby up. | |
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In Gunbuster, the humans decide to reactivate the obsolete Excelion for one final mission, go on a suicide run into the middle of the space monster fleet and detonate a black hole bomb. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "The Siege", the runabouts are being used to evacuate Deep Space Nine, so Kira and Dax have to get working an abandoned Bajoran Resistance spacecraft from the Cardassian Occupation that's been sitting in a cave for over a year. The thrusters barely work, there's no emergency gear, no sensors, no impulse engines, and no leg room. Worse, the resistance engineers just cobbled such craft together out of whatever was at hand, so they're not very reliable even when they were new. During the Dominion War, we routinely see parts of the Federation fleet are made up of Miranda- and Excelsior-class vessels, which initially debuted over a hundred years ago and are still in active service. It's implied that some of these vessels were even taken out of mothball to replace lost ships and still manage to hold their own. The Miranda and Excelsior classes were actually in constant use for over 100 years, but the early models were usually mothballed after a while. But Starfleet kept building new ones with updated electronics and engines (they turned out to be far more economical than the massive Galaxy and Sovereign classes), so pulling the old ships out of retirement and bringing them up to modern standards was easy. In-universe, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers were considered to be at the Memetic Badass level. A Vorta (one of the enemy races in Deep Space Nine) once stated that a Starfleet engineer could turn "rocks into replicators". Bringing old mothballed ships up to modern spec would be easy for such people. |
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There's a The Haunted Tank story where a French WWI tank troop offers their aid, having kept their tanks in working condition while running a military museum. | |
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This can happen to an Earth Federation player in Gihren's Greed. Playing through the game until the Gryps War and siding with AEUG against the Titans means probably facing the Psyco Gundam and/or Psyco Gundam-Mk II. Both of them are equipped with beam-deflecting I-fields and nearly all Mobile Suits of that era are primarily armed with beam weapons. Several One Year War variants of the GM like the GM Custom, however, are armed with kinetic weapons that bypass the I-field. Similarly, the Federation is poorly equipped to counter Neo Zeon's invasion of Earth because Zeon's Kapule is a state-of-the-art amphibious machine, and the only way to fight it while it is submerged is for a Federal MS to shoot at it while riding a sky sled. The only amphibious MS the Federals have would be the Aqua GM and the Aqua Gundam, both long obsolete by that point of the story. |
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Archer has an example in Archer Vice. The Yakuza are besieging the mansion where ISIS are holed up. Problem is, the only weapons they have are Archer's PPK and Lana's TEC-9s, both of which are out of ammo. Cherlene leads them to a gun cabinet filled with ancient muskets and hunting weapons. Archer makes use of a Mare's Leg throughout the episode. | |
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In the Russian crime movie Brother 2 the protagonists visit a gun runner who practices digging WWII-era weaponry from old battlefields and repairing it to working condition. In a later scene, they shoot some gangsters with a WWI-era Maxim heavy machine gun. | |
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Halo: Halo Wars: The in-game encyclopedia and other background material state that the UNSC Spirit of Fire was an old Phoenix-class colony ship that was purchased by the UNSC Navy after she had reached the end of her civilian service. She was then modified to act as a hybrid warship, carrier, and troopship for combat operations during the Insurrection before participating in the early years of the Human-Covenant War. Although not mentioned in the first game, the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach goes into detail about how the UNSC Pillar of Autumn was an old Halcyon-class cruiser that was originally scheduled for scrapping but then brought back into service when war broke out against the Covenant. She was also heavily modified near the end of the Covenant War in order to help the Spartan-II Supersoldiers conduct Operation: Red Flag. note A plan to capture a Covenant ship and use it to travel to the Covenant homeworld and take one of their leaders captive in the hopes of using said leader as a hostage to try and forcibly negotiate a ceasefire. Unfortunately, the plan had to be prematurely cancelled when the Covenant attacked the main UNSC base on the planet Reach, and the Pillar of Autumn had to be recalled to help defend the colony. The Autumn barely managed to escape when the battle was lost, and during her escape, she ended up discovering the titular Halo ring at the beginning of Halo: Combat Evolved. |
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Mass Effect 2: Zaeed tells Shepard about his favorite rifle, Jessie, which he used until it finally jammed and would no longer fire. In the third game, Shepard can learn that Zaeed has custom-ordered the parts and equipment necessary to restore Jessie to functionality, in order to be able to carry the rifle into the battle against the Reapers. During Kasumi's Loyalty Mission, you can find the Kassa M-12 Locust, an old submachine gun built for the Alliance before first contact that is infamous for being used to kill two Presidents at the same time. The ones you find have been modified to handle thermal clips instead of bullets, allowing you and your squamates to use them once you complete the mission. |
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Mass Effect 3: In the Citadel DLC, you can acquire an old First Contact War-era M7 Lancer (which the memory-retentive fans may recall is the model of assault rifle available at the start of the first game). It has the old-style pre-thermal-clip cooldown mechanic and has been "upgraded with modern small arms tech" to be relevantly powerful compared to modern small arms. | |
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Fallout: Fallout 3: Despite the fact that there are rare, futuristic, and powerful laser and plasma weapons, often the best weapons around are still a good old-fashioned revolver, hunting rifle, or assault rifle, which have plenty of ammo lying around. Abraham Lincoln's personal rifle (along with his hat) can be taken in the National History Museum. It's one of the best weapons in the game. At one point the transmitter dish from a literal museum-piece spacecraft has to be used to restore Galaxy News Radio's broadcast range. The T-51b Power Armor in Fort Constantine, which the player helps Mr. Crowley gain access to in the quest "Shoot 'Em in the Head". Completing Operation: Anchorage grants access to a treasure trove of unique pre-War gear, including a Chinese stealth suit, a Gauss rifle, and a non-degrading version of the aforementioned T-51b. All the laser rifles in the game are the AER9 model, which was considered obsolete before the war. The AER12 was used by most of the military at the time, with the remaining AER9's being phased out and put in reserve. However, the AER9 was considerably more durable than the other lasers replacing it, allowing its widespread use in the post-apocalyptic world. In Fallout: New Vegas, you help the Boomers raise a sunken B-29 bomber from Lake Mead, which is then repaired with parts from a literal museum-piece B-29 and used during the final battle at Hoover Dam. On a lesser time scale, the player can reunite the Enclave Remnants for further support at Hoover Dam, for which they break out their old Fallout 2-era Advanced Power Armor suits(the ones with the insectoid helmets), and the Courier gets a suit as well. Another literal example is Vikki & Vance's 9mm submachine gun that was stolen from the death car exhibit, which the player can track down in an unmarked sidequest. Yet another unmarked quest earns you an M1 Garand lookalike named This Machine. Expansions to the game can have you geting BAR automatic rifles, old police magnums, Tommy guns and .45 pistols. |
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Colour of the Truth have a shootout scene in Inspector Huang's home, where Huang's elderly, disabled war veteran father motions for him to check the back of their house's toilet. Turns out the father had hidden a World War II-era Potato masher grenade in it, a memento of his past during the war. Said grenade still works, allowing Huang to blow up a few mooks after pulling the plug. | |
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Happens in Shin Getter Robo when reptilian duplicates of the protagonists hijack the Getter G. They even have to get the original Getter from an actual museum. Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo has the Dinosaur Empire break into the old Saotome Lab with the intent of destroying the mothballed Shin Getter. In order to do so, they hijack the many incomplete prototype Getters left in storage; since Getter Energy is the Dinosaurs' Kryptonite Factor, it's a Suicide Mission and they know it, so only the most loyal (and/or fanatical) soldiers signed up. |
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In The Zombie Survival Guide, Brooks recommends bolt-action rifles and the Shaolin Spade to be some of the best weapons against zombies, the former because they are less prone to jamming than automatic weapons, and do not waste ammo in a panic, and the latter because it has the reach of any long bladed weapon, but has practical uses such as digging a hole to plant seeds or for a latrine. As in the Real Life entries below, the bolt-action rifles are the most reliable repeating firearms in poor weather and maintenance conditions. | |
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Mass Effect: Mass Effect 2: Zaeed tells Shepard about his favorite rifle, Jessie, which he used until it finally jammed and would no longer fire. In the third game, Shepard can learn that Zaeed has custom-ordered the parts and equipment necessary to restore Jessie to functionality, in order to be able to carry the rifle into the battle against the Reapers. During Kasumi's Loyalty Mission, you can find the Kassa M-12 Locust, an old submachine gun built for the Alliance before first contact that is infamous for being used to kill two Presidents at the same time. The ones you find have been modified to handle thermal clips instead of bullets, allowing you and your squamates to use them once you complete the mission. Mass Effect 3: In the Citadel DLC, you can acquire an old First Contact War-era M7 Lancer (which the memory-retentive fans may recall is the model of assault rifle available at the start of the first game). It has the old-style pre-thermal-clip cooldown mechanic and has been "upgraded with modern small arms tech" to be relevantly powerful compared to modern small arms. |
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In the Wing Commander novels, this is the primary method of both the Border Worlds Militia and the Free Landreich Republic Navy for arming themselves. While the Border Worlds could count on support from the Terran Confederation, being located in the border region between the Confederation and the Kilrathi Empire, the Landreich was located on a more tertiary front and largely relied on Refuge in Audacity to fend for themselves. When the BWM ends up in a (short-lived) shooting war with the Terran Confederation in The Price of Freedom, this trope gets deconstructed as the well-equipped Confed forces tend to steamroller over the Border Worlder forces until they are able to liberate some modern hardware. They only fare as well as they do because many of their pilots are battle-hardened veterans of the Kilrathi War, and because their ships, while very obsolete, have also seen some extensive upgrades. |
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Aliens: Hicks keeps an antiquated pump-action shotgun "for close encounters," and ends up having to rely on it on several occasions, particularly during the Marines' first run-in with the eponymous critters because the pulse rifles fire ammunition that would rupture the cooling system for the nuclear reactor in which the Aliens are hiding. The Novelization makes it clear the gun has been in Hicks' family for centuries, but it's not entirely clear whether pump-action shotguns are still made in the 22nd century; indeed, the novel has one of his squadmates straight-up ask him whether he found the gun in a museum. Vasquez carries a Smith & Wesson Model 39 as her sidearm in contrast to the H&K VP70s carried by her squadmates. |
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Batman: After the then-modern Batmobile was destroyed at the end of the Knightfall storyline, Batman takes up the original Batmobile for quite a while, even with a team-up with Spider-Man. During Batman: Cataclysm, Batman needs to get through the quake-ravaged Gotham while it is snowing and ends up pulling out the monster truck-like Batmobile from Batman: The Cult. Batman in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns breaks out the massive tank-like Batmobile after coming out of his ten-year retirement to deal with the Mutant Gang. The Elseworlds story Batman Dark Knight Dynasty showcased Brenna "Batwoman" Wayne's incredibly advanced 25th-century power armour, before destroying its power cells so she had to swap it for a bat-costume that was just a costume. In Batman '66, a villain breaks into Wayne Manor and steals the William Shakespeare bust that hides the button to the Batcave's entrance. Since Bruce and Dick have no way to get into the Batcave, Alfred brings out a chest containing their prototype costumes. As a Mythology Gag, the prototype costumes are the ones used during the initial screen tests for Batman (1966), right down to the awkward oval-less Bat Ensigna. In one Golden Age story (and retold in The Untold Legend of the Batman), Batman confronts mobster Lew Moxon wearing his father's costume party outfit (which was a scalloped cape with a bat-eared and -nosed mask, effectively making Thomas Wayne the "first" Batman). The sight of the costume shocks the mobster, restoring his memory and causing him to flee into a passing truck in terror. |
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In Super Robot Wars: Original Generation, several museum-pieces pop up as 'Secret' Humongous Mecha, rewards for fulfilling more-or-less insane requirements. In almost every case, they're extremely powerful, often Hand Waved as being a Super Prototype, or having been retired originally due to being too powerful to handle. Perhaps the crown of it is the Gespenst 001 — the very first prototype of the very-first Humongous Mecha designed in the world. For comparison, by the time of the first OG game, the basic Red Shirt mecha is the mass-produced Gespenst MK-II — the weakest machine you'll ever lay your hands on. And yet, the 001 is capable of keeping up with state-of-the-art Super Robots... The 001 you use is a rebuilt version courtesy of the local Human Aliens. And considering that the entire Gespenst series are inferior copies of Gilliam Yeager's Super Robot / Eldritch Abomination XN Giest from Hero Senki, the closest copy should be a top-tier Super Robot. |
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In FTL: Faster Than Light, the default Kestrel was decommissioned already prior to the game start and had to be pulled out of mothballs. | |
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Museum-ship battleships are also pulled out of mothballs to provide the weapons to fight aliens in Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. | |
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The first lightsaber given to the Jedi Consular class in Star Wars: The Old Republic is the Hilt of the First blade, the (modified and upgraded) first modern lightsaber. This would of course normally never go, since it's a priceless historic relic, but the Consular was kind of short on options. | |
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Although not mentioned in the first game, the novel Halo: The Fall of Reach goes into detail about how the UNSC Pillar of Autumn was an old Halcyon-class cruiser that was originally scheduled for scrapping but then brought back into service when war broke out against the Covenant. She was also heavily modified near the end of the Covenant War in order to help the Spartan-II Supersoldiers conduct Operation: Red Flag. note A plan to capture a Covenant ship and use it to travel to the Covenant homeworld and take one of their leaders captive in the hopes of using said leader as a hostage to try and forcibly negotiate a ceasefire. Unfortunately, the plan had to be prematurely cancelled when the Covenant attacked the main UNSC base on the planet Reach, and the Pillar of Autumn had to be recalled to help defend the colony. The Autumn barely managed to escape when the battle was lost, and during her escape, she ended up discovering the titular Halo ring at the beginning of Halo: Combat Evolved. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, the Tallgeese (originally called the Prototype Leo) is the first military mobile suit ever built, but it was never used because it was so overpowered that it killed all the test pilots, hence OZ and the like settle for the Leo, a mobile suit which is much weaker but is also far easier to pilot without killing oneself just from the G-forces involved. When the Gundams appear and start ripping the Leos limb from limb, a student of Zechs Merquise's suggests using the Tallgeese specifically because it's overpowered, meaning it might match the Gundams, which it did.note The scientists who built the Gundams were, in fact, the ones who designed the Tallgeese in the first place, and later used their knowledge to design the Wing Zero, the mobile suit that the successor Gundams were based off of. It's lampshaded in the anime when a soldier comments he didn't know Zechs flew "antiques". | |
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Inverted in The Journeyman Project 3: Due to the political fallout from the last game, all the time jump suits were deactivated and the TSA was put on suspension. When the inevitable crises strikes, The Hero suggests reactivating the "Pegasus device" used in the first game, but the idea gets shot down because it would take too long to get the old time machine working again. He ends up using a top-secret prototype instead (which, incidentally, he wasn't supposed to know about; his boss throws a fit when he gets back). | |
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Done in the flashback part of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin: right before the Battle of Loum, a group of punks armed with submachine guns and Molotov cocktails invade the Texas Bunch due its inhabitants allegedly being Zeon supporters (as the real Char Aznable hailed from there, and Casval kept the origin when he stole the identity), and get a bad surprise when the survivors of the Center Village who took refuge into the Mass ranch break out Wild West-era guns (and a Maxim gun) that happened to be there because the whole colony was originally slated to be a Wild West-themed amusement park (hence they were almost literal museum pieces). | |
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TheKingdom: Booster Gold's Planet Krypton restaurant in the present-day world (of 1998) is purposely stocked with items from various timelines by the four Titans from the future. Present-day Batman realizes this when he and his colleagues, plus their Kingdom Come counterparts, are transported to Planet Krypton by Hunter to fight Gog with the various items collected, with Batman saying something like "this isn't a museum...it's an arsenal". Where they become museum pieces of a sort is that these items have appeared during the Silver and Bronze Age period DC Universe. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek Judgment Rites: This trope is the driving force behind an entire episode titled "Museum Piece". In this episode, Kirk, Scotty and Chekov are trapped inside a museum of technology when it gets overrun by terrorists trying to steal one of the exhibits. Thanks to Scotty, the team gradually disassembles pretty much every single ancient exhibit they can get to in order to construct makeshift devices to help them get through the locked doors and eventually defeat the terrorists. Star Trek Online is an interesting take on this concerning both the Federation and the Romulan Republic ships. The Tier-1 through Tier-4 ships (basically, the ships you use leveling up) are said to be ships pulled out of storage either because of the casualties caused by the Dominion War and the Federation-Klingon War that starts the game (Federation) and that these are all they really have and need time to make newer ships (Romulan Republic). Many of the ships used as end game ships are basically modern counterparts with the ability to use the old ship as skins. |
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Dunkirk which features actual "Little Ships" from the real Dunkirk evacuation. | |
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During Dead Beat, he breaks out a literal museum piece: Sue, the most complete T. Rex skeleton found. He reanimates it as a zombie and rides it into battle. Literally 'older is better' in this case; a zombie's power is determined by its age. The oldest the antagonists have is Civil War era. Sue is 65 million years old... | |
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Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War gives your squadron, the Osean 108th "Wardog" Squadron, F-5 fighters which have largely been relegated to modern-day training jets because the squadron consists of all trainees who just earned their wings who get pressed into operational service after a surprise attack during a training flight. | |
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Dad's Army had an early episode in which the platoon go to the museum with the intention of taking weaponry, but do not succeed. The museum's caretaker who is trying to stop them, however, makes good use of the pieces inside to stop them from entering. Captain Mainwaring plays the trope fairly sensibly; he stops his men gawking at medieval weaponry and goes straight for Crimean War carbines which have already been requisitioned by another platoon. Truth in Television: The original Home Guard was formed at a time when Britain was so short of weapons of any kind that many soldiers were armed with pikes, spears, even bows; long-redundant weapons such as single-shot 1870s rifles were issued if the unit was lucky. These were supplemented with Heath Robinson Machines such as muzzle-loading artillery pieces and low-tech anti-tank guns lashed up in local garages, along with various sporting rifles donated by American civilians. By 1941, all Home Guard units were equipped on a level not far short of the Regular Army. The German equivalent, the Volkssturm, suffered similar issue shortages and many units were equipped with redundant WW1 vintage weaponry — or older. |
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In I, Robot, when the NS-5 robots initiate their Zeroth Law Rebellion, Spooner gets an old (meaning modern day) motorcycle out of storage. Dr. Calvin comments that internal combustion engines haven't been used in a very long time and is actually fearful that it would explode. | |
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In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Titan's Curse, Annabeth's father (a history professor) rescues the heroes with a Sopwith Camel. Firing celestial bronze bullets. | |
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Played with in Godzilla Minus One where a demilitarized Japan has to restore military equipment that's been decommissioned as part of the terms of surrender including the heavy cruiser Takao, and a prototype fighter that's been left to rust after being hidden in preparation for a mainland invasion that never occurred. | |
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In the Hyperion Cantos one of the characters owns a gun that's been in her family for generations and gets described as ancient. Eventually, it becomes apparent that while the gun is very old from the character's point of view it's actually a very advanced piece of technology. | |
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Gundam examples: During the Second Invasion of Jaburo in Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam, the Titans haul out various variants of One Year War Mobile Suits to defend the base. These suits are easily no match for the invading AEUG and besides, they're just there to lull to the group into a false sense of security as the base is set to go up in nuclear fire. In Mobile Suit Gundam F91, a crazy old man brings out a Transforming Mecha tank literally from a museum to fight off the Crossbone Vanguard invaders... and gets severely thrashed by their newer machines. What's left after the thrashing makes a reasonably good getaway car for a bunch of refugees to be. The biggest example in the franchise happens in Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost, where Font Baud pilots a 70-year-old Zaku II during the era of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. Bonus points for said Zaku II literally being found in a museum. In Victory Gundam Outside Story (a manga side story of the anime), Grey Stoke pilots the Gump, which is actually the 65-year-old MSZ-010 ZZ Gundam with makeshift replacements for one hand and foot, and a barrel over its distinctive head to conceal its identity. Unlike the above-mentioned Zaku II, this one wasn't taken from a museum because Grey Stoke is actually an elderly Judau Ashta and the Gump/ZZ Gundam has been in his possession for its entire existence. In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, the Tallgeese (originally called the Prototype Leo) is the first military mobile suit ever built, but it was never used because it was so overpowered that it killed all the test pilots, hence OZ and the like settle for the Leo, a mobile suit which is much weaker but is also far easier to pilot without killing oneself just from the G-forces involved. When the Gundams appear and start ripping the Leos limb from limb, a student of Zechs Merquise's suggests using the Tallgeese specifically because it's overpowered, meaning it might match the Gundams, which it did.note The scientists who built the Gundams were, in fact, the ones who designed the Tallgeese in the first place, and later used their knowledge to design the Wing Zero, the mobile suit that the successor Gundams were based off of. It's lampshaded in the anime when a soldier comments he didn't know Zechs flew "antiques". ∀ Gundam has the Earth forces discover long-buried, ancient mobile suits; namely, a bunch of Zakus ("Borjanons") and Capules ("Kapools"), plus one Turn A Gundam; and use them against the invading Moonrace. The Moonrace eventually discovers a similar cache of ancient suits on the Moon, which are easily on par with modern suits (or in the Turn X's case, far superior in every way). The EMS-04 Zudah in Mobile Suit Gundam MS Igloo is a peculiar example. Having lost out to the Zaku I for the role of Zeon's main fighting machine (due to a habit of exploding when flying too fast), the prototype Zudah are later pulled out again, renumbered the EMS-10 and touted as new superweapons in a desperate bid of propaganda. The explosive truth was quickly discovered by the enemy, however, and only the suit's genuinely high performance makes up for it. In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the final battle between Setsuna and Ribbons sees them trashing their incredibly powerful new Gundams and forced to pilot their originals, Exia and 0 Gundam (albeit with some upgrades). In the 00 movie, the Earth Federation whips out every battle capable machine they have available in the face of the ELS threat. As a result, brand new GN-XIV's are fighting alongside old Tierens and Realdos. In episode 4 of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, the Zeon Remnants of Earth take to attacking the EFSF's Torrington Base with One Year War relics, with their commander even going to battle in a modified Zaku I, although Loni has the Shamblo, courtesy of the Sleeves. The Sleeves themselves supplemented the attack (and earlier, defended Palau), with a mix of new mobile suits and a couple from the Gryps Conflict. The attack was effective but ultimately ended in failure once the remnants lost their advantage when the Shamblo's psycommu malfunctions and Loni goes berserk, even more so when the Byalant-Kai and the Jesta team arrive. Not to be outdone, the EFSF also broke out infantry use, guided anti-MS missiles, like the ones Lieutenant Barberry and his anti-MS teams used and their own Gryps Conflict mobile suits. The Gryps Conflict, admittedly, isn't too long ago for the time's mobile suits to be considered obsolete (just nine years) as they're still being widely used by all sides. The Remnant's earlier attack on Dakar was much more successful, with the Juaggu lasting longer and doing more damage than the newer Capule against the Federation defenders. Done in the flashback part of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin: right before the Battle of Loum, a group of punks armed with submachine guns and Molotov cocktails invade the Texas Bunch due its inhabitants allegedly being Zeon supporters (as the real Char Aznable hailed from there, and Casval kept the origin when he stole the identity), and get a bad surprise when the survivors of the Center Village who took refuge into the Mass ranch break out Wild West-era guns (and a Maxim gun) that happened to be there because the whole colony was originally slated to be a Wild West-themed amusement park (hence they were almost literal museum pieces). In a Gundam: Reconguista in G 3D short, Bellri and Aida are attacked by Mask piloting a replica of the Unicorn Gundam Unit 3 "Phenex" named "G-Phenex". Despite the G-Phenex being hundreds of years old design-wise, it's still powerful enough to give the G-Arcane and G-Self trouble. All of the Gundam frames in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans were made over three centuries ago for the Calamity War, some of which were in long-term storage when used in the present. Since the whole solar system suffered Space Age Stasis afterward, they're none the worse for it. In Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, during the final battle Suletta pilots the Gundam Calibarn, a prototype model over 20 years old that was put in storage for being too dangerous to pilot. It's the only available model that can power through the Big Bad's ability to hijack any technology using permet. |
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The majority of weapons used by the ARVN and NLF in Rising Storm 2: Vietnam date from World War II. This doesn't make them any less lethal, as the M1 Garand and Mosin-Nagant are perfectly capable of pulling off a One-Hit Kill. Even the NVA and US forces still use some weapons from the same era, with the M3 Grease Gun and PPSH-41 being used to great effect by both factions. | |
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In Red Dead Redemption's single-player DLC, Undead Nightmare, Nigel West Dickens hands over a blunderbuss (about half-a-century past its prime) for doing a few missions for him. Don't worry that there's no conventional ammo for it, zombie parts can be used, and are actually more effective at neutralizing (read: gibbing) zombies. note There's a hint of Truth in Television here. Properly cared for, a firearm can and will last for a very long time. Fifty years is nothing. Oh, and the blunderbuss is not picky in the least about what you feed it, provided that it gets enough powder to wash it down with. | |
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Skyfall has Bond retrieve some mothballed equipment from storage: his vintage, Q-upgraded Aston Martin DB5. Complete with ejector seat and (still very lethal) machine guns. In keeping with the vintage vibe, the original James Bond Theme from the Sean Connery era plays while Bond drives it out. | |
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In Batman '66, a villain breaks into Wayne Manor and steals the William Shakespeare bust that hides the button to the Batcave's entrance. Since Bruce and Dick have no way to get into the Batcave, Alfred brings out a chest containing their prototype costumes. As a Mythology Gag, the prototype costumes are the ones used during the initial screen tests for Batman (1966), right down to the awkward oval-less Bat Ensigna. | |
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Blood II: The Chosen grants you your first Sawed-Off Shotgun by literally stealing it from a museum exhibit. | |
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In Lexx, the Brunnen-G had no weapons to fight off the Divine Shadow thanks to their civilization's decline. Kai and a few other younger Brunnen-G were determined to die fighting anyway, so they broke out a bunch of ancient Insect fighters, relics from the Great Insect Wars and literal museum pieces. The half a dozen little fighters predictably failed against the Divine Shadow's planet-killing flagship, though Kai was able to get as far as smashing into the control pod. The Divine Shadow is bemused by the attempt to defeat him with Insect technology because he is really a man fused with an Insect's essence. | |
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NCIS: In the Season 5 episode "Internal Affairs", with the whole team under an investigation by the FBI for the murder of Arms Dealer René Benoit/La Grenouille (The Frog), Timothy McGee uses an ancient laptop with a command line interface from Gibbs' basement to hack into the FBI computer systems. In the Season 6 episode "Love and War", the team finds an old "Beary Smyles" talking teddy bear (an Expy of Teddy Ruxpin) in the victim's basement. McGee soon deduces that the victim was using it as "an old-style phreak box", a hacking tool that could penetrate the Department Of Defense's computers because its systems weren't designed to defend against the toy's outmoded electronics. In the Season 7 episode "Power Down", the team has to do this during a power outage. Instead of digital cameras they use Gibbs's Polaroids, which they put up on a corkboard, searched through boxes of fingerprints by hand and dug out an antique hand-cranked mimeograph to make copies. |
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Towards the end of Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door, a number of museum piece aircraft are brought out. Some of the designs don't exist yet and some are museum pieces in the present day. Unlike usual, many of them are in... less than ideal working condition. Thankfully, the pilots all have parachutes. | |
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In the climactic scene of The Night Land, the main characters are nearly to safety but the hideous creatures of the Night Land are almost upon them. Millions of people are about to watch them die a few hundred yards from the shelter of the Air-Clog. Cue the Master Monstruwacan authorizing the activation of the Last Redoubt's main energy weapon emplacements, which have not been used for tens of thousands, maybe millions of years. They still work. Though the power drain nearly shuts the entire pyramid down (which is why those weapons were mothballed in the first place) and the backblast almost kills the main characters, the pursuing hordes are obliterated. | |
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Star Trek: Lower Decks: "Veritas" does this literally. Rutherford and Shaxs steal a ToS-era Romulan Bird of Prey from a Vulcan museum. | |
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World War Z: The population of Britain (and various other European countries) apparently do quite well against the zombies, despite the lack of privately owned guns. Instead, they hole up in old castles and use the medieval weaponry in them. The quiet, middle-aged, academic type interviewed in the book is carrying a two-handed sword. Other examples show up in the book. Grenades and flechette rounds do little to stop the zombies... but a modified trenching tool for up-close wetwork does wonders. This is how the Russians survive the war — by breaking out their mountains of mothballed Cold War equipment (some of it dating back to World War II, even) to fight with. |
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ReBoot: Early episodes have Bob doing this since Mainframe doesn't have the advanced Technobabble Bob is used to using in the Super Computer. However, the antique devices Bob has to make do with tend to fail, making this a subversion. | |
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BattleTech plays with this. First, during the LosTech era, recovered ancient war machines may actually be superior to currently-produced models because they're still equipped with parts nobody knows how to make anymore. (This is what made finding old Star League caches such a big deal to everybody, to say nothing of ComStar having secretly stashed away a whole army of old designs and waiting for the right moment to deploy them.) On the other hand, well-designed 'Mechs from that time can still give more 'modern' ones a run for their money, especially if the modern design uses a lighter but more vulnerable advanced engine. Occurred literally in one novel set during the Dark Age time. Private mech ownership became a thing of the past in the Republic of the Sphere, so when raiders attacked one planet the hero smuggled some parts into a war museum to fix up the Battlemech that was on display there (apparently with its fusion reactor and weapons still intact), then piloted the mech out to stop the raiders (who had mostly Industrialmechs with jury-rigged weapons, which was why he could take them on with a single Battlemech). |
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In the Battletech fic False Prophets, The Fighting Tigers had time to prepare some of the captured mechs that they put on display in the base museum in Dalian for battle, so that they could ambush an invading force. Special bonus for the Urbanmech that had major sections of its armor replaced with transparent (armor-grade) 'cockpit glass' panels so that museum visitors could see the internals. | |
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Modern flatscreen televisions have a slight bit of lag that wasn't present in old CRTs. For most purposes, this is completely ignorable, but high-end tournament play in Super Smash Bros. Melee requires lightning-quick reaction times that simply aren't possible with that lag, leading to several tournaments having to dig up old bulky units just for this game. Despite the game's enduring popularity, the increasing difficulty of acquiring working CRT televisions was one of the factors leading to EVO finally retiring Melee in 2019. | |
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In episode 4 of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn, the Zeon Remnants of Earth take to attacking the EFSF's Torrington Base with One Year War relics, with their commander even going to battle in a modified Zaku I, although Loni has the Shamblo, courtesy of the Sleeves. The Sleeves themselves supplemented the attack (and earlier, defended Palau), with a mix of new mobile suits and a couple from the Gryps Conflict. The attack was effective but ultimately ended in failure once the remnants lost their advantage when the Shamblo's psycommu malfunctions and Loni goes berserk, even more so when the Byalant-Kai and the Jesta team arrive. Not to be outdone, the EFSF also broke out infantry use, guided anti-MS missiles, like the ones Lieutenant Barberry and his anti-MS teams used and their own Gryps Conflict mobile suits. The Gryps Conflict, admittedly, isn't too long ago for the time's mobile suits to be considered obsolete (just nine years) as they're still being widely used by all sides. The Remnant's earlier attack on Dakar was much more successful, with the Juaggu lasting longer and doing more damage than the newer Capule against the Federation defenders. |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, during the final battle Suletta pilots the Gundam Calibarn, a prototype model over 20 years old that was put in storage for being too dangerous to pilot. It's the only available model that can power through the Big Bad's ability to hijack any technology using permet. | |
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The final episode of the short-lived CI5: The New Professionals had The Mafiya restoring the anti-aircraft guns on a decommissioned battleship to assassinate the US president. | |
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In the "Jesse James vs. Al Capone" episode of Deadliest Warrior, the fight takes place in an American History Museum. Jesse James' gang steal guns from the museum's display cases with which to fight their opponents. | |
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Daredevil (2015): After spending season 2 and The Defenders (2017) in his iconic red Daredevil costume, Matt Murdock reverts to his original season 1 costume for season 3, although not entirely (his mask is now made from the fabric of a nun's habit, rather than being a store-bought mask). | |
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In one of the ST:TOS Lost Years novels, A Flag Full Of Stars desk-bound post-series/pre-TMP Kirk uses the refitted Space Shuttle Enterprise (taken out of mothballs and refitted to participate in the 300th anniversary celebration of the Apollo Moon Landings) to aid new 1701 CO Will Decker, commanding the in-the-midst-of-refit starship Enterprise. | |
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British comic strip Axa has Axa escape from the City in a Bottle into the wild, dangerous post-apocalyptic world. She discovers a museum being Reclaimed by Nature, and explores it. There, Axa finds a double-edged sword and jeweled scabbard. She appropriates these, and adds them to her Nubile Savage ensemble. | |
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In the Pony POV Series Wedding Arc, Rarity finds some old, retired guard armor in storage in the basement of the building they're hiding during the Changeling occupation of Canterlot and repurposes it. Misfit Actual gets a similar idea and busts some replica Griffin War-era crossbows out of storage at the museum because the Changelings would be watching the armories. | |
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In the movie UFO Robo Grendizer vs Great Mazinger, the Vegan Empire invade the Mazinger Museum and steal Great Mazinger, then kidnap Kouji and force him to pilot it. When the story is done for the game Super Robot Wars MX, they steal Great Mazinger and Mazinger Z, but make Kouji pilot Z instead. Subverted in Mazinger Z: Infinity: The Mazinger Z in the Mazinger Museum is a fake. The real Mazinger Z had stayed in storage within the Photon Power Plant just in case. |
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Subverted in Mazinger Z: Infinity: The Mazinger Z in the Mazinger Museum is a fake. The real Mazinger Z had stayed in storage within the Photon Power Plant just in case. | |
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Island in the Sea of Time: In a very literal example, once the decision is made to resume whaling, the Nantucketers retrieve a bunch of whale-processing equipment from the whaling museum. Later in the first book, mention is made that someone found a treadle-powered sewing machine in an attic, which they consider to be worth its weight in gold. An odd variant in the second book. By now, the Nantucketers have adapted to a largely 19th-century tech base. But when the Island is attacked by Tartessos, they deploy the "Cherokee Brigade" - a force of SUVs (mostly Jeep Cherokees) equipped with machine guns, which are far faster than any other landbound force. |
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Futurama: After the Decapodians shut down the Earth's high-tech defences, the crew uses an ancient heat-seeking missile from a museum. It immediately backfires when it's pointed out that Decapodians — and their technology and war-machines — are cold-blooded. | |
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In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spidey gets his new, state-of-the-art costume confiscated by Tony Stark. So he wears his old homemade costume for his final battle against the Vulture. | |
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Judgment Rites, a Star-Trek-based point-and-click, has a chapter aptly named "Museum Piece" which strands the characters (including Scotty and Chekov) in a literal museum during a hostage situation. They need to use the obsolete technology found in the titular museum pieces to overwhelm the assailants. Naturally, they succeed. | |
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In 'Allo 'Allo! one of the plans to get rid of the British Airmen is to break out an old aircraft that would be powered by the engine of the General's lawnmower. It doesn't work. | |
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In Covert Affairs, an encoded radio transmission turns out to be in such an outdated cypher that a clunky old museum piece is pulled out of the CIA's archives in order to decrypt it. | |
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Independence Day: The flying saucer had been stored for decades under Area 51 when they suddenly needed it. Variation/subversion in that the vehicle is just as advanced as what the aliens are still using (and actively did not work until the mothership showed up in orbit). In the novelization, several pilots show up with WWII era aircraft to join the fight. Not expecting to survive, but because for every alien shooting at them, there's one that won't be shooting at the F/A-18s. In the original cut of the movie, Russell appears in the final battle in his crop-dusting biplane with a bomb strapped to the side. They changed it to a modern plane malfunctioning in flight so they could show the moment where he decided to make the Heroic Sacrifice. Similarly, the aliens are knocking out all digital communication, so what do the heroes do? Go to their good ol' trusty telegraph machines. |
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To a lesser extent, the Shen-Hu from Code Geass. It's not that old (being the precursor to the Guren Mk-II, itself roughly a year old), but like the Mobile Suit Gundam Wing example the machine was so insanely overpowered that nobody could use it. When Li Xingke takes it into battle, the only change made is the addition of a flight unit. | |
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In Battlefleet Gothic, Imperial Navy Revere Fleets consist of many old and obsolete classes of ship that are no longer used in regular Navy Fleets, including many that are more commonly seen fighting with Chaos Fleets such as the Repulsive-class Grand Cruiser and the Carnage-class Cruiser. The Imperial Navy is reluctant to use these fleets due to their ships' lack of regular maintenance and their hastily assembled crews having a tendency to be unreliable at best, if not outright mutinous. The game rules represent this by allowing the player to choose certain ships from the Chaos Fleet list but makes all Reserve Fleet Ships more likely to disengage from combat or, when fighting against Chaos, defect to the opponents control. | |
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In For Your Eyes Only, one of the villain's henchmen triggers the explosive anti-theft device on 007's gadget-laden Lotus Esprit, causing it (and the henchman) to blow up. 007 is then forced to rely on his wits — with the Citroën 2CV of the Girl of the Week. The movie is likely set in 1981, and that car started production in 1948. | |
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In The Executioner novel "Death Games", Mack Bolan and Ace Pilot Jack Grimaldi have to escape from Czechoslovakia, so they restore a Lloyd C-II from an aircraft museum because its wood-and-canvas frame makes it impervious to radar, and its slower speed make it good for nap-of-the-earth flying. This leads to a Schizo Tech scene where they're attacked by supersonic Mig fighters. | |
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Elysium: Max's Powered Armor is a (probably painfully) salvaged third-generation exosuit, which is good enough to take on Kruger and his new gadgets, including Kruger's fifth-generation exosuit, in an Upgrade vs. Prototype Fight moment. Lampshaded by Max when he's handed the modified AKM. | |
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In Victoria the protagonists, who are seceding from the US, are given Russian military aid in the form of a hundred T-34 tanks. As in, WWII vintage tanks. Rather than be dismayed, the protagonists praise the tanks for their ruggedness and reliability over contemporary armor (hahaha, not really) but resolve not to get into any tank battles, instead using them in raids to disrupt enemy supply lines. This dovetails nicely with the rebels' philosophy of "Retroculturism". | |
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Barbarella. As the universe is now in a state of peace, the only weapon the President of Earth can find for the title character is a Ray Gun he borrowed from the Museum of Conflict. | |
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In Worldwar: War of Equals, the Italian military uses old Cold War equipment (mainly the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter) and anti-air emplacements to fight off Race killercraft. Bonus point for the F-104, as the fanfiction takes place after it was decommissioned... Meaning that some were in the museums before the Italians brought them back in service. | |
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Atari Force: In the second series, the Scanner One spaceship was actually a museum piece, and it was still functional and fully stocked! | |
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In Girls' Frontline, Griffon & Kryuger and their T-Dolls generally make use of firearms that would've been considered obsolete by the 2010s, nevermind 2062. Even the stuff that's being used today would be considered ancient by the standards of the game's setting. Despite all this, they can hold their own against factions with more advanced tech. There's a reason for this: A law was passed so that PMCs like G&K are prohibited from fielding weapons that were developed during or after World War III, after the first PMC that did have such advanced weapons, Sangvis Ferri, turned on their masters. One also gets the impression that the actual military wasn't comfortable with the thought of being overpowered and outgunned by some glorified mall guards and their disposable clankers when the time comes to stab the contractors in the back. |
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Super Robot Wars X: Pretty much every faction from the Reguild Century recreates old Mobile Suits from Universal Century-era blueprints in place of developing any new suits of their own (only the Capital Army's Catsith and Mass-Produced MacKnife, as well as Towasanga's Moran, make it in as grunts in the game). They are distributed as follows: Capital Army: Jegan (Kerbes of the Capital Guard also has one as his default unit when he shows up) Towasanga and the G-IT Corps: Gaza-C, Gaza-D, Zssa, Dreissen, and Doven Wolf Towasanga: Geara Doga (some Musaka-class ships are also seen in a cutscene) G-IT Corps: Dwadge and Zaku III. Also, Kun uses the Alpha Azieru (with a special system to let her use its Funnels without her needing Newtype powers) instead of anything she piloted in the show. Ameria: Klim and Mick initially pilot identical replicas of Gyunei and Quess's Jagd Dogas (though, since they're not Newtypes, they can't use their Funnels). |
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Danger Mouse: In the new series episode "Grand Stressed Auto", the Danger Car Mark IV gets damaged, and they have to break out the Mark III from the original show. Too bad it's developed sentience and a deep jealousy of both the newer car and Penfold. So Penfold has to break out another museum piece, the Mark II ... which is just a Reliant Robin in Danger Agency colours. | |
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Booster Gold: The entire origin of Booster Gold. All the devices he uses to be a superhero were stolen from a 25th Century museum, and he uses a time machine stored in the museum to get to the 20th Century where they would then be beyond state of the art. (Though at least originally, they were actually from his future too: 30th Century Legion of Super-Heroes devices that had gone back to the 20th century with Superman, and thus wound up in the museum.) | |
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The whole premise of If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device revolves around The Emperor Of Mankind getting a Text-To-Speech Device installed on his Golden Throne that allows for him to talk with the members of his Imperium once again. | |
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Transformers Film Series: In Transformers (2007), the Decepticons had knocked out all digital communications, so the feds at the Hoover Dam dig an old 1930s-era radio out of storage. They also use a couple of display Winchester 1897s when Frenzy starts attacking them. Doubled up when they find some old computers and need to get a message out, and while the keyboards didn't quite work, they were able to be rigged up for Morse Code. In Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, one of the characters is hiding out as a literal museum piece: Jetfire, who transformed into an SR-71 Blackbird. Said character is also a living museum piece in his own right, being one of the oldest Cybertronians still alive. His father was a wheel. The first wheel! What did he transform into? Nothing. But he did it with honour! |
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Done literally in the Starfist series, where heavy armored vehicles went out of style three centuries ago due to the availability of the Straight Arrow, an extremely lightweight and portable shoulder-fired rocket that could defeat any thickness of armor you could reasonably put on anything meant to move. When someone starts building tanks again, they have to dig Straight Arrows out of the museums so they can make copies. | |
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In Left 4 Dead 2, the survivors escape Savannah, Georgia in a borrowed 1970s racecar on display at the mall. Old or not, that moving chunk of metal runs and smashes undead heads just as good. | |
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Spider-Man: In The Amazing Spider-Man (Dan Slott) #15, Spidey and Iron Man are being overwhelmed by the supervillain Regent when Mary Jane, watching from the All-New, All-Different Avengers' base, remembers Tony keeps a lot of his stuff, digs into one of the boxes nearby and hauls out the Iron Spider costume, which she dons to aid the two heroes. | |
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Dallas Barr: Similar to the Cowboy Bebop example, an arc from this near-future Belgian comic had the hero stuck in orbit, only to be rescued by a Fiction500 friend who had anticipated the problem, and had quickly bought and refurbished a mothballed Soviet rocket. | |
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After the then-modern Batmobile was destroyed at the end of the Knightfall storyline, Batman takes up the original Batmobile for quite a while, even with a team-up with Spider-Man. | |
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In some films, it's the creators who break out the museum pieces. For example, the World War II film Fury uses some genuine World War II tanks. In the DVD Bonus Content, the creators note that the tanks had to be treated gently because they were more than seventy years old. The prop Tiger, on the other hand, ended up in a museum, which has insisted on putting it on a custom powered chassis as the prop originally didn't have one and was moved around on a sled. French film Snow and Fire is notable for using the only Königstiger tank that's still in running condition, which is preserved at the Saumur tank museum. Dunkirk which features actual "Little Ships" from the real Dunkirk evacuation. |
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In Good Omens (2019), Shadwell has the ridiculously elaborate Thundergun of Witchfinder Lt. "Get Them Before They Get You" Dalrymple in a case at his flat, which he breaks out for the final showdown. | |
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The Taneshigama of 4 and Peace Walker, a 'relic from the age of the Samurai'. In 4, it summons tornados that drop items and ammo, and in Peace Walker it shoots tornados that kidnap soldiers. | |
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Starfleet Battles: The Romulans have a couple of sublight ship designs (ships unable to maneuver faster than light in battle because they simply don't have warp engines at all) more than 80 years after everyone else has warp-powered ships. These remain in service through the entire period of the game and form the bulk of the Romulan fleet and many of the support ships for much of the game's timeline, receiving technology upgrades all along the way. The Federation keeps its old (as in, first Romulan war era, decades before the main period of the game) cruisers in service (upgraded to warp power and now classed as light cruisers) for a variety of support roles. (The fact that these are among the few Federation warships that can land on a planet makes them particularly valuable as ground troop transports and medical ships.) And in case you want to seriously break out the genuine museum pieces, you can get "Module Y: The Early Years", which covers the early warp powered ships, and "Module Q: Sublight Battles", which covers the period before warp-driven ships. |
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In Threads, an antique traction engine is seen being used for farming after a nuclear war has left most of the world without mechanised agriculture. | |
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In the Naval Ops series, you can have your ship equipped with a Wave-Motion Gun, X-Ray Lasers, Plasma Cannon and other sci-fi goodies but breaking out the World War 2 naval guns you researched or found earlier is often the more practical choice. | |
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The eponymous starship of Christopher Nuttall's Ark Royal was stuck in orbit for seventy years until humanity's first interstellar war, when it turned out its obsolete mass drivers and heavy armor were perfect against the enemy's weapons and defenses. It also helps that its commanding officer, a perpetually drunk commodore, who was Reassigned to Antarctica, has actually done something useful during his long stint aboard the Ark Royal. When asked how long it would take to get the ship back to active service, his reply of "4 weeks" stuns everyone into disbelief. He does, however, point out that it's utterly incompatible with modern computer and sensor systems, and a complete refit would require cutting up the ship and putting it back together, which would take a lot longer than 4 weeks. However, his goal isn't to take on the entire enemy fleet by himself. It's more to play for a Delaying Action, while Earth's nations scramble to design and build Ark Royal-type ships (with modern tech, of course). | |
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In Sahara (2005), the protagonists use a still-working The American Civil War-era Confederate ironclad's cannon to destroy the Big Bad's helicopter gunship. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Most of the really cool stuff is at least ten thousand years old, from Baneblades to Titans to miles-long battle cathedrals (IN SPACE!). This is because they're made with super-advanced Lost Technology that the Imperium remembers how to maintain but not how to manufacture. The Imperium used to know how to make lightsaber-like swords (Eisenhorn owned one in Xenos), but today they're stuck with ordinary metal swords charged with disruptor fields. Aeldari (formerly the Eldar) are still using hardware from before the ancestors of humanity ever crawled out of the primordial soup. The Drukhari (formerly the Dark Eldar) take it even further since they have no qualms about using the tech that the Craftworld and Exodite Aeldari deny themselves. |
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The Wizard of Id comic for April 24th, 2012. A group of the King's soldiers dashes into an old war museum. | |
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Not to be outdone, the EFSF also broke out infantry use, guided anti-MS missiles, like the ones Lieutenant Barberry and his anti-MS teams used and their own Gryps Conflict mobile suits. The Gryps Conflict, admittedly, isn't too long ago for the time's mobile suits to be considered obsolete (just nine years) as they're still being widely used by all sides. | |
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In Down Periscope, Commander Dodge has to use a rustbucket WW2-era submarine to test the Navy's vulnerability to unconventional attacks. Interestingly, one admiral treats it as a genuine test of the Navy and human ingenuity, while the other one (with a personal dislike of Dodge) deliberately rigs the wargame in order to prove "his" Navy's superiority. And to get a promotion. |
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In Chernobyl, two of the old Soviet Lunokhod lunar rovers are taken out of mothballs and re-purposed as remote-controlled bulldozers (their design already being radiation-hardened in order to survive in space) and are used to help clear the debris on the roof of the reactor building after the explosion. | |
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Zigzagged in Empire Earth, where you can choose not to upgrade some units (i.e. arquebus-using soldiers in the modern age) but some (archers and cavalry) are no longer available after a certain era. Some levels force you to use less-than-adequate counters (one World War I battle doesn't let you build flak trucks, you have to make do with Partisans, guys with rifles who were first available in the beginning of the 19th century. In the final German level, the French resistance mounts attacks using Napoleonic grenadiers. Some custom scenarios allow for this via triggers so as to recreate historical battles featuring outdated equipment. |
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Jumanji: When a vine from a man-eating plant grabs Peter, Alan breaks a display case holding his ancestor General Angus Parrish's saber and uses the weapon to cut Peter free. | |
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The Southern Reach Trilogy: Expedition members get outdated and antique equipment — even down to their clothes — to bring to Area X. They're not allowed contemporary equipment like cellphones or laptops. The surveyor freaks out when she finds out that the one concession to their group, her assault rifle, is nothing more than 30-year-old parts cobbled together. The reason for using old equipment is that whatever created Area X can sense the more advanced tech and attack the items along with whoever is using them. | |
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In Star Trek Beyond, the crew of the late Enterprise discovers the U.S.S. Franklin, an over 100-year ship that was the first Warp 4-capable starship (which means this was around before the NX-01). It was repaired and modified to save the day. Keep in mind, back in those days ships were armored with, well, armor. Meaning that the Franklin could take a ton of abuse without shields online and still keep on a tickin'. Comes in real handy when you don't really have enough power for good shields anyway even if you had any. Even old and worn, a Flying Brick in ship form can still shine with the best. | |
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One episode of Astro Boy involved Skunk's henchmen re-activating an old Humongous Mecha, since it's too old to be affected by the anti-tech shields surrounding the prison he was in. | |
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Judge Dredd once faced off against a Serial Killer who was obsessed with the twentieth century and was killing modern musicians because of their generic pop music. He makes his kills using twentieth-century weaponry, which is noted by Dekker as being antique. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Seeds of Death", the Ice Warriors have hijacked the T-MAT teleportation grid, which is on the Moon. Luckily for our heroes, the crackpot who runs a space museum has been secretly maintaining a rocket... In "The Dalek Invasion of Earth", set in the 22nd century, Barbara and a group of freedom fighters literally break into a museum and manage to get a 20th-century truck running. In "Death to the Daleks", a power-sapping field on the planet Exxilon manages to render several spaceships useless, and completely neutralizes the Daleks' Death Ray weapons. They respond by promptly repurposing them to instead work as machine guns and immediately go back to threatening and ordering people around. In "Vincent and the Doctor", the Doctor digs around the TARDIS for a species-scanner that was apparently given to him as a childhood present by his godmother. In "A Good Man Goes to War" he presents Amy and Rory with his cot for their baby, with its mobile still in perfect working order after a thousand years. The TARDIS itself is an example since it was an outdated model on its way to being decommissioned when the Doctor stole it (mostly on the suggestion of his future companion Clara). The Master even calls it an "overweight, underpowered museum piece" in "The Claws Of Axos". |
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In Digimon Adventure 02, Armor Digivolving is this, sort of. It's an 'ancient' form of evolution that can't be blocked by the Control Spires that prevent the normal kind, like using a computer so old that it can't be affected by a virus that targets newer models. | |
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Shaun of the Dead: Shaun and Co. are in the Winchester pub with a Winchester rifle (that no-one thought would work) as their only defense against the zombie hordes. Hilarity Ensues! | |
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From the Legacy of the Aldenata series of novels by John Ringo: Museum ships like old battleships are reactivated and upgraded to fight the invading alien Posleen. A WW2 cruiser, the USS Des Moines, is brought back into service and upgraded with Galactic Federation tech to help secure the Panama Canal region in Yellow Eyes Elderly retired soldiers are rejuvenated with tech from more friendly alien allies to fight as young soldiers again. The "rejuv" treatment become a major part of the plot, especially when they run out before the enlisted men are called into action, leaving the U.S. military top-heavy with officers. In Watch on the Rhine, the Germans break out the Nazis, albeit under protest. |
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Ameria: Klim and Mick initially pilot identical replicas of Gyunei and Quess's Jagd Dogas (though, since they're not Newtypes, they can't use their Funnels). | |
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The Star Trek Expanded Universe novel Before Dishonor states that The Federation has an entire planet known as "The Museum World". Picard takes the Enterprise E there (against Starfleet's orders) to reactivate The Doomsday Machine, from the TOS episode of the same name, in order to use it against a Sentient Borg Super Cube which is threatening Earth (and has already eaten Pluto). | |
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Blake's 7. In "The Harvest of Kairos", Servalan seizes the Liberator and has its crew abandoned on a Death World. Their only hope of escape is an unarmed and obsolete Apollo-era landing craft. | |
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Star Wars Rebels uses this often. The titular rebels often have to find and salvage leftovers from the Clone Wars to help gear up for a fight against the Empire. The success of this varies widely. Relics like the AT-TE walker is easily outclassed by the newer AT-AT, while others like Rex's 1st Generation Clone Trooper armor consistently holds up where the newer stormtrooper armor would have easily failed. | |
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Extreme Ghostbusters: The new crew tries the old proton packs against the Big Bad in the pilot episode and finds them to be ineffective, forcing them to come up with a more powerful trap and proton guns. Even so, the old equipment still works, which makes it a suitable back-up. The old team used it quite effectively in the series finale. | |
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Starman: In the first arc of James Robinson's series, "Sins of the Father", Jack Knight loses the cosmic rod that his father gave him and has to rely on his father's much older gravity rod. | |
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In Macross 7, Mirya is shown to have kept her old Valkyrie from the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross over the years and breaks it out to assist the defenses when City 7 is cut off from the fleet and other reinforcements. However, while Mirya can pilot it well enough to fight off the more advanced machines of the day, Gamlin (who's only piloted more powerful modern Nightmares) gets quickly shot down when he tries to pilot it because he pushed it too hard. Three colonists on City 7 were on the Macross with a Destroid Monster, and break it out when the ship is cut off and Mirya calls for a formation. The problem is that the Monster is a heavy artillery unit, and while still devastating there's no target slow enough for it. |
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In the Grand Finale of Power Rangers Beast Morphers, Evox allows himself to be captured to gain access to Grid Battleforce's computers and absorb their data, allowing him to analyze their weapons and become immune to them all, harmlessly absorbing a blast from a weapon specifically designed to take him out, and later Devon's entire Beast-X Saber, digitizing it and sucking it right up! The Rangers' response? Dig into Nate's Ranger Vault (this season's Ranger tech turns out to be reverse-engineered from other teams' gear) and bring out some classic weaponry for past teams. | |
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Commando: In a story titled "Charlie's Tank" a group of plucky British soldiers trapped in occupied France liberate a World War I tank from a museum and use it to escape the Nazis. | |
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Batman in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns breaks out the massive tank-like Batmobile after coming out of his ten-year retirement to deal with the Mutant Gang. | |
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In Armored Core: For Answer, the "Destroy Satellite Cannons" mission on Hard Mode, the enemy is a "Prototype NEXT", the 00-ARETHA. Not only it is not quite a Super Prototype, the only other time you will face it is in the prequel game, Armored Core 4, and even then, it's hardly a threat, even when piloted by an Ace Pilot. In that mission, your operator even flatly derides the enemy for being so desperate as to willingly deploy, in her words, "a relic". | |
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Gerry Anderson's New Captain Scarlet: In one episode, Captain Black is creating Crop Circles that render any digital systems (essentially, everything) inoperable. Spectrum takes out his base of operations with an old Lancaster Bomber, which has been introduced earlier in the episode. | |
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The Lighthouse was made using vintage equipment, including vintage 1930s lenses and orthochromatic film, to try and capture the aesthetic of late 1800s era in which it is set. | |
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The biggest example in the franchise happens in Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: Ghost, where Font Baud pilots a 70-year-old Zaku II during the era of Mobile Suit Victory Gundam. Bonus points for said Zaku II literally being found in a museum. | |
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In the Get Smart film, Max ends up using the 1960s gadgets from the tourist display when he's on the run. Of course, the car (fully fueled, for some reason) only drives for about a block before stalling. Surprisingly, he is able to jack the shoe-phone into the cellular network. | |
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In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Cap steals his old World War II uniform from the Smithsonian. Unusually, this isn't because the old uniform is better than his current equipment, it's because his new suit was abandoned (it had a tracking device) and because he's trying to jog the memory of a Brainwashed and Crazy Bucky Barnes. | |
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Battlestar Galactica is less "break out the museum piece" and more "break out the museum". The Galactica was being converted into a museum ship and its decommissioning was scheduled on the same day as the Cylon attack. The rest of the fleet was knocked out quickly due to a Cylon backdoor in their modern computer networks rendering them vulnerable. Galactica's computers weren't up to date or networked, rendering them mostly immune to the Cylon virus. The officials actually insisted on installing a computer network on the Galactica to create an interactive museum. Adama refused, claiming that no network will be installed as long as he was in command. He gets away with this insubordination as he's a retiring war hero and won't be in command of the ship for much longer, so better to keep him happy while he is. Played straighter with a squadron of Viper Mark II's that were intended for display when the Galactica opened as a museum. The fighters were not only immune to the virus thanks to their outdated control system, but they were also the only fighters the pilots had on-hand. Laura Roslin is launched into the Presidency because, as Secretary of Education, she was attending the decommissioning of Galactica and opening of the museum and was thus en route back to Caprica when the attack happened. |
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John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: One fight sequence takes place within a literal weapons museum storage, with both John and his adversaries breaking open display cases to grab whatever is inside. At one point John has to quickly disassemble, clean, reassemble, and load a historical revolver before bad guys get to him. | |
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Demolition Man: Simon Phoenix breaks into a museum because that's the only place to find a gun. After grabbing all the "outdated" 20th century weaponry he says "Wait a minute, this is the future. Where are all the phaser guns?", and goes after the future weapons (i.e., those produced before 2032). The year 2032 where, unlike today, weapons displayed in museums are somehow fully functional and loaded. The car driven by Spartan is also a classic, and that's going by the standards of the viewers when the movie came out, much less by 2032. |
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Subverted in The Ultimates, when Tony brought one of his old suits out... so that he could use it to get to Iron Man Six, a heavily armed, space-capable weapons platform. | |
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In Marvel's Avengers, when Tony Stark initially returns to the fold, his first 'armour' is just the gauntlets, boots, and partial helmet of an old suit lying around his old mansion. His second full mission after this sees him using a relatively basic armour assembled from whatever material he could salvage from the broken-down Chimera helicarrier to mount a raid on an A.I.M. facility and acquire the technology needed to build a new version of his more advanced armour. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: In the movie, a working item (which cures Laser-Guided Amnesia) is in the museum, but it was put there to hide it in plain sight because everyone believed it was broken beyond repair. | |
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In Kingsman: The Secret Service, the big yellow missile pack suit is apparently a leftover from Reagan's 'Star Wars' program, and it looks it too. | |
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The Mote in God's Eye: When the three midshipmen are trapped on Mote Prime, they find a museum and use the weapons stored in it to fight attacking Motie Warriors. Justified because the museum was designed to keep weapons (and other items) in working order for future use when Mote civilization fell. | |
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The Matrix Reloaded. While Morpheus and Trinity are fleeing after the Keymaker, Morpheus grabs a katana from a display of antique weapons and uses it to fight the albino ghost twins. The preceding fight between Neo and the Merovingian's henchmen also features this, as the various combatants loot the Wall of Weapons. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories: Humanity was wiped out and the world is populated by androids. The androids of Kama store Sky Striker equipment in a museum because only humans can use it. Kama later grows a human girl from a preserved fertilized egg and names her Raye. When Kama is invaded, Raye takes the Sky Striker suit from the museum so she can fight in its defense. | |
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South Park: In "Go God Go XII", Cartman tries cryogenic suspension to avoid waiting for the release of the Wii but ends waking up in the year 2546. He actually finds and gets a Wii from a museum (but he can't play because there's no compatible screen at the time). | |
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Peter Grant of the Rivers of London series employs this trope quite a bit because so much of The Folly's equipment and household fittings haven't been updated since the 1940s. Thus, he uses an antique brass microscope that belongs in a museum to examine a damaged 21st-century microprocessor, and the shooting-range paper targets he trains on look like German troops from World War I. | |
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In one episode of Tremors: The Series Gun Nut Burt Gummer is out of weapons while fighting a monster infestation. The locals tell him of a resident gun nut with a huge arsenal. When they get there, they discover that the "huge arsenal" consists of 18th-century black-powder muzzle-loaders. Burt, however, being a drooling gun fanboy, is well-versed in 18th-century warfare and manages to organize the locals to Save the Day. (It helps that the actors in that episode were part of a historical re-enactment society.) It also helps that the shriekers have no concept of tactics or even pack mentality (even wolves know to surround a prey). They just charge at the defenders without regard for their own lives. | |
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The Martian. Mark manages to retrieve the Pathfinder (aka the Carl Sagan Memorial Center) in order to communicate with NASA. At the same time, NASA retrieves its earthly duplicate to figure out how to communicate with it again. Lampshaded and defied during his journey to the ARES 4 MAV, Mark does most of his navigation with a protractor and a watch, measuring the height of Deneb and the rotations of Phobos. He has a few choice things to say about being surrounded by 21st century tech and being on a different planet, but still using navigational techniques that were developed in the 16th century and perfected in the 18th. He also refuses to activate Opportunity, remarking that it isn't worth defiling another historical site when he is only a few days away from the MAV and a much better comms system. |
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A d20 Modern one-shot adventure, No Man's Land, occurs inside of the titular World War I museum exhibit, which is fully loaded with everything including a trench (transplanted from an actual battlefield), multiple samples of weapons and a tank of the era, which will be used by a number of zombies that were buried on the trench (and a vengeful necromancer will wake up. A sidebar mentions that Real Life museum exhibits would have everything deactivated, but for the sake of the Rule of Cool (or through the simple Hand Wave of magical influence, if the GM wishes to use it), the weapons are live. | |
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Exemplified in issue 300, the debut of the original Iron Legion. After the telepresence armor was trashed by Ultimo and Tony needed time to recover and complete his modular armor, War Machine enlisted Eddie March, Happy Hogan, Carl Walker, Michael O'Brien, and Bethany Cabe to don older Iron Man suits to join him in holding off Ultimo.note Cabe was the only one who hadn't previously filled in temporarily as Iron Man, but Rhodey picked her because she knew Tony's Secret Identity and could hold her own in a fight. O'Brien and Walker had also had their own armored identities, as the Guardsman and Force, respectively. Abe Zimmer, who readied the armors, noted that they had been stored without any thought of sending them into battle again. At least three of the suits were replicas re-created by Stark, as the original versions had been destroyednote March donned the original gray "Model 1" armor; Hogan donned the old red-and-gold suit with the horned mask; and O'Brien donned the Silver Centurion armor. In Iron Man #175, Rhodey slagged all of the armors except the "classic" red-and-gold suit he was currently wearing, in order to keep them out of the wrong hands after Tony had lost Stark International; the Centurion was destroyed by Firepower in #230, near the end of the Armor Wars. Walker wore the "classic" suit, which had been damaged the last time Rhodey had worn it in issues #215-216, while Cabe wore the "neo-classic" suit Tony had worn between issue #231 and #280. | |
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In a Gundam: Reconguista in G 3D short, Bellri and Aida are attacked by Mask piloting a replica of the Unicorn Gundam Unit 3 "Phenex" named "G-Phenex". Despite the G-Phenex being hundreds of years old design-wise, it's still powerful enough to give the G-Arcane and G-Self trouble. | |
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No Time to Die: Bond's Aston Martin DB5 suffers badly in Italy in the Action Prologue. When he's back into service in London, he gets a vintage Aston Martin V8 (the same model as in The Living Daylights) out of a garage and uses it. | |
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Lois & Clark: When Jimmy Olsen is about to write his first major article for the Daily Planet, Perry White insists that Olsen follow an old tradition and write the piece on an antique manual typewriter that Perry used to write his first news story when he was a cub reporter. In another episode, a computer virus first takes out all personal computers and later the entire Metropolis power grid. Perry doesn't miss a beat, first having his reporters use typewriters and white-out, eventually getting the outdated (but computer-free) printing presses running with the help of the old man who lost most of his hearing running those presses for years. |
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The example from The Railway Series is very closely based on an incident on the Talyllyn Railway, in which the railway's newer locomotives were out of commission, and Dolgoch, one of the two original engines from when the line was opened, had to haul the train (and, on one journey, did indeed limp back with a broken spring). Another, similar, incident happened a few years earlier (before the line was preserved) when Dolgoch was the only usable engine; it derailed and the even older Talyllyn had to be steamed to recover it. LTC Rolt commented that given the condition Talyllyn was in at the time, it must have been a brave man who dared to drive it. The second example, written as "Super Rescue", was similarly based on a real-life incident that took place at Waterloo Station in 1967. |
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One Bad Machinery mystery traps its characters in a snowed-in lodge with no mobile phone reception. Once the mystery has been solved, the police are contacted when Lottie finds a disused landline phone nobody had thought to look for. | |
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In Ultima VII, you return to Britannia so long after the events of the prior game that all of the loot from your Bag of Spilling has ended up in a museum, and nobody will believe you're the Avatar. | |
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Used frequently in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, at least partially because Guns Are Worthless — and probably partially for the same nerfing reasons as Family-Friendly Firearms. When dealing with the typical vampires, this is justified: crossbows are a lot better at firing wooden ammunition than guns. | |
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In King Of Kings Gao Gai Gar Vs Betterman, when Allouette regains her memories and her incredible IQ, she's able to help repair and program the retrieved Prototype Phantom Gao for a recently-rescued Gai Shishioh to use as a reborn GaoFighGar. Equally, when a Galeon from the past is brought to the present, a kept-in-storage-just-in-case classic Gao Machines are launched to give birth to the original GaoGaiGar. | |
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Stealing the Diamond (taking place in a museum) zig-zags this trope: some of the exhibits, like the Mega Mushroom and the cannon, can be easily utilized, but the firearms aren't loaded, and if you try to use the bomb, the fail text will mock you for thinking a museum would keep a live bomb. | |
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Armored Core: In Armored Core: For Answer, the "Destroy Satellite Cannons" mission on Hard Mode, the enemy is a "Prototype NEXT", the 00-ARETHA. Not only it is not quite a Super Prototype, the only other time you will face it is in the prequel game, Armored Core 4, and even then, it's hardly a threat, even when piloted by an Ace Pilot. In that mission, your operator even flatly derides the enemy for being so desperate as to willingly deploy, in her words, "a relic". This is how the Rubicon Liberation Front operates in Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. Without corporate backing or the ability to produce the latest technologies, they make do with buying last-generation hardware from BAWS, Black Market offerings from RaD, and jury-rigged weapons platforms to fill the gaps. It's zig-zagged as far as their main AC force goes, as while most of them use BAWS's antiquated BASHO frame, Ring Freddie and Middle Flatwell get to ride on Elcano's modern FIRMEZA frame. Rokumonsen also uses a modern AC, but he isn't actually a member. |
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Star Wars, the two Expanded Universe Medstar novels, by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry. A planet rich in biological wonders is a little too excessive with plant life. Modern technology just tends to get eaten or rusted or worse, so the characters have to survive on much more primitive technology and ideas. Plus, the Force. | |
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Hudson Hawk: At the beginning of the movie, Leonardo da Vinci is shown testing a flying machine outside his castle. Five hundred years later, Eddie and Anna escape from the castle by using the flying machine to glide to safety. Also, there's this newfangled device Eddie seems never to have heard of called a "watch." |
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Rifts had multiple examples, not just Magitek reconstructions, but due to the Scavenger World nature of the setting, any pre-Rifts technology that can be found is liable to be dug up and pressed back into service. Golden Age Weaponsmiths are a big name in this industry; though their products are upgraded to take on modern platforms, they are mostly restored salvaged relics like F-14s. One Rifter had an adventure where the players must help one such salvager/restorer deal with the problem of the A-10 she's found and reactivated, as she's found the Coalition spot her almost immediately when she flies it. | |
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In Fugitive Telemetry, Murderbot plans a hostage rescue of refugees imprisoned on board a spacecraft, only to find the evac suit has an automated transponder that will give away its location to the bounty hunters on board. Fortunately the Space Station Murderbot is on is a reconditioned spacecraft that has been preserved as a museum, so it can use a life tender packed up among the emergency gear (though thanks to language drift it has to get a language expert to translate the instructions). | |
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Subverted in the Firefly episode "Trash." Inara threatens Saffron with the antique laser gun stolen from Saffron's ex-conquest, but it doesn't work so she pulls out a real gun instead. | |
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In BattleTanx, it's a post-apocalypse future but your starting tank is the Abrams. Still this 20th century relic is a nice Jack of All Trades and is usually a better choice than the early couple of futuristic tanks you collect. | |
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Sky Bandits: Not exactly a museum piece, but after the German airship bombs all of the squadron's planes while they are on the ground, the heroes have to use the old gunbus — an outdated plane from the early years of the war—to go after it. The gunbus was being repaired at the tie of the attack and so was the only plane not bombed. | |
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In StarCraft II, the Protoss Colossus was the only Protoss mechanical unit that had been originally designed as a war machine. (All other Protoss units were weaponized industrial machines.) As such, and given its destructive power, the use of Colossi was banned, their production was shut down, and all active models were placed in hibernation. After the disasters of the Brood Wars, the Colossi were re-awakened to fight off the Zerg swarm. The Terran mercenary battlecruiser is stated to be from the early days of the Confederacy. There seem to be some inconsistencies about the latter's age, but we're probably talking about a century or more. |
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PJ Masks: In "Take to the Skies, Owlette", when Night Ninja and his mooks steal the airplanes from an airshow and crash the Owl Glider, Catboy and Gekko take an old plane from the museum to fight him. | |
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In Transformers (2007), the Decepticons had knocked out all digital communications, so the feds at the Hoover Dam dig an old 1930s-era radio out of storage. They also use a couple of display Winchester 1897s when Frenzy starts attacking them. Doubled up when they find some old computers and need to get a message out, and while the keyboards didn't quite work, they were able to be rigged up for Morse Code. | |
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Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot: The Big Guy was being put into a museum display, until they found that his replacement Rusty would need his help. Of course, Rusty ends up being the sidekick. | |
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Extremely common in the Dirk Pitt series by Clive Cussler. In The Mediterranean Caper, a villain uses a World War 1-era biplane to attack a US Air Force base. In Iceberg, a Ford Tri-motor (vintage 1939) is used for an emergency med-evac mission. In Deep Six, a Civil-War-vintage sternwheeler steamboat is used to save the president - and Pitt himself carries (and uses quite effectively) an equally ancient LeMat shotgun-revolver. In still another case, it's an old French legion fort. The list just goes on. If the museum piece is a vehicle that is still in salvageable condition at the end of the story, expect it to turn up in Pitt's collection of vintage cars and planes in a later book. |
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In an episode of Primeval, Professor Cutter takes a katana from a display stand and uses it against some prehistoric worms. | |
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In Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen, one of the characters is hiding out as a literal museum piece: Jetfire, who transformed into an SR-71 Blackbird. Said character is also a living museum piece in his own right, being one of the oldest Cybertronians still alive. His father was a wheel. The first wheel! What did he transform into? Nothing. But he did it with honour! | |
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In Dead Space 3, you often end up using parts and even fully-fledged RIG Suits left behind by the S.C.A.F, an organisation that was wiped out in a battle over 200 years before the present, on the frozen, Necromorph-infested world of Tau Volantis. These function just as well, if not better, than the gear that's actually modern designed. | |
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In Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, LEP has to resort to using a few outdated electric guns after Opal upgrades every weapon and vehicle in the fleet. Then triggers the secret modification that renders them all useless. | |
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In Battlefield Earth, U.S. military equipment stored in an underground base for 1,000 years is put into action to defeat the alien Psychlos. | |
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This is how the Rubicon Liberation Front operates in Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon. Without corporate backing or the ability to produce the latest technologies, they make do with buying last-generation hardware from BAWS, Black Market offerings from RaD, and jury-rigged weapons platforms to fill the gaps. It's zig-zagged as far as their main AC force goes, as while most of them use BAWS's antiquated BASHO frame, Ring Freddie and Middle Flatwell get to ride on Elcano's modern FIRMEZA frame. Rokumonsen also uses a modern AC, but he isn't actually a member. | |
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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown has the Osean Federation do this to the last surviving Stonehenge gun from 04 to shoot down at least one of the Arsenal Birds that's made breaking into Erusea a nightmare. Even after shooting down the Erusan attack force, the targeting computers are shot down, so they have to do it the old fashioned way: line of sight. That means Trigger has to get behind it and shoot the main propellers down only to slow it down so it's within sight so it gets that ONE SHOT needed to take down the flying juggernaut. | |
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Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon: The Royal Navy's Heavy Scout class of ships are obsolete, Discovery Class Frigates that have been refitted with more modern weaponry. | |
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Independence Day: Resurgence: The Earth's entire satellite network was destroyed, so when they're anticipating a full-scale attack on Area 51, they use an antique radar that was going to be sent to the Smithsonian for display in order to detect the incoming fleet. | |
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Battlestar Galactica Deadlock has a few on the human side. The Janus-class heavy cruiser, which dates back a few centuries to the Imperial Wars between Virgon and Leonis. Possibly the Atlas-class carrier and Heracles-class gunship as well, which were also Imperial Wars designs. The Taipan fighter is even older. The design is drawn from ancient Kobol, meaning it's at least two thousand years old. |
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Transformers: Parodied in one comic when Orion Pax, unarmed and under fire from a gang of Mooks, grabs an ancient gun mounted on a nearby wall and turns to shoot his attackers... only for the gun to click uselessly because it hasn’t been loaded for decades. Orion’s only response is a quick "dammit" before running for cover. | |
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In Noir Kirika uses a Beretta M1934. The anime was released in 2001 ... 9 years after production stopped (the overwhelming majority of them have pre-1945 serial numbers). | |
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Captain America: Subverted in The Death of Captain America. Bucky Barnes goes to the Smithsonian, intending to steal Captain America's shield from there, but the exhibit is so sparsely guarded that he realizes the shield displayed can't be the real one. Sure enough, Tony Stark has the real shield under study. | |
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Grey Goo (2015): Humanity searched the galaxy for life and, after finding nothing, decided that if we were alone in the galaxy, we'd be better off engineering perfect living for ourselves and our non-crapshoot AI than we'd be shooting at each other. Thus, we withdrew to Earth and left exploration of space to the titular Grey Goo. All our vehicles of war were decommissioned and war was abolished. Thus, when the Goo shows up, along with another alien race, we're generations removed from warfare, have only academic experience with it, and have to refield our centuries-old drones. In an interesting twist on this trope, these museum pieces from our warring past are still vastly more advanced than anything else in existence. | |
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In the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel "Crossover" Scotty steals a century-old Constitution-class starship to rescue Spock from the Romulans. It's nonetheless a better choice than any other Federation ship because it still has the cloaking device that Kirk's crew stole from the Romulans in The Enterprise Incident. Bonus points for having the Yorktown refit with the bridge of the original Enterprise for the museum. Also, Scotty made sure not to make the same mistake as in the third film. This time, he routed all the controls through a 24th-century shuttle computer, which worked just fine. Unfortunately, the Romulans have upgraded their sensors within the last century and spot him pretty quickly. At least, after they realize what type of cloaking device is being used and calibrate their sensors accordingly; the old 23rd-century cloaking device apparently has completely different operating principles than the 24th-century versions. | |
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