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Converging-Stream Weapon
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This is a heavy weapon which contains multiple smaller devices that send out a stream, beam, blast, etc.. Those all converge into a single stream, beam, blast, etc., that is more powerful than the sum of its parts. Usually, the resulting stream goes in the logical direction—that is, in the direction produced by taking the average of the directions of the intersecting beams (although more advanced versions are able to swivel in any direction). Besides Rule of Cool, this kind of weapon has loose grounding in reality. If multiple lasers are fired at the same point so that they intersect there, they simply pass through one another and continue on their respective trajectories. You can try this at home with some laser pointers. The inversion of this trope, where one attack splits into many, is Recursive Ammo or Spread Shot. Compare All Your Powers Combined, Roboteching, Wave-Motion Gun. Not to be confused with Crossing The Streams. |
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Homeworld's largest type of Wave-Motion Gun, the Phased Cannon Array (as well as its bigger brother, the Sajuuk Main Gun), possibly works this way: it is seen firing a number of normal-power ion beams from the dozen muzzles in its bow, which quickly combine into a single, insanely powerful blast. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: When the Divine Beasts fire at Calamity Ganon, their beams converge on the upper floor of Hyrule Castle before descending on Ganon. | |
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In Toriko, Dragon King Derous can shoot an extremely powerful, extra-dimensional laser beam from its mouth, by charging each blast on the many tips of his tongues before converging them all in a single shot underneath his single fang. | |
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Several Power Rangers weapons work by this, the first being the original Rangers' Power Cannon from season two (one barrel fires five energy balls... that turn into one much more Badass one). | |
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Not a weapon example per se, but in Battleship, the three Deep Space Communication dishes used by the aliens to send a distress message send a beam that converge into one, before being enhanced by a satellite. | |
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For the climax of My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Forgotten Friendship, after the magical-girls transformations, the geode pendants each shoot a ray that converge into a single beam and blast the Memory Stone, shattering it. | |
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The device at the top of the Ziggurath in Metropolis (2001) used to create black spots on the Sun is a variation of this. It works with several emitters aligned so their beams form a plasmatic orb which is then accelerated by a propulsory device in the middle. | |
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Futari wa Pretty Cure: The duo's Finishing Move "Precure Marble Screw" works like this - while holding hands, Cure Black and Cure White each fire an energy beam in their respective colour from their free hand, with the two beams spiralling around each other to form a Wave-Motion Gun that ploughs through the enemy. | |
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In an episode of Johnny Test, Susan and Mary build a trio of robot boys that go berserk and try to kill Gil out of jealousy. To get the job done, they steal Johnny and Dukey's new water guns (which Susan and Mary also built) and modify them to fire this way, making them powerful enough to cut through solid matter. | |
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Warframe: Laser weapons, such as the Phage, work this way. They're generally considered more trouble than they're worth. | |
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The Halo Legends short Origins depicts Forerunner weapons as this; a small fleet of ships in formation form a web of energy lines which the central ship fires at a fleet of Flood ships, and Forerunner infantry are also seen with Laser Blade /Ray Gun weapons which when fired simultaneously combine into highly-destructive Sword Beams. However, the Halo games and novels depict Forerunner weapons as firing either Hard Light or more "conventional" energy beams. | |
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The "Dark Star Weapons" in Slayers Try function in this manner. At the end of the season, all five weapons are combined with a Yin-Yang Bomb into a Wave-Motion Gun. | |
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Many of the Polaris vessels in Escape Velocity Nova (most notably the Arachnid and Raven) do this with their pink CPL (Capacitor Pulse Laser). | |
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Multiple Beam Cannon units from Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars will sometimes do this. | |
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Transformers: Energon: Optimus Prime in his Super Mode (wearing his four Attack Drones as limbs) is capable of firing beams in every direction which home in on opponents. When combined with Wing Saber instead, he can perform the Combination Attack "Meteor Attack Mode" - summoning his drones to fire their beams while also firing his own Chest Blaster, which absorbs the smaller attacks to swell into a massive stream of plasma. | |
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During the final battle in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), King Ghidorah tries this with his gravity beams on Godzilla. Not that it helps anyway, as Godzilla is in his Burning form, and easily vaporizes King Ghidorah. | |
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Cosmoteer lets you converge Ion Beams into a more powerful one by directing them at Ion Beam Prism, for a small damage penalty. The combined beam can then be converged with others the same way, but the penalty is bigger the more the two beams differ in power. It is also possible to hypercharge a beam by converging it with itself in a loop, and then releasing it all at once as a powerful Charged Attack. | |
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Star Trek: By the time of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Federation has developed a "collimator beam" made of dozens of small phaser banks spread along the rim of a ship. The energy can be seen flowing along the surface of the Enterprise until it meets at one point, and then fires off from the point on the phaser bank row closest to the target. In the Star Trek: Voyager story "Scorpion", Species 8472 has a weapon consisting of several ships that acted like the Death Star when firing simultaneously. |
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In the Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable games, Hayate's Ragnarok is portrayed like this. The three beams that fire from the points of the Belkan Traingle spiral towards one another and converge into one larger beam that strike the target, then Hayate triggers the last part of the spell to make the resulting beam even bigger. | |
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Lexx: The titular starship is armed with a Wave-Motion Gun powerful enough to tear a planet apart. The Lexx is also a Bio Punk Living Ship shaped like a giant insect. As it prepares to fire, sparks of energy pour out of every facet of its bulbous compound eyes. The energy streams and converges to a point near The Lexx's mouth, then blasts forward. | |
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Xenosaga Episode I had the Rhine Maiden, a converging wave-motion gun comprising the Dammerung and four smaller vessels in formation. | |
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Command & Conquer: The Ion Cannon from latter games in the Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series works in this manner. Unfortunately, this telegraphs the actual attack, enabling your enemy to sell all buildings in the target zone before the main blast occurs. Multiple Beam Cannon units from Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars will sometimes do this. In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, the Athena bombardment vehicle features converging beams on its gun. Unusually, they emerge from the same point on the Athena and "sweep" towards to the target from the left, right, and top. Also, they're the targeting lasers — once they converge, the real weapon shoots down from orbit. |
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The City Destroyers' primary weapon in Independence Day. Also true of the reverse-engineered energy cannons used by humanity in the sequel, as well as the larger guns on the new mothership. | |
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Used in Rebuild of Evangelion as Unit 1 fires the Positron Rifle at Ramiel. | |
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Wing Commander Prophecy was supposed to have the Tiamat dreadnought equipped with a version of the "fleet killer" plasma gun mounted in the Kraken, with the green glowing tips of the Tiamat's arms forming the beam, but technical difficulties prevented it from being implemented. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "The Krusty Plate", faced with a ridiculously stubborn spot on a plate, SpongeBob resorts to using a cannon that combines a particle beam with a water cannon and a laser within a bundle of steel wool. He gets the spot off, only to destroy the Krusty Krab in the process. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Princess Celestia using the Elements of Harmony on her own to banish Nightmare Moon in "Princess Twilight Sparkle" is presented this way, with the other five Elements channeling their power into the Element of Magic for a massive beam. In "Twilight's Kingdom - Part 2", the Mane Six's new friendship-powered Wave-Motion Gun manifests this way, blasting Tirek with six individual beams of light before they combine into one powerful blow that defeats him, takes back the stolen magic, locks him back in Tartarus, and releases Celestia, Luna, and Cadence from Tartarus when their own magic is restored. |
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Doctor Who: The weapon Torchwood uses against the fleeing Sycorax ship in "The Christmas Invasion". In "The Poison Sky", a similar weapon is used by the Airborne Aircraft Carrier the Valiant to fight off the Sontarans. |
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Star Wars Rebels: "Wings of the Master" shows the prototype B-wing's main weapon working like this. | |
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In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, the Athena bombardment vehicle features converging beams on its gun. Unusually, they emerge from the same point on the Athena and "sweep" towards to the target from the left, right, and top. Also, they're the targeting lasers — once they converge, the real weapon shoots down from orbit. | |
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Terraria has the Last Prism, an endgame weapon. It's the highest DPS magic weapon in the game. | |
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Although it was only used twice, in Legend of the Galactic Heroes the ships of a fleet can fire all their lasers in a "pinpoint attack" that spawns a super-beam that can decimate bunched-together ships. There's also the Thor Hammer. | |
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Ghostbusters: "Do not cross the streams." But they end up doing just that. And they don't cross, they, well, converge, hence why they're here. | |
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StarCraft II's Void Ray is a new Protoss ship built by the Dark Templar which serves this purpose. The number of beams that converge actually increases over time, letting it be a much better weapon against targets that take a while to kill (though it's still damn good against infantry). It should be noted that the Void ray uses a focusing crystal to do this. In the original game, the warm-up graphic for the Battlecruiser's Yamato Cannon was this, several orange globs of energy converging into a single blob. The Yamato is supposed to be the result of causing a nuclear explosion inside a magnetic containment field, then giving a single way out. |
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In the Star Trek: Voyager story "Scorpion", Species 8472 has a weapon consisting of several ships that acted like the Death Star when firing simultaneously. | |
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Babylon 5: Vorlon ships had several booms on the front of the ship that each emitted a lightning bolt-like beam. They met in the middle to create a Wave-Motion Tuning Fork effect. The Interstellar Alliance's Victory-class destroyers (which were based in part on stolen Vorlon technology) used beams sent from the three wingtips to the front to convert the entire ship into a massive Wave-Motion Gun. |
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Star Trek: Armada 2 has the Species 8472 weapon mentioned above. It's severely Awesome, but Impractical, given that it needs one specialized ship and eight others, plus the necessary research, but it can depopulate a planet or destroy most any ship if you can land a hit. | |
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By the time of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the Federation has developed a "collimator beam" made of dozens of small phaser banks spread along the rim of a ship. The energy can be seen flowing along the surface of the Enterprise until it meets at one point, and then fires off from the point on the phaser bank row closest to the target. | |
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