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The Death Ray is an old Speculative Fiction staple, probably cliché or a Discredited Trope by now, but the little kid in all of us would kill for a Death Ray. In function it's a Ray Gun that causes death (It doesn't actually shoot out Death, awesome as that would be); whatever the ray hits, dies — instantly and without question. It can do this via disintegration, somehow draining the target's life force, rapid calcination or some other method. When scaled up, it becomes a Wave-Motion Gun. Visually, it's probably going to emit a red beam and look scary compared to a hero's clean chrome Ray Gun (which, of course, just makes you sleep). It can vary from your garden variety Disintegrator Ray because the Death Ray usually causes inanimate things to explode but humans to keel over dead. Why don't humans explode? Probably because it would raise the flick into R or NC-17 status (plus, it costs a ton more in Special Effects compared to a cheap ray effect). In effect, it is the most evil of retro Science Fiction weapons, much worse than its "little brother" the Agony Beam. Anyone using it is probably a villain with his own villain store discount card, a (Mad) Scientist who just happened to think making a Death Ray would be cool, or space aliens, death bots, or what have you. It's unlikely for an Evil Overlord's henchmen to be armed with these, as he's more likely to keep the only one for himself, despite the fact that making all his minions Instakill Mooks would be useful to his army. Sci-Fi villains are not the only ones who can use a Death Ray — many an Evil Sorcerer or other Fantasy villain will have a spell, artifact, or other piece of magical phlebotinum that basically amounts to one of these. A planetary Death Ray will be more akin to the Doomsday Device, clock and all, and will only work twice: once when test fired, to prove it works to the UN member countries; and another to annihilate the Red Shirt Army, before being destroyed/stopped by the heroes. Has nothing to do with Sinister Stingrays. |
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Narbonic has Dave get killed by one. Why did you do that, Dr. Narbon? "I had a death ray." But it's more complicated than that... | |
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In Megamind, this is how the titular Villain Protagonist supposedly kills Metro Man. | |
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In Sunrider, Veniczar Arcadius' flagship, the Legion, comes equipped with one of these. | |
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The Salvation War has an AEGIS cruiser using its radar as an improvised Death Ray against Uriel. The results are quite messy. He survives, but he doesn't have much skin left afterwards. | |
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In Master of Orion series, the Death Ray is the signature armament of the Guardian of Orion, and can only be obtained by beating the Guardian and looting the ruins on the planet below. (Or trading with/stealing from/conquering someone who has.) In the second game, successfully capturing an Antaran battleship and researching its equipment can also yield Death Ray tech. |
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Members of Task Force: VALKYRIE in Hunter: The Vigil can requisition a weapon that is, essentially, the Medusa Particle Beam Cannon (see below). It takes a lot of energy to run, but does a hell of a lot of damage. Also from World Of Darkness, we have the fanmade game Genius: The Transgression. Since it's about Mad Scientists, it's only to be expected that death rays are an easy-to-make, commonly occurring Wonder. |
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For sake of reverence and posterity, the Martian Heat Ray in The War of the Worlds (1898), and all of its subsequent adaptions. Notably, it's a Heat Ray, and victims catch fire and burn to ashes, rather than just dropping to the ground. It's incidentally one of the best descriptions of a directed energy weapon in fiction: a completely invisible (some flickering is occasionally referenced, probably a combination of dust being incinerated and heat mirages) and narrow beam that just dumps its energy on what it hits with no unnecessary flashiness. | |
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An episode of The Simpsons showed Frink with a death ray he was developing, although it was only capable of generating a beam which felt pleasantly warm (plus he gave up on it when he failed to secure funding). ...He shouldn't have admitted that "well, the ray only has evil applications..." |
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Eureka had an episode revolving around one of these where the local genius population referred to it as a "concentration ejection of radioactive isotopes". Sheriff Carter just calls it what it is: Interesting the scientist who built it did so believing that it could be used a means of peace through Mutually Assured Destruction...then had a nervous break-drown when he wasn't rewarded a Noble Prize for his work. |
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MythBusters examined whether Archimedes created a death ray using many mirrors focused on a single point. Three separate tests came to the same conclusion: Archimedes didn't. At most, the Greeks likely used the light reflected from the mirrors to dazzle the eyes of the incoming Roman invaders. | |
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NetHack's wand of death sends a ray of death towards an enemy who will instantly die except under a few extenuating circumstances (the ray misses, the target has magic resistance or reflects the ray, or is polymorphed into an undead or demonic creature, or is Death). The wand of disintegration has similar results if the target isn't immune. (Important safety tip: don't shoot either of these wands at yourself or at a wall near you.) | |
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According to the Friendly Four from the Darkwing Duck fanfiction Negaverse Chronicles, the "I Have a Death Ray" plans are one of the top three most common super villain schemes they have to deal with, along with "Take Over The World By Collecting a Resource" plan and "Let's Make a Shrink Ray." Gyro later builds what he calls an "Atomic Death Ray." | |
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The Squiggoth in Dawn of War has a Zzap gun mounted on its back that does huge damage to any unit including vehicles. It's a shame that like all orks, you stand a better chance of hitting something with by grabbing it by the barrel and taking a swing. | |
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With This Ring: After the Renegade obtains a copy of Paula von Gunther's purple healing ray, he experiments on it and finds that it's not hard to make the ray disrupt life force instead of strengthening it. Wonder Woman is not amused. | |
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The Dragonback novels, by Timothy Zahn, feature a Death Ray, appropriately named "the Death," which ignores any defense and leaves anything unliving unharmed, but leaves anything hit by it dead, but not visibly hurt. | |
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You can buy and mount one of these on your plane in Raptor: Call of the Shadows. It's one of three laser weapons with instantaneous blast (the others are a laser turret and a twin laser). | |
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The Killing Curse, Avada Kedavra from Harry Potter is a proper Death Ray, which kills a living being without even leaving a burn scar (at one point, a Muggle doctor examing the victims of this curse describes them as appearing to be in perfect physical health, with no visible cause of death whatsoever, as if they just suddenly dropped dead for no reason), but breaks statues. Note that side effects such as this seem to be pretty common in the Potter 'verse, at least in the movie versions — every single aggressive spell throws its target through the air, no matter its actual use. Harry, the title character, is known as the "Boy Who Lived" because he is the only person in the wizarding world to have survived this spell. | |
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Hoodwinked! doesn't have a death ray, but, well...this is what happens when the Wolf infiltrates the Big Bad's tramway terminal base by pretending to be a building code inspector: | |
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Calvin and Hobbes: Calvin's imaginary alter ego Spaceman Spiff wields one of these. However, it's utterly useless against anything because in reality it's something harmless and mundane like a suction-cup dart gun or a rubber band. | |
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On Rocko's Modern Life, Ed is shown to have a lab under his house where he's developing a death ray specifically to destroy Rocko. | |
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In Broken Age, Vella ends up reforming a downed spaceship into one of these to battle Mog Chothra. It turns out that the reason Mog Chothra was so hard to kill was that it was really Shay's spaceship. | |
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In World of Warcraft players who learn the engineering skill can make a 'Gnomish Death Ray', which drains the user's health before firing. It's not a guaranteed kill, but being hit by it hurts, to say the least. | |
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Mad Bomber Blade, the promo version of Baron Blade from Sentinels of the Multiverse uses one when he Turns Red. On each turn afterward, he does one hero damage equal to however many cards are in his trash, and can burn through several cards a round — in a game where hero HP tops out at 34, he can be deadly when not taken down quick. | |
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Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory tried to build a "sonic death ray" as a child. Apparently all it did was annoy the dog. | |
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In The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Riff Raff has a laser "capable of emitting a beam of pure antimatter."note That's not a laser, that's a phaser! It's a very Family-Friendly Firearm. Though seeing it's Rocky Horror, it kinda takes the family friendly idea and Crosses the Line Twice. | |
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In EarthBound (1994), Jeff (one of the heroes) gets a Death Ray as a weapon. | |
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War of the Worlds: Goliath has the heat rays from the original tale (albeit highly visible), used by both sides and capable of quickly and horribly disintegrating organic matter as well as blowing up anything else. | |
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In Schlock Mercenary, LOTA gains control of one of these (which was formerly known as Credomar). It shoots a beam of gravitationally braided anti-protons through a wormhole with one end located right in front of the muzzle and the other end located literally anywhere else in the galaxy, unblockable no matter how strong your shields are since it can simply bypass them and fire within the hull of your ship, impossible to run away from, and very deadly. It's also immune to Teraport-Area-Denial. Pi is the first one to figure it out. | |
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In S.S.D.D. the Tower of Babel almost counts as the planetary version, as it's a skyscraper sized maser cannon that can roast everyone in an anti-missile defense base (though the base itself appeared intact). The way things are going it's likely to be destroyed before it's used to destroy another country. | |
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xkcd subverts this in Tattoo, where, with precise alignment, the death ray will only kill the parts of the person that are holding said person back (i.e. tumor cells). See the entry on radiation therapy in the Real Life folder below. | |
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Pathfinder justifies this by using Nano Machines suspended in a harmless yellow laser. Once the nanobots strike a living target, however, they start eating their host, reducing him to a puddle of Grey Goo. It also has a "radiation blaster", which is a miniature nuclear reactor stuck to a rifle stock. The trigger opens a lens on the front, causing the target to get "flashlighted" with nuclear radiation. | |
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The Finger of Death spell from Dungeons & Dragons is essentially the magical version of this. Save vs. Death Ray! Not to mention Disintegrate, a ray spell that deals a truly ridiculous amount of damage for its level. Beholders, catoblepae, and many other monsters produce their own death rays naturally. And the traditional pistol-shaped kind show up in the 1e AD&D module Expedition to the Barrier Peaks and the D&D Blackmoor adventures. |
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And of course the alien ship in Fallout 3. Its Death Ray can be fired towards Earth and cause a massive mushroom cloud. Not to mention that the Lone Wanderer used it to blow away the other alien ship. | |
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Scribblenauts, being a game series that lets the player create almost anything they write down, naturally gives them the option to create a working death ray. | |
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Digimon Data Squad: Kurata, the Mad Scientist Big Bad of the series, has invented a laser which can permanently kill Digimon (who normally enjoy Born-Again Immortality). His Gizumon minions are equipped with these lasers, and any Digimon that gets shot by one is dead meat; most will die instantly, though stronger ones like the Mega-level Merukimon can cling to life for several minutes before succumbing to their wounds. | |
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The Neutron Daisy Cutter weapon from Drive (Dave Kellett) requires the crew that fires it to be on a specially shielded deck (up until the Empire started using drones instead). It instantly disintegrates the Vinn Puppeteer Parasite while leaving the host alive (in theory, at least. In practice, the host usually dies as well from neural shock). | |
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Disintegrator Guns from Rocket Age will usually straight up kill a target unless the user rolls badly. The same holds true for Ancient Martian Ray, Heat and Freeze weapons AND Ancient Erisian Ray weapons. | |
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A That Mitchell and Webb Look sketch featured a Mad Scientist demonstrating his "Giant Death Ray", along with a "Giant Laser-fitted Armored Scorpion Of Death" - turns out his name is Professor Death, and he's horrified at the President's asking if these (obviously lethal) machines might have military potential. His intention is for the Giant Death Ray to be the world's first bar-code reader — or, with the power turned up, the world's first laser eye surgery device. The scorpion's tail fires only "helpful bullets." They then of course push the idea to silliness: "No! I created the Doomsday Bomb to help mankind, not destroy it!" | |
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In an episode of "The Saint" a defecting Soviet scientist is murdered with his own weapon for the secrets of the death ray he has just invented; at the end of the episode, the killer runs away with the only working prototype; he trips, falls, drops the device, the beam accidentally activates, and... | |
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One Packrat strip features the MAD-Ray (Memorymoog Acoustic Death Ray). | |
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In the Destroy All Humans! series, the Death Ray is the basic weapon of your Flying Saucer. Fantastic against human targets due to averting Convection, Schmonvection, as it can vaporize humans by just sweeping the beam within a couple meters of them, and deals steady damage to everything else, and unlike the saucer's more destructive weapons, the Death Ray doesn't require ammo. In the remake, the Death Ray loses the ability to kill humans outside the actual beam, but its damage was improved against most other things and it sets the ground ablaze for further damage over time, leaving scorched earth in its wake. | |
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Magical Daisy from Magical Girl Raising Project Restart can shoot a death beam as her ability, which she calls her Daisy Beam. She can either focus the beam on her finger, or create a wider beam by using the palm of her hand. The beam itself disintegrates things on a molecular level. Due to its lethality, she doesn't normally use it on people. | |
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The Anti-Bio Beam from FTL: Faster Than Light causes crew to die without harming the ship, leading to a higher amount of goodies salvaged. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: The Enigmarons from Dr. Disaster's space battle simulator possess a Death Ray that's somehow able to target every capital city on Earth simultaneously. It also explodes spectacularly when Annie knocks it over. | |
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The Simpsons: Mr. Burns, naturally, has one at his disposal, which he threatens to use when Lisa tries organizing the local environmental group into selling off a massive amount of seeds Bart acquired. When the townspeople remain defiant, he orders it fired, despite Smithers pointing out it will only kill plant life. It doesn't quite do that. Instead, it causes all the plant life in town to grow hyper-fast... and sterilizes every adult in town. | |
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PK Beam γ in EarthBound Beginnings functions as this, being a guaranteed One-Hit Kill unless the target is wearing a Franklin Badge. It's a favorite weapon of the Starman enemies, and the player can eventually give them a taste of their own medicine once Ana is a high enough level to learn it. | |
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Neglected Mario Characters mainstay Fred the Spanyard (sic) uses the attacks "Deathray", "Ray of Death", & "Deathly Deathray of Deathly Deathness". | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, you can steal from stores if you're nimble enough. If you dare set foot in that shop again, however, the shopkeeper will hit you with a death ray and kill you on the spot. | |
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"Doe Deer" by Crystal Castles consists solely of Alice Glass screeching "Death Ray" over and over. The sound of the song, with its harsh, rapid synths, fits the imagery. | |
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The Klingon version of the disruptor is definitely a Death Ray; the disintegration special effect is pretty horrific, as Star Trek goes. (No, it's not the aforementioned Varon-T.) | |
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Girl Genius: It's almost a rite of passage for an evil Spark (and a number of non-evil ones) to make a Death Ray, like the following exchange shows from this strip shows. So he started with his lighning generator project and scaled it up. And then, yes, built a big death ray. Agatha herself seems to have a fascination with death rays if going by the number of times she can be cited using her immediate materials wishing for/building one. Her current one shown here...well, if you're looking at the damage to the wall, you're not looking far enough. Sparks seem to compare death rays as a courtship ritual; the zappier their zap guns, the more attractive they're considered. "He has a magnificent death ray" is not an amusing euphamism. |
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Starcraft II's Colossi fire these in pairs, sweeping them in a line of damage for all biological units. It's called a Thermal Lance, but come on, the Colossus is a four-legged strider so tall it can be targeted by both ground and air units, we know what it is. They were sealed away in asteroids after they were used in a colonial revolt by the Protoss in a My God, What Have I Done? moment. The Stone Zealot, a giant stone statue of a Zealot, fires the exact same thing, though now called Eye Beams. |
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The Rogue Trader alien race called the Rak'gol have a weapon that beams extremely high amounts of ionizing radiation at the target. Enough radiation to desintegrate matter. It also exposes the wielder to lethal amount of radiation-or, at least, it would if the Rak'gol weren't Radiation-Immune Mutants. | |
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The Murdoch Mysteries episode "The Tesla Effect" goes full Teslapunk (including an appearance of the man himself), with a Victorian microwave weapon. | |
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Flaky Pastry has the Omega Death Ray spell, and its flashier cousin the aptly named Omega Murder Blast. | |
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In Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos: Deathwands, created by the A.I.s of the Technocore and exclusively issued to officers of FORCE, the military of the Hegemony of Man. Nobody quite knows how they work; they kill every human within their effective range, with no visible wounding effect, while leaving everything else in range intact. In the second book the Core ambassador tries to convince the Hegemony leadership to use a new Deathwand bomb, which is supposedly capable of killing anything within several light years, to destroy the Ouster invasion force in Hyperion system. Ship-to-ship Deathbeams exist in the Pax era in addition to the handheld Deathwands. |
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Blood II: The Chosen features a secret weapon with this exact name. It looks a lot like a rifle carried by Little Green Men in 50's Science Fiction stories, and it fires hitscan green laser beams that reflect off most surfaces. Its Secondary Fire is nothing to write home about, but the very efficient primary fire makes this a substitute for the Tesla Cannon (whose primary consumes 2 chemical battery units for a slower projectile that deals less damage than a Death Ray beam, which costs one) all the same. You just have to explore very carefully to find it. | |
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World War Z: The US Army invents one after the zombie outbreak, which can cause a zombie to disintegrate in a flash of light. It's immediately written off as Awesome, but Impractical due to the enormous energy requirements, and is never fielded in real combat... but a movie director realizes that it makes for fantastic propaganda footage, and the human race at this point is in desperate need of a morale booster. | |
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Animorphs: The Dracon beams, used by the Yeerks, which were made from stealing the Andalites' Shredder technology. Both fire a laser that, at the highest setting, vaporizes the target. The difference is that the Andalite Shredder is as quick and efficient as possible, so the target hardly feels a thing, while the Yeerks sadistically made the Dracon beam to allow the target to feel all their cells exploding over the course of a second. | |
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In The Wheel of Time, Balefire is the most powerful offensive magical technique known, and is so dangerous that it was forbidden by both sides of the series' conflict until they got sufficiently desperate. It takes the form of a beam so bright it causes afterimage from even a brief exposure, and instantly destroys whoever and whatever it touches; moreover, it destroys retroactively, meaning that a sufficiently powerful beam can kill someone up to several minutes before it hit them. Overuse can cause a world-destroying temporal paradox, hence its being mutually forbidden. And because it kills people before reaction is possible, it also renders them Deader than Dead and prevents resurrection. A deathier death ray, you won't find. | |
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Pretty much a staple in sci-fi movies since the '50s - the cheap B-movie Teenagers from Outer Space gave the invaders guns that instantly reduced humans (and dogs) to bleached skeletons. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: The Saturnians have death rays, but they seem to much prefer to use their two flavors of Gravity Screw rays instead, which can also prove fatal but in a more delayed fashion when the effect wears off and gravity reasserts itself. They only pull out the death rays when Diana and Steve Trevor have already ruined their earth invasion prep, freed their slaves, stolen a ship and done a massive amount of property damage. | |
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Norman of Dragon Tails at one point attempts to use an ion cannon apparently capable of wiping out an entire city to destroy Enigma. It, of course, does not go as planned. | |
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The film Danger!! Death Ray had a death ray, briefly. But it was mostly just vaguely European guys, some guy named Bart Fargo, and a catchy theme song. In the Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode featuring the movie, Tom Servo builds one, proclaims it's for peace... then proceeds to blast Crow with it because he was right there. | |
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Dungeons of Dredmor has an Aetheric Death Ray as the capstone perk of the Rogue Scientist skill path. It does a lot of aetherial and voltaic damage and disintegrates the corpses of any enemies it kills. | |
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Splatoon gives us the Killer Wail, a sonic-based weapon that annihilates any hostile foolish enough to be where it's pointing when it's done charging with the scream of a wailing guitar. In single player, the Final Boss gets one among his many other toys. | |
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Planescape: Torment has the Mechanus Cannon, which is a huge extraplanar gun that fires through a portal to vaporize enemies near you. | |
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The Venture Bros.: The brothers have a lot of these, but in the episode "The Lepidopterists" we find Jonas Jr. has inherited a very nice one. Brock and the OSI guys are all very impressed. "If that [death ray] was a woman, I'd marry her." "And I'd jeopardize our friendship by nailing your wife." Dr. Venture has accumulated more than he needs - Brock is worried he's too unconcerned about the security problems at a yard sale, pointing out he put up a 'Laser Death Ray Bargain Bin'. |
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Buzz Lightyear of Star Command does this trope one better with the HYPER DEATH RAY!!! | |
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In Mortasheen, the creature Golgotha has a literal version of this, with its stare being able to kill other creatures, albeit somewhat slowly. | |
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The alien machines in Wild's End have these as their main weapons. As one characters notes "Fire doesn't burn like that." | |
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In The Pink Panther Strikes Again, Inspector Dreyfus uses a Death Ray to hold the world for ransom. It disintegrates too cleanly for Dreyfus's tastes: "I want a crater! I want wreckage, twisted metal. Something the world will not forget!" | |
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Subverted in Anathem: Erasmas sees red light shining from the sky on part of his concent and panics, thinking that it is being shot at with death rays... then his scientific training kicks in a few seconds later as he realizes that any such ray would naturally be invisible. | |
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The Dispersion Pistol from Unreal qualifies in certain ways. It fires blasts of what can be only classified as pure harmful energy (the game never states what it actually is that it fires), and the fully upgraded version, with the Energy Amplifier item active, was a One-Hit Kill on everything including the Final Boss before an Obvious Rule Patch was released for it. | |
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One of the unproduced episodes of Invader Zim had Zim instruct GIR to activate a Death Ray (or a Doom Ray, to proceed with his latest plan. It works, and GIR takes over the Earth while Zim is having his existence evaluated. | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Dr. Horrible converts a Stun Ray into a Death Ray to use against Captain Hammer. In the end it is damaged after Captain Hammer punches him and it ends up exploding, causing Captain Hammer great pain and killing the Wide-Eyed Idealist Love Interest Penny. Earlier, he takes umbrage at Johnny Snow calling it a Death Ray. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 It's played fairly straight with melta weapons, a sort of complicated weapon that has a simple effect: the target is reduced to slag as the air around it hisses and explodes. Necrons (undead metal skeletons) now have a literal Death Ray in their 2011 Codex. Pick a point, pick another point, anything in between gets strafed with a beam firing at basically the highest strength a normal game can achieve (outside of Armageddon games, that is) and easily enough to immediately splatter all but certain characters immediately. The volkite charger, the Space Marine's standard-issue weapon at the beginning of the Great Crusade, literally was a Martian death ray that could cut clean through Astartes armour like butter and punch harder than even a Tau pulse weapon. As the legions expanded and demand for more volkite weapons increased however, the volkite charger was relegated to a special weapon role (given to Terminators and squad weapon specialists) and the cheaper-to-manufacture and more tactically versatile boltgun we know and love today became the standard weapon. By the 41st Millennium, the knowledge to create volkite weapons has been lost, leaving the Mechanicus to fervently hoard the last remaining examples and give them out only to the most trusted individuals in the direst of needs. The Rogue Trader alien race called the Rak'gol have a weapon that beams extremely high amounts of ionizing radiation at the target. Enough radiation to desintegrate matter. It also exposes the wielder to lethal amount of radiation-or, at least, it would if the Rak'gol weren't Radiation-Immune Mutants. |
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The Laundry Files by Charles Stross features basilisk guns. Actual basilisks and gorgons in this 'verse are certain creatures or humans with an Eldritch Abomination-linked tumor in their brain; spooky observer-effect magic means that instead of shooting out a beam of death, whatever is observed by them instantly has a percentage of its carbon atoms converted to silicon. The results are invariably lethal to living beings. So naturally, the titular agency figures out a way to duplicate the effect with a pair of ordinary video cameras, linked to some very special software that emulates the effects of the basilisk tumor; a basilisk gun to the face can even kill a shoggoth. | |
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Doctor Who: The Daleks have Death Rays, which were once most literal instances of this trope — any living being struck by it goes into X-Ray Sparks and dies screaming, then and there, whereas the rays never caused serious damage to property (missing a target results in a minor spark burst.) However, as of "The Stolen Earth", a small group of Daleks showed that they were more than capable of destroying a building, although they did have "Maximum EXTERMINATION" setting on. The result was an impressive boom. The Dalek extermination effect has gradually got more elaborate over time as special effects improved. At first you simply saw an emitter extend from the Dalek gunstick in close-up, followed by a quick cut to the victim as the whole screen goes into negative. Victim screams and drops dead. Things got gradually more elaborate over the years, especially when it became possible to add ray effects to the screen, but the X-Ray Sparks effect wasn't introduced until the last pre-2005 appearance, "Remembrance of the Daleks", where it was quite elaborate for the time and budget. In their very first appearance, the Daleks do shoot to paralyze. Once. This was before they got on their EXTERMINATE kick. But after that one incident in the second serial of Doctor Who ever, Daleks do shoot to kill. There's been mention that the Daleks' weapon could kill instantly and painlessly, but they deliberately dial down the power of their weapons depending on the species encountered so it takes longer for said being to die. Yes, the Daleks are so freakin' evil they have a Death Ray and Agony Beam in one convenient package! They did explain what a Dalek neutralizer ray does, and why nearly everyone hit with this screams in agony as they die. The Doctor called it "internal displacement": Your internal organs are scrambled, literally. Now imagine what would happen if Doctor Who stopped trying to be family friendly with the special effects... Though the fact that the ray can be conducted through water suggests it's actually some kind of electron particle beam. The Daleks do shoot to stun in "Planet of the Daleks". In "Asylum of the Daleks", the Dalek ray, complete with iconic sound effect, is used to stun the Doctor to bring him to, basically, Dalek city hall. The same presumably goes for Amy and Rory. Death Rays are actually extremely common in Doctor Who. Hardly an episode goes by without some innocent being disintegrated or otherwise killed by a bad guy, usually with some type of energy weapon. "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror": Subverted when Graham and Ryan find a prototype death ray while searching for things to defend Tesla's Wardenclyffe lab with, as it fails to work in any way when Graham tries to use it during the climax. |
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In the Star Trek Expanded Universe novel The Last Stand, Riker and Troi infiltrate a Kreen generation ship in order to find out their plans. A Kreen engineer takes a liking to Troi and shows her a "secret project" designed to help them defeat anyone (presumably even the Enterprise). It looks vaguely like a weapon. Troi, in an attempt to get more information, asks if it's some sort of "death ray". However, it turns out that the Kreen leaders have known about Riker and Troi and have deliberately set up the "weapon" (which is nothing more than a telescope with added junk to make it look like a weapon) to convince them and get them to return to the Enterprise. The real weapon is a virus that was meant to infect the Enterprise crew. What the Kreen didn't count on was the transporter bio-filters detecting and removing the virus during the beam-out. | |
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The Romanov Attack Satellite from Heavy Weapon has this. It will try to keep near your tank's horizontal position before firing their laser weapon downwards that instantly vaporizes your tank regardless of shields. You must shoot at them to push them away, so they won't fire their lasers over you. The Secret Weapon boss also have these curvy deathrays. They randomly change patterns, and touching them is also a One-Hit Kill. Good luck trying to fight the boss without dying, because you lose your smart bombs on death! |
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Second Apocalypse: The Inchoroi brought with them the Heron Spear, a Magitek weapon of great power that was stolen and used to slay their No-God, but has since been lost. It's implied to be some sort of energy beam weapon. | |
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Mother: In EarthBound (1994), Jeff (one of the heroes) gets a Death Ray as a weapon. PK Beam γ in EarthBound Beginnings functions as this, being a guaranteed One-Hit Kill unless the target is wearing a Franklin Badge. It's a favorite weapon of the Starman enemies, and the player can eventually give them a taste of their own medicine once Ana is a high enough level to learn it. |
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In Space Tyrant, the Death Ray is a Support Power usable on the galaxy map. It is a psychic weapon powered by the galaxy's hate and fear of you, and costs Tyranny to fire. While it sounds impressive on paper, in practice it only destroys a few ships in a single enemy fleet. | |
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Emilio Salgari wrote the nineteenth century version into one of his Sandokan novels, for use against ironclad warships: you fire the beam at the enemy ship, and its munitions blow up with the ship. Fittingly, the guy who invented the device called himself the Demon of War, and was killed when an enemy grenade exploded on his device, right after he proved he deserved the name. | |
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The Auger from Resistance fires a blast of radiation that can pierce cover, and induces Acute Radiation Sickness in its targets. The Atomizer is a Lightning Gun that causes anyone struck by it to be Stripped to the Bone. Chain Lightning comes standard, by the way. |
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Project X (later named the Thompson Harmonizer) in Atlas Shrugged, which emits sound waves capable of destroying anything within 100 miles. | |
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RWBY Chibi has Neo own a comedically large Death Ray that is more than twice her size. It first appears in episode 20 where Neo and Roman plan to use it on team RWBY but are interrupted by Zwei. It returns next episode with Neo aiming it at Sun and Neptune in the background with Mercury egging her on and Emerald trying to stop her. | |
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One strip of Casey and Andy features a ray gun called the Kill-O-Mat. While this one doesn't work, the Casey Vaporiso-Annihilatomat does wonders. | |
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The "Is There In Roof No Beauty?" story arc in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! involved Space Pirates trying to obtain some Unobtainium called borfomite to power their unstoppable Death Ray. They hit a small delay when they finally got the borfomite but realized it needed to be combined with caramel, which they didn't have. | |
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Being based on, well, The War of the Worlds, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds has the Martians using plenty of these, from classic heat rays to masers to x-ray versions. | |
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Also from World Of Darkness, we have the fanmade game Genius: The Transgression. Since it's about Mad Scientists, it's only to be expected that death rays are an easy-to-make, commonly occurring Wonder. | |
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The Evronians of Paperinik New Adventures have their standard sidearms, the Evronguns. They normally drain someone's emotions, but Grrodon explains they can be set to drain someone's life energy, thus fulfilling the trope. | |
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Although rare, this is how laser pistols work in Firefly. Too bad bullets are still better (and way more common). | |
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Seen in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy" with the Photonic Cannon, a Weapon of Mass Destruction from the Doctor's daydreams powerful enough to take out a Borg Sphere in one shot. This is later successfully used to bluff aliens who thought it was real. | |
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It Came from Outer Space (1953). The protagonist is uncertain whether he should believe the aliens' claims that they're simply trying to repair their spaceship so they can leave Earth. After a deadly confrontation with an alien guard who tries to slice him in half with a handheld Disintegrator Ray, he enters a chamber and is shocked to find the aliens assembling what appears to be a classic giant Death Ray, but actually turns out a device for powering their ship. | |
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In the first Destroy the Godmodder this was used many times against the godmodder. By newbies, and needless to say, not a single death ray made connection with its intended target. |
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The fairies' bio-bombs in Artemis Fowl give a flash of blue light, killing every living being in it. All inanimate objects are unharmed. Except from Holly's LEP-helmet, which she uses to absorb the full blast of a bio-bomb meant to kill her. | |
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On the canon side, from Unreal Tournament 2003 and on there's the Link Gun, a reworked Pulse Gun whose Secondary Fire energy beam vaporizes the soft tissue of any non-robotic victim on kill and leaves only a skeleton. Interestingly, if an ally is also holding a Link Gun, the energy beam connects to the ally like a tether and boosts the power of their Link Gun; it can also repair vehicles and structures, with linked Link Guns repairing faster. | |
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In The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling Jack’s first invention as a mad scientist is one of these. Extra points for being housed in his wife’s hair dryer, so not only can it convert a kitchen island into ash with a red beam of light, it does so while being pearlescent pink with stylized purple flowers. | |
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GURPS Ultra-Tech has a slew of these, from a half dozen weapons that disintegrate the enemy to Mind Disruptors that make the target's body want to die. | |
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Unreal Tournament The mod Unreal4Ever has a comparatively small laser pistol that shoots a continuous, hitscan stream of energy. Killing an enemy with it will cause their flesh to boil instantly, leaving behind only a charred skeleton. It can do this near instantly even at its weakest power if it hits the head. Can be upgraded by picking up more of the same gun; at its most powerful it really embodies this trope, as casually moving the beam across an enemy will kill them almost instantly. On the canon side, from Unreal Tournament 2003 and on there's the Link Gun, a reworked Pulse Gun whose Secondary Fire energy beam vaporizes the soft tissue of any non-robotic victim on kill and leaves only a skeleton. Interestingly, if an ally is also holding a Link Gun, the energy beam connects to the ally like a tether and boosts the power of their Link Gun; it can also repair vehicles and structures, with linked Link Guns repairing faster. |
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The Castles of Doctor Creep has the Ray Gun, one of the titular doctor's inventions. It's trying to get a bead on you and will try and shoot you if you're at the same level as it. Most of the time it's something you have to avoid, but often you'll use it to kill some of the monsters chasing you. | |
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Nexus: The Jupiter Incident has one example. When the Vardrag-Noah alliance invented the fortress shieldnote huge, spherical shield that is completely impenetrable to outside fire yet allows friendlies inside to fire out; taking it out requires either tons of firepower to overwhelm it or quick wits to be inside it's radius when it activates to protect their supply ships, the Gorg answered with the Siege Laser: a giant Wave-Motion Gun affixed onto a battleship. It requires three other ships to assume a triangular formation around the battleship and provide power but when it does fire, the results are very painful for the target. The Gorg later give the technology to the Noah colonists, when the true culprits of the Cataclysm are revealed. It proves to be the only weapon capable of damaging the Locust Queen. |
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And could also be used to destroy entire primitive (nuclear age and older) buildings in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Funny how direct hits from the phasers on Voyager rarely even slow down their targets, let alone stun or kill them. I guess their default setting is "sting". Then again, this is the show where 80 kiloton explosions fail to damage adobe shacks from four meters away. | |
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