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Our weapons are useless! The enemy is Immune to Bullets! What can we mere humans do against the unending procession of impervious foes? Quite a lot, apparently. By making modifications to our puny earth weapons (or, more commonly, to the ammunition) the world can be saved without having to Nuke 'em (which usually doesn't work anyway since 'nukes are bad'). These modifications usually include using the target's Weaksauce Weakness in the weapon, such as silver melted from crosses, UV ammunition, and Cold Iron. Expect the boss monster to be immune thanks to their Cross-Melting Aura. This is one of the major mechanics/themes of settings in which the protagonists or PCs are mortals in a world full of nasty supernatural or superpowered enemies, with the progression from knowing nothing about the mysterious bullet-immune creatures to exploding a dozen of them with each shot being one of the major progress indicators of the story. A subtrope of Weapon of X-Slaying, and the supertrope to the Silver Bullet (which is probably the original iteration of this, and in any case remains the most common even today). See also Abnormal Ammo, Armor-Piercing Attack, Elemental Weapon, Kill It with Fire and Kill It with Ice. A similar trope is the Immortal Breaker, a weapon that supersedes immortality. This trope usually utilises a specific item or property to kill a specific being, while Immortal Breakers simply call trumps over being immortal and is usually equally effective over all immortals. Note that the phlebotinum shells in question do not actually have to be "depleted" in some manner to qualify for this trope, as the name is based on depleted uranium ammunition used by various nations since the 1970s. |
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The paramilitary vampire hunters in Ultraviolet (1998) use charcoal-nosed bullets. | |
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In the Brief Cases story "Even Hand", Marcone uses an old musket pistol to kill a Fomor sorcerer. The bullet is the one that killed Horatio Nelson, and then further enchanted to break through a sorcerer's defenses by Marcone's valkyrie security specialist. It's mentioned that the effort of enchanting the bullet knocked said valkyrie unconscious for two weeks. | |
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The Salvation War gives us iron-tipped artillery in the form of High-Explosive Anti-Demon rounds. Normal High-Explosive-Anti-Tank (HEAT) rounds have a shaped charge with a copper liner so when they detonate they burn through the enemy armour with a jet of molten copper. HEAD rounds replace the copper liner with iron so instead of just burning through the demon like a HEAT round they burned through it with something that was poisonous to the demon and prevented its flesh from regenerating. Not that conventional (military-grade) firearms were any less effective against demons, over penetration of APFSDS rounds aside. | |
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Stars! (1995) has depleted neutronium ammo — presumably, dense far beyond the bounds of normal matter. (How you deplete neutronium is unknown to modern science.) | |
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Endless Frontier: Though not particularly used against live targets, Haken's Night Fowl requires special bullets to destroy the Mild Keil crystals causing Broken Bridge antics and other chaos in-game. To ensure they're strong enough for the job, they're made from (or based on the composition of) fragments of the crystal type they're made to break. | |
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In Imperial Radch, the bullets fired by the Garseddai guns will, after impact, go through anything for exactly 1.11 meters, by simply creating as much energy as they need. In the third book, it is revealed that the 1.11 meters were just a side effect of their even more exotic intended function of specifically destroying Radchaai ships while not being able to harm the guns' Presger creators. | |
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In Hunter: The Vigil, this is one of Task Force: VALKYRIE's Endowments, called Compound Rounds, which deal Lethal damage against supernatural targets that would usually only take Bashing damage from bullets. Come in various sizes for extra fun. However, the substances inside the bullet are too little to do aggravated damage. | |
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X-Men: Magneto, Master of Magnetism, is often faced with plastic or composite weapons, and is locked in a "plastic prison" on more than one occasion. In X-Men: The Animated Series, a Sentinel boasts about how its plastic coating stops Magneto's powers — Magneto's response is an annoyed "You fools, this whole ship is my weapon!", followed by him promptly throwing the huge generators nearby through the Sentinels. | |
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Sluggy Freelance: Riff comes up with this baby. Too bad it only holds one second's worth of ammo and takes two days to reload. | |
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Hans in The Troll Hunter has an ultraviolet array on his car and an ultraviolet gun which he uses to kill rogue trolls, which is important because trolls are nocturnal. The first troll killed in the movie turns to stone by the ultraviolet light; the second one outright explodes, and the final one turns into an outright avalanche from sheer size after being stoned. | |
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In The Third Kryptonian, Amalak gets anti-Kryptonian weapons manufactured for his pirate crew: Green Kryptonite-powered sniper rifles, knives which give off red sunlight radiation, Kryptonite flechettes... | |
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The Fall of the House of Cabal: The Red Queen equips her Praetorian Guard with ammunition that immolates vampires from the inside out, ostensibly because they contain holy water. Unbeknownst to them, the contents are neither holy nor water, and are costly in a way beyond financial expense. | |
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Jagged Alliance: JA2 v1.13 introduced AET (Advanced Energy Transfer) ammunition. They pierce armor better than standard armor-piercing (AP) rounds, and do more damage as well (though less than hollow-point (HP) rounds). They're also extremely expensive and wear down guns faster than any other ammunition in the game, as otherwise you would never use any other type of ammunition. The developers suggest not thinking too hard about how that works. On a more realistic level, there's also Glaser ammunition (G), which causes the absolute most damage possible to an unarmored opponent, but can't even hurt someone wearing even a basic flak jacket, only doing (surprisingly minor) stamina damage instead, with the added benefit of also preventing overpenetration (the bullet won't pass through your target and hit someone or something behind it). Glaser ammunition is almost overpowered at the beginning of the game, when most enemies you fight are unarmored, and almost completely useless by the middle of the game on, when enemies start wearing at least basic armor.note Glaser ammunition is still good for fighting enemies like Bloodcats and the Crepitus, however, as they are unarmored by default. But the fun of doing 130 points of damage with a headshot in a game where the maximum health is 100 (and most units don't even have that) cannot be overstated. |
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A later episode of Angel shows that members of the Wolfram and Hart Spec Ops Team carry wooden combat knives. | |
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Redwall: Martin's ancestral sword is reforged by the badger lord of Salamandastron using meteoric steel in Mossflower. The same sword is used by nearly every protagonist and has always slain the Big Bad of each particular novel (though not always directly, sometimes it is just used to, say, cut a rope holding a giant bell directly above the Big Bad). | |
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V (1983): At one point in The Final Battle, the heroes discover that Visitor body armor is now impervious to conventional bullets. Teflon-coated bullets solve this problem rather quickly. | |
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Changeling: The Dreaming: Cold iron (defined as "wrought iron") does aggravated damage to changelings... and if they die by it, their fae soul never reincarnates. The explanation is that the discovery of Iron working (and the coming of the Iron Age) was responsible for the end of the Fae golden age on Earth. Changelings, being creatures of dream and symbol, are especially vulnerable to it as a result. Later supplements explain steel not being so dangerous by the fact that it was invented by a powerful fairy long ago who sacrificed his life to ensure it would be harmless. | |
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The Girl from the Miracles District: The mercenaries hunting Nikita in the second book are using bullets imbued with magic crystals that nullify her Healing Factor. | |
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Tears to Tiara has both the Holy Empire and the angels use weapons made of Electrum, a holy metal, against Noble Demon protagonist Arawn. (The latter made it the ammunition of a biological "divine tank", which was used killed him the first time.) In-game, any equipment made of Electrum given to non-human characters (elves, dragons, demons, etc.) is only as good as whatever they were wearing earlier. It doesn't lower their stats, but it doesn't boost them either. | |
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By the third film, a number of key Decepticons are taken down without any help from Autobots beyond the training shown earlier in the film. | |
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Wario Land: In the third and fourth games, one of Wario's forms is to turn into a vampire upon being bitten by a bat. One of the ways to turn back is to touch a hanging string of garlic bulbs. Depending on the situation, this may be good or bad. | |
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In BloodRayne, Agent Rayne has blades either coated with silver or made of a silver alloy. | |
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In Bloodborne, Quicksilver (which is essentially mercury) is used for making bullets against beast, since ordinary bullets do not work against them. Although proven effective, firing liquid metal onto anyone wouldn't deal that much of damage as one might think. The bullets are also infused with the user's own blood, and having tainted blood makes the bullets deal more damage. | |
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In JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency, the Nazis, under attack from super-powerful vampires, develop shoulder-mounted ultraviolet lamps to be able to fight them. | |
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The Parasol Protectorate: While Vampires and Werewolves have largely integrated into the alternate Victorian setting, there are still quite a few characters who like to be prepared. Alexia's signature parasol, for example, has retractable spikes of both silver and wood along with a chemical spray tailored to each, one of which doubles as a powerful acid. Other examples include sundowner bullets (wooden musket balls banded with silver) and, amusingly, pesto sauce (Werewolves in this universe are allergic to basil. Throw in some garlic...). | |
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The Alloy of Law: Anti-Allomancer rounds. The expensive ones are made out of Aluminum, the cheap ones vary based on target: Coinshot rounds are fronted with ceramics that will keep going when they push on the metal, Lurcher rounds contain ceramics surrounded by metal and fragment when pulled, Tineye rounds are excessively loud, Thug rounds are enormously over-sized. | |
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Gateworld Virtual Fleet has physics-defying Naqadah-Potassium warheads. | |
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In Aeon Entelechy Evangelion, there are warheads enhanced with The Colour Out of Space. | |
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The Belkan Cartridge System from Lyrical Nanoha is a subversion. While it does involve loading weapons with shell casings full of compressed magic, in practice it's used as a Nitro Boost rather than an attack (though said boost can be applied to an attack). | |
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The Confederation military in The Night's Dawn Trilogy is initially ineffective when fighting the Possessed except through massive overkill due to the Possessed scrambling nearby high-tech equipment and their sheer durability. The military eventually discover that the Possessed are crippled by large amounts of (static) electricity, and develop bullets with internal capacitors for fighting off the Possessed. | |
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Kittan in Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann at one point attempts to hold off a Mugann with a shotgun packing "Spiral shells." A more impressive one is issued to Grapearls, producing huge explosions and a shell to contain the aftermath of a Mugann going blooie. | |
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In Eternal Darkness, any weapon can be enhanced with magick. Imbued projectile weapons, including crossbows, rifles and shotguns, launch/fire imbued projectiles. It's not necessary for killing monsters, but sure helps. | |
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Eternal Darkness (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Star Trek: The Next Generation Relaunch book Greater Than the Sum introduces a "multivector weapon" designed to use everything against the Borg that had ever been somewhat effective. Then the Borg get ahold of it before it could be used against them and do what they always do — they adapt. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation Relaunch | hasFeature |
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"Mage-slayer" rounds in With This Ring are magical, but more specifically, they're enchanted to consume magic, allowing them to disrupt spells and harm magical creatures. | |
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With This Ring (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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In the This Time Round fic "Friendly Hopes", William Starr's shotgun contains a mix of lead, gold, silver, iron, hardwood, platinum and diamonds. He's not aware of anything with a vulnerability to platinum or diamonds, but you never know. | |
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This Time Round / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
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Warhammer: Time of Legends: In the Nagash trilogy, Nagash is soundly defeated in a battle where his enemies have acquired special magic arrows that down an undead soldier in one hit. | |
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Warhammer: Time of Legends | hasFeature |
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In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the bullets needed are gold. Twenty-four carat gold. | |
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The Curse of the Were-Rabbit | hasFeature |
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In Assassination Classroom, normal knives and bullets melt on contact with Koro-sensei, so the government developed a special "anti-sensei" substance that breaks down Koro-sensei's cells. The knives and ammunition used by his students charged with assassinating him are made entirely out of this substance, which is conveniently also harmless to humans (it appears to have similar physical properties to rubber). | |
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In Cold Days, Harry infuses a bullet with Soulfire, the Fires of Creation to banish a powerful demon and fires it right at the target's head. | |
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Cold Days | hasFeature |
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In The Vampire of Steel, Willow's magically enhanced stakes created to kill a Kryptonian vampire prove to be useless upon testing, so Kara fetches stakes made from Kryptonian trees as well as Kryptonite weapons. | |
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The Vampire of Steel (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
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In Blood Ties (2007), a young vampire, made and abandoned by Henry's marker and ex-lover, tries to exact revenge on her by rigging the bright runway lights during a fashion show to produce a UV flash, which would have killed her had Henry not intervened. Her arm still gets burned. | |
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Blood Ties (2007) | hasFeature |
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Rage (2011): Feltrite-tipped bullets are more effective than lead, but rarer, more expensive and you are not able to carry as many of them. | |
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Rage (2011) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Dresden Files: Kincaid at one point uses Dragonsbreath shotgun rounds to turn his disposable shotguns into flamethrowers. This inspires Harry to read up on other unusual shotgun rounds, including flares. Dresden also keeps around some actual depleted uranium, in powder form, because it apparently has spiritual as well as physical weight and can dispel ghosts. |
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The Dresden Files | hasFeature |
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In Supernatural, Crowley manages to make angel-killing bullets by melting down angel blades. | |
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Supernatural | hasFeature |
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The Cowboy Bebop episode "Sympathy for the Devil" features a Creepy Child named Wen who is really a boy who stopped aging and gained ageless immortality from the Lunar Astral Gate accident (which bombarded Earth with debris, killing most of its population and rendering it virtually uninhabitable). A stone from the incident is the only thing that can kill him, and Jet and Spike carve it into a bullet to use it. | |
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Cowboy Bebop | hasFeature |
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Played with in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion. One quest requires you to kill a vampire, and reading his diary indicates that he has a weakness to garlic. He's annoyed at the fact that he's the only vampire who possesses this weakness (so far as he knows), making him a walking cliche. | |
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In Discworld, in the undead bar of Ankh-Morpork, the bartender, Igor, has a weapon as follows: | |
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Discworld | hasFeature |
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Forever Knight: In the episode "Hunted", a hunter shoots Nick with bullets stuffed with garlic. | |
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Forever Knight | hasFeature |
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The Candlemass Road has an interesting inversion: a dying border reiver begs the narrator (a priest) to baptize his right hand. You see, his parents only baptized the rest of his body at birth: they wanted their son to strike "unblessed blows" (presumably in the hope that this would in some way damn his enemies to hell.) | |
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown has a basic upgrade in the form of Reaper Rounds, which can only be used in projectile weapons and are developed based on the initial research of alien alloys. They tend to hit harder than regular rounds (higher chance of critical hit), but also tend to fly less reliably than regular rounds (lower chance to hit). | |
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XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja: One quest featured: Nunchucks made from Mother Teresa's bones, A Bo staff made from the largest known piece of The True Cross, Sai made out of St. Peter's sword, And bullets that had been in the Pope's mouth(wash). The finale took it up a notch by weaponizing the Pope himself! |
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The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Special Circumstances: Generally speaking, weapons imbued with the spirit of a member of the titular organization are often either the only way or the best way of slaying a supernatural beastie. At one point, there's also a discussion of how normal, non-spiritual FBI agents could battle the supernatural, using "Cold Iron" bayonets for their rifles. | |
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Special Circumstances | hasFeature |
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In Luke Cage (2016), Luke Cage is Immune to Bullets, except for the Judas, which is a line of special bullets designed by Hammer Industries and engineered from salvaged Chitauri metals. | |
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Luke Cage (2016) | hasFeature |
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In OGRE, the standard anti-personnel round is "ap-fizz dizzy-doo" (APFSDSDU): armor-piercing, fin-stabilized, discarding sabot, depleted uranium. | |
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OGRE (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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In Daybreakers, La Résistance uses automatic crossbows that fire wood-tipped bolts to kill vampire soldiers with impressive accuracy. Their advantage is that vampires won't shoot to kill, since they need every surviving human to feed hundreds of millions of vampires across the world. | |
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Daybreakers | hasFeature |
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In Kamen Rider Kuuga, a particularly persistent Monster of the Week (introduced in episode 2, finally offed in episode 39, though he doesn't appear in every episode) winds up getting its corpse analyzed to create special ammunition that can actually affect Grongi. | |
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Kamen Rider Kuuga | hasFeature |
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My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister has anti-vampire bullets, made from consecrated steel or silver that was soaked in holy water when cooled. | |
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My Vampire Older Sister and Zombie Little Sister | hasFeature |
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Resident Evil: The games traditionally feature acid grenades and fire grenades in addition to normal grenade rounds. The precise effects of these specialized rounds varies from game to game. Acid grenades tend to be more effective against B.O.W.-type enemies, such as the Hunters in Resident Evil and the Lickers in Resident Evil 2. Fire grenades can be used to burn up zombies (before or after they are "killed") to prevent them from becoming Crimson Heads in Resident Evil (Remake), whilst in RE2, they can One-Hit Kill Ivies (and their range means they're a far better choice for doing so than Leon's flamethrower). Resident Evil 3: Nemesis adds freeze grenades to the normal/acid/fire trinity; these freeze enemies solid with one hit, allowing Jill to smash the enemy to pieces with a single normal bullet. Nemesis himself is especially weak to them. Resident Evil – Code: Veronica also features single pickup of three anti-BOW gas rounds alongside its normal/acid/fire grenades. A hit from one of these gas grenades halves the health of the enemy struck, including bosses; needless to say, they make tough bosses much easier to face. |
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Resident Evil (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Skyrim has silver weapons deal additional damage to other forms of undead as well. In addition, the Silver Hand, the enemies of the Companions guild from the game and the main source of said silver weapons, use them due to the Circle members being werewolves. | |
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Wolverine: In an interesting inversion, Bloodscream seems to be able to recover from attacks by Wolverine's adamantium claws. Guess what happens when he faces Wolverine without the adamantium. | |
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Wolverine (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Factorio features Uranium ammunition, made by taking conventional Piercing Ammunition and processing it to put U-238 tips on the bullets. They hit incredibly hard and shred Biters and Spitters easily. | |
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Factorio (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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In Night Watch (Series), most of the stuff mentioned above is useless against vampires (in fact, they deliberately let Muggles think it works). Even silver doesn't kill them, though being shot with a Silver Bullet hurts like hell. What's deadly against a vampire? Vodka. Luckily most of the novels take place in Russia, where vodka is everywhere. | |
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Night Watch (Series) | hasFeature |
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Exalted: Fair Folk take extra damage from pure iron weapons (not steel or other alloys), and are resistant to non-iron. Woe betide the Exalt who's stocked up on magical artifacts with no iron weapons. There's a hearthstone called "Cold Iron Bauble" that can be mounted in said artifacts, which makes them act like iron to Fair Folk. |
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Exalted (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
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Blade: In his original comic book appearances, Blade uses knives made from the hardest teak wood against Dracula and pals. | |
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Blade / Comicbook | hasFeature |
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Detective Comics volume 1, issues #31-32 pit Batman against a vampire, whom he kills (he did that back in the day) by melting down some silver candlesticks, forging bullets out of them, and shooting the vampire. | |
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John Dies at the End: Dave and John use a Bible duct-taped to a baseball bat to fight supernatural monsters. Oh, and breath mints with the Lord's Prayer printed on them. | |
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Stargate-verse: The mission of the entire SG project is to exploit alien technology or hybridize it with conventional weaponry to defend the Earth. By the final season of Stargate SG-1, they have bombs capable of destroying stargates, which are nigh-invulnerable. By Stargate Atlantis, they've developed the Horizon system, a starship-deployed MIRV tipped with six 280 gigaton warheads and four decoys. For reference, that's over 13 million times the power of the Hiroshima bomb per warhead. Also in this category is the energy weapon the SGC develops in SG-1 Season 7 to kill Kull Warriors. Since Kull armor is, for all intents and purposes, invincible (one of them stepped on a claymore and didn't even break stride), they develop a weapon that disrupts the energy keeping the clone body alive. Since the Warriors are rapid-grown clones with hyperaccelerated bodies to give them super-strength and durability, the only thing keeping them alive is the healing powers of a Goa'uld symbiote and ancient technology used to "imbue them with life" in the first place. Disrupting the latter kills them instantly. Also, since their body armor is very similar to kevlar, it can be pierced with a tranquilizer dart, which is attempted to capture a Kull at one point. Finally, after Season 8 of SG-1, the SGC has access to ARG's: Anti-Replicator Guns. Rather than firing a slug or a harmful energy burst, they fire what amounts to a localized jamming signal, shutting off the communication between the Replicators' component pieces and causing them to fall apart and become inert. Unfortunately, Replicators are able to update their communication modulation when they realize this is happening, so the ARG's have to be constantly updated in turn as the Replicators "grow immune" to the previous modulation. |
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Saga of Recluce features two distinct types of magic: Order-mage and Chaos-mage. Chaos energy has difficulty working on iron due to the natural Order energy woven into it, making it a solid defense. Additionally, Chaos-mages tend to build up a large amount of the energy in their body, so direct contact with iron causes their skin to blister painfully, and in extreme cases can lead to death. | |
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Star Trek Novel 'Verse: The Star Trek: The Next Generation Relaunch book Greater Than the Sum introduces a "multivector weapon" designed to use everything against the Borg that had ever been somewhat effective. Then the Borg get ahold of it before it could be used against them and do what they always do — they adapt. The EU, specifically Star Trek: Destiny, tries to explain how Voyager's Transphasic Torpedos are so effective against the Borg. Basically, they're Quantum Torpedos which use subspace to simultaneously explode with every possible frequency. Meaning that no shield modulation can possibly block the full force of the detonation, only parts of it. The only way to defend against them would be a shield that simultaneously covers all modulations. Naturally, the Borg do finally adapt to them, and it takes a Deus ex Machina to save the Federation. |
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In Only Lovers Left Alive, the vampire Adam has a wooden bullet specially made, in case he ever decides to kill himself. | |
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When fighting a dark elf in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Iron Man does the obvious and grapples him. But while this causes the elf pain, because the armor is only an alloy of iron and not pure, it's not enough to kill him — but it weakens the dark elf enough for Thor to finish the job. | |
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TwoKinds: The most efficient way to take down one of the series Evil Towers of Ominousness is to shoot the tower's core with a magic-imbued arrow. | |
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In Silver Bullet, Red forges a silver bullet from some necklaces to use against the werewolf. When the gun shop owner looks at him strangely, he tries to pass it off as "the kids really like The Lone Ranger". The other guy has a smirk that says, "Yeah, right." | |
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Werewolf by Night: The armor and weaponry of Moon Knight was specifically tailored for werewolf-fighting, laced with silver throughout. | |
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One Dragon article on almost-as-good-as-magical items suited for low-level adventurers to retrieve proposed the inclusion of "coldsilver" weapons: weapons that didn't have any bonuses, but which incorporated both silver and Cold Iron into their substance. Hence, they could do damage to monsters resistant to non-magical attack, but vulnerable to either one or the other metal. | |
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The Godfather 2 has incendiary rounds as a reward for completing a certain crime ring. | |
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Silent Hill 4: The Room has Silver Bullets, which will knock down a Victim in one shot. However, there are only two in the game. | |
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Grrl Power at some point shows a grenade containing silver buckshot, iron and (undecided) (see The Rant, which mentions wood and salt as possibilities). | |
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In Italian Disney Ducks Comic Universe stories, witches have a weakness for garlic smell, something that Scrooge has of course weaponized to deal with Magica-usually in the form of artillery shells. | |
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The Stormlight Archive has an interesting variant: weapons charged with "anti-Light" can annihilate creatures of Investiture such as Fused or spren. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons includes a plethora of monsters with varying types of damage reduction, such as werecreatures, demons, fey and others, which often results in adventurers carrying around extensive collections of weapons ("No, we need a silver magical weapon that does piercing damage, not a cold iron one!"). Both melee weapons and ammunition for projectiles are often made from these special materials. An insanely genius item introduced in one of the guides by Van Richten of Ravenloft was a weakness-detecting arrow. Rather than a traditional point, it had needles from over a dozen different substances, like cold iron, gold, silver, wood, and so on. When fired, it does minimal damage to its target, but also does not embed itself. After it is recovered, the wielder can see what substance did the harm based on which other needles are broken or bent, and (depending on the target) which needle has the blood stain. Epic-level monsters (i.e. challenges for level 21+ characters) sometimes require truly bizarre weapons to deal normal damage to them. A time-elemental Phane can only take normal damage from weapons from an alternate history, for example, and a mind-consuming Dream Larva only takes real damage from weapons forged by a sleepwalking blacksmith. The Regeneration Ability that stops a creature from being killed by attacks that do not overcome it. For example trolls can only be killed by fire or acid damage. There are magical weapon enhancements that can compensate for the "golf bag scabbard" problem. Metalline weapons overcome any damage reduction based on the material composition of the weapon, Transforming weapons can change shape into other types of weapons which deal damage in a different manner (bludgeoning, piercing, slashing, or some combination), and Shadowstriking weapons can temporarily attune themselves to a particular creature and overcome whatever damage reduction it happens to have. One Dragon article on almost-as-good-as-magical items suited for low-level adventurers to retrieve proposed the inclusion of "coldsilver" weapons: weapons that didn't have any bonuses, but which incorporated both silver and Cold Iron into their substance. Hence, they could do damage to monsters resistant to non-magical attack, but vulnerable to either one or the other metal. |
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In Shadow of the Conqueror, Daylen finds out that the Archknights are vulnerable to darkstone, and thinks about how he'd have created shotspikes to weaponize this against them, if he'd known when he was still ruling the Dawn Empire. The Dawnists later do create such weapons, to disastrous effect, later on. | |
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Railgun rounds in Escape Velocity Nova are stated in flavor text to be forged of metals that are highly conductive but cheap, such as copper and gold. The rounds come in 100, 150, 200, and (with the ARPIA plug-in) 400 millimeter sizes. | |
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By the final season of Stargate SG-1, they have bombs capable of destroying stargates, which are nigh-invulnerable. | |
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Wood is used against vampires all over The Vampire Diaries, in forms ranging from a standard hand-driven stake to a crossbow to wooden bullets that can be fired from a standard pistol. The wooden bullets aren't enough to kill; however, the homemade stake gun is. | |
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In the Hellsister Trilogy, Darkseid makes sure to have Kryptonite weaponry in hand before putting in motion his scheme so he can counteract his Kryptonian enemies. | |
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Felix Castor: Felix's landlord Pen fends off a succubus with a shotgun full of filed-down rosary beads. It seriously ruins the succubus's day. | |
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According to Things Mr. Welch Is No Longer Allowed to Do in an RPG, some variants apparently are over the top: | |
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BioShock has ammo for weapons ranging from (relatively) realistic things like armour piercing bullets to things like electric shotgun shells, exploding shotgun shells, a flamethrower that also fires liquid nitrogen and electric gel, and a crossbow with fire bolts and bolts that shoot wires. Then there's plasmids... | |
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Biotics in Mass Effect aren't exactly magic, but they're close enough for government work, so Warp Ammo — bullets imbued with biotic power — would qualify. Warp Ammunition is a signature power of Jack in Mass Effect 2 and Liara in Mass Effect 3. | |
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Tortall Universe: Griffin-fletched arrows always hit their targets, and Stormwing-fletched arrows go through magic shielding. | |
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Batman: Detective Comics volume 1, issues #31-32 pit Batman against a vampire, whom he kills (he did that back in the day) by melting down some silver candlesticks, forging bullets out of them, and shooting the vampire. During the final showdown with Dracula in Batman and Dracula: Red Rain, Batman attacks him with silver Batarangs. In Bloodstorm, his primary weapons are wooden throwing daggers weighted with silver. |
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In Rebuild World, CWH rounds are specially made armor-piercing bullets designed for use with an anti-materiel rifle when normal piercing rounds don't cut it. These rounds are so powerful that they can take down monsters the size of a building by blasting a bus-sized hole in their skulls while still retaining enough momentum to shatter a part of a concrete structure behind it. Smaller monsters are instead reduced to unrecognizable Ludicrous Gibs. Naturally, this level of power comes with a price tag that makes it Too Awesome to Use, leaving hunters to pack only one or two of them for emergencies. | |
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Chrono Crusade: The Magdalene Order uses scripture-inscribed bullets laced with Holy Water as standard ammunition against demons. They also have a small number of bullets which use the power of one demon to blow up another, with near-nuclear effects. The demon bullet was deemed a failure; however, another bullet called The Gospel is perhaps the most powerful anti-demon bullet around. It's described as "a magic bullet made of a rare kind of silver that's synthesized using alchemy which has a spell inscribed on it at an atomic level." The results are quite devastating. |
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Sabina Kane: Vampires are vulnerable not to wood but specifically apple wood (as in, wood from apple trees) because in this setting, vampires are somehow mystically linked to the Apple from the Garden of Eden. Sabina even uses apple cider bullets effectively against them. | |
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms: The beast's blood carries a deadly virus from prehistoric times, so shooting it will only cause the disease to spread and kill even more people. In the end, it's shot with a rifle grenade loaded with a potent radioactive isotope, causing it to die of radiation poisoning, which also neutralizes the disease it carries. | |
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New Vindicators: The Nephilim are children of fallen angels and men, with the power to channel hellfire for all kinds of superpowers. However, they are vulnerable to a specific type of tektite, called mithral. More than one character has made mithral into weapons, such as nunchaku, as there are groups that specifically hunt Nephilim. | |
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Subverted in A Force of Four. When three rogue Kryptonians attack Earth, Power Girl looks for some piece of Kryptonite to build some sort of weapon, but it turns out her deceased cousin had done away with every fragment he stumbled upon. | |
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In Gargoyles, Xanatos tends to cut out the middleman and have most of his weapons made of iron composites, just in case. Oberon may be a Physical God but even he takes major damage from anything forged from iron. At one (slightly depowered to impress his wife) point he is brought to his knees by Elisa Maza ringing an iron bell. In later episode he's toying with the main cast but finally decides to fight for real when someone impales him on a home-made harpoon gun. | |
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Earth & Beyond had Projectile (read: bullets) and Missile ammunition (as well as beams) that came in a wide variety of flavors, each of which behaved differently and was effective against different targets. It did at least try to be "realistic" by limiting which damage types could fit into which ammunition. Damage types were: Impact, Explosive, Energy, Plasma, Chemical, and EMP. Impact Explosive and Energy were the basic type that did instant upfront damage equally on all targets; no Impact/Explosive Beams, Explosive Projectiles, or Energy Missiles existed with only 1 extremely rare Energy Projectile existing. Plasma and Chemical each did DoT with Plasma doing extra damage to metal hulls and Chemical doing extra damage to organic Space Whales; all weapons could fire Plasma ammo, but there were no chemical Beams. EMP did extra damage to shields and Scratch Damage to anything else; only 1 rare EMP Projectile existed but were common for Beams and Missiles. | |
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The shells for the Götterdämmerung's main gun in Iron Sky are said to be made from metastable metallic hydrogen. They are powerful enough to tear our huge chunks of the Moon with each shot. | |
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Girl Genius: Dame Aedith of Master Payne's Circus is armed with a gun that shoots wooden stakes. It's intended to be used against vampires, if in fact she ever manages to meet one, but she's willing enough to deploy it against non-undead targets. | |
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At the beginning of Final Crisis, Darkseid kills his son Orion with a time-traveling Radion bullet — Radion being the one thing that can kill any New God no matter how powerful. Near the end, Batman shoots Darkseid with the same bullet which jump-starts the latter's Rasputinian Death. | |
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Trail of Lightning: Maggie the monster hunter uses shotgun shells loaded with corn pollen and obsidian shot, both considered holy by the Navajo and effective against even noncorporeal enemies. They also work on people. | |
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Werewolf: The Apocalypse: Werewolves use silver knives on each other. More specifically, silver prevents a Werewolf from rolling to reduce the damage of an attack. The silver knives werewolves like to use (called "klaives") have War Spirits bound to them, letting them deal aggravated damage on top of that. | |
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In Carpe Jugulum, we encounter vampyres who have trained themselves to resist holy symbols. This backfires later when their conditioning is undone — as a result, they now recognize hundreds of holy symbols, and start seeing them all over the place when they'd have been blissfully unaware and unaffected otherwise. At one point, a vampire is beheaded with a holy item created on the spur of the moment due to the powerful faith of the wielder. | |
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Slayer and a Half: Rachel carries around squirt guns filled with holy water mixed with garlic juice and rock salt. She also has boots engraved with cross symbols, and gives a pair to Buffy in the Christmas Episode. | |
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During the climax of My Best Friend is a Vampire, a Vampire Hunter armed with silver bullets shoots the head vampire Modoc. The latter falls, apparently dead. In a minute, though, he gets up to the surprised protagonist and shocked hunter. When asked by the protagonist (an inexperienced vampire) why a silver bullet didn't kill him, Modoc reminds him that silver is for werewolves. | |
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Superman: Paralleled on occasion in some weapons against Superman developed from the spectograph of Rao (Krypton's red sun) which takes away his powers until he is again exposed to solar rays. Notoriously used in Batman: The Dark Knight Returnsnote in which Superman takes his devotion to Truth, Justice and the American Way to include enforcing US Policy abroad by the Soviet Union, who have tempered a high-yield nuke to do as much ecological damage as possible. Effects include a hemisphere-covering EMP and a dust cloud that blocks out the sun in a very literal nuclear "winter" way. Since Superman is trying to intercept and redirect the ICBM, it almost kills him because he is left with almost no exposure to his solar power source (he somehow drains energy from some plants to get back on his feet, but is still noted to be operating well below his peak power weeks later). Twice in Superman Unchained: The U.S. military under General Sam Lane has been working on "black hole" technologies to fight Superman. These include "max-grav-photon-emitters", a.k.a. "black hole lasers", and "black hole bullets", which are 50 caliber rockets with light vacuums inside of them. The Russian military has also been working on anti-Superman technology, specifically the "XR" drones. These unmanned drones have shielding that protects them from Superman's Eye Beams and Super-Senses, as well as firing bullets that emit red sun radiation just before impact to be able to pierce Kryptonian skin and armor. |
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In Centurions, energy specialist Rex Charger has assault weapon systems that fire missiles that contain... energy-changing stuff. Magnetic shields, light, energy that is absorbed by a gun — the missiles are Technobabble shells. This means that they're exactly as powerful as the plot demands: on separate occasions, Rex blows up a Swirly Energy Thingy and kills a black hole. | |
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In Ga-Rei -Zero-, SOP for gun-wielding exorcists is the application of spirit water (sometimes via grenade) in addition to scripture-inscribed bullets. These elements extend beyond gunplay, notably with inscribed motorcycle wheels and a weaponized iron. | |
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In Kamen Rider OOO, Kamen Rider Birth uses a gun which fires Cell Medals at Yummies. Given that the term phlebotinum seems to be a play on phlebotomy (drawing of blood), and that Yummies (and the Greeed who created them) tend to "bleed" Cell Medals, this seems to be a fairly direct invocation. | |
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In the Jason Wood series, the protagonist kills a vampire by shoving him into a tanning rack. The resultant mess is less than pleasant. | |
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X-COM: Apocalypse: The ultimate anti-alien weapons are anti-alien toxins and anti-alien gas. The former requires a special pistol and has to be upgraded twice to be effective against advanced forms, the latter is discovered fairly late, but can be used in grenades and missiles for existing launchers. Both completely bypass aliens' force field shields and pose almost no threat whatsoever to allied forces in the event of psionic attack. With those the last missions are a breeze. You still need conventional weapons, explosives or rayguns to disable alien structures, though. Good thing you can borrow them from dead aliens. Equally, it takes multiple disruptor blasts or devastator missiles to take down your troopers at that stage, thanks to your Nigh-Invulnerable disruption armor and stolen shield technology... and then the aliens bust out their enzyme guns, which shoot target-seeking organic "missiles" loaded with nasty stuff that can melt through your super-armor in seconds. They may still be stopped by shields, but the moment you see them on the field, you take notice. |
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GURPS Technomancer: The magical metal Necronium, is used primarily as a power source (and can sometimes poison those exposed to it and bring them back as the living dead), whilst depleted Necronium is toxic to all magical creatures. Depleted Necronium is also completely unaffected by magic, allowing it to penetrate nearly all protective spells, which is why Depleted Necronium bullets (which also share many ballistic advantages of real-life depleted Uranium) have military usage when needing to pierce spells such as Reverse Missiles or just for killing magical creatures extra-hard (tho silver will do the trick for man in that category just as well). | |
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Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League: Late in the game, the Suicide Squad use bullets made from Gold Kryptonite in order to defeat Superman (who was given a resistance to regular Kryptonite by Brainiac). | |
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Shazam!: To take down Black Adam, a bullet was made from a piece of the Rock of Eternity. | |
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Elemental Masters: In Reserved for the Cat, the heroine carries a revolver loaded with two Cold Iron bullets, two Silver Bullets, and two Blessed Lead bullets, plus extra ammo of all three types. It's anyone's guess which type offed the mystical Big Bad at the end of the novel. In Unnatural Issue, the Kerridge family have similar bullets for their shotguns, and they along with their friend Peter and his valet Garrick also have shotgun shells filled with blessed salt to take down the undead. |
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In Falling Skies, the alien mechs can't be damaged by conventional bullets. Bullets made from salvaged mech armor, however, are quite effective. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Throughout the series (though the exact specifics can vary by game), ghosts can only be harmed by silver, Daedric, or magically enchanted weaponry. Alternatively, using the Hand-to-Hand skill, you kill them with your bare hands. Skyrim has silver weapons deal additional damage to other forms of undead as well. In addition, the Silver Hand, the enemies of the Companions guild from the game and the main source of said silver weapons, use them due to the Circle members being werewolves. |
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A Song of Ice and Fire: The Others are creatures born of winter and hate everything warm. Though they fear fire, their speed and combat skill makes them difficult to set alight. Fortunately, in this world Valyrian steel and obsidian (also called dragonglass) are associated with dragon fire and can slay them. A flimsy obsidian dagger wielded by the obese and combat-aversive Samwell Tarly pierces an Others' ice of armor like butter and actually melts its hands when it tries to pull the knife out. | |
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Resident Evil – Code: Veronica also features single pickup of three anti-BOW gas rounds alongside its normal/acid/fire grenades. A hit from one of these gas grenades halves the health of the enemy struck, including bosses; needless to say, they make tough bosses much easier to face. | |
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In One Piece, Devil Fruit users are all weak to submersion in water, and Sea-Prism Stone is a rock that causes people touched by it to suffer the same effect as being submerged. Usually, it's used in handcuffs, restraints, and cages, but the marine Smoker walks around with a weapon tipped with the stuff despite being a Devil Fruit user himself. At one point, Capone claims his men's guns are loaded with Sea-Prism Stone shot to get Caesar (a Logia user who can phase through regular bullets) to surrender. Caesar gives up, then finds out it was a bluff to get him in range of Capone's actual Sea-Prism Stone weapon, which was a spear. | |
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In The Boys, it's shown that actual depleted uranium ammunition is a common weakness of superheroes. | |
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Pokémon: The weakness of The Fair Folk to iron is the basis behind Fairy-type Pokémon being weak to Steel-type attacks. | |
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Kiritsugu Emiya of Fate/Zero uses bullets containing one of his ribs (powdered, of course), which hit exponentially harder as his opponents dedicate more of their magic circuits to defense — and destroys those magic circuits in the process. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering's setting of Innistrad, the distinction is made that only blessed silver is useful against the various horrific threats to humanity, with the largest prison for demons and such in the land being the Helvault; a massive spire composed of blessed meteoric silver. In vampire-controlled areas, knockoff holy pendants are a hot item on the black market, though the fact that they aren't blessed and therefore useless as a protective ward is typically not mentioned at time of purchase. Curiously, runes etched with silver are a necessary component to the creation of alchemically reanimated zombies. | |
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The Witcher: Witchers usually carry two swords on their back: one made of steel to fight mortal foes, and one made of silver to fight monsters. As Geralt of Rivia, a particularly badass Witcher and the main protagonist of the series, will tell you, "both are for monsters", which he demonstrates by using the silver sword on Jacques de Aldersburg, a particularly vile human foe whose Fantastic Racism has made him little better than a monster himself, at the end of the first game. | |
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In Superman of 2499: The Great Confrontation, a spell changed the House of El's weaknesses from incredibly rare Kryptonite to incredibly common saltwater, so anyone planning to entangle with a Kryptonian carries around a water gun. | |
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Twice in Superman Unchained: The U.S. military under General Sam Lane has been working on "black hole" technologies to fight Superman. These include "max-grav-photon-emitters", a.k.a. "black hole lasers", and "black hole bullets", which are 50 caliber rockets with light vacuums inside of them. The Russian military has also been working on anti-Superman technology, specifically the "XR" drones. These unmanned drones have shielding that protects them from Superman's Eye Beams and Super-Senses, as well as firing bullets that emit red sun radiation just before impact to be able to pierce Kryptonian skin and armor. |
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In StarCraft, the "U-238 Shells" upgrade swaps out the standard Terran Marine rifle round for one made from depleted uranium. This increases Marines' attack range by 25%. | |
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Mage: The Ascension: Primium for the Technocracy, which is essentially a kills-supernaturals-dead weapon. Using it in a laser makes its wounds as agonizing to vampires as sunlight, Primium bullets hurt werewolves like silver does, and if you're afraid of magic users, plating yourself with Primium stops magic dead (some of the time at least.) | |
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Werewolf: The Forsaken: if silver touches a werewolf's blood, it burns them for aggravated damage and has a rare chance of messing up their Healing Factor. Unlike in Apocalypse, however, using silver on another werewolf is a major sin on the Karma Meter. It's also implied that the Pure get messed up worse than the Forsaken because they never sought forgiveness from Luna for the death of Father Wolf. | |
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SaGa Frontier 2: Wooden swords are the weapon of choice for most people the world, since magic cannot be channeled through steel weapons. One character uses this limitation to his advantage, however. | |
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By the time the fourth film rolls around, a rogue anti-Cybertronian organization has used trained soldiers and new tech to exterminate most Cybertronians on Earth. | |
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Gene's Caster in Outlaw Star fires bullets that contain magic spells. They're ridiculously rare, which means Jim is always on Gene's case whenever he has to use one (which is far more often than either would like). | |
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Friday the 13th: The Series: A werewolf is strangled with a Kodak film roll with silver in it. | |
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Feet of Clay: Vimes threatens to kill the Big Bad, who is a vampire, with a wooden arrow. | |
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Transformers Film Series: The "6000-degree magnesium burn" of "high-heat 105mm sabot rounds" fired from an AC-130 gunship allow the US military to hurt the marauding Decepticons in the first movie (it's not much, but it works rather better than normal bullets). Discarding-sabot rounds being neither hot, magnesium-laden or used by AC-130s, this has little to do with military practice or actual physics, though it is implied that weapons technology in the setting is different because many human technological advancements came from studying Megatron's body. By the second movie, the human NEST teams are shown carrying heavily upgraded, large-caliber assault rifles and machineguns that can actually inflict damage on Decepticons; the NEST units and Marines fighting the Decepticons at the end of the movie prove surprisingly effective against the Decepticons in the all-out battle that results. By the third film, a number of key Decepticons are taken down without any help from Autobots beyond the training shown earlier in the film. By the time the fourth film rolls around, a rogue anti-Cybertronian organization has used trained soldiers and new tech to exterminate most Cybertronians on Earth. |
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Ergo Proxy: The only way to kill a Proxy is with shells that emit UV radiation, because the Proxies were designed to terraform the world back to normal and then disintegrate when the sunlight came back. | |
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Ninja Gaiden: When Ryu used APFSDS cores as arrows, to destroy heavily armored tanks and helicopters — but then, that whole section of the game is an exercise in Refuge in Audacity. There are also explosive arrows for when getting through armour is less important than AOE. | |
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Parodied in a Robot Chicken sketch: A werewolf is shown running from some kind of hunter and gets shot. The werewolf then claims "Only a silver bullet can kill a werewolf!" The hunter then proceeds to shoot the werewolf into a bloody pulp with a chain gun, light the mess on fire, snort the ashes, crap it out on a toilet and get processed in a sewage plant. Cut to three kids playing some sort of tabletop game, with the game master reading from the book and saying: "It says it's STILL not dead!" | |
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The Soldier Son: Iron beats any kind of magic and mages are "allergic" to iron. At the beginning of the series, the protagonist's country Gernia has subdued most of the magic-using peoples around them by switching from lead to iron bullets. | |
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Tavi's Blood And Fire: While the Covenant plasma is better in a straight fight, special effects on mass accelerator rounds have their own utility and are available even on starship guns all the way up to dreadnought size. | |
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From Dusk Till Dawn: The pastor with a Crisis of Faith manages to bless condoms filled with water to be used as holy hand grenades against the vampires, and holds them at bay with a shotgun and baseball bat taped in the shape of a cross. The shotgun does a fair bit of damage itself. Carving crosses on the tips of bullets makes vampires shot with them explode. | |
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Knights of Sidonia: The Gauna can only be harmed by an exotic metal known as "Kabi". Unfortunately, the crew of the Sidonia has no idea how to manufacture this metal, and are forced to rely on a set of spears tipped with the stuff to fight off any Gauna they encounter. Even those they only happened upon by chance, in an abandoned alien artifact. Dr. Oochiai later discovers how to manufacture Kabi using captured Gauna-based life forms, which leads to the Sidonia creating kabi-tipped bullets that prove very successful at killing Gauna. | |
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Dogma: Silent Bob kills the demon Azrael with a golf club he stole from a cardinal. As it turns out, the previous owner blessed it to improve his score. In that same scene, Bethany blesses the sink, turning the whole contents into Holy Water, which the skater-demons are promptly shoved face-first into. | |
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In Posse, Jesse Lee has some of the stolen gold recast into golden bullets he intends to use on his father's killers. Father Time explains that, according to New Orleans voodoo ladies, gold is the only way to kill a demon. In Jesse's case, the demons are symbolic rather than actual. | |
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Posse | hasFeature |
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Legion of Super-Heroes: The Daximites'note a race of aliens who have Superman's powers only weakness is lead, which means that any attempt to take over the Earth while firearms and lead bullets are the most common weaponry on the planet is pretty futile. | |
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30 Days of Night: Ultraviolet causes severe burns to vampire. Unfortunately, the protagonists can't (or just plain don't) use it effectively. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has several examples, like Hellfire rounds, shells filled with a mutagenic acid that causes a near-instant and very painful death to anybody unfortunate enough to get hit by one, Dragonfire shells, which explode in a burst of superheated gas and Kraken bolts, which contain cores made of Thunderbolt Iron. | |
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During the final showdown with Dracula in Batman and Dracula: Red Rain, Batman attacks him with silver Batarangs. In Bloodstorm, his primary weapons are wooden throwing daggers weighted with silver. | |
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Silver shows up a lot in The Laundry Files. Blevins contemplates taking silver bullets engraved with banishing rites on the first mission, but ultimately decides against it since silver bullets apparently tend to tumble in low-pressure environments. Similarly, one of Harry the Horse's shotgun loads involves "... solid silver buckshot, each engraved with the Litany of Khar-Nesh in ninety-nanometer Enochian". | |
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God of War (PS4), being based off of Norse Mythology, makes use of this. At one point in the game, the dwarf Sindri gives Kratos' son Atreus a bunch of mistletoe arrows. When Freya sees them, she demands the arrows and immediately destroys them to protect Baldur. However, Kratos had earlier used one of the arrowheads to affect temporary repairs to Atreus' quiver; later on, Baldur punches the boy, which causes him to get the arrowhead driven through his palm, taking away his invulnerability. | |
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The titular character of Hellboy (2004) fights most demonic creatures using a big honking gun (forged from a church bell, no less) with ammunition comprising of glass bullets filled with "holy water, clover leaf, silver shavings, white oak... the works." | |
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Hellboy (2004) | hasFeature |
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Judge Dredd has exorcist rounds for the Lawgiver. These rounds were developed with supernatural foes in mind and contain garlic, silver nitrate, and anything else proven effective. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Revenge of the Cybermen", the Doctor mentions the "glittergun", which turns Cybermen into gold-plated statues as it clogs their vents. For UNIT's final appearance in the old version, following an absence of some years, it is shown that they got tired of facing Immune to Bullets menaces and developed special bullets to even the playing field. These include teflon-coated armor-piercing rounds for robots and Daleks ("A non-stick bullet?" the Doctor musesnote Teflon-coated rounds are a real thing, but the teflon has nothing to do with the actual armor-piercing capabilities. It is there to protect the barrel of the gun, as armor-piercing rounds are made of very hard metals and would quickly wear out a barrel when scraping against it. So yes, Doctor, a non-stick bullet.), high-explosive rounds for Yetis, gold-tipped bullets for Cybermen, and silver bullets just in case. The silver bullets turn out to be very useful. This continues in the new series, in which UNIT uses rad-steel coated bullets to counter the Sontarans' anti-bullet field (that expands the copper casing of normal rounds and stops the guns firing). |
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Merkabah Rider: On the material plane, the Rider uses blessed salt shells that can destroy demonic hosts. On the astral plane, the Rider's gun shoots bolts of light that can kill spirit creatures. | |
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Underworld (2003): As pictured above, the Lycans go armed with bullets filled with a liquid that emits ultraviolet radiation. It works very well. | |
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Corpse Killer has Datura bullets, made by soaking regular or armor-piercing bullets in a brew of ground-up Datura leaves, which is especially potent against zombie poison. You also need them to damage the game's Elite Mooks. | |
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Changeling: The Lost: "Cold" iron (material that's 95% iron at least) pierces fae defenses and hand-wrought iron does aggravated damage to the True Fae. One of the explanations is that the True Fae made a deal with Iron to gain mystical benefits from it as long as they made sure no human hand could change its essence. Once humans discovered smelting, however, the deal was broken, and Iron decided it wanted to do some interesting things to the kneecaps of the True Fae... | |
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Subverted in To Hell and Back (Arrowverse). Kara carries around a Kryptonite sword after learning there might be other Kryptonians on planet. She also wears Kryptonite-proof clothes to protect herself. | |
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Singularity: Every single weapon you can use is powered up with the time-warping abilities of "Element 99". Some of the weapons have special abilities because of this (like a sniper rifle that slows down time so you can shoot a moving target) but for most, it just makes their bullets hit harder. | |
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Night of the Demons (2009): After discovering that the demons are vulnerable to rust, maddie gets a Lock-and-Load Montage of her MacGyvering various weapons to fight them; including wrapping a rusty bed spring around her knuckles and shoving rusty nails into shotgun shells. | |
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Van Helsing: The titular Vampire Hunter has a full-spectrum sunlight grenade. He doesn't know what it could be used for, but he thinks it'll come in handy. | |
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Deconstructed in Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton when it is stated that you can't make Kryptonite bullets because they would shatter. | |
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Nobody Scores!: One of the characters acquires a chunk of Kryptonite and goes to sell it to Lex Luthor. Superman takes them out from long range with a traditional sniper rifle of his own before they even spot him. | |
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Evolve has super material rounds, or super-mat for short. How they work exactly isn't explained, but a super-mat pistol packs enough of a punch for a multi-story tall monster to take notice. | |
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In Fatal Frame, the Player Character is often an otherwise ordinary person who has the misfortune to "see things other people can't see", which inevitably leads to trouble when they stumble into the haunted house/village/island populated by the restless spirits of the dead. The main weapon used to fight these incorporeal nightmares? A camera. Yes, a camera. One which uses some sort of special crystal or mirror in its makeup so that the user can see ghosts, dispel mystical barriers, and drive off the dead with the snap of a picture. | |
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Monkey Island: Root beer is an extremely effective ectocide. It only works on ghosts — when Guybrush tries this on the resurrected Zombie Pirate LeChuck, he shakes it off and chastises Guybrush for trying to off a zombie with a mere soft drink. | |
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In The Dresden Files, many types of supernatural creature have a power that improves their toughness and/or regeneration. Every one of these is required to have a "Catch" or critical weakness, which will prevent their durability or recovery from taking effect. Catches are rated on a points system (helping to offset the cost of the original powers), with more common weaknesses providing a bigger refund. For instance, a creature that's weak against fire or sunlight gets a 4-point discount, because this is well-known and easy to find; one vulnerable to something more esoteric like True Love might only get 2 points, and someone vulnerable to only a specific, difficult-to-find object (such as the Noose of Barrabas) gets nothing. However, certain rare artifacts and powers allow a player to spend a fate point to simply declare that their next attack matches a given target's Catch, allowing them to penetrate whatever supernatural defenses it might have. | |
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Mithril-tipped bullets in Saruman of Many Devices, made from melting down a dwarven ring of power in Saruman's possession (making the mithril also enchanted). Given how ridiculously few of these he has, he saves them for one task and one task only: a last resort for killing Nazgul. He ends up making use of them in chapter 10. | |
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Nasuverse: Emiya Kiritsugu's custom "Origin Bullets" in Fate/Zero are filled with his own powdered bones, which contain Kiritsugu's dual Origins (base 'orientations' of an individual) of 'Binding' and 'Severing'. A magus uses magecraft to defend against the bullet? The Origins are forced directly onto his Magic Circuits, overloading them and ripping them apart, then binding them back imperfectly, thus making them permanently unusable. The Nasuverse also contains "Conceptual Weapons", the highest class of offensive magical artifacts. One of the most powerful is a gun known as the "Black Barrel", which is specifically designed to kill immortal things, and becomes more powerful the more supernatural power its target possesses. In other words, it can One-Hit Kill Eldritch Abominations. The catch is that only an ordinary human can wield it: anyone with magical power finds it harmful to the touch. This is important in the story in which it is featured, Angel Notes, set during a post-apocalyptic war against Eldritch Abominations, where it is wielded by the protagonist, the one single normal human left. The rest of earth's population has since become transhuman, and thus, can't use it. |
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Series: Both Nod and GDI use specialized munitions. In Nod's case, they have a love for filling missiles with various breeds of Tiberium-based explosives or gases, while GDI has developed sonic-based and EMP artillery shells and grenades. | |
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Chex Quest: Originally, the flemoids/phlemoids (Whichever you prefer) were immune to conventional weapons. However, the "Zorcher" works by remodulating the dimensional frequencies of the creatures, sending them back to whatever realm they came from. Therefore, no killing the... green... slimy mucus things that want to eat the main character alive, and ta-da! It's kid-friendly! | |
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Monster Hunter International: Holy symbols in general work against undead and warding stones which specifically work against anything that's actually unnatural/eldritch in nature to the point of being an effective Fantastic Nuke. An actual bullet made of silver has horrible ballistics; they get around this by making hollow-point normal bullets with a silver ball (basically, a modified Corbon Pow'r Ball). | |
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One of Zazie's secret weapons in the ZOTT tournament in Battle Angel Alita Last Order is a pair of revolvers loaded with bullets with osmium tips (osmium being the densest naturally occurring metal.) | |
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Blade Trilogy: Blade has UV lights on his car and weapon-mounted tactical light. Hannibal King's guns shoot UV-radiating bullets, while Abigail Whistler uses a bat'leth-like weapon with a UV laser beam running through it. In the second film, Whistler and Scud design phosphorus-based flash grenades that can also deal severe burns to non-vampires, especially when a dozen blow up at once. Even Blade, who's immune to sunlight, is seriously hurt by the blast. | |
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Nocturne (1999) has both silver and mercury bullets for The Stranger's twin .45s, that are respectively more effective against werewolves and demonic enemies, with a third type for vampires called "aqua vampira" (presumably blessed with holy water). No type of monster is immune to any type of ammo, but using the wrong kind for the creatures you're fighting is only as effective as a normal bullet would be. | |
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XCOM 2 introduces a wide variety of alternative rounds. Toxic rounds poison enemies. Hellfire rounds can light them on fire. Talon rounds pack a huge punch (higher critical chance and critical damage). But the most commonly sought and used rounds are Bluescreen rounds, which cause extensive damage to robotic enemies, and also completely ignore any armor said robotic enemies may be using. With 4 out of the 5 most powerful enemies in the game vulnerable to Bluescreen rounds,note Sectopods, Gatekeepers, Andromedon Shells, and Codexes and frequently decked out in a lot of armor to boot, Bluescreen rounds are worth their weight in gold. | |
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In Derelict, UV crossbow bolts appear to be the protagonist's chosen weapon against her robed and masked enemies. | |
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In Gantz, Kei at one point uses a UV lamp to great effect against vampires. | |
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He uses the severed wings of the Archangel Gabriel to make angel-feather bullets that burn demonic magic in golden fire. | |
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The Spiderwick Chronicles: In The Ironwood Tree, Jared confronts a faerie by pulling out a steel knife. His reasoning is that faeries don't like iron, and steel is at least part iron. It works. | |
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In True Blood, the Fellowship of the Sun develops quite an arsenal of wood-tipped projectile weapons. They're not the only ones. When Bill decides to kill Sophie-Anne, the Vampire Queen of Louisiana, he brings in a whole SWAT team armed with assault rifles with wood ammo. Even an experienced and powerful vampire like her can't do much against More Dakka of wood. Later, we're shown the the Vampire Authority has plenty of soldiers armed with similar guns. | |
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The Witcher: Game of Imagination: Weapons coated in or made of silver are extra effective against all kinds of monsters. Sometimes silver is the only thing those creatures can be hurt with. Silver also seriously mess up all shapeshifting abilities. | |
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In Dust of the Stars, armor-piercing explosive rounds, meant for killing Cylons, do nasty things to relatively poorly protected Jaffa. | |
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Astro City: In the "Confession" story arc (see above), the cyborg monster-hunter Mordecai Chalk has a shotgun that fires shells with wolfsbane and holy water, mechanical parts etched with holy symbols and crafted in iron and silver, and an on-board computer that references thousands of occult tomes. It doesn't do him any good. | |
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Hammer's Slammers has all sorts of strange weapons and ammo. One example is the "osmium penetrator" used by some of the other merc companies. These weapons take a rod of osmium, put behind it roughly a liter of propellant, and force it down a diamond-coated barrel to flechette thickness. It emerges as an osmium needle well capable of getting through tank armor, though it has little effect on personnel (the needle just blasts through people as if they weren't there, and since it doesn't splash, it just makes a very small hole). There are also powerguns, which fire bolts of energy from polyurethane wafers as ammo. | |
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In Ghost Town (1988), Langley melts down the gold coins from the church and uses them to cast gold bullets for the shells for the sheriff's gun. He says that the gold will mushroom on impact, but it is not clear that this effect would be that much greater than the lead he is replacing, so presumably he also expects it to have some kind of supernatural effect on the undead outlaws. | |
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In the Anita Blake books, in order to better kill vampires, Edward has been known to take a hollow point bullet, fill it with holy water and silver nitrate, and then seal it with wax. | |
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One of the example Wonders in Genius: The Transgression is a UV "Sungun" Lamp, capable of disintegrating vampires after just a few sweeps. And, since this is intended to be played in the New World of Darkness, Geniuses with bigger plans will probably need these, and more. | |
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Buffy and Angel both use crossbows, and Angel has two devices that extend stakes hidden in his sleeves. Connor also used an automatic-staker in his first appearance as a teenager. | |
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GURPS High-Tech includes a sidebar on exotic ammunition. Wood has poor ballistics and armor penetration and thus is only good for triggering a weakness. | |
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Fiends of the Eastern Front: The main character melts down silverware and forges them into bullets for his machine gun to fight Constanta's vampire troops. | |
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By Stargate Atlantis, they've developed the Horizon system, a starship-deployed MIRV tipped with six 280 gigaton warheads and four decoys. For reference, that's over 13 million times the power of the Hiroshima bomb per warhead. | |
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The Secret Return of Alex Mack: Getting doused with GC-161 can give regular humans superpowers, but for some reason, the genetic enhancements of the Breslynn Orphans mean that GC-161 is toxic to them, melting their bodies on contact — so people start making GC-161 grenades. (Orphans aren't immune to regular weapons, but they're faster and stronger and tougher than regular humans, so it's helpful to have an edge.) | |
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The anti-vampire kit in GURPS Steam-Tech includes a revolver with a selection of silver bullets, lead bullets inscribed with crosses, hardwood bullets, and actual miniature stakes which can be fired with a blank cartridge. How well they work depends on the kind of vampire and the quality of the specific kit (in the accompanying vignette, an unfortunate vampire hunter discovers — among several other problems with his kit — that the stakes don't actually fit the gun, and tend to fall out). | |
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X-COM: X-COM: Apocalypse: The ultimate anti-alien weapons are anti-alien toxins and anti-alien gas. The former requires a special pistol and has to be upgraded twice to be effective against advanced forms, the latter is discovered fairly late, but can be used in grenades and missiles for existing launchers. Both completely bypass aliens' force field shields and pose almost no threat whatsoever to allied forces in the event of psionic attack. With those the last missions are a breeze. You still need conventional weapons, explosives or rayguns to disable alien structures, though. Good thing you can borrow them from dead aliens. Equally, it takes multiple disruptor blasts or devastator missiles to take down your troopers at that stage, thanks to your Nigh-Invulnerable disruption armor and stolen shield technology... and then the aliens bust out their enzyme guns, which shoot target-seeking organic "missiles" loaded with nasty stuff that can melt through your super-armor in seconds. They may still be stopped by shields, but the moment you see them on the field, you take notice. XCOM: Enemy Unknown has a basic upgrade in the form of Reaper Rounds, which can only be used in projectile weapons and are developed based on the initial research of alien alloys. They tend to hit harder than regular rounds (higher chance of critical hit), but also tend to fly less reliably than regular rounds (lower chance to hit). XCOM 2 introduces a wide variety of alternative rounds. Toxic rounds poison enemies. Hellfire rounds can light them on fire. Talon rounds pack a huge punch (higher critical chance and critical damage). But the most commonly sought and used rounds are Bluescreen rounds, which cause extensive damage to robotic enemies, and also completely ignore any armor said robotic enemies may be using. With 4 out of the 5 most powerful enemies in the game vulnerable to Bluescreen rounds,note Sectopods, Gatekeepers, Andromedon Shells, and Codexes and frequently decked out in a lot of armor to boot, Bluescreen rounds are worth their weight in gold. |
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Elfen Lied: When traditional firearms prove useless against the diclonii, the antagonists resort to anti-tank rifles loaded with purpose-made tungsten slugs, which are too heavy for the diclonii's Vectors to easily deflect. | |
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Rifts has wood-firing railguns (with embedded metal cores for the magnets to work on) on occasion for dealing with vampires. It also has actual depleted uranium shells (Not quite depleted, as these were described as still being more radioactive than normal DU rounds), which for reasons unknown retard magical abilities to heal. These are great for those pesky critters that fight you down to their last MD point and then teleport off and return an hour later fully healed, giving you the time to hunt them down and finish the job. There are also shells made of non-depleted uranium that actively interfere with magic use by anything they embed in. Both can be cured by physically removing the round, however digging into your side with your own claws is generally A Bad Idea. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Tatsumiya creates her own spell-imbued bullets for exorcisms and the like. Later, she gains a special time-displacement rounds use within one day, which work as an effective One-Hit Kill for the ultimate in battlefield removal. | |
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Jack Yaeger's gun in The Mercury Men fires bullets made of solid light, apparently the only thing that can kill the Mercury Men. | |
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Sven from Black Cat packs an array of interesting bullets, and among these there are blue-tipped ones that freezes the opponent on contact. | |
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Mediochre Q Seth Series: In The Good, the Bad and the Mediochre, the tempomancer threatens to shoot Dhampinella with a tranquiliser dart loaded with garlic oil, citric acid and holy water. With a crucifix motif. | |
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The Hollows: Rachel injects paintballs with potions, usually Sleepy-Time potions; they take effect on contact as opposed to ingestion. | |
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Mage: The Awakening: (the new World of Darkness's version of the above game) we are given Thaumium. It stores magical energy, it's resistant to magic, and it can cut through anything. Just for added punch, it's made from silver, gold, and mercury, all of which have to be mystically purified to produce the essential platonic essence of their being. Yes. Thaumium is made from a mixture of depleted precious metals. | |
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The "6000-degree magnesium burn" of "high-heat 105mm sabot rounds" fired from an AC-130 gunship allow the US military to hurt the marauding Decepticons in the first movie (it's not much, but it works rather better than normal bullets). Discarding-sabot rounds being neither hot, magnesium-laden or used by AC-130s, this has little to do with military practice or actual physics, though it is implied that weapons technology in the setting is different because many human technological advancements came from studying Megatron's body. | |
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The Bartimaeus Trilogy: All spirits from the weakest mite to the greatest marid can be severely hurt by silver, iron, and certain types of herbs and spices, such as rosemary. Magicians, commoners, and other spirits exploit this to no end. It gets to the point where powerful spirits are taken down by improvised use of everyday metals more often than they are by the devastatingly destructive spells these entities can employ. | |
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Mighty Avengers: The Blue Marvel's last encounter with his arch-nemesis Evald Skorpion has the mad scientist shooting him with a bullet of neutronium — essentially raw proto-matter, and Blue Marvel's weakness. | |
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The titular enemies from Metroid are typically weak to ice. | |
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Intentionally averted in The Last Daughter. The author stated that there is no Kryptonite in this universe, and Taylor's enemies have no means to make it. | |
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In Legends of Tomorrow, an Old West outlaw named Turnbull uses a futuristic device (obtained from a time pirate) to locate a vein of dwarf star alloy, the same material Ray used to build his ATOM suit. Turnbull discovers the material's explosive properties and starts building bullets with it. In addition to being explosive, the bullets also go right through Nate's Chrome Champion skin, as dwarf star alloy is incredibly dense. | |
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Mythological creatures in The Camp Half-Blood Series are only vulnerable to weapons of the magical metals celestial bronze, Stygian iron, and imperial gold. Usually this takes the form of swords, knives, and spears, but in The Titan's Curse, Annabeth's father saved the heroes from a fleet of monsters with his Sopwith Camel, using bullets made from melting down his daughter's celestial bronze weapons. | |
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The Mighty: Gabriel Cole was given some special bullets. It turns out that it's special condensed nitrogen bullets to use against the invulnerable Alpha One since he needs to breathe more oxygen than most people. | |
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Buffyverse: Buffy and Angel both use crossbows, and Angel has two devices that extend stakes hidden in his sleeves. Connor also used an automatic-staker in his first appearance as a teenager. A later episode of Angel shows that members of the Wolfram and Hart Spec Ops Team carry wooden combat knives. |
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By the second movie, the human NEST teams are shown carrying heavily upgraded, large-caliber assault rifles and machineguns that can actually inflict damage on Decepticons; the NEST units and Marines fighting the Decepticons at the end of the movie prove surprisingly effective against the Decepticons in the all-out battle that results. | |
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Parallel Dementia: Fall and other Nightmare hunters use blessed weapons (to combat demons), obsidian (for angels), garlic (for undead), iron (for fey), amethyst (for spawn), and silver (for therians) to combat the various types of Nightmares. On at least one occasion, Fall is given specially made ammunition incorporating all of these at once, because she's about to head into an extremely tense situation and standard operating procedure (using a test clip loaded with one of each kind of ammo, in a specific order, so that you can switch to full clips of the appropriate variety when you find the one that works) would be dangerously time-consuming. | |
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In Spider-Verse, Spider-Man 2099 and Lady Spider rebuild Leopardon and outfit the machine with radiation, the main weakness of the Inheritors. Sadly, the machine lost it prior to Spider-Geddon. | |
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Resident Evil 3: Nemesis adds freeze grenades to the normal/acid/fire trinity; these freeze enemies solid with one hit, allowing Jill to smash the enemy to pieces with a single normal bullet. Nemesis himself is especially weak to them. | |
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In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Stryker manages to bypass both Wolverine's adamantium bones and healing factor by shooting him in the head with adamantium bullets. The bullets pierce his skull, and while Logan's brain can heal, his memories can't. | |
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The EU, specifically Star Trek: Destiny, tries to explain how Voyager's Transphasic Torpedos are so effective against the Borg. Basically, they're Quantum Torpedos which use subspace to simultaneously explode with every possible frequency. Meaning that no shield modulation can possibly block the full force of the detonation, only parts of it. The only way to defend against them would be a shield that simultaneously covers all modulations. Naturally, the Borg do finally adapt to them, and it takes a Deus ex Machina to save the Federation. | |
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Hellsing: Alucard's bullets, like his gun(s), are made to order — each is made from the silver of a Lancaster cross that was specially melted down for the purpose. The fact that the rounds are also explosive-tipped helps as well. Alucard later receives a gun which fires Macedonium silver-jacketed bullets with blessed mercury (quicksilver) cores. Those don't need an explosive added, since mercury, being a liquid with about the same density as lead, virtually explodes upon terminal impact anyway. |
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In Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force, Teana gains bullets that inject anti-Eclipse drugs. Eclipse Drivers that are shot by these will have their Healing Factor drastically reduced and could now receive lasting damage. | |
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City of Heroes: This may be the only explanation for heroes with assault rifles being able to take anything down at all. Unfortunately this works the other way, too, as mooks and bosses of a high enough level can worry heroes protected by magical forces, power armor, and the like with ordinary guns. | |
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Discussed by Smiling Jack in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines. As with the other fabled "remedies" to vampirism such as garlic and running water, a wooden stake killing a vampire is another sham that can't, under normal circumstances. Instead, it merely inflicts paralysis, which, while not fatal, leaves the affected vampire practically helpless to whatever their attacker may try next, such as, say, a shotgun blast to the head (deadly), being set on fire (extra deadly), or simply being left to get caught outside when the sun comes up (instant incineration). Vampires even use the wooden stake trick against each other, as a method of subduing and capturing rogue vampires for trial. | |
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The Dracula Tape: Wooden bullets were used to threaten the Count in The Holmes-Dracula File. The Count himself notes (either in that novel or in one of the others set in the same continuity) that wood is deadly to his kind while metal cannot truly harm them. This is, in fact, what he takes advantage of to fake his death at the end of the first book to throw his dogged pursuers off his trail for good. | |
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Constantine (2005): Constantine melts gold from crosses to make shotgun shells. He also blesses the water tank in a building's sprinkler system (by adding another gold cross to the cistern) in order to spray all the demons there with Holy Water. | |
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The Witcher: The main character carries an iron sword that is quite effective against certain enemies. | |
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Jill Kismet: Hunters like Jill go through a lot of blessed silver since it's the only thing that can penetrate a hellbreed's etheric shell and wound them. Jill uses a pair of Glock Hand Cannons loaded with silver bullets, a bullwhip tipped with silver flechettes, and several silver-alloy knives for close-in work. Due to her own hellbreed pact, silver is also one of the few things that can potentially give Jill herself an instantly lethal wound; she'll heal up from nearly anything else, even assault rifle rounds to center of mass. | |
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