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EMP	comment	EMP, short for electromagnetic pulse, is often used in stories to take out anything electronic. Sometimes shown to be a temporary effect (especially when the Rule of Fun applies in games), it usually results in the permanent disabling of electronic systems. Now for a more detailed explanation. When a nuclear warhead explodes, it releases a LOT of gamma rays, which are photons with tons of energy. When these photons travel through air, they strip electrons off the air molecules as they zoom past. This is called "ionizing" the air. Because those photons are so very energetic, they do it over a very long distance and make a huge volume of ionized air. Ionized air becomes a conductor. This means those stripped-off electrons, energized by the gamma rays, are free to move around in an electric current. Any change in current produces radio waves. And since the current is going from zero to huge in a very short amount of time, this means a large portion of the atmosphere becomes a HUGE radio transmitter, broadcasting noise at full power. Radio waves have the generally useful property that they induce currents in conductive material (that's how a receiving antenna works). So whenever these INTENSE radio waves hit something metal, like the wires inside your computer, they produce proportionally INTENSE power surges. Ever had a piece of electronics destroyed when lightning hit your house? This is a similar effect, except bigger. And everywhere. At the same time. As a bonus, the main pulse is followed almost instantly by secondary ones. The original nuke releases neutrons, which run into things and produce more gamma rays, which produce another wave of electrons. And after that, the Earth's magnetic field "heaves" a little when hit by all this stuff, and that magnetic effect can zap anything connected to really long wires. Doesn't that sound like fun? In particular, silicon transistors — the building block of modern electronics — are very sensitive to these power surges. The induced current burns and destroys them. They are so sensitive, in fact, it has been theorized that a single nuke, detonated in the right part of the upper atmosphere, could take out most of the unprotected computers in the United States. Also, it is theorized that a high-intensity EMP burst could destroy silicon transistor circuitry even if the device is turned off. Military hardware has to be specially shielded to withstand most of the effects. Interestingly, ancient computers from the 1950s would also be resistant; they were built with vacuum tubes, which can take the pulse a lot better than modern transistors, especially if they were powered down at the time. Also, it's possible that early transistors, which were made of germanium rather than silicon, might be able to withstand an EMP if the device is powered down. If you want to do this zapping without the nuclear fallout, there are a few smaller weapons that can generate an EMP. Such a thing is usually a kind of single-use electric generator, which sends out its pulse when crushed by a conventional explosive. The pulse is far weaker, and can kill maybe an office full of computers. In case you wonder why the same explosive charge alone couldn't do it, a range can be extended by rigging up a generator to get a directional emission of microwaves instead of a plain magnetic surge. Getting a city-sized EMP without a nuclear bomb is not feasible with current technology; as to reusable variants, if we had the capacitors necessary to do that, we could also build practical railguns and laser rifles. It is also possible to build a portable EMP jammer on your own with a disposable point-and-shot camera's electrolytic capacitor, a generator and a coil. Weapons aren't even needed to create an EMP, though; a gamma ray burst or supernova far enough away to not fry the Earth with enough ionizing radiation to actually pose a threat to human life itself could also accomplish creating a global disaster from an EMP. A more docile variant of EMP is "degaussing", which uses a varying magnetic field to remove magnetism from a metal object. Ships in WWII were degaussed to make them less vulnerable to magnetic mines. The last generation of CRT monitors, which were what most desktop computers used before LCD/LED displays took over, had built-in degaussers to eliminate color aberrations caused by stray fields. And bulk erasers, an even smaller and lower powered version of this, is used to destroy the data on magnetic storage devices (very popular with the BOFH). When Hollywood talks about EMP, it can generally be filed under Artistic License â€“ Physics. Not to be confused with Emp.
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EMP / int_123f4404	comment	In Everything or Nothing, EMP grenades are a part of James Bond's arsenal.
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EMP / int_14494034	comment	Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The MUTO Queen can use this move, like her brethren in Godzilla (2014), and she can use it to temporarily short out the powers of bio-electrical Titans. It's also theorized that the Many can create one to knock out power grids when they so wish.
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EMP / int_14e8f2fd	comment	Bazob from Ultraman Dyna generates a permanent field of EMP energy 6 kilometers wide from the Power Crystal on its forehead, meaning Super GUTS can't use any of their technology against it unless they somehow destroy the crystal.
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EMP / int_14e9f567	comment	Pazuzu from Ultraman Gaia did likewise, but it was at a much smaller width that meant that while XIG's planes could still circle about it, their guided missiles were totally useless against it
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EMP / int_1510822e	comment	GoldenEye: The eponymous Kill Sats, developed by the Soviets and stolen by Janus, work by exploding in orbit, generating a powerful EMP to knock out the electronics of the target below them. Janus destroys the Severnaya station in Russia with it and intents to use the other one on London, and has a special Eurocopter Tiger helicopter prototype that can withstand EMP stolen.
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EMP / int_17293dfa	comment	In Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Kokichi Ouma gets Miu Iruma to build EMP hammers and bombs for him. He gives them to the other students to get through the Death Road of Despair. The characters later use them to break into the Exisal hangar. They also serve as piece of evidence in the trial, as Kokichi used one of the Electrobombs to disable the Nanokumas so the mastermind couldn't know who the real victim is.
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EMP / int_193287c8	comment	In Subnautica, the Crabsquid enemies have a naturally evolved EMP that they will use if they're alerted to the player's presence. This drains all power sources (including the batteries of tools, the power cells of vehicles, and habitat generators), severely hampering the player's ability to defend themselves or flee. Fortunately, the power sources will regain whatever charge they had beforehand after a few seconds, and if the player can't wait that long then they can just swap out the battery/power cell, as spare batteries won't be drained and the actual electronics won't be damaged at all. As to why a biological lifeform in a place entirely devoid of electronics has an EMP blast, there is no clear answer, but the PDA speculates it may have something to do with the giant Psycho Electric Eels it sometimes shares biomes with.
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EMP / int_1a1a594f	comment	Battlefield: In Battlefield: Bad Company 2 the plot revolves around the members of the Bad Company trying to find a mysterious, lost Japanese superweapon from World War II which turns out to be an EMP. In Battlefield 4, a massive EMP blast jams an entire city's electronics, lights, etc. as well as the protagonists' communication devices.
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EMP / int_1b4b2f5c	comment	Highschool of the Dead features one moderately realistic EMP generated by a low-altitude nuke exploding over Japan.
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EMP / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: The villain (and occasional ally) Magneto does this from time to time. Considering how flexible his magnetic powers are usually depicted as being, it's not completely out of the question. Storm has done it with lightning bolts, which... isn't possible. In Ultimate X-Men, there's a very minor villain called Syndicate who has a literal electromagnetic pulse — that is, his heartbeat sends out waves of electronics-disrupting surges. He also has two heads.
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EMP / int_1beda93b	comment	Aylee from Sluggy Freelance has her Involuntary Shapeshifting mutate her into a living EMP generator in response to a nanite infection. It caused problems as she had to routinely run away from the house for fear of accidentally setting off one of Riff's inventions. Or worse, erasing Bun-Bun's Baywatch video tapes!
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EMP / int_1c34acd2	comment	Rocketship Voyager: Tom Paris brags about how the vacuum tubes on Voyager's Computer Deck have been upgraded to transistors, only for the transistors to get fused by an electromagnetic pulse during the final battle.
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EMP / int_1d367084	comment	The Team Fortress Classic Engineer has EMP grenades, which detonate all of a foe's held shells and explosives. This makes it incredibly deadly against heavier targets such as Soldier and Heavy, but less effective against lighter classes like Scout and Sniper.
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EMP / int_1d858ce4	comment	In Dark Angel the United States is a third world country because of a terrorist EMP attack.
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EMP / int_1e015a5d	comment	The "Ion Cannon" in The Empire Strikes Back is a cannon that disabled an entire Star Destroyer without destroying it. "Ion" weapons in future installments of the Expanded Universe (particularly video games) specialize in disrupting machinery. But without permanently shredding the electronics as EMPs do. It's implied in one of the stories (IG-88's section in Tales of the Bounty Hunters) that it does permanently destroy circuity and such, but there are usually ways to auto-repair the damaged paths. Hence the temporary shutdown period, between "destroyed" and "repaired enough to function".
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EMP / int_1f7d1392	comment	Unreal II: The Awakening has the EMP grenades for the Hydra Grenade Launcher. In addition to those, the Secondary Fire of the Shock Lance creates an energy ball with EMP properties. Both are particularly useful against forcefield generators and automatic cannons.
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EMP / int_20cff8c	comment	Ghost Recon: Future Soldier likewise includes EMP grenades that temporarily short out electronics within their blast radius. If you're hit by one, your active camo won't work and you won't be able to see your HUD.
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EMP / int_21a4e905	comment	The Monster Buster Club episode "Pipe Dreams" has Mr. Smith using an EMP (though not called as such exactly, as it's alien technology) to disable the machines of the Invader of the Week before he'd unearth the MBC tunnels and absorb a good part of the town with his Tractor Beam. Unfortunately, it disables the kids' weapons and other gizmos as well, so they have to take out the menace hand-to-hand.
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EMP / int_23185c00	comment	Taken: In "Beyond the Sky", the battery of Sue's car goes dead as the crashing alien ship passes overhead. After it crashes to Earth, the power returns, giving her a fright. In "Charlie and Lisa", Lisa Clarke's flashlight and all of the lights in her trailer park go out as a result of the arrival of one of the alien ships.
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EMP / int_233dd948	comment	The use of one forms the climax of the season "Reconstruction". The characters also spend a lot of time arguing over whether it's pronounced "E-M-P" or "emp", with even the computer warning using the latter pronunciation, making Washington the only one who uses current pronunciation of E.M.P.
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EMP / int_234b73a9	comment	The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008): At the end of the film, Klaatu changes his mind about wiping out all life on Earth and activates his ship's EMP generator that emits a wave across the entire planet, shutting down the Grey Goo nanites, warning humans that their way of life will have to change. He just didn't tell them that it would also result in many deaths from plane crashes, anyone on life support or with a pacemaker, etc.
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EMP / int_23ff591	comment	Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has a tech building that can be captured to grant an EMP attack that temporarily disables enemy buildings.
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EMP / int_2400518e	comment	This is the signature ability of the agent Thatcher in Rainbow Six Siege.
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EMP / int_2469af68	comment	Hearts Like Clockwork: The EMP Grenade slows down mechanical enemies, but has no effect on humans. Fortunately, this includes mechanical bosses like S.I.S., who generally don't have Contractual Boss Immunity.
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EMP / int_251cef47	comment	In the Intelligence (2014) episode "Athens" an EMP attack disrupts Gabriel's chip, giving him Laser-Guided Amnesia. In the epilogue Dr. Cassidy modifies the chip to make it less susceptible.
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EMP / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In "Homer Goes to Prep School", Homer joins a group of "preppers" who believe an EMP would cause the end of civilization and they would be the only ones ready. When an EMP does occur (thanks to Homer's incompetence, of course), the preppers bug out and hide out in their compound, awaiting the apocalypse. Eventually, the Simpsons return to Springfield with the intent of helping them, but find everything back to normal. It seems that the effects of the surge were only temporary, and with all the crazy people (meaning the preppers) gone, order was restored with surprising ease.
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EMP / int_26674ed5	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Solidus Snake's ultimate plan is to hijack Arsenal Gear, steal a nuclear warhead contained within it, then detonate it over New York City to pull it out of the Patriots' control and mount an insurrection against them through a new republic.
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EMP / int_2930d0c5	comment	In Battlefield 4, a massive EMP blast jams an entire city's electronics, lights, etc. as well as the protagonists' communication devices.
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EMP / int_2b8140d1	comment	StarCom: The U.S. Space Force: Big Bad Emperor Dark develops a powerful EMP device in episode 6. His underlings test it out on Mars, leaving half the planetâ€™s cities without power until StarCom manages to destroy the device.
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EMP / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In the first season of Heroes, HRG got Nuclear Ted to emit an EMP instead of his normal nukes in order to shut out the power at Primatech so they could escape.
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EMP / int_2d316ba2	comment	The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode "Modern Love" has the turtles whip up an EMP to disable a rampaging Nano.
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EMP / int_2ee2a6b6	comment	The second Jake 2.0 episode features a terrorist trying to set off an EMP bomb in the NSA headquarters. Jake, who figures out the bad guy's plan, manages to take him down and throws the bomb into a shielded vault that protects the facility, but the proximity nearly kills Jake, whose nanobots somehow manage to "survive".
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EMP / int_2f3eb71f	comment	In Command & Conquer: Generals, the Superweapon General's base-defense missiles and one of the special powers of high-ranking Chinese generals are EMP-based. These disable vehicles and buildings, albeit temporarily. When said EMP base-defense missiles hit aircraft, however...
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EMP / int_3643cc24	comment	Splinter Cell: Conviction has a plot focused on detonating several EMP bombs in Washington, D.C.. Sam actually gets a backpack that has a built-in EMP generator fairly early in the game. It can only be used three times per level (no recharging it like other gadgets) and the effect is purely temporary, lasting ten seconds at most. He also has access to EMP grenades, which are even less effective, but ranged.
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EMP / int_367f632a	comment	Dawn of War: The Tau's Stealthsuits can use EMPs that don't do damage, instead shortly disabling any vehicle it's hit by, leading to some Gameplay and Story Segregation when the ork's diesel-and-Rule of Cool-powered junkpiles are affected, while the robotic servitors, techpriests and Necron infantry aren't. The ork Bigmek does more or less the same thing with his Tankzappa, which shoots a big ball of lightning at a vehicle. The Eldar's Haywire Grenades do large amounts of damage to vehicles and buildings without disabling them, but some translations confusingly called them EMPs as well.
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EMP / int_36ee2abe	comment	Paranoia has the Gauss Gun, a directional EMP weapon useful against robots and other electronic equipment.
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EMP / int_375694fe	comment	Chappie: Chappie is immobilized by a handheld version wielded by Moore. Its effects are only short-term, however, and he's able to escape a short time later.
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EMP / int_3805309f	comment	Pilgrennon's Children: Compton bombs can overload electronic devices for miles around. When Pilgrennon first went into hiding, he set off a bomb that destroyed his research institute and fled in the chaos. There's worry that Cerberus will set off a bomb that will destroy the computers in Pilgrennon's children's brains, causing severe brain damage. Pilgrennon tries to use a bomb to destroy Cerberus's English computer, but it doesn't go off, thanks to a broken fuse. He uses another one to allow him, Jananin, and Dana to escape London undetected. The bomb kills Alpha, who was outside Pilgrennon's radiation-proof car thanks to a Good Samaritan who was concerned about children left unattended, and sets off a wave of crime and destruction for miles around. Pilgrennon sets off his last bomb while being pursued in a helicopter, destroying his helicopter as well as those of his pursuers so they won't be able to find Cerberus in the ocean.
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EMP / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019): In "What I Know", Frenchie prepares an RPG warhead that emits an electromagnetic pulse to counteract Stormfront's Shock and Awe. Turns out to be a Negated Moment of Awesome when Stormfront blows up the warheads before they can be used.
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EMP / int_390a0da6	comment	Steel Battalion has EMP as a late-game munition, it knocks enemy mechs out and forces them to reboot. Given the gameâ€™s dedication to the Real Robot Genre that means an eight-button sequence on the dedicated control panels that can easily take a full minute.
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EMP / int_3916a1ed	comment	In Conciencia y Voluntad, a massive EMP is the main weapon against the invading US armies in the Southern Cone. But this costs the destruction of all the communication, and the sublevation of the provinces, making that several regions in the time of the novel declare independence from Buenos Aires.
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EMP / int_3bfe75fa	comment	In Halo Wars, the UNSC Gremlin uses an EMP to disable ground vehicles, while the Covenant Vampire's stasis cannon can disable aircraft.
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EMP / int_3c69e536	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog (2020), the titular character accidentally causes one via an Angst Nuke; his repressed feelings of sadness and loneliness built up a lot of electric energy, until he unleashes it all with an enraged shout. This results in the power grid going out across the entire Pacific Northwest, and manages to alert the government about Sonic's existence.
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EMP / int_3fbd173e	comment	In Freefall Ecosystems Unlimited uses an EMP generator to erase digital information from used robot parts. It has no effect on post-it notes, though.
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EMP / int_41963414	comment	The War Against the Chtorr. A robot is sent into an alien dome to flash it with EMP, hopefully killing any man-eating alien worms before The Squad follows. A footnote helpfully informs us that an EMP-grenade will cook or curdle any living matter within a radius of (CLASSIFIED). A single charge will yield as many as (CLASSIFIED) useable pulses. There is also the tendency of the flash to destroy any unshielded electronic gear within the larger radius of (CLASSIFIED). One could argue this is a good writer's technique to explain what EMP is while Black Boxing the actual technology involved.
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EMP / int_41cc1c3a	comment	In the beginning of Halo 3: ODST, the Covenant assault carrier's in-atmosphere slipspace jump causes an EMP to spread across much of New Mombasa. Nonetheless, most vital electronics seem to have been shielded against it.
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EMP / int_41d79599	comment	The Dark Forces Saga feature an EMP-shooting gun which is mostly for killing robots.
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EMP / int_428a472b	comment	In Air Force One, a stewardess mentions the eponymous plane is protected against this, which we can suppose is Truth in Television.
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EMP / int_43041cff	comment	The nuclear bomb in the Made-for-TV Movie Medusas Child, unless defused, would generate a continent-wide EMP in addition to wiping Washington DC off the map.
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EMP / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Charlie says in "Optimism" when describing the alternate history of Apocalypse World that a continent-spanning EMP wiped out all technology when the other world's Michael and Lucifer clashed. Being cut off from technology and unable to communicate subsequently made the humans desperate and violent.
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EMP / int_438b63e4	comment	In Halo: Reach, the Grenade Launcher's grenades have this kind of EMP effect if you detonate them manually. Additionally, using Armor Lock will take out the shields of anyone close enough to you.
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EMP / int_4399cc1e	comment	In Small Soldiers, the kid blows up a power transformer in the back yard. This generates an EMP that fries the circuitry of all the evil toys. The good toys are shielded by a downed satellite dish, somehow. The creator of the chips that run the toys' AI originally did so for military purposes, and mentioned that the chips were discontinued because they were so vulnerable to EMP, but that the toy business is not cutthroat enough to warrant worrying about nukes. This causes them to believe that the only way to generate an EMP is via atomic bomb, until Mr. Fimple explains basic electromagnetism.
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EMP / int_452aa4f	comment	In Tales from the Borderlands, Fiona and Sasha are trying to sell a counterfeit Vault key to Rhys. Fiona uses a small EMP device to disable Rhys' ECHO Eye implant, preventing him from scanning the key and seeing it's a fake. However, neither sister anticipates the device also disabling his robotic arm, making him drop the key and revealing it as a fake when it shatters on the floor.
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EMP / int_457b671e	comment	24: In Day 4, a defense contractor deploys an EMP taking out several square blocks of downtown Los Angeles. During Day 8, Samir's terrorists sneak an EMP bomb into CTU New York with an "escaped" hostage to disable the Manhattan radiation sensors.
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EMP / int_4c213722	comment	Splinter Cell: Splinter Cell: Conviction has a plot focused on detonating several EMP bombs in Washington, D.C.. Sam actually gets a backpack that has a built-in EMP generator fairly early in the game. It can only be used three times per level (no recharging it like other gadgets) and the effect is purely temporary, lasting ten seconds at most. He also has access to EMP grenades, which are even less effective, but ranged. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory before it added an attachment to the pistol called the "Optically Channeled Potentiator", which allowed the player to temporarily disable any electronic device they aimed the pistol at. This was of the "microwave" variety of electronic disruption, and thus was more directed than many examples. As stated, it's temporary, but it's still quieter and less conspicuous than shooting out the light.
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EMP / int_4ce5263e	comment	XCOM: Enemy Unknown You can eventually research the EMP Cannon, an air-to-air weapon that can be used to quickly bring down a UFO without physically damaging its systems. The weapon is very powerful, capable of bringing down an alien battleship with only two hits. However, it requires the fighter to get very close, so it's really only a good idea on a Firestorm, as a regular jet fighter will probably get chewed up by the enemy plasma cannons pretty quickly, even using the Dodge ability. Enemy Within adds "Electro Pulse", a level 3 MEC suit subsystem. It deals 5 damage to anything in the area of effect but the MEC itself and shuts down robotic enemies that aren't destroyed by the blast. It also ignores the damage reduction skills of Sectopods and psi-shielded Mechtoids.
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EMP / int_4e5a4630	comment	Star Wars: Republic Commando has EMP grenades that are extremely useful when you run into hordes of Battle Droids, especially Super Battle Droids. Notably, they are also effective against organic enemies as they emit an electrical discharge as well - being shocked by several thousand volts is not a pleasant experience whether you are made of metal or flesh.
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EMP / int_4f01368	comment	In Static Shock, Static is able to create these thanks to his powers over electricity and magnetism. He occasionally faces robots and mechas that are immune to this.
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EMP / int_4f115950	comment	Robin (1993): Tim's staff has a built in EMP emitter with a range of 20 yards. He doesn't use it much as it disables his own electronic gear too, and it takes a second to set up as parts of the staff have to be shifted around.
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EMP / int_52dc156a	comment	In the 2005 film The War of the Worlds the aliens subject urban areas to a terrifying EMP weapon disguised as a lightning storm. It is designed to wreck our technological society before the tripod assault: a instrument of total war. It works, but cars at least are easily fixable.
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EMP / int_53a0bd8b	comment	The Twilight Zone (1985): In "A Day in Beaumont", Dr. Kevin Carlson's watch stops functioning as soon as the Flying Saucer crashes in the vicinity. He immediately attributes it to magnetic interference.
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EMP / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Clone troopers often carry EMP grenades, nicknamed "droid poppers". "The Zillo Beast" provides the page image. When the Separatist droid army attacks the planet Malastare, the Republic's important fuel-supplier, and the clone army's efforts to repel them fail, the leadership decides to test their new EMP bomb there. It works, and wins the battle for them, but it also creates a giant sinkhole and awakens the Zillo Beast, possibly explaining why they opted to never use the bomb again.
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EMP / int_542f89b6	comment	In Bloodshot (2020), Wigans built one that fit in a suitcase and could take out power throughout most of Sussex. This disconnects Ray from RST and disrupts his Fake Memories enough for him to realize the truth.
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EMP / int_550ba959	comment	In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a nuclear missile is detonated in the upper atmosphere over the United States, blacking out the east coast and forcing Ramirez and his squad to dodge helicopter rain. The player also gets an EMP in multiplayer if they get a Kill Streak of 15, which disables enemy electronics, including removing their radar, ammo count and the game score and destroying almost all active killstreaks the opposing team has. It still fails physics forever, of course, because the team that used it is unaffected and the effect only lasts for one minute. Granted, this is in the name of balance — who would use the EMP if it affected their own team as well? Nobody. Who would use the EMP if it lasted until the end of the round? Everybody.
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EMP / int_550ba95a	comment	In addition to the return of the EMP killstreak, the semi-hidden M.O.A.B. killstreak in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 also gives an EMP-like effect upon detonation, which still only lasts one minute, alongside adding a lot of dust and a red tint over the map that lasts for the remainder of the match.
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EMP / int_58a0656c	comment	PAYDAY 3: Road Rage opens with the PAYDAY Gang using an EMP to disable an armored transport so Shade can hack into it and commandeer it.
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EMP / int_5ada53ed	comment	James Bond: A View to a Kill: The MacGuffin for the first half of the movie is a computer chip that can withstand EMP, built by Zorin Industries. Bond is investigating how one of these chips ended up in the Soviet Union. GoldenEye: The eponymous Kill Sats, developed by the Soviets and stolen by Janus, work by exploding in orbit, generating a powerful EMP to knock out the electronics of the target below them. Janus destroys the Severnaya station in Russia with it and intents to use the other one on London, and has a special Eurocopter Tiger helicopter prototype that can withstand EMP stolen. No Time to Die: Before the Final Battle, Q gives Bond a watch that can generate EMP in a small radius. He uses it to open a door to enter the Big Bad's base, and to kill The Dragon (by frying the latter's electronic eye, which then explodes in his head).
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EMP / int_5ba4a8b3	comment	Max Steel has an episode where Roberto builds a handheld, explosion-less EMP projector in a very short timeframe as a method of dealing with super robots gone rogue. This causes a friendly-fire issue, as Max will die if he loses his nanoprobes. which are just as vulnerable to EMP, and the robots immediately start a fight instead of helpfully lining up. One of them even goes for the EMP device when Berto hesitates on account of this, presumably intending to aim it at Max. Max solves the problem by taking it and using it himself, thus putting his body behind the direction of the blast. He still takes enough of the EMP to destroy a large portion of his nanoprobes, and loses consciousness while the survivors cannibalize the dead probes to replicate new ones.
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EMP / int_5c3b1859	comment	In Captain America: Civil War, Zemo orders an EMP bomb to be delivered at a the power plant alimenting the German prison where Bucky is detained. When the Electro-Magnetic Pulse goes off, it knocks out the power and turns off the prison's security system, giving Zemo just enough time to trigger the Winter Soldier's programming.
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EMP / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary has pulsers that overcome shielding built into electronics by firing a small particle grenade into the device, the particles and shrapnel tend to thoroughly destroy it.
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EMP / int_5cb7fc72	comment	Sequel System Shock 2 has the EMP rifle while the EMP grenades make a return, which absolutely devastate robotic and cybernetic enemies (the cyborgs have all their life-support systems in their mechanical parts, meaning that damaging them will kill them), but are absolutely worthless against a purely biological enemy. Since some of the most powerful enemies in the game are biological, it limits the effectiveness of the weapons at specific sections of the game. The rifle, as well as the EMP grenades, however, will come in very handy during the Final Boss fight.
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EMP / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: This was the plan of the Lady Be Good Club to destroy the Expanoids in "Twentica", which they're able to assemble and use thanks to the efforts of the Dwarfers.
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EMP / int_5d858f98	comment	In Quantum Apocalypse, this happens as Ben and Terry are driving to Houston. Their car immediately breaks down, but Terry manages to fix it.
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EMP / int_5ec8cfe2	comment	In All Fall Down, the Colony Drop-sized asteroid Penumbra seems to be radiating this, making any missile attack impossible.
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EMP / int_60570997	comment	S.S.D.D.: Tin-Head's set-up at Cook Industries has an EMP bomb in case of emergencies. His own neural net is shielded so it wouldn't harm him but everything else in the room is fried when he triggers it after accidentally contacting the Oracle, and just to make sure he erases his most recent memory. Another time a CAS elite uses an EMP grenade to disable a killer robot, then his partner asks how they're going to get out now that the pulse has trashed all their gear.
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EMP / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: In Stargate Atlantis, an EMP is generated by a Naquadah generator overload and is used to destroy some runaway nanites. Also used in Stargate SG-1 to remotely knock out an alien device through the Stargate (it doesn't work). And another is used to disable an enemy command bunker (it works).
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EMP / int_61de95d6	comment	Freelancer features a series of EMP-generating missiles (the Eraser line), as well as "pulse cannon" guns. However, in practice all they do is strip away a target's Deflector Shield.
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EMP / int_65859177	comment	Before their invasion of Earth in Worldwar: War of Equals, The Race drops several EMPs on the atmosphere to knock out communications and confuse military forces. Only the US, Mexico, Germany, and Egypt are spared since their air force fighters cut them off just in time.
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EMP / int_66394ca4	comment	William Gibson's Neuromancer: The US military flight unit "Operation Screaming Fist", led by Colonel Willis Corto (Armitage), is taken down by Russian EMP weapons. In the Neuromancer universe, many companies use Artificial Intelligences to run their computing needs, especially security. Notably, there is a regulatory agency (the Turings) that is aware that AI Is A Crap Shoot: as such, all AI-equipped supercomputers must be built with an EMP destruct device, triggerable by any Turing agent. As one AI-savvy character puts it, "Every AI ever built has an electromagnetic shotgun wired to its forehead." This is important, as the story revolves around two A.I.s (Wintermute and Neuromancer) that wish to merge into one superentity—an act that would certainly trigger the EMP bombs.
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EMP / int_66581370	comment	In Evolve, Ebonstar bases are equipped with EMP missile batteries to disable attacking ships. Unfortunately for them, they're far less effective against organic foes who are already on the planet's surface.
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EMP / int_6668182a	comment	In Den of Thieves, Donnie uses a short range EMP device to fritz the camera in the counting room. How the crew got hold of this device is unclear, but it can be assumed that Mack, the team's technical expert, probably has contacts.
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EMP / int_67b692cc	comment	Battlefield 2142
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EMP / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man has one built into his armor. It disables his own gear as well, which then takes about six minutes to fix itself. The exact same thing is in the War Machine armor.
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EMP / int_6ae4f714	comment	In Ratchet: Deadlocked, your Battle Bots have EMP grenades equipped that allow the temporary deactivation of Stalker Turrets and other electronic obstacles.
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EMP / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	Pacific Rim has one of the Kaiju knocking Hong Kong off the power grid, along with disabling a jaeger, with a burst of this. Yes, a Kaiju. Due to its nuclear reactor, Gypsy Danger is not affected. Considering it already needs shielding from its own emissions it makes sense. Characters act as if its non-digital interface is the true reason for its resistance, though.
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EMP / int_6b3cfe38	comment	In the Bob and George comics, during the Mega Man 3 storyline, Mega Man was able to convert the Magnet Missiles into an EMP. It's very effective, but he burns them out after two uses. The author actually goes into an explanation about how EMPs work, and why it didn't work against Snake Man.
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EMP / int_6bbde1c8	comment	In Overwatch, Sombra's Ultimate ability is an EMP which temporarily disables enemy special abilities and barriers within its Area of Effect.
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EMP / int_6bff288f	comment	Banjo-Tooie: Mumbo's signature spell in Grunty Industries consists of performing an EMP to temporarily shut down factory machinery, though he can only do it in two specific rooms (each having a Mumbo Pad where the spell can be casted). In one case, after Mumbo incapacitates two large crushers and then crosses to the other side, he can press a switch that turns them off for good. In the other, after Banjo and Kazooie (while transformed into washing machines courtesy of Humba) presses the switch that was being kept by the incapacitated electromagnet, the latter will remain damaged permanently.
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EMP / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 makes several references to the EMP caused by the nuclear detonations of the Great War, mostly in audio or text logs linked to the various crashed airplanes and Vertibirds scattered across the Commonwealth. This is also implied to be the reason why most of the Power Armor frames you find are missing their fusion cores.
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EMP / int_6dd8677c	comment	Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun features an EMP cannon on both factions, while its expansion had a mobile EMP tank for GDI. It's more useful against GDI than Nod due to Nod's tendency to use fragile speedsters and that the cannon takes some time to charge and shoot.
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EMP / int_6e5d88b1	comment	In Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends, when the Yeti escaped slavery at the hands of the Lycanthrops, they managed to steal an EMP bomb that they then modified, making it powerful enough to wipe out all life on a planet.
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EMP / int_6e627c5c	comment	In Halo 5: Guardians Warzone, one of the Grunt Goblin's attacks is an EMP that disables any vehicle near it. Additionally, one of the Splinter Grenade's many effects is a vehicle-disabling EMP.
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EMP / int_6f2d1072	comment	In many of the MechWarrior games, the Particle Projector Cannon carries EMP-related effects, such as scrambling the HUD of anything it hits. In Mechwarrior Living Legends, the PPC and battlemech fusion reactors Going Critical will cause temporary EMP, which results in a blinding static overlay on the battlearmor's Diegetic Interface, disables any nightvision equipment, and prevents players from transferring money to each other.
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EMP / int_6f734712	comment	In Smallville: In "Legion", Lightning Lad and Cosmic Boy combine their powers to create a pulse that knocks Brainiac offline long enough to extract him from Chloe's body. In "Metallo", Clark Kent uses a device to trigger one in an attempt to disable Metallo. Unfortunately, Metallo restarts after a few seconds.
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EMP / int_70814599	comment	Also used in Stargate SG-1 to remotely knock out an alien device through the Stargate (it doesn't work).
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EMP / int_718f3ed1	comment	Call of Duty: Black Ops II features the EMP as a scorestreak awarded at 1,300 consecutive points.
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EMP / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had a "rotating" pulse being used by the Dominion forces in "Sacrifice of Angels" to block communications between Starfleet ships.
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EMP / int_743111aa	comment	Bubble Tanks Tower Defense 1.5 introduces the EMP creep, which explodes into an electromagnetic pulse upon defeat. This disables all the towers around it, and as such makes it an annoying foe to fight.
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EMP / int_74520b69	comment	In Terror in Resonance, the terrorist organization Sphinx detonates a nuclear bomb in the stratosphere above Japan, where the resulting EMP sends the entire country back into a literal dark age.
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EMP / int_755b343f	comment	Halo: In Halo: Combat Evolved, Cortana uses the Chief's energy shields as a makeshift EMP to disable Halo's phase pulse generators. In the beginning of Halo 3: ODST, the Covenant assault carrier's in-atmosphere slipspace jump causes an EMP to spread across much of New Mombasa. Nonetheless, most vital electronics seem to have been shielded against it. The FPS games have a number of EMP weapons that can disable vehicles and shields: The Plasma Pistol's charged shot is the most reliable way of taking out shields, and from Halo 3 onward, it can also disable vehicles. Halo 3 has the power drain, which is basically an EMP grenade that also explodes. In Halo: Reach, the Grenade Launcher's grenades have this kind of EMP effect if you detonate them manually. Additionally, using Armor Lock will take out the shields of anyone close enough to you. In Halo Wars, the UNSC Gremlin uses an EMP to disable ground vehicles, while the Covenant Vampire's stasis cannon can disable aircraft. In Halo 5: Guardians Warzone, one of the Grunt Goblin's attacks is an EMP that disables any vehicle near it. Additionally, one of the Splinter Grenade's many effects is a vehicle-disabling EMP.
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EMP / int_764b05d	comment	In Spider-Man: Global War: this is how Doctor Octopus plans to cause communication silence, thus preventing the rest of the world from taking with Doctor Doom.
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EMP / int_76b8cb10	comment	The Fallout series. Fallout 3 includes Pulse Mines as well. Fallout: New Vegas also adds a "Pulse Gun," an energy weapon implied to be an electromagnetic pulse gun, as it has the same damage bonus vs robots and Powered Armor as EMP grenades, along with Pulse Shotgun Slugs. The nuclear war-induced EMP's may also be the reason the only working pre-war electronics run on vacuum tubes.
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EMP / int_77fa1f5d	comment	In the second issue of Global Frequency, one of the characters carries non-lethal weaponry, such as EMP grenades, when they are going against a full-body enhancile. They are... not exactly non-lethal.
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EMP / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, Pearl develops a device like this to shut down Peridot's Robonoids, probably drawing inspiration from the one Peridot herself used when she first appeared. It succeeds in knocking out power to the town, and knocking the Gems off their feet, but the Robonoid is unaffected.
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EMP / int_79e4edd2	comment	Crying Suns: Some maps have EMP Towers as an environmental hazard. They periodically release electromagnetic pulses, stunning any squadrons in their immediate vicinity. They can easily stunlock a squadron if itâ€™s caught in an area where the EMPs of two or more towers overlap. The boss Tetsuo unleashes an EMP Deluge on your battleship every 90 seconds. This causes tremendous heat buildup in your battleshipâ€™s systems, potentially crippling you with Subsystem Damage if you didnâ€™t upgrade your heat capacitors beforehand.
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EMP / int_7bff7264	comment	In Halo: Combat Evolved, Cortana uses the Chief's energy shields as a makeshift EMP to disable Halo's phase pulse generators.
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EMP / int_7c38e4df	comment	Gragas from Ultraman Cosmos has an electromagnetic field the size of a small city, but it only effects communication devices. The problem is that Gragas is also invisible, making it impossible for EYES to track down the source of the EMP.
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EMP / int_7c4c7803	comment	Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory before it added an attachment to the pistol called the "Optically Channeled Potentiator", which allowed the player to temporarily disable any electronic device they aimed the pistol at. This was of the "microwave" variety of electronic disruption, and thus was more directed than many examples. As stated, it's temporary, but it's still quieter and less conspicuous than shooting out the light.
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EMP / int_7d5983cb	comment	Spheresaurus from the pilot episode of Ultraman Decker can generate EMP pulses from an organ on oit's back, using it to take down numerous Attack Drones around him, and even disabling the Nursedessei battleship.
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EMP / int_7dad8347	comment	FreeSpace 2 has a mission that takes place in an area of a nebula with EMPs happening all the time, and a missile that causes one when it explodes. In either case, this causes a massive Interface Screw.
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EMP / int_7e053c98	comment	A View to a Kill: The MacGuffin for the first half of the movie is a computer chip that can withstand EMP, built by Zorin Industries. Bond is investigating how one of these chips ended up in the Soviet Union.
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EMP / int_7f49dfdb	comment	In Devil Survivor, it is explained that the PSE law places a chip in all electronics so that they can do this to all of Tokyo in a massive explosion. In fact, that's their if-all-else-fails plan.
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EMP / int_7f87dafc	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, ZAFT has the Gungnir System, which it deploys when they attack Panama — and then proceed to slaughter Alliance soldiers trapped in disabled mecha. Even the revenge-minded Yzak gives pause at this, hinting at his later Heelâ€“Face Turn.
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EMP / int_80e838cd	comment	Tachyon: The Fringe has two weapons that disable enemy ships and do no physical damage. They can still damage shields, and the disabling effect only works on unshielded opponents. The Tesla EMP Missile used by GalSpan is guided (i.e. requires a lock before firing), and a single hit on an unshielded ship's hull is usually enough to disable it. However, they're limited in supply, and they still have to hit their target, which is likely to use decoy flares. The EMP Projector used by Bora is an rapid-fire Energy Weapon and doesn't have ammo, but it does drain your fighter's battery. It also requires multiple hits to disable an unshielded enemy. One mission involves ambushing and capturing a notorious Space Pirate. An EMP weapon is a must in this mission. Some wingmen's fighters are equipped with EMP weapons, allowing you to use the "disable target" command.
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EMP / int_8203cde7	comment	In EDENS ZERO, there is a tiny robot fairy named E.M. Pino who can produce pulses which follow the relatively harmless fictional variant of simply knocking out all other machines around her for a few seconds. It also affects Magitek like Shiki's Ether Gear.
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EMP / int_83264fb1	comment	As mentioned above, the Bastard Operator from Hell has on occasion used a bulk eraser to destroy incriminating evidence or a user's files. He and the PFY also built a portable version which they used to destroy vending machines and ATMs in a revenge spree, until on the way back they accidentally set it off inside the elevator...
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EMP / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius: Doctor Mittelmind has an implanted "pulse cannon" which disabled most hardware in the room, and they're lucky their collars didn't go off. The Lion's "roar", an "Ã¦theric" pulse. It disables all mechanism around, including Clanks, as well as Agatha's collar keeping The Other at bay in her mind.
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EMP / int_89b7cf47	comment	Rizzoli & Isles: In "Somebody's Watching Me", a Conspiracy Theorist used a homemade EMP gun to disable a drone. Frankie and Frost accidentally fry the electronics of two patrol cars while testing to see if it works.
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EMP / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, ZAFT has the Gungnir System, which it deploys when they attack Panama — and then proceed to slaughter Alliance soldiers trapped in disabled mecha. Even the revenge-minded Yzak gives pause at this, hinting at his later Heelâ€“Face Turn. The Minovsky particle in the Universal Century timeline is also mentioned as capable of emitting EMP. Not only did this render long-range radar useless and made it necessary to shield electronics in bulky armor, but it also made the very idea of mobile suit combat possible.
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EMP / int_8d7d0626	comment	In the Bugs episode "Pulse", the EMP is referred to as a "pulse bomb", which the protagonists use to escape a heavily armed villain.
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EMP / int_8d884aea	comment	This is how North Korea (China in the original cut) manages to invade the US in the Red Dawn remake.
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EMP / int_8f04d767	comment	In Battlefield: Bad Company 2 the plot revolves around the members of the Bad Company trying to find a mysterious, lost Japanese superweapon from World War II which turns out to be an EMP.
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EMP / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue: The use of one forms the climax of the season "Reconstruction". The characters also spend a lot of time arguing over whether it's pronounced "E-M-P" or "emp", with even the computer warning using the latter pronunciation, making Washington the only one who uses current pronunciation of E.M.P. In a later season, Sarge built an EMP gun into one of their jeeps. It is eventually abandoned given the obvious drawback that after the gun is fired, it can only be fired again after a minute, while also temporarily killing the "Chupababy"'s engine.
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EMP / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech: One piece of new 32nd-century gear in the universe are 'Mech- and vehicle-portable tight-stream EMP cannons, available in one-shot and reusable versions, which on a hit can inflict effects from nothing special over short-lived interference to forced shutdown for a turn on a targeted unit (or destroying a suit of battle armor outright). They have some significant downsides to compensate, though: they generate a fair chunk of heat per shot, don't cause any actual damage against most targets, even the reusable versions can only fire every other turn, and the turn after one has fired the unit that used it suffers interference just as if it had taken a relevant hit itself. (Oh, and they're utterly useless against conventional, non-battle armor infantry, too.) The Particle Projector Cannon also has the ability to inflict a lesser degree of this trope as a status effect in addition to the damage done by the weapon, with the energy pulse from the beam blinding sensors and taking some of the more delicate electronics in a mech's cockpit offline until the pilot can reset the circuit breakers, which in gameplay terms is represented by an aim penalty in the next turn. A particularly unlucky or incautious mechwarrior can also inflict this on their own battlemech if they fire a PPC with damaged shielding.
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EMP / int_92d63800	comment	In Aeon Natum Engel, among the standard depictions of EMP, it's also one of the main reasons for the Iceland's Decade Dissonance.
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EMP / int_94c3f301	comment	In The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius, Barry assures an alien bookie hiding in his house that he won't have to worry about his vengeful employers, since Barry's home security system is practically impregnable. He boasts that the only thing that could put a dent in it is a huge highly focused magnetic pulse... which is exactly what the alien pursuers use to disable said system.
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EMP / int_987ae287	comment	In Cars 2, Allinol is actually a deadly chemical invented by Miles Axlerod that was designed to catch fire and explode inside a car's engine after being blasted by a deadly electromagnetic cannon built by his Dragon, Professor Z, that resembles a video camera.
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EMP / int_99041728	comment	Transformers: War for Cybertron and its sequel, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, both have EMP Grenades that warp the optics of whoever they hit, as well as doing a fair bit of damage.
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EMP / int_9a7a61a	comment	In Sonic the Comic, Super Sonic gradually built up a gigantic one after being sealed within the Omniviewer inside an asteroid in the Special Zone; one that Sonic was able to arrange to have teleported to Mobius in the nick of time to short out all of Dr. Robotnik's technology and effectively end his tyrannical reign.
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EMP / int_9a8bf274	comment	Command & Conquer: In Command & Conquer: Generals, the Superweapon General's base-defense missiles and one of the special powers of high-ranking Chinese generals are EMP-based. These disable vehicles and buildings, albeit temporarily. When said EMP base-defense missiles hit aircraft, however... China also has an EMP bomb dropped by an airplane. Pretty effective if used with other special abilities to destroy an enemy force or as a starter for an attack on the enemy base. And it looked cool. Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun features an EMP cannon on both factions, while its expansion had a mobile EMP tank for GDI. It's more useful against GDI than Nod due to Nod's tendency to use fragile speedsters and that the cannon takes some time to charge and shoot. Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars has a tech building that can be captured to grant an EMP attack that temporarily disables enemy buildings. Red Alert 3: The Allied Aircraft Carrier's secondary attack is the Blackout Missile, which disactivates all buildings and vehicles in an area for a while.
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EMP / int_9cc8e7e4	comment	In The Leonard Regime, it is mentioned that the west coast of the United States had been hit by an EMP attack during a previous war. It is functional by the time the story takes place.
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EMP / int_9f6b21c5	comment	Steel Rain. This turned out to be the war scenario developed by the renegade North Korean officers who are launching The Coup. Launch a nuclear missile to knock out South Korea's high-tech weapons, then send in thousands of special forces to attack and seize US army bases to take their soldiers prisoner to force the United States to the bargaining table.
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EMP / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: With Minilla, an unintentional and very similar effect that happens due to his kind of Telepathy. In The Return of Godzilla a mild EMP effect was the side effect of prematurely detonating a nuclear weapon launched to kill Godzilla. In Godzilla (2014), the MUTOs have the ability to emit natural electromagnetic pulses. Indeed, the lights suddenly going out in the area serves as an indirect sign that they are nearby. It also makes it difficult to use many modern weapons against them, as evidenced by the scene where a bunch of fighter jets sent to take one out suddenly shut down and crash into San Francisco Bay.note Real fighter jets are hardened to resist EMP for exactly this reason; but even if all the electronics on a fighter did get fried, it wouldn't suddenly go into an unrecoverable flat spin as shown in the movie as the engines would still be running for a while. It would probably be rendered useless as a weapons platform, though. Of note, at first it seems the use this accidentally (as it seems more them trying to use the shockwave that accompanies them setting it off), but by the time of the San Francisco, the male Muto has seemed to learn to use it offensively. The EMP has absolutely no effect on Godzilla though, so why the creatures even have the ability is unclear, although the novelization hints that it's a natural byproduct of their radiation-eating metabolisms. Also according to the novelization, the EMP effect weakens Godzilla's atomic breath, which would explain why the attack was not as destructive as it is normally portrayed.
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EMP / int_a3ef164b	comment	In Ultimate X-Men, there's a very minor villain called Syndicate who has a literal electromagnetic pulse — that is, his heartbeat sends out waves of electronics-disrupting surges. He also has two heads.
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EMP / int_a5a1e53d	comment	Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. Considering that your enemy are basically Borg, this works quite well.
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EMP / int_a5bf93bf	comment	In Broken Arrow (1996), a nuke detonated underground produces enough EMP to knock down a helicopter flying above it. Just before the detonation, the Big Bad tells his Dragon to shut off the car to spare it the same fate.
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EMP / int_aa6ff3a2	comment	Annie's choice of superhero name (and the strip title) of Pulse is based on this because of her electrical powers.
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EMP / int_aa7dca5b	comment	One day in To Be Taught, If Fortunate, the crew of astronauts realize with horror that they have not received any communications from Earth for months. The months turn to years before a member of a returning mission sends them a message from Earth's orbit, revealing that a natural solar flare has knocked out all of Earth's electronics, including any satellites that could be used to relay messages to the crew. Meaning they might be the last astronauts ever.
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EMP / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft: StarCraft features an EMP-wielding giant spaceship. The EMP knocks out shields, making it only useful against one race, but only REALLY useful against Archons, who have 300 shield and only 10 life. The EMP also eliminates the energy of any units that use energy for abilities, so it can be quite helpful against Terran armies as well. It even works on zerg casters, even though their "energy" is their internal supply of symbiotes and biotoxins. But at least it's consistent. StarCraft II features the ability on the Ghost. But on a lower scale, only stripping a certain amount of energy off units.
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EMP / int_af42a07f	comment	During the final battle in Serenity a Reaver ship knocks out Serenity's electrics with an EMP beam weapon, sending her into a flat spin. Wash manages to get partial power back and pulls off a relatively controlled crash-landing.
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EMP / int_af552e7e	comment	Metroid Prime: Starting from this game, the Space Pirates occasionally use EMP grenades to throw at Samus. Presumably, Samus' suit is well-protected as neither of these actually does anything to her suit beyond standard shield drain. Some special electricity-based attacks, however, cause static to appear on the HUD.
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EMP / int_afb7c3d8	comment	One type of enemy in Rogue Trooper is the EMP Trooper, who routinely sets of pulses that disable Helm, Gunnar, and Bagman. This has the net effect of disabling their abilities, such as the radar, sentry gun, and item manufacturing. When they reboot, they plead with Rogue to take care of the EMP Trooper responsible and say they never want to experience that again. Rogue himself can make use of pulse grenades, which are useful for temporarily disabling Mini-Mecha that the Norts deploy in order to get close and take them down.
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EMP / int_b050c032	comment	Splitgate: The game's only grenades are EMP, and do no damage to the players nor impair them directly; instead, they shut down all enemy portals in the vicinity of the explosion.
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EMP / int_b1d8c295	comment	Plants vs. Zombies 2 has the E.M.Peach, which disables all robotic zombies in an area. Considering that many robotic zombies are extremely durable, this can be very useful depending on situation.
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EMP / int_b2fba3e0	comment	Some Ultra Series kaiju possess this ability. Bazob from Ultraman Dyna generates a permanent field of EMP energy 6 kilometers wide from the Power Crystal on its forehead, meaning Super GUTS can't use any of their technology against it unless they somehow destroy the crystal. Pazuzu from Ultraman Gaia did likewise, but it was at a much smaller width that meant that while XIG's planes could still circle about it, their guided missiles were totally useless against it Gragas from Ultraman Cosmos has an electromagnetic field the size of a small city, but it only effects communication devices. The problem is that Gragas is also invisible, making it impossible for EYES to track down the source of the EMP. Spheresaurus from the pilot episode of Ultraman Decker can generate EMP pulses from an organ on oit's back, using it to take down numerous Attack Drones around him, and even disabling the Nursedessei battleship.
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EMP / int_b36e3df0	comment	In Nope, the presence of the Flying Saucer is heralded by all electronics in its vicinity shutting down temporarily. After the reveal that the saucer isn't a spaceship but a living creature, it's explained that the saucer uses electromagnetism to fly. This fact is exploited by OJ and Emerald in the climax by using a network of inflatable tube men as a makeshift radar to track where Jean Jacket will move.
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EMP / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage features both a handheld version and the much larger bomb version. The handheld version is a much smaller version of the kind that is in development for use in police pursuits. The bomb version actually averts the mistake of Ocean's Eleven, Hardison explains that setting off the device would make them the largest terrorists in American history.
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EMP / int_b73356f3	comment	The submarines in We Need to go Deeper can use an EMP as an emergency weapon which destroys all enemies surrounding the sub, at the cost of leaving it temporarily defenseless.
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EMP / int_b897d4fd	comment	In Dark Ages, Dr. Strange finds and pops open a portal to a world that has a perpetual EMP so he can destroy the machine threatening the Earth. However, the machine pulls a Taking You with Me, preventing him from closing the portal and putting the Earth into darkness.
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EMP / int_b8c3cc30	comment	In Young Justice (2010), the two Badass Normals on the team are stuck fighting a pair of super-powered androids. Halfway through the episode, Artemis refers to the two as "machines" and it dawns on Robin that they can use one of these to beat them, since they'll never be a match for them as-is. They cannibalize a vircator from an X-ray machine in the medical lab and hook it up to their main power generator in order to pull it off.
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EMP / int_b9419bd1	comment	Deus Ex: Human Revolution has them as well, but an upgrade to your augmentations can render you completely immune to their effects. They're also good as distractions against purely human enemies, as they will investigate an EMP explosion as if it were a regular explosion. Important for a pacifist run.
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EMP / int_b97f910f	comment	Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time: The E.M.Peach can be used to disable machines used by zombies.
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EMP / int_bb444181	comment	Quentyn from Tales of the Questor once built a magical version (involving a keg of salt and copper tubing left under the Luxfont for a few days) in order to neutralize a street gang's magical weaponry.
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EMP / int_bb8adaef	comment	Threads: The Soviets detonate an airburst above Britain to knock out communications and computers with an EMP before nuking the rest of the country.
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EMP / int_bbe35da	comment	In Ark Royal the aliens' plasma weapons prove extremely vulnerable to EMP; they explode.
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EMP / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: EMP grenades are Tau equipment used for dealing with tanks. They rarely see that much use, due to the Tau being the inventors of the railgun — a long-ranged tank killer that makes a lascannon look wimpy. The Tau also have an orbit-launched Icefire warhead for large-scale EMP disruption.
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EMP / int_bcdcf629	comment	Transformers: Animated: Ratchet has a wrist-mounted "EMP generator" that can focus an electromagnetic pulse into a beam. It can temporarily knock out most Cybertronians, but Ratchet prefers to use it as a surgical tool, and then only rarely. At full power, it can wipe an Autobot's entire memory, which accidentally happened to Arcee during the Great War, hence his reluctance to use it. He and Bumblebee can temporarily knock a flying Decepticon out of the air by combining their normal weapons (electric stingers + magnets).
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EMP / int_bd41836e	comment	StarCraft features an EMP-wielding giant spaceship. The EMP knocks out shields, making it only useful against one race, but only REALLY useful against Archons, who have 300 shield and only 10 life. The EMP also eliminates the energy of any units that use energy for abilities, so it can be quite helpful against Terran armies as well. It even works on zerg casters, even though their "energy" is their internal supply of symbiotes and biotoxins. But at least it's consistent.
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EMP / int_bdc373a0	comment	War of the Worlds (2019): The aliens use one that fatally shuts down most humans' brains along with their technology first. In the series the characters who survive were either immune to this or sheltered by metal at the time.
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EMP / int_c0616d7b	comment	In Ghost 1.0, the EMP item releases an electromagnetic pulse which damages every enemy onscreen, destroying weaker robots outright and briefly stunning those that survive. The boss of the Labs sector can use the same sort of EMP against Ghost. Other enemies can release EMP shockwaves that travel along the floor: Ghost can jump over these to avoid getting stunned.
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EMP / int_c2297a9c	comment	One Judge Dredd story involved Dredd bringing a rookie on assessment into a city block that gets hit with an EMP. This ends up causing a major problem for Dredd, since his natural eyes were replaced with Electronic Eyes many years prior. There's also the Magnon Pulser, a Justice Department issued weapon that's specialised to deal with robots, but will take down a man just as easily.
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EMP / int_c399cd39	comment	In Eclipse Phase most computers are optical with shielded power supplies, so EMP grenades are mostly used to disable radio antennas that can't be shielded.
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EMP / int_c3e7ab30	comment	Perfect Dark has EMP mines which have to be placed on the computer terminals to disable the security system in the first level. Unfortunately, they don't appear in other levels with security cameras. Its prequel has a variant as the Jackal Sniper Rifle's Secondary Fire, a directed beam of some variety that scrambles the target's radar - though why you'd really bother is a mystery, since if you can keep your crosshair on an enemy long enough to scramble their radar properly, you can also keep your crosshair on an enemy long enough to just shoot him with your ridiculously-powerful sniper rifle and be done with it.
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EMP / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: "The Age of Steel": A small, hand-grenade-sized EMP device is used to knock out a single Cyberman. It succeeds in frying its emotional inhibitor chip and to disable its motor functions, but for some reason, the thing can still operate its speaking device and the Doctor has to power down the energy core manually. One also has to wonder, shouldn't the plate armour, which the Cybermen are encased in, work as a Faraday cage? "Voyage of the Damned": Bannakaffalatta, as a cyborg, has an EMP device that is used to take out the robotic Host. "The Ghost Monument": The Doctor rigs up an EMP from a downed SniperBot to take the rest out for a few minutes when they corner everyone in the ruins, buying time to escape.
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EMP / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty: In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, a nuclear missile is detonated in the upper atmosphere over the United States, blacking out the east coast and forcing Ramirez and his squad to dodge helicopter rain. The player also gets an EMP in multiplayer if they get a Kill Streak of 15, which disables enemy electronics, including removing their radar, ammo count and the game score and destroying almost all active killstreaks the opposing team has. It still fails physics forever, of course, because the team that used it is unaffected and the effect only lasts for one minute. Granted, this is in the name of balance — who would use the EMP if it affected their own team as well? Nobody. Who would use the EMP if it lasted until the end of the round? Everybody. In addition to the return of the EMP killstreak, the semi-hidden M.O.A.B. killstreak in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 also gives an EMP-like effect upon detonation, which still only lasts one minute, alongside adding a lot of dust and a red tint over the map that lasts for the remainder of the match. Call of Duty: Black Ops II features the EMP as a scorestreak awarded at 1,300 consecutive points.
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EMP / int_c6245086	comment	Crysis Warhead features EMP grenades that are used to disable the enemy's nanosuits, making them easy kills. Crysis 2 lacks EMP grenades, but it does have the K-Volt sub-machine gun, which fires electrostatic bolts that knock CELL troops off their feet and stunlock Ceph enemies in place. The Ceph themselves have an EMP emitter seemingly built into their exosuits which instantly drains your suit energy, disabling your powered armor, cloaking, and sprinting functions, and they will make very good use of it when searching an area for you. Grunts and Stalkers have short-ranged EMPs that have a range of about a meter or two, while Pingers have a much larger one combined with some form of sonic pulse, leaving you at the mercy of its rapid-fire plasma cannon should you be caught in range.
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EMP / int_c72021c5	comment	Deus Ex features EMP grenades, which are effective against enemy bots. In a twist the protagonist is a cyborg: it's not healthy to get caught in the EMP radius of your own grenades.
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EMP / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: In "Fire Across the Galaxy", Sabine rigs up a stolen TIE fighter with a massive EMP trigger that, when activated, both disables Grand Moff Tarkin's Star Destroyer and knocks out all of the stormtroopers onboard by overloading their helmet electronics.
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EMP / int_c94bade0	comment	EndWar's "Electronic Warfare" support ability operates like an EMP (and Mission Control even calls it that when you get hit by one).
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EMP / int_c97be2ac	comment	Project: Snowblind, as a Spiritual Successor to Deus Ex, naturally includes them and forms the main plot line. Yan Lo's plan involves detonating EMP bombs in New York, Paris, and Tokyo to essentially send the entire world back into The Dung Ages, due to his social-Darwinist beliefs that anybody who couldn't survive back then doesn't deserve to live at all.
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EMP / int_cbed726c	comment	The 5th Wave: The Others' first wave consists of this, in which anything running on engines or electricity, including cars and mid-flight aircraft, is shut down ultimately resulting in the deaths of half a million.
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EMP / int_d0d11190	comment	In Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, the Soviets launch a single nuclear missile at the contested island of Corto Maltese. Superman knocks it off course, but, as Batman points out, this is not a Nuke 'em weapon — the "Coldbringer" is designed to knock out the enemies' ability to fight, without damaging infrastructure. The weapon detonates, Superman gets almost dead, and the electrics fizzle out in most of the Americas.
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EMP / int_d2d6de50	comment	In the remake of Ocean's Eleven, Don Cheadle uses an EMP generator to cause a power outage at the casino so George Clooney and Matt Damon's characters can get past the security lasers. He even describes the device as "a nuke... without the nuke." Assuming that such a device could be built, the rapid restoration of power is a Artistic License â€“ Physics/Artistic License â€“ Engineering double-header. And there's the additional effects that would certainly kill people given the loss of power would also affect anything with an engine and anyone on any kind of life support (e.g. pacemakers).
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EMP / int_d47715d9	comment	In Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, during the battle for Fort Hateno scenario Purah manages to rig some ancient tech to generate a pulse that disables the Guardians that are attacking the fortress, at least until the stronger Malice Guardians show up.
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EMP / int_d5166b44	comment	The Plasma Pistol's charged shot is the most reliable way of taking out shields, and from Halo 3 onward, it can also disable vehicles.
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EMP / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2 has the "Bluescreen Protocol" researchnote described in-game as "named for an inexplicable computing phenomenon common before the war" that unlocks EMP weapons. Bluescreen Rounds can be equipped by soldiers so that their guns deal extra damage to robotic units and lower their hack resistancenote and completely bypass the ADVENT Shieldbearer's Deflector Shields, while EMP Grenades (and their upgrades, EMP Bombs) deal even more damage and also have a chance to shutdown robot units for two turns, but can only affect robotic units. More ambiguously synthetic units like the Codex, Spectre and Gatekeeper take extra damage from EMP attacks, but can't be shutdown or hackednote though they can be Stunned or Disoriented.
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EMP / int_d64fad36	comment	In The Dreamside Road, Orsonâ€™s IF Maker weapon issues an E.M.P. blast that disables a Liberty Corps drop ship and its assorted drones.
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EMP / int_d6666774	comment	In The Return of Godzilla a mild EMP effect was the side effect of prematurely detonating a nuclear weapon launched to kill Godzilla.
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EMP / int_d831c4e8	comment	Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: MiMi is equipped with an EMP emitter that Tak has her use on a regular basis to disable her enemies' weapons and defenses.
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EMP / int_d8d79afa	comment	Shows up in Escape from L.A. as part of a top-secret government project that ends up being stolen by a terrorist who threatens to zap America if the government doesn't meet his demands. The film ends with Snake zapping the entire world instead.
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EMP / int_da52a723	comment	Rivers of London: In Moon Over Soho the cover story for the Masquerade is that a suspect premises had a miniature EMP bomb in it and not a magical demon trap.
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EMP / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: In "Reunion", Varrick MacGyvers one up at the Earth Empire checkpoint out of a generator, a table, and a screwdriver to defeat the Powered Armor Mooks that were overwhelming Bolin and the other escapees.
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EMP / int_dbd793bc	comment	The d20 Modern setting Urban Arcana runs on Post Modern Magick, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it actually includes a Functional Magic spell that has the sole purpose of generating an EMP.
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EMP / int_de8fbcb1	comment	In Godzilla (2014), the MUTOs have the ability to emit natural electromagnetic pulses. Indeed, the lights suddenly going out in the area serves as an indirect sign that they are nearby. It also makes it difficult to use many modern weapons against them, as evidenced by the scene where a bunch of fighter jets sent to take one out suddenly shut down and crash into San Francisco Bay.note Real fighter jets are hardened to resist EMP for exactly this reason; but even if all the electronics on a fighter did get fried, it wouldn't suddenly go into an unrecoverable flat spin as shown in the movie as the engines would still be running for a while. It would probably be rendered useless as a weapons platform, though. Of note, at first it seems the use this accidentally (as it seems more them trying to use the shockwave that accompanies them setting it off), but by the time of the San Francisco, the male Muto has seemed to learn to use it offensively. The EMP has absolutely no effect on Godzilla though, so why the creatures even have the ability is unclear, although the novelization hints that it's a natural byproduct of their radiation-eating metabolisms. Also according to the novelization, the EMP effect weakens Godzilla's atomic breath, which would explain why the attack was not as destructive as it is normally portrayed.
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EMP / int_ded9acbd	comment	No Time to Die: Before the Final Battle, Q gives Bond a watch that can generate EMP in a small radius. He uses it to open a door to enter the Big Bad's base, and to kill The Dragon (by frying the latter's electronic eye, which then explodes in his head).
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EMP / int_df4e469b	comment	EMP grenades are a recurring weapon in Metal Arms: Glitch in the System. It temporarily deactivates every machine in the vicinity, although there's no real effect to the player except for disorienting and confusing your control scheme.
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EMP / int_e1153950	comment	In the science fiction novel Nation of the Third Eye, the mysterious enemy is using EMP to disable the digital systems on spaceships. Good thing those also have emergency analog systems that can withstand EMP and solar storms.
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EMP / int_e1575a9d	comment	MegaTokyo: Largo uses one as a rickroll.
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EMP / int_e4732abc	comment	In Stargate Atlantis, an EMP is generated by a Naquadah generator overload and is used to destroy some runaway nanites.
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EMP / int_e4e93303	comment	Laszlo Hadron and the Wargod's Tomb: The pirate starship Corsair carries a cargo of EMP mines, which it repeatedly uses to great effect.
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EMP / int_e519be4f	comment	Carrera's Legions: EMP bombs using conventional explosives to create the pulse are deployed by the Legion several times throughout the series to knock out enemy electronics, particularly their communications.
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EMP / int_e580b3d0	comment	SCP: Secret Laboratory has SCP-2176, aka The Ghostlight. Its primary uses are in locking down rooms and countering SCP-079's abilities.
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EMP / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS: Ultra-Tech has EMP warheads for properly sized projectiles. Microwave disruptors use a similar technology but are somewhat less effective. Oddly they don't fry the system, instead the effect leaves computers temporarily "unconscious".
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EMP / int_e5d6f40d	comment	H.A.W.X. uses the microwave-type focused emission instead on one of its missions, with a base located on a hilltop being protected by three EMP emitters in the valley floor. Any aircraft approaching the base gets zapped by the EMP - however, the upwards-focused nature of the system is what allows the player to overcome it, via flying extremely close to the ground and blowing up the emitters from beneath their effective altitude.
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EMP / int_e5de447c	comment	X-COM XCOM: Enemy Unknown You can eventually research the EMP Cannon, an air-to-air weapon that can be used to quickly bring down a UFO without physically damaging its systems. The weapon is very powerful, capable of bringing down an alien battleship with only two hits. However, it requires the fighter to get very close, so it's really only a good idea on a Firestorm, as a regular jet fighter will probably get chewed up by the enemy plasma cannons pretty quickly, even using the Dodge ability. Enemy Within adds "Electro Pulse", a level 3 MEC suit subsystem. It deals 5 damage to anything in the area of effect but the MEC itself and shuts down robotic enemies that aren't destroyed by the blast. It also ignores the damage reduction skills of Sectopods and psi-shielded Mechtoids. XCOM 2 has the "Bluescreen Protocol" researchnote described in-game as "named for an inexplicable computing phenomenon common before the war" that unlocks EMP weapons. Bluescreen Rounds can be equipped by soldiers so that their guns deal extra damage to robotic units and lower their hack resistancenote and completely bypass the ADVENT Shieldbearer's Deflector Shields, while EMP Grenades (and their upgrades, EMP Bombs) deal even more damage and also have a chance to shutdown robot units for two turns, but can only affect robotic units. More ambiguously synthetic units like the Codex, Spectre and Gatekeeper take extra damage from EMP attacks, but can't be shutdown or hackednote though they can be Stunned or Disoriented.
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EMP / int_e60954ea	comment	Certain rockets have this as an effect in Armored Core: They temporarily stun the enemy mech.
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EMP / int_e667740f	comment	A few kaiju and Breachers have this ability in The New Age of Monsters. To counter this, Jaegers possess the ability to temporarily insulate their conn pod, meaning that they only need to reboot for a minute instead of being taken out for hours like in the original movie.
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EMP / int_e6c59cd1	comment	In Quake IV, your team attempts to use one to break the connection with the Strogg's Hive Mind, but the bomb gets destroyed by a Harvester en route.
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EMP / int_e951212	comment	In Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues, Luna's superpower is to create and control electricity. Her power starts to overload after the school sprinklers are set off, and eventually she can't hold it in anymore and lets it all out in a huge blast that knocks out all electronics in the school, from the fire alarm to people's mobile phones.
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EMP / int_e9a302a	comment	Between Minds uses one to nuke a couple Advisors' life support during an aerial battle!
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EMP / int_ea377bc0	comment	System Shock: The Magpulser is available. It looks strange, but yes, it harms robots a lot (200% damage). It also lives up to its name by barely affecting cyborgs (50% damage) and not affecting mutants at all (0% damage). You can easily get one on the first level of the game (though ammunition is scarce until much later) and it makes fights with robots completely trivial. There are also a couple of other EMP weapons, specifically the EMP grenade, which, when detonated, can screw up your (computer-assisted) interface if you're too close to the blast. It also drains your battery for some reason. There's a more powerful land mine version as well. Sequel System Shock 2 has the EMP rifle while the EMP grenades make a return, which absolutely devastate robotic and cybernetic enemies (the cyborgs have all their life-support systems in their mechanical parts, meaning that damaging them will kill them), but are absolutely worthless against a purely biological enemy. Since some of the most powerful enemies in the game are biological, it limits the effectiveness of the weapons at specific sections of the game. The rifle, as well as the EMP grenades, however, will come in very handy during the Final Boss fight.
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EMP / int_eaeeea9b	comment	StarCraft II features the ability on the Ghost. But on a lower scale, only stripping a certain amount of energy off units.
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EMP / int_eb08d538	comment	The Animatrix: In "The Second Renaissance", it is said that the machines had little to fear from nuclear explosions as they were not affected by the heat and fallout, completely forgetting about the effects described in the page's intro — which is weird because the live-action movies play it straight.
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EMP / int_ec52a5b9	comment	This is the favorite weapon of Blackout in Transformers (2007), and other Transformers have used such weapons, if only mentioned in their Tech Specs.
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EMP / int_ecef0113	comment	Gratuitous Space Battles has an EMP beam for cruisers, and EMP missiles for frigates. Each will shut down effectively anything the target is doing (including repair systems and shield regeneration) except for the engines.
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EMP / int_ede28baa	comment	Vanquish has EMP grenades that temporarily paralyze robots, and certain enemies have EMP-type attacks that overload Sam's Powered Armor and prevent him from using Boost or ARS.
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EMP / int_ef7a115	comment	In an episode of Terra Nova, a meteor with a high iron content was somehow able to generate an EMP capable of frying every microchip in the colony, including the ones for the chip fabricator. While waiting for a new fabricator chip to be hand-etched, they had to fend off a Spinosaurus attack with compound bows.
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EMP / int_efb96550	comment	In The Bottom of the Well, the nuclear bombardment causes electronics — such as Alice's laptop — to stop working. If players haven't already used the laptop to find the location of a nearby bomb shelter, it's too late to do so.
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EMP / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: Metroid Prime: Starting from this game, the Space Pirates occasionally use EMP grenades to throw at Samus. Presumably, Samus' suit is well-protected as neither of these actually does anything to her suit beyond standard shield drain. Some special electricity-based attacks, however, cause static to appear on the HUD. Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Besides Space Pirates, the Steam Lords of Elysia can also generate one as an attack. In this game, getting hit by an EMP instantly puts Samus into corrupted mode with a full Phazon tank. This is a double-edged sword for the Pirates though; if Samus can't vent the Phazon in time (due to a paralyzing attack, for example) it's a Non-Standard Game Over for her, but to vent Phazon she has to Beam Spam it all out, and those beams are highly destructive to anyone nearby. Such as, for example, the hapless pirate that threw the EMP...
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EMP / int_f1d71960	comment	In Max Barry's Machine Man, love interest Lola's Heart Trauma is mended with a model that discharges an EMP when she gets excited. It does considerable damage and ends up as a Chekhov's Gun.
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EMP / int_f42ccd4f	comment	Rimworld has EMP grenades, mines and artillery shells, while the Zeushammer melee weapon deals a lesser EMP burst with each strike. Such weapons will stun mechanoid enemies or turrets for several seconds, and they can also collapse force fields in a single strike, or cause unconsciousness or vomiting in organic targets with cybernetic implants. Unfortunately, mechanoids will adapt after getting stunned by an EMP attack and become immune to the condition for a time, so you can't quite Stun Lock your way through a mech cluster attack.
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EMP / int_f65f0362	type	EMP
EMP / int_f65f0362	comment	In Mission to Mars, the first manned mission accidentally triggers a Martian defense system at Cydonia, which not only kills most of them but also emits an EMP wave that fries the lander's systems, stranding the survivor on Mars. The rescue mission brings replacement motherboards with them. They end up being their only way off the planet, after their original craft is destroyed.
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EMP / int_f6a1016f	comment	The last-resort weapons against the robots in The Matrix trilogy. Big problem there is that they disable your own devices as well. That includes the devices that plug people into the Matrix.
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EMP / int_f724b70d	comment	In one episode of Code Lyoko, Jeremie built an EMP bomb capable of neutralizing XANA's "ghosts", knocking out people possessed by them.
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EMP / int_fa5e90fd	comment	City of Heroes has a couple of EMP powers, one of which is delivered via Trick Arrow. It's just described as "a massive pulse of electromagnetic energy", without going into detail how it is formed. They are "powerful enough to affect synaptic brain patterns" (i.e. temporarily disable all enemy actions, electronic or otherwise), while dealing "high damage to machines and robots". It's a very good power, it just doesn't make much sense outside of Superhero Logic.
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EMP / int_fa661c5b	comment	In Independence Day: Resurgence, the invading aliens trap the human bombers inside their ship, and disable them with an EMP wave.
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EMP / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: Transformers: Animated: Ratchet has a wrist-mounted "EMP generator" that can focus an electromagnetic pulse into a beam. It can temporarily knock out most Cybertronians, but Ratchet prefers to use it as a surgical tool, and then only rarely. At full power, it can wipe an Autobot's entire memory, which accidentally happened to Arcee during the Great War, hence his reluctance to use it. He and Bumblebee can temporarily knock a flying Decepticon out of the air by combining their normal weapons (electric stingers + magnets). Team Chaar's Blackout, like the movie 'bot who inspired him, can create an electromagnetic shockwave that knocks out nearby machinery... and then bring them back online by doing it again. Blaster uses an EMP gun. It blows up normal electronics but Transformers, being more resilient, only suffer from seriously impaired movement coordination (still very painful if you happen to be in jet form at the time).
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EMP / int_fcbd75da	type	EMP
EMP / int_fcbd75da	comment	During missions in Iron Man 3: The Official Game, one of the obstacles Tony can run into are EMP mines. These mines appear in clusters of enemies and if they're shot at, they explode and damage Tony's suit.
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EMP / int_fd5d7b47	comment	In Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2k10, both the police and the racers use EMP devices on each other. In the "Porsche Patrol" cop event, you gain an achievement/trophy by using the EMP weapon to take out the computer-controlled gas/electric 918 Spyder Hybrid concept.
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EMP / int_ff9ca30	comment	Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Besides Space Pirates, the Steam Lords of Elysia can also generate one as an attack. In this game, getting hit by an EMP instantly puts Samus into corrupted mode with a full Phazon tank. This is a double-edged sword for the Pirates though; if Samus can't vent the Phazon in time (due to a paralyzing attack, for example) it's a Non-Standard Game Over for her, but to vent Phazon she has to Beam Spam it all out, and those beams are highly destructive to anyone nearby. Such as, for example, the hapless pirate that threw the EMP...
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Youâ€™re About Seven Years Too Early (Fanfic) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
A View to a Kill / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Ad Astra / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Atomic Train / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Battle: Los Angeles / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Bloodshot (2020) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Broken Arrow (1996) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Captain America: Civil War / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Chappie / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Godzilla (2014) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
GoldenEye / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
No Time to Die / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Ocean's Eleven / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Outpost / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Pacific Rim / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Pacific Rim: Uprising / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Rogue One / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Steel Rain / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Superman Returns / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Day After / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Empire Strikes Back / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Jurassic Dead / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Phantom Menace / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Threads / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Until the End of the World / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
War of the Worlds (2005) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Zombie Strippers! / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Zoids (Franchise) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Adrift Trilogy / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Aristillus / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Bastard Operator from Hell / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Battle Ground (2020) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Bitter Seeds / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Carrera's Legions / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Conciencia y Voluntad / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Dark Life / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Dirk Pitt Adventures / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Ex-Superheroes / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Machine Man / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Neuromancer / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Sinister Six Trilogy / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Spider-Man: Global War / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Spider-Man: Sinister Six Trilogy / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Super Stories / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Coldest War / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The 5th Wave / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Leonard Regime / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Night's Dawn Trilogy / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Tripods / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
ApocalypseDayPlanner	seeAlso	EMP
Earth2150	seeAlso	EMP
Emp	sameAs	EMP
SupermanAndBatmanGenerations	seeAlso	EMP
TheDeadliestMushroom	seeAlso	EMP
TwentyTwentySeven	seeAlso	EMP
Yu-Gi-Oh! OCG Stories (Manga) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues / Role Play / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Another Life (2019) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Eureka / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Rizzoli & Isles / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Taken / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Cape / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
24 / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
War of the Worlds (2019) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot (Tabletop Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Akane (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Angry Birds Transformers (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Arknights (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Banjo-Tooie (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Batman: Arkham Knight (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Battlefield 4 (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Breathedge (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Brigador (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Brink! (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Bubble Tanks (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Caves of Qud (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Command & Conquer: Generals (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
007 Legends (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Empire at War (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
EndWar (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Everything or Nothing (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
FTL: Faster Than Light Multiverse (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Galaxy on Fire (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Ghost Recon Wildlands (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
GoldenEye: Rogue Agent (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Gratuitous Space Battles (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Havoc (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Hostile Waters: Antaeus Rising (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Invisible, Inc. (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Just Cause 3 (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Marathon (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Mega Man X: Corrupted (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Mental Omega (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Metroid Prime (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Midnight Club (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
People Playground (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
PlanetSide (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Red Resurrection (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Renegade Ops (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Resident Evil 3 (Remake) (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
RimWorld (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Rise of the East (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Robot Wants (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Sierra Ops (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Space Station 13 (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
SpyHunter (2001) (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Star Wars: Battlefront (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Streets of Rogue (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
SubSpace (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
System Shock (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
System Shock 2 (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Long Dark (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Second Tiberium War (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Vanquish (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Vega Strike (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Void Bastards (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Wasteland Angel (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
We Need to go Deeper (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
XCOM 2 (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Zero K (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
NieR: Automata / Videogame / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Splitgate / Videogame / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Subnautica (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
gen:LOCK (Web Animation) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Murder Drones (Web Animation) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Red vs. Blue: The Recollection (Web Animation) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Xionic Madness (Web Animation) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Super Power Beat Down (Web Video) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Avengers Unlimited (2022) (Webcomic) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Pulse (Webcomic) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
S.S.D.D. (Webcomic) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Tales of the Questor (Webcomic) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Exit Mundi (Website) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Monster Buster Club / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
My Little Pony: Equestria Girls â€“ Spring Breakdown / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Slugterra / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Spiral Zone / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
The Deep (2015) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
Viper / int_83442cc3	type	EMP
H.A.W.X. (Video Game) / int_83442cc3	type	EMP

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