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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })This is any device that is designed to cause some sort of seismic event. Usually, an earthquake. Almost every Mad Scientist has at least one of these in his blueprint library, sometimes even two. Sometimes simply called the Earthquake Machine, or the Quicksand Generator, Liquefaction Array, or even Ruin Device. If it does the two things that all earthquake machines have in common, it will: 1) cause earthquakes as its primary function, 2) probably be a machine, although there are a few examples of this trope involving living creatures instead of machinery. A modernized, although not necessarily more realistic take will probably depict such a machine as a Kill Sat or something along these lines. This is derived from conspiracy theories concerning HAARP, some of which accuse the project of producing earthquakes for whichever nefarious purpose the NWO might have for them at the moment. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Occasionally overlaps with This Is a Drill. While a Colony Drop might cause an earthquake, and might very well involve a machine, the earthquake is simply a by-product of, well, a dropping colony. Compare Weather-Control Machine, which can be used to create similar chaos in the atmosphere instead of on the ground. The traditional depiction is verging on Forgotten Trope; the jury is out whether the reimagined version makes it a Cyclic Trope. |
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The Russian children's novel Journey to the Morning Star has this as a Superweapon Surprise by the peaceful Etherians, who normally use ultrasonic waves to stop planetquakes. It takes a human to point out that they could just as easily cause a localized planetquake, making it a devastating weapon against the warlike Sinots (although, only when they're actually on the ground). They use it a total of one time before the Sinot population rises up against their oppressors and offers peace to the Etherians. | |
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PC mecha-sim game Starsiege had these in one mission on Mars. Known as 'Hammertanks' or 'Thumpers,' these were modified drilling platforms designed to shake HERCs right off their feet. Seeing as how HERCs are apparently destroyed the moment they fall over, these tanks were extremely useful in their single appearance. | |
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The absolute first appearance of Lex Luthor (then only known as Luthor) in The Golden Age of Comic Books Superman comics involved Luthor stealing one of these. | |
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This causes the Undertaking in Arrow. Specifically, the first season's bad guy uses one or two, actually to destroy a particularly crime-ridden section of the city. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): The Technodrome has one built-in. | |
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Rumble in Transformers: Generation 1 is able to use his fist as piledrivers and create small earthquakes with them. | |
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In Macdonald Hall 's The War With Mr. Wizzle, Elmer conveniently has a minor earthquake machine built, which the guys sneak into Wizzle's home and then convince him the home is built on a minor faultline. | |
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Mortadelo y Filemón: In Desastre, a Mad Scientist threatens cities using several types of Doomsday Device, the last one causing earthquakes and threatening the heroes' own city. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Experiment 513 (named Richter) is a living example. He is designed to create earthquakes by slamming his tail at the ground. | |
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Action Man (2000): The Quake suit of Powered Armor was designed by Japanese scientists to study tremors, but it could also produce them. It is subsequently stolen by a fat janitor who uses it to become the supervillain "Quake". | |
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Bubblegum Crisis: Tokyo 2040 has one employed in its backstory as GENOM tried to keep runaway boomer technology from getting loose, deciding to employ the device to bury the lab, and causing the city to be rebuilt. However, this didn't destroy the technology as it later got loose. | |
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Batman: Robert Coleman is an architect of some note in Gotham City. His reputation is irreparably damaged when an apartment complex he designed and built does not withstand a hurricane. Feeling that he has been wrongly branded, Coleman creates the alias of the Quakemaster and uses his super-charged jackhammer to create earthquakes in Gotham City. | |
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Dr. Wily used one in the Mega Man cartoon. | |
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In Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Casey Ryback has to deal with the bad guys who have got their hands on the controls for just such a Kill Sat. If that wasn't silly enough in itself, the villain uses its ability to produce "earthquakes" to shoot down a jetliner and several fighter planes in mid-air. | |
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Seismo from Mixels is a living one, with giant feet that shake the earth when he stomps them. Unfortunately for those around him, he gets ultra-nervous very easy and has the tendency to tap his feet when he does... | |
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In Blue Moon Rising, one of the three Infinity Plus One Swords, Rockbreaker, was one of these. | |
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In the pilot episode of Goof Troop, Pete plants one of those old jiggling exercise machines to the foundation of the house next door and creates mini-quakes to scare away potential buyers so he can use the land to create his own backyard paradise. | |
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In Conspiracy Theory, the conspiracy theorist protagonist stumbles upon a conspiracy to kill the American president through an artificially induced earthquake. The machine is not described, but it's apparently fired from aboard a space shuttle. | |
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Lupin III (Red Jacket) had one being used to hold Italy for ransom. | |
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Lupin III Lupin III (Red Jacket) had one being used to hold Italy for ransom. The Mystery of Mamo achieved the effect by setting off nuclear generators/missiles. |
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The Thunderbirds spin-off comics had a story called "The Earthquake Maker" in which a Mad Scientist named Parthal used one of these to destroy four Iranian cities. These turned out to be simply tests in preparation for his main plan, which was to split the country in half from the Persian Gulf to the Caspian Sea, causing devastating floods. While monologuing about this, he explains that the government of Bereznik is paying him a fortune for it, although we never find out what their motive is. | |
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The 1942 Superman cartoon Electric Earthquake has one — created by a Native-American Mad Scientist who wants to reclaim Manhattan for his people, believing it was taken by fraud. | |
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The Soviets in the Aftermath expansion of Command & Conquer: Red Alert have access to the M.A.D. Tank, a vehicle that uses a large piston to release a wide-reaching and highly damaging seismic shockwave. However, it has no effect on infantry and the M.A.D. Tank destroys itself in the process. | |
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The Mystery of Mamo achieved the effect by setting off nuclear generators/missiles. | |
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In Battle Zone 1998, the NSDF Grizzly Hover Tank and its CCA counterpart carry the 'Thumper', a special weapon that channels biometal ammo directly into the ground to create a massive earthquake wave that will send enemies flying helplessly into the air. | |
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In the Doctor Who story "The Enemy of the World", the eponymous dictator Salamander's evil scheme involves causing earthquakes in territories that oppose him. | |
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In No More Heroes, this is Letz Shake's weapon of choice. | |
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In Assassin's Creed: Rogue, one appears in the form of a piece of Eden wich causes the Lisbon earthquake of 1755. | |
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Final Fantasy XIII Vanille's Limit Break counts as this, as a heroic example. Alexander also uses this as a special ability, via Ground Pound. | |
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Space 1889. Machines that can cause earthquakes or volcanic eruptions are possible inventions in the main book. | |
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