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Explosive Overclocking

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Explosive Overclocking	comment	Sometimes "normal" Overdrive is not enough. Almost any piece of Applied Phlebotinum can be made to work a little harder, at the cost of an increased risk (or certainty) that it will eventually explode. A Necessary Drawback to show why it shouldn't be used this way very often. Your chief engineer will technobabble some stuff about "bypassing the safety protocols", but this will not require laying new cables or replacing clock chips — it just requires a few pokes at the control console. This is often achieved by applying more power. It's even possible to do it by accident: give a computer a sufficiently hard math problem, and it will grind out an answer just before it overheats and expires from the effort. Also, being overclocked causes a system to work at increased efficiency and then stop dead. This does have some base in reality. In Real Life, an overclocked computer will run faster, although noticeably hotter (so the hardware can very well literally melt from overheatingnote more modern VLSIs are likely to have safeguards against overheating, but this isn't the case with standalone circuit components like power capacitors), and will have an increased chance of making (typically small) mathematical errors. Pushed too far, though, clocked hardware components will exert a rapidly increasing level of general malfunction (if not outright refuse to work thanks to safeguards). And even small computational errors in critical parts of software will eventually cause it to crash. A normally-clocked system can overheat and crash from high load (and thus increased heat output), too, if it has inadequate cooling. In general, overclocked phlebotinum will last exactly long enough to solve your problem, exploding right after you've shot the big gun. Alternatively, it may solve or delay your immediate problem, then break down, leaving you stranded in space with a seized engine. Overclocking an Energy Weapon (sometimes called "hotshotting") is a good way to create the equivalent of a One Bullet Left scenario: "I can boost the power of your weapon, but it'll only last long enough to give you one shot." The idea probably comes from the notion of red-lining a car engine, which will give you extra speed, but puts so much strain on the engine and produces so much heat that its weaker parts are liable to break (or in the literal overclocking of computer processors, see real life examples below). But in Science Fiction, this ability is available to just about everything, without making massive time-consuming modifications to the equipment. (Go ahead, try to make your tablesaw run faster.) One popular use of Explosive Overclocking is as a subversion of Tim Taylor Technology. It may also cause Explosive Instrumentation, although enemy attack or Percussive Maintenance will usually do the same thing. Especially if your vessel is not properly grounded. It's usually safer to Reverse Polarities, but that wouldn't result in a pretty fireball from your automatic Self-Destruct Mechanism, would it? Especially with No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup. Applied to The Hero himself, Heroic RRoD may be an organic counterpart to this trope (usually due to excessive use of a Dangerous Forbidden Technique or Super Mode). Compare Overclocking Attack (you do this because you want something to explode), Forbidden Chekhov's Gun, Flawed Prototype (which usually can be overclocked to match a "perfect" model), Cast from Hit Points (instead of a chance of complete self-destruction there is a guarantee of partial self-destruction), Pent-Up Power Peril (when your power builds up in your body by itself and will overclock your body if you don't use it regularly), Awesomeness Is Volatile, and Deadly Upgrade. An organic equivalent is Uninhibited Muscle Power. Not to be confused with Ramping Slo-mo in explosive action scenes. Examples
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Explosive Overclocking / int_12ffd3e9	comment	Subverted in an episode of Megas XLR. Megas' photonic stabilizer is damaged and in danger of exploding if Coop overworks Megas, and a fight breaks out while Coop is trying to find a new one. Just when Megas is on the edge, a "Eureka!" Moment provides Coop with a method of fixing the stabilizer, allowing Coop to resume fighting normally; duct tape. Played straight when the bad guy's mecha, which also had a stabilizer which Coop broke in the course of their battle, goes critical resulting in a rather spectacular explosion.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_1409f1e9	comment	Dave from Real Life Comics has a tendency to be overzealous with his overclocks as seen here.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_14d341dc	comment	Star Trek Online has the bridge officer abilities Override Subsystem Safeties and Exceed Rated Limits from the Intelligence and Miracle Worker specializations, respectively. The former grants a massive boost to all current and maximum subsystem power levels. This boost decreases over time, and when it ends, a random subsystem is knocked offline. The later greatly accelerates the fire rate of energy weapons and negates the weapon power drain from firing them while afflicting the user with damage over time and an all-subsystem power drain.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_15c6ea11	comment	Wonder Woman (1942): The mob associate known as "the Undertaker" is killed when he tells a mook to turn up the heat in his crematorium even higher and the thing explodes shortly thereafter.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_15c6ea92	comment	Wonder Woman (1987): Dr. Lazarus' Hard Light AI system has yet to be perfected and the hard light constructs can explode on contact. Once things go quite wrong and his system is being used to create supervillains without his knowledge these explosions are significantly more powerful than the one which wrecked his first laboratory.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_17e53bd1	comment	Medicalat is based on absorbing enemy bullets or enemies themselves, but overdoing it will make the weapon explode, costing you a health point and all power.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): In the final storyline, Nicole uses her Overclocked form to battle the virus Phage and pushes it so far that it destroys the Red Ring powering her and her computer. Thankfully, Nicole bailed into the computer systems of the Sky Patrol and, had the series not been cancelled, would have had Sally and Tails getting said computer fixed.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_1b71921c	comment	A minor example in Misfile; James has challenged Ash to an endurance car race, going down the same stretch of road over and over until the person behind passes or the person in front pulls entirely out of sight. Ash plays it smart when it's his turn behind, keeping his distance so he can watch what James is doing and focus on driving well himself, only attempting to pass when he sees a real opening. James, on the other hand, lets his emotions get the best of him while behind, staying as close as possible and attempting to pass at every opportunity. This puts more stress on the car, wearing down his breaks and giving Ash a subtle but constantly growing advantage as the race goes on, until Ash is able to take advantage and pass James.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_1cc11947	comment	Anybody that has played Descent knows that the Fusion cannon plays this one perfectly straight. While a decent if somewhat slow weapon normally, it can be charged for about 3 seconds for incredible damage; one ship can instakill anything with a fully charged fusion shot. Go beyond 3.5 seconds and you start taking damage, and the damage goes back to normal.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_1f418bf4	comment	In the pilot for Disney's TaleSpin, the Sea Duck was equipped with an Overdrive that made it jet-fast, but would fry the engines if used for long stretches. Was burned out for good after the fourth episode and never mentioned again. (Why Baloo didn't just have it replaced is never explained, but can be handwaved as Rebecca not knowing about it when she had the Sea Duck rebuilt after its destruction.)
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Explosive Overclocking / int_2342a881	comment	In Mission Hill, Kevin uses his friend's computers to try and crack the SAT exams by finding the supposed repeating string of correct multiple-choice answers. His attempts to get more and more processing power out of them eventually causes them to explode.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_247422c7	comment	In the Honor Harrington novel The Honor of the Queen, Commander Alice Truman is ordered to return to home base to inform the Admiralty of Masada's impending attack on Grayson. She orders her chief engineer to take all safeties off their ship's hyperdrive, thus cutting a day off her travel time at the risk of destroying the ship along the way. It pays off, as that extra day means relief forces get to Yeltsin in time.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_283b23c1	comment	Also the case with Excellion Mode in A's. Fate is also warned about similar upgrades, though she's more powerful and thus can handle it a lot better than Nanoha can.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_2e86bae9	comment	Ikaruga: To defeat the Stone-Like, the Ikaruga deactivates its restraint devices to charge up a super-Beam Spam that will destroy the ship as well, and while it is charging, you are unable to fire and must dodge the boss's attacks for sixty seconds.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_2f3eb71f	comment	In Command & Conquer: Generals the Chinese nuclear power plants can be forced to provide 50% more power, but you better get started building more because overloading the reactors leads to the building slowly destroying itself. This can even be used offensively, by hijacking opponents power plants and deliberately putting them into overload mode. When they blow, they'll contaminate a large area and damage any troops/vehicles in it.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Similarly, Rock Lee in Naruto uses a forbidden technique which involves essentially an "explosive overclocking" of his body by disabling its natural 'safety features'. Shockingly, this is the most realistic technique in the entire show: replace "heightened chakra flow" with "consciously controlled adrenaline output" and you've basically got someone with their Fight or Flight switch constantly stuck on Fight. See the "human body" listing down in Real Life. The highest-level form of this technique is described as providing power beyond what would otherwise be possible, even with the superhuman standards of the series, but only for a brief time. Then the user drops dead on the spot.. It's the only thing that actually hurts Madara, even coming close to killing him, something that all 5 Kages and all 9 tailed beasts couldn't do.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_33dd1d8f	comment	This is how Half-Life begins (We boosted the anti-mass spectrometer to 105% — bit of a gamble but we need the extra resolution...) Half-Life also has the Gauss Gun, a prototype weapon that you can charge up for a more powerful shot. Attempting to charge it past its maximum power will make it explode, reducing its hapless user to Ludicrous Gibs. The player first gains the weapon after a security guard accidentally demonstrates this rather glaring design flaw, though how the gun remains usable is never explained.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_367f632a	comment	In Dawn of War, Chaos can make their heretics (worker unit) work themselves to death, they work faster but will die pretty quick, best to use lots of them, you can always get another one.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_36ee2abe	comment	In Paranoia, you can keep firing a laser pistol or rifle past its normal six-shots-per-barrel rating, but the chance of malfunction starts going up pretty quickly.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_37b7264c	comment	In the final stage of Initial D, Takumi accidentally revs his 86's engine past 12,000 RPM while using a Blind Attack to overtake Shinji. Because his gauge's backlights were off, and because Ryosuke had the 86's rev-limiter removed so he could use the extra RPMS as a last resort, Takumi had no idea he was revving his engine past its limit and wound up blowing it, though he still managed to win the race.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman (1942): The mob associate known as "the Undertaker" is killed when he tells a mook to turn up the heat in his crematorium even higher and the thing explodes shortly thereafter. Wonder Woman (1987): Dr. Lazarus' Hard Light AI system has yet to be perfected and the hard light constructs can explode on contact. Once things go quite wrong and his system is being used to create supervillains without his knowledge these explosions are significantly more powerful than the one which wrecked his first laboratory.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_3cf15492	comment	All Mechs in the MechWarrior game series have reactors that heat up as their capacity is used. If you overheat them a safety system will automatically shut them down, cooling them much faster than usual but disabling your Mech; after a few seconds, when the temperature is back to normal levels, the Mech powers up again and lets you keep going about your business. If you haven't been blown up yet, that is; as this usually happens in the middle of combat, a shutdown usually leaves you unable to move or attack right in front of your enemy, often with preditcably messy results. Which is why there's the option to override the shutdown procedure, and keep using the Mech — if nothing else to turn tail and run like hell — even as the reactor redlines. Overuse this option at your own risk, as severe abuse results in your Mech spontaneously blowing up from the inside. In MechWarrior: Online the override works slightly differently, as it damages your mech for as long as the heat gauge remains above 100%. Not a good idea unless you just need one last shot... Battletech allows you to redline your heat, but if you go over the "safe" heat level, it results in the 'Mech taking internal damage (meaning you will at least require some time in the repair bay after the mission, and worst case, a weak component could explode or the 'Mech could blow up, if the center torso is sufficiently damaged). If heat is maxed out, the 'Mech shuts down entirely, losing any defensive or evasion bonuses and allowing other pilots to make Called Shots on it, the same as if it was knocked down. Higher Guts ratings for pilots will result in a higher "safe" heat level, though the max will remain the same, and Gladiators (pilots that take the Master Guts skill) can use "Vent Coolant", which apparently expels a load of hot coolant to immediately reduce heat, but resulting in heat accumulation over the next three rounds (the ability is not lore-friendly, for what it's worth).
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Explosive Overclocking / int_3e6269af	comment	In Real Genius, the kids create an overclocked laser that is only good for one shot before it utterly consumes its expensive Bromide-Argon fuel source.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_40010ddc	comment	Sasorina in HeartCatch Pretty Cure! is given a three-jeweled Dark Bracelet in a desperate attempt to finish off the Cures or be subjected to You Have Outlived Your Usefulness. It makes the Desertian she fuses with much, much stronger (strong enough to withstand three Forte Bursts and shatter Sunshine's Sunflower Aegis in one punch), but its power's too much and threatens to fry her. The girls realize what's going on and finally put her out of her misery.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: During the climax of White Night, Lash (who resides in the so-called "unused parts" of Harry Dresden's brain) temporarily over-clocks Harry's brain in order to gain additional time to react to a threat. It is made clear that this is a very Bad Idea and will likely result in brain damage if done for an extended period of time. In truth, this overclocking is normal in stressful situations. It can happen to normal humans during dangerous periods, for exactly the purpose of giving them a smaller reaction time. More here. A more explicit version occurs earlier, in Fool Moon: Harry makes a potion that he calls a "full night's rest in a bottle". He drinks it after he's exhausted himself, and it gives him such a high that he pushes himself to do powerful and delicate magic, a lot of it, in about five minutes. Five minutes after that, the potion's effect doesn't so much wear off as remind him that he's still exhausted, and he collapses. For the rest of the story, he struggles to perform any magic, with the concern being that he might have burned himself out entirely, and permanently (which, as the rest of the series shows, is not true).
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Explosive Overclocking / int_429fe663	comment	In the climax of Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire, as Eothas attacks the Ukaizo Wheel to rob the Jerkass Gods of their power over mankind, he ensures the Wheel will be Deader than Dead by channeling every ounce of his divine power into his giant stone avatar to deliver blows so ludicrously powerful they actually blast chunks of said avatar off. The sheer amount of energy expended and damage taken by doing this ultimately kills him permanently, but it certainly gets the job done.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_42c05590	comment	The Rocko's Modern Life episode "Cabin Fever" features the titular wallaby and his friend Heffer trapped in a snowed-down cabin with the Bigheads (thanks to Ed) and Ed using a microwave as a radio transmitter to call for help, only to speak to a fast food employee who misconstrues Ed's cries for help for a patron ordering food. Outraged, Ed overloads the microwave, which causes it to literally blow up in his face.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers in general does this quite a bit. Apparently, megazords have independent power supplies for each of their independent systems (weapons, shields, whatever "auxiliary power" is supposed to do). They often will talk about siphoning power from one system into their weapons systems for one final "fry all weapons systems" blast. Whether it's overclocking or simply filling one battery by draining another depends on circumstances. In the start of the third season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the rangers were getting pounded by new foes, and tried this to give the Thunderzords more power to resist them. It fails, resulting in the Command Center's power going out, their Ranger powers irreparably damaged (not destroyed, as we see in later seasons), and their zords destroyed. Power Rangers RPM had Flynn solving a problem with his Ranger powers by putting the battery into his Morpher backwards (more or less), resulting in a weaponized henshin explosion (as said explosions were pointed out by Ziggy earlier in the episode, they're apparently the result of runoff energy during the morphing sequence).
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Explosive Overclocking / int_45a5656f	comment	Also, quick-charging a Kearny-Fuchida drive. (This is seen more usually in the fiction, but the game has suitably advanced-level rules for the situation if it ever should come up in play.) Normally a JumpShip will leisurely unfurl a high-tech solar sail and use the energy from that to recharge its drive core over the course of a week or so, but in a pinch and with enough fuel it's theoretically possible to use its fusion power plant to do the job much faster. The reason this is generally considered a Dangerous Forbidden Technique is that said core is both incredibly sensitive and huge (most JumpShips are just a small bit of "extra starship" wrapped around theirs, in fact), so pushing its limits can cause anything from initially unnoticeable defects that will come back to bite the ship sometime in the future to more immediate charge loss and even fatal misjumps from which the ship fails to emerge in one piece or even at all. The Lithium-Fusion Battery allows a second jump safely by storing another charge. However, it has its own variant; with both charges dumped in, a few minor tweaks to the drive allow a Jump of up to 900 light years instead of 30. The problem is, not only are the fatal malfunctions more likely, both the drive and the battery are only good for scrap afterwards.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_467c89f7	comment	Accidentally caused by the Human crew of the SDF-1 Macross from Super Dimension Fortress Macross when they tried to use the ship's alien Fold Drive without understanding it to escape an attack by a different alien race by overcharging it. This caused the ship, the nearby island, the water surrounding it, and nearby aircraft carriers to be folded into Pluto's orbit. This also caused the Fold Drive itself to fold out of spacetime leaving the Macross without a critical component required to fire their Wave-Motion Gun. They later solve this by transforming their ship it into a Humongous Mecha.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_468bebb0	comment	In the Discworld as visited by A.A. Pessimal, the standard witch's broomstick is a sedate thing likened to an old Morris Minor car on our world — it will do the job reliably and consistently at an unremarkable speed. Then the Wrench Wench mentality arrivednote Two flight-minded Witches out of Far Ãœberwald who REALLY wanted to know how to make them go faster, higher and further. And above all, faster., along with the Magitek of ground-based engineers and broomstick designers with interesting ideas. The Air Watch, backed by the goodwill of Vetinari and the unlimited development cash provided by Sam Vimes, attracts Witches of the right mind-set backed by ground Tekniks. Accidents happen. An early error when a broom was overloaded with more thaumic potential than the staff and bristles could hold led — very briefly — to a fast, powerful, aircraft. And then an incandescent fireball over Ankh-Morpork. Pilot Dorothy Culpclapper is now remembered on the memorial plaque. Now go to The Price of Flight, an ongoing tale.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_476bc61d	comment	In Kid Icarus: Uprising, Pit can only fly with the aid of a goddess, and the goddess can only maintain the power for five minutes at a time. Any longer, and Pit's wings will burn off. In Chapter 21, we see the nasty result of Pit overusing the Power of Flight, his wings burnt to a couple of boney stubs.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_49a84be6	comment	Final Fantasy III: The Black Belt class has an ability to store energy to inflict massive damage. You can do this twice, but if you try on the third time, the monk has a good chunk of his/her health taken off.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII sees the Archadian Empire test the power of deifacted nethecite by putting it in a warship's boiler. It produces so much energy that not only does it blow out all the safety systems, they can't shut it off. A few minutes later, the warship blows up, taking the entire fleet surrounding it out with it.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_4b790c7b	comment	This is what happens in Iron Man 3 when someone gets a little too much Extremis. Emphasis on the word "explosive"...
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Explosive Overclocking / int_4be3aedd	comment	In the start of the third season of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, the rangers were getting pounded by new foes, and tried this to give the Thunderzords more power to resist them. It fails, resulting in the Command Center's power going out, their Ranger powers irreparably damaged (not destroyed, as we see in later seasons), and their zords destroyed.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_4ce969a9	comment	In the Marathon series, the fusion pistol can be overcharged similarly, but if it is overcharged for approx. one minute (only likely due to a stuck key as it beeps and shakes alarmingly for most of that time), it explodes, instantly killing the character regardless of health or invincibility. This was, however a very powerful and accurate attack if charged for 4-5 seconds, and can damage otherwise invincible enemies (in multiplayer).
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Explosive Overclocking / int_4d97191f	comment	A low-tech variant (albeit taking place in 2035): Dmitrii of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow uses his doppelgang-ing abilities to copy Soma's soul-absorption abilities. However, during the final showdown, his own soul is not strong enough to contain all of Soma's power and HIS HEAD A SPLODE!!!!!! Phlebotinum Breakdown ahoy!
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Explosive Overclocking / int_4e549f11	comment	Dreamscape: Betty does this to her cyberntic legs in "Confronting the Dark" as a last-ditch move to defeat the dragon she is fighting.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_50f3f011	comment	In Sonic Battle, the final boss is Emerl, who went absolutely insane and got overloaded with all of his ultimate skills, which cannot be done without cheats to raise the maximum Skill Point limit.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_51169425	comment	Yehuda Moon & the Kickstand Cyclery: Arboritum, a super-light alloy that would be ideal for making bike frames if it didn't have a tendency to break under stress, normally resulting in severe injuries for the rider.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_529ee66	comment	In the Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog episode "Sonic Breakout", Sonic uses this to destroy Robotnik's prison. Namely, he and Tails zip around the complex setting off every alarm and booby trap at once, causing the master computer to collapse from the stress of keeping up.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_5921531a	comment	In Persona 3: Aigis (a robot girl) can go into Orgia Mode (releases the limiters on her body) for three turns, but after the three turns she requires a cool down period before being able to do anything. In FES Metis (Aigis' robot sister) can stay in Orgia Mode for a significantly longer time.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas has special ammunition for energy weapons that are called Overcharged: they do extra damage and ignore large amounts of enemy DT but they put added strain on your gun (meaning it can be used less until it breaks) and you need to use a couple of ordinary energy cells/electron charge packs/microfusion cells to make overcharged ammo. They're best used when dealing with Elite Mooks and even then sparingly unless you're willing to fork out the extra caps for repairs and more expensive ammo The guns category has this too in the form of hand load bullets which pack much more punch but suffer the same issues stated above: more components needed to craft them and they burn through guns quickly.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_5cb7fc72	comment	In System Shock 2, The Argon Laser Pistol can be configured to fire in Overload mode. The same game also allows you to overload your brain when using the Psi Amp. In the original System Shock, all energy weapons feature an "Overload" option, with the realization that the weapon will instantly overheat when fired (requiring two to four seconds before it can be fired again) and that it will take a large amount of your global energy to fire. Still, using the powerful Ion Rifle on overload will kill almost anything in one shot. The semi-secret, hard-to-find Plasma Rifle will kill anything in one overloaded shot.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_5d354f8	comment	In the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole", the crew develops a technique which increases Holly's intelligence by several orders of magnitude, but they discover that this has reduced her lifespan to three minutes. To be exact, they had intended to restore Holly's (the titular ship's AI) IQ to its original 6000 as Holly had gained a form of "computer senility" due to being in continuous use for 3,000,000 years. (And having no one to interact with during that time.) Kryten had theorized that the procedure may result in Holly being smarter than previously but increasing its IQ to 12,000 rather than 6,000 or a bit higher was far beyond their expectations. Holly (with prompting from a toaster) worked through this in about a minute and to preserve her remaining runtime shut herself off, leaving the ship uncontrolled.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_5e88d233	comment	Chrysalis (RinoZ): Monsters can reinforce their cores by absorbing the cores of other monsters, giving them additional energy for their next evolution, up to a safe cap. However, more powerful monsters can leave "special" or "rare" cores, which can be absorbed to push one's own core past the usual limits — causing burning pain that doesn't fully go away until evolution. The extra energy eventually pays dividends in the form of better evolutionary options and more stat points to allocate, but pushing it too far can actually be fatal. At one point, Anthony absorbs both a special and a rare core, and nearly pops from the excess of energy and the swelling of his own core, having to be wrapped up in Crinis' tentacles to hold him together long enough to evolve.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_60156176	comment	Mentioned rather nastily in the Vorkosigan Saga novel Shards of Honor:
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Explosive Overclocking / int_61a39969	comment	Avengers: Infinity War: As opposed to its comics counterpart, Thanos activating the fully assembled Infinity Gauntlet and wiping out half of the universe causes the Gauntlet to explode into a twisted hunk of golden metal attached to Thanos' arm. The arm itself is also badly wounded with what appear to be serious electrical burns, and unlike the chest wound Thor gave him with Stormbreaker, his arm does not appear to be healed in the film's final pre-credits scene. In the direct sequel, Endgame, Thanos uses the damaged gauntlet to destroy the Infinity Stones off-screen, which, combined with the terrible wound Thor gave him at the end of Infinity War, almost killed him. The gauntlet became fused to his arm and has lost all the gold shine it once had, and Thanos is visibly struggling to breathe quite often. Later in Endgame, both Hulk and Iron Man use the Stones with a new gauntlet, and suffer in a similar fashion to Thanos. Hulk's arm becomes crippled from their power, and Iron Man doesn't survive their use.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_61fc750c	comment	In Superman: Red Son, Superman finds himself fighting Superior Man, a clone of Superman created by Lex Luthor, who has him attached to a power source that gives him his power. When Superman starts getting serious, Luthor ups Superior Man's power until the power source blows up. By this time, Superior Man has been turned into a deformed monster in serious pain and when the power source goes up, he finally dies.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_66abe7c6	comment	In Fate Series, a Servant can overload their Noble Phantasm with prana and transform it into a Broken Phantasm, causing them to take a massive power hike in exchange for being lost. Given that most Servants only have between one to three Noble Phantasms (which are artifacts such as Excalibur), and Noble Phantasms represent the solidified history of each Servant the very idea is unthinkable. In Fate/stay night, when Archer uses a Broken Phantasm against Berserker early on in the Unlimited Blade Works route, his Master Rin has a minor freakout because he seemingly destroyed one of his Noble Phantasms seemingly on a whim. He does this again when fighting Caster, using another Noble Phantasm very similar to the one he used against Berserker. As it turns out, Archer's true ability is Projection magic, which allows him to replicate other Noble Phantasms infinitely — this means that he can use Broken Phantasms as much as he wants with no loss to him, something very terrifying if other Servants knew about this. In fact, this is a necessity for him because the replicas are naturally inferior to the real deals and the overclocking is necessary to boost their power enough to match the originals. Shirou can do the same thing, by overloading his Magic Circuits. When he makes a contract with Rin in the Unlimited Blade Works route, he is able to actualize his Reality Marble by taking in ten times his normal capacity; this allows him to beat up Gilgamesh, but after their fight he ends up temporarily paralyzed. When he gets Archer's arm in the Heaven's Feel route, he is able to flawlessly reproduce Noble Phantasms at the cost of nearly frying his brain every time. In Fate/Grand Order, the Rider-class Servant Mandricado has this with his Noble Phantasm Serment de Durandal. He can imbue any weapon he gets a hold of with the power of the legendary sword Durandal, even if that "weapon" is just a wooden stick...but he can't copy Durandal's (unbreakable) durability. As a result, any weapon he uses inevitably ends up exploding from overuse, forcing him to get a new one. This is also how Chen Gong's Noble Phantasm Two-Pronged Formation works. He deliberately overcharges an ally with mana so that they effectively become a living bomb while masking it as him firing an explosive arrow. In-game, this takes the form of an incredibly potent attack that sacrifices an ally.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_67855503	comment	Undefeated Bahamut Chronicle has Over Limit, the removal of the safeguards that a Drag-Ride normally has to protect the user. This boosts performance by several times but will leave the user bed-ridden for days afterwards. Unmanned Drag-Rides do not have this issue and can therefore use Over Limit freely.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_69085a0	comment	Macross: Accidentally caused by the Human crew of the SDF-1 Macross from Super Dimension Fortress Macross when they tried to use the ship's alien Fold Drive without understanding it to escape an attack by a different alien race by overcharging it. This caused the ship, the nearby island, the water surrounding it, and nearby aircraft carriers to be folded into Pluto's orbit. This also caused the Fold Drive itself to fold out of spacetime leaving the Macross without a critical component required to fire their Wave-Motion Gun. They later solve this by transforming their ship it into a Humongous Mecha. Guld Goa Bowman does this in Macross Plus when he disables the limiters of the YF-21 to be able to fight the Ghost on equal terms. He succeeds, but destroys his aircraft in the process and expires from the extreme G-forces involved.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_6a2b73ca	comment	In Elite Dangerous, players can supercruise through the radiation beams on the poles of neutron stars to supercharge their Faster-Than-Light Travel drive, at the cost of internal damage.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_6a8aff51	comment	In The Stormlight Archive, if you try to channel too much power through a gemstone it will shatter.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons cosmology, "Positive Energy" makes the boo-boos go away — as long as you're not undead. However, on a Positive Energy Plane itself, unprotected living being first heals, then "heals" more, then overdoses and explodes like a firework, not even leaving any remnants to raise. Inert matter jumps right to the last stage, for that matter.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_6c12433c	comment	During the climax of White Night, Lash (who resides in the so-called "unused parts" of Harry Dresden's brain) temporarily over-clocks Harry's brain in order to gain additional time to react to a threat. It is made clear that this is a very Bad Idea and will likely result in brain damage if done for an extended period of time. In truth, this overclocking is normal in stressful situations. It can happen to normal humans during dangerous periods, for exactly the purpose of giving them a smaller reaction time. More here.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_70814599	comment	In Season 6 of Stargate SG-1 Anubis blew up Earth's gate using an Ancient device that very slowly caused energy to build up in the gate until it reached critical. Had they not strapped it to a X-302 and flown it into hyperspace the explosion would have been an extinction level event, had the Earth even remained intact.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_73afd310	comment	Pebble in the Sky: A permanent and technologically induced mental state that is implied to essentially an Overdrive situation: you think faster and clearer, and might even develop telepathic powers, but wear and tear increases. Do this for a couple of weeks, maybe some months at most, and the wear and tear is pronounced enough to make metaphorical 'engine failure' a statistical near-certainty.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Defiant, by its original design specs, suffered from this. Sisko designed it in the aftermath of Wolf-359, or to put it another way, he crammed so many high-powered weapons into a tiny saucer that its shakedown cruise almost shook it to pieces. The Federation resurrected the design in the face of the new Dominion threat and toned it down, leaving it still powerful but also functional. One of the novels had a particularly unique use: Deep Space 9 is attacked by a bunch of aliens with reflective armor that renders them and their ships immune to phaser fire. They make do, running around with bags of phasers and using them as grenades, until someone finally thinks of replicating a good old-fashioned gun. In "Empok Nor", O'Brien rigs a tricorder to explode upon command, making it a matter of MacGyvering to remove safety features preventing that type of thing from happening.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_755b343f	comment	In the Halo series, the plasma pistol can be "overcharged." This will overheat the weapon and gulp a disproportionate amount of battery power, but will short out any energy shields it hits. And from Halo 3 onwards, holding it in overcharge slowly drains its battery.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_76e539c2	comment	As of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha StrikerS, five simultaneous Starlight Breakers on Blaster Mode Level Max is Nanoha's most powerful attack. Unfortunately, it also puts enormous strain on both Raising Heart and herself, causing Raising Heart's entire frame to crack and damaging Nanoha's body from one use. Also the case with Excellion Mode in A's. Fate is also warned about similar upgrades, though she's more powerful and thus can handle it a lot better than Nanoha can. The last of the three Aces, Hayate, is so powerful, she destroyed eight Devices by simply channeling more than a fraction of her own energy through them. In other words, she has to underclock to avoid explosive overclocking in the Devices not specifically designed for her.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_77682bb8	comment	In the film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, General Hein overrides the control for Zeus, an orbital laser cannon. Firing it continuously eventually causes the destruction of the entire satellite due to a system overload.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_7981ca33	comment	WarGames brings in this trope at the climax when David Lightman locks the WOPR into playing Tic-Tac-Toe against itself, drawing in more and more power and causing several instrument panels to blow up.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_7988cb68	comment	And then there's the high explosive bullets for your sniper rifle in Mass Effect. Sure, you only get one shot before it overheats, but that one shot is a 4m radius explosion with the animation of a 10cm explosion. Nothing like watching a itty-bitty explosion sending a geth trooper flying, while being incinerated. There's actually a couple more ways to overclock your weapons in Mass Effect, including installing a larger barrel in the gun. But the explosive rounds will make everything overheat almost instantly. Even the New Game Plus ultimate sniper rifle will overload after its second shot with the explosive rounds. On the other hand, it finally means you have something close to Shepard's Cutscene Power to the Max Pistol Of Doom. Just pick your shots carefully. Legion claims that overclocking is the Geth equivalent of performance-enhancing drugs, boosting capability at the risk of long-term damage. He does however note synthetics can repair overclocking damage far more easily than organics can recuperate from performance-enhancing drugs.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_7ac38ec4	comment	Rebuild World: There are a category of knives and swords that work like this based on Lost Technology from Precursors: shoot off the safety and a lengthy Laser Blade with Absurd Cutting Power will come out and cut through walls, but only last a few seconds, before the weapon disintegrates. The main examples being household knives found in ruins, and Shiori's katana built on reverse-engineered technology from those. The latter only loses its blade when it overclocks, and the blades are considered a consumable by Shiori's MegaCorp.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_7b6a6dfc	comment	In Touhou Hisouten ~ Scarlet Weather Rhapsody (and its Expansion Pack Hisotensoku), Reisen Udongein Inaba has a move called "Patriot's Elixir" where she takes a swig of her master Eirin's shady new drug, granting a Status Buff to her attack and defense. The effects stack for each potion drunk, up to three; if she drinks a fourth, she explodes. This doesn't actually harm Reisen, but it can be devastating to her opponent. It's generally a really bad idea to do this since it makes her lose the effects of her Status Buff and the explosion is somewhat easy to avoid, but it could be useful as a surprise attack in the endgame when the loss of the buff won't make much of a difference.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_7ca39194	comment	A more explicit version occurs earlier, in Fool Moon: Harry makes a potion that he calls a "full night's rest in a bottle". He drinks it after he's exhausted himself, and it gives him such a high that he pushes himself to do powerful and delicate magic, a lot of it, in about five minutes. Five minutes after that, the potion's effect doesn't so much wear off as remind him that he's still exhausted, and he collapses. For the rest of the story, he struggles to perform any magic, with the concern being that he might have burned himself out entirely, and permanently (which, as the rest of the series shows, is not true).
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Explosive Overclocking / int_7dad8347	comment	In FreeSpace, the weapons on the GTVA Colossus are overcharged to the point that the beam emitters start melting in order to match the firepower of the Sathanas. As a result of both this and damage incurred to its armor, the ship was to spend the next few months drydocked for repairs (this was the ship the Alliance was hoping would Curb Stomp the opposing armies).
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Explosive Overclocking / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam Wing gives us the Tallgeese, which is an honourary example on account of the weak point being the pilot; the thing was so ridiculously powerful that an inexperienced or careless pilot could do themselves serious injury from sheer G-forces. The standard Mook MS of the series, the Leo, was simply Tallgeese with its performance "underclocked" back down to what normal humans could handle.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_8152d8f4	comment	It's repeatedly mentioned throughout Princess of the Blacks that Jen's connection to the Earth gives her an almost infinite supply of magical energy, but that if she draws more than the most infinitesimal fraction of that power at once, it will vaporize her. In the final battle against Voldemort, Jen (who is fatally wounded anyway), throws her connection open all the way, and in the moment before the energy surge kills her, dumps it all into a blast that vaporizes Voldemort as well.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek did this in all sorts of ways over the course of the franchise — overloading phasers, the engines, the main deflector, pretty much whatever. Star Trek: The Next Generation: There's at least one instance of a handheld phaser being rigged to overload, basically turning it into a fairly powerful grenade. It was a Shout-Out to the same thing happening to phasers occasionally on Star Trek: The Original Series. At least one episode implied that all Federation technology is designed to be overclocked to some extent, which makes a certain degree of sense when one considers how often Federation characters have to jury-rig their tech into different configurations, realignments, polarizations, etc. to solve the Negative Space Wedgie of the week. This is practically the Federation's Hat. In the episode "Tin Man", a Romulan ship, known in-universe to be slower than a Galaxy-class starship like the Enterprise-D, overclocks its engines in order to overtake the Enterprise and reach that episode's MacGuffin. The Romulan ship was noted to have done irreversible damage to their engines because of this. Averted in "Relics". Scotty chides Geordi for not padding his estimates, and later tells Geordi that he knows a particular component can take a lot more stress than the regulations say it can — because he wrote the regs, and "A good engineer is always a wee bit conservative... at least on paper." Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Defiant, by its original design specs, suffered from this. Sisko designed it in the aftermath of Wolf-359, or to put it another way, he crammed so many high-powered weapons into a tiny saucer that its shakedown cruise almost shook it to pieces. The Federation resurrected the design in the face of the new Dominion threat and toned it down, leaving it still powerful but also functional. One of the novels had a particularly unique use: Deep Space 9 is attacked by a bunch of aliens with reflective armor that renders them and their ships immune to phaser fire. They make do, running around with bags of phasers and using them as grenades, until someone finally thinks of replicating a good old-fashioned gun. In "Empok Nor", O'Brien rigs a tricorder to explode upon command, making it a matter of MacGyvering to remove safety features preventing that type of thing from happening. Star Trek: Voyager: In the two-part episode "Year of Hell", the ship is attacked by the Krenim Weapon Ship. Seven theorizes that the ship's mass prevents it from exceeding warp 6, so Voyager (which can travel at warp 9) can escape. But traveling too fast could tear parts of the heavily damaged hull off. Since it's the only way for anyone to live, Janeway orders them to do so, and as Voyager warps away, we see pieces of the hull come flying off. In the episode "Fury", the Vidians have locked onto Voyager with a clamp and then try a tractor beam as well. In a possible nod to The Undiscovered Country above:
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Explosive Overclocking / int_82643b4b	comment	Zoids: New Century has the Panzer armor for the Liger Zero, which provides a great deal of protection in addition to two powerful Hybrid Cannons. The armor is so heavy, however, that on top of slowing the Liger Zero down, it also causes it to build up a lot of heat, meaning it is reserved for particularly difficult battles — and even then, the armor must be purged immediately after use to stop the heat buildup from reaching the point of causing permanent damage.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius, surprisingly for comics about mad scientists, doesn't use this frequently, but Agatha was shown skipping warm-up mode and go for full power while reactivating decrepit machinery, with expectable (and desired) results. There's also the Smoke Knights' "Movit" potions. Movit #6 is the most potent one that your average schmuck can safely use; even Smoke Knights, whose training includes conditioning to be able to utilize the potions, tread carefully with the higher numbers. Zola (spoiler warning: not formally a Smoke Knight, but all family members have some level of the training) somehow managed to steal a vial of Movit #11, the most potent one period; it gives her a massive energy boost, but Violetta explicitly says that it'll kill her in short order as her body burns up from within. Later on, rather than outright poisoning Zola, Violetta chooses to inject her with more Movit #11 — which at that point is more lethal to her than any poison.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman storyline "Brainiac Rebirth": Superman is being chased by a trio of Brainiac's soldiers, who are equipped with devices which feed off his powers. Though, their power suits and their metabolisms become gradually overloaded with the sheer amount of absorbed power, with the result that they burst into flames within minutes.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_8e688d3c	comment	The Small Craft in Affordable Space Adventures has components that can operate up to a power level of 5, but 3 is the minimum safe power level. Running at 4-5 for too long can either blow a fuse temporarily shutting down the Small Craft, or straight up cause the Small Craft to explode.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_8e8ed866	comment	Knight Rider: "Trust Doesn't Rust". Bonnie enhances KITT's X-ray laser to fight KARR, but the weapon will only be able to fire twice before KITT's batteries are drained.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_90e2f673	comment	BattleTech has its 'myomer accelerator signal circuitry' (MASC for short), which will allow a 'Mech equipped with it to run faster than it normally could at a risk of suffering critical leg hits that goes up the longer it is used. The Supercharger works similarly (and can stack its effects with that of the MASC), but risks damaging the engine instead. And of course, BattleMechs not generously supplied with 'heat sinks' risk building up significant internal heat levels from simply moving about and using their weapons too often, which progressively impedes their performance and can in extreme cases lead to automatic emergency shutdowns, ammunition explosions, or microfusion core meltdowns. Triple Strength Myomers work as a Limit Break, as their increased strength only applies when the battlemech is nearing dangerous levels of heat; one lucky Inferno missile could send the heat spiraling out of control, resulting in a shutdown or internal ammo explosion (a Very Bad Thing). There's also an optional rule that allows a player to overcharge a PPC. This gives them extra damage but instantly ruins the weapon, possibly causing it to explode as well. In the same vein, standard and light PPCs come with built-in field inhibitors that prevent feedback from the weapon, but impose a minimum range on the weapon. Disabling it ignores the to-hit modifier for minimum range, but brings the risk of feedback and weapon destruction if the target is too far away. Also, quick-charging a Kearny-Fuchida drive. (This is seen more usually in the fiction, but the game has suitably advanced-level rules for the situation if it ever should come up in play.) Normally a JumpShip will leisurely unfurl a high-tech solar sail and use the energy from that to recharge its drive core over the course of a week or so, but in a pinch and with enough fuel it's theoretically possible to use its fusion power plant to do the job much faster. The reason this is generally considered a Dangerous Forbidden Technique is that said core is both incredibly sensitive and huge (most JumpShips are just a small bit of "extra starship" wrapped around theirs, in fact), so pushing its limits can cause anything from initially unnoticeable defects that will come back to bite the ship sometime in the future to more immediate charge loss and even fatal misjumps from which the ship fails to emerge in one piece or even at all. The Lithium-Fusion Battery allows a second jump safely by storing another charge. However, it has its own variant; with both charges dumped in, a few minor tweaks to the drive allow a Jump of up to 900 light years instead of 30. The problem is, not only are the fatal malfunctions more likely, both the drive and the battery are only good for scrap afterwards.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_91bd9685	comment	"The Mule": Part of the Emotion Control powers that the Mule has allows him to cause intuition and creativity to skyrocket, at the expense of their lives. He describes human brains as normally operating at 20% efficiency (essentially failing to use 80%), and he can use his power to force all of it to work non-stop without any chance of rest for weeks on end. He puts Ebling Mis in this state, allowing him to replicate most of a genius mathematician's life's work in only a few weeks, at the cost of killing him within the same timeframe.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_935a39be	comment	In Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Samus's Final Smash (while wearing her Power Armor) is "Zero Beam", which fires off a blast of energy powerful enough to destroy her suit afterwards. Instead of outright hurting her however, this just leaves Samus in her Zero suit.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_95e4bed	comment	In Sequential Art Art manages to make his old computer explode by trying to run a game with too high minimum requirements here. Granted he's a Walking Techbane but he didn't know it back then.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_9799ebfe	comment	Near the end of Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown overclocks a steam train engine (with three special fuel log packages) in order to reach the necessary speed to activate the time machine. There's only a minor, insignificant drawback: the third package blows up the boiler. (The reason it's insignificant? The track in use only extends to the edge of a ravine. So, it doesn't matter if the boiler explodes from the fuel logs... because it's going to hit rock bottom, regardless.)
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Explosive Overclocking / int_985ad25d	comment	Come Dragon Ball Super Goku reveals that he's been working on trying to combine Kaio Ken with Super Saiyan Blue. It's an unperfected technique that he gives only a 15% change of success to. What does failure mean? His body would literally explode in Ludicrous Gibs from the extreme strain. Naturally, it works out just fine (albeit with a brief Heroic RRoD that leaves Goku unable to properly fly, teleport, or otherwise use his energy).
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Explosive Overclocking / int_99bab75a	comment	Guld Goa Bowman does this in Macross Plus when he disables the limiters of the YF-21 to be able to fight the Ghost on equal terms. He succeeds, but destroys his aircraft in the process and expires from the extreme G-forces involved.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_9a8bf274	comment	Command & Conquer series: The Mastermind tank of Yuri's faction in Yuri's Revenge can mind-control multiple enemy units, but if it takes control of more than three its health is gradually sapped from the strain. In Command & Conquer: Generals the Chinese nuclear power plants can be forced to provide 50% more power, but you better get started building more because overloading the reactors leads to the building slowly destroying itself. This can even be used offensively, by hijacking opponents power plants and deliberately putting them into overload mode. When they blow, they'll contaminate a large area and damage any troops/vehicles in it. In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, many units, such as the Soviet Dreadnought or Kirov Airship can be ordered to fire their weapons faster or move faster, at the detriment of the unit's health.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a0b025d2	comment	Averted in Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Firing a Proton Pack causes heat to build up inside the particle accelerator. Too much heat, and the pack goes critical with the force of several megaton bombs. The original 'packs had this problem, but the new, 1990 pack — a consequence of the Ghostbusters' new contract with the city — has a cut-out feature that shuts the pack down, allows it to cool, and restarts it about five seconds later. Of course, this is incredibly dangerous when you're surrounded by ghosts looking to take you out, so there's also a manual vent option, which has a cycle-time of about a second, making it the preferred option to usenote Realistically, the only time you would use the failsafe venting option would be if you were not paying attention to your heat levels, though the Meson Collider's primary fire generates heat so quickly you might force autoshutdown a few times before you're used to it.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a15c03fd	comment	The Mechanic class in Starfinder can do this to powered weapons, creating a makeshift grenade by doing so.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Subverted and mocked in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" when, in an attempt to save the members of the Star Trek cast, Fry suggests they do a crazy reconfiguring of the ship like they had done on the fictional show in the past. Leela suggests shifting power around and reconfiguring the weapons to the villain's frequency to create an energy ray that may overload his quantum structure. Then there's a shot of Bender with a blow torch working on the ship, and after a few moments of work he says, "Ok. I'm done reconfooballing the energymotron, or whatever." In "Overclockwise", Cubert overclocks Bender to increase his reaction speed in a video game, and Bender proceeds to increase his processing power until he becomes omnipotent but has to use Niagra Falls as a cooling system.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a4ff8e01	comment	In Fate/Grand Order, the Rider-class Servant Mandricado has this with his Noble Phantasm Serment de Durandal. He can imbue any weapon he gets a hold of with the power of the legendary sword Durandal, even if that "weapon" is just a wooden stick...but he can't copy Durandal's (unbreakable) durability. As a result, any weapon he uses inevitably ends up exploding from overuse, forcing him to get a new one. This is also how Chen Gong's Noble Phantasm Two-Pronged Formation works. He deliberately overcharges an ally with mana so that they effectively become a living bomb while masking it as him firing an explosive arrow. In-game, this takes the form of an incredibly potent attack that sacrifices an ally.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a52def46	comment	Kerbal Space Program: Cramming too many engines too close to one another and firing them all at full throttle is guaranteed to make them overheat rapidly. Let them get too hot, and all those engines will explode spectacularly.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a660fd96	comment	In the direct sequel, Endgame, Thanos uses the damaged gauntlet to destroy the Infinity Stones off-screen, which, combined with the terrible wound Thor gave him at the end of Infinity War, almost killed him. The gauntlet became fused to his arm and has lost all the gold shine it once had, and Thanos is visibly struggling to breathe quite often. Later in Endgame, both Hulk and Iron Man use the Stones with a new gauntlet, and suffer in a similar fashion to Thanos. Hulk's arm becomes crippled from their power, and Iron Man doesn't survive their use.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a6658fee	comment	Captain Tupolev pushes the attack submarine V.K. Konovalov to catch up with the Red October.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a8610093	comment	In Frostpunk, you can put your generator on overdrive to increase its heat output (great for getting through harsh weather or saving coal), but you can't keep it running like that forever. Should you let the generator overheat to 100%, you have a single opportunity to stop it from having a castrophic meltdown by either spending a precious and limited Steam Core or send a child to its certain death to fix it momentarily, causing ''massive'' damage to your Hope and Discontent levels. If you let it overheat a second time or don't bother fixing it the first time, the generator explodes. Game Over.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_a96a7ada	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh!, There is a card called "Limiter Removal" that will double the attack strength of all Machine-type monsters on the field, destroying them all at the end of the turn. Another such card called "Power Bond" is used as a fusion card for Machine-type fusion monsters; it doubles the ATK of the monster summoned by its effect, but the player of the card suffers damage equal to the original ATK of the monster summoned when the turn ends. The trap card "Overworked" (pictured above) destroys all monsters with increased ATK.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_ab67d84	comment	In Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ethan discovers that his computer has exploded. Naturally, he blames Ted (a penguin who couldn't have possibly done it), when a video recording suggests that Ethan most likely blew up the computer himself because he tried to water cool it with liquid nitrogen.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_b0028436	comment	Wamuu, from Part 2 of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, has a technique dubbed "Final Mode: Atmospheric Rift", where he draws an incredible amount of air into his body, compresses it, then fires it from his cranial horn as a highly destructive and focused cyclone. This ability is saved as a last resort, since the friction and heat it builds up in Wamuu's body causes it to gradually tear itself asunder.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_b2b6bfff	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_b2b6bfff	comment	In Second Empire, Anzollo all but smashes his ship's gravitic lens to rip apart a pursuing Dalek force in a gravity pulse.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_b3933a70	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_b3933a70	comment	Home Improvement: Most examples of Tim Taylor Technology actualy made by Tim Taylor have this result in one way or another.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_b78ae0b5	comment	In The Blues Brothers, this is what the Bluesmobile is doing during the final epic chase sequence from the Palace Hotel Ballroom to Chicago City Hall, presumably because it's on a Mission from God. It eludes cops, Illinois Nazis, and the Good Ole Boys, gets Jake and Elwood to the Cook County Assessor's Office in record time, and then suffers Critical Existence Failure and collapses into a pile of scrap metal.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_b8eb4fe5	comment	Li Kohran in Sakura Wars can do absolutely miraculous things with an iron/coal/steam technology base, but almost everything she makes beyond simple utilitarian items blows up after one incredibly successful use. Or during that use.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_b9b796cf	comment	In Fate/stay night, when Archer uses a Broken Phantasm against Berserker early on in the Unlimited Blade Works route, his Master Rin has a minor freakout because he seemingly destroyed one of his Noble Phantasms seemingly on a whim. He does this again when fighting Caster, using another Noble Phantasm very similar to the one he used against Berserker. As it turns out, Archer's true ability is Projection magic, which allows him to replicate other Noble Phantasms infinitely — this means that he can use Broken Phantasms as much as he wants with no loss to him, something very terrifying if other Servants knew about this. In fact, this is a necessity for him because the replicas are naturally inferior to the real deals and the overclocking is necessary to boost their power enough to match the originals.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_bbc9be27	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_bbc9be27	comment	Toontown: Corporate Clash: Bellringer can heal any Cogs who fight alongside him in battle. If an overhealed Cog is destroyed in one turn, it will become unstable and explode, dealing damage to everyone in the fight and weakening Bellringer's healing.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_bc531e07	comment	Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: Leon's Robot Buddy Luxion does this to his Hover Bike to help win a race, and he just barely escapes it exploding after the race finishes.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 does this multiple times, with both machines and living things — the Tyranids biologically "overclock" broods of monstrous mooks that are even more dangerous than normal, but die messily within minutes after being deployed, the Imperium's Eversor Assassin ramps up his metabolism to the point that his blood explodes if he dies. This is also represented in-game with "turbo-charged" Rhinos (which go faster, but may break), plasma weapons that can overheat (up to 4th Edition rules, they had a greater chance of overheating the more shots they fired), and in Dawn of War by supa-charging Ork Meganobz, making them go fasta but damaging them.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, Damien does this to himself, increasing the intensity of his Wreathed in Flames ability to the point that he turned himself into an Action Bomb in an attempt to kill Grace.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_bf24c7bb	comment	In Chernobyl, Legasov's testimony reveals that the night shift of the titular power plant did this by mistake. In order to stop the reactor from choking on xenon, they removed almost all the control rods (at Dyatlov's insistance), causing a power spike far beyond what the reactor was designed to put out. The final reading before the core detonated was 33,000 watts, and it was almost certainly far beyond that—it was just the highest number the panel could register. By some estimates, Reactor 4 briefly produced enough wattage to satisfy the entire planet, and then it exploded.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_bff01809	comment	In Warhammer pretty much any Skaven "wonder weapon" tends to be souped-up equivalents of other races' weapons but with a higher chance to go wrong. They totallu embracing this trope with the ratling gun — a two (rat)man-portable multi-barreled rifle. You get as many shots as you roll on a dice and can either stop there,or roll again. And again. And again. But if at any time you roll the same number as one you rolled before then it has funny and most likely lethal consequences.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c090b10d	comment	In one episode of Scrappy Races, the Barley Pickers' captain attempted to overclock their huge lorry / tractor hybrid by loosening the diesel engine's governor. The nut he was adjusting came off in his hand, and the engine tore itself apart. It's implied that the engine went into diesel engine runaway and could not be stopped until a fire extinguisher was released into its air intake.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Dialing a 9-symbol address to reach the Destiny billions of lightyears away in Stargate Universe requires overclocking the Stargate using a planet with a naquida core. It's such a power release that any instability causes an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. Destiny was dialed twice and subsequently the galaxy now has two fewer planets. The third (heavily populated) planet with a naquida core is understandably unwilling to dial Destiny, and is not reassured by Rodney's claim that they have found a way to dial Destiny without blowing up the planet.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c0d295c4	comment	In Team Fortress 2, apparently the Medic's ubercharge requires the implant of a mega baboon's heart because trying to use it on a normal heart will cause it to explode from the voltage from the machine that allows the subject to undergo the ubercharge's effect.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c2e48301	comment	In The Hunt for Red October, the Russian Alfa subs are desperately attempting to catch up to the titular escaping sub, redlining the reactors and working the engines for all they're worth. The engine room technicians notice a possible problem and want to slow down in order to perform a repair, but the political officer doesn't want to waste time and orders the Overclock to continue. It doesn't take long for things to go badly. The process is meticulously described in an epitomical example of Technology Porn.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c39178f6	comment	In Blassreiter, Sasha dies shooting down nuclear missiles, firing the main cannon on Bow Rider long after the supplementary cooling systems failed, and long after she was informed that the heat would BURN HER ALIVE INSIDE.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In "Journey's End", Donna nearly suffers from a biological version of this, with her body unable to contain the Doctor's intellect.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c7fe972d	comment	A literal case in Tron 2.0 where Jet overclocks an archaic Encom mainframe to upload Ma3a to it in order to get her to relative safety. Said ancient mainframe does not survive for very long after he does this, forcing him and Ma3a to retreat to the open Internet.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c8c98633	comment	The Mastermind tank of Yuri's faction in Yuri's Revenge can mind-control multiple enemy units, but if it takes control of more than three its health is gradually sapped from the strain.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_c8c98634	comment	In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, many units, such as the Soviet Dreadnought or Kirov Airship can be ordered to fire their weapons faster or move faster, at the detriment of the unit's health.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_cad14da4	comment	Transformers: Generation 2: Since the Swarm is basically a Gray Goo entity, some of the Autobot-Decepticon alliance tactical think-tank believe it can be damaged by sonic energy. Frenzy is loaded with disruptive sonic emitters. Wheeljack has a generator the size of a barn. They hook up the former to the latter, and while it succeeds in repelling the Swarm for a brief while, after a short period of time the sheer amount of power being forced into Frenzy's sonic emitters is too much, and a violent harmonic resonance ensues. The generator explodes, Frenzy literally shakes himself to pieces, and the Swarm continues its attack. Frenzy, being a loud and murderous little violence-gremlin of a Decepticon, is perfectly happy dying this way.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_cbf0ee94	comment	EVE Online features a system called "Heat", whereby one can overload certain shipboard modules. The tradeoff for significantly improved performance is that the heat accumulation from running them like this for an extended period will damage the module and others adjacent to it, resulting in repair costs at the least, and inoperative modules if you overload it too long. Totally worth it if you know when to use it. This ability is made available by training the skill "Thermodynamics" which also reduces the heat produced by overloaded modules.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d055ec81	comment	Etheric gauntlets in The Cinder Spires generate a fair amount of waste heat, so there's a limited number of shots you can fire before you have to stop and let it cool off. Of course, if you're desperate and/or don't care about burning your arm off...
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d3cc40b5	comment	From Embers in the Dusk: During the first Ork invasion, a decision is made to hold back the fleet and sacrifice the orbital defenses in a last stand. Naturally there is little point to keep all the safeties which prevent the need for repairs after every battle when this is the last one. Jane's Last Hunters. Without the Emperor's expertise, the only way you can match Astartes augmentations is at the cost of two thirds of one's life expectancy.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d4642985	comment	In the Revelation Space Series novel Redemption Ark, Skade tries to overclock her inertia-suppressing engine to go faster than light. It fails, kills her technicians, and blows up.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d4c6e9c7	comment	Also, in the Blood series, there's a Tesla Gun you can Overclock to shoot a much more powerful and ammo consuming shot with alternate fire, but you can't shoot it again in a few seconds afterwards, while in the normal shoot mode it shoots at automatic rate. It is powerful enough to kill even some Bosses in a few shots.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d4e47577	comment	The BFG 9000 from DoomÂ³ is a chargeable weapon with five levels. Level 1 will take out any zombies and low level mooks (like imps, wraiths and maggots) in the area and cost one BFG unit. Level 2 will include Revenants and Commando Zombies and take two units. Level 3 will take out Mancubi and regular Hellknights and take three units. Level 4 will kill anything short of bosses and take four units. Level 5 will explode the gun and kill the user and anyone nearby.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d4e486c7	comment	In Dota 2, Clockwerk's Aghanim's Scepter upgrade gives him an ability that allows him to overclock his Powered Armor, temporarily powering up all of his other abilities at the cost of slowing himself to a crawl when the duration runs out.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d5166b44	comment	And from Halo 3 onwards, holding it in overcharge slowly drains its battery.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d56cafaf	comment	Power Rangers RPM had Flynn solving a problem with his Ranger powers by putting the battery into his Morpher backwards (more or less), resulting in a weaponized henshin explosion (as said explosions were pointed out by Ziggy earlier in the episode, they're apparently the result of runoff energy during the morphing sequence).
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d59e2ca4	comment	Quake's Thunderbolt gun + water = full discharge of cells and instagibbing of everyone in the vicinity including you.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d5c8b37a	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_d5c8b37a	comment	Usable on many FPS weapons, but the strangest occurrence is the Mag 60 from Turok 2 onwards, which uses its alt-fire instantly, blasting an oil drum-sized hole in the torso of the enemy soldier and using 15 shots automatically. Despite that, it looks like a typical automatic handgun (resembling the Time Crisis guns but realistically painted, even with the same gunfire motion) and you pick up small boxes of bullets. So...what the hell is it? Note that there's a recovery time afterwards, while you can fire all 60 shots without reloading normally, meaning they must all be loaded in at once. It's pretty much nonsensical on all fronts. In System Shock 2, The Argon Laser Pistol can be configured to fire in Overload mode. The same game also allows you to overload your brain when using the Psi Amp. In the original System Shock, all energy weapons feature an "Overload" option, with the realization that the weapon will instantly overheat when fired (requiring two to four seconds before it can be fired again) and that it will take a large amount of your global energy to fire. Still, using the powerful Ion Rifle on overload will kill almost anything in one shot. The semi-secret, hard-to-find Plasma Rifle will kill anything in one overloaded shot. Also, in the Blood series, there's a Tesla Gun you can Overclock to shoot a much more powerful and ammo consuming shot with alternate fire, but you can't shoot it again in a few seconds afterwards, while in the normal shoot mode it shoots at automatic rate. It is powerful enough to kill even some Bosses in a few shots. In Take No Prisoners, one of the last weapons is a Plasma Cannon that can be charged for more powerful shots at larger ammo costs. But if you charge it long enough, the gun explodes with you.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d5e9cf36	comment	XCOM 2 features an interesting meta example: apparently, one of the developers was frustrated by long loading times and put in a shortcut to force the game to load everything required for the next scene in the space of a single frame by pushing the escape key. This feature was overlooked and made it into the final product undocumented, allowing players to use it as well. With a sufficiently powerful computer, this can reduce the game's load times to almost nothing. But with a less powerful computer, it will immediately crash the game as the engine tries to load all assets immediately and usually hits a buffer overrun or simply exceeds the memory limit.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d7dc4ddd	comment	In The Witch of the Everfree, after she reads the Clover Manuscript, Sunset Shimmer figures out how to force extra mana into simple spells. However, as more mana is put into a spell, the spell becomes increasingly likely to blow up in the caster's face.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_d9f8873f	comment	The 1937 Disney short Mickey's Amateurs includes a performance by "Bandmaster Goofy and his 50-piece band", which turns out to be a mechanical contraption that allows Goofy to play a banjo and assorted wind, brass, and percussion instruments. The machine functions well (mostly) for the easy-going "In the Good Old Summertime", but when he declares, "Okay, fellers! Let's get hot!" and cranks things up for "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight", the machine goes berserk, repeatedly mashing instruments into Goofy's face until it finally explodes in a shower of gears and drums.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_db78104f	comment	In Barbie and the Secret Door, this is how Malucia is defeated; Alexa lets her absorb all of her magic until the scepter explodes.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_de3de959	comment	In Incompatible System, the Quarians, when cornered by Batarian ships, overcharge their main gun to the point of slagging it. It destroys one enemy and cripples another, allowing them to run.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_de78ac33	comment	Wing Commander: The human fleet is running their reactors at full blast in order to reach the enemy hyperspace exit in time, but it's not enough, so the captain orders the fleet to run the reactors above 100% (this is part of maritime terminology, 100% being the maximum safe level; at this point, they're overloading the engines). At a certain point, a member of the crew informs him that they've lost a number of ships due to reactor overloads. He repeats the importance of getting there in time, and orders the reactors' power to be increased even further.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_df6c9f95	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_df6c9f95	comment	Airwolf has an absolute top speed of around Mach 2.5. However, anything approaching Mach 2 is straining on the copter, so the computer auto-limits the turbos' power. In one episode, String has Dom "remove the cap", allowing Airwolf to reach her potential top speed.
Explosive Overclocking / int_df6c9f95	featureApplicability	1.0
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Airwolf	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_df6c9f95
Explosive Overclocking / int_df7cf082	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_df7cf082	comment	In Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Iinstalling too many Experimental augmentations can cause a lot of problems ranging from in-universe interface glitches to horrible backfiring. This can be mitigated by either disabling certain normal augs or by obtaining a Neuroplasticity Calibrator that allows Adam's surgeon to remove the limits completely.
Explosive Overclocking / int_df7cf082	featureApplicability	1.0
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_df7cf082
Explosive Overclocking / int_e1575a9d	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e1575a9d	comment	Largo from MegaTokyo is this trope personified. If he sees a computer, he will overclock it, and he will do it spectacularly. Even so, it should be noted that he takes measures to prevent it from exploding on its own: He wears "minimal clothing" while at the computer (if that), and he fills rooms with fans to prevent overheating. This may seem excessive, but his measures turn out to be Properly Paranoid: a single spark of static electricity has been shown to turn his systems into high-yield explosives.
Explosive Overclocking / int_e1575a9d	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_e1575a9d	featureConfidence	1.0
MegaTokyo	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e1575a9d
Explosive Overclocking / int_e270b7e1	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e270b7e1	comment	In Genius: The Transgression, a Genius can superchange any piece of technology, but doing so can result in heavy damage or even destroy it.
Explosive Overclocking / int_e270b7e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_e270b7e1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Explosive Overclocking / int_e278316b	comment	The Prisoner: When the eponymous computer in "The General" is posed an impossible question, instead of just shutting down and producing an error message like any normal computer, the General proceeds to redline its meter, produce copious smoke, and electrocute its creators.
Explosive Overclocking / int_e278316b	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_e278316b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Prisoner (1967)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e278316b
Explosive Overclocking / int_e392e047	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e392e047	comment	In Gundam Build Divers, Riku's 00 Diver, based off of the 00 Gundam above, suffers the same thing, though it's explained that his build isn't perfected, so it's not going to work right. It scares Riku into trying to fight without Trans-Am for awhile, though. Mobile Suit Gundam Wing gives us the Tallgeese, which is an honourary example on account of the weak point being the pilot; the thing was so ridiculously powerful that an inexperienced or careless pilot could do themselves serious injury from sheer G-forces. The standard Mook MS of the series, the Leo, was simply Tallgeese with its performance "underclocked" back down to what normal humans could handle.
Explosive Overclocking / int_e392e047	featureApplicability	1.0
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Gundam Build Divers	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e392e047
Explosive Overclocking / int_e4732abc	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e4732abc	comment	Atlantis Season 5 has the Atero Device. An Ancient weapon designed to disable Wraith hyperdrives across the whole galaxy, but it had a nasty side effect. The subspace static it generated caused energy to rapidly build up in any active stargate, causing it to violently explode in a matter of seconds. The Atlantis team had to collapse the city's ZPM powered shield to encompass just the gate, and it still wasn't enough to mitigate the explosion.
Explosive Overclocking / int_e4732abc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Stargate Atlantis	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e4732abc
Explosive Overclocking / int_e5c5bc22	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e5c5bc22	comment	In GURPS: Ultra-Tech beam weapons can be set to fire "hotshots" at the price of gaining a ridiculous Malfunction rating. In High-Tech loading early firearms or any automatic ones with Extra-Powerful ammunition increases the risk of failure.
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Explosive Overclocking / int_e5c5bc22	featureConfidence	1.0
GURPS (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e5c5bc22
Explosive Overclocking / int_e5fd2cef	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e5fd2cef	comment	In Lensman, the bad guys invent a new devastating weapon on the fly at the beginning of the second novel by explosive overclocking of their energy weapons into Wave-Motion Gun territory. Eventually, both sides figure out how to do this "safely," and future wars are fought by with "primary beams" that blow up entire gun mounts in explosive overclocking reminiscent of Real Life bomb pumped lasers.
Explosive Overclocking / int_e5fd2cef	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_e5fd2cef	featureConfidence	1.0
Lensman	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e5fd2cef
Explosive Overclocking / int_e6267766	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: Anakin Solo experienced one of these in order to save his sister Jaina, and defeat the Voxyn Queen, then experienced a Super-Power Meltdown.
Explosive Overclocking / int_e6267766	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_e6267766	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Wars Legends (Franchise)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e6267766
Explosive Overclocking / int_e817aba1	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e817aba1	comment	Battletech allows you to redline your heat, but if you go over the "safe" heat level, it results in the 'Mech taking internal damage (meaning you will at least require some time in the repair bay after the mission, and worst case, a weak component could explode or the 'Mech could blow up, if the center torso is sufficiently damaged). If heat is maxed out, the 'Mech shuts down entirely, losing any defensive or evasion bonuses and allowing other pilots to make Called Shots on it, the same as if it was knocked down. Higher Guts ratings for pilots will result in a higher "safe" heat level, though the max will remain the same, and Gladiators (pilots that take the Master Guts skill) can use "Vent Coolant", which apparently expels a load of hot coolant to immediately reduce heat, but resulting in heat accumulation over the next three rounds (the ability is not lore-friendly, for what it's worth).
Explosive Overclocking / int_e817aba1	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_e817aba1	featureConfidence	1.0
BattleTech (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e817aba1
Explosive Overclocking / int_e837917e	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_e837917e	comment	In I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job, Magitek items can create truly spectacular effects when fed large amounts of magical power, such as a washing machine producing a tsunami or a hairdryer producing gale-force winds, with a risk of exploding. Demons, who naturally produce more magic than humans, are prone to accidental "overclocking" when trying to use appliances.
Explosive Overclocking / int_e837917e	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_e837917e	featureConfidence	1.0
I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_e837917e
Explosive Overclocking / int_ea377bc0	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_ea377bc0	comment	In the original System Shock, all energy weapons feature an "Overload" option, with the realization that the weapon will instantly overheat when fired (requiring two to four seconds before it can be fired again) and that it will take a large amount of your global energy to fire. Still, using the powerful Ion Rifle on overload will kill almost anything in one shot. The semi-secret, hard-to-find Plasma Rifle will kill anything in one overloaded shot.
Explosive Overclocking / int_ea377bc0	featureApplicability	1.0
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System Shock (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_ea377bc0
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Explosive Overclocking / int_eaebcae5	comment	In the live-action marionette show Fireball XL5, the titular spacecraft is actually Explosively Overclocked every time the main engines are run at full power. It's just that it takes some time for the engines to heat up to the point of exploding and the pilot knows how far he can push it before lowering the power. When he isn't around to shut down the engines, the engine explodes (non-fatally) and use of a manual fire extinguisher is required.
Explosive Overclocking / int_eaebcae5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Explosive Overclocking / int_ec28245c	comment	Goku also did this in Dragon Ball Z with his KaiÅ� Ken overtaking his body limits when he used the multiplier effect way beyond King Kai recommendation against Vegeta and latter Frieza. His body is able to adapt to the degree of "overclocking" he used against Vegeta, so naturally Goku has to overclock himself even more just to keep up with Frieza. The Super Saiyan state is alluded to be this as both Goku and Vegeta note that it puts huge amounts of strain on their bodies and when preparing to fight Cell Goku focuses on reducing this strain as opposed to getting stronger like Vegeta did, allowing it to be used constantly and more effectively. SSJ 3 burns through several hours worth of Goku's day on earth in just a few moments (and later he is unable to maintain the state for more than a few moments before it drains all his stamina) and shortens Goten and Trunks fusion from half an hour to five minutes (leaving them unable to even turn Super Saiyan afterwards). Come Dragon Ball Super Goku reveals that he's been working on trying to combine Kaio Ken with Super Saiyan Blue. It's an unperfected technique that he gives only a 15% change of success to. What does failure mean? His body would literally explode in Ludicrous Gibs from the extreme strain. Naturally, it works out just fine (albeit with a brief Heroic RRoD that leaves Goku unable to properly fly, teleport, or otherwise use his energy). Worth mentioning of course are the Scouters: it's implied that they explode due to the strain of having to read such high battle powers. Newer models can read higher levels, but nearly all have blown up at some point because of this.
Explosive Overclocking / int_ec28245c	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_ec28245c	featureConfidence	1.0
Dragon Ball Z	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_ec28245c
Explosive Overclocking / int_ed0803a7	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_ed0803a7	comment	Captain Sulu pushes the Excelsior in The Undiscovered Country
Explosive Overclocking / int_ed0803a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_ed0803a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_ed0803a7
Explosive Overclocking / int_ede28baa	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_ede28baa	comment	Overclocking the ARS in Vanquish by removing its limiters can have unpleasant effects on the user. In-game, if Sam takes too much fire from enemy troops, he passes out, and the suit's attempts to repair and compensate for the damage result in its engine overloading and exploding. Naturally, the final boss is too fast and requires the limiters to be removed so that Sam can match him, though it's strongly implied that this could straight up kill him if it's run for too long, and he does seem to have some difficulty recovering afterwards.
Explosive Overclocking / int_ede28baa	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_ede28baa	featureConfidence	1.0
Vanquish (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_ede28baa
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Explosive Overclocking / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: In the two-part episode "Year of Hell", the ship is attacked by the Krenim Weapon Ship. Seven theorizes that the ship's mass prevents it from exceeding warp 6, so Voyager (which can travel at warp 9) can escape. But traveling too fast could tear parts of the heavily damaged hull off. Since it's the only way for anyone to live, Janeway orders them to do so, and as Voyager warps away, we see pieces of the hull come flying off. In the episode "Fury", the Vidians have locked onto Voyager with a clamp and then try a tractor beam as well. In a possible nod to The Undiscovered Country above:
Explosive Overclocking / int_ef076a36	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_ef076a36	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Voyager	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_ef076a36
Explosive Overclocking / int_f54137a1	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_f54137a1	comment	Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon: During the Boss Fight against the Ice Worm, the only way to take down its extra strength shields in the last section of the Boss Fight is for Rusty to overcharge the Rail Cannon to dangerous levels. The resulting hit takes down the worm's shields, but will also disable the rail cannon, so that if the player cannot finish off the worm before it recovers, the boss fight is automatically failed.
Explosive Overclocking / int_f54137a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_f54137a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_f54137a1
Explosive Overclocking / int_f84ec202	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_f84ec202	comment	In Terminus, ships are given a rated maximum speed based on their relative hull strength. Smaller, sleeker ships can go faster, while the larger ships, with their heavier loadouts, are not nearly as quick. In an emergency, though, you can continue applying thrust, pushing your ship past its rated maximum. There's a marginal "safe" excess the ship can go, after which the hull stress will literally tear your ship apart. And don't even think about turning in this state, because trying to shift that excess momentum is deadly.
Explosive Overclocking / int_f84ec202	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_f84ec202	featureConfidence	1.0
Terminus (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_f84ec202
Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc30f10	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc30f10	comment	In Robot Arena 2 you can attach motors to other motors to make weapons such as spinning blades spin faster. Due to a glitch with the physics engine (known as Havok Explosions), this can also result in the entire robot flying up into the air and bounce off of walls.
Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc30f10	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc30f10	featureConfidence	1.0
Robot Arena (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc30f10
Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc66d32	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc66d32	comment	In Kamen Rider Double, the hero's forms (actually, the heroes' forms) come from two Gaia Memory Transformation Trinkets, and the Maximum Drive Finishing Moves is activated by placing just one of those into their weapon for weapon finishers or a side-slot for the physical ones. Doing both when desperate (such as when the Weather Dopant was getting the better of them) is very, very much not recommended. It'll increase your power, but also the strain on the components and wearer — it's a good way to fry the suit and yourselves! This keeps the "Twin Maximum" a Dangerous Forbidden Technique.
Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc66d32	featureApplicability	1.0
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Kamen Rider Double	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_fdc66d32
Explosive Overclocking / int_febb8460	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_febb8460	comment	Done in NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind (the movie) where Kushana, faced with an advancing horde of Ohmu, activates the nascent God Warrior prematurely and sends it into battle. It fires several rounds, then falls apart.
Explosive Overclocking / int_febb8460	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_febb8460	featureConfidence	1.0
NausicaÃ¤ of the Valley of the Wind (Manga)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_febb8460
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff395105	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff395105	comment	In Helldivers II, the Railgun is set to Safe Mode by default, which locks maximum charge to 50% power. This can be toggled to Unsafe Mode, which unlocks the limiter and enables charging to 100% power... with the caveat that if the player holds the charge too long, the gun will blow up in their hands and kill them.
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff395105	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff395105	featureConfidence	1.0
Helldivers (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_ff395105
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ab17f	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: There's at least one instance of a handheld phaser being rigged to overload, basically turning it into a fairly powerful grenade. It was a Shout-Out to the same thing happening to phasers occasionally on Star Trek: The Original Series. At least one episode implied that all Federation technology is designed to be overclocked to some extent, which makes a certain degree of sense when one considers how often Federation characters have to jury-rig their tech into different configurations, realignments, polarizations, etc. to solve the Negative Space Wedgie of the week. This is practically the Federation's Hat. In the episode "Tin Man", a Romulan ship, known in-universe to be slower than a Galaxy-class starship like the Enterprise-D, overclocks its engines in order to overtake the Enterprise and reach that episode's MacGuffin. The Romulan ship was noted to have done irreversible damage to their engines because of this. Averted in "Relics". Scotty chides Geordi for not padding his estimates, and later tells Geordi that he knows a particular component can take a lot more stress than the regulations say it can — because he wrote the regs, and "A good engineer is always a wee bit conservative... at least on paper."
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ab17f	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Star Trek: The Next Generation	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ab17f
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ca30	type	Explosive Overclocking
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ca30	comment	In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Samus's Phazon corruption and PED suit allow her to overclock herself by sending her into Hyper Mode whenever she wants, which uses health as ammo and causes total corruption if she stays in it for too long. Strangely enough, there are some enemies that will induce this mode in Samus as a form of attack. The logic behind it is essentially taking an enemy that can already overpower herself and pushing the berserk button, on the off chance she'll lose herself in rage before she can blow your face off.note They don't purposefully activate her hypermode. They are simply armed with phazon weapons of their own, which when absorbed into Samus's body overload her phazon supply. The only way to purge said phazon is to enter hypermode, otherwise she would end up corrupted.
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ca30	featureApplicability	1.0
Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ca30	featureConfidence	1.0
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Video Game)	hasFeature	Explosive Overclocking / int_ff9ca30

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Explosive Overclocking	processingCategory2	Older Than Radio
Eureka Seven AO / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
GaoGaiGar / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Ghost in the Shell / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Ghost in the Shell (1995) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Girls und Panzer der Film / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Gundam 00: A Wakening of the Trailblazer / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Lupin III: Part 6 / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Noein / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Rebuild of Evangelion / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Robot Carnival / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Galaxy Railways / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Brainiac Rebirth (Comic Book) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Joe Bar Team (Comic Book) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Mega Man (Archie Comics) (Comic Book) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Sonic the Hedgehog (IDW) (Comic Book) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
InfiniteStratosIchikaQuest-FuckStatusQuo	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
Professor Arc / Fan Fic / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Shinji and Warhammer 40k / Fan Fic / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Collector Hero: Synthesis (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
ElementalsofHarmony	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
Empress Ascendant (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Flashback (MHA) (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Future Tense (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Hybrid Hive: Eat Shard? (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Infinite Stratos: Ichika Quest – Fuck Status Quo (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Mega Man ZX 3 Omegas Ascension (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
My Hero Academia: Ultra Achievement (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Reality Intrudes (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Skyreach (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
TheArtificialIntelligencePrinciple	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
The Girl of Tomorrow (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Hill of Swords (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The New Man: An Adam Smasher SI (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Witch of the Everfree (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Type-2 Hero (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Worm: More Than Meets the Eye (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Aliens / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Back to the Future Part III / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Dead Heat / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Dr. No / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
FeardotCom / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Ford v Ferrari / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Galaxy Quest / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Iron Man 3 / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
J-Men Forever / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Max Steel / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Metropolis / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Aliens / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Moscow — Cassiopeia / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Outpost / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Pulse / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Richie Rich / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Star Trek: Insurrection / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Blues Brothers / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Castle of Fu Manchu / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Fast and the Furious (2001) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Return of Swamp Thing / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Thunderbirds Are Go / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Top Gun: Maverick / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Fate Series (Franchise) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Chakona Space / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Delve / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Knight's & Magic / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Lensman / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Salvation War / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Song of the Quarkbeast / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Vertical Run / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockB	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
EvilOverlordListCellblockB	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
ExplosiveOverClocking	sameAs	Explosive Overclocking
Hremsfeld	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
JohnTyler	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
Russian Proverbs and Expressions	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
ScrapheapChallenge	seeAlso	Explosive Overclocking
Angelic Layer (Manga) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Dimension W (Manga) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Mega Man Megamix (Manga) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
MegaMan NT Warrior (2001) (Manga) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Phantasy Star Online 2 EPISODE 0 (Manga) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Trigun (Manga) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Yotsuba&! (Manga) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Errorverse: Tropes T-Y (Roleplay) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Hyperspace Evangelion (Roleplay) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
BattleBots / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Fireball XL5 / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Home Improvement / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Lab Rats / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Robot Combat League / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Warehouse 13 / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Star Fleet Battles (Tabletop Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Affordable Space Adventures (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Artemis: Spaceship Bridge Simulator (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Asphalt (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
BeamNG (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Code 7 (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Conway's Game of Life (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Crysis (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Deep Rock Galactic (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Deltarune (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
EVE Online (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Elsword (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
FTL: Faster Than Light Multiverse (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Final Fantasy III (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Half-Life 2 (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Helldivers (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Kerbal Space Program (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Kyle Is Famous (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Lightmatter (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
MapleStory (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Marathon (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
MechWarrior (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Medicalat (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Mega Man 11 (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Mega Man Battle Network 2 (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
People Playground (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Railroad Tycoon (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
RefleX (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Sakura Wars (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Sega Superstars (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Shadowverse (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Space Rangers (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Star Trek: Starfleet Command (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Star Trek Text Game (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Starsector (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Surgeon Simulator 2013 (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
System Shock 2 (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Team Fortress 2 Classic (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Game of Life (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Stanley Parable (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Transarctica (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
TRON 2.0 (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Vanquish (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Way of the Samurai (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
World of Warships (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
ULTRAKILL (Video Game) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
gen:LOCK (Web Animation) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Shut Up! Cartoons (Web Animation) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Kaskade Region (Web Video) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Magical Girl Neil (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
One-Punch Man (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Second Empire (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Sequential Art (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Big Hero 6: The Series / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Mickey's Amateurs / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Monsters University / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Superman: Red Son / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Teamo Supremo / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Angry Birds Movie / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
The Real Ghostbusters / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Transformers: Animated / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Facing the Future Series (Fanfic) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Problem Child / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking
Dreamscape (Web Animation) / int_3eed59a8	type	Explosive Overclocking

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