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In Latin, nanus means "dwarf." In science, the prefix nano- means "one billionth" of something. Nanotechnology is technology on a scale of 1-100 nanometers (1 nanometer being one billionth of a meter).
Nanotechnology has become an all-purpose magic substitute for soft science fiction and sci-fi-flavored fantasy. Nano is the latest Sci Fi Name Buzzword; it is the new pseudo-Greek for phlebotinum. Nanotech supplies a myriad of exciting powers with a satisfying patina of plausibility.
As a result, Nanobots lead to interesting plots and settings even in otherwise hard science fiction. After all, if one could make a tiny robot at the nanometer scalenote A hydrogen atom is about 0.1 nanometers across, visible light has a wavelength of 400-800 nanometers and a human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide and that little robot created another, and those two robots made four...
Once you have a vast mass of these robots, all ready to accept orders and shuffle stuff around at the molecular level, they can potentially do anything nature does and much, much more. Real-life nanomachine research is being done in areas such as medicine, manufacturing, and chemical engineering.
More often, fiction delights in taking nanotech way, way beyond the plausible. Nanomachines, "nanites" or "nanobots" are a writer's best friend. Writers are not expected to show the nanomachines doing whatever it is that they do, all they have to do are the results. And the results can be anything. Nanomachines can be depicted as masses of cloud/liquid in external "colonies", Voluntary Shapeshifting Blobs, or syringes of stuff to be injected into humans and have fantastic results, usually in the form of superpowers, but sometimes in the form of a Forced Transformation, Unwilling Roboticisation or Harmful Healing.
Real-life physics, however, puts constraints on what nanomachines can accomplish. For starters, without some source of energy, they will just sit there being molecules, or at best work veeeery slowly using ambient energy. Besides that, there's the issue of heat. The basic laws of thermodynamics state that there is no machine that can convert energy into work with 100% efficiency (I.E. without losing any energy in the form of heat), and the Square-Cube Law states that many small machines have a lot more surface area through which heat can leak out as opposed to one big machine. If you put two and two together, it means that any swarm of nanomachines is at the constant threat of building up enough heat to cook its fragile components. Finally, there's also the so-called "sticky fingers" problem that quantum-sized particles simply don't act like macroscopic matter, such that simply picking them up, moving them, and (most of all) putting them down again is a much, much thornier problem than is popularly understood. But most writers rarely study the subject in any detail; it's easier to just use them as Green Rocks that can do anything the plot requires.
One reasonably common science-fiction scenario involves nanomachines being programmed to build copies of themselves using materials in their environment. If not stopped, such nanobots could theoretically grow exponentially, turning all available material on Earth into more nanobots and ending life as we know it — this is known as the "Grey Goo" scenario. Some scientists have expressed concern that this scenario could actually happen in real life, although most consider it extremely unlikely to be accidentally built.
Because it is so powerful, in settings where science is inherently bad, expect nanotech to be way up there on the Scale of Scientific Sins.
Nanotech is a fairly common cause for the drastic scenario called The Singularity. The concepts of supply and demand change utterly when humanity becomes capable of mass-producing machinery that can turn anything into anything, ensuring supply is as close to infinite as is possible. And our basic nature is thrown up into the air once we direct nanites to work on us.
Nanites themselves will usually either be dumb as bricks, or networked into a fully sentient mass. Some works may invoke Mechanical Evolution to make the nanomachines smarter/better/deadlier. Scale them up a bit and you've got a Microbot Swarm.
An important note, though: While many of the listed examples, and indeed fiction in general, may lead you to think otherwise, nanotechnology does not only involve nanomachines. Nanotechnology is simply any kind of technology that operates on the scale of atoms. This can be about anything, like making surfaces waterproof, increasing the surface contact for faster (chemical) reactions, or using silver nanoparticles as antibacterial component.
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Terminator:
The T-X from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines has nanomachines among the features of her versatile arm, which are used for some Magical Computer effects — the nanobots infect other machines and allow the "Terminatrix" to control them.
The T-3000 in Terminator Genisys takes it a step further. It is made completely out of nanomachines (dubbed "machine phase matter" in the film) that have infected and converted a human subject, in this case John Connor himself.
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In We Are Our Avatars, Yasmin, Izzy and anyone Izzy gives nanomachines to has a Healing Factor that comes from said nanomachines.
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), some of Eggman's creations resulted in a hivemind mass of nanites that collected into a "city" in the forest. When an AI system of Eggman's was eliminated, NICOLE, the AI from Sally's computer, took over the dormant nanites herself and reconfigured them into a modified replica of Mobotropolis, giving her friends a new home. Nicole has been shown to occasionally modify the city structure through the nanites, though if her attention is divided, she may have trouble maintaining everything at once. NICOLE also occasionally uses those nanites to create a physical form for herself, though she just as often uses holograms instead.
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Featured prominently in the Sluggy Freelance Story Arc "Kiki's Virus", in which nanobots turn into a deadly virus thanks to the Millennium Bug. Nanotechnology is also used by Dr. Crabtree for more outlandish, shapeshifting purposes.
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In The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008), nano-insects (Grey Goo-style) are used in an attempt to Kill All Humans.
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Much of Earth's technological superiority over New Abilene in Afterlife Blues is based on nanotech.
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Spider-Man: No Way Home has Spidey using the wearable nanomachines to subdue an adversary: Doctor Octopus is removing swathes of the suit when he attacks, so Peter orders the nanobots stuck in the tentacles to immobilize them and effectively keep Doc Ock nailed to the ground.
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In Adam Warren's version of the Dirty Pair, nanotechnology is strictly regulated to the point of being outlawed, after a Grey Goo outbreak called the "Nanoclysm" destroyed the Earth years ago. One villain uses nanobots to grant himself a Healing Factor; the Angels beat him up so much that the waste heat from the repairs does as much damage as the beating.
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The Flash: Flash's enemy Abra Kadabra is a time traveler who uses technology to simulate magic. At least one story describes most of his tricks as being based on nanotech.
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Alien Dice has healing nanites, one use ones used for repairing a particular injury, after which they deactivate, and ones that provide a permanent Healing Factor, as well as the "relays" which are nanotechnological communications devices which implant themselves in your brain, basically functioning as a form of Electronic Telepathy.
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Gavia from Alice Grove uses nanotechnology that lets her, among other things, levitate and create force fields.
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The Journal Entries seem to use nanotechnology mostly for medical purposes. Pendorians owe their enhanced health and immortality to being, effectively, nanotech cyborgs, but don't exhibit much in the way of actual 'superpowers'; they're mostly depicted as regular folks with an occasionally odd-seeming outlook on things and seriously extended lifespans.
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In Virtuosity, an evil A.I. named Sid 6.7 enters the real life by creating itself an avatar using nanotech. He/It absorbs glass to heal.
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Averted in Freefall. Mark has said several times that he avoids using nanomachines because it's become an equivalent to magic.
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Sam Everheart is walking around in the Whateley Universe because Sam interrupted an attempt to steal a nanotechnology experiment and ended up getting the nanotech, which then did a whole-body alteration. Luckily, Sam survived it.
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Taerel Setting: The kin'toni (vampires) appear to have these in their blood: in fact, the article on kin'toni biology mentions that nanotech was used to alter hantavirus packets as part of the kin'toni virus' making. Rykintas Aughan is mentioned to of died of a heart attack after nanobots in his body turned against him.
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The main villains of Ben 10: Alien Swarm are a Hive Mind swarm of alien nanite-like chips capable of infecting and controlling any living creature. They even have a Hive Queen. They aren't actually nanomachines, though, more like living microchips — "nano" just sounds cooler. Interestingly, they're initially inert, but this is a ploy by the queen to keep the heroes guessing while she prepares an invasion.
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Volcano in My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator has alongside his canon Eruption Quirk, a nanomachine-based Quirk gifted to him by All for One, allowing him to dismantle Izuku's Full Gauntlet with effortless ease. Against the Doom Slayer's armor, the nanomachines are rendered useless due to the temperature of the Slayer's suit being hotter than lava, with any attempt to touch it resulting in the nanomachine being incinerated.
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In Sentinels of the Multiverse, Baron Blade has a card called Repair Nanites that is a set of these. He later uses them to fake his death.
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Most of the advanced Martian technology in A Miracle of Science is based on nanites.
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PinCode: In appropriately titled episode "NanoBots", Dokko, Carlin, and Pin create many microscopic versions of The Iron Nanny. They are sent inside Wally's body, where they fight off bacteria and viruses.
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The Ultimate Marvel universe's mutant gene is revealed to be these in Ultimate Origins via a mixture of Nick Fury's blood and Wolverine's DNA.
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At least two types of nanomachines showed up during the Crossover Wars: mini-gnomes from Magical Misfits were sent to the Evil Overlords headquarters to sabotage things, and nanite versions of Mindmistress were left there to monitor things.
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James Bond:
In Spectre, Bond gets injected with the "Smart Blood", nanomachines that allow Q to track him down by satellite.
In No Time to Die, Dr. Valdo Obruchev has created "Heracles", a deadly mix of nanomachines and virus that spreads via touch and instantly kills its genetically coded targets. These stay in the body on an infected person forever. Also, Nomi gets injected with the "Smart Blood" as well.
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Schlock Mercenary: Nanomachines, generally referred to as "nannies," have been mentioned on various occasions, and several Story Arcs have featured them heavily. They vary between mil-spec soldier boosts (illegal outside the military) that increase all physical abilities, civilian strength and immune-system enhancements, and the Lazarus Super-Soldier boosts that can turn someone into a killing machine strong enough to punch through a tank, with the side effect of near-perfect immortality. Various human black ops projects spend generations trying to keep the immortality while getting rid of the Super-Soldier part, but progress was hampered by the fact that they found it incredibly useful as a secret weapon to let them put highly trained agents in the bodies of sleeper agents scattered around Terran space. The main characters ultimately solve the problem practically overnight, and give immortality to everyone.
The comic also acknowledges limitations on what nanomachines can do. When the mercenaries encounter potentially-hostile nannies, they immediately kill them with fire - because high surface area to volume means that they burn really well.
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In Black Panther (2018), T'Challa's sister Shuri provides him with a nanotech Panther Habit. Not only can it be stored in a necklace and deploy at a moment's notice, but the nanites can absorb kinetic energy from attacks and then release it.
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Xombi is about a scientist who becomes a superhero after being injected with a nanomachine "virus" that's capable of extensive tissue regeneration.
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There is of course an xkcd comic about this.
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In Avengers: Infinity War, Tony Stark's new Iron Man suit is made entirely out of nanites, which not only allows him to suit up at will, but also allows him a measure of Hyperspace Arsenal by converting nanites seamlessly into a wide array of energy, explosive, and even melee weapons. Peter Parker's new Spider-Man suit, which he gains before he and Stark travel to space, is similarly made of nanites that allow him to create four spider-like legs which he can use very creatively. Tony also uses the nanites to heal himself by spraying them onto open wounds.
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Star Trek: First Contact marks the first time that the Borg are shown using nanotech as an assimilation tool (see the Live-Action TV page).
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The T-3000 in Terminator Genisys takes it a step further. It is made completely out of nanomachines (dubbed "machine phase matter" in the film) that have infected and converted a human subject, in this case John Connor himself.
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Given Pathfinder's dabbling with Science Fantasy elements, nanotechnology pops up in many forms. Perhaps the most peculiar is the nanite bloodline — sorcerers who developed their inherent magic as a result of nanotech influencing their conception and inhabiting their bodies (culminating in you becoming a nanite swarm while retaining your personality and, most of the time, appearance).
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In Blade of Toshubi, a nano-virus was used in World War IV to rid the Earth's surface of humans and is believed to have caused the mutation of animals to a sentient, humanoid form.
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Marvel Cinematic Universe:
In Black Panther (2018), T'Challa's sister Shuri provides him with a nanotech Panther Habit. Not only can it be stored in a necklace and deploy at a moment's notice, but the nanites can absorb kinetic energy from attacks and then release it.
In Avengers: Infinity War, Tony Stark's new Iron Man suit is made entirely out of nanites, which not only allows him to suit up at will, but also allows him a measure of Hyperspace Arsenal by converting nanites seamlessly into a wide array of energy, explosive, and even melee weapons. Peter Parker's new Spider-Man suit, which he gains before he and Stark travel to space, is similarly made of nanites that allow him to create four spider-like legs which he can use very creatively. Tony also uses the nanites to heal himself by spraying them onto open wounds.
For lack of an extraterrestrial giant dwarf who forges mystical weapons, Avengers: Endgame sees Tony create his own synthetic Infinity Gauntlet using nanomachines to secure the Infinity Stones. This also plays into the movie's climactic moment when the future-displaced Thanos, thinking that he has Tony's nano-Gauntlet, attempts a new snap and discovers that the Gauntlet is empty. Instead, Tony commands his nanomachines to bring the Stones to him so he can perform his own snap and eliminate Thanos and his army. Unfortunately, the nanomachines cannot redirect the unfathomable effects of the Stones' immense celestial power and Tony's action results in his Heroic Sacrifice.
Spider-Man: No Way Home has Spidey using the wearable nanomachines to subdue an adversary: Doctor Octopus is removing swathes of the suit when he attacks, so Peter orders the nanobots stuck in the tentacles to immobilize them and effectively keep Doc Ock nailed to the ground.
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Iron Man: Tony Stark once killed the Mandarin with nanomachines. His Extremis and Bleeding Edge armors are made out of nanomachines, while his original armor was powered by "tiny transistors," the predecessor to today's nanomachines in terms of function and origin.
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In the Harry Potter fic Draco Malfoy and the Sins of the Father, Draco tried to commit suicide after his mother was raped and killed as a punishment for his father's foul-ups, but was saved and transported to St. Mungo's where he was faced with becoming a quadruple amputee. Rather than have a crippled heir, his father had nanomachines injected into him, making him stronger, smarter and utterly incapable of committing permanent self-harm.
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Kitsune: Mentioned in Chapter 17, used for Tampering with Food and Drink, and basically creating a Mind-Control Device out of a radio broadcasting a signal into the bots of those who drank the tampered stuff.
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In Rocket Age, the Ancient Martians had access to nanotechnology. Succession, an utterly undetectable poison created by them, is in fact a nanobot infection.
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In Eden Games' Conspiracy X supplement Atlantis Rising, the Atlanteans (immortal aliens) use nanotechnology for everything, including altering themselves.
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Averted in Traveller except as an occasional MacGuffin. Sourcebooks explicitly state that this was done to protect their system.
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By the time of the Ninth Age shown in Numenera, nanotechnology has essentially integrated into every aspect of the world and become as ubiquitous as microbes; this is part of the reasoning behind how the world's scientifically powered pseudo-wizards, Nanos, can do their thing — their "spells" just reprogram or reactivate the nanites in the surrounding area to seemingly miraculous results. The setting even includes a pseudo-Grey Goo phenomenon called the Iron Wind, in which a wave of malfunctioning nanobots swarms through an area, reconfiguring everything it encounters, with generally fatal results on living creatures.
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GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra features the nanites, originally created for medical intents and later weaponized (sometimes with medical intents) for creating Super-Soldier Elite Mooks who have a minor Healing Factor and parts of their brains destroyed to become fearless.
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Nanomachines are used in I, Robot to "execute" problem robots.
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In Commander Kitty, though they don't play a large part in the plot, nanomachines are brought up as the means of turning a freshly made clone into a "perfect" android.
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When used as directed, the nanobots on the salvage ship in Jason X can heal wounds and restore tissue damaged by cryogenic freezing. If malfunctioning, they can be used to rebuild a shot-to-living-hell psycho killer into a Nigh-Invulnerable cyborg.
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The plot of Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door centers on these devices, which it frames as proteins that make its victims see thousands of butterflies before asphyxiating them nearly instantly.
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The source of KITT's superpowers in the 2008 Knight Rider Pilot Movie. It's even what keeps the armor together; when the computer is turned off, the car's an ordinary non-bulletproof Product Placement... er, Mustang.
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In Spectre, Bond gets injected with the "Smart Blood", nanomachines that allow Q to track him down by satellite.
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Cyberpunk 2020 has a variety of nanotech, to go along with its various cyberware. Things get more interesting in Cybergeneration, its sequel. Cybergeneration introduces the 'Carbon Plague,' a nanite-based disease of uncertain origin. (How uncertain? The writers intentionally made incompatible statements to fans). At first, the Carbon Plague horrifically deforms and kills people, but later, kids, then adults, start to survive. Some of the kids aren't quite the same after, now possessing one of several super-powers; morphing limbs, wireless net-hacking, electrical blasts, pseudo-telepathy (via brainwave scanning), matter manipulation, or whatever power a Game Master can figure out a way to justify with the little hexite-manufacturing and manipulating nanobots that is the Carbon Plague.
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Nanotech is a big part of everyday life in Orion's Arm, sometimes to the extent of replacing all natural microbes in an environment. One thing it's not very good for is combat, unless the group using it has the element of surprise.
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One of the plots in the unproduced Plastic Man movie explained the technology which gave the titular character's powers. It involves the use of an experimental chemical liquid that rubberized anything that comes in contact with... but to stabilize the transformation, the test subject has to have a nanomachine (inside its body) as a catalyst to render the liquid product safe in its organism. If the nanomachine isn't used in the process, the liquid continues to rubberize the subject until it decomposes from the liquid's Grey Goo attributes. According to the script's text, it described the nanomachine that it has the shape of a snowflake.
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Some of the characters in We Are The Wyrecats are physically augmented with nanobots./xkcd.com/865/ about this]].
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For lack of an extraterrestrial giant dwarf who forges mystical weapons, Avengers: Endgame sees Tony create his own synthetic Infinity Gauntlet using nanomachines to secure the Infinity Stones. This also plays into the movie's climactic moment when the future-displaced Thanos, thinking that he has Tony's nano-Gauntlet, attempts a new snap and discovers that the Gauntlet is empty. Instead, Tony commands his nanomachines to bring the Stones to him so he can perform his own snap and eliminate Thanos and his army. Unfortunately, the nanomachines cannot redirect the unfathomable effects of the Stones' immense celestial power and Tony's action results in his Heroic Sacrifice.
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Magic: The Gathering:
The Phyrexian "glistening oil" is heavily implied to be made from nanomachines, and so was the black cloud Yawgmoth manifested as.
Flowstone, the rocklike substance that made up most of the artificial world of Rath, is made of Dungeon Punk-style nanomachines that can be controlled by the mind, usually by Rath's ruler, the evincar. It can be shaped into semi-sentient beasts or unleashed as a viscous tidal wave. Flowstone is not self-replicating, though; it was produced in a factory in the now-destroyed stronghold, the evincar's fortress at the center of the plane.
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In the CLANNAD fanfic An End to All Things, it's explicitly stated that Okazaki has these in his blood for body maintenance purposes, although they can also be used for making an Absurdly Sharp Blade.
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Transformers Film Series: According to The Official Movie Guide, Protoforms are made up of densely packed nanomachines. This is the semi-official Hand Wave for any transformation "cheats" in the films and where, for example, the rubber for Optimus' tires comes from.
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Warhammer 40,000:
There's the Autosanguine/Black Blood implant, which injects nanobots into the bloodstream and allow someone to heal quite quickly, though it can't gloss over lost limbs or permanent scarring.
Virus bombs (formerly the method of choice in Exterminatus) release a virus that rapidly spreads over a planet, breaking down every last bit of living or dead organic matter into a combustible organic gruel. How it works is almost always backed up by Hollywood Science, but one or two sources have taken a more logical take on the weapon, and implied that it actually delivers a payload of voracious nanobots to do their thing.
Some of the novels featured a weaponized nanotech swarm from the Dark Age of Technology called the Bloodtide which started out as multiple individual intellects before merging into a single mind. This being 40K, it got possessed by a daemon and went around forcing the blood out of people's bodies.
The Necrons possess supremely advanced nanotechnology, and some sources suggest the very "necrodermis" which makes up their bodies and most of their technology may be formed from nanomachines.
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Nanotechnology is uncommon but exists in Shadowrun, or at least it did in Fourth Edition; most nanotech-built structures inexplicably collapsed at the end of Fourth Edition's metaplot, from guns to aircraft to entire office towers. Explained in Fifth Edition: artificial intelligences being held captive in the Matrix are using nanotech to break out. If they write themselves into a metahuman, they can take over the body; if they write themselves into an office tower, their efforts tend to cause it to collapse.
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The villain in Shadowchasers: Conspiracy uses a special Magitek variant of nanomachines as a primary weapon that acts as both a computer virus and a regular virus, able to spread from one to the other with equal ease. The limits of their powers are not yet revealed, but one doctor claims that an outbreak of them could combine the worst aspects of a Millennium Bug and The Andromeda Strain combined. ("To use a rather trite analogy", he adds.) Jalal explains what a Grey Goo scenario is (with rather graphic accuracy) simply to scare an infected victim into taking it seriously when she doubts how dangerous it is.
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In the fourth volume of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage), it is revealed that Baxter Stockman had infected April O'Neil with "NanoBaxterBots," which were slowly killing her. As a response, utrom Glurin and Professor Honeycutt devise NanoTurtleBots, nanomachines that draw their fighting skills from the turtles' memories, which they then insert into April.
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Ubiquitous in Eclipse Phase. Nanofabricators are used to produce most goods, nanoware (most healing medichines) are an entire category of implants, and non-self-replicating nanoswarms are used for a variety of purposes. The TITANS also made frequent use of sentient Grey Goo.
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In World Domination in Retrospect, the Villain Protagonist Psycho Gecko has nanites that allow him to heal from anything up to and possibly including death, as well as change his phenotype and, if necessary, go Grey Goo on his enemies.
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The magic behind virtual reality in Kimmie66.
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Use Sword on Monster features Magitek nanites called thaumites. In the arc they're introduced they've been hijacked by the Pax Ferus group to run wild.
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The villain's tech in the Doctor Who (Titan) Third Doctor miniseries, although in keeping with the 1970s setting (and the Doctor's avoidance of providing too much future knowledge to UNIT), the word itself is never used, the closest being "micro-machines".
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In League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions, the heroes fight both an AI that uses nanites and a minor villain from the future who has nanotechnology, amongst other uses.
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In No Time to Die, Dr. Valdo Obruchev has created "Heracles", a deadly mix of nanomachines and virus that spreads via touch and instantly kills its genetically coded targets. These stay in the body on an infected person forever. Also, Nomi gets injected with the "Smart Blood" as well.
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Played with during the "The Island and the Idol" arc in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!. Bob and Voluptua are both injured. Hibachi comes to their rescue, and Jean is excited to see him spray medical nanites on their injuries... until the nanites form themselves into rather boring-looking casts around those injuries. Voluptua explains that even with the nanites helping, healing an injury takes time. Jean is still disappointed.
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In The God of High School, all of the fighters in the titular tournament are injected with nanomachines that constantly monitor their vitals and heal them between matches.
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GURPS tech level progression is explicitly based on the idea that nanotechnology will take off between TL9 and TL10.
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The Authority: Authority member The Engineer replaced all of her blood with nanomachines. She can create nearly anything with these, from Arm Cannons to duplicates of herself. This being The Authority, many of the implications of these powers are investigated.
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Gigan in The New Age of Monsters is partially made out of self-repairing nanometal. The JSDF later use recovered samples to built Mechagodzilla III
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The Chaos Timeline has a lot of them in the last years.
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Transmetropolitan:
In this setting, "Makers", which use nanomachines to create food, clothing, and most other necessities, are commonplace. Spider Jerusalem sarcastically reminisces about his youth, where virtually everything he ate, wore or owned was made from reprocessed lizard.
One filler issue has an interview with a man who lost his legs stopping a Grey Goo outbreak — and who was then fired for not following the standard procedure of letting Blue Goo devour the entire endangered block and everyone still in it.
There's also the foglets, who are people who download their consciousness into a cloud of utility fog. Notably, the first story to feature this concept also features a fog person spontaneously assembling a flower out of... air? His own particles? Nanotech can't transmute elements or create mass, so it isn't clear where it came from or what it's supposed to be made of.
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In Umlaut House 2, nanites first appear when Sissy steals some assemblers from fellow Mad Scientist Dr. Lyse to build her fortress. Later, it seems that nanotech is used for home replicators and when Peggy Seus asks the Dragon what it is it tells her to "ask Dr. Lyse about foglets". Now it seems that Lyse has replaced every cell in his body with foglets and the Dragon tried to take over his body.
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The T-X from Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines has nanomachines among the features of her versatile arm, which are used for some Magical Computer effects — the nanobots infect other machines and allow the "Terminatrix" to control them.
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In Lupin III: Dead or Alive, nanomachines were left to guard Drifting Island (where the nation's treasury is kept) against thieves, and it has proven very effective, defeating Lupin's attempts to gain access twice before General Headhunter brought Olèander to blackmail Pannish. The nanomachines operate as a smart Booby Trap, chasing people and killing them.
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 I, Robot / int_62f9ee25
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 Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines / int_62f9ee25
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 Virtuosity / int_62f9ee25
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 G.I. Joe (Franchise) / int_62f9ee25
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 Ratchet & Clank (Franchise) / int_62f9ee25
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 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Franchise) / int_62f9ee25
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 The Hohenzollern Empire (Lets Play) / int_62f9ee25
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 Accel World / int_62f9ee25
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 Dirty Pair / int_62f9ee25
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 86 / int_62f9ee25
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 Dirty Pair / int_62f9ee25
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 86 EIGHTY-SIX / int_62f9ee25
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 Fleet School / int_62f9ee25
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 Hyperion Cantos / int_62f9ee25
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 Jacob's Ladder Trilogy / int_62f9ee25
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 Known Space / int_62f9ee25
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 Kris Longknife / int_62f9ee25
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 Land In The Stars / int_62f9ee25
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 Legacy of the Aldenata / int_62f9ee25
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 Nuklear Age / int_62f9ee25
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 Old Man's War / int_62f9ee25
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 SporeWiki Fiction Universe / int_62f9ee25
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 Star Carrier / int_62f9ee25
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 Star Trek: Destiny / int_62f9ee25
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 The Culture / int_62f9ee25
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 The Nexus Series / int_62f9ee25
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 Black Cat (Manga) / int_62f9ee25
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 Dance in the Vampire Bund (Manga) / int_62f9ee25
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 Deadman Wonderland (Manga) / int_62f9ee25
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 Gunnm (Manga) / int_62f9ee25
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 The Dark Queen and I Strike Back (Manga) / int_62f9ee25
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 Nanobots (Music) / int_62f9ee25
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 Friends at the Table (Podcast) / int_62f9ee25
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 Prototype World Of Tomorrow (Podcast) / int_62f9ee25
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 SAYER (Podcast) / int_62f9ee25
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 Campus Life (Roleplay) / int_62f9ee25
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 Advance Wars Role Play (Roleplay) / int_62f9ee25
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 Paradigm Shift (Roleplay) / int_62f9ee25
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 Prophesies Destinies And Killing Gods (Roleplay) / int_62f9ee25
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 The World Forged By Powers (Roleplay) / int_62f9ee25
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 World War X (Roleplay) / int_62f9ee25
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 Defiance / int_62f9ee25
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 Eureka / int_62f9ee25
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 Foundation (2021) / int_62f9ee25
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 Jake 2.0 / int_62f9ee25
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 Killjoys / int_62f9ee25
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 MacGyver (2016) / int_62f9ee25
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 Prey / int_62f9ee25
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 GURPS Reign of Steel (Tabletop Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Stars Without Number (Tabletop Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 The Strange (Tabletop Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Crasher (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Crysis (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Descent (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Endless Legend (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Endless Space (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Freelancer (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Galaxy Angel (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Going Under (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Iron Man 2 (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 RimWorld (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Stasis (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Too Human (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Xenogears (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Achron (Video Game) / int_62f9ee25
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 Ad Astra (Visual Novel) / int_62f9ee25
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 Adastra (2018) (Visual Novel) / int_62f9ee25
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 Baldr Sky (Visual Novel) / int_62f9ee25
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 Ciconia: When They Cry (Visual Novel) / int_62f9ee25
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 Galaxy Angel II (Visual Novel) / int_62f9ee25
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 Saya no Uta (Visual Novel) / int_62f9ee25
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 The Song of Saya (Visual Novel) / int_62f9ee25
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 gen:LOCK (Web Animation) / int_62f9ee25
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 H+ (Web Video) / int_62f9ee25
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 A Miracle of Science (Webcomic) / int_62f9ee25
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 Escape from Terra (Webcomic) / int_62f9ee25
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 The God of High School (Webcomic) / int_62f9ee25
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 Multiverses Wiki (Website) / int_62f9ee25
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 Taerel Setting (Website) / int_62f9ee25
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 Generator Rex / int_62f9ee25
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 Motorcity / int_62f9ee25
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 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! / int_62f9ee25
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 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) / int_62f9ee25
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 The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants / int_62f9ee25
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 Transformers: Animated / int_62f9ee25
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 Kiddy Grade / int_62f9ee25
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 Disappearing Doctor (Fanfic) / int_62f9ee25
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 Battle Angel Alita (Manga) / int_62f9ee25
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