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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup	comment	A specialized version of the Reset Button: Any dangerous device or technology owned by a villain, particularly a supervillain of the James Bond mode, that is not off-the-shelf exists in a metaphorical vacuum. There is only one of it, there are no plans or schematics for it, and no earlier generations of development exist. In the case of expensive and rushed projects, the final project might have been made by cannibalizing parts of the prototype, or might actually be the prototype after a whole lot of upgrades and patches. Either way, no backup copies exist at all of either the device's hardware or software. Thus the hero may safely blow it up, blast it with EMP or otherwise render it useless, confident that no one can recreate the technology — or worse, just take version 0.9 out of storage and use that the moment he leaves. This trope also applies to creations that, through some fluke of their creation, cannot be replicated for a variety of reasons. Maybe the first attempt was tainted during creation, or maybe a talented composer dies before they can record their techniques. Once the original is lost, it's gone forever. Note that in the real world, scientists and engineers make and keep very detailed notes — this is often what differentiates Science from Mad Science. Mad Science is magic-like in how it can inexplicably summon up something that its own creator doesn't quite understand. (Or, this trope is unnecessary if the creation could be replicated but only the original can be used in time to affect the story... the trope applies once that story stretches to weeks or years and needs some Rule of Drama to prevent replications.) One variant is when the creator intentionally invokes this. Perhaps a sympathetic researcher becomes remorseful after seeing the danger of the device they've wrought, and burns or sabotages their notes, or asks Our Heroes to blow up the factory that made it. They may even kill or sacrifice themselves as a final precaution, to destroy the very knowledge that created it. Savvy characters may also invoke this themselves by purposefully targeting and destroying the plans and backups When this trope is averted, expect someone to ominously point out, after the customary celebration of the destruction of the superweapon, that "yes... but there's nothing to stop them building another." Or the superweapon hadn't actually been destroyed as they thought. A common cause of this is Shoot the Builder. Compare Reed Richards Is Useless, where the formula exists, but is only applied to fantastic problems. It may appear as a justification for Never Recycle Your Schemes. See Also: Black Box, for situations where the device in question has extraterrestrial or otherwise fantastic origins that would justify not being able to build another; The Spark of Genius, for devices that have the superficial trappings of science but are actually based on powers that don't follow the usual scientific rules of predictable cause and effect; It Only Works Once, for devices that can't effectively be reused even if you know how to make them work again; Psycho Prototype, when the first attempt is deranged and evil such that you wouldn't even want to recreate that version; and Miraculous Malfunction, where the device or process only works due to an unknown, accidentally-introduced factor that is difficult or even impossible to recreate.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_10b03dcf	comment	Batman: Arkham Asylum features Titan. By the end of the story it seems it is all but gone: Batman destroyed the original formula, the original creator is dead (but not before The Joker tortured the formula out of her) and the manufacturing facility was destroyed by Batman (again). However, The Stinger shows a Titan Crate floating in Gotham Bay; it shows up again in Arkham City, where Batman finally destroys it all in a sidequest (except not: a Titan Thug shows up again in the Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_10be2b4f	comment	Played very straight in Solar Jetman: The Golden Warpship you're trying to assemble is the only one of its kind in the universe. Once you've acquired all of the ship's parts, you play one final stage where you have to escape the planet while piloting the Golden Warpship itself. If it gets destroyed, then the game is over regardless of how many lives you may have saved up from previous levels.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1133352a	comment	Terminator: Terminator 2: Judgment Day: This trope is the objective of the T-800 and the young John Connor, as they have to destroy the prototypes of what would eventually become Skynet before it goes sentient. Averted in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, as it turns out that Cyberdyne kept copies of all important notes off-site and later sold them to the air force for further development. They also apparently improved on it, as the Cybernet built in T3 is online and can't be blown up.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_11859033	comment	Normally played straight by Narbonic, being a story about Mad Scientists, which makes this subversion more significant (what he backed up was Lovelace, the Benevolent A.I.).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_13609e75	comment	Played straight in Gulf. The "nova effect" is a scientific means of turning a planet into a nova and thus destroying it (it's described as a "plutonium, lithium, and heavy water deal", so it's yet another successful Heinlein prediction — this time, of the hydrogen bomb). After it's developed on the Moon, all of the documents used to create it are destroyed and everyone involved in creating it receives hypnotic instructions to forget about it. Two sets of microfilms are made: one is to be taken to Earth for safekeeping, and a backup version is to be destroyed once the first set is safe. After a secret agent arrives on Earth with the first set, the order is given to destroy the backups. Unfortunately, the agent is pursued by the enemy and has to get rid of the first set before he can deliver them, and they were lost.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_13668e6e	comment	Radham Academy in Twig employs a simple policy with experiments: test to destruction, then make another using what you've learned from that one. This applies to all members of the Lambsbridge Gang, who are fast approaching the age when they'll be terminated to make room for a new experiment.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1367cea0	comment	In Worm this is one of the defining traits of Tinkers. They can create amazing machinery and devices but the individual tinker is usually the only one who has any hope in hell of understanding it enough to reproduce, so most tinker inventions are one-offs. In fact, the reason that Dragon is considered the greatest Tinker alive is explicitly because her inventions aren't like this; her talent is that she can understand other tinkers' work enough to reproduce it in a way that anyone can use or manufacture. This is most prevalent with Leet, whose Tinker power is to be able to make one of anything, and only one of anything. If he tries to make a second one, or even to repair the first one after it gets damaged, it explodes.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1377df	comment	Terminator 2: Judgment Day: This trope is the objective of the T-800 and the young John Connor, as they have to destroy the prototypes of what would eventually become Skynet before it goes sentient.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_13d21129	comment	Banana Fish: Justified. The titular brainwashing drug was a complete accident, which is why they're trying to figure out how to make more. It's taken years of experiments, analysis, and autopsies to get as far as they have.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_14d341dc	comment	In one set of missions in Star Trek Online, the Borg are able to kidnap a member of the Undine (Star Trek: Voyager's Species 8472) and the Undine and the player character give chase. When the player character enters the Borg ship to find the Undine, they discover that they had kidnapped other members in their quest to finally assimilate them... and succeeded. You proceed to destroy the devices holding the information and kill the Assimilated Undine with some of its race coming in to obliterate their ship, making sure this data does not get back to the rest of the Collective.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_158e35db	comment	Phantom Lady: The Golden Age "Good girl" had a "blacklight projector" whose inventor literally died just as he delivered the only copy straight into her hands.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1682583	comment	Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: At the end of the series, the G-Defender, which allowed the Gundam Mk-II to become the Super Gundam is destroyed in battle. For one reason or another, they never bother building a replacement come Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, leaving the poor Mk-II in the dust.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_168c4727	comment	In Guild Wars 2 Taimi is able to construct a device that could theoretically kill the Elder Dragons Primordus and Jormag simultaneously. When she realizes doing so would destroy Tyria, the Commander has no choice but to destroy the device when Balthazar activates it. Unfortunately the core of the device was Omadd's Machine, a one-of-a-kind creation of a now-dead Asura who didn't leave enough notes to recreate his work, meaning the device can't be recreated.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_16fc4335	comment	Heralds of Valdemar: Subverted in the novel Oathbreakers, in which the mage-protagonist invents a particularly nasty trap-spell and does burn the plans when she doesn't need them...so as to prevent anybody finding them before she can send the information out to everyone. As she points out, someone's going to figure it out eventually, so she might as well make sure that everyone knows what it is and how to deal with it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1973b10a	comment	In Sonic Unleashed, Eggman claims the Egg Dragoon that Werehog Sonic fights is a prototype and that the finished product would be much stronger. Indeed, later versions in Sonic Generations and Sonic Forces prove to be much tougher.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_19ac551d	comment	Initially averted, and ultimately invoked with X-23. As shown in X-23: Innocence Lost, X-23 is the prototype, and once she is successfully created essentially is also the plans since the Facility can (and does, as is discovered near the end) use her genetic material to create additional clones (which would also serve as a backup). The entirety of the last act is Sarah setting X loose with specific orders to destroy her unborn "sisters", and all equipment and research associated with the project to prevent the Facility from recreating her.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1a64c756	comment	Averted in Gundam SEED Destiny with ZAFT's new generation of Gundams: Of the five, Chaos and Saviour have prototypes, and ZAFT made multiple Impulses with Mecha Expansion Packs that reproduce the abilities of Gaia, Chaos and Abyss — and then MSV introduced a Destiny pack for the Impulse, as well as a prototype for The Lancer's Legend Gundam.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Justified in Excalibur with Tweedledope, a member of a team of villains called the Crazy Gang. He's an idiot savant who can build miraculous things by simply tinkering with junk, but even he doesn't know how most of them truly work. As a result, nothing he builds can be duplicated. By far, the most advanced invention he's created was Widget, a small, sentient robot capable of opening portals, who became a companion to the heroes. Initially averted, and ultimately invoked with X-23. As shown in X-23: Innocence Lost, X-23 is the prototype, and once she is successfully created essentially is also the plans since the Facility can (and does, as is discovered near the end) use her genetic material to create additional clones (which would also serve as a backup). The entirety of the last act is Sarah setting X loose with specific orders to destroy her unborn "sisters", and all equipment and research associated with the project to prevent the Facility from recreating her. Invoked in X-Men / Fantastic Four. At the end of the mini-series, Xavier and Magneto visit Reed and reveal they knew he built a device that could hide the X-Gene as a means to protect Franklin. Furious that he would do such a thing, Xavier Mind Rapes Reed so that he could never replicate such a device while Magneto uses his powers to destroy the prototype device and erase the plans.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion: The Two Trees of Valinor, the Trees of Light, were a unique creation of the ValiÃ« Yavannah, miraculous even by angelic standards. After Ungoliant and Morgoth killed them, she knew she could never again make anything like them. As the Silmarils were created with their light, they could be used to heal the trees, but doing so would destroy them. The means by which the Silmarils were devised is unknown, nobody knows what they're physically made of, and their maker, FÃ«anor, insisted that their production was so demanding, physically, psychologically, and spiritually, that to remake them would be impossible, and would produce only flawed imitations, lacking everything that made them special. After the Two Trees are destroyed, the Silmarils really do become irreplaceable — they were created using the Trees' holy light. Then FÃ«anor's killed and for his crimes he's sentenced never to be reincarnated, so they're really irreplaceable. This even applies to FÃ«anor himself — he was imbued with such a lifeforce that his mother could never have another child. Having children is much more physically and spiritually draining for elves than for humans, but even so FÃ«anor's birth was unique. The white ships of the Teleri are said to be finest ships ever created. The Teleri refuse to loan them to FÃ«anor (in part because they know he's doing the wrong thing), explicitly stating they are as valuable to them as gems are to the Noldor, and that they will never be able to recreate vessels such as them. FÃ«anor then kills them and steals the ships, and after using them burns them. This is one of the many things that he's ultimately damned for.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2172e43f	comment	Batman: Arkham Knight also averts this with the Batmobile. Lucius says it is the only prototype but after the original Batmobile is destroyed in the Excavator boss fight, Batman summons the backup model and uses it for the remainder of the game. One of the skins available is also the very first prototype.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_22147342	comment	Massively averted in Arrow with the earthquake machine. Not only does it turn out to have a backup — resulting in the bad guy's partial success — but half a season later the prototype turns up.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck: The Intersect, the joint CIA/NSA supercomputer that is able to implant knowledge and training into agents' brains was only built once, and efforts to rebuild it are extraordinarily difficult. Averted in later seasons as apparently they started taking better notes, Intersects start cropping up more often and are more easily built.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2250e67e	comment	Star Trek: Enterprise: During the Xindi arc, over 19 XB of information relating to the Spheres and Anomalies in the Delphic Expanse, gets wiped when a group of religious extremists who worship the Spheres seize control the ship. Presumably the writers realised how stupid it was that in the 22nd century, humans still don't remember to backup hard-drives containing apocalypse averting information, as the the subsequent episode has T'Pol and Hoshi mention having to recover the data from a redundant memory core. Furthermore, the Xindi arc itself was kicked off when the Xindi Weapon was launched prematurely by the impatient Xindi-Reptilians and Xindi-Insectoids, despite still being in the prototype stage. As later shown, numerous other test versions exist and are still going through extensive weapon tests, meant to iron the kinks out for the final version of the weapon. By the end of the season, Archer's concerned that destroying the weapon will only encourage the Xindi to build another, which is why he tries to make peace with them.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_22fa3992	comment	The Expanse: The crew of the Rocinante embark on a quest to destroy every trace of the protomolecule, an extra-solar technology with incredible destructive potential. They are unsuccessful, in part because one of the crew members believes that the solution is the opposite, to ensure that all of the major factions have a sample to maintain the Balance of Power through Mutually Assured Destruction. Averted with the Epstein Drive, a revolutionary Accidental Discovery that made interplanetary travel a matter of weeks rather than years. The inventor, a hobbyist, inadvertently launched the only prototype (along with himself) on a one-way journey through deep space; fortunately, he left the schematics on his home computer.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2350acad	comment	The Cheers episode "Young Dr. Weinstein" ends Woody's subplot this way. He obsessively tries to concoct a new beverage to get into the Bartending Hall Of Fame, only to find out that several of his attempts already exist. He finally comes up with something new, unique, and tasty, but can't remember what he put into it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_238b1fac	comment	Subverted in Knight and Day; the villains are chasing Roy around not just because he has the perpetual energy Zephyr battery, but also because he's protecting its creator Simon. Several times, the villains mention that getting Simon would be an acceptable alternative to the Zephyr itself. Simon himself admits he can just build another one at the end of the movie when Fitzgerald is about to get away with it. To top it off, the Zephyr still has flaws; it degrades and heats up over the course of the movie, eventually exploding and killing Fitzgerald as he flees.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_251e67c5	comment	Justice League of America: The Red King is a sideways look at this trope. He had the ability to access multiple universes, try various things in them, and keep the ones he liked. He used this to (among other things) win horse races, become a billionaire/media darling, and get a hot girlfriend. When he decides to get superpowers, he has research teams in billions of universes try various approaches and keep the best ones. As far as his employees knew, the boss just showed up one day and gave them a disc with files showing perfect, foolproof, side-effect-free procedures for giving virtually any super-power imaginable. After his defeat by the Justice League, one assumes the disc is still in his corporate files somewhere...
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_25305527	comment	.hack: The Harald Folders are the core of The World but darned if anyone knows what they actually did or how they worked. With Harald mysteriously dead in the real world, there are no notes and everything the current developers do to The World was most likely based on how subroutines are implemented in the prototype game Fragment. Attempts at analyzing the code just leave confusion and trying to surgically remove any part of the program to see what breaks brings the whole thing to a standstill. The developers of The World:R2 knew they could never recreate Harald's genius so most of what they did was just vaguely based on the Harald Files, at least until they recovered all eight of the Phases and attempted to recreate Morganna Gone Mode.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_26042b84	comment	Before making the formula, Dr. Erskine formulated a special diet and exercise regiment that would optimize the human body to its peak. However, because of wartime issues, the plans were stored away, and thus research was made into the formula. Eventually, a grandson of Erskine discovered the plans and proceeded to put it through his newborn, Micheal Van Patrick and sure enough, the young man grew up to possess the same capability and talents as Cap himself through diet and exercise. While MVP would not last long as a character, he has been cloned more than a few times.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2a1c0056	comment	Back to the Future: 1962 Doc reasons that he can always build another temporal field capacitor after destroying the original model sending a note to the past. Sure enough, by 1986, a second one is seen in storage at Doc's secret lab. Doc also has a second DeLorean stored in his secret lab. This car has a time circuit display and some of the time coils installed, but it retains the original rear engine hatch and lacks a flux capacitor, fusion chamber, and rear louvers. Subverted in the "Hard Time / Time Served" arc: after the DeLorean goes missing while Marty and Professor Irving are in 1972 (both unaware that Doc had the DeLorean return to him), both Marty and Irving toy with the idea of simply making a new time machine in case they can't find it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2a2b7dfa	comment	Viciously subverted in Bloodrayne 2, with much of the game devoted to disabling a gigantic tower that'll unleash "the Shroud" into the atmosphere, blotting out the Sun and allowing vampires and demons to overrun the world. She finally succeeds in shutting down the tower at the last second... and discovers too late that there are hundreds more all over the world, and stopping just one of them had no effect.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2a569a88	comment	Averted in Steamboy when a mad scientist is told to destroy his invention he replies it can never be destroyed, now that the world has seen it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2ba3e3b9	comment	It's standard operating procedure in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey to copy out their own Demon Summoning Program to other teammates and crewmen from other ships so that everyone has a fighting chance within the Schwarzwelt. And in the Neutral Ending, the crew of the Red Sprite actually want to make a backup of the artificial intelligence Arthur so that his Heroic Sacrifice doesn't destroy him. But Arthur himself opposes the idea, stating that his vast insight on the Schwarzwelt and the future of humanity would make him an object of worship back on Earth.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2d1fc03d	comment	Front Mission 3 plays this trope worryingly straight, as the MIDAS weapon (think "nuclear bomb without the nuclear") is stolen tech. The technology was originally intended as an energy source, but when it was discovered that it could be used as a weapon, numerous countries jumped at the chance to obtain or recreate it. Just the weapon, no notes. The main characters are witnesses to a failed reproduction of it (which works), and are on the run from the military as a result. There are only two people in the world who know how to recreate it, and one of the two ends up in your party depending on which one's storyline you choose. The main villain of the game is less than pleased that neither will share their knowledge, so in one storyline he obtains the knowledge by coercing one of them. The other storyline, he Mind Rapes the other by forcibly extracting the knowledge from her and leaving her as little more than an Empty Shell as a result.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2d316ba2	comment	The Shredder's spaceship in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) (presumably) has plans, but no prototype nor back-up. This is justified, however, by the fact that several of its parts were salvaged from the remains of an alien invasion, and could not be replicated.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In an episode of Justice League, Toyman makes an energy cannon that apparently disintegrates Superman before being smashed by the rest of the League (it actually sends him on a one-way journey through time). Superman does (thanks to some extraordinary, never-to-be repeated luck) reappear after a few days, but it's still odd that the Toyman didn't build another one and try again. It's commented in the show that Toyman "didn't know what he made" — but isn't knowing that it's a thing that makes Superman disappear for a few days enough? Of course, the implication is that the time machine was an accidental invention, and he can't remember how he created it (because he didn't keep notes; see above).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2e9ef429	comment	The Batman: Arkham Series is really good at averting this trope. Batman: Arkham Asylum features Titan. By the end of the story it seems it is all but gone: Batman destroyed the original formula, the original creator is dead (but not before The Joker tortured the formula out of her) and the manufacturing facility was destroyed by Batman (again). However, The Stinger shows a Titan Crate floating in Gotham Bay; it shows up again in Arkham City, where Batman finally destroys it all in a sidequest (except not: a Titan Thug shows up again in the Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC). Averted, played straight and brutally deconstructed in Batman: Arkham City. To cure the TITAN formula poisoning, Batman teams up with Mr. Freeze and ends up getting a sample of Ra's Al Ghul's blood as a critical component. It's averted as Freeze makes two vials of the antidote, then played straight because, immediately after, he selfishly destroys a vial to force Batman to find Nora Fries, then brutally deconstructed as Batman ends up losing the last vial when the Joker pulls off a Back Stab, causing him to drop it on the ground, leading to the clown dying painfully. Batman: Arkham Origins features a predecessor of Titan called TN-1; once again Batman presumably destroys the notes when he blows up Bane's lair and Bane himself suffers severe brain damage after using it on himself at the end of the game. This leaves Batman and Alfred as the only ones who still know how to make it (they copied the notes), but of course they have no reason to and every reason not to do it. The Bag of Spilling for the Cold, Cold Heart DLC is justified this way: it is Handwaved that the Glue Grenade formula was unstable and all the grenades from the main game set just a few days earlier are nothing but dust. Batman: Arkham Knight also averts this with the Batmobile. Lucius says it is the only prototype but after the original Batmobile is destroyed in the Excavator boss fight, Batman summons the backup model and uses it for the remainder of the game. One of the skins available is also the very first prototype.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard's first season also has another example of a "Golem" type synthetic, intended to be given the copied brain substrates of a human, built by its creator to transfer his own mind into it in order to achieve immortality. In the final episode, he instead transfers Jean-Luc Picard's mind into it instead, and this is treated as a personal sacrifice with no discussion of why he could not simply build another one. Then subverted in season 3 which reveals that he did build another one — but he has also since decided against simply transplanting his mind into it in favor of creating something new.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2fcd4c7c	comment	The Adventures of Ford Fairlane: Mr. Rock-N-Roll Detective, Ford Fairlane, spends much of his investigation searching for three computer disks that were stolen from antagonist Julian Grendel. This trope is initially averted, since it doesn't seem to matter whether or not Grendel had the information on the disks — he wanted them back because they were evidence of his criminal scheme. Fairlane later uses the disks to lure Grendel into a final confrontation, at which point Grendel destroys the disks by attempting to eat them. This trope is then subverted when Ford reveals that he made backup copies.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_2fce14ae	comment	In the universe of Wearing the Cape, devices and processes created by Mad Scientist characters work simply because their creator made them: they can't be reproduced, even by another Mad Scientist. In something of an aversion, it's mentioned that said characters often make money by reproducing and selling some of their own inventions.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_304d4028	comment	Spirou & Fantasio: Zorglub mentions that he keeps a backup of everything he invents, except for his android daughter Zandra. He wanted her to be unique.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_30d735ec	comment	Sky High (2005): Despite the Pacifier being built by Royal Pain, the whole Evil Plan rests on getting it back from the Strongholds. It seems Royal Pain just could not build another. Possibly justified by the original being a group design based on the picture of the Science Club. Also, she seems to have forgotten everything about her past life, while retaining her powers.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): Played with and eventually averted in the episode "Final Exam". A high school genius suddenly realizes how to make a cold fusion bomb, builds one and tries to force the government to kill his enemies in exchange for not destroying the city. To prove he's not bluffing, he detonates a smaller bomb he hid in another location. He eventually admits that he's secretly terrified and suicidal, because if he realized how easy it is to build one, then others will likewise discover the answer and civilization is doomed. He is eventually shot by a sniper, and just before he dies, the police negotiator asks him what made him realize it, how can they stop others from finding out and doing the same thing, and the boy only has time to say that it's simply a matter of asking the right question. As the episode ends, the scene cuts away to another classroom where a science exam asks the essay question "demonstrate why cold fusion is impossible" ...and a disgruntled boy who's intently pondering it gets a look of sudden realization, and then an evil smile, on his face. The two-part episode "Final Appeal", mostly a Clip Show, has a time traveler recreating the technology and threatening the US government against lifting the anti-technology ban, as he claims that advanced technology will doom humanity. His opponent is another time traveler who claims that humanity is doomed without advanced technology. When the government decides to lift the ban, they send the first time traveler into the past, but he leaves his bomb behind and blows up Washington.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_31a8701b	comment	The Flash: Barry Allen got his powers because a lightning bolt struck a cabinet full of random chemicals, which then spilled onto him. Subsequent attempts to find out which combination of chemicals would, when lightning-struck, yield similar results have all been failures. However, by sheer coincidence, the Flash just happened to set up the right combination of chemicals when demonstrating this to his young protÃ©gÃ© — without taking any notes, of course — and lo, another freak lightning bolt created Kid Flash. Actually, this eventually turned out to be the origin of the original Professor Zoom who started out as a fanboy who successfully duplicated the accident after years of painful treatments in order to use Barry's old treadmill to go back and hang out with him.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3404cac6	comment	Masada: Almost occurs when Rubrius Gallus (the Roman engineer in chief) gets Too Dumb to Live by going too close to the ramparts of the besieged fortress of Masada on the siege tower ramp he conceived and ends up with an arrow in the neck. Fortunately enough for the Romans, he gives sufficient instructions to finish the siege tower's construction before dying (well, almost — Romans didn't account for the fact that the besieged Jewish Zealots would reinforce the fortress wall that's to be destroyed by the tower's Battering Ram).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3499459d	comment	Interesting one; Another Code's "Another I" unit was actually the prototype of Another II — of course this was only revealed in the second game. Whilst it technically isn't considered a weapon (because it wasn't intended as one) there are some very bad people out there who would like to use this as one. Despite them being untested and in development, the first time they're used, they work perfectly.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_35a7939	comment	Heart of Glass is set in a small factory town in Bavaria whose economy is entirely dependent on the manufacture of the bright red "ruby glass". However, the factory foreman, the only person who knows the secret of how to make the glass, dies suddenly without passing the knowledge on to any apprentices. All attempts to deduce the formula through guesswork or logic end in failure, and the town sinks into despair.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_35f1d3fb	comment	Divide and Conquer, one of many G.I. Joe novels (yes, they exist), subverts this. Lots of trouble ensues because Cobra was just as happy to have the huge bulky disintegration ray as they were to have the small portable version. Things went blooey just as well with either one. There was almost a mutiny when one of the Cobra lieutenants guarding the device decides he wants to rule everything and will zap those who disagree.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3831f526	comment	Darwath: After the titular world was attacked by Lovecraftian Monsters From The Deeps, the King called together the greatest mages and they created the Keep of Dare — a multi-storey arcology of fused stone with artificial light, piped water, air conditioning and hydroponics gardens, where all the survivors of the first attacks could live in safety till the monsters went back underground. Whereupon everyone emerged... and went back to the same primitive level of technology as before, and left the Keep forgotten for the next three thousand years till the monsters return and they suddenly realize they need it again. Granted, there was a religious pogrom against wizards and all their works, but the idea that in all the subsequent millenia no rebel thinker ever bothered to explore the place and think 'Hey, I could use that trick,' carries Medieval Stasis to absurdity.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_38662f0a	comment	Escape from New York: Apparently, every shred of data that was involved in creating the tape with the secret of nuclear fusion was destroyed and everyone involved in making it either given amnesia or killed, because absolutely no attempt was made to obtain a backup copy after it was lost in New York.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3894161b	comment	At the end of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, armed forces of the Great Powers, following bottle-messages from Ned Land, track the Nautilus to Captain Nemo's home base on the island of Vulcania. Nemo blows up his laboratory to keep his technological marvels from falling into their hands. Professor Arronax, who moments before had bemoaned the impending destruction of all that wonderful tech, remarks, "Perhaps you did mankind a service, Ned."
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: The subgroup of the Slave Revolt that stole the Ytirflirks' new WMD the Phlogiston Bomb made sure to leave their former enslavers no means to create another.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_39b7671e	comment	Metroid: Other M: Big Guy Anthony Higgs wields a Federation-issued Plasma Rifle. It's twice as long as he is tall, and takes about 10 seconds to charge up enough energy to fire a single shot. Samus' Plasma Beam is rapid fire and integrated with her Arm Cannon to the point where she can charge for a stronger blast. The Federation is reverse engineering Samus' weaponry, they're just nowhere close to the Chozo's level.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_39fe00f1	comment	Discussed in Dragon Age: Inquisition with Varric's crossbow Bianca, which is quite literally a machine gun or automatic rifle compared to the other bows and crossbows in the universe. Played straight in the sense that Bianca is unique and one-of-a-kind, however Varric is still asked why her creator did not try to make more. Varric's answer is, to put it simply, if every army had an arsenal of Biancas to tote around, battles would be a whole lot bloodier. What he tells people is that the creator (whose identity varies with the telling) could never figure out why his worked and their other attempts failed.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3a596334	comment	Completely averted in Shin Megami Tensei I. Aware of the impending demon invasion, STEVEN deliberately emails copies of the Demon Summoning Program to as many people as possible, so they would save mankind. It's just unfortunate that only one of those people survived the Great Destruction... (at least until Shin Megami Tensei IMAGINE, that is.)
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3aabfec3	comment	In an episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers, we see an inventor on a remote island who has invented a solar battery much more efficient than the ones already used by the Planeteers and commercially viable to boot. Unsurprisingly, because of the attempts of the villains to seize it, his lab is destroyed and he loses his memory, but he promises to start over from nothing. Not to mention the vehicles the Planeteers use, despite how much they alone could help the environment are never mass produced (although given they were gifts from Gaia they may be unique Magitek).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3b19a3ad	comment	Methuselah's Children: The Long-Lived Howard families have ended their masquerade and the short-lived rest of humanity is upset. They refuse to believe that the Howards are the result of a selective breeding program, and they demand the non-existent secret. The families steal a spaceship and flee to the stars. Not finding any suitable habitats, they decide to return to Earth and demand their homes back, only to discover that humanity has spent the intervening decades discovering the secret the Howards did, in fact, have. Unfortunately, the Howard scientists hadn't taken it far enough and discarded it as an unworkable technique.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3c087956	comment	Reversed into "No Practice Runs" with the Moth Brooch's champions in Iron Kissed. A champion's first transformation sets their powers and form for all subsequent changes, and it's based heavily on their circumstances and emotions at the exact moment of change. So for best effect, a champion should hold their first change until the moment of actual need. Luckily, champion powers are highly intuitive.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3d22c14b	comment	One could infer that in Gundam 00 Aeolia Schenberg played this straight deliberately when it came to the original GN technology, since the Tau replications that Ribbons leaked to the three factions, as well as used himself, were nowhere near their capabilities. This one's All There in the Manual — the "real" GN drives have a specific component (the "solar blanket") that can only be manufactured in the Jovian gravity well. Since trips out to Jupiter are both expensive and very time-consuming, Celestial Being doesn't have a chance to build any new ones until the two-year period of peace between the series and The Movie. Pointedly averted with the Memento Mori. The heroes destroy it before it can do too much damage, and are badly damaged in the battle, but happy in the knowledge that they've denied the enemy a superweapon. Turns out the enemy built two of 'em, just in case.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3ddddb25	comment	In Xiaolin Showdown, self-proclaimed evil boy genius Jack Spicer creates a time machine that can send people into the past with no way back. And he had to use one of the Shen Gong Wu to get enough energy to go back more than a few seconds. Which is the main reason he never built a forward-in-time device. He didn't need one.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3e3f6aa6	comment	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water: Mr. Krabs made a rule that only one copy of the Krabby Patty formula could exist and that no one was allowed to memorize it. The cause of the plot comes when that one copy disappears right when more patties need to be made.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3f0ccb87	comment	In 1994 Baker Street: Sherlock Holmes Returns, Sherlock Holmes developed a successful means of achieving suspended animation in the 1890s. However, upon being awakened in the 1990s, he learns that it can never be used again because it relied on a biological compound derived from a species of fish which went extinct in the 1970s.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_3fe6b4fb	comment	New Jedi Order also has an aversion of sorts; the Jedi do in fact have the plans for as many of the superweapons of the week as they could find, all under lock-and-key. That way, if some idiot decides they want to try it, the Jedi will know, but it's also pointed out having the plans isn't enough. Superweapons take time and resources, even when you're not trying to hide from a bunch of Jedi.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_43b1575d	comment	At the beginning of "Bring Me The Head of Earthworm Jim", Psy-Crow wonders why Prof. Monkey-For-A-Head, creator of Jim's supersuit, couldn't simply build another. The Professor explains that while he could, without the first suit's power source, the Battery of the Gods, another suit would be "Pretty weak." He did try to get another, but the gods rebuked him and turned him into a breadmaker (which he admits isn't much of a punishment, but he's not risking it).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_44014b66	comment	In Contact, a terrorist attack destroys the first device. There are plans, but building the device was so expensive for the entire world that the prospect of building a second one (especially since it would invite yet another attack) is summarily dismissed. It is then discovered that a second, backup device is revealed to have been built in secret and that the enormous budget was for constructing two devices all along.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers. While much of the Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue tech does come out of nowhere, we do see a prototype of the Red Ranger's Transarmor cycle before he uses the completed one in battle. Also in Power Rangers S.P.D., when the Green Ranger's morpher is destroyed, he is given a backup as soon as he gets free. After the Astro Megaship was destroyed in Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, we see Andros has a replacement by the time of Power Rangers Wild Force. There's also the occasional sign that Ranger technology is being copied and reproduced, usually to explain how these new guys with no known connections to the old ones got their hands on morphers. (Lightspeed Rescue and Operation Overdrive each appeared to develop theirs independently after observing previous Rangers, while some think the Jungle Fury mentor's vague explanation implies he got his off the black market.) Time Force also has a running subplot about a company studying Ranger technology in order to reverse-engineer it. Likewise, in Power Rangers RPM, all the morphers are prototypes. Theoretically, they could have made more, but since most of the world's computers are infected by Venjix, including the facility where the morphers were created, it's likely the plans aren't available. There's also the potential resource issue in creating additional Rangers since Earth is a barren wasteland and Corinth is cut off inside a dome.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_4505668c	comment	Mike the sentient computer from The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is such a creation, because even after the damage that killed him has been repaired, he still doesn't re-emerge.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_4522fd1	comment	In the Whateley Universe: This is a common problem with Devisors, as their power allows them to violate otherwise rock-solid physical law with their devises - but the further they take it from consensus reality, the more unstable the devises are, and the harder it is to reproduce them even for themselves. Worse, a Devisor with 'The Big Idea', or one in the throes of rage or a Diedrick's episode, often don't really understand their creations themselves once they are completed. For example, the devise Spark made while she was furious at her boyfriend worked the one time, but doesn't seem to be reproducible. The one-shot forcefield blaster Mega-Death made and sold to Phase worked once, the second one exploded when Phase used it against a PK brick, and Mega-Death hasn't been able to get any new ones to work. Also, Devises are shown as unpredictable, with one devise having different results each time it's used. And the third time shows WHY screwing with unproven Devises is a bad idea! While it is difficult, it is sometimes possible to reproduce a Devise as a Gadget (i.e., something extremely advanced but still works within normal physical laws) if it is only bends the laws of reality just a little. The 'Devisor Test' (or 'gadget test') is a process in which a Gadgeteer Genius tries to replicate a devise within consensus technology; if it succeeds, the devisor gets to share in any resulting patents.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_468bebb0	comment	In Discworld, Leonard of Quirm zig-zags this trope. He frequently creates brilliant inventions, such as coffee makers, helicopters, bicycles, gonnes, submarines, and nuclear bombs, complete with detailed diagrams and a list of parts. He goes into such detail because they're supposed to be "mental exercises", so omitting the details would be cheating. Fortunately, he is kept under lock and key by Lord Vetinari, who recognizes the dangerous potential of his inventions and keeps them away from the populace. The gonne deserves special mention — the self-aware prototype invoked this trope because it didn't want to be reproduced. In fact, Leonard designed his prison himself and is shown in Jingo to be more or less free to come and go as he pleases. His hideously destructive designs are intended for constructive purposes (mining, hunting dangerous animals) — he's always immensely disappointed that people want to use them otherwise, and he's grateful to Vetinari for the opportunity to be sequestered in a light, airy space with plenty of paper and modeling material. However, he does leave gratuitous plans around, ultimately making this a subversion.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_47a34a01	comment	Kamen Rider: Averted; after the original Rider goes rogue, Shocker builds a new one...who also rebels, takes on the name Kamen Rider #2, and becomes the original's crime-fighting partner. They also used the technology to make six copies dubbed Shocker Riders, each about as strong as #2 (in Ishinomori's original manga, there are 12 Shocker Riders, and #2 is in fact one of their number). In general, the Showa-era shows avert this by having the Riders be made using the same process that the evil organizations used to make their Monster of the Week; the difference is mainly in appearance. In fact, several have made Evil Doppelgangers in attempts to frame the hero.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_48c2633f	comment	In Repairman Jack, a group of pharmacists produce a drug from the monster called the Rakoshi. However, due to the mystical aspect of the Rakoshi, the substance turns inert after roughly one month. Moreover, all records of the chemical structure of the substance, whether on computer or hard copy form, would change to match the inert form. Therefore, once Repairman Jack engineers the deaths of the pharmacists, all records of the substance literally disappear. (Somewhat of an unusual example, since this story explicitly involves mystical forces.)
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_4b790c7b	comment	In a deleted scene of Iron Man 3, as Maya is dying, she transfers the Extremis data to the Stark Industries mainframe, asking Tony to delete it as soon as he can, just before the computer she is using explodes.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_4c746380	comment	Inuyasha: Urasue is shown bringing countless people Back from the Dead in clay bodies, but apparently never took into account the possibility that one of the resurrected would not be willing to serve her; when she resurrects Kikyo, the very first thing Kikyo does is burn her to ash.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_4d2d6ce4	comment	Nod in Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn works under this assumption. One of two possible objectives you get for a level in the Nod campaign, Kane either sends you out to kill the head scientist of GDI's ion cannon project, or go and blow up their prototype Mammoth Tanks to keep them from being mass produced. In either case, your actions don't prevent both weapons from appearing later in the campaign. In Tiberian Sun, you (as Anton Slavik) are against tasked with destroying the prototype Mammoth Mk.II tank. This time, it's explicitly stated it won't stop the project entirely (since the GDI still have plans for it), but it will delay it enough to be worth the effort. Although it never really reaches full production due to costs and technical issues (i.e. you can't build more than one at a time). Then, by the time of the next war, they retire the design as costly and Awesome, but Impractical, going to back to good ol' treaded tanks. Against the vehement opposition of veteran soldiers like Nick "Havoc" Parker. Command & Conquer: Red Alert (more specifically the Allied campaign) double-subverted it with the Iron Curtain project for itself and zigzagged it with the sequel included. Mission 6 is destroying the Iron Curtain research facility, including the Iron Curtain prototype. Mission 13 is about destroying the new Iron Curtain research facility, including the Iron Curtain prototype — after which the Soviets are unable to get it operational again before they lose the war. Then, in the sequel, the Iron Curtain is in use. With the nuclear weapons, it was explicitly a case of "more can always be made, but those were all they had on hand and we just crippled their primary production facility, so we've bought time to win the war."
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_4f410616	comment	This is the case with the Whisperer in the The Mysterious Benedict Society books. Mr. Curtain has gone to great pains to protect it and it would take a long time to rebuild it if it were destroyed.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_4f6620a5	comment	The teleporter developed by a human scientist in Earth: Final Conflict. While the Taelons possess the technology to create interdimensional portals for fast travel between two points (which includes static portals and ID drives for their ships), quantum teleportation is an entirely different beast, which requires so little power that the entire device can fit into a remote the size of a power strip. The scientist intentionally kept no plans of his invention in order to prevent it from falling into Taelon hands. At the end, he makes sure to die while destroying the device. Augur points out that he wouldn't be technically starting from scratch, having taken readings of the device, but so have the Taelons. The technology is promptly forgotten and never brought up again.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_4f9064f6	comment	Kung Fu Panda 2: Averted. We don't see any prototypes for Shen's firework cannon, but there are a lot of backups. Played with in regards to the heroes who thought there was only one cannon. Po even thought that the figurine was the cannon. Shen subverts it as while the cannon in the room could hit anywhere in the city, it was only a distraction to protect his foundry and he was halfway done arming a whole armada of ships with them.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_50a97b8c	comment	"Light Verse" involves a roboticist who is trying to find a method to make beautiful light sculptures. He receives an invite to a famous sculpture artist's party. On the way in, he notices and repairs a robot who only seems to function as a coat rack. The artist is furious because that robot created the sculptures, and she murders the roboticist. He is said to have welcomed death when he realizes that he missed his chance by repairing rather than studying the robot.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5268a4ed	comment	Kamen Rider Build: Averted, since the protagonist Sento Kiryu is a Gadgeteer Genius who hand-makes all of his own upgrades and weapons, including making a second Build Driver so his ally Ryuga Banjou can become Kamen Rider Cross-Z. However, he can't make more people into Kamen Riders because it would involve horrific human experimentation.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Averted as Kuroto Dan, head of the Genm Corporation can be bribed (or occasionally blackmailed) into handing out new Gamer Drivers. In reality Kuroto is The Chessmaster in disguise, so anyone he gives a Driver is just being used as an Unwitting Pawn for his own research. Of course, to actually use it you have to undergo the compatibility surgery, AKA getting infected by Game Disease and managing to resist it enough to form antibodies, which isn't exactly pleasant. Also averted later on in the series: The Hero Emu's Driver gets destroyed, so he uses the Driver left behind by the murdered Kiriya Kujo; when Kujo is brought back to life by Kuroto's father Masamune Dan, his Driver is stolen from Emu, but by that point Kuroto has repaired Emu's original Driver. Additionally, at one point Masamune pulls a Reset Button to get rid of Emu's Super Mode, but Kuroto manages to re-create it after an intense all-nighter that involves working himself to death. Literally. Multiple times.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_529ee66	comment	Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog: Apparently, the intelligence-boosting microchip that Dr. Robotnik was researching in "Grounder the Genius" had only a one-in-a-million chance of being successfully created. Once that one was inevitably destroyed, his computer informed him that he'd be once again subject to that probability if he were to try to recreate it. Uh... In "Full-Tilt Tails", Robotnik was only able to make a single stick of Speedamint Gum, claiming it took him several years to make even that. The way Robotnik describes the process does sort of justify it though. It took over a thousand robots mining for years and thousands of hours between them to refine the resources, calling it â€œimpossible to duplicateâ€�. Averted during the Chaos Emerald Saga. Robotnik strands Sonic and Tails in the past by destroying Sonic's time traveling shoes. Sonic responds by writing a note in a treasure chest, knowing the shoes' inventor will find the chest in the present and get him to send a new pair of shoes to get them out. Also averted in "Attack on the Pinball Fortress". Although Sonic destroyed Robotnik's Stupidity Ray, he still remembered how it was built and set to work building a larger version inside the titular fortres.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_52dd4a4c	comment	Ultimate Marvel: The original Cap was one-of-a-kind — which is why every government and corporation on the planet has spent the last fifty years trying to duplicate the process, or at least come up with something similar, leading to a superhuman arms race. The Ultimate Hulk was the result of a failed attempt, the OZ formula that gave Ultimate Spider-Man his powers was another — every superhuman in this universe, except for the mutants, owe their powers to some attempt at recreating the super-soldier project. Eventually, even the mutants are revealed to be a result of a super-soldier-related project, making the deconstruction even more wide-ranging. A tweak to Ultimate Cap's origin established that the head scientist was simply a cruddy record keeper and did not write everything down before rudely getting shot. Subverted in the Ultimate Galactus Trilogy. The killbot destroyed the ASIS, but there is a backup unit. Double Subversion in Ultimate Spider-Man. In this continuity, the symbiote was created by Peter Parker and Eddie Brock's fathers rather than being an alien and was left in Eddie's possession after they died, until Peter accidentally infected himself with a sample of it. He manages to get rid of it when it almost drives him crazy, then convinces Eddie to let him destroy the rest of the sample. Peter leaves with the container, then Eddie walks over to a locker and opens it to reveal another container with a backup. He even lampshades this, saying "Guess they haven't taught you about backups in high school." However, after this backup sample turns Eddie into Venom, none of the work is left, and he never attempts to recreate the formula, even though he'd be able to sell it to the military for billions. It's a moot point anyway since earlier in the comic, Peter found out that the symbiote, as well as all notes and research involving its creation, were seized from Richard Parker and Eddie Brock Sr. by Trask Industries, the company that was funding it. Dr. Parker had something of a mini-breakdown after finding out, and Peter couldn't sell the formula if he wanted to. After Venom becomes known, all research about the symbiote is seized from Trask by Nick Fury and the Ultimates to make absolutely sure the suit is never re-created, except by them.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_52f6626	comment	Subverted in Jak II: Renegade:
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_53dc3731	comment	Atomic Robo: The titular sentient, intelligent, super-strong robot built by Tesla in the 1920s is one of a kind, and Tesla made certain no records or information on the countless innovations in Robo exist outside his own mind. In a letter from Tesla in the back of Volume 2, he states that this was because he would not allow living beings to be created as weapons.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_558aa396	comment	Subverted in Second Sight. After the prototype psychic super-soldiers are killed in a battle with the protagonist, John Vattic, Director Hanson coldly informs him that the unit was one of several hundred being prepared all over America. Even worse, everything that John has done in that part of the game has all been part of the testing procedure. Additionally, a big deal is made over how Grienko (the researcher in charge of the psychic experiments) actually managed to achieve replicable results. In the flashback or rather, present day scenes, Grienko himself actually hands a huge ream of files to Vattic and talks of how they contain detailed and comprehensive notes on his methods at every stage of the process. Hanson had planned to kill Grienko AND the original test subjects, before heading back to the States and refining the processes.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5690420f	comment	In the five part pilot for DuckTales (1987), Glomgold buys Scrooge's chocolate factory after he floods it, because Scrooge's treasure map (which is a model ship) has made an impression in the solidified chocolate, giving Glomgold and the old captain a map of their own; sort of. Rather than copy this onto paper, they use the chocolate itself, following it while keeping it in an ice cream cart while making attempts on Scrooge's life, which they are forced to stop when their mule eats their slipshod map. (Even if the mule hadn't eaten it, they'd never have found what they were looking for; both sides of the model would eventually be needed.)
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: A central theme. A uniquely powerful or supremely beautiful piece of Art cannot be duplicated because the creation of such works seems to use up the "concept" of that item, or to require the artist to put something of their own spiritual nature into their craft that they can't just replace. The Silmarillion: The Two Trees of Valinor, the Trees of Light, were a unique creation of the ValiÃ« Yavannah, miraculous even by angelic standards. After Ungoliant and Morgoth killed them, she knew she could never again make anything like them. As the Silmarils were created with their light, they could be used to heal the trees, but doing so would destroy them. The means by which the Silmarils were devised is unknown, nobody knows what they're physically made of, and their maker, FÃ«anor, insisted that their production was so demanding, physically, psychologically, and spiritually, that to remake them would be impossible, and would produce only flawed imitations, lacking everything that made them special. After the Two Trees are destroyed, the Silmarils really do become irreplaceable — they were created using the Trees' holy light. Then FÃ«anor's killed and for his crimes he's sentenced never to be reincarnated, so they're really irreplaceable. This even applies to FÃ«anor himself — he was imbued with such a lifeforce that his mother could never have another child. Having children is much more physically and spiritually draining for elves than for humans, but even so FÃ«anor's birth was unique. The white ships of the Teleri are said to be finest ships ever created. The Teleri refuse to loan them to FÃ«anor (in part because they know he's doing the wrong thing), explicitly stating they are as valuable to them as gems are to the Noldor, and that they will never be able to recreate vessels such as them. FÃ«anor then kills them and steals the ships, and after using them burns them. This is one of the many things that he's ultimately damned for. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Not only are they unrepeatable works of superlative craft whose maker is dead but destroying the One Ring also effectively destroys their other maker. Since Sauron made the One Ring to control the others, their power cannot survive its destruction, and everything that was made or maintained with their power also fade away.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_57500d5a	comment	Supergirl Adventures Girl Of Steel: Subverted. A Brainiac unit hacks directly into Lexcorp's system, downloads a copy of the original Brainiac processor and wipes out the original. Mercy Graves feels troubled, thinking they have lost Brainiac's memory, but it turns out that her boss Lex has made plenty of backups.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_582cb4f	comment	In "The Dying Night", a man who invented a teleporter dies of a heart attack. The device, being a prototype, has burned out after a single test, and another man destroyed his notes, with the film upon which he copied them ending up sunburned. Ultimately subverted, however, when the investigator points out that the person's brain can be probed for the image of the notes.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_582d22e	comment	The Lost World (1995) is an aversion of this trope for Jurassic Park. The original Jurassic Park showed a clean and efficient cloning process, with fertilized ova in one lab and fully-developed eggs in the next. This means that the actual work of cloning, the incredibly complex process and all the failed efforts and prototypes, must have taken place somewhere else. This turns out to be "Site B" on Isla Sorna, the "factory floor" of Jurassic Park, where all the actual work happened.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_59151283	comment	Metal Gear: Subverted in Metal Gear Solid. At the end of the game, Solid Snake destroys the prototype nuclear-armed Humongous Mecha Metal Gear REX. Just a few minutes into the sequel, it is revealed that the plans for REX were sold on the black market, and consequently, numerous countries are working on or have already completed their own sui generis versions, leading to the creation of the anti-Metal Gear weapon Metal Gear RAY. In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the first time we see Sokolov, he actually is burning the production notes to the Shagohod, explaining why nobody tried building another.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_591aa39f	comment	In the first Metal Slug, we have the Tani-Oh, a gargantuan land master and boss of mission 3. According to the additional info provided by SNK, the Tani-Oh was actually a prototype that was being tested in the mountain range. The tank was subsequently destroyed by the peregrine FALCONS before it could be mass produced. Note this does not apply to other creations of the Rebel Army: The Iron Nokana, a rusty armored carrier and boss of Mission 5, has appeared a few other times in the series.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5958b382	comment	Smoke: Freddie is accidentally turned invisible by taking two skin cancer formulas that weren't meant to be taken together. After unsuccessfully trying to catch Freddie, the scientists and their boss try to recreate the experiment and find two more volunteers to take the chemical combination. One of them turns luminescent and the other has all of his scar tissue fade away.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_59632132	comment	In Temps, the famous Mad Scientist Cranston did keep detailed notes of his experiments in robotics, cloning and advanced nuclear power... however, because his superpower was the Placebotinum Effect, almost all of them are total nonsense.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas fixes the power armor issue. The old-gen (Mk1) Enclave power armor (the stock variety from 2) has the best DT of any armor that made it into the final game. The Mk2 armor (from 2 & 3) has one less DT than the Mk1, by which I mean, the Mk2 armor itself has nearly the same DT as the set of Mk1 armor. The Mk2 didn't into the final game, but was still included in the game's data files. New Vegas also makes a major point about how the need to manufacture goods is problematic more than ever as it's pointed out that most pre-war locations have been picked bone dry. New Vegas also averts this with some of its more conventional weapons. The NCR relies on primarily Pre-War weaponry (such as wooden-furniture AR-15s, M1 Garands, and Browning Hi Powers) rather than the more advanced technology the Enclave, Brotherhood, and even some Raiders favor. It's implied, however, companies within the NCR are still reproducing a lot of their weaponry; the Hi Power, for instance, is made by a company called M&A and, since Fallout Tactics confirms Browning exists in the Fallout universe and did make a Hi Power themselves, one can safely assume M&A's model is a reproduction, albeit one seeing front-line combat use. The game also averts with the companion ED-E. He is one of the prototypes and his creator uploaded the plans to his memory banks when the project that created him was cancelled by the Enclave one ending to the game has the Brotherhood Of Steel mass producing him if The Courier allowed to recover the plans from ED-E.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5a2f53d1	comment	In The Invisible Man, the protagonist does keep detailed notes, but after his death, they are kept by his landlord, who has dreams of recreating the formula for himself. However, the author says that he never will, because he is too stupid to realize that it takes learning that he doesn't have.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5c0e4258	comment	Both played straight and averted in SWAT Kats: The Gemkat 6000 in the episode "Chaos in Crystal." Averted. Not only do blueprints for the machine exist, but Dr. Greenbox was so thorough he had a prototype of his prototype (think the two Cosmic Keys in Masters of the Universe), which he is able to rewire the second machine in order to undo what the first one did. The Behemoth super tank in "Metal Urgency." Played straight. It appears Puma-Dyne made just the one tank, and had no means of remotely shutting it down in the event it gets stolen. Its forcefield and thought-controlled arsenal make it impervious to everything the Enforcers throw at it... meaning they can't stop a tank designed explicitly for their use. Averted and then played straight with the two Macro-Bots in the same episode. Professor Hackle quit working at Puma-Dyne after they wanted to weaponize two giant space exploration robots he designed. He left the company before the robots could be built, but Puma-Dyne built them anyway, using Hackle's original designs and just adding weaponry to the final product(s). If Hackle didn't want Puma-Dyne to build the Macro-Bots, he shouldn't have left the plans for them with the company. An example of having the plans being a bad thing. But Puma-Dyne being Puma-Dyne, they, again, apparently had no backups or countermeasures to the Macro-Bots prepared in the event that they fell into the wrong hands, so once the Metallikats steal them, there's no choice but for the SWAT Kats to destroy them. The Blue Manx fighter jet in "The Ghost Pilot." Played straight. Apparently, the Enforcers had just the one, left a grand total of two guys to guard it (!), and once the Red Lynx steals it, they have no means of countering it. Meaning they didn't learn from Puma-Dyne's earlier screw-up with the Behemoth and Macro-Bots. The anti-weapon scrambler in "SWAT Kats Unplugged." Played straight. You'd think Puma-Dyne would've learned from the Behemoth/Macro-Bot debacle to have backups and countermeasures ready, but nope. Once Hard Drive gets his hands on it, there's nothing to counteract the device's effects. Its inventor, Dr. Ohm, is shown frantically trying to build a second device to counteract the first one, but the SWAT Kats find a means of defeating Hard Drive without resorting to weapons before he finishes it. Viper Mutagen 368 in "The Origin of Dr. Viper." Averted, then subverted. Although there exists only one sample of the mutagen, Dr. Zyme does have notes on how to make more. This allows for more to be made in the event that something happens to the sample - which it does when Zyme's thieving assistant Purvis steals it and spills it on himself. However, then it turns out Zyme's calculations were flawed, and the formula has the unintended side-effect of mutating Purvis into Dr. Viper, so the existence of his notes become a moot point - after all, the formula is "worthless." That is, until Viper uses them to start making more of the stuff in an effort to turn Zyme, Callie and Mayor Manx into mutants, too, giving another example of how sometimes, having the notes/plans can be a bad thing. The micro-brain repair unit in "Unlikely Alloys." Averted, then subverted, then played straight. It turns out Greenbox had a device to shut the thing down in the event it went rogue (that or he quickly whips one up), but he never gets a chance to use it because after the repair unit becomes sentient, names itself "Zed," and starts going around on the usual rampage, Greenbox gets too big for his britches over what "his genius" has created, and not only refuses to use the shutoff device, but smashes it. And of course it was the only one.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5ce3fc86	comment	Averted in Soul Eater: Sid and Naigus are able to successfully raid Arachnophobia's research facility and destroy their prototype Morality Manipulation Machine. They managed to make more anyway.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5db577ba	comment	Done deliberately by Batman in The Dark Knight. He creates a device that turns every cell phone in Gotham into a sonar emitter, allowing him to map the city and its inhabitants in real time. He knows this thing is too powerful to morally use on a regular basis, so he gives it to Lucius Fox with instructions to type in a password when the mission is over. Fox does so, and the whole thing promptly falls apart as Lucius performs an Unflinching Walk.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_5fc3d52f	comment	An aversion was what led to the creation of the superhero Steel. Dr. John Henry Irons had devised a high-powered gun, nicknamed the "Toastmaster", but had hidden away the plans when he realized they'd be too powerful. It's assumed that a fellow scientist found the plans, produced the weapons, and sold them to other groups. When these guns got to Metropolis' gangs during The Death of Superman, Irons decided it was time to break those guns once and for all.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: Played straight in Cetaganda, in which the eponymous planet's rulers keep their genetic records (necessary to continue "improving" the race) in one facility with exactly one key to unlock the genome. No backup records. No backup key. The protagonist, offworlder Miles Vorkosigan, learns this secret and bursts out, "Are you people insane?" This is sort-of justified in that the Cetagandans reasoned that if they only have one facility with one key, then they only have to guard one facility with one key. They actually got away with it until, ironically, an attempt to create backups provided an opening for someone to steal the key.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_629cd094	comment	In Dragon Age: Origins this is played straight for much of the Dwarves' Lost Technology. When the Darkspawn attacked the lost thaigs, the Dwarves were too busy fighting, dying, and running for their lives to bring plans and backups with them. The Anvil of the Void, the key to making Golems, was the brainchild of the Paragon Smith Caridin and only he knew its secrets. This is unfortunately averted with the Harvester in Golems of Amgarrak. There are still dozens of them left. In Caridin's case, he purposely destroyed his research after suffering a crisis of conscience, coming to realise how horrific his "masterpiece" truly was. It turns out that Golems are created by pouring molten lyrium into a shell containing a Dwarf to animate it. For his disobedience, he was sentenced to undergo the same process, as half-remembered by his apprentices.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_63409895	comment	Sofia the First: In "Cedric Be Good", Cedric makes a potion that'll enable him to use the Amulet of Avalor's blessings without the risk of being cursed but he accidentally destroys it. He cannot make another batch because one of the ingredients is too rare.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_638624c8	comment	Slayers: Goru Nova, the Sword of Light, a blade which can cut through anything, absorb and fire back enemy magic, amplify the spells cast by the bearer, and actually damage the dark powers and Physical Gods in their true bodies. The last is especially important because their true bodies don't even exist in our reality, but another layer of it altogether. It is also the only known way to kill the monster Zannafar, a creature the aforementioned gods fear because Zannafar does not exist where they can harm it, and its purely physical body has impenetrable armor. No one's ever been able to duplicate it over the millennium since it was last seen, and they'd love to. Likewise, the gods would rather see it forgotten forever than replicated. The thing that makes Goru Nova so special? Â¡Goru Nova is from a different universe entirely, and the personal weapon of demon king Darkstar Dugranigdu. This becomes a major plot point in the third season, where we learn that Darkstar didn't have just one weapon like that. And someone is searching for the other four.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House plays with and justifies this trope in regards to the Portal Door. Since Eda found it, she has no idea who made it nor did she have any interest in finding out. After Luz destroys it, Belos is forced to repair it instead of trying to make a new one. Meanwhile, Luz herself is able to figure out who made it and gains access to his diary, which contains detailed notes on its construction. Luz is even able to make her own Flawed Prototype, the only hitch being a lack of access to the primary ingredient.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_69071a1b	comment	In the Paragons setting for Mutants & Masterminds, ACME Tech is this—superscience devices that only work because the Paranormal using them believes it does. How much this comes into play is determined by the sort of game the Game Master wants to run, which allows for a justification for this trope.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Averted in Iron Man. The first suit and its plans are recovered and used as a basis for Stane's. Stark has two functional suits in his house, and the facilities to build a new one from scratch in five hours... Except one. If not for Pepper's leaving the original mini-Arc Reactor as a gift to Tony, Obadiah would have successfully left Tony for dead. Justified in Captain America: The First Avenger. The Super-Soldier Serum that Erskine created was too easily exploited, since it also amplifies the person's inner nature: "Good becomes great. Bad becomes worse." To prevent this from happening again as it did with the Red Skull, Erskine kept the notes all in his head to protect the serum's formula. He gets killed and the secret dies with him. The shield is also stated to be unique because it is a Vibranium prototype. Why can't more be made? It took the entire world's supply of Vibranium to make it. (At least, the known world supply at that time—Avengers: Age of Ultron and then Black Panther (2018) establishes that there is more, but Wakanda has been doing everything in its power to keep it out of the hands of the rest of the world.) The Incredible Hulk (2008) reveals that Bruce Banner/the Hulk is one of the failed attempts to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum. Banner combined an incomplete formula with gamma radiation (Captain America received a combination of Super-Soldier Serum and vita-rays). The man who later becomes the Abomination initially only receives the incomplete formula — he stays human but clearly goes insane. In a deleted scene of Iron Man 3, as Maya is dying, she transfers the Extremis data to the Stark Industries mainframe, asking Tony to delete it as soon as he can, just before the computer she is using explodes. Played with in Ant-Man. There's only one Yellowjacket suit, but Pym makes a point of having the mission to steal it include wiping the servers at the facility that built it and completely demolishing the building itself so that Cross won't be able to reconstruct his research without starting completely from scratch.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6a4bddd6	comment	Iron Man: Averted, as Tony Stark not only has multiple versions of his armor stretching back to his first one (and has used previous versions to solve a current problem), but one of the key storylines in the comic series was how his foe Obidiah Stane got a hold of all his armor research and technology when he took over Stark's company. Not to mention that, almost uniquely, there is actually another superhero running around with his toys — War Machine uses one of Tony's suits modified with More Dakka. The Armor Wars storyline had Tony try to invoke this trope after one too many villains got their mitts on his suit tech, causing him to go a little overboard in his pursuit of unauthorized users of his armor technologies as several other heroes utilizing powered armor got involved. For a few select dangerous projects, Tony deliberately invokes this trope, as he is painfully familiar with the bad guys stealing his secrets and abusing them.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6abb41af	comment	X Lives and X Deaths of Wolverine has the robotic body that Moira MacTaggert is currently in. Orchis doesn't have an army of Brain Upload cyborgs running around because Moira's body is unique. Even though she was a co-creator of it, the majority of its creation is based off of Epiphany CEO, Arnab Chakladar's research and using re-purposed materials from his lab (making the body was part of an emergency medical procedure by Moira to save herself from dying of a floronic bio-engineered cancer) Logan would lobotomize Chakladar and his Wolverine family would obliterate the lab specifically to destroy any possible plans or blueprints for her body.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6ac55ec7	comment	In Dungeons & Dragons, the Machine of Lum the Mad. Another artifact from the Book of Artifacts, The Apparatus, is frequently destroyed (by enterprising heroes) and recreated. (It can do horrible things like tear apart and combine souls and bodies, and is generally used by people who are completely mad. The expected setting is, of course, Ravenloft.) It's suggested that the actual artifact is not the Apparatus itself, but the notebooks that describe its construction. A sourcebook on the drow explains that they're much more technologically-inclined than surface elves, since their natural magic resistance has taught them not to rely on spells over tools, and their ambition and tendency towards conflict drives them to innovate as much as humans. Over their history, drow inventors have come up with clockwork timepieces, moveable type, blackpowder, even steam-powered pistons. Unfortunately, a society defined by scheming, infighting and paranoia means that few drow innovators risk writing things down or sharing their breakthroughs, meaning the aforementioned technology has been lost and rediscovered over and over again.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6ae1d164	comment	During Galaxy of Fear, it's found that the threats of the first four books — D'vouran, zombies, The Virus, the Nightmare Machine — were, though all useful in themselves, intended as sort of high-level concept testing for the real purpose of Project Starscream, creating an Ultimate Life Form Super-Soldier with All Your Powers Combined. Each of those ended up being destroyed or neutralized by the protagonists, and notes get destroyed all along the line. Studying the zombiemaking notes is actually how one of our heroes came up with a countermeasure.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6c1d09b1	comment	Appropriately played straight and then subverted in Fallout and Fallout 2. Being After the End, high-tech gear like powered armor is rare and largely irreplaceable, and must be maintained vigilantly. Then the Enclave show up, having survived the apocalypse with all their technological data and manufacturing facilities intact, and are actually wielding weapons and armor more advanced than the pre-war models. Lots of them. And then Fallout 3 comes around (which is set in the east coast, rather than the west coast) and you'll find power armor and rare plasma and laser weapons wherever you look. Though oddly, the Enclave's previously superior armor is suddenly inferior to the pre-War models, despite the most common power armor in the game being a step back from what could be found on the West Coast. The reason that T-45d power armor (The stuff the East Coast Brotherhood uses) was considered inferior to later models was because the suits had a couple of drawbacks: Their servo systems weren't quite up to scratch so they were bulky and hard to move around in (represented in game as a -2 penalty to your agility); had problems with heat dissipation; various electronic and mechanical subsystems of the armor were exposed on the outside of the casing, making it far more susceptible to damage (the condition deteriorates faster than Enclave armor); and the suits also burnt through energy cells like a gas-guzzling SUV (thankfully, you don't have to worry about that issue). Fallout: New Vegas fixes the power armor issue. The old-gen (Mk1) Enclave power armor (the stock variety from 2) has the best DT of any armor that made it into the final game. The Mk2 armor (from 2 & 3) has one less DT than the Mk1, by which I mean, the Mk2 armor itself has nearly the same DT as the set of Mk1 armor. The Mk2 didn't into the final game, but was still included in the game's data files. New Vegas also makes a major point about how the need to manufacture goods is problematic more than ever as it's pointed out that most pre-war locations have been picked bone dry. New Vegas also averts this with some of its more conventional weapons. The NCR relies on primarily Pre-War weaponry (such as wooden-furniture AR-15s, M1 Garands, and Browning Hi Powers) rather than the more advanced technology the Enclave, Brotherhood, and even some Raiders favor. It's implied, however, companies within the NCR are still reproducing a lot of their weaponry; the Hi Power, for instance, is made by a company called M&A and, since Fallout Tactics confirms Browning exists in the Fallout universe and did make a Hi Power themselves, one can safely assume M&A's model is a reproduction, albeit one seeing front-line combat use. The game also averts with the companion ED-E. He is one of the prototypes and his creator uploaded the plans to his memory banks when the project that created him was cancelled by the Enclave one ending to the game has the Brotherhood Of Steel mass producing him if The Courier allowed to recover the plans from ED-E.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6c1d09b3	comment	And then Fallout 3 comes around (which is set in the east coast, rather than the west coast) and you'll find power armor and rare plasma and laser weapons wherever you look. Though oddly, the Enclave's previously superior armor is suddenly inferior to the pre-War models, despite the most common power armor in the game being a step back from what could be found on the West Coast. The reason that T-45d power armor (The stuff the East Coast Brotherhood uses) was considered inferior to later models was because the suits had a couple of drawbacks: Their servo systems weren't quite up to scratch so they were bulky and hard to move around in (represented in game as a -2 penalty to your agility); had problems with heat dissipation; various electronic and mechanical subsystems of the armor were exposed on the outside of the casing, making it far more susceptible to damage (the condition deteriorates faster than Enclave armor); and the suits also burnt through energy cells like a gas-guzzling SUV (thankfully, you don't have to worry about that issue).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6d27b424	comment	In the mockumentary The Compleat Al, the master tapes for "Weird Al" Yankovic's experimental album "Me Myself And I" are accidentally erased by an airport metal detector.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6dd8677c	comment	In Tiberian Sun, you (as Anton Slavik) are against tasked with destroying the prototype Mammoth Mk.II tank. This time, it's explicitly stated it won't stop the project entirely (since the GDI still have plans for it), but it will delay it enough to be worth the effort. Although it never really reaches full production due to costs and technical issues (i.e. you can't build more than one at a time). Then, by the time of the next war, they retire the design as costly and Awesome, but Impractical, going to back to good ol' treaded tanks. Against the vehement opposition of veteran soldiers like Nick "Havoc" Parker.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6e0e351	comment	Escape Velocity Override gives a slightly more positive spin to the 'ominous statement about nothing hindering the villains from building another' with the Voinian Dreadnaught. After its destruction, Admiral McPherson acknowledges that the Voinians of course could build more of them... but given the necessary effort and resources, that will take time, giving the United Earth the opportunity to consider ways to counter it more permanently in the meantime rather than the desperate scramble destroying the first one was. Word of God had it that the Voinians did indeed deploy more dreadnaughts eventually, but that at that point the UE was stronger strategically (the frontier is pushed significantly closer to Voinia in the UE storylines, and several important resource-extraction worlds are denied to the Voinians), militarily (the UE was able to use the aforementioned as well as a number of other factors to expand and upgun its fleet) and technologically (plenty of Voinian technology was reverse-engineered, and mutually beneficial commercial ties were established with a friendlier advanced alien society), leaving it rather less of a war-winner than the Voinians had hoped for.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6e57117e	comment	Weird Science: Subverted in the episode "Fatal Lisa". Lisa, under a spell to love Wyatt, deletes her own files to show that she's in love with him. The teens try to stop her but it's too late. She disappears and her files are gone. Then Wyatt points out he has backups. However, played straight on "Lisa's Virus" a while later. She gets a computer virus and restoring backups is not even mentioned.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_6e859048	comment	Averted in Big Hero 6, where a montage at one point shows a considerable amount of prototyping had to go into Baymax before he functioned correctly. And after his Heroic Sacrifice, once Hiro finds Baymax's personality chip, he's perfectly able to build a new body from the blueprints his creator kept.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_70814599	comment	Subverted in Stargate SG-1: when the first Ori supergate was destroyed, they just secretly built another one a few episodes later. When the good guys' prototype starship is blown up, they roll out the finished production model — and several duplicates not long after. About the only things that fall victim to this trope are the good guys' attempts at higher technology than the plot allows and the bad guys' unique weapons — Apophis' special mother ship, or Anubis' superweapon.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_70a57983	comment	In Prelude to Dune, a Richese scientist invents the no-field and builds the Baron his personal no-chamber and a small no-ship. Giddy, Rabban kills the scientist. However, no one bothers to have him teach someone how to build more of these (in fairness to Rabban, he thought they had what they needed to reconstruct the ship with recordings of everything the scientist did while in the Harkonnen's employ. Unfortunately, the scientist had anticipated what would happen to him unless he was still needed and so had taken measures to keep the recordings as useless as possible — and even more unfortunately for him no-one with the scientific or engineering expertise to realize this looked at the recordings until after he was killed). So when Rabban stupidly ends up getting the no-ship destroyed, the Baron berates him for eliminating the scientist. It later turns out that there are plans back on the research space station orbiting Richese, and a number of his colleagues discover them and try to recreate the technology. The station is blown up by the Sardaukar on The Emperor's orders as punishment for the Richese stockpiling spice. Thanks to some Applied Phlebotinum on the station, the nuclear explosion ends up blinding half the population of the planet below. It's not until thousands of years later that the technology is rediscovered (possibly independently, although the Bene Gesserit are known to have studied the crashed no-ship before burning it). The technology is further improved to make it immune to Psychic Powers (this was a big flaw of the original no-ship, as the Bene Gesserit saw right through the cloak).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_72262aee	comment	While blueprints for several machines play important parts in Avatar: The Last Airbender — mostly as Chekhov's Guns — the trope is still played straight with the Fire Nation's mobile drill. The drill, designed to break through the outer wall of the city-state of Ba Sing Se, is apparently one of a kind; only one ever makes it to the battlefield, with no readily accessible back-up. Considering how effective it was (it only failed because the Avatar and his friends disabled it, and it got through the outer wall before they did), there's no reason they shouldn't try again. This might be justified as a matter of expenditure, given the drill was absolutely massive and probably used the equivalent resources of hundreds of tanks or other more practical war machines for a single campaign. It also had to be built in enemy territory to begin with. Azula conquered the city a few weeks later anyway, eliminating the need for it entirely.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_7291539d	comment	Averted, played straight and brutally deconstructed in Batman: Arkham City. To cure the TITAN formula poisoning, Batman teams up with Mr. Freeze and ends up getting a sample of Ra's Al Ghul's blood as a critical component. It's averted as Freeze makes two vials of the antidote, then played straight because, immediately after, he selfishly destroys a vial to force Batman to find Nora Fries, then brutally deconstructed as Batman ends up losing the last vial when the Joker pulls off a Back Stab, causing him to drop it on the ground, leading to the clown dying painfully.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Averted with the Defiant. She started out as a prototype for a pure warship to deal with the Borg threat, but had numerous problems and work on the project was suspended. Then the Dominion turned up, and Starfleet restarted work, made her a functional warship, sent the now-fixed prototype to the front lines, and began building more. There are enough in service by the time that the Dominion War breaks out that one, USS Valiant, is used as a training ship for cadets (though said ship was no better than an off-the-shelf Defiant in terms of performance, possessing numerous flaws which O'Brien had long since corrected). The Cardassian Obsidian Order develops a device that is designed to prevent a changeling from changing its molecular structure, trapping it in its current form until it crumbles apart. It is small enough to be placed anywhere, and works. It is never seen again after its debut, "The Die Is Cast." Justified, as the design shown is a prototype that was likely destroyed when the ship it was on was, and one of the Romulans involved around the time of its first test was a Founder, who probably tampered with it soon after.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_747d9a6f	comment	Subverted with [PROTOTYPE], where this appears to be in full force with the eponymous prototype, Alex Mercer, and the Blacklight virus. In fact, the real Alex Mercer created the Blacklight virus and stole a sample, which eventually absorbed Mercer after his death. Blackwatch is fully able to replicate those conditions, but they sure as shit don't want another Mercer running around. It's uncertain. Your Blacklight virus spread a plague through the city. Your copies are vastly inferior things you can run circles around and slay by the hundreds. You are a Super Prototype. You may be unique and impossible to backup for genetic reasons
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_76c01b30	comment	V for Vendetta: The formula that created V. He blew up the research plant, killed the doctor, and was the only survivor anyhow. It hardly matters since the formula that created V had totally random effects on everyone it was injected into (One test subject who died from it was mentioned to have had fingers growing inside her calves for example).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_7849f0c1	comment	Getter Robo averts this in general. The Getters are a line of mecha that are evolved from the same breed of 3-piece combiner, and even they are shown in numerous tales to have prototypes. In the OVA Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo, it's revealed that Dr. Saotome had constructed various prototype Getters in its various forms. The Dinosaur Empire used ALL of them to good use, pummeling the weaker Neo Getter Robo and forcing it to deplete its comparatively limited Plasma Power reserves.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_797793b1	comment	Used in Shaman King in reference to Mosuke's most powerful sword, Harusame, which was ironically made of melted up junk metal and an old hunting knife. After creating it, the emperor ordered Amidamaru to kill Mosuke so as to make Harusame follow this trope. Even though the Emperor's plan somewhat fails, Harusame remains a sword of unparalleled power.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_7c60fb0f	comment	The Simpsons: Spoofed in the Bartman story "Dial 'M' For Milhouse"; a scientist unveils an invention that can cure all known diseases, stop global warming, and feed the world. When a villain knocks over and destroys the device, the scientist wails "Noooo! I didn't write down how I built it, and now I'll never remember!" He tries to console himself with the fact that he still has his "Make Your Own Hot Fudge Sundae" machine, but that gets destroyed too.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_7d4d7d22	comment	In Casper, there's Casper's father's Lazarus Machine, said to bring the dead back to life. However, the machine uses a special elixir in which only one was made. A good portion of the movie is dedicated as to who will use the machine. It turns out to be Kat's father, who got himself depressingly drunk and fell off a cliff.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_7d89c4b3	comment	The Frontier Magic series has an interesting variation. The creators of the Great Barrier Spell left behind plenty of documentation on their legendary spell, but since Benjamin Franklin was self-educated and Thomas Jefferson had an unfortunate tendency to assume that everyone else was as well read as him, their notes are so idiosyncratic that nobody else can understand them.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_7f88571c	comment	Gundam SEED has ZAFT fall into this trope with their Gundam prototypes, making several powerful suits which later become a source of agony for them as they get stolen and The Alliance of all groups managing to mass produce at least one of their features into their new mobile suits (The Jet Striker pack for the Dagger-L and the Windam look like a smaller version of Justice's backpack, while the Wild Dagger is an Alliance Dagger-L with the ZAFT Gaia Gundam's transforming ability.). The Earth Alliance's second set of Gundams also got a mass production upgrade for their non Brainwashed and Crazy soldiers. Averted in Gundam SEED Destiny with ZAFT's new generation of Gundams: Of the five, Chaos and Saviour have prototypes, and ZAFT made multiple Impulses with Mecha Expansion Packs that reproduce the abilities of Gaia, Chaos and Abyss — and then MSV introduced a Destiny pack for the Impulse, as well as a prototype for The Lancer's Legend Gundam. Also subverted in the Alliance mobile armors. The first one usually served as an occasional Monster of the Week, but afterward multiples would appear in their forces. The biggest aversion comes at the climax of the series. Not only did they apparently get their hands on Patrick Zala's designs for the Genesis Superweapon, they even duplicated it and improved it, going so far as to make it so that it doesn't melt the reflector mirrors AND mounted it on a moving asteroid fortress. This actually went back all the way to Gundam SEED Astray when the Junk Guild claims GENESIS Alpha, a second GENESIS as their own home base. The 1/100 Master Grade model for the Strike Freedom Gundam revealed that it was meant to be mass produced, but Terminal, Lacus Clyne's secret organization, found the plans when they'd been shoved away, took them for their own and deleted the original copy from ZAFT's computers.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Not only are they unrepeatable works of superlative craft whose maker is dead but destroying the One Ring also effectively destroys their other maker. Since Sauron made the One Ring to control the others, their power cannot survive its destruction, and everything that was made or maintained with their power also fade away.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_7fcddc41	comment	Averted and deconstructed in The Journeyman Project series. As far as the government is aware, they possess the only functional time machine in existence. They then immediately create a police force solely dedicated to using that time machine to prevent anyone from tampering with the past just in case anyone else ever manages to figure out how to make a time machine. In the sequel the "any technology once created can always be recreated" is used as an argument in favour of not shutting down the Time Police agency.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_80316b87	comment	Invoked in X-Men / Fantastic Four. At the end of the mini-series, Xavier and Magneto visit Reed and reveal they knew he built a device that could hide the X-Gene as a means to protect Franklin. Furious that he would do such a thing, Xavier Mind Rapes Reed so that he could never replicate such a device while Magneto uses his powers to destroy the prototype device and erase the plans.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_803beb04	comment	The super-suit of Earthworm Jim was designed by Professor Monkey-For-A-Head, originally for the villain of the series. The manual states that he could have made another one... if the damn monkey hadn't eaten the blueprints. Subverted in the cartoon. Turns out the professor can build another suit, but since the power source literally came from the Gods, and they ain't eager to give him another one, any suit he builds would be pretty weak.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: The Genesis Device featured in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. One of the main scientists who built it was killed, and before his death, it was revealed that the technology used a semi-unethical shortcut that essentially robbed the results of all long-term utility by turning an instant terraforming device into a Weapon of Mass Destruction that temporarily improves its target. Starfleet didn't see fit to pursue the issue further, which isn't surprising considering how the Klingons reacted to it. Given that the Genesis Device didn't receive a proper test its viability is unknown. It was designed to be used on an existing planet/moon, not create a new planet. The science team deliberately wiped all their notes to try and keep them from being captured, and then most of the science team got killed, leaving the key part of the formula only in David Marcus' memory. Then he got killed. It seems that, decades later, some people were able to recreate the device as Nick Locarno bought a black market Ferengi-made model in Star Trek: Lower Decks while a "Genesis II" is seen at Daystrom Station in Star Trek: Picard. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country has the Klingon Bird of Prey that can fire while cloaked in. The prototype is destroyed, and apparently all the notes and engineers responsible for creating it must have been on board, because it isn't until Star Trek: Nemesis that the Remans finally manage to recreate that ability (and further improve on the design). There's a plasma-seeking torpedo which is used to track the cloaked ship, destroying it. This technique is never repeated. It's a wonder Federation scientists never thought of this before or after that moment. Interestingly, like the example of the Scimitar, the MMO Star Trek Online brings them back as features for the more advanced ships (re: ones you gotta pay for)
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_817b1a43	comment	In the second Time Crisis game, the main protagonists, Keith and Robert, get a Hope Spot as they think the satellite hasn't been launched, but then the Big Bad, General Diaz, tells them that it's just a prototype, and they're about to launch the real thing. The prototype doesn't have any of the real thing's capabilities, but it does serve as the Final Boss of the game.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_81f5d35d	comment	Generally averted in the various Kamen Rider series with a technological basis. Unknown how much this applies in the first episode. The process for creating the series monsters has been in use for some time by the villains, but a good scientist was forced to work on it which resulted in the process which creates Kamen Rider 1. Since this scientist dies in the first episode, it's unknown how much knowledge/plans he may have taken to his grave. Given that Kamen Rider 1 and 2 are substantially stronger than any previously created monster and any subsequently created monster, the scientist may have taken the best process to his grave. Kamen Rider: Averted; after the original Rider goes rogue, Shocker builds a new one...who also rebels, takes on the name Kamen Rider #2, and becomes the original's crime-fighting partner. They also used the technology to make six copies dubbed Shocker Riders, each about as strong as #2 (in Ishinomori's original manga, there are 12 Shocker Riders, and #2 is in fact one of their number). In general, the Showa-era shows avert this by having the Riders be made using the same process that the evil organizations used to make their Monster of the Week; the difference is mainly in appearance. In fact, several have made Evil Doppelgangers in attempts to frame the hero. Kamen Rider Kiva: Subverted; the show's Second Rider, IXA, is a man-made mechanical suit that's shown to be in development throughout the series (Ver.I is seen in 1986, while Ver.X appears in 2008 and is subsequently upgraded to Ver.XI, gaining its Super Mode in the process). In the last few episodes of the series, the Ver.I suit is utterly destroyed, revealing that the Ver.X/XI suit is an entirely different machine. In fact, the intact arm of the Ver.I suit becomes a Chekhov's Gun in the final episode. Kamen Rider OOO: Averted; the Kamen Rider Birth suit is passed from one user to another when the original needs to leave in order to get life-saving surgery. When the bus comes back, he's given the Prototype Birth suit, which doesn't have as many bells and whistles but still lets him kick ass. And then in Movie Wars Megamax, Proto-Birth is destroyed beyond repair by Kamen Rider Poseidon. Kamen Rider Gaim: Averted; at the outset of the show, the Yggdrasill Corporation has six prototype Sengoku Drivers that it slips into civilian hands for "testing", plus a seventh that belongs to Takatora, the project head. The research they gather eventually allows them to mass-produce a slightly improved version of the Driver as well as creating a superior model, the Genesis Driver. Their original plan was to produce at least one billion Sengoku Drivers in order to save people from from The End of the World as We Know It, and in fact Takatora does his best to get even more made, not being satisfied with only saving a billion lives. This also extends to the Energy Lockseeds used in the Genesis Drivers, which have to be specially made by by Yggdrasill. Gaim manages to obtain a couple by outright stealing them from Yggdrasill's minions, but they're given replacements. The final episodes see the large majority of the Sengoku prototypes and Genesis Drivers destroyed, and in the epilogue Takatora states that all of the mass-produced Drivers were rounded up and destroyed so they couldn't be abused; and even if they were rebuilt they've been cut off from the Helheim Forest so they can't make any more Lockseeds to power them. Of course, he kept one Driver and Lockseed, just in case. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: Averted as Kuroto Dan, head of the Genm Corporation can be bribed (or occasionally blackmailed) into handing out new Gamer Drivers. In reality Kuroto is The Chessmaster in disguise, so anyone he gives a Driver is just being used as an Unwitting Pawn for his own research. Of course, to actually use it you have to undergo the compatibility surgery, AKA getting infected by Game Disease and managing to resist it enough to form antibodies, which isn't exactly pleasant. Also averted later on in the series: The Hero Emu's Driver gets destroyed, so he uses the Driver left behind by the murdered Kiriya Kujo; when Kujo is brought back to life by Kuroto's father Masamune Dan, his Driver is stolen from Emu, but by that point Kuroto has repaired Emu's original Driver. Additionally, at one point Masamune pulls a Reset Button to get rid of Emu's Super Mode, but Kuroto manages to re-create it after an intense all-nighter that involves working himself to death. Literally. Multiple times. Kamen Rider Build: Averted, since the protagonist Sento Kiryu is a Gadgeteer Genius who hand-makes all of his own upgrades and weapons, including making a second Build Driver so his ally Ryuga Banjou can become Kamen Rider Cross-Z. However, he can't make more people into Kamen Riders because it would involve horrific human experimentation.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_83ad4daa	comment	Then you have Mewtwo - the "prototype" clones growing with it all died, and it destroyed the island laboratory where it was created, killing everyone inside. Then it built a castle on top of the ruins and replaced that with a grassy field after the movie's climax. By Mewtwo Returns, Giovanni decides it'd be easier to track down and recapture Mewtwo as opposed to recreating a new one from scratch. Not that this later stops a different set of people from creating a new, identical Mewtwo with no indication that they even know one already exists...
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_83b5cf0a	comment	Gladiator: Justified, in that Abednego did keep notes of his process and results but was too afraid to publish them for fear of what would happen. Later, they are destroyed by the lightning strike that kills Hugo.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_84986bf9	comment	RuneScape: During The Light Within, the enchanted key from Meeting History is revealed to be an ancient elven artifact originally crafted by an inventor belonging to the Trahaearn Clan. All records and designs pertaining to its creation were lost in a freak fire, and the original inventor bumped their head and developed amnesia after falling down some stairs, completely forgetting how they made the key. Apparently, creating it was incredibly easy, almost as if it wanted to be made. Regardless, only one was ever made, and it was lost a long time ago until eventually it found its way to a silver merchant in East Ardougne in modern times.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_84d455d4	comment	The Big O: Justified. Megadei can be repaired but never engineered, the same goes with all the other Lost Technology from 40 years ago.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8525bf6a	comment	Doki Doki! PreCure: An episode introduces a man-made Cure Commune that Alice's butler, Sebastian, made after studying his charge's Transformation Trinket. While not magical, it gives a regular person the same abilities as a Precure. It gets destroyed near the end of the episode and never mentioned again.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_858da35d	comment	An unfortunate real-life example with Panzer Dragoon Saga. According to the developers, the original source code is lost, shooting down any chances for a port (meantime, the game remains the rarest and most valuable Saturn game.)
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_86814e7d	comment	Justified in Final Fantasy X-2. The technologically-advanced Bevelle was able to construct a prototype superweapon supposedly capable of taking down Zanarkand's Sin... but the weapon, Vegnagun, went sentient and became unable to recognize friend from foe. Instead of risking annihilating themselves by activating it, the leaders of Bevelle sealed it away deep within the city, and the Church of Yevon became its keeper. Naturally, no other attempts were made, especially as the Church of Yevon needs Sin, and wouldn't want to create something capable of destroying it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_86c3beca	comment	The Sparks of Girl Genius produce notes, prototypes, and sometimes backups, and appear to do their best work when supported by academic institutions and ordinary mechanics. However, Sparks' genius is such that their inventions are rarely possible to understand or reproduce for anyone not a Spark with talent in a related field, leading to a similar effect in practice. Some of the truly great masterworks like the Muses have capabilities that remain effectively mysteries over a century after their creation.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8722cd	comment	If you go by Outbound Flight, decades before the prequel movies, Palpatine had a vision of the Yuuzhan Vong and decided that a united Empire with superweapons was the best way to fight them, making the Rebellion a Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moment. However, Han in Destiny's Way points out that superweapons as built by the Empire were little more than colossal wastes of resources with stupid names, and Pellaeon points out to a subordinate in another book that if The Empire couldn't handle the Rebellion, what makes them think they would be that much more effective against the Vong?
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_87c2b177	comment	Played straight in the newer The Invisible Man show from the Sci-Fi Channel: the only one who could remove the Quicksilver gland from Darien's head successfully was Darien's dead brother. (The series Big Bad Arnaud could as well, but he wouldn't because, you know, evil.) One episode revolves around temporarily "resurrecting" Darien's brother Kevin by using a side effect of the gland that allows it to override Darien's memories with those encoded in RNA injected into it (they happened to have Kevin's RNA sample from years ago). The episode ends with Kevin choosing to "delete" himself from Darien's head, claiming that he knows how to do remove the gland but chooses to take it to his grave... again, as the gland has made his brother a better person. Another episode hints that Kevin reverse-engineered the gland from a bigfoot.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_880cfa15	comment	Hogan's Heroes: The episode "Drums Along the Dusseldorf" centers around destroying a truck of experimental jet fuel. When his men ask why the Nazis can't make more, Hogan says the inventor is riding along with the fuel. In other episodes with Nazi inventions, the heroes usually either sabotage the weapon or convince the scientist to defect.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_89dd130e	comment	The Incredible Hulk (2008) reveals that Bruce Banner/the Hulk is one of the failed attempts to recreate the Super-Soldier Serum. Banner combined an incomplete formula with gamma radiation (Captain America received a combination of Super-Soldier Serum and vita-rays). The man who later becomes the Abomination initially only receives the incomplete formula — he stays human but clearly goes insane.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8abe7b9c	comment	Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?!: Any weapon blueprints you find are destroyed once you craft a weapon with that blueprint. Any weapons that are destroyed at the end of battle explode and cannot be repaired. It's implied that Captain Cassie really is that big of a reckless klutz to be responsible for both.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam: The Universal Century averts this to all hell and back, especially once Anaheim Electronics comes into the picture. Mobile Suit Gundam: Averted. Whenever the heroes encounter a new Zeon Mobile Suit or Mobile Armour, it often is the prototype, with the plans safely stored back in the Zeon homeland, and plenty of backups as often they perform well enough that they go into mass-production. Examples include the Gouf and the Dom, first introduced piloted by Zeon aces like Ramba Ral and the Black Tri-Stars, but later encountered in larger numbers once they're mass-produced. Even the Gundam itself has its plans in the Earth Federation Forces HQ of Jaburo, which is what allows the EFF to upgrade the Gundam when it arrives. However, whenever machines don't get mass-produced, there's often good reasons for it: in the case of the Gundam, it's so advanced it would be prohibitively expensive and difficult to produce in large numbers and so the plans were simplified to create the much cheaper GM. In Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory it's shown that the Earth Federation took the plans of the Solar System and further refined them into the Solar System II, which had all the power of the original but was much smaller and mobile in comparison. It still happened once, with the F99 Recordbreaker Gundams in Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: The Steel Seven. These Gundams were equipped with the extremely powerful Minovksy Drive (aka the "Wings of Light") a full twenty years before it showed up in Victory Gundam. The Jovian Empire managed to destroy all three prototypes, along with all the plans and research for it in their attack on the lunar base, forcing the system to have to be re-invented from scratch. Although it's also revealed that Anaheim Electronics had a head start in re-inventing it by salvaging the wreckage after the Jovian attack. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: At the end of the series, the G-Defender, which allowed the Gundam Mk-II to become the Super Gundam is destroyed in battle. For one reason or another, they never bother building a replacement come Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ, leaving the poor Mk-II in the dust. Averted in Mobile Fighter G Gundam as the Rising Gundam was the prototype for the Shining Gundam, a (manga-only) second Shining Gundam called Shading Gundam was built and when the original Nobel Gundam was destroyed as the Walter Gundam, Allenby just got a new one to replace it. Gundam SEED has ZAFT fall into this trope with their Gundam prototypes, making several powerful suits which later become a source of agony for them as they get stolen and The Alliance of all groups managing to mass produce at least one of their features into their new mobile suits (The Jet Striker pack for the Dagger-L and the Windam look like a smaller version of Justice's backpack, while the Wild Dagger is an Alliance Dagger-L with the ZAFT Gaia Gundam's transforming ability.). The Earth Alliance's second set of Gundams also got a mass production upgrade for their non Brainwashed and Crazy soldiers. Averted in Gundam SEED Destiny with ZAFT's new generation of Gundams: Of the five, Chaos and Saviour have prototypes, and ZAFT made multiple Impulses with Mecha Expansion Packs that reproduce the abilities of Gaia, Chaos and Abyss — and then MSV introduced a Destiny pack for the Impulse, as well as a prototype for The Lancer's Legend Gundam. Also subverted in the Alliance mobile armors. The first one usually served as an occasional Monster of the Week, but afterward multiples would appear in their forces. The biggest aversion comes at the climax of the series. Not only did they apparently get their hands on Patrick Zala's designs for the Genesis Superweapon, they even duplicated it and improved it, going so far as to make it so that it doesn't melt the reflector mirrors AND mounted it on a moving asteroid fortress. This actually went back all the way to Gundam SEED Astray when the Junk Guild claims GENESIS Alpha, a second GENESIS as their own home base. The 1/100 Master Grade model for the Strike Freedom Gundam revealed that it was meant to be mass produced, but Terminal, Lacus Clyne's secret organization, found the plans when they'd been shoved away, took them for their own and deleted the original copy from ZAFT's computers. One could infer that in Gundam 00 Aeolia Schenberg played this straight deliberately when it came to the original GN technology, since the Tau replications that Ribbons leaked to the three factions, as well as used himself, were nowhere near their capabilities. This one's All There in the Manual — the "real" GN drives have a specific component (the "solar blanket") that can only be manufactured in the Jovian gravity well. Since trips out to Jupiter are both expensive and very time-consuming, Celestial Being doesn't have a chance to build any new ones until the two-year period of peace between the series and The Movie. Pointedly averted with the Memento Mori. The heroes destroy it before it can do too much damage, and are badly damaged in the battle, but happy in the knowledge that they've denied the enemy a superweapon. Turns out the enemy built two of 'em, just in case.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8c11da09	comment	Also subverted in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and its direct sequel. The main gun of Mechagodzilla is broken at the end of the first movie, and can't be replaced - but this is purely because the JSDF can't afford to replace a key component. The head scientist flatly states that if they can give him the enormous diamond he needs to replace, he can get the weapon working again within a day.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: An aversion was what led to the creation of the superhero Steel. Dr. John Henry Irons had devised a high-powered gun, nicknamed the "Toastmaster", but had hidden away the plans when he realized they'd be too powerful. It's assumed that a fellow scientist found the plans, produced the weapons, and sold them to other groups. When these guns got to Metropolis' gangs during The Death of Superman, Irons decided it was time to break those guns once and for all. In Superman's Return to Krypton, Superman goes back in time to Krypton and helps his father put together an evacuation plan: they design a robot capable of building quickly a big space-ship and contact Ken-Dal, a scientist who has designed a rare but extremely powerful fuel. Sadly, the rocket must be built in Kandor, so Ken-Dal, the ark-ship, and the builder robot vanish together with the city when Brainiac drops by. And since Ken-Dal never revealed the secret of his fuel to anyone else, Superman and Jor-El's plan falls apart. In How Luthor Met Superboy, a teenager Lex Luthor achieves to create an artificial lifeform after countless experiments... but apparently he never thought of noting the formula down, since he rants about being unable to replicate his experiment when the formula is accidentally destroyed. Supergirl Adventures Girl Of Steel: Subverted. A Brainiac unit hacks directly into Lexcorp's system, downloads a copy of the original Brainiac processor and wipes out the original. Mercy Graves feels troubled, thinking they have lost Brainiac's memory, but it turns out that her boss Lex has made plenty of backups. One Golden Age comic centered around a scientist who invented a nerve gas that standard gas masks couldn't block. Some criminals murder the scientist and steal the formula, with Superman going in pursuit. By the end of the story, everyone who could have copied the formula is dead or awaiting execution, including one scene where the employer of the thieves smashes a sample of the gas in an attempt to take Superman with him, only to find that the gas doesn't work on Kryptonians. The final panel is of Clark Kent ripping up the last surviving copy of the formula.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8e82c366	comment	In The Real Ghostbusters episode "Standing Room Only," Brilliant, but Lazy psychologist Peter Venkman tries his hand at inventing a machine to attract ghosts, eliminating the need for going out in the field. The machine he invents doesn't attract ghosts but absorbs spectral energy and ends up being the weapon that turns the tide in their battle against Mee-Krah. Naturally, the machine is destroyed at the end of the episode, but Egon doesn't understand why Peter's so upset about it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8e8ed866	comment	In Knight Rider, there was only one model of the Knight Industries Two Thousand (KITT), a virtually-indestructible car with a molecular-bonded shell. The car's inventor died in the pilot episode. As the series went on, however, this trope was played with in several ways. In one episode, it turns out the car had an "evil twin", KARR, which had to be destroyed. In another episode, we learn that Devon Miles knew half of the formula for the molecular bonding; some evil relatives drugged him, along with someone who knew the other half, to build an invincible tractor-trailer. Finally, in Season 3, some other bad guys once again manage to extract the half-formula from Devon, but this time the purpose was to neutralize KITT. The full formula was apparently lost for good, since in the 2008 series, invincibility was achieved through nanotechnology.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8ec33a87	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Poppi's ether furnace is a one-of-a-kind creation of the Nopon engineer and Artificial Blade creator Soosoo, far superior to any of the ones used by the other Artificial Blades in the setting. With Soosoo apparently dead before the events of the game though as it turns out Not Quite Dead and having never left any discovered written works on how he did it, no one else, not even his son and collaborator on Artificial Blade construction Tatazo could remake it while in captivity. Tora only got his hands on it because Tatazo literally shoved it into his hands and told him to run when the ones who came to kidnap him and shot Soosoo arrived. As a result, those criminals (Bana and Muimui) are very eager to get their hands on Poppi so they can analyze the furnace and improve their own Artificial Blades.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_8eda89ef	comment	Subverted in Darker than Black. A Mad Scientist had constructed a particle accelerator that could be used to destroy Hell's Gate, which would wipe out every single contractor instantly. Amber's group, naturally wishing to prevent this, sent in a strike team to destroy it. After they managed it, the scientist was ranting about what a waste it was... at which point his bosses informed him that they'd made a backup without telling him.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_90e2f673	comment	In the BattleTech tabletop game, the open warfare of the Succession Wars was so destructive, with so many factories, shipyards, and research facilities targeted that many of the most advanced technologies were lost for centuries before a Star League Memory Core (basically a supercomputer database) was accidentally discovered. There were two other big reasons for the loss of technology during the Succession Wars: first was that the Terran Hegemony had been the most technologically advanced state and aggressively guarded its superiority to control the other states in the Inner Sphere. Between the massive destruction caused by the war when the Hegemony's ruler was assassinated and the subsequent destruction after the Succession Wars broke out in the wake of the Hegemony's collapse, many research and construction facilities that built the most high tech equipment were destroyed. Second, the quasi-religious organization Comstar had for centuries the practice of carrying out false flag operations to assassinate scientists and destroy research facilities (and provoke more wars) as a means of hastening the Inner Sphere's collapse into barbarism.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_91209b29	comment	Xenosaga: KOS-MOS is effectively one of a kind of an android as her creator Kevin Winnicot took the plans for her to his grave after KOS-MOS went berserk and murdered him. Kevin's successors are only capable of repairing and (attempt to) reprogram the same prototype as building another android on the same level as her is simply beyond their knowledge. As a result, the current KOS-MOS is treated like a faulty hand grenade which her development team is loath to admit they have zero control over if push comes to shove. She's laden with Black Box parts and programs, each with unknown functions, which come online at seemingly random intervals (like her Gnosis-obliterating X-Buster ability), often to shocking effect. Series protagonist (and KOS-MOS co-creator) Shion is only able to figure most of them out enough to rebuild KOS-MOS a second time after gaining access to Kevin's original plans via a time paradox. A great deal of the series's technology is the product of one man, Joachim Mizrahi. After he died on Militia during the Federation's invasion, a great amount of effort has been poured into piecing his prototypes back together, as well as reassembling his codex of knowledge: the Y-Data. Efforts to recreate his work from scratch by his rival Dr. Sellers amount to impressive, but fatally flawed knock-offs.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_91ba5165	comment	The Fold: Justified, as the researchers are trying to hold documentation necessary to replicate their space-bending technology hostage to get more funding.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_92dd35df	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert (more specifically the Allied campaign) double-subverted it with the Iron Curtain project for itself and zigzagged it with the sequel included. Mission 6 is destroying the Iron Curtain research facility, including the Iron Curtain prototype. Mission 13 is about destroying the new Iron Curtain research facility, including the Iron Curtain prototype — after which the Soviets are unable to get it operational again before they lose the war. Then, in the sequel, the Iron Curtain is in use. With the nuclear weapons, it was explicitly a case of "more can always be made, but those were all they had on hand and we just crippled their primary production facility, so we've bought time to win the war."
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_93221cce	comment	Kamen Rider OOO: Averted; the Kamen Rider Birth suit is passed from one user to another when the original needs to leave in order to get life-saving surgery. When the bus comes back, he's given the Prototype Birth suit, which doesn't have as many bells and whistles but still lets him kick ass. And then in Movie Wars Megamax, Proto-Birth is destroyed beyond repair by Kamen Rider Poseidon.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_97218fa4	comment	Subverted in Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal — near the end of the game, you use a handy Giant-Ass Plasma cannon to blow up the Doomsday Device that threatens to "destroy" every lifeform in the universe (by which we mean turn them into robots) ... only to find out there's a second one ready to go in case of such an attack. And it's more powerful than the first.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_985ad25d	comment	Dragon Ball Super: Justified. Bulma is reverse engineering Future Trunks' time machine with the intent on having her own. Her plan is to get Goku, who is gathering the Dragon Balls in an attempt to revive King Kai, to get the material needed so she can get Shenron to wish for more. However, Beerus and Whis catch Goku in the act and when they appear before Bulma, Whis warns her that time travelling is specifically prohibited. Beerus, then, proceeds to use his power to nuke the lab where the time machine and the plans were placed in.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_988629da	comment	The Genesis Device featured in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. One of the main scientists who built it was killed, and before his death, it was revealed that the technology used a semi-unethical shortcut that essentially robbed the results of all long-term utility by turning an instant terraforming device into a Weapon of Mass Destruction that temporarily improves its target. Starfleet didn't see fit to pursue the issue further, which isn't surprising considering how the Klingons reacted to it. Given that the Genesis Device didn't receive a proper test its viability is unknown. It was designed to be used on an existing planet/moon, not create a new planet. The science team deliberately wiped all their notes to try and keep them from being captured, and then most of the science team got killed, leaving the key part of the formula only in David Marcus' memory. Then he got killed. It seems that, decades later, some people were able to recreate the device as Nick Locarno bought a black market Ferengi-made model in Star Trek: Lower Decks while a "Genesis II" is seen at Daystrom Station in Star Trek: Picard.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_99af5702	comment	In TimeShift the time-altering beta-suit the player is wearing is the second, improved version, with the old alpha-suit being in the baddie's hands. (He didn't grab the Beta version because that version had Anti-Paradox protection. The Alpha version does NOT. So, the Alpha version could be used to change the past!) Additionally, it turns out the technology has been used in cyborg soldiers who can activate the same time extension power you have, and super-advanced soldiers who can use time freeze to teleport around (but not shoot you, strangely enough).
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9a0c0ffa	comment	The History of the Galaxy: Averted. When the Terran Alliance attacks the Lost Colony of Dabog, their entire mechanized invasion force is routed by a single centuries-old Humongous Mecha, the Aquila. It's explained that the original settlers (among whom were some of the brightest minds of the time) had to develop the tech to navigate the treacherous swamps, being inspired by the leg joints of the local large lizards. By the time the planet is invaded, only a single machine is left, and it's being maintained by its owner for demonstrations at the history museum. He doesn't have the plans to build more, but only a few years after the invasion, the Alliance is already working on its own versions using the scans of the Aquila obtained by the ground forces. While the initial models of the smaller Hoplites and the larger Phalanxers were inferior to the Aquila, and the very name still instilled dread in any Alliance soldier, later developments would not only show improvements in the Hoplies, the Phalanxers, and the less commonly used Ravens, but also allow the Free Colonies to study the Aquila and begin mass-producing them to fight this new threat. In fact, after the war finally ended 50 years later, the victorious colonists abandoned the Aquilas and instead began to field the Alliance designs in their own military.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9a25d7a3	comment	Subverted in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, in which another scientist manages to duplicate Serizawa's research.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9a8607cc	comment	A sad example in Star Wars: Kenobi: One particular moisture vaporator had its settings tinkered with once and began producing water so sweet and delicious that it significantly enriches the fortunes of the Dannar's Claim general store. No one can figure out how it's making such incredible water on a desert planet — attempts to replicate the results have yielded only partial success, in part because no one wants to mess with it too much in case the settings are lost. And then the Sand People raid the store and attack the vaporator to get at the loudspeaker at its top. The machine is repairable, but the formula is destroyed forever.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9ac9d448	comment	The original Cap was one-of-a-kind — which is why every government and corporation on the planet has spent the last fifty years trying to duplicate the process, or at least come up with something similar, leading to a superhuman arms race. The Ultimate Hulk was the result of a failed attempt, the OZ formula that gave Ultimate Spider-Man his powers was another — every superhuman in this universe, except for the mutants, owe their powers to some attempt at recreating the super-soldier project. Eventually, even the mutants are revealed to be a result of a super-soldier-related project, making the deconstruction even more wide-ranging. A tweak to Ultimate Cap's origin established that the head scientist was simply a cruddy record keeper and did not write everything down before rudely getting shot.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics: In the story "Billion Dollar Taste" in Archie (Vol. 1) #263, Jughead prepares a tureen of soup that tastes so good, that Mr. Lodge thinks it's worth billions, and pledges to manufacture it while giving the boys who brought it to him a share in the profits. But when they pressed Jughead for the recipe, he said he'd just randomly tossed ingredients into the pot and kept no record. Rage ensues.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9c9b3095	comment	In Metroid Prime: Hunters, Sylux has a power suit that was stolen from the Galactic Federation that allows him to transform into its second form, Lockjaw, which uses a compression technology similar to the morph ball. The same can be said for the other hunters, but the secondary forms of the rest are all part of their biology, save for Weavel who splits himself in two. Sylux's prototype suit would indicate that the Galactic Federation has been doing some research into morph ball technology as well.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9d963831	comment	Septimus Heap: The Glasses for time-travelling were built without any backups, and the plans were destroyed to prevent replication. This not only caused the first prototypes to malfunction, but it also prevented the repair of the main Glass.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9df1f45c	comment	A major plot point in The Fly II. While Bartok Science Industries was able to restore the dearly departed Seth Brundle's telepods even after the damage they took in the climax of the first film, the programming needed for them to teleport organic/living matter intact is said to have "died with him." With the company's scientists unable to figure it out for themselves, the CEO convinces Seth's comparably intelligent Spin-Offspring Martin to finish his father's work. A Deleted Scene specified the programming was actually incomplete because Stathis Borans, who never forgave Seth for what became of both him and Veronica Quaife, deliberately destroyed the relevant material left behind after the first film's events.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Averted with the superweapon Pluton, a battleship that could annihilate entire islands. The battleship was hidden during the Void Century so its current location can only be found in the poneglyphs. Robin is the last survivor of an archaeological society that could decode the poneglyphs while Franky is the most recent in a line of shipbuilders to inherit blueprints for Pluton. The World Government is both trying to hide Pluton's existence from the public while also attempting to either locate the original or build a new one. It also is a plot point for the Water 7 arc. The original designers of Pluton feared what would happen if it was controlled by rogue elements, so they hid a copy of the blueprints to ensure that a second Pluton could be built to serve as a countermeasure to the first. However, Spandam's capture of both Robin and Franky means he could potentially control both the Pluton and the plans. Franky decides to bet it all on the Straw Hats rescuing Robin and burns the blueprints. The other superweapons remain unknown though one is technically averted with Poseidon, namely that it's actually a person. Specifically a mermaid who can command Sea Kings, the giant sea monsters and is reincarnated every long while, the latest one being the Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi. Nothing is known on the last one, Uranus.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9f900207	comment	Averted on two counts in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault. Though destroying the Naxos prototype and scuttling the U-529 will keep the balance of power in the Atlantis in Allied hands, it's merely a temporary delay to the Germans. Same with the destruction of the StG-44 stockpiles - though quite a blow to German forces, they're still fielding the assault rifle in later levels.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: In Godzilla (1954), Doctor Serizawa is seen burning the notes for the creation of the Oxygen Destroyer, and implicitly destroyed the prototypes as well. Of course, the knowledge still exists in his brain, and there's only one thing to be done about that. Subverted in Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, in which another scientist manages to duplicate Serizawa's research. Also subverted in Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla and its direct sequel. The main gun of Mechagodzilla is broken at the end of the first movie, and can't be replaced - but this is purely because the JSDF can't afford to replace a key component. The head scientist flatly states that if they can give him the enormous diamond he needs to replace, he can get the weapon working again within a day.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: This turns out to be the case in Destination Moon for the moon rocket's engine, and by extension the entire Sylvadian moon landing mission. This is why when Professor Calculus got amnesia, the entire project was put into jeopardy.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama movie "Into the Wild Green Yonder," Fry joins a cult that seeks to prevent an evil race known as "the Dark Ones" from destroying a rare species and is given the only device that will stop them. He's naturally curious about the device and asks what's inside.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a33e9edd	comment	This is how most of Harry Purvis's stories in Tales from the White Hart end. The device self-destructs, the inventor is probably killed, the entire project is shelved as a result, and that's why none of the other scientists at the White Hart have ever heard about it before.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a34863aa	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: At least in one continuity the "ooze" which mutated the turtles and Splinter was described as a chemical compound that was exposed to radiation and thus randomly altered, and therefore it was impossible to replicate it at will. Of course, radiation should alter only one atom or molecule at a time rather than causing a consistent change throughout a batch of liquid. If radiation did cause such a consistent change, there is no reason the same chemical exposed to the same kind of radiation at another time would not change the same way. The second film makes it clearer by saying the compound was a mixture of unknown chemicals, making it fully impossible to replicate.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a4e6a00a	comment	Subverted in Skies of Arcadia, with the Moonstone Cannon. Not only is a prototype version seen and actually used against the heroes, but when they steal the ship bearing the completed version, it is explained that it is the first unit of a line of ships, fresh off the shipyards — the rest don't show up because they weren't constructed in time, given the timescale involved. Finally, the Hydra sky fortress is one of a kind due to the fact that the sheer expense involved in constructing it made it utterly economically unfeasible — but the Big Bad had one made all the same, out of his own pocket. The Moonstone cannon also put a good size dent in the Empire's budget, so much so that "they could not afford to build any more."
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a5e6a399	comment	Against the vehement opposition of veteran soldiers like Nick "Havoc" Parker.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a640a5fd	comment	The Saint: In The Last Hero, the Saint engineers the assassination of a weapons designer who had created a sort of death cloud device. However, although a saboteur has a prototype death cloud machine seen earlier in the novel destroyed, what (if anything) the Saint did with the plans for the machine remains unclear.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a796bde8	comment	Subverted in Metal Gear Solid. At the end of the game, Solid Snake destroys the prototype nuclear-armed Humongous Mecha Metal Gear REX. Just a few minutes into the sequel, it is revealed that the plans for REX were sold on the black market, and consequently, numerous countries are working on or have already completed their own sui generis versions, leading to the creation of the anti-Metal Gear weapon Metal Gear RAY.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a825da3e	comment	In Magic: The Gathering, Sorin Markov unmaking Avacyn is even more painful because, as he explains, he cannot recreate her. This article goes into some detail on the matter.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a8a64abf	comment	Persistently averted throughout the Geneforge series; the plans for it always leak through the Shapers' best efforts to eliminate them. More prototypes and upgraded versions are created each chapter.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_a9cb14fc	comment	Another artifact from the Book of Artifacts, The Apparatus, is frequently destroyed (by enterprising heroes) and recreated. (It can do horrible things like tear apart and combine souls and bodies, and is generally used by people who are completely mad. The expected setting is, of course, Ravenloft.) It's suggested that the actual artifact is not the Apparatus itself, but the notebooks that describe its construction.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ac58f5fa	comment	At the end of "The Dead Past", the creator of a machine for seeing into the past is convinced by a government agent that it will end society as we know it and agrees to destroy it... and then his research assistant confesses that he's already published details of how to make the thing in several scientific journals. Doubly subverted because the existing technology is kept under close government control, and the creator mentioned actually tries to recreate it with the little information that is publicly available — and makes it better than the original version. The fact that it doesn't even work for his intended purposes, looking into "The Dead Past" of Carthago, is the reason why the technology is under wraps. It only allows one to take a peek at any place in the recent past, about a generation ago — or...
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_b0be54ed	comment	Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris: The titular protagonist uses an experimental flying apparatus that allows flight, created by a Gadgeteer Genius who had a crush on her, specifically for her use alone. After his death, nobody was able to reverse-engineer or replicate it somehow.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_b28b3dd8	comment	Tenchi Universe: One early episode had Washu create a mecha double of herself so she could SCIENCE! two times faster. However, it ended up getting Mihoshi's brain patterns installed and it became quite dangerous until it could be shut down. At the end of the episode, she unveils a second one, but this one has Ryo-Ohki's brain patterns. She promptly gives up after that.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_b4967d43	comment	In the Sonic the Hedgehog games, it's actually common for Dr. Eggman or any of his henchbots to haul out old Eggmobiles, bases or the like. As early as Sonic 3 & Knuckles did these things get reused. In Sonic Unleashed, Eggman claims the Egg Dragoon that Werehog Sonic fights is a prototype and that the finished product would be much stronger. Indeed, later versions in Sonic Generations and Sonic Forces prove to be much tougher. On the subject of Forces, a Zig Zag of this trope is what leads to the heroes' victory. Eggman made prototype copies of the Phantom Ruby, then tries to make sure those copies are destroyed. Infinite losing one while battling Silver is what allows the heroes to save the day.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Averted in The Amazing Spider-Man (2018). Following Secret Empire, the US Government sought to make sure that the Planetary Defense Shield would never haunt anyone else again after it was used to keep Earth's most powerful out of Earth. However, it turns out some plans slipped out and found their way into the hands of the mercenary Arcade in Hunted.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_b4fe32c9	comment	Invader Zim justifies this by having the eponymous Villain Protagonist be completely insane as well as an utter moron, making it entirely plausible that he simply forgot how to make his sometimes amazing inventions, if he remembers that he built them at all.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_b7f9bee2	comment	In Xenocide, biologista Quara keeps her notes on re-engineering the descolada into a more benign form in her head so that the (near-omniscient) AI Jane can't find them — but mostly just to be a bitch.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_b952005	comment	Endless Space has this crop up in a strange way: in the distant future, we'll only be able to store 10 ship family designs. You may delete a ship blueprints to make room for new ones, but then that entire ship family cannot be built or upgraded ever again. Besides those, you can upgrade any version of a ship to the most modern if it's docked at one of your planets, meaning you can upgrade a several-hundred-year-old ship for just a little extra money than a year-old ship. Some random events create "Advanced Defenders", ships that are powerful in the very early game but can never be upgraded, due to the same mechanic of not having blueprints for them, to the point that they're hilariously underarmored, outgunned, and slow even by the mid-game.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ba2ab0a2	comment	Thoroughly averted in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. When Leonardo tasks Ezio with destroying the war machines the Borgia forced him to build, you not only have to destroy the prototype, you need to burn the blueprints too, and often there will be a backup copy of the war machine that also needs to be wrecked. When destroying the tank (a wooden, circular steam-powered vehicle bristling with cannons), Ezio has to pilot one of the prototypes to destroy the others. In the novelization, Leonardo tells Ezio that he deliberately introduced flaws into the designs of all these weapons, so the Borgia wouldn't be able to use them to their fullest extent. However, even his new wheel-lock guns (which are still inferior to Ezio's gun) prove to be quite effective in the hands of the Borgia.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ba300074	comment	M3GAN: M3GAN is the only robot child available, and she's already actively in use. They need her specifically for the product rollout, and there are no backups. Even though her name is "Model Three Generative ANdroid", there is no sign of models one or two anywhere. When things start to go bad, they can't bring in another.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ba3d2748	comment	Averted in The Incredibles; it is explicitly shown that Syndrome put his Omnidroid through many prototypes so each new version could kill whichever superhero beat the old version. Also, his plan hinged on being able to replicate his machines so he could sell them to the public.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ba56500d	comment	Zigzagged in Timeless. The creator of the time machine is on the side of the heroes (well, sort of). But there are two: the small prototype "Lifeboat" and the large iPod-like "Mothership". In season 2, Mason Industries is blown up, so the plans may be permanently lost, even though Mason himself, as well as two of the engineers who worked on the time machine, are still alive. But, being stuck in a government bunker and having other things on their minds, they don't have the resources to create a new time machine. In the series finale, after finally recovering the "Mothership", they destroy it, but Mason insists on keeping the "Lifeboat" (especially since it has a modification that allows it to fly on autopilot, without the need of a trained human pilot at the helm), arguing that if it was possible for him to build a time machine, someone else can do it too. Indeed, the final shots are of a teenage girl drawing up plans for what looks to be a time machine.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ba666650	comment	In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the first time we see Sokolov, he actually is burning the production notes to the Shagohod, explaining why nobody tried building another.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_bb185f99	comment	In How Luthor Met Superboy, a teenager Lex Luthor achieves to create an artificial lifeform after countless experiments... but apparently he never thought of noting the formula down, since he rants about being unable to replicate his experiment when the formula is accidentally destroyed.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_bc3e398b	comment	Subverted in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Sarah finds that an intern from Cyberdyne has built a super intelligent chess computer (presumably using the knowledge that Cyberdyne gained from examining the terminator's chip) that could be a precursor of Skynet. She burns down his house, destroying the computer. Then a few episodes later, it turns out that he spent every day since then programming another one. He even thinks it was a good thing the original was destroyed, as when building a new one from ground up he could make it better. It's implied that at this point that sentient AI is the logical next step in computer technology — there's no realistic way to prevent it, because even if they kill the person who came up with idea, someone else is bound to make the same advance.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Common in Warhammer 40,000: Humanity's technological peak was over ten thousand years ago, so things like advanced Dreadnought chassis and Imperator-class Titans are lovingly-maintained by the Adeptus Mechanicus because there's no hope of reproducing them (or, sometimes, their factories- they can make the thing but have no idea how to make the thing that makes the thing), and the Ultramarines refuse to let the AdMech fully study the Gauntlets of Ultramar out of fear that they'll break the things beyond repair. Thus, the holy grail for techno-archeologists are the Standard Template Construct systems, relics from the Dark Age of Technology that were meant to catalogue all of humanity's technological knowledge in a way that they could be reproduced anywhere, using whatever local resources were available. Finding a complete STC is unheard of, but just fragments of hard copies of STC data are immensely valuable, and are the source of some of the Imperium's mainstay war machines like the Leman Russ battle tank and the Land Raider transport. Or to put it another way, two Imperial scouts who discovered an STC design for a superior combat knife were given their own planet. Each. Even if the Imperium wanted to create new Primarchs, they cannot. Much of the knowledge of how the Primarchs were created was never recorded by the Emperor, and the Emperor himself was the source of the genetic material. In his current state on the Golden Throne, he's in no condition to donate said genetic material. There have also been hints that the Emperor used the power of the Warp itself to create the Primarchs, meaning they are more than simply products of genetic engineering. Finally, the blueprints for the Immortis Gland that is in the Primarchs were partially lost. What was left of the knowledge was used to create The Magnificat that supercharges the Primaris Marines.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_bdfd01de	comment	Boldores And Boomsticks: Faba seethes with rage over the fact that after Gladion stole Silvally he no longer has the genetic material to create another. Since Lillie took Nebby, whom he was using to generate Ultra Wormholes, it's ruined his plan to summon Grimm and then defeat them to become famous.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_bfd23f28	comment	The Gemkat 6000 in the episode "Chaos in Crystal." Averted. Not only do blueprints for the machine exist, but Dr. Greenbox was so thorough he had a prototype of his prototype (think the two Cosmic Keys in Masters of the Universe), which he is able to rewire the second machine in order to undo what the first one did.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	In Drowtales, after the lead researcher for a biological poison & antidote is assassinated, a Jaal'Darya botanist is tasked with reproducing her work, much to her dismay.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_bff01809	comment	In Warhammer, the most awe-inspiring weapon that The Empire has is the Steam Tank, the brain child of Leonardo of Miragliano. He built twelve of the things, each with their own weapon loadout, and then apparently threw away all his plans, and four of his originals have since been lost. In some sources these are all the Steam Tanks in existence, while in others, like Total War: Warhammer, these are Super Prototypes and the Empire is capable of building simplified, standardized Steam Tanks.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c0369f1b	comment	The Powerpuff Girls: Mojo Jojo, the girls' archenemy, rarely seems to use the same device twice. He does have some recurring tech, though, and usually whenever his armory is shown, all of the older tech still remains. This is probably used as a convenient background to show just how much heat he's packing, but is also a bit of fridge brilliance: each and every one of those robots, death rays and other tech are probably prototypes. The only reason he hasn't replicated them yet is because he's still improving them; the one time he tries that with the Anubis head, it backfires even worse than just doing the exact same thing he did the first time. Also, despite not being a villain, Professor Utonium seems to suffer from the same work ethic, even lampshading it in the episode "Bubble Boy":
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c35714d6	comment	Blackadder: In "Ink and Incapability", Dr. Samuel Johnson has spent ten years working on the first dictionary, and in all that time made no copy, on the grounds he felt this was completely unnecessary, since he wasn't planning on losing it. And as for anyone else... well, ten years working on a dictionary to the exclusion of all else has left Dr. Johnson just a bit peculiar.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c36285db	comment	Nothing is Impossible: Lipsky was drastically set back when Mr. and Mrs. Possible took both Kim and the research needed to make more like her when they fled the project when he tried to take it underground. Even over a decade later, presumably due to a lack of government funding and a full research team, it'd apparently be easier to find and capture Kim in order to reverse-engineer her than to make another like her in a reasonable time-frame.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c380b436	comment	Averted in Penguins of Madagascar. After the penguins steal the canister containing Dave's Medusa Serum and escape, they and the North Wind are feeling pretty smug about it... until Dave reveals he has a huge vat of the stuff. The fact that he has so much also clues the heroes in that Dave's revenge plan isn't just focused on four penguins.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c43df4d8	comment	On Doctor Who, this is very much the case with the Time Lords. Many of their universe-shaking Magic from Technology gadgets are treated as singular artifacts and nobody ever seems to consider reproducing any of these things, or modifying them if necessary. In the 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor, the plot revolves around the Doctor's intention to use a Lost Superweapon, the Moment, to end the Time War by destroying all of the combatants. The Time Lords had not previously dusted it off and used it on the Daleks because its designers gave a sentient, telepathic user interface with the right to pass judgment on anyone that actually used it. They were afraid of what judgment it would render on them. Simply building another one without the artificial intelligence failsafe is not an idea that seems to have occurred to anyone (the discussion mentions it wasn't an intentional design feature, but implies it's inherent in anything that powerful). Even Emperor Scientist Rassilon is more inclined to just destroy the universe and have the Time Lords Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence rather than explore this possibility. He himself is notorious for inventing unbelievable technology and leaving absolutely no schematics behind that would allow anyone else to duplicate his inventions.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c509980c	comment	Played with in The Cardinal of the Kremlin. The Soviet SDI program code-named BRIGHT STAR had plenty of plans, but they were all at the research facility where the prototype was and were destroyed when Mujaheddin guerillas attacked the base. To top it off, a second prong of the same attack hit the dorms where the research team lived, resulting in some of the researchers getting killed repelling the attack, seriously setting back any efforts to reproduce the work. Five books later, neither the Russians nor the US have been able to produce another laser as powerful as BRIGHT STAR, resulting in their laser-based SDI programs getting shelved. The same book also has the decommissioning of the Red October, the only submarine to be equipped with the super-quiet caterpillar drive. No mention is made of either Russia or America even attempting to build another vessel with a caterpillar, even though the Russians should have had the plans from when they invented it and the Americans spent a year taking the captured prototype apart for study. The fact that it took the US Navy all of a week to figure out how to detect and reliably track the acoustic signature of the new drive once it was in the ocean probably got the concept shelved as Awesome, but Impractical.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c6245086	comment	Completely averted in Crysis. The Nano-suits are not unique and pirate/knockoff copies exist. And the North Koreans decided to make it a fashion statement with it as they brag about their new toy.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c62995ba	comment	Child of the Storm has the precise nature of the Super-Soldier formula in Steve's veins remain unknown, with a vast amount of time and money being spent (and a significant number of atrocities being committed) to try and replicate it by various powers - including, but not limited to, the US, the USSR/Russia, and Great Britain. The only perfect replications of the Erskine formula are in the DNA of Steve's descendants. Other concrete results include the Infinity Formula, and Bucky's enhancements by Zola - the latter of which were stabilised by the Soviet version of the Infinity Formula. But no one's quite managed to get it right. No one's managed to replicate VÃ¡n, an incredibly powerful magic sword made of an uru-vibranium alloy with all the knowledge and power the Alliance of Realms (the founders of the Nine Realms) could put into its creation. The no prototype and no back-up part is understandable considering that it was their literal last hope (it's even called 'Hope'), so they were kind of in a hurry. As for the lack of plans, they might simply have got lost, since no one's actually needed its unique ability to No-Sell Phoenix fire in the million years since then. At least, until now. Also possibly subverted, as Doctor Strange - who contributed to the enchantments - might have the plans.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c72c2d06	comment	Star Wars Rebels: During her short time with the Empire, Sabine developed a weapon capable of targeting and superheating specific alloys(which is a bad thing if you happen to be wearing armor made of said alloy). Then the Empire deployed said device against Mandalorians. Sabine destroyed the weapon and left the Empire, but left enough of her designs that the Empire was later able to recreate the weapon. This time when Sabine goes after it she does a much more thorough job, killing the man who re-created it, scrubbing all information on the weapon from the Empire's computer systems, then destroying the new weapon in a way that it also takes out the entire Star Destroyer it was housed in. The heroes steal Grand Admiral Thrawn's Super Prototype TIE Defender, and it ends up getting destroyed before they can take it apart and study it. This doesn't slow Thrawn down in the slightest; since he is more interested in efficient supply lines than paranoid limiting of information, all he really needed from the prototype was a proof of concept. Once it was proven to be up to spec, he immediately moved into full production.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c74a0802	comment	A non-technological version appears in Misery. Author Paul Sheldon has just released Misery's Child — the final novel in the Misery series that takes place in Victorian England — and is ready to move on to a new project centering on a Puerto Rican teenager in contemporary New York City. To celebrate his new beginning, he drives from New York City to Los Angeles, but gets drunk in rural Colorado, and crashes his car which results in serious injuries. He's found by Annie Wilkes, his self-professed biggest fan, and when she finds out that Misery (the main character of the novel series) dies in childbirth, Annie keeps him prisoner in her house and orders him to bring Misery back to life. Before he can get to work on the new Misery book, she asks him to burn his new manuscript. He refuses at first, but when she threatens to withhold food and the (addictive) pain medication she's been giving him, he relents and immediately regrets not having made copies of the new manuscript before leaving on his trip.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c7539344	comment	Three-quarters of Singularity is spent, at the behest of one of its inventors, traveling back in time to destroy the Singularity Generator before its technology alters the world. Except this is an aversion; when you go back to the present, the villain just laughs about how nothing stopped him from rebuilding the machine. The TMD however was made to be like this so nobody could make another one.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c75d67d	comment	The Machine from Person of Interest was designed this way deliberately. Finch deliberately left behind no documentation or prototypes when he delivered it, and encrypted the software (Which was written in a programming language that Finch invented himself for the project) so that nobody can try to reverse engineer it. With his partner dead, Finch is the only person with the slightest idea how the thing works (The audience is occasionally informed of various places it gets data from, but not how it compiles the information), and since the government may not even know he exists, there's no way they could make another Machine if something happens to the original. Season 3 reveals that there is a backup - there was a second team independently working on the same project, which was shut down the day after the Machine caught it's first terrorist. The existence of the half-built proto-Machine codenamed Samaritan is revealed one episode before it is stolen. Season 4 reveals that the Machine was actually the forty-third AI that Finch built, and that he deliberately destroyed the forty-two prototypes the moment he saw any sign that they might go out of control. The man who built Samaritan never even got a chance to enact such precautions with his creation, which starts running amok practically the moment it gets turned on.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c78aeb5	comment	Subverted in the Ultimate Galactus Trilogy. The killbot destroyed the ASIS, but there is a backup unit.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_c961059a	comment	Limitless: Subverted. Eddie gets his supply of the Genius Serum NZT from a person who gets killed off pretty quickly, but he eventually gets labs up and running that not only make it but work out the kinks in the drug.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ca92edf1	comment	Averted in Call of Duty: Black Ops where there is an entire level about Reznov attempting to destroy Nova Six years before the events of the game. He does destroy it, but the villain already had the creator of Nova Six working for him willingly so it didn't matter. Said creator even says later in the game his death will not stop it either when Alex Mason is about to kill him.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_cc1ec7ec	comment	Daredevil: Averted, as it's not particularly hard to give random people Daredevil's powers, and Bullseye does just that in order to create an Evil Counterpart to Daredevil — Ikari, who has Matt's powers, but also retain his sight. The canister that blinded Matt was mass-produced and wasn't actually anything particularly special. The thing that makes Matt unique is that he trained himself to use his senses, while the experimental Daredevils did not, which resulted in them being overwhelmed by their new senses. As it so happens, Ikari honed his senses and didn't have this problem.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ccc80720	comment	Subverted in My Life as a Teenage Robot: It turns out there were eight predecessors to XJ9. Of course, they are really, really annoying and dysfunctional, so Dr. Wakeman won't reactivate them except in dire situations. Later, one of Wakeman's rivals recreates his own male version of Jenny, which for some reason has dog instincts. Go figure!
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ce615615	comment	Fossil Fighters: A rare living example in Frigi(saur) and Igno(saur). As soon as you defeat the former, the latter vanishes as well due to them cancelling each other's powers out. Still, it removes a god-like power from your party to prevent a Game Breaker. Until you can win them from post-game Superbosses, anyway.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_cfe8accf	comment	Shin Mazinger averts this. The reason Dr. Hell always has unique robots instead of rebuilding the good ones is because he didn't build them to begin with, and he's a biologist, so it's not like he could fix them up if he wanted to. And in the case of Mazinger Z not only was there a prototype, but Juuzou Kabuto also made numerous objects out of Super Alloy Z, and was known for having loads of patents that most likely came out of testing parts for the eponymous robot. Furthermore, several of the Photon Power Labs robots are armed with variations of the Rust Hurricane and Breast Fire weapons that Mazinger Z is armed with, suggesting they were created to test those weapons.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_cffa1bda	comment	When Richard Wagner was composing the Ring Cycle, he at one point intended for the operas to be performed three times in a purpose-built opera house. Afterward, all copies of the score and all the props were to be burned, along with the entire opera house. Obviously this did not happen. But it explains the elaborate finale...
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers: Jack of Hearts got his power from a Freak Lab Accident involving his father's Zero Fluid, an apparently limitless energy source that would have solved the world's energy crisis... had the creator not been shot dead and the only sample in existence absorbed into Jack. Nobody knows why A.I.M. only created one Super-Adaptoid, one of their most powerful creations, but one can assume that either the blueprints were destroyed or its creation was an accident that can't be replicated. Given how powerful it is and how much trouble it has given the Avengers over the years, they'd definitely have created more than one if they could. It was eventually revealed that a sliver of the original Cosmic Cube was used to power it, when it was removed by the evolving Cube it was rendered inert (although Dom found a way to revive it). A later arc had A.I.M. creating a number of adaptoids but these copies were less powerful, only able to copy a single individual.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d0fc4964	comment	This actually went back all the way to Gundam SEED Astray when the Junk Guild claims GENESIS Alpha, a second GENESIS as their own home base.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d11e211f	comment	Kamen Rider Gaim: Averted; at the outset of the show, the Yggdrasill Corporation has six prototype Sengoku Drivers that it slips into civilian hands for "testing", plus a seventh that belongs to Takatora, the project head. The research they gather eventually allows them to mass-produce a slightly improved version of the Driver as well as creating a superior model, the Genesis Driver. Their original plan was to produce at least one billion Sengoku Drivers in order to save people from from The End of the World as We Know It, and in fact Takatora does his best to get even more made, not being satisfied with only saving a billion lives. This also extends to the Energy Lockseeds used in the Genesis Drivers, which have to be specially made by by Yggdrasill. Gaim manages to obtain a couple by outright stealing them from Yggdrasill's minions, but they're given replacements. The final episodes see the large majority of the Sengoku prototypes and Genesis Drivers destroyed, and in the epilogue Takatora states that all of the mass-produced Drivers were rounded up and destroyed so they couldn't be abused; and even if they were rebuilt they've been cut off from the Helheim Forest so they can't make any more Lockseeds to power them. Of course, he kept one Driver and Lockseed, just in case.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d120122a	comment	Kamen Rider Kiva: Subverted; the show's Second Rider, IXA, is a man-made mechanical suit that's shown to be in development throughout the series (Ver.I is seen in 1986, while Ver.X appears in 2008 and is subsequently upgraded to Ver.XI, gaining its Super Mode in the process). In the last few episodes of the series, the Ver.I suit is utterly destroyed, revealing that the Ver.X/XI suit is an entirely different machine. In fact, the intact arm of the Ver.I suit becomes a Chekhov's Gun in the final episode.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d27c007d	comment	Kill la Kill: Subverted. Ryuko destroys numerous Goku Uniforms, including those of most of the Elite Four, but Satsuki later tells her that this just contributes data they can use to refine the Uniforms for use in actual combat, and is ready to issue new ones to the Four.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d2c74459	comment	It still happened once, with the F99 Recordbreaker Gundams in Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam: The Steel Seven. These Gundams were equipped with the extremely powerful Minovksy Drive (aka the "Wings of Light") a full twenty years before it showed up in Victory Gundam. The Jovian Empire managed to destroy all three prototypes, along with all the plans and research for it in their attack on the lunar base, forcing the system to have to be re-invented from scratch. Although it's also revealed that Anaheim Electronics had a head start in re-inventing it by salvaging the wreckage after the Jovian attack.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d2cd3b5e	comment	In In Nomine, Valefor, the Demon Prince of Theft, has stolen some impossible things like a book from Heaven's Library. One of his prizes is Tesla's electrotherapy cure for cancer. To the simple question of why Tesla couldn't just recreate it, fan theories range from Valefor stealing the physical laws that permitted the device to work, to an elaborate social engineering scheme that meant Heaven had to suppress it lest the device's net effect be infernal, leaving Valefor with the only one. Your pick which would be more impressive.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d4263e4c	comment	In the Wild Cards novels, the creations of several eccentric tinkerers are irreproducible, even by their creators, because they don't actually work: the "devices" are actually just props, extensions of their Ace powers. In one case mentioned, the device contained only a schematic diagram of the circuitry it was supposed to hold yet worked exactly as designed. When the creator of the android Modular Man had his powers changed by Typhoid Croyd, he lost the ability to maintain his creation — when we see Mod Man again, he is in less-than-perfect order.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003): Factors in big time in the last season: The Cylons have had forty odd years of using resurrection tech, and are shown as having multiple Resurrection Ships for their Basestars. But apparently, they never thought to even keep plans around for the Resurrection Hub — without which, every Resurrection Ship becomes useless. (And guess what the Leobens, Boomers, and Sixes do after they rebel from the other Cylons? That's right — they blow up the Hub.) Later justified in that the secrets behind resurrection tech were held by the Final Five Cylons. And they each held only part of the secret, so they all had to be together for the secrets to be passed on. And then when the Five are identified and brought together, things go pear-shaped, one of them ends up dead and resurrection tech is truly lost for good.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d4b50b28	comment	In The Strongest Man in the World, a formula for Super-Strength is created when several random chemicals combine. Unfortunately, the chemists think that a different (and much more well-documented) mixture is responsible for the super-strength and schedule an intramural weightlifting competition with the wrong formula on center stage.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d50962d9	comment	The Creeper: The creator of the Creeper's Healing Factor in a bottle used it up healing one guy, then lost it forever.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d56cafaf	comment	Likewise, in Power Rangers RPM, all the morphers are prototypes. Theoretically, they could have made more, but since most of the world's computers are infected by Venjix, including the facility where the morphers were created, it's likely the plans aren't available. There's also the potential resource issue in creating additional Rangers since Earth is a barren wasteland and Corinth is cut off inside a dome.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: Various Team Rocket members (not just the trio) have demonstrated machines that hypnotize PokÃ©mon with radio waves, forced an entire city's PokÃ©mon to obey them, send PokÃ©mon into a powerful rage, and make them either weakened or forced to evolve. None appear more than once after Pikachu blows them up. The worst was a nigh invincible tank that only Charizard could stop. Charizard promptly left Ash's team 1 episode later, and wouldn't return outside of tournament arcs (where Team Rocket typically doesn't antagonize Ash during) for over a decade's worth of episodes. Yet of course Team Rocket never uses the tank again, even though the only thing Ash had that could stop it was gone. Then you have Mewtwo - the "prototype" clones growing with it all died, and it destroyed the island laboratory where it was created, killing everyone inside. Then it built a castle on top of the ruins and replaced that with a grassy field after the movie's climax. By Mewtwo Returns, Giovanni decides it'd be easier to track down and recapture Mewtwo as opposed to recreating a new one from scratch. Not that this later stops a different set of people from creating a new, identical Mewtwo with no indication that they even know one already exists...
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d634ac98	comment	In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Jekyll deliberately destroys all notes of his experiments to prevent another man from suffering the same fate as he, and also comments that the solution as written wouldn't have worked, as it was only an impurity in the original batch that made the stuff effective.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d78af2ac	comment	Averted in Kingsman: The Secret Service (which likewise played with many other Spy Fiction tropes): Early on, Merlin summarizes Lancelot's mission by recounting terrorist groups which ended up killing each other, the first of which was done by feeding a chemical into the water supply, and the second involved no chemicals at all. We also see a short-ranged prototype of the Hate Plague tested at a church, and the main machine is encrypted to Valentine's biometrics, ensuring that no one else can operate it
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_d8c2cfe4	comment	Played with in Ant-Man. There's only one Yellowjacket suit, but Pym makes a point of having the mission to steal it include wiping the servers at the facility that built it and completely demolishing the building itself so that Cross won't be able to reconstruct his research without starting completely from scratch.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_daff6a21	comment	Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds: After spending two days and nights straight creating a new D-Wheel program, Yusei and Bruno are so exhausted, they go to bed without bothering to install or backup said program... which gets stolen that night. The dub adds a few additional handwaves: the thief not only copied their files but deleted them off the hard drive, and the two can't expect to recreate the program from scratch because there was a lot of on-the-spot ad-libbing involved.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_dbb1ac0c	comment	Justified in Excalibur with Tweedledope, a member of a team of villains called the Crazy Gang. He's an idiot savant who can build miraculous things by simply tinkering with junk, but even he doesn't know how most of them truly work. As a result, nothing he builds can be duplicated. By far, the most advanced invention he's created was Widget, a small, sentient robot capable of opening portals, who became a companion to the heroes.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_dc04b5b5	comment	Project Ignition: Subverted in the case of TYPE-SIONE: the plans, and the back up were destroyed when the prototypes were stolen.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ddad77ae	comment	Since Astro City is set in a classic superhero world, this trope gets used a lot in various ways. Dr. Bertram Garneau kept the critical knowledge of his neuro-memetic imprint research in his mind, so his Corrupt Corporate Executive sponsor would not be able to exploit it. Another scientist-hero told a friend to destroy all his blueprints and notes if he died, so that his inventions could never be recreated.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ddefed22	comment	Flubber: Weebo is mostly an example, with Brainard remarking on her creation as a "happy accident". There is a back-up, but it was made by Weebo and promptly hidden from the professor.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_de00af4b	comment	Grizzle's inventions in Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-Lot are generally all of this type.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_de8f6a97	comment	In Godzilla (1954), Doctor Serizawa is seen burning the notes for the creation of the Oxygen Destroyer, and implicitly destroyed the prototypes as well. Of course, the knowledge still exists in his brain, and there's only one thing to be done about that.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_df64a221	comment	Subverted in Mercenaries. The nuclear cannon at the end of the second part of the game does have a prototype. And you have to use it to destroy the final version.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_df6c9f95	comment	Airwolf has plans — inside the helicopter. The prototype got nicked by The Evil Dr. Moffett and then retrieved by Stringfellow Hawke, who didn't return it. At least one episode features another invocation of this trope with a helicopter claimed to be even more dangerous than the Airwolf. Naturally, after Hawke destroys each one, no further attempts to build them are shown.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e081af79	comment	In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!, the formula which accidentally produced Molly is a prime example of this. Lampshaded here.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e4732abc	comment	Stargate Atlantis: One notable incident is the Ancients' attempt to extract zero-point energy from their own universe, in comparison to ZPM power which extracts said energy from a much smaller pocket universe. The problem was that doing so created exotic particles which inevitably caused the energy extraction to spiral out of control, creating deadly radiation and ultimately resulting in explosive failure. This one project and its offshoots become a recurring plot device. The process is duplicated on Atlantis in the next season, this time using a matter bridge to extract power from an alternate universe instead of their own to get around the instability. It technically worked, but that universe complained about their near-annihilation and it was shelved. An alternate universe Sam Carter further refined the technique to grab power from multiple universes, minimizing the damage to any one, but that too failed when the main universe Sam Carter's phasing experiment interacted with it, zapping her over to that universe and killing the alternate Carter in the process. In a Busman's Holiday episode in season 5, McKay spends some time on Earth and is invited to a presentation by his old nemesis — who has gotten his hands on the secret paper Rodney wrote about the matter bridge project. He figured out that using it as a massive heat sink would avoid the exotic particle problem. While he did avoid that problem, the instability of the matter bridge, coupled with the fact that they couldn't turn it off, threatened to drain all the heat from the planet, and McKay has to save the day. One gets the sense that ZPMs themselves must be this. A large percentage of the series' tension comes from the expedition's inability to properly power the city. Meanwhile they have access to The Ancient's entire database, as well as every bit of technology in the city. One would assume the blueprints for The Ancient's primary power source should be in their database, and that the facility to manufacture them would be in their capital and only ship they originally used to travel from the Milky Way to Pegasus to begin with. Instead they're treated like mystical irreplaceable artifacts, and not even the best scientific minds and engineers so much as bring up the possibility of simply manufacturing new ones. To say nothing of building more Chair Drones, Puddle Jumpers, or even Aurora Class ships. Justified in that the Ancient database is very large, to the point that even the almost-equally-advanced Asgard haven't fully translated their copy of it yet; likely the instructions to create a ZPM are available but nobody's found them yet. Also, it's pointed out that Atlantis is roughly the size of Manhattan and it will take the expedition decades to fully explore and document everything. Which is not made easier by the measures the Ancients took to prevent the Wraith from being able to occupy the city, erasing records and such. So the ZPM factory is probably in the city somewhere but it may take years to locate and determine the function. ZPMs are basically glorified batteries. To charge a battery you need an energy source. At the height of their civilization Ancients could power their ZPM factories with energy available from elsewhere, most likely inefficient but plentiful source (like charging your hi-tech Li-ion accumulator from the solar panel). Now that their facilities are mostly destroyed and the city is strapped for energy in the first place...
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e5c5bc22	comment	In the GURPS IST superhero setting, the technology for the "power cells" used in most sci-fi style gizmos is a monopoly held by a single company since 1950; the UN likewise maintains a monopoly on fusion power started in the 80s. Neither of these technologies has been duplicated or reverse-engineered even semi-successfully, and it is implied they simply cannot be (despite the existence of several comic-book-style Professors, Techno Wizards, and Mad Scientists.) Word of God, however, has said that the fusion monopoly was finally broken in 1996.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e5d94391	comment	In MDK2 Kurt Hectic is brought back from captivity without his Coil Suit. As he returns, he says to Doctor Hawkins "They've got the suit. We're all doomed. Can I go now?". The Doctor laughs and shows Kurt that he made many more Coil Suits and that losing it wouldn't be a problem at all. Kurt then loses his hope of not having to fight aliens yet again.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e5e19143	comment	SuperlÃ³pez: Escariano Avieso admits to Al Trapone that he never writes down the formula for any of the chemicals he creates.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: In the early years of the Expanded Universe, numerous writers, most likely inspired by the Death Star, had their stories feature stupidly powerful superweapons of which only one existed, the most maligned of which were the Sun Crusher (capable of destroying an entire solar system) and the Galaxy Gun (capable of firing at anything in the entire galaxy from a single vantage point). Later books, specifically the New Jedi Order series, have characters make mention of how useful these various superweapons would be against the Yuuzhan Vong, yet no efforts are made to actually replicate them. The lack of such weaponry under the New Republic is actually given an explanation in Black Fleet Crisis: If you go by Outbound Flight, decades before the prequel movies, Palpatine had a vision of the Yuuzhan Vong and decided that a united Empire with superweapons was the best way to fight them, making the Rebellion a Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moment. However, Han in Destiny's Way points out that superweapons as built by the Empire were little more than colossal wastes of resources with stupid names, and Pellaeon points out to a subordinate in another book that if The Empire couldn't handle the Rebellion, what makes them think they would be that much more effective against the Vong? Later media set in the Clone Wars period also features weapons that, while not capable of disintegrating a planet, are still significantly powerful enough to be built more than once, such as the Seismic Tank (a massive floating fortress that crushes any forces beneath it) and the Malevolence (a vessel comparable in size to a Super Star Destroyer capable of destroying entire fleets by itself). Incidentally, the Death Star itself is actually an aversion, with this class of superweapon being the threat in two movies, and various blueprints and "proto-concepts" floating around various EU works before being featured in Attack of the Clones. Indeed, the same trilogy that introduced the Sun Crusher also had a Death Star prototype (about 1/4th the size and Superlaser only). The Hutts even made an attempt to build something based on Death Star plans. Ultimately, the impracticality of these superweapons is the main reason why everyone doesn't have one. During Galaxy of Fear, it's found that the threats of the first four books — D'vouran, zombies, The Virus, the Nightmare Machine — were, though all useful in themselves, intended as sort of high-level concept testing for the real purpose of Project Starscream, creating an Ultimate Life Form Super-Soldier with All Your Powers Combined. Each of those ended up being destroyed or neutralized by the protagonists, and notes get destroyed all along the line. Studying the zombiemaking notes is actually how one of our heroes came up with a countermeasure. The Sun Crusher is actually a justified example — it had only one prototype because it was ludicrously expensive. The prototype eventually gets dumped into a black hole, the most decisive way there is to destroy something. The secret base at which it was designed and built is destroyed, and most likely the plans are lost with it. Most of the design team is killed, and the only survivor has all her memories of it erased via Mind Rape. The Sun Crusher's ludicrously durable armor does get duplicated later, but apparently, it's still so outlandishly expensive that only a handful of small vehicles utilize it. New Jedi Order also has an aversion of sorts; the Jedi do in fact have the plans for as many of the superweapons of the week as they could find, all under lock-and-key. That way, if some idiot decides they want to try it, the Jedi will know, but it's also pointed out having the plans isn't enough. Superweapons take time and resources, even when you're not trying to hide from a bunch of Jedi. A sad example in Star Wars: Kenobi: One particular moisture vaporator had its settings tinkered with once and began producing water so sweet and delicious that it significantly enriches the fortunes of the Dannar's Claim general store. No one can figure out how it's making such incredible water on a desert planet — attempts to replicate the results have yielded only partial success, in part because no one wants to mess with it too much in case the settings are lost. And then the Sand People raid the store and attack the vaporator to get at the loudspeaker at its top. The machine is repairable, but the formula is destroyed forever.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e755f69b	comment	Batman: Arkham Origins features a predecessor of Titan called TN-1; once again Batman presumably destroys the notes when he blows up Bane's lair and Bane himself suffers severe brain damage after using it on himself at the end of the game. This leaves Batman and Alfred as the only ones who still know how to make it (they copied the notes), but of course they have no reason to and every reason not to do it. The Bag of Spilling for the Cold, Cold Heart DLC is justified this way: it is Handwaved that the Glue Grenade formula was unstable and all the grenades from the main game set just a few days earlier are nothing but dust.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e7a9c06c	comment	Paperinik New Adventures: Averted all the time, as everyone with a lick of sense designs their technology with at least one prototype and one set of plans, or, in the case of the Evronians, multiple ones. Epically subverted with the Evronian containment field that could hold even Xadhoom: having been improvised in the field by a group of warriors that were wiped out by Xadhoom as soon as One deactivated it one would expect the technology to not be reproduced, but instead they field an improved version in the final part of the Xadhoom Trilogy, as the warriors had managed to report what had happened before Xadhoom was freed and the actual scientists had years to remake and improve it. Justified with the process that gave Xadhoom her powers: not knowing if it would work and knowing perfectly how dangerous that knowledge was, Xado (the future Xadhoom) kept no note around, instead committing it all to her mind when she performed the experiment. She later did make a note of the process contained inside a fully sentient copy of her mind, meaning that anyone seeking those powers could well be given an incomplete version and die horribly.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e7e37776	comment	Downplayed in Firefly. The Academy that created River is implied to have other test subjects like her, but River is still the most powerful psychic they had ever produced and they haven't been able to replicate that, hence their desire to capture her specifically rather then just getting a new psychic. That she also knows nearly every important military and diplomatic secret the Alliance possesses doesn't hurt either.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e80fa454	comment	The Magna Carta from Battleborn was the single most important part of the LLC's entire heavily technology based society that kept everything running smoothly. It's creators barely understood what exactly they created and as far as lore goes, made no contingency plans or backups in the event should something happen to it. As such, when this cornerstone that the entire LLC heavily depended on just suddenly went dark, everything went wrong.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e8224f8c	comment	Ram-Dass in Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry was an illegal experimental prototype, and The Gloire was a modified "regular" Gloire whose modifiers did quite well for people that didn't have the plans for the original.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e89f120b	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam: Averted. Whenever the heroes encounter a new Zeon Mobile Suit or Mobile Armour, it often is the prototype, with the plans safely stored back in the Zeon homeland, and plenty of backups as often they perform well enough that they go into mass-production. Examples include the Gouf and the Dom, first introduced piloted by Zeon aces like Ramba Ral and the Black Tri-Stars, but later encountered in larger numbers once they're mass-produced. Even the Gundam itself has its plans in the Earth Federation Forces HQ of Jaburo, which is what allows the EFF to upgrade the Gundam when it arrives. However, whenever machines don't get mass-produced, there's often good reasons for it: in the case of the Gundam, it's so advanced it would be prohibitively expensive and difficult to produce in large numbers and so the plans were simplified to create the much cheaper GM.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e8a8ef69	comment	An aversion of this trope fuels the climax of Hacknet. Entech IS keeping backups of the HackNet software, and the only way to make sure it's destroyed completely is a tightly-coordinated attack on their primary storage server (which your contact handles) and the mostly-isolated backup server (which is up to you), or else one would restore the other. As for completed prototypes, there is exactly one out in the wild - what does the software you're using call itself?
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_e9e37e8	comment	Heechee Saga: The Heechee technology are alien artifacts and technology, of there is no documentation nor manuals, and of which is only known that they work. Attempting to use them is insanely dangerous gamble and attempts to reverse engineer them lead only in explosion.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ea4e8b79	comment	In the Count to the Eschaton series, Menelaus' Super Serum cannot be duplicated—because, as his original use was illegal, he didn't make any notes to begin with, and when he injected himself, his friend turned off the inboard cameras.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_eb3eebd9	comment	In Shredder Orpheus, the Gibsonian Lyre-Axe Guitar is itself a prototype; only three were made and the designers all died or vanished. When it starts acting up in the second half of the movie, no one knows how to fix it due to it being so rare.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ebc16974	comment	In Cammy's ending in Street Fighter IV, she found the secret research for the BLECE project and promptly deletes it. Apparently S.I.N. doesn't keep back-up copies or journal entries of all their secret experimental terrorist weapons.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ec5cf89a	comment	In Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, there is exactly one BGY-11, and exactly one person who can pilot the mech without accidentally destroying it. It is explained that the military lost the original blueprints, but since they can still perform maintenance on it, it does seem odd that they wouldn't build another one. And there really isn't any logical reason not to train a backup pilot. Further explained that the US Army promised a working robot and didn't want to admit all they could build was a oversized suit of Powered Armor. Thus the reason they don't produce more. In the episode with Po the Conqueror, it's stated that they can build another Big Guy, or at least scrounge one up from spare parts, but the lieutenant was the only person who had any idea how to pilot it. It's later shown that most people know how to get the thing moving (as when he gets dropped back in time and a British soldier managed to pilot it as "Iron Jack") but have no idea about how to regulate the power core from exploding.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ece42231	comment	The Ghost Busters had the Ghost Dematerializer mkI. It was the only one they carried or even had. It's implied that Tracy (the gorilla) built it, but made it up as he went along, without plans or notes of any kind. Neither Spenser nor Kong is quite sure how it works...
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ed0803a7	comment	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country has the Klingon Bird of Prey that can fire while cloaked in. The prototype is destroyed, and apparently all the notes and engineers responsible for creating it must have been on board, because it isn't until Star Trek: Nemesis that the Remans finally manage to recreate that ability (and further improve on the design). There's a plasma-seeking torpedo which is used to track the cloaked ship, destroying it. This technique is never repeated. It's a wonder Federation scientists never thought of this before or after that moment. Interestingly, like the example of the Scimitar, the MMO Star Trek Online brings them back as features for the more advanced ships (re: ones you gotta pay for)
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ed2b6d97	comment	Justified in The Last Federation. The uniquely powerful flagship the last Hydral steals at the start of the game was the prototype, and they completely annihilated the research facility on their way to get it, kicking the race who built it four or five branches down the Tech Tree in doing so. Add some Hydral-activated Lost Technology and reverse-engineering it is out of the question too.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_eec04867	comment	Dirk Pitt Adventures: In Treasure of Khan, there are three earthquake machines, but all three are destroyed, and the scientists who built them died mysteriously prior to the novel. Said scientists did leave behind an operator's manual, but The Hero chooses to suppress it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ef076a36	comment	Zigzagged in Star Trek: Voyager with the EMH. He is only one copy of many, but since Voyager is stranded in the Delta Quadrant, they neither have access to spare copies or the person who designed the program (at least not until late in the series). Furthermore, they can't simply make a backup of him in case of emergency (save one episode which introduced an until-then unmentioned backup device, which aliens stole), so any threat to his program is serious. Theoretically, any EMH could become as complex as he is, but as the the E stands for "emergency," no other EMHs have been left on long enough for this to happen. Averted when it came to the Delta Flyer. Tom Paris, making the original Delta Flyer, already had plans for it. Thus, when the shuttle was destroyed as bait for the Borg, they just built a second one and made it even better.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: Averted with the Super-Skrull. He was created from a process the Skrulls used to mimic superpowers, placing the combined powers of the FF into one warrior. They used the process again over the years, eventually creating an entire army of them in Secret Invasion. It didn't work out too well for them with Deadpool, though.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_eff51eac	comment	Braver in Transformers Victory invents a device that can detect Decepticons within ; Jean, Holi, and Star Saber all seize on the idea of placing a bunch of them at strategic points around the world. Braver handwaves this away by saying the device requires specialised components, but they still put the device to good use. At the end of the episode, however, Leozack steals it, and Braver vows to start his research from scratch. Couldn't he just have remembered how to make it?
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: The series always involves lead character Samus collecting items for her Power Suit. She is able to equip a wide variety of Chozo artifacts, including the Morph Ball, the Screw Attack, and various armor upgrades (including the Varia and Gravity suits). Despite the fact that she has collected these items multiple time overs in the course of the game series, and has interacted with Federation scientists and soldiers (see Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Metroid Fusion), no one has been able to replicate her upgrades for use successfully with their soldiers. The Space Pirate race has (according to logs found in Prime) tried to back-engineer the Morph Ball, but those experiments killed many of the subjects on which the prototypes were tested. As of now, the Chozo artifacts are still only compatible with Samus' suit. Later entries in the series tried to explain this away by stating that Samus' Power Suit is a specially modified version of a Chozo Battlesuit, linked to her unique biology (part Human, part Chozo) and made of refined Unobtanium, since the creators (the Chozo) were a technologically super-advanced race who up and disappeared less than twenty years ago (when they were still super-advanced compared to everyone else). Also, the Galactic Federation has been able to design weapons based on Samus' suit, including upgrades for her suit, most notably the Diffusion Missile technology from Metroid Fusion. The Chozo seem to have backups everywhere, but in a way that only they can use them. Despite this, the Pirates and Federation have at least attempted to recreate them. The Pirates ended up with weaker beams immediately, and the Federation got some really good missile systems after a few years. Everyone has a Chozo door system, however. On their own, the Pirates have been able to recreate everything they've stolen, and the Federation keeps backups of Metroid DNA and whatever else was on BSL (they probably have more). During the Prime series of games, you frequently attack Space Pirate bases conducting research into Phazon-enhanced supersoldiers. The bases are filled with failed or developing experiments and computer records. Destroying not only the successful experiments, but the entire bases and research team merely sets back the research, and other stations find new applications for Phazon to try and kill you with. Concept Art shows very bulky Federation power suits that are apparently too expensive to deploy in vast numbers. A version of these suits would later enter use in Federation Force. In Metroid Prime: Hunters, Sylux has a power suit that was stolen from the Galactic Federation that allows him to transform into its second form, Lockjaw, which uses a compression technology similar to the morph ball. The same can be said for the other hunters, but the secondary forms of the rest are all part of their biology, save for Weavel who splits himself in two. Sylux's prototype suit would indicate that the Galactic Federation has been doing some research into morph ball technology as well. Metroid: Other M: Big Guy Anthony Higgs wields a Federation-issued Plasma Rifle. It's twice as long as he is tall, and takes about 10 seconds to charge up enough energy to fire a single shot. Samus' Plasma Beam is rapid fire and integrated with her Arm Cannon to the point where she can charge for a stronger blast. The Federation is reverse engineering Samus' weaponry, they're just nowhere close to the Chozo's level.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f1360d68	comment	Averted in Mobile Fighter G Gundam as the Rising Gundam was the prototype for the Shining Gundam, a (manga-only) second Shining Gundam called Shading Gundam was built and when the original Nobel Gundam was destroyed as the Walter Gundam, Allenby just got a new one to replace it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f186f924	comment	Subverted in Horizon Zero Dawn: When Aloy's Focus is destroyed, Aloy angsts about losing the information she has gathered, and the abilities the Focus gives her, when Sylens simply passes her a new one. Sylens had been surreptitiously making copies of all the data Aloy gathered for his own use, and so had a full set of backups. As for the Focus, the devices are rare and irreplaceable, but not so rare that a dedicated dungeon crawler won't have picked up a couple. Giving Aloy one is a big investment for Sylens, but a worthwhile one given the value of what she already uncovered, and copying the data from the backups to the new Focus is a matter of pushing two buttons and waiting.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f27404a0	comment	The ASE in The Conduit falls under this trope. It's a unique super-gadget that does everything from hacking computers to revealing invisible symbols, but much of the game involves the Big Bad John Adams trying to retrieve it from the player — even though his organization developed it. The reason why they were after it was because it's Prometheus' only way of talking to the outside world, and by the end, he uploads himself into the ASE.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f3f99ac5	comment	Parasol Souls was a spin-off to Bubble Bobble released for a number of consoles in the early 90's. The exception to this was the Commodore 64. It was going to be ported the system but Ocean, who had the publishing rights to the Commodore, handed it to an external programmer since it was near the end of the C64's lifespan and they didn't want to divert a team to make the port. There are two official stories as to why this port was cancelled. The official reason is the straight example - the programmer's computer was stolen in a break-in. The game was nearly complete and since it was so close to the projected release date they decided to cancel the game instead. This led to collectors searching for the fabled computer with the C64 port in vain, until the truth came out. The actual reason is a Double Subversion - after an argument with his alcoholic wife about her affair with her ex-husband, she destroyed everything related to his work, including his computer and the notes related to the game. The subversion is that the programmer did have backups to all of his work. The Double Subversion is that she knew about them and where they all were! When the programmer explained what happened, Ocean made up the above story in solidarity to the man's failing marriage.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f4a04cd2	comment	Resident Evil 3: Nemesis: The titular Nemesis is the only one of his kind. Umbrella never bothered to make more copies of him, despite the entirety of the game proving that the Stupid Evil MegaCorp obviously had a winner on their hands with him; he's stronger, smarter and faster than the Tyrants Umbrella did decide to mass-produce, and the only thing that could finally, definitively kill him was a nuclear missile strike. It appears someone at Capcom eventually did ask about this, because supplementary materials in subsequent games reveal that the Nemesis was incredibly expensive to produce and considered a failure (it did fail to kill one of its targets), leading Umbrella to pull the plug. Another problem was that Nemesis was too smart. One prototype (mentioned in side materials) gained enough self-awareness to rebel; the "finished product" in the remake is sadistic and arrogant, to the point that he deliberately toys with Jill instead of killing her as soon as he can.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f5c28dbb	comment	Another non-technical example is brought up in the 1632 series, with all the archives of an appellate court going up in smoke during the Sack of Magdeburg, making it difficult for that court to function properly once it reforms. Then it gets subverted at the end of the novel when it gets revealed that while there is no complete backup, the fact that it was an appellate court meant that copies of every decision referred to the court from outside the city would have been sent to whatever court sent the case to them, along with copies of any previous court decisions that were being used as precedent for the current one. Which meant that if they hired enough legal clerks and law students to copy the court archives of all the other cities in the court circuit, they could get about 90% of their original records back.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f5f392b1	comment	The Famous Five: Averted in Five on Kirrin Island Again by Uncle Quentin, who has made all the notes of his great experiment in a small book. He does not want the book to be found by his enemies, but he also dares not destroy the book, in case anything should happen to him, meaning that his ideas would be completely lost.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f651fac4	comment	Titan A.E.: Parodies this a bit when both Cale and the audience meet Gune for the first time. Played straight, and justified, with the Titan itself. The Drej attack was so swift that its creator had no time to save anything else. Any data or tech related to the Titan either disappeared with the ship, or was destroyed along with Earth.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f655ed11	comment	Averted in Frasier; when Frasier inadvertently destroys Martin's beloved (and ugly-as-sin) chair, he improvises blueprints from numerous photographs and tracks down the original manufacturer of the fabric (with the only hiccup being getting them to admit they made it), and then has the whole thing assembled by a master craftsman, ironically making it the most expensive item in his apartment.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f6d6745	comment	"Robot AL-76 Goes Astray" involves a robot designed to operate a mining laser getting lost and being found by an ordinary man. The robot then builds a mining laser out of various junk found in the man's toolshed. The only named part is a flashlight. When the robot turns on the laser, he takes out a nearby mountain. The human orders the robot to destroy the machine and then to forget everything. When the owners of the robot find it, they are outraged — the robot had somehow managed to build a laser strong enough to take out a mountain that was powered by a pair of flashlight batteries, and with the robot having followed the order, they couldn't reconstruct it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f724b70d	comment	In the first season of Code Lyoko, Odd accidentally finishes Jeremie's materialization program for Aelita by dropping some candy on the keyboard. Jeremie can only use it once, though, because he doesn't know what keys the candy pressed. Apparently, he can't simply copy the program and just reuse it, even though it is clearly something he can store and use whenever he wants. Yumi ends up needing to use it, and Jeremie completes the program permanently later in the season. Averted with Franz Hopper, who made plenty of notes that he kept in crypted form in his informatic diary. Decrypting said diary is a major point of season 2. Also, the Lyoko-Warriors are very careful to not let the tech fall into wrong hands, so Hopper's supercalculator would most likely be replicable if taken by the army. Also averted violently with XANA in season 4, where the Lyoko-Warriors find out he has infected several computer over the world as backup to store his datas. They proceed to destroy them one after another... only to find out that he infected hundreds of them all over the world.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_f90f1b9f	comment	All of Professor Nimnul's inventions on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers fall under this category. Only once in 65 episodes was one of his inventions re-used (a shrinking/growth ray), and even then it was not being used by Nimnul.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_fc0e7530	comment	Dexter's Laboratory tends to have this happen with Dexter and Mandark as both geniuses will build something spectacular and once it breaks down, they dump it and build something else to replace it. It's not that they don't know how to fix it, it's that their egos demand something bigger and better to replace it.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	A delightful aversion in Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers with the Mindnet device. The finished prototype is broken into two pieces for safety reasons, but the main piece is stolen and brought to the Big Bad. The heroes use the other half of the device and Niko's psionics to track down the stolen piece. During the inevitable escape from the Queen's palace, the Queen makes off with the device...but Buzzwang shows up with another Mindnet. It looks like a mistake on the part of the animators until later episodes demonstrate that, while the heroes were captured, the Queen simply made her own backup copy.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_fcf34eec	comment	In Full Metal Panic!, Mithril's Arbalest is one of these. It is a Super Prototype Real Robot made using Black Box technology that only certain Whispered can create, even if they do not fully understand the underlying principles. Its creator went suicidally insane after building it, killed himself and destroyed his own notes, and Mithril doesn't have any other Whispered who understand the Lambda Driver technology that drives it. Their counterpart Amalgam does have one, however, and can mass produce mechs that use the same technology. Just to complicate things, the Arbalest's quirky AI (named Al, with an L) refuses to let anyone except Sousuke access the systems.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_fe8ef766	comment	Captain America: The reason Captain America is one of a kind is that Dr. Abraham Erskine, the only person who knew the formula for the Super-Soldier Serum, got shot right after administering it to Cap. Furthermore, for security reasons, Erskine kept no notes of the full treatment, relying on his memory. Attempts at reproducing it haven't gone so well. Arnim Zola was able to create a clone of Cap complete with Super Solder Serum — and never attempted to experiment to figure out how to extract the stuff. Especially since the Serum has been completely extracted at least once and it's been shown that a blood transfusion from Cap also comes with that particular bonus. (Making it more Holding Back the Phlebotinum than anything else, now.) Red Skull cloned Cap's body so he could possess it at least once. In Captain America I #153, a man who found the formula, heretofore overlooked in Axis files (due to Allied bombings similar to Dresden, not even the Axis knew that they had it), noted that he found it untraceable in animals he had experimented upon and then dissected. He used this as leverage to force the US government to allow him to serve as a new Captain America for the Korean War — which ended before he could serve. This man later went mad due to the effects of the serum, suggesting its unpredictability on subjects. Incidentally, MLJ's The Shield seems to have inspired Captain America (the shape of Captain America's shield turned round when MLJ pointed out how closely it represented the front of the Shield's costume). The Shield's father had perfected a similar formula, but enemy agents slew him. The Shield, however, recreated his father's formula. Why he did not use it other than on himself is not stated. Before making the formula, Dr. Erskine formulated a special diet and exercise regiment that would optimize the human body to its peak. However, because of wartime issues, the plans were stored away, and thus research was made into the formula. Eventually, a grandson of Erskine discovered the plans and proceeded to put it through his newborn, Micheal Van Patrick and sure enough, the young man grew up to possess the same capability and talents as Cap himself through diet and exercise. While MVP would not last long as a character, he has been cloned more than a few times. Captain America's shield is one of a kind, never duplicated; the guy who made it had no idea what he was doing and thus, wasn't keeping records and, according to some stories, fell asleep while working on it, and when he woke up, the shield was made.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_fe9561ce	comment	The Armor Wars storyline had Tony try to invoke this trope after one too many villains got their mitts on his suit tech, causing him to go a little overboard in his pursuit of unauthorized users of his armor technologies as several other heroes utilizing powered armor got involved.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ff3132b2	comment	In Superman's Return to Krypton, Superman goes back in time to Krypton and helps his father put together an evacuation plan: they design a robot capable of building quickly a big space-ship and contact Ken-Dal, a scientist who has designed a rare but extremely powerful fuel. Sadly, the rocket must be built in Kandor, so Ken-Dal, the ark-ship, and the builder robot vanish together with the city when Brainiac drops by. And since Ken-Dal never revealed the secret of his fuel to anyone else, Superman and Jor-El's plan falls apart.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Averted in the case of Lieutenant Commander Data, who was preceded by numerous prototypes, which included his "brother" Lore. However, with the passing of his creator Dr. Soong, no one is quite able to construct Soong-type androids. Even Data himself can't quite get it right, though he came remarkably close by building a viable "daughter". She eventually broke down, but the fact that she ran as long as she did is a far sight better than Starfleet ever managed. Judging by the fact that Starfleet at one point attempts to acquire (or, to put it less charitably, enslave) Data for the purpose of backwards engineering him, one assumes that Dr. Soong left behind no plans or blueprints, since otherwise Starfleet could have just undergone construction of androids based on any such plans. Of course it's slightly more justified since the colony Soong was living in was completely wiped out by the Crystalline Entity and Soong was later shown to be super secretive about his work. Then along comes Star Trek: Picard, which reveals that the work at Daystrom Institute has eventually produced more inferior mass-produced Synthetics that end up being used for manual labor, especially in conditions unsuitable for humans (such as in Mars's thin atmosphere). Then a Synth rebellion results in horrendous casualties and setting the Martian atmosphere ablaze, and all Synths are banned. The plot point of season 1 is that there's a secret colony of Soong-type Synthetics created by Soong's son and the guy who wanted to study Data in TNG using an innovative technique. They also improve on the tech, and their androids can be made to be virtually indistinguishable from humans. Star Trek: Picard's first season also has another example of a "Golem" type synthetic, intended to be given the copied brain substrates of a human, built by its creator to transfer his own mind into it in order to achieve immortality. In the final episode, he instead transfers Jean-Luc Picard's mind into it instead, and this is treated as a personal sacrifice with no discussion of why he could not simply build another one. Then subverted in season 3 which reveals that he did build another one — but he has also since decided against simply transplanting his mind into it in favor of creating something new.
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup / int_ff9ca30	comment	The series always involves lead character Samus collecting items for her Power Suit. She is able to equip a wide variety of Chozo artifacts, including the Morph Ball, the Screw Attack, and various armor upgrades (including the Varia and Gravity suits). Despite the fact that she has collected these items multiple time overs in the course of the game series, and has interacted with Federation scientists and soldiers (see Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Metroid Fusion), no one has been able to replicate her upgrades for use successfully with their soldiers. The Space Pirate race has (according to logs found in Prime) tried to back-engineer the Morph Ball, but those experiments killed many of the subjects on which the prototypes were tested. As of now, the Chozo artifacts are still only compatible with Samus' suit. Later entries in the series tried to explain this away by stating that Samus' Power Suit is a specially modified version of a Chozo Battlesuit, linked to her unique biology (part Human, part Chozo) and made of refined Unobtanium, since the creators (the Chozo) were a technologically super-advanced race who up and disappeared less than twenty years ago (when they were still super-advanced compared to everyone else). Also, the Galactic Federation has been able to design weapons based on Samus' suit, including upgrades for her suit, most notably the Diffusion Missile technology from Metroid Fusion.
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Face/Off / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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Firefox / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Flubber / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Godzilla (1954) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Godzilla: King of the Monsters! (1956) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Godzilla vs. Biollante / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
GoldenEye / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Grandma's Boy (2006) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Innerspace / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Iron Man / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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M3GAN / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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Rogue One / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Runaway / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Shin Ultraman / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Shredder Orpheus / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Silent Movie / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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Space Sweepers / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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The Fly II / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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Adrian Mole / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
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The Robots of Dawn / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Silmarillion / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Stand / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Way Station / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Wind and Sparks / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
ActionChatroom	seeAlso	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockB	seeAlso	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockC	seeAlso	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
GundamJack	seeAlso	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
KeyStoneArmy	seeAlso	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackUp	sameAs	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
OffscreenVillainDarkMatter	seeAlso	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
TraceMemory	seeAlso	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Banana Fish (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Black Lagoon (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Hajimete no Aku (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Karneval (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Mahoromatic (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Mobile Suit Crossbone Gundam (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Ratman (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Strike Witches (Manga) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Protomen Tropes (Music)	seeAlso	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Arimnaes' Happy Fun Time Power Hour (Roleplay) / int_35022840	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Super Robot Wars Unlimited Generation (Roleplay) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Airwolf / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Battlestar Galactica (2003) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Californication / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Cheers / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Dollhouse / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Halt and Catch Fire / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Hogan's Heroes / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Kamen Rider Ryuki / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Lost in Space (2018) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Masada / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Power Rangers in Space / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Quantum Leap (2022) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Revenge (2011) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
RoboCop: Prime Directives / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
RoboCop: The Series / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Spellbinder / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Star Trek: Enterprise / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Star Trek: Voyager / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Terra Nova / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Adventures of Superman / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Blacklist / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Invisible Man / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Thick of It / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
3 Body Problem / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Westworld / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Genius: The Transgression (Tabletop Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Warhammer (Tabletop Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
R.U.R. (Theatre) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Ring of the Nibelung (Theatre) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Action Chatroom (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Another Code (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
BROK the InvestiGator (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Call of Duty: Black Ops (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Carmen Sandiego: Word Detective (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Earth Defense Force: Iron Rain (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Earthworm Jim (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Endless Space (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Fallout 3 (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Fallout 4: Northern Springs (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Fossil Fighters (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
FuryÂ³ (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Girls' Frontline (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Hitman (2016) (Video Game) / int_35022840	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Klonoa Heroes: Densetsu no Star Medal (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Metal Gear (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Metroid: Other M (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Myst III: Exile (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
PokÃ©mon Super Mystery Dungeon (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Red Alert From The Ashes (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Resistance (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Shin Gihren's Greed (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Singularity (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Solar Jetman (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Spider-Man: Miles Morales (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Star Control (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Star Wars: Squadrons (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Tengai Makyou (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Conduit (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
TRON 2.0 (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
[PROTOTYPE] / Videogame / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Katahane (Visual Novel) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Murder Drones (Web Animation) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Where Was My Hero...? (Web Animation) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
City of Somnus (Webcomic) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Joe vs. Elan School (Webcomic) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Leftover Soup (Webcomic) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
MS Paint Masterpieces (Webcomic) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Trenches (Webcomic) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Overused Sci-Fi Silly Science (Website) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Adventures of the Gummi Bears / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Back to the Future / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Code Lyoko / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Conan the Adventurer / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Cyberchase / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Dragons: Riders of Berk / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Earthworm Jim / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
G.I. Joe: Renegades / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
How to Train Your Dragon (2010) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Lightyear / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
My Life as a Teenage Robot / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Pantheon / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Penguins of Madagascar / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Ratatouille / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Sofia the First / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Star Wars: The Bad Batch / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Incredibles / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Incredibles / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Real Ghostbusters / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Titan A.E. / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Ultimate Avengers / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Wild Kratts / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Str.A.In.: Strategic Armored Infantry / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Super 8 / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Atlas Shrugged / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Richard Wagner (Music) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Smallville / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Six Million Dollar Man / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
The Wild Wild West / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
[PROTOTYPE 2] (Video Game) / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup
Iron Man: Armored Adventures / int_35022c20	type	No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup

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