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A Super Prototype is a testbed version of some piece of technology — be it a Humongous Mecha, Space Fighter, or Killer Robot — that is, for some reason, superior to the mass-produced version. A super prototype will have better weapons, stronger armor, and higher-quality speakers than the units rolling off the assembly line. Even when there aren't very many of whatever device was designed in the first place, the prototype model is almost always the most powerful or has at least some advantage over the other models. A question that often comes up is why the super prototype is so, well, super compared to the production model. To some degree, this trope is Truth in Television, with the typical reasons given in fiction more-or-less matching those given in real life. These include: Experimental Prototype which was intended to test out new technology and its limits without ever being meant for mass production at all. As cost-effectiveness is less important, experimental units frequently do have superior performance to eventual mass production models. Military test pilots refer to this as "pushing the envelope" — the upper edge is height, the right-hand edge is speed. Visualize this as the kind of envelope you mail somebody and you realize that particular area is where the postage gets canceled. In this instance, a common flaw for the Hero to have is that because the prototype is meant for performance but not longevity, there are no proper safeguards in place to protect the user or others nearby. This can lead to a power overload or damage to the prototype and/or the hero, effectively giving them a whole load of Dangerous Forbidden Techniques, in addition to the experimental technology itself. Overclocked Prototype which touches on aspects of a Flawed Prototype, a version which is more powerful but has a Drama-Preserving Handicap that the others don't. For the real-world equivalent, think of a phone or laptop. The latest model released isn't the absolute most powerful that the engineers could make, but it is the most powerful they could make that could last more than five minutes before shutting down or exploding. Basically, the mass-produced version that made it out of the lab is weaker because anything stronger can't be used for a prolonged period of time without too many drawbacks. Naturally, the hero is completely willing to take those drawbacks, even if the consequences can include things far more extreme like "break your back from the acceleration", "being driven insane" or "stuck in an another dimension". Overtuned Prototype that reaches into an Ace Custom, a version that takes engineering from the current rank-and-file model but is actually their intended successor. It is supposed to be an upgrade over the current standard, but justifies both high performance and any flaws as being customized to the user. Because this particular machine is designed for a specific Ace Pilot anyone who isn't at that level become a hindrance. Enigmatic Prototype that has a foundation in a Black Box system, ancient Lost Technology, some form of incredible new material or otherwise created with Mad Science that no one else fully understands. It is thus unreplicable in its entirety until someone can reverse engineer it. In fiction, a popular setup is when the prototype is made by a genius and only they fully understand the technology behind it. So when the genius dies and the prototype goes missing, the bad guys may have the notes and schematics, but there's only so much that they can figure out without the prototype itself. As a result, only weaker or imperfect versions of the prototype can be made. This gives the bad guys a strong motivation to retrieve the prototype, since studying it could allow them to produce perfect replicas. The hero must then keep it out of their hands at all costs. This is often used for more inexperienced heroes as it is an Outside-Context Problem for the enemy, who have no frame of reference on how to counter it. Fusion Prototype is when it was based on a known design but gained its unique properties in an unexpected way. Maybe it was tampered with by outside forces, its onboard computer suddenly became self-aware, it fell into a giant vat of chemicals, the pilot has a special bond with the machine or was struck by a radioactive magical space rock. Regardless of the circumstance, what was once a tame improvement or even a standard device is now a unique existence that is much more than its original designs could ever have anticipated. Since nobody understands exactly what happened to change the original, attempts to replicate it with just the now-outdated schematics invariably produce lesser versions of it. High-Cost Prototype is when the simplest answer is a matter of cost and resources. The power core has three times the output but cost five times more, a cheaper engine can't move the invincible armor so they have to reduce weight, a BFG is way too limited in extended combat so it's replaced with a basic infantry package, etc. This often results in a general function Jack of All Stats and Master of None, but with a collection of high spec prototypes which alternate between faster speeds, heavier armor and specialty ranged weapons. Streamlining functionality is often the key process of mass production since replacement parts become easier to access and the cost of producing something grows non-linearly with complexity. Real wars (and markets) are won with efficiency of masses, not outstanding individual performances; over the course of history, many schools of thought perished over failing to adhere to this principle. All that said, the real reason this tends to show up in any given story is to let The Hero be that much more awesome than everyone else. A closely related trope is the Ace Custom. See also Reed Richards Is Useless and Bigger Stick. Related to (and often exists for the same narrative reasons as) the Conservation of Ninjutsu. The Opposite Trope is the Flawed Prototype and Superior Successor. Technically. Since most prototypes have more than one attribute, overlap can occur where it has both flaws and superiorities. The Phlebotinum Rebel usually is both, with superior abilities but inferior obedience, so it does not carry out the purposes it was made for. |
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Although in Hulk (2014) Doc Green (yet another Hulk persona) once stated that She-Hulk is the Hulk's Superior Successor. The rest of the gamma crew are all a mess in one way or another, with their power and potential squandered by their psychological issues. But Jennifer has proven to be the most stable and heroic of them, which is why she is the only one he doesn't De-power. | |
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In Area X, Elcia's dimensional watch is actually the original prototype watch that did not require a operator to choose which dimension a Time Negotiator travels to oversees the transfer. In the Sky path, Elcia does this freely to find out the truth behind Irina's death. Ferim's true identity, what Ciera is hiding from her and all the other mysteries plaguing her. | |
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Megas XLR is both a super prototype and an Ace Custom (so customized, in fact, that no one but Coop can pilot it, simply because he changed the controls that much). Megas was originally a Glorft design, stolen by Kiva. | |
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Ultra Galaxy Legend Gaiden: Ultraman Zero vs. Darklops Zero has the debut of Darklops Zero, a powerful robotic duplicate of Ultraman Zero serving as the primary antagonist, which takes multiple battles and practically the entire film for Ultraman Zero to finally destroy... before the final scene reveals Darklops to be just a prototype. Further Darklops models have reappeared in later installments, but they're nowhere as dangerous or as intelligent as the original, where several of them gets defeated with ease in their next appearance, Ultraman Zero: The Revenge of Belial while a trio of watered-down Darklopses plays a random Monster of the Week in Ultraman Geed years later. | |
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The setting of Noob has the Empire's elite troops consist of an extreme case of Magically Inept Fighter called neomancers: a special injection cuts them off from the world's magic system in exchange of what amounts to Bio-Augmentation. It's known from the start that the injection contains genetic material from various beings that one could expect to find in a fantasy Adventure-Friendly World. The third novel reveals that mix is technically cells from Tabris, an entirely artificial super-being that was so powerful that the world's Physical Gods considered it a treat and requested his destruction in exchange of a very big favor. The neomancers are individually extremely weak by comparison to Tabris. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In this Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) fanfiction, Monster X precedes the Many's creation and is described by the author as a prototype to them. Unlike the Many, whilst Monster X is rebellious to Ghidorah's will, Monster X is also a lot more sane and capable of thinking for themselves. Keizer Ghidorah itself has a much higher regard for Monster X than it does for the Many, viewing its later "children" as little to nothing more than tools. | |
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Kamen Rider Revice: The Vail Driver was built 25 years before the main series, and greatly surpasses nearly all of its successors, especially its modern copy the Demons Driver. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics), the Metal Sonic Troopers — which both Rotor and Uncle Chuck designed and built, based upon the original Metal Sonic — are easily dispatched when they're turned against everyone, compared to the original Metal Sonic, who gave Sonic and co. a very hard time. And then there's all those replacement Metal Sonics Eggman keeps making, which always get rolled out and blown up within five pages. They've practically become a running gag. | |
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Kamen Rider Wizard has Kamen Rider Beast, who uses an ancient belt while Wizard uses a modern one. Despite this, Beast's default form is as strong as Wizard's Mid-Season Upgrade form. Possibly subverted, as the White Wizard later implies that Wizard is overly weak for a spellcaster and what counts for him as a Mid-Season Upgrade is where everyone else naturally starts at. | |
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On Chuck, Chuck is the first successful Intersect and remains the only prototype due to repeated sabotage of the project. However, when they finally decide to create more Intersect agents, they turn out to be way too inflexible in their thinking and tend to overreact in combat situations. In this case, it's a matter of No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup for both device and user: nobody can reproduce the perfect version of the Intersect that Bryce Larkin only entrusted to Chuck, and when it comes to the wielder, well, there's a reason Bryce only trusted Chuck with it. With later attempts to produce it, you got fatal My Skull Runneth Over cases, madness-inducing cases, and a version that damages your memory with each use to the point that it was once used as a form of brainwash}ing. The only non-Chuck person who appears to have had a fully functional Intersect was a Big Bad. | |
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The titular ship of Star Trek: Enterprise, the NX-01 Enterprise, also subverted the super prototype as her successor, the NX-02 Columbia, left drydock with capabilities that surpassed and were later retrofitted into Enterprise. At least some of these are, realistically, based on some of the flaws and workarounds Enterprise had with field experience. Production designs for the unproduced fifth season of Enterprise and Word of God statements from Doug Drexler revealed that the entire NX class was one big work-in-progress and that every ship was its own prototype, as evidenced by these sketches showing off the engineering hull that was to be added to the "NX-01.5". These were canonized in the Star Trek: Picard episode "The Bounty", when we see that the NX-01 at the Federation Fleet Museum is in this configuration. | |
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In The Mechanisms' Rock Opera Once Upon A Time In Space, Briar Rose was the first of the Clone Army created from Rose Red. She went rogue because her Brain Uploading of Rose's memories was too perfect, and she remembered that Rose was abducted from her wedding instead of volunteering, and the rest of the Rose Reds had to be degraded in memory recall and strength. | |
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The Trade Federation in The Phantom Menace uses two types of battle droids, that look the exact same. You have the OOM models, which possess advanced and independent programming, and the B1 models, which are dumb as a box of rocks. The kicker, the OOMs are the prototypes. You would think that with code being easily replicated, ALL battle droids would be OOMs, but instead the Trade Federation decided to use the inferior version because, as explained in Expanded Universe sources, they didn't want to risk being the cause of the newest Droid Revolution (it had already happened, multiple times). | |
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Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger has Abare Killer, whose powers are stronger than any of the others but comes with a slight drawback: Unlike the later Dino Braces, Abare Killer's Dino Minder will eventually explode with enough force to leave a smoldering crater where the city used to be. | |
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Batman Begins has most of Batman's gear be acquired from rejected R&D prototypes from Wayne Enterprises. The suit was rejected by the army because it was too expensive, while Bruce customizes the suit to his preferences along with combining the built-in harness to work with a Grappling-Hook Pistol. The Tumbler was designed for jumping gaps to lay cables for bridges, the bridge system didn't work right but the vehicle itself was an impressive high mobility tank. This set a precedent across different media that much of Batman's gear is him adopting and repurposing existing prototypes instead of custom building everything from scratch. | |
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Star Trek: The Lost Era: "The Buried Age" gives this as the reason the Excelsior-class stays in operation for over eighty years. The first and original may have been a Flawed Prototype in that it epically failed to do the thing it was designed for, but that still left Starfleet with a class of ship designed for the stresses of transwarp drive that actually worked pretty well in every other aspect. | |
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Averted in RWBY. In Volume 2, Team RWBY battle a prototype of the Atlesian Paladin hijacked by Roman Torchwick. With a bit of difficulty, the girls triumph and wreck the machine. When Weiss boasts this to Winter in Volume 3, Winter dismisses this, stating that the actual production models wouldn't be so weak as to fall to a team of first-year Hunters-in-training. Sure enough, when the Paladins are hijacked again by a computer virus during the Battle of Beacon, two of them give Weiss, Nora, Ren and the entirety of Teams CFVY, FNKI, SSSN and BRNZ an incredibly hard time and it's only thanks to Ruby's victory on the lead Atlesian battlecruiser that spares them from a third. | |
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The Eberron setting of Dungeons & Dragons features a zigzagged example with the warforged. The majority of warforged existing in the modern day are the size and shape of humans, and only a bit tougher. However, the first ones were the warforged titans, which are gigantic, heavily armored, and superhumanly strong, able to take on whole combat platoons solo and win. They were discontinued in favor of the more common warforged largely due to being extremely costly to build and maintain. That said, the reason this is zigzagged is that warforged titans are also a lot dumber on the whole, due to the whole "sapient AI" thing still being in the concept stages, whereas the modern warforged is just as smart as a human. The reason they're so overbuilt seems to be because the vast majority of combat constructs (notably golems) have a similar design of focusing on brute power over practicality or versatility — after all, if your subject can't conceive of any concept more complicated than "follow orders" and "break stuff", then why build it for anything else? | |
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In Power Rangers Time Force, the Quantum Ranger morpher and Quantasaurus Rex Zord were created during the early days of Time Force, and lost in an early time travel experiment until being rediscovered. However, they're quite stronger than the main five Rangers and any of their tech. However, there's a drawback: the main five have a DNA lock, so only you or your Identical Grandson can use it (hence Wes). The Quantum powers have a voice lock, making it easier for, say, the Monster of the Week to sic your Zord on the Rangers with just a voice imitation device. | |
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Even merchandise isn't immune to this trope. For example, a plush toy of the Hunter from Half-Life was made. Look up a picture of the Hunter, then look up the plush. Now, look up the more accurate and arguably more superior prototype of the plush. Toys in general tend to go through this, as the prototypes that eventually get used as the basis for the production molds are handmade and consequently tend to feature better paint jobs and sharper details than the finished versions. This is especially common in Transformers, due to the complex engineering involved and the somewhat inconsistent budgets — for instance, compare the prototype claw mode◊ of Leobreaker to that of the retail release◊. This overlaps with Flawed Prototype, however, as they're made of resin and therefore quite fragile. When Jakks Pacific produced WWE figures, they were so well known for producing great prototypes for toy shows but cutting corners on the final release that it even had its own Memetic Mutation, "Chinese New Year". This is in response to an infamous occurrence of cost-cutting in Adrenaline Series 13 wherein Jakks used leftover, barely articulated arms from their first series Titantron Live, which featured the only figure ever of Sylvain Grenier. Jakks employee Jeremy Padawer's asserted that the switch had happened because the employees in charge of producing the arms were away for Chinese New Year yet WWE wanted the company to keep to schedule. |
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Evangelion 303: The first models of the F-14E "Evangelions" (which in this alternate universe are experimental jet fighters rather than giant robots) are more powerful and have a better output than the latter ones. There also were talks to mass-produce them, but the Committee overseeing the project decided that it would be too expensive and the prototypes are good enough. | |
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The Indominus rex from Jurassic World is the first fully developed hybrid dinosaur born partly as a tourist attraction and partly as a testbed for train military hybrid dinosaurs. She's 18 feet tall, incredibly strong, highly intelligent and extremely durable with a camouflage ability. Her only physical threats are the park's resident elderly T. Tex, who still needed some help, and the much larger Mosasaurus. She's also insane and completely uncontrollable. The second attempt created the Indoraptor, while still intelligent and unhinged, is a fraction of the size and designed to respond to an infra-red targeting device. It's also something of a failed prototype itself as it has a genuine nasty streak and its creators were looking for something more tameable, in addition to struggling in a fight against Blue, a Velociraptor a third of its size but with hunting and fighting experience. | |
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Subverted in Shed 17. Thomas, the first of the biofused locomotives, always seems to function perfectly and have no emotional trauma, whereas the other engines are riddled with problems. It eventually turns out that Thomas was cloned and converted dozens of times until the result was perfect, whereas the others were just sent out after the first attempt. | |
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Supernatural: Archangels were the first four angels created and much more powerful than their younger siblings. God eventually reveals this is because the Archangels were created using primordial power that takes a long time for him to make, meaning it takes him a lot longer to make an Archangel than the normal angels. This was problematic when the second fight with the Darkness happened, as by then, Lucifer was the only Archangel in fighting shape and resurrecting Raphael or Gabriel or making a new Archangel would've taken more time than they had. | |
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In Thunderbirds Are Go, we learn Brains built a prototype rocket called the "TV21" which is stolen by the Mechanic. Scott attempts to capture it using Thunderbird 1's grappling hooks, only to learn from Brains that the TV21 has an engine that is far more powerful than that of Thunderbird 1. This is then demonstrated when the Mechanic increases the power to the TV21's engine, breaking off Thunderbird 1's grappling hooks and sending the latter craft out of control. | |
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Power Rangers: Power Rangers RPM has the Paleozords, abandoned mecha from the early days of Project Ranger. The reason they were abandoned is because the zord tech hinges on bio-energy fields of living beings, and the Paleozords (based on dinosaurs, as you might have guessed from the name) were trying to connect to creatures that no longer existed, which made them powerful but uncontrollable. By the time the Rangers rediscovered them, the technology had advanced enough to bring them under control. Another example are with the morphers. The morphers used by Gem and Gemma are prototypes and thus do not carry the same energy limitations that the later versions used by the rest of the team. However, they also don't have the Burst Attacks. In Power Rangers Time Force, the Quantum Ranger morpher and Quantasaurus Rex Zord were created during the early days of Time Force, and lost in an early time travel experiment until being rediscovered. However, they're quite stronger than the main five Rangers and any of their tech. However, there's a drawback: the main five have a DNA lock, so only you or your Identical Grandson can use it (hence Wes). The Quantum powers have a voice lock, making it easier for, say, the Monster of the Week to sic your Zord on the Rangers with just a voice imitation device. |
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Appears in Heavy Gear, specifically as the background to the South's Gold Mamba design. The Gold Mamba was basically a prototype built at the same time as the common Black Mamba, but contrary to typical design theory (build something up until it works at the level you want), its designers approached it from the other side of the spectrum (put the most expensive equipment you can find on it and scale down until it doesn't work). This means that the Gold Mamba is an extremely powerful combat machine that is head and shoulders above the Black Mamba's performance, but ultimately it is extremely expensive and rare. | |
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In Skin Horse, there is considerable variance with the intelligence of Captain Brams' uplifted Spitzes, but its noted that the last survivor of the original litter is continuing the Captain's research, while the alpha male of Sweetheart's generation is ... not the brightest. | |
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Demonbane has this trope play on two examples. First is the Destroyer Robot, while the prototypes are still far inferior to Magitek-based Deus Machina, at least it can withstand some beating. The mass production model can be destroyed by Demonbane's head vulcan guns and one of them even got disabled by Winfield, who punched through its sensor camera, on foot. The second examples are various grimoire, their original appear as little girls with magic power, the copies are just books. |
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Retroactively, Iron Man 3 made Tony's first Powered Armor suits (particularly the Mark VII he used in The Avengers (2012)) into these. Whereas Tony's first suits were made with quality over quantity, a new suit only being created to encompass several improvements at once, the dozens of suits he made between then and this film were comparatively slapdash, gimmicky, and overall individually impractical. | |
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Beast Wars: Uprising: Rampage and Trans-Mutate were the only proto-former Cybertronians to be Point One Percenters, a fact that baffled the Builders. Trans-Mutate is neither Super nor Flawed, but Rampage manages to be super-strong, super-smart, and outright unkillable. He recovers from being atomized. And it took their creator a lot of trial-and-error experimentation to get there. | |
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In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, uberninja Mongo, the result of early ninja gene experimentation, wields chainsaw nunchucks and has "All the speed, agility, martial arts ability [of a ninja], combined with giant-like strength and general insane awesomeness." The reason they didn't make more? It's too expensive. The "Inverse Ninja Law" is an actual in-universe force and the maker knows this, so that might also be a factor. | |
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Robin (1993): Tim's Redbird is technically the prototype of a self-driving Wayne Tech car. The Redbird's ability to shift panels and its armor and many other capabilities are not included in the car, which never reaches full production but does appear at a car show as a promotional event. | |
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Starwalker: Starwalker was built to test a new drive system. | |
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Kamen Rider Agito: The first suit of Kamen Rider G3 armor is this, especially after being upgraded to the G3-X. Even the original G3 was stronger than the mass-production G3 Mild model, which was eventually mothballed due to its inadequacy compared to the prototype. When Agito is revisited in Kamen Rider Zi-O, it's revealed that G3 Mild was abandoned in favor of mass-producing the original G3 design, but G3-X remains the most powerful version and a one-off. | |
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Kamen Rider Build: The Build Driver is the original belt the other transformation items in the show were based on, and most of them are supposedly stronger than it... but Sento builds and/or receives so many upgrades for it that it ends up vastly outclassing all of the later versions. It's very telling that by the time of the NEW WORLD special episodes, everyone using the supposedly more powerful later designs dropped them for customized Build Drivers. The Build Driver is itself based off the Evol Driver, an alien-made version that puts the Build Driver to shame. | |
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Kamen Rider Drive: The prototype for the Roidmudes is number 000, aka Proto-Zero or more commonly, Chase. He's one of the strongest fighters in the series, and both the Roidmudes and the Kamen Riders seek to have him fight alongside them. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: The prototype Gashats are more powerful than the regular ones, but cause permanent damage and disfigurement if used by a human even if they're compatible. For a Bugster, though, they can be used to transform into much more powerful versions of the oriignal ten suits. The prototypes also serve as the collective Soul Jar for anyone killed by the Bugster Virus, and can be used to revive them. | |
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Kamen Rider Saber: The holy swords of Light and Darkness were the first two swords of their set, and much more powerful than the other nine blades, to the point of almost having New Powers as the Plot Demands because they have so many. The Sword of Fire, the first production model, is also noted to have the potential to become even more powerful than the prototypes, although it isn't super by default. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 establishes that Rocket serves as this for the High Evolutionary. An Uplifted Animal created via Meat Grinder Surgery, he was only an experiment while the Evolutionary developed his more elegant Ani-Men. However, Rocket developed intelligence and creativity unique to him among the many experiments. The Evolutionary felt most of his creations failed due to Creative Sterility and was furious that a crude "monster" like Rocket was the sole exception. Most of the film's conflict is driven by the Evolutionary's attempt to capture Rocket and dissect him. | |
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Inspector Gadget (1999): Gadget and his Evil Twin RoboGadget are these. Gadget himself doesn't become a Flawed Prototype until Inspector Gadget 2. | |
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HERZ: Unit 00, 01 and 02 were the prototype, test type and production models respectively. However 01 was the most powerful of the trio. The MP-Evas were the mass production model, meant to be more advanced (they flew, had unlimited power, quick regeneration and were armed with replicas of the Lance of Longinus). Still Asuka piloting Unit 02 tore them apart nearly completely, and Shinji riding Unit 01 finished them off. In 2027 SEELE built even more powerful mass production Evas, but the three pilots easily defeated them using their old models. | |
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Chrysalis (RinoZ): Anthony, "the Eldest", effectively becomes this to the Colony, setting out the path for other ants to follow, but being individually much stronger than them as a result of gathering more biomass and cores — including special cores — with each evolutionary stage. The council of twenty, first of the new Formica Sapiens hatchlings, later serve a similar purpose, getting extra resource investments beyond the ants that will follow, even an additional "Special Hatchling" evolution, in order to help them lead. Justified because it's not practical to spend that many cores on every single ant. | |
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Cross Ange The Knight Of Hilda: To hopefully develop an alliance with the Network, Salamandinay in chapter 22 gives Rio a mecha the DRAGONS have named Susano'o; the original prototype for the Ragna-mail that Embryo left behind when he originally emigrated from the True Earth and which the DRAGO Ns used to reverse engineer the Ryu-shinn-ki. Subverted in that, while it's very powerful, it's also bulkier and less agile than a true Ragna-mail, and its main weapon (a Buster Rifle) was originally deemed impractical for extended combat. | |
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The Saga Edition of Star Wars d20 features a ship template called Advanced Prototype, which improved most of the stats of a base ship — but because it is a fine-tuned machine (again, more of a concept than an actual prototype), you would have to perform maintenance more regularly. | |
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Nightblood from Warbreaker is revealed by Word of God to be the first attempt at replicating a Rosharan Shardblade using Nalthian Awakening. Nightblood is sapient and one of the most powerful entities in The Cosmere, second only to the Shards of Adonalsium, but he also devours the soul of anyone who draws him... and can compel most people to draw him. Subsequent refinements of the technique are considerably less powerful, but far safer to use. | |
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Steve's nearly-indestructible shield in Captain America: The First Avenger. When he asks why it isn't standard issue for normal soldiers, Howard Stark says it's because the metal used to make it is too rare to produce more copies. | |
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Patlabor: The Movie: The AV-X0 "Type Zero" which was supposed to be an advanced replacement for the AV-98 Ingrams used by Division 2. It proved to be a fearsome opponent in melee combat against other labors, and when it was overtaken by the Babel virus it completely mopped the floor with Ohta's Ingram and Noa only barely managed to subdue it with a shotgun to the brain. Seeing as the Type Zero wasn't seen in the subsequent films (the AV-02 Valiant shows up instead), it can be assumed that the design was abandoned. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Steve's nearly-indestructible shield in Captain America: The First Avenger. When he asks why it isn't standard issue for normal soldiers, Howard Stark says it's because the metal used to make it is too rare to produce more copies. The Falcon's flying exo-suit in Captain America: The Winter Soldier is a military prototype. No reason is given for why the suits never saw mass production, but it's implied that the other users had all been killed during combat in the Middle East. It was also designed for Para-Rescue. Among the U.S.'s special forces units, Para-Rescue is among the most difficult to succeed in, on par with Seal Team 6, if not outright more difficult. Training is often nicknamed "Superhero School". Given that it would naturally have a low radar profile, it was probably meant to be a poor man's Iron Man but was too costly, too narrow in mission, and had little-to-no body armor to protect the much more valuable man wearing it. Retroactively, Iron Man 3 made Tony's first Powered Armor suits (particularly the Mark VII he used in The Avengers (2012)) into these. Whereas Tony's first suits were made with quality over quantity, a new suit only being created to encompass several improvements at once, the dozens of suits he made between then and this film were comparatively slapdash, gimmicky, and overall individually impractical. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 establishes that Rocket serves as this for the High Evolutionary. An Uplifted Animal created via Meat Grinder Surgery, he was only an experiment while the Evolutionary developed his more elegant Ani-Men. However, Rocket developed intelligence and creativity unique to him among the many experiments. The Evolutionary felt most of his creations failed due to Creative Sterility and was furious that a crude "monster" like Rocket was the sole exception. Most of the film's conflict is driven by the Evolutionary's attempt to capture Rocket and dissect him. |
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Iron Man both subverts this trope and plays it straight. The subversion comes from Stark constantly producing improved models after the original prototype. The straight examples come from any even vaguely mass-produced derivatives, like the Guardsman armors, which are never on par with Iron Man's own gear. Of course, readers probably wouldn't want a bunch of glorified prison guards to be as powerful as the superhero. And, in fact, it's explained that Iron Man himself doesn't want a bunch of glorified prison guards to be as powerful as he is. He deliberately withholds the best tech for himself and even goes so far as to build in exploitable weaknesses in case the armors are ever used against him. Considering the number of times Stark's technology has been stolen, duplicated or reverse-engineered, he's got a right to be paranoid and hold back technology (although, as seen in the Armor Wars story, sometimes he takes that right too far, beating up innocent people like Stingray and Captain America). | |
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Timefire from Mirai Sentai Timeranger is a prototype to the Timeranger suits, but is strong enough to take on monsters singlehandedly. | |
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Yureka: The program the main creator of Fictional Video Game Lost Saga (who died working on the project) wrote was too good, and the current programmers at Dexon can't match it to make updates of equal quality. Or that are compatible. It's the limit of their capabilities to try to understand it. Jung was apparently just that much of a driven genius, and the side effect was that the project got away from everyone else on his team. | |
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Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Tobaspino, the first Zyudenryu (number 00), demonstrates this each time it appears. Its first appearance was as a foe that could take on all of the other mecha on its own. In a later appearance where the five Zyuden Giants have to split up to take on five clones of a monster in five different parts of the world, Tobaspino's Zyuden Giant form, Spinodai-Oh, takes out its opponent in mere minutes while the others (even the powerful Bragigas) are stuck fighting for hours. | |
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In the Dbagbo arc of The Solstice War several prototype tanks appear and duke it out, making the battle a showdown between their respective R&Ds (and the ace tank pilots responsible for each prototype). Of these, the Raktapata, an alternate universe version of the Soviet T-44 main battle tank a few years before its time is especially worthy of title, being seemingly indestructible if mechanically unreliable. | |
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In Phineas and Ferb, Norm's prototype head in the episode "Candace Disconnected" speaks more naturally and is capable of a wider range of emotions than the final model, but is a lot snarkier, which explains why Dr. Doofenshmirtz went with Norm's current head. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court has a room full of them. Most notably, the first robot of the Seraph series, S1, looks much better than the more recent ones. And it has actual hands, rather than the simple claws of the later S models. The explanation given is that, since the original designer died, no one (not even the prototypes themselves) understands the cutting-edge technology underpinning them (for example, these robots have no visible power source, or motor, or means of moving their limbs). The robots were forced to simplify their designs just for future robot generations to survive. This trope is actually deconstructed in time: when one of the first generation robots is revived, he's impressed by the design of his descendants, because their simpler parts are more efficient and easier to repair. | |
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It's hinted in Immortal Hulk that the Hulk may hold a different position vis-a-vis gamma radiation than the mutates who came afterwards, being associated with the idea of the keeper of the gamma door. | |
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In Star Trek: Prodigy, we have the USS Protostar, a mysterious Starfleet spaceship that somehow ended up in the Delta Quadrant. In the episode "Terror Firma", we finally find out what makes it such a Super Prototype: it's outfitted with a special warp core powered by an actual protostar (a friggin' newborn star) that allows it to travel twice as fast as conventional matter/antimatter warp cores. | |
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Star Trek: The Cool Starship equivalent is the USS Defiant in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In its debut, it took a dozen Jem'hadar attack ships (just three of which had shown themselves capable of easily destroying the previous most powerful ship in Starfleet) to disable the Defiant, and that was after it was heavily damaged in an ambush. Not to mention, they hadn't even worked all the bugs out of the design yet; in later appearances it was even more formidable. The specs indicated that it was less than 1/10 the mass of the Enterprise-D yet carried armament equal to it. Starfleet eventually does make others which are apparently just as powerful (including a replacement for the original when the Dominion finally manages to destroy it), but it takes a while to get them into production. For a while she really was superior to others of her class simply because the fixes for the bugs violated Starfleet safety standards and took a while to get around; this came up both times other ships of the class appeared on the show. In addition, the original Defiant has an Invisibility Cloak on loan from the Romulans; her sister ships don't. The registry for Starfleet prototype ships usually have an NX (Naval eXperimental) prefix. The Excelsior was originally NX-2000 and was more of a testbed for the (ultimately failed) "Transwarp" engine more than anything else. The initial purpose was just to evoke a slight Upgrade Vs Prototype rivalry, as she was the next generation of starship as the Enterprise was being set up for decommission. Once the testing phase was over, Excelsior was given a proper NCC prefix. In later series, it seemed that the Excelsior design was actually one of the most versatile in terms of longevity, the design showed up as modern starships as late as Deep Space Nine's fourth season, more than 80 years after it was introduced. The titular ship of Star Trek: Enterprise, the NX-01 Enterprise, also subverted the super prototype as her successor, the NX-02 Columbia, left drydock with capabilities that surpassed and were later retrofitted into Enterprise. At least some of these are, realistically, based on some of the flaws and workarounds Enterprise had with field experience. Production designs for the unproduced fifth season of Enterprise and Word of God statements from Doug Drexler revealed that the entire NX class was one big work-in-progress and that every ship was its own prototype, as evidenced by these sketches showing off the engineering hull that was to be added to the "NX-01.5". These were canonized in the Star Trek: Picard episode "The Bounty", when we see that the NX-01 at the Federation Fleet Museum is in this configuration. The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Message In A Bottle" features the USS Prometheus, an advanced Starfleet warship packing tons of weaponry, flys faster than Voyager, has a shipwide holographic projection system, and can split into three smaller ships in combat. It's up to Voyager Doctor and the Prometheus own EMH to stop the Romulans trying to steal it. |
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Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Agito: The first suit of Kamen Rider G3 armor is this, especially after being upgraded to the G3-X. Even the original G3 was stronger than the mass-production G3 Mild model, which was eventually mothballed due to its inadequacy compared to the prototype. When Agito is revisited in Kamen Rider Zi-O, it's revealed that G3 Mild was abandoned in favor of mass-producing the original G3 design, but G3-X remains the most powerful version and a one-off. Kamen Rider 555: Zigzagged. The prototype Delta Gear provides the highest overall boost to its wearer's physical attributes, is regarded with fear and awe during the story arc in which it is introduced, and doesn't include the element of Power at a Price that its successors deliberately introduced in a failed effort to prevent a Phlebotinum Rebel. However, it lacks any of the supplementary gadgets or expansion slots that the Faiz and Kaixa Gear have, which makes a fully upgraded Faiz much more powerful than Delta, while a fully upgraded Kaixa breaks even. Faiz itself is the super prototype to the mass production Riotrooper Gear, which is for use by Mooks and combines all of the worst traits of the three prototypes. Kamen Rider Double: Kamen Rider Skull is the single-user prototype for Double, but is just as good in combat, best illustrated by its being a jack-of-all-trades combination of Shotaro's Memories (melee brawler like Joker, good defense like Metal, The Gunslinger like Trigger). Kamen Rider OOO: Averted with Kamen Rider Proto-Birth, as the prototype Birth Driver has only a few of the functions of the later model, and is used as a backup when the main Driver is damaged or when a second Birth user is needed. Kamen Rider Wizard has Kamen Rider Beast, who uses an ancient belt while Wizard uses a modern one. Despite this, Beast's default form is as strong as Wizard's Mid-Season Upgrade form. Possibly subverted, as the White Wizard later implies that Wizard is overly weak for a spellcaster and what counts for him as a Mid-Season Upgrade is where everyone else naturally starts at. Kamen Rider Gaim has the Forbidden Ringo and Dragon Fruits Energy Lockseeds as straight examples, and the Yomotsuheguri Lockseed as a subversion. Forbidden Ringo and Yomotsuheguri were created at an early stage of research of the Helheim Forest, while Dragon Fruits is the prototype for the other Energy Lockseeds. All three are vastly more powerful than most other Lockseeds, but Forbidden Ringo and Dragon Fruits will both eventually overload and turn the user into an Inves. Yomotsuheguri, meanwhile, is super on paper, but it has the much more straightforward drawback of killing the user, which it does so painfully that it's nearly useless in actual combat. Kamen Rider Drive: The prototype for the Roidmudes is number 000, aka Proto-Zero or more commonly, Chase. He's one of the strongest fighters in the series, and both the Roidmudes and the Kamen Riders seek to have him fight alongside them. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid: The prototype Gashats are more powerful than the regular ones, but cause permanent damage and disfigurement if used by a human even if they're compatible. For a Bugster, though, they can be used to transform into much more powerful versions of the oriignal ten suits. The prototypes also serve as the collective Soul Jar for anyone killed by the Bugster Virus, and can be used to revive them. Kamen Rider Build: The Build Driver is the original belt the other transformation items in the show were based on, and most of them are supposedly stronger than it... but Sento builds and/or receives so many upgrades for it that it ends up vastly outclassing all of the later versions. It's very telling that by the time of the NEW WORLD special episodes, everyone using the supposedly more powerful later designs dropped them for customized Build Drivers. The Build Driver is itself based off the Evol Driver, an alien-made version that puts the Build Driver to shame. Kamen Rider Saber: The holy swords of Light and Darkness were the first two swords of their set, and much more powerful than the other nine blades, to the point of almost having New Powers as the Plot Demands because they have so many. The Sword of Fire, the first production model, is also noted to have the potential to become even more powerful than the prototypes, although it isn't super by default. Kamen Rider Revice: The Vail Driver was built 25 years before the main series, and greatly surpasses nearly all of its successors, especially its modern copy the Demons Driver. |
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In Transformers: Prime, Predaking, the first Predacon clone, is an absolute powerhouse in battle, and turned out far more intelligent than his Decepticon handlers expected. The other Decepticons began to regard him as a potential threat, rather than an asset. The next two Predacons, Skylynx and Darksteel, were made dumber so they could be more easily controlled, and Predaking was able to defeat both of them at once in a fight. | |
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From Girl Genius: The one or two Dingbots that Agatha has actually personally built are much better in every way than their successors. This is because most Dingbots are built by other Dingbots, and each generation has diminishing returns in quality, leading inexorably to this trope. | |
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The demos for some games can fall in this category, showing graphical effects not present in the final product. One example was Watch_Dogs, with rain and lighting effects shown in its E3 trailer Dummied Out of the PC version. Sometimes this is for sound technical reasons like causing performance problems on anything but a very specific combination of hardware or just using too much processor power for all but the most expensive kit to run acceptably, but sometimes Executive Meddling plays a part; in the case of the aforementioned Watch_Dogs, it's been alleged that the game was downgraded at the insistence of Sony and/or Microsoft because they didn't want to hurt console sales by having the PC version look better, as modders have successfully patched these effects back in and found them to work fine even on mid-range hardware. | |
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Canon Foreigner Lurtz appears to be one of these. He is the first Uruk-hai created by Saruman, and shown to be strong and skilled enough to shoot Boromir to death and give Aragorn a very close fight. The Uruks under his command don't pose half as much of a threat, and the ones that fight at the Hornburg one movie later are largely cut down en masse. Word of God is that this was deliberate. The design crew wanted to subtly imply that the Uruk-hai, as artificial lifeforms and perversions of nature, were flawed and quick to degenerate physically and mentally. Each time an individual Uruk-hai is seen it looks progressively older and in worse physical condition, because they are literally falling apart on the genetic level. | |
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Played with in Marionettes. Trixie is the first Marionette, both as a whole and of the current Generation (her AI and the Magic Wand composing her horn having been transferred into a new body), and built to rival Sunset and Twilight in strength while Cover Story (another Marionette) is easily overpowered by the latter. However, the reason for this is because she was built to be The Rival to Sunset, and thus power was necessary, particularly since it was believed that Sunset and Twilight could become Alicorns. Another reason is the Magic Wand in her horn is one of two like it in existence, being one of Mage Meadowbrook's Enchanted Objects, and thus couldn't be replicated. Also Subverted overall, as generally the more advanced Marionettes are superior to the previous generations, including Trixie's new body to her original. | |
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The RoboCop program arguably nailed the concept in their first try, but failed to deliver a single functional/reliable cyborg after that. In RoboCop 2, a string of subsequent models failed in increasingly gruesome ways — it turns out there are certain qualities the person must possess for the operation to work properly. Knowing this, the corporation resorted to a junkie drug lord with a messiah complex as source material, reasoning that his addiction and vanity would help keep him in line (It Makes Sense in Context). The results were quite unsavory, to say the least. | |
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Knight Rider: In "Trust Doesn't Rust", KARR takes KITT for an "inferior production-line model" and assumes himself to be a super prototype. He turns out not to have any apparent technological advantage over KITT (of course, KITT is hardly "production-line"), aside from a slightly improved speech module (in the next episode, KITT's is replaced by one similar to KARR's), though when KARR reappears in the third season, while still not more advanced than KITT, he does possess a number of features which KITT had only gained during the second season. In the 2008 series, KARR is a Transforming Mecha, specifically designed for front-line combat. However, it was a failure, and a number of people died. KITT was designed as a car that could transform into other cars (e.g. a Mustang transforming into a pickup truck) and mainly designed for policing duties. However, the episode where KITT is shut down reveals that the military has always planned for KITT to be a temporary project. The goal was to have KITT develop as a fully-functional AI and then port that AI into KARR. The kicker? Both KARR and KITT have the same driver, the son of the original Michael Knight. |
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In Exoria, a modern-day Zelda Fan Fic, Epona is a prototype military motorcycle, codenamed MRX-402A (second prototype model of the fourth generation military reconnaissance X-series). Aside from being able to achieve speeds over three hundred kilometers per hour, it has onboard electronic systems that allow it to analyze the terrain ahead instantly and adjust the suspensions real-time. It also has an auto-drive function, and two .50 machine guns. Seatbelt not included. | |
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Largely averted in BattleTech; while it is true that during the still-popular late Succession Wars era such older "lostech" designs as still existed in half-decent shape could be superior to anything of more modern manufacture, those were generally leftover ancient production models. Actual prototypes and first-generation designs using newly recovered or developed technologies tend to play another trope rather more straight (one very common fandom term for this is "new toy syndrome"). There were a number of prototypes in the Jihad era that are incredibly effective, and mount a number of high end "experimental" technologies that usually only show up on or two at a time on production models. When production versions of the designs were printed, they largely tended to be less powerful due to having reduced advanced/experimental tech on them for the reason that either it was decided that it wasn't necessary for their intended roles so reducing the advanced tech on them made them cheaper, or the specific bit of tech was considered too difficult to keep working in the field and so older and more reliable equipment was used instead. |
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Super Dinosaur is superior to the successive Dino Men because of his armor which grants him unparalleled firepower. | |
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Kamen Rider 555: Zigzagged. The prototype Delta Gear provides the highest overall boost to its wearer's physical attributes, is regarded with fear and awe during the story arc in which it is introduced, and doesn't include the element of Power at a Price that its successors deliberately introduced in a failed effort to prevent a Phlebotinum Rebel. However, it lacks any of the supplementary gadgets or expansion slots that the Faiz and Kaixa Gear have, which makes a fully upgraded Faiz much more powerful than Delta, while a fully upgraded Kaixa breaks even. Faiz itself is the super prototype to the mass production Riotrooper Gear, which is for use by Mooks and combines all of the worst traits of the three prototypes. | |
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Kamen Rider OOO: Averted with Kamen Rider Proto-Birth, as the prototype Birth Driver has only a few of the functions of the later model, and is used as a backup when the main Driver is damaged or when a second Birth user is needed. | |
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The Blackhawks' aircraft during World War II was the Grumman XF5F Skyrocket, an aircraft that never made it past the prototype stage in Real Life. | |
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This was further explained in the Expanded Universe, specifically the TIE Fighter game. They had designed a different model similar to Vader's TIE Advanced X1 that was intended for mass production, known as the TIE Avenger, but it and its successor, the TIE Defender, were shelved due to too many resources expended during internal civil war. Which was probably a good thing for the Rebels, seeing as how the Defender was widely considered to be the most advanced starfighter of its time. | |
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In Equestria: Across the Multiverse: All the Powered Armor suits have this for justified reasons. The prototype model (the 'Advanced' Model) for both the Paladin and RANGER Armors are far stronger than the mass production model, but are also impossible for a normal pony to use. The Advanced Model Paladin Armor's mana requirements are too high for anypony who's not exceptionally powerful (Shining Armor, Gifted Ponies, etc.) or has some magical artifact or ability (the Bearers, Alicorns, etc.) to actually sustain them for extended periods, thus the mass production versions, while much weaker, can be used by anyone while the Advanced versions are reserved for those who can actually use them. The RANGER armor's prototype turned out to be far too strenuous for a normal pony to use and Sincere Heart (Shining Armor's Tales universe Alternate Self) is the only pony available who can properly use it, while the mass production model is usable by anyone. The only suit not the have this trope attached is the Bard Armor, but that's because it runs on Innocence Magic, and only certain ponies can use that anyway. | |
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In Legends of Dune, Norma Cenva becomes the first Navigator. Unlike all subsequent Navigators, Norma has much more considerable Psychic Powers and is even capable of folding space on her own, without the use of a Holtzman engine. However, this is because of her Sorceress of Rossak genes, which none of the other Navigators possess. | |
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The Boys goes at this from every angle. Though it's not commonly known, every superhuman in the series is the result of "Compound V", a Super Serum created by Dr. Jonah Vogelbaum, a German scientist who fled the Nazi regime with his Super Prototype former Hitler Youth member Stormfront, a Flying Brick stronger than the vast majority of characters. However, Stormfront is nowhere near as powerful as his Ace Customs The Seven in general and his Magnum Opus Homelander in particular - and all of them cost truly ridiculous amounts of money. The protagonists got their enhanced strength and resilience from a Compound V knockoff that cost nineteen billion dollars per shot. When Vogelbaum died, the MegaCorp that licensed them just plain stopped production, switching to recruiting "naturally occurring" superhumans — that actually got their powers from their constant experiments with the serum having contaminated the environment, causing random mutations that never really stack up to the Ace Custom nature of the original generation. Also, Vogelbaum didn't really die, but was recruited by the government to make The Boys' serum. | |
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According to Spinnerette, the 1st Edition Dungeons & Dragons sourcebook is indeed a magic book that the Drow-themed Evil Spinnerette uses to turn herself into a Drider. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Adar is one of the first Orcs created by Morgoth, but unlike most of his kind, Adar somehow managed to keep most of Elvish features intact, like his high intelligence and ability to stay in the sun. | |
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Magic: The Gathering manages to avert it in one respect; the Myr Prototype is way overpriced for what it actually does. This trope is prevalent in Magic on a more "meta" level: The designers are constantly trying to make more balanced versions of older, overpowered cards. Black Lotus, the original Moxen, and the original dual lands are among the game's many Super Prototypes. (The flip side is also present, as the power level of creatures has in many ways been steadily increasing, including creatures that are strictly better versions of older ones, making those early Magic creatures seem like flawed prototypes. |
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In Paranoia, the optical chip — a new technology that would revolutionize the entire technology industry — is the MacGuffin for the majority of the book. It doesn't exist, and was a bluff created by Goddard to get Wyatt to bankrupt his company by buying a company that had the hold on making the process, thereby allowing Goddard to buy out Wyatt's company once it ran out of capital and his debts were called in. | |
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The eponymous character in Generator Rex. Rex's nanites come from an earlier batch that had already received full programming and testing. The nanites that were spread all over the world in the Nanite Event came from a later batch with incomplete programming. Alpha, the Big Bad of the crossover with Ben 10, is a prototype model control nanite from when the creators were still working out a way to control the nanites. Alpha is so powerful he has the potential to destroy the world single-handedly! |
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The Super Foonly F-1, whose famous application was rendering the CG in TRON, was the most powerful PDP-10 minicomputer ever made. However, only one was ever produced; DARPA withdrew funding for the project, and later computers produced by the Foonly company were slower and less efficient. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: In a way, the Hulk is this for the other gamma mutates. While created by accident, Hulk was the first gamma mutant, and most following gamma beings (The Leader, The Abomination, Madman, Ravage, Red Hulk, etc) were created either by recreating that accident or copying his DNA. While some (Abomination and Ravage) have higher base-line strength than the Hulk, and most other gamma beings retain their higher intelligence (though not necessarily their full personality) while transformed, whereas the Hulk is most often shown to be a savage, which could be considered improvements, the Hulk's potential strength (increasing with anger) and secondary powers (Healing Factor, psychic resistance), as well as a somewhat intangible quality that makes the Hulk seemingly impossible to permanently cure, has shown that the Hulk, while flawed, is the most powerful gamma being created. Another factor in the Hulk's Super Prototype-ness is the fact that Bruce Banner's psyche is so damaged, because of abuse he suffered as a kid, that it allows him to do whatever he wishes. Becoming a gamma beast meant unleashing a particular repressed trait. The reason the Hulk is stronger than the others? Because they're not as screwed up as Banner! Although in Hulk (2014) Doc Green (yet another Hulk persona) once stated that She-Hulk is the Hulk's Superior Successor. The rest of the gamma crew are all a mess in one way or another, with their power and potential squandered by their psychological issues. But Jennifer has proven to be the most stable and heroic of them, which is why she is the only one he doesn't De-power. It's hinted in Immortal Hulk that the Hulk may hold a different position vis-a-vis gamma radiation than the mutates who came afterwards, being associated with the idea of the keeper of the gamma door. |
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In Fallout: Equestria - Empty Quiver, we have the XB/A-1 Valkyrie, an experimental delta-wing supersonic attack bomber capable of effectively flying indefinitely, vertical takeoff and landing, and carrying 5 tons of bombs meanwhile, with no less than four turreted tesla cannons for defense and two 40mm autocannons for offense. It was still in the process of being tested when the bombs fell, preventing its use and ultimately its mass production, making it the only one of it's kind. | |
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Another Way: Claire's bodyguard, Jonas, becomes the guinea pig for her experimental body enhancements, so at any given time, he's likely to be much stronger and tougher than the rank and file employees (to whom the enhancements trickle down later). He can bench press half a ton, and holds his own in melee against Hookwolf, while the Mercia in general are more like "highly athletic human plus subdermal armour". | |
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In Daemon, the first AutoM8 is an armored, solid-tired Hummer that is Immune to Bullets. Later versions use normal cars as a base and are thus less survivable. | |
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Super Sentai: Denji Sentai Megaranger: The Mega Silver suit is a lot stronger than the others, but as a downside its power only lasts two and a half minutes, although that is fixed later on. note In the Western Foreign Remake, Power Rangers in Space, the 2.5 minute problem existed for different reasons and the suit wasn't a prototype. The Neziranger suits are stated by Dr. Kubota to have been the original designs of the Megaranger suits thought up by his colleague, Dr. Samejima, prior to his disappearance and Face–Heel Turn into Dr. Hinelar. However before the creation of the Nezirangers, they were only theoretical designs that were never actually made. The Mega Silver suit mentioned above is the true prototype. Timefire from Mirai Sentai Timeranger is a prototype to the Timeranger suits, but is strong enough to take on monsters singlehandedly. Bakuryuu Sentai Abaranger has Abare Killer, whose powers are stronger than any of the others but comes with a slight drawback: Unlike the later Dino Braces, Abare Killer's Dino Minder will eventually explode with enough force to leave a smoldering crater where the city used to be. Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger: Tobaspino, the first Zyudenryu (number 00), demonstrates this each time it appears. Its first appearance was as a foe that could take on all of the other mecha on its own. In a later appearance where the five Zyuden Giants have to split up to take on five clones of a monster in five different parts of the world, Tobaspino's Zyuden Giant form, Spinodai-Oh, takes out its opponent in mere minutes while the others (even the powerful Bragigas) are stuck fighting for hours. |
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An interesting version of this is in Fate/stay night. Gilgamesh has almost all the prototypes of every Servant's Noble Phantasm (exceptions include Berserker's God Hand and Saber's Avalon), and goes on to explain exactly why his prototypes are that much more powerful. In this verse, Older Is Better and all magical items and creatures are Stronger with Age. Since the prototypes came first, they are naturally more powerful than what came after them. However, this is subverted in Unlimited Blade Works when Shiro "traces" or copies all of Gilgamesh's super prototypes with his Reality Marble, essentially creating a watered-downed mass production type version of each one; right after explaining although his versions are weaker imitations, there is no rule about the imitations losing to the originals, he states that he will prove his imitations are superior by destroying all of Gilgamesh's weapons and Gilgamesh himself. It gets a little complicated after this. Gilgamesh's versions are actually more powerful in a one to one contest, but the copies can be spammed via a combination of Zerg Rush and Taking You with Me: "breaking" one of the weapons unleashes a very powerful attack (at the obvious cost of sacrificing the weapon) but since unlimited copies can be made this weakness no longer applies to them. | |
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It's suggested heavily in 52 that the Emerald Eye of Ekron (best known as the weapon of Legion of Super-Heroes villain Emerald Empress) was essentially an early version of what would eventually become the Green Lantern rings. If that's the case, then they clearly broke the mold, as Emerald Empress is consistently shown as able to overpower Green Lanterns and Kryptonians, and has never shown any need to charge the Eye or any trouble with the traditional yellow weakness. On the other hand, it does have a rather unusual Kryptonite Factor (literally; for some reason kryptonite works on it). | |
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Since they're one of the only factions in Warhammer 40,000 whose technology is actually improving, the Tau exhibit this trope when it comes to their battlesuits. Ace battlesuit jockeys are given the chance to field-test advanced prototypes, and if a Tau commander does really well they may end up with their own Ace Custom suit. Unfortunately these shiny new features tend to come with a drawback or two, something notably absent in normal Tau technology. This kinda applies to any sort of technology used by the Humans (of any faction). The most powerful weapons are inevitably some super-ancient prototype relic. Kind of hand-waved due to a.) the Adeptus Mechanicus's fear of inventing, b.) the relics themselves being of Alien origin and/or a sacred relic and c.) sometimes the owners flat out refuse to let anyone tinker around with their one-of-a-kind toy. The Thunder Warriors are specifically stated to be cruder, more poorly armored versions of the process that creates modern Space Marines, but at the same time, a single Thunder Warrior is to a squad of marines what marines themselves are to a squad of regular guardsmen. Unfortunately they are nowhere near as stable, mentally or physically. The Emperor had them all (mostly) wiped out after conquering Earth in favor of the more reliable Space Marines. The Adeptus Custodes may qualify, as superior warriors rumored to be forged from the Emperor's gene-code, rather than a Primarch's. It's not clear whether the Custodes or the Space Marines came first, but it has been stated that bits and pieces of the Thunder Warriors process were adapted into their making. Unfortunately, as the comatose Emperor's Praetorian Guard, they spent millennia essentially confined to the role of the guarding the Imperial Palace since the Heresy, and only started going out again once Roboute Guilliman woke up and visited the Palace. Played straight with the Primarchs, who are superior to any other soldier the Imperium has and are the templates for almost all of the Space Marines in existence today. However, the process that created them was extremely intensive and may or may not have involved stealing power from Hell to achieve, and the Emperor only managed to create 20 of them, which he later deemed to be used as the templates for the Space Marine Legions and their commanders. They were, however, basically Designer Babies (from the Emperor's DNA himself) where Space Marines are people born normally with genetic engineering applied later. Much of the space marine legion's equipment are this to "modern day" 40k; the Cataphractii Terminator armor, Imperial Jetbikes, Hover Rhinos, Fellblade super-heavy tanks and the iconic Contemptor Dreadnoughts were all miles above their contemporaries in their roles and were once slated for mass production, but due to the onset of the Horus Heresy (where the majority of these went to the traitor legions and subsequently were destroyed) and the Imperium being gripped by superstition, they would never see it. After a few millennia, the method to make these were lost, and any existing suits were revered as relics, used only by the most hallowed member of their chapter or anyone already in possession of one. Many other such ancient pieces whose manufacture has been forgotten are also given to the Adeptus Custodes instead, making them the only force to field them in any significant capacity. Somewhat inverted with the World Eaters. While their Butcher's Nails are only crude imitations of the ones implanted in their Primarch's head, these copies do not run the risk of killing them as the originals would have eventually done to Angron if he hadn't become a Daemon Prince first. Be'lakor the Dark Master (in both 40K and Fantasy/Age of Sigmar) was the first daemon prince, created by the combined efforts of the Four Chaos Gods. He's a Manipulative Bastard par excellence, a powerful sorcerer, nearly impossible to put down, and an absolute monster in combat. However, Be'lakor proved impossible for any one god to control or turn against the others, eventually being cast out so the gods could focus their attention on individual aspirants instead of having to share power again. On the tabletop Be'lakor is massive and hits about as hard as the Four's Greater Daemons if not harder, while a regular Daemon Prince is about half the size and not nearly as powerful but is also cheaper in both points and real world money and can be easier to buff depending on the patron god and equipment purchased for it. Alpha Primus is an unusual case in that he's both a Super Prototype and a Flawed Prototype. He's far more powerful than the average Primaris Marine, with nearly unparalleled (for an Astartes) Psychic Powers and greater physical capabilities implied to have come from chimeric gene-seed. However, the procedure to create him left him in constant physical pain and mental discomfort, to the point where Primus outright calls himself "living evidence of [Cawl's] overreach" and notes that Cawl failed in his original goal when designing him. |
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Shadowrun introduced a trio of uber-powerful, almost godlike A.I.s. Once the Crash 2.0 hit and the three of them are (apparently) gone, A.I.s are now roughly as powerful as human hackers in the Matrix (to the point where they are options for player characters). | |
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In Codex Equus: it turns out Machina's (an island nation of benevolent Mad Scientists) Colossus, a 100 meter tall 'mech golem with more weaponry than some armies and self-awareness is this. Later on, Machina creates the mass production Colossus units, which are much smaller (only 20 meters tall), have weaker armor, and far less heavily armed with no capacity for sapience. The Stone-Piercer Bow, the signature weapon of the Starlight Stones (an Equestrian special forces squad), is a magically built bow designed to work with the Stones' Super-Toughness allowing them to pull weights that a normal Earth Pony couldn't. This, as the name suggests, makes them powerful enough to easily shoot an arrow through solid rock. However, the draw weight is too much for a normal Earth Pony, as a mass production version was made that's far weaker just so normal Earth Ponies can actually use it. |
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There's twenty-six Ilivais prototypes that fit this to a T in Ilivais X (well, twenty-five, as A is anything but "super". They range from having slightly stronger weaponry to controlling six classical elements at once to being powered by a freaking Perpetual Motion Machine, but all of them are way more powerful than the MP units. The Aztecs hardly rely on them — their tactics are built specifically to best make use of a One-Man Army unit. | |
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Doctor Who: Dalek reconnaissance scouts were the first kind of Dalek to leave Skaro in search of new worlds to conquer. As a result, they have capabilities beyond those of normal Daleks, such as being able to mind-control people. However, because they are from the early days of the species, their casings lack features such as Deflector Shields that modern, post-Time War Daleks have, which provide a glaring weak point for enemies to exploit. | |
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Star Wars Rebels features a prototype of the B-Wing starfighter from Return of the Jedi. It has a powerful superlaser cannon that can take out a cruiser in one or two shots, but has several power issues that readily explain why the ones we see in the film don't. The film version also has a large magazine of proton torpedoes as well, which allows a different form of heavy firepower. | |
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Subverted and defied in An Entry with a Bang!: The first GDI monitor is an unstable hodgepodge of Clancy-Earth and BattleTech... uh, tech. The first prototype BearCat aerospace fighter is not mounting weapons. Both in-universe and at the writers' level, there has generally been agreement to take things slow and not do any funky stuff. | |
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Denji Sentai Megaranger: The Mega Silver suit is a lot stronger than the others, but as a downside its power only lasts two and a half minutes, although that is fixed later on. note In the Western Foreign Remake, Power Rangers in Space, the 2.5 minute problem existed for different reasons and the suit wasn't a prototype. The Neziranger suits are stated by Dr. Kubota to have been the original designs of the Megaranger suits thought up by his colleague, Dr. Samejima, prior to his disappearance and Face–Heel Turn into Dr. Hinelar. However before the creation of the Nezirangers, they were only theoretical designs that were never actually made. The Mega Silver suit mentioned above is the true prototype. |
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The main character of My Life as a Teenage Robot is notably much smaller than the previous robot in the XJ line. She lampshades this in a late-series episode to which her creator explains that she had to cut down on her size to fit her personality in. | |
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Kamen Rider Gaim has the Forbidden Ringo and Dragon Fruits Energy Lockseeds as straight examples, and the Yomotsuheguri Lockseed as a subversion. Forbidden Ringo and Yomotsuheguri were created at an early stage of research of the Helheim Forest, while Dragon Fruits is the prototype for the other Energy Lockseeds. All three are vastly more powerful than most other Lockseeds, but Forbidden Ringo and Dragon Fruits will both eventually overload and turn the user into an Inves. Yomotsuheguri, meanwhile, is super on paper, but it has the much more straightforward drawback of killing the user, which it does so painfully that it's nearly useless in actual combat. | |
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In Sonic X: Dark Chaos, Tsali himself was this to the Tsali Endoskeletons. It's later revealed to be a Justified Trope — the endoskeletons were built in the last days of the Demon-Seedrian War, with the Seedrians nearly wiped out and scraping together anything to slow the Demons down. | |
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The Original Battlestar Galactica series had the C.O.R.A. Viper. Very fast, full A.I. computer piloting system, equipped for long range patrols, double the thrusting power of any other Viper — at the expense of the guns! | |
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The Battlestar Galactica prequel Caprica features a super prototype, the first U87 Cylon equipped with a metacognitive processor displays the potential for near human autonomy. The problem with this is this level of intelligence is only achieved in a single prototype, if the MCP is placed in a different cylon it does not display sentience. The Original Battlestar Galactica series had the C.O.R.A. Viper. Very fast, full A.I. computer piloting system, equipped for long range patrols, double the thrusting power of any other Viper — at the expense of the guns! |
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Power Rangers RPM has the Paleozords, abandoned mecha from the early days of Project Ranger. The reason they were abandoned is because the zord tech hinges on bio-energy fields of living beings, and the Paleozords (based on dinosaurs, as you might have guessed from the name) were trying to connect to creatures that no longer existed, which made them powerful but uncontrollable. By the time the Rangers rediscovered them, the technology had advanced enough to bring them under control. Another example are with the morphers. The morphers used by Gem and Gemma are prototypes and thus do not carry the same energy limitations that the later versions used by the rest of the team. However, they also don't have the Burst Attacks. | |
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In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the potion responsible for separating Jekyll and Hyde only worked because of an unspecified impurity in one of the ingredients. When Jekyll/Hyde ran out of the one contaminated batch, it didn't work anymore. | |
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Firefox has two of the titular planes, and centers on the theft of one of them. Though in this case, it was the inferior version that was stolen (the Firefox taken by the US lacks the aerial refuelling capacity that the other one had). | |
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In Project Ignition, there's the TYPE-Sione new model NEXT, which is obscenely powerful... The three stolen TYPE-Siones are actually production models, not prototypes. The Prototype is actually the exact same machine given to an unknown pilot. However, the Union stealing the TYPE-Sione is enough to start the Interior-Omer war. Also there's the XAF-Kushina, a prototype Arms Fort that actually is serving as Omer Science Technology's Main AF The Kushina is merely a prototype attempt at creating an XG-70 with Kojima Technology — it doesn't perform to Omer's standards, despite being able to lay waste to an entire continent., lastly there's the Fudai, a Light-weight NEXT being developed by Arisawa, following a recommendation from Tadashiro — subverted in that the Zephyr Fudai is merely a TYPE-Lahire with proof of concept parts, and is quite inferior to what Tadashiro has in mind for the actual Fudai. It matches one on one with Adler's Zephiris, and Tadashiro has never piloted a NEXT before that point. | |
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In the Astro City story "Pastoral", Roustabout escaped the experimenters who made him superhuman and killed the rest of their subjects. Team Carnivore, their apparent next attempt, came to track him down because they were not so successful, and their bosses hope to take him apart and learn the trick. | |
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Airwolf: the titular Airwolf had unique technology and the only remaining blueprints for it was stored in its databanks. There were 2 experimental helicopters made to rival or exceed the Airwolf, but while the HX-1 had more firepower with its multiple missile launchers it was also a cruder vehicle. The Redwolf was an attempt to make a new version of Airwolf with what existing info the F.I.R.M still had and it had a nice laser weapon but still couldn't match the Airwolf. | |
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The Brickspider Bot v1.0 of Dino Attack RPG is the original prototype of the Brickster-Bot Spiders that would later be mass-produced by OGEL Robotics, Inc. In comparison with the later models, the v1.0 is far more intelligent and cunning with its own distinct personality. This was deliberately toned down for the later models by its creators when they realized that something so intelligent would not want to act as a mere Mook. | |
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The Star Trek: Voyager episode "Message In A Bottle" features the USS Prometheus, an advanced Starfleet warship packing tons of weaponry, flys faster than Voyager, has a shipwide holographic projection system, and can split into three smaller ships in combat. It's up to Voyager Doctor and the Prometheus own EMH to stop the Romulans trying to steal it. | |
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In UglyDolls, it is revealed that Lou is a prototype doll and the base mold of the Perfection Dolls. Most of his anger is steeped in the fact that he's unable to be given to a child, forced to watch the others pass on, as prototypes aren't meant to be sold. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! has pretty much the same phenomenon. For instance, Pot of Greed, the first draw Spell in the game's history, is also universally considered the most powerful and is banned basically everywhere. Many cards since then have had similar effects to Pot of Greed, but substantially toned down or offering major costs. When a card that renders large chunks of your deck unusable in exchange for Pot of Greed's effect is still considered incredibly useful, you can only imagine how broken the costless original was. There exists a version of The Seal of Orichalcos that was printed in very limited quantities (around 15) for a tournament event. While the mass-production version of the Seal is pretty mediocre due to getting some heavy nerfs, the prototype Seal is just as good as its anime counterpart, if not better. Were it released, it would be the most powerful Field Spell ever made, being largely indestructible and letting the user control an extra five monsters. It's also the only card ever made that features the rule "The soul of whichever Duelist loses this Duel is forfeit to the winner." Who knows how the judges would handle that one... |
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Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles has the Cybernetic Humanoid Assault System, or C.H.A.S; when introduced, it's a walking tank with heavy armour, enough strength to tear trooper bugs apart in hand-to-hand combat, a number of armaments, the sensors of a bomb-sniffing robot, and an "adaptive learning AI" — in essence, the ability to mentally grow and develop as a result of its experiences, something that leads it to performing a Heroic Sacrifice. Later versions, seen in a couple of episodes, are pretty much Mecha-Mooks and easily taken down by a single bug each. Justified when one remembers the end of the episode featuring the first C.H.A.S notes that the project was more or less scrapped because they were considered "less cost-effective" than human soldiers. Roughnecks HO! |
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LEGO Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures: Regular lightsabers are predated by the Kyber Saber, an ancient weapon that destroyed an entire moon with a single Sword Beam. When Baird Kantoo realized how dangerous his creation was, he broke it and had Jedi hide the pieces on different planets. After that, the Jedi used significantly weaker lightsabers. | |
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Sonic the Comic – Online! has a prototype for an advanced Guardian Robot called the Gizoid. | |
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Terminator Salvation: The T-800 prototype fought at the film’s climax is more resilient than the standard T-800s encountered in previous films. Notably, it survives exposure to molten metal, which killed a T-800 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day. That being said, since it’s made clear that Skynet is aware of the time travel of the previous films, it’s possible it learned the T-800s' weaknesses and made them stronger in the new timeline. | |
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In The Last Starfighter, Alex's Gunstar is stated to be an advanced prototype for the next model of Gunstars, featuring improvements in weapons, armor, and other experimental systems such as the Death Blossom. Because it's still a work-in-progress, it's kept in a separate area of the base from the main hanger, which is why it's the only Gunstar not destroyed in Xur's sneak attack which destroyed most of the Starfighters' base. Since it's the only Gunstar they've got left, they have no choice but to use it despite it being largely untested. | |
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Toys in general tend to go through this, as the prototypes that eventually get used as the basis for the production molds are handmade and consequently tend to feature better paint jobs and sharper details than the finished versions. This is especially common in Transformers, due to the complex engineering involved and the somewhat inconsistent budgets — for instance, compare the prototype claw mode◊ of Leobreaker to that of the retail release◊. This overlaps with Flawed Prototype, however, as they're made of resin and therefore quite fragile. | |
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Glitched Miko AU: Miko, as noted by her co-worker Zahra, is far more complex than any Glitch (i.e., living computer program) ever seen, with attention to detail so fine she's even coded to have individual blood cells. As a result, she can fully pass for human and Miko herself never suspected anything until she began regaining her memories and capabilities as a side effect of exposure to Glitch Tech equipment. The only one of her successors that comes close is M-2/Meico, who was made by other scientists in the lab attempting to recreate Professor Masaki's work, but whom the professor was tasked to finish the actual work on. Meanwhile, the M-3 units are far, far less complex than both girls; explicitly to allow for timely, larger-scale production, and implicitly because they're unable to figure out how Masaki managed to get the girls to grow beyond their programming. It's also implied that Miko and M-2 have an older sister that neither of them know of that may be the true super prototype. | |
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Kamen Rider Double: Kamen Rider Skull is the single-user prototype for Double, but is just as good in combat, best illustrated by its being a jack-of-all-trades combination of Shotaro's Memories (melee brawler like Joker, good defense like Metal, The Gunslinger like Trigger). | |
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Jovian Chronicles, Dream Pod 9's Gundam inspired setting, is naturally filled with them. A couple of the prototypes do get mass produced versions, but they pale in comparison to their predecessors. For the Jovians, one of their defense contractors even mentions it as a curse: Any untested, One-Of-A-Kind prototype is going to find itself in a combat situation. | |
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Related to the above, Captain America is the super prototype for the Super Soldier program. Others are constantly trying to replicate his success with results ranging from severe mental deterioration (Isaiah Bradley from Truth: Red, White & Black, and William Burnside, the 50's Cap) to creating the Hulk (Ultimate Marvel) and the Weapon Plus program (Wolverine, aka Weapon X/Ten; Steve Rogers is Weapon I). Captain America's shield is a Super Prototype as well, being the precursor to adamantium. Adamantium is the attempt to recreate the material of his shield, but even primary adamantium is weaker than it. | |
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