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Unobtainium

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Unobtainium	comment	Unobtainium is engineering jargon for, "a material that would be perfect for our purposes, if we could get it, but we can't." When used in the realm of fiction, Unobtainium is usually the exotic material that is needed to make the Applied Phlebotinum of a given story work. Without it, all your nifty machines and plot-enabling gadgets quit functioning. Some forms of unobtainium are based on real physics, but beyond the current scope of human engineering, such as room-temperature superconductors; they would revolutionize just about every form of technology, but they are not in and of themselves dangerous or based on some exotic physics-bending principle. Others are more fantastic "high-grade" unobtainium, such as antimatter, which would be a revolutionary way of storing huge amounts of energy, if it didn't violentlynote as in, 1 gram = tactical nuclear weapon yield undergo mutual annihilation with any conventional matter it comes into contact with, including air molecules and the walls of whatever you're trying to store the damn stuff in. The most common varieties of unobtainium in fiction sit somewhere in the middle, like materials so resistant to heat and/or damage as to be Nigh Invulnerable compared to other, similar substances. Materials such as mithril are the fantasy version. Thunderbolt Iron is especially popular in fiction (and has some basis in reality â€“ until smelting was invented (which takes ridiculously hot - 1250 Â°C or 2282 Â°F - furnaces, hence the term "Iron Age"), it was the only source of refined iron). Sometimes an object that actually exists, or existed at one time, becomes unobtainium because its unavailable now or just unavailable specifically to our heroes due to economic or political complications. Much mad science uses unobtainium, such as chemicals with impossible properties, universal solvents that can dissolve anything in the blink of an eye, super-explosives that make nitroglycerin look like a weak cough, and plenty of other funny-colored solutions. Following this would be medical and/or chemical wish-fulfillers; Classical real-world alchemy casually referred to carmot, the base substance of the Philosopher's Stone, and Azoth, either the "universal medicine" or "universal solvent". The ancient Greek writer Plato referred to "Orichalcum" (Greek for "mountain bronze") in his description of Atlantis. In Science Fiction, it will usually take one of three flavors: whatever stuff makes Faster-Than-Light Travel possible, closely followed by the stuff that can mess with gravity (if they're not one and the same), and finally, the stuff they make Humongous Mecha and Alien spacecraft out of, which is why they tend to be effectively immune from earthly weapons or environmental damage. For Willing Suspension of Disbelief, authors may pick out something actively being researched within the scientific community at the time of writing and run with it. Naturally, this risks dating the work when Science Marches On and today's "super technology" buzzword becomes the next generation's comic-book junk science. The current favorite in hard sci-fi is helium-3 â€“ believed by many to be the fuel of choice for those nifty fusion reactors that should be perfected any time now. Theoretically, it's a safe large-scale energy source with few environmental side effects. But more importantly, though, there's extremely little of it on Earth; on the Moon, it's Not Rare Over There — which would provide a good reason to go there.note Though as explained here (roughly halfway down the page), helium-3 is actually very rare even on the Moon, with a concentration measured in parts per billion. Then there's proton-boron fusion, an alternative fusion reaction using a fuel much more abundant than helium-3, but which has received much less attention, probably because it doesn't provide a convenient justification to go to space. The term "Unobtainium" originates from aerospace engineers in the late 1950s, where it was used as a Hand Wave for a material sufficiently strong, light, and/or durable to meet the needs of a particular situation under discussion, even if no known material could possibly do so. It has occasionally been used in official discussions to avoid directly identifying a material whose use is still considered top secret (such as the titanium skin in the project that eventually produced the SR-71 Blackbird). Most people, however, first heard the term as the mineral sought by the mining company in Avatar, and mistakenly think that is the Trope Namer. It was also infamously noted in The Core. See also: Minovsky Physics when the Unobtainium has well-thought-out properties that are strictly adhered to, and its opposite, Green Rocks, when it can do anything and everything the plot demands. Orichalcum, said by Plato to have been used in Atlantis, is a particularly common variety. Compare Mineral MacGuffin, Spice of Life and Fantasy Metals.
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Unobtainium / int_117116ef	comment	When Kowalski of The Penguins of Madagascar builds a time machine, he needs five grams of "Macguffium-239" to power it.
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Unobtainium / int_13b6da8c	comment	In Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, the good doctor powers his freeze ray with Wonderflonium, not far removed from Unobtainium as it has the power to make the impossible possible and power the freeze ray — which freezes time — for a short time, at least. Wonderflonium should also never be bounced for some reason.
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Unobtainium / int_1825e407	comment	A metal native to the Breakworld in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run adversely affected Kitty Pryde when she phased through it, to the point where she ended up stranded inside a ten-mile long bullet of the stuff when she phased it through the Earth, and wasn't able to control her powers after Magneto rescued her.
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Unobtainium / int_1858fe06	comment	Chaos Emeralds in Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) went from Kryptonite Is Everywhere to Unobtainium during the "Order From Chaos" storyline. Prior to the story, Mobius had hundreds of Chaos Emeralds and if the story needed one, poof, there ya go. However, when A.D.A.M. drew every Chaos Emerald in the solar system to Mobius, Turbo Tails and Super Shadow (the ones who were forced to bring them there) realize how dangerous that was and shove them all into the Zone of Silence. Feist, the being remaining there, became a god when he harnessed their power to remake the Zone and condensed all of those emeralds into only seven. Like their video game counterparts, they're used for either Super Mode activation or powering up super weapons. Like rewriting your reality.
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Unobtainium / int_18b81932	comment	In Outlander, after establishing that Viking swords aren't strong enough to injure the Moorwen, Kainan salvages some hull metal from his crashed starship, and gives this to the local blacksmith to forge some stronger swords.
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Unobtainium / int_1d1c07f6	comment	In The Amazing Extraordinary Friends, the X insignia is specifically stated to be made of unobtanium, which is how it bestows all manner of superpowers on Captain X.
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Unobtainium / int_1e3a6cab	comment	X-Men: The Krakoan Age introduced Mysterium. Found and mined from the White Hot Room, when settled, it's a very powerful metal. It's as strong as secondary adamantium as Captain Marvel could not bend it with all her strength. It negates all magic, even those used by a Sorcerer Supreme like Doctor Strange and is somehow able to be one of the few things undetectable to the Spider-Sense!
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Unobtainium / int_234035fa	comment	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: Sigmarite, a metal ore mined at great cost from Mallus, the Old World's core. It's mainly used in the weapons, armor and equipment of the Stormcast Eternals and it's rumored that Ghal Maraz, Sigmar's hammer, it's made of it. This reinforces the fan theory that Sigmarite it's just gromril, also called meteoric iron. A metal used extensively by the dwarves and the Empire in their magic weapons and heavy armors.
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Unobtainium / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons "Treehouse of Horror" parody of Avatar has the mineral Hilarium, which has the power to make people laugh.
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Unobtainium / int_26dd903b	comment	The pre-Crisis DCU also featured the invulnerable metals "Supermanium" (a metal once created by Superman) and "Amazonium" (the metal Wonder Woman's bracelets were made from), both invulnerable metals akin to inertron.
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Unobtainium / int_2bf32acc	comment	The whole reason New Texas was founded in Bravestarr (and the reason it attracted criminals) was the discovery of a precious ore called carium, which had dozens of uses, literally. It could power spaceships and energy weapons, had medicinal properties (in fact, it seemed quite a few episodes introduced new uses for it). Unfortunately, even legitimate prospectors seemed to develop a type of "gold fever" when looking for the stuff.
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Unobtainium / int_2d311a08	comment	The 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles use this trope such as the episode, "The Big Zipp Attack", when Shredder needed to obtain an extremely rare and hard metal "rigidium" for the Technodrome.
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Unobtainium / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League maintains the Thanagarian's Nth Metal which can, among other abilities, generate electrical currents and disrupt magic.
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Unobtainium / int_3167d0f6	comment	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021) introduces kirbinite, a glowing purple metal, that is the only known mineral in the world capable of channeling cosmic energy. The Sword of Power is forged from it, and Skeletor seeks the elusive metal to upgrade his Havoc Staff and improve his own mastery of the power of Havoc.
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Unobtainium / int_346c4d81	comment	Hailey's On It! has Haileytonium, an element that the main character Hailey Banks will discover in the future, some time after she completes her to-do list. It's an extremely potent renewable source of energy, powering everything in the future, and it's discovery will save the world from climate change.
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Unobtainium / int_348d72d1	comment	Stellarium is a very rare and special mineral that has the incredible ability to stabilize planets, prolonging their inevitable destruction. Green Lantern Tomar-Re tried to use a bit of stellarium to save Krypton, but was delayed. In Omega Men, the conflict over the Vega system is due to Vega being one of the only places where stellarium can be mined.
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Unobtainium / int_350d48da	comment	In Cybervillage, the actual word (nedostupnium) is used for what Baragozin intends to mine on Mars.
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Unobtainium / int_38c57aa2	comment	Eberron has Dragonshards, Khyber Dragonshards, Siberys Dragonshards, Star Metal, Baatorian Steel, Residuum, Arcanite, Byeshk, Ironwood, Bronzewood, Densewood, Soarwood & Riedran Crysteel. Unobtainium overload indeed.
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Unobtainium / int_3b05a9de	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_3b05a9de	comment	In Power Rangers Time Force, Trizirium Crystals are a very powerful energy source that originally won't be discovered about 200 years from 2001, because of the battles between the Time Force Rangers and Ransik, as well as Bio-Lab trying to reverse-engineer the future tech the early discovery nearly sucked the world into time vortices in the "End of Time" three-part finale.
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Unobtainium / int_3b182a22	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_3b182a22	comment	In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "Those Old Scientists", it's revealed that the NX-01 was made from "horonium". However, trying to make the stuff was difficult because it had a 50/50 chance of blowing up, as Spock and a time-traveling Boimler find out. It's also needed to get a time machine working so the aforementioned Boimler (and later Mariner) back to their time.
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Unobtainium / int_41d55d7a	comment	Turbinium ore from the original Total Recall (1990), which is being mined on Mars against the local rebels' wishes and keeps Cohaagen's regime running, as his superiors on Earth give him carte blanche as long as their supply remains constant.
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Unobtainium / int_42ffb88e	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation has SCP-148, also known as Telekill. In the initial write-up stuff is incredibly useful, allowing blocking of effects of many psychic-type anomalies. It was supposed to still be a mystery and very limited in quantity (and Foundation unable to make more of it), but ended up being used in far too many SCP writeups resulting in a mass rewrite/retcon. After it, it still blocks psychic influences, but with a catch - it absorbs them, while gaining mass, and eventually releases everything it accumulated in one big amplified burst. Needless to say, this is very very bad. Even when used in smaller quantities in personal protection equipment it now slowly drains intelligence and willpower of the wearer. It is still used sometimes, but in very careful and limited ways.
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Unobtainium / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: In Power Rangers Time Force, Trizirium Crystals are a very powerful energy source that originally won't be discovered about 200 years from 2001, because of the battles between the Time Force Rangers and Ransik, as well as Bio-Lab trying to reverse-engineer the future tech the early discovery nearly sucked the world into time vortices in the "End of Time" three-part finale. Power Rangers RPM has flux overthrusters needed to handle advanced zord control stuff. The first one was lost in the wastelands after the plane it was installed in was shot down. The second...well, it's lucky that that's when the bad guys sent a bot capable of Power Copying.
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Unobtainium / int_4522fd1	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_4522fd1	comment	Whateley Universe has plenty of unobtainium. They've stolen adamantium from the Marvel Universe, and they've included some of the mystical variants, including orichalcium and mithril. Oddly enough, at the Super Hero School Whateley Academy, mithril no longer counts as true unobtainium, because there's a side character (Silver, a girl from India) who sweats mithril. The school has had to set up a mithril brokerage.
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Unobtainium / int_45799562	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_45799562	comment	Talislanta has a number of forms of Unobtainium, some based on historical alchemy and others made up for the setting, and fairly thorough rules for crafting and utilizing them.
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Unobtainium / int_45a5beb2	comment	In an episode of the children's show WordGirl, Chuck the Evil Sandwich Making Guy had built a giant sandwich press designed to crush City Hall. He claims it's made out of "super strong steel", and Word Girl is unable to damage it. Considering bending steel beams is usually like snapping a twig for her, it's somewhat ambiguous exactly what metal composition the press was constructed with.
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Unobtainium / int_469771d2	comment	The Powerpuff Girls employs this in the making of the show's namesake heroes. The Unobtainium here is the mysterious Chemical X (a fancy name for the contents of a Can Of Whoop Ass). It also produced the show's biggest recurring villain, and drove several single-episode plots. Powerpuff Girls Z upgrades it to Chemical Z. One episode shows that you can also get the same results from a prison toilet since that's what Mojo Jojo used to make the Rowdyruff Boys.
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Unobtainium / int_478a2580	comment	Screen Rant Pitch Meetings: In the Avatar pitch meeting, the Screenwriter calls the sought-after mineral Unobtanium because the humans are having a hard time obtaining it. The Producer assumes that it's a placeholder name, and the Screenwriter will come up with a less ridiculous name, to which the Screenwriter says, "Yep! For sure! I will!
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Unobtainium / int_490374f5	comment	In Thunder Cats and Thunder Cats 2011, machines are powered by Thundrilium.
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Unobtainium / int_4b790c7a	comment	During Iron Man 2, the palladium core inside Tony Stark's personal arc reactor has been gradually poisoning the rest of his body. However he can't find a replacement until Nick Fury guides him to some old footage his father left for him. Turns out his dad was trying to steer Tony to figuring out an engineering conundrum that he was unable to crack in his day thanks to the limits of 1970s technology. When synthesized, the element Howard Stark was researching turns out to be the nontoxic substance Tony needs to safely power his arc reactor.
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Unobtainium / int_4efd20ba	comment	Freakazoid! takes a shot at this in "The Island of Dr. Mystico." Freakazoid and a number of superpowered villains are held in a bamboo cage. When Freakazoid tries to bend the bars, Cave Guy says, "It's no use, we've already tried. It's molecular bamboo."
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Unobtainium / int_50bcf7a6	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Homestuck has Zillium among its Grist types. Grist in general is a building material in the game of Sburb/Sgrub, and most types are based on real-world materials. Zillium is a rare type of Grist with a unique appearance that, in large quantities, can be used to make some of the most powerful weapons in the comic's universe.
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Unobtainium / int_50e2e357	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek (2009) has red matter, which can make black holes on cue.
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Unobtainium / int_513f5832	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_513f5832	comment	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home also has an unobtainium in the form of Transparent Aluminum, the molecular formula for which Scotty gives the original inventor an ethically challenging time loop, in exchange for some high-quality transparent polymer slabs, the closest 20th century equivalent, to make a whale tank with. It should be noted that recent advances in materials science actually have created a form of transparent steel, at least in the lab.note Transparent aluminium oxide is a real-world material starting to see commercial use, primarily as an alternative to Gorilla Glass called Sapphire Glass (sapphires are aluminium oxide crystals with trace amounts of, usually, iron, giving them a blue color).
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Unobtainium / int_51bf7cb0	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_51bf7cb0	comment	Although it's a tabletop war game rather than a tabletop RPG, Steve Jackson Games' OGRE features combat units protected by Biphase Carbide armor. This makes them tough enough to withstand anything short of a direct hit from a nuclear weapon.
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Unobtainium / int_5284ef74	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_5284ef74	comment	In the video game Batman: Vengeance, there's a substance called "prometheum," which shares its name with DC's metal, but it's a chemical formula that's used for keeping people cryogenically preserved, but bursts into flame very easily.
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Unobtainium / int_52cffcc	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_52cffcc	comment	If Wishes Were Ponies introduces us to Painite in Chapter 25, where it is used by both the Goblins of Gringotts and the Ponies of Equestria as a Power Crystal to enhance magical capabilities within armored plating, and that by selling a fist-sized bag of Painite accidentally made the Cutie Mark Crusaders the 10th-largest depositors to Gringotts due to how rare the material is found on Earthnote with the only location that Painite is actually found being the area around the city of Mogok in Burma. The Goblins were left completely gobsmacked when they heard a comment by Rarity saying that Painite is actually very quite common in Equestria, and that she usually ignores them when digging for gems since stitching them into her customers' dresses actually interferes with most of their spellcasting abilities.
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Unobtainium / int_5755b96a	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: Roy was told his broken ancestral sword was forged from starmetal, requiring a sidequest to obtain more. Roy was rather unimpressed when he discovered the "vast wealth" of starmetal was a chunk smaller than his fist. Furthermore, his sword never had any starmetal in it; the whole thing was a distraction to get rid of his party for a while. However, when he finds an honest smith, she tells him that the small chunk of starmetal he found is immensely valuable ("Most of it tends to burn up in the atmosphere, you know") and reforges his sword with it as an alloy. Making a full sword out of the stuff would require all the known starmetal in the world, and be far too heavy to be usable. It lets his sword overcome most forms of damage reduction and occasionally releases bursts of energy that are harmful to undead and evil outsiders.
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Unobtainium / int_58ca57a	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_58ca57a	comment	The Dark Nights: Metal event is caused by Batman being exposed to several forms of unobtanium which opens a gateway to the dark multiverse. Several of those mentioned above are among them along with a new one, batmanium.
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Unobtainium / int_5985a57f	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_5985a57f	comment	In an early Marvel/DC crossover featuring the X-Men and the New Teen Titans, the villain Darkseid keeps both teams shackled, and states that Kitty Pryde's shackles are made of a rare metal with molecules so tightly packed, not even she can phase through them.
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Unobtainium / int_59cb7bba	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_59cb7bba	comment	Both versions of Battlestar Galactica relied on a fictional element called "tylium" to power their FTL drives.
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Unobtainium / int_5b344855	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_5b344855	comment	Speaking of, adamantium comes in a few flavors. True Adamantium is the nearly-indestructible metal alloy that's bonded to the bones and claws of Wolverine. There's also Secondary Adamantium, which is a lot cheaper to make but is still quite strong. Carbonadium (the stuff covering Omega Red's tentacles) is what the Soviets came up with when they tried to create true adamantium; it's about as strong as secondary adamantium, but is more malleable... and radioactive. Also, in the Ultimate Marvel universe, adamantium can block telepathy.
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Wolverine (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Unobtainium / int_5b344855
Unobtainium / int_5d3177c2	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_5d3177c2	comment	Birthright: Bloodsilver.
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Unobtainium / int_5d4da197	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_5d4da197	comment	Metallic tritium serves this function in Spider-Man 2. Doctor Octopus has to make a Deal with the Devil (requiring him to beat the protagonist) in order to get some. Strangely enough, the way he's going to use the tritium is a scaled-down version of one way physicists are trying to develop fusion power called "inertial confinement". The idea is the same, vaporize an amount of an element with lasers in an attempt to create a miniature sun, only the scale and elements used are different. For more information, this writer's original reference is "Kaku, Michio Ph.D. Physics of the Impossible. Doubleday Publishing, 2008. Pages 43-45."
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Unobtainium / int_5e150650	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted: The five magical materials, Orichalcum, Moonsilver, Starmetal, some variants of Jade and Soulsteel. All of these are extremely difficult to obtain and work: Orichalcum only forms when gold touches magma and has to be worked in a lava flow while sunlight streams onto the forge; Moonsilver only forms in the Wyld, where reality is breaking down; Starmetal only comes from meteorites, which rarely fall (because they only fall when a god dies) and produce much less ore than the other materials; Soulsteel is made from ore from the Labyrinth (under the Underworld) and ghosts; and Jade requires hazardous chemicals to work and is used as a currency, admittedly an extremely high-value one. There is even an Unobtainium version of Jade - in rare and unrepeatable alchemical accidents Jade (most normally a mixture of white and green Jade) can be turned into Yellow Jade which is possibly the most coveted magical material out there. With the release of the Alchemical sourcebook, there now exists a sixth basic magical material as well: Adamant. It is extremely rare in the main world of Creation, and only slightly more commonly found in the machine-body world of the Primordial Autochthon. To quote the sourcebook, "Adamant is composed of super-dense, electric-blue diamonds that form in yard-long rod-like masses with smaller crystals growing off larger ones. They can be found in areas that are under enormous pressure and are scorchingly hot. Mining for adamant is impossible without protective gear, even for Exalts, and special tools must be used to cut the crystalline rods free so that they can be taken back to a city and refined into useable forms." Though it is a crystal, rather than a metal or stone like the other materials, it is used in the forging of magic weapons and armor in an identical way to the others. Solars. One of the reasons that Solar technology is unsustainable by anybody else is due to their Wyld Shaping powers. When Solars need a material with properties relevant to the artifact or Magitek they are building, they just go out into the Wyld and conjure it up, regardless of how impossible its existence would otherwise be.
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Unobtainium / int_5f667cac	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_5f667cac	comment	In 21 Jump Street, there is a substance called Unobtainium, which apparently "has a nuclear reaction with the flux capacitor — carry the â€™2â€² — changing its atomic isotoner into a radioactive spider." Or, you know, this thing doesn't exist and the character speaking was just stoned out of his mind.
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Unobtainium / int_605dd875	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_605dd875	comment	Stargate-verse: In Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, naquahdah is material the Gate is made of. Also, naquadah-enhanced nukes are used to Blow Stuff Up. This is demonstrated magnificently in the season 3 finale of Stargate Atlantis. Naquadah is also a powerful source of energy (naquadah reactors). Also serves as a room-temperature superconductor, a component of hull armor by most major species, and a ludicrously efficient heat sink (deals with what gets generated not only by basic system(s) operations, but also sustained multi-megaton weapons fire). Its evil twin is naquadriah, which can also be used to Blow Stuff Up, but is radioactive, "unstable" and has a track record of blowing up its users. Naquadriah also indirectly plays the Unobtainium role in Stargate Universe as the only known power source that can support a wormhole between the Milky Way and Destiny. Only problem is that it takes a planet full of the stuff to do it, and that planet tends to blow up in the process. The iris on Earth's Stargate is made of a trinium-titanium alloy. Human-form Replicators apparently need neutronium (which is a real thing, but a bit exotic in that it can only have stable existence in a neutron star). Also ZPMs could be seen as a sort of unobtainium given that no-one knows how to make them and they're needed to run all the Ancient technology in the series (as well as providing a convenient bit of Tim Taylor Technology to the human ships).
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Unobtainium / int_60996c02	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_60996c02	comment	The first two parts of the Spider-Man: The Animated Series three-part episode "The Alien Costume" heaviy feature a newly discovered substance brought back to Earth from space. Prometheum X as it is called, is a highly fissile material, that is also non-reactive unless heated, which means it can be used to make a massive explosion, yet you can also carry it around in your pocket. Fortunately for the heroes, after the villains obtain it they discover it's extraordinarilyshortexhalf-life. By the time they got it it's transmuted into inert lead.
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Unobtainium / int_62570927	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Naturally, the setting has adamantium (in multiple flavors; see below), but it also has other "magic metals" like vibranium (of which there are two varieties, Wakandan [which absorbs kinetic energy/sound/vibrations] and Antarctic [atypically emits vibrations that cause other metals near it to liquefy]), Uru (an enchantable material, the same metal of which from Thor's hammer was forged), promethium (a magical metal found only in Otherplace/Limbo, which can be used as an energy source, despite it being a real chemical element with real properties), and netheranium (the material of Damien Hellstrom's trident). The best example, though, would have to be the infamous "unstable molecules" used to make so many heroes' and villains' costumes. And Captain America's unobtainable unobtainium shield — completely indestructible, but also a handwavy one-off item. A number of stories suggest that Cap's shield is an otherwise impossible vibrainium/adamantium alloy reinforced by American righteousness (as opposed to ''self''-righteousness). Since the guy making it fell asleep during the forging process, we'll never know. The "vibranium/adamantium alloy" thing is due to a misprint in one of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe issues. His shield was made from a unique alloy of iron, Wakandan vibranium, and some unknown contaminant. When the metallurgist who had made it tried recreating the alloy (while Cap was frozen), the closest he could come up with is what's known as (true) adamantium, which is slightly weaker than the alloy in Cap's shield! Speaking of, adamantium comes in a few flavors. True Adamantium is the nearly-indestructible metal alloy that's bonded to the bones and claws of Wolverine. There's also Secondary Adamantium, which is a lot cheaper to make but is still quite strong. Carbonadium (the stuff covering Omega Red's tentacles) is what the Soviets came up with when they tried to create true adamantium; it's about as strong as secondary adamantium, but is more malleable... and radioactive. Also, in the Ultimate Marvel universe, adamantium can block telepathy. There's also Vibranium. There's two kinds of Vibranium - Wakandan and Antarctic; Wakandan Vibranium absorbs energy - kinetic and regular energy - which makes it a perfect armor or even a substitute for Captain America's shield, while Antarctic Vibranium destroys any and all metal upon contact. Wakandan Vibranium is only found in the isolationist country of Wakanda while the Antarctic variant, even if it was only found in Antarctica, is nearly impossible to mine and contain due to its metal-destroying properties. A metal native to the Breakworld in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run adversely affected Kitty Pryde when she phased through it, to the point where she ended up stranded inside a ten-mile long bullet of the stuff when she phased it through the Earth, and wasn't able to control her powers after Magneto rescued her. X-Men: The Krakoan Age introduced Mysterium. Found and mined from the White Hot Room, when settled, it's a very powerful metal. It's as strong as secondary adamantium as Captain Marvel could not bend it with all her strength. It negates all magic, even those used by a Sorcerer Supreme like Doctor Strange and is somehow able to be one of the few things undetectable to the Spider-Sense!
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Unobtainium / int_65d07453	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_65d07453	comment	Captain America: The First Avenger introduced Vibranium, a very rare material that can absorb vibrations like nothing else, that eventually became part of Cap's shield. It became a point of contention in Avengers: Age of Ultron when Ultron attempted to steal a supply to make himself a new body. His supplier, Ulysses Klaue, was later a minor villain in Black Panther, when it was revealed that he stole "the world's supply" from Wakanda, a mythical African nation sitting on several orders of magnitude more than the amount that Klaue stole. Black Panther also revealed that Vibranium had uses other than reducing vibrations in shields or catsuits - it could also power vehicles, propel technological progress centuries ahead of the rest of the world, and influence plant life so that consuming it would heighten strength, speed, and reflexes.
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Unobtainium / int_69230caf	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_69230caf	comment	Intergalactic: New aurum, exotic matter discovered by humans in 2124, is used for powering space ship's drives which lets them go faster than light (it has negative mass under a magnetic field). Consequently, the entire human interstellar civilization has come to rely on this greatly.
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Unobtainium / int_69d15cc0	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: During Iron Man 2, the palladium core inside Tony Stark's personal arc reactor has been gradually poisoning the rest of his body. However he can't find a replacement until Nick Fury guides him to some old footage his father left for him. Turns out his dad was trying to steer Tony to figuring out an engineering conundrum that he was unable to crack in his day thanks to the limits of 1970s technology. When synthesized, the element Howard Stark was researching turns out to be the nontoxic substance Tony needs to safely power his arc reactor. Captain America: The First Avenger introduced Vibranium, a very rare material that can absorb vibrations like nothing else, that eventually became part of Cap's shield. It became a point of contention in Avengers: Age of Ultron when Ultron attempted to steal a supply to make himself a new body. His supplier, Ulysses Klaue, was later a minor villain in Black Panther, when it was revealed that he stole "the world's supply" from Wakanda, a mythical African nation sitting on several orders of magnitude more than the amount that Klaue stole. Black Panther also revealed that Vibranium had uses other than reducing vibrations in shields or catsuits - it could also power vehicles, propel technological progress centuries ahead of the rest of the world, and influence plant life so that consuming it would heighten strength, speed, and reflexes.
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Unobtainium / int_69fa7496	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_69fa7496	comment	Bombastium from the Disney Ducks Comic Universe is believed by a Brutopian secret agent (hinted to actually be his country's prime minister, since he is a caricature of Nikolas Khrouchtchev and seems to be able to command the Brutopian navy) to be an all-mighty unobtainium. It is a pink substance that's so rare that the world's whole quantity of bombastium looks like an ice cream ball. (Literally. The world's whole reserves of bombastium are a pink ball stuck inside a big ice cube.) Since Scrooge was pushed into buying the thing, the Brutopian dignitary chases him all around the world, trying to buy and later to steal the bombastium. When he finally gets hold on the ball, it is discovered that its only power is to make ice cream: one tiny bit of bombastic in a barrel of water transforms into a barrel of ice cream, each time of a different savor, and the Brutopian â€” who doesn't like ice cream â€” angrily gives the ball back to Scrooge.
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Unobtainium / int_6ac55ec7	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: mithril, adamantine, orichalchum, and the Philosopher's Stone are typical baseline unobtainiums. Eberron has Dragonshards, Khyber Dragonshards, Siberys Dragonshards, Star Metal, Baatorian Steel, Residuum, Arcanite, Byeshk, Ironwood, Bronzewood, Densewood, Soarwood & Riedran Crysteel. Unobtainium overload indeed. Mystara: Red steel, cinnabril, and related substances from the "Red Steel" region. Birthright: Bloodsilver.
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Unobtainium / int_70814599	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_70814599	comment	In Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, naquahdah is material the Gate is made of. Also, naquadah-enhanced nukes are used to Blow Stuff Up. This is demonstrated magnificently in the season 3 finale of Stargate Atlantis. Naquadah is also a powerful source of energy (naquadah reactors). Also serves as a room-temperature superconductor, a component of hull armor by most major species, and a ludicrously efficient heat sink (deals with what gets generated not only by basic system(s) operations, but also sustained multi-megaton weapons fire).
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Unobtainium / int_774aac31	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_774aac31	comment	In District 9, the unnamed nanofluid is found in prawn technology in extremely small amounts, and is apparently quite precious. It has the power to activate the aliens' ship as well as transform a human into a prawn.
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Unobtainium / int_7950b30f	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7950b30f	comment	The first 2009 episode of The Colbert Report's Show Within a Show Tek Jansen has the Big Bad enslaving some tiny doughboy aliens to mine Scarcerarium.
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Unobtainium / int_7b039953	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7b039953	comment	Avatar refers to it by name. The movie features a mineral called unobtainium, although, in the film, the unobtainium functions as a Mineral MacGuffin; it's described as a room temperature superconductor that makes space travel more affordable, but never really expanded on apart from that. On the website wiki some of the other uses make it apply to this trope better. According to the guide, it's called "unobtainium" because this is a tongue-in-cheek designation for all high-temperature superconductor materials, called so by Earth scientists when they gave up on reliably synthesizing them. MAD's lampoon of Avatar lampshades and mocks the name by calling it "Stupidnameium".
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Unobtainium / int_7c038c18	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: In "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", Phineas and Ferb need a wood and steel fusing tool, which apparently won't be invented for 20 years. In "Vanessassary Roughness", the element "Pizzazium Infinionite" is described as (maybe) having wondrous properties that could be used in the future to power generically-futuristic technology. In "Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel", another element called "Mundanium Finite" is used as a substitute to Pizzazium Infinionite due to the latter's scarcity. While they appear to have similar properties, powering Doof's inator takes four times as much Mundanium than Pizzazium.
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Unobtainium / int_7d122312	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones had an episode featuring Urgonium — a mineral that exploded on solid impact.
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Unobtainium / int_7d28f67b	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7d28f67b	comment	Epiphyte in The Metabarons, the original source of the Castaka family wealth. It is an oil with anti-gravity properties.
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Unobtainium / int_7dae85d4	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7dae85d4	comment	Promethium is the DCU's equivalent of adamantium, a super hard metal that superstrong superheroes have a tough time damaging (it was used to create Cyborg's body), and Nth Metal, or "transuranic iron ore", was the key to Thanagarian technology (as seen frequently in Justice League). Irritatingly, promethium is a real metal (element 61), one with no stable isotopes and no special structural properties. DC's promethium comes in two flavors. "Raw" promethium can be used as an energy source or a mutagen. When alloyed with titanium and vanadium, it forms a near-invulnerable metal.
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Unobtainium / int_7de8951a	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7de8951a	comment	Traveller: Besides the lanthanum used in jump drive technology, features so many varieties of unobtainium that the latest edition lampshades it by including "unobtainium" as a trade good.
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Unobtainium / int_7fcbd3e	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7fcbd3e	comment	Mystara: Red steel, cinnabril, and related substances from the "Red Steel" region.
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Unobtainium / int_7fd403f8	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_7fd403f8	comment	The spaceship in Galaxy Quest runs on beryllium, a natural but rare element. When the only beryllium sphere on board breaks under stress, the crew sets out to obtain a replacement sphere from a nearby planet. They eventually succeed but the distraction caused by this side quest enables the Big Bad to seize their ship.
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Unobtainium / int_81692f99	comment	The whole of Star Trek is liberally sprinkled with various types and grades of unobtainium. The original (and most frequently recurring) example is dilithium, used in the reactor core of warp drives as a control medium because lithium's properties were well-known, but there are many others. Corbomite, which doesn't actually exist; it was an Ass Pull by James T. Kirk to bluff an enemy — which means that Trek pulled a Lampshade Hanging on their own tendency to invent vaguely-magical substances in one of its earliest episodes. Neutronium. Essentially this is used any time something's made of a material that the crew's weapons won't be able to penetrate. This is a real substance: a type of "degenerate matter" composed entirely of neutrons, thought to be what neutron stars are made of — but since even a thimbleful would weigh millions of tons, its usefulness as a material is rather limited. Astrophysicists rarely if ever use the word "neutronium" for this stuff, preferring terms like neutron-degenerate matter, and that that neutron star matter would not be stable without the extreme pressures of a neutron star in the first place anyway, i.e. it would instantly explode producing extremely intense neutron radiation. Duranium, Tritanium, Baakonite, and other metals used in starship construction. Latinum, a valuable liquid metal, used as a form of hard currency due to its rarity and the fact that replicator technology cannot recreate it. Trilithium, less stable than dilithium, but equally magical (and extremely explosive). Keiyurium, a Shout-Out to the original Dirty Pair. Verterium Cortenide, a compound of two non-existent substances, used in the warp coils themselves. Archerite, another Ass Pull, this time by the Andorian Shran when explaining to another alien commander what he was doing in their territory. Transparent aluminum. which gets bonus points, given that a normal modern chemist could apparently figure out what it was just by looking at the atomic structure. Naturally, he would still be helpless to reproduce it without a diagram of said structure. Scotty thinks the chemist was the guy who invented it in the original timeline before their time travel shenanigans, so it makes sense he would grasp it immediately. Cortenide, which comprises Data's skull with duranium, as he describes to a Klingon warrior who almost knocked himself out headbutting him. Boronite, which is apparently used to synthesize the extremely powerful and highly unstable Omega molecules. Benamite, a hard-to-find, hard to synthesize and unstable crystal similar to dilithium that can power a "quantum slipstream drive". Trellium-D formed a major Mineral MacGuffin for the third season of Star Trek: Enterprise, which has the ability to negate the random anomalies that existed in the Expanse. Interestingly, there appeared to be a sub-science developed around the item, with a method of synthesizing the stuff. At one point in Star Trek: Voyager when aliens try to kidnap Paris for the weapons research that has been implanted in his brain, Janeway mentions that they packed the shuttle he was captured in with fulmorite explosives. The writers on Voyager and Enterprise used Deuterium as one of these a few times, apparently not being aware that it's both a real thing (an isotope of Hydrogen) and not all that rare. The way it's presented in the episodes has no relation to the real substance. In the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds episode "Those Old Scientists", it's revealed that the NX-01 was made from "horonium". However, trying to make the stuff was difficult because it had a 50/50 chance of blowing up, as Spock and a time-traveling Boimler find out. It's also needed to get a time machine working so the aforementioned Boimler (and later Mariner) back to their time.
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Unobtainium / int_818d62e5	comment	Super Stories has Electronium, resistant to all known methods of scanning (including superpowered ones). Apart from one villain's secret lair being made out of the stuff, no known piece is larger than a pebble.
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Unobtainium / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider has a lot of this going on in the manual; as detailed on the official websites, the Riders' gear is typically made out of rare, unusual materials that can sustain all kinds of punishment and augment their abilities, yet still looks like vinyl and plastic. They typically have appropriately thematic names, too; to cite just one example, Kamen Rider Wizard's suit and weapons are made of "Sorcerium".
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Unobtainium / int_83c239c	comment	In the Green Lantern: The Animated Series episode "Steam Lantern", they spoof this trope with a material called hardtofindium because it's hard to find.
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Unobtainium / int_864c0c77	comment	In Cat Hairballs, Stimpy's hairballs become this, what with apparently being so versatile that they can be made into everything from high heel shoes to Italian sports cars. Because of this, Stimpy is forced to hwarf hairballs up for Ren until Stimpy passes out from exhaustion and gets stamped on the butt cheeks.
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Unobtainium / int_87c6ac8e	comment	Quantonium in Monsters vs. Aliens. The Big Bad needs it to power his cloning machine so he can execute the Alien Invasion. The only known supply is absorbed into the body of Susan Murphy, who then suffers from some interesting side effects.
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Unobtainium / int_87e00d8e	comment	In Teen Titans (2003), the thief Red X used a suit that was powered by Xenothium, which was only described as being unstable and crazy dangerous, but was capable of insane things, such as creating explosive projectiles, shields, metallic bands and all kinds of crazy shizz. (Apparently, the stuff is so dangerous that even respectable superheroes like Robin aren't allowed to buy it; he had to get it from the black market.)
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Unobtainium / int_8a6bf3f3	comment	Duck Dodgers in the 24Â½th Century: Duck Dodgers went to Planet X to find Illudium Phosdex, the Shaving Cream Atom, in his classic '50s adventure.
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Unobtainium / int_8b5c8e75	comment	The Lay of Paul Twister: In the fantasy world that Paul Twister is stuck in, aluminum is considered Unobtanium, since they don't have the technology to produce it easily yet. (The story correctly notes that it requires electricity, which is still in the early stages of being discovered.) On the more fantastical side, the bones and scales of dead dragons are very rare and highly sought after by wizards, because they can apparently provide a material link that comes in handy should you ever end up in a fight with a living dragon.
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Unobtainium / int_8c075344	comment	The time machine in Times Like This is driven by the fictional element Sesquicentium (atomic number 150), a metal that has a tendency to time-warp by itself.
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Unobtainium / int_8e8ed866	comment	In Knight Rider (the original series), KITT was built out of a material called either Tri-Helical MBS (commonly referred to as a "Molecular-Bonded Shell") or Plasteel 1000, which rendered the car almost indestructible.
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Unobtainium / int_9378c5f2	comment	Mickey Mouse Frontier Chronicles (a Mickey Mouse Comic Universe series) has Korkonium, which is basically space gold - it has limited use, but is highly priced because of its rarity. At least, until people discovers that it messes up the Enemy's creations, ranging from "temporary weakness, can't be affected or controlled by the Enemy ever again" to "melting into inanimate matter".
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Unobtainium / int_953832af	comment	Mechanical Dream: Orpee, a fruit-like plant found very deep underground. It naturally concentrates eflow within itself, and is used to fuel almost every piece of technology in existence and to imbue mundane tools with special properties. It's also necessary for basic survival, as the world's natives will die without regularly eating it. Orpee is, in every sense but the literal, the center of the world.
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Unobtainium / int_98156414	comment	Averted in The Cat from Outer Space. Jake's ship needs a piece of "Org-12" to get going again, and when he runs down the element's properties, Frank realizes it shares an atomic weight with, of all things, gold.
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Unobtainium / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10 featured two such elements which, combined, formed an explosive capable of wiping out entire solar systems. Only one known sample of Element X exists while the other, Bicenthium alloy, is only found in appreciable quantities on Earth. Except it's iron, the sixth most common element in the galaxy.
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Unobtainium / int_9a7088bc	comment	Though never mentioned as such, a particular brand of orange wire mesh used in Star Trek: The Original Series was produced by a company that went out of business in the mid-1970's; a substitute had to be acquired for the filming of the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations." This substitute mesh was correctly pointed out by episode writer David Gerrold as inaccurate to the original series.
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Unobtainium / int_9d48ae2e	comment	Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: Viceroy invents a Time Machine that is fueled by hardtogetium. He cannot get more fuel than needed for a round trip.
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Unobtainium / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU has its own varieties of unobtainium: In the Silver Age DCU, Krypton became a gold mine of unobtainium. Any item, living or not, that originated there would become indestructible under a yellow sun. Kryptonite was also formed by the explosion of Krypton (with various varieties in the Silver and Bronze Ages). Promethium is the DCU's equivalent of adamantium, a super hard metal that superstrong superheroes have a tough time damaging (it was used to create Cyborg's body), and Nth Metal, or "transuranic iron ore", was the key to Thanagarian technology (as seen frequently in Justice League). Irritatingly, promethium is a real metal (element 61), one with no stable isotopes and no special structural properties. DC's promethium comes in two flavors. "Raw" promethium can be used as an energy source or a mutagen. When alloyed with titanium and vanadium, it forms a near-invulnerable metal. In the video game Batman: Vengeance, there's a substance called "prometheum," which shares its name with DC's metal, but it's a chemical formula that's used for keeping people cryogenically preserved, but bursts into flame very easily. The first version of the Legion of Super-Heroes used "inertron" for this purpose, an invulnerable metal. The pre-Crisis DCU also featured the invulnerable metals "Supermanium" (a metal once created by Superman) and "Amazonium" (the metal Wonder Woman's bracelets were made from), both invulnerable metals akin to inertron. Radion is incredibly rare. It's also very special because it is the Kryptonite Factor of the New Gods. Even Darkseid can be truly and permanently killed by Radion poisoning and a Radion bullet — fired by Batman of all people — to the shoulder is the first part of Darkseid's Rasputinian Death in Final Crisis. Stellarium is a very rare and special mineral that has the incredible ability to stabilize planets, prolonging their inevitable destruction. Green Lantern Tomar-Re tried to use a bit of stellarium to save Krypton, but was delayed. In Omega Men, the conflict over the Vega system is due to Vega being one of the only places where stellarium can be mined. The Dark Nights: Metal event is caused by Batman being exposed to several forms of unobtanium which opens a gateway to the dark multiverse. Several of those mentioned above are among them along with a new one, batmanium.
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Unobtainium / int_a04b0ca3	comment	Tintin: The adventure Tintin: The Shooting Star revolves around a mission to retrieve a sample of unobtainium (dubbed "Phostlite") from a fallen meteorite. The only obvious property of the stuff is making things rapidly grow to enormous size, like mushrooms... and plants... and animals, like butterflies and spiders. Fortunately, germs don't seem to be included. In Tintin: Destination Moon, Professor Calculus has invented a new substance — calculon — which can "resist even the highest temperatures", with which to make the nuclear fission motor for the rocket.
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Unobtainium / int_a079a529	comment	Spiral Zone has Neutron-90, the rare material that the Zone Riders' uniforms are made from; it protects the soldiers from the Spiral Zone's Mind Control effect. At the beginning of the series, there's only enough of it to make five suits. Later, enough Neutron-90 is discovered to make two additional uniforms, and so Sixth Rangers Ned Tucker and Ben Davis are able to join the team.
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Unobtainium / int_a1393f54	comment	In the TV series of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, it's revealed that an element Wayne named "Szalinskium" is at the core of all his impossible inventions. In another episode it's revealed that he obtained it from the space alien Arnox.
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Unobtainium / int_a183d57f	comment	Futurama: Professor Farnsworth once has the crew deliver a single atom of Jumbonium — a tennisball sized "single atom" that doesn't seem to do anything beyond adorn a tiara. If nothing else, it's valued for its rarity; that single atom is worth more than $50,000. Dark matter would also count, though that was perfectlyobtainableium for the entire first run of the series as long as you have a member of Nibbler's species around (it's their poop). It goes back to being unobtainium in Bender's Game, and ships need to be retooled to use whale oil (just go with it, it's that kind of series) instead.
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Unobtainium / int_a2a386c9	comment	Orion's Arm has several flavours of unobtanium, but is notable that they try to be a reasonably hard sci-fi setting and so have put very careful thought into its plausibility and possible uses. Magmatter, made from magnetic monopoles is perhaps one of the cleverest, and has a reasonable amount of vaguely plausible science behind it. Magmatter facilitates megastructures like Ringworlds thanks to its incredible tensile strength, Cool Starship engines that perfectly convert matter to energy without all that nasty mucking around with antimatter due to magmatters ability to catalyse baryon decay, dense enough magnetic current to make Plasma Cannon useful and Railguns easy and stranger things like gamma ray lenses and mirrors that couldn't be built out of normal matter. Exotic bosonic matter with negative mass that can hold open a wormhole and support a slower-than-light inertialess drive system. Antimatter, of course, but also curious things from theoretical physics like q-balls and q-mirrors that allow complete and easy conversion of matter to antimatter.
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Unobtainium / int_a3ec3048	comment	Ultraseven saw the debut of a robot known as King Joe, constructed by the Alien Pedan race using the metal Pedanium. In all of its subsequent appearance, its construction with this metal has granted King Joe ridiculous levels of Super-Toughness.
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Unobtainium / int_a685790b	comment	Parodied in the fifties B-movie homage The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra with Atmosphereum, a super-powerful and poorly-defined element capable of operating spacecraft, resurrecting evil skeletons, and delivering actual advances in the field of science.
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Unobtainium / int_a9f06cb6	comment	In VeggieTales's The Fennel Frontier, the rare element Mewantium, which is something everyone wants, is the cause of a lot of conflict.
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Unobtainium / int_abfcff6a	comment	One arc on Rocky and Bullwinkle involved a search for a mountain full of "Upsidaisium", an anti-gravity metal.
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Unobtainium / int_ad20e006	comment	In a two-part episode of Wonder Woman (1975), we learn that her indestructible bullet-deflecting bracelets are made of "Feminum." (This is in contrast with the Comic Book canon, which at the time held that her bracelets were made of "Amazonium.")
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Unobtainium / int_b08200f3	comment	In Transformers: Age of Extinction, much of the plot revolves around the humans trying to master and use "transformium," the mineral which forms the DNA of the Transformers and acts as programmable matter. A company with a military contract already exhausted all they can by salvaging transformer corpses and are seeking more. They discover some in an old Cybertronian method of Hostile Terraforming that converts organic matter into transformium with the range of a nuke.
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Unobtainium / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	From an episode of Danger Mouse : "Have you seen my prototype indestructible handcuffs? They're made of Convenientium, a metal so rare there wasn't enough left over to make a key".
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Unobtainium / int_b187842f	comment	Fluid Karma in Southland Tales. A compound found by drilling in the ocean that apparently can be used to generate electric power. Also, acts as a drug working somewhat like a Green Rock.
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Unobtainium / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Valyrian steel for Westeros. The Valyrian Freehold was able to forge a steel that was lighter but far stronger than ordinary steel. Absolutely nothing cuts like Valyrian steel; it would go through a knight in full armor like a hot knife through frozen butter. The secret of forging Valyrian steel was lost in the Doom, partially due to the fact that magic is used in its forging and magic is nigh extinct, but a handful of smiths are able to rework it. It's used by the Order of Maesters to signify mastery of the higher mysteries. Needless to say, the handful of Valyrian steel swords and daggers are thus prized heirlooms for the houses of Westeros such as Ice for House Stark (which was reforged into two for House Lannister) and Longclaw for House Mormont (which was passed on to Jon Snow of the Night's Watch).
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Unobtainium / int_b3e81703	comment	In one fourth-wall breaking Arthur, King of Time and Space strip, Merlin, criticising Avatar for actually using the word "unobtanium", claims that the CAVE is powered by "runsoutatcriticalmomentsium".
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Unobtainium / int_b5346b9f	comment	White Sheep (RWBY): As in canon, Dust is the Applied Phlebotinum used for everything, but all the deposits that have been discovered are running out, and the world is approaching a Peak Oil situation. While there are still more deposits in the Grimmlands, one of the biggest game changers is the reveal that Dust actually grows the closer you get to Salem's tower and the Pools of Annihilation. Salem has basically unlimited money just from the Dust she clears off her tower every once in a while. Weiss, the heiress of the largest Dust company on the planet, is utterly gobsmacked and says this runs counter to everything the world knows about Dust. Giving mining rights to the other countries is a large step forward in getting the Grimmlands recognized as a nation.
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Unobtainium / int_b89bf586	comment	Ninjago has a number of these: Vengestone, which dampens one's Elemental Powers. Chronosteel, which goes a step further and is able to absorb one's powers permanently. A type of blue crystal, which can work in conjunction with Chronosteel to absorb and contain multiple powers at once. Deepstone, which harms ghosts and prevents possession, as it's mined from the bottom of the ocean and the ghosts' weakness is water. Clearstone, the hardest known substance.
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Unobtainium / int_ba8fa508	comment	Hawk and Dove (1990): the Druspa Tau arc features the magical "tridic metal" that can be willed into the shape of any object for which you know the True Name. Hawk figures out it also works if you know the object in enough detail to just name each individual component.
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Unobtainium / int_babeae6a	comment	Godzilla vs. Kong: Apex Cybernetics believe based on satellite scanning that the Green Rocks in the Hollow Earth which are apparently the original source of Godzilla's bio-atomic powers can be harnessed as a completely-unparalleled energy source; which is something Apex need to get their Secret Weapon working, because there's literally no manmade power source available on Earth which can fully charge it up. To this end, Apex develop the Hollow Earth Aerial Vehicles with the aim of achieving human entry to and exit from the Hollow Earth without being crushed by the gravity inversion. The synthetic version of the energy source which Apex duplicate does just what they wanted it to, but it also does more, thanks in no small part to a lack of basic testing and Apex being stupid enough to connect Ghidorah's undead, haunted skull up to their weapon.
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Unobtainium / int_bac46af6	comment	The Core lampshaded this, calling their Unobtainium Unobtainium ("Its real name is thirty-seven syllables long") which turned heat and pressure into electrical energy. Perfect for a journey through the Earth's molten core. Extremely practical, as all you had to do was to randomly cut supply wires and casually weld them to the substance in question, and you had an energy source that rivaled a nuclear reactor.note There are actually Real Life substances that turn pressure into electricity, known as Piezoelectric substances, although they wouldn't work on such a large scale. One example is quartz crystals (including the one that goes "tick" in your wristwatch). Piezoelectric materials work by flexing, seeing as how the energy has to come from somewhere. This means your core-ship would generate lots of lovely electricity in the process of crumpling into a ball. If a Real Life metallurgist with a sense of humor actually managed to make something that worked as in the movie, they might be sorely tempted to call it "unobtainium" or "impossibilium" or something like that.
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Unobtainium / int_bb55a676	comment	The first version of the Legion of Super-Heroes used "inertron" for this purpose, an invulnerable metal.
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Unobtainium / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: Almost every race has a form of this, from the psychic wraith bone to the ubiquitous armour plate the humans use on tanks, adamantium. Adamantium's properties are never really explained, though, in the books, it seems to suffer from a mineral variation of The Worf Effect ("How could they cut through X many feet of adamantium that easily?"). The technology levels in the setting also cause some rather strange applications for the unobtainium, such as adamantium bayonets fitted to the lasguns of the Imperial Guard. When Adamantium first appeared, it could only be created in orbital plasma refineries and once set it was essentially indestructible. Plasteel was what Terminators were mostly made out of (Dreadnoughts had significant amounts of Adamantium, but most vehicles weren't made of the stuff — heck, no real mention of what material they were made out of at all. Even the Land Raiders were mostly titanium-bonded ceramite when it was first discussed what they were made out of). Once Adamantium became ubiquitous through the Imperium, that's when the stuff got Worfed. Another Worf Effect example is the material used in Space Marine power armour, Ceramite. Often such examples involve either cutting blades or melta/heat weapons, as ceramite is reckoned to be extremely resistant to heat. (The name, incidentally, seems to refer to cermet, which is a real thing.) This also happens a lot with human building materials in that universe, all of which have odd but recognizable names and are supposedly better than what we have now, but which can be reduced to rubble in the first bombardment. Promethium is some kind of super fuel (or a generic term for any fuel), which is used in everything from their warmachines and flamethrowers, and can be harvested from gas planets, some kinds of ice, and in mineral form.
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Unobtainium / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun, true to its fantasy-scifi-blend form, borrows from myths for its Unobtainium, such as orichalcum, an alloy of copper, gold, silver, and mercury that couldn't even begin to exist if there wasn't magic in the world.
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Unobtainium / int_bdbcdadf	comment	In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, super metals like Nth Metal and feminum are mentioned throughout the story. Izuku's costume is as durable as he is thanks to being woven from Seventh Metal fibers provided by his father. Ochaco's costume is similarly durable thanks to being constructed from a diluted feminum alloy that cracks Tenya's armor when he tries to attack her in the Heroes vs. Villains exercise.
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Unobtainium / int_bff01809	comment	Warhammer: Glowing green "warpstone" is used to create mutations, enhance magical powers, bring the dead to life, and as an energy source for powerful technology. In the Skaven rat-men society, it is even used as currency. Warpstone is considered rare, and is mined and collected by nearly all factions in the Warhammer setting. The Warhammer world also has a moon composed entirely of warpstone, Morrslieb, which rains warpstone meteor showers on occasion.
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Unobtainium / int_c0aa8ea9	comment	Its evil twin is naquadriah, which can also be used to Blow Stuff Up, but is radioactive, "unstable" and has a track record of blowing up its users. Naquadriah also indirectly plays the Unobtainium role in Stargate Universe as the only known power source that can support a wormhole between the Milky Way and Destiny. Only problem is that it takes a planet full of the stuff to do it, and that planet tends to blow up in the process.
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Unobtainium / int_c2474b16	comment	The Way of the Metagamer has actual unobtainium, which adheres to Minovsky Physics.
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Unobtainium / int_c3bbb7f7	type	Unobtainium
Unobtainium / int_c3bbb7f7	comment	Adamant, which has a legendary hardness dating back centuries, being an older name for diamond. Unfortunately, it also shares a name with an adjective, and so tends to be saddled with suffixes. Look for Adamantine, or for that Sci-Fi twist, Adamantium.
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Unobtainium / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Dalek cases are made of Dalekanium, which makes them Immune to Bullets, although recent episodes showed that they now use a Deflector Shields variant to vaporize bullets before they even reach the case. Dalekanium is often called "bonded polycarbide" when they want it to sound less silly. Which basically means plastic, specifically Kevlar. Various episodes have featured a group of people in a confined space looking for Unobtainium when suddenly they get attacked by the alien of the week. Dark Matter has been used as the unobtainium more than once and has several different uses and effects depending on what episode you see, from use as transport between dimensions to regular spaceship fuel to turning people into bloodthirsty monsters. A variation in the serial The Daleks' Master Plan; the Daleks' Ultimate Weapon depends on a supply of the rare substance taranium. Unfortunately for them, the Doctor gets his hands on it first, and the Daleks spend the rest of the story trying to get it back.
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Unobtainium / int_ccae327f	comment	The inventions of The Spoony Experiment's Doctor Insano are powered by Raritanium.
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Unobtainium / int_d3cc40b5	comment	In Embers in the Dusk, the Troll Remnant Kingdom spends millions of years trying to recreate their extinct War in Heaven ancestors, until it turns out the original process depended too heavily on some extremely advanced C'tan material. Once the Destroyer is killed, its intact corpse turns out to contain enough that, with all the preliminary work done by the Remnant, the True Trolls should only take a week to recreate.
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Unobtainium / int_d4d8ce5f	comment	Deadlands: Ghost Rock, which burns twice as long and twice as hot as coal, is used for all the weird high tech stuff and somehow stopped the collapse of the Confederacy. Oh, and it looks like coal that has had tortured human faces into it, and it moans faintly when burned.
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Unobtainium / int_d56cafaf	comment	Power Rangers RPM has flux overthrusters needed to handle advanced zord control stuff. The first one was lost in the wastelands after the plane it was installed in was shot down. The second...well, it's lucky that that's when the bad guys sent a bot capable of Power Copying.
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Unobtainium / int_d63dd6f9	comment	Phantomarine: All the known Phantomarine in the world was supposedly used to make the Lighthouse Road, so Pavel's mother is baffled to find out some was made into a lantern and given to him.
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Unobtainium / int_dacffea0	comment	Allen Fesler writes stories set in the Chakona Space 'Verse. One of his inventions is boronike, which is extremely valuable and very useful to engineering types. It is commonly used in teleporter tech because of its inability to be teleported.
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Unobtainium / int_de528f6e	comment	The League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions has Plotonium as a generic whatever-the-plot-required supermetal. Also a building block of the universe that allowed people to have superpowers was Nevesytrof (much more stable then the Sub-Reality or Super-Reality of other universes.)
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Unobtainium / int_df1e73ec	comment	The Ducktales 2017 episode "Whatever Happened To Della Duck" reveals that the Spear of Selene rocket runs on gold for fuel, which Scrooge apparently never thought of putting inside when Della crash lands on the moon.
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Unobtainium / int_e081af79	comment	The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has borfomite, a rare substance that becomes an unstoppable weapon when chemically combined with caramel. Later, when Galatea gets hold of a sample she invents a borfomite-powered Deflector Shield that is proof against borfomite weapons.
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Unobtainium / int_e5c5bc22	comment	GURPS: The various essential elements from GURPS Magic as well as orichalcum and adamantium in Fantasy and hyperdense matter in Ultra-Tech.
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Unobtainium / int_eaff24ed	comment	Taylor Varga: The Varga is able to create a pseudo-metallic substance referred to as Vargastuff or "the good stuff". It's eventually revealed to be electron-degenerate matter that has been altered by Varga magic to 1) remain stable outside the core of a dying star and 2) behave for purposes of momentum and gravitational attraction as if it were "only" six and a half times heavier than lead, rather than approximately nine hundred thousand times heavier. The substance has effectively infinite durability, hardness, and tensile, compressive, and shear strengths, is almost totally frictionless, is both a perfect electric insulator and a perfect thermal conductor, doesn't really react chemically with anything, and interacts oddly with certain parahuman powers. It becomes a major component of the devices, structures, and designs the Varga creates, used in everything from armor and weapons to creating artificial life.
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Unobtainium / int_ebffc81f	comment	Mage: The Awakening: The "Perfected Metals". They have numerous extremely useful properties (perfected iron, for example, is practically indestructible, capable of cutting through diamond when properly sharpened, and can bend like rubber before returning to its original shape, with absolutely no metal fatigue), and can be used to create all manner of useful alloys (such as the anti-magic "thaumium"). There are only seven of them (only alchemical metals can be perfected), and it takes powerful magic to perfect them and alloy them. Perfecting is also a very expensive process, since it requires only naturally formed samples of metal (rather than transmuted or conjured) and only 10% of the mass yields perfected metal, with the rest being completely lost (hence, you perfect 100 grams of metal and only get 10 grams of perfected metal, with the remainder destroyed). Apeiron, a material that can only be produced by some archmasters and appears to be some sort of Platonic ideal: it has whatever physical properties are best for the situation at hand. This is actually an example of an author being extremely informed; in a philosophical debate in ancient Greece philosophers argued over which Element was the foundation of all existence. The winner of the debate proposed 'Apeiron' over any of the traditional four elements, describing it as 'undifferentiated stuff' that could concentrate into different configurations to form anything.
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Unobtainium / int_ef076a36	comment	At one point in Star Trek: Voyager when aliens try to kidnap Paris for the weapons research that has been implanted in his brain, Janeway mentions that they packed the shuttle he was captured in with fulmorite explosives.
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Unobtainium / int_f74b5f80	comment	The jumpgates and jumpdrives of Babylon 5 relied on an exotic and extremely rare mineral called Quantium-40 to function.
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Unobtainium / int_f7a71c3c	comment	Adamantium in X-Men Origins: Wolverine comes from meteors. Specifically, sacred African meteors, making it this continuity's answer to Vibranium. Thus completing the transformation begun in the Ultimate Avengers films.
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Unobtainium / int_fb9c177d	comment	The Transformers franchise is a pretty good place to mine for Unobtainium. Energon being the most frequent and the best example: Transformers need it to live, but too much unstable Energon radiation can cause shorting out. It's also highly volatile when stored in most environments (and likely to explode if dropped or fired upon), and other properties too bizarre and diverse to list. Other Unobtainium-like materials include... Electrum — a real substance, actually, but given fictional properties. Furmanite — Obscure, used only in one Botcon-exclusive comic. Nucleon (Though used as an Energon substitute, it causes bizarre reactions in a Transformer's "biology", most notably the loss of transformation ability.) Cybertonium (Never thoroughly explained, though it breaks down more rapidly in Earth's atmosphere than other Cybertronian minerals. Loss of this substance is serious for Transformers built on Cybertron. Like Energon, it can also be processed and stored in cubes.) Destronium The "living metal" that Transformers themselves are made out of in most continuities, which goes by different names and has different properties in each, but is usually capable of shapeshifting in its own right, flowing like liquid to form their humanoid bodies.
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Unobtainium / int_fe8ef766	comment	And Captain America's unobtainable unobtainium shield — completely indestructible, but also a handwavy one-off item. A number of stories suggest that Cap's shield is an otherwise impossible vibrainium/adamantium alloy reinforced by American righteousness (as opposed to ''self''-righteousness). Since the guy making it fell asleep during the forging process, we'll never know. The "vibranium/adamantium alloy" thing is due to a misprint in one of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe issues. His shield was made from a unique alloy of iron, Wakandan vibranium, and some unknown contaminant. When the metallurgist who had made it tried recreating the alloy (while Cap was frozen), the closest he could come up with is what's known as (true) adamantium, which is slightly weaker than the alloy in Cap's shield!
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Miniforce: New Heroes Rise (Animation) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Gekiganger 3 / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Godzilla: Singular Point / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
GunBuster / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Metropolis (2001) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Mobile Suit Gundam / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Secret of Cerulean Sand / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
UFO Robo Grendizer / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Captain America (Comic Book) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Echo (Comic Book) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Metabarons (Comic Book) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Scrameustache (Comic Book) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Thorgal (Comic Book) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Yoko Tsuno (Comic Book) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Dilgar War / Fan Fic / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door / Fan Fic / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script (Fanfic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Taylor Varga (Fanfic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Flight of the Alicorn (Fanfic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
There's a Fine Line (Fanfic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Universe Falls (Fanfic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Avatar / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Black Panther (2018) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Captain America: The Winter Soldier / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Commando Cody: Sky Marshal of the Universe / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Galaxy Quest / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Iron Man 2 / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Joe Versus the Volcano / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Lunopolis / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Moon / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Outlander (2008) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Overlord (2018) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Southland Tales / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Spider-Man 2 / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Star Trek (2009) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Core / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Total Recall (1990) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Transformers: Age of Extinction / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Young Einstein / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Dune (Franchise) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Ratchet & Clank (Franchise) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
StarCraft (Franchise) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
cosmicPostman (Lets Play) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Black Bullet / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Alexis Carew / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Alouette / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Amerindian Arbalists / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Apprentice Adept / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Artemis / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Black Bullet / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Chakona Space / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Cop Craft / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Dark Future / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Darkness Series / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Dune / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Geist Series / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
God-Emperor of Dune / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Gravity Falls: Journal 3 / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
I, Robot / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Lensman / int_51fe645e	type	Unobtainium
Lensman / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Lorien Legacies / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Mistborn: The Original Trilogy / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Prince Roger / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Raising Steam / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Republic Commando Series / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Ringworld / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Science and Sorcery / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Skylark Series / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Skyward / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Space Cadet (Rvbomally) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Spaceforce (2012) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Beyonders / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Cinder Spires / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Edge Chronicles / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Fall of the Sea People / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Fallen World / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Four Horsemen Universe / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Fourth Law of Robotics / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The King in Yellow / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Night Land / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Reunion With Twelve Fascinating Goddesses / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockA	seeAlso	Unobtainium
StickRPG	seeAlso	Unobtainium
TheHomeFront	seeAlso	Unobtainium
UnObtainium	sameAs	Unobtainium
Arpeggio of Blue Steel (Manga) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Bakusou Kyoudai! Let's & Go!! (Manga) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Black Cat (Manga) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Kagurabachi (Manga) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Outlaw Star (Manga) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Psychic Squad (Manga) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Skeleton Soldier Couldn't Protect the Dungeon (Manhwa) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
SAYER (Podcast) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Tropes T to Z / Real Life / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Ather City (Roleplay) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Althanas (Roleplay) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Battle Action Harem Highschool Side Character Quest (Roleplay) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Darwin's Soldiers (Roleplay) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Empire (Roleplay) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions (Roleplay) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Twilit Overture (Roleplay) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Brødrene Dal / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Danger 5 / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Engine Sentai Go-onger / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
For All Mankind / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Fringe / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Galileo / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Knight Rider / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Krypton / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
MostlyHarmless	seeAlso	Unobtainium
Pointless / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Power Rangers Time Force / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Star Trek: The Original Series / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Tin Man / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Tosh.0 / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Wonder Woman (1975) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Birthright (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Eberron (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Freedom City (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Gramarie System (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Mechanical Dream (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Rogue Trader (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
RuneQuest (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Star Wars Customizable Card Game (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Traveller (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
2300 AD (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
World of Synnibarr (Tabletop Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Alien Rage (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Alter Echo (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Anti-Idle: The Game (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Arknights (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Atlantica Online (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Atomic Heart (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Batman: Vengeance (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Battlezone (1998) (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
BioShock (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
City of Heroes (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Clash of Clans (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Cookie Clicker (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Crusader (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Doom (2016) (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Dragon Rage (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Elsword (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Eradicator (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Fallout 4: Northern Springs (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Flower Knight Girl (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Goddess of Victory: NIKKE (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Lacuna (2021) (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Lightmatter (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Magic Rampage (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Mass Effect (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Meet Your Maker (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Mega Man (Classic) (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Mega Man X: Command Mission (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Mega Man Zero (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Myst (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Origin Realms (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Out There (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Penumbra (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Phantasy Star (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Pillars of Eternity (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Piratez (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Planar Pioneers (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Poly Poly! Speed Daisakusen (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Punishing: Gray Raven (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Raptor: Call of the Shadows (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Rebel Galaxy (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Scribblenauts (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Shin Super Robot Wars (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Space Pirates and Zombies (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
StarCraft (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
SteamWorld Dig (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Stick RPG (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Story of Seasons (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Supercharged Robot Vulkaiser (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Synergism (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Tales of Destiny (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Alters (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The ClueFinders 5th Grade Adventures: The Secret of the Living Volcano (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Planet Crafter (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Room (Mobile Game) (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The XCOM Files (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Tobal (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Valley (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Warhawk (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
X-COM (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Xenoblade Chronicles X (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Muv-Luv Alternative (Visual Novel) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Radical Dreamers (Visual Novel) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Steins;Gate (Visual Novel) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (Web Video) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Collar 6 (Webcomic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
International Comic Continuity (Webcomic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Cyantian Chronicles (Webcomic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! (Webcomic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Times Like This (Webcomic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Tower of God (Webcomic) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Fantendo (Website) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
NationStates (Website) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Overused Sci-Fi Plot Devices (Website) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Ted (Website) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Batman: The Brave and the Bold / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Chris Colorado / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Costume Quest (2019) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Green Lantern: The Animated Series / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Inspector Gadget (2015) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Little Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Monsters vs. Aliens / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Rocky and Bullwinkle / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Sky Commanders / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Spider-Man: The Animated Series / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Spiral Zone / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
SWAT Kats / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Atlas Shrugged / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Empire from the Ashes / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Everworld / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Liaden Universe / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Sword of the Stars (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium
Ys (Video Game) / int_da8c447e	type	Unobtainium

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