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Having a proper Geek conversation at work today...so list your top sci-fi hand held weapons with extra marks for google links to illustration.
Obvious ones are the guns from Aliens, Judge Dredd Lawgiver, the ickle gun from MIB....more?
What about hand weapons?
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Can't list all ten, but here's my number one for starters:
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The gun in rollerball that did this...
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Light saber
Light saber
Light saber
Light saber
Light saber
Light saber
Light saber
Light saber
Light saber
Gravity gun
That Blakes 7 thing looks like you could get it in Anne Summers 😯
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A phaser, Shirley?
"set to stun"
What is wrong with you people?
Also, lightsaber,[i] obviously.[/i] But failing that, Reason.
Light sabre.
Or a Death Star all of my own.
Deckards Blaster from Bladerunner
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Stormtrooper Blaster
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Aliens Pulse Rifle
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Oh come on, be original. Lightsabers are all very well, but a trifle obvious.
If we're into mainstream stuff, I like the Borg knuckle doohickey...
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Light sabre
Flak Cannon from Unreal
Needle gun from Halo
and the BFG!
Does ED209 count from Robocop?
Rouge troopers rifle (which was embedded with the brain of his dead friend).
I always remember one in an early Judge Dredd story where they were at war against the soviet mega city. The soviets had these range finding weapons that could shoot through walls. Dredd realised that if he could run towards them fast enough then they could not change the range quickly enough....the result was obviously not good for Sergei and his comrades.
Didn't sam slade have a cool gun too?
[PS given the prominence of this forum on Google search rankings, I half expect my miscreant colleagues to find this....message: Back off these are my finds, go write some SQL or whatever you techs do on a wednesday evening 😉 ]
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acme for the win!
MSP - MemberRouge troopers rifle (which was embedded with the brain of his dead friend).
He was blue, not red! Besides, they messed up with Gunnar slightly by calling him Gunnar. (and IIRC the helmet was Helm, and the bag was Mr GI Who Will Soon Be Dead And Turned Into A Bag) Friday's gun Eightball was cooler
Kanedas' laser rifle in Akira (with the motorbike of course)
Failing that, the Gun Carriage from "Against a dark background" or a decent knife missile 8)
Kinda sci-fi
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Offside! What self respecting knife missile would allow itself to be handled by a big sack of meat? How about the pistol from A Gift From The Culture?
Moh Kohn's smartgun in The Star Fraction was very nearly excellent, but took a bit of a back seat too early in the story. Ah well.
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Inoring the lightsaber, I do like the pistol carried by Ronon Dex in Stargate Atlantis. I don't think it's ever named but it's pretty cool. It's not really a weapon as such, but I would like a sonic screwdriver too.
apart from the lightsaber and aliens pulse rifle with flamethrower strapped on 😀
although it doesn't come from a film this is awesome (in a sick kind of way 😮
there was also a fantastic weapon from the first turok game (it looked like a long blue crystal and when you fired it,it set off a nuclear explosion that wiped out all enemies on screen (it was awesome 😀
edit here it is
just awesome fun 😀
Are there any hand launched nukes in the realms of Sci-Fi...I mean there must be!
APART from anything is star wars
The things in Dune that amplify their blue eye power thing
The gun from Portal
The point of view gun from hg2tg
Blakes 7 vibrator thing
Lawgiver
Robocop's gun
EDIT knife missiles from banks
Samuel Colt's gun in Supernatural.
Are there any hand launched nukes in the realms of Sci-Fi...I mean there must be!
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Mini_nuke
Zorg ZF-1
oh and if we're getting proper geeky, the harlequins kiss monofilament close combat weapon to liquidise an enemy in their armour or shuriken cannons used by eldar death jesters, in warhammer 40k
I would have gone for the Blake's 7 but that's taken so...
Logan's run runner splatterer:
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Well on the WH40K front I was always partial to the space marines chainsaw weapon, though the orks were always more satisfying to paint.
From one of my fave Sci-fi films, The Black Hole:
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vera?
geek alert- theres a firefly reunion panel at comic-con this year , maybe have an announcement......?
Can you name them all?
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In no particular order
The z6 rotary blaster from the clone wars
Luke Skywalker's Lightsabre
The rifle from district 9
The guns in the future sequences of terminator
Mr freeze ice gun from the cartoons not arnie's attempt in the tim burton films
Batman's grapple gun
Optimus primes sword/axe
Han Solo's blaster
Rifle from Aliens
The rifle from total recall
Hollies nob, y'know..off Red Dwarf
I do love a good lightsaber.
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Lazygun from 'Look To Windward' by Iain M Banks
how about:
Blade's sword [url= 
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hidden blade from assassins creed[url= 
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silver shuriken from underworld[url= 
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double crossbow in waylander
thors hammer[url= 
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Just about everything here:
http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Predators
In particular the AA-12 carried by Royce (Adrian Brody),
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the M134 Minigun, used by Nikolai
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The Blaser R93 LRS2, used by Isabelle,
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and the custom Beretta 92FS Inox used by Hanzo;
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the muzzle flame from the custom compensator looks really cool!
P90 from Stargate.
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groovy
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For sheer coolness I have to +1 this one.
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Also quite like this for old-fashioned bloody-mindedness in a hight tech future.
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Others that spring to mind.
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And when I was a kid I could ignore the pure shiteness of this film because I wanted a Glaive.
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slainte 😳 rob
Samaritan
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and Big Baby
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Deunan and Briarios using Landmates bullpup rifles in [i]Appleseed[/i]
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Seburo M5
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M5 being used by Major Kusenagi, [i]Ghost In The Shell SAC[/i]
Bone gun?
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Seburo C-26A Bullpup assault rifle, [i]Ghost In The Shell SAC[/i].
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Chewie's bowcaster
What about the rifle from Starship troopers?
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Does anyone remember Runaway from 1984? bullets that go round corners!
(And RC-car bomb things)
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And it wasn't the only thing hand held either 🙂
good call horatio that gun in runaway was ace
The Zat gun from stargate is great.
I love the look and the sound it makes is great.
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Ronon's gun from Atlantis is great too.
Does anyone remember Runaway from 1984? bullets that go round corners!
yep, great film (in it's time)!
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I think it's tough to beat an assault rifle with a chainsaw bayonet!
Edit- any of the weapons in this image are also suitably awesome.
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Stormtrooper Blaster
Did that ever actually hit anything?
portlyone and pleaderwilliams stole my ideas, the revolver from Firefly and the impulse guns from Eraser are sick.
Even though it's only fired twice, the sniper rifle from District 9..
Although not sure if it counts as hand held, looks to be about two meters long and like it could take out a tank.
Both the sword and the pistol that Babydoll used in Sucker Punch. Awesome combo (if that counts as sci-fi).
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Rorschach's grappling gun was pretty cool in Watchmen.
As are the Desert Eagles used by the Agents in the Matrix (although again, not particularly sci-fi).
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And the gravity hammer from Halo. So OTT it's just got to be awesome.
eXisteNz rules.
This is cool also.
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There is only one weapon to be considered here.
The Point of View Gun.
...the gun was created by Deep Thought prior to its long pondering of the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. When used on someone, it will cause them to see things from the point of view of the person firing the gun (the Guide says that it "conveniently, does precisely as its name suggests"). According to the Guide, though the gun was designed by Deep Thought, it was commissioned by the Intergalactic Consortium of Angry Housewives(/stwers), who were tired of ending every argument with their husbands with the phrase: "You just don't get it, do you?"
Shoot me Zooey.
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Lazygun from 'Look To Windward' by Iain M Banks
[geek mode]Of course you mean Lazygun from 'Against a dark background' by Iain M Banks[/geek mode]
Not the most predictable of weapons but if you need to destroy a planet...
Obviously if you build a gigantic fighting robot, instead of fitting it with guns you build a gigantic revolver with bullets the size of coke bottles.
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Well, I think kingdom of the crystal skull took Indiana Jones into sci-fi so I'm going to say the bull whip. Not as sophisticated or effective as a light sabre but cool as a polar bears dangly bits.
thos guns with rockets and nets and stuff on from the fifth element are cool
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Who needs a gun?
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Who throws a shoe?
terrible film, but I really do fancy one of those 'sick sticks' from Minority Report. No need for death and destruction when you can just turn your enemy into a puke machine instantaneously.
saddos 😉
Does "sci-fi" include games? Final Fantasy's gunblades were always pretty funky.
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Lightsaber, swords beat guns everytime
where's that 2nd one from cougar? (even by sf/rpg standards it looks a bit silly)
stormtrooper blaster is useless, accuracy is pish.
did GoW pinch the chainsaw bayonet of WH? (don't know anything about WH)
Does Romeo and juliet count as sci-fi?
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Metal Storm from the [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Time ]Axis of Time[/url] trilogy. Has the disadvantage of being real.
Guns and sabres 🙄 .
All you need is one of these
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Just tell them they can fly, and hope they aren't wearing sunglasses.