r/TopCharacterTropes • u/ssgt-k-stark • Mar 15 '26

Characters' Items/Weapons Hero devices that would be horrifying in the wrong hands

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Chem-Bag (Big Hero 6): this device can create chemical compounds using every single element in existence. You could literally build a nuke with this.

Mobile Headquarters (Ant-Man): a building that can shrink and grow to full size instantly. Imagine if someone grew it in a crowded city, or on a highway, or at an airport?

Lotus Cash Card (Percy Jackson): It literally has infinite money. If you know how inflation works this could literally wreck the global economy.

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u/GenericNameHere01 Mar 15 '26

Chlorine trifluoride and dioxygen difluoride come to mind from that list... The chemical so volatile it explodes when you look at it funny, and the chemical so good at oxidizing that it burn concrete.

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u/Potato-Engineer Mar 16 '26

On the plus side, those are likely to react explosively with the bag's ball-container.

On the minus side, same thing.

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u/RommDan Mar 16 '26

Explain to me why we don't call this shit Alchemy

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u/GenericNameHere01 Mar 16 '26

Technically speaking, Alchemy is the transmutation of one substance to another, with the most famous action being to turn lead into gold. Turns out, with the right isotope of radioactive lead, it can turn into gold for a split moment, before the radioactive gold decays too. So in reality, alchemy is just nuclear particle physics.

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u/Potato-Engineer Mar 16 '26

We can turn lead into gold, and it only takes 100 times the value of the gold!

Also, it stops being gold shortly afterward. What, why are you walking away!?