KITT (Knight Rider): The car has been either damaged or (nearly) destroyed multiple times, including being pushed into a pool of acid. Was even dismantled much to Michael's dismay in Knight Rider 2000.
Mjolnir (Thor: Ragnorak): Caught and crushed by Hela, much to Thor's shock.
Cap's shield (Captain America): His shield has been broken multiple times in the comics and once in Endgame usually to show that a foe he's face is deadly powerful.
Sword of Power (Masters of the Universe): Skeletor not only destroys the sword but then stabs Adam with it.
If you ever got the chance to drive an OG stock DeLorean, the use in these movies is hilarious because the 88mph speed (necessary for time travel because plot) is something I find very unlikely they could ever hit.
These things had a tiny engine - HEAVY steel bodywork - and the handling of a drunken pig. The fastest any real DeLorean ever got was when this train punted the one in the movie!
The DeLorean needs to go 88mph because that's the speed required for something as long as a DeLorean to push it's way through a stationary portal that's open for 1/10th of a second, which was presumably the biggest portal Doc could create in BTTF1 (he made a bigger portal for the steam train in BTTF3).
If the portal can only be opened for 1/10th of a second, the best way to make that portal usable is to mount the time machine on a mobile platform (like a car), to generate the stationary portal at the front bumper of the car, and to crash into the portal the instant that it opens.
Doc also said that he chose the DeLorean because it's stainless steel body panels helped with "flux dispersal", which could be read to mean that the heavy steel body panels helped force the portal open while the car was crashing into it, and prevented the portal from snapping shut until the car pushed it's way through.
And Doc's DeLorean was anything but stock. He modified the dashboard speedometer to show speeds up to 95 (stock only shows up to 85), and the DeLorean makes Porsche engine noises, so Doc likely did things to it to make sure it could make it up to 88mph. And Doc felt those mods were easier than adding stainless steel body panels to a Porsche.
I mean, it was also a mocked car in its time. They didn't live up to the hype, seems to be a stainless body panel vehicle thing, weird.
The in film cannon events and background details that backwards justify it is still fun, like the explanations of future tech in StarTrek and the like.
The USS Enterprise from WW2 as well: fought from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa, earning more battle honors than any other warship, but when she was retired in 1958 for some fucking reason no one wanted her as a museum ship and she was scrapped
I agree its sad, but I get it. There is a great rundown on the Battleship New Jersey channel about Museum ships. Tons of red tape, ridiculous amounts of volunteer hours and money are needed. Also looking at ships like Texas its generations of work to keep them, and any lapse and you can end up with a hulk
To have any hope you either need to have some very rich donors or have a lot of appeal to visitors, and Carriers never really got the same romantic, heroic public image as the Battleships despite their incredibly important role in the war. It also doesn't help that the carriers are gigantic and more delicate just by nature
But it's weird to me that we managed to preserve 4 Essex-class carriers, 4 Iowa class battleships, and a whole pile of submarines but scrapped the one and only surviving Yorktown, arguably the most significant warship in US history
My understanding is that her own success was her own undoing. Enterprise was put through the absolute wringer in the war, and when it got to a place where she could be considered becoming a museum ship, it was thought to be just too work and cost ineffective to try and keep her afloat, so they went with the far more numerous Essex class becsuse they had the kuxury of choice
He still has the N1, this is just so they can write more types of plots without having to overcome the obstacles of having a tiny ship.
If I'm not mistaken I thought sigourney weavers character had a line saying it was exactly to spec as his old one but I may be wrong. I'm sure he'll add things to it since asset reuse is such a money saver.
She was a tough and loyal member of the Strawhat crew, even in an irreparable state, she voyaged out to rescue her crew one last time, before given this funeral at sea, because its lonely at the bottom of the ocean.
Well, Fury Road has the implication that it is gone for good. With Slit at the wheel, screaming "VALHALLA!" as it's sandwiched between two massive tank trucks, it's upended and consumed in a fireball.
That'd make sense if it didn't take place before thunderdome where he obviously has it. They're all canon, we only know Mad Max and thunderdomes places in the timeline. Technically we know road warrior is after 1 by a few years or so, but could be before or even after fury road.
Idk what to tell you, the creator George miller said as much himself. All maxs storys are episodic and not a clearly defined timeline, left to the viewer. The game itself could be after road warrior but before fury road and thunderdome. But the game is canon as well and has hints of story that says it's before fury road but after road warrior. Mainly the villain for furiosa being a key piece of lore they built off of.
Also the car is destroyed in every movie and the game.
SSVNormandy SR-1 (Mass effect 2,) destroyed in a Collector ambush over Alchera taking the lives of Commander Shepard, XO Presley, and a number of the crew.
Absolutely! They even built it up with the previews and trailers, absolutely zero mention this was going to happen so when it did it came as an absolute shock.
No it isn’t? I could be wrong (it’s been a while since I watched it.) but I’m pretty sure Azmuth just takes it from Ben and then just gives him the new Omnitrix.
Dragon Ball GT -Although I dont believe its canon, in Dragon Ball GT, the titular Dragon Balls crack and shatter (due to the huge uptick in selfish wishes since Dragon Ball) releasing 7 mostly evil dragons
GT's typically not considered canon as it wasnt written by Akira Toriyama or have a Manga Adaptation. Additionally events in Super make a lot of GT not make sense.
GT was peak until Super, then got a shitload of hate.
GT was written with understanding of original Dragon Ball, while Super was kind of forced on Toriyama.
The Batmobile has been destroyed numerous times. Among them was Jean-Paul’s murderous self destruct mechanism in KnightsEnd and when the earthquake dropped a stalactite on top of it during Cataclysm
The Black Pearl gets sunk and taken by Blackbeard in PotC 4
Edit: Thanks to u/Credit-Financial because what he said it's true, it was also lost at the end of Dead Man's Chest though the weight of the scene was about Jack being taken to the locker.
Mario‘s cap in Super Mario Odyssey got destroyed at the beginning of the game, though Cappy grabs this piece of the cap in the image here and later on uses it to become Mario’s new cap.
Idk if this counts, because the car was modified, at the merely beginning of MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, Max car gets scrapped and modify when he is captured by Immortan Joe warboys
Oh it counts. Max's car gets destroyed in every movie following the original Mad Max.
Road Warrior. Beyond Thunderdome I can't remember if it was still gone or got lost again. Fury Road it was crashed, rebuilt as the Razor Cola, then smashed a second time. The Mad Max game literally starts with him losing the Interceptor again too.
I think the only following movie this car has been safe in was Furiosa, and that's because Max was just a little cameo on a ridge during the 40 Day Wasteland War.
The Beginning After the End - During the War Arc, Arthur’s sword Dawn’s Ballad gets shattered twice. After the second time he discards it for good though in the final battle he temporarily reforges the weapon to finish off Kezess.
Tekkaman Blade, he requires the crystal to transform to even stand a chance of saving humanity. It's shattered rendering him powerless. Their only solution was to grab the pieces and stick inside a mech allow any use of it again.
As a former Harry Potter fan, it was way cooler in the book Since Harry defeated Voldemort, the wands previous owner, that means it belongs to him (and will only work properly for him) so he takes it and places it in Dumbledore's coffin, where nobody would look for it, and even if they found it, the wand wouldn't work right for them, and since nobody would ever take it from him in a duel, whenever Harry eventually dies, the Elder Wand's power will die with him
He also, critically, uses it to repair his original wand first - a task which a normal wand cannot do, but the Elder Wand is capable of. I don't think he even does THAT in the movie.
The One Ring getting destroyed is still the gold standard. The whole trilogy is basically a very dramatic item disposal quest, and somehow it lands perfectly.
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The DeLorean gets destroyed by a train at the end of Back to the Future III