[Darkwatch]

An Akronid Bomb from the Perry Rhodan series.

Anything with an atomic mass above 10 is automatically fissioned causing a chain reaction that destroys planets and all manner of pesky things they encounter.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

Whitout doubt in Malaz Book of the fallen the best weapon is Dragnipur but ther is even Karsa(may he die a horrible death) swordwich is not bad.
In other books I include the Elder Wand(Hp and the Deathly Hallows) and the Dagda Mor Stick of Power(The Elfstones of Shannara).
Oh yeah there is Luke sword Backbiter in The Lighting Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians series) which is also really cool.

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[Dave26]

I liked the bloody nines sword of the maker. Its just the best made sword in the world...no special qualities just really really really well made. And GoreChild Kharn the Betrayers chain axe from warhammer 40k which hands down has the best weapons........anywhere.

[Kalahinen]

Kage-za;240891 said:

From Tolkien:
Anglachel (Turin's sentient black sword)

Actually borrowed from the Finnish Kalevala.

[Darkwatch]

I can't believe I just remembered this:

Suörgil (Shining Death), the weapon of the Inchoroi King in his wars against the Nonmen.

[Salt-Man Z]

I typically tend more towards sci-fi than fantasy, but I always liked the magical sword "Kosall" from Matt Stover's Caine books. When magically activated, Kosall can literally cut through anything, and undergoes a kind of upgrade in Blade of Tyshalle when it's given the ability to trap souls within its blade. (Somewhat akin to Dragnipur, now that I think about it.)

[WhiskeyJackDaniels]

I've got a few that nobody mentioned...Rhulad's sword is pretty interesting, not that part that the person holding it can't permanently die, but the fact that it was the sword that made Rhulad a good fighter, it would move around and basically fight for him.

Also Callandor is pretty sweet, you can use it as a normal sword if you want...or you can use it to destroy everything in front of you.

[Stradivarius]

heron marked blade from wot. unbreakable and you never need to sharpen the bugger! what a useful weapon!

[frookenhauer]

I'm sorry! He Mans sword was the best sword in the universe...does Sci Fi count? If so...Lightsabers!

[stone monkey]

If sf weapons are allowed then:

I rather like Gridfire as used in Iain Banks Culture novels - the scene where Vavatch gets taken apart is really impressive.

And then there's the cache of Hell Class Weapons that the Nostalgia For Infinity is carting aroung in Alastair Reynolds Revelation Space the least of which can take apart planets and no one knows how they got them or even who made them.

Or there's the so-called Compton Visual Hack from Ken Macleod's books that's a memetic weapon that rewrites a human being's brain by showing them an image on a screen that allows it to download itself into their visual cortex (much like the Snow Crash virus from Neal Stephenson's book of the same name)

[Cougar]

Not a weapon in the strictest terms but the Sleeping God in PF Hamiltons Nights Dawn, allows you to do anything you want, at all, and can hold a conversation with you.

If not that I've always liked the combat wasps from the same series, where Al Capones rebel fleet drops back into real space and gets hit by thousands of combat wasps instantly is great.

[Sindriss]

Atma weapon from Final fantasy 6, did more dmg the more max hp you had, had the maximum weapon power of 255. And it was damn good looking too!

[Use Of Weapons]

The Speaking Gun from Simon Green's nightside: unmakes the target by uttering backwards the echo of creation that formed it. And made out of meat and bone and gristle. Yum!

[masan's saddle]

Culture warships !

They can boil your organs and then turn you inside out from light years away, and snigger when they do it!

I also remember playing a lesser known X-Box game a while back called Armed and Dangerous, I think the weapon was called a Land Shark Gun ?

You fired it at an enemy ( on land obviously) and this little thing plops outa the end of the gun and snakes away underground towards your intended victim. Next thing you know an enormous shark explodes from underneath the unfortunate fool and bites him in half. Awesome.

This game had some pretty tasty weapons, the only other one I can remember was the inverted gravity bomb, turned the whole screen reality upside down...... everbody else falls sceaming to their deaths with a meaty splatt !

All good fun.

[polishgenius]

masan's saddle, on Mar 18 2009, 11:32 PM, said:

Culture warships !

They can boil your organs and then turn you inside out from light years away, and snigger when they do it!

They're not really weapons though, are they?

[masan's saddle]

polishgenius, on Mar 19 2009, 12:43 AM, said:

masan's saddle, on Mar 18 2009, 11:32 PM, said:

Culture warships !

They can boil your organs and then turn you inside out from light years away, and snigger when they do it!

They're not really weapons though, are they?

Errrm...... ? ....., howsa about the effector/displacer/field manipulator gizmos they use to turn people inside out ?

Weapon (wep-). Instrument used in war or combat as means of attack or defence; any part of body (esp. of bird or beast) used for similar purpose, as claw, horn, etc.; any action or means used against another in conflict.

( OED 2nd Edition, OUP 1975)

If a human being can be classed as a "weapon" why not a Culture Warship ?

[SteererScott]

Just my tuppence worth here, but surely on the Awesome weapons list, Kring (from Discworld) has to be pretty high, even little ol' Rincewind turns into a pretty mean fighter, and it talks! (although that could be a little annoying)

On games, surely the Redeemer from the Unreal Tournament original game is the best - fires guidable nuclear weapons!!

[Darkwatch]

I also vote for Rulke's Construct.

Invulnerable to all forms of magic, can fly, is an armoured tank, has magic beam weapons and can open interdimensional portals.

[polishgenius]

masan's saddle, on Mar 19 2009, 01:09 AM, said:

If a human being can be classed as a "weapon" why not a Culture Warship ?

Can a human be classed as a weapon, outside of fancy spy thriller talk for training someone up to be a bastard?


Culture warships have weapons, sure, lots of very nasty and interesting ones, but they ain't weapons themselves. A tank's not a weapon, the big gun on the front is.

Anyway, getting off the beaten track here...

[masan's saddle]

polishgenius, on Mar 19 2009, 11:05 PM, said:

masan's saddle, on Mar 19 2009, 01:09 AM, said:

If a human being can be classed as a "weapon" why not a Culture Warship ?

Can a human be classed as a weapon, outside of fancy spy thriller talk for training someone up to be a bastard?


Culture warships have weapons, sure, lots of very nasty and interesting ones, but they ain't weapons themselves. A tank's not a weapon, the big gun on the front is.

Anyway, getting off the beaten track here...

Hmmmmm , your right, lets not get bogged down in semantics, I can't be arsed. Talking of which, food for thought, my missus says my bum is " an offensive weapon ".

To be continued.