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Kirk: Bones, did you ever hear of a doomsday machine?
McCoy: No. I'm a doctor, not a mechanic.
Kirk: It's a weapon built primarily as a bluff. It's never meant to be used. So strong, it could destroy both sides in a war. Something like the old H-Bomb was supposed to be. That's what I think this is. A doomsday machine that somebody used in a war uncounted years ago. They don't exist anymore, but the machine is still destroying.

"Doomsday device? Ah, now the ball's in Farnsworth's court! [presses a button, revealing his arsenal of doomsday weapons] I suppose I could part with one and still be feared..."
Professor Farnsworth, Futurama, "Time Keeps on Slippin'"

Dr. Strangelove: Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
Russian Ambassador Sadesky: It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.

"A Tesla device of that magnitude could focus electro-magnetic waves of terrible consequence upon any point in the world! An organisation that controlled such power could plunge us all into a new Dark Age! They could detonate intra-global bombardment rockets on their launch pads, shut down the energy webs of our cities, devastate countries through natural disasters, make women give up their virginity in torrid orgies—"
"So why does our government have such a weapon in the first place?"
"Don't be impertinent, Proton!"

The only weapon of use in the modern world is the vast and terrible one which cannot be understood or defended against, whose shadow will be a block on the dreams of madmen; a weapon so awful that the world cannot survive its use, so that no one would use it save in the moment of their own inevitable destruction, and no one seek or allow the destruction of the one whose hand is on the hilt, lest they find the blade cuts every throat on Earth.

"I've started project 'Fuck The World,' a top secret attempt to funnel magma to the outside. I'll kill those elephants. I'll kill all those fucking elephants."
StarkRavingMad, Boatmurdered

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