This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Looney Toons: Is the Star Craft example really spelled "Yamoto", or is that a misspelling of "Yamato"?
Kendra Kirai: So far's I know, it's Yamato. Named, of course, after the Yamato. :)
Looney Toons: That's what I suspected. I'll go fix it then, unless someone's beaten me to it.
Kendra Kirai: I'm going to resize that picture. Give me a couple minutes. \\ There we go, it's still in the page history, unfortunately, but the page itself looks much better now.
KF: Starlight Breaker in Nanoha isn't anywhere close to being a Wave Motion gun, even when cast by the Big Bad it's only in the large-nuke range. The Arc en Ciel on the the warships in the same series would probably qualify though.
SAMAS Does the Death Blossom really count? At worst, it's a variation of Macross Missile Massacre, at best, it's a trope of it's own.
mathrick: The unplugging remark is rather silly, it's not done mostly for the same reason one does just not switch off a nuclear power plant. If something takes 15 minutes to charge, a reasonable and merited assumption would be that not letting it finish has the same effect as with a projector lamp, just more deadly and even more expensive.
Randallw:Something I remember from seeing Starblazers as a child was that the Yamato went through season 1 with a WMG and then retired to be replaced by a new generation of ships, all with WMG - 2 in some cases (and what's the point of 2 weapons that destroy everything?). Of course the brand new ones are useless agasint the comet empire. Is that worth mentioning?
Canon Rap: Now that I think about it, the Fate Stay Night entry about Excalibur isn't really accurate (even though I put it up). But both Excalibur and Ea have insane power and aren't at BFG-scale yet. Can anyone think of a better place to put them?
Nerem: I changed the DBZ entry slightly, because what was listed never happens - that '5 minutes happens over 10 episodes', which is from a misinterpretation of events where Freeza says it'll take 5 minutes for Namek to explode - but in later episodes, he admits he screwed up and held back too much, which is why it took so long to finally explode.
I also editted the comment about the Ideon Gun destroying galaxies - which is pure fanon made up by people who never saw the show. Its obviously based on exaggeration and just plain ignoring the end of the movie, where the Gando Rawa explodes, wiping out a star system and destroying the Ideon. Or misinterpretating that the Ideon Gun did that, even though the Ideon itself was destroyed before it could ready the gun.
Susan Davis: Moved the death ray quote to Death Ray, where it's more appropriate.
"Why would a directed energy weapon have recoil?"
For the same reason satellites can maneuver, albeit very slowly, via photon pressure; photons may or may not be massless depending on who you're asking, but they certainly do carry an incredibly tiny but still measurable momentum. Scale that up to something that can rip battleships in half, and it's not at all unreasonable to think that there might be just a little nudge in the direction opposite the beam.
What, no mention of Gun Buster's main weapon, which takes out the entire enemy fleet? And that's not even including Buster Machine 3, which is a bomb big enough to take out the enemy's home galaxy.
