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* ''[[Film/IronMan Iron Man 2]]'' has [[spoiler:Tony Stark create a new element by building a particle accelerator in a bunker using spare weapons parts]].

* ''[[Film/IronMan Iron Man 2]]'' has [[spoiler:Tony Stark create a new element by building a particle accelerator in his basement WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS, and then operates it ''by twisting a valve with his bare hands'']].
** Let's be fair... [[spoiler:[[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne he used a wrench to turn the valve]].]]

* The LHC's older brother, the SPS, has demonstrated that neutrinos can go faster than the speed of light (and has shown this consistently), which is strong evidence against relativity, i.e. the basis of modern physics. Physicists are currently in a state that is probably best described as "flipping their shit".

* The ''{{Torchwood}}'' radio play "Lost Souls", written to celebrate the launch of the LHC, has an alien soul-stealer living in the tunnels of the Collider, let in by a rip in the universe caused by the accelerator. [[ReversePolarity Reversing the polarity]] of the beams conveniently destroys the beast ''and'' reveals the Higgs Boson.

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* ''[=~GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra~=]'' has a [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed No Hadron Colliders Were Harmed]] version of the LHC, close enough to Paris that [[EiffelTowerEffect the Eiffel Tower is clearly visible]]. It's also apparently owned and run by a single rich, snooty man and, once he's taken hostage, Cobra is free to use it to activate their stolen nanoweapons.

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* The ''{{Torchwood}}'' radio play "Lost Souls", written to celebrate the launch of the LHC, has an alien soul-stealer living in the tunnels of the collider, let in by a rip in the universe caused by the accelerator. [[ReversePolarity Reversing the polarity]] of the beams conveniently destroys the beast ''and'' reveals the Higgs Boson.

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* In ''Game/AnotherWorld'', Lester gets transported to the titular other world when {{lightning|CanDoAnything}} strikes the particle accelerator while he's running an experiment.

* "Saturn Ring" system in ''DarkerThanBlack'' was an accelerator on the scale of RealLife colliders. It was supposed to destroy [[RealityIsOutToLunch Gates]] along with [[AlienSky everything]] and [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual everyone]] linked to them. Or at least one quite competent MadScientist is quite sure it should, anyway. There was [[{{understatement}} some commotion]] when the news about this leaked out, of course. Note that the tunnels around the storage ring are evacuated -- as far as people on whom "workplace safety" extends are concerned. [[spoiler:And that the damaged tube looks like it's under some heavy fire even when no one hits it anymore.]]

* Remember those old TVs? They run on cathode tubes, which are technically particle accelerators.

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* Did you saw, for example, [[http://www.internetstones.com/dresden-green-diamond-famous-jewelry.html green diamonds]]? They are either found in places where it was subjected to lots of penetrating radiation over centuries, or made by affecting a normal gem with the same... really quickly.

* "Saturn Ring" system in ''DarkerThanBlack'' was an accelerator on the scale of RealLife colliders. It was supposed to destroy [[RealityIsOutToLunch Gates]] along with [[AlienSky everything]] and [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual everyone]] linked to them. Or at least one quite competent MadScientist is quite sure it should, anyway. There was [[{{understatement}} some commotion]] when the news about this leaked out, of course. Note that the tunnels around the storage ring are evacuated -- as far as people on whom "workplace safety" extends are concerned, anyway. [[spoiler:And that the damaged tube looks like it's under some heavy fire even when no one hits it anymore.]]

The newest PhlebotinumDuJour - ILoveNuclearPower for [[TurnOfTheMillennium The Noughties]]/TheNewTens/''Whatever The Hell This Decade Is Called''. Presumably thanks to the massive publicity surrounding the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider Large Hadron Collider]] (LHC), particle accelerators have become the latest science thingy that can do anything. Note that this usually involves visible beams and massive tunnels that people can stand next to or even ''inside'' [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace without suffocating]], [[ConvectionSchmonvection freezing, boiling or dying of radiation poisoning]].

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* A particle accelerator firing causes time to repeat in a [[GroundhogDay Groundhog Day Loop]] for a man in the made-for-TV movie, ''12:01''. He's aware of the looping of time because he was [[LightningCanDoAnything electrocuted]] by his alarm clock at exactly the time the particle accelerator fired off the first time, making him able to defeat one PhlebotinumDuJour with a much older one.

* ''{{Angels and Demons}}'' features an accelerator at CERN being used to produce enough {{antimatter}} to blow up the Vatican (CERN does really produce antimatter, but only a tiny fraction of that amount).

* The ''{{Torchwood}}'' radio play "Lost Souls", written to celebrate the launch of the LHC, has an alien soul-stealer living in the tunnels of the collider, let in by a rip in the universe caused by the accelerator. [[ReversePolarity Reversing the polarity]] of the beams conveniently destroys the beast ''and'' reveals the Higgs Boson.
** The monster is a definite case of YouFailPhysicsForever. It steals all your neutrons!

* In the novel ''{{Flashforward}}'', firing the LHC at the exact moment a neutron star erupts starts the plot's [[TimeyWimeyBall Timey Wimequake]].
* An advert for the [[ShavingIsScience Gillete Fusion razor]] has scientists making ''razor blades'' with some sort of bizarre particle accelerator/fusion reactor thingummybob.
* Writing in "LHC" (or [[ForScience "SCIENCE"]]) in ''{{Scribblenauts}}'' is one of several ways of [[KillEmAll killing everyone on the screen. Including yourself]].
* This type of device was used in ''{{The X-Files}}'' episode "Soft Light", giving a guy a literal killer shadow.

* On ''{{Futurama}}'', Professor Farnsworth buys a super collider from Pi-kea.
-->'''Prof. Farnsworth:''' [[CatchphraseInterruptus Bad news nobody]]. The Super Collider's Super Exploded. I need you to take it back to trade it in for a wobbly CD rack and some of those rancid meatballs.
* In ''Game/AnotherWorld'', Lester gets transported to the titular other world when {{lightning|CanDoAnything}} strikes the particle accelerator while he's running an experiment.
* ''[[{{Marvel 2099}} Punisher 2099]]'' (comic book): the new Punisher uses a sort of Particle Accelerator to "kill" the soul of a criminal that obtained immortality via reincarnation. Possibly the poster definition of "overkilling".
* In what is arguably the closest anyone has ever come to actually being killed by a ''real-life'' particle beam, a Russian named Anatoli Bugorsky stuck his head in the proton stream of a particle accelerator while performing some maintenance work. He reportedly saw a flash "brighter than a thousand suns". Amazingly, he survived (though it wasn't pretty). [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Bugorski The other wiki]] has an article about it.

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* '''Punisher2099''' (comic book): the new Punisher uses a sort of Particle Accelerator to "kill" the soul of a criminal that obtained immortality via reincarnation. Possibly the poster definition of "overkilling".

* Warehouse 13 [[spoiler:steals antimatter from the CERN facility to power the Imperceptor vest to break into the Escher Vault and steal cosmetics. Oh, and the plan to a death ray.]]

The newest PhlebotinumDuJour - ILoveNuclearPower for [[TurnOfTheMillennium The Noughties]] / TheNewTens / ''Whatever The Hell This Decade Is Called''. Presumably thanks to the massive publicity surrounding the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider Large Hadron Collider]] (LHC), particle accelerators have become the latest science thingy that can do anything. Note that this usually involves visible beams and massive tunnels that people can stand next to or even ''inside'' [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace without suffocating]], [[ConvectionSchmonvection freezing, boiling or dying of radiation poisoning]].

* ''AngelsAndDemons'' features an accelerator at CERN being used to produce enough {{antimatter}} to blow up the Vatican. (CERN does really produce antimatter, but only a tiny fraction of that amount)
* ''GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'' has a [[NoCommunitiesWereHarmed No Hadron Colliders Were Harmed]] version of the LHC, close enough to Paris that [[EiffelTowerEffect the Eiffel Tower is clearly visible]]. It's also apparently owned and run by a single rich, snooty man and, once he's taken hostage, Cobra is free to use it to activate their stolen nanoweapons.
* The ''{{Torchwood}}'' radio play "Lost Souls", written to celebrate the launch of the LHC, has an alien soul-stealer living in the tunnels of the collider, let in by a rip in the universe caused by the accelerator. [[ReverseThePolarity Reversing The Polarity]] of the beams conveniently destroys the beast ''and'' reveals the Higgs Boson.

* ''{{Iron Man 2}}'' has [[spoiler:Tony Stark create a new element by building a particle accelerator in his basement WITH A BOX OF SCRAPS, and then operates it ''by twisting a valve with his bare hands'']].

* In the novel ''{{Flashforward}}'', firing the LHC at the exact moment a neutron star erupts starts the plot's [[TimeyWimeyBall Timey Wimequake.]]

* This type of device was used in ''TheXFiles'' episode "Soft Light", giving a guy a literal killer shadow.

* In ''Game/AnotherWorld'', Lester gets transported to the titular other world when [[LightningCanDoAnything lighting]] strikes the particle accelerator while he's running an experiment.

* Warehouse 13 [[spoiler: steals antimatter from the CERN facility to power the Imperceptor vest to break into the Escher Vault and steal cosmetics. Oh, and the plan to a death ray.]]