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* ''Literature/JulianComstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America'' by Creator/RobertCharlesWilson. During Julian's campaign in Labrador, rumor spreads among his soldiers that he has a secret weapon sold to their side by the Chinese. Julian doesn't discourage the rumors as he figures they are good for morale, but when he finds his forces surrounded and cut off from friendly forces, he realises that a BrandishmentBluff is the only card he has to play. Unfortunately it works too well; the Dutch bring up extra forces in preparation for the 'secret weapon' who eventually overwhelm his initially successful attack.
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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. In the "Camelot" episode, our heroes are about to be killed by the BlackKnight when Graeme hauls out a large wooden box marked YE SECRET WEAPON. [[spoiler:It's a giant magnet.]]
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->'''Avon:''' We do not know what IMIPAK is.
->'''Blake:''' Exactly. The least we've got to do is find out what it does.
->'''Vila:''' Why have we? I can live without it.
->'''Blake:''' It's just conceivable that you can't.
->'''Avon:''' Unless of course you want your last words to be, "So ''that's'' IMIPAK!"
->'''Blake:''' Exactly. The least we've got to do is find out what it does.
->'''Vila:''' Why have we? I can live without it.
->'''Blake:''' It's just conceivable that you can't.
->'''Avon:''' Unless of course you want your last words to be, "So ''that's'' IMIPAK!"
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->'''Avon:''' We do not know what IMIPAK is.
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'''Blake:''' Exactly. The least we've got to do is find out what itdoes.
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'''Vila:''' Why have we? I can live withoutit.
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'''Blake:''' It's just conceivable that youcan't.
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'''Avon:''' Unless of course you want your last words to be, "So ''that's'' IMIPAK!"
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'''Blake:''' Exactly. The least we've got to do is find out what it
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'''Vila:''' Why have we? I can live without
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'''Avon:''' Unless of course you want your last words to be, "So ''that's'' IMIPAK!"
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* Umbrella corporation had a number of these in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' for dealing with bioweapons that get out of control, weapons such as [[MagneticWeapon a rail gun for Nemesis]] or a laser-firing KillSat in Africa. Unfortunately for Umbrella, their human foes often find them and use them for their own purposes.
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* Umbrella corporation had a number of these in ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' for dealing with bioweapons that get out of control, weapons such as [[MagneticWeapon [[MagneticWeapons a rail gun for Nemesis]] or a laser-firing KillSat in Africa. Unfortunately for Umbrella, their human foes often find them and use them for their own purposes.
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** Relatively mundane compared to the above, but the U.S. also considered the Norden Bombsight to be this. Incorporating a sophisticated mechanical targeting computer that received data from the aircraft's instruments and could give directions to the plane's autopilot to make course corrections and ensure accurate bombing, the Norden Bombsight was kept under lock and key between missions and was required to be destroyed as part of the crew's bailout procedures to keep the Germans from capturing it. Its actual real-world performance was considered to be a bit lacking compared to USAAF claims that it allowed "Pickel Barrel Accuracy" during daylight attacks.
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** When British intelligence first uncovered references to V-1 and V-2 weapons, they could only guess at their nature - and "death rays" and "engine-stopping rays" were ''higher'' on the list of suspects than cruise missiles or ballistic rockets.
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** When British intelligence first uncovered references to V-1 and V-2 weapons, they could only guess at their nature - -- and "death rays" and "engine-stopping rays" were ''higher'' on the list of suspects than cruise missiles or ballistic rockets.
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** As pictured, the atom bomb (Fat Man model shown) was a closely guarded secret weapon of the United States military during World War II.
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** As pictured, the The atom bomb (Fat Man model shown) was a closely guarded secret weapon of the United States military during World War II.
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** ''Film/DiamondsAreForever ''
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''Film/DiamondsAreForever''. The diamond smuggling operation Bond is investigating turns out to be related to a KillSat his old enemy Blofeld is building to hold the world to ransom.
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** ''Film/{{Goldeneye}} ''''Film/{{Goldeneye}}'' is a Soviet {{EMP}} satellite-based weapon.
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* ''The Dead Can Wait'' by Robert Ryan. Major Watson is asked (or rather coerced) by Wintson Churchill into investigating a DisastrousDemonstration of the first tanks. The weapon is so secret Churchill has had Literature/SherlockHolmes imprisoned on an island for fear he might give away the secret. The killer turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist [[ForegoneConclusion trying to delay deployment of the tanks in the Somme]] so they'll ''remain'' secret until the Allies have built thousands of them.
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* ''The Dead Can Wait'' by Robert Ryan. Major Watson is asked (or rather coerced) by Wintson Winston Churchill into investigating a DisastrousDemonstration of the first tanks. The weapon is so secret Churchill has had Literature/SherlockHolmes and a bunch of others imprisoned on an island for fear he they might give away the secret. The killer turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist [[ForegoneConclusion trying to delay deployment of the tanks in the Somme]] so they'll ''remain'' secret until the Allies have built thousands of them.
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* ''The Dead Can Wait'' by Robert Ryan. Major Watson is asked (or rather coerced) by Wintson Churchill into investigating a DisasterousDemonstration of the first tanks. The weapon is so secret Churchill has had Literature/SherlockHolmes imprisoned on an island for fear he might give away the secret. The killer turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist [[ForegoneConclusion trying to delay deployment of the tanks in the Somme]] so they'll ''remain'' secret until the Allies have built thousands of them.
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* ''The Dead Can Wait'' by Robert Ryan. Major Watson is asked (or rather coerced) by Wintson Churchill into investigating a DisasterousDemonstration DisastrousDemonstration of the first tanks. The weapon is so secret Churchill has had Literature/SherlockHolmes imprisoned on an island for fear he might give away the secret. The killer turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist [[ForegoneConclusion trying to delay deployment of the tanks in the Somme]] so they'll ''remain'' secret until the Allies have built thousands of them.
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* ''The Dead Can Wait'' by Robert Ryan. Major Watson is asked (or rather coerced) by Wintson Churchill into investigating a DisasterousDemonstration of the first tanks. The weapon is so secret Churchill has had Literature/SherlockHolmes imprisoned on an island for fear he might give away the secret. The killer turns out to be a WellIntentionedExtremist [[ForegoneConclusion trying to delay deployment of the tanks in the Somme]] so they'll ''remain'' secret until the Allies have built thousands of them.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'': Played quite straight, when the mice build a "secwet weapon" to scare off the cats at the climax, in the form of an enormous puppet of [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever the Giant Mouse]] [[LegendOfChekhov of Minsk]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'': Played quite straight, when the mice build a "secwet weapon" to scare off the cats at the climax, in the form of an enormous puppet of [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever the Giant Mouse]] [[LegendOfChekhov Mouse of Minsk]].
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* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' saw the development of the KillSat project, the Hammer of Dawn for use against the Locusts.
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* ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar'' saw the development of the KillSat project, the Hammer of Dawn for use against the Locusts.Locust. Being a subterranean race, they were only slowed down. The Locust respond in the second game with a secret weapon of their own that somehow drops entire cities into sinkholes, eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a titanic SandWorm.]]
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* ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Walter Simmons]] hints at [[Characters/MonsterVerseMechagodzilla Mechagodzilla]]'s existence to the world on national television after Godzilla's Pensacola attack, without revealing precisely what it is (or that it's actually the ''cause'' of Godzilla's attack), and Team Godzilla's plot for most of the movie focuses on working out what Apex is hiding, culminating in Mechagodzilla's dramatic debut. [[spoiler:It turns out that Apex's plan is to lure an aggravated Godzilla to Hong Kong with Mechagodzilla's signal, then set the Mecha on him to kill and replace him in one monstrous FalseFlagOperation so that they'll be hailed by the world as heroes]].
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Something of a DiscreditedTrope, simply because it was overused to the point of nausea in the past, so it is more often [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] or PlayedForLaughs in modern fiction. Also, while secret weapons used to be almost exclusive to [[BigBad super villains]], more and more works are giving [[TheHero heroes]] a chance to to invoke this trope as well.
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Something of a DiscreditedTrope, simply because it was overused to the point of nausea in the past, so it is more often [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] or PlayedForLaughs in modern fiction. Also, while secret weapons used to be almost exclusive to [[BigBad super villains]], more and more works are giving [[TheHero heroes]] a chance to to invoke this trope as well.
