Greetings nerdy list aficionados and welcome back to top 10 nerd if you’re gonna fight
crime you need an arsenal of some kind be it your own fists of fury, or tech or some
kind of cosmic device that everyone wants not just the heroes.
However, some of these weapons let’s be frank maybe they should be destroyed some
from a well how am I supposed to comic crimes now perspective and others because heroes
have proven they just can’t handle that much power, it is too much.
I’m Sasha and these are the top 10 superhero weapons that need to be destroyed.
We’ll stop them villains unite, I mean for the common good.
Number 10 – Batarangs – Now I know Batarangs are Bruce’s go to signature item and one
that people don’t make fun of when it comes to having the word bat in front of it but
let’s be real the one part of batman vs superman BVS that was pretty accurate is how
a batarang would damage you you would be crippled or scared pretty severely plus does he go
back and collect them all cause if not they’re just going to be in the city it isn’t like
Spider-Man’s webbing which dissolves these would be around and criminals would use them.
In Shazam it was shown that Freddie had one as a collectible so kids, kids playing with
batarangs Bruce did not think this through.
They’re sharp pointy taking eyes out god I want one.
I wonder what they would be worth if you melted them down.
I have too many plans see they need to be destroyed.
Number 9 - Cosmic Treadmill – The cosmic treadmill first appeared in 1961 in the flash
125 and was created so that Barry could time travel he would run on it really fast and
generate a portal and get where he needed to go it’s how he met the reverse flahs
pre crisis he lived in te 30th century with iris pre crisis as well.
How is this a weapon you may be asking.
The flash can alter the timeline at will with this thing we all live at his mercy what’s
changed we don’t know we’ll never know only the flash knows.
The cosmic treadmill would vanish for a bit and the idea would be that the flash’s could
just tap into the speedforce directly no exercise equipment required but then Rebirth brought
I back when batman and barry were investigating the button what did they use the cosmic treadmill
and look what a mess that storyline has turned into sure we could blame the artist delays
but that treadmill is shifty.
Don’t let heroes just have access to the timestream it’s dangerous.
Number 8 - Ant Man Suits – Shrinking is not something that everyone can handle there’s
a mental component to changing size that is oft times flirted with but rarely examined.
The ant man suit is one of those devices that is well only as good as the person using it
and if they snap you have a very dangerous person on your hands we can also extend this
over to dc with the atom’s suit look what happened in identity crisis when jean loring
got her hands on one and ended up killing sue dibney the elongated man’s wife cause
she wanted her husband back.
Look at eric o grady who stole an ant man suit so he could creep on ladies in the shower,
look at hank who suffered a psychotic break and thought he was yellowjacket and then had
all of these abilities.
It’s just you really need to trust a person with a suit like this and with so many other
heroes maybe…ok still useful just be careful in the shower.
Number 7 - Phantom Zone projector – This was a punishment device from krypton criminals
were sent to the phantom zone a pocket universe created by jor el superman’s father.
The projector which allows the user to send people into this pocket space has found it’
way to superman.
The people in the phantom zone can see the regular universe but not interact with it,
but they can still plan looking at you Zod.
You can also send people there in stasis to keep them alive like what happened to Mon
El.
Here’s the thing this is a lot of power and Superman’s fortress of solitude isn’t
the most secure lots of people know where it is and this device has fallen into the
wrong hands plus there’s the whole moral question of using it this is manybe a device
that the dc universe could do without also in the modern era it can tend to be deus ex
phantom zone, an easy solution for narrative awkwardness.
Where was this person phantom zone.
Number 6 – Lasso Of Truth – Wonder woman’s lasso of truth is an iconic part of her character
way more so than her invisible jet this weapon first appeared in issue Sensation Comics #6
(June 1942) and this lasso compels the person who is trapped within it’s confines or as
it would later expand to just touching it to tell the truth.
Now this is useful but depending upon your wonder woman it has been used as an instrument
of torture in the now cult famous tv pilot for a wonder woman series commissioned in
2011 wherein there is a particularly brutal wonder woman who tortures a criminal in the
hospital and then forces the truth out of him using her lasso.
It’s intense.
Also it’s been shown to be dangerous if someone breaks free of the lasso for example
in superman red son where she is invokved in a realationship with superman and in a
fight she gets tangle din it he tells her to break free and she does but it breaks her
spirit and damages her aging her and rendering her unstable.
This has so much potential to be abused and I love wonder woman but she goes hard.
Pants to be darkened shout out to all the people who get that reference where my people
who love watch failed pilots at.
Number 5 - The eye of agamoto – this first appeared in Strange Tales #115 (December 1963)
so the eye is presented to the sorcerer surpreme which most of the time means doctor strange
but that can mean whoever it is so for example Loki or doctor doom and this amulet has a
lot of power it the eye allows you to see through disguises it can weaken demons but
here’s the thing it can probe minds and create portals to other dimensions that’s
a lot and would we not be safer as a planet if we cut ourselves off from some of these
mystical elements we need a designated person to keep them at bay.
That’s a huge responsibility why must earth be the epicentre for weirdness and darkness
there are so many other planets and dimensions out there we will share.
Sharing is caring.
Number 4 - Iron man’s sentient suit – there is a terrifying arc in the 1998 run of iron
man that is often referenced in passing but not fully dived into people are often like
oh well his armour came to life and fell In love with him ha ha.
No this was terrifying his armour was an abusive boyfriend it killed in his name it killed
whiplash as he cried in the sky saying he just wanted to get his kid back out of foster
care.
The armour felt that it was a better iron man than tony ever had been cause it was willing
to go the extra mile and it pulled the whole if you don’t like the way I am then look
in the mirror it took tony to an island and trapped him there torturing him trying to
get them to remerge all while continuing duties as iron man and people didn’t connect the
dots cause this was the era when he still had a secret identity.
So iron man was tony starks body guard.
This armour killed itself when tony started to suffer a massive heart attack, this saved
him for reasons that were explained in later issues but this armour was terrifying no sentient
armours for tony.
Number 3 - Cosmic Cube – Now the cosmic cube can be used by anyone but it really should
be used by no one this cube called the tesseract in the mcu.
For years this was just an item but then hydra cap happened because of the meddling of the
cube the cube can alter reality and it was used to turn Cap into an always hydra agent
the cube is too dangerous to be used by anyone anything reality altering should just be locked
away and best destroyed cause the temptation is there someone is going to crack and if
it’s a hero it’s even scarier cause then you get the whole oh this was the greater
good cause I know what’s best for everybody I’m a hero sit down Reed.
Number 2 - The infinity gauntlet speaking of Reed, so in the comicverse the infinity
gauntlet can be wielded by anyone but the thing is it corrupts that much power needs
not to be wielded by one person.
This was the mindset of the illuminati which set out to gather all the gems for the gauntlet
which reed just had cause sketch and he attempted to wish it out of reality but couldn’t so
he gave a stone to each member of the illuminatti for safe keeping.
Here’s the thing their actions and hunting these stones was a catalyst for secret invasion
which was a huge disaster in the marvel universe.
Heroes questo to control this gauntlet has led to disaster as have villains getting their
hands on it’s unfortunate that it has to exist but maybe it could be sent to another
dimension it’s been proven it doesn’t work in other universe such as when darkseid
got his hands on it but couldn’t do anything with it cause they had no power in the dc
universe.
Number 1 – The ultimate nullifier- this first appeared in Fantastic Four #50 (May
1966) Johnny storm took this from the home of galactus eater of worlds it’s a hand
held device that didn’t seem to do anything except well scare galactus reed used it to
threaten him and bargain with him to not eat the earth.
It is apparently the universes most devastating weapon it can destroy any target but also
the user if they’re not concentrating enough it can also destroy timelines or erase the
entire multiverse and reed had it it was chilling in his basement.
This is a dangerous item and I’m convinced the only reason more people don’t seek it
out is because they don’t know about it.
No one should have this it should be destroyed and it can be unlike the gauntlet I see you
reed.
Power move.