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Fictional ObjectThe Death Star is a fiction planet-destroying space station appearing in the Star Wars movies and Star Wars Expanded Universe. The first Death Star is featured in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, and a second Death Star is under construction in Star Wars Episode VI:...
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Fictional Object, Film character, Fictional CharacterThe One Ring is an artifact from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy fiction. It first appears in The Hobbit (1937) as a magic ring of invisibility. The sequel The Lord of the Rings (1954-55) concerns the quest to destroy the Ring, revealed to be malevolent — being...
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Fictional ObjectIn J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium, the Silmarils (Quenya pl. Silmarilli, radiance of pure light) are three fictional sacred objects in the form of brilliant star-like jewels which contained the unmarred light of the Two Trees created by the Vala Yavanna, the mother of...
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Fictional ObjectA palantír is a magical artifact from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy legendarium. '' A palantír (sometimes translated as Seeing Stone but actually meaning "Farsighted" or "One that Sees from Afar") is a stone that functions somewhat like a crystal ball. When one looks...
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Fictional ObjectAn artifact from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy universe of Middle-earth, Sting was an Elvish knife or dagger made in Gondolin in the First Age. Sting was a magical weapon used by Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. Bilbo found it in a troll-hoard along with the swords...
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Fictional ObjectThe lightsaber is a fictional weapon that plays a key role in the movies, games and novels that constitute the Star Wars universe. Lightsabers are science fiction versions of their namesake, the saber. Instead of a metal blade, the lightsaber holds an energy blade...
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Fictional ObjectA transmogrifier is a fictional device used for transforming one object into another object. Though the word "transmogrifier" was coined by Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes, its parent words, "transmogrify" and "transmogrification", existed previously, though their...
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Fictional ObjectIn J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional prehistory of the world (Arda), Narsil was the sword of King Elendil of the Dúnedain, although in a later age it was reforged as Andúril. It appears in The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales. The sword was forged...
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Fictional ObjectIn J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the Mirror of Galadriel is a basin filled with water in which one may see visions of the past, present and future. Galadriel, an Elf Lady in the woods of Lothlórien, invites the story's hero, Frodo Baggins, to look into it....
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Fictional ObjectThe flux capacitor is the fictitious core component of Doctor Emmett Brown's time travel De Lorean DMC-12 in the 1985 movie Back to the Future, its two sequel, and the animated series. Brown states that the flux capacitor "is what makes time travel possible." It is...
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Fictional ObjectStargate is one name for a class of fictional devices which allow almost instantaneous travel between places. This article deals with the stargates that feature as a central part of stories set in the Stargate science fiction universe. They are uniformly depicted as...
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Fictional ObjectAn alethiometer is a fictional device from Phillip Pullman's fantasy novel trilogy His Dark Materials which tells the truth. The word "alethiometer" comes from the Greek word aletheia, meaning "truth", so "alethiometer" means "truth-measuring instrument". The...
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Fictional ObjectThe Nemesis is a Decepticon spaceship in the fictional Transformers Generation One universe. It was built by Megatron as the flagship of his Decepticon space fleet, and was described by Optimus Primal as the most powerful Decepticon battleship ever. The ship was never...
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Fictional ObjectThe Batmobile is the fictional personal automobile of comic book superhero Batman. The car has followed the evolution of the character from comic books to television to films. The standard features of the vehicle include a chassis with heavy armor plating and a high...
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Fictional ObjectA Transphase Eradication Rod (or TER) is a fictional device in the Stargate universe. Introduced to the SGC by the Tok'ra, it was originally designed by the Goa'uld as a device to help find and defeat the Re'tu. The TER has two functions, a scanning light which...
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Fictional ObjectIn Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth, the Phial of Galadriel was the parting gift to Frodo Baggins by Galadriel when the Fellowship of the Ring left Lórien. It was also known as the Star-glass, because it held a little fragment of the light of the Evening...
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Fictional ObjectThe C Cube is a fictional electronic device created by the character Artemis Fowl. It has technological capabilities fifty years ahead of its time and is central to the plot of Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code. The C Cube is created by Artemis Fowl before the third...
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Fictional ObjectRed October (, "Krasniy Oktyabr" ) is a fictitious ''Typhoon'' class submarine in the Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October and the film which followed. She was built with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system called a "caterpillar drive", which is described as...
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Fictional ObjectÆsahættr (or god-destroyer) is the name of the subtle knife in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. A knife with a double-edge, the Æsahættr possessed one edge of keen steel, which could cut through any material. The other edge was even sharper, extending to...
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Fictional ObjectIn the fictional Stargate universe, the Kull Disruptor is the only known energy weapon capable of disabling a Kull Warrior, Anubis's genetically-engineered super-soldier. The technology may be mounted on a number of different projectile weapons, including a Tok'ra...
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Fictional ObjectThe Bat-Signal is a fiction device appearing in the various interpretations of the Batman mythos. It is a specially modified Klieg searchlight with a stylized symbol of a bat attached to the light so that it projects a large Bat emblem on the sky or buildings of Gotham...
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Fictional ObjectThe Pequod is the fictional 19th century Nantucket whaling ship that appears in the 1851 novel Moby-Dick by American author Herman Melville. The Pequod and her crew, commanded by Captain Ahab, figure prominently in the story, which after the initial chapters takes...
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Fictional ObjectTerminus Est is a sword in the science fiction series The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe. It is wielded by Severian, a torturer and the narrator of the series. In the Shadow of the Torturer, after Severian is expelled from his guild and the city of Nessus for...
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Fictional ObjectFAB1 is the name given to the pink six-wheeled car in the Thunderbirds franchise. In the original Supermarionation TV series Thunderbirds (1965-1966), as well as the films Thunderbirds Are GO (1966) and Thunderbird 6 (1967), FAB1 is a modified Rolls-Royce. Owned by...
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Fictional ObjectSoma is a fictional, happiness-inducing drug in Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World (1932). In the novel, soma is an 'opiate of the masses' that replaces religion and alcohol in a peaceful, but morally controversial, high-tech society far in the future. Soma, a...
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Fictional ObjectSerenity is a fictional spaceship originally featured in the science fiction television series Firefly. It has also appeared in the comic book series Serenity: Those Left Behind and the film Serenity. The ship, which is designated a 03 Firefly-class, fits the profile...
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Fictional ObjectThe Lasso of Truth is a fictional weapon wielded by DC Comics superheroine Wonder Woman, Princess Diana of Themyscira. It is usually referred to as the Magic Lasso or Golden Lasso and forces anyone it captures to obey and tell the truth. The lasso has sometimes been...
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Fictional ObjectA batarang is a roughly bat-shaped throwing weapon used by the DC Comics superhero Batman. The name is a portmanteau of bat and boomerang, and was originally spelled baterang. Although they are named after boomerangs, batarangs have become more like shuriken in recent...
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Fictional ObjectCaptain America's shield is a fictional item, the primary defensive and offensive piece of equipment used by the Marvel Comics superhero Captain America, and he is seldom seen without it. Over the years, Captain America has had the use of several different shield of...
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Fictional ObjectThe Invisible Plane is the fiction DC Comics superhero Wonder Woman's venerable, though now seldom-used, mode of transport. It first appeared in Sensation Comics #1 (Jan. 1942). As Wonder Woman's powers were expanded throughout the Silver Age and Modern Age, she was...
