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Fictional Object

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  • Fictional Device ,
  • Fictional Artifact
A Fictional Object is an item of note described in a work of fiction. It can range in scale from the very tiny to the bewilderingly huge. They can be very mundane in appearance or extremely enigmatic in nature. The Fictional Object... more

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Æsahættr       double edged knife
Æsahættr (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...
Cut through fabric of universe
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One Ring Film character Middle-earth  
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Fictional Character
Phial of Galadriel Frodo using the Phial against Shelob      
In 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...
Mirror of Galadriel Galadriel pours water into the basin (top), and Frodo prepares to look into the mirror (bottom)      
In 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...
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Sting Frodo holding Sting, in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy      
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The Intention Craft        
The Intention Craft is a fictional aircraft from Phillip Pullman's series His Dark Materials. The Intention Craft is a "flying" machine, but has no engine or wings (some fans have speculated that it uses anti-gravity). It has a cockpit and...
Narsil      
In 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. ...
Silmaril     Middle-earth  
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Transmogrifier     Calvin and Hobbes  
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Beam Saber     Mobile Suit Gundam    
Pequod        
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Lightsaber Obi-Wan Kenobi and Darth Vader dueling on Mustafar in Episode III with blue lightsabers   Star Wars  
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Deep Thought     The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy  
The hugh computer in Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The real chess-playing computer from IBM was named after this.
Terminus Est        
Terminus 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...
Transphase Eradication Rod     Stargate  
A 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...
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In 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,...
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A Stargate is fictional device that allows practical, rapid travel between two distant locations. This article deals with the Stargate devices of the Stargate franchise, which first appear in the 1994 Roland Emmerich film Stargate, and subsequently...
Zardoz Zardoz closeup     Flight
A huge flying stone head called Zardoz is worshipped by a warrior class called "Exterminators" (or "the Chosen") as their god. Zardoz supplies the Exterminators with weapons, while Exterminators also supply Zardoz with grain, later revealed to...
Planet Express Ship   Futurama  
The Planet Express Ship is a fictional spaceship in the animated series Futurama, which bears the official designation "U.S.S. Planet Express Ship." The ship was designed and built by Professor Hubert Farnsworth and is the sole delivery ship of...
Flux capacitor A fan-created Flux Capacitor   Back to the Future trilogy time travel
The 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...
Nemesis The Ark (left) and the Nemesis (right)      
The 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....
Soma        
Soma 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...
Soviet submarine Red October   Ryanverse  
Red 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",...
C Cube European cover for Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code      
The 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...