This turns out to be Marley's standard use for the Colossal Titan, earning it the title "God of Destruction". It actually generates a mushroom cloud over the city, for bonus parallels. and anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the blast. This becomes a major aspect of the strategy during the battle at Shighanshina, with Bertolt transforming over the city and vaporizing a large chunk of it. In Attack on Titan, the Colossal Titan has the ability to function as one, weaponizing its transformation on a massive scale.That would be just plain sick.įinally, we should note that while it's not just nuclear weapons that create the infamous "mushroom clouds" (any sort of explosion or even rapid combustion can do this in still air it's just that the more powerful the explosion is the larger the cloud will be, the longer it will last and the less sensitive it is to disruption by wind, so it's primarily associated with very large explosions such as nukes), if something in fiction is described or depicted doing so, it's a good bet the author/creator was attempting to invoke this trope, and it might qualify for Superweapon status. In some less subtle cases, there might even be some kind of reference to matter-energy conversion.Īnd as with Fantastic Racism, we're not using the word "fantastic" to mean "wonderful and great" (i.e., the way the Ninth Doctor uses the word "fantastic"). Furthermore, the use of such a weapon may result in Fantastic Fallout: long-lasting and often harmful effects on the land upon which it's used.
It's frequently also an Unholy Nuke based on The Dark Arts. In Japanese works, may be related to Nuclear Weapons Taboo.Ī Fantastic Nuke may set off a World-Wrecking Wave or precipitate The End of the World as We Know It. Like Fantastic Racism and Fantastic Drug, in that the situation is obviously designed to parallel a real-world situation, either in order to make some point about the issue or simply to allow all the connotations and associations of the real-world situation to easily be applied to the fantastic. That isn't to say this trope doesn't ever appear in higher-tech settings, where it will instead be some nuke-like weapon that nonetheless isn't nuclear. Everything Makes a Mushroom is the usual result.Įlsewhere, this trope is about the deliberate insertion of something nuke-like into a civilization that hasn't even invented the steam engine yet. Kamehame Hadoken, Wave-Motion Gun, and Person of Mass Destruction are common ways of invoking it. Compare to how Automatic Crossbows stand in for guns. This goes double if it leaves behind some sort of corrupting effect that lingers long after the spell itself is cast, a la fallout. In a fantasy setting featuring Fantasy Gun Control, Medieval Stasis, and assorted other reasons why the culture would never develop anything even close to nuclear weaponry, there may be some form of magic attack so powerful and destructive that it is obviously a stand-in for nuclear weapons.
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