Fictional Chemical/biological Weapons
This is the list of fictional chemical weapons. Fictional chemical weapons are toxins that are used on large scale, by either military, paramilitary or terrorist organizations.
| Name | Source | Uses and effects |
|---|---|---|
| Agent Yellow | The Host | The chemical that South Korean forces used to fight the giant monster. |
| Black smoke | The War of the Worlds | Toxic gas used by Martian invaders. Spectrographic analysis shows an unusual triplet of blue lines. It is dispersed from hoses and coilgun shells carried by tripods. It is heavier than air and forms a black, crusty precipitate when exposed to water. |
| Bloodtox | Prototype | A specially designed toxin, named for its distinctive red color and thick consistency in liquid form. Causes necrosis in the flesh of any being infected with the Blacklight virus, but is completely harmless to ordinary humans. Used by Blackwatch forces. |
| Brainwash Gas | Dune 2 | Brainwash Gas is a nerve gas that temporarily converts units to become loyal to House Ordos. This gas is delivered by missiles from the Deviator, a special unit in the game. |
| Chaos spray | Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge | A gas spread by Yuri's Chaos Drones, that temporarily causes enemy units to attack their buildings and each other and makes civilians run in circles. |
| CN-20 | Aliens | Apparently a nerve agent used by the Colonial Marines, dispersed from canisters. Unknown if effective against Aliens. |
| Cynochrin | Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception | This Gas is released in the game Ace combat X Skies of Deception by Leasathian (fictional country in the Ace Combat Universe) stragglers otherwise known as the "Hamlet unit", with its effects being alluded to as a deadly, nerve agent, that becomes a dense fog when it contacts air. The player's objective is to neutralize the agent, made difficult by the fact that the neutralizer chemicals are highly volatile if sudden, high g-force maneuvers are used making the player a slow moving target. |
| Dark Mirror | Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror | A deadly neurotoxin that can spread very quickly by fusing to oxygen molecules in the atmosphere. |
| Delta Nine | Goldfinger | Invisible nerve gas. Causes immediate death (at one point claimed, apparently as a lie, to cause "complete unconsciousness for 24 hours"), but disperses harmlessly after 15 minutes. |
| Dip | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Made from turpentine, acetone and benzene (essentially oil, paint thinner, and film dissolver), it is capable of killing a cartoon character. |
| Fetaine | Vorkosigan Saga | Powerful mutagenic military chemical weapon that had never been used on or by Barrayar because it is regarded as a terror weapon on the planet that is very heavily prejudiced against mutants. |
| FoxDie | Metal Gear Solid | An engineered retrovirus developed by the DIA for The Pentagon. "Pre-programmed" to identify a specific person's DNA and nanomachine implants, and then trigger a cardiac arrest. The length of time between contraction and death, and passes from any carrier to a targeted victim. Notable victims in Metal Gear Solid include the DARPA Chief and Liquid Snake. |
| G3 | Universal Century Gundam | A nerve gas original developed by Colonel Asakura of Zeon's special weapons division, the gas was later used by the Titans in the 30 Bunch Incident. As seen in 08th MS Team, it has a greenish color in concentrated form. |
| Heat 16 | Spawn (film) | A deadly biological weapon developed by an organization called A-6, run by Jason Wynn. |
| Nova 6 | Call of Duty: Black Ops | Death within 60 seconds (children - 30-45, in-game - near-instantaneous), massive tissue necrosis of the entire body surface. No known antidote, appears to function on contact with exposed tissue, surgical methods did not provide a delay. |
| Oxygen Destroyer | Godzilla (1954) | A chemical that is able to cause any living thing to die of asphyxiation, after which the remains of the organism is liquefied. |
| Silent Night | xXx | A toxic gas, a nerve agent which can kill millions of people. The gas only breaks down in deep water. |
| Rabbit's Foot | Mission: Impossible III | A chemical weapon, the protagonist never finds out about it. |
| Soltoxin | Vorkosigan Saga | A poison gas that targets soft tissue in the body, usually causing death by melting the lungs in about an hour. The teratogenic antidote for this poison caused the deformation of the series' main character in vivo. |
| Symbiote Poison | Stargate SG-1 | Symbiote poison is a compound first created by Tok'ra scientists. The poison is released as a gas, and is capable of spreading over large areas. The poison is only fatal to symbiotes, and leaves humans unharmed. However, dying symbiotes release their own toxins into the host bloodstream, which makes the poison useless in saving hosts from their Goa'uld captors. The poison is also deadly to Jaffa still reliant on symbiotes for survival. |
| Sentox VX-1 Nerve Gas | 24 | Sentox nerve gas is a very deadly toxin that does not dilute in oxygen. It was stolen in the series by a terrorist organization under the leadership of Vladimir Bierko. |
| Theragen | Star Trek | A Klingon nerve gas. A derivative of theragen, in an ethanol solution, was developed by Dr. McCoy, to counteract the insanity-producing effects of a spatial interphase near the Tholian border. |
| The Spore | Metallica's music video for All Nightmare Long, from Death Magnetic | In the music video, it is explained that a mysterious phenomenon in Communist Russia has created (or delivered) a dust-like spore, capable of revitalizing even long-dead organic materials, from healing wounds to resurrecting the dead. The USSR engineers the spore into a weapon to use against the United States of America; by way of hot-air balloon, the spore released into American air space, and the trade winds spread the spore, thus creating a localized zombie apocalypse. |
| Tiberium | Command & Conquer series | This fictional material turns anything into itself - any unprotected human can become "infected" on contact; any vehicle will be slowly corroded. The Brotherhood of Nod used a handful of Tiberium-based weapons, such as the Tiberium Trooper. "Tiberium Wildlife", such as the Visceroids, naturally uses it. The Scrin consist mostly of Tiberium, so they have a lot of military applications for it: the Corruptor sprays a tiberium-based sludge, which heals Scrin and kills everything else; some Scrin units are armed with Tiberium shards, which should be toxic to targets as well. |
| Trixie | The Crazies | A "Rhabdoviridae prototype" bio-warfare agent that is unleashed on Ogden Marsh, Iowa when the airplane loaded with it crashes and contaminates the town's water supply. Groups of law-abiding citizens become very violent, bloodthirsty killers. |
| V2 Gas | E. E. Smith's Lensman series | A fast-acting, lethal nerve agent that is usually administered as a gas. It was also used dissolved in water, against an amphibious species (the Nevians). A victim can be saved with prompt administration of the antidote. |
| Vexxon Gas | Lightning - Dean Koontz | A fast-acting, lethal nerve gas that rapidly dissipates in sunlight and eventually decomposes into harmless substances when exposed to air. A pill can be taken to render somebody immune to its effects for a certain time. |
| Virus Toxin | Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge | A gaseous toxin that causes cells over the entire body to immediately form more of the substance, resulting in bursting of the cells. Eventually the entire body explodes, releasing a deadly cloud of gas that may infect others nearby. |
| VX-2 Gas | The Rock | A green volatile liquid which causes the skin of its victims to bubble and melt as they die. It is stored in small glass spheres for some reason. Injection of the antidote into a victim's heart immediately after exposure brings total immunity. (Note: VX gas is a real nerve agent. However, the effects, and physical representation shown in "The Rock" are not accurate. Atropine, used in the movie to stop the effects of VX gas does not need to be injected into the heart, but is usually injected into the thigh.) |
| VZ | Binary - Michael Crichton | A binary nerve agent, lethal within two to three minutes. |
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