Theme: Advanced Weaponry

Advanced Weaponry refers to any of the weaponry that regularly appears in genre cinema. In science-fiction, this can range all the way from the ever-popular handheld lasers, blasters and phasers to larger ship-mounted versions of these, or the likes of lightsabres. At the opposite end of the spectrum, there are world-destroying Doomsday Weapons such as the Death Star.

Serials and Spy Films are filled with scientists creating death rays and various weapons. In genre cinema, exotic phenomena such as antimatter and wormholes, even control of the weather, can be employed as weapons. Secret Government Agencies, Sinister Military and Sinister Corporations are frequently seeking to find weapons application of aliens, monsters, psychic powers, genetic engineering and crashed alien ships.

There are also the more exotic weapons such as ones that are built-in to Cyborgs, while Robots can often be built for military use where they have a frequent habit of going amok. One weaponised use of the robot is the Transformer or Mecha. There is also a whole body of films given over to creating Super-Soldiers.

In fantasy, weapons usually consist of magically empowered swords, sometimes bows and/or arrows or maybe a suit of armour.