Stress fracture cannon

It shoots you in the crack.

Superion's specialty is breaking things. And few weapons are as well-suited to breaking things as thestress fracture cannon.Its beam finds and overloads a target's natural fracture points, shattering it. The weapon can be set to varying levels of precision—it can crack an eggshell or cause a seismic disturbance. Guess which one Superion prefers.

Fiction

MarvelThe Transformerscomics

The stress fracture cannon is known to cause explosive neck-farts.

Superion carried a stress fracture cannon which fired a beam that overloaded the natural fracture lines in any object it hit.Superion'sUniverseprofile

While watching aMatrix-induced vision of the future of theTransformersinvolving a clash between theSpecial Teamsat thePullen Power Plant,Optimus PrimeandBuster Witwickyobserved Superion using his stress fracture cannon to collapse the ground beneath the retreatingMenasor.Second Generation!

A point-blank shot from Superion's stress fracture cannon caused a malfunction inDevastator's coupling links, forcing him to de-combine....All Fall Down!

Notes

• In Superion'sMarvelappearances, when he wieldsSilverbolt'selectrostatic discharger rifleit becomes a stress fracture cannon, which is a neat trick. Conversely, in histoy'sinstructionsandpackagingbio,as well as hisDreamwaveMore than Meets the Eyeprofile, the weapon remains an electrostatic discharger rifle.
  • Also, it's notable that Superion's in-show model has the cannon attached to his right arm (which is Air Raid for this configuration) instead of being hand-held like his G1 toy's package art.