Stress fracture cannon
From Transformers Wiki
Superion's specialty is breaking things. And few weapons are as well-suited to breaking things as the stress 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
Marvel The Transformers comics
Superion carried a stress fracture cannon which fired a beam that overloaded the natural fracture lines in any object it hit. Superion's Universe profile
While watching a Matrix-induced vision of the future of the Transformers involving a clash between the Special Teams at the Pullen Power Plant, Optimus Prime and Buster Witwicky observed Superion using his stress fracture cannon to collapse the ground beneath the retreating Menasor. Second Generation!
A point-blank shot from Superion's stress fracture cannon caused a malfunction in Devastator's coupling links, forcing him to de-combine. ...All Fall Down!
Notes
- In Superion's Marvel appearances, when he wields Silverbolt's electrostatic discharger rifle it becomes a stress fracture cannon, which is a neat trick. Conversely, in his toy's instructions and packaging bio, as well as his Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profile, 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.
