Poll: The Most Fabulous Fictional Materials and Chemicals

Results of 187 votes:

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   Hugh Jackman in X-Men (2000)

    

   SPOILER: Wolverine's skeleton, wich was modified with adamantium, a fictional metal which needs an tremendously high amount of energy to melt and form it. It's very rare and cuts steel or likewise h…
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   Sean Astin and Elijah Wood in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

    

   SPOILER: The vest made of mithril Frodo wore. A material tougher than hardened steel and easier than the finest silk.
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   Limitless (2011)

    

   SPOILER: The intelligence pill which speeds up the brain function beyond any measure to make the addictive some kind of supernature being.
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   James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, and Alex Henteloff in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

    

   SPOILER: Scotty helps Dr. Nichols "invent" transparent aluminium, which, in real life, became possible 23 years later in 2009.
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   Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2 (2010)

    

   SPOILER: Vibranium, the new element Tony Stark created to use instead of the toxic palladium in his ARC-reactor inside his chest, which insidiously poisoned him.
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   Paul Rudd in Ant-Man (2015)

    

   SPOILER: The Pym-particles, invented by Hank Pym. They allow objects and people to shrink or grow.
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   The Absent Minded Professor (1961)

    

   SPOILER: A college professor invents an anti-gravity substance which a corrupt businessman wants for himself. The so called flubber. It was also used in movies like Son of Flubber (1962) and the Robin…
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   Max von Sydow in Dune (1984)

    

   SPOILER: The Spice of Dune (1984).
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   Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)

    

   SPOILER: Dilithium crystals. They provide a huge amount of energy. It's so immense that it can provide the power of a very big spaceship like the Enterprise and even help to speed it up to Warp speed.
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    Stephen Lang in Avatar (2009)

     

    SPOILER: In a distant future, the extinction of earth's population has to be stopped. Humankind might survive a little longer by exterminating a distant native tribe in space for digging unobtanium, w…
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    Jesse Eisenberg in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

     

    SPOILER: Kryptonite, which causes Superman's weakness.
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    Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman (1975)

     

    SPOILER: Amazonium, the very indestructible metal which Wonder Woman's tiara, bracelets and magic lasso are made of.
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    The Monolith Monsters (1957)

     

    SPOILER: Monolithic stones from space that grow by touching water like e.g. rain, rivers, lakes and will bury whole landscapes with their parasitic growth.
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    Lionel Jeffries and Edward Judd in First Men in the Moon (1964)

     

    SPOILER: Carvorite that will let anything it is applied to or made of nullify the force of gravity.
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    Jack Nicholson in Batman (1989)

     

    SPOILER: Do you remember when the Joker gave Gotham's citizens the "opportunity" to die with a smile on their face? He has put smilex, a poison he figured out, into mostly all products that …
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    Lucy (2014)

     

    SPOILER: The hyper-intelligence drug which Lucy was exposed by the mafia. So she became a goddess like mother nature.
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    Pierce Brosnan and Tony Plana in Live Wire (1992)

     

    SPOILER: We know that bad clowns can be real ugly. But what if they explode after drinking a liquid explosive which is activated within the human body by digestive juices?
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    Jeffrey Combs in Re-Animator (1985)

     

    SPOILER: The bright green serum of Dr. West, wich revives bodyparts.
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    Sean Connery and Frances Sternhagen in Outland (1981)

     

    SPOILER: Dr. Lazarus discovers that the mine workers shoot up polydichloric euthimal for working harder and harder followed by a psychotic burnout which makes them kill themselves.
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    Donovan Leitch Jr. in The Blob (1988)

     

    SPOILER: Deadly digestive self-growing slime which eats a whole town in a huge expanding slime wave.
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    Elisabeth Shue, Josh Brolin, Kim Dickens, and Greg Grunberg in Hollow Man (2000)

     

    SPOILER: The invisibility fluid, which makes a body transparent in a few minutes, causing a lot of physical ache and psychological damage.
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    Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

     

    SPOILER: A guy wears a piece of tremendously high power potential explosives in a jewelry ring which detonates with an outstanding energy potential when thrown into a glass of water.
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    The crew gets a beryllium sphere

     

    SPOILER: Beryillium, another fake, but supposedly useful matter in some kind. Beryillium is a pun according to a real alkaline earth metal called Beryllium, which is also used to build acoustic membra…
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    Total Recall (1990)

     

    SPOILER: Turbinium, a matter which is used by alien technology, but in this movie it also provides humankind with incredible high amounts of energy. Unluckily it also provides humankind with unbearabl…