![]() Naturally, these mystical properties extend to lightning in its "harnessed" form: electricity. Perhaps the most amazing thing is, not only will lightning never destroy any machine, frequently it will cause a machine to malfunction just once, then return to normal behavior as if nothing happened, a super-condensed form of No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup, as nobody is sure what it did and it can't be made to do it again. or, at the very least, you'll gain freakish superhuman powers. God help you if you perform any kind of experiment during a thunderstorm - all you need is for the building to get struck by lightning and you'll have some kind of malevolent radioactive cloud on your hands - even if your experiment had nothing to do with radioactivity. If you're in a teleporter when it's struck by lightning, two of you might turn up at the other end if your stun ray is struck by lightning it may turn into a volatile disintegration gun if your radio is struck by lightning it could start channeling the dead, and so on, and so forth. It can even create life.īasically, fictional lightning is a Mad Scientist with the ability to fundamentally redesign any machine, especially a futuristic one. ![]() It can miraculously reverse polarities and has been responsible for many a Phlebotinum Breakdown. It is an amazing magical force which can do anything the screenwriter wants - it can turn a computer sentient, shrink whoever it strikes and make the music wonky, turn an already-sentient computer evil, send things through time or into an Alternate Universe, etc. However tales continued to center around the mystery of what we now know to be basically nothing more than a large-scale carpet-shock and thus in much fiction, lightning is still not just a massive electrical discharge which tends to destroy anything it touches (except cars, lightning-rods, steel buildings, towers, most metal objects, and about 8,000 people/year). ![]() ![]() Before Ben Franklin flew a kite during a thunderstorm (he was a genius, you know), lightning was an unknown force that was believed to be magical in nature then he invented the lightning-rod, and the rest was history. ![]()
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