Timeline for What's the first movie to use a prop to destroy/control an entire world?
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| Nov 9, 2021 at 14:48 | comment | added | TylerH | What do you mean by "control" the entire world? The examples you gave don't seem to clearly apply. | |
| Nov 9, 2021 at 1:07 | comment | added | Spencer | Honorable mention to The Centauri Device (1974). | |
| S Nov 8, 2021 at 19:17 | history | suggested | adamaero | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 18:14 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | Nowhere near old enough (though still much older than all your examples), but does e.g. the Death Star count as a prop? No Earth involved, but it is a planet destroyer. | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 16:45 | comment | added | RBarryYoung | Does the planet Mongo count? (1936) | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 15:38 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Nov 8, 2021 at 6:01 | answer | added | Xavier | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 5:12 | vote | accept | J Mac Brown | ||
| Nov 8, 2021 at 4:31 | comment | added | Jasen | @Nathaniel I would argue that Gort is a character. not a prop. | |
| Nov 8, 2021 at 1:09 | comment | added | MT0 | Are you asking for a "prop which could control/destroy the word but was not used to so" or for a "prop which was used to destroy the world"? | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 18:08 | comment | added | Acccumulation | I think "MacGuffin" would be a better term than "prop". "Prop" refers to the physical object used in the real world by the filmmakers to represent an in-universe object. | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 15:14 | comment | added | Michael Seifert | Bonus points if the object is beautiful, shiny, jolly, and/or candy-like. | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 13:41 | comment | added | N. Virgo | If you don't like cartoons, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) has a robot that can destroy the Earth. I doubt it's the first such thing though. | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 11:56 | comment | added | James McLeod | To say nothing of the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator. | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 10:31 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 7, 2021 at 3:40 | answer | added | Brian Cham | timeline score: 49 | |
| Nov 7, 2021 at 2:31 | history | asked | J Mac Brown | CC BY-SA 4.0 |