![]() ![]() Franky decides to bet it all on the Straw Hats rescuing Robin and burns the blueprints. However, Spandam's capture of both Robin and Franky means he could potentially control both the Pluton and the plans. The original designers of Pluton feared what would happen if it was controlled by rogue elements, so they hid a copy of the blueprints to ensure that a second Pluton could be built to serve as a countermeasure to the first. It also is a plot point for the Water 7 arc.The World Government is both trying to hide Pluton's existence from the public while also attempting to either locate the original or build a new one. Robin is the last survivor of an archaeological society that could decode the poneglyphs while Franky is the most recent in a line of shipbuilders to inherit blueprints for Pluton. The battleship was hidden during the Void Century so its current location can only be found in the poneglyphs. Averted with the superweapon Pluton, a battleship that could annihilate entire islands.See Also: Black Box, for situations where the device in question has extraterrestrial or otherwise fantastic origins that would justify not being able to build another The Spark of Genius, for devices that have the superficial trappings of science but are actually based on powers that don't follow the usual scientific rules of predictable cause and effect It Only Works Once, for devices that can't effectively be reused even if you know how to make them work again and Psycho Prototype, when the first attempt is deranged and evil such that you wouldn't even want to recreate that version. It may appear as a justification for Never Recycle Your Schemes. Compare Reed Richards Is Useless, where the formula exists, but is only applied to fantastic problems. but there's nothing to stop them building another." Or the superweapon hadn't actually been destroyed as they thought.Ī common cause of this is Shoot the Builder. When this trope is averted, expect someone to ominously point out, after the customary celebration of the destruction of the superweapon, that "yes. Perhaps a sympathetic researcher becomes remorseful after seeing the danger of the device they've wrought, and burns or sabotages their notes, or asks Our Heroes to blow up the factory that made it. One variant is when the creator intentionally invokes this. the trope applies once that story stretches to weeks or years and needs some Rule of Drama to prevent replications.) (Or, this trope is unnecessary if the creation could be replicated but only the original can be used in time to affect the story. Mad Science is magic-like in how it can inexplicably summon up something that its own creator doesn't quite understand. Note that in the real world, scientists and engineers make and keep very detailed notes - this is often what differentiates Science from Mad Science. Once the original is lost, it's gone forever. Maybe the first attempt was tainted during creation, or maybe a talented composer dies before they can record their techniques. This trope also applies to creations that, through some fluke of their creation, cannot be replicated for a variety of reasons. Thus the hero may safely blow it up, blast it with EMP or otherwise render it useless, confident that no one can recreate the technology - or worse, just take version 0.9 out of storage and use that the moment he leaves. Either way, no backup copies exist at all of either the device's hardware or software. In the case of expensive and rushed projects, the final project might have been made by cannibalizing parts of the prototype, or might actually be the prototype after a whole lot of upgrades and patches. ![]() There is only one of it, there are no plans or schematics for it, and no earlier generations of development exist. A specialized version of the Reset Button: Any dangerous device or technology owned by a villain, particularly a supervillain of the James Bond mode, that is not off-the-shelf exists in a metaphorical vacuum. ![]()
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