Rail gun

That's not what a rail gun looks like.

Rail guns are the pinnacle of human-made weaponry and are even impressive by Transformer standards. Just ask Megatron.

Fiction

Generation 1 continuity family

Marvel Generation 2 comic

During her time working for Cobra, Doctor Sidney Biggles-Jones developed a rail gun that was powerful enough to launch its projectiles with so much force that they could still exceed gravitational escape velocity after travelling through several layers of matter. This type of rail gun was installed atop Cobra's H.I.S.S. tanks, Realignments while the doctor advanced her invention into the portable stages. When the Cobra base was infiltrated by Baroness and Destro, Sidney Biggles-Jones went after them in the hopes of getting a chance to test her hand-held version of the rail gun. She didn't get one, Unfoldings! but an attack by Megatron did allow her to show that alien technology wasn't necessarily better than human technology. Megatron was indeed impressed and agreed to a deal with Cobra Commander. Cobra would receive all the technology stored in the Ark and Megatron would get a new body, designed by Biggles-Jones and equipped with a rail gun, Realignments and unbeknownst to her, the brilliant doctor herself. Biggles-Jones didn't trust Cobra, Megatron or both though, and had a virus of her design installed in the rail gun's operating system. Megatron discovered it well in time and secretly had it deactivated. Final Transformations

2005 IDW continuity

This is what a rail gun looks like.

Megatron's new body was equipped with a huge rail gun on his right arm, which he claimed was powerful enough to destroy an entire human city in one shot. Revenge of the Decepticons Part 5: Enemy Mine The weapon's first victim was Rodimus, who ended up with a massive hole in his chest, Heart Like a Wheel and it was later used to defeat a whole team of Autobots as well as kill some humans. Woken Furies

2019 IDW continuity

RAILING KILL! RAILING KILL!

Ruckus used an illegally obtained railgun during a standoff with Security Operations in the Cybertronian Mountains. The Change In Your Nature Part One

After the Decepticons took over the Senate building, Clench manned a railgun on its roof to fire on the Autobots attempting to retake it. He gravely wounded two and managed to kill Chainclaw before he and his weapon were destroyed by Sidetrack and Flak's homing missiles. Prime

Revenge of the Fallen

About the only thing S7 did right.

Based on studies of N.B.E.-1 by Sector Seven, the rail gun is an advanced anti-N.B.E. weapon which fires a steel projectile at Mach Seven, currently used only in secret trials by the United States Navy. Revenge of the Fallen

After realizing that Devastator was trying to get to the Star Harvester inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, former Sector Seven agent Seymour Simmons took a radio from a downed Jordanian helicopter and managed to contact the USS John C. Stennis. Speaking with Captain Wilder, Simmons informed the Captain of Devastator's presence, and said that the rail gun would be the only weapon capable of taking out Devastator. After Wilder said that the rail gun's existence was classified, Simmons screamed not to talk to him about classified and told him to relay a ready order to the properly equipped ship. Wilder contacted the USS Kidd and got them linked to Simmons frequency. After Simmons relayed the coordinates, the personnel on the Kidd aimed and fired the rail gun. The weapon struck Devastator and instantly severed his right arm and punched a hole through his head, causing him to lose his balance and fall from the top of the pyramid to his death below. Revenge of the Fallen

In the Revenge of the Fallen novel, the rail gun was located on the Zumwalt, not the Kidd. Additionally, Wilder was captain of the Theodore Roosevelt, not the John C. Stennis. In both the novelization and the comic book adaptation, the rail gun is fired on Devastator as Optimus makes his aerial attack on the pyramid. And no, none of the three versions of the story explain why it wasn't fired on the harvester itself.

Rescue Bots cartoon

Doc Greene invented a version of a rail gun that cooks burgers and shoots them on to your bun.

Clearly this is the best use of this technology currently documented. Feed the Beast

Notes

• Rail guns are totally real, and their existence is not at all a secret. A model as advanced as the one in Revenge of the Fallen, let alone Generation 2, is still many years beyond current technology, however.
• Megatron's Generation 2 toy bios still call his weapon a fusion cannon despite it being replaced by the rail gun in the Marvel comic.
• The Revenge of the Fallen video game adapted the idea of the rail gun into the Axiom Gun.
• Megatron's Generations: Thrilling 30 Deluxe Class toy, which is designed after his stealth plane body in the IDW Generation 1 comics, sports the rail gun seen in the comic as its weapon, but the packaging identifies it as a fusion cannon. Possible reasons are that Hasbro doesn't want to use the word "gun" on a toy's packaging, simply because the fusion cannon is Megatron's signature weapon, or a combination of both.

External links

• [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Railgun|{{#if:||Railgun}}]] on Wikipedia