Ultimate Weapon

The name or term "Ultimate Weapon" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Ultimate Weapon (disambiguation).

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

The Ultimate Weapon is a cipher. An indeterminate unknown amid a field of known knowns that simultaneously embodies and fails to embody our hopes and dreams / fears and anxieties until proven to/not-to.

It requires 2 AA batteries.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

Seeking to take advantage of Rodimus Prime's self-doubt, Galvatron created a box with blinking lights and sounds and claimed it was a weapon capable of destroying Earth. Galvatron hoped that the Ultimate Weapon's unknown nature would cause Rodimus to project all his anxieties and insecurities onto it. Instead, the Ultimate Weapon helped Rodimus to conquer his doubts by externalizing them. Since logic dictated that if Galvatron had an Ultimate Weapon, he would have used it long ago... the weapon had to be a fake. He had been coddling his own insecurities. Rodimus observed that the real Ultimate Weapon was the mind.

Galvatron, pissed off, broke his toy and ran away. The Ultimate Weapon