Trope-a-Day: Wave Motion Gun

Wave Motion Gun: Starwisp propulsion lasers, laser-launch system lasers, spinal lasers, xasers, and grasers, nuclear/AM shaped charges (i.e. Casaba-Howitzer), and arguably also both jetguns and unorthodox yet tactically useful applications (i.e., what we here on Earth call the Kzinti Lesson) of most modern reaction drives, especially fusion and antimatter torches.

Did I mention yet that I love the smell of ambiplasma in the morning?