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had already considered a similar device ('Our source was the New York Times'). Strangelove the Soviets build a Doomsday Device after the U.S. In Judge Dredd, the Spiritual Successors of the Soviet Union are the megacities East-Meg One and Two, which are at par with and occasionally ahead of western technology.Though it's technically a Fantasy Counterpart Culture, The Red Star is abound in this trope.It doesn't work, but not quite for the reason you'd expect.

#Command and conquer tvtropes series#

The obscure noir superhero series The Winter Men imagines a massive military-industrial operation throughout Soviet history to build mechanical and biological superbeings.

Global Frequency was formed to deal with exactly these kinds of strange cold war 'unexploded bombs'.

This would have allowed agent to teleport a hidden nuclear weapon to his location - with himself ground zero. The chip was suppose to augment his natural ability to teleport objects.

The first comic in the Global Frequency series was about a soviet sleeper agent that lost control of a chip implanted in his brain.

Why the Soviets didn't instead use it to improve their own weather is anyone's guess.

Blake and Mortimer: In 'SOS Meteors', it's revealed that the Soviet Bloc has developed weather control technology, which it uses to destabilize the climate of Western Europe in order to prepare for a military invasion.The Ultimate Universe series 'Ultimate Nightmare' took place almost entirely in a complex dedicated to this.His son, 'The Gremlin', was almost identical in looks and abilities and, among other things, created the high-tech gear (including Powered Armor) used by the Soviet Super-Troopers (precursors to the Soviet Super-Soldiers). The very first opponent The Incredible Hulk fought (other than the US Army), was 'The Gargoyle', a Soviet scientist warped into a deformed, large-headed, super-intelligent dwarf by exposure to radiation.Soviet scientists trying to get a leg up on American engineering with bizarre creations like Mongu and the Titanium Man formed the glut of Iron Man's original rogue's gallery.Crimson Dynamo is a Soviet scientist who invents an armored suit which also allows to control electricity.The Marvel Universe has its share of Soviet experiments gone awry, particularly from the days of the Cold War.All of these are culture-specific sub-disciplines of Mad Science. Stupid Jetpack Hitler is a Sister Trope, giving Those Wacky Nazis things like Powered Armor and Cool Airships, while Ghostapo could be a 'cousin trope', in that it's a more mystical version of Stupid Jetpack Hitler. The fall of the Soviet Union is often used as a reason why long-abandoned Soviet Superscience is once again rearing its ugly head, it having been forgotten about, lost in the confusion or sold off by corrupt handlers in the post-Soviet restructuring of Russian society.

Contemporary Russian electronics, however, don't lag behind their Western counterparts much, though the opinions on this tend to differ. The New Russia, sadly, won't be able to have anything vastly superior due to economic problems and lack of funding, so no, 'Russian Superscience' is not a likely prospect and wouldn't be anytime soon. Of course, the inconsistencies can be handwaved by the means of an Alternate Universe, as Red Alert testifies.ДЄll in all, the Soviets had a mixed record as far as science goes - remember, this is the country that put the first man in space, but also brought the world Lysenkoism, the abuse of psychiatry for 'rehabilitation' purposes and Chernobyl. The Soviets, however, loved Nuclear Power-the world's first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for a power grid went online in USSR-so there are some roots for the trope to grow from. This stance was lifted after Khruschev took power and USSR's first computer was finished in the mid-50s, but it was too late to successfully catch up with the US. It is worth noting that historically the most recognizable disciplines of any super science-genetics and cybernetics-received a poor start in the USSR as the Party proclaimed those 'false sciences' for being 'bourgeois' (yes, this makes about as much sense as Those Wacky Nazis dismissing Einsteinian relativity and the modern theory of the atom as 'Jewish physics').

Not that the US is left out, as long as both sides are in a Lensman Arms Race. Although 'abandoned Soviet experiments' seems to be a fairly common trope. After the end of the Cold War this is something of a Discredited Trope and usually only played for laughs. The tendency to give those Dirty Commies technologies far beyond their Western counterparts. Resistance is futile, Capitalist Pig-Dog!