Tiny gun, rubbish name, awesome weapon to be reckoned with. Men In Black’s Agent J had no idea about the force he held in the palm of his hand when his ageing partner (Tommy Lee Jones) handed him the Noisy Cricket. This alien weapon looks like a child’s toy, but pulling the tiny little trigger unleashes the kind of explosive discharge that you would usually expect from a scud missile. It’s the unexpected power that the Noisy Cricket wields which earns it a place in SciFiNow’s top ten science-fiction weapons list.