WONDER WEAPONS

Group 935's lightning cannon — the original wonder weapon. Forks between every zombie in a huge radius with a single trigger pull. Will kill the user if they are caught in the chain at low rounds.

ACQUIRE

Mystery Box Mystery Box only — low pull chance, no buildable path.

PAP NAME

Wunderwaffe DG-3 JZ

UPGRADE

Fires a chain-lightning bolt that arcs through every zombie in range. Upgraded version gets 3 mag / 24 reserve and faster recharge.

AMMO

3 / 15 (24 PaP)

DAMAGE

One-shot kills through walls and through the entire chain.

The universal wonder weapon. Every Zombies player's first wonder weapon pull from the box — it became the benchmark every other WW is measured against.

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Mystery Box The iconic ray gun. Appears in the Mystery Box on every classic map.

PAP NAME

Porter's X2 Ray Gun

UPGRADE

Larger splash radius, green tracers, 200 reserve ammo. Splash still hurts the user — keep distance.

AMMO

20 / 160 (200 PaP)

DAMAGE

One-shot kill to ~round 15, consistent torso damage higher.

Compressed-air cannon that instantly obliterates every zombie in a wide cone. The definitive "oh no" button.

ACQUIRE

Mystery Box Mystery Box only. Rare pull — widely considered the best panic weapon in Zombies history.

PAP NAME

Zeus Cannon

UPGRADE

Doubles reserve ammo. Still a single clean shot per trigger — use for horde wipes and emergency revives.

AMMO

2 / 6 (12 PaP)

DAMAGE

Wipes every zombie in a cone regardless of round.

Cryogenic launcher that freezes zombies solid. Shoot a frozen zombie with any weapon to shatter it for an instant kill.

ACQUIRE

Mystery Box Mystery Box only on Five and Classified.

PAP NAME

Winter's Fury

UPGRADE

Wider freeze cone, faster freeze, shattered zombies count as instakills.

AMMO

4 / 16 (24 PaP)

DAMAGE

Freezes then shatters — effective at all rounds if you can line up the cone.

A weaponized containment breach of the Gersch device — opens a micro black hole. Excellent for clearing revive space.

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Mystery Box Tactical grenade slot from the box. Returns via QED rolls on Moon.

UPGRADE

Not PaP-upgradable directly — spawns a black hole that pulls in all nearby zombies and kills them over a few seconds.

AMMO

Tactical slot (grenade-style)

DAMAGE

Guaranteed wipe inside the singularity radius.

Experimental reverse-reanimation ray. The upgraded Lazarus variant is one of the only wonder weapons that can revive downed teammates at range.

ACQUIRE

Mystery Box Mystery Box only. Shared with the Scavenger on Call of the Dead.

PAP NAME

V-R11 Lazarus

UPGRADE

Briefly turns zombies back into humans who run as decoys. Upgraded version drops a power-up on kill and heals downed players.

AMMO

1 / 4 (1 / 12 PaP)

DAMAGE

Not damage-focused — tactical transformation tool.

Bolt-action sniper that fires explosive cryo rounds. Pairs the ice-freeze effect with massive splash.

ACQUIRE

Mystery Box Mystery Box only. Bolt-action rifle form — rare pull.

PAP NAME

Hyena Infra-Dead

UPGRADE

Explosive thermal-optic rounds with massive splash damage. Reserve doubles; one of the strongest single-target weapons in BO1.

AMMO

6 / 18 (6 / 30 PaP)

DAMAGE

Round 40+ one-shots with splash.

Shrink ray that turns zombies into miniature, one-stomp versions of themselves. Unique to Shangri-La and rarely replicated since.

ACQUIRE

Mystery Box Mystery Box only on Shangri-La.

PAP NAME

Fractionalizer

UPGRADE

Wider beam, shrunken zombies become insta-kill stomps, and the upgrade carries more reserve.

AMMO

5 / 20 (40 PaP)

DAMAGE

Shrinks zombies into instakill targets you can stomp.

Dual-form sonic cannon. Switch between the AoE wave burst and a dual-wielded zap gun using the weapon switch button.

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Mystery Box Mystery Box only. Also rolls as Zap Guns — a dual-wield variant of the same weapon.

PAP NAME

Wave Gun / Porter's Mark II Ray Gun (dual)

UPGRADE

Wave Gun swells and pops zombies in a large AoE. Zap Gun dual-wield fires chained lightning per hand.

AMMO

Shared pool: 3 / 9 (3 / 18 PaP)

DAMAGE

Wave: AoE wipe. Zap: chain lightning per shot.

Chaos grenade. Best thought of as a gamble: sometimes you get a Max Ammo, sometimes you get a sad fart.

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Mystery Box Tactical grenade slot from the box. Random effects on throw.

UPGRADE

Not PaP-upgradable. Random outcomes: power-up drop, free perk, weapon swap, free Pack-a-Punch, or a huge zombie wipe.

AMMO

Tactical slot

DAMAGE

Variable. Can insta-wipe a horde or do nothing.

Bio-chemical goo cannon. Place a puddle in a training lane and every zombie that walks through it dies and infects the next one.

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Buildable Build from four parts scattered across the Skyscraper: barrel, handle, glass tube, and gauge.

PAP NAME

Sliquifier

UPGRADE

Larger puddles, faster kill, bigger reserve.

AMMO

2 / 18 (2 / 30 PaP)

DAMAGE

Creates liquid puddles — zombies that touch them die and chain to any zombie they touch.

Dual-barrel blunderbuss firing explosive slugs. Upgrade to the Acidgat / Vitriolic Withering via the Easter Egg for insane damage.

ACQUIRE

Buildable Obtained via the afterlife-path around the Warden's office, then returned to a weapon locker.

PAP NAME

Sweeper

UPGRADE

Acid rounds that devastate a large cone. The alternate Vitriolic Withering upgrade (via EE) is the strongest single weapon in BO2.

AMMO

2 / 10 (2 / 40 PaP)

DAMAGE

Acid cone one-shots at high rounds.

VARIANTS

• Acidgat
• Vitriolic Withering (Acidgat PaP)

Sonic disruption cannon. Hold the trigger to levitate zombies in a beam; release to drop them as crawlers. Uniquely has no reserve ammo.

ACQUIRE

Mystery Box Mystery Box only on Buried.

PAP NAME

Paralyzer

UPGRADE

Not PaP-upgradable directly. Hold to levitate and freeze zombies mid-air; has infinite ammo but overheats.

AMMO

Infinite (overheat)

DAMAGE

Freezes and lifts zombies — kills on prolonged hold.

The pinnacle of BO2 wonder weapons. Four elemental staves — Ice (Ull's Arrow), Fire (Kagutsuchi's Blood), Lightning (Kimat's Bite), and Wind (Boreas' Fury) — each with its own upgrade quest.

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Buildable Collect four gem fragments, a crystal, and a staff head for each of the four staffs. Assemble at the Crazy Place altars via the Giants.

PAP NAME

Upgraded Staff of X

UPGRADE

Each staff has a unique upgrade requiring a multi-step Easter Egg puzzle in the Crazy Place. Upgraded staves deal massive AoE and have unique ultimate abilities.

AMMO

Per-staff (reloads via pickups or zombies)

DAMAGE

Upgraded: one-shot wipes into the high rounds.

VARIANTS

• Ull's Arrow (Ice)
• Kagutsuchi's Blood (Fire)
• Kimat's Bite (Lightning)
• Boreas' Fury (Wind)

Demonic tomahawk that returns to your hand after each throw. The upgraded Redeemer variant is one of the strongest melee wonder weapons in the series.

ACQUIRE

Ritual Feed three skulls in afterlife mode via the warden cells, then retrieve from the golden gate sequence.

PAP NAME

Hell's Redeemer

UPGRADE

Upgrade via a second, longer ritual. Homing throws, more targets, insta-kill through the rounds.

AMMO

Infinite (returns to hand)

DAMAGE

Throwable insta-kill throughout the game.

VARIANTS

• Hell's Redeemer (upgraded)

Shadow Man's Apothicon relic — fires a dimensional rift that sucks zombies inside and consumes them. One of the strongest WWs in BO3.

ACQUIRE

Buildable Collect four Summoning Key pieces via the district rituals, then assemble in the Ritual Room.

PAP NAME

Shadow Servant / Kor Marz Ma

UPGRADE

Wider vortex, chain-consumption between clusters, longer duration on upgrade.

AMMO

1 / 3 (1 / 6 PaP)

DAMAGE

Opens a vortex that devours every zombie in range.

Medieval elemental bow. Each of the four upgrades has one of the most in-depth quests in Zombies history.

ACQUIRE

Ritual Obtain the base bow via the castle ritual, then complete one of four elemental upgrade quests (Wolf, Fire, Void, Storm).

UPGRADE

Each upgraded bow has a unique ultimate charge effect and gains much higher ammo and damage.

AMMO

Variable per bow; charge-based.

DAMAGE

Upgraded: train-wipes into the high rounds.

VARIANTS

• Wolf Bow (Rune Prison)
• Fire Bow (Storm)
• Void Bow
• Storm Bow

Organic bio-weapon grown from hybrid plant matter. The Masamune upgrade is one of the most consistent high-round weapons in BO3.

ACQUIRE

Buildable Grow plants in the three bunker gardens, assemble from parts fertilized by zombie blood.

PAP NAME

Masamune

UPGRADE

Fires concentrated acid rounds in a tight beam, large reserve, higher damage through rounds.

AMMO

4 / 12 (4 / 24 PaP)

DAMAGE

Acid-rounds one-shot into mid-high rounds.

Soviet plasma pistol bonded with dragon essence. Its alt-fire dragon breath is one of the most flashy WW abilities in the series.

ACQUIRE

Buildable Feed the baby dragon three times with the appropriate items, then retrieve the weapon.

PAP NAME

GKZ-45 Mk3

UPGRADE

Dragon's breath alt-fire unlocks post-EE — briefly summons the dragon to incinerate an area.

AMMO

4 / 12

DAMAGE

Plasma rounds — high single-target damage.

Chaos-story relic powered by the Elder Gods. Each map's artifact takes a different form: the Kraken, Death of Orion, or Hammer of Valhalla.

ACQUIRE

EE Reward Obtained through each Chaos map's main quest progression. One artifact per map with map-specific form (Kraken, Death of Orion, Hammer of Valhalla).

PAP NAME

Per-map

UPGRADE

Each map's artifact is a unique upgraded WW with its own firing behavior and ultimate.

AMMO

Per-artifact

DAMAGE

High-tier damage, intended as the map's finisher weapon.

VARIANTS

• Kraken (Voyage of Despair)
• Death of Orion (IX)
• Hammer of Valhalla (Ancient Evil)

Dual-wielded Mk2 pistols infused with four elements. Alistair Rhodes' personal wonder weapon — each element has distinct behavior.

ACQUIRE

Buildable Collect four elemental essences from each of the four supernatural bosses (werewolf, vampire, etc.) and return them to the reactor room.

UPGRADE

Fully assembled weapon switches between four elemental modes: fire, lightning, ice, and void.

AMMO

Per-element

DAMAGE

High damage per element; void is the strongest.

Group 601 prototype tesla rifle. A direct spiritual successor to the Wunderwaffe — chains lightning between every nearby zombie.

ACQUIRE

Mystery Box Mystery Box only on Tag der Toten.

PAP NAME

RAI K-84

UPGRADE

Switches between a chain-lightning primary and a projected void-bomb alt-fire.

AMMO

40 / 120

DAMAGE

Chain lightning + AoE void burst.