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Slow Laser

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Slow Laser	label	Slow Laser
Slow Laser	page	SlowLaser
Slow Laser	comment	When you turn on a Laser Sight, it immediately shows up on your target. This is because it's a laser and moves at the speed of light. So wouldn't you think a laser weapon would also (effectively) immediately hit the target? Logically, yes; but this is TV, where Hollywood Science rules. Thus, energy weapons move a lot slower than the speed of light (and a lot slower than bullets in the same show) and can be dodged after they are fired. (Occasionally, it's handwaved by the dodger seeing the person aiming at them and going for the trigger, and moving in the split-second before they pull it.) Regardless of a laser's frequency and the medium it's shooting through, it will make futuristic zap noises and be visible (and glowy). Most of the complaints about laser weapons not behaving like real lasers are because their primary function in TV are not to be realistic depictions of how real energy-based weapons would work. They are merely stand-ins for "real" guns to appease media watchdogs, to establish a show as being futuristic, or simply applying the Rule of Cool. Being able to show the audience who is firing and where is yet another plus, for which the shots can be Colour-Coded for Your Convenience. In fact, the usual "laser bolts" effect looks a lot more like machine gun fire using tracer bullets (which was even colored according to nation, as in Star Wars) and early writers' World War II experiences may have inspired the effect. For those keeping score, the former title of this trope (Frickin' Laser Beams, which is now a redirect to Energy Weapon) comes from an otherwise unrelated line in the first Austin Powers movie ("I want sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads!" - and when they appear in the third movie, they are realistic lasers instead of a Ray Gun). If it's Raygun Gothic, it's probably a Death Ray. When such weapons are used excessively, see Beam Spam. And when they track their target like missiles, see Homing Lasers. Often overlaps with Hand Blast for the user's convenience. See also the Laser Blade, when your lasers are used to cut things at melee range. Sub-Trope of Weapon Running Time (a projectile's time to hit its target is long enough for things to happen).
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Slow Laser / int_135d6dd0	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_135d6dd0	comment	Averted in an episode of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, where an enemy agent explains to the immobilized captain that the energy weapon's immobilizing beam moves at the speed of light, and is therefore impossible to dodge.
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Slow Laser / int_1641fd92	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_1641fd92	comment	Sunrider: Every single mecha and ship seems to have some form of laser-based attack.
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Slow Laser / int_169f043b	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft has comparatively few lasers: The first game had the Wraith and Battlecruiser's weapons which fired a single laser bullet at a time, while the Protoss Scout had "Photon Blasters". The sequel's Protoss have continuous laser attacks, from the Sentry to the Void Ray (which does more damage the longer it stays on target, and carries over to the next one).
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Slow Laser / int_1773eb11	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_1773eb11	comment	Star Ruler has lasers as a weapon choice. They use continuous beams, are instant-hit and do not need ammo, unlike kinetics. It gets ridiculous when you research them to where their range is measurable in AU (~8 light-minutes/~500 light-seconds) and STILL hit instantly!
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Slow Laser / int_1a21786a	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_1a21786a	comment	Advice and Trust: In episode 7 Rei fights Zeruel. The Robeast started out the battle shooting a laser beam at Rei, but she dodged it quickly. During the battle she constantly dodged its energy blasts, since when she tried to block them, it almost vaporized her.
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Slow Laser / int_1beda93b	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_1beda93b	comment	In Sluggy Freelance, Riff regularly carries a laser cannon around whenever it looks like trouble might be brewing.
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Slow Laser / int_1bfb9fe0	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_1bfb9fe0	comment	In Endless Sky, lasers and heavy lasers are beam weapons, and unlike EV they're available from the start as standard (albeit advanced) human technology. They hit instantly and thus avert this trope, making them very useful for fighting in dense asteroid fields and avoiding overkill when disabling ships. However, their short range practically makes them melee weapons compared to "blaster" and particle weapons, which are traditional sublight projectiles.
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Slow Laser / int_1cc11947	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_1cc11947	comment	In Descent, the various laser weapons travel approximately at twice your ship's velocity and can be dodged-however, the Vulcan Cannon, effectively a machine gun that fires pieces of metal, travels instantly and can not be dodged. (Now imagine the Vulcan Cannon doing much more damage per shot with an equally high rate of fire, and you have Descent II's Gauss Cannon.) Once you get the afterburner powerup, you can travel at the same speed as the laser beams.
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Slow Laser / int_21795cc3	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_21795cc3	comment	"Luthor's Lethal Laser". Lex Luthor uses a laser gun based on the moon to threaten to melt Earth's polar icecaps unless all of the countries on the planet surrender to him.
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Slow Laser / int_217b82e2	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_217b82e2	comment	One of the allied units and several enemy units in Alien Hallway have guns that fire laser bullets.
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Slow Laser / int_21a4e905	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_21a4e905	comment	In Monster Buster Club the kids have these as well, but they don't work like conventional lasers. Instead, when hit, the enemy would then be sucked up into the gun, into a little cartridge thing the kids could remove and place in something that looks like cold storage until the authorities come to take them away.
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Slow Laser / int_21e4ee5c	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_21e4ee5c	comment	Averted in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, which has the characters using hand-held laser guns that fire a visible light laser that is a continuous beam that is instantaneous...although it still makes the 'zap' sounds.
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Slow Laser / int_22a914c	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_22a914c	comment	Too Human avoids this, as its laser weapons shoot an immediate continuous beam, which also heats up and does more damage the longer its kept on target.
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Slow Laser / int_231df7d2	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_231df7d2	comment	V (1983). Not only are the blasts of the Visitors' sidearms slow enough to dodge, if you're in good shape you could probably outrun them.
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Slow Laser / int_289484d9	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_289484d9	comment	In the Bloons Tower Defense series, the Super Monkey can be upgraded to fire laser Eye Beams (and in later titles, sun rays). These projectiles are nowhere near the speed of light, to the point where they might sometimes miss if the bloon is fast enough and moving perpendicularly to the attack at a long enough range. The Laser Cannon upgrade for the dartling gun shoots slow laser projectiles. However, it can be further upgraded into the Plasma Accelerator and the Ray of Doom, which are both solid, instantaneous beams (although the former cannot travel past the targeted point).
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Slow Laser / int_28b53408	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_28b53408	comment	FEAR 2 has a laser gun that averts this trope. It is a constant beam with no recoil that hits instantly. Especially annoying since the enemies can still hit you even in Bullet Time.
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Slow Laser / int_2925187f	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_2925187f	comment	In The Conquerors Trilogy, the Zhirrzh use lasers as their main weapons, whereas humans and other races mostly use missiles and kinetic-based weaponry. The Zhirrzh lasers are instantaneous like Real Life ones, but produce a visible beam. While they can be dodged, that relies purely on luck and reaction lag of the gunners, and only the Copperheads manage to do it regularly given the improved reaction time granted by their cybernetic interface.
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Slow Laser / int_292e4ce	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_292e4ce	comment	Surprisingly, laser beams did travel instantaneously in Street Fighter.
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Slow Laser / int_2a139e05	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_2a139e05	comment	The Orville's space combat falls into this trope with the lasers they fire often being rather easy to track. Those are said to be plasma cannons, though.
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Slow Laser / int_2ae406c1	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_2ae406c1	comment	Several different varieties of laser are staple weapons in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, and like all weapons, have various stats describing how they supposedly work (aside from their flat Attack Value), including Active Medium, Type, and Burn Rate for one meter of steel. The basic laser, the first new weapon you can research in the game with AV 2, is a fiber-coupled diode laser and burns through one meter of steel in 0.76 seconds. The Singularity Laser at the end of the game, with AV 24, is a singularity induction laser using a temporal boundary as its active medium. Burn rate? Relative. There's also the Gatling Laser, Fusion Laser, and Quantum Laser amidst the other weapons.
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Slow Laser / int_2e3e7ac2	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: Sinestro is irate that the energy from his ring can't touch the Flash. The catch is while the ring's constructs and projectiles are that fast, Sinestro isn't. Also, Superman in "Kid's Stuff":
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Slow Laser / int_2edbea4a	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_2edbea4a	comment	The Fantastic Four by Roger Corman has one of the most extreme versions. After Doctor Doom fires a laser beam at New York City from Latveria, Johnny Storm has enough time to make a quick statement to the others about "I never could beat the laser in that video game!", catch up to the laser on its way over the ocean, follow the ballistic arc it traces, and then use a bolt of fire as a Beam-O-War to eventually stop it.
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Slow Laser / int_2f09f9d	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_2f09f9d	comment	WarWind has a few elite units equipped with laser weapons, which do considerable damage and have a long range of attack. The latter advantage makes them very useful in softening the advancing enemy before he reaches your main defence force, especially when you place the laser-equipped unit in a watchtower.
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Slow Laser / int_34170b02	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_34170b02	comment	Samurai Warriors - Kanetsugu Naoe eventually gains the ability to shoot chi beams from his Onmyōdō cards.
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Slow Laser / int_34fd3cf6	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Parodied in Aqua Teen Hunger Force when the Mooninites fire laser beams at ATHF. The beams move very, very slowly. Frylock's Eye Beams, on the other hand, don't. Also parodied with the Plutonians attempted to trap Shake in a laser cage. They turned out to be harmless disco lasers.
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Slow Laser / int_353bdeb0	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_353bdeb0	comment	Averted in Humanx Commonwealth: One of the few instances of lasers are mentioned as merely one of the many and varied types of advanced weaponry in the stories. They behave much as one would expect a powerful beam weapon to in real life, with speed-of-light travel, cutting through things, etc., and there are lasers for everything from starships to hand weapons.
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Slow Laser / int_36395288	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_36395288	comment	Kirby can gain a "laser" ability (slower than light, travels in tangible lumps rather than as a continuous beam); in the words of the ability description screen, "it bounces off walls, too!".
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Slow Laser / int_367f632a	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_367f632a	comment	40k also has plasma weapons, which are typically depicted as behaving more like the classic 'laser bullet' type device — firing discrete bolts of magnetically contained plasma (essentially, tiny stars) at a range comparable to an assault rifle (and color-coded in Dawn of War, with blueish for imperial forces and red for Chaos).
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Slow Laser / int_398acbad	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_398acbad	comment	Kaos' Undead Spell in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure summons harmless targeting beams that quickly turn dangerous if you stay in their path. Some of the Skylanders themselves also use laser beams, being either earth-types with a Power Crystal theme or tech-types.
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Slow Laser / int_3a280f3b	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_3a280f3b	comment	Fate Revelation Online: Lasers are portrayed correctly; Rosalia's glaive exploits her [Light] element to concentrate light into a dangerous beam. It is instant and invisible, with no obvious effect besides vaporizing a large portion of the target. On the other hand, plenty of [Ether] element spells look similar to traditional slow lasers. Since the element is related to luminiferous aether, an obsolete theory on how light works, that kind of fits.
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Slow Laser / int_3a50fde0	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_3a50fde0	comment	Averted in Raptor: Call of the Shadows. Yes, there are three laser weapons in the game (Laser turret, Death Ray and Twin Laser). However, they are all instant-hit weapons, similar to real lasers. Your best bet was to not be in front of it when it fired: whether from you or foe, there was no real lag between fire and impact.
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Slow Laser / int_3d9ab0c3	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_3d9ab0c3	comment	In Stealth Bastard, laser beams are one of the main obstacles. They're also fired by enemies.
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Slow Laser / int_3f633fb4	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_3f633fb4	comment	Cracked mentions a home made laser gunnote that is, buying a bench-top laser and battery pack in a $2000 USD kit, which could then probably be mounted on a rifle grip in their article 6 Things You Won't Believe Are More Legal Than Marijuana and a weaponized laser pointer in 5 Deadly Sci-fi Gadgets You Can Build At Home.
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Slow Laser / int_42ffb88e	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation SCP-2099 ("Laser Shark Fetuses") are some deformed cycloptic baby sharks apparently engineered by Dr. Wondertainment to be demented kid's toy versions of the sharks of the Trope Namer. SCP-2099 ("Brain in a Jar"). SCP-2099 has invented 713 different types of laser gun, all of which he keeps in a bin labeled "713 different laser guns". He has also invented a pistol that fires out highly concentrated X-rays (i.e. an X-ray laser pistol) that is powered by two AA batteries and focused by a common quartz crystal.
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Slow Laser / int_45819f20	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_45819f20	comment	Warzone 2100 has two kinds of lasers - laser turrets and the Laser Kill Sat, both depicted as rather slow moving - the turret lasers are depicted as projectiles (despite there being a rail gun in the game that is depicted as somewhat beam-like) and move slightly faster than machine gun bullets, but they are homing projectiles, with an 80% chance to hit, while the Laser Kill Sat is depicted as a cone of fire descending on it's target area.
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Slow Laser / int_45a5656f	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_45a5656f	comment	The BattleTech Expanded Universe zig-zags on the matter: MechCommander featured a bizarre spin on the matter: lasers move as visible projectiles towards the target (at the same speed as ballistic projectiles), but whether they hit or not is predetermined at the moment they are fired. This results in bizarre situations where firing at a fast-moving target will cause the laser to actually bend, change course, and follow the target until impact. In MechAssault pulse laser shots travel like your average "laser" projectile, while lasers shoot visibly-moving beams. Both types are, at least, as fast as bullets. In MechWarrior 2, lasers are moderately high-speed energy bullets. In Mechwarrior 4, pulse lasers are hitscan, but the appearance of the beam suggests a high-velocity energy machine gun. MechWarrior: Living Legends, MechWarrior Online, and the 2018 Battletech game avert this trope completely. Not only do lasers travel and hit instantly, but pulse lasers actually flicker, unlike previous games where Pulse Lasers were depicted as chained-blobs.
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Slow Laser / int_47f0eac3	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_47f0eac3	comment	Metalocalypse - Dethklok had acquired a Soviet planetarium laser light-show machine for a concert - unfortunately their adopted ward Fat Kid played with it, and it ended up cutting a philharmonic orchestra in pieces.
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Slow Laser / int_48cf61a6	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_48cf61a6	comment	In the Superfriends 1973/74 episode "The Shamon U", one of Dr. Shamon's devices is a giant laser that he uses to fuse space gold dust into gold meteors. The beam clearly travels slower than the speed of light.
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Slow Laser / int_4937d0d9	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_4937d0d9	comment	Sins of a Solar Empire has at least three kinds of lasers. A number of TEC and Advent frigates have pulsed lasers, a typical example of a slower-than-light bolt. The TEC Kol-class battleships are also armed with heavy orange laser beams. Pretty much all Advent capital ships Beam Spam bright blue laser beams. The Radiance-class battleships have an incredibly powerful (and bright) laser beam the size of the battleship that pulverizes almost any target. Even Advent bombers are armed with hitscan lasers. Some Vasari capital ships get Pulse Beam weapons which fire a brief beam that hits instantly. Naturally, there are Game Mods that add even more options.
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Slow Laser / int_49ad83ee	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_49ad83ee	comment	The Cataclysm expansion for World of Warcraft features a quest requiring you to kill a giant shark with a robotic shark of your own (not surprisingly, this is in the goblin starting area.) What is the robotic shark's primary attack? A frikken laser beam. Yes, they actually include the word frikken in the attack name. Also as a response to one beta-tester's critique of The Maelstrom as not being epic enough, the dev team added a flying shark with a laser beam to the zone. And there's a frickin' dinosaur on top of that shark manning the frickin' laser. And riding that dinosaur is an undead with a mohawk rocking out on a guitar axe.
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Slow Laser / int_4be1bdd0	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_4be1bdd0	comment	The "Beam" line of powers in Golden Sun. Available to Jenna's base class in The Lost Age and Eoleo's base class in Dark Dawn. Also, certain weapon unleash techniques use a laser effect.
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Slow Laser / int_4ce5263e	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_4ce5263e	comment	XCOM: Enemy Unknown has laser weapons that behave more realistically, producing a single burst/beam of light that cuts straight out and hits the target instantly.note The laser rifles (normal and sniper) and pistol are not quite hitscan, but rather extremely fast projectiles, as can be noticed when an Overwatch shot with one of these weapons misses at close range: the beam will jet off in a random direction at a relatively slow speed. The Scatter Laser and Heavy Laser are both true hitscan, though. The MEC Trooper's Particle Cannon, the plasma-tier weapon, also acts like a huge hitscan laser cannon with a two-stage beam emission.
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Slow Laser / int_4ce969a9	comment	Marathon (Bungie's pre-Halo FPS series) had all sorts of energy weapons which moved very slowly, and a number of typically near-hitscan bullet weapons. Since there were only one or two enemies with bullet weapons and one or two Cool, but Inefficient energy weapons you could use, this typically added up to you dodging lots of enemy fire and them ending up as bullet-riddled heaps of steaming entrails (when you didn't trick them into starting a fight with the other guy that was standing behind you.)
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Slow Laser / int_4edff9aa	comment	Star Fox: All over the place, starting with the Arwing's main weapon.
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Slow Laser / int_5050b585	comment	The Child of Love: In the seventh chapter shows up an Angel shoots laser beams. Shinji and Rei have little trouble to dodge them or raise their energy shields before the beam strikes them.
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Slow Laser / int_50e2e357	comment	Star Trek (2009) follows the "bullets of light" model: a handheld phaser shoots discrete pulses. The Enterprise itself shakes from recoil as its phasers fire. However, as portrayed through all Star Trek series, phasers are not actually lasers but phased particle beams (called nadions) that occasionally look like lasers. Word of God is that Gene Roddenberry realized shortly into TOS that people who saw the show in 20 years would say "Lasers don't do that" and retconned all weapons into phasers instead. In contrast to most of the rest of the franchise where phasers are presented as beam weapons that connect instantly. They still create shaking on a target when hit though... Err... those are Particle beams. The phased laser is carrying all kinds of hazardous extras for the feds.
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Slow Laser / int_521283d5	comment	Shatterhand has a bot that shoots lasers.
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Slow Laser / int_533d8965	comment	In Minion Comics the minions are given a plan: "Run in there and shoot lasers everywhere."
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Slow Laser / int_54a7dc07	comment	Space: 1999 has what are possibly the slowest laser beams in television history. The beams have a clearly defined beginning and end.
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Slow Laser / int_55c5a085	comment	They are all over the place in the Mazinger series (Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, UFO Robo Grendizer). Both Humongous Mechas and Robeasts are frequently seen dodging beams.
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Slow Laser / int_57bd5fb	comment	The laser weapons in Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity are slow enough that Tisa is able to snatch a breastplate off the wall and use it to reflect it back at the robot who fired it.
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Slow Laser / int_58968a0d	comment	In These days, they seem to be Ayase's attack of choice.
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Slow Laser / int_5a2333ef	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_5a2333ef	comment	LittleBigPlanet 2 has the creatinator power-up which can fire different kinds of elemental lasers among other things.
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Slow Laser / int_5b3356f8	comment	In Turning Red, the bolt of light emanating from Mr. Gao's coin sword takes a few fractions of a second to reach its target. This may be justified as the light being magic however.
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Slow Laser / int_5bf7c9a3	comment	Lasers in Star Wars Battlefront (2015), in Star Wars tradition, are brilliantly visible for all to see and far slower than light. Specifically, the laser bolts from Chewbacca's bowcaster are so slow that a person can step aside and dodge one as it heads for them.
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Slow Laser / int_5bfa9c98	comment	The Corpus from Warframe is Origin System's leading producer of weapons of The Future: boxy gadgets that recoil madly as they shoot bolts of plasma or somesuch travelling at subsonic speeds. The few laser weapons they produce that behave like actual lasers tend to suffer from cripplingly short ranges; trying them on targets more than 20 metres away is usually an exercise in futility (not that they aren't useful, though; the Amprex is very good at crowd control thanks to its Chain Lightning properties).
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Slow Laser / int_5c897f4a	comment	Subverted in Schlock Mercenary as most of the characters, with the exception of Sergeant Schlock who prefers a plasma cannon, tend to use projectile weapons. The reasoning for this is explained in the footnote for This comic. In addition, most ship to ship combat seems to involve missiles and gravitic weapons, despite them having lasers, as well as masers, plasma lances, and railguns.
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Slow Laser / int_5cb7fc72	comment	All laser weapons in System Shock 2 fire slow prismatic bricks which you can dodge gracefully with a sufficient agility stat.
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Slow Laser / int_6053d9f9	comment	Silent Hill had a few, each obtainable by getting the UFO Ending: The first game had the Hyper Blaster which could also be obtained by plugging a Konami Justifier into controller port 2. It came in three flavors, and each one was essentially a handgun, shotgun, and rifle with unlimited ammo. Silent Hill 3: Heather Beam Silent Hill: Origins, which was a Lethal Joke Weapon with overwhelming power and unlimited ammo, but a ridiculously poor range. Silent Hill: Homecoming had the laser pistol which broke the game wide open and could kill bosses so fast it could cause glitches.
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Slow Laser / int_60570997	comment	In the future of S.S.D.D., buckminster fullerene armor has made conventional guns obsolete. However handheld lasers are ridiculously expensive, over 30 times as expensive as a coilgun or solvent-grenade launcher. And then there's the Black Rose Plasma cannon, which looks like a flamethrower but fires a plasma stream that burns straight through fullerene alloys. Unfortunately it has a tendency to explode and has a reputation for killing more of its users than enemies.
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Slow Laser / int_616626a5	comment	In X-Universe, most of the energy weapons that fire a Painfully Slow Projectile are technically some form of plasma cannon or particle accelerator, but a handful like the Photon Pulse Cannon with its slow moving disco balls of doom are ostensibly laser radiation weapons. The Kha'ak-exclusive Kyon Emitter is the only actual laser, and its effectively hitscan nature makes it lethal to fighter craft. Ironically, while X: Rebirth features more laser-like hitscan weapons, they are explicitly not lasers, like the Plasma-JET LR that fires a beam of plasma.
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Slow Laser / int_61de95d6	comment	In Freelancer, everything is a projectile. The laser and photon weapons just have faster projectiles.
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Slow Laser / int_62624eee	comment	Serious Sam: The series' XL2 lasergun fires non-hitscan lasers. Some enemies fire slow laser beams as well. Examples include minor biomechanoids, octanian troopers and orcs.
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Slow Laser / int_66b7b92d	comment	Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast has a particularly infuriating version of an actual instant-hit laser being dodgeable. The Disruptor Rifle is actually hitscan on normal enemies, but force-sensitive ones will dodge out of the way in a single frame if you try to zap them with it. The player character is an actual Jedi themselves, but can't block said shots. Handwaved in the sequel Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. They do it with Force Sense in the short time between when you decide to pull the trigger and the actual pulling. But obviously it is to force you to fight them with your lightsaber. Jedi Outcast does allow the player to dodge the Disruptor Rifle shots, if you have Force Speed. It activates Force Speed for the duration of the dodge animation, making it look cooler, and drains a lot of Force Power, so the Computer is still a cheating bastard. In a mission to capture Boba Fett, he is also able to insta-dodge Disruptor shots, with the same animation.
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Slow Laser / int_68b8bdfe	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_68b8bdfe	comment	X-COM: UFO Defense has lasers, which are slower than light and pulse, but they are impossible to dodge as it's a Turn-Based Strategy game.
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Slow Laser / int_68ff28c8	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_68ff28c8	comment	The first game had the Hyper Blaster which could also be obtained by plugging a Konami Justifier into controller port 2. It came in three flavors, and each one was essentially a handgun, shotgun, and rifle with unlimited ammo.
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Slow Laser / int_68ff28ca	comment	Silent Hill 3: Heather Beam
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Slow Laser / int_699f37a1	comment	Silent Storm has energy weapons developed by Thor's Hammer and fired either out of a bazooka-like handheld weapon or using a specialized Panzerklein. The green beams travel almost instantaneously and cut through everything like butter, even Panzerklein armor. Their plan is to launch a Kill Sat with an upscale version of the weapon to threaten the world and force its capitulation. One extremely rare random encounter involves a UFO with a number of THO Panzerkleins roaming the area. Near the UFO you can find a more compact rapid-fire energy rifle that looks almost exactly like the laser rifle from the original XCOM. The implication is that THO reverse-engineered the tech.
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Slow Laser / int_6b3cfe38	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_6b3cfe38	comment	In Bob and George, the Yellow Demon can shoot lasers in some forms.
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Slow Laser / int_6c1d09b2	comment	It is less subtle in Fallout 2, though in the turn-based context, it doesn't really matter that it's presented as a moving sprite.
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Slow Laser / int_6c1d09b3	comment	Fallout 3 goes further with the aversion, in having its laser weapons be true hitscan beams, while the two previous titles had them fire the more "traditional" slow-moving bolt of energy. Fallout: New Vegas also continues use of the proper beam lasers.
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Slow Laser / int_6c47db4e	comment	Dynasty Warriors - Previous to the sixth game, Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi's special moves involved them shooting ancient Chinese lasers chi beams from their hands. Zuo Ci can also shoot chi beams from his magic paper tassels.
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Slow Laser / int_6cb480c5	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_6cb480c5	comment	Aqua Rhapsody, despite taking place entirely underwater.
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Slow Laser / int_6e0e351	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_6e0e351	comment	In the Escape Velocity games, lasers, plasma, protons, and bullets all move about as fast, but a number of special weapons (like the original game's particle beam) move instantly but with a very short range. Some projectiles, though, are faster or slower in the third game: "blaster" shots are fast, with railguns and fusion pulse shots being slower. Weapons described as "lasers" like the Capacitor Pulse laser, Bio Relay laser, and the Thunderhead do hit instantly, but all had visible beams. There were also some non-laser beam weapons that hit instantly.
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Slow Laser / int_6e5d88b1	comment	Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends: The Alliance has a lot of these, thanks to all the alien technology they use.
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Slow Laser / int_6ecaff2e	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_6ecaff2e	comment	It's worth noting that in the game Scribblenauts you can create a Laser, as well as a Shark, and then put the laser on the sharks head, though it won't fire... unless the shark is on land. The shark will disappear eventually, though.
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Slow Laser / int_6f2d1072	comment	In MechWarrior 2, lasers are moderately high-speed energy bullets.
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Slow Laser / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1 takes this over the top. The beam weapons of the Ori Motherships are so ridiculously slow that any ship can easily dodge them, but make up for it by being able to pack such a punch they tear through vessels even with Asgard shielding. Similarly, Goa'uld weaponry tends to be highly inaccurate and are designed mostly to inspire terror in less advanced races. Although that does not apply to everything. The concealed lasers used by their Brainwashed and Crazy zatarc agents hit instantaneously and can go through several bodies at once, as one Tok'ra bodyguard learns when trying to shield his leader from harm. It's very surprising that this technology is not further developed by the humans.
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Slow Laser / int_710c399b	comment	Defense Grid: The Awakening partially averts this: Laser towers fire continuous beams that heat up the aliens and continue to do damage after they leave the laser's range. This heat damage is extra effective against the fast aliens, the Racer and the Rumbler. But the tower fires a laser the same color as it: green for level 1, amber for level 2 and red for level 3; in Real Life the green laser would be the strongest and the red would be the weakest.
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Slow Laser / int_73b74949	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_73b74949	comment	Borderlands features Eridian weaponry. Most of these fire slower-than-light energy pulses of some kind (though averted by the sniper rifle equivalent, which is a Lightning Gun), but are never explicitly stated to be lasers. Borderlands 2 brings us E-Tech weapons, however, which are described as things like lasers, particularly the Blaster range of E-Tech rifles. As expected of the trope, however, they are all fire blob-shaped energy pulses with obvious travel time, sometimes ending up even slower than standard bullets. The reason they still use up ammo (at twice the going rate even) is due to the guns somehow turning standard cartridges into energy projectiles. The saving graces of increased damage, elemental properties, and pure Rule of Cool keep them from being just novelties.
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Slow Laser / int_755b343f	comment	The Halo series: The Spartan Laser seems to be actually a pulse laser - that is, instead of the laser projecting a continuous low-power beam, it shoots multiple beams in very quick succession, like a machine gun.
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Slow Laser / int_755fadab	comment	Haruhi Suzumiya: Yuki proves fast enough to dodge Mikiru's Eye Beams, several of the variants which are explicitly lasers. The lasers are portrayed correctly; instantaneous and invisible. Which means Yuki can either move faster than light, or she's cheating by looking into the future and dodging early. It says a lot about Yuki that either theory is plausible.
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Slow Laser / int_7668653a	comment	Mass Effect 2 also shows the aforementioned GARDIAN lasers in action twice. In both cases the VFX artists went with Rule of Cool in their depiction. In the first instance during the battle on Horizon, Shepard activates the colony's anti-air defenses to drive off the Collector cruiser. Prior dialogue describes them as GARDIAN lasers, but the visuals go with the stereotypical discrete slower-than-light bolts. Much later the Normandy's point-defense lasers are shown firing during the battle with the Oculus attack drones after exiting the galactic core mass relay. This time, they're shown as a continuous visible beam.
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Slow Laser / int_76b8cb10	comment	The Fallout games do partially avert this trope, although in a very subtle way involving the recoil: Although you can physically see them recoil back when shot, the energy weapons skill is based on your perception score, implying the recoil is so negligible that you only need to see your target to hit them. Contrast this with the small weapons skill using agility (your natural reflexes allowing you to better deal with the recoil) or heavy weapons using endurance (the recoil being so massive, you have to worry more about passing out from the shock). It is less subtle in Fallout 2, though in the turn-based context, it doesn't really matter that it's presented as a moving sprite. Fallout 3 goes further with the aversion, in having its laser weapons be true hitscan beams, while the two previous titles had them fire the more "traditional" slow-moving bolt of energy. Fallout: New Vegas also continues use of the proper beam lasers.
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Slow Laser / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars has both the Hollywood bolt lasers and Beamers that are continuous beams. Interestingly, the sequel has revamped the damage system, and the pulsed lasers are no longer as weak as before. Each armor section has a pattern. That pattern is damaged differently by different weapon types. For example, mass drivers provide more damage overall but don't provide much penetration. Lasers specifically do a lot of damage to the armor in one spot. If they manage to hit that spot with a laser multiple times, then the armor at that spot will be gone, and subsequent precise shots will do internal damage.
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Slow Laser / int_77aa72de	comment	I Wanna Be the Guy has at least one room which rapidly fills up with absolutely huge laser beams coming out of nowhere to reduce you to splatter. It's also the attack Mecha Birdo pulls out after you destroy its antenna.
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Slow Laser / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: The Reapers' main weapons, which look and sound like unscientific lasers... aren't lasers. They're actually molten ferrofluids fired at relativistic speeds. Mass Effect 2 also shows the aforementioned GARDIAN lasers in action twice. In both cases the VFX artists went with Rule of Cool in their depiction. In the first instance during the battle on Horizon, Shepard activates the colony's anti-air defenses to drive off the Collector cruiser. Prior dialogue describes them as GARDIAN lasers, but the visuals go with the stereotypical discrete slower-than-light bolts. Much later the Normandy's point-defense lasers are shown firing during the battle with the Oculus attack drones after exiting the galactic core mass relay. This time, they're shown as a continuous visible beam.
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Slow Laser / int_7c19a801	comment	The "laser" weapons in FTL: Faster Than Light shoot bolts of energy that spaceships can dodge by maneuvering or even intercept with advanced defense drones. Weapons that behave like actual laser weapons, shooting a beam that cannot be dodged and only absorbed by shields, are classified as "beam" weapons.
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Slow Laser / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court has laser cows. They're just like real cows, only with lasers.
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Slow Laser / int_7dad8347	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_7dad8347	comment	The FreeSpace games saddle the player with lasers that fire projectiles. However, capital ships in the second game usually mount "beam" type weapons as their main guns. These are highly visible so that the player has a chance to avoid flying through them and being destroyed... assuming the player isn't in their path to begin with, as they are hitscan weapons.
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Slow Laser / int_7e7124af	comment	Persona 5 Strikers: Sophia's blasters shoot oddly slow projectiles, though they make up for it with a wide area of effect.
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Slow Laser / int_7f02dd41	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_7f02dd41	comment	Star Wars: Battlefront, being a Star Wars game, has the slower-than-light "blaster bolts" we've come to expect. However, it at the same time subverts this trope: sniper rifles and some vehicle-mounted weapons utilize a beam that travels at the speed of light. In the case of the vehicles' beam cannons, it can even be swept across an enemy front.
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Slow Laser / int_7f8a38b6	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_7f8a38b6	comment	Actual laser weapons are briefly seen in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, which otherwise uses the franchise-standard particle beams. They are depicted as hitting instantaneously and melting armor on contact, and go right through the Planet Defensor barriers of Mobile Dolls. They're not more common because the laser rifles used overheat very quickly when used, even if for a few minutes. This is displayed when they are equipped on Taurus mobile dolls. Several of them end up getting destroyed by their own weapons.
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Slow Laser / int_7fc53da4	comment	The Magic School Bus: In "The Magic School Bus Makes a Rainbow", Miss Frizzle builds a pinball machine operating with light and prisms to teach about color, with the light moving gradually as if it were an actual pinball. The "Is This The Magic School Bus?" segment admits this clearly isn't how light works, but their hands were tied.
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Slow Laser / int_80e838cd	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_80e838cd	comment	In Tachyon: The Fringe, the fighter-mounted pulse lasers travel slower-than-light and are visible. Ironically, capital ship-mounted beam lasers strike the target instantly (still visible beam though). To top it off, one of the factions has a railgun weapon, which strikes the target instantly (i.e. faster than lasers).
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Slow Laser / int_81692f99	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: While they're called "Phasers" and they form a solid glowing line, they hit the target almost instantaneously. They are a bit slower then they should be, however, with a visible (albeit inconsistent) delay between firing and hitting the target. This is explained by phasers being a particle-based weapon. In the technical manual, they are stated as firing a stream of "nadion" particles. Real lasers as weapons do appear very early in the franchise, but beyond that are only mentioned once in TNG, where they are described as being grossly underpowered by current Federation standards of technology.
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Slow Laser / int_85b998b	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_85b998b	comment	In Conquest: Frontier Wars, the Terrans use pulsed lasers, while the Celarions use both the pulsed and continuous beam versions. Interestingly, the beam version doesn't stay in one spot but keeps moving across the target, slicing it.
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Slow Laser / int_8a39c411	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_8a39c411	comment	In the Hyperion Cantos: Laser weapons work at the speed of light. Unfortunately, space battles take place across such great distances that the enemy ships have to watch the beam crawl across space towards them. While the time it takes for lasers to hit is realistic, unless their sensors work considerably faster than light there's no way they could notice the attack until it hit, and it raises questions about why they don't move out of the way. In one scene, a character granted Super-Speed stands and watches as a beam of light slowly emerges from an enemy soldier's laser gun. While effective at communicating just how fast he can move, it also raises some of the same questions as the above.
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Slow Laser / int_8ac4e993	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_8ac4e993	comment	Beam weapons in Gundam, while fast, are frequently dodged when they are fired (in one of the first episodes of the original series, Char Aznable stated very clearly that he dodges where the gun points before it's fired, not the beam itself once it is). This is also because the beam weapons aren't laser beams, but are made up of particles with a considerable amount of mass, called a "Mega-particle", and thus are much slower than the speed of light. See below, and also see Minovsky Physics (the Wave-Motion Gun-grade weapons like the Solar Ray and Solar system are portrayed as traveling at the speed of light; fortunately, Newtypes sense the shots before they fire in Gundam). Gundam creator Yoshiyuki Tomino has commented, in later years, that he chose to use particle beam weapons over more realistic lasers for dramatic purposes, feeling that the invisibility and unerring accuracy of lasers would make for boring combat sequences. Actual laser weapons are briefly seen in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, which otherwise uses the franchise-standard particle beams. They are depicted as hitting instantaneously and melting armor on contact, and go right through the Planet Defensor barriers of Mobile Dolls. They're not more common because the laser rifles used overheat very quickly when used, even if for a few minutes. This is displayed when they are equipped on Taurus mobile dolls. Several of them end up getting destroyed by their own weapons. In the Universal Century, aka the original Gundam continuity, actual laser weapons short of apocalyptic superweapons have been rendered obsolete by ablative anti-laser coating and Minovsky particle dispersion. It's also stated that beam weapons were found to be more efficient than their laser-based counterparts.
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Slow Laser / int_8ec33a87	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_8ec33a87	comment	Xenoblade Chronicles 2: A plot point; when Jin activates his Super Mode, Mythra uses her Kill Sat Siren's laser beam. He dodges, because he's moving at just under lightspeed, and her "laser" is actually a particle accelerator; it's fast, but not lightspeed fast. Pyra then uses Siren's targeting laser to threaten to destroy herself. It does move at lightspeed, and the only difference between a targeting laser and a weaponized laser is the amount of power you put into it.
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Slow Laser / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Somewhat standard equipment in Kim Possible, especially in A Sitch in Time (in a Bad Future). Due to Non-Lethal Warfare, it never hits anyone human. Drones, on the other hand...
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Slow Laser / int_90e2f673	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_90e2f673	comment	Standard in the BattleTech, for both infantry units and the iconic Humongous Mecha. Lasers are rarer for infantry but common as dirt on a 'Mech. They are remarkably realistic for fictional laser weapons: they hit instantly and produce a ton of heat (this being their primary disadvantage to offset their having unlimited ammo), the only strange part being that they're visible. Originally they were invisible and the Battlemech's internal displays made them visible to the pilot, but this was quickly and quietly retconned to them being actually visible for Rule of Cool. Also some adaptations have the more damaging lasers be deeper on the visible spectrum, which is not only Rule of Cool but realistic.
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Slow Laser / int_918c5a7e	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_918c5a7e	comment	In Evil Genius, the mission to steal the giant lab laser is actually called "Fricken' Laser". It is a parody of the spy genre, after all...
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Slow Laser / int_91f0110a	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_91f0110a	comment	Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere and Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown feature Pulse Lasers that act more like long range, higher power machine guns than proper lasers, firing relatively fast but still definitely slower-than-light blasts that need to lead their targets like machine guns ans electromagnetic launchers. The series also features several planes with a Tactical Laser System that is not a slow laser, but rather a continuous hitscan beam of light.
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Slow Laser / int_93c845a3	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_93c845a3	comment	The aptly named laser in DownWell.
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Slow Laser / int_9be94553	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_9be94553	comment	The Herculoids. Used by Zok (from his eyes and tail), by one of the title characters in the episode "The Gladiators of Kyanite" (in the form of a laser spear), and by the title opponents in "Laser Lancers".
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Slow Laser / int_9c9b3095	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_9c9b3095	comment	Metroid Prime: Hunters features the Imperialist, a laser sniper rifle, which strikes the target instantaneously, but creates a very visible red beam that lasts just long enough to give away the firer's position.
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Slow Laser / int_9caf1d	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_9caf1d	comment	Several games in the 1942 series have lasers. In World War II.
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Slow Laser / int_9e2819c9	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_9e2819c9	comment	Silent Hill: Homecoming had the laser pistol which broke the game wide open and could kill bosses so fast it could cause glitches.
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Slow Laser / int_a5e6a399	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_a5e6a399	comment	Averted in Command & Conquer: Renegade, which has perhaps one of the most realistic instances of lasers. They are hitscan, fire in short pulses (with gatling lasers being able to saturate the target faster thanks to its three collimators), and their blooming effect causes the air to be translucent rather than opaque. Perhaps one of the few unrealistic effects of the laser is that on Easy mode, auto-aiming will cause the lasers to turn slightly from a direct line to hit targets.
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Slow Laser / int_a81325d3	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Dissidia Final Fantasy: Golbez both averts the trope and plays it straight — Gravity System, Float System and Sector Ray fire out continuous lasers that appear instantly, but Attack System fires out a barrage of small laser projectiles.
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Final Fantasy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Slow Laser / int_a81325d3
Slow Laser / int_a851d974	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_a851d974	comment	The Nostalgia Chick shows off this ability in her Top Ten Dance Crazes list, burning her BFF Nella's shoulder.
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Slow Laser / int_a895e9d3	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_a895e9d3	comment	Portal 2 features the "Thermal Discouragement Beam." It behaves exactly like a real laser save for being highly visible, passes through glass, and can be redirected with "Discouragement Redirection Cubes". It's also one of only two ways (in the player's control) to actually destroy a turret, but it's surprisingly non-fatal when the player touches it — it won't kill you but it hurts enough that you can't simply walk through it.
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Slow Laser / int_ac9f81ac	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_ac9f81ac	comment	Handwaved in the sequel Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy. They do it with Force Sense in the short time between when you decide to pull the trigger and the actual pulling. But obviously it is to force you to fight them with your lightsaber.
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Slow Laser / int_adb93baf	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_adb93baf	comment	Starbase Orion has two types of lasers and one laser-like weapon. The standard laser turret is usually the first weapon to be researched. It's fairly weak but has a long range, although damage drops with distance. The beam is instantaneous (and hitscan) and visible, appearing for about a second. The point-defense laser system automatically shoots down enemy missiles and torpedoes in range with thin instant beams. Ion pulse cannons are not lasers but their animation certainly looks like one. They appear as thick white beams that are also instantaneous and hitscan. After the recent update, the IPC also bonus structural damage if it hits a shield.
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Slow Laser / int_aedc983a	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_aedc983a	comment	All the Wing Commander games (you guessed it) feature projectile weapon mechanics, even for the "lasers".
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Slow Laser / int_b1e46e9a	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b1e46e9a	comment	Khrima in Adventurers! loves laser beams a little bit too much... make that ''far'' too much.
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Slow Laser / int_b2bd761b	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b2bd761b	comment	Averted Troy Rising: At one point, it's specifically mentioned that lasers don't show the beam unless they're going through a debris field or otherwise have things to reflect off of. That said, the beam weapons used by the battlestations are not lasers. It's light reflected and focused from the Sun (and no, it's not possible for it to be that powerful).
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Slow Laser / int_b55b8015	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b55b8015	comment	Ninja Gaiden. The Xbox remake plays this oddly with the apparent laser from the bone demon bird boss Paz Zuu: It traces a path, which then ignites.
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Slow Laser / int_b65ae944	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b65ae944	comment	Silent Hill: Origins, which was a Lethal Joke Weapon with overwhelming power and unlimited ammo, but a ridiculously poor range.
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Slow Laser / int_b73d8564	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b73d8564	comment	In Mass Effect 3: Generations, Tali has suddenly gained twin combat lasers (not targeting or anything canonical) to the side of her helmet, and the quarian spider husks have cannons firing large green beams not resembling anything found in actual canon.
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Slow Laser / int_b8c61401	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b8c61401	comment	Skysurfer Strike Force has a lot of lasers to go around but Bioborg Lazerette is the greatest offender.
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Slow Laser / int_b995397d	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b995397d	comment	Beam weapons in Space Pirates and Zombies fire what look like variously-colored lightning bolts with limited range that hit instantly, which contrasts with the (also energy-based) cannon weapons, which fire spherical projectiles. Non-energy based cannons fire various other things.
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Slow Laser / int_b99fa2df	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b99fa2df	comment	In Crystal Quest, the Menace employs "laser beams" that extend and retract like measuring tape.
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Crystal Quest (Video Game)	hasFeature	Slow Laser / int_b99fa2df
Slow Laser / int_b9be76b0	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_b9be76b0	comment	Mostly averted in Congo; the laser has no recoil, travels immediately in a straight constant beam and produces deadly amounts of heat and cutting power. It does, however, include a visible beam, appears to cauterize wounds, and is powered by an unprocessed diamond that was chipped out of a rock seconds earlier. So all the cool parts without any of the hassle or overwhelming gore.
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Slow Laser / int_bb3fde3d	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Ecto-beams in Danny Phantom are Hollywood laser or plasma weapons.
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Slow Laser / int_bb99f857	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_bb99f857	comment	The Naval Ops series has a number of lasers that can be mounted on warships. They fire in different patterns and colours. Sadly, Beam Spam is difficult to achieve because lasers cannot be fired in salvos like regular guns.
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Slow Laser / int_bcadd7cb	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In Warhammer 40,000, the Imperial Guards' standard "lasguns" are the weakest of all guns actively used by the series' factions, and they can blow body parts off. How realistically the weapons are portrayed varies. In previous editions, lasguns were actually described as firing a discrete "bullet" of laser energy, described in at least one novel (and portrayed in at least one video game) as a twinkling ball of light that moves at about the same speed as a bullet, if not slower. This has been rectified as of the third edition of the game, so that all laser weapons are now assumed to fire actual laser beams (and are portrayed doing so in Dawn of War). In the 40k novels, what lasguns are and how they work vary Depending on the Writer. Dan Abnett has a sniper having to compensate for wind and gravity, with a permanent bruise from the recoil. Others have had lasguns fire normal bullets, in a bizarre inversion of Family-Friendly Firearms. One mistake all of them do is have the shot cauterize the wound. In real life, lasers would do the same damage as normal firearms, albeit much larger calibers than normal humans carry as the lasers would cause explosive flash vaporization and flash flesh into briefly existing plasma. How accurately this is depicted varies; while "lasguns can blow limbs off" is an oft-repeated maxim, Dan Abnett depicts a lasgun leaving a small, scorched hole bored clean through a character's leg. Lascannons and other larger laser weaponry are generally portrayed more realistically, although the beam is usually visible. Lascannon portrayals also avert the weakness of their smaller 'pew pew' cousins, and are particularly powerful anti-armour weapons. 40k also has plasma weapons, which are typically depicted as behaving more like the classic 'laser bullet' type device — firing discrete bolts of magnetically contained plasma (essentially, tiny stars) at a range comparable to an assault rifle (and color-coded in Dawn of War, with blueish for imperial forces and red for Chaos). 40k also has melta weapons, which are described essentially as microwave beam guns, yet behave closer to how a "real" plasma weapon would: they fire a short ranged 'sub-atomic' heat blast, designed to melt through armored targets and vapourise softer things.
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Slow Laser / int_bdc2b9c1	comment	Age of Mythology had light based weapons. Granted they're parabolic reflectors mounted on crocodiles (or in the Atlanteans' case, towers), that concentrate sunlight into beams. And, yes, they DO hit instantly. Taken to extremes in the "O Canada" cheat which grants you a "Lazer Bear" dressed in a Canadian flag. It shoots lasers out of its eyes.
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Slow Laser / int_bfdbdd8e	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_bfdbdd8e	comment	Averted in Empire at War: Forces Of Corruption gives the Star Wars universe "point-defense lasers" that actually work like lasers, instantly appearing and vaporizing their targets. Just like the laser in Attack of the Clones, they're color-coded a deep azure blue.
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Slow Laser / int_c0d295c4	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_c0d295c4	comment	Team Fortress 2 has several Ray Gun weapons (colloquially recognized as simply "laser" weapons), and all of them fire energy projectiles that are significantly slower than bullets. Some weapons are able to keep pace with projectile weapons (Soldier's "Cow Mangler 5000" fires plasma particles that travel just as fast as the rockets out of his normal launcher, and Pyro's "Manmelter" fires projectiles that travel faster than their normal Flare Guns), but with the case of Soldier's "Righteous Bison" sidearm and Engineer's "Pomson 6000", both are vastly slower than a simple shotgun.
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Slow Laser / int_c3a1c8f8	comment	UFO (1970): The aliens have a laser weapon in their ships. It fires a bolt of energy that travels slow enough for the human eye to see it moving.
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Slow Laser / int_c4282b71	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Very powerful unicorns, as well as Changelings, are capable of firing these from their horns. The next stage is a continuous beam moving at light-speed.
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Slow Laser / int_c43df4d8	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_c43df4d8	comment	Happens in Doctor Who fairly often. Cybermen sport wrist mounted lasers that can be seen flying through the air at their targets. Daleks have them as well, although In Universe these beams are described as electrical discharges that scramble the target's nervous system, rather than straight-up lasers. Even the Time Lords, the most technologically advanced civilization in the universe, play this trope straight, as seen in their battle with the Daleks in "Day of the Doctor". Energy weapon beams actually did travel instantaneously once, but once the special effects budget increased, Reality Is Unrealistic set in and we got the generic "energy bullets".
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Doctor Who	hasFeature	Slow Laser / int_c43df4d8
Slow Laser / int_c4eb086f	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_c4eb086f	comment	Interestingly, the sequel has revamped the damage system, and the pulsed lasers are no longer as weak as before. Each armor section has a pattern. That pattern is damaged differently by different weapon types. For example, mass drivers provide more damage overall but don't provide much penetration. Lasers specifically do a lot of damage to the armor in one spot. If they manage to hit that spot with a laser multiple times, then the armor at that spot will be gone, and subsequent precise shots will do internal damage.
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Slow Laser / int_c77b15f0	comment	In the Crusader games, laser bolts are slower than bullets. It's not like the speed of light was actually altered in-universe or anything, but the fact remains that bullets do hitscan damage and lasers fly through the air slightly faster than rockets.
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Slow Laser / int_ca793bb	comment	Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire is a fully interactive virtual reality experience in which not only do blaster bolts move slow enough to see, they move slow enough that you can dodge them.
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Slow Laser / int_cbf0ee94	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_cbf0ee94	comment	EVE Online has lasers, used primarily by the ships of the Amarr Empire. EVE lasers are visible as solid beams, but do strike the target instantly.
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Slow Laser / int_cd6d8488	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_cd6d8488	comment	MechCommander featured a bizarre spin on the matter: lasers move as visible projectiles towards the target (at the same speed as ballistic projectiles), but whether they hit or not is predetermined at the moment they are fired. This results in bizarre situations where firing at a fast-moving target will cause the laser to actually bend, change course, and follow the target until impact.
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Slow Laser / int_cdc9d1b1	comment	Each of the three sides in Earth 2150 has a unique Energy Weapon (with the Lunar Corporation having an extra one). The Eurasian Dynasty has lasers, which fire bright red beams that hit instantly. However, unlike a typical laser, it doesn't do any damage. Instead, it rapidly heats the target until the target's power plant or ammo stores explode. If the beam is interrupted, the target quickly cools down with no damage. Building are almost impossible to destroy with lasers, as stone has a higher melting point than metal. Earth 2160 has ED use the bolt version of the laser that does damage on impact.
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Slow Laser / int_cfe6020d	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_cfe6020d	comment	In MechAssault pulse laser shots travel like your average "laser" projectile, while lasers shoot visibly-moving beams. Both types are, at least, as fast as bullets.
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Slow Laser / int_d0e25eb9	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_d0e25eb9	comment	In Heavy Object, laser weapons are commonly used on Objects for point defense. Due to the speed at which an Object's pilot can identify and react to threats, combat planes have been rendered nearly obsolete as they're in the sky with nowhere to hide and they can't dodge something moving at the speed of light.
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Slow Laser / int_d0f124da	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_d0f124da	comment	Jonny Quest TOS. In the episode "Mystery of the Lizard Men'' the villain had one that was visible, moving at a VERY slow speed. It was so slow that the ship's captain could see and report it coming, and likewise Dr. Quest could order his crew to move a mirror to intercept it in order to reflect it back and destroy the enemy ship.
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Slow Laser / int_d24f5b0	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_d24f5b0	comment	In Blood Machines, the green laser beams of Vascan's gun are not only slow enough that he can curve the beams by slanting the gun, after shooting the beams linger in the air almost a minute after he last fired.
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Slow Laser / int_d461a59f	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_d461a59f	comment	In Battlestar Galactica (1978), both the hand-held guns and the viper-mounted guns were "lasers". The little red or blue bolts they fired travelled with visible slowness. Interestingly enough, some episodes actually had realistic lasers on the hand-held guns. When they fired their guns, there was a small flash from the barrel, and an invisible laser hits the target pretty instantaneously. Averted in the remake, though most ship-based weapons use tracer rounds that look like your typical lazer bolt.
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Slow Laser / int_d4c97d41	comment	Breed have the lasers used by the titular aliens, which are actually visible and can be avoided by side-stepping, even if the Breeds are less than twenty meters from you. In contrast, your weapons (and the human units) all use bullets, like the machine gun and sniper rifle, which proves far more lethal than the lasers used by the Breeds.
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Slow Laser / int_d7aab7c1	comment	Sailor Moon: Sailor Venus' Crescent Beam. It's described as been made of light, but moves far slower. Also in one notable occasion the Crescent Beam bounced on the enemy, regrouped as a ball on his head and then launched a dozen beams on his head (appropriately, this variant was named Crescent Beam Shower), while in another Venus fired a few dozen curving beams. Sailor Star Fighter's "Star Serious Laser" attack. Shown as a beam of light that travels much, much slower than the real thing.
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Slow Laser / int_dab32bd	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_dab32bd	comment	Mega Man 2: Quick Man's stage says hi, infamously Nintendo Hard with its huge screen-crossing orange quick lasers. While sluggish for laser beams, they're still faster than Mega Man. You have only a brief window of forgiveness to try and outrun them before they render one or more routes impassable, sometimes an entire given screen — the game pretty much expects you to die at least once before memorizing them. As such, they're a favorite Kaizo Trap of ROMhackers, even in Mega Man games other than 2.
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Slow Laser / int_de276825	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_de276825	comment	The Laser Cannon in Quake Mission Pack 1: Scourge of Armagon fires laser bursts that are only about as fast as a nail, much like the laser rifles of the Enforcers.
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Slow Laser / int_e1e213b4	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e1e213b4	comment	The New Adventures of Superman "Luthor's Lethal Laser". Lex Luthor uses a laser gun based on the moon to threaten to melt Earth's polar icecaps unless all of the countries on the planet surrender to him. ''Luminians on the Loose". Lex Luthor uses a laser telescope to bring the title creatures to Earth (and later to send them back).
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Slow Laser / int_e2fa7287	comment	Touhou often has these kind of weaponry in Spell Cards. Two notable examples are the slow laser beams rampant in Keine's and Nitori's attacks (from Imperishable Night and Mountain of Faith, respectively), and the laser sight to laser in Mokou's and Patchouli's attacks (from Imperishable Night and the gaiden game Shoot the Bullet, respectively) There are also quite a few instant laser attacks, generally done by having a faint and harmless laser appear for a second or two before the opaque laser that damages you appears in the same location. Undefined Fantastic Object adds Shou Toramaru, whose entire theme involves magic lasers. Aside from slow accelerating lasers, she has spinning laser crosses and lasers that curve in midair to hit you.
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Slow Laser / int_e49fc98a	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e49fc98a	comment	Zigzagged with Unreal's ASMD/Shock Rifle. The weapon's primary fire has always hit instantly, but in Unreal and Unreal Tournament, the beam looks like a slower projectile; the result is the target lighting up with the blast shockwave before the actual bolt reaches it. From UT 2003 onward, the Shock Rifle appears to shoot a typical laser beam.
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Slow Laser / int_e5c5bc22	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e5c5bc22	comment	Lasers in GURPS are represented accurately. In fact, their lack of recoil is a big selling point compared to guns, but can be defended against by reflec-armor. As it happens the Ultra-Tech book has pulse lasers that do fire a "bullet" of light, albeit one that moves at the proper speed.
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Slow Laser / int_e5d94391	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e5d94391	comment	Kurt and Max in MDK2 can find and use laser weapons, shooting laser bolts travelling at subsonic speeds. Their enemies also use similar weapons, making dodging their attacks easier than it could be.
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Slow Laser / int_e5de447c	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e5de447c	comment	X-COM X-COM: UFO Defense has lasers, which are slower than light and pulse, but they are impossible to dodge as it's a Turn-Based Strategy game. XCOM: Enemy Unknown has laser weapons that behave more realistically, producing a single burst/beam of light that cuts straight out and hits the target instantly.note The laser rifles (normal and sniper) and pistol are not quite hitscan, but rather extremely fast projectiles, as can be noticed when an Overwatch shot with one of these weapons misses at close range: the beam will jet off in a random direction at a relatively slow speed. The Scatter Laser and Heavy Laser are both true hitscan, though. The MEC Trooper's Particle Cannon, the plasma-tier weapon, also acts like a huge hitscan laser cannon with a two-stage beam emission.
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Slow Laser / int_e5fd2cef	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e5fd2cef	comment	Despite lasers not having been invented yet, the Lensman series actually has one of their more realistic depictions. Spaceships fight using intense beams of highly focused light which must be held on target and cut through things that aren't protected by forcefields. Somewhat ironically, the most unrealistic part in this case is that the lasers travel too fast, hitting instantly even when at great distance.
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Slow Laser / int_e66a25a9	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts: This trope is played with in regards to the ability to dodge lasers. Energy weapons can be dodged in Rifts, but at a -10 penalty. The explanation given is that the character sees the trigger being pulled, and tries to get out of the way before the shot is fired. A -10 penalty is big enough that player characters almost never bother trying to dodge the blast. One part where this trope is played completely straight is that laser blasts are visible in Rifts.
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Slow Laser / int_e7e37776	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e7e37776	comment	Averted in Firefly: The show usually sticks with Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better, but laser weapons do make the occasional appearance. They're shown fairly realistically with a continuous beam that instantly hits its target.
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Slow Laser / int_e8091fc1	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e8091fc1	comment	MechWarrior: Living Legends, MechWarrior Online, and the 2018 Battletech game avert this trope completely. Not only do lasers travel and hit instantly, but pulse lasers actually flicker, unlike previous games where Pulse Lasers were depicted as chained-blobs.
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Slow Laser / int_e995f4b2	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e995f4b2	comment	Night Trap downplays this. Sure, there are laser guns introduced at first, but only a couple characters have them, and they are still unable to win against the Augers. Also, SCAT comes into the scene with real guns, which are able to take down Augers...but not full-fledged vampires.
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Slow Laser / int_e9c7b01b	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e9c7b01b	comment	Dissidia Final Fantasy: Golbez both averts the trope and plays it straight — Gravity System, Float System and Sector Ray fire out continuous lasers that appear instantly, but Attack System fires out a barrage of small laser projectiles.
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Slow Laser / int_e9e2b5e9	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_e9e2b5e9	comment	Starslip: Parodied with Katarakis' slow laser, which is so slow that he tells a minion who has failed him to hold still for a few days so it can hit him.
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Slow Laser / int_eca84d14	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_eca84d14	comment	Over the Hedge: Subverted when Hammy casually outpaces a laser: it's not slow, he's just moving that fast.
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Slow Laser / int_eec3eb25	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_eec3eb25	comment	In Line of Delirium, energy weapons are typically either lasers or plasma. Lasers are silent, but flashes are still seen. An interesting case with tachyon weapons, like the Excalibur rifle. Since tachyons travel faster than light, they also move backwards in time, so the weapon fires almost a full second before the trigger is pulled.
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Slow Laser / int_ef8bd4a5	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: Mega Man 2: Quick Man's stage says hi, infamously Nintendo Hard with its huge screen-crossing orange quick lasers. While sluggish for laser beams, they're still faster than Mega Man. You have only a brief window of forgiveness to try and outrun them before they render one or more routes impassable, sometimes an entire given screen — the game pretty much expects you to die at least once before memorizing them. As such, they're a favorite Kaizo Trap of ROMhackers, even in Mega Man games other than 2. There are strangely few laser weapons in the Mega Man franchise. The only one from Classic is Gemini Man's Gemini Laser, representing both the 'slow-moving projectile' and 'reflection' sub-tropes. Mega Man Legends has the Shining Laser, which creates a beam of damaging light instantaneously, unrealistically limited only by range, which is the game's Infinity +1 Sword. Mega Man X4 has the Aiming Laser, which is also instantaneous in use, but limited by targeting range; X has to target enemies before he can use the laser, and the targeting reticule stays fairly close to himself. The Mega Buster also qualifies, since it's stated to be a weapon that fires "bullets of highly compressed solar energy" which is in essence, a solar-powered laser. The projectiles that the Buster fires are constantly ridiculed by fans for looking a lot like lemons.
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Slow Laser / int_f189f12e	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_f189f12e	comment	Vega Strike among all weapons mountable on a small ships has lasers doing the most shield-piercing damage at the longest range, which makes them attractive even despite total damage being less than by other weapons for the same mounts. It also has a Shout-Out with a weak plasma weapon shooting slow red bolts named "Laser" which according to its own in-game description is "not a laser by any stretch of the imagination".
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Slow Laser / int_f5655b74	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_f5655b74	comment	In The Chronicles of Professor Jack Baling, when Jack fires his death ray, not only can he actually see a red beam of light emit from the end of the weapon, he has time to watch it travel from the barrel to his target.
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Slow Laser / int_f5d2ead0	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_f5d2ead0	comment	Transformers: Cybertron actually pokes fun at this in one episode by having Starscream open fire with his laser cannons, point out that lasers travel at the speed of light, and then having Optimus Prime promptly dodge his lasers with ease.
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Slow Laser / int_f724b70d	comment	In every episode of Code Lyoko, the monsters that XANA sends normally shoot laser beams from various parts of their bodies. Some have other type of attack, though, like Bloks (which in addition to lasers also can shoot ice beams and rings of fire). The only exceptions to this rule are the Scyphozoa (which use memory-draining or mind-controlling tentacles), Sharks (which shoot torpedoes in the Digital Sea), the Kalamar (which uses a drill) and the Kolossus (which can sufficiently destroy anything just by walking over it or slashing with its arm-blade). Also, the materialized monsters that XANA created on two separate occasions in Season 2, namely Kankrelats and later Krabes, though the latter destroyed the Scanners upon materialization due to sheer size, were able to shoot lasers. Unlike in Lyoko, these lasers are actually very dangerous, and almost killed a few people. Fortunately, the attack was stopped and Return to the Past'd Just in Time.
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Slow Laser / int_f88df431	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_f88df431	comment	There are strangely few laser weapons in the Mega Man franchise. The only one from Classic is Gemini Man's Gemini Laser, representing both the 'slow-moving projectile' and 'reflection' sub-tropes. Mega Man Legends has the Shining Laser, which creates a beam of damaging light instantaneously, unrealistically limited only by range, which is the game's Infinity +1 Sword. Mega Man X4 has the Aiming Laser, which is also instantaneous in use, but limited by targeting range; X has to target enemies before he can use the laser, and the targeting reticule stays fairly close to himself.
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Slow Laser / int_fb07494a	comment	Nexus: The Jupiter Incident has a few kinds of lasers. Most often, they are used for Subsystem Damage, lacking the firepower necessary to damage shields or the hull. Later on, lasers become more powerful and do inflict small amounts of damage. The flak system uses thick criss-crossing laser beams pulsing (not a "pulse laser" but a laser beam pulsing) and completely automated, targetting missiles, torpedoes, and fighters. Fighters are also initially armed with lasers and can't do much beyond Subsystem Damage. Battleships are equipped with Siege Lasers, which can One-Hit Kill most ships... if they stay in one spot for about 30 seconds necessary to charge and fire the weapon. Also, while charging and firing, the battleship and three other ships are unable to move or fire weapons, diverting most of their power into the Siege Laser, which is the only weapon capable of taking down a Fortress Shield.
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Slow Laser / int_fe85bfc8	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_fe85bfc8	comment	In Super Smash Bros., both Fox and Falco use slower-than-light laser pistols as their Neutral-B special. There's also the Ray Gun item that anyone can pick up. All of them can be deflected if you have fast enough reflexes and/or enough distance to see it coming (especially Falco's blaster which is slower than Fox's to make up for having more power). This became especially noticeable in the later games when Bayonetta and Joker were added, as they both use guns with actual bullets that nevertheless hit faster than Fox or Falco could ever hope for.
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Slow Laser / int_ff5835e3	type	Slow Laser
Slow Laser / int_ff5835e3	comment	In Fractured (SovereignGFC), a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands crossover and its two sequels, this trope is in full effect (as to be expected with something involving Star Wars) however the GARDIAN systems of the Mass Effect universe (being harder sci-fi) actually still act like lasers.
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Slow Laser	processingCategory2	Futuristic Tech Index
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Condorman / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Die Another Day / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Eraser / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Moonraker / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Star Trek (2009) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Starcrash / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
The Terminator / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Yor: The Hunter from the Future / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Destroy All Humans! (Franchise) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Gundam (Franchise) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Empress of Forever / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Tadgifauna / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
The Forever War / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Ultimate Crossover Roleplay (Roleplay) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
UFO / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
UFO (1970) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
V (1983) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Batman (Sunsoft) (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Blasto (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Breed (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Cosmoteer (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Destroy All Humans! (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Earth Defense Force 2025 (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Endless Space (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
FTL: Faster Than Light (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Flipnic: Ultimate Pinball (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Gimmick! (1992) (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Gundam Battle Assault 2 (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Gunfire Reborn (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
JYDGE (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Journey to Silius (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
MDK2 (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
M.U.G.E.N (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
MechAssault (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Neon Chrome (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
People Playground (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Robot Wants (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
SYNTHETIK (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Saints Row IV (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Serious Sam (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Shootas, Blood & Teef (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Sins of a Solar Empire (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Special Cybernetic Attack Team (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Star Citizen (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Star Command (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Star Wars: Battlefront (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Steredenn (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Strange Terror From Beyond The Stars! (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Tachyon: The Fringe (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989) (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Tyrian (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Warzone 2100 (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Wing Commander (Video Game) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Lost Planet / Videogame / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Ultimate Muscle Roller Legend (Web Animation) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Corridor Digital (Web Video) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Overused Sci-Fi Silly Science (Website) / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Code Lyoko / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Jonny Quest / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
Superfriends / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser
3Below / int_c5237d05	type	Slow Laser

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