Eye Beams: Difference between revisions

** And ever since then, there's been plenty of [[Shout-Out]] whenever an actual Cyclops shoots [[Eye Beams]] of one type or another.

* ''[[Superman]]'''s famous heat vision, which he usually uses as a "utility power" for things like escaping something, freeing someone, or other uses. If he ever uses it as a weapon against an enemy, it's usually against a robotic or other nonliving enemy (because Superman adheres to the [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]] portion of the [[Comics Code]] and apparently [[Idiot Ball|can't figure out how to create nonfatal injuries despite having sufficient control to perform microsurgery with it]]), or it's a sign that you've ''truly'' [[Beware the Nice Ones|pissed him off]].

** In [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]], Superman had to wear glasses made from Kryptonian glass in order to use his heat vision while disguised as Clark Kent (otherwise the glasses would melt); [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|post-Crisis]], this power was reinvented as pyrokinesis and thus that's not necessary anymore. [[Adaptation Distillation|Naturally, the TV versions]] tend to simply discreetly move his glasses out of the way.

* And almost every [[Captain Ersatz]] of Supes, obviously.

== Music ==

* ''Ok Go'' song '''Invincible''' have this in lyrics:

''Thousand-Fahrenheit-hot little lights behind your eyes'' }}

* "CNR" by [["Weird Al" Yankovic|Weird Al Yankovic]] have this in lyrics:

''Oh yeah'' }}

 

** And, in a variant, Dan McNinja can squirt poison from his eyes.

* In ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'', Massey has these in an [[Imagine Spot]] over blowing up an annoying coworker's head. Apparently "StinkEye([[Tradesnark|?]]) brand ocular implants will allow the fulfillment of this particular fantasy."

* Hilariously [http://www.explosm.net/comics/938/ parodied] in ''[[Cyanide and Happiness]]''.

* Dave from ''[[College Roomies from Hell]]'' got eye lasers as a result of a dip in a nuclear waste-laden lake.

* In a ''[[Halo 3: ODST]]'' online ad from ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', Church tells a few legends about [[Memetic Badass|Sergeant Johnson]]. One of them that his friend's cousin's neighbor told him, was that he has laser eyes. {{spoiler|He does.}}

** {{spoiler|Church}} gets one laser eye in ''Recreation''.

* "Recently we picked up a ''[[Dennis the Menace US]]'' storybook with charming Bob Paplow illustrations. What we didn't bargain on, however, was that the original owner had used a pencil and his or her imagination to turn a prosaic story of Dennis and Ruff into [http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics142.html an orgy of BLASTING MUTANT-STYLE EYEBEAMS]!!!"

* The Griffon, a hero in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', can fire beams of pure mystic energy from his eyes. Victory can do the same but with a relatively undefined "cosmic" energy.

* Aku uses these frequently in ''[[Samurai Jack]]''.

** In "Aku's Fairy Tales", Aku tells a version of "Little Red Riding Hood", making the protagonist into an amalgam of Little Red Riding Hood and himself.

** When Aku attacks Jack in his dragon form, he uses both eye beams AND a mouth beam to combine them into ONE GIANT BEAM.

* Rather inexplicably, the ''[[Futurama]]'' version of physicist Stephen Hawking can shoot lasers from his eyes. Even he was surprised.

* The Walking Eye from ''[[Jonny Quest]]''.

** Naturally, whatever JQ has, ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' has to get too. But subverted, in that the one Venture built does not seem to actually shoot beams (or even ''work'', for that matter, other than being able to stand). He later attaches Helper's head to it.

* [[Made of Explodium|Combustion Man]] from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' doesn't quite perfectly fit this trope, but he fires his beams o' doom out of an eye tattoo over his sixth chakra, located close to the eyes.

* Danny Phantom and Vlad Plasmius from ''[[Danny Phantom]]''.

* Frylock from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]''.

* Mighty Ray from ''[[Hero 108]]''.

* In ''[[Static Shock]]'', whenever Static discharges powerful enough electricity, he could shoot electric streams from his eyes, but it's only a side effect that he doesn't use to full effect, and just a visual cue showing just how much power/how pissed he is at the moment.