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** Yeah, but the movie happens not more than a few decades before ''[[Return of the Jedi|RotJ]]'', by which point blasters are common and slugthrowers (what projectile weapons are called in canon) are rare, so using blasters is perfectly acceptable.
** On the subject of ''[[Star Wars]]'', the laser guns and lightsabers are already guilty of this trope; [[Word of God]] says ''[[Star Wars]]'' is intended to be a kids' series.
** The franchise as a whole on the other hand, deliberately invokes the "lasers" that look ''very'' similar to normal firearms part by making all props [http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Star_Wars based on real weapons] with some sci-fi bits glued on in order to create a "lived in" sci-fi setting.
* The 20th Anniversary Edition of ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'' (in)famously substituted guns held by police with walkie-talkies. This was parodied mercilessly in the ''[[South Park]]'' episode "Free Hat", where all of [[Steven Spielberg]]'s thugs carry walkie-talkies in such a manner that suggests they were "originally" carrying guns. They cock their walkie-talkies to threaten the boys ("Hold it! Don't make me use this walkie-talkie!"), and Spielberg himself at one point steals one and threatens to "shoot".
** Even more so, the same episode has an edited version of ''[[Saving Private Ryan]]'', featuring US soldiers being graphically killed by machine guns, while returning fire with walkie-talkies.
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** {{spoiler|Possibly justified by the fact the Riders' gear were made by [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]].}}
* ''[[Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future]]'' use laser guns, as do their primary enemies the Dread Troopers and Bio-Dreads. Several characters also use regular firearms, though [[Immune to Bullets|they don't do a thing against Bio-Dreads]].
* A tv comedy pilot "Inside O.U.T." (a parody of ''[[Mission: Impossible]]''), made after the infamous year 1968, made a point to show the good guys' guns shot non-lethal tranquilizer bullets.
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* This trope is part of the reason why the ''[[Rambo]]'' franchise was able to be turned into [[Rambo the Force of Freedom|a cartoon]], despite its trademark violence and Vietnam setting.
* Similarly, the original ''[[RoboCop]]'' animated series has villains using laser weapons instead of regular guns. May be justified by ''RoboCop'' being set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], but certainly unfaithful to the movies.
* In ''[[Zorro: Generation Z]]'', the mayor's [[Mooks]] have weapons that look an awful lot like ''[[Star Trek: The
* The fantasy world of Perim in ''[[Chaotic]]'' featured this trope via [[Fantasy Gun Control]]: while the Tribes can churn out arsenal fulls of flamethrowers, hand-held water cannons, and [[Boom Stick|boom sticks]] powered-by the classical element air, gunpowder-based firearms appear to be completely alien to their world. Likewise, in the episode "Chaotic Crisis" featured a conflict between the creatures of Perim and real-world humans, who, instead of using the expected arsenal, instead used tanks with ''[[Kill It with Fire|flamethrowers]]''.
* Not-quite-a-gun example: in the cartoons based on ''[[The Legend of Zelda (animation)|The Legend of Zelda]]'', Link couldn't kill the enemies by stabbing them with his sword like in the games. Instead, he had to defeat them by shooting them with the [[Sword Beam]]s—which are also in the games, but are only available at full health and thus aren't used as much as regular stabbing. In one episode, Link foolishly trades his sword for a fancier one which, he discovers at a critical moment, does not shoot laser beams. This renders him ''entirely defenseless'' despite the fact that the replacement is still a fully functional sword.
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