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== Literature ==
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* In a particularly [[Egregious]] abuse of this trope, an episode of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'' Cycle 8 had the girls "posing" through a series of (non-harmful) lasers to compete for the chance to win a diamond necklace. [[Sarcasm Mode|Which has
* An episode of ''[[Space Precinct]] 2040'' had a laser trap inside a bomb. The laser was shown by firing a fire extinguisher not-directly-at the bomb in question.
* The ''[[MythBusters]]'' thoroughly debunked this trope, first by discovering that visible laser security systems such as these simply don't exist (invisible infrared laser systems are sold instead), and secondly by demonstrating that even with a crude homemade mockup of the typical Laser Hallway most of the usual "circumvention methods" used on TV and the movies won't work, and can in fact trigger it. Specifically, they found that blowing smoke/powder at red lasers (jury-rigged from laser pointers) does make them visible, but not long or well enough to be very helpful without setting them off. Night-vision goggles plus powder make even IR beams visible, but with the same problem. Deflecting a beam with a mirror or hitting the detector with another beam worked, but was impractical. And most of their attempts assume beams placed so you could squeeze past them if only you knew where they were. Ironically, the ultrasonic motion sensors can be beaten with the ludicrous methods (tried almost on a whim by the producers) of holding up a bedsheet or simply walking at a snail's pace. Were it not for the fact that these methods violate the [[Rule of Cool]], I'm sure we'd have seen Tom Cruise using them in the next ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' movie.
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== [[Music Videos]] ==
* In the music video for [[Britney Spears]]'s "Toxic", stealing the vial of Mysterious Green Stuff sets off one final trap to get through: a hallway of rotating laser beams that she must dance through.
* In the video for "I'm That Type of Guy", one of the obstacles [[LL Cool J]] (portraying a [[Phantom Thief]]) must get past as he infiltrates a building.
== Tabletop Games ==
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* Robin and Red X both overcome a tangle of lasers that are protecting a Xenothium vault when Robin goes after whoever was in the Red X suit in ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]''.
* The episode "Double Date" from [[Justice League Unlimited]] sees Huntress use an aerosol spray to reveal lasers in Mandragora's home. She simply vaults and flips through them.
* In ''[[Harley Quinn (TV series)|Harley Quinn]]'s'' own series, the protagonist and her gang are trying to rob a vault, quickly discovering that it has a laser-grid trap that turns their [[It Makes Sense In Context| mouse-commando-accomplice]] into [[Ludicrous Gibs]]. Before Harley - reluctantly and nervously - tries to pilfer the goods herself, she uses some [[Gallows Humor]] to tell the others, “Okay guys, you know, if my body gets diced up by lasers here, I dunno, do something fun with it, like mail my ear to a random family and say, ‘We have your daughter!’ you know, something like that.” (The lady has been judged criminally insane for a reason.) Fortunately, she manages to avoid the trap and survive.
== Real Life ==
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