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* Appears in ''[[Deus Ex]]'' and the sequel ''[[Deus Ex: Invisible War|Invisible War]]''. Often appears without holes, but it does tell the player to find a solution.
** In the original, red beams trigger alarms (which in turn activate any turrets in the area) while blue beams trigger something else...sometimes trivial sometimes instantly lethal. EMP devices are temporarily effective.
** In the sequel, blue is replaced with white (and only shows up once) while green shows up to trigger gas traps and gold beams are weapons themselves.<br />The NPC that tells you these useful tips also mentions that the light is holographic to scare away intruders, while the beams are invisible. While some uses of this warning are justified, more than a few times the bad guys would have done better to turn off the holographs. Still, the writers did their homework enough to handwave.<br />A better use of holographic beams springs easily to mind - put them somewhere ''other'' ''than'' (though perhaps near) where the invisible operational beams are.
** A "Resident Evil room" (The developers call it that and a poster for it appears a room or so back) appears in ''[[The Nameless Mod]]'' as part of the labyrinth created by the insane Shadowcode. Interstingly enough, the lasers are triggered ''only'' by your body. You don't even need a mirror - just take a box and block the beam creating a safe passway. Huh.
** A large room full of lasers is in ''Human Revolution''.
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== Web Original ==
* The [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad Email]] ''[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail178.html Bike Thief]'' features a Laser Hallway that's more of a Laser Couch.
* Appeared in a ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'' video, of all places; in "Mission Possible", Danielbeast has to navigate one of these.<br />It was pretty offensive they would invoke at ''least'' 4 of the worst tropes in fiction in what is supposed to be a convention-smashing ground-breaking series, including [[Everything Is Online]] and [[Pac-Man Fever]], which you would assume would be eradicated in early drafts when your target audience—to the point that people far enough outside it are ''unable to even gain access to view your show''—is Internet-savvy computer geniuses.
 
 
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