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{{quote|''"There is one neat effect when characters unwisely venture into a corridor and the door slams shut on them. Then a laser beam passes at head level, decapitating one. Another beam whizzes past at waist level, cutting the second in two while the others duck. A third laser pretends to be high but then switches to low, but the third character outsmarts it by jumping at the last minute. Then the fourth laser turns into a grid that dices its victim into pieces the size of a Big Mac. Since the grid is inescapable, what were the earlier lasers about? Does the corridor have a sense of humor?"''|'''[[Roger Ebert]]''', in his review of the first ''[[Resident Evil]]'' movie}}

** In episode five, {{spoiler|Mimi}} now hides out in a Buddhist temple that comes with a "laser cage" consisting of vertical [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser beams]] to trap intruders and leave them open to [[Five Rounds Rapid|fire]] by her army of [[Church Militant|nuns with guns]]. Since it's designed to contain rather than detect, the beams are spaced at a small distance from each other.

* Averted in ''[[New Getter Robo]]'': in the second episode some people pass through laser sensors that weren't visible to them ([[Rule of Perception|only to the audience from an angle where they were practically pointed at the camera]]) and were aimed in five different angles, making it so it'd be all but impossible to get past them even if you could see them.

* One features in the second episode of ''[[Angel Beats!]]'', likely as a [[Homage]] to ''[[Resident Evil]]''. The group is trapped in a locked corridor and have to dodge the increasingly complicated laser patterns. {{spoiler|Matsushita}} ends up sliced into pieces, but of course, [[Death Is Cheap]] here and he revives soon after, although his clothes are shredded.

* Occurred in a ''[[Kochikame]]'' TV special when one of the circus villains acrobat through the laser room which holds the gold head statue.