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Occasionally misspelled "[[Xtreme Kool Letterz|lazer]]" in fiction, commonly to differentiate from actual LASERs. Frequently misspelled "lazer" in [[Real Life]], because [[Viewers are Morons|people are dumb]], or because it's easier to trademark names that aren't real words. In reality, the name '''"L.A.S.E.R."''' is an acronym of "'''L'''ight '''A'''mplification by '''S'''timulated '''E'''mission of '''R'''adiation", since [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|that's what lasers do]]. It helps that, by happenstance, the acronym "LASER" makes for a [[Rule of Cool|cool-sounding name]].
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* Beam weapons in ''[[Gundam]]'', while fast, are frequently dodged when they are fired.(First few episodes of the First Gundam, Char Aznable stated very clear that he dodges where the gun points, not the beam) This is also because the beam weapons aren't laser beams, but are made up of particles with a considerable amount of mass, called a "Mega-particle". See below, and also see [[Minovsky Physics]] (the [[Wave Motion Gun]]-grade weapons like the Solar Ray and Solar system ''are'' portrayed as travelling at the speed of light; fortunately, [[Psychic Powers|Newtypes]] sense the shots before they fire in Gundam).
** ''[[Gundam]]'' creator [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] has commented, in later years, that he chose to use particle beam weapons over more realistic lasers for dramatic purposes, feeling that the invisibility and unerring accuracy of lasers would make for boring combat sequences.
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* ''[[Starship Troopers (film)|Starship Troopers]] 2'' featured strobe-light weapon props because [[Special Effect Failure|they couldn't afford real guns]]. Incidentally, [[Reality Is Unrealistic|everyone complained that the guns didn't look like they were shooting "lasers"]].
* ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' (2009) follows the "bullets of light" model: a handheld phaser shoots discrete pulses. The ''Enterprise'' itself ''shakes from recoil'' as its phasers fire.
** However, as portrayed through all ''Star Trek'' series, Phasers are not actually lasers but phased particle beams (called nadions) that occasionally look like lasers. [[Word of God]] is that [[Gene Roddenberry]] realized shortly into TOS that people who saw the show in 20 years would say "Lasers don't do that" and retconned all weapons into "phasers" instead (after briefly toying with calling them "Lasser" [sic] weapons, presumably after a hypothetical inventor).
** In contrast to most of the rest of the franchise where phasers are presented as beam weapons that connect instantly. They still create shaking on a target when hit though... Err... those are Particle beams. The phased laser is carrying all kinds of hazardous extras for the feds.
* [[Godzilla vs. Destoroyah|Destoroyah]] from the ''[[Godzilla]]'' franchise is able to emit a laser beam from his horn.
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