* 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 MinovskyPhysics (the WaveMotionGun-grade weapons like the Solar Ray and Solar system ''are'' portrayed as travelling at the speed of light; fortunately, [[PsychicPowers Newtypes]] sense the shots before they fire in Gundam).
** ''{{Gundam}}'' creator YoshiyukiTomino 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.
* {{Macross}}[=/=]Anime/{{Robotech}}. Their beam weapons are even called "lasers", even if they behave like those from {{Gundam}}... but then, it's {{hand wave}}d as a product of [[AppliedPhlebotinum OverTechnology]].

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* Beam weapons in ''Franchise/{{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 MinovskyPhysics (the WaveMotionGun-grade weapons like the Solar Ray and Solar system ''are'' portrayed as travelling at the speed of light; fortunately, [[PsychicPowers Newtypes]] sense the shots before they fire in Gundam).
** ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' creator YoshiyukiTomino 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.
* {{Macross}}[=/=]Anime/{{Robotech}}. Their beam weapons are even called "lasers", even if they behave like those from Franchise/{{Gundam}}... but then, it's {{hand wave}}d as a product of [[AppliedPhlebotinum OverTechnology]].

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