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* In ''Film/SlaveGirlsFromBeyondInfinity'', Tisa snatches a breast plate off the wall and uses it to reflect a laser beam back at the robot that fired it, destroying the robot. Particularly egregious as the breastplate was not polished, so shouldn't have reflected the laser, and curved, so it should have reflected at an angle rather straight back at the robot.

* The [[WebVideo/GuaranteedVideo New Kids on the Rock]] Christmas special, ''Ryan's Christmas Wish,'' NeilCicierega uses a mirror to reflect the Misery Meister's ultimate attack: [[spoiler:a bullet from a mundane revolver.]]

* In ''ComicBook/DirtyPair: Dangerous Acquaintances'', the bad guys have programmed a spaceship's security system to seal off areas of the interior by lowering raisable walls and to use laser turrets to shoot anything that moves within those areas. The main characters retreat into a bathroom where there are no turrets, then break the mirror and use pieces of it to redirect the turrets' laser beams, first to cut through the nearest raisable wall, and then to destroy the turrets. In issue 3 of the next miniseries (''A Plague of Angels''), the letter column ran one letter from someone who pointed out that a high-powered laser actually would have quickly made a hole in the mirror.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} exploits this effect in the comic books. In one series, he uses it to [[MundaneUtility shave]]. After all, steel razor blades aren't gonna do the trick, are they? Then his powers get swapped for electrically based ones that he has poor control over. The next morning, he tries it again. Lois has just enough time to [[OhCrap catch on to what's about to happen]] before Clark lets it rip. THIS is also reflected, [[BlownAcrossTheRoom blasting Clark through the whole apartment]], trailing lightning bolts all the way.

* In an early draft of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAh7onp0bCo the opening]] for ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'', Mister Incredible uses a mirror to reflect Syndrome's stasis beam back at him.

* ''Fanfic/ItsDangerousToGuardAlone'': Brave Heart's shield, which given how he's a reference to Link from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'', might be the Mirror Shield, can reflect spells:

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', mirrors have been used to reflect hypnosis waves. The reason this happens is... never explained. It just does.

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'': Sometimes mirrors are used to reflect EnergyWeapon attacks, like a [[BeeAfraid giant bee]] MechanicalMonster being a DroneDeployer of drones with mirrors to redirect its BeamSpam, or the SuperSoldier Haruka using mirrors to shoot her energy weapons around corners.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' has a Magitek mirror shield that can reflect attacks, but this is primarily because it incorporates a spell designed for just that effect. Given the mildly [[YourMindMakesItReal psychosomatic]] nature of Techno-Wizardry, the mirroring is likely done to ''invoke'' the trope to help the spell chains stick.

* ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': One of the abbilities of the Reversing Mirror is to reflect the powers of other Shen Gong Wu towards the opponent.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has a recurring item in the Mirror Shield, pictured above. In addition to the [[LightAndMirrorsPuzzle typical applications]] (at least in the 3D installments; the 2D games usually just treat it as an upgraded shield), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' has you use it to defeat one DualBoss by reflecting one sister's magical attack at the other, then absorbing three like beams in a row and spewing the whole charge at the [[FusionDance combined]] sisters in the second phase. And in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', it can reflect ''freakin''' ''[[HolyHandGrenade Light Arrows]]'' in the final boss fight. You can also reflect Wizzrobe's fire and ice attacks back at him in Majora's Mask, ''just'' because in ''Ocarina of Time'' (its immediate predecessor) it was used to reflect heat and cold attacks. In the remake of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening Link's Awakening]]'', ''every'' kind of projectile attack bounces back and strikes the enemy that launched it, even rocks and spears, with nothing to suggest that the shield is supposed to have any magical properties.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has a recurring item in the Mirror Shield, pictured above. In addition to the [[LightAndMirrorsPuzzle typical applications]] (at least in the 3D installments; the 2D games usually just treat it as an upgraded shield), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' has you use it to defeat one DualBoss by reflecting one sister's magical attack at the other, then absorbing three like beams in a row and spewing the whole charge at the [[FusionDance combined]] sisters in the second phase. And in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', it can reflect ''freakin''' ''[[HolyHandGrenade Light Arrows]]'' in the final boss fight. You can also reflect Wizzrobe's fire and ice attacks back at him in Majora's Mask, ''just'' because in ''Ocarina of Time'' (its immediate predecessor) it was used to reflect heat and cold attacks. The remake of ''Link's Awakening'' takes it UpToEleven by having ''every'' kind of projectile attack bounce back and strike the enemy that launched it, even rocks and spears, with nothing to suggest that the shield is supposed to have any magical properties.
* The first ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'' does this, but it's {{justified}} since the mirror is explicitly described as having an enchantment on it that reflects magic.

* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has a recurring item in the Mirror Shield, pictured above. In addition to the [[LightAndMirrorsPuzzle typical applications]] (at least in the 3D installments; the 2D games usually just treat it as an upgraded shield), ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' has you use it to defeat one DualBoss by reflecting one sister's magical attack at the other, then absorbing three like beams in a row and spewing the whole charge at the [[FusionDance combined]] sisters in the second phase. And in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker The Wind Waker]]'', it can reflect ''freakin''' ''[[HolyHandGrenade Light Arrows]]'' in the final boss fight. You can also reflect Wizzrobe's fire and ice attacks back at him in Majora's Mask, ''just'' because in ''Ocarina of Time'' (its immediate predecessor) it was used to reflect heat and cold attacks.