'''split Energy Weapons''' launched as EnergyWeapon: [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/discussion.php?id=enz8c412&trope=EnergyWeapon From YKTTW]]

Sikon: EnergyWeapons already exists...

{{Kizor}}: It looks like EnergyWeapon, which had both ranged and melee weapons, was split into FrickinLaserBeams and LaserBlade, and this page was created as an index. Its discussion page is [[EnergyWeaponsDiscussion here]]. I'm going to merge FrickinLaserBeams into EnergyWeapon, because:
*A: What are you going to think of when you hear "energy weapon"? Rayguns or their ship-mounted equivalents. Guns are the base state of energy weapons. Not only does this make sense in organizing, but the article is easier to use when it has a simple and immediately intuitive name. Cheap puns are good, but only so far as they don't disrupt better things, like usability.
*B: Many energy weapons do not fire beams at all, but slow-moving blobs of energy that are usually either dismissed as plasma or just not explained. By splitting a trope concerning things that go zap into a trope concerning lasers and a trope concerning energy bludgeoning instruments, an important part falls through the cracks.