Eye Beams / Video Games

• In the first Age of Wonders: the ability Doom Gaze was a power that Beholders had, but it was also available as a skill for a new player-created hero to start with. Doom Gaze was a powerful energy beam that came out of the Beholder or player hero's eyes and hit with a power that was comparable to a cannon.
• Bejeweled: Blitz has the Cat's Eye rare gem. At the end of the game, Snackers the cat destroys some gems with Flame Gem-like explosions fired from her eyes... if you paid 200,000 blitzcoins for the gem...
• The Binding of Isaac:
  • The "Technology" family of upgrades give Isaac cybernetic eyes for this effect. Tech 1 replaces all tears with short laser bursts, Tech 2 gives Isaac a weak continuous laser alongside his normal tears, Tech 0.5 adds a robotic Third Eye that sometimes malfunctions, and Tech X gives Isaac a One-Way Visor that charges up and fires massive rings of laser.
  • The Bloat fires these from his empty eye sockets, which he can aim either directly in front of him or to either side. They fire instantly if you get in range as long as he's not doing a different attack. You'll want to fight this guy from behind as much as possible.
  • The Superboss Hush will begin firing these after he Turns Red. They're programmed to always be slightly slower than Isaac - and that is slightly, as they tend to come flying at the player like rockets, testing their reaction speed and forcing them to run in circles for bit.
• Bloody Battle: The Brimstone fires beams from the user's eyes that ragdoll and vaporize any players unfortunate enough to be hit by it.
• Body Blows: One newcomer introduced in Body Blows Galactic, who is fittingly named Lazer, can fire blasts from his cybernetic eyes. While they're not exactly beams as they come out as triangular shaped bursts, but it fits the trope for the most part.
• In Borderlands 2 Loaders, Constructors, and Lab Rats all have these. The Loaders eye attack is slow-moving and not that strong, the eye beams of the Constructors and Lab Rats, much less so.
• Champions Online has the power Eye Beam with the optional modification 20/20 Fission. Some major bosses will also use a devastating eyebeam attack, as do the MegaDestroids.
• A number of powersets in City of Heroes and City of Villains include laser eye beam attacks.
• Dead Rising 2: Off the Record introduces a Combo Weapon made from a cheap rubber alien mask combined with a handful of gems. It's called the Lazer Eyes, and is somehow able to fire functional laser beams from its eyes that scorch enemies. It's phenomenally effective against the infected hordes, since its beams are long ranged, reliably burn zombies to death, and sweep a wide arc in front of Frank West.
• Densetsu no Stafy 3: Muga can project a large beam from its eye to attack that sweeps in a circle, following Starfy.
• Dragon's Crown:
  • Being a Beholder Expy, the Gazer boss from Route A of the Lost Woods naturally does this a lot, shooting lasers, magic missiles, and fireballs from its many eye stalks.
  • The Medusa Boss from Route B of the Ancient Temple Ruins will start shooting lasers from her eyes for a lot of damage after she Turns Red.
• Dungeons of Dredmor gives you this power when you take the final skill in the Perception skill tree, remarking "If you can see it, you can kill it".^note Why Perception? Don't ask, nobody knows, not even the Diggles
• Dynasty Warriors: Gundam Reborn has the DLC character Beargguy from the 3-episode OVA series Model Suit Gunpla Builders Beginning G. Where the Acguy uses a common machine gun for its ranged attack, the Beargguy fires lasers from its teddy bear eyes. It even finishes its Limit Break with a sweep of its eye beams.
• Enter the Gungeon: The Shelleton enemy, a skeleton made out of shell casings, can fire a roving laser from its eye sockets that lasts for several seconds.
• Fallout:
  • Liberty Prime from Fallout 3 fires twin eye beams from a visor slot in it's head, which can obliterate entire enemy platoons in one sweep.
  • In Fallout 4, the Assaultron has a Wave-Motion Gun built into its head that can One-Hit Kill even those wearing power armor. Liberty Prime also makes a comeback if you side with the Brotherhood.
• Fate/Grand Order: One of Karna's Noble Phantasms - shown in his Extra attack - manifests as a laser that fires from his right eye.
  Karna: Weapons are an opening act. A true hero kills with a stare!
• Gift: The Patroller's head resembles a large flashlight. Don't get under its beams, or you'll die!
• In a platformer video game adaptation of The Great Gatsby, they took the symbolic eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg and ran with it as far as they could, turning it into this craziness.
• Half-Life 2 features Stalkers, horribly disfigured and emaciated Combine slaves that use Eye Beams for some type of labor. You don't usually fight them but when they do turn hostile they can and will burn you with their beams.
• Halo has the AI 343 Guilty Spark who has a Wave-Motion Gun in his singular "eye" which mortally wounds or can One-Hit Kill targets. He barely uses this whenever he shows up to 'help'.
• The X-Bot boss from Heavy Weapon has these. Strangely, Eyebot does not have this- his eye only shoots out regular shots, it's his Combat Tentacles that have the beams instead.
• The Right Hand Man from the Henry Stickmin Series can shoot lasers from his left eye in any route of Completing the Mission where he's a cyborg.
• Heroes of Might and Magic
  • Classical Cyclopses from II attack by firing beams from their single eye. It acts as a counterpart to Breath Weapon of dragons, fielded by the other factions. Cyclopses in most of the rest of the series attack by throwing rocks or smashing enemies with clubs, however the Bloodeyed Cyclopses in the fifth game also shoot lasers as a Mythology Gag.
  • Beholders and Evil Eyes in the third and fourth game attack by firing lasers out of the massive eye that makes up most of their body.
  • Dreadnoughts from Horn of the Abyss, a Game Mod for III, have "heat beam", fired from their single eye, as their special ability. It hits an entire arc before the unit, without triggering counter-attacks, but, being a special ability, can't be used as a counter-attack. Developers openly cited aforementioned Cyclops from II as their inspiration for this ability.
• In I, Robot, the eye who's watching you, kills you with an eye beam if you're caught jumping.
• The Injustice series, naturally the Kryptonians: Superman and Zod in Injustice: Gods Among Us as well as Supergirl in Injustice 2 have heat vision and it's cheap as hell. Superman has full screen heat vision that can also be performed in midair, a trait that allows Supes to ignore armor and can easily corner trap you. Martian Manhunter and Darkseid also have it and it's annoying to deal with. Regime Superman infamously uses his heat vision in the first game to murder Shazam when he calls Supes out on his Villainous Breakdown driven plan to destroy Metropolis and Gotham and then do the same to the regular universe.
• In Intrusion 2 The giant robot boss MACE shoots massive lasers out of his eyes.
• If you lose a stage in Katamari Damacy, it cuts to a scene of the King of All Cosmos doing the Looming Silhouette of Rage thing while lecturing The Prince (or whichever Cousin you're playing as in the sequels) and shooting Eye Beams at them.
• KickBeat does this as part of its first boss fight, where the player protects his master from enemy mooks by jumping onto a nearby statue and firing lasers at them from the statue.
• Killer7: As if creepy explosive Heaven Smile weren't bad enough, the Laser Smile variety can fire a long range beam as powerful as a normal smile's up-close detonation. Fortunately they are immobile and die after a single discharge.
• Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning takes a page out of Celtic Mythology by making one of the Tuatha's (here an army of evil Fair Folk) deadliest weapons a Balor (here a Greater Niskaru). The game's Balor is similar to the one from myth, right down to having one eye that unleashes a powerful Eye Beam when opened. The Balor also has a rider that keeps its eye shut with a harness to keep it from killing its own army with its gaze.
• Kirby:
  • Waddle Doos get... one of these. Makes you wonder about their biology, considering that they're nothing but a huge eye on a tiny circular body with nubby arms and feet.
  • Kirby himself gets these from swallowing R.O.B. in Smash Bros or enemies with the laser abilities in his own series: he gets visors that go over his eyes and shoot beams, although the latter isn't shown on his eyes until he shoots. Surprisingly averted when he eats a Waddle Doo: He shoots the beams through a magic wand.
• League of Legends: The art for Galio's Resolute Smite shows him firing these, and Cassiopeia has a gorgon-esque technique Petrifying Gaze for her ultimate. The Void creature Vel'Koz consists of one giant eye that unloads pure disintegration with three smaller eyes and three tentacles to aim and direct the Void energy.
• The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night: In his battle's second phase, Gaul starts firing off a thin laser beam from the gem in his left eye socket and sweeping it across the battlefield.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In most games, Beamos (and its variants) are mechanical enemies that shoot out a laser beam from their singular eye at Link if they spot him. They are impervious to most attacks, but some can stun them and bombs usually destroys them.
  • Zelda II: The Adventure of Link: A variant — Tektites shoot fireballs from their eyes.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages: During the third phase of its battle, Ramrock periodically sweeps the room with damaging lasers from its eyes.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Armogohma's primary attack is a fiery beam shot from the eye on her thorax, which she uses to chase Link around while clinging to the ceiling. However, she needs to open her eye to do this, which leaves it vulnerable to Link's arrows.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons: Medusa Head, the boss of the Sword and Shield Maze, fires damaging beams from its eyes.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: Guardians are spider-like robots that fire lasers from their one eye that cause powerful explosions where they hit.
• Luigi's Mansion has a ghostly grandmother who shoots lasers out of her eyes.
• Makai Kingdom: Zetta has his GETTER ZETTA BEAM! eye lasers, which is about the only way he can actually hurt someone following his unfortunate transformation.
  • They've become one of his signature moves in all of his appearances in other Nippon Ichi games, where they're shown to be a lot more destructive, creating mushroom clouds or blowing up the moon depending on the game.
  • Zetta taught his daughter Petta to fire beams out of her eyes when she was just five years old.
• The playable DLC Doctor Doom in Marvel Ultimate Alliance had a special attack that fired lasers from his eyes, called Mask of Doom. It was a serious Game-Breaker, as it could easily be pumped up to the point where its damage significantly exceeded his Ultimate Attack.
• Cyclops in Marvel vs. Capcom can be summed up in three words: BEHOLD! OPTIC BLAST!
  • Shuma-Gorath originally didn't have an eye beam attack in past games, but he was given one (dubbed the Mystic Ray) for his Marvel vs. Capcom 3 appearance.
  • C. Viper was also given one in Ultimate Marvel Vs. Capcom 3, which is named Optic Laser, possibly as a nod to Cyclops.
• Reaper Destroyers in Mass Effect 3 have a persistent red beam they can use to cut through pretty much anything, fired from the distinctive central red eye.
• The later MechWarrior games often forbid weapons to be mounted in the battlemech's cockpit/head, but the Atlas (a towering, broad-shouldered mech with a skull for a head) in Mech 4 caries a single energy hardpoint on the head in its right eye, allowing players to fit pulse lasers into it for maximum eye-zapping. The Cyclops in the free re-release has an even larger energy slot for its vestigial "head" (the cockpit is in the chest), allowing it to shoot lightning beams from its glowing red eye.
• The Killer Eye viruses in the Mega Man Battle Network series use this as their sole means of offense, only firing when something enters their line of sight. It pierces shields, paralyzes, and ignores Mercy Invincibility, which makes it extremely useful when utilized as a battle chip.
  • In the sixth game of the series, Mega Man can fire these as an extremely effective charged shot while utilizing the Killer/Erase cross.
• Kano from Mortal Kombat has an artificial eye that can shoot a laser in later games of the series.He kills Stryker with one in Armageddon's intro.
• Viy, one of the bosses of La-Mulana, has a Wave-Motion Gun version of this from his single eye that he can use as his most powerful attack.
• Archons from Nexus Clash have an Eye of Judgement that draws energy from any Elemental Powers the Archon has learned and focuses it on purging any evildoers that the Archon sees. Some Archons have a very broad definition of 'evildoers'.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations: Phoenix at one point worries that prosecutor Godot can fire these from his Cyclops-esque visor- which never happens, but wouldn't be the craziest thing a prosecutor did in court. The visor is actually medical in nature; Godot was rendered blind by poison and the visor helps him see.
• Plants vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time:
  • The Plants have the Laser Bean, who uses his eyes fires a penetrating attack that hits all zombies in a lane.
  • On the Zombie side, we have the Gargantuar Prime, who periodically uses eye lasers to easily fry your plants in the rear columns.
• In Pokémon Sword and Shield, Galarian Articuno's signature move Freezing Glare involves shooting concentrated energy out of its eyes to attack. It also has a chance to freeze the opponent, despite being a Psychic-type move.
• Quake II has the Brain, an enemy that shoots red lasers from its eyes.
• In the Sengoku Basara Battle Heroes opening movie, hundred-foot-tall versions of antagonists Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi are given eye beams, for no other reason except that it looks awesome.
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: The Cyclops Plant boss, which has a giant, floating eyeball for a main body, shoots lasers from its eye to attack Shantae.
• Metatron, an optional boss in Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne has these as his ultimate attack in the form of Fire of Sinai, in which he lets out an Evil Laugh beforehand. He's supposed to be the voice of God.
  • The Demi-Fiend can get some of his own near the end of the game with the Freikugel skill. It's one of the best endgame skills you can have, especially if you're going for the True Demon Ending.
• Silent Hill 3's Heather Beam (Heather shoots lasers from her eyes while shouting HEATHER!) and Sexy Beam (shoots lasers from her eyes while whispering "sexy").
• Skylanders:
  • From Spyro's Adventure, Drobot wears a self-constrcuted mechanical suit that gives him these.
  • In Giants, we have Bouncer, another robot of the Tech element with these, and Eye-Brawl from the Undead element, who has a giant eye with this ability.
  • From Trap Team, Spotlight shoots beams of light from her eyes.
• In a demonstration video for StarCraft II, Stone Zealots from the Terran campaign are seen firing energy beams from their eyes. (Originally, he was believed to have it in the first game, and it was added later.
• A bit of a variation on this trope in Star Fox 64 when Andross shoots lasers from his eyes. Why is it a variation? Because his eyes detach from his brain and chase after you, spewing red laser beams.
• Oh, Super Robot Wars... Mazinger did it, so of course they did it. The Grungust series' Eyesolid Laser, RyuuKoOu's Rastaban Beam, the SRX's Gaun Genocider and the Rushbird's Maser Eye, for example.
  • Subverted in the Grungust Types 2 and 3: their "Eye Lasers" are actually fired from a Power Crystal located above the eyes.
• Super Smash Bros. Brawl:
  • ROB has these, and his Final Smash turns them into a whirling laser helix of death. They also bounce.
  • Tabuu uses them, as well, though they're probably the least effective out of all the attacks in his arsenal.
• Super Snail from QCPlay Limited, no Super Snail doesn't have this. What does is a Juzo statue inside a tiny old shrine in one of the rooms of Super Snail's base. If you offer an incense stick to it, the statue's eyes begin glowing. If there's vermin around (including a giant bat that's actually Dracula and later his grandpa), you can have the statue zap it with eye beams. If there's nothing around, you may put in 2 more incense sticks. But touching the statue further after this just annoys it and do this often enough and it'll shoot down anything in the sky, including the Chinese god of longevity plus expies of Superman and the Death Star. Why it's so powerful is that it's actually the Magitek ultimate weapon.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time: In the first stage, Krang has electricity-shooting eyes. This does not, however, carry over to the year 2020.
• Touhou Project:
  • Reisen can fire these in the fighting games. Comes in different varieties too, from the garden variety straight blast, to expanding energy rings, to short range energy bursts.
  • Sekibanki fires lots of eye beams in Double Dealing Character. Since Sekibanki can detach her head, they can come from potentially any angle. It's entirely possible to dodge them by staying perfectly still since each set of eye beams is two separate bullets with a small gap in-between.
  • Yuugenmagan and Kikuri had eyebeams too during their boss fights.
  • There's also Unzan (the nyuudou partnered with Ichirin), who fires eye beams in one of their spell cards.
• In TRON Maze-a-Tron for the Intellivision, the Master Control Program (MCP) fires eye beams at the player in the second half of the game where he tries to match pairs of numbers that are scrolling up the screen.
• WarioWare:
  • WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$: Dr. Crygor's boss microgame, "Alien Laser Hero", has the player control a Faceship orbiting earth to protect it from meteorites shot by an invading space vessel, and to this end the ship can shoot a melting laser beam from its eyes. In the final phase, the vessel approaches and tries to drop the meteorites despite knowing tha you can now attacking it (this phase is actually difficult, because it means you have to balance between shooting at the meteorites and shooting at the enemy vessel until it's destroyed).
  • WarioWare: Smooth Moves: A microgame gives you laser eyes and instructs you to "Destroy them all". It's a blast, pardon the pun.
• The main character of Webbed is a spider who has the ability to shoot beams from her eyes to push objects around and take down webs she has weaved once they're no longer needed.
• The World Ends with You has Shiki's third level fusion, which transforms Mr. Mew to a giant cat-Godzilla thing that fires lasers from it's eyes.
• World of Warcraft:
  • C'thun, the Final Boss of Ahn'Qiraj, is a stock Eldritch Abomination with a particular affinity for eye beams. During the first phase of the encounter, you're fighting an enormous eyeball (the "Eye of C'thun"), which uses an attack called — you guessed it — Eye Beam. During the second phase, C'thun will spawn Giant Eye Tentacles. You have three guesses as to what kind of attack these have.
  • Observers (which are definitely not Beholders) are squid-like demons capable of shooting lasers out of their many eyes.
  • In the instance leading up to Yogg-Saron is a boss named Kologarn. He guards the bridge (well, he is the bridge) to further areas of the instance. He has a particularly nasty attack called Focused Eyebeam that he uses occasionally, where he chases players around with laser vision.
  • In the Plague Quarter of the Naxxramas instance, there is a gauntlet through trash mobs with eye stalks that have a kind of eye beam attack.
  • Players finally get their own in Legion as Demon Hunters with a spell literally called Eye Beam. It's used by every player during the starting zone, although only Havoc Demon Hunters get to keep it for the rest of the game. It also showed up as a Demon Hunter spell card in Hearthstone.
• You Have to Burn the Rope: The boss attacks using these, but since your character is invincible, the only thing they can do is get rid of your torch.

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