Laser Blade / Video Games

• Aion currently has a weapon skin called the "Aether Blade" which can be purchased from their website and used to remodel your character, while it doesn't extend the way a Star Wars style Light Saber would, it does strongly resemble one while remaining legally distinct from it.
• The avatar of War God Kamulos in Albion is a Magic Knight with both magic and physical attacks. The Kenget Kamulos believe that needing to use weapons in combat is weakness, though, normally meaning they value a Black Mage above a conventional warrior. Kamulos Takes a Third Option by carrying no weapon but having a glowing blade manifest in his hands whenever he attacks.
• This is Mike Matei's main weapon in The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures.
• Armored Core has Laser Blades attached on the AC as melee weapons, either conjoined with the forearm (Nine-Ball and other first generation AC) or as standalone parts (late generation AC). Unlike most examples, the blades are typically not solid, making them less useful for dueling and more useful for destroying stationary targets or as an Emergency Weapon in case the user's ranged weapons run out of ammo, though dedicated blade-builds ebb and flow in popularity and effectiveness throughout the series. The Player Character always starts off with a laser blade, and two of the most prominent laserblades are the Moonlight, a heavy LB with insane stats and a Shout-Out to From Software's other games (see below), and the Toros, a shield that had two Laserblades and was known as Stinger's weapon of choice in one of the games.
• One of the Knights' weapons in Battle Chess 4000.
• Battle Realms gives the Ronin and Samurai swords that can turn into these. The Wolf Clan Dryad starts off with nature-powered Laser Blades.
• The VR Rhythm Game Beat Saber has the player slicing color-coded cubes with a pair of lightsabers, in time with the stage's music.
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has the Encrypted Orchid. The description for this weapon is written in binary and translates to "A light saber with immense power".
• The final upgrade for the Boomerang Monkey in Bloons Tower Defense 4 allows it to throw spinning lightsabers through hordes of bloons! Oh, and it can pop through lead bloons, being a laser and all.
  • But for some reason, a Laser Vision Super Monkey can't...
    • A Laser Cannon Dartling Gun can though! (Well, only in 4, not 5)
• Constructor X from Bomberman Generation, who forms one from his drill-arm and causes explosions when swung.
  I will destroy you, WITH MY LASERBLADE!!!
• An oddly rare weapon in Brawlhalla, but the Sword/Gauntlet legend Val wields one in almost all of her appearances. As a bonus, most of her signature attacks involve her almost disappearing when executed, making her what may be the game's resident Speed Blitz master.
  • The game's first Mythic skin (Shin Sekai Koji) takes this to a whole other level: not only is this in full effect for his sword, but his ''bow'' can be regarded as this as well; the plasma that constitutes the arms of the bow allows him to strike at his opponents just like anyone else.
• C-12: Final Resistance is a Playstation 1 game from Sony's Cambridge studio. Set in a future where an Alien Invasion takes place. Your character's starting weapon is the Energy Blade, which was taken from a slain alien officer. Near the end of the game, the Energy Blade is upgraded to be able to fire plasma bolts when charged up.
• Castlevania
  • The most powerful one-handed sword in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness is a laser sword, but getting all the components to craft it takes some work.
  • In Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia, combining the Nitesco glyph with any weapon glyph will make Shanoa smack the enemy with a Laser BFS several times her own size. This is the strongest attack in the game, and sufficiently boosted it can take even Dracula himself out with just a few swipes.
• Sword-wielders in City of Heroes can get these as unlockables. There's even a laser axe. No change in power and they still do the same type of damage, but hotly pursued nonetheless.
• In Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3, Imperial Warriors are armed with beam katanas that they use for banzai charges to instantly kill infantry.
  • All There in the Manual: They're actually superheated regular katanas.
• Dead Rising, which takes place in a shopping mall, has several toy laser swords you can loot from a toy shop. They do terrible damage, at least in the original as compared to the powerful but fragile ones in Chop Till You Drop, but the fact they make you emit a glow when wielded (and, strangely, when held in your inventory) basically make them the game's torches. There's also a special unlockable Real Laser Sword, but its durability means you can't use it long.
  • In Dead Rising 2, Chuck can make Laser Swords by combining a flashlight with some gems. It gets more lethal when he sees it on a movie poster.
• Deus Ex has the Dragon's Tooth. While visually resembling a Laser Blade, it is in fact an Absurdly Sharp Blade constantly maintained by a nanite cloud. The blue glow is a side effect of the nanites, which the sword shares with all other nanite-based items (Paul's and JC's eyes, upgrade canisters, augmentation canisters...).
• In Disgaea: Hour of Darkness you'll occasionally come across enemies wielding a 'Light Saber' which looks exactly like this a Star Wars lightsaber. These can be stolen, and if found as legendary quality weapons can become quite decent Infinity Plus One weapons if levelled properly.
  • The flavor text on them even has a bit of a Shout-Out — "The force may be with you..."
  • The actual Infinity +1 Sword, the Yoshitsuna, has the appearance of a laser blade.
  • There are other laser weapons in Disgaea 2. There are even laser spears and laser axes.
• Doom (2016) has the Crucible, which has a blade made of Argent Energy. It also doubles as a Cool Sword.
• Doom Eternal:
  • The Crucible gets used as not only a One-Hit Kill weapon, but at the end, it's used to seal the beaten and battered Icon of Sin back into the depths of Hell since it's utterly immortal no matter how much ammo Doomguy puts into it.
  • The Night Sentinels are seen using spears with Argent Energy blades, and Valen the Betrayer totes an Argent Energy hammer.
  • The Marauder wields an axe with a blade made of Argent Energy.
• Two examples exist in Dragalia Lost.
  • Tartarus, the literal Dragon of the Agito, wields a Shadow-element laser blade as his main weapon, and it extends lightsaber-style at the start of the fight. He only uses it in humanoid form, though; he trades it for dragon's claws when he transforms.
  • Notte's trademark weapon, the Faerie's Wish, is another one; it can be used as a skin for any other Dagger weapon, but she's a Wind-element adventurer. During Metamorphosis, the blade extends into a full-fledged sword half as long as Notte is tall — and she's as big as some dragons in that form!
• In Dragon Age: Inquisition the Knight Enchanter Prestige Class for mages grants abilities and bonuses that allow the normally Squishy Wizard to become a formidable Magic Knight. One of these abilities is "Spirit Blade", a powerful and close-range Laser Blade made of magic. The initiation test (i.e. the sidequest the player needs to take to access the specialization) is to construct the blade's hilt, and just in case someone missed the parallels to Jedi lightsabers, the Spirit Blade can also be upgraded to automatically redirect incoming ranged attacks back at the shooter.
• Dungeon Fighter Online has these as an exclusive type of sword for Blade/weapon Masters and Vagabonds (not yet in any NA build), with a few other weapons having a beam type. While not as powerful as other examples, it's the fastest weapon they can use by far and the 'shock' damage they can inflict will add armor ignoring damage to combos (making them usefu for enemies with Metal Slime level defenses).
• Einhänder has a laser blade weapon pod. The Einhander is a space fighter with a grappling arm specifically built to use enemies guns as it finds them. Enemies using a laser blade do not have a grappling arm. They just have a laser sword sticking out of a hardpoint in their front that may be pointed at you. It is the most beautifully nonsensical thing in the game, especially since doing a fireball motion while activating it will cause it to lance forward about three times its original length for a moment.
• At least one character in Escape Velocity: Nova is noted to have a "laser rapier" hooked to his belt. Also, "beam"-type weapons throughout the series (such as the ever-popular Thunderhead Lance in Nova and the Phased Dispertion Beam in Override) can be considered a ship-bound version of this trope, extending a giant beam of damage up to a fixed distance from the front of the ship. Not always practical on anything less maneuverable than a frigate, but when your end result is space jousting, how could you not?
• Evil Genome downplayes this with your trusty high-tech sabre, which is an ordinary blade but with laser light emiting on the sharp parts to increase your damage. However, there are boses who use blades made of lasers, including your Evil Counterpart Sophia who Dual Wield laser swords.
• Fallout: New Vegas has the "Protonic Inversal Axe" which is some kind of suspended forcefield on a pole. It does extra damage to robots, and the Think Tank decided to make a throwing version.
• Fate/Grand Order:
  • Mysterious Heroine X and her Alter form are parodies of Star Wars characters, so their Noble Phantasms are lightsabers.
  • In both this and Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star, Altera wields a rainbow colored lightsaber. Particularly noticeable since this sword is the Sword of Mars, the sword that a War God once wielded.
  • The Saber version of Tomoe Gozen uses lightsabers at first before switching to flaming swords.
• Final Fantasy VI's Ultima Weapon may qualify for this trope. It sure looks like a lightsaber, and even extends in length depending on the damage dealt. If it does less than 500 HP of damage, it looks smaller than a dagger. If it does over 1001 HP of damage, it becomes longer than the character's sprite is tall.
  • Final Fantasy loves this trope like they love Shout Outs to Star Wars. In addition to the aforementioned weapons, there are elemental weapons. Moreover, there's a "Light Saber" in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance.
• Fraxy gives us this exact blade in three lengths!
• The Sword of Moonlight is a recurring item in FromSoftware games. It appears under various names in the King's Field games, Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and both its sequels, and the Old Hunters DLC for Bloodborne. The sword has a tiny physical blade that projects a larger, magical blade made of moonlight. Usually, only the latter is usable, however its appearance in Bloodborne departs from the norm by enlarging the physical blade and allowing it to be used as either a typical sword or Laser Blade.
• Probably one of the less conventional examples, but Ghosts 'n Goblins's Arthur can turn knives into Frickin' Laser Beams through magic.
• In The Guardian Legend, the eponymous Guardian's Saber Laser (single blade) and Cutter Laser (dual blade) sub-weapons deal lots of damage to enemies at close range. When she's in ship mode, they're not quite as effective.
• Guild Wars 2 has several swords that could qualify, from the Super Adventure Box sword/greatsword skins◊ (which are holographic and transparent energy); the Chaos sword◊ (the entire weapon is white light shaped like a sword); or the Black Lion shop's Plasma Sword skin◊, which looks remarkably close to a lightsaber. And then Path of Fire was released, introducing several new class specializations — one of which was the Holosmith, who could use a "Holo-Forge" to create hard light constructs, and who could use swords. Their special skin is the Holosmith sword◊ — which looks exactly like a lightsaber, it even recedes into the hilt when not in use.
• In Gunstar Heroes, the lightning + fire combo creates a gun that shoots a laser that terminates after a short distance. This pseudo laser sword is one of the best combos in the game because it can deal out a lot of damage and cancel out most enemy shots.
• The Energy Sword from the Halo series. According to the fluff, it's actually a envelope of plasma that's held in shape by electromagnetic fields. It's good for both dueling and assassinations, since the blades turn invisible along with the active-camo used by Elites.
  • Halo: Reach shows that some Elites, in addition to their plasma swords, wield wrist-mounted plasma daggers.
• You can replace your stick with one of these in ICO's New Game Plus for no real reason. But only in the Japanese and European versions.
  • This is only if you get the bonus weapon in the first playthrough.
  • It gets bigger when he holds Yorda's hand.
• The Komato Assassins in Iji have laser daggers.
• The Gigawatt Blades in inFAMOUS
• The original Jets'n'Guns has the Tsunami Generator which, when fully upgraded, resembles a laser bat'leth. The Gold Edition adds the Tsunami Beta, which resembles a spinning laser bat'leth. They're also amazingly powerful, and (somewhat realistically) create a huge amount of waste heat.
• Kingdom Hearts:
  • Squall / Leon can form one of these out of his Gunblade as a reference to his "Blasting Zone" finisher in his original game.
  • Xemnas Dual Wields blades of Pure Energy that manifest from his hands. He can also fire them like projectiles. In Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days, his signature weapon is the "Interdiction" and the other types of Etheral Blades he wields are given more variety, with various shapes and colors and some appearing as blades of energy projected from a central core instead of being entirely energy. Except for his Joke Weapon, a pair of fans.
  • The Unknown, aka Young Xehanort, of Birth By Sleep and Dream Drop Distance dual-wields a pair of blue Laser Blades. The Keyblade associated with him, No Name, is essentially a Laser Blade Keyblade.
  • In Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, Terra and Aqua share a Command Style called Bladecharge that forms a massive one of these around their Keyblade. In Dream Drop Distance, Riku has this power as a Link Style.
  • In Kingdom Hearts III, Sora wields several levitating blades of light while in Ultimate Form.
• Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards has Darth Maul-esque double-bladed lightsabers with Cutter+ Spark. A tap of the button kills everything around Kirby, and enemies die just by walking into the blade. Yes, it's badass as it sounds.
• Also we have Master Yi's skin,Chosen One in Leagueof Legends. He wears a lightsaber!
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has the Guardian and Ancient Weapons, which include arrows, swords, axes, spears, and even chainsaws. Downplayed in that the blue, glowing blades are made of Hard Light rather than plasma or any other kind of thermal energy, and thus have the same physical properties of an ordinary metal weapon.
• Light Fairytale: Orb Swords are blades of energy that gain the elemental properties of the equipped orb. Haru and several imperial soldiers wield these weapons.
• Several of the Like a Dragon/Yakuza games have lightsaber-esque "Photon Blade" swords as possible equippable weapons.
• Mabinogi has Beam Swords, rare event-reward weapons with low consistency but very high damage. They have three grades, Bargain, regular and Focused, and also a lesser ranking based on color. They cannot take upgrades, and being Mabinogi weapons, their high damage comes at a cost of being very expensive to repair when they get worn.
• Makai Kingdom has laser blades as a weapon class. They are noticeable for having the highest base attack of all the melee weapons bar none, and are really good against vehicles as well. However, none of the base classes you gain prior to a New Game Plus can proficiently use them.
• In Mass Effect 3, Shepard gains access to the omni-blade, a modification to the standard omni-tool that unfurls out to create a searing hot silicon-carbide blade, suspended in mass effect fields. The in-universe explanation for their sudden appearance is that they had been designed years ago but were considered useless, since enemies rarely would get into close-quarters enough for them to be used.
  • There are many versions of this because every class wields their own melee weapon (Though they are not all blades) such as the sentinel who wields two omni blades, infiltrators with two-pronged electrified blades, or engineers, who simply slam a flaming silicon-carbide disc into their enemies with the back of their hand.
  • It's also worth noting that Omni-blades are not laser blades or hardlight, but the suspended 'blade' is invisible on it's own. The Omni-tool creates a holographic sheathe to provide visual context for the user and allies.
• Zero's Z-Saber in the Mega Man X series, which, in addition to being friggin' cool, also had the ability to change shape, length, and power as the situation required. Not to mention elements. He can turn it into a flaming sword of death (which makes sense, sort of) or into a sword made entirely of ice (which just breaks several laws of physics). X8 grants him laser harisen, a laser glaive, and a laser hammer and knuckle dusters.
  • X would later receive this Z-Saber in X6, with Zero getting a new one that's literally exactly like the ones from Star Wars. He can still imbue it with elements however.
  • In X5 and X6 there is Dynamo who has a variable length dual ended Laser sword.
  • In the Mega Man Zero series, there's Harpuia (who uses TWO), Omega (who gets a different one with each stage of his Final Boss battle), and Elpizo (who gets a rapier), who all use their own laser swords. Leviathan uses a laser halberd. In addition, Zero also gets a laser spear, laser shield, a laser grappling hook (made from the remains of the laser spear), and laser tonfa.
  • In the original Mega Man X, Sigma used his own saber during his first boss phase, which looked almost exactly like the Z-Saber despite predating it, as Zero himself didn't use the Z-Saber in that game. This prompted a few Epileptic Trees over whether or not it's the same sword. Later games would have him also use a beam scythe and other such laser melee weapons.
  • In Mega Man ZX, Biometal Model Z, H, L, and O all give laser blades based off their signature source from Zero (those being Zero, Harpuia, Leviathan, and Omega Zero). Prometheus meanwhile comes to town with a beam scythe.
  • In the Mega Man Battle Network games, most of the swords appear to be of this nature. Protoman and Colonel both have one as an arm.
• Metroid Prime: Space Pirates use energy blades as melee weapons. In the sequel they only had metal blades (although they were called "photonic scythes", so they may have been a 40k-style "power field" involved), except for the Pirate Commandoes, who carried a gun that could fire energy projectiles or large exploding balls of every, as well as project a short beam blade. Elite Pirates, meanwhile, have energy claws.
• There's a few ones in Mortal Kombat.
  • In an attempt to lower the portrayal of violence, Mortal Kombat 3 had Kano using energy knives for slashing and throwing at enemies. Instead of the large quantities of blood squirting out from a knife hit like the 1st game, his knives just do a small burst of light in this game.
  • In Mortal Kombat 4, Cyrax has the "Sabre of Light". Later on it's given the name of "Pulse Blade" in Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.
  • Mortal Kombat: Armageddon gives Sektor dual red-color pulse swords. Obvious hinting at his evilness.
  • Mortal Kombat X gives Takeda a pair of pulse blades in his Ronin variation.
• The Masked Man in Mother 3 wields a lightsaber that has the ability to shoot intense bolts of lightning that instantly knock the target out.
• Multi Dimensional Thief, an old text adventure game, parodies the Star Wars lightsaber. It can cut anything as long as it's an inventory object, and some versions of the game allow the lightsaber to either cut itself or your fingers (without ill effects other than losing the lightsaber.) Just don't go through a hole while carrying it.
• NanoBreaker grants you a plasma sword as your default weapon, and it is the only weapon capable of hurting the Orgamechs whom are immune to bullets and can absorb metal into themselves.
• The Neverwinter Nights Community Expansion Pack includes alternate blade appearances for weapons from daggers to rapiers to two-bladed swords that look remarkably like lightsabers. They don't actually change the in-game effect, however. The d20 Modern Mod completely alters the kukris to replace by Star Wars-style lightsabers.
• Archons from Nexus Clash have a holy Blade of Light that basically functions as one of these. They're especially good at dispelling wards and magical defenses and purging evildoers. Some Archons may have a very broad definition of 'evildoers'.
• No More Heroes:
  • Travis' blue-colored Beam Katana actually handles this in a sensible and relatively realistic manner. The hilt extends a "cap" to terminate the beam, and the beam is projected along a central filament strung between the hilt and the cap. The downside is that this makes the Beam Katana look like nothing so much as a Fluorescent Light-bulb Of Death. Then again, given the game's sense of humor, this was probably intentional.
  • Sometime after the game's equator, the Beam Katana can be upgraded to a five-bladed version of the Beam Katana (Tsubaki-II), which looks less like a sword than a large laser club. The ultimate weapon (Tsubaki-III) plays this trope straight, being quite literally a green-colored beam katana, fashioned after the weapon of his recently deceased master; a similar, purple blade is wielded by Henry, the True Final Boss.
  • There are a few characters who wield downplayed examples that also appear more plausible: Helter Skelter and Death Metal wield standard-looking blades, albeit very large ones, whose lasers simply run along their sharp edges and, just like Travis's weapon, terminate at their tips.
• No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle: In addition to bringing back the original Beam Katana and the purchasable Tsubaki-III, the game also introduces a large, thick orange laser blade that is slow but very powerful (Peony). Later still, Travis acquires two short, yet agility-friendly pink laser blades (Rose Nasty). One of the last bosses, Alice, can also shoot laser blades from her spider-like mechanical limbs.
• Ōkami: Not merely content to show Amaterasu up and be a general thorn in her paws, Waka has to have a better sword than Ammy to boot! While she has to make due with metallic blades (made of divine metals, mind you, but metal nonetheless), he gets one of these that extends from inside of his flute.
• Bayonetta: While it does nothing to alleviate the injustice done to Amaterasu, the player can finally get a chance to use Waka's sword, granted that they can complete the game on the highest difficulty level to obtain it. It might appear to be worthless if one had to tackle the Non-Stop Infinte Climax Mode, but there's one last being left to challenge who justifies use of so much power and then some.
• Nuclear Throne has the Energy Sword, a simple neon-green Energy Weapon with a fast attack speed and a wide crescent swing arc. Its awesome slicing power comes at the cost of energy ammo.
• The one-use laser knife from OverBlood.
• Persona 5: Your final party member, Goro Akechi, uses sword of blue-white energy as his melee weapon, which is just a toy laser sword in the real world.
• Taking place in the future, several Phantasy Star weapons are comprised of lasers, or "photons", in the original tetralogy as well as the later Online/Universe games; Alis's second-best weapon in the first game is explicitly a lightsaber. Armor, as well; one wonders why they didn't outright call it a force field, but we know the real reason.
  • And just like Mega Man Zero, they liberally apply these lasers to any sort of weapon. Laser boomerangs. Laser whips. Laser fists. Laser grenade launchers.
• Radiant Silvergun has the Radiant Sword, an energy sword wielded by a space fighter.
• Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal has a cheat code that replaces your wrench with a double-sided one of these.
• Final Fantasy Legend has a weapon called an "L-saber". The Japanese version straight up calls it a "lightsaber", and the ones featured in the Nintendo DS remake of Final Fantasy Legend II looks exactly like, well...
• Saints Row IV gives us the Laser Razor, which is shaped like a katana, but is otherwise closely resembles the classic Jedi weapon. And yes, there are Star Wars-themed costumes, too.
• Senran Kagura
  • Leo uses a nodachi-sized laser sword with a western-style handle, guard and all, and also having a sheath to it. Her sister Hyoki also uses one, though her sword looks like a regular sword at first before turning into a laser blade.
  • In Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson, one of the Joke Weapons for Ultimate Asuka and Crimson Homura are "Twin Beam Swords" and "Single Beam Sword" respectively. And not only do they look like Star Wars lightsabers, but Ultimate Asuka has blue and green ones where as Crimson Homura has a red one.
• Shadow Hearts: Johnny Garland has one, but it's less a laser blade and more pure evil channeled into his knife.
• In the Shining Series, the first game's plot involved the main character wielding a Laser Blade that was made of Light Energy and another one that was made of Dark Energies. The "Chaosbreaker" obtained later in the game (renamed the "Force Sword" in the series' later installments) is made of both of these energies. All three swords are obtained through the normal playthrough and are all considered Swords Of Plot Advancement and Infinity Plus One Swords to boot! (But you lose the Light and Dark swords in order get the Chaosbreaker.)
• Shin Megami Tensei I has Plasma Swords as a weapon usable only by Law Hero (or a lawful Main Character). Since items didn't have graphics in that game, we don't really know what it looked like, though.
• Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne has the Hito-Shura generate one from his hand when using an attack that requires a weapon.
• In Shin Megami Tensei V, the protagonist's primary weapon is a laser blade that springs out of his fingertips.
• In Silent Hill 3's New Game Plus, one of the potential bonus weapons is a "beam saber." Given that the game is possibly the darkest (both figuratively and literally) of the series, and that the main character is both the youngest of the series' protagonists and the only female among them, the game can feel extremely oppressive. So it's a bit of a Mood Whiplash (though not necessarily in a bad way) when you gain the ability to turn Heather into the Magical Girl "Princess Heart" (complete with Transformation Sequence and appropriate costume), and either fight with a lightsabre or shoot laser beams from your freaking eyes.
  • Magical Girl, or girl-sized Super Robot?
• The player uses them in Sin and Punishment to deal with enemies who get too close.
• Hwang in Soul Edge has two "light-edged" swords in his repertoire, one whose blade is transparent and his Ultimate weapon, whose very long edge is only visible when swung. These were later inherited by his pseudo-Moveset Clone Yun-seong since Soulcalibur II.
  • Funny how two Sith and a Jedi finally jump in and shows everybody how it's really done in Soulcalibur IV.
• Major Nouno's Gikebike X in Speed Power Gunbike uses them as a melee attack and dash attack.
• In StarCraft, Protoss Zealots wield Psychic Power-fueled energy swords called "Psi Blades". Dark Templar wield more powerful blades, but with a different power source, called "Warp Blades". They are even color-coded, similar to lightsabers; the standard Khalai/Daelaam Protoss use blue and yellow blades, the Nerazim (the Dark Templars' sect) use Void-powered green and purple blades, while — as revealed in Legacy of the Void — the very Sith-like Tal'darim have red blades. While most Protoss have to use arm-mounted projectors with built-in amplification crystals to create and project their blades, Expanded Universe novels imply that especially-powerful Protoss like Tassadar can create those at will without the use of amplifiers. Narud also displays the ability to form a crimson psi-blade without an emitter.
• Another, lesser known Capcom example is Hayato Kanzaki from Star Gladiator who wielded a laser blade weapon as well. Of course, people will remember more his inclusion in Marvel vs. Capcom 2. There are also other types of plasma weapons than just sword (which have different variations like broadsword and rapier) like rings, yo-yos, axes, maces and so forth.
• Star Ocean gave you light sabers called "Force Sword" (with a graphic nearly identical to the Star Wars version) as part of the plot; they were the only weapons that could harm the Big Bad.
• One weapon in Super Robot Wars is an enormous laser sword that makes no effort to stop its blade. The bloody thing is visible from space.
• In Star Trek Online, players can obtain variations of the Vulcan lirpa and a Klingon bat'leth that have beam blades. As well, a Nukara reputation weapon allows players to "catch" energy beams with their sword and turn it into a makeshift beam saber.
• The Cyphers from Strider are a mix of this and Hot Blade, as they cut through stuff like tanks by creating a blade of high-voltage, accelerated plasma.
  • The Rival Strider Hien's weapon is a Double Cypher who uses the same principle as a Laser Battle Boomerang.
• Some of the mecha in Sunrider use laser blades.
• The Beam Sword in the Super Smash Bros. series. In the first game it had a definite length, while in Melee it starts off short but extends when used to land strong attacks. And in the Japanese version, it actually used lightsaber sound effects. (In Brawl, the lightsaber sound effects came overseas as well.) Melee and Brawl also had the blade automatically scale to suit the wielder's size.
  • Some Mii Fighter costumes for Swordfighters also feature energy swords as part of their costume.
• System Shock and its sequel have the Laser Rapier, replete with "glowing" animation and constant droning noise (which gets irritating pretty quickly), but it has neither the power, the brightness, the sparks or the cut-everything-to-bits destructive capability of lightsabers. From the in-game description: The unit works by projecting a porous field of reflective material in a shaft shaped region around the base of the rapier. When the material is bent (as when the rapier strikes a target) the intense refracted light inside is released locally, causing intense burns to the target. Of course, the attack animation doesn't display this alleged local release of burning light which, surprisingly consistent with actual lasers, damages mechanical enemies more than biological ones. System Shock 2 also has the Cerebro-Energetic Extension psi power that temporarily generates a semi-transparent psi sword for you to use.
  • It's not technically a laser blade in the first, but just an Absurdly Sharp Blade: This energized lance projects a monofilament thread that is suspended in a contained energy field. Upon contact, the thread slices through organic and synthetic materials, permanently disabling most creatures and robots.
  • In the first, there wasn't much point to using anything else once you got it — so long as your batteries didn't run out, it'd happily chop through organics or robots alike, and when combined with the rollerskates turned you into a near-invincible juggernaut. It's nerfed significantly in the sequel, though: Not only does it do less damage,but it specializes in killing enemies that explode upon death, with predictable results.
• In Tales of Phantasia, by hunting a little in the sunken city of Thor, you can get Laser Blades for Cless to wield. If you happen to pick up extras, they sell for quite a price back in Medieval Stasis land. And if you're too lazy to hunt for them, they're storebought a bit later on.
  • You find it (and a Laser Shield) as a weapon for Zelos in Tales of Symphonia as well.
    • Kratos can wield that as well. And if you do have him rejoin you, he comes already equipped with one, rather than his flashy Flamberge. Unfortunately, he comes for a boss fight, and the laser blade is light elemental. Guess what the boss's Element is.
• The X-4 Battle Sabre from Take No Prisoners is a laser sword with a green blade, used by both the player and enemy mooks. You can swing it single-handedly; if your current firearm is single-handed too you can pull a Sword and Gun to shoot and stab at the same time.
• Stretching the definition of "blade" a little bit, Team Fortress 2's Invasion Update introduced one for the Scout known as the Batsaber. It's essentially a lightsaber in the shape of a baseball bat.
• Coinciding with his full transformation into a Cyborg since Tekken 3, Yoshimitsu's katana has been shown as glowing like a lightsaber. Official art and material explains it's just the evil energy stored in it that does the trick, thought.
• Terraria has six colors of Phaseblade, which can be upgraded to the Phasesaber, and make the classic lightsaber noises when swung.
• Touhou Project has Flandre Scarlet and her Lavaetein. It's supposedly made out of fire, but hey, this is a bullet hell shooter. It sure LOOKS like a Laser Blade.
  • In official art, its inactive form looks more like an oddly-shaped wand or whip.
  • Hinanawi Tenshi's Sword of Scarlet Thought also applies, at times.
• Trover Saves the Universe: Trover's weapon is basically a purple lightsaber.
• Kanon of Umineko: When They Cry busts out a laser blade in the fantasy scenes.
• Warframe has the Gram, a Tenno BFS which uses a blade made of plasma on each side of the weapon to cleanly slice enemies to bits. Its smaller brother, the Plasma Sword, functions pretty much identically (and originally, the Gram was just a giant version of the Plasma Sword). The "Ether" weapons (scythe, daggers, swords) use an Absurdly Sharp Blade made from plasma.
• Ultra V of War of the Monsters uses a laser katana in its short range special move.
• In the second Warriors Orochi game, Yoshitsune Minamoto has a special gauntlet that produces an energy blade. Said gauntlet and blade can even fire energy blades.
• Wizardry being full of Schizo Tech, the top sword of the last three games is the Light Sword — a Lightsabre that your warriors in full plate can wield.
• World of Warcraft has a few of those available to players. Among them the ridiculously rare, and thus disgustingly expensive, Teebu's Blazing Longsword. Many players probably don't even know this weapon exists. It's that rare.
  • A total of four of these exist in WoW — A red one, which is a rare world drop, a bright orange/pink one which is also a rare world drop, and two blue ones — one is a quest reward, the other has a chance to drop off a boss inside an instance. The blue ones can be enchanted with a fire enchant, which makes them glow purple.
  • At least one more was added in Cataclysm. This one is actually called a "Very Light Sabre", and is among the best weapons you can possibly get at the time of the quest... which is level 3 — and exclusive to gnome warriors. Each gnome class gets its own Star Wars Shout-Out, from the Death Star (rogue mace) and Staff of the Force (priest staff), to the decidedly more obscure Vibro Knife (warlock dagger) and Electro-Staff (mage staff).
    • There's also the Runeforging ability Death Knights get that can be used on swords, that while not making the swords in question in question true Laser Blades, they glow vividly just like real ones.
• One type of the standard enemies as well as one of the boses of the old arcade game Xain'd Sleena (aka: Solar Warrior) use laser blades (the former to attempt to impale your character with them). If they hit you, you are dead, no matter how much life you've remaining.
• XCOM Apocalypse has "plasma sword", one of Earth improvements over alien plasma weapons from the first game. When off it looks like a long and narrow serrated metal cone with a handle and a guard. When on it is engulfed by plasma. In game terms it is a plasma gun with very short range (1 square, sometimes 2 because of a bug) but unlimited ammo and highest damage. (Rockets and explosives do 2-4 times more damage, but the sword has higher fire rate.) Unfortunately they only appear in stores 1-2 weeks after the game starts and are always in short supply — by the time you get enough for the whole squad, you would already have armed them with captured heavy disruptors (10% weaker, but with unlimited range).
• Xenoblade Chronicles:
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 1:
    • The Monado is a particularly strange example. It looks like an odd BFS while inactive, but while active, the blade opens up to reveal an even bigger laser blade, capable of getting big enough to be wielded by the Bionis, a titan whose body makes up half the known world. Even when being wielded by Shulk, the blade is quite large, and the Monado Buster attack makes the blade extend to a truly ridiculous length for the duration of a single strike.
    • There are also more "mundane" laser blades courtesy of the Machina in the form of swords for Dunban and replicas of the Monado for Shulk.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 2:
    • Rex gets two: The weapon provided to him by his Blade Pyra is a hilt that produces a blade-shaped flame that works like a normal sword. Mythra, Pyra's other personality, gives him a Light-element version of the same, with a sword-shaped laser. Much later, when he unlocks the true power of the Aegis, Pyra and Mythra unlock their Pneuma form, with an even more powerful variant of the sword to go with it.
    • Malos eventually starts using a black laser sword once his core is finally repaired. His arts are variants of Shulk's Monado arts from the first game.
    • As it turns out, Malos and Pyra/Mythra are Logos and Pneuma, two parts of the Trinity Processor from Professor Klaus' experiment that destroyed old Earth; Ontos, the third processor, is implied to be Alvis from the first game, and the Monado his personal weapon.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3:
    • As is tradition in this series, The Hero gets a red laser blade. However, Noah's sword is actually just the sheathe to his real weapon, a simple katana that can cut through anything. Future Redeemed strongly implies that Noah's Blade contains both Pneuma and Logos' cores, explaining why it is so powerful.
    • In the prequel DLC, Rex returns decades after the second game. While he technically doesn't have Pyra and Mythra's swords any more, his Aionios-style Blade is a pair of swords called the Firelight Swords, which look almost identical to his old swords. He can even combine them into a stronger form.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles X has the Photon Saber weapon type, used by the Blast Fencer and Galactic Knight classes. Additionally, Skells have access to many varieties of beam weaponry; alongside regular laser swords, double sabers, ring blades, and beam scythes are all on the table.
• The Player's mecha, Jehuty, in the Zone of the Enders games have these, as well as Dolores from Dolores, i and Testament from The Fist of Mars.

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