History EyeBeams / WesternAnimation

* ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The Girls have this as part of their stock of superhero powers.
** In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'', they have to fight a giant ant. In the same episode, Bubbles gets glasses. The ant is invincible until Bubbles' glasses amplify the beams, melting the ant in one shot. Blossom and Buttercup, who are in the line of fire, only get singed.
** Frequently this power is given various names in ''Powerpuff'' fanfiction -- laser eyes, eye lasers (which makes more sense), eyebeams, or optic blasts (if trying to sound fancy). In-universe, it's been called "laser vision", "heat ray", and "zappy eyes".
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': Starfire gets this power after she goes through alien puberty. Her older sister Blackfire has it from the start, having already gone through said puberty.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTrapDoor'': In "The Thingy", the monster can shoot a beam from its eyes that causes random transformations in its targets.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceStars'': Uglor, the BigBad, has this power.
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': Despite these being a common {{Super Robot|Genre}} power, few Transformers have these. The only examples that spring readily to mind are Dinobot, Waspinator, Terrorsaur, and the altered clone Dinobot, all from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. Only the two Dinobots used them frequently as Eye Beams were their only forms of ranged attack; Terrorsaur's only saw use in a handful of episodes, and Waspinator's only in the first episode and when he was trying to open Tigatron's stasis pod. Unicron fires off several eye beams in the 1986 movie. Notably, he fired beams from only one eye because Hot Rod had already crashed the Quintesson ship through his other eye.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids'': Zok, the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]].

* The power of the Pig Talisman in ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' is the ability to shoot heat beams from the user's eyes. In one episode, Jade notes that it's hard to accurately see when you're shooting beams from your eyes. In another, a character gets the talisman and accidentally [[BlindWithoutEm destroys his prescription sunglasses]].
** [[CallingYourAttacks HEAT BEAM EYE BLASTS!!!!]]
** The talisman also counts as a MundaneUtility, as its original owner used it to melt chocolate at his factory in Bavaria.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' episode "Buyers Beware", Freddy obtains this power from [[RadiationInducedSuperpowers drinking radioactive waste]].
* AffablyEvil Emperor Zurg from ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'' uses these apparently solely to look cool.
* Aku uses these frequently in ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''.
** In "Aku's Fairy Tales", Aku tells a version of "Little Red Riding Hood", making the protagonist into an amalgam of Little Red Riding Hood and himself.
--->'''Aku:''' The wolf attacked Little Red Hood, not knowing that Little Red Hood had... ''LASER EYE BEAMS!''
** When Aku attacks Jack in his dragon form, he uses both eye beams AND a mouth beam to combine them into ONE GIANT BEAM.

* In the short-lived ''WesternAnimation/RoadRovers'', one character, Exile, had both heat vision ''and'' freeze vision. One episode even showed him with night vision.

* The Walking Eye from ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''.
** Naturally, whatever JQ has, ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has to get too. But subverted, in that the one Venture built does not seem to actually shoot beams (or even ''work'', for that matter, other than being able to stand). He later attaches Helper's head to it.
-->'''Doc Venture:''' He just wants to give you a hug!
* [[HavingABlast Combustion Man]] from ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' doesn't quite perfectly fit this trope, but he fires his beams o' doom out of an eye tattoo over his sixth chakra, located close to the eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra''

** In the film-within-a-cartoon ''Nuk-Tuk, Hero of the South''. Cute little [[TeamPet Pabu]] of all creatures gets this ability. He can also talk, because he's Nuk-Tuk's sidekick.
* Danny Phantom and Vlad Plasmius from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''.
* Frylock from ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce''.
--> '''Oglethorpe:''' You prance around like you have laser eyes!
* Mighty Ray from ''WesternAnimation/Hero108'' has magical eyes that can shoot electrical beams upon partaking a [[PowerupFood banana]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', whenever Static discharges powerful enough electricity, he could shoot electric streams from his eyes, but it's only a side effect that he doesn't use to full effect, and just a visual cue showing just how much power/how pissed he is at the moment.

* XJ-9 has this ability in ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot''.
* WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers has this power... [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment though it's used only once]], to the surprise of the other characters, and not even Dodgers was aware he had that power.
-->'''Martian Queen''': I never knew you could shoot laser beams from your eyes!\\
'''Dodgers''': Well, there's a lot you don't know abou- ''laser whats out of my where?!''
* Lazzar's Guardian from ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM''.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'': Smaug's got a non-lethal version of this. When searching the room for the invisible Bilbo, Smaug's eyes shoot out spotlight-like beams.
* Music/WillieNelson defeated Tony Bennett on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'', when he took off his bandanna covering his ThirdEye to vaporize his opponent leaving everyone ''speechless''.
* The WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo Super Robot has this one. They can also be {{Freeze Ray}}s. [[{{Troperiffic}} As well as about every other Super Robot trope...]]
* Lazerette's main attack in ''WesternAnimation/SkysurferStrikeForce''.
* Ben from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' can transform into an alien named Eye Guy, who has laser eyes... just [[EyesDoNotBelongThere not on his head]].
** In ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]'', Ben can transform into a flying alien named Jetray, who can not only shoot lasers from his eyes, but also from his tail.

** In the episode "[[Recap/SouthParkS1E12MechaStreisand Mecha-Streisand]]", Leonard Maltin has this as his superpower. He can use it even when he's not Mecha-Maltin.
** In "[[Recap/SouthParkS12E11Pandemic2TheStartling Pandemic 2: The Startling]]", Craig turns out to have these when standing on a special column due to being TheChosenOne of an ancient Incan prophesy involving pan flutes and giant, man-eating guinea pigs. He uses them to defeat [[BigBad the evil Guinea Pirate]] while remaining [[TheStoic utterly uninterested]] in the whole thing. It's that kind of show. They show up again as Incan Craig's special ability in ''VideoGame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer''.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', the Monarch has eye beams that can encase an adversary in ice...according to Hank and Dean's courtroom testimony. They also claim to be able to join forces and transform into a Mecha-Shiva.
* [[WesternAnimation/TheGodzillaPowerHour Hanna-Barbera's version of Godzilla]] has eye lasers, in addition to his usual abilities. Probably because laser beams are easy to animate, but also because ExecutiveMeddling requested that Godzilla not use his BreathWeapon too much, because they thought it would influence kids to commit arson (yes, really!).

* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost''
** "The Space Ark". One of the Creature King's monsters is a giant bat that can fire energy beams from its eyes.
** "The Jungle Planet". The BigBad has eye beams that allow him to steal the mind of anyone he fires them at.
* Several creatures in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' have this power;
** Time Baby, a massive, time-devouring monster in the form of an infant who will rule the world in the distant future, has this power.
** Bill Cipher, the triangular dream demon, has this power, though he can shoot lasers from his fingertips as well.
** Octavia, the mutant, multi-legged cow from the short, "[[Recap/GravityFallsMabelsScrapbook Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo]]", does this so that it can eat a freshly roasted hawk.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "Star Comes to Earth", Star shows off the power of her magic wand by summoning a herd of adorable puppies with laser eyes.
** Ms. Heinous[[spoiler:/Meteora]] gains this ability later on to [[YourSoulIsMine suck out souls]].
* Quack Quack the duck from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' has the power to shine both light beams and laser beams from his eyes.
* Ace Bunny of the ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' has "laser vision" according to the show's intro. Strangely, Ace's beams don't burn or cut like a laser, but tend to be concussive instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. the Monorail]]", Mr. Burns' act of hiding toxic waste in a tree is shown to have mutated a squirrel, giving it glowing teal laser eyes that it uses to cut down a hanging acorn.
* This is the form ComicBook/GhostRider's infamous Penance Stare takes in the classic ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFourTheAnimatedSeries'' episode when they fight Galactus. It succeeds in one-shotting the incredibly powerful villain without Ghost Rider even having to get off his bike.
* White Diamond from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is able to shoot white rays of light from her eyes. When a Gem is hit by these beams, it bleaches their bodies grayscale and assimilates them into extensions of herself, making them "perfect" (by her standards, anyway). Even these extensions of herself are able to do this, with White Diamond [[spoiler:launching a full assault on Pink Steven using herself, Yellow Diamond, Blue Diamond, her Pearl, Garnet, Amethyst and Pearl all at once]].
* ''WesternAnimation/OscarAndFriends'': In "A Dog's Life", a gnome (Oscar's family's garden gnome come to life) uses these to zap Bugsy, which turns him into a dog.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'': Shagon of the Knights of Destruction can fire green beams of energy from the eyes of his mask.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pibby}}'': The trailer briefly shows the unnamed superhero character firing lasers from his eyes to (ineffectually) fight the EldritchAbomination antagonist.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JamiesGotTentacles'', Jamie has the ability to shoot lasers from his eyes as seen in a few episodes including "The Attack Of The Mutant Mosquitos" and "Eye Contact 2.0".
* ''WesternAnimation/HamsterAndGretel'': One of Gretel's (and, presumably, Hamster's, though he's never demonstrated it) superpowers.

** Octavia, the mutant, multi-legged cow from the short, "[[Recap/GravityFallsMabelsScrapbook Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo]]", does this so that it can eat a freshly roasted hawk. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs This... this show is weird, we know.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': The Girls have this as part of their stock of superhero powers.
** In one episode they had to fight a Giant Ant. In the same episode, Bubbles got glasses. The ant was invincible until Bubbles' glasses amplified the beams, melting the ant in one shot. Blossom and Buttercup, who were in the line of fire, only got singed.
** Frequently this power is given various names in Powerpuff fanfiction -- laser eyes, eye lasers (which makes more sense), eyebeams, or optic blasts (if trying to sound fancy). In-universe, it's been called "laser vision," "heat ray," and "zappy eyes."

-->'''Doc Venture:''' He just wants to give you a hug!!!

* Mighty Ray from ''{{WesternAnimation/Hero 108}}'' has magical eyes that can shoot electrical beams upon partaking a [[PowerupFood banana]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', the first terrifying example of the Giant containing weaponry comes in this form. [[spoiler:Even the Giant wasn't consciously aware he had them.]]

* WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls have this as part of their stock of superhero powers.

** Frequently this power is given various names in Powerpuff fanfiction - laser eyes, eye lasers (which makes more sense), eyebeams, or optic blasts (if trying to sound fancy). In-universe, it's been called "laser vision," "heat ray," and "zappy eyes."
* Starfire, from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', gets this power after she goes through alien puberty.
** And before that, her older sister Blackfire had it, having already gone through said puberty.
* Uglor, the BigBad of Creator/HannaBarbera's ''WesternAnimation/SpaceStars'', has this power.
* Despite these being a common {{Super Robot|Genre}} power, few Franchise/{{Transformers}} have these. The only examples that spring readily to mind are Dinobot, Waspinator, Terrorsaur, and the altered clone Dinobot, all from ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars''. Only the two Dinobots used them frequently as Eye Beams were their only forms of ranged attack; Terrorsaur's only saw use in a handful of episodes, and Waspinator's only in the first episode and when he was trying to open Tigatron's stasis pod.
** Unicron fired off several eye beams in the 1986 movie. Notably, he fired beams from only one eye because Hot Rod had already crashed the Quintesson ship through his other eye.
* Zok, the [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] from ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids''.
* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents''. When Timmy wishes for his parents to have superpowers, his mother gets Heat Vision, while his father gets ''Meat'' Vision, the ability to shoot meat with his eyes. Timmy himself has heat vision courtesy of a prior wish, but [[IdiotHero forgets it most of the time]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. the Monorail]]", Mr. Burns' act of hiding toxic waste in a tree is shown to have mutated a squirrel, giving it glowing teal laser eyes that it uses to cut down a hanging acorn.

** In the episode "Mecha-Streisand", Leonard Maltin has this as his superpower. He can use it even when he's not Mecha-Maltin.
** In "Pandemic 2: The Startling", Craig turns out to have these when standing on a special column due to being TheChosenOne of an ancient Incan prophesy involving pan flutes and giant, man-eating guinea pigs. He uses them to defeat [[BigBad the evil Guinea Pirate]] while remaining [[TheStoic utterly uninterested]] in the whole thing. It's that kind of show. They show up again as Incan Craig's special ability in ''VideoGame/SouthParkPhoneDestroyer''.
** In Season 14's Coon & Friends Trilogy, Kyle's Superhero Alter-Ego, [[HumanAliens the Human Kite]], is known for shooting lasers out of his eyes, since according to him, kite aliens are known for this ability. It's even part of his powers in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', with his main ability "Laser Burn" and his [[LimitBreak Ultimate Power Move]] "Wrath of Kite".

** Octavia, the mutant, multi-legged cow from the short, "Mabel's Scrapbook: Petting Zoo", does this so it can eat a freshly-roasted hawk. [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs This... this show is weird, I know.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In the episode "Marge vs. the Monorail", Mr. Burns' act of hiding toxic waste in a tree is shown to have mutated a squirrel, giving it glowing teal laser eyes that it uses to cut down a hanging acorn.

* ''Young Samson & Goliath''. When Samson's dog Goliath is changed into his giant lion form, he can fire power beams from his eyes to destroy things.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' episode "Buyers Beware", Freddy obtains this power from [[ILoveNuclearPower drinking radioactive waste]].

* This is the form ComicBook/GhostRider's infamous Penance Stare takes in the classic ''WesternAnimation/FantasticFour'' episode when they fight Galactus. It succeeds in one-shotting the incredibly powerful villain without Ghost Rider even having to get off his bike.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MegaMan'' episode "Curse of the Lion Men", the leader of the Lion Men, Tar, has eye beams. Instead of causing damage, they transform humans into more Lion Men that become loyal to him.
* XJ-9 has this ability in WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot.

** In ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien Ultimate Alien'', Ben can transform into a flying alien named Jetray, who can not only shoot lasers from his eyes, but also from his tail.

* Starfire, from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', gets this power after she goes through alien puberty.