History Film / LazerTeam

''Lazer Team'' is a ScienceFiction action comedy film, and the first feature-length film by Creator/RoosterTeeth Productions. It premiered 24 September 2015 in Rooster Teeth's hometown of Austin, and stars Burnie Burns, Creator/GavinFree, Colton Dunn and Creator/MichaelJones.

The film was funded on Website/{{Indiegogo}}. The film's campaign, which lasted from June 6 to July 6, 2014, initially set a goal of $650,000, but their fans' support was great enough that it broke the site's record for quickest-funded film and reached one million dollars in only two days. They eventually raised $2,480,334, becoming Indiegogo's most successful fully-funded campaign for that time. ''Lazer Team''[='=]s campaign is still most successful film campaign on the site today.

!!Tropes regrading this film include:

* AffectionateParody: Of ScienceFiction movies, particularly ones from the eighties.

* GoLookAtTheDistraction: [[spoiler:Possessed Mindy]] brings food for the rest of the guys to distract them from her going after Zach (and his arm cannon).

* DeliciousDistraction: Combined with GoLookAtTheDistraction when Possessed!Mindy brings the team food so she can get at Zach's laser cannon.

* RagtagBunchofMisfits: Nobody on the team likes one another until the end.

*** The opposing football team was ''Ruby'' Lake High School. In addition, the RWBY VA's played the Ruby Lake cheerleaders.

* SmartPeopleSpeakTheQueensEnglish: Invoked as Woody slowly transitions from having a Southern redneck accent at the beginning of the film to a posh, British one after putting on the intelligence-strengthening helmet. They explain that the only reason this is happening is because Woody really believes in this trope.[[note]]Even funnier since Woody's actor, Gavin Free, actually is British, and is essentially speaking normally now and was putting on a FakeAmerican accent before.[[/note]]

* XtremeKoolLetterz: Laser isn’t spelled with a ‘Z’, unless you are these guys.

''Lazer Team'' is the first feature-length film by Creator/RoosterTeeth Productions. It is a sci-fi comedy which premiered 24 September 2015 in Rooster Teeth's hometown of Austin. It stars Burnie Burns, Creator/GavinFree, Colton Dunn and Creator/MichaelJones.

* CareerEndingInjury: Herman, "The Texas Tornado", was looking at a full ride scholarship as a running back when he took a hit that did permanent damage to his leg. [[spoiler:The hit came when "Half-Assed" Hagan missed a block, causing Herman to be very resentful towards Hagan.]]

* KilledMidSentence: [[spoiler:Franksen is zapped by his BrainwashedAndCrazy possessed friends right as he's saying he thought something bad was gonna happen, getting oblierated by a blast from their Worg-provided laser guns.]]

* Main/NoTimeToExplain: Parodied during a chase scene between Lazer Team and the Worg-Possessed Soldiers.

* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: Zack uses it throughout the film.

On August 5th, 2016, [[LazerTeam2 a sequel]] was announced, and its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1kbISReSpY&t=4s official trailer]] was released on November 3rd, 2017, announcing a release date of November 22nd, 2017.

On August 5th, 2016, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YohtQKGbzRc a sequel]] was announced, and its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1kbISReSpY&t=4s official trailer]] was released on November 3rd, 2017, announcing a release date of November 22nd, 2017.

The teaser trailer can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURMNR_J-ew here]] and the first official trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI455Z37o30 here.]] On August 5th, 2016, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YohtQKGbzRc a sequel]] was announced.

'''Scientist:''' Woody is a stupid person, and that's what stupid people think smart people sound like.

* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: One of the Antarians outright states that Lazer Team can't use the [[WaveMotionGun Dark Matter Ray]], not because that using it as separate pieces would kill them, but because it's not allowed.]]

* CombatByChampion: According to the Antarians, the only way for Earth to survive is for a single Champion to be trained and given a [[PoweredArmor Suit of Power]] to battle the Worg champion. [[spoiler:It turns out it's just an interstellar tournament set up by the Antarians, pitting other races against one another, giving each a Suit of Power and having their champions battle it out. The loser's planet is destroyed.]]

* CombatByChampion: According to the Antarians, the only way for Earth to survive is for a single Champion to be trained and given a [[PoweredArmor Suit of Power]]. [[spoiler:It turns out it's just an interstellar tournament set up by the Antarians, pitting other races against one another, giving each a Suit of Power and having their champions battle it out. The loser's planet is destroyed.]]

The teaser trailer can be seen [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURMNR_J-ew here]] and the first official trailer can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI455Z37o30 here]]. On August 5th, 2016, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YohtQKGbzRc a sequel]] was announced.

* [[InternationalShowdownByProxy Interplanetary Showdown By Proxy]]: The Worg plan to duel Earth's champion. [[spoiler: Whoever loses gets their planet destroyed.]]

* [[InternationalShowdownByProxy Interplanetary Showdown By Proxy]]: The Worg plan to duel Earth's champion. Winner gets Earth.

* [[spoiler: BloodSport: It is revealed that the Antarians have set up a tournament in which planets are tasked with choosing "champions" who must fight to the death for their amusement. The losing planets get destroyed.]]

* DawsonCasting: The official document concerning "six-year-senior" and high school quarterback Zach as seen in the film lists his birth year as 1996. Michael Jones was born in 1987.
** Likewise, Woody's birth year is seen as 1995. Creator/GavinFree was born in 1988.

* BigGood: The Antarians appear to be this, being that they went out of their way to warn humanity and give them the power they'd need to fight the Worg. [[spoiler: Subverted, however, as it turns out they're actually the ''BigBad''; they've set up a tournament for all the different populations in space where they force them to provide a champion to fight for the Antarian's amusement, with the losers having their planet destroyed. The Worg, though violent and brutish, and going out of their way to cheat, are only even fighting Earth because they need to in order to save their own planet.]]

* GentlemanAndAScholar: Woody post putting on the mental-strengthening helmet.

* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: The military project to prepare for the suit was ''Project Perseus'', because Perseus of legend was given a weapon, helmet, shield and boots. At the end [[spoiler:the project to go into space was ''Project Pegasus''.]]

* HumansAreMorons: When Zack considers turning themselves in to give the people protesting a chance to live, Herman notes that the protesters are idiots, noting one person who direly misspelled "apocalypse" on their poster (as "apockalips").

* InvisibilityCloak: The armor has a "Stealth Mode" activated through Woody's helmet that, when worn altogether, renders the wearer completely invisible. When worn separately, however, it only makes the individual suit pieces invisible, making it look like the members of the team have had their limbs (or their ''head'' in Woody's case) amputated.