History Main / HardLight

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rollbots}}'', Botch has a Hard Light GrapplingHookPistol.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpidermanAcrossTheSpiderverse'' has Miguel O'Hara, who is not like the majority of the Spider-Society, Miguel's suit and webbing are hard light constructs, providing him a measure of versatility the others lack. The suit can shift to create blades, claws, and a wingsuit, and the webbing isn't affected by outside forces in the same way physical webbing is (for example, strong winds and gravity). Unfortunately for him, it also means Miles can drain his suit away through physical contact, which he can't do with the other Spiders.

** The [[{{Precursors}} Forerunners]] were quite fond of using hard light; examples in the [[VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved first game]] alone include the Index (which can exist in a physical form that can be handled by ordinary organics, but can also be downloaded by [=AIs=] like Cortana and Guilty Spark and stored as electronic data), as well as ''light bridges''.
** The Heretic Leader in ''VideoGame/Halo2'' has holograms that ''can wield weapons and be hit by projectiles''; the prevailing theory is that those were Forerunner devices given to him by [[spoiler:343 Guilty Spark]].

** Its prevalence is justified as well: Forerunners have mastered harnessing unimaginably vast amounts of vacuum energy, to the point that energy is no longer just something to make their (undoubtedly highly consumptive) machines work, it's now one of their most useful and common ''building materials''. And that it's so durable that Cortana was able to immediately erect a shield of Hard Light around Master Chief to protect him after he had manually detonated '''''A NUCLEAR WARHEAD'''''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** It may seem like it would be so in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'', but it isn't: Laser weapons have no [[WreakingHavok kill impulse]] in their impacts, or any force upon inanimate objects.

* Canal in Anime/LostUniverse is a projection personifying the Swordbreaker. She is described as holographic and changes forms at will, winks out when out of range of the projector, etc., but is nonetheless able to manipulate solid objects.

* The Boscis in ''Webcomic/{{Banished}}!'' take pride in their Hard Light technology, which is indistinguishable from an ordinary person, er, bird. Except, of course, they can't be attacked.