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* ''VideoGame/MissionImpossibleKonami'' has you descend through a laser grid to reach a computer terminal, just like in the [[Film/MissionImpossible1996 first movie]].

* ''VideoGame/WildArms4'': Garra de Leon features two hallways filled with several increasingly more complex rotating lasers grids. Touching one makes Jude recoil in pain, and also activates the alarm, somehow sending you back to the entrance of the room. Forunately, you can abuse Jude's SuperSpeed (that [[BulletTime slows down time]] gameplay-wise) to get past them.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' one of these appears, somewhat [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys peculiarly]], in the genetics labs at Empire State University, to deter theft of the "ooze." This doesn't stop the Black Cat from trying, however.

* Used and mocked in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' when Doctor Girlfriend and Henchmen 21 try to go to the Monarch after Dr. Killenger becomes his new right hand man. A hallway has laser tripwires, and Doctor Girlfriend nimbly flips and weaves through them all. Henchmen 21 tries, and just trips into a lot of them from the start setting off an alarm (nothing deadly, just sirens). Doctor Girlfriend then just opens a secret hallway to where the Monarch is and leaves 21 behind.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon has to dodge through a laser hallway about halfway through the game -- which is actually a nod to the movie. This happens again in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvilTheUmbrellaChronicles'' when Chris and Jill infiltrate an Umbrella base at the end of the game. Another one in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'' incorporates a LightAndMirrorsPuzzle.

** In episode one, Rin uses cigarette smoke to reveal the lasers in an [[AirVentPassageway air vent]]. She then tries to sneak through, but unfortunately [[spoiler:her butt trips the alarm]]. HilarityEnsues immediately followed by Squick.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' features these from time to time. Team Rocket usually has some kind of [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual special eyewear]] so they can see and evade them.

** The episode "Double Date" sees ComicBook/{{Huntress}} use an aerosol spray to reveal lasers in Mandragora's home. She simply vaults and flips through them.

* In ''LightNovel/FateZero'', Kayneth claims an entire hotel floor as his base and laces it with an absurd number of traps and wards. So Kiritsugu levels the entire building instead.

* In ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'', this trope is combined with [[spoiler:a BoobBasedGag]] to comical effect. After much careful sidestepping, eventually [[spoiler:Tsukimura Mayu's breast obscures one of the (sensory-only) beams and sets off the security response]].

* ''LightNovel/NinjaSlayer'': In Episode 9. Slayer and Nancy Lee both infiltrate a Yoroshisan facility in order to gather intel on the Soukaiya, but are stopped on their tracks by a deadly laser-filled hallway that's steadily closing in on them. Utilizing her advanced hacking skills, Nancy manages to diffuse them on time before things get messy.

* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuestIV'' has one of these; you have to use cigarette smoke to see the lasers so you can adjust them to let you pass safely.
** The first game had a laser fence that you had to disable by reflecting the beams with a piece of glass.

* The alarm type appears in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' at the end of one level. The visibility can be justified by the player being a vampire with super senses, the fact that they are arranged so that they can be crouched under or jumped over can't.
** The deadly type appears later on. Justified in their impracticality as being specifically designed to test the survival skills of vampires.

Whenever there's a security system in place, there's always a highly visible laser sensor grid with man-sized holes in it. The infiltrator must then use cunning acrobatics or clever trickery to navigate around the lasers to reach the target on the other side. Or, if he's Series/{{MacGyver|1985}}, he can rig up a cunning system of mirrors to deflect the lasers around himself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheMagicRoundabout'', a laser hallway stands between Dougal and his allies and the second diamond. While Ermintrude tries to get past the lasers, Dougal accidentally trips one of them with his chewed gobstopper, forcing the gang to fight the skeletons guarding the diamond instead.

* It appears an Intel ad for their I5 processor, featuring the ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'' penguins trying to steal said processor.

* In ''LightNovel/GoodLuckNinomiyaKun'', this trope is combined with [[spoiler:[[GagBoobs gag boobs]]]] to comical effect. After much careful sidestepping, eventually [[spoiler:Tsukimura Mayu's breast obscures one of the (sensory-only) beams and sets off the security response]].

** ''Film/ResidentEvilTheFinalChapter'' has Alice returning to the hallway from the first movie and fighting the BigBad there ''while it's operating''. The scene is entirely RuleOfCool as there are angled beams so they can do a NonchalantDodge and the inescapable grid never appears.

* A lethal version shows up in the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series.

** In "[[Recap/TotalDramaCantHelpFallingInLouvre Can't Help Falling in Louvre]]", the last piece Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot needs to put the Venus de Milo back together is behind a wall of red lasers. Tyler knocks himself out by accidentally running into the regular wall next to it, leaving only Noah as a reliable bet to get through the laser wall. Though he burns his shoe, he gets the job done.