History Main / ReflectingLaser

* There's a weapon in the ArtemisFowl series that does this. If I recall correctly, it was described as firing a shot that "[[LogicBomb bounces around until it hits something]]."

* In [[TheCulture Culture]] novel ''TheCulture/ConsiderPhlebas'' by IainMBanks, the {{Ragtag Bunch of Misfits}} attack a thoroughly moss and vegetation encrusted building. Once the greenery has been roasted off, it turns out that it is built from crystalline prisms and they end up burning and blinding each other with refracted laser fire. Roast by their own petard...

* Used in the original ''{{Strider}}'' game.

* One of EI-01 (Pasdar)'s attacks in ''{{GaoGaiGar}}'' was a laser than could reflect off particles in the air to hit the heroes from multiple angles. In ''[=GaoGaiGar=] FINAL'', [=TenRyuJin=] copies the attack, using missiles to scatter hundreds of reflective (and apparently ''refractive'') mirrors, then calculating the angles on the fly to strike the enemy from multiple angles at once. (Pasdar had Tokyo's electrical output and computing power to make this all work - [=TenRyuJin=] gripes about how hard the calculations are when she does it.)

* A similar weapon shows up in the {{Gundam}} series, wherein beams are fired at a remote I-Field projector and reflected towards their intended target. There must have been some problems with the practicality (or morality, or legality) of this, as it's mostly only the [[ZetaGundam Psycho Gundam]] [[GundamZZ Mk. II]] that does this in the TV series. There, the Mk. II fires off Reflector Bits and fires its own mounted beam cannons at them.
** The [[GundamSentinel Ex-Superior Gundam]] has a similar trick, except it uses Reflector Incoms and its Beam Smartgun.

* One of EI-01 (Pasdar)'s attacks in ''{{GaoGaiGar}}'' was a laser than could reflect off particles in the air to hit the heroes from multiple angles. In ''[=GaoGaiGar=] FINAL'', [=TenRyuJin=] copies the attack, using missiles to scatter hundreds of reflective (and apparently ''refractive'') mirrors, then calculating the angles on the fly to strike the enemy from multiple angles at once.
** ''GGG'' has one of these on Volfogg's spaceship Susanoh. It fires one gigantic beam from the top of the ship and uses a remote-controlled mirror array to aim it.

* The final boss of [=T260G's=] chapter in SagaFrontier does this with its ultimate attack, Carnage, which fires several lasers that bounce off the monitors in the background several times before blasting the player's entire team.

We're all aware that lasers [[LightAndMirrorsPuzzle reflect off mirrors]]. But some writers and {{videogame}} creators apparently think that lasers can reflect off ''any'' flat surface. These bright flashing streams of light - or sometimes, PureEnergy - can hit anything from a stone ceiling to a grass-covered field and rebound at the same angle at which they hit.

* The classic puzzle game ''Deflektor'' is completely based on using mirrors to control the paths of laser beams. The beams don't reflect from just any surface, however.
* The ''RType'' series! Perhaps its most memorable weapon besides the [[WaveMotionGun huge laser you could charge up]].

* Cyclops of the ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' is pretty much the MostTriumphantExample. While his beam is an "optic blast of concussive force" and not a laser, it still bounces pretty well. He has a super-human spatial awareness that helps him pull this off (as well as making him a great pilot [[MundaneUtility and pool player]]).

A SubTrope of RayGun. See also PinballProjectile. Related to MirrorsReflectEverything.

A SubTrope of RayGun. See also PinballProjectile.

** And to a lesser extent, the Ray Arrow in ''MegamanX6'', although it always rebounds at a 90 degree angle.

* Shou of TouhouProject has an extremely weird version of this. Her lasers curve and weave in all directions, despite there being nothing at all to reflect them. Not even a flat surface. Her lasers are just curvy like that.

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[[TropeNamer Named after]] the weapon in the ''{{R-Type}}'' series.

* In ''Consider Phlebas'', by [[TheCulture Iain M Banks]], the {{Ragtag Bunch of Misfits}} attack a thoroughly moss and vegetation encrusted building. Once the greenery has been roasted off, it turns out that it is built from crystalline prisms and they end up burning and blinding each other with refracted laser fire.

In video games, , they will also be the [[FrickinLaserBeams "slow" variety of laser]], so that the player can watch them bounce off each surface in turn, and dodge them just as they rebound toward him. If the player has access to the weapon, expect several {{Trick Shot Puzzle}}s whereby the player has to bounce a single shot off a series of surfaces to hit a distant switch or enemy.