Optic weaponry

I shoot what I sees.

Opticsmake up a mechanoid's sense of sight, feeding video data to their other systems. However, many mechanoids enhance these structures by installing optional weapons systems. Common examples include beam or particle weaponry, especially lasers. In these cases a robot can quite literally shoot what it sees.

Fiction

Photon Beam!!

• Optic lasers areUnicron's ranged weapon of choice in several continuities.The Transformers: The MovieOn the Edge of Extinction!Predacons RisingOur Finest

MarvelThe Transformerscomics

• Upon arriving onEarth,Laserbeakboasted about his optical lasers.The TransformersHe got a chance to show them off when theDecepticonsneeded to intimidate their prisonerSparkplug Witwicky.Prisoner of War!He would later use them to freeMegatronandSoundwavefrom the wreckage ofGalvatron's super-weapon.Target: 2006
• The Decepticon who beat up Outbackhad optic lasers, whichOptimus Primefound out the hard way....The Harder They Die!
• The firstNucleon guardianused optic beams while trying to keepGrimlockaway fromNucleon.The Pri¢e of Life!
• Megadeathcould fire laser beams out of each of his three eyes.The Magnificent Six!

The Transformerscartoon

• Optimus Primepossessed eye beams, using them in personal combat to knockMegatronoff a cliff once.Divide and Conquer
• Grimlockis equipped with eye beams in hisbeast mode.S.O.S. Dinobots
• Devastatorhas eye beams, which he can use to take out anyAutobotshe misses with his initial boulder-throwing.The Core
• Megatronhas eye beams which he uses to scare offearth germs.The Autobot Run
• Laserbeakcontained optic lasers in his eyes, using them to both spy on theAutobotsandrain death upon them. He used them to blast a window ofShawn Berger's office, allowing him to take the corpulent businessman to theDecepticons.Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1Laserbeak also used them to open doors and potholes while inNew York.Bear in mind that Laserbeak doesn't have fingers, so he can't ring the doorbell.City of Steel
• Trypticonhas the power to take control of weaker-minded Transformers with hypno-beams fired from his eyes. But usually, he's content to just squash his prey like bugs and letBombshellandMindwipedo their jobs.

Beast Warscartoon

• Several Predacons have optic weaponry which they used at least once during the duration of the show.
  • Waspinator-Eye-Lasers^[1]Beast Wars (Part 1)
  • Terrorsaur-Heat Beam^[2]A Better Mousetrap
  • Dinobot'sCybertronic Beam^[3]appeared to be tied to his ownenergonsupply, making them potentially risky to use for too long. Indeed, Dinobot exhausted the last of his energy to destroy theGolden Diskwith his eye beams, sacrificing his life.Code of Hero
  • Dinobot II-Proton Beam^[4]

2001Robots in Disguisecartoon

• Side Burnused an "optical laser strike!" attack to collapse a hill on whichPredaconswere standing.Bullet Train to the RescueThis was the only instance in which Side Burn used this skill.
  Side Burn's seemingly new ability was the result of aFox Kidsedit to the series, in which the original footage ofOptimus Primeshooting his Blizzard Storm attack at the Predacons was deemed too confusing, as it was just a shot of water blasting from nowhere, and was replaced with an out-of-context clip taken from Side Burn'sstock footagetransformation sequence.

DreamwaveGeneration Onecontinuity

• Birdbrain'sPretendershell could fire laser beams from its optics.Birdbrain'sMore than Meets the Eyeprofile

Titan movie comics

• Megatronused optic beams onOptimus Prime.Twilight's Last Gleaming, Part: 5

2015Robots in Disguisecartoon

• Crustacionpossessed "optic blasters" to supplement hisDinobot-tier strength.Defrosted

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