History Main / LaserHallway

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

* A strange example in ''Franchise/StarWars Episode I: Film/ThePhantomMenace''. "[[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Laser_gate Laser Gates]]" that turn on and off at intervals, but achieving the same purpose; breaking up the party so the bad guy can kill the mentor in single combat. Of course, as they were in the middle of a duel and not at all concerned about setting off alarms, there was absolutely no reason they couldn't use their lightsabers on the ''[[CuttingTheKnot emitters]].''

* Chapter 30 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaWaKokurasetai'' opens with [[NinjaMaid Hayasaka]] dodging lasers to break into the student council room in the middle of the night and swap out [[MustHaveCaffeine Shirogane's]] personal supply of coffee beans for decaf. Why a ''high school'' of all places would have laser security isn't really specified (even if it is a school for rich kids), so it can probably be chalked up to RuleOfFunny.

* ''Film/UnderTenFlags'' (1960) had a British spy breaking the German naval codes out of a safe guarded by invisible beams (he put on infra-red goggles). Rather ironic when you realise the codes were actually obtained by the [[BoringButPractical less glamorous but methodical method]] of Ultra cryptography (still classified at the time the movie was made).

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' episode "Dime Enough for Luck", Magica De Spell tricks Gladstone Gander into stealing Scrooge's Number One Dime. The dime is guarded by an impressive set of moving lasers that he bypasses because he has unusually good luck.

* An episode of the short-lived 80's TV show ''The Master'' had John and Max have to navigate one of these.

** A "Resident Evil room" (The developers call it that and a poster for it appears a room or so back) appears in ''VideoGame/TheNamelessMod'' as part of the labyrinth created by the insane Shadowcode. Interestingly enough, the lasers are triggered ''only'' by your body. You don't even need a mirror - just take a box and block the beam creating a safe passway. Huh.

* Lasers also appear in the original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' and the gameboy version as well. They trigger an alert when broken (or in one case in MGS, [[GasChamber flood the area with poison gas]]).

* On ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'', Uncle Grandpa and company end up accidently breaking into a bank vault scattered with lasers while looking for a treasure. They end thinking it's a ''dance rave''.

[[caption-width-right:350: Limbo lower now! How low can you go?]]]]

* The ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' series features some Morph Ball tunnels with lasers, hallways with [[EyeBeam eye-like structures that shoot lasers]], and in ''Prime 2'', a regular laser hallway (though with not many lasers). ''Prime 3'' has a single corridor wired with invisible lasers, designed to teach the player to use their shiny new X-ray visor to look for traps like this.

* Robin and Red X both overcome a tangle of lasers that are protecting a Xenothium vault when Robin goes after whoever was in the Red X suit in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.

* In the opening caper of the Korean heist movie ''The Thieves'', a member of the gang (posing as a PerpSweating mother) gains access to the laser-guarded vault beforehand (under the pretext of ensuring her future son-in-law has sufficient money) and leaves some chewing gum on the laser projector as she walks out. The chewing gum falls off before they've completed the theft, but fortunately the 'mother' and her 'daughter' don't have to stolen artifact on them when they're searched, having already passed it on to another member of the gang.

* The most improbable laser hallway ever, as well as the most improbable method of moving through a laser hallway ever, appeared in ''Film/OceansTwelve'', in the lobby of a museum. Not only were there about two dozen beams, they were moving, and moreover, their movement was ''randomized'', which means there's no way to predict how and where to move through them. [[spoiler:Nonetheless, the French jewel thief extraordinaire (the Night Fox) makes it through.]]

* Chapter 30 of ''Manga/KaguyaSamaWaKokurasetai'' opens with [[NinjaMaid Hayasaka]] dodging lasers to break into the student council room in the middle of the night and swap out [[MustHaveCaffeine Shirogane's]] personal supply of coffee beans for decaf. Why a ''high school'' of all places would have laser security isn't really specified (even if it is a school for rich kids) so it can probably be chalked up to RuleOfFunny.

Real security systems don't even use lasers. A much more reliable and accurate method for detecting intruders is a standard thermal motion detector or sonar-driven door sensor. Also, non-coherent infrared beam detectors can be used, like the kind of system in your TV remote or under your garage door, for much less money.

* One features in the second episode of ''Anime/AngelBeats'', likely as a {{Homage}} to ''Film/ResidentEvil''. The group is trapped in a locked corridor and have to dodge the increasingly complicated laser patterns. [[spoiler: Matsushita]] ends up sliced into pieces, but of course, DeathIsCheap here and he revives soon after, although his clothes are shredded.

** 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.
** In episode five, [[spoiler: Mimi]] now hides out in a Buddhist temple that comes with a "laser cage" consisting of vertical [[FrickinLaserBeams laser beams]] to trap intruders and leave them open to [[FiveRoundsRapid fire]] by her army of [[ChurchMilitant nuns with guns]]. Since it's designed to contain rather than detect, the beams are spaced at a small distance from each other.

** A laser hallway was used as a security measure in one episode of New Who. [[spoiler: The Doctor got through it by sonic screwdriver hacking; his force-grown cloned daughter, arriving late, had to resort to SheFu gymnastics.]]

* Done in the third series ''Series/RobinHood''. [[spoiler: Protecting a fake crown. With ''strings'' tripping arrows]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'': If you mention the Laser Trap in [[spoiler: Xibalba]] first, that's what you'll encounter. You will encounter it later anyway even if you didn't choose it.

* In Creator/TelltaleGames' ''VideoGame/HectorBadgeOfCarnage'' you break into the backroom of a sex shop only to find one of those in your path. You get through it by [[spoiler: flipping the switch located right by the entrance to turn off the lasers]]. Hector is way too fat to squeeze through the gaps in the laser grid.

* ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': Parodied when the team has to break into the NTSF database mainframe, which is protected by a single laser beam. Piper changes into a SpyCatsuit and does a full minute of gyrations and stripper poses around the laser before she gets past it. Her two colleagues just casually hop over it with one step.

* ''Series/{{NTSFSDSUV}}'': Parodied when the team has to break into the NSTF database mainframe, which is protected by a single laser beam. Piper changes into a SpyCatsuit and does a full minute of gyrations and stripper poses around the laser before she gets past it. Her two colleagues just casually hop over it with one step.

* As a potential {{shoutout}} to [[VideoGame/MegaMan2 Quick Man's stage]], ''VideoGame/AngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'' has timed instant-death rays in the "Future Fuckballs 2010" and "Laughin' Jokin' Numbnuts" stages.

* Averted in ''Anime/NewGetterRobo'': in the second episode some people pass through laser sensors that weren't visible to them ([[RuleOfPerception only to the audience from an angle where they were practically pointed at the camera]]) and were aimed in five different angles, making it so it'd be all but impossible to get past them even if you could see them.

* An episode of ''Series/SpacePrecinct2040'' had a laser trap inside a bomb. The laser was shown by firing a fire extinguisher not-directly-at the bomb in question.

It was pretty offensive they would invoke at ''least'' 4 of the worst tropes in fiction in what is supposed to be a convention-smashing ground-breaking series, including EverythingIsOnline and PacmanFever, which you would assume would be eradicated in early drafts when your target audience -- to the point that people far enough outside it are ''unable to even gain access to view your show'' -- is Internet-savvy computer geniuses.