Optic weaponry

I shoot what I sees.

Optics make 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

• Optic lasers are Unicron's ranged weapon of choice in several continuities. The Transformers: The Movie On the Edge of Extinction!

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the UK-only comic stories are in italics.

• The Decepticon who beat up Outback had optic lasers, which Optimus Prime found out the hard way. ...The Harder They Die!
• The first Nucleon guardian used optic beams while trying to keep Grimlock away from Nucleon. The Pri¢e of Life!
• Megadeath could fire laser beams out of each of his three eyes. The Magnificent Six!

The Transformers cartoon

• Optimus Prime possessed eye beams, using them in personal combat to knock Megatron off a cliff once. Divide and Conquer
• Grimlock is equipped with eye beams in his beast mode. S.O.S. Dinobots
• Devastator has eye beams, which he can use to take out any Autobots he misses with his initial boulder-throwing. The Core
• Megatron has eye beams which he uses to scare off earth germs. The Autobot Run
• Laserbeak contained optic lasers in his eyes, using them to both spy on the Autobots and rain death upon them. He used them to blast a window of Shawn Berger's office, allowing him to take the corpulent businessman to the Decepticons. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1 Laserbeak also used them to open doors and potholes while in New York. Bear in mind that Laserbeak doesn't have fingers, so he can't ring the doorbell. City of Steel
• Trypticon has 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 let Bombshell and Mindwipe do their jobs.

Beast Wars cartoon

• It seems that almost all Predacons have optic weaponry which they used at least once during the duration of the show.
  • Waspinator - Eye-Lasers Beast Wars (Part 1)
  • Terrorsaur - Heat Beam A Better Mousetrap
  • Scorponok
  • Dinobot's Cybertronic Beam appeared to be tied to his own energon supply, making them potentially risky to use for too long. Indeed, Dinobot exhausted the last of his energy to destroy the Golden Disk with his eye beams, sacrificing his life. Code of Hero
  • Dinobot II - Proton Beam

2001 Robots in Disguise cartoon

• Side Burn used an "optical laser strike!" attack to collapse a hill on which Predacons were standing. Bullet Train to the Rescue This was the only instance in which Side Burn used this skill.
  Sideburn's seemingly new ability was the result of a Fox Kids edit to the series, in which the original footage of Optimus Prime shooting missiles at the Predacons was deemed too potentially violent and was replaced with an out-of-context clip taken from Side Burn's stock footage transformation sequence.