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Incidentally, plasma weapons fire really hot gas this is different from lasers, which are light beams. It's also probably the main reason we're not likely to see realistic laser weapons in children's shows. Ironically, all of these characteristics make lasers far more effective as weapons than their portrayal in most fiction, which is in fact the main reason that the military is developing them in the first place. There are also electrolasers under development, which ionize the air so that electric current can be sent along the beam's path. It can also cause the water in the body to boil, expand and rip the surrounding tissues apart, much like a high velocity bullet impact. There's a common misconception that laser beams cauterize wounds, but real laser wounds are every bit as bloody as knife wounds. Not to mention that the heat from a powerful laser wouldn't just burn through clothing or make a neat, bloodless, pin-sized hole. Solid-state pulsed lasers are also in development, which fire bursts of energy and are lighter than fluid-based lasers, but harder to cool. These lasers are supposed to burn through targets (like missiles) and cause their fuel/warhead to explode or their airframe to disintegrate when it hits, although this is also a continuous beam and requires some time to work.
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There actually are "real lasers" in weapons research and development-like the Airborne Laser and THEL. In fact the usual "laser bolts" effect looks a lot more like machine gun fire using tracer bullets (which was even colored according to nation, as in Star Wars) and early writers' World War II experiences may have inspired the effect. They are merely stand-ins for "real" guns to appease media watchdogs, to establish a show as being futuristic, or simply applying the Rule of Cool.
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Most of the complaints about laser weapons not behaving like real lasers are because their primary function in TV are not to be realistic depictions of how real energy-based weapons would work. Finally, regardless of a laser's frequency and the medium it's shooting through, it will make futuristic zap noises and be visible (and glowy). Speaking of knockback, an Energy Weapon in fiction will always have knockback (which is usually okay) and recoil (which makes no sense at all), in spite of the fact that light has negligible momentum.
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Also don't expect the lasers to do more than make victims stumble backwards a few feet, unless of course the targets are inhuman or just really not all that important. Occasionally, it's explained by the dodger seeing the person aiming at them and going for the trigger, and moving in the split-second before they pull it. Thus, energy weapons move a lot slower than the speed of light (and a lot slower than bullets in the same show) and can be dodged after they are fired. So wouldn't you think a laser weapon would also (effectively) immediately hit the target? Logically, yes but this is TV, where Hollywood Science rules. This is because it's a laser and moves at the speed of light. When you turn on a Laser Sight, it immediately shows up on your target. The most prominent type of Ray Gun these days.