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What's better than having a laser? How about 50 bazillion of them? Beam spam embodies the idea that quantity has a quality all its own. Rather than impressing the audience with a demonstration of just how powerful the Wave Motion Gun is, you instead break their brains with an insane amount of energy rays spewing out of the same source. The key word here is beam SPAM. Roboteching is a frequent way of getting more lasers to fit on screen by allowing them to come out from more places than just the front of the vessel. Examples of Beam Spam include:

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  • What's better than having a laser? How about 50 bazillion of them? Beam spam embodies the idea that quantity has a quality all its own. Rather than impressing the audience with a demonstration of just how powerful the Wave Motion Gun is, you instead break their brains with an insane amount of energy rays spewing out of the same source. The key word here is beam SPAM. Roboteching is a frequent way of getting more lasers to fit on screen by allowing them to come out from more places than just the front of the vessel. Examples of Beam Spam include:
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  • What's better than having a laser? How about 50 bazillion of them? Beam spam embodies the idea that quantity has a quality all its own. Rather than impressing the audience with a demonstration of just how powerful the Wave Motion Gun is, you instead break their brains with an insane amount of energy rays spewing out of the same source. The key word here is beam SPAM. Roboteching is a frequent way of getting more lasers to fit on screen by allowing them to come out from more places than just the front of the vessel. This is common in ship-to-ship space combat, but you'll also frequently find this trope in shows with Hermetic Magic or Humongous Mecha. When Beam Spam is magical in origin, you'll almost always see the barrage emanating from the sides and back of the character before Roboteching towards the target(s). A subtrope of Spam Attack. compare More Dakka (bullets), Bullet Hell (bullets to avoid), and Macross Missile Massacre (missiles). Contrast Wave Motion Gun, Kamehame Hadoken and Blasting Time. Examples of Beam Spam include:
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