Optic weaponry

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.

History

 * Optic lasers are Unicron's ranged weapon of choice in several continuities.

The Transformers cartoon

 * Optimus Prime possessed eye beams, using them in personal combat to knock Megatron off a cliff once.
 * Grimlock is equipped with eye beams in his beast mode.
 * Devastator has eye beams, which he can use to take out any Autobots he misses with his initial boulder-throwing.
 * Megatron has eye beams which he uses to scare off earth germs.
 * 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.
 * 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 Dr. Arkeville do their jobs.