DEW

This specifically shows them using the weapons on animals or someones pets. as well as from helicopters: Its from the following episode aired back in 1985: https://gijoe.fandom.com/wiki/Cobra%27s_Creatures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvXml1WsZGg  

https://spaceghost.fandom.com/wiki/Zorak_(Space_Ghost_episode) Invisible, Matter(Energy) Weapon Ray (Antimatter?) Stun Ray (Watch/Wrist Weapon)   From the episode the antimatter man   https://antimattermatrix.blogspot.com/2026/09/space-ghost-antimatter-man.htm               

  One_Last_Hope youtube.com/watch   One of the characters is clearly and Archon via his elongated skull  https://powerrangers.fandom.com/wiki/Elgar He references satellites in the video when using the laser, what this means is they are trying to say the laser (DEW) is coming from a satellite here you can see them shooting the beam down to the surface similar to the batman beyond example here: https://dewmap.blogspot.com/2026/09/batman-beyond-2000-satellite-weapon.html

From the Film in 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Beyond:_Return_of_the_Joker   https://dcau.fandom.com/wiki/Hyperion-class_Satellite "...a military satellite...Joker proceeded to hijack the satellite as his first act...to utilize the satellite...to eliminate him as a loose end, also...to ensure that he stayed ...Joker failed largely due to the new Batman's intervention. Joker later activated the satellite again, this time to attack Batman's vehicle while it was trying to track down the Jolly Jack Candy Factory...He later reactivated it, with his planning to use the satellite's onboard weapons systems to detonate Wayne Manor, and later Gotham General and the McGinnis house by carving a smiley face onto the city.  However, he ultimately failed due to Batman and Ace, with the satellite, due to the satellite hijacker being damaged during the fighting, proceeding to blow up the satellite hijacker with its laser, freeing it from Joker's control. Being a mili...

If you narrow it down specifically to screen-based, moving-image media (like film, television, or animation), then the 1941 short The Mad Scientist was Superman’s absolute debut on a screen.   To break down: The First Movie/Film: It was his first time being captured on celluloid film and projected for an audience. The First Animation: It beat any live-action film serials (which didn't arrive until Columbia Pictures released the Kirk Alyn Superman serial in 1948 ).   The First Television Broadcasts: While the short was made for theaters, these Fleischer Studios cartoons later became Superman's first exposure on television screens when they were syndicated to local TV stations in the 1950s. So if we look past the radio waves and the live stage performance at the World's Fair, The Mad Scientist is the true genesis of Superman as a visual, moving-image character. The first episode is about a scientist using a directed energy weapon.    Refers to it as "Electroth...

See Full episode breakdown: https://disclosuredots.blogspot.com/2025/12/jonny-quest-episode-1-mystery-of-lizard.html   It starts off with a directed energy weapon blowing up a boat: 5 years after this Jonny Quest episode, Hannah Barbera's other show Scooby Doo also featured a DEW: A nearby boat crew notices the attack and attempts to call in the coast guard — the pirate lizard men board immediately, subdue the witnesses, abandon ship, and destroy the vessel with the DEW a second time — eliminating any evidence: #Coverup #Nowitnesses #Mercenary #Reptoid > Interestingly this takes place very close to Cuba — the same region where directed energy weapons went ma...