u/Ok-Average6023

This is just for fun. How could we create actual laser-eyes using realistic science and future technology? The eyeball(s) itself should remain organic, though cybernetic assistance (like visors or minor implants) are allowed. Genetic engineering is also allowed.

Or something like goggles warn on eyes. I’m talking tech in the range modern like now with all resources put towards it

Is laser vision only realistic if the laser comes from the eye region, not from the biological eye itself? Would the most plausible design be a remote laser source carried elsewhere on the body, feeding light through fiber optics to a small emitter in a prosthetic/orbital eye area? That keeps the dangerous power and heat away from fragile eye tissue?

Would high-power visible laser diodes need multiwatt electrical input? Like producing too much heat, requiring optics larger and tougher than a tiny eye implant can comfortably support, and is current eye tracking is not accurate enough for look at a tiny thing and burn it targeting?

Would biological versions also fail? The eye cannot naturally act as a laser cavity, and engineered bioluminescence could maybe make “glowing eyes,” but not a coherent, collimated, damaging laser beam.

My proposal, let me know if it would work:

My Proposal for a Realistic Laser Eye Vision
The visor-aperture system is the true lethal version of “laser eye vision.”
The public description says the beam comes from the eyes. The visor apertures are the final beam-director outlets for a compact high-energy laser architecture distributed through the torso, spine rail, helmet, and cooling system.
The visor aims it.
The suit powers it.
The cooling system decides how long it can continue.

Basic architecture
The system is built as a layered directed-energy platform.
The visible apertures sit in the visor, aligned over the eyes so that the weapon appears gaze-driven. Behind the smoked faceplate are two reinforced optical windows, micro-gimbaled beam directors, shutters, sacrificial filters, range sensors, thermal sensors, and adaptive focusing elements.
The actual laser generation happens away from the face.
The high-output modules sit in the torso and upper backplate because that is where the system can carry power electronics, pump modules, thermal mass, coolant routing, vibration isolation, and armored shielding. The face is not the engine. It is the outlet.
The beam is routed upward through armored fiber and optical channels along the spine rail and neck collar. At the helmet, the beam enters the visor assembly, where the aperture system shapes, gates, and points it.
The human gaze supplies intent.
The helmet supplies final aim.
The platform supplies violence.

Why the visor matters
Bare-eyed laser fire is useful for intimidation, close-range burning, camera destruction, and symbolic executions. It feels personal because it appears to come directly from the face.
The visor system is different.
The visor can carry larger optics, stronger shutters, better thermal isolation, better sensor fusion, and better protection from backscatter. That makes it the preferred configuration for sustained or high-output firing.
A bare ocular port can threaten a person.
A visor aperture can fight a vehicle, drone, barricade, sensor mast, aircraft skin, hardened door seam, or clustered infantry position.
The visor also protects the operator from his own weapon. A high-energy laser without protective optics and shutters would be extremely dangerous to the operator’s face and eyes. The helmet treats the face as a protected optical compartment, not exposed tissue.

Medium-power visor mode
Medium-power fire is the most frequently used combat setting because it is fast, frightening, and less thermally expensive than full burn.
In this mode, the visor apertures emit short, controlled pulses rather than a long continuous beam. The pulse train can be adjusted for target type: dazzle, sensor kill, skin burn, polymer scorching, fabric ignition, lens cracking, optic overload, electronic housing damage, or anti-personnel pain compliance.
Medium-power mode can blind cameras, burn exposed skin, ignite light fabric or paper, destroy drone optics, melt plastic housings, damage weapon sights, cut cable insulation, scorch tires and seals, crack cheap glass, disable microphones and sensors, and force humans to move, duck, scatter, or freeze.
It is not always the clean red line seen in propaganda footage. In clear air, the beam may be almost invisible until it hits a surface. In smoke, rain, dust, mist, or vaporized target material, scattering makes it appear as a bright line. That is why field footage looks more supernatural in bad weather even when performance is worse.
Medium mode is also where the operator can fire quickly from face tracking. He looks, the system confirms range and hazard, the aperture twitches, and a pulse lands. To observers, it feels like being punished by eye contact.

High-power visor mode
High-power fire is not used casually.
This is the lethal battlefield setting. It draws from the main backplate batteries, thoracic buffers, and coolant reserve. The medical-combat manager monitors cardiac load, thermal load, battery draw, ocular heat, helmet temperature, target reflection risk, and structural stress before permitting sustained firing.
High-power mode can burn through light cover, cut exposed metal edges, disable vehicles, destroy armored cameras, rupture tires, ignite vulnerable materials under favorable conditions, breach thin doors, burn through drone bodies, damage aircraft control surfaces, kill exposed personnel, and force hard cover to become temporary cover.
The weapon’s effectiveness depends on dwell time. A laser does not strike like a bullet. It places energy on a spot until heat accumulates. Against soft material, optics, electronics, or thin surfaces, the dwell can be brief. Against wet, reflective, ceramic, thick, or moving targets, the beam needs more time, repeated pulses, or a more vulnerable target point.
This is why realistic doctrine favors seams and systems over heroic center-mass carving. The preferred targets are eyes, cameras, tires, antennas, optic ports, weapon sights, exposed joints, door gaps, cable runs, coolant lines, fuel lines, hands, and control surfaces.
The beam is not used like a sword.
It is used like a surgeon with a hatred problem.

Beam generation
The most plausible source is a compact solid-state or fiber-laser architecture distributed through the suit.
The suit spreads the power modules across the torso and back. It routes heat into phase-change sinks, liquid cooling, armor mass, and disposable thermal cartridges. The helmet is used for final beam control, not full generation. The visor is therefore not a flashlight; it is the exit wound of a larger machine.
At high output, multiple laser channels can be combined before reaching the visor. The operator does not fire “one eye beam.” He fires a combined, conditioned, shuttered beam package split through two facial apertures for aim, redundancy, and myth.

Beam director and targeting
The visor aperture is not a hole.
It is a beam director.
Each side contains an armored optical window, fast safety shutter, micro-gimbaled mirror assembly, adaptive focusing lens, rangefinder, thermal sensor, backscatter monitor, reflection-risk detector, alignment calibration markers, and sacrificial protective layers.
The beam director corrects for tiny movements of the head, target motion, vibration, air distortion, and operator tremor.
In combat, the system does not simply fire wherever the operator’s pupils point. It fuses gaze direction, helmet orientation, range data, target tracking, inertial measurement, and safety permissions.
The operator chooses.
The helmet interprets.
The beam director commits.
That distinction is why the system can be terrifyingly precise when stable and dangerously unreliable when desynchronized.

Adaptive optics
At longer range or in turbulent air, the visor system uses adaptive correction to keep the beam focused. It cannot defeat all weather, but it can tighten the spot, adjust focus, and compensate for moderate distortion.
This is why the beam sometimes appears to “snap” into brightness after a fraction of a second. The first part of the firing event is ranging and correction. The lethal portion follows when the system has a usable solution.
If the air is too dirty, the visor reduces power or shifts to pulsed mode.
If rain is heavy, the beam blooms and scatters.
If smoke is dense, the system burns the smoke and wastes energy before reaching the target.
If glass or mirrored material is present, safety logic becomes conservative unless overridden.

Thermal blooming and atmosphere
High-power lasers do not travel through the world untouched.
Air absorbs some energy. Heated air changes refractive index. That distorts and defocuses the beam. This is thermal blooming: the beam damages its own pathway by heating the medium it travels through.
For visor laser vision, thermal blooming is one of the main limits on dramatic long beams.
In clean, cool air, the system can hold tighter.
In humid, smoky, dusty, rainy, or hot urban air, the beam loses quality faster.
That means the weapon performs best at close to medium range, against exposed vulnerable points, with short bursts.
The more cinematic the beam looks, the more energy it is probably wasting in the air.
The perfect visible red line is mostly propaganda.
The real weapon is a stuttering, sensor-driven thermal event.

Cooling
Cooling is the real leash.
Every firing event creates waste heat in the power electronics, gain medium, fiber channels, helmet optics, shutters, and aperture windows.
The system handles this through liquid microchannel cooling, phase-change thermal sinks, helmet heat spreaders, backplate radiators, thermal cartridges, armor heat dumping, coolant routing through the spine rail, and computer-controlled firing limits.
The visor apertures heat fastest because they sit at the exit point. Their optical windows must survive high irradiance, backscatter, debris, rain flash-boil, and shock. If an aperture window heats unevenly, the beam distorts. If the shutter heats too much, it can warp or seize. If coolant pressure drops, the system gates down output.

Power draw
High-power laser vision drains the platform.
Medium pulses can be supported by local buffers and short battery draws. High-power firing pulls from the main spine batteries, thoracic buffers, and sometimes reserve packs. The power architecture must satisfy the laser, beam control, cooling pumps, sensor fusion, and actuator stabilization at the same time.
This creates tactical tradeoffs.
If the laser fires hard, mobility suffers.
If stealth is active, laser runtime drops.
If the suit is overheated, laser output gates down.
If reserve packs are isolated, full-output firing becomes unavailable.
If emergency heel reserves are the only remaining power source, the visor may allow only a weak emergency pulse or none at all.
The myth says wrath is infinite.
The engineering file says battery state: critical.

Safety shutters
The system therefore uses multiple shutter layers: source shutter, fiber-route shutter, helmet gate, aperture shutter, ocular protection shutter, and emergency mechanical block.

Reflection and backscatter
This system hates reflective rooms.
White marble, wet floors, glass walls, polished metal, camera lenses, jewelry, mirrored fixtures, armored visors, and surgical steel all complicate firing. A laser can reflect, scatter, refract, or create hazardous backscatter depending on surface, angle, wavelength, coating, and contamination.
A stable operator can override some restrictions.
A destabilized system cannot.
Reflective clutter does not make the operator safe. It makes the weapon uncertain. And uncertainty is exactly what high-power safety logic is designed to punish.

Helmet modes
The visor apertures have several field modes.
Dazzle mode blinds cameras, overwhelms optics, and forces sensor shutdown. It is low-to-medium output and often used before physical assault.
Pain/compliance mode burns skin surface, heats clothing, or produces near-miss thermal shock without immediate structural destruction.
Scoring mode marks, cuts, or weakens soft materials, wires, seals, polymer housings, straps, exposed joints, and vehicle components.
Breach mode uses higher output and longer dwell to damage doors, barriers, drone frames, vehicle panels, or fortified glass.
Kill mode places lethal thermal load on exposed tissue or critical equipment.
Sweep mode is psychologically dramatic but technically inefficient. It is used for terror, crowd control, and propaganda, not ideal lethality.
Pulse-stack mode fires repeated short pulses at the same point to reduce overheating at the aperture while accumulating heat on the target.
Dual-aperture convergence mode aligns both visor outlets onto one point for maximum local heating.
Split-track mode lets each aperture engage separate nearby targets at reduced power, useful against cameras or drones.
Each mode costs heat, power, and optical risk differently.

Why two apertures
The twin visor apertures exist for more than symbolism.
They provide redundancy if one side is damaged, stereo range alignment, psychological “eye” framing, dual-beam convergence, split-target engagement, lower heat per aperture in divided mode, faster retargeting across close angles, and backup low-output firing if one optical path shutters.
When both apertures converge, the beam effect appears brighter and more continuous. When they split, observers may see two separate flickers rather than one clean line.
The human brain reads the geometry as eyes.
That is intentional.
A weapon mounted on the forehead would be more honest.
A weapon mounted behind the eyes creates worship.

Summary assessment
Realistic laser eye vision as a compact, distributed directed-energy weapon.
Its essentials are torso/backplate laser generation, spine and neck optical routing, helmet beam directors, visor apertures, adaptive optics, fast shutters, range and thermal sensors, large power draw, aggressive cooling, authorization logic, and strict failure behavior.
High power is a short-burst battlefield weapon.

He calls himself a God in Thunderbolts: The New Avengers. And this was before the Void was able to takeover his body via the kill switch.

So I have a question, is Bob/Sentry after receiving those powers a narcissist with a God-complex. Like so even his “good” side is very imperfect even if he’s not a villain?

I hope they build on that and don’t forget about it as it would be dumb to go from “Why would a god take orders from a human” to being a non-complex non nuanced individual of just pure good side vs pure evil.

Like so many reasons for him to pursue immortality — preserve his guidance and intellect for the world — keep it on the path and they need corrections type shi.

Given his insane bio-engineering skills, and what we have seen him do, I think it is incredibly possible for him to either obtain immortality or massively lengthen his lifespan/slow aging process to halt.

Who would win in a fight (and is prep time vs no prep time the key distinction?

Two scenarios:

Aunt Gladys moves in near Vought tower, she catches Homelander’s attention quickly because she appears in a dream and gives him milk. He goes there and then immediately a fight breaks out.

Aunt Gladys prepares long before actively astral projecting into Homelander’s psychie and prepares for the eventual struggle between the two.

Aunt Gladys

Blood-magic mind control — can take direct control of victims through ritual objects, hair, blood, and her thorny tree/branches; once activated, victims become remote-controlled weapons
Remote domination through personal items
Human weaponization — controlled victims can be made violently aggressive and seemingly tireless, attacking until she stops the spell
Puppet-master control over groups — she can keep multiple victims in a trance-like, lifeless state and command them like puppets
Life-force drainin
Supernatural longevity
Memory/social manipulation - not necessarily powerful in term of being outside the human realm of powers, but a strong manipulator who can assume roles despite her bizarre appearance
Occult object activation — for her her powers run through a physical anchor like branches, the downside is someone else could use this against her.
Extreme intimidation and coercive control — she has been show to be strong in threatening and blackmailing

Lack of Foresight — she is not the smartest strategist and not great and foreseeing threats to her power
Frail human build — normal human build of a elderly person despite being a powerful manipulating force wielding person
Apparent lack of modern terminology awareness or internet research skills — will refer to things like tuberculosis as consumption despite the fact that with basic research you would know that is a weird red flag to say to people

Homelander

Flight
Super strength
Enhanced durability / near-invulnerability
Super speed / faster movement and reactions
Laser / heat vision
X-ray vision — can’t see through zinc
Super hearing
Enhanced senses — sight, hearing, etc.
Enhanced vocal cords / voice projection
Heightened stamina
Accelerated healing / better recovery

Extreme mental health issues
Lack of real combat skills outside of powers
Lack of foresight — he does not see obvious threats in many cases (despite being credible) when needed