Light saber or Laser Sword?

[LeonShi500 155]

I read a couple of star wars books and played some of the games when I was younger. Lightsabers were sometimes referred to as laser swords, sometimes as an insult, sometimes because of a lack of knowledge.

[Oblivion 20,266]

Hell yeah! Light saber of course, cause, well, they are awesome!

 

[El Duderino 878]

Well, there is nothing wrong with either, but I use light saber because I think it has a nicer ring to it. If it is called a laser sword, then I will call it that, but if it is not specified...

 

....then STAR WARS! PEW PEW PEW! 

Edited January 16, 2016 by El Duderino

[Celtore 2,769]

I was about to go with a light saber until I realized that I could have Zero's awesome Z-Saber instead. So yeah, laser sword!

[AccountNoLongerUsed 741]

Energy Sword/ Plasma Sword

[Scrubbed user 3,415]

Light saber sounds much cooler.

[VengefulStrudel 1,486]

If it's a Lightsaber, I call it a Lightsaber. If it's a laser weapon, be it sword, axe, mace, hammer or whatever, I call it a laser weapon. Same for things like energy, plasma, beam, magic weapons, etc.

 

Though, calling a Lightsaber a laser sword, or a laser sword a Lightsaber, just feels and sounds really weird to me.

[cider float 2,536]

It doesn't really matter to me but wasn't Star Wars the first to have made laser swords and everything that came after is more or less inspired by Star Wars?

[The Dark Knight 0]

You don't know power of the dark side 

[GuerrierCosmique 146]

In the Star Wars universe, theor official name (both in-universe and in the real world) is "lightsaber", but "laser sword" can be used also. In other franchises, these things are just "glowing swords", for example, Frodo's sword in LOTR.

Edited January 16, 2016 by Space Warrior

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,447]

Light Saber all the way. :3 Light Sabers are badass and Light Swords sounds like a cheap knock off to me. XD 

 

Light Swords from the movie Space Wars. 

[TePineer 82]

Lightsaber. I'm a massive fan of star wars and lasersword just sounds like what a 5-year old kid here in sweden would call them.

 

"Lasersvärd"

[Rainbow Cloud 16,892]

I use Lightsaber for both lightsabers in Star Wars and anything else that looks like a lightsaber outside of Star Wars.

[Steel Accord 6,658]

Die hard Star Wars fan so lightsaber is what I think of but I make it a point to NOT refer to any similar weapon in another property simply because a lightsaber isn't just "a laser sword" it's a key part of the Jedi's identity. It's just as much a badge of office as a weapon, even Jedi who favor diplomacy and eschew combat altogether have them. Building one's lightsaber is a key part in becoming a Jedi.

 

(Skip to 0:56)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR7C1VeGq-M

It doesn't really matter to me but wasn't Star Wars the first to have made laser swords and everything that came after is more or less inspired by Star Wars?

 

Well "laser swords" predated Star Wars but you are not entirely wrong. Star Wars was the "trope codifier" if not the "trope maker."

@@Lithophila, believe it or not, they actually call a light saber a laser sword in the dreaded awful Phantom Menace

 

Well because not everyone in the Galaxy was that intimately familiar with the Jedi even at their height, especially on a backwater like Tatooine. (Side note: ironic that Tatooine could be described in anyway associated with water.) It's like how if you see a Sikh with his dagger hanging from his belt, most would call it a dagger or knife where not as many would know it's actual name is a kirpan.

I can only assume its a better term for it, considering lasers burn. And since there exists some powerful lasers that can have strong enough power to burn. Or in science fiction it slices off with one touch though.

 

Well keep in mind, both blaster and lightsabers are not "lasers" they both work by superheated plasma. Consider that blaster bolts can be tracked by sight, if they were lasers, they would travel at light speed obviously.

 

 

Hell yeah! Light saber of course, cause, well, they are awesome! 

 

 

Ugh I hate that video.   They aren't Jedi anything, just douchebags with inexplicably powerful connections to the Force. 

Edited January 19, 2016 by Steel Accord

[vampireponyprince 184]

Light saber definitely grew up watching starwars so yeahhhh

[Invincible 2,090]

Laser swords is the general term i'd use too. Light sabers is what i'd use for the star-wars type of laser swords.

[Thermonuclear Kitten 70]

I Like to call them "High-Density Light Emitting Diode Handles"

[SilyGeny 369]

Weapon.

 

boom end of the world xD.

 

Nah I actually call them light sabers, because Star Wars.

[[NULL] 906]

I'll usually call it a Lightsaber or sometimes a Not Lightsaber.

[Telferi 6,906]

Hmm, in hungarian, that's "lézerkard" and that means laser sword. But in english i usually say lightsaber.

[cmarston1 5,953]

Lightsaber when only specifically referring to Starwars and Laser Sword anywhere else.

[cider float 2,536]

Light... saber.... aren't sabers swords that are curved?

 

Lightrapier would of made more sense. 

Edited January 26, 2016 by cider float

[Ponies4Bronies 394]

I say light saber because if I say lazer sword people would look at me like I have 7 heads.

[best poni 1,518]

Light saber because laser sword is just sad...

[Denim&Venöm 16,710]

Beam Sabers, bruh. Sounds more technical. Cause it technically is a beam of energy. And cause of this:

 

Edited January 27, 2016 by Denim&Venom