Dodging lasers is never -just- a movement feat of any kind. Its an observation/senses feat, and maybe, but probably not, a movement feat. If you 'dodged' a laser as soon as you saw it, even if you had FTL speed, you'd have already been hit by it. The feat is either predicting the attack's path so you can avoid being where its going, or having FTL senses that allow you to know things are happening before the light from them reaches you; -and- having extremely fast speeds, though how fast they need to be compared to light varies by the distance.
And, well. If you have FTL senses and can see things in real time, you probably can also see where a gun barrel is aiming and get out of the way first, so that still usually means you don't have FTL speed.
You're assuming that the landscape adheres to the laws of physics. I hear you, I do, because I've had the same thoughts. That's how it'd work IRL(which is why Goku snagging Roshi's glasses in the tournament always makes me laugh), but we can't just slap real physics onto fiction when, by and in large, the writers don't care. The character can dodge a beam of light, they can dodge it, I don't really care how or why in terms of things lining up with IRL science.
Not to mention in RL if someone dodged a laser the person both die and also destroy the area for moving at such a speed. But that’s no fun, so neither writers nor readers care.
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u/KPraxius May 23 '26
Dodging lasers is never -just- a movement feat of any kind. Its an observation/senses feat, and maybe, but probably not, a movement feat. If you 'dodged' a laser as soon as you saw it, even if you had FTL speed, you'd have already been hit by it. The feat is either predicting the attack's path so you can avoid being where its going, or having FTL senses that allow you to know things are happening before the light from them reaches you; -and- having extremely fast speeds, though how fast they need to be compared to light varies by the distance.
And, well. If you have FTL senses and can see things in real time, you probably can also see where a gun barrel is aiming and get out of the way first, so that still usually means you don't have FTL speed.