Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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The plasma gun (also known as the plasma rifle in the game manuals, help screen and code comments) is a futuristic weapon with a segmented barrel, which fires blue and white bursts of plasma. It shares the player's stock of energy cells with the BFG9000 as a source of ammo.

The plasma gun first appears in a secret area of the very first level of the second episode, E2M1: Deimos Anomaly, and happens to appear in every level of The Shores of Hell, with the exception of the Tower of Babel level. It first appears in a non-secret area in the fifth level, E2M5: Command Center. When picked up, it contains the equivalent ammo of 2 cells (totalling 40 units of energy, or 80 on the "I'm too young to die" and "Nightmare!" skill levels).

"Plasma Rifles shoot multiple rounds of plasma energy - frying some demon butt!"

00:00 - Doom 1 & 2
00:46 - Doom 64
01:25 - Doom 3
01:44 - Doom 2016
03:08 - Doom Eternal
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