This is false. This does not satisfy the fourth requirement, which reads:
- It is stated to be composed/consisting of photons or light itself, again by a reliable source
The fourth requirement has a condition about reliability of said statement, and DT himself said on that CRT that a statement such as "beam of light" should be looked on a case-by-case basis and not taken as gospel.
Our standards already take into account that the attack is a "light beam" before it even needs to fulfill the requirements:
- Therefore, lasers/light beams are only accepted as real if they meet, at a minimum, a few of these criteria:
The fourth requirement would be useless if we already assumed the "light beam" to be made of real light. We don't. That's why we have the fourth requirement in place.
A valid case of this would be something like a scientist explaining an attack in detail: "this energy attack is a beam of light and yada yada more info".
A character who has a history of adding flair to his language is not a reliable source, especially when he delivers the statement in a symbolic way such as "a villain shall die by a hero's beam of light" which is not really a matter-of-fact statement that can be relied upon in regards to the composition of the attack (villains are linked to darkness, heroes propagate light, "villain shall die by hero's light", the guy says "headbutt of justice", the issue is obvious here).
Honestly, this discussion should not have continued for 4 pages. This is just trying to skirt the standards based on the flimsiest reasons which ignore basic issues.