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Frivolous Summoning
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When someone tells you they'll be there if you need them, they generally have something specific in mind. But with somebody at your beck and call, it can be hard to resist the temptation to call them when they're not actually needed. This can be either supernatural (such as through a Summoning Ritual) or mundane (such as through a signal or phone call), and the reasons for doing it can range from laziness to pettiness to stupidity. In either case, done too much, the summoned person-turned-Beleaguered Assistant may eventually refuse to help anymore. May then become a Crying Wolf situation when a real need to summon them arises. Often a form of Mundane Utility. Compare Inconvenient Summons, for when it happens where the summoned person is already busy, and Wasteful Wishing, which can overlap. |
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In the Sherlock episode "The Sign of Three", Sherlock texts Lestrade for "help". The latter assumes the worst because of the unusual way of contacting and the messages' briefness and leaves an important crime scene in haste while also ordering "maximum backup". Apparently, Sherlock only needed some help while preparing for Watson's wedding which he didn't care to elaborate in his text to Lestrade, as when he arrives at Baker Street, this dialog ensues: | |
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The Simpsons: Done by Bart in a deleted scene of "Treehouse of Horror IV", as shown in "138th Episode Spectacular". While Homer awaits for his trial in Hell, Bart acts like he's planning to make a Deal with the Devil... just to mess with the devil. | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, this is subverted. After Drizz'l summons Lich and the two begin arguing, Lich protests that he wasn't summoned to argue semantics with an elf, and compares it to summoning a demon to get help with homework. The subversion comes in as Drizz'l actually summoned Lich to kill the other Dark Warriors and just got sidetracked. | |
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Batman Forever: Chase Meridian switches on the Bat Signal to tell Batman that Two-Face's coin is his Achilles' Heel, and having made this Captain Obvious statement, starts hitting on him. Batman realises that Chase just wanted an excuse to chat, and tells her, "You called me here for this? The Bat-Signal is not a beeper." | |
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Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, Dungeon Master's Guide: One of the possible items on a Necklace of Prayer Beads is the Bead of Summons, which allows the wearer to summon their deity. If the wearer doesn't have a good reason for summoning them, the deity will take the Necklace as the least punishment for doing so. | |
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What the Fuck Is Wrong with You? likes to remind you that "911 is not customer service" when a story pops up in their queue along the lines of, say, people calling 999 to complain that UK KFC restaurants had run out of chicken. On a similar theme of significant over-escalation, they also have the phrase, "A gun is not a remote control for life", for when people pull and brandish weapons over incredibly trivial matters. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-3061-1 is an Eldritch Abomination summoned through a ritual that involves killing at least three people and several animals, then offers whatever the summoner desires in exchange for a heavy price. A man named Paul ████ summons it and is asked to sacrifice one of his children. Paul ████ not only accepts immediately, but he offers his other child as well to sweeten the deal, and asks if he needs to go wake them up. Upon seeing him be that callous, as well as finding out it was all just to pay off his bills, SCP-3061-1 refuses to have any part in it. | |
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DuckTales (2017): When Gizmoduck teams up with Mark Beaks to become Waddleduck, rather than acting as an actual hero, Beaks has him respond directly to Waddle user requests, leading him to be summoned for things like parallel parking a car, providing relationship counseling, and feeding Louie grapes. | |
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The Order of the Stick: The Big Bad Xykon has his Dragon summon a dead Mook's spirit with Necromancy to tell him where to find his keys. | |
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Rusty and Co.: Discussed in Level 9's Critical Missives, where Derek explains the ethics of scrying and why people with the gift of a Seer need to avoid abusing their powers to Mimic, with the next panel showing a girl accidentally summoning an Eldritch Abomination because she wanted to know whether or not she passed an exam. | |
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Erma: In this strip, Amy performs a Bloody Mary-like ritual to summon Erma...so she could ask to borrow Erma's class notes. | |
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Children of the Nameless: Miss Highwater is one of the most infamous succubi in existence, a skilled manipulator and seductress who has previously brought down nations by targeting the right people at the right time. Davriel summons her to be his accountant. While initially she's extremely annoyed that he's wasting her talents, it turns out that he looked over all her old demonic contracts and realized how her Exact Words and Loophole Abuse screwed over all her previous masters. She is touched that he genuinely (and correctly) thought she'd be great at dealing with his paperwork. | |
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged: In the "The Christmas Tree of Might", Krillin summons Shenron because he wants to wish for a Christmas tree instead of restoring the burned forest. This pushes Shenron over the edge, and he grants the wish by directing Turles and his evil tree to Earth in retaliation. In "The World's Strongest", Dr. Kochin spends 50 years gathering the Dragon Balls, magical stones that can grant any wish, to summon the Eternal Dragon Shenron... to melt the ice off his front door. Shenron suggests Kochin wish to gain the power to melt the ice himself, in case it happens again, but eventually grants the wish anyway out of frustration.note It was more justified in the original material, where the lab was buried under ice in a location where the ice was so innately dense and strong that even Piccolo making an effort against it could barely damage it. During the Namek saga, Super Kami Guru at one point suggests using the Dragon Balls to wish for a new TV, but Nail talks him out of it. |
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The Powerpuff Girls: A Running Gag throughout the series involves the Mayor just wanting help with his Impossible Pickle Jar. In the episode "Too Pooped To Puff", the town becomes exceedingly dependent on the girls to solve all of their problems, and they've had enough. |
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Big Hero 6: The Series: In the episode "Mayor for a Day", Richardson Mole, who won the titular position, begins to abuse the Big Hero 6 emergency helpline to summon them for autographs, playing with action figures, moving a mini-fridge, appearing on his podcast, and giving him a massage. When they get fed up and start ignoring him, he teams up with the episode's villains for revenge. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st Edition, Dungeon Master's Guide: One of the possible items on a Necklace of Prayer Beads is the Bead of Summons, which allows the wearer to summon their deity. If the wearer doesn't have a good reason for summoning them, the deity will take the Necklace as the least punishment for doing so. Priest's Spell Compendium Volume 1. The Council of Spirits spell allows a shaman to summon an entire group of spirits to debate important issues. If the issues the spirits are asked to resolve are routine, petty, or personal in nature, the spirits may punish the shaman for wasting their time. |
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Superman: In an old Superman comic book◊, Lois Lane summons Superman with her signal watch so he can help her with the loose heel of one of her shoes. | |
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In the third episode of AFK Arena: Just Esperia Things, with all other options being exhausted, Niru uses a ritual to speak to Qaedam — inventor of necromancy and lord of the undead — to help with his son Daimon's math homework. Qaedam is furious at this because not only was he being called over something so silly, but he was powerless to help his own son with the exact same assignment. | |
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Little Princess: In "What's Wrong with Gilbert?", the Princess demands her parents call an ambulance because her teddy bear Gilbert's leg has fallen off. The doctor is a friend of the Princess's parents, so she agrees to fix Gilbert. | |
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The Violet Room: Myde comes across a stand where some kids sell handmade bracelets and stuff in exchange for doing something scary. After thinking about it, he decides to summon one of his Dancer Nobodies and has it fetch a bracelet. After they get over their initial shock, the kids LOVE it. Later on, he orders them to carry some books. | |
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Pretty much the whole point of The Summoning, which revolves around Witch Girl Claire attempting dark rituals to summon demons for notably mundane tasks. The animated short has her summon a white, jagged-faced blob creature named Scaroar for the purpose of "eliminating some scum from [her] life forever". This is quite literal: She wants it to clean her bathroom. To be fair, this does at least seem to be the demon's purpose. | |
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Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): Kazuya summons demons to make them do basic domestic chores, like cleaning or shopping. The different demons have different opinions on this; some like the work while others take Exact Words to the next level to get back at him. | |
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Harley Quinn: In "You're a Damn Good Cop, Jim Gordon", Commissioner Gordon starts using the Bat Signal to summon Batman for petty things like hanging out and talking about his failing marriage. Batman gets fed up and confiscates the signal. | |
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Belzebubs: In one flashback strip, Lilith and Leviathan summoned a demon on Halloween just to ask him for candy. He is not happy, but Lilith notices his breath smells like Skittles so he reluctantly gives them some candy anyway. In another strip, the family is playing Scrabble and Lucyfer plays the extremely long name of a demon Sløth has never heard of, and doesn't think exists. Lucyfer summons the demon right then and there just to prove he's real. |
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Fairy Tail: Back in the past when Lucy was little, she was given Aquarius's key and would often summon her just to have a playmate, to Aquarius's annoyance. This is the reason why she's usually so belligerent to Lucy in the present time of the story whenever she's summoned, as Aquarius held a bit of a grudge for it, despite Lucy having long grown out of her childish mentality. Lucy ends up taking a quest to help a town that needs water as their central fountain has been broken. Lucy summons Aquarius to fill in by having Aquarius stand in the middle of the broken fountain and using her urn to produce water until the town has their fountain fixed. While the town is understandably happy that they got water again, Aquarius ends up being less than pleased at being used by Lucy as a temporary replacement for a broken fountain. While Lucy has summoned Cancer on several occasions to help, one notable incident stands out as this. Lucy near the end of the Tartaros arc summons Cancer to make Wendy's short hair long again after the latter cut it earlier in the arc. While Cancer is perfectly fine doing this, it wasn't something Lucy had to do for Wendy and she could have just let Wendy grow her hair out again normally. |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Mermaid Man And Barnacle Boy II", SpongeBob wins the Conch Signal, an item which calls the titular superheroes, in a contest. He proceeds to use it for everyday tasks because he just wants to spend time with them. | |
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Kaijudo: In one episode, Ray summons Tatsurion the Unchained to do his chores, much to Tatsurion's chagrin. At the end of the episode, after learning his lesson, Ray summons him again, this time to give him a large slab of meat as an apology. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "The Break-Up Break Down", Spike and Big MacIntosh summon Discord, an all-powerful Reality Warper... just so he can cook a pie Big Mac is making for his girlfriend faster. Needless to say, Discord is not amused at being summoned for such a trivial matter. | |
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Mélusine: The witches in this setting have a bad habit of this. An early strip has Mélusine getting frustrated by a summoning spell not working well enough, and finally calling a powerful demonic spirit by literally throwing everything she has in her cauldron... only to ask him to help finding a pair of earrings she lost. In Inferno, Mélusine and her aunt Adrazelle are seen summoning undead, ghosts and demons in a complex ritual sequence... to serve as pieces for a life-sized chess game. |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot: In "The Boy Who Cried Robot", Tuck repeatedly summons Jenny for several meaningless tasks. Eventually Brad tells her that she's being used and introduces her to "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". After reading the book though and hearing Tuck actually screaming about a wolf, Jenny is convinced she needs to help no matter what. The moment she arrives though, she finds Tuck just summoned her to introduce her to a dog named Wolf. Jenny grows fed up at this point, and she decides that Tuck needs to be taught a lesson. | |
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In the original Dragon Ball, Commander Red of the Red Ribbon Army wants to summon the Eternal Dragon in order to make himself taller. Those working under him are not at all happy with him when this gets out, especially since his selfish desires have caused a significant fraction of them to be killed by the One-Man Army that is Goku. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: At the beginning of "Dear John", Daffy calls the fire department to help him open a can of tuna. When one of the firemen asks Daffy why he did that, Daffy tells him that first he called Bugs, then Tina, then Porky, then them. Later in the episode, Daffy complains about the fire department charging him for coming to his house to Porky, to which Porky tells him that he called 911 four times in the past week, but none of the emergencies were valid. Daffy insists that his emergencies (getting the police to give him a towel, getting the fire department to read him a bedtime story, and getting the paramedics to help him decide whether or not he should wear a scarf) were valid. | |
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Monica's Gang has a strip where Angel tries his best to help the townspeople, but keeps getting called for frivolous reasons, such as Monica wanting him to deliver a pair of doll's shoes to Maggie, or Maggie being hungry and wanting some food. | |
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Family Guy had an Imagine Spot where a lazy Aquaman used his powers to summon a fish to fetch him beer and perform other mundane tasks for him. The fish was very annoyed. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games: The movie opens with the girls (save Twilight) suddenly being called for an emergency. Turns out it was from Pinkie who did so at the request of Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo who wanted to see them "Pony Up"; that is, show off their magic powers when they play songs. Naturally the girls aren't amused they were pulled away from other activities for that. | |
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