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Handy Remote Control
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A handheld variant of the Big Red Button. You want to have a character be able to do something like activate a machine or detonate a bomb in a cool way without the need to be right up next to it? The obvious plot solution would be for the character to reach into their pocket and produce a little remote control device. It often has a big button (sometimes red) to push and an incredible range to activate something miles away. It can also be a Plot-Sensitive Button if it does different things depending on the current need. This allows a way for the character to show confidently that he's had a trump card all along and was waiting to use it. |
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Jason Bourne has one in The Bourne Identity that makes cars' alarms go off, creating handy distractions. | |
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James Bond is no stranger to this, especially in video games. James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire is the grand master of this, with two gadgets: the Q-Decryptor and the Q-Remote. The former can open all locked doors and download data from computer mainframes. The latter could "steal" remote-control signals and allow Bond to use them remotely. 007 Nightfire cools this down somewhat by limiting Bond to the Decryptor, which opens doors with four-digit codes. It takes some time to complete the task until you get the software upgrade, which cuts down the time needed. GoldenEye: Rogue Agent features the "EM Hack," which means that GoldenEye can project EMP bursts and control electronic objects. He can activate machine traps, open doors, bugger up his assailants' guns, all kinds of cool stuff. |
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In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Revolver Ocelot is surrounded by two opposing armies. He's killed both their commanding officers, and his six-shot revolver is out of bullets, yet not a single round is fired in his direction, because he's holding a detonator for explosives to sink the tanker they're all aboard. | |
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In .hack//Legend of the Twilight, Shugo gets the Twilight Bracelet, that basically does whatever is convenient to the storyline. It has also been in the possession of Kite and possibly Tsukasa. | |
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The bank robber has one of these for the hostages' bomb vests in Hancock. | |
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One episode of Darkwing Duck has Herb Muddlefoot get a high-powered universal remote that can control every device in his massive entertainment center, including the popcorn machine. It gets stolen by Megavolt to be used as a component in his latest plan, so Herb solves the problem of no longer being able to do everything from his couch by moving the couch so close to everything else that he can reach the manual controls with his feet. | |
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The original Half-Life and its expansions (and by extension, Black Mesa) have this for the satchel charges you can pick up. | |
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In Garfield the remote control for the TV has only one button, as does the remote for the garage door, causing a mix-up once. | |
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In one story of the Whateley Universe, Generator (Jade Sinclair) is being harassed by Peeper, the 'Howard Stern' of Super Hero School Whateley Academy. She pulls out a remote control and uses it to drive a caterpillar-sized robot down his shirt, inside his pants, making it grab hold of the back of his briefs, then give him a wedgie, and then lift him forty feet in the air by the back of his shorts in the worst wedgie ever. Subversion: the remote control is a fake; the 'robot' is actually possessed by a copy of her own mind. | |
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Total Drama: Chris McLean is usually carrying one or more of these in his pockets, with many such purposes as setting off a bomb, electrocuting someone, activating a launchpad under an unsuspecting contestant, or bringing up a viewscreen. | |
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In Speed Buggy, the living car's freedom of movement can be overridden by Tinker's remote control. | |
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Snake does this in Super Smash Bros. Brawl to set off his C4. He even strikes a dramatic pose and says "Now!" dramatically. | |
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Rush Hour 2: Hu-Li has one of these so she can set off a grenade in Lee's mouth at a moment's notice. | |
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The Joker uses one to blow up a hospital in The Dark Knight. | |
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Parodied in an episode of The Powerpuff Girls (1998). The girls have been captured and are being lowered into acid by the villain, who is using one of these to control the lowering mechanism. The police arrive, arrest the villain, and try to use the remote to save the girls, but can't find the right button in time. Fortunately, turns out the girls were invulnerable to acid. | |
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In Devil Survivor 2, practically every weird piece of technology or magitech is controlled by a character whipping out their cell phone. | |
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SG teams in Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis routinely use remote detonators with their bricks of C4. These became a substantial plot point in one or two episodes, such as the incident where the Atlantis team rigged a Wraith base to explode, then talked their way out by brandishing the remote detonator. They left the detonator in the base with the guy who had been stuck in the Face–Heel Revolving Door for a couple episodes, and he activated it as soon as the Atlantis team was clear. | |
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The disruptor in Batman: Arkham City is a one-handed device where Batman just gently pushes the stud on top to shut down an inconvenient henchman's gun or blow up a concussion mine. It's significantly smaller than the bulky, gun-like disruptor of Batman: Arkham Origins, although it does lose the ability to deactivate jammer backpacks. Both discrepancies are explained with sufficient in-game exploration: the guns available in Arkham City come either from TYGER's own forces or through Penguin's successful gun-import operations, and the latter only function because Hugo Strange is his willing supplier, making it easier for the residents to kill each other without giving them tools to break out or resist his own forces. All of the firearms the handheld Disrupter will work on were actually designed to be disabled by a properly programmed remote control. Hugo has no specific contingency plans to deal with Batman having a disruptor (and it's possible the Riddler already had his own version by the game's start), relying on We Have Reserves (and gunships) as needed. | |
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The Dictator Switch from Doraemon is a gadget which makes any person, animal or object disappear without leaving any trace behind by simply pressing the button. No one remembers the existence of the person who was erased, except for those who witnessed their disappearance, such as the one who pressed the button. It is typically used by dictators to erase whoever opposes them. At one point, Nobita received this gadget from Doraemon because he wished Gian had never existed. He then used the switch to get rid of Gian, and eventually erased everyone from existence because he dreamed of everyone mocked him, including Shizuka and Doraemon. As it turns out, it is a tool for teaching An Aesop about interpersonal relationships rather than being an actual weapon for dictators. Doraemon then reappears and undoes the disappearance by pressing the switch again. | |
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In The A-Team, the team is helping a firefighter group end the interference of a rival group. The heroes placed a firebomb in the enemy's firehouse early in the story. When the villains interfere with a dispatch, a member of the A-Team calmly produces a remote control, pushes the button and notes, "Your firehouse is on fire." The villains radio back to their firehouse and are stunned to hear that the team was not bluffing. | |
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The fourth issue of Global Frequency features a terrorist threatening to detonate a bomb using a hand-held remote control with a Big Red Button. | |
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Doofenshmirtz on Phineas and Ferb will sometimes control his inators and other devices by pushing a single red button on a remote. In "Lawn Gnome Beach Party of Terror," this comes back to bite him because he has multiple remotes, each for a particular device, and no way to tell which is which. He inevitably uses the worst possible remote for the situation, and eventually releases Perry from his trap with one of the remotes, leading to another defeat. | |
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The central plan of The Wrong Trousers. The titular trousers have the controls mounted on them at first; but Feathers modifies them by creating a remote control for them. He first has fun making Wallace go everywhere unwillingly, then uses them in his elaborate diamond heist. | |
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Batman usually has at least one in his Utility Belt. The Joker sometimes carries one too. | |
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GoldenEye: Rogue Agent features the "EM Hack," which means that GoldenEye can project EMP bursts and control electronic objects. He can activate machine traps, open doors, bugger up his assailants' guns, all kinds of cool stuff. | |
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In Back to the Future Part II & III, Marty McFly finds a remote control at the drive-in in 1985 that he can use to summon the DeLorean for time travel. | |
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The Fifth Element Zorg's ZF-1s come with a handy remote to demonstrate the weapons numerous features. | |
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Done a few times in Kim Possible. One of the MacGuffins was a universal remote for any device. | |
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In an episode of The Spectacular Spider-Man, Green Goblin has a remote control device that activates a nanobot armor, turning Mark Allen from a regular boy into Molten Man at the press of a button. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Pearl Forrester once installed electrodes in Professor Bobo's brain, allowing his body to be controlled by an "all-in-one universal remote we got at Target for nine bucks". Also: "Push the button, Frank." |
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In the original Star Trek episode "Spock's Brain", Spock's brainless body is hooked up to a remote with perhaps twelve buttons that allows the operator to cause Spock to walk, turn, and (somehow) grab the antagonist's arms and deactivate her wrist control (itself a sort of Handy Remote Control). | |
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One of the opening sequences to NewsRadio showed Joe using a small device to force a traffic light to change. | |
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Lelouch of Code Geass fame is fond of these. He often carries a Handy Remote Control, sometimes shaped like a chesspiece, that lets him detonate strategically-placed bombs, perform basic maneuvers (i.e. opening fire) with a fifteen-foot gun-toting robot, or activate various forms of phlebotinum such as the technology-paralyzing Gefjun disruptor EMP rays. | |
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In Think Big, a Teen Genius has developed a remote control that can be used to control anything. She stows away with the main characters after she learns that it is supposed to be handed over to criminals. | |
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Cloud Atlas: The supervisor at Papa Song's uses a remote device he produces from his pocket to make Yoona's slave collar slit her throat. | |
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Danzaiver, the Super Sentai stand-in from Evil Zone, uses one of these to call in a Kill Sat strike in one of his super moves. | |
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The TV remote from Adventures in Dinosaur City, with the power to manipulate reality. | |
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One of the unlockable weapons for the Engineer in Team Fortress 2 is a remote control with a laser pointer which allows you to take manual control of your sentry. | |
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Subverted in one Doctor Who episode, where the Doctor threatens to use one of these to activate the TARDIS's Self-Destruct Mechanism. There is in fact no such mechanism; the "remote" is actually a Jammy Dodger. | |
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In Star Trek: Generations, Soran has a remote to activate his missile, and cloak it. | |
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Watchmen: The remote is for Ozymandias' television, showing Manhattan how he has saved the world from nuclear war. | |
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In Holiday Wars, The Easter Bunny has a remote that zaps and controls April Fools' Day, as seen in this strip. | |
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007 Nightfire cools this down somewhat by limiting Bond to the Decryptor, which opens doors with four-digit codes. It takes some time to complete the task until you get the software upgrade, which cuts down the time needed. | |
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Vegeta from Dragon Ball Z has a remote to recall his spacepod to his location. With the amount of punishment Vegeta has taken at the point he uses it it must be one tough piece of machinery. The same remote can also be used to self-destruct another spaceship. | |
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Given that the protagonists in Stay Tuned are Trapped in TV Land, the remote control is rather central to the plot. | |
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Michael Weston is a fan of these. | |
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The original Mission: Impossible television series abounds with these, containing a single pushbutton, which can cause whatever action is next called for in the plot. So common that it's one of the stock shots that appears in the closing credits of many eps. Barney also rigged entire cars for remote control and drove them under pretty tough routes, at least once per season; sometimes with people inside, sometimes not. | |
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Sgt. Frog: Kululu's iPod remote... thingy. | |
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Nadia has one in the first book of the Red Mars Trilogy. It was pressed on her by Arkady, her lover and the leader of the rebellion, in a moment of madness, then mostly forgotten. Then, long after Arkady's death, the peaceful caravan she's travelling with gets targeted by the government/metanational forces on Phobos just because there are members of the first hundred with it. Nadia used the remote, and we're reminded that Arkady led the team that build the Phobos base. | |
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Multiple examples in Babylon 5 The Comm Links used by Babylon 5's staff is shown to be useful for this function, including as a remote control for their video screens and for remote-controlled Cool Starships rigged with thermonuclear warheads. And, on occasion, a purpose-built remote: |
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Dr. Fetus from Super Meat Boy has one of these remotes, and routinely presses it before and after boss fights to deal with Meat Boy. At one point, he even throws it at Meat Boy to knock him into some salt. | |
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In YuYu Hakusho, Roto uses one of these during the Dark Tournament to threaten Kurama's mother by saying that pressing the red button will signal his brother, who has been stalking her, to kill her. It appears from other character comments to be his single strategy in any given fight. | |
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Professor Nimnul on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers has one in a few episodes. Unlike most examples, Nimnul's one is pretty bulky and most of the time that he uses it, he has to press several buttons in sequence to activate a certain function. | |
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James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire is the grand master of this, with two gadgets: the Q-Decryptor and the Q-Remote. The former can open all locked doors and download data from computer mainframes. The latter could "steal" remote-control signals and allow Bond to use them remotely. | |
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In Tomorrow Never Dies, James Bond has a Chase Scene using his remote control, which allows him not only to control his gadget car without being exposed in the driver's seat, but also to see where he's going in the device's video screen. | |
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Almost all of Dexter's remote controlled inventions in Dexter's Laboratory are controlled by a single red button (and optionally a joystick). | |
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Inverted in Swordfish as the hostages wore bomb vests and they would be detonated when they left a certain proximity. As long as they stayed within the building, they were safe. | |
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Happy Heroes: In Season 2 episode 3, Headmaster Tele uses a remote with a single button on it to control multiple items in the classroom, such as the desks and the blackboard. | |
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