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A trope most common and easy to recognize in old-school Western Animation, but fairly universal and even Older Than Print. Basically, it describes a scenario like this: Bob rescues Alice from some horrid peril. In gratitude, Alice gives Bob a little whistle and tells him something along the lines of, "If you ever need my help again, just blow this whistle!" After that, whenever Bob needs some rescuing for himself, he'll pull out that trusty whistle, and poof, like magic, Alice will be there to lend a hand. In more complex cases it may require (explicitly or implicitly) a Magically-Binding Contract. Compare Call on Me, wherein the whistle is not included, Blow That Horn, for instruments which can summon forces or more general aid as well as allies, and Summoning Artifact which calls up some greater force rather than a personal ally. |
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Sengoku Basara plays with this one. Finding Kasuga determined to go on a one woman Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Oda Nobunaga, Sasuke gives her a whistle and tells her to blow it when she's in trouble. When she finds herself cornered, she blows it... and it turns into a rocket powered glider. | |
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In The Adventures of Superman, a scientist is told to use his ability to whistle to summon Superman. However, he then has an adventure where he is in danger and so scared that his mouth is too dry to whistle no matter how hard he tries. Fortunately when all seems lost, he finds an abandoned water canteen to wet his whistle and whistles up Superman to save the day. | |
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Batman (1966): The direct line from Commissioner Gordon to the Batcave (and the Batsignal too, obviously). | |
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Very common on Tom and Jerry cartoons, especially in the Hanna-Barbera and Chuck Jones eras. Jerry would rescue a bulldog (sometimes Spike, sometimes not) from danger, who would then award the brave mouse a whistle, effectively becoming Jerry's personal bodyguard against Tom's scheming. Tom does eventually win in the end, though, usually due to a lucky case of third party intervention (dog catcher and a new leash law) that results in the bulldog not coming when called. The earliest short this shows up in is "The Bodyguard", Spike's second appearance. Sometimes Jerry would use a whistle to call on Muscles (Jerry's gangster cousin) instead. | |
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Taran Wanderer, the 4th book in Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain. Taran has a magic horn that, when sounded, will summon the Fair Folk to his aid, but only once. | |
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Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn Jiriki gives Simon a magical mirror that allows them to communicate across great distances, but warns him that although he'll try to come if he's needed, this trope doesn't apply. | |
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Parodied in The Simpsons. When Bart and Lisa are enrolled in a military academy, Lisa proves herself to be such a terrible shot that the instructor awards her a special whistle, claiming he'd come to her aid if she ever needed his help in battle. | |
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Inverted: Throughout the original Mega Man series, the sign that Proto Man has come to Mega's assistance is his whistling. | |
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Fringe could be considered to have a variation, in the form of a bell, which was rigged by William Bell to summon his soul into a host upon being used. | |
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In Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket tells Pinocchio (in song) to "Give A Little Whistle" whenever he needs his help ("or if your whistle's weak, yell"). Ironically, the one time Pinocchio needs his help, Jiminy isn't there. (He's heading back after realizing his charge is in danger.) | |
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In one of The Dresden Files novels, Harry earns a special favor from the Summer court of faeries which he can use to ask one boon. He uses it to ask for a doughnut. | |
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Somewhat lampshaded in Animaniacs: Rita busts out of the Animal Shelter in the episode When Rita Met Runt. Calling over her shoulder to Runt, she says, "If you ever need anything, just whistle." She has almost gone when Runt begins whistling "Pop Goes the Weasel." Rita quickly turns around, mumbling sourly, "Me and my overused cliches." | |
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A non-verbal variant appears in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Benny the Cab tells Eddie that "if you should ever need a ride, just stick out your thumb." Later, just when the weasels are closing in on him and Jessica, Eddie sticks out his thumb off-handedly (to point which direction to run off to) and Benny instantly drives up to pick them up. | |
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Subverted in The Order of the Stick: Celia gives Roy a medallion that will enable him to call her for help by breaking it, except that he can't break it (Celia thoughtlessly assumed that baseline humans are able to shoot lightning from their fingertips like herself), and he falls to his death. Oops. | |
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Brave Story has Wataru rescuing a young dragon. The dragon drops a scale and tells him to find a blacksmith skilled enough to turn that scale into a flute. Then, if Wataru plays the flute, the dragon will come to his aid. | |
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Variant: in The Ant and the Aardvark cartoon "Mumbo Jumbo," the ant is a member of a fraternity of animals, and his lodge brother is an elephant named Tiny. Whenever a lodge brother needs help, he calls "Zimbala zoombala." This comes handy for the ant when the aardvark sets his hungry sights on him. | |
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In Superman: The Animated Series, Jimmy Olsen had a special wristwatch that could summon Supes whenever he's in trouble. It reappeared in an episode of Justice League Unlimited: Huntress got kicked out of the Justice League but she needs to ask for Superman's help. So she kidnaps Jimmy Olsen and triggers the wristwatch, knowing that this would bring Supes. |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The reversed variant of an old spell 'Succor' works this way. It enchants a statuette so that if it's broken and the password is said, the caster will be teleported to the user. | |
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In an early episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender Aang buys a bison whistle that Appa, his flying bison, hears and comes to. | |
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Gunnerkrigg Court: Sir Eglamore gave Antimony a beacon (that looks like a carved stick) to break at the first sign of trouble. He promised that if she used it, he would be there to help within five seconds. (Can you say Chekhov's Gun?) | |
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Parodied in The Mighty Boosh episode "Jungle", in which Rudi gives Vince a tin whistle to play if he needs help. Vince plays the wrong tune and gets a locksmith. | |
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The Fellowship of the Rings: the Horn of Gondor. It's supposed to be very valuable and guaranteed to bring help to the one who sounds it — perhaps because it's nearly impossible not to hear. Unfortunately said help is too late for Boromir. To some extent, the horn at Helm's Deep; it figuratively brings the spirit of the famously fierce warrior Helm Hammerhand to the battlefield (this heartens the defenders). |
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In Jack Frost the son is given a harmonica the dad claims is magical and will always get him to his son. After he dies he brings him back from the dead to be with his son. | |
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In Red Dead Redemption, if you're outdoors and need your horse, you can press a button to make John whistle and summon the horse. | |
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Kim Possible: "Call me, beep me, if you want to reach me." | |
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In The Great Hunt, The Horn of Valere calls dead heroes from antiquity to aid the blower of the Horn. "The Grave is No Bar to my Call" | |
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In the first Shrek movie, Donkey tells Dragon he'll whistle if he needs her. Shrek later calls Dragon in at a key moment by whistling, revealing that he was paying some attention to what Donkey was doing after all. | |
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This happens in One Piece. When the Straw Hats arrive in the Sky, Gan Fall saves them from Wiper, and gives them a whistle, telling them to blow it if they need him. Later, when being attacked by one of the Priests, Chopper does just that. | |
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The Godzilla Power Hour: Captain Majors of the Calico has a signaling device to summon Godzilla when the crew is trouble. When that option is not available, Godzooky could howl to summon Godzilla himself. | |
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In Psychonauts, Razputin can summon Agent Cruller by waving a bacon. | |
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Subverted in the Reading Rainbow episode "A Three Hat Day". LeVar Burton goes to a hat shop where wearing any hat will magically take him into a setting that suits the hat, e.g. wearing a hockey helmet takes him into a hockey game. He initially thinks saying the word "hat" ends the trip before he realizes actually taking the hat off does that. | |
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In The Santa Clause, an elf gives Santa Claus' son a magical snow globe early in the film; at the end, he tells the kid that if he ever wants to see his father, he just has to shake the snow globe and it will summon his father. | |
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And in Ocarina Of Time, the third song Link learns for his Ocarina lets him talk to his friend Saria at any time, though she only gives advice and does not appear. The song he learns before that can be used to summon Epona to his position in the overworld once he frees her from Ingo's clutches as an adult. | |
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The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: In The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, Ronald summons the help of Iam Hungry to clean the dessert toppings smothering the McDonaldland gang's rocket by whistling in spite of being in outer space. | |
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Parodied on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Throughout the 2021 season, John reveals to the audience that all he has to do is snap his fingers and he can instantly call on George Clooney (something he frequently does accidentally, much to George's frustration). During the season finale, George gives him the power to summon any other celebrities of his choosing, which includes Jennifer Coolidge, Will Ferrell, Ru Paul, and Cardi B. | |
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The walkie talkies in Mystery Team. | |
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In Bedazzled (1967), the Devil gives Stanley seven wishes, giving him the ability to terminate a wish and return to wherever he himself was at the time by blowing a raspberry. Since the Devil throws a nasty twist into each wish, Stanley goes "Phbtbtbtbt!" quite a lot, until, with a wish turning him into a nun (not what he wanted) it inexplicably doesn't work. He's led around a convent repeatedly making rude noises and trying to look innocent. In the remake starring Brendan Fraser, it's a pocket calculator. He has to hit "666=". |
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In the remake starring Brendan Fraser, it's a pocket calculator. He has to hit "666=". | |
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In the Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, After Kain failed to defeat Malek the Paladin, he seeks counsel from an oracle, who tells him Vorador is the only one who could ever defeat Malek. Kain then seeks out Vorador, who gives Kain his ring to summon him, when he is about to fight Malek again. | |
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In Critical Role, once Vox Machina have proven themselves, J'mon Sa Ord gives Scanlan a magical flute which can be used (once) to summon the guardian of Ank'Harel for assistance, giving them what is potentially their most powerful ally, an ANCIENT BRASS DRAGON. | |
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There's also the Conch Signal in SpongeBob SquarePants, that summons Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy. | |
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For a more mundane example, the Mayor in The Powerpuff Girls has their special phone number. He rings them up any time some horrible menace is threatening the City of Townsville. Or he needs a jar of pickles opened or something. | |
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In Final Fantasy X, Tidus says, "If we get separated, just [whistle] and I'll come running!" The whistle then calls him back in Final Fantasy X-2. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Link acquires a whistle that summons a large bird to carry him away on the overworld. Mainly this is useful for quick transportation, but is also handy if you're swamped by soldiers or the like. And in Ocarina Of Time, the third song Link learns for his Ocarina lets him talk to his friend Saria at any time, though she only gives advice and does not appear. The song he learns before that can be used to summon Epona to his position in the overworld once he frees her from Ingo's clutches as an adult. There's also the Warp Whistle to summon a tornado for the same purpose (crossing the overworld without having to take all day), and A Link to the Past isn't the only game to have it summon a bird for the same purpose. And again in Oracle of Seasons, where Link can get a small flute to summon his Animal Companion. Get the idea that the Zelda series rather likes this trope? |
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And again in Oracle of Seasons, where Link can get a small flute to summon his Animal Companion. Get the idea that the Zelda series rather likes this trope? | |
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Aladdin: Aladdin accidentally summons Genie when his hands touch the lamp after Jafar throws him into the ocean, bound and gagged. | |
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Pikmin: Whilst out in the field, Captain Olimar can summon his hordes of Pikmin by giving a little whistle. He can also perform this move in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, to much the same effect. | |
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Subverted with Whistle from Happy Tree Friends. Whistling whilst around him is a sure fire way to get you killed! | |
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In Family Guy, Hugh Downs gives a magic whistle to a random bystander after he (Downs) had single-handedly defeated a serial killer (he also gives the guy John Stossel's cell number, which is apparently just as good). | |
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In "The Little Vampire" Anna gives Tony a good luck charm (dead mouse), and tells him to whistle if he ever needs her help. He later does so when Rookery shuts him in a coffin, and Anna, as promised, shows up to let him out. | |
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In The Croods, Guy gives Eep a "shell phone" to call him with. | |
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The conch that Kimloc gives Fiddler in the beginning of Deadhouse Gates. He almost forgets about it, but when he finally uses it, the effect is impressive. Not only does it go absolutely apeshit on every living being in the Azath labyrinth, it's also responsible for the ascension of the Bridgeburner battalion in Memories of Ice. | |
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The Family Man has its Magical Negro angel/genie/whatever (played by Don Cheadle) give Jack a bike bell with no explanation when they first meet; later, when it becomes clear that the guy was some kind of supernatural being who has enacted an It's A Wonderful Life-style universe-rearrangement, Jack is seen walking around ringing the bell like a lunatic, assuming it was one of these. The only effect is that his wife thinks he's insane (well, insane-er), and when his daughter appropriates the bell for her actual bike (which is implied to be the actual reason the angel gave it to him, since he was also planning to rearrange the universe such that Jack would have a daughter who'd be receiving a bike on Christmas morning) Jack gets hilariously upset. "That's MINE! She took my bell!" | |
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Damnd, the first boss of Final Fight, would jump to the sidelines after taking some damage and then whistle for some Mad Gear Mooks to come over and help him before resuming the fight. | |
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Super Smash Bros.: Pokéballs function similarly to the trope-verbial whistle]; the Pokémon will briefly fight for the character that released it from its Pokéball. Brawl introduced Assist Trophies, which are a similar item that summon non-Pokémon helpers. | |
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It reappeared in an episode of Justice League Unlimited: Huntress got kicked out of the Justice League but she needs to ask for Superman's help. So she kidnaps Jimmy Olsen and triggers the wristwatch, knowing that this would bring Supes. | |
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