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Kinda Busy Here

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Kinda Busy Here	comment	Cell phones are wonderful conveniences that make it easier for human beings to stay connected to each other. That said, it's inevitable that every so often they will ring at the most inconvenient times. Like when you're driving, or about to have sex, or in a board meeting. Or, occasionally, when you're in a dangerous, stressful situation like a gunfight or a car chase. Rather than becoming a break in the action, the hero will inevitably answer the phone, if only to tell the person on the end that "now's not a real good time to chat." Other times, they hold full-fledged conversations, all the while blazing away with their weapons. Often the phone call will be a minor or mundane thing that contrasts with the deadly action, especially if there's a Secret Identity to maintain. A Sub-Trope of Casual Danger Dialogue. Contrast Mid-Battle Tea Break, where the opponents are perfectly happy to let the distracted party take a break from the fight. Compare Excuse Me While I Multi Task where the one taking the call uses it to showcase how much better they are at close combat than their opponent. Compare Not Now, Kiddo. Compare Compromising Call, where someone calls while the recipient is trying to be stealthy (which may lead to this trope for comedic effect, but usually doesn't). Will likely result in TV Telephone Etiquette, since if the person being called doesn't have time for the call, then probably don't have time to say "goodbye" either.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_109f7814	comment	At one point in Sherlock a showdown between Holmes and Moriarty is interrupted when the latter gets a phone call. He threatens to have the unfortunate caller made into shoes.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_11fd6993	comment	During a mission in inFAMOUS, Zeke calls up Cole about ways Cole could make some money off of his powers. At the time, Cole is trying to defend some medical supplies from the Reapers, who among other things, are using a truck-mounted mini-gun on him. Cole, naturally, tries to tell Zeke off, but Zeke just ignores him.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_13f21e09	comment	Company of Heroes, especially US Airborne troops who will flat-out scream profanities into the radio if poked during a shootout. Well, they were known as "The Screaming Eagles".
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Kinda Busy Here / int_13fb1d34	comment	In 3 Days to Kill, Ethan Renner is a retired CIA assassin trying to reconcile with his teenage daughter, Zooey. He accepts One Last Job only because they have an experimental cure for his disease and throughout the film, Ethan is in the middle of interrogating/torturing a suspect when Zooey calls him needing help. In several of these cases, Ethan convinces the suspect to actually provide help to Zooey (such as her needing a simple recipe for a romantic dinner she's cooking and Ethan's suspect happening to be an Italian who remembers his mother's recipe for tomato sauce).
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Kinda Busy Here / int_17dbf5ae	comment	Kamen Rider Amazons: Whilst the exterminators are in the middle of fighting an Amazon, Shidou gets a call from work and shouts "Fuck off, we're busy!" down the line; unaware that he's on loudspeaker to the board of Nozama Pharmacy.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_187f0cac	comment	Tiffany in Eerie Cuties is "mind-sexted" by Faith (presumably, not the first time) during an attempt to stake Layla. By her own count, it was 13-th time only in that park, so it's not like Tiffany would not find one more excuse to cancel the attack anyway, obviously. But she was running, and the distraction caused her to stumble and fall.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_188709f8	comment	In A Good Day to Die Hard, McClane is in a car chase after a truck that's chasing his son, Jack. That's when his daughter calls.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_1a1fe2a8	comment	Die Hard: In Die Hard 2, Holly McClane, worried about why her plane hasn't landed (due to the airport being forcibly shut down by Colonel Stuart) calls her husband's beeper on the airphone... while McClane is sneaking up to the church Stuart is using as a base. His beeper goes off, and he hurries to silence it, but Baker has heard his beeper and attacks him. After a fight, McClane defeats Baker by stabbing an icicle into his eye. In A Good Day to Die Hard, McClane is in a car chase after a truck that's chasing his son, Jack. That's when his daughter calls.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_1f76648	comment	In A Certain Magical Index, Index calls Mikoto for help reversing a brain hacking while Mikoto is fighting dozens of Mooks armed with assault rifles.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_2139ea95	comment	In Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, when Yachiyo calls Kanagi about working together against the Wings of the Magius, Kanagi happens to be fighting against some of the Magiusâ€™s Black Feathers. Kanagi easily wipes the floor with the Feathers while agreeing to meet with Yachiyo.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: Mac's cell goes off during an opera trip with Peyton once. And another time during sex. But he's a detective, so not much he can do about it. Exactly. The very first scene in the entire series has his phone go off while he's praying in church! Another time, Peyton calls him just as he sneaks up on the Big Bad. The list goes on...
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Kinda Busy Here / int_222c2051	comment	Chuck has had it on several occasions with the titular character getting calls from his Locked Out of the Loop Buy More friends at the most inopportune times. A prime example is in the Pilot, where Morgan calls Chuck to find out how his big date is going while Chuck has a bomb to defuse (although Morgan does accidentally give Chuck a "Eureka!" Moment of how to do it).
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Kinda Busy Here / int_24e41891	comment	Dexter: It wasn't during a fight scene, but Dexter has been called once or twice while engaged in his night job. And a car chase, as well.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: When Homer is offered a new job in "You Only Move Twice" by Scorpio, this trope is played through the entire episode. Homer asks Scorpio for advice on numerous issues, which Scorpio happily gives, all while executing his plan to Take Over the World. Most notably, at the end, Scorpio gives Homer advice on whether to keep his current job or not, while fighting off a UN invasion force. Also, in "Future-Drama", Snake is called about his dinner in the middle of a hold up. Of course, his cell phone is merged with his ray gun, giving Bart the opportunity to thwart him.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_2c1809f5	comment	Happens a few times in Totally Spies! when the girls are on a mission and usually get some phone calls from friends or love interest who're unaware of them being spies during a fight or a perilous situation. For example, in one episode Clover was tasked with baby-sitting her cousin and told to come home early. The mission ended up going longer then expected and during a fight, her mother called her to demand where she was. Clover tried to cover that it was a class she was attending but her mother thought she was at a party and grounded her on the spot to Clover's dismay.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_2cbad284	comment	Left POOR Dead: George, everytime Reginald and Tippy try to call him
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Kinda Busy Here / int_2d0735c6	comment	In the Broad City episode "Just the Tips," Abbi calls her paramedic boyfriend to break up with him while he's giving someone CPR.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_2d311a08	comment	In the last episode of the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon's first season, Donatello is busy building a new device at Baxter Stockman's lab while the rest of the family goes off to attack the Technodrome. While they're fighting off Foot Soldiers, Don gives them a call, checking in;
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Kinda Busy Here / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League: In the episode "Wild Cards," Batman takes a call from The Flash while he's in the middle of a fight. The Flash had a good reason for calling, since he needed instructions on how to disarm a bomb. Also, in the episode "Dead Reckoning", Batman and Wonder Woman figure out Gorilla City is under attack from the Legion of Doom, and Batman calls Solovar (leader of Gorilla City) to warn him - right as they're being attacked.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_34a70b48	comment	Batman Forever: Alfred interrupts an intimate liaison to report that "Master Dick" has... borrowed "the other car."
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Kinda Busy Here / int_36570e3	comment	Done at the start of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 when Peter is chasing after a truck with dangerous chemical, the canisters soon spilling out into the street from the reckless driving and forcing him to break off the chase and retrieve them. He manages to grab the last one only to get hit by a truck, though luckily unharmed and sticking to it thanks to his powers. It's at that point Gwen calls to inform him that their graduation has started and wondering where he is.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_36ee2abe	comment	The Troubleshooters in Paranoia are issued with PDCs (mobile phones, Alpha Complex style) mainly for this reason. Phone calls from Friend Computer during a firefight aren't exactly uncommon, especially if everyone is being too efficient for the GM's tastes.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_3d2687f6	comment	Hoodwinked!. Red calls Granny when she is in Japeth's shack, unaware that Granny is in a ski race and dealing with the fact that the bandit's ski team henchmen have eliminated Granny's teammates.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_3e5de40b	comment	Scrubs: JD gets a little short with Ted when the latter interrupts him with some very unimportant news as JD is urgently trying to fix a patient's ruptured surgical stitches.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_42aa7ed7	comment	In one of the opening scenes of the crossover Crisis on Earth-X, Felicity calls Oliver to discuss RSVP-ing to Barry and Iris' wedding... while Oliver is fighting ninjas in a warehouse.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: Played with at both ends of the conversation in "Weekend at Bobby's". Dean calls Bobby Singer for information on how to kill a demon that Sam is currently fighting in the background. At the same time Bobby, who has a corpse buried in his backyard, is trying to fend off a suspicious FBI agent. In "Baby", Castiel calls Dean and launches into a long discussion of what he's found while researching the monster of the week. Dean, who put the call on speaker and then placed the phone on the dashboard, doesn't actually hear much of the explanation because he's busy fist-fighting, shooting, and decapitating the monster who appeared out of nowhere to attack him.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_47e486f8	comment	In Heartbreak Ridge, Gunny Highway's squad of Marines place a call to their base back home while holed up in an old church in order to call in an airstrike, because all other methods of communication have been broken somehow. They are taking fire (from tanks) all the while. This was based on an actual incident during the Grenada invasion.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_4965fb90	comment	Incredibles 2. While Helen is pursuing a Runaway Train, she receives a call from her son Dash, asking her where his tennis shoes are while her husband Bob yells at Dash not to call her in the background. She tells him she can't talk right now but still helps him by suggesting he look under his bed.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_49a87cb3	comment	In Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core, after Genesis summons Bahamut SIN, Zack gets a call on his cell phone from Aerith. He explains that he can't talk as he has to deal with a guest, while Bahamut roars in the background. After he hangs up, he turns back to Bahamut:
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Kinda Busy Here / int_4e54d2da	comment	Christo from Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance says this frequently to his superior who calls him frequently before various fights in the game.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_4f6709cf	comment	In Spider-Man (PS4) this can happen several times with one of Peter allies calling in at the worst possible time during gameplay. Said verbatim at one point when he's at The Raft trying to stop the prison break while talking to his Friend on the Force, Yuri, only for Scorpion grabs to grab Spidey from behind with his tail and Peter complaining he was in the middle of a important call.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_4ff8055d	comment	Labyrinths of Echo has telepathic speech that cannot even be "turned off", and fail only due to magic blockade few can perform well, unconsciousness, or a superhuman level of concentration on something else. Customary ethics and possibly bylaws in the World of Rod prohibit subordinates from distracting superiors by initiation of thought-chats, with the obvious exclusion of ordered reports and dire emergency. Also, the Chief of Minor Secret Investigative Force has an old bad habit of telling callers he's "waiting in ambush" while playing cards, and once noted that in a real ambush it's not much of a problem, but few understand it. This occasionally bitten him in the butt, though.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_503d3d54	comment	Used with the castle's communications system rather than a cellphone in The Rocky Horror Picture Show:
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Kinda Busy Here / int_503d5009	comment	Ayakashi Triangle: Suzu makes a move on Matsuri during his birthday, and they're in the middle of making out when their friends call and invite them to karaoke. Suzu is secretly relieved they had a reason to stop there, as she was getting cold feet over her plan to pull off her hoodie to show almost nothing beneath.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_5178149f	comment	Batman: The Brave and the Bold has Batman in this situation several times, including a few times when AQUAMAN was bored on a family vacation and hoped that Batman would need him to join the current battle.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_5243fa01	comment	A variation on this is almost the entire premise of The Midnight Gospel. Every episode involves the main character Clancy interviewing a character in a podcast style while chaotic events in Deranged Animation happen all around them, often with the interviewee engaged in dire circumstances while having very in-depth conversations.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_53dc3731	comment	In Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time, young Robo attempts to battle the eponymous menace when it attacks while his creator/father-figure Nikola Tesla is out of town. Halfway through the battle, Tesla calls to check that he's doing his homework, and Robo has to pass off the background noise as a radio serial he's listening to.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_54dc7981	comment	In Die Hard 2, Holly McClane, worried about why her plane hasn't landed (due to the airport being forcibly shut down by Colonel Stuart) calls her husband's beeper on the airphone... while McClane is sneaking up to the church Stuart is using as a base. His beeper goes off, and he hurries to silence it, but Baker has heard his beeper and attacks him. After a fight, McClane defeats Baker by stabbing an icicle into his eye.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_59151283	comment	Snake does this in Metal Gear when he gets codec calls at bad times. Notably bad, given the absurd amount of time that he often spends chatting with Mission Control instead of doing his job. Lampooned in this VG Cats strip.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_5afbc0cb	comment	Undertale has three examples of this. During Mettaton's cooking show when he moves towards you with a chainsaw, needing "a human soul" as an ingredient, Alphys interrupts with a phone call and his response is "I'm kind of in the middle of something here." It turns out to be staged as part of Alphys' plan to stop you from leaving. One of Alphys's calls to you in Hotland is timed to interrupt you the moment a conveyor belt is pulling you past a switch you need to press to solve a puzzle which would turn off a forcefield and let you move to the next room. The forcefield then seemingly deactivates on its own. It's later revealed that she has control over Hotland's puzzles, and she turned it off herself after realising she stopped you from doing it. While running away from Undyne during her boss fight, at one point Papyrusnote If you haven't killed him, that is calls you to suggest that you and him should hang out with Undyne. This seems like an inconvenience because you can't move during phone calls, but if you look closely you'll see that Undyne actually stops chasing you, only moving again once the call has ended. After befriending her, calling her in that room will have her say that she purposefully waited while you were on the phone.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_5f5ef0ef	comment	Under Siege: Casey Ryback is shooting it out with the hijackers when he gets a call from the Reasonable Authority Figure, and his female sidekick answers.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_5f89c8b8	comment	In PS238, any time anyone calls Batman Captain Ersatz The Revenant for advice, he will be in the middle of fighting some form of super villain and carry on the fight while talking. Occasionally he will let slip some form of comment as to what he's doing.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_60156176	comment	In Captain Vorpatril's Alliance, Ivan's commanding officer, Admiral Desplains, calls while Ivan is in the middle of a massive misunderstanding: Police are trying to break down his door since he's suspected of murdering Tej, while immigration officials are trying to deport her (assuming she's alive). He answers "Not now, sir!" and throws his comlink in the refrigerator to shut it up, then gets on with proposing marriage to her (proving he didn't murder her and rendering her immune to deportation due to his diplomatic immunity).
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Kinda Busy Here / int_61de95d6	comment	Freelancer: Non-hostile NPC ships engaged in combat will respond this way if the player attempts to hail them. The only exceptions are hostile ships (which ignore hails by default), ships that appear during missions and scripted sequences, and Nomad ships even if you use mods to overcome their Hard-Coded Hostility.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_637240ae	comment	Several times in Day Break (2006), including the one when the hero's phone rang when he was hiding on the backseat of an arms dealer's car.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_6715932e	comment	In Spirit Hunter: NG, Officer Ooe gets a call while she and the rest of the group are fleeing for their lives from the murderous Demon Tsukuyomi. Taking the call turns out to be important, however, as it provides them with an important clue on how to take Tsukuyomi down.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_678f32e0	comment	In the Big Hero 6: The Series pilot "Baymax Returns", Aunt Cass calls Hiro while he and Baymax are fighting one of Yama's Evil Knockoffs of Baymax to tell him not to snack since she's bringing home butterfish for dinner.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: In Iron Man, the eponymous superhero is flitting over Afghanistan, blowing up terrorist bases, when he's picked up by US Air Force radar. After confirming that it isn't a US unit, Col. Rhodes, having begun to realize whose movie he's in, calls up Tony Stark to ask if one of Stark's prototypes is loose in his airspace. It is... and Tony's flying it. Reconstructed in The Avengers. Natasha is tied to a chair, seemingly at the mercy of Russian badinskys, when a mook's phone rings. It's for the leader, and it's Phil Coulson: Inverted in the climax of same film. Tony Stark is about to make a Heroic Sacrifice, so tries to make one last call to Pepper Potts. Unfortunately her phone (set on vibrate) is lying forgotten on a table, while Potts and everyone else is staring aghast at the events unfolding on their television. Potts of course is far too responsible to even think of calling her boss in the middle of a crisis. In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scott, Hope, and Hank are captured and tied to chairs by Bill and Ava. As the pair are explaining to the heroes Ava's predicament and what they're hoping to accomplish, Scott's daughter Cassie, along with her mom and stepdad, FaceTime him to ask him where Cassie's soccer shoes are. Ava and Bill ignore the call the first time, but when she calls again, they rather exasperatedly pick up the phone and hold it in front of Scott's face so he can talk without them realizing anything's wrong.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_69daf29	comment	In Grrl Power, the would-be hero Sydney call her teammate Dabbler at night for some "urgent" informations. She is first responded by Dabbler that this is not the time as she is in the middle of something, and then, more explicitly, that something is in the middle of her. This cut the conversation short. Of course, since Dabbler is a succubus, this was to be expected.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_6c1d09b4	comment	At the beginning of the "Secret of Cabot House" quest in Fallout 4, the player witnesses this situation first hand. Jack Cabot is trying to talk to Edward Deegan over the radio, while the latter is engaged in a running gun-fight with a bunch of raiders. Edward even drops the trope name at one point before being forced off the air by the fighting.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_6d8311c4	comment	In PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver, Crystal, and the remakes, trainers would call you via PokÃ©gear all the time. What's that? You're busy saving the Radio Tower from Team Rocket? Eh. They'll call you anyway.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	In Jackie Chan Adventures, Jackie is often kicking ass with the shadowkhan or some other mooks when Uncle calls, often with the Phlebotinum or the info needed to defeat the Monster of the Week. His phone calls usually take forever with his constant "one more thing" reminders, while Jackie's trying to listen and fight off the attackers at once. Conservation of Ninjutsu seems to be the only thing that keeps him alive through them.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_6f734712	comment	In the Smallville episode "Warrior", Clark Kent is rounding up some crooks when Lois Lane calls him. Hilariously, one of the criminals tries to run away, but Clark fishes a can out of the trash and chucks it at his head, knocking him out.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_706b3301	comment	The Jolly Roger Telephone Company is service that provides bots which are designed to waste the time of telemarketers and other nuisance callers. The bots go through all sorts of routines and gags, all while supposedly listening to the pitch of the telemarketers or whoever it is that's calling. Of course, the real gag is that nothing is happening because they're just a bot and the caller is talking only to a series of pre-programmed recordings.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_72c27d5e	comment	In Obsessed, BeyoncÃ© Knowles has a phone conversation during her fight with Ali Larter.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_741f1896	comment	In Special School, Manny makes a date with Karne while he's at his "day job".
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Kinda Busy Here / int_7460586f	comment	Archer: Archer causes three agents' covers to be blown by calling them drunkenly. He called the first two were to convince women at a bar that he was a secret agent, the third he just asks if he plans on attending a work function. This happens to Archer during a break in. Fortunately, one of the guards has the same obnoxious ringtone, so no one notices. Happens in a later episode when all of ISIS starts interrupts Dr. Krieger's surgery on Ray in the episode "Legs". Kreiger even references the trope by name.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_74f9323b	comment	A running gag in Sonic and the Death Cheese is Robotnik getting phone calls from his mom, and Sonic getting phone calls from the bank and Tails.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_760edaae	comment	In Ant-Man and the Wasp, Scott, Hope, and Hank are captured and tied to chairs by Bill and Ava. As the pair are explaining to the heroes Ava's predicament and what they're hoping to accomplish, Scott's daughter Cassie, along with her mom and stepdad, FaceTime him to ask him where Cassie's soccer shoes are. Ava and Bill ignore the call the first time, but when she calls again, they rather exasperatedly pick up the phone and hold it in front of Scott's face so he can talk without them realizing anything's wrong.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3: During the final battle of the Tuchanka arc in Wrex/Wreav comms Shepard in the middle of dodging a Reaper's attacks while on foot, and evading an infinite number of Brutes to heckle him/her on how long it's taking. Shepard is less than amused. There's also the firefight in the Citadel DLC where the team receives an urgent call... from the pizza delivery volus, demanding payment.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_76e7de99	comment	In Return of the Archwizards a character had a magical sending responded to only with a "fleeting impression of terror" and was afraid to send another due to the possibility it would distract the other party from a hard fight.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_77711848	comment	Happens in the 2008 film of Journey to the Center of the Earth, if the trailer is accurate. That's some impressive phone coverage they've got there.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_77f711d6	comment	In Preservation, the eldest of the psycho teens has Wit tied to a picnic table and is about to kill her when his mobile phone rings. He halts, steps away from the table, and takes the call. It's his mother, and he proceeds to have a perfectly ordinary conversation where he tells her that he is just hanging out with his friends, that he'll be home in a couple of hours, and that she shouldn't worry.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_7c50d3d9	comment	In the climax of Super Mario Bros. (1993), Koopa gets calls on his walkie-talkie to let him know that his pizza is here, and that the Goombas are dancing again.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_7c6f5e19	comment	The Red Green Show: A Played for Laughs variation of this involving an intercom system rather than a cell phone showed up in one Handyman Corner segment...where Red was building the intercom system using PVC piping and used toilets. At the end of the segment, Red tried to use one of these toilets to contact Harold, and at first, all he heard was a trickle. Then Harold answered, "Don't talk to me now, Uncle Red, I'm...kinda busy...!"
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Kinda Busy Here / int_80f63b6b	comment	In Charlie's Angels (2000) Natalie casually talks with her boyfriend Pete while rescuing Bosley in the bad guy's hideout. She assures him that he didn't call at a bad time, when he comments she seems distracted.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_86904ab8	comment	In Iron Man, the eponymous superhero is flitting over Afghanistan, blowing up terrorist bases, when he's picked up by US Air Force radar. After confirming that it isn't a US unit, Col. Rhodes, having begun to realize whose movie he's in, calls up Tony Stark to ask if one of Stark's prototypes is loose in his airspace. It is... and Tony's flying it.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_8937cdf0	comment	In an issue of Barb Wire, Barb is in the mother of all Chase Scenes fleeing from every criminal force in her City on her motorcycle, when her cell phone beeps. After exclaiming that they must be kidding her, she decides to answer with the most sensible line:
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Kinda Busy Here / int_894d94ab	comment	Spying with Lana: Happened offscreen to Lana. Mission Control apparently called her on her "Get Smart Special earring mic" at a pool party hosted by gun runners, blowing her cover in the process, to ask her something important: if her birthday was on the 3rd or the 8th.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_8ba43df	comment	Played with in John Wick. Wick is fighting an assassin in his hotel room in the Continental, when the concierge Charon rings him up. After a few seconds of violence, there's an abrupt cut to the very quiet lobby, with Charon patiently waiting for John to answer, even though he clearly knows what's going on. This happens again before John wins the fight and picks up the phone to hear a notification about noise complaints.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_8c1caf4	comment	Inverted in Transformers (2007). It's justified, though, as well as funny. Captain Lennox tries to make a call to The Pentagon while his (dwindling) men fight off Scorponok. The justification comes from Bay's military advisers listing similar issues soldiers had while trying to connect to the Pentagon mid-battle.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_8eb5bce9	comment	TouchÃ© Turtle and Dum Dum: A Running Gag in these episodes showed TouchÃ© being interrupted mid-battle by a ringing telephone located inside his shell. He invariably stops what he's doing, pulls his head and arms inside his shell, and takes the call.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Kim Possible: The main character has occasionally called her mother while her mother was in the middle of performing brain surgery. Dr. Possible happily talked on the speaker phone to her daughter, all the while continuing with the operation. There's also a few Kimmunicator calls that have come in during action sequences. In the Series Fauxnale, Kim is under attack by giant robots, calls Wade, and he's got another one destroying his room. Earlier in the film, Kim takes a call from her friend Monique for some high school gossip while flying down a street in central Tokyo on a grapple line attached to Shego's fighter jet. Building a Heads-Up Display Kimmunicator into the suit her dad made to replace her ruined mission outfit: good idea. Having it suddenly take up her whole field of view while Kim was in the middle of fighting Shego: not so much.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_9727b74f	comment	Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars. Carmen is not amused when Carl Jenkins makes psychic contact with her while she's trying to launch a planetary invasion. At least he has a good excuse, as he warns her that she's about to be arrested.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_9888e7c2	comment	In the Dan Vs. episode "Baseball," Elise—who is some kind of secret agent, unbeknownst to her husband Chris—fields several calls from him while involved on a mission. The last time he's calling to say that he's on the field at the World Series...while she's just below his feet, trying to disarm a bomb that's set to blow up the stadium.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_998cbda3	comment	Played for drama in Daredevil (2015). James Wesley has abducted Karen Page and has placed his gun on the table in front of him as an Implied Death Threat. During their conversation Wesley's mobile rings, distracting him just long enough for Karen to snatch up the gun and kill him.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_9e876c22	comment	In Good Omens, the demon Crowley is facing down two superior demons from the infernal hierarchy, effectively the IS department who want to take him in for questioning about his divided loyalties. Right in the middle of the stand-off, his phone rings. It is the Angel Aziraphale, who wants to talk about the very irregularity for which Hastur and Ligur want to arrest him... Bonus points for Crowley answering "Umm, kinda busy here" so casually that Aziraphale just knows something horribly dangerous is happening.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_a16acaad	comment	Inverted in 3 Ninjas Kick Back when Tum Tum has to make a mandatory phone call with his parents during a fight with ninja mooks. He had to talk to them at the same time everyday. One of the mooks carried a phone which Tum Tum and his brothers used to talk while fighting and had to make excuses with the fighting noise.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_a29544ab	comment	Apollo 13: Jack Swigert gets the call that he's going to the moon during what's obviously shower sex.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_a44b76ea	comment	World War Z. The protagonist leaves a satellite phone with his wife, saying he'll call once a day to let her know he's still alive. Unfortunately his first call doesn't make it through, so she tries ringing back just as he's trying to sneak past some zombies. After surviving that he makes another phone call and this time gets through, only to hang up in mid-conversation because he's just seen a nuclear explosion go off.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_a6327b20	comment	The Radix: During a dangerous car chase, Brynstone gets a call from wife who wants to tell him their daughter said her first word.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_a9dd3bce	comment	One Piece (2023); Dracule Mihawk's Establishing Character Moment in Episode 5 has him holding a casual phone conversation with Garp while single-handedly slaughtering Don Krieg and his entire fleet.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_ab42c63a	comment	Get Smart is probably the Trope Maker. Maxwell Smart had a Shoe Phone, and just about every week it would ring at an inconvenient time and he would answer it. Since this was long before cell phones were invented, this was pure science fiction. Unfortunately, nobody seemed to pay attention to this warning of what the future was to bring...
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Kinda Busy Here / int_ac6b386d	comment	Skullgirls: Parasoul's Egret Call move has one of her soldiers call her with a status update when she's in the middle of a fight, allowing her to cancel animations while she tells the Egret to call back later.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_acb92fd0	comment	Happened all the time in Father Ted. Ted would ring Father Larry Duff for advice, always at the most inconvenient moment, leading to Father Larry meeting such fates as driving over a cliff, being trampled by a herd of stampeding donkeys, or (the very least of his problems) missing out on the jackpot prize in a TV game show by having his concentration broken.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_b2944285	comment	In an issue of Power Girl, the title character desperately tries to call Zatanna for help after dinosaurs begin appearing around in New York City. Unfortunately, Zatanna is unable to answer her phone, as a villain has taped her mouth shut and is absorbing her powers.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_b4996199	comment	The Fury, the Spider-Man Captain Ersatz in 1963 has one of these while fighting a giant psychic dinosaur, despite the action taking place Exactly When It Says On The Tin. How? He hops into a phone booth when he absolutely has to make a call mid-fight.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_b712435c	comment	At the beginning of the second episode of Leverage, Nate calls the team and some of them are not exactly disposed to talking. Eliot was in a face-off with a guy who had a gun (he used his cellphone as a distraction to take him out), and Parker was hanging from a ceiling after stealing a painting (she tried to shush her phone).
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Kinda Busy Here / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Young Justice (2010) has a variant, slightly different in that it's between heroes on the same mission (who are using telepathy instead of a phone):
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Kinda Busy Here / int_b9bfa3d5	comment	Inverted and happens every 10 minutes in Crank: Chev Chelios calls his doctor while committing insane acts of violence and vandalism, at one point calling him while driving his car through a mall.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_ba75a004	comment	Polar has a Running Gag of Vivian being busy with her own activities when someone rings her, from attending a funeral to partying at a strip club. On one occasion she appears to be playing squash, only for a Reveal Shot to show she's just assassinated a man who is still bleeding out all over the squash court.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_bb4d01de	comment	In The Bremen Avenue Experience episode "Jessica's Story", the incessant ringing of Jessica's mobile phone disrupts the titular Fake Band's rehearsalâ€”until the band starts incorporating it into the song they're playing.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_bf09bf33	comment	Arrowverse: In "Crucible", Oliver Queen's business partner demands to know why he hasn't shown up at a crucial investor party. Felicity Smoak promises to call and find out, then winces at the sound of gunfire in her ear when she does. And in "The Calm", it's Oliver who calls Felicity while she's working on the sales desk of an IT store. She has to leave the line of customers unattended and use the store's computer to hack into the CCTV network to help Oliver with the chase he's currently involved in. In one of the opening scenes of the crossover Crisis on Earth-X, Felicity calls Oliver to discuss RSVP-ing to Barry and Iris' wedding... while Oliver is fighting ninjas in a warehouse.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_c03c2b44	comment	For the climax of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, Will and Elizabeth ask Barbosa to marry them. Barbosa lets them know heâ€™s a little busy fighting The Flying Dutchmanâ€™s crew in the middle of a fierce storm. Barbosa eventually agrees and proceeds with the ceremony while still fighting Davey Jonesâ€™ men.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_c42e88f5	comment	Inversely, in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, one of Viper's intro quotes has her end a call with her daughter because she's ABOUT to get in a fight.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who. "Planet of the Dead": Scientist Malcolm Taylor, on Earth, is assisting the Doctor, on an alien planet. At one point he calls him when he learns something. The Doctor, busy running away from an alien storm, just shouts "Not now, Malcolm!" and hangs up. At the start of "The Time of the Doctor", the Doctor takes a call on the TARDIS telephone from Clara, who urgently needs him to turn up for Christmas dinner and pretend to be her boyfriend. The Doctor is in the middle of investigating this week's mystery, and being the Doctor he doesn't stop to finish the conversation before barging onto a spaceship without checking to see if it's full of Cybermen. Clara, having Seen It All as the Doctor's companion, has equally Skewed Priorities. And in "Flatline", Clara is pretending to her actual boyfriend Danny Pink that she's stopped going on adventures with the Doctor, so she answers her mobile just as she's about to be attacked by the Monster of the Week. The sounds of shouting and breaking glass do not reassure Danny that his girlfriend is being honest with him. Unfortunately all this serves as foreshadowing for "Dark Water", where Clara calls her boyfriend with a Love Confession that can't wait a few minutes until he gets home. Distracted by the phone call, Danny is killed in a road accident.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_c4a7b5d3	comment	In Shaun of the Dead, while they're trying to sneak into the pub while pretending to be mindless zombies to get past a real zombie horde, Ed receives a call on his cellphone and answers it.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest: "Root Cause" opens with Finch at the library pouring tea, then ringing up Reese to wish him a pleasant "Good Morning". Cut to Reese being slammed about the room by a bald-headed thug twice as big as he is. "Prisoner's Dilemma" starts playing this trope for laughs, then ends up playing it for drama. Finch rings Detective Fusco, only to hear screaming and shouting as the POI has just tear-gassed Fusco in the face, mistaking him for a villain. Later he calls as the two are dodging Armenian gangsters on the street, but when Fusco asks for help, Finch hangs up as he's busy helping Reese. At the end of the episode Finch is rushing to save Reese, only for the Machine to call with another POI number — the FBI agent who just arrested Reese. Finch rings to warn the agent, only he's too late as the murder happens at that exact moment. "If-Then-Else" plays it for drama and Ship Tease. Team Machine must shoot their way past Samaritan operatives to get to a server room, while Shaw is on the subway trying to get the access code for the server room, but is distracted by a suicidal man wearing a bomb vest. Shaw rings them for advice on Talking Down the Suicidal, but they're too busy to help much. Later Shaw is annoyed by a flirty phone call from Root, who's actually calling because she's about to get killed. Because this is all a simulation, we keep running through different versions of this trope.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_cb6abef3	comment	Reconstructed in The Avengers. Natasha is tied to a chair, seemingly at the mercy of Russian badinskys, when a mook's phone rings. It's for the leader, and it's Phil Coulson:
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Kinda Busy Here / int_d10e76a9	comment	In Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, Jables receives a call in the middle of a car chase with the police, from the car's owner, who's watching the chase on the news.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_d4ab5d5a	comment	In Twister, Dr. Reeves (Bill Harding's new fiancÃ©e) keeps answering her cellphone in the middle of tornado chases. At one point, after seeing a rather amazing feat of tornado-ness, she blurts, "I gotta go, we got cows!"
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Kinda Busy Here / int_d4fdfff4	comment	ER: In the legendary "Hell and High Water" episode, as Doug and Mark try to revive the nearly-drowned, hypothermic boy whom Doug rescued from a storm drain, desk clerk Jerry decides this is the perfect time to barge into the trauma room and tell them that the press is demanding answers regarding the boy's condition. Mark basically name-drops this trope by snapping, "Yeah, well, we're a little busy in here!" Also in the episode "All in the Family," as the staff tends to Carter and Lucy, desk clerk Randi comes in to tell them that the cops are looking to talk to whoever treated the assailant. Kerry snaps at her to, "Handle it, Randi!"
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Kinda Busy Here / int_d56cafaf	comment	It happens to Dr. K in an episode of Power Rangers RPM.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_d66ef045	comment	Atlantis: The Lost Empire: This exchange which happens after the Ulysses is damaged and starts taking on water and Rourke gives the order to Abandon Ship:
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Kinda Busy Here / int_df7f5776	comment	Casino Royale (1967) does it in a makeshift foxhole with military telephones.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_e098e5f1	comment	In Home Alone 3, Alex's mom calls while he's home alone with the burglars.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_e1ec0e62	comment	In Grand Theft Auto IV, Niko can be called by his friends or girlfriends on his cell phone any time he's not in the middle of a race or mission, but there are also scripted sequences inside of certain missions where he will receive a phone call as well. They're often of an ironic nature, such as being invited to go drinking while he's driving a truck rigged with explosives, and being called to go to a strip club while kidnapping the daughter of a mob boss. One such phone call can even blow his cover during an on-foot Stalking Mission and force him to chase his target to their destination.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_e293455a	comment	In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Pangs", Angel calls Giles to warn him and Buffy that the Monster of the Week is going to be attacking them — right as they're being attacked.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_e30f4153	comment	Major Crimes: In the episode "Poster Boy" an insane murderer in interrupted by a phone call from his grandmother while he is dismembering the body of his latest victim.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_e7a9c06c	comment	Paperinik New Adventures: Subverted in Pk2, the sequel, where the cellphone going off distracts the droid who was about to shoot Paperinik, saving his life. It was also deconstructed in the reboot, where the distraction of the cellphone stops Pikappa from attacking a monster and almost gets him killed.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_e7d67cd3	comment	Code Geass: More than once, Lelouch gets a call from Shirley while hiding from Britannian soldiers. Since he's a little more sensible than most people on this page, he immediately turns his phone off (angering Shirley for hanging up on her), but the damage is done, and the soldiers find him. In another instance, Princess Euphemia calls her knight, Suzaku (on his radio) while he's in the middle of a huge battle. Initially, he tries to tell her he's busy and this isn't a good time, but she still confesses her feelings for him — while Suzaku continues to royally own the attacking Knightmares.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_e82c9823	comment	In Black Cat, Train Hartnet gets a call from his partner, Sven, while attempting to hide from Torneo's Mooks in a bathroom inside Torneo's mansion. He cuts the call short when someone urgently needs to use said bathroom.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_ebc16974	comment	One of Crimson Viper's victory poses in Street Fighter IV is her daughter calling her on her cellphone after the fight is over. Inversely, in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, one of Viper's intro quotes has her end a call with her daughter because she's ABOUT to get in a fight.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_edcb525f	comment	The sequel to Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? has the Phantom Thief, upon being caught in the Prinnies' trap, use the Omega Cool spell to summon Ice Keeper Joshua, who lands less than gracefully on her rear, seeing as she was in the middle of a phone conversation. While she does lend the Phantom Thief some assistance, she spends the entire fight reading a magazine and chatting away on her cell phone. Amusingly, listening close enough to her conversation will reveal plenty of references to prior games in the same universe.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_f17c3b1d	comment	Dead Rising: This can happen to the player when somebody calls your cellphone while you're fighting zombies. You can elect to hang up, but that person calls you back about five seconds later ...and then you are scolded, because hanging up on someone is rude. Sadly, you cannot tell the person exactly where he can place his manners.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_f22e6bb4	comment	One of the funnier moments in Black Hawk Down:
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Kinda Busy Here / int_f232da51	comment	In Marvel: Contest of Champions Deadpool's third special attack has his cellphone ring in the middle of the fight and he goes to answer it, while his opponent makes exasperated gestures and looks away while he yammers away on it, only to have Deadpool shake his head, hang up and offhandedly shoot his opponent.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_f26c58d6	comment	Real-time Tactics game World in Conflict pulls this when you try to select infantry units that are under fire.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_f38b71c3	comment	Dead Space 2: Twice, Isaac gets calls when he's up to his ass in Necromorphs. The first time, when Daina calls him, he simply yells "Not now!" and hangs up on her. The second time, Isaac's fighting off even more Necromorphs on top of a subterranean drill. Ellie calls Isaac to ask him if he's okay, to which Isaac sarcastically replies "Oh yeah! Good times!" and hangs up.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_fa6e380e	comment	Despite being set in the pre-cellphone era, Hill Street Blues had a similar running gag; Detective Belker's Jewish Mother always seemed to call him while he was trying to book in a suspect.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_fcf34eec	comment	In Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid, Kaname happens to call SÅ�suke's cell phone while he is in Sicily serving as a getaway driver for Mao and Kurz. For some reason he answers, resulting in several minutes of conversation while he is driving a car being pursued and shot at by a baker's dozen cars full of Mafia Mooks.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_fdc66d32	comment	Kamen Rider Double: In a flashback, Soukichi Narumi talks to his daughter while in the middle of his first battle as Kamen Rider Skull. While the bad guys are attempting to kersplat him with industrial equipment, Akiko calls and Soukichi casually talks about how fighting for justice (as a detective) seems heavy enough to crush a man sometimes, but he'll be okay. Thanks to a Monster of the Week curse that does not have No Ontological Inertia placed on him later in the film, he can never see Akiko again, so this scene becomes Harsher in Hindsight as it's likely their last-ever conversation.
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Kinda Busy Here / int_ff9ab17f	comment	In an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ("The Arsenal of Freedom"), Geordi LaForge takes a call from Captain Picard in the middle of a battle:
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Kinda Busy Here	processingCategory2	Phone Tropes
Sonic and the Death Cheese (Audio Play) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Birds of Prey (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Huntress (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
1963 (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
PS238 (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Paperinik New Adventures (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Spirou & Fantasio (Comic Book) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Fairly English Story / Fan Fic / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Brockton's Celestial Forge (Fanfic) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Shattered Dimensions (Fanfic) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Sucked Into the Smash Universe (Fanfic) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Apollo 13 / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Batman Forever / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Black Hawk Down / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Casino Royale (1967) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Charlie's Angels (2000) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Die Hard 2 / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Heartbreak Ridge / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Magnum Force / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Matchstick Men / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Polar / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Repo! The Genetic Opera / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Shaun of the Dead / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Starship Troopers / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Super Mario Bros. (1993) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
The Aviator / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
The Last Jedi / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
The Last Stand / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
The Terminator / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Under Siege / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Venom: Let There Be Carnage / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
World War Z / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Denpa Teki na Kanojo / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Labyrinths of Echo / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
The Radix / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Ayakashi Triangle (Manga) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Yozakura Quartet (Manga) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Miracle of Sound (Music) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
CDT Adventure (Roleplay) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Weaverdice Tongju (Roleplay) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Broad City / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Day Break (2006) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Running Man / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Space Force (2020) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
The Bold Type / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
The Red Green Show / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Paranoia (Tabletop Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Dead Space 2 (Video Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Disgaea 5: Alliance of Vengeance (Video Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
inFAMOUS (Video Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Marvel: Contest of Champions (Video Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne (Video Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? (Video Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee (Video Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
World in Conflict (Video Game) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Spirit Hunter: NG (Visual Novel) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Legendy Polskie (Web Video) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Super Effective (Webcomic) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Atlantis: The Lost Empire / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Axe Cop / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Danger Mouse / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Hoodwinked! / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Incredibles 2 / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Marvel's Spider-Man / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Ozzy & Drix / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
The Bremen Avenue Experience / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Touché Turtle and Dum Dum / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Atomic Robo / Comicbook / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Facing the Future Series (Fanfic) / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here
Get Smart / int_336c1a31	type	Kinda Busy Here

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