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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Two men in white lab coats walk in holding two containers that glow in different colours and put them into what appears to be a small particle accelerator. The energies from the containers collide, and form the scientific breakthrough of the century: A Razor With FIVE Blades! In the world of commercials, shaving equipment is right there next to rocket science. Common imagery includes fighter jets and sports cars. Often an adoring woman will walk on screen to stroke or kiss the smooth chin. That, or it just features a whole ton of blades. Gillette are now actually advertising their products as "born from the science of shaving" (at least in the UK). Compare Here Comes the Science; Men Buy from Mars, Women Buy from Venus; Mother Nature, Father Science. Other shaving companies like Harry's are bucking this trend, going for a more retro luxury style. (They still have 5 blades, however.) Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Examples: |
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One Damage Control issue had a scientist mention that he was constructing a razor using adamantine blades for She-Hulk- it was apparently the only thing that was effective against her leg hairs. | |
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Gillette parodied their own "science of shaving" adverts with an Avengers: Age of Ultron Dualvertisement that showed razors based on Thor's hammer, Cap's shield, Hulk's fists, and Iron Man's armour while the voice-over explained "You could make a razor with Avengers technology," and then, as the bathroom was destroyed, "but you clearly shouldn't." | |
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Superman shaves his face using his heat vision. Supergirl/Power Girl also uses her heat vision to shave her legs. | |
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Dark Forces Saga Kyle Katarn uses his lightsaber as a shaving implement. | |
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Monday Night Combat has two futuristic shaving products among its many sponsors: LazeRazor (with fifteen laser blades — "If you've got the balls to shave with one of our razors, you might as well keep 'em silky smooth") and ShaveIce, a flash-freezing shave "gel" that is more popularly used on the field of combat to freeze the air around enemies. | |
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MADtv (1995) had a similar sketch involving the 20-bladed Spishak Mach 20. | |
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The Daily Show featured a razor with 14 blades. | |
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Irregular Webcomic! took it to its logical progression with this strip. The razor utilises fractal technology to create a razor with an infinite number of blades. Then adds a conventional one for infinity plus one blades. | |
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There was an episode of Superman: The Animated Series where Superman did the whole bouncing his laser vision off of a mirror to shave. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: Shaving is just for Barrayaran nobles who have the free time and inclination (and because they are so macho, that holding a blade to one's face holds certain appeal). Rest of the nexus uses a depilatory cream, or permanently stun the hair follicles. | |
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D.G. Baley from Robots and Empire uses a laser instead. Permanent facial depilation isn't unknown either. | |
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In the 1970s, shortly after the Trac II came out, MAD featured the Trac LXXVI, a 76-blade razor. | |
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Advertisements in Grand Theft Auto IV feature a razor called the Excelsior Extreme 9, with "9 blades of glory." The DJ of the Tuff Going radio station (reggae) warns his listeners not to buy it. "You might cut off ya' nose." | |
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Iron Man: Tony's morning routine once involved a sonic shower, and a hovering robotic coat hanger. Of course, he is a billionaire genius inventor. Similar to the Gillette example above, there was a promotional solo comic that was about Tony Stark presenting cutting-edge razors using technology based on Avengers' superpowers that A.I.M. attempted to steal. |
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It's been surmised that he has to. Although in Superman: Up, Up and Away!, Clark shows up at his workplace with multiple cuts on his face after being depowered. | |
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The Onion: In 2004, they ran a parody editorial attributed to the CEO of Gillette, entitled "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades." The following year, Gillette actually introduced such a product. The weekly feature "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" mocked Gillette Stadium by referring to it as "Next One Will Have 4 Blades Stadium." He's since had to update this joke twice. |
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The Number of the Beast had someone mention that the future he was visiting had a device that made razors seem like stone age technology. | |
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Heinlein introduced this substance in Farmer in the Sky already in the 1950s; the extraterrestrial pioneers grow beards because the depilatory cream, imported from Earth, is hideously expensive. | |
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Parodied in a Touhou Project fan video, where Suika worries about the suction of her black holes. | |
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A favorite of Saturday Night Live. A classic SNL faux-commercial described a razor named the Platinum Mach 14. The patented fifth razor actually removes the follicle! In the first season of SNL, when two-bladed razors were apparently just coming out, they had a faux-commercial mocking the absurdity of a hypothetical three-bladed razor. The Triple-Trac: Because You'll Believe Anything. |
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Arthur, King of Time and Space had a strip that began in the contemporary arc with Arthur saying he wasn't sure why a razor needed five blades, and Merlin replying that he remembered when three blades was an SNL punchline. And then a cut to the space arc with the same dialogue only both numbers are followed by "thousand". | |
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At the end of The Jungle Line, Superman uses a broken mirror glass and his heat vision to shave his stubble after waking from a fever-induced coma. | |
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The general terminology for men's beauty products was parodied by Jeremy Hardy on The News Quiz, saying that men will only buy moisturizer if it's called all-weather sealant. | |
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Superman: Superman shaves his face using his heat vision. Supergirl/Power Girl also uses her heat vision to shave her legs. Some early Superman comics suggested that he didn't have to shave. In at least one early story some perceptive child is convinced that Clark Kent is Superman after seeing inside his medicine cabinet, which contains only a hairbrush. At the end of The Jungle Line, Superman uses a broken mirror glass and his heat vision to shave his stubble after waking from a fever-induced coma. During that brief period when Superman had his electrical-based powers, he accidentally shocked himself after forgetting that he no longer had heat vision and he couldn't be Clark Kent and Superman at the same time. It's been surmised that he has to. Although in Superman: Up, Up and Away!, Clark shows up at his workplace with multiple cuts on his face after being depowered. |
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There's that episode of Lois & Clark where Clark Kent shows up at the Daily Planet with multiple cuts on his face after being depowered. | |
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Transmetropolitan: Whatever's going on in that sonic shower Spider Jerusalem steps into, it moves him from "hirsute mountain man" to "permanent hairlessness" in about ten seconds. | |
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Wikipedia's article on technological singularities used to predict this would happen in 2015, illustrated by a picture of the Schick Infini-T. Then some humorless bastard got hold of the article, obviously. Then someone went and actually made a documentary about all this. (Modern Marvels, maybe?) | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation introduced a shaving device that used some suitably scientific-futuristic sounding term (futuristic for the 1980s). "Sonic", perhaps, or "laser". You just passed it over your skin, and the hair was gone. On the other hand, in Star Trek: Insurrection, Troi shaves Riker with shaving cream and an old-fashioned razor. | |
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