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{{quote|'''Kick Ass''': How do I get a hold of you.
'''Hit Girl''': You just contact the mayor's office, he has a special signal he shines in the sky. It's in the shape of a giant cock. }}
* Parodied in ''[[Monty Python and
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* The Huntsman, a character in ''[[Freakazoid]]'', is signaled by "The Horn of Urgency", a giant horn on the police station's roof. Unfortunately, it was a false alarm every time.
* [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]] in ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]],'' as Spider-Man uses the belt-mounted Spider-Signal to announce his arrival, as above.
* Parodied in the cartoon version of ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'': The Mayor has several superhero signals, and doesn't think much of their effectiveness (especially when he has the Tick's phone number).
{{quote|'''Mayor Blank:''' "Every time we flash the Die Fledermaus signal, he disconnects his phone and leaves town for a week."}}
* Played with in ''[[Family Guy]]'', when Bill Gates shines a Windows logo into the sky to summon a helicopter to pick him up. Yeah.
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