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=== Literature ===

* In the ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' book ''New Moon'' Edward conveniently smashes his phone in grief because he thinks Bella is dead, thus enabling a dramatic flight to Italy solely to demonstrate that she is, in fact, still alive.

* [[Ciaphas Cain]], '''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!''', deals with this problem on a regular basis. However, it's justified: due to his origin <ref>A hive world, aka an extremely overcrowded planet</ref> he is very competent at orientation in closed spaces and thus constantly gets assigned to missions that deal with such spaces. Such as tunnels or caves. Which are, you know, underground, so it's hard to keep contact. In ''For the Emperor'', for example, it was a major plot point, since he managed to find out the true reason behind the conflict and must find his way to the surface as soon as possible to prevent a large-scale war, since he can't just tell that over the radio.

** The other demons don't understand. Crowley figures that spreading low-level frustration to thousands of people on a regular basis is much more efficient in the corruption of souls than the one-on-one approach—a thousand grouchy people spread a lot more misery around than one awful person.

* Justified example in ''[[The Dresden Files]]'': magic [[Walking Techbane|screws up advanced technology like computers and cell phones]], thus ruining cell phone reception whenever a wizard is around. The effect worsens exponentially when when a wizard (or other magic user) is actively casting magic, and that's not even taking into account "hexing", which is a direct magical attack with the intent of destroying technology. Dresden himself compares cell phones to a canary in a coal mine or "[[Red Shirt|those guys in the red shirts on Star Trek]]" because they die the instant trouble hits.

 

=== Video Games ===