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[[File:aaronstack.jpg|link=Nextwave|frame|Aaron Stack is full of very useful devices and still lacks beer.]]
{{quote|''"Glitch! '''Anything!'''"''
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{{quote|"A ''cheese grater''? She has a gadget for everything! How can I ever beat her if I never know what insane gizmo she has up her sleeves?"|Vexus, ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]''}}
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' has weapons to solve nearly any situation it can find (although it helps Mazinger is piloted by a quick-thinking [[Genius Ditz]] is able of devising new strategies -or ways to get himself out of trouble- on the fly), and throughout the series it gets upgraded equiped to combat at any enviroment. His sucessors (''[[Great Mazinger]]'' and ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer]]'') are similarly well-equipped. Great Mazinger has [[This Is a Drill|drilling]] [[Rocket Fist]], swords, boomerangs, heat rays, electric rays, a [[Freeze Ray]], generators of hurricane winds and MORE, and is piloted by a [[Hot-Blooded]] [[The Determinator]]. Grendizer is both a space ship and a [[Humongous Mecha]], is equipped with all kind of beams, missiles and bladed weapons and it can get attached to devices let it fight at all enviroments.
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* [[Marvel Comics|Marvel]] superhero Aaron Stack, the Machine Man, was always sort of like this, but it was taken to its extreme and played for laughs in ''[[Nextwave]]''. In the belly of the alien dragon Fin Fang Foom, Machine Man's chest opened up, causing improbably large swiss army knife components to pop out, including a giant corkscrew.
** And a giant ''forceps''.
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== Fan
* The MTM from ''[[Calvin and Hobbes:
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== Live Action Television ==
* Kryten in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'', to some extent. Described as "a robot designed purely to clean lavatories," he nevertheless has a translation mode, an egg whisk, a
* Viki from ''[[Small Wonder]]''
* Averted pretty hard by K-9 in ''[[Doctor Who]]'', who had a do-anything scanner, a dinky blaster built into his nose and a printer output for a tongue, but other than that seemed pretty useless. Among his "features" were a keyboard on his back that nobody ever used, a screen on his side that never showed anything, let alone anything useful, and tiny, tiny wheels that required a perfectly smooth surface to work. Most of this was related to the cheapness and unreliability of the prop.
** Played straight by the ubiquitous sonic screwdriver, though... unless you're dealing with wood.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[The Culture]]'' novels by Ian Banks, drones have a variety of [[Some Kind of Force Field|forcefields]] that they can fold into all manner of shapes in order to accomplish different tasks. For example, they can make a field around themselves and others to operate as a protective shield, fold a field into a tube to channel liquid or produce an atom-thin shield that can be oscillated in order to cut through virtually any material like a knife through butter (plus lasers and a variety of surveillance abilities). They are so adaptable they can even perform emergency brain surgery in the field on short notice. Do not piss off a drone.
** The advanced combat/assassination droids are literally swarms of nanobots that have all the above abilities plus they can make themselves into any kind of physical weapon imaginable (and with a "brain" that extends into hyperspace for raw data storage, they can imagine quite a bit)
* Averted in one "[[Bill the Galactic Hero]]." His Swiss Army foot rarely worked right like when he wanted a laser and it shot a condom out.
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