Gadget Watches/Playing With
Basic Trope: An important piece of spy gear is compressed into a package that is worn about the wrist.
- Straight: Secret Agent Bob has a wrist-mounted laser.
- Exaggerated: Secret Agent Bob has a wrist-mounted laser/taser/chainsaw/gatling gun.
- Justified: It's easy to carry weapons around stealthily when they're lightweight and strapped to your wrist.
- Inverted: Bob's gun tells the time.
- Subverted: When he faces the Big Bad, Bob presses a button on his watch. It displays the time.
- Double Subverted: It actually displayed a timer. The watch is a bomb in disguise.
- Parodied:
- Bob's watch has any conceivable function, except for telling the time.
- Bob's watch contains large amounts of normal-sized spy gear. He can barely lift his arm.
- Deconstructed: Bob ends up Driven to Suicide after his kid ends up killing himself accidentally by playing with his watch not knowing it had a lethal laser in it.
- Reconstructed: ...and that is precisely why agents handle and store Gadget Watches just like one would handle and store real weapon.
- Zig Zagged:
Agent 606: "I will be safe, because currently on my arm is a device with any conceivable gadget I could need for escape or surveillance, aside from Rocket Boots, of course." |
- Averted: Bob's watch is just a watch.
- Enforced: "It's a spy movie. His watch has to do something cool."
- Lampshaded: "Let me guess, special Agent B.O.B, your watch is really a taser?"
- Invoked: Bob is getting ready for the mission, finds a wrist-gadget, and takes it, assuming it does something cool.
- Defied: The Big Bad cuts off Bob's arm so he can't use his watch.
- Discussed: "Look at this, Agent Bob. This watch houses a laser, a comm device, and a flashlight." "Uh-huh. Kinda strange, but cool."
- Conversed: "How can those superspies have a metal-cutting lasers in their watches? What year is this - 2633?"
Back to Gadget Watches, but the link probably has a couple extra functions...