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{{quote|'''British General:''' I'm sorry, dear, but I won't be home in time for dinner... well, apparently a war has broken out.}}

* This happens to Mister Hertz [[Running Gag|multiple times]] in ''[[Shoot'Em Up (film)|Shoot Em Up]]'', most notably just as he's going to execute Mister Smith.

* Happens in the 2008 film of ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]]'', if the trailer is accurate. [[Can You Hear Me Now|That's some impressive phone coverage they've got there.]]

* Happens in the 2008 film of ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]]'', if the trailer is accurate. [[Can You Hear Me Now?|That's some impressive phone coverage they've got there.]]

* Inverted and happens every 10 minutes in ''[[Crank]]'': Chev Chelios calls his doctor while committing insane acts of violence and vandalism, at one point calling him while driving his car through a mall.

* In ''[[Die Hard 2]]'', Holly McClane, worried about why her plane hasn't landed (the airport has been forcibly shut down by terrorists) calls her husband, who receives the call as he's attempting to sneak up on one of said terrorists.

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== Live Action TV ==

* This has happened on ''[[Lost]]'' at least a couple of times.

* ''[[24]]'' as well.

* It happens to Dr. K in an episode of ''[[Power Rangers RPM]]''.

{{quote|"I'm a little busy saving the human race right now, Benny."}}

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* In the Japanese drama ''Tokyo Dogs'', [[Running Gag|Sô's mother always call him at the most inappropriate moments]], while apprehending a suspect or rescuing an hostage. Usually to ask him what kind of food he wants to eat or if he prefers a yellow or purple pajama.

* Happened all the time in ''[[Father Ted]]''. Ted would ring Father Larry Duff for advice, always at the most inconvenient moment, leading to Father Larry meeting such fates as driving over a cliff, being trampled by a herd of stampeding donkeys, or (the very least of his problems) missing out on the jackpot prize in a TV game show by having his concentration broken.

* In the ''[[Smallville]]'' episode "Warrior", Clark Kent is rounding up some crooks when Lois Lane calls him. Hilariously, one of the criminals tries to run away, but Clark fishes a can out of the trash and chucks it at his head, knocking him out.

* ''[[Kamen Rider Double]]:'' In a flashback, Soukichi Narumi talks to his daughter while in the middle of his first battle as Kamen Rider Skull. While the bad guys are attempting to kersplat him with industrial equipment, Akiko calls and Soukichi casually talks about how fighting for justice (as a detective) seems heavy enough to ''crush'' a man sometimes, but he'll be okay. {{spoiler|Thanks to a [[Monster of the Week]] curse that does ''not'' have [[No Ontological Inertia]] placed on him later in the film, he can never see Akiko again}}, so this scene becomes [[Harsher in Hindsight]] as {{spoiler|it's likely their last-ever conversation.}}

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'''Donatello:''' Oh, okay. I'll try again later.

'''Raphael:''' Do that! }}

* [[Inverted]] on ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]:'' Aunt May insists Peter call home if he's going to be out past his 10 o'clock curfew. He set his cell phone alarm to remind him when to call, and in early episodes this tended to happen right in the middle of a fight.

* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' has [[Batman]] in this situation several times, including a few times when [[Aquaman]] was bored on a family vacation and hoped that Batman would need him to ''join'' the current battle.

* ''[[Young Justice]]'' has a variant, slightly different in that it's between heroes on the same mission (who are using telepathy instead of a phone):

{{quote|'''Miss Martian:''' Superboy, are you online or just pouting?

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== Real Life ==

* During the battle which earned Audie Murphy his Medal of Honor, he was contacted by officers in the rear and asked how close the Germans were. Murphy responded, "Hold on and I'll let you talk to one," and kept on fighting.

* The cell phone of Jeff Nolan, a soldier deployed in Afghanistan, [http://www.switched.com/2008/05/08/sons-cell-phone-calls-home-during-battle-in-afghanistan/ dialed his parents' home on Oregon on its own accord] in the middle of a gunfight.