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* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
** Early editions had weapons with lines attached, allowing them to be retrieved after being thrown. They included the aklys (a short weighted club) and the harpoon.
** The adventure T1-4 ''Temple of Elemental Evil'', when the [[PC
** One of the ''[[Ravenloft]]'' villains has a cursed bloodthirsty sword that [[Clingy MacGuffin|appears in his hand whenever fighting starts]]. He could get rid of it for good, but counts this as [[Cursed with Awesome]], since he's strong enough to compensate for minor combat disadvantage from the curse and enjoys being in fact armed with a magical weapon even while "disarmed". And is just as bloodthirsty as the sword, for that matter.
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has "Dagger of homing"
*** ''Return of the Archwizards'' trilogy introduced "darkswords". They were designed as ancestral weapons, so anyone who has a right to wield one can call it into the hand at will. Of course, the wielders abused this property by [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works|throwing swords all the time]], and these are sharp enough to cut anyone who happened to be on the way when flying back.
*** Wulfgar of [[The Icewind Dale Trilogy]] owned a war-hammer called Aegis-Fang. Simply by thinking about it, Wulfgar could recall the hammer to his hand so that he could strike his enemies with it even after he had thrown it at other enemies.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The ancient ZX Spectrum game ''Kentilla'' allowed you to do this - saying "Kentilla" teleported the sword to your hand - very handy if you were captured.
* The Keyblade in ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' teleports back to the wielder if they hold their hand out for it. Possibly via [[Hammerspace]], as that is where it spends a lot of its time and the method for getting it from there is identical. Sora actually uses this to his advantage in the second game where he agreed to give his Keyblade to [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Jack Sparrow]] in exchange for his help, and in the first with the Strike Raid limit.<ref>which consists of throwing the Keyblade repeatedly at the target as it returns to Sora's hand</ref>
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* Jasmine in the ''[[Conan the Adventurer (animation)|Conan the Adventurer]]'' cartoon series had magically enhanced shuriken that would return to her when called.
=== Examples of summoning as a power of the individual
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* There's the iconic scene in ''[[Star Wars]]:[[The Empire Strikes Back]]'' when Luke summons his lightsaber using [[The Force]] when he is otherwise indisposed.
** Likewise Obi-Wan in the 1st prequel.
* In [[The Matrix|The Matrix: Reloaded]], Neo summons [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU3wPWYV6HQ&feature=related a pair of sai] in this manner while pwning the Merovingian's [[
== [[Literature]] ==
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** Classic (AD&D1 - D&D3) spell "[[Greyhawk|Drawmij]]'s Instant Summons", preparing an item to teleport from almost anywhere into the caster's hand at any moment later.
** The 1st Edition legerdemain cantrip ''Present'' allowed the caster to summon a small object to his hand from up to 2 feet away.
** AD&D2 era spell from [[Dragon (magazine)]], "Hither" by [[Forgotten Realms|Ed Greenwood]]
** In 4E, Swordmages can do this with their bonded weapon.
* In ''[[Earthdawn]]'', the Summon Arrow talent allowed an Archer adept to retrieve arrows that he has fired that are within 100 yards of him.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' Abe either summoned or created objects like "modern garb", shield and variety weapons. Susan was given the ability to summon a limited magical replica of any item she put into a prepared
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