History Main / ButtDialingMordor

[[/folder]

[[/folder]]

[[folder:LiveActionTelevision]]
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'': As seen in a flashback, Fred accidentally opened a portal to Plrtz Glrb when she read an ancient text aloud, not knowing the language.
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': In [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E7OnceMoreWithFeeling "Once More With Feeling"]] [[spoiler:Xander]] brings the singing demon Sweet to Sunnydale through a talisman. Thought that it was just a spell to bring "dances and songs," not realizing that Sweet would kill people.

* In some of the ''MarioParty'' games, you can get a Bowser phone that instantly calls him to [[PoisonMushroom deliver misery]]. When you dial him, he asks who is calling. You can lie and say whoever you want. [[IdiotBall You can also be honest]]. The final option is [[TemptingFate "Who do you think?"]] which yields a random result. Woe unto you if you choose the last option and Bowser guesses correctly.
* In ''VideoGame/NetHack'', the BigBad Wizard of Yendor lives in an isolated tower in the middle of a dungeon level, which can normally only be reached by going down through the outskirts of that level, to a lower level which contains a magic portal to the tower. If you have a telepathic pet, the pet may helpfully wake the Wizard with a ranged psychic attack when you first cross his level, which can draw him out before you're ready to fight him.

[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]
* Some scientists have expressed concerns about the radio transmissions our civilization has been sending out into space over the past century or so, saying they could inadvertently attract the attention of powerful and hostile/indifferent aliens. Deliberate transmissions (such as the Arecibo Message) and physical artifacts (such as the pulsar maps on the Voyager spacecraft) have also caused worry.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Drax gets [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy roaringly drunk]]and ''drunk dials'' [[BigBad Ronan the Accuser]], daring him to come over and fight. Ronan takes Drax up on the offer.

* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''Series/GameOfThrones'', where illiterate villain Amory Lorch tries to send a letter containing the Lannisters' plans for moving forward to his ally, Lord Damon Marbrand, accidentally sends the letter to one of the Starks' vassals, Lord Marlin Dormund.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Drax gets [[AlcoholInducedIdiocy roaringly drunk]]and ''drunk dials'' [BigBad Ronan the Accuser]], daring him to come over and fight. Ronan takes Drax up on the offer.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Drax gets roaringly drunk and ''drunk dials'' [BigBad Ronan the Accuser]], daring him to come over and fight. Ronan takes Drax up on the offer.

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', using your scanner too frequently in a system that's been invaded by the Reapers results in the Reapers actually coming after you and chasing your ship around the current system.

* In ''Videogame/TheWitcher3'', agreeing to have some drunken time will lead to phoning some very angry old man while he's on the crapper. He does not take it well.

See SchmuckBait and NiceJobBreakingItHero. TemptingFate often preceeds this, while OhCrap and WhatAnIdiot are common reactions.

** Pippin tries to use the Palantir and unintentionally ends up getting face time with Sauron himself.

* ''AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'': A character hears an urban legend about a guy named Billy Baxter who was imprisoned by "The Phone Police," a secret group who [[TheScourgeOfGod punishes people who make prank phone calls.]] He looks up Billy Baxter in the phone book and calls him for a joke. Once he does this, the Phone Police start targeting him.

* In both ''Anime/DragonballZ'', the [[StatOVision scouters]] also act as communication devices, and it was due to their function as communicators that Frieza learns about the dragon balls, using them to make a wish, and enables himself to get a head start on Vegeta in going to Namek to use their dragon balls.

* In both ''Anime/DragonballZ'' and ''WebVideo/DragonballZAbridged'', the [[StatOVision scouters]] also act as communication devices, and in both cases it was due to their function as communicators that Frieza learns about the dragon balls, using them to make a wish, and enables himself to get a head start on Vegeta in going to Namek to use their dragon balls.

** Harry starts getting unintentional visions of Voldemort's doings through their PsychicLink, which he uses to save Mr Weasley at one point. Dumbledore has Harry train in [[PsychicBlockDefense Occlumency]] to stop this happening, but Harry thinks the visions are useful, so doesn't put much effort into the lessons, resulting in [[spoiler:Voldemort being able to use the link to set a trap for Harry.]]

*** In the film, Sauron looks directly at Frodo and tells him he can't hide from him.

* AreYouAfraidOfTheDark: A character hears an urban legend about a guy named Billy Baxter who was imprisoned by "The Phone Police," a secret group who [[TheScourgeOfGod punishes people who make prank phone calls.]] He looks up Billy Baxter in the phone book and calls him for a joke. Once he does this, the Phone Police start targeting him.

* In Marlowe's play ''Theatre/DrFaustus'', though Faustus himself knows exactly what he's getting into when he starts summoning demons, ThoseTwoGuys that serve him don't. They're larking around, mimicking Faustus's incantations more as a joke than anything else, and end up summoning Mephistopheles himself. Needless to say, he's not happy at all and they get transfigured into animals.

* AreYouAfraidOfTheDark: A character hears an urban legend about a guy named Billy Baxter who was imprisoned by "The Phone Police," a secret group who [[ScourgeOfGod punishes people who make prank phone calls.]] Once he does this, the Phone Police start targeting him.

* At the end of ''Manga/KotouraSan'' -- episode 10, The ESP society sets out to find the criminal (whose crimes include assault, murder, and rape of teenage girls) using Haruka's {{Telepathy}}. After she gets a very harsh BeamOfEnlightenment, Haruka immediately [[TwistedKneeCollapse keels over]] and nearly [[FaintingSeer passes out again]] because she did not expect [[spoiler:the criminal to have such a twisted, distorted, and [[EvilSoundsDeep unnaturally deep mental voice]] and that ''said criminal knows that the ESP Society has fallen for the SchmuckBait'']]. Thankfully, the criminal wasn't targeting Haruka during this incident. [[spoiler:This doesn't last. In the next episode, the actual criminal (Detective Aki Tsukino's EnemyWithin) deliberately targets Haruka not only because she has friends despite being [[YouMonster a monster]] (Tsukino's main motive derived from jealousy), but also because of the afforementioned {{Telepathy}} which Haruka showed to both her and Detective Gantestsu Ishiyama earlier in episode 10.]]

[[quoteright:270:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/199265ff80ad0e20405eaade1d8933d8.png]]

!Examples

** In ''HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'', a variant of this occurs with Ginny and the magic diary of Tom Riddle that Lucius Malfoy slips into her bag. She writes into the diary many things that happened in the school, allowing Riddle to get info about Harry Potter, and he slowly possesses her body to give himself a more corporeal form.

* Some scientists have expressed concerns about the radio transmissions our civilization has been sending out into space over the past century or so, saying they could inadvertently attract the attention of powerful and hostile/indifferent aliens.

* At the end of ''Manga/KotouraSan'' -- episode 10, The ESP society sets out to find the criminal (whose crimes include assault, murder, and rape of teenage girls) using Haruka's {{Telepathy}}. After she gets a very harsh BeamOfEnlightenment, Haruka immediately [[TwistedKneeCollapse keels over]] and nearly [[FaintingSeer passes out again]] because she did not expect [[spoiler:the criminal to have such a twisted, distorted, and [[EvilSoundsDeep unnaturally deep mental voice]]]]. Thankfully, the criminal wasn't targeting Haruka during this incident. [[spoiler:This doesn't last. In the next episode, the actual criminal (Detective Aki Tsukino's EnemyWithin) deliberately targets Haruka not only because she has friends despite being [[YouMonster a monster]] (Tsukino's main motive derived from jealousy), but also because of the afforementioned {{Telepathy}} which Haruka showed to both her and Detective Gantestsu Ishiyama earlier in episode 10.]]

[[/folder]]