History Main / PhoneBoothChangingRoom

* ''Literature/TheSuperdictionary'': Unsurprisingly, Clark Kent uses a phone booth to change into his Superman costume. Surprisingly, he actually uses it to make a call first.

* One ad bumper for a kid's afternoon animation block ([[WikiMagic FOX Kids, maybe?]]) spoofed this by having a Superman {{Expy}} enter a booth and fly off in costume, after which an old woman leans out of the booth with the telephone receiver to her ear and a "what the ''hell?''" expression on her face.

** ''VideoGame/LegoDCSuperVillains'' has one challenge requiring the player to smash several phone booths in Metropolis, while the Superman-to-Clark transformation now includes him summoning a phone booth out of {{Hammerspace}} to change in.

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'': When discussing phone booths in a DummiedOut tutorial note, Bar mentions that people sometimes change their clothes in one.

* Referenced in ''VideoGame/LegoDCSuperVillains'', where one challenge requires the player to smash several phone booths in Metropolis like the kind Superman goes into to change his clothes.

* Wonder Woman#2 and #89 feature phone booth changes.

* ''Webcomic/TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella:'' Parodied in [[http://nonadventures.com/2011/04/02/booth-or-dare/ "BOOTH or Dare"]]. A giant asteroid threatens New York, so Dana looks for a phone booth where she can change into her Wonderella costume. But all the phone booths have been torn down, or replaced by public phones without the booths. By the time Dana finally finds a proper phone booth, the asteroid has already crashed into it.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'': In the climax, when Phineas, Ferb and their friends gear up to fight back against the invading Norm-Bots with recreations of all of Phineas and Ferb's past inventions, Baljeet and Irvine emerge from a phone booth wearing the [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBeak The Beak]] PoweredArmor, implying that they changed into the costume in there. Then subverted when Baljeet hangs up the phone and apologizes since he thought an incoming call was meant for him.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbTheMovieAcrossThe2ndDimension'': In the climax, when Phineas, Ferb and their friends gear up to fight back against the invading Norm-Bots with recreations of all of Phineas and Ferb's past inventions, Baljeet and Irvine emerge from a phone booth wearing the [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbTheBeak The Beak]] PoweredArmor, implying that they changed into the costume in there. Then subverted when Baljeet hangs up the phone and apologizes since he thought an incomming call was meant for him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Ironically, despite popularizing the idea, this is an UnbuiltTrope in the actual comics. Superman only used phone booths to change into his costume a grand total of three times during the 1940's (back when phone booths were made of wood rather than see through glass), with the last time involving him outright admitting that its really not that good idea due to the risks involved. If it wasn't for the [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons Fleischer cartoons]] also using the idea, it likely never would have gotten engrossed in popular culture.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheatricalCartoons'': In the short, WesternAnimation/TheMechanicalMonsters, Clark Kent changes into his Superman suit in a phone booth.

* ''Manga/DetectiveConan'': In a case involving a trip to London, [[spoiler:Conan is trapped in a phone booth by Ran seeking Shinichi, and has to use a dose of apoptoxin (that had been reserved for getting him past customs to return to Japan) to do a Superman-style quick change to Shinichi in order to avoid awkward questions.]]

Often overlaps with SecretIdentityChangeTrick.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': In the "Super Rabbit" episode, WesternAnimation/BugsBunny decides that , after losing his super powers, "this is a job for a ''real'' superman!" So he ducks into a phone booth and comes out as... [[BaitAndSwitch a Marine]]. The Corps were so flattered that they inducted Bugs as a private. At the end of the war, he was honorably discharged as a Master Sergeant.

* ''Film/DeadpoolNoGoodDeed'': Deadpool gets in a phone booth to change into his costume so he can stop someone from being mugged in his outfit. Unfortunately, the man Deadpool was trying to save gets shot by the time he changes into his costume.
* PlayedForLaughs and subverted in ''Film/SupermanTheMovie''. When Lois is hanging from a disabled helicopter, Superman tries to find a place to change into his costume. The audience is shown a side shot of a public telephone, which looks like it's in a booth. The shot pulls back to reveal that it's a modern public phone with no booth. Superman passes by it, looks at it for a moment, then continues on and changes to his heroic identity by going through a revolving door multiple times at high speed.

* ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsHitAndRun'': When discussing phone booths in the tutorial, Bar mentions that people sometimes change their clothes in one.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Ironically, despite popularizing the idea, this is an UnbuiltTrope in the actual comics. Superman only used phone booths to change into his costume a grand total of three times during the 1940's (back when phone booths were made of wood rather than see through glass), with the last time involving him outright admitting that its really not that good idea due to the risks involved. If it wasn't for the animated series also using the idea, it likely never would have gotten engrossed in popular culture.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superman}}'': In one of the early cartoons, Clark Kent changes into his superman suit in a phone booth.