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** Bonus points since the TARDIS is [[ShapeshifterModeLock Mode Locked]] into a phonebooth.

* [[FilmationsGhostbusters Good afternoon, Ghost Busters. This is Mr. Zero...]]

* In Series 5, ''DoctorWho'' has started having literal calls to adventure, when the Doctor gets a phone call in the TARDIS from some other part of space and time. Winston Churchill has done it twice (the second time getting re-routed to River Song because the Doctor didn't pick up), and so has an unnamed monarch calling about "an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express. InSpace."

** This isn't the first time; Martha gives the Doctor her phone at the end of the season three finale [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords"]] for precisely this reason.

* In Season 5, ''DoctorWho'' has started having literal calls to adventure, when the Doctor gets a phone call in the TARDIS from some other part of space and time. Winston Churchill has done it twice (the second time getting re-routed to River Song because the Doctor didn't pick up), and so has an unnamed monarch calling about "an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express. InSpace."

** Bonus points since the TARDIS is [[ModeLock Mode Locked]] into a phonebooth.

* In ''WearingTheCape'', Crisis Aid and Intervention Heroes (the setting's city superteams) aren't patrolling freelance crimefighters. Instead they are special services contractors tied into a city's emergency-response dispatch department, and most of Hope/Astra's action-scenes start with a summons from Dispatch.

* In ''WearingTheCape'' Crisis Aid and Intervention Heroes (the setting's city superteams) aren't patrolling freelance crimefighters. Instead they are special services contractors tied into a city's emergency-response dispatch department, and most of Hope/Astra's action-scenes start with a summons from Dispatch.

* In ''WearingTheCape'' Crisis Aid and Intervention Heroes (the setting's city superteams) aren't patrolling freelance crimefighters. Instead they are special services contractors tied into a city's emergency-response dispatch department; under the right/wrong circumstances, a 911-call will get you a superhero-response.

* The whole premise of ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' is to [[Lampshade]] this. Bob is always minding his own business when some new "call" comes completely out of nowhere and for no apparent reason. Most frequently, The Call crashes into his roof.

** This isn't the first time; Martha gives the Doctor her phone at the end of [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS3E13LastOfTheTimeLords "Last of the Time Lords]] for precisely this reason.

** Quoting the character sheet: "[[{{Metaphorgotten}} The call is on reversed charges, though.]] ''[[DealWithTheDevil With]] [[BreakTheCutie international]] [[GiftOfTheMagiPlot call]] [[DespairEventHorizon prices]]"

* In the Silver Age, {{Superman}} often received a CallToAdventure in the form of Jimmy Olsen's signal watch. That, or Perry White would send him to investigate something as Clark Kent.

* Every couple generations, [[TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] tries to take over Hyrule. Coincidentally, every time he tries, there's a green-shirted elf around who is the only one able to stop him.

* In TheDresdenFiles, there seems to be some supernatural crisis occuring on the streets of Chicago every six months or so. Of course, this is eventually [[JustifiedTrope justified]]/[[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that the entire series, minus the events of ''Death Masks'', were due to the REAL BigBad's XanatosGambit to... we're not entirely sure yet, make Harry's life a living hell? It helps that Harry has mentioned that magic and dark forces have been getting stronger of late.

* In TheDresdenFiles, there seems to be some supernatural crisis occuring on the streets of Chicago every six months or so. Of course, this is eventually [[JustifiedTrope justified]]/[[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in that [[spoiler: the entire series, minus the events of ''Death Masks'', were due to the REAL {{BigBad}}'s XanatosGambit to...make Harry's life a living hell. It helps that Harry has mentioned that magic and dark forces have been getting stronger of late.]]