History Main / SuperWristGadget

* ComicBook/BlackWidow's gauntlets, which can fire grappling hooks, knock-out drugs, stun gun charges, explosives, and tracking devices. They were inspired by Spidey's web shooters in-universe (and doubtless out of universe as well).
* The Nega-Bands used by Rick Jones and [[ComicBook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Captains Mar-Vell and Genis-Vell]] to exchange places.
* ''ComicBook/FunkyKoval'' used a gadget watch with a blaster on one occasion.
* When the scene was spoofed in ''ComicBook/GorskyAndButch'', there was no gadget involved -- the watch was such a cheap replica that the villain fainted with disgust and fell over the railing.
* Every version of ComicBook/PhantomLady has had this with each incarnation being more versatile than the last:

* The Quantum Bands in ''ComicBook/{{Quasar}}'' provide their chosen wielder with ImaginationBasedSuperpower.

* Several games in ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' have these known as [=COMPs=], short for '[=COMPuter=]', a specialized terminal with a wrist-mounted keyboard/chipset and HUD goggles with just enough possessing power to run the [[OlympusMons Devil]] [[SummonMagic Summoning]] [[MagicFromTechnology Program]] in combat. They end up being supplanted by more advanced (and [[UnusualUserInterface somewhat strange and unergonomic]]) designs later on and by modern (often still wrist-mounted, for some reason) smart-devices most recently. The first title to introduce them was ''VideoGame/MegamiTenseiII''; [[spoiler:at one point of that game, your arm gets lost and is replaced with an artificial arm that has the same function as a COMP.]]

* The eponymous heroines of the Krofft Brothers production ''Series/ElectraWomanAndDynaGirl'' both had wrist-mounted [=ElectraComs=], [[SwissArmyWeapon Swiss Army Weapons]] (or at least gadgets) which could produce whatever power was required of them to defeat the villain of the moment, usually one [[ChekhovsGun introduced at the beginning of the episode]].

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10''[='=]s Omnitrix, an alien device that transforms the wearer into one of the million the alien species coded into its database.

* The Nega-Bands used by Rick Jones and [[Comicbook/CaptainMarvelMarvelComics Captains Mar-Vell and Genis-Vell]] to exchange places.

* The Quantum Bands in ''Comicbook/{{Quasar}}'' provide their chosen wielder with ImaginationBasedSuperpower.

** By ''Film/IronMan3'', Tony Stark has adapted his suit to be used in assembling pieces, allowing the gauntlets to fulfill this function. In the later Marvel movies, he has hidden ones not part of any suit that are dedicated to this purpose.
** During the {{Stinger}} of ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'',[[spoiler:[[Franchise/SpiderMan Peter Parker]] discovers that his new web-shooters that Tony Stark made for him can also project the Spider-Signal.]]

* ComicBook/SpiderMan's web shooters are not just this by default, but some alternate versions of the character add extra functions such as alternate web firing modes ("Impact Webbing" balls, webs laced with anti-villain Phlebotinum, etc.) and the capacity to launch tracers (or [[SuperheroPackingHeat fire bullets]]).
** During [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott Dan Slott's run]] where Peter ran a company one of his flagship products was a smart watch-like device called Webware. It provided affordable internet access with clear reception and unlimited data anywhere on Earth and used nanotechnology to physically reconfigure itself to prevent hacking. It was also and had GPS functionality that worked like his spider-tracers. Peter used it much like Iron Man uses his voice activated armor to control the functionality of his new gadgets, suit and web shooters.

* While in ''Franchise/KamenRider'' the primary transformation trinket will ''always'' be belt mounted, several include wrist mounted devices, either as weapons or as secondary transformation devices to unlock [[MidSeasonUpgrade additional forms]] or their SuperMode. Some examples include ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'', ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' and ''Series/KamenRiderBuild''.
** Most notably, ''Drive'' has the wrist device as the thing used to initiate transformation and form changes, making him the first main Rider since ''Amazon'' in TheSeventies, and the only other one ''ever,'' to not have it as the belt. (However, he does ''have'' a cool belt and he's never used the wrist device when not wearing the belt, so it does seem to be necessary.) Also, secondary riders sometimes don't have belts as changers; [=TheBee=] from ''Kabuto'' uses a wrist device.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': Redback Spider's wrist mounted venomous "fighting needles". Inspired by Spider-Man's webshooters since she's a villainous expy of the web-slinger.