History Main / SupernaturalPhone

* Stephen King's ''{{Cell}}'': The phones turned everyone into zombies.

** Later on, Neku's phone gets an upgrade that allows it to take pictures of the past, which is useful less frequently than you'd think.

* The SCPFoundation has a couple of these: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-086 SCP-086]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-145 SCP-145]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-270 SCP-270]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-400 SCP-400]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-467 SCP-467]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-519 SCP-519]].

* Occurs in MetroLastLight where Artyom comes across a phone ringing on his way to the "River of Fate", in an abandoned and half-flooded section of the MoscowUnderground. Picking it up will have [[spoiler: Artyom's mother]] calling at Artyom.

See also PhoneCallFromTheDead and ReinventingTheTelephone. Constrast CanYouHearMeNow.

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* CucumberQuest: Nautilus summons her familiar Liquus with a cellphone. Although She's [[InsistentTerminology insistent]] on calling it a Royal Instrument of Summoning.

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See also PhoneCallFromTheDead and ReinventingTheTelephone.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', some shinigami, Rukia at least, are shown to use special cell phones to detect spiritual pressure in a close location in the World of the Living and to communicate with Soul Society.

* In ForgettingSarahMarshall, Peter and Aldous mock titular faux film star Marshall's having appeared in a film about a murderous cell phone, wondering why the phone could not be defeated by simply removing the battery.

* Stephen King's ''{{Cell}}''- the phones turned everyone into zombies.

* In ''DeadLines'', a telecommunications company markets the "Trans", a cellphone which they claim has near unlimited bandwidth, but it turns out that the bandwidth that it uses is also used by souls travelling to the afterlife.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Doctor upgrades Rose's phone in The End of the World. Also, The Gasmask Child in The Empty Child manages to activate the phone on the outside of the Police Box, much to The Doctor's amazement.
* There have been several iterations of PowerRangers wherein their cellphones have been incorporated with their morphers.
* In ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Christmas Carol", Scully receives a phone call from a mysterious woman who sounds just like her dead sister Melissa. She urges her to help a little girl who turns out to be Scully's biological daughter. The FBI were able to trace the address and it's confirmed that a call came in from that place, but there was no outgoing call from that residence and their phone had been off the hook.
* In ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' episode "Long Distance Call", a recently deceased grandmother calls her five-year-old grandson on his toy telephone, urging him to kill himself so that they can be together again.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''', the main characters receive the rules for the days games from the Reapers with their cellphones through text messages. Joshua however kicks it up a notch using his to use initiate his attacks which include dropping objects and [[HolyHandGrenade Jesus]] [[PillarOfLight beams]] on his enemies.

* ''Anime/VoicesOfADistantStar'', in which text messages are sent eight light-years into space.

* ''Manga/SeikimatsuOccultGakuin'': The cell phone Maya swipes, from Fumiaki, has the ability to identify the [[ArtifactOfDoom "Nostradamus Key"]] with its camera function. Said artifact [[spoiler: will trigger an alien invasion that results in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]

* ''VoicesOfADistantStar'', in which text messages are sent eight light-years into space.
* ''SeikimatsuOccultGakuin'': The cell phone Maya swipes, from Fumiaki, has the ability to identify the [[ArtifactOfDoom "Nostradamus Key"]] with its camera function. Said artifact [[spoiler: will trigger an alien invasion that results in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]

A supernatural and otherworldly phone or more commonly a cellphone. May have the ability to tell the future, teleportation device or could even be used as a weapon. It may also allow coversations with the dead or supernatual, and probably needs SuperCellReception.

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* ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' has the [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/MSRD:FX_Items#Eldritch_Cell_Phone Eldritch Cell Phone]], which can contact any person's phone without needing the number, or even call the phone nearest to the person if they don't have one of their own. It also has magical encryption and protection against tracing.
* ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' supplement The Book of the Wyrm gave us the Umbraphone, a mobile phone which can call up spirits across the Gauntlet (the spiritual barrier separating the real world and the Umbra).
* In ''TabletopGame/InNomine'', Cherubim of Jean have the ability to call the nearest phone to any person or object they are attuned to. If there is no nearby phone, they can spend 1 "Essence" to cause a cell phone to materialize for 10 minutes within seven feet of their attuned.

This type of phone tends to crop up in UrbanFantasy works. In sci-fi instead of having paranormal origins, the phone might be highly technologically advanced to do all sortS of impossible things. In horror, the phone is usually an EvilPhone and might even be a ArtifactOfDoom.

* Naomi, TheCoroner in ''TraumaTeam'' has a phone through which she hears the LastWords of the current victim.

* Naomi, TheCoroner in ''VideoGame/TraumaTeam'' has a phone through which she hears the LastWords of the current victim.

This type of phone tends to crop up in UrbanFantasy works. In sci-fi instead of having paranormal origins, the phone might be highly technologically advanced to do all sort of impossible things. In horror, the phone is usually an EvilPhone and might even be a ArtifactOfDoom.

This type of phone tends to crop up in UrbanFantasy works. In sci-fi instead of having paranormal origins, the phone might be highly technologically advanced to do all sort of impossible things. In horror, the phone is usually a EvilPhone and might even be a ArtifactOfDoom.

See also PhoneCallFromTheDead.

A supernatural and otherworldly phone or more commonly a cellphone. May have the ability to tell the future, teleportation device or could even be used as a weapon. It may also allow coversations with the dead or supernatual.

* SeikimatsuOccultGakuin: The cell phone Maya swipes, from Fumiaki, has the ability to identify the [[ArtifactOfDoom "Nostradamus Key"]] with its camera function. Said artifact [[spoiler: will trigger an alien invasion that results in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]