History Main / TrickedOutGloves

* ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'': The SWAT Kats' Glovatrix- in the first season they were SuperWristGadget, in the second season they were PowerFists.

** ''VideoGame/ZeldaIITheAdventureOfLink'' had the Handy Glove, allowing you to break blocks with your sword.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' had the Power Glove, enabling you to lift light-colored rocks, and the Titan's Mitt, enabling you to lift dark-colored rocks. Both are required to access certain areas.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'' had the Silver Gauntlets, allowing you to lift rocks and move large blocks; and the Golden Gauntlets, allowing you to lift and throw aside huge rock pillars.
** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Links Awakening}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Ages'' had the Power Glove, an upgrade to the Power Bracelet allowing big blue statues to be lifted.
** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Ages'' has the Power Gloves, which let you lift and throw giant statues that are found in a few places.
** ''Oracle of Seasons'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaFourSwords'' had the Magnetic Gloves, allowing you to attract or repel magnetized objects.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' had the Mole Mitts, allowing you to dig rapidly through earth.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' had Digging Mitts and Mogma Mitts used for digging.

* Lt. Surge from ''Manga/PokemonAdventures'' has (supposedly) FingerlessGloves that insulate electricity, allowing him to handle his electric Pokemon with ease. After Red beats him, he takes them for himself and puts them to good use by enabling him to preemptively charge his Pika's Thunderbolt before even releasing him from his Pokeball. It's revealed in "The Mt. Silver Training" that the gloves actually have an invisible lining to only make them LOOK like FingerlessGloves, which is about as literal as you can make a HandWave as possible.

* Roy Mustang from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' has gloves that allow him to [[PlayingWithFire create large amounts of fire]] by [[FingerSnapLighter snapping his fingers]], since his gloves have an [[HermeticMagic alchemical circle]] inscribed on the back of the hand, allowing him to transmute the air around his target into flammable gases, and is covered in a special substance, which allows him to make sparks (and ignite aforementioned gases into a fireball).[[WeaksauceWeakness They're also utterly (yet entirely understandably) useless if they're wet.]]

* In ''Series/{{Supergirl}}'', when Winn returns from the 30th century, he reveals that, being an ordinary squishy human, the Legion made him a glove that grants him some of the powers of Nia's distant descendant Nura Nal (Dream Girl).

* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': A similar controller to the RealLife NES Power Glove was advertised in a video game tournament as a prize for Mordecai and Skip (with Rigby later replacing the latter) to compete for. It was advertised the same way. It also worked the same way, which is to say not at all.

** ''VideoGame/{{The Legend Of Zelda Oracle|Games}} of Ages'' had the Magnetic Glove, which allowed you to repel or attract either yourself or an object towards or away from you.

* WesternAnimation/RegularShow: A similar controller to the RealLife NES Power Glove was advertised in a video game tournament as a prize for Mordecai and Skip (with Rigby later replacing the latter) to compete for. It was advertised the same way. It also worked the same way, which is to say not at all.

* The trope picture is from ''Film/TheWizard'', which spawned one of the most famous and [[MemeticMutation memetic]] examples: "I love the Power Glove. [[TotallyRadical It's so bad]]." This was product placement for an actual Power Glove (see the Real Life section).

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' had the Power Glove, enabling you to lift light-colored rocks, and the Titan's Mitt, enabling you to lift drak-colored rocks. Both are required to access certain areas.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' had the Power Glove, enabling you to lift white rocks, and the Titan's Mitt, enabling you to lift black rocks. Both are required to access certain areas.

* Emerald Gauntlet from ''Comicbook/{{PS 238}}''. His gloves (and those of his father) act like {{Green Lantern Ring}}s. Another student, Angie, has her "Power Glove", which contains all kinds of tools an 11-year-old GadgeteerGenius finds useful, like various screwdrivers, a dremel...and a squirt gun.

* The Love Glove, a member of the second Brotherhood Of Dada in ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' has the ability to use several magical gloves from the psychadelic Glove Tree, such as the Love Glove, the Shove Glove and the Tech Glove.

* In ''Comicbook/AmericanFlagg'', Mandy makes Raul a pair of cybernetic gloves. Their only real feature is opposable thumbs, but when you're a housecat, that's enough.

* Lady Tiger Fist, an enemy of the Batman of Japan in ''[[Comicbook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman Incorporated]]'' initially appears to have a tiger each side of her chair and is stroking the back of their necks. It turns out they're headless robot tigers, and she's wearing robotic tiger-head gloves. Which bite.

* The ''Videogame/{{Portal}}''-inspired ''Twin Sector'' replaces the Portal gun with a pair of telekinetic gloves, one of which attracts objects and one of which repels them.

** The Heavy's [[FunWithAcronyms Gloves of Running Urgently]] increases movement speed.
** The [[FunWithAcronyms Killing Gloves of Boxing]] grant the Heavy critical hits for a short time if he scores a kill with them.
** The Heavy seems to be a collector of Tricked-Out Gloves. It helps that he's the bruiser of [=TF2=]. In addition to the aforementioned KGB and GRU, our Russian heavyweight has [[RuleOfCool gloves that make people explode]], [[BearsAreBadNews gloves made from bear paws]], oversized metal gauntlets that protect him from bullets and pointy brass knuckles that turn him into a LightningBruiser.
** There are also cosmetic items which qualify, such as the Quadwrangler, which supposedly "siphons blood from your heart, where it is not needed, to your shooting arm, where it is!"
** Hell, his default gloves, as well as his Christmas Mittens, allow him to kill people with a FingerGun!

** The Heavy seems to be a collector of Tricked Out Gloves. It helps that he's the bruiser of [=TF2=]. In addition to the aforementioned KGB and GRU, our Russian heavyweight has [[RuleOfCool gloves that make people explode]], [[BearsAreBadNews gloves made from bear paws]], oversized metal gauntlets that protect him from bullets and pointy brass knuckles that turn him into a LightningBruiser.

** The Heavy seems to be a collector of TrickedOutGloves. It helps that he's the bruiser of [=TF2=]. In addition to the aforementioned KGB and GRU, our Russian heavyweight has [[RuleOfCool gloves that make people explode]], [[BearsAreBadNews gloves made from bear paws]], oversized metal gauntlets that protect him from bullets and pointy brass knuckles that turn him into a LightningBruiser.

* The Oni Gauntlet from ''Franchise/{{Onimusha}}'' series, most notably ''[[VideoGame/OnimushaWarlords Warlords]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/Onimusha3DemonSiege Demon Siege]]''. It allows you to absorb souls.

* ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'' has the campaign-only Gloves of Spell Mastery, which allows the emulation of the Spell Breaker unit's Control Magic spell, which instantly tuns a summoned unit to your side.

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* In ''Series/StargateSG1'' the "[[http://www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com/wiki/Ribbon_Device Goa'uld ribbon device]]".
* The Inquisitor in ''Series/RedDwarf'' has a time-manipulating gauntlet, which can transport its user in time, freeze other people in place or erase them from history entirely, and of course has an obligatory DeathRay.

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* ''Film/{{Polar}}''. In the AbandonedWarehouse scene, Duncan Vizla uses gloves with {{Laser Sight}}s on the fingers to aim the automated fifty calibre machine guns he uses to ambush the [[ContractOnTheHitman hit team sent after him]].

* ''Film/{{Polar}}''. In the AbandonedWarehouse scene, Duncan Vizla uses gloves with {{Laser Sight}}s on the fingers to aim the SentryGuns he uses to ambush the [[ContractOnTheHitman hit team sent after him]].