History Main / UtilityBelt

* The combat robot Johnny Five from ''Film/ShortCircuit'' has a waist-mounted rotating multitool containing, among other things, wire cutters, lockpick, and a soldering iron. In the second movie, he replaces his shoulder-mounted laser with a utility pack with a magnetic grappling hook, hang-glider, camera, and metal cutter.

* Comicbook/{{Longshot}} has bandoliers for his throwing knives because it bothered Creator/ArtAdams when characters with weapons like this just [[HyperspaceArsenal pulled them out of nowhere]]. Ironically, given the connection between Longshot and Shatterstar, this may have been the inspiration for the Creator/RobLiefeld tradition of characters with belts full of pouches they ''don't'' use for anything.

* In ''VideoGame/RootsOfPacha'', you have a tool belt that can hold up to eight different items, with stacks of 255 each. You can buy two more belts from Jizu to expand the number of item slots to 24 (8 slots each).

-->-- ''Series/{{Batman|1966}}''

* The semi-official V1.13 update for ''VideoGame/JaggedAlliance2'' added a bewildering array of load-bearing vests, leg holsters and backpacks for your mercenaries to carry their gear around in.

* Shota Aizawa wears one in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' although we don’t see much of what’s actually in it. It likely has a sheath attached for his tanto knife though he’s rarely illustrated with the thing, and one of the pouches likely has the eye drops he needs to combat his quirk-induced dry eye. It does make a lot of sense to wear it as he’s an underground hero who doesn’t have a flashy costume to hide stuff in like some other heroes.

* [[Comicbook/AnimalMan Your keys, money, and stuff.]]

* Franchise/{{Batman}}, natch. In every incarnation. There is even a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman%27s_utility_belt Wikipedia article]] about it. In the Planetary crossover, in which it turns out that ''every'' universe has a version of Batman ''except'' the usual Planetary universe, the Batman who resembles the TV show from the Sixties pulls, from a normal-sized belt pouch, an aerosol can the size of a can of spray paint containing "Bat-Female-Villain-Repellent-Spray". It actually works, too. For a long period, the belt was shown as having a series of small capsules around it (and how everything fitted in those capsules was generally {{handwaved}}, although [[https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Utility_Belt?file=Batman_Utility_Belt_Who%27s_Who.png attempts have been made]] to explain it). Starting with Creator/FrankMiller, some artists drew Batman with decent-sized belt pouches, and this became standard when he got a new belt during ''Comicbook/BatmanNoMansLand''.

** Red Hood kept most of his gadgets in simple jacket pockets for a while.
** Tim Drake used compressed canisters in his first [[Comicbook/RobinSeries Robin]] costume and on bandoliers as Comicbook/RedRobin to streamline the look.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' player characters have a tool belt that can hold various tools that are needed for different skills. The items include things like a pickaxe and hatchet, various types of fishing equipment, molds for crafting jewellery, the special items needed to finish off some monsters, a set of farming tools, a key ring and many other miscellaneous items. A fully equipped tool belt has (at time of writing) 75 different items on it.

* In the ''VideoGame/DarkForcesSaga'' series, Kyle Katarn.