History Main / WindUpKey

* In a DaveTheBarbarian episode, Candy is able to tell Dave apart from [[EvilKnockoff Mecha-Dave]] by pointing out the key on its back. Later, Mecha-Dave stops his battle with Dave to tell him to wind his key.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/TheThiefOfTime'', the History Monk protagonists use an experimental device called a portable procrastinator to artificially increase the amount of time they can use. It's worn on the back and powered by manually winding up the key. This is absolutely vital for their continued movement once time breaks, [[spoiler:but only for one character]].

* Pokémon in ''PokemonRumble'' are all wind-up toys, so the key is used to wind them up before releasing them.

* YogiBear once put a key on his back and pretended to be a giant wind-up toy grabbing picnic baskets. He is stopped by a wind-up Ranger Smith.

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* At one point when the locomotive [[http://www.bluebell-railway.co.uk/bluebell/pics/BLUE_CIRCLE.HTML Blue Circle]] was based at the Bluebell Railway, it acquired a (fake) key.

* In ''{{Wakfu}}'', BigBad Nox [[HorrorHunger must be fed everyday]] with [[LifeEnergy wakfu]] through a giant key-shaped tube (which fits into a hole in his chest rather than his back, oddly enough.)

* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Nano]], from ''{{Nichijou}}'', desperately wants hers removed. The [[ChildProdigy Professor]] who built her thinks it's cute.

* Lots and lots of these appear in the ''{{Syberia}}'' duology, seeing how it's literally crawling with [[ClockPunk all kinds of clockwork contraptions]]. Most notably, the train you are traveling on needs to be wound up on each station.

* [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' needs to be wound up every so often. It feels [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean very good]] [[FantasticArousal to her]], so it often causes her embarrassment in the hands of an overenthusiastic winder.

* In {{Wakfu}}, BigBad Nox [[HorrorHunger must be fed everyday]] with [[LifeEnergy wakfu]] through a giant key-shaped tube (which fits into a hole in his chest rather than his back, oddly enough.)

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* [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Nano]], from {{Nichijou}}, desperately wants hers removed. The [[ChildProdigy Professor]] who built her thinks it's cute.

* The first ''MarioParty'' had a "how many times can you wind up the toy in X seconds" minigame.

* Bob-ombs also have them too.

* ''SuperMarioWorld'': The Mecha Koopa enemies have wind-up keys on their back.

* ''[[{{Ptitlex3f4rqe6}} Luigi's Mansion]]'' has the toy soldier bosses.

* Chachamaru in ''MahouSenseiNegima'' needs to be wound up every so often. It feels [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean very good]] [[FantasticArousal to her]], so it often causes her embarrassment in the hands of an overenthusiastic winder.

* That creepy sand-for-blood blade-wielding guy in Hellboy had to wind up his clockwork innards with a key.

* The titular castle in the classic preschool series EureekasCastle has a giant wind up key on the castle itself that the giant would wind occasionally; usually when a guest performer appeared.

* ''SuperMarioWorld'': The Mecha Koopa enemies have wind-up keys on their back. Bob-ombs also have them too.

* ''SuperMarioWorld'': The Mecha Koopa enemies have wind-up keys on their back.