Created By: atheist723 on November 2, 2012
Last Edited By: atheist723 on July 13, 2016
Ominous Dropped Cell Phone
A discarded cell phone means something bad probably happened to the owner.
Cell phones tend to be important to the individuals of the modern society. This trope occurs when someone finds another character's dropped cell phone and deduces that something is wrong. Bonus Points if it is destroyed in some manner.
Examples:
Live Action TV- Happens quite often in Smallville:
- Lana in Slumber after the episode's bad guy tranquilizes her and drags her to a car which he intends to blow up.
- Chloe in Arrival after being accidentally transported to the Fortress of Solitude and freezes half to death. Clark had to make a Deal with the Devil to save her.
- In the Grand Finale, Clark finds Tess's cell phone in her car after she is kidnapped.
- Victoria in Angels & Demons. It is destroyed by the Hassassin, who kidnapped her and intends to rape then kill her.
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- Burn Notice's mad, passionate love affair with the common cell phone means that this was bound to happen at some point. Michael invoked it when he was kidnapped by some Russian mob guys, leaving his cell phone in a planter at the restaurant where he was kidnapped.
Also, you need to explain those examples: Zero Context Examples are poorly thought of.