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• Truth In Television

Examples

• Most stock costumes, which are themselves generally examples of Truth in Television. Particularly:
  • Scrubs, stethoscopes and clipboards for doctors
  • Guns and badges for police officers
  • Cellphones, PDAs or Bluetooth headsets for businessmen

• Digivices for the Digidestined from Digimon
• Controllers in Hunter × Hunter each have one.
• The Guns from Letter Bee that the Letter Bees all use.
• The Beyblades from Beyblade
• The eponymous Gundams
• The Books from Zatch Bell!
• Zanpakouto in Bleach. (Dolls for the Filler Arc's Bounts.)
• The transformation wands from Sailor Moon.
• The Vongola (Mare/Acrobaleno Pacifiers) Rings from Katekyo Hitman Reborn!.
• Air blades (roller blades?) in Air Gear.
• Diaries (of all sorts) in Future Diary.
• Knightmare Frames from Code Geass.
• Tennis rackets in Prince of Tennis
• Zoids in...you guessed it!...Zoids
• Duel Disks in all their shapes and forms.
• Soul Gems in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

• Green Lantern Rings for the Green Lanterns and the other corps
• Anything starting with the word "bat" in Batman.
• Legion flight rings from Legion of Super-Heroes

• Star Wars: Lightsabers, for Jedi
• Ghostbusters: Proton Packs and ghost traps.

• In The Dresden Files, the silver, anti-magic sword and unstainable grey cloak of the Wardens is this.
  • Played with - focii help focus a wizard's magic in large part because they believe it will. However, there are also items imbued with power. Harry's are the staff and wand and duster (and gun).
  • Wizards robes are both a symbol of office and because magic interferes with electronics, including heaters.
• In the Sword of Truth it's the ... Sword of Truth. For the Seeker of Truth.
  • At the palace of the prophets, the Rada'Han is this for wizards.
  • Confessors' dresses.
  • Higher-rank wizards wear simpler clothes.
  • Defenders of the Lord Rahl wear special weapons with his crest.
  • War Wizards' gear is this.
  • The rings in the lips of the female slaves of the Imperial Order.
  • Darken Rahl's curved knife.
  • The Mord-Sith Agiel. Various colors of leather outfits, too.
• The Aes Sedai rings in the Wheel of Time series.

• Morphers for the titular Power Rangers.
• The Swords that the Shadow Chasers use.
• From ''Doctor Who, the sonic screwdriver and the TARDIS for the Time Lords.
• The transporter has appeared in every incarnation of Star Trek.
• "Garage Door Openers" for all Stargate team members.
• Transformation Trinket belts for Kamen Riders.

• Pokéballs and the Pokédex from Pokémon
• Keyblades in Kingdom Hearts.
• Player Pins for Players in The World Ends with You
• In Castlevania, the Belmonts almost always have the same set of secondary weapons: throwing knives, throwing axes, cross, holy water, and stopwatch.
  • Even moreso, all Belmonts wield the whip Vampire Killer. Allies will weild all sorts of weapons though.

• The Guardians and their keytools in Reboot
• The communicators designed by Robin and Cyborg in Teen Titans, which actually serve as a plot point.
• The Assault Weapon Systems in Centurions.
• Masks in BIONICLE.