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*** The villains' ship has: (a) a dial with "Weather Power" on it (b) Controls for the jet stream labeled "Jet: Maximum, Minimum, Off" and "Off, On and Irreversibly On" (c) A nuclear power plant in with the label "Nuclear Power Plant".

*** In Kobar's lab there's a control to activate the sun-orbiting quadrotronic Solar Robot that's titled "Solar Robot Space Station". There's also an alarm to alert him when someone's approaching the solar robot: it's labeled Solar Robot Warning".

*** In the Justice League headquarters the door to the Justice League laboratory has a "Justice League Laboratory" sign.

*** In the electrical power plant the Power Input and Power Output devices are marked "Power In Put" and "Power Out Put".
*** At the Hall of Justice the Super Friends' computer has a scan report device marked "Scan Report".

*** As with "The Balloon People", an obvious elevator has an "Elevator" label on it.

** "The Mysterious Moles". In the Hall of Justice a printer was labeled "Teletype".

*** King Plasto's ElaborateUndergroundBase has quite a few: an egg storage room marked "Storage Room", an arena for creating Frerp eggs labeled "Frerp Arena", an entrance control panel marked "Entrance Control", and an obvious elevator with an "Elevator" label. At the end a number of buildings are created that are labeled "City Hall", "Barber Shop", "Library" and "City Jail".

*** On the [=TroubAlert=] panel there's a slot labeled "Blow Ups". No, it doesn't make things explode - when a picture is slipped into it the computer blows it up to larger size.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': The NYPD wears bulletproof vests labeled "Police". In the second episode, Castle gets one custom-made... that's labeled "Writer".

* During the chase scene in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Benny the Cab yells for his passengers to "pull the lever!" Asked "which one?", a sign pops out of the dashboard, marked with a pointing arrow and the words '''THIS LEVER, STUPID'''.

** Parodied on ''Website/TheOnion''-- in which political cartoons often feature children labeled "Innocent Kids", villains with labels like "Insensitive Citizens ([[HollywoodAtheist Probably Seculars]])" and "Today's Lazy Moms", and TheGrimReaper labeled with something random RippedFromTheHeadlines.

* During the chase scene in ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Bennie the Cab yells for his passengers to "pull the lever!" Asked "which one?", a sign pops out of the dashboard, marked with a pointing arrow and the words '''THIS LEVER, STUPID'''.

** Almost everything in the Bat Cave had a label on it, especially with [[ToTheBatNoun the "Bat" stuff]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': Forgath originally wore a set of armor where every piece was labeled with the words "This is a [what piece of armor it is]". The backstory of why his armor is labeled like this is only revealed in a print-only extra comic.

* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': Forgarth originally wore a set of armor where every piece was labeled with the words "This is a [what piece of armor it is]". The backstory of why his armor is labeled like this is only revealed in a print-only extra comic.

* A mundane example in ''ComicBook/ClanDestine1994'', author (and secret LongLived superhuman) Walter Destine's coffee mug simply has MUG printed on it.

* ''ComicBook/TheLegionOfSuperHeroes'': Lightning Lad, Saturn Girl and Cosmic Boy's desks have labels which helpfully show their names and powers.

** "Luthor Trap to Capture Superboy". Superboy, the narrator, and Luthor all [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] how stupid Superboy walking into an obvious trap is.

* In ''Series/KnightRider'', every button on KITT's control panel had a label. The ones that did useful things had plain English labels like "Turbo Boost" or "Oil Slick", while the buttons that were never used had obscure labels like "7DLA", "6RM" or "PENG". After the remodel of the control panel in Season 3, the useless buttons had [[WordSaladTitle word salad labels]] like "Fire Assign" instead. Subverted in season 4 when an important-looking button just labeled "C" was added to the control panel, and neither Michael nor newly-upgraded KITT knew what it did. [[spoiler:It turned KITT into a '''c'''onvertible.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': In "Mo Job", Mojo Jojo shoots at Buttercup with a raygun, but Buttercup defiantly stands there, confident she can take whatever Mojo dishes out. But then Blossom notices Mojo Jojo just happens to have labelled the gun (in his usual [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness comically-verbose]] manner) "Special Liquid-Electron Gun Specially Designed For Shooting the Antidote of Chemical X at the Powerpuff Girls and [[PowerNullifier Eliminating Their Powers]]".

* One possible Origin in ''Super TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' involves stubbing one's toe on a "super enriched radioactive block of stuff", helpfully labeled as such.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** "Superpussycat (formerly Superman) Habitat: Kryptonite Cage". Cover of "Lois Lane, Superman's Girlfriend" #70. As Lois Lane and Catwoman fight, the cage containing Superman is shown nearby.
** "Convention of Anti-Superman Gang". Cover of ''Superman's Pal ComicBook/JimmyOlsen'' #87. The title villains are shown voting whether Superman should be killed or not.

** A Silver Age Jimmy Olson story features him being chased by a helpfully-labelled robot specifically trained to smash cameras.

** These used to be painfully present in his comics.

** In the cover of ''The Flash'' #210, a giant robotic robotic machine shows Abraham Lincoln being shot by John Wilkes Booth...in the year 2971.
* "Soundproof Gestapo Headquarters" in the cover of an issue of ''The Fighting Yank''. For some reason the title headquarters has a sign that says it's soundproofed.
* The cover of ''Young Allies'' #5 shows a motion picture camera with with this label to tell the audience how dangerous it is.
* In ''The Black Terror'' #12, the cover shows the title hero fighting Japanese soldiers on the television with some children looking on.
* In ''USA Comics'' #2, a horde of Nazi solders led by UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler driving an underground boring machine crash into a tunnel helpfully labeled so the audience knows where it is.