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* In ''{{PS 238}}'', [[RunningGag any time anyone]] calls [[strike:Batm]] The Revenant, for advice, he will be in the middle of fighting some form of super villain and carry on the fight while talking. Occasionally he will let slip some form of comment as to what he's doing.

* [[BlackCat Train Hartnet]] gets a call from his partner, Sven, while attempting to hide from Torneo's {{Mooks}} in a bathroom. He cuts the call short when someone urgently needs to use said bathroom.

* The Fury, the SpiderMan CaptainErsatz in NineteenSixtyThree has one of these while fighting a giant psychic dinosaur, despite the action taking place [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly When It Says On The Tin]]. How? He hops into a phone booth [[ItMakesSenseInContext when he absolutely has to make a call mid-fight]].

* In DieHard 2, Holly [=McClane=], worried about why her plane hasn't landed (the airport has been forcibly shut down by terrorists) calls her husband, who receives the call as he's attempting to sneak up on one of said terrorists.
* In Tenacious D in ThePickOfDestiny, Jables receives a call in the middle of a car chase with the police, from the car's owner, who's watching the chase on the news.
* In ShaunOfTheDead, Ed receives a call on his cellphone, while they're trying to sneak into the pub, [[TooDumbToLive and answers it]].

* One of the funnier moments in BlackHawkDown:

* ''DeadRising'': This can happen to the player when somebody calls your cellphone while you're fighting zombies. You can elect to hang up, but ''[[TheScrappy that person calls you back about five seconds later]]''.
** And then you are scolded, because hanging up on someone is rude. Sadly, you cannot tell the person exactly where he can place his manners.

* [[DrMcNinja Dr. McNinja]] [[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=29&issue=5 has little trouble with this]].
* Happens on the [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Bloody_Urban/index.php?p=706870 very first page]] of Troperworks/BloodyUrban
* Cell phones are the bane ok Pokemon trainers everywhere, as demonstrated in [[http://www.halolz.com/2010/08/25/hey-its-joey-my-rattata-is-soooo-cool/ this webcomic]]. That's why they removed the cell phone feature in later games.

* JackieChanAdventures. Usaully Jackie is kicking ass with the shadowkhan or some other {{mook}}s. Then ''Uncle'' calls, often with the Phlebotinuim or the info needed to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek. His phone calls usually take ''forever'' with his constant "[[CatchPhrase one more thing]]" reminders; ConservationOfNinjitsu seems to be the only thing that keeps Jackie alive through them.
* KimPossible has occasionally called her mother while her mother was in the middle of performing brain surgery. Dr. Possible happily talked on the speaker phone to her daughter, all the while continuing with the operation. There's also a few Kimmunicator calls that have come in during action sequences. In the first GrandFinale, Kim is under attack by giant robots, calls Wade, and he's got another one destroying his room. Earlier in the film, Kim takes a call from her friend Monique for some high school gossip while flying down a street in central Tokyo on a grapple line attached to Shego's fighter jet.

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* In ''{{Pokémon}}'' Gold, Silver, Crystal, and the remakes, trainers would call you via Pokégear all the time. What's that? You're busy saving the Radio Tower from Team Rocket? Eh. They'll call you anyway.

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* In ''HeartbreakRidge'', Gunny Highway's squad of Marines place a call to their base back home while holed up in an old church in order to call in an airstrike, because all other methods of communication have been broken somehow. They are taking fire (from '''''tanks!''''') all the while.
** TruthInTelevision, as this was based on an actual incident during the Grenada invasion.

-->'''Lt. Col. McKnight''': ''How are things going? Things okay there, Struecker?''

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* During the battle which earned Audie Murphy his Medal of Honor, he was contacted by officers in the rear and asked how close the Germans were. Murphy responded, "Hold on and I'll let you talk to one", and kept on fighting.
* The cell phone of Jeff Nolan, a soldier deployed in Afghanistan, [[http://www.switched.com/2008/05/08/sons-cell-phone-calls-home-during-battle-in-afghanistan/ dialled his parents' home on Oregon on its own accord]] in the middle of a gunfight.

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* Snake does this in ''MetalGearSolid'' when he gets codec calls at bad times. Notably bad, given the absurd amount of time that he often spends chatting with {{mission control}} instead of doing his job.
** Lampshaded in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=159 this]] VGCats strip.

* In [[Pokémon]] Gold, Silver, Crystal, and the remakes, trainers would call you via Pokégear all the time. What's that? You're busy saving the Radio Tower from Team Rocket? Eh. They'll call you anyway.

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* [[http://www.halolz.com/2010/08/25/hey-its-joey-my-rattata-is-soooo-cool/ The bane of Pokemon trainers everywhere]]. This is why they removed the cell phone feature in later games.

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* JackieChanAdventures. Usaully Jackie is kicking ass with the shadowkhan or some random Mooks. Then ''Uncle'' calls, often with the Phlebotinuim or the info needed to defeat the MonsterOfTheWeek. And his phone calls are ''forever'' with '''[[CatchPhrase ONE MORE THING]]'''. However ConservationOfNinjitsu applies. Every Damn Time

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* In ''{{PS 238}}'', when KidHero Tyler was stranded on the Moon, he called his mentor, [[strike:Batm]] The Revenant, for advice. The Revenant carried on an amiable conversation with his young protege while actively fighting supervillains.

* Jamie Lee Curtis did a cell phone commercial where she goes through multiple action sequences, all the while amiably chatting on her cell phone.

* In ''TheSimpsons'', when Homer is offered a new job by Scorpio, this trope is played through the entire episode. Homer asks Scorpio for advice on numerous issues, which Scorpio happily gives, all while executing his plan to {{take over the world}}. Most notably, at the end, Scorpio gives Homer advice on whether to keep his current job or not, ''while fighting off a UN invasion force''.
-->'''Scorpio:''' I understand, Homer. You gotta put your family first, and I respect that. But you know, If you could kill a few people on your way out, I'd really appreciate it.

* In {{Pokémon}} Gold, Silver, Crystal, and the remakes, trainers would call you via Pokégear all the time. What's that? You're busy saving the Radio Tower from Team Rocket? Eh. They'll call you anyway.

* In Grand Theft Auto 4, the player character can be called by NPC's on his cell phone any time he's not in the middle of a race or mission. Many players found this to be an annoying feature. During some missions though, there are scripted sequences in which the main character gets a phone call during missions, such as being invited to go to a strip club during a high speed police chase, and being called to go cruising for chicks while kidnapping the daughter of a mob boss.

SeenItAMillionTimes. A subtrope of CasualDangerDialog. Contrast CrockerTeaBreak, where the opponents are perfectly happy to let the distracted party take a break from the fight.

* At the beginning of the second episode of ''{{Leverage}}'', Nate calls the team and some of them are not exactly disposed to talking. Eliot was in a face-off with a guy who had a gun (he used his cellphone as a distraction to take him out), and Parker was hanging from a ceiling after stealing a painting (she tried to shush her phone).

* Happens in ''Six Sacred Stones'' by MatthewReilly.

** Scorpio: I understand, Homer. You gotta put your family first, and I respect that. But you know, If you could kill a few people on your way out, I'd really appreciate it.

* Inverted in ''[[ThreeNinjas 3 Ninjas Kick Back]]'' when Tum Tum has to make a mandatory phone call to his parents during a fight with ninja mooks when he had to talk to them at the same time everyday. One of the mooks carried a phone which the boys used to talk while fighting and had to make an excuse with the fighting noise.

-->'''Sgt. Struecker''': ''(While racing his Humvee down a city street while bullets ricochet all around) I don't wanna talk about it right now. Kinda busy here.''

-->'''Sgt. Struecker''': ''I don't wanna talk about it right now. Kinda busy here.'' (as he races his Humvee down a city street with bullets ricocheting all around)

* Inverted in ''[[ThreeNinjas 3 Ninjas Kick Back]]'' when Tum Tum has to make a phone call to his parents during a fight with ninja mooks when he had to talk to them at the same time everyday. One of the mooks carried a phone which the boys used to talk while fighting.

* Inverted in ''[[TransformersFilmSeries Transformers]]'' (2007). It's [[JustifiedTrope justified]], though, as well as a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment of Funny]]. Captain Lennox tries to make a call to the Pentagon while his (dwindling) men fight off Scorponok.