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* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer had a business card that described him as an "Unreal Estate Agent and Stock Baroquer", claimed to have choice lots available in "{{Ruritania}}, [[Creator/JamesBranchCabell Poictesme]], [[Creator/KurtVonnegut Illium]], [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos R'lyeh]], [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Barsoom]], Literature/MiddleEarth, [[Myth/RobinHood Hallamshire]], and [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Oz]]", offered shares in the "[[Franchise/DocSavage Hidalgo]] Trading Company", and said he could be reached care of "[[Franchise/{{Tarzan}} Lord Greystoke]], Nairobi, Kenya".

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* Cassanunda's card in ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'':
-->''Giamo Casanunda''\\
[[Literature/{{Discworld}} World's]] Second Greatest Lover\\
''"[[AC:We Never Sleep]]"''\\

** In the [[BadFuture Knightmare]], The Joker hands Batman his own Joker playing card as a [[EnemyMine sign of their truce]], stating that all he has to do is tear it in half when he wants to go back to being enemies. Naturally, Batman takes it with a promise of retribution on his part to Joker. The card can be seen strapped on Batman's assault rifle in ''Film/BatmanVsSupermanDawnOfJustice''.

** In the [[BadFuture Knightmare]], [[spoiler:Joker hands Batman his own Joker playing card as a [[EnemyMine sign of their truce]], stating that all he has to do is tear it in half when he wants to go back to being enemies. Naturally, Batman takes it with a promise of retribution on his part to Joker.]]

* In ''Series/AlloAllo'' The undertaker Monsieur Alphonse's "Swiftly and With Style. My Card"

* In Stephen Manes' ''Chicken Trek'' when Oscar first meets his cousin, he's presented with a card which says "Dr. Peter P. Prechtwinkle: Inventor--Genius--Brain". Dr. Prechtwinkle's rival Madame Gulbenkian has a fancier card which lists her psychic "talents" on the front, with her address and a generic greeting on the back.

* In a SilentMovie ''[[[[Creator/KeystoneStudios Keystone Cops]]'' parody of ''Series/TheXFiles'', the alien 'Moon Man' has a card advertising his services. ''Rustics amazed, [[AlienAbduction yokels abducted]], [[AnalProbing derrieres probed]]''.

* In a short film ''Keystone Cops''-{{retraux}} parody of ''Series/TheXFiles'', the alien 'Moon Man' has a card advertising his services. ''Rustics amazed, [[AlienAbduction yokels abducted]], [[AnalProbing derrieres probed]]''.

* In at least one episode of ''Series/TheRockfordFiles'' the PrivateDetective had a small printing press on the back seat of his car, producing cards as the situation required (with occupations such as funeral director and psychiatrist).

* It was very fashionable during the Victorian Era for the upper-class and the [[NouveauRiche parvenu middle-classes]] to have printed cards with your name and title. Setting up a social visit required a rather elaborate two-step-shuffle where you would go to the other person's door and leave your card; then, if the other person wanted to see you, he (or more likely his servant) would come to your house and leave his card, and only then can you write to set up the actual meeting (not quite as time-consuming as it sounds, due to the ease of getting servants to do most of the legwork and considering most cities have postal systems that delivered mail multiple times a day--in London, it was ''hourly''). Laura Ingalls Wilder described in her books how upon being introduced to her future husband Almanzo Wilder, they exchanged cards.

* In Japan, exchanging business cards is SeriousBusiness. There's a fairly specific etiquette for receiving a business card. One must take with both hands, make a show of reading it in front of the person, and then put it in card carrier or wallet. People often exchange business cards when they first meet. This custom exists because the way the Japanese language is structured, a name could be written using several different characters. Without seeing it written, it's difficult to know how to write someone's name.

* It was very fashionable during the Victorian Era for the upper-class and the parvenu middle-classes to have printed cards with your name and title. Setting up a social visit required a rather elaborate two-step-shuffle where you would go to the other person's door and leave your card; then, if the other person wanted to see you, he (or more likely his servant) would come to your house and leave his card, and only then can you write to set up the actual meeting (not quite as time-consuming as it sounds, due to the ease of getting servants to do most of the legwork and considering most cities have postal systems that delivered mail multiple times a day--in London, it was ''hourly''). Laura Ingalls Wilder described in her books how upon being introduced to her future husband Almanzo Wilder, they exchanged cards.

* Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer had a business card that described him as an "Unreal Estate Agent and Stock Baroquer", claimed to have choice lots available in "{{Ruritania}}, [[Creator/JamesBranchCabell Poictesme]], [[Creator/KurtVonnegut Illium]], [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos R'lyeh]], [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars Barsoom]], Literature/MiddleEarth, [[Myth/RobinHood Hallamshire]], and [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Oz]]", offered shares in the "[[Franchise/DocSavage Hidaglo]] Trading Company", and said he could be reached care of "[[Franchise/{{Tarzan}} Lord Greystoke]], Nairobi, Kenya".

* In ''Film/{{Harvey}}'', Elwood P. Dowd goes through the same routine with everyone he meets, including giving them his card. This applies even to the doctors at the mental asylum.

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* ''Film/TheUntouchables''. Frank Nitti has the card of the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections Mayor of Chicago]] as a GetOutOfJailFreeCard.

* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "The Main Man", when Superman demands to know the name of the interstellar bounty hunter shooting up a Metropolis police station, SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} answers, "Oh, I'm sorry; My Card", and [[TalkToTheFist promptly delivers]] a [[MegatonPunch right hook]] that sends the Man of Steel flying.

* ''Series/AgentCarter''. [[BattleButler Jarvis]] leaves his card with Peggy Carter, who tears it up in a fit of anger after she realises how Jarvis and Howard Stark have lied to and manipulated her.

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* ''Film/MrHolmes''. SherlockHolmes is hired by Mr Kelmot to follow his wife, and poses as an amateur fortune teller to get close to her. But she's not fooled, having already discovered Holmes' card while doing her husband's laundry.

* Common in SherlockHolmes stories, appropriately enough for the Victorian setting.

* In the Franchise/SherlockHolmes[=/=]Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures crossover novel ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresAllConsumingFire All-Consuming Fire]]'', the Doctor leaves a card with Mrs. Hudson that simply reads "The Doctor - Travelling". Holmes deduces firstly that the card was printed especially for the purpose (because it hasn't the imprint of another card on the back, and was clearly printed recently), and secondly that he was ''meant'' to make the first deduction (because the card is deliberately uninformative, left just for the sake of leaving a card).

** Naturally, while obsessing over various tiny details of the cards, nobody notices the typos on all of the cards (a touch put in just for the movie).

* It was very fashionable during the Victorian Era for the upper-classes and the parvenu middle-class to have printed cards with your name and title. Setting up a social visit required a rather elaborate two-step-shuffle where you would go to the other person's door and leave your card; then, if the other person wanted to see you, he (or more likely his servant) would come to your house and leave his card, and only then can you write to set up the actual meeting (not quite as time-consuming as it sounds, due to the ease of getting servants to do most of the legwork and considering most cities have postal systems that delivered mail multiple times a day--in London, it was ''hourly''). Laura Ingalls Wilder described in her books how upon being introduced to her future husband Almanzo Wilder, they exchanged cards.
** Various social cues can be communicated by the decoration of the cards or the matter in which it was delivered. For example, a black border indicates the person bearing it is in mourning. Newlywed couples mail out updated cards that would carry both of their names, if you received a version of the card that did not include their new joint address, it is considered a hint that they (especially the wife) are repudiating your acquaintance and do not wish to see you again. A card returned in an envelope meant that the person delivering it do not want to see you. There is also a fairly complex system regarding bending the cards and folding up of corners, for example a turned down upper-right corner meant that the bearer of the card delivered it personally, instead of having it sent by a servant or mail.

** Bruce Wayne gives his card to the leader of a remote Icelandic community, who is not impressed as he has no idea who the famous billionaire playboy "[[VampireVords Bvuce Vayne]]" is.
** In the [[BadFuture Knightmare]], Joker hands Batman his own Joker playing card as a [[EnemyMine sign of their truce]], stating that all he has to do is tear it in half when he wants to go back to being enemies. Naturally, Batman takes it with a promise of retribution on his part to Joker.

* ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague''. "[[VampireVords Bvuce Vayne]]" gives his card to the leader of a remote Icelandic community, who is not impressed as he has no idea who the famous billionaire playboy is, let alone that he's Batman.