History Main / ShoePhone

* The {{Mythbusters}} once successfully chased a myth about an umbrella that hides a gun. they made a replica that was fully functional and could have fatally wounded someone, and they actually needed special permission to make that kind of disguised weapon.

* ''AeonFlux'' has a few. Trevor Goodchild owns a golden cigarette case that transforms into a pistol. Aeon herself has a self-destruct mechanism hidden in her backback that goes off [[strike: if]] whenever she dies to prevent enemies from looting her corpse & a gimmick tooth with a small compartment in it.

* The series ''[[MortadeloYFilemon Mortadelo y Filemón, agencia de información]]'' (German: Clever & Smart, French: Mortadel et Filemón or Futt et Fil, Dutch: Paling & Ko, English: Mort & Phil) by Spanish artist Francisco Ibáñez, which started in 1958 provides an early example, and heavily parodies the JamesBond spy genre. The series is a bizarre slapstick comedy with even more bizarre gadgets in which the two titular agents are constantly surrounded by idiots, explosions and mad scientists and plagued by bad luck and their own semi-competence, not to mention their choleric superior. The series was never translated into English, though.

* ''TheEqualizer'' always used spy gadgets that could be bought commercially in real life.

* The mobile phone zip gun is an increasing security risk.

* ''{{Thunderbirds}}'' does this all the time. The boys all wear communicator watches, there are the portraits that they use to speak through and even light-up drink straws when they want to subtly attract someone's attention. Lady Penelope has a teapot communicator as well as a powder compact one. And probably many more examples this editor has forgotten.

* Subverted in the ''{{Spooks}}'' episode "Nest of Angels". The Algerian defector played by Alexander Siddig listens politely as MI5 show him a number of disguised communication/bugging devices for his mission to infiltrate a radical Islamic group. The next scene shows Siddig dumping this highly compromising equipment into a canal.

-->'''Q:''' A book. Cunningly disguised as a sensational story, but when you open the page, you find it's a load of winging self-pity from a rather suspect right-wing snooper, droning on about his pension rights.

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* Kurt Weill's music-theatre piece ''The Tsar Has His Photograph Taken'' (''Der Zar lässt sich photographieren'') is about a group of revolutionaries' attempt to assassinate the Tsar using a gun hidden in a studio camera. Their plan falls through as the female "photographer" develops UnresolvedSexualTension with her prospective victim.
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* Secret Sam...a briefcase with hidden camera gun and missile launcher [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l_4xMjZu5g inside]], and Six Finger, basicly [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hmDs2vKASo&feature=related the old toy gun and real pen in the extra finger trick.]]
* Transformers!!! Think back to G1: even if the robots that turn into cars and jets don't count, the ones that turn into a radio (Blaster and Soundwave), cassette tapes (dozens of little buggers), and a microscope (Perceptor ((and in the recent movie, Scalpel))). The original Megatron deserves mention since he's an interstellar despot disguised as a Walther P-38 -- oddly enough, original James Bond's favorite gun.
** The all-time winner has to be Ejector, also from the ''Revenge of the Fallen'' toyline. He transformers in a freaking ''toaster''. (He's also an AscendedMeme, having first appeared in a really funny Mountain Dew commercial which also exemplifies this trope.)
** Music Label Soundwave has a fully functional Mp3 player integrated into his torso, and he maintains his full transforming functionality. Other such Device Label Transformers include Ravage, who becomes a flash drive, Rumble and Frenzy, who become a set of earphones, and one other who is also a fully functional USB hub.
** Movie-toyline Real Gear Transformers become surprisingly realistic devices, including a camera, an mp3 player, a handheld gaming console shaped vaguely like the Wonderswan, a camcorder, a set of electronically enhanced binoculars, and a flip-phone.
* Mattel produced the [=ZeroM=] line of toys to cash in on the '60s superspy craze. They included a transistor radio that unfolded into a rifle, a 35mm camera that unfolded into a pistol, a Super 8 movie camera that unfolded into another gun, and even a BriefcaseBlaster... and all of which are now illustrations of [[TropeNamer Zeerust]].
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'' gives Cate Archer a wide array of girly themed destructive items (Mascara laser, hairspray flamethrower, and the like) one could conceal in one's purse.
* The Spy in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' has, fittingly enough, a disguise kit built into his cigarette case and a cloaking device for a wristwatch.
** The [[http://www.teamfortress.com/sniper_vs_spy/day04_english.htm "Dapper Rogue" catalogue]] also sells things like these. The Camera Beard is also now an unlockable item for the Spy.
* In ''MetalGearSolid3'' you can pickup a knockout-gas cigarette case, one of the only weapons that can be used when Snake is disguised as an enemy soldier or scientist. It's also strangely effective against two immune-to-bullets bosses near the end of the game.
** Also lampshaded during a discussion between Snake and Major Zero about James Bond, in which Snake comments that (for example) a gun-pen would make him look stupid in the jungle, at which point Zero insists they could build him a gun shaped like a snake, that "folds up into an attache case." In which Snake then replied that it was even sillier (then Zero gets upset at Snake for "Bashing" Bond).
* ''PerfectDark'' has a laptop that can turn into a machine gun and a heat-seeking, wall-sticking turret gun. Apparently it has basic computer functions, too.
* ''007: Agent Under Fire'' has a cell phone that also comes with a [[FrickinLaserBeams laser]], a password cracker, a switch activator, and a grapple hook that can somehow extend for 10 meters or more. In ''Goldeneye'', Bond's wristwatch serves as the game menu and health/armor indicator and contains a built-in magnet and laser that are used to get out of certain level-specific [[DeathTrap death traps]] in a ShoutOut to the movies.
* ''SplinterCell'' has Sam's wristwatch. Dear God, what '''can't''' it do? It can hack computers, disarm bombs, pick locks, scan eyeballs, get fingerprints from a surface, playback voices for getting into voice-locks, show a map with the locations of bad guys, and operate as a standalone computer for storing files and the like. ''In a goddamn watch.'' Granted, you ''are'' the [[TheAce best spy the NSA has.]]
* These compose [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank Clank's]] armaments in ''VideoGame/SecretAgentClank'', including shuriken bowties, an umbrella that shoots electricity, and a briefcase[=/=]flamethrower, to name a few.

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* The [[GenderBender T-Girls]] of ''Webcomic/JetDream'', the RemixComic, play this trope even harder than [[Comicbook/JetDream their original comic book counterparts]].

* ''Series/GetSmart'' had a number of ridiculous devices; the most famous is the pre-cellular wireless dress shoe that makes this series the TropeNamer.

-->'''Q:''' You see this little device looks like a harmless flamethrower. In fact, it's a pen.

* ''SpittingImages''. A spoof of the ''Spycatcher'' scandal had Peter Wright being equipped with some retirement gadgets after being booted out of {{MI5}}.

* A gag in ''SpittingImages'' spoofing the ''Spycatcher'' scandal had Peter Wright being equipped with some retirement gadgets after being booted out of {{MI5}}.
-->'''Peter Wright:''' What other devilish ideas have you got for me, eh?

* In the ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' sketch "The Bishop", the Bishop has a phone embedded in his crosier[[hottip:*:(that is, his staff of bishopishness)]].

* ''{{Ultraman}}'' went one better with the Science Patrol having a standard communicator pin that was even ''smaller'' than the type in ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. All the agents have to do is pull up a tiny antenna to activate it and send a message.

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* In ''KamenRiderKiva'', it's revealed that the IXA Riser used to access IXA's SuperMode was, in fact, his mouthpiece the whole time.
* Almost all the weapons used by the Riders in ''KamenRiderFaiz'' resemble ordinary objects like cellphones or cameras.
* ''KamenRiderDouble'' has an interesting variation, where the main character's gadgets can turn into robot animals to improve their function, such as a camera that turns into a bat and can capture images[=/=]video autonomously, or a wristwatch that turns into a spider, making it a "smart" GrapplingHookPistol.

* In PowerRangersZeo Bulk and Skull seemed to have their jobs as cops confused with spies as they once used a shoe phone that was in the form of a shoe.
* Similarly in HikoninSentaiAkibaranger Season 2/Tsu a corporate spy took her job name too literally and had a shoe phone that also looked like a shoe.

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* The series ''[[MortadeloYFilemon Mortadelo y Filemón, agencia de información]]'' (German: Clever & Smart, French: Mortadel et Filemón or Futt et Fil, Dutch: Paling & Ko) by Spanish artist Francisco Ibáñez, which started in 1958 provides an early example, and heavily parodies the JamesBond spy genre. The series is a bizarre slapstick comedy with even more bizarre gadgets in which the two titular agents are constantly surrounded by idiots, explosions and mad scientists and plagued by bad luck and their own semi-competence, not to mention their choleric superior. The series was never translated into English, though.

[[caption-width-right:186:Hello? Dr. Scholl?]]

A collection of seemingly mundane items that can be [[IKEAWeaponry assembled into a functional weapon]] is called a ScaramangaSpecial.

** And a sword. And a ''helicopter'' (try and wrap your mind around ''that'' one). A later scene implies that the Penguin has an entire arsenal of different weaponized umbrellas, but he's only seen with one at a time and only exchanges umbrellas in that one scene. Either the Penguin keeps, like, ''five'' umbrellas hidden in his coat, or his standard umbrella functions as both a firearm, a melee weapon, and a personal aircraft.

* [[MockTheWeek Now watch carefully, 007, this may look like an ordinary suitcase, but if you push this button a handle comes out and you can wheel it...]]

* Late in the ''DarkTower'' series by Creator/StephenKing, a town full of people under watch develop plate weapons. They look like dinner plates, can be stored in the cabinet, but thrown just right they can take someone's head right off. Don't grab the wrong side.