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** Bob's cellphone has crashed. [[note]]And it's not the kind you can restart by popping the battery out and back in due to it being soldered in.[[/note]]
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* '''Played For Horror''':
** Alice tries to call the authorities to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. The call never goes through. [[EveryoneDiesEnding The end of the world happens.]]
** Alice tries to call the police while being chased by an EldritchAbomination. The abomination jams the call, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero uses it to track her]], or performs a JumpScare through the phone line.
** Alice tries to call the authorities to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. The call never goes through. [[EveryoneDiesEnding The end of the world happens.]]
** Alice tries to call the police while being chased by an EldritchAbomination. The abomination jams the call, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero uses it to track her]], or performs a JumpScare through the phone line.
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** '''Averted-Played For Drama:''' The call gets through, but the people called are powerless to do anything to help. [[YankTheDogsChain The situation would have felt less dire if the call HAD failed, as it would have left room to potentially get help later]].
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** '''Averted-Played For Drama:''' The call gets through, but the people called are powerless to do anything to help. [[YankTheDogsChain The situation would have felt less dire if the call HAD failed, as it would have left room to potentially get help later]].later. Now, though, Alice knows that she's truly alone]].
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** '''Averted-Played For Drama:''' The call gets through, but the people called are powerless to do anything to help. [[YankTheDogsChain The situation would have felt less dire if the call HAD failed, as it would have left room to potentially get help later]].
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** Bob intentionally gives Alice a malfunctioning cellphone so that she will not be able to contact anyone in an emergency.
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** Bob [[TheMole Bob]] intentionally gives Alice a malfunctioning cellphone so that she will not be able to contact anyone in an emergency.
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** It's TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt or some similar disaster, and all phone services are overloaded because of other desperate callers or have collapsed. Reception may be okay, but nobody is going to hear Alice regardless.
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* '''Downplayed''': Alice tries once to contact Bob with her cell phone, and the subject never comes up again.
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** Alice tries once to contact Bob with her cell phone, and the subject never comes up again.
** Alice tries once to contact Bob with her cell phone, and the subject never comes up again.
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** The technical difficulties keep Alice from contacting Bob immediately, but this is only a temporary inconvenience. About an hour after her first try, she does fix her phone's problems and get in touch with Bob. The consequences of this delay are significant, but not disastrous.
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** Bob's forgetful and never remembers to keep the battery charged up.
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** Bob's forgetful and keeps leaving his phone at home and never remembers to keep charge the battery charged up.battery.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is careless with her cell phone and keeps forgetting to charge it. Because of this, when she needs to call Bob to avert PoorCommuniocationKills, the phone gives out.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is careless with her cell phone and keeps forgetting to charge it. Because of this, when she needs to call Bob to avert PoorCommuniocationKills, PoorCommunicationKills, the phone gives out.
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* '''Played For Drama''': Alice is careless with her cell phone and keeps forgetting to charge it. Because of this, when she needs to call Bob to avert PoorCommuniocationKills, the phone gives out.
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* '''Straight''': Alice is trying to contact Bob but he is in the middle of a forest and thus out of reach of a cellphone tower.
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* '''Straight''': Alice is trying tries to contact Bob using a cell phone, but he is in the middle of a forest and thus [[ContrivedCoincidence circumstances conspire]] so that she can't (her phone runs out of reach of a cellphone tower.battery, cell service goes out at just that moment, her phone chooses just then to break).
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** Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York.
** Alice is trying to contact Bob. Her battery ran out... then she produces a spare battery. Then her cell phone just break because a meteorite hits.
** Then she pulls ANOTHER spare cell phone. So Clyde, who is the evil guy, uses HollywoodHacking to shut down the service,
** Alice, noticing that the network has been hacked, uses HollywoodHacking to set up the service again. Before she can make her call, Clyde chop downs every mast providing coverage.
** Alice, determined to call Bob, produces a Satellite Phone. Clyde shot down the satellites using a catapult, no less.
** Our relentless Alice dismounts all her phones and crafts a Radio. Then Clyde, fed up, appears in fron of her (In an Evil Guy costume) with [[WordOfGod signed document from the guionists]] that forbids her to call Bob
** Alice is trying to contact Bob. Her battery ran out... then she produces a spare battery. Then her cell phone just break because a meteorite hits.
** Then she pulls ANOTHER spare cell phone. So Clyde, who is the evil guy, uses HollywoodHacking to shut down the service,
** Alice, noticing that the network has been hacked, uses HollywoodHacking to set up the service again. Before she can make her call, Clyde chop downs every mast providing coverage.
** Alice, determined to call Bob, produces a Satellite Phone. Clyde shot down the satellites using a catapult, no less.
** Our relentless Alice dismounts all her phones and crafts a Radio. Then Clyde, fed up, appears in fron of her (In an Evil Guy costume) with [[WordOfGod signed document from the guionists]] that forbids her to call Bob
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** Alice is trying to tries contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York.
** Alice is trying to contact Bob. Her batteryran runs out... then she produces a spare battery. Then her cell phone just break because a meteorite hits.
** Then she pulls ANOTHER spare cell phone. So Clyde, who is the evil guy, uses HollywoodHacking to shut down the service,
** Alice, noticing that the network has been hacked, uses HollywoodHacking to set up theservice again. Before goes out... and she can make her call, Clyde chop downs every mast providing coverage.
** Alice, determined to call Bob, produces a Satellite Phone. Clyde shot down the satellites using a catapult, no less.
** Our relentless Alice dismounts all her phones and crafts a Radio.gets another provider. Then Clyde, fed up, appears in fron of her (In an Evil Guy costume) with [[WordOfGod signed document from the guionists]] that forbids her to call Bobphone just gets hit by a meteor.
** Alice is trying to contact Bob. Her battery
** Then she pulls ANOTHER spare cell phone. So Clyde, who is the evil guy, uses HollywoodHacking to shut down the service,
** Alice, noticing that the network has been hacked, uses HollywoodHacking to set up the
** Alice, determined to call Bob, produces a Satellite Phone. Clyde shot down the satellites using a catapult, no less.
** Our relentless Alice dismounts all her phones and crafts a Radio.
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** Despite the fact that they all have working cellphones, in an emergency none of the characters even ''thinks'' about using them to contact any of the others.
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** Despite the fact that they all have working cellphones, in an emergency none of All the characters even ''thinks'' about using have working cell phones, and resort to them as much as any normal person would. However, the instant they would use them to contact any of do something that would [[CuttingTheKnot quickly and easily solve the others.plot]], the phones suddenly break down. This happens every time cell phones would be actually useful.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Damn, the reception out here is terrible."
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Damn, the reception out here is terrible. I'll need to have a word with my provider when this serial killer stops chasing me."
* '''Implied''': We see Alice's phone at one point, and it shows 'NO SIGNAL'. However, Alice never gets a chance to actually use it.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is in a tight spot and discovers that her phone is not working. Much {{Angrish}} ensues.
* '''Played For Laughs''': Alice is in a tight spot and discovers that her phone is not working. Much {{Angrish}} ensues.
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* '''Exploited''': Clyde wants Alice dead and, knowing how fickle her cell phone and its service carrier is, plans accordingly so she will go to a spot where she will not be able to call for help (and if a friend of her comes along with a good cell phone... well... blockers are useful. So is killing him before he can make a call).
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* '''Exploited''': Clyde wants Alice dead and, knowing how fickle her cell phone and its service carrier is, plans accordingly so she will go to a spot where she will not be able to call for help (and if a friend of her comes along with a good cell phone... well... blockers are useful. So is killing him before he can make a call).first).
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* '''Exploited''': ???Clyde wants Alice dead and, knowing how fickle her cell phone and its service carrier is, plans accordingly so she will go to a spot where she will not be able to call for help (and if a friend of her comes along with a good cell phone... well... blockers are useful. So is killing him before he can make a call).
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* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York.
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* '''Exaggerated''': '''Exaggerated''':
** Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York.
** Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York.
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** Alice is trying to contact Bob. Her battery ran out... then she produces a spare battery. Then her cell phone just break because a meteorite hits.
** Then she pulls ANOTHER spare cell phone. So Clyde, who is the evil guy, uses HollywoodHacking to shut down the service,
** Alice, noticing that the network has been hacked, uses HollywoodHacking to set up the service again. Before she can make her call, Clyde chop downs every mast providing coverage.
** Alice, determined to call Bob, produces a Satellite Phone. Clyde shot down the satellites using a catapult, no less.
** Our relentless Alice dismounts all her phones and crafts a Radio. Then Clyde, fed up, appears in fron of her (In an Evil Guy costume) with [[WordOfGod signed document from the guionists]] that forbids her to call Bob
** Then she pulls ANOTHER spare cell phone. So Clyde, who is the evil guy, uses HollywoodHacking to shut down the service,
** Alice, noticing that the network has been hacked, uses HollywoodHacking to set up the service again. Before she can make her call, Clyde chop downs every mast providing coverage.
** Alice, determined to call Bob, produces a Satellite Phone. Clyde shot down the satellites using a catapult, no less.
** Our relentless Alice dismounts all her phones and crafts a Radio. Then Clyde, fed up, appears in fron of her (In an Evil Guy costume) with [[WordOfGod signed document from the guionists]] that forbids her to call Bob
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** Cell phone traffic is jammed, for whatever reason (emergency services, bad guy interference, what have you.
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** Cell phone traffic is jammed, for whatever reason (emergency services, bad guy interference, what have you.etc.)
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** The story is set in TheEighties and cellphone technology (and coverage) really isn't that good yet.
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** Bob's forgetful and never remembers to keep the battery charged up.
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* '''Enforced''': You can't really trap someone in a horror situation if they could easily call for outside help, now can you?
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* '''Enforced''': You can't really trap someone In a reverse case of ProductPlacement, the movie shows the rival company's cellphone service as unreliable and troublesome, all while [[ShamelessSelfPromoter promoting their own company]] in a horror situation if they could easily call for outside help, now can you?the cheesiest way possible.
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** Bob has unknowingly been shunted to AnotherDimension, and one can't exactly get good cell reception between dimensions.
** Something supernatural is going on, and whatever supernatural presence there is messing with cell phone reception.
** Cell phone traffic is jammed, for whatever reason (emergency services, bad guy interference, what have you.
** Something supernatural is going on, and whatever supernatural presence there is messing with cell phone reception.
** Cell phone traffic is jammed, for whatever reason (emergency services, bad guy interference, what have you.
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* '''Parodied''': Despite the fact that they all have working cellphones, in an emergency none of the characters even ''thinks'' about using them to contact any of the others.
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** Despite the fact that they all have working cellphones, in an emergency none of the characters even ''thinks'' about using them to contact any of the others.
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'''Basic Trope''': Fictional cellphones are either more unreliable than RealLife cellphones, or fictional characters are less likely to possess them than in the real world.
* '''Straight''': Alice is trying to contact Bob but he is in the middle of a forest and thus out of reach of a cellphone tower.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice tries once to contact Bob with her cell phone, and the subject never comes up again.
* '''Justified''':
** Bob is in an out-of-reach location where it genuinely is difficult to get a cellphone signal (such as a basement, the middle of a desert or Antarctica).
** Alternately Bob is in a relatively remote, but still usually on-grid location like a nature preserve and just has a cheaper carrier.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice's cellphone is so powerful it is capable of doing things no cellphone should be able to do.
** Alice has a satellite phone.
* '''Subverted''': Despite being out of an urban area, Bob is still within cellphone range and Alice's call gets through.
* '''Doubly Subverted''': The line is unclear, however, and cuts out before Alice can impart her message to Bob.
* '''Parodied''': Despite the fact that they all have working cellphones, in an emergency none of the characters even ''thinks'' about using them to contact any of the others.
** Alice refuses to call Bob in a life-and-death situation because she's running low on minutes.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob repeatedly goes into areas of bad phone service.
* '''Averted''': Fictional cellphones are exactly as reliable and widely-possessed as they are in RealLife.
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* '''Lampshaded''': "Damn, the reception out here is terrible."
* '''Invoked''':
** Bob intentionally gives Alice a malfunctioning cellphone so that she will not be able to contact anyone in an emergency.
** The bad guys are shown shutting down cell service via HollywoodHacking.
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* '''Defied''':
** Alice is CrazyPrepared and always has a working phone with her. She might even carry several.
** Alternately, Alice has a satellite phone which always works.
** Or, Alice and Bob have radios and know how to use them.
* '''Discussed''': "Don't you have a cell phone?" "Yeah, but all the cellphone towers around here can't get a signal if you're more than two feet away!"
* '''Conversed''': "Wow, the cellphone service providers these characters have ''suck''."
* '''Deconstructed''': The uselessness of cellphones in general means many companies go bankrupt and millions of workers are put out of jobs.
* '''Reconstructed''': The uselessness of cellphones in general puts pressure on cellphone companies to finally improve service by building more powerful towers. Those that do not go bankrupt.
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* '''Straight''': Alice is trying to contact Bob but he is in the middle of a forest and thus out of reach of a cellphone tower.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice is trying to contact Bob using a cellphone but cannot find a signal, despite the fact that they are both in downtown New York.
* '''Downplayed''': Alice tries once to contact Bob with her cell phone, and the subject never comes up again.
* '''Justified''':
** Bob is in an out-of-reach location where it genuinely is difficult to get a cellphone signal (such as a basement, the middle of a desert or Antarctica).
** Alternately Bob is in a relatively remote, but still usually on-grid location like a nature preserve and just has a cheaper carrier.
* '''Inverted''':
** Alice's cellphone is so powerful it is capable of doing things no cellphone should be able to do.
** Alice has a satellite phone.
* '''Subverted''': Despite being out of an urban area, Bob is still within cellphone range and Alice's call gets through.
* '''Doubly Subverted''': The line is unclear, however, and cuts out before Alice can impart her message to Bob.
* '''Parodied''': Despite the fact that they all have working cellphones, in an emergency none of the characters even ''thinks'' about using them to contact any of the others.
** Alice refuses to call Bob in a life-and-death situation because she's running low on minutes.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Bob repeatedly goes into areas of bad phone service.
* '''Averted''': Fictional cellphones are exactly as reliable and widely-possessed as they are in RealLife.
* '''Enforced''': ???
* '''Lampshaded''': "Damn, the reception out here is terrible."
* '''Invoked''':
** Bob intentionally gives Alice a malfunctioning cellphone so that she will not be able to contact anyone in an emergency.
** The bad guys are shown shutting down cell service via HollywoodHacking.
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''':
** Alice is CrazyPrepared and always has a working phone with her. She might even carry several.
** Alternately, Alice has a satellite phone which always works.
** Or, Alice and Bob have radios and know how to use them.
* '''Discussed''': "Don't you have a cell phone?" "Yeah, but all the cellphone towers around here can't get a signal if you're more than two feet away!"
* '''Conversed''': "Wow, the cellphone service providers these characters have ''suck''."
* '''Deconstructed''': The uselessness of cellphones in general means many companies go bankrupt and millions of workers are put out of jobs.
* '''Reconstructed''': The uselessness of cellphones in general puts pressure on cellphone companies to finally improve service by building more powerful towers. Those that do not go bankrupt.
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