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Lovely little ultra-portable pieces of [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that keep the cast in constant communication across vast distances, usually without any sort of lag or [[Walkie-Talkie Static|static]], excepting outside interference. How they work is rarely
Sometimes cell-phone-like (and indeed, in works set in [[The Present Day|the present]], [[Cell Phone|cell phones]] usually fill this role), sometimes small enough to be worn on the shirt or in the ear.
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* [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Seto Kaiba]] has that thing on his collar he's always talking to.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', [[Humongous Mecha|Knightmare Frames]] could communicate with each other, and some sort of earpieces were in use (mostly by the Britannians). Also, cell phones were commonly used for sensitive communications, but with visible hardware modifications for encryption purposes.
* The [[Empathic Weapon|Devices]] of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' have communication capabilities that allow its users to keep in contact even [[The Multiverse|across dimensions]]. They also have text messaging capabilities (with less pushing of little buttons since the AI can recognize speech) and can send transmissions to ordinary earth [[Cell Phone
* The calculator-esque and later wrist communicators in ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. One wonders just what kind of infrastructure makes them work.
* ''[[Bleach]]'': This two-way system keeps shinigami in contact with communications division (a unit of the 12th division) while on missions, allowing shinigami and Seireitei to remain in contact even though the shinigami is in the human world and Seireitei is in the spirit world. There have been two styles shown to date. A radio-headset style which is carried in the uniform rather than clipped to an ear, as used by Rangiku and Yumichika, and a phone style, as used by Rukia.
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== Comic Books ==
* Some versions of ''[[X-Men]]'' have communicators in the X's on their costumes.
* [[Green Lantern
* DC's ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (comics)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' has several variants, most notably the omnicom, which is essentially an iPhone on steroids and which was introduced decades before cellular phones were developed. Various incarnations of the Legion have also incorporated hyperspace communications into their flight rings, and "telepathic earplugs" which serve as a combination comlink and [[Universal Translator]].
* The members of [[The Authority]] communicate by using nanomachinery to send each other messages through the Carrier.
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== Film ==
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has comlinks. Lando Calrissian has a "wrist radio" version in ''The Empire Strikes Back''.
* The ''[[Mission: Impossible]]'' movies had camera-radios built into eyeglasses.
* ''[[They Live!]]''. The aliens use wrist radios to communicate with each other. They can also be used to make short-range teleports.
* Used in the climactic battle in ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', {{spoiler|despite the main location being incredibly bad for all ''other'' electronics.}}
* ''[[Buckaroo Banzai]]''. Buckaroo and Rawhide have small communicators that can transmit across New Jersey.
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== Literature ==
* In Peter F. Hamilton's ''[[The
* In David Drake's ''[[
* The ''Axis Of Time'' trilogy by John Birmingham has portable net-enabled laptops from [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]] transported back to [[World War Two]], where they function much like a wrist radio or Star Trek communicator. Notable in that, thanks to no satellites floating in orbit, the connections are often crappy, but work, thanks to a side feature of bouncing communications off the atmosphere... or something like that.
* ''Uglies'' has skintennas that work like cell-phones but are built in to your body and only have a
* In a [[Star Trek Expanded Universe]] novel, Mackenzie Calhoun is given, among other things, a newly-developed communicator that can send and receive messages over enormous distances by piggybacking on any carrier wave. Mac first tests it by accident when he jokingly says "Mackenzie to Jellico" and hears Admiral Jellico on the other end a second later, even though Jellico is on another planet.
* In Michael Crichton's ''[[Timeline]]'', a comm link was created that could fit in one's ear (it was described as looking like a hearing aid). It could also translate spoken languages into the wearer's ear. Both the distance and the amount of languages aren't specified, but the book emphasized that its batteries have a shelf-life of 36 hours.
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== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' is the [[Trope Maker]] here. The original series had cell phone-like devices, while [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation]] had them built into the Starfleet badges.
** No, the modern world has Star Trek Communicator-like devices.
*** In [[How William Shatner Changed The World]], Motorala chief engineer and inventor of the cell phone Martin Cooper states that he invented the cell phone because he wanted a [[Truth in Television|real life star trek communicator.]]
* ''[[Farscape]]'': the crew of Moya have small badge-like communicators which are threaded through Moya. It also fits the "patch into other networks" as, in the ([[Wrap It Up|pre-miniseries]]) [[Grand Finale]], John uses his to talk to his dad through the phone...''from the moon''.
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* Jack from ''[[MadWorld]]'' uses two of these, both ear pieces, each to a different person. Strange how only one of them hears the other talk.
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic Adventure 2]]'' features radios that the characters often use. What's odd is that both sides of the story (Hero and Dark) have the same kind of radio.
* In ''[[Max Payne 2]]'', Max and Mona keep in touch via seeming indestructible (and undetectable, since Mona's doesn't get taken when she gets ''arrested'')
* ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' has Linkshells and Linkpearls that allow communication across continents, dimensions, and time itself. It's a game mechanic, as well, but at least one that's explained.
* ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'' features a [[Comm Link]] with an effective range of one ''light year'', that also ''triples'' as a translation device and an impromptu but powerful ''explosive''.
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== Western Animation ==
* The [[DCAU]] [[Justice League]] have their own communicators as
* The [[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]] have hand-held clamshell devices that function as communicators. {{spoiler|In the final season of the cartoon, the Brotherhood of Evil managed to capture one and used it to track down all the heroes and capture them one by one. Robin had to re-wire his so it could detonate a secret explosive inside each one}}.
* [[Kim Possible]] has her "Kimmunicator", which is shaped like a compact. It's like a PDA with [[Everything Sensor
** In one episode, Drakken locked Kim in a vault and threw the vault into a deep water-filled pit after confiscating her Kimmunicator. Kim then remembered that her class ring had a back-up Kimmunicator that also doubled as a laser torch and emergency rebreather!
* ''[[Totally Spies!]]''. The girls use a Compowder to communicate (so called because it looks like a make-up kit, which often contain powder puffs).
* In both ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoons, the turtles have communicators. In the first the bad guys also have them, and even the dimensional port in the Technodrome can double as such. And with two parallel systems, it is no wonder that both sides sometimes used the communicators to hack each others' frequencies. The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|second series]] Turtles use special modified [[Cell Phone
* Static and Richie (later [[Gadgeteer Genius|Gear]]) in ''[[Static Shock]]'' make gadgets called Shock Boxes, which work like walkie talkies. In one episode, Static managed to use his powers to [[Tim Taylor Technology|boost their range to across the planet]], somehow.
* On ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'', Brock Samson and Thaddeus, Hank, and Dean Venture have communicator wristwatches they can use to contact each other or HELPeR. Jonas Venture, Jr, has his communicator built into his shirt collar, which is more accessible but lacks a video screen.
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