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* One popped up in the remake of ''GetSmart''.

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* One popped up in the 2008 remake of ''GetSmart''.''Film/GetSmart''.
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* There was a fly "bug" in development in the original ''GetSmart,'' but Max (of course) thought it was a real fly and swatted it.

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* There was a fly "bug" in development in the original ''GetSmart,'' ''Series/GetSmart,'' but Max (of course) thought it was a real fly and swatted it.
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* Not only bug-shaped but also with a cloaking field in "Ayla and the Tests" of the WhateleyUniverse. You have to be really sneaky to get past other genius inventors.

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* The Beetle serves this function in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword''. Not only it allows to retrieve small items and press unreachable switches, an upgrade also allows it to carry larger objects (pots, bombs, etc.), and subsequent upgrades provide it a longer range and the ability to accelerate.

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* This is part of the PalantirPloy in ''{{Abarat}}''--the Midnightian Royal Family has robot spy-bugs and spy-birds and spy-who-knows-what all over the place. Candy actually beats one up once, to prevent it from hurting [[MamaBear the child of the kind lady who gave her shelter.]]

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* This is part of the PalantirPloy in ''{{Abarat}}''--the ''Literature/{{Abarat}}''--the Midnightian Royal Family has robot spy-bugs and spy-birds and spy-who-knows-what all over the place. Candy actually beats one up once, to prevent it from hurting [[MamaBear the child of the kind lady who gave her shelter.]]


All of this on top of the fact that bugs themselves are rather unobtrusive, and people don't usually shriek in horror when there's just a random bug hanging around, minding its own business. As a result, they tend to be both cool and practical. It's hardly surprising that this trope appears at all points on the ScienceFictionVersusFantasy line.

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All of this on top of the fact that bugs themselves are rather unobtrusive, and people don't usually shriek in horror when there's just a random bug hanging around, minding its own business. As a result, they tend to be both cool and practical. It's hardly surprising that this trope appears at all points on the ScienceFictionVersusFantasy line.
in ScienceFiction, {{Fantasy}}, and [[ScienceFantasy everything in-between]].
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* Skylar in {{Alphas}} makes these.

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* Skylar in {{Alphas}} ''Series/{{Alphas}}'' makes these.
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* The Predacons in ''BeastWars'' sometimes use these.
* In ''{{Wakfu}}'', [[BigBad Nox]] uses these for both surveillance and to gather [[LifeEnergy wakfu]] from all over the world.

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* The Predacons in ''BeastWars'' ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' sometimes use these.
* In ''{{Wakfu}}'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', [[BigBad Nox]] uses these for both surveillance and to gather [[LifeEnergy wakfu]] from all over the world.
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* Spider-Man's spider-tracers. Whose signal he picks up with his spider-sense, in fact.

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* Spider-Man's Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}'s spider-tracers. Whose signal he picks up with his spider-sense, in fact.



* The {{Animorphs}} would frequently morph bugs for surveillance purposes.

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* The {{Animorphs}} Literature/{{Animorphs}} would frequently morph bugs for surveillance purposes.



* One features in the opening chapter of Roger Zelazney's ''Lord Of Light''

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* One features in the opening chapter of Roger Zelazney's ''Lord Of Light''RogerZelazney's ''LordOfLight''

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* In ''TheMightyThor'' #357-8, the villains' secret base has an insect infestation that's actually a swarm of Literal Surveillance Bugs created by their own GadgeteerGenius, who is working with them unwillingly and wants to know what they say when he's not around.



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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Shino Aburame gives orders to the bugs that live in his body, and can have them perform surveillance (they communicate with him by flying in pattern to form words) or track (he puts a female bug on his target and then has male bugs find it by scent).
* There is one in ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]'', property of bug-themed Weevil Underwood.

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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' ''{{Naruto}}'', Shino Aburame gives orders to the bugs that live in his body, and can have them perform surveillance (they communicate with him by flying in pattern to form words) or track (he puts a female bug on his target and then has male bugs find it by scent).
* There is one in ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]'', ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'', property of bug-themed Weevil Underwood.
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* In ''The Neutronium Alchemist'' by Peter F. Hamilton, an intelligence agency is using biotech spiders to spy on a radical group. Realising what's happening the group arranges for gangs of local kids to squash every spider in sight as a game.

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* In ''The Neutronium Alchemist'' by Peter F. Hamilton, PeterFHamilton, an intelligence agency is using biotech spiders to spy on a radical group. Realising what's happening the group arranges for gangs of local kids to squash every spider in sight as a game.
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* Skylar in {{Alphas}} makes these.
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* In ''{{Wakfu}}'', [[BigBad Nox]] uses these for both surveillance and to gather [[LifeEnergy wakfu]] from all over the world.
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* In the first StarTrekTitan book, the Romulan Tal Shiar (their state intelligence agency) use tiny crawling robotic bugs to eavesdrop on a closed meeting of Romulan and Federation dignitaries. The devices are discovered only afterwards, but do prove useful in a later mission (in the next book of the series).
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* There is one in ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]]'', property of bug-themed Weevil Underwood.

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* There is one in ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]]'', ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]'', property of bug-themed Weevil Underwood.
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* There is one in ''[=~Yu-Gi-Oh!~=]]'', property of bug-themed Weevil Underwood.
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* Hinted at in ''OrderOfTheStick'' #770 when a prisoner in the Empire of Blood says about having been captured after escaping:
-->"I don't know what tricks they're using to find me yet… my current theory is that they've bugged my bugs."

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* R.A.L.P.H. (imaged above) the ''Robotic Arachnid Lithium Photo Helper'' from the ''SpyKids'' series.



* R.A.L.P.H. the Robotic Arachnid Lithium Photo Helper from the ''SpyKids'' series.
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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Shino Aburame gives orders to the bugs that live in his body, and can have them perform surveillance (they communicate with him by flying in pattern to form words) or track (he puts a female bug on his target and then has male bugs find it by set).

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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Shino Aburame gives orders to the bugs that live in his body, and can have them perform surveillance (they communicate with him by flying in pattern to form words) or track (he puts a female bug on his target and then has male bugs find it by set).
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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Shino Aburame gives orders to the bugs that live in his body, and can have them perform surveillance (they communicate with him by flying in pattern to form words) or track (he puts a female bug on his target and then has a male bugs find it by set).

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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Shino Aburame gives orders to the bugs that live in his body, and can have them perform surveillance (they communicate with him by flying in pattern to form words) or track (he puts a female bug on his target and then has a male bugs find it by set).
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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Shino Aburame gives orders to the bugs that live in his body, and can have them perform surveillance (they communicate with him by flying in pattern to form words).

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* In ''{{Naruto}}'' Shino Aburame gives orders to the bugs that live in his body, and can have them perform surveillance (they communicate with him by flying in pattern to form words).
words) or track (he puts a female bug on his target and then has a male bugs find it by set).
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[[caption-width-right:350:Definitely one of the more [[RobotBuddy cuter examples]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Definitely one of the more cuter examples.]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:Definitely one of the more [[RobotBuddy cuter examples.examples]].]]
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* The bird in ''TheIncredibles''.
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* Flying robotic bugs were used by MegaCorp Vex-Cor in ''Charlie Jade''.

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