Basic Trope: An important piece of spy gear is compressed into a package that is worn about the wrist.
- Straight: Secret Agent Bob has a wrist-mounted laser.
- Exaggerated: Secret Agent Bob has a wrist-mounted laser/taser/chainsaw/gatling gun.
- Downplayed: Secret Agent Bob has a wrist-mounted microcommunicator and GPS.
- Justified: It's easy to carry weapons around stealthily when they're lightweight and strapped to your wrist, and they can be disguised as a wristwatch - provided you can miniaturize the tech enough.
- Inverted: Bob's gun tells the time.
- Subverted: When he faces the Big Bad, Bob presses a button on his watch. It displays the time.
- Double Subverted: It actually displayed a timer. The watch is a bomb in disguise.
- Parodied:
- Bob's watch has any conceivable function, except for telling the time.
- Bob's watch contains large amounts of normal-sized spy gear. He can barely lift his arm.
- Bob spends several minutes over going the overly Long List of possibilities of what his watch could do. The quartermaster tells him that all it does is tell the time. It's the newest and coolest model on the market, though, so there is that.
- Bob's spy watch looks like something you buy in a dollar store.
- The gadgets in Bob's spy watch are weird.
- Gadget pocket-watch.
- Zig Zagged:Agent 606: "I will be safe, because currently on my arm is a device with any conceivable gadget I could need for escape or surveillance, aside from Rocket Boots, of course."
Agent 411-CE: "Oh, your wristwatch does all that?"
Agent 606: "No, that's just a wristwatch. This thing running all down my other arm, under the shirt sleeve, is the device. But it tells time, too, in all 26 time zones, since it's waterproof and my actual watch is not." - Averted: Bob's watch is just a watch.
- Enforced: "It's a spy movie. His watch has to do something cool."
- Lampshaded: "Let me guess, special Agent B.O.B, your watch is really a taser?"
- Invoked: Bob is getting ready for the mission, finds a wrist-gadget, and takes it, assuming it does something cool.
- Exploited: Bob passes gadget wristwatches out to those he works closely with.
- Defied:
- The Big Bad is sure to remove Bob's watch when Bob is captured.
- Bob refuses any and all gadgetry, including gadget watches.
- Discussed: "Look at this, Agent Bob. This watch houses a laser, a comm device, and a flashlight." "Uh-huh. Kinda strange, but cool."
- Conversed: "How can those superspies have a metal-cutting lasers in their watches? What year is this - 2633?"
- Implied: We never actually see Bob's watch do anything other than tell the time but several characters recall times where he's used the watch to do cool spy stuff.
- Deconstructed: Bob ends up Driven to Suicide after his kid ends up killing himself accidentally by playing with his watch not knowing it had a lethal laser in it.
- Reconstructed: ...and that is precisely why agents handle and store Gadget Watches just like one would handle and store real weapons.
- Played For Laughs: The gadget in Bob's watch is something incredibly stupid like a concealed bottle of hot sauce for covert food seasoning.
- Played For Drama: Bob uses the gadget in his watch to save his life. As an example, he empties that concealed bottle of hot sauce in the face of a goon giving him a half-nelson before grabbing a nearby gun and blowing his brains out.
- Played For Horror: The gadget in Bob's watch is a weapon of mass destruction meant to destroy Bob and any surrounding enemies, any potential witnesses and evidence, and a significant chunk of the surrounding area. And these items are standard-issue amongst members of Bob's agency.
- Plotted A Good Waste: Because of Product Placement, Bob is given a brand-new Numega Time-Striker early in the film. Because of how often this trope is played straight in spy films, Bob and his quartermaster spend a couple of minutes joking about how the Time-Striker is not going to transform into a switchblade when you press a button.
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