The Universal Remote Control trope as used in popular culture. A form of Magic from Technology whereby a TV remote control works on reality itself.

The Remote Body trope as used in popular culture. A character has one or more bodies that can be operated remotely. Likely with equal or greater performance ...

A description of tropes appearing in Remote Control. Game Show about TV trivia that was MTV's first venture out of music videos (and thus the very beginning ...

A child — usually a young boy — who has sole control over some fearsome creature or robot and uses it wisely, despite advice from all the well-meaning but ...

A handheld variant of the Big Red Button. You want to have a character be able to do something like activate a machine or detonate a bomb in a cool way.

There are ways to work around a lost remote, but they are for the most part not practical in the immediate sense — ordering a new remote takes days, for ...

A remote control toy (most commonly a car or a plane) is used as a weapon in an attempt to murder someone. Most commonly, the toy is packed with explosives ...

The Remote Control Ruckus trope as used in popular culture. Two or more characters (usually children, and often a boy and a girl) disagree on what TV show ...

In this trope, your physical self is being directly threatened while you are currently out of your body; thus, you might not be aware of the danger.

A page for describing YMMV: Remote Control. Franchise Original Sin: On a network-wide level, this was the first show MTV ever aired that wasn't about music.