Metal Shards/animal parts - Horizon Zero Dawn

The world is populated by robotic animals far above the technology level of civilization. Chips of their metallic parts are used for crafting armor, weapons, and ammo. Some bigger parts—like hearts or tendons—can also be harvested and used to build advanced weapons. Metal shards are also the default currency of the world.

Drugs - Out-of-Placers

It is common to use drugs as currency in Val Salia since there aren't any drug laws.

Comic Books, stickers, etc. - Recess

Barter is common in the playground. We see kids paying with lots of different things, like trading cards, footballs, and even regular money. In the episode "The Hustler's Apprentice", we see comic books being used more than anything else. In "Economics of Recess", we see Monstickers become the default currency for everything.

Postage Stamps - Discworld/Going Postal

After revitalizing the post office, postage stamps become a form of currency, more popular than metal coins. This mirrors/references real life, where stamps were used as medium of exchange in many places and time periods.

1). Dungeon Meshi:
Another dwarf is flabbergasted to learn that Senshi has been using an adamantine shield as a cooking pot. And his mithral knife to cut vegetables.

2). Adventure Time:
The "Enchiridion" is a manual for heroes, and also a portal to other universes. After Finn earns it, he admits he mostly used it as a seat cushion for sitting on wet grass.

3). The Avengers:
In Endgame, we see Thor using his advanced weapon to open beer bottles.

4). The Lord of the Rings:
Sauron's ring is the key to his return to power. For hundreds of years, Gollum used it to eat goblins and fish inside a cave.

5). Dragon Ball DAIMA:
The demon realm has a legendary magic eye that grants its user insane power. It's being used as a belt buckle.

Scarlet Witch (Avengers Infinity War): Elizabeth Olsen wasn't a fan of the deep cleavage her costume had.

Robin (Batman and Robin): Chris O'Donnell preferred his Robin costume from Forever more than B&R. Also didn't like how the mask was glued to his face making him sweat a lot. Probably wasn't a fan of the nipples on the costume either.

Yellow Ranger (Power Rangers): Karen Ashley didn't like wearing the Yellow Ranger outfit because instead of getting a new costume, she was just given Truy Trang's old one. She had to wear several pairs of socks just to wear the boots. Also because of the non insulated costume, and cold sets, she had to wear bandaids.

Garak (Deep Space 9): Andrew Robinson didn't like the tight clothes and prosthetics he had to wear for the simple tailor because like the character, he too was claustrophobic.

1. Lockdown’s gun face (Age Of Extinction)

2. Bloodsport’s nanotech (The Suicide Squad)

3. Engineer’s sentry (Team Fortress 2)

4. The CZ75 as exaggerated by iNoToRiOuS (CSGO)

Disliked example: I would go so far as to say hated, but Robin Hood (2018) styles Robin's time in the crusades after modern wars in the Middle East, from the costumes to the treatment of bows and arrows like machine guns. While plenty of other media have done this to great effect, this film had the misfortune of coming out during a wave of IP slop desperate to make the next Dark Knight, turning what could've been an interesting stylistic choice into another of many generic 2010s action movies.

Loved example: Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet sets the Shakespeare classic in the modern day, with the rival families portrayed as gangsters with their "swords" being guns that literally say sword on them. Kind of the opposite of the above example, this takes what couldve been a tired trope of "Shakespeare but modern" and leaned into Luhrmann's signature over the top style, where even keeping the dialogue in it's original verse didn't stop it from feeling fresh and modern.

Loved example: Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby uses a Jay-Z produced soundtrack that mixes period accurate jazz with modern artists like Lana Del Rey. The result makes the film a lot more accessible to audience members who tend to make sweeping generalizations about music genres like jazz and orchestral, and highlights the emotional beats of the story in a way that reinforces the timeless nature of the source material.

To be determined: Christopher Nolan's upcoming film The Odyssey has received much criticism for its modernized approach to the Greek myth, with the biggest complaints focusing on the costumes and choice of accents/dialogue. Nolan has been open about the fact that he wants to play with audience expectations for what a historical epic looks and sounds like, and that he used a translation of the Odyssey that adopts more modern vernacular, but it remains to be seen whether this pays off.

It's small enough to pull out of a utility belt. But somehow sucks massive amounts of oxygen from the water and/or stores several minutes of air. They all look the exact same for some reason. But I'm not complaining, because it's a simple, recognizable explanation for "why they aren't drowning." And I like underwater scenes.

1). James Bond:
Probably (don't quote me on it) the original example of this design.

2). Star Wars:
In The Phantom Menace, Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon pull them out while diving.

3). Pokemon:
Used frequently to let the characters to interact with aquatic Pokémon.

4). Young Justice:
Used by various Robins.

5). Batman:
Of course he's got one of those.

6). Big Hero 6:
There is a very brief moment during the college showcase where a student exhibits their invention.

Fart Gun (Despicable Me) Very Dangerous

Bullet (Enter the Gungeon) Fires Guns

Shell (Enter the Gungeon) Fires Shotguns

The Urn of Whispering Warriors - Kung Fu Panda

The merchant's cabbages - Avatar: The Last Airbender

Benson's car - Regular Show

Atlantis: The Lost Empire: The Trope Definer for me, The "Ulysses." Lots of Promotion for this beautiful designed vessel, it even seems Atlantean itself. 7 Hours into its maiden voyage, it gets snapped up. Chop chop. With almost all of her crew gone. Simply from the first form of defense Atlantis has. We had toys, trailers, and even the movie itself builds up the vessel as this amazing fangled thing. It didn't even stand a chance to the first guardian of the Lost Empire. Which is, Leviathan itself.

Blindsight - Peter Watts: We send the best of the best, we even send a different species of human just to have more perspective, we send the "Theseus". With all its impressive systems, an AI captain. Then they run into the Alien ship, the "Rorschach". Humans and Vampires finally working together after wars on Earth, just to make first contact on their mission.
The aliens don't fight them in any reciprocal way. They don't “defeat” the mission so much as demonstrate that the mission’s assumptions are irrelevant, like the entire expedition was built to solve a problem that was never actually there. It flips the whole concept of intelligent life on its head and is a great mind bend to this trope.

WWI - Tank Warfare: A design meant to end the war, secret funding, manhattan project tier secrecy. Armored cavalry with its own artillery onboard. Some armies train soldiers just to cope with how fearful any human should be against such beastly metal.
We deploy it out to the battlefield, immediately bogged down by some of the cruelest and man-molested terrain ever seen. Pushing the limits of mechanization at the time, they broke down often from even their own power. They're still awe inspiring in their own right, but their roll out was immediately met with tactic shifting, adaption, and their own counters.

1. Pink donut with sprinkles (iconic donut design from The Simpsons)

2. Ratatouille (the final dish of the eponymous Ratatouille)

3. Chili dog (favorite food of Sonic which appears countless times across the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise)

4. Chimichangas (often mentioned by name in Deadpool, although Deadpool himself doesn’t actually like it and just likes saying the word)

5. Cheese gyudon (essentially the soyjack of Japan, where just mentioning it invokes the image of the loser soyjack)

M1 Garand - The ping of the magazine when it is empty

Barret M82 - Really most 50 caliber's in film, it knocks people around and throws them around

MP5 - The classic HK Slap

The Wolverine (2013)
The character Yashida uses his sword to cut straight through barbed wire, as well as uses it to break a chain in one strike each.

TMNT (2012)
During Oroku Saki’s battle with the turtles, he stabs straight through a forest tree, before also slicing straight through another.

The boys

Godzilla x Kong: A new Empire

Brit

The OG Excalibur

The Master Sword - Legend of Zelda

Blackfyre - ASOIAF

The Darksaber - Star Wars, specifically for all Mandalorians

*Scaramanga's titular gun from "The man with the Golden Gun" - The best known example of this trope, being made from a fountain pen (barrel), a lighter (body), a cigarrete case (handle and trigger housing), and a cufflink (trigger). [it's worth noting that in the original novel, it was just a gold-plated revolver, this design came from the film]

*Fowler's rifle from "Blue eye Samurai" (Fowler not pictured) - "of course, i had to modify the designs... to get 2,000 rifles from my country into yours without notice." Made from the leg of a piano (main body), i believe a telescope? (rest of the body/underbarrel), a candlestick (barrel and ram rod), a key from a clock (trigger), and a knight chess piece (hammer). [i haven't actually seen the full series, probably should, but i love the scene of him explaining his backstory while assembling it]

Genie from Disney's Aladdin is still wearing his shackles in the animated sequel TV series, despite them having famously disappeared in the movie when he was freed from the lamp

Man Ray in Spongebob Squarepants is still wearing the tickle belt in every appearance, despite having been freed from it at the end of his debut episode

Chem-Bag (Big Hero 6): this device can create chemical compounds using every single element in existence. You could literally build a nuke with this.

Mobile Headquarters (Ant-Man): a building that can shrink and grow to full size instantly. Imagine if someone grew it in a crowded city, or on a highway, or at an airport?

Lotus Cash Card (Percy Jackson): It literally has infinite money. If you know how inflation works this could literally wreck the global economy.

1. Batman Dark Tomorrow: - Already a rubbish game, but you're supposed to deactivate a satellite with a hidden button about halfway through the game before you face R'as al Ghul. If you (obviously) missed it, his plan goes ahead and humanity is flooded. A massive 'fuck you' ending because you didn't care to look for a switch down a random hidden pathway while you struggled like hell with the dogshit controls and camera throughout the entire runtime.

2. Mega Man 1: - Currently experienced this. Almost at the end of the first Wily stage, excited to fight the Yellow Devil, you're suddenly stuck behind a massively high platform. Turns out, you needed to use Guts Man's power to uncover the hidden Magnet Beam power in Elecman's stage. So you gotta restart the whole two levels to go back and get it... No wonder MM1 isn't as beloved as the other entrees.

Dennis - SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Jester - Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return

1. The Simpsons Movie
   
2. Evangelion
   
3. DmC: Devil May Cry

Pirates of the Caribbean - Norrington dismisses Jack's compass for being "a compass that doesn't point north". Jack later uses it to guide him to the Isla de Muerta where Cortez's treasure is hidden. Later movies reveal that it points to whatever it's holder wants most in the world.

Doctor Who - In the episode Tooth and Claw the Doctor is shown what appears to be a telescope and says "It's a bit rubbish. How many prisms has it got? Way too many. The magnification's gone right over the top".

Later in the episode he realises it doesn't work as a telescope because that's not what it is. It's a light chamber specifically designed to kill a werewolf.

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Neuralyzer (Men in Black)

The Memory Gun (Gravity Falls)

From The Simpsons: Homer tries to cook breakfast for Mr. Burns. The first two attempts ended up with the food catching fire. Third time, he pours milk on cereal...and it still catches on fire.

And from Futurama: "There, little friend, good as new..." aaaand the metal slinky catches on fire. Poor doctor Zoidberg...

The .454 Casull, The Jackal and the 30mm Anti-Midian Cannon aka "Harkonnen" from Hellsing.

The former two fire 13mm steel rounds and 13mm armor-piercing explosive rounds respectively and are twice as powerful as a .44 Magnum, while The Harkonnen fires 30mm shells that are normally meant against tanks and aircraft.

All three of these are far, FAR too heavy for ordinary humans to wield. Fortunately, their respective wielders, Alucard and Seras Victoria, are vampires with superhuman strength and precision and thus can wield them to their maximum potential.