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''The boy fled, his breath coming in short pants. This room seemed perfect. An old metal staircase gave ample cover from the man chasing him.''

* ''[[Hellsing]]'': Opening scene of volume 1. Jan also does this when searching for Integra.

* {{spoiler|''Three''}} [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Number]] [[Hollywood Cyborg|Cyborgs]] does this to an isolated [[Badass Normal]] Teana during the final battle of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS''. As noted by Teana, they just need to spot her back once for all of it to be over.

 

 

* The first ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' film. "We know you're 'ere, poppet..."

* Marv and Harry in ''[[Home Alone]]'': "We know that you're in there, and that you're all alone..."

* In the climax of ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'', Luke doesn't want to fight his father, so he hides in the poorly lit corners of the throne room, Vader taunts him by reading his mind and finding out about his sister.

** [[Completely Missing the Point|Referenced]] in an issue of the comic, where Roger is hiding in a hollow tree stump until the villain knocks it twice, which makes Roger jump out and shout "[[Knock-Knock Joke|Who's there?]]"

* The climax of ''The Faculty''.

* Appropriately enough, in the horror movie ''Hide and Seek''. Emily is hiding in her room {{spoiler|from her father, who's been possessed by his [[Split Personality]]}} and Charlie comes in, doing an [[Ironic Echo]] of the game Emily used to play with her mother.

{{quote| That's funny...I could have sworn I saw a little girl named Emily go in here...}}

* Stated word for word in ''[[Cape Fear]]''.

* In ''[[The Rock]]'', one of the marines says something similar to this while looking for Nicholas Cage's character.

{{quote| {{spoiler|'PETER! PETTIGREW!'}} And he's in this room, right now! Come out, come out, {{spoiler|Peter}}! Come out and ''play!!''}}

 

 

== Literature ==

* In ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'', Harry ducks behind a tombstone in the Graveyard, avoiding Voldemort's curse. Softly, Voldemort tells him,

{{quote| We are not playing hide and seek, Harry. You cannot hide from me. Does this mean you are tired of our duel? Does this mean that you would prefer me to finish it now, Harry? Come out, Harry... Come out and play, then... it will be quick... it might even be painless... I would not know... I have never died...}}

** He does say "Here kitty-kitty" which may as well be an alternate title for this trope.

** In "Ted" we're treated to Buffy sitting on a playground swing in the middle of the night saying, "Vampires, heeerrre vampires..."

* Done comically in [[V|V: The Final Battle]] from 1984: a [[Too Dumb to Live]] Visitor starts softly calling "Mousiiiieeeeee. Mousie. Here, mousie." to a dumpster as he scrounges for mice to eat.

* Done ironically in [[Firefly]] episode Objects In Space. "Come on out, River. Nice man wants to kidnap you."

{{quote| "Mummy! Where are you?...Mummy! I'm coming to find you!"}}

** Of course in reality {{spoiler|she is actually his mother, thus justifying his questioning of her (even if unintentionally.)}}

{{quote| '''Master''': Out you come, ''little girl''. Come and meet your ''Master''.}}

* ''[[Fawlty Towers]]''- In the fabulous episode 'The Psychiatrist' when Basil is convinced that a guest is hiding young woman in his room. He thinks he's finally cornered the offenders, triumphantly calls out this trope... [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and out comes the guest's wizened little mother]]. This, for once, is a non-creepy example (I think. Basil's [[Slasher Smile|manic expression]] leaves you wondering.)

 

 

== Theater ==

 

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' sees [[Badass Biker|Francis]], one of the survivors, deliver one of these in a rather blunt fashion when he hears a Hunter nearby: "I hear a Hunter! Come on out, wussy!"

* The super mutants in ''[[Fallout 3]]'' sometimes say exactly this when you hide from them, complete with a short, almost sarcastic laugh.

* This describes the entire gameplay of ''[[Thief]]'', though some pursuers hew to it more closely than others.

* ''[[Splinter Cell]]'': The mercenaries in the Kalinatek level say this line.

* Coming from [[Ghostbusters|Ray Stantz]], this has a definite potential for nightmare fuel.

* During [[The Ingenue|Merrill's]] second-act personal mission in ''[[Dragon Age 2]]'', you encounter an elf named Pol hiding in the Varterral caverns, prompting Hawke to use a similar line.

{{quote| '''[[Deadpan Snarker|Silly!Hawke:]]''' "Whoever's hiding around here had better come out. Unless you're a dragon. Then feel free to keep hiding."}}

* The ''[[Manhunt]]'' series likes to invoke this whenever the protagonist is hiding in the shadows and the [[Mook|Mooks]] are looking for him.

{{quote| "Oh, '''there''' you are...(SLASH)"}}

* When Emilia is looking for the Pope in ''[[Yggdra Union]]'', she starts calling out the traditional Japanese hide-and-seek lines in frustration ("Olly olly oxenfree!" in the English version). It doesn't come off as particularly frightening because it takes her a ''very'' long time for her to find him, on top of which Emilia is fourteen.

* Sky Captain, AI opponent of the old [[Electronic Arts]] game ''[[Future Cop LAPD]]'' says it when hunting for the player.

* In ''[[Alpha Protocol]]'', Brayko uses this line verbatim when you try hiding from him (in contrast to Omen Deng and Marburg, who can sniff you out wherever you are).

{{quote| '''Brayko:''' Come out, come out, wherever you are... Olly olly oxen free, whatever the fuck that means.}}

* Used by The Monarch on ''[[The Venture Bros]]'', [[Lampshaded]] with his comment afterward of "I know it sounds corny, but believe me, it sounded good on the speakers".

* Used in a ''[[Rugrats]]'' episode in which Angelica has a nightmare that her new baby brother is evil and can talk to her.

{{quote| "Here, kitty, kitty. What's the matter? Afraid of a little bad luck?"}}

{{quote| "You lack even Prime's courage! Come out, Autobot! We all must die sometime!"}}

 

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