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A quite common variant of [[The Quest]], this plot has two people who have become separated by fate or circumstance, and thus cannot be together. One or both will try to search for the other, promising that they will never stop until they have reunited with their loved one.

 

See also [[Rescue Arc]] and [[Save the Princess]], which this frequently overlaps with. The protagonist of this trope is often [[The Determinator]].

 

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* A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqO7LgyjIfM Duracell Bunny commercial] has the toy bunny and his duck companion being left out in a picnic. They seek out to find the owner, but the duck's battery runs out halfway. Bunny drags his friend along, and one fine morning they are at the gate of their little owner's home. Cue [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].

 

 

* This is the main plot after the time skip in ''[[Naruto]]''. Naruto has sworn to save Sasuke from darkness and Sakura loves him to the point where she will kill him to save his soul.

* Teppei Takamiya in ''[[B't X]]'', a Seiya-expy, breathes by this trope. He's a Determinator that won't stop until he has rescued his younger brother.

* During the Orichalcos Arc of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'', Yami loses a duel due to being tempted by the Seal's dark powers and should have his soul taken, Yugi sacrifices his own soul instead. Yami spends the rest of the season vowing to find Yugi and redeem himself for his mistake.

* ''[[Claymore]]'' has Claire telling Raki she will find him when they are escaping {{spoiler|Ophelia}} and need to go separate ways. It results in them looking for each other for years, even after {{spoiler|Claire hears that Raki has been taken to the North, which was entirely destroyed during that time}}.

* In ''[[Millennium Actress]]'', Chiyoko (the titular actress) spends most of her life searching for a man she briefly knew (and fell in love with) as a girl. She doesn't find him {{spoiler|as he died not long after they parted company, a fact which she never learns. In the end, she decides she doesn't much mind not finding him, since chasing after him is what she really loves}}.

* The basic plot of the two ''[[Eden of the East]]'' movies is Saki searching for Akira, finding him, and then almost immediately losing him again. Rinse and repeat.

 

 

 

 

* In ''[[Winter War]]'', this is the motivation of several members of the Hueco Mundo mission. Nanao and Sora are straight examples, looking for her MIA captain Kyorakou and his imprisoned sister Orihime respectively. Ikkaku starts out as a subversion, since he knows his best friend Yumichika has either turned traitor or been taken captive and [[Brainwashed and Crazy]], and his reaction to either is "battle to the death". {{spoiler|The group finds Orihime fairly easily, and Ikkaku- after finding out exactly what was wrong with Yumichika, fighting him, and Yumichika being restored to normal- settles on [[My Fist Forgives You]].}}

 

 

* Also several of ''[[The Land Before Time]]'' films.

* ''[[Finding Nemo]]'': Marlin the clownfish searches for his son.

* ''[[101 Dalmatians|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]'': Pongo and Perdita search for their 15 lost pups... and find 84 extra.

* ''[[An American Tail]]'', and the first sequel to a lesser degree. The others, not so much. The song "Somewhere Out There" from the first movie is absolutely made of this trope.

* ''[[Ladyhawke]]''. Doubles as a [[Badass Boast]].

{{quote|'''Etienne Navarre:''' And know this - if you fail, I will follow you the length of my days. And I ''will'' find you.}}

'''Westley:''' There will never be a need. }}

* The movie ''[[Taken (film)|Taken]]'' is about one man's search for his daughter, though everyone remembers the very [[Papa Wolf]] quote by the protagonist to said daughter's kidnappers.

** Heck, the whole episode of the Three Hunters looking for Merry and Pippin. Because [[The Power of Friendship]] matters more than [["Friend or Idol?" Decision|going after Frodo and the Ring]]. Aww.

* Thorold Stone (Jeff Fahey) in the Christian movie ''Revelation'' from the [[Apocalypse]] film series is looking for his wife and daughter who disappeared in the Rapture and will do anything to get them back, eventually realizing from the people he meets in the movie that he will have to put his faith in Jesus Christ in order to see them again.

 

 

* In ''Ranger's Apprentice'', Halt swears this when his apprentice Will is kidnapped by Skandian slavers.

* The narrative poem ''Evangeline'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is about a woman searching for her lost lover.

 

 

* On ''[[Lost]]'', Sayid before the crash had been searching for his love Nadia, and {{spoiler|he eventually finds and marries her after being rescued, although it ends tragically}}.

** Penny also has been searching for Desmond for the years that he's been on the island, and {{spoiler|eventually sends a rescue boat and does find him}}.

 

 

* Within Temptation's "Somewhere."

{{quote|I'll find you somewhere

* In ''[[Sound Horizon|Moira]]'', Elefseus travels across the land for years looking for Artemisia, the twin sister he was separated from long ago. {{spoiler|He does eventually find her -- dead in the water.}}

 

* Benjamin Britten's "church parable" ''Curlew River'': nameless Mad Woman wanders far and wide for her missing young son. She eventually comes upon the child's grave, where an apparition of the child appears and consoles his mother, assuring her that they will [[Bittersweet Ending|meet in heaven]].

* Aida (the musical, not the opera): As they are buried alive together, Radames swears he and Aida will find each other again, even if it takes a thousand lifetimes. Also example of the power of love.

 

 

* In the Dark Side ending to ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic]]'' Bastila gets fed up with waiting and trying to hold the decaying Sith Empire together, and sets off after Revan, never to be seen again.

** Ditto the Exile in the sequel.

* ''[[Fragile Dreams Farewell Ruins of the Moon]]'' is about the hero, Seto, trying to find the silver-haired girl, Ren. In this example, they did not actually know eachother and only met for a brief moment. The story takes place [[After the End]], and before Ren, the only other human Seto had ever seen was an old man he lived with who had since passed away. Seto looks for Ren on his journey to the "[[Tokyo Tower|tall, red tower]]" where he was told he might find survivors.

* At the end of ''[[Chrono Cross]]'', {{spoiler|Kid promises that she'll use her newfound powers to find Serge in the timelines, no matter how long it takes.}}

 

 

* Ariel, the main character of [[Drowtales]], swears this regarding Faen.

* [http://xkcd.com/104/ This] [[Xkcd]] strip.

 

 

* In ''[[Beast Wars]]'', Airrazor and Tigatron promise this to each other when they are {{spoiler|abducted by aliens}}.

* Said word for word by Wolverine to Mystique in ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]''.

* Spoofed in the opening of every ''[[Bounty Hamster]]'' episode where we see Casey's Dad shouting "I'll come back for you!" as she drifts off in the escape pod. A [[Gilligan Cut]] then has Cassie saying "But he didn't...so I went looking."

 

* Avita Sharanski, wife of dissident Natan Sharanski, led a worldwide campaign to urge the Soviet Union to release him from [[The Gulag]].

** Which is also a [[Real Life]] example of [[Power of Love]], as well as (according to Natan's accounts) [[The Power of Trust]], and [[Power of Friendship]].