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No, not [[Torture Always Works|torture]]. Nor any mind-reading technology (or magic) either. You manipulate said person or people into going there, and then secretly track and/or follow them there.
Very much a [[Self
Of course, [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain|the villains]] can just as easily fall prey to this trope, at least in works involving [[Evil Versus Evil]] and/or [[Guile Hero|good guys who are willing to decieve]]. (And especially if the [[Big Bad]] hired a bunch of [[Surrounded By Idiots|fools]] who will undoubtedly make it all too easy to follow them back to the [[Supervillain Lair|secret lair]].)
Can be part of a [[Batman Gambit]] or a [[Xanatos Gambit]]. See also [[MacGuffin Delivery Service]] and [[Revealing Coverup]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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{{quote| '''Ganondorf''': "{{spoiler|Princess Zelda}}...you foolish traitor! I commend you for avoiding my pursuit for seven long years. But you let your guard down...I knew you would appear if I let this kid wander around!"}}
** It's not the first time that Ganondorf did this either -- it's how he {{spoiler|was able to enter the Sacred Realm in the first place and bring about the [[Crapsack World]] of the second part of the game}}.
* [[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Outcast]] has [[Big Bad|Desann]] needing the Valley of the Jedi for his plans. The only thing is, only one person alive in the entire galaxy knows where it is, Kyle Katarn,[[Retired Badass|a former Jedi who cut himself off from the Force]]. Desann [[No Holds Barred Beatdown|beats Kyle within an inch of his life]] and makes him think his [[Love Interest]] is dead so Kyle will go to the Valley to reconnect himself to the Force. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|It works, and Desann now has an army of Force-users at his disposal.]]
* Played absolutely straight in ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]''. To find the swordmaster, Guybrush simply needs to ask the shopkeeper to contact her, then follow him until he reaches her house.
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* The Disney version of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' has Quasimodo and Phoebus leading Frollo's forces to the Court of Miracles via this method.
* One episode of ''[[Justice League]]'' comes to mind, where Batman taunts Harley Quinn about how she's commanding the Royal Flush Gang in the field while Joker's just hanging out with Ace. Amusingly, right after clearing things up with Harley on how he really isn't cheating on her with Ace, he immediately blows up on her in anger for leading Batman straight to the hideout.
* In ''[[Batman:
** {{spoiler|A good example of how to properly do a gambit, as Batman had to go through a LOT of effort to keep this mook alive!}}
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[She Ra Princess of Power (Animation)|She Ra Princess of Power]]'' where Hordak and She-Ra are literally trudging between realities, in that they are both lost as lost gets. Hordak snarks to that effect, saying it reminds him of his stint in the Horde Scouts--"We didn't know where we ''were'', where we were ''going'', of what we were supposed to ''do'' when we got there ''then'', either!"
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