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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[El Cazador de la Bruja]]'': Mysterious waif Ellis is pursued by bounty hunters; one such hunter, Nadie, sets herself up as Ellis' protector as the two journey through Mexico and into Central America to discover the secrets of Ellis' past
* Inverted in ''[[Inuyasha]]'', where the protagonists are chasing the villain ''forever''.
* ''[[Kurau Phantom Memory]]''.
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* ''[[Magical Record Lyrical Nanoha Force]]'': After protagonist Tohma [[Rescue Romance|rescues love interest Lily]], he finds himself being chased from one place to another by a large, inter-dimensional organization that wants to secure Lily. The name of the chasers? [[The Federation|The Time-Space Administration Bureau]], the protagonists of the previous seasons.
* The first season of ''[[Monster Rancher (anime)|Monster Rancher]]'' ends with one of this in "Melcarba", with the Searchers being pursued by the titular [[Implacable Man|beast]].
* ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' has a new type of ship Archangel running from chasing ZAFT who want to destroy it because it's somehow supposed to change the course of war if it went into production. It goes on for most part of series. What this troper finds staggering is that Archangel is supposedly a superior ship, however it's never even able to take out a single opposing ship on it's own. One would wonder why ZAFT is so determined to destroy it if that ship is so incompetent in battle.
** Not the Archangel as much as the all-important [[Super Prototype|Strike]] aboard it: the Archangel itself is an amazing ship nonetheless, capable of dealing with entire fleets single-handedly, but the mobile suit (far superior to anything ZAFT could field at the time) very nearly changed the course of the war for the Earth Alliance (and could have, if they had used their production resources to speed up the Strike Daggers and the Three Ships Alliance hadn't intervened).
* The ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fanfic ''[[The Renegades]]'' is about the former residents of Castle Oblivion being chased through the worlds by the other members of the Organization.▼
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▲* The [[Kingdom Hearts]] fanfic ''[[The Renegades]]'' is about the former residents of Castle Oblivion being chased through the worlds by the other members of the Organization.
* ''The Enemy Below'', a submarine-vs-destroyer duel.
* A literal stern chase is averted in ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' for a couple reasons: the Black Pearl has supernatural speed and/or sweeps (oars) to give them a burst of acceleration, and because the wind just happened to be on their side to "luff" the Interceptor (if they hadn't ended the chase, the Pearl would've blocked the wind to the Interceptor's sails and stopped them anyway).
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* ''[[Apocalypto]]'', once Jaguar Paw gets free from the Mayans.
* Carver chasing Gideon in ''[[Seraphim Falls]]''.
* In the film version of ''[[Logan's Run (film)|Logan's Run]]'', Logan and Jessica are obsessively pursued by Francis when they run for Sanctuary rather than present themselves for Renewal.
== [[Literature]] ==
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** Also used in King's ''[[Firestarter]]''.
** ''[[The Running Man (novel)|The Running Man]]'' combines this with [[Deadly Game]].
* The [[Larry Niven]] short story "The Ethics of Madness" has Bussard-ramjet-powered starships in a literal Stern Chase into intergalactic space. They keep at it for [[Time Abyss|quite a while.]]
* Similar to the Niven example above, [[Alastair Reynolds]] has another literal Stern Chase in his novel ''[[Redemption Ark]]''. It lasts several chapters of the book, with increasingly inventive attempts to kill the pursuing ship being deployed. In the next book in the series, it is revealed that the positions have reversed, although this time we come in at the point where the pursuer catches up, so the stern chase is only inferred rather than being shown.
* Also from [[Alastair Reynolds]], in ''[[House of Suns]]'' there's a Stern Chase across 60,000 light-years; halfway across the Milky Way galaxy.
* A Stern Chase of the classical type occurs in the
** It shows up in the movie as well, but it's far more dynamic with both ships being in several places the pursuer and the pursued, and the stern chases generally only last until one side manages to escape by use of trickery.
* And of course, it comes up a few times in the ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]'' series of books, most notably in the first published book, "The Happy Return", where Hornblower's ship, a smallish frigate named HMS ''Lydia'', is forced to pursue and sink a much larger enemy ship, with the enemy ship's longer-ranged guns allowing them to plink at the pursuing British warship for several hours before they can fire back. To keep his wits about him, he passes the time playing cards with his junior officers. {{spoiler|To keep the morale of his men up, he orders a [[Refuge in Audacity|dance contest]] even as the enemy's shots periodically hit the ship, wounding or killing crewmembers.}}
* The first of [[Ursula K. Le Guin]]'s ''[[Earthsea]]'' series has the main character, Ged, getting chased from island to island by a creature from the shadow realms.
* ''[[Maximum Ride
* Unsurprisingly given that it's basically [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]] [[In Space]], the ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series features quite a few. The best example is probably in the first book where Honor's light cruiser is chasing an escaping Havenite Q-Ship, she destroys it but her ship is pounded to scrap in the process.
** In one of the spin-off books a character escaping through the [[Air Vent Passageway|air ducts]] reflects on the cliche about a stern chase being a long one.
* Louisa May Alcott's thriller novel (!!) ''A Long Fatal Love Chase''.
* The second half of [[Jerry Pournelle]]
{{quote|"If someone tells me that 'a stern chase is a long chase' one more time." Joyce said, "I'll scream."}}
* In [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''[[Spiral Arm|The January Dancer]]'', the chase after the Dancer. It is repeatedly called a stern chase. {{spoiler|The Dancer may even be keeping moving before them by choice.}}
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Alias Smith and Jones]]''.
* ''[[The A-Team]]''.
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* ''[[Nowhere Man]]''.
* ''[[The Pretender]]''.
* ''[[Run, Buddy, Run]]'': a sitcom variant, about a man on the run from mobsters.
* ''[[Run, Joe, Run]]'': basically ''The Fugitive'' only with a dog as protagonist.
* ''
* "Runners" in ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'', though they are exceedingly rare and most of them don't last very long.
* In ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'', Io can not stop because she is being harrassed by a gadfly. Prometheus consoles her as best he can, by telling her of her future travels and offering that, because of this, her future descendant will [[James Bondage|rescue him]].▼
== [[Theatre]] ==
▲* In ''[[Prometheus Bound]]'', Io can not stop because she is being
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The first part of ''[[Lunar 2 Eternal Blue Complete|Lunar 2: Eternal Blue Complete]]'' has the party being tracked by [[Inspector Javert|Lord Leo]] and Althena's Guard.
* ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield2142]]'': Another example that echoes the original military scenario: a running battlewalker has the same speed as a tank moving in reverse. At a distance, the walker's rockets do not fly true, and the tank's shells can easily be dodged. Unless the tank driver gets stuck on an obstacle, the walker giving chase has a long fight ahead.
* ''[[Luigi's
** You play as the stern chaser in ''[[Donkey Kong 94]]'', which could be playing the trope for laughs considering how far it goes.
== [[Web Comic]] ==
* ''[[Off White]]'': The humans are looking for the white spirit wolf.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[Freddie Wong]]'', alot of his videos end up this
* ''[[Lonelygirl15]]'', especially season 1.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Season 1, and obviously the second-season episode
** Not to mention that whole bit with Combustion Man in season 3.
* ''[[Here Comes the Grump]]''. Princess Dawn, her [[Non-Human Sidekick]] Bip, and ordinary Earth teenager Terry Dexter are being chased by the villainous Grump and his klutzy Dragon. Each episode takes them to a new locale, where the heroes enlist the aid of the locals to try and get The Grump off their trail.
* The third season of ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' starts with this due to the [[Tomato in the Mirror]] reveal ({{spoiler|Zak Saturday is Kur, who is believed to be the ultimate evil}}) of the previous season.
* ''[[The Zeta Project]]'' ran off of this. The government is chasing after Zeta because they believe he's turned against them and Zeta is chasing after his creator to find evidence to prove he's genuinely sentient and peaceful.
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