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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* In one episode of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', [[MacGuffin Girl|Tomoyo]] has been trapped in a classroom as {{spoiler|Eriol messed with the floor plan as a test for Sakura}}. Sakura needs to find her, and Syaoran says he has a magical technique that can locate lost people, provided she has left an object behind. (Not unlike a dog using scent, except [[w:Law of contagion|it works off auras/energy signatures]].) Tomoyo ''did'' have an umbrella...but it's with her in the very classroom they're trying to locate.▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
▲* In one episode of ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', [[MacGuffin Girl|Tomoyo]] has been trapped in a classroom as {{spoiler|Eriol messed with the floor plan as a test for Sakura}}. Sakura needs to find her, and Syaoran says he has a magical technique that can locate lost people, provided she has left an object behind. (Not unlike a dog using scent, except it works off auras/energy signatures.) Tomoyo ''did'' have an umbrella...but it's with her in the very classroom they're trying to locate.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Blå Tornet]]'', the Guardian has been sleeping on the High Altar for over a thousand years. There are a lot of prophecies about how a chosen one will one day wake him. In the meantime, one of the worst blasphemy someone can do is to touch The Guardians holy sleeping body. It turns out that they artifact needed to wake the Guardian is in fact inside the altar: Only a blasphemer can heal the horrible wrong that happened so long ago, and lead the civilization back on the quest the creators had originally intended.
* [[Discworld]]:
** There's a recurring gag in
** Also, in ''[[
** In ''[[
* A fairly standard situation in the [[Locked Room Mystery]] is for the police to have to break into the Locked Room, because the key is inside with the deceased.
* Subverted in a short story by [[Isaac Asimov]], where people are searching for an uranium asteroid an illegal miner found, and due to the miners dying in an accident, all they have is a statement by a silicon based alien that the coordinates are "on the asteroid" (the alien died right after saying that). {{spoiler|In the end it turns out that the alien wasn't good in astronomy, and the coordinates were actually ''on the ship'' - [[Hidden in Plain Sight|hidden among the registration codes of the equipment]]}}.
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* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' got a [//www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2009-11-18 kid] good at spotting circular dependency traps. Like «The way to have joy is to share it with others».
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''Clients From Hell'' has people who add the next step: "the key is on this side of the lock, and I forgot on which side I myself am". [https://web.archive.org/web/20161024111542/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/152022214835/client-my-e-mail-server-is-down-please-fix-it E-mail about e-mail server not working]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160912180740/http://clientsfromhell.net/post/7776536041/client-also-on-this-page-when-you-click-on-a "internet is not working" over internet].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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