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It's a wonderful device - a detector that detects the things you need! There is a detector for everything - [[Applied Phlebotinum]], [[Green Rocks]], guns, bombs, spaceships, ghosts, mice, cheese, socks... If you live in a high-tech setting and need to find something, there is a type of
The physics behind
The trope namer is a gadget from one ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'' cartoon that was used to detect mice.
Compare [[Thing-O-Meter]], a comedy trope. Contrast with [[Everything Sensor]].
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== Tabletop Games ==
* In ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', many spells work like
** Though Locate City is most infamous for a trick called the Locate City Nuke. It involves placing 4 different metamagics on the otherwise harmless spell so that it becomes a viable target for putting a metamagic spell that throws people outside the range of the spell. Since Locate City's range is measured in miles and being thrown out of the range does 1d6 per ten feet, it kills pretty much everything in range, including the caster.
** Lesser Globe Of Invulnerability, a normally useless spell, comes into play here as it can stop you being thrown the 400ish miles for over 200,000d6 damage.
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** In Diamond and Pearl, in the Sinnoh Underground, you also have a "radar" which lets you find things buried in the ground and walls. These can be both traps and "orbs," which you use to [[Global Currency Exception|buy things down there.]]
** ''Pokemon Colosseum'' has a character that can detect an "aura" around Shadow Pokemon. ''XD'' replaces her with a device that looks like a DBZ Scouter.
* ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'' has both the Pearl Detector and the Animal Detector, which help you find [[Plot Coupon
* ''The [[Elder Scrolls]]: Morrowind'' had three detection spells, Detect Magic, Detect Creatures, and Detect ''Key''. While the last was very handy, one wonders what aspect of keys makes them detectable vice any other particular object. (Although it does serve a kind of [[Mundane Utility]] versimilitude. One can only imagine a wizard inventing it after turning his laboratory inside-out trying to figure out where he left his keys last night)
* In the Warhammer 40k game Dawn of War-Retribution, during the Ork Campaign when pursing teleporting Eldars, trusty second in command, Mister Nail-Brainz, set his git-finda to "Pansy" mode.
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