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* Molly Walker from ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' can find people.

* [[The Muppet Show|Bunsen Honeydew]] once invented a gorilla detector. It completely failed to detect the gorilla until after it had already attacked his computers, and him. Bunsen originally attributed the failure to the fact that the attacker was not actually a gorilla.

** The Cloister Bell is capable of detecting when the Doctor is going to regenerate (except when it doesn't), when there's going to be a hole in space-time the size of Belgium, or when the Doctor is driving erratically.

*** In the original series (during the late [[Tom Baker]] era) and the TV-Movie, the Cloister Bell is less of a detecto and more of a major league [[Red Alert]] klaxon. It signals when the TARDIS itself is in danger of destruction.

** 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.

* ''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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