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* ''Film/KongSkullIsland'': There's a brief shot of the Sky Devils crossing a plain following Kong's gigantic footprints when Packard is set on killing Kong.
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* In ''Film/TheSignOfFourSherlockHolmesGreatestCase'', Holmes follows the track of Small's peg-leg across the carpet in the study, and the prints of Tonga's bare feet through the attic.
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* In ''Film/TheSignOfFourSherlockHolmesGreatestCase'', Holmes follows ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', while tracking Vizzini and company after they kidnap Princess Buttercup, Prince Humperdink examines the track of Small's peg-leg across the carpet footprints in the study, dirt at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity. He "recreates" Wesley and Inigo's footsteps, describing the duel as between two "master" swordsmen. He also sees where the loser ran off in one direction and the prints of Tonga's bare feet through the attic.winner followed "those tracks towards Guilder" to keep appearances up to his entourage that he actually cared for Buttercup.
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* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', while tracking Vizzini and company after they kidnap Princess Buttercup, Prince Humperdink examines the footprints in the dirt at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity. He "recreates" Wesley and Inigo's footsteps, describing the duel as between two "master" swordsmen. He also sees where the loser ran off in one direction and the winner followed "those tracks towards Guilder" to keep appearances up to his entourage that he actually cared for Buttercup.
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* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', while tracking Vizzini and company after they kidnap Princess Buttercup, Prince Humperdink examines ''Film/TheSignOfFourSherlockHolmesGreatestCase'', Holmes follows the footprints track of Small's peg-leg across the carpet in the dirt at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity. He "recreates" Wesley and Inigo's footsteps, describing the duel as between two "master" swordsmen. He also sees where the loser ran off in one direction study, and the winner followed "those tracks towards Guilder" to keep appearances up to his entourage that he actually cared for Buttercup.prints of Tonga's bare feet through the attic.
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* A trailer for ''VideoGame/PrincessPeachShowtime'' shows Peach working as a detective, one of several roles she can take in the game, following a set of footprints in a museum to help solve the mystery.
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* A trailer for ''VideoGame/PrincessPeachShowtime'' shows Peach working as a detective, one of several roles she can take in the game, following a set of footprints in a museum to help solve the a mystery.
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* A trailer for ''VideoGame/PrincessPeachShowtime'' shows Peach working as a detective, one of several roles she can take in the game, following a set of footprints in a museum to help solve the mystery.
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* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1932'': On Holmes instruction, Billy uses a powder that brings up the footprints on Erskine's carpet. The footprints lead to a blank wall and then away again. The footprints are deeper going to the wall than away from it, indicating the killer carried Erskine's body to a secret compartment behind the wall and left it there.
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* ''Film/SherlockHolmes1932'': On Holmes Holmes' instruction, Billy uses a powder that brings up the footprints on Erskine's carpet. The footprints lead to a blank wall and then away again. The footprints are deeper going to the wall than away from it, indicating the killer carried Erskine's body to a secret compartment behind the wall and left it there.
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* After a fall of snow, it's not uncommon for the media to report the swift arrest of a crime suspect who left a rather obvious clue. [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11918587 Example.]]
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* After a fall of snow, it's not uncommon for the media to report the swift arrest of a crime suspect who left a rather obvious clue. [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-11918587 Example.]][[https://www.loweringthebar.net/2017/02/burglar-tracking-snow.html Another example.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/DisneyMagicKingdoms'', during the ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' Event, Priya is able to deduce where Mei went based on the footprints she left and other clues.
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* In ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', there are a large number of footprints where the victim's body is hanging, preserved from the time of the murder a week earlier thanks to cold weather. A successful Visual Calculus check lets you analyze the footprints, picking out the number of individuals, their shoe makes and sizes, and other strange and significant details.
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Much like ThiefBag is about an image summarizing a profession, someone following footprints (preferably with a magnifying glass) is a detective or investigative sort. Common gags in cartoons include the character ''picking up'' one of the footprints for a better look, to end up following their own footprints around or to follow the footprints to their owner and only noticing they're standing there when examining their foot with the magnifying glass.
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Much like ThiefBag is about an image summarizing a profession, someone following footprints (preferably with a magnifying glass) is a detective or investigative sort. Common gags in cartoons include the character ''picking up'' one of the footprints for a better look, to [[HotOnHisOwnTrail end up following their own footprints around around]] or to follow the footprints to their owner and only noticing they're standing there when examining their foot with the magnifying glass.
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* In the ''Series/FraggleRockBackToTheRock'' episode "Craggle Lagoon", when "Inspector Red" is investigating who stole the water from the lagoon, she finds some footprints and immediately declares they must belong to the water thieves. Gobo points out that these are ''their'' footprints. [[spoiler: As it turns out, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Red's not exactly wrong]].]]
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* In the ''Series/FraggleRockBackToTheRock'' episode "Craggle Lagoon", when "Inspector Red" is investigating who stole the water from the lagoon, she finds some footprints and immediately declares they must belong to the water thieves. Gobo points out that these are ''their'' footprints. [[spoiler: As it turns out, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Red's not exactly wrong]].]]
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This trope is pretty common in children's media. In more realistic works, detectives are often shown examining footprints carefully, but generally, rather than following a convenient trail of them, they're measuring them, thereby learning at least the criminal's shoe size, possibly his height (based on his stride length) and if they're very lucky, that he has a noticeable limp and shoes with one heel worn down further than the other. If the work is set before fingerprinting (or the criminal wore gloves) this may be the best identifying mark available.
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This trope is pretty common in children's media. In more realistic works, detectives are often shown examining footprints carefully, but generally, rather than following a convenient trail of them, they're measuring them, thereby learning at least the criminal's shoe size, possibly his their height (based on his their stride length) and if they're very lucky, that he the criminal has a noticeable limp and shoes with one heel worn down further than the other. If the work is set before fingerprinting (or the criminal wore gloves) this may be the best identifying mark available.
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* In ''Film/ThePrincessBride'', while tracking Vizzini and company after they kidnap Princess Buttercup, Prince Humperdink examines the footprints in the dirt at the top of the Cliffs of Insanity. He "recreates" Wesley and Inigo's footsteps, describing the duel as between two "master" swordsmen. He also sees where the loser ran off in one direction and the winner followed "those tracks towards Guilder" to keep appearances up to his entourage that he actually cared for Buttercup.
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* A set of footprints play a major role in unraveling Chapter 4 of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'', and are actually relevant in multiple ways: [[spoiler: the location of the footprints in front of a cabinet indicate what the person was getting from the cabinet, the size of the footprints shows who got it, and the fact that the footprints were made in spilled powder helps establish when they did so.]]
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* In one ''Literature/WinnieThePooh'' story, "In Which Pooh and Piglet Go Hunting and Nearly Catch a Woozle", Pooh is following a set of tracks on the snow, wondering who or what made them. Piglet joins him, and they soon discover a second set of tracks. Then, they keep going and find ''two more'' set of tracks. What they don't realize is that they've been walking in circles, following their own tracks.
-->'''Pooh:''' Piglet, whatever it was that made these tracks has now been joined by a whatever-it-is!
-->'''Pooh:''' Piglet, whatever it was that made these tracks has now been joined by a whatever-it-is!
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* In one ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' story, Pooh is following a set of tracks on the snow, wondering who or what made them. Piglet joins him, and they soon discover a second set of tracks. Then, they keep going and find ''two more'' set of tracks. What they don't realize is that they've been walking in circles, following their own tracks.
-->'''Pooh:''' Piglet, whatever it was that made these tracks has now been joined by a whatever-it-is!
-->'''Pooh:''' Piglet, whatever it was that made these tracks has now been joined by a whatever-it-is!
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* Played with a twist in ''Film/KnivesOut''. While surveying the scene of the murder with a suspicion that the murderer had muddy boots, [[GentlemanDetective Benoit Blanc]] notices a muddy trail of fresh prints that could still be useful. However, by this point in the film, the story has become a ReverseWhodunnit -- the perpetrator (who was presently accompanying an unsuspecting Blanc) realizes this mere seconds ahead of him by walking further ahead, "accidentally" trampling over the trail and rendering them useless.
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This trope is pretty common in children's media.
media. In more realistic works, detectives are often shown examining footprints carefully, but generally, rather than following a convenient trail of them, they're measuring them, thereby learning at least the criminal's shoe size, possibly his height (based on his stride length) and if they're very lucky, that he has a noticeable limp and shoes with one heel worn down further than the other. If the work is set before fingerprinting (or the criminal wore gloves) this may be the best identifying mark available.
