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* ''Literature/CityOfLastChances'': Hellgram's subplot concerns his search for his wife. They used to be a formidable BattleCouple, soulmates and soldiers from a war-torn world, until she mysteriously vanished not long after they crossed into the titular city from the [[PortalCrossroadWorld Anchorwood]]. He only has a handful of places left to look, and his few acquaintances worry what will happen to him when he finally runs out. [[spoiler:He finds her in the end -- whereupon it turns out his wife is the huge man-eating centipede that the city's mafia dons had been [[FedToTheBeast feeding their enemies to]] in previous chapters. The two of them immediately start cuddling up with each other, to everyone else's horror.]]

* ''Anime/LauraThePrairieGirl'': The Ingalls once rescue an injured duck and take it in their house. After it stays the night, it's wing heals. The next day, Laura, Mary and Carrie are aghast to see another duck enter the house and attack the first duck. However, they later realize that it's the duck's friend/partner, and the two fly away together.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': One of [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonMonsterX Vivienne]]'s motives for escaping when she [[TwoBeingsOneBody and San]] are held captive by Alan Jonah is seeing her beloved mentor Serizawa again. Little does she know that Serizawa is dead.

** ''[[Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019 Godzilla: King of the Monsters]]'': Dr. [[Characters/MonsterVerseMarkRussell Mark Russell]]'s estranged daughter is kidnapped along with his ex-wife by [[EcoTerrorist eco-terrorists]] whom are planning to set {{Kaiju}} including [[OmnicidalManiac Ghidorah]] loose on the world, and for most of the movie, Mark's main concern and reason for helping out the heroes instead of continuing to wallow in self-pity is so that he can get his daughter back. [[spoiler:His ex-wife was also part of the equation initially, but getting ''her'' back justifiably went out the window once it turned out that [[EvilAllAlong she was in cahoots with the eco-terrorists all along and dragged their daughter into it]]]].

->''[[Film/{{Taken}} "...and I will kill you!"]]''

''[[Music/{{Zedd}} ...Yeah, you always make me go...]]''

* This is the main plot in Part II of ''Manga/{{Naruto}}''. Naruto has sworn to save Sasuke from darkness and [[SingleTargetSexuality Sakura loves Sasuke]] to the point where [[KillTheOnesYouLove she will kill him to save his soul]].

* Seiya and his sister Seika in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'' ''were'' at first this trope, with Seiya becoming a Bronze Saint to search for the older sister he was separated from when he was a tiny little boy and she was a pre-teenager. Unfortunately, the author seemingly forgot about it and had to make a huge AssPull to tie this loose plot in the last manga arc. Though, [[spoiler: cheers go to Seika for going in a forbidden ground in Greece all the way from Japan to try finding Seiya.
** Teppei Takamiya in ''Anime/BtX'', a Seiya-expy, breathes by this trope. He's a Determinator that won't stop until he has rescued his younger brother.
* Kenshiro's search for Yuria, his kidnapped girlfriend, in the first RescueArc of ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar.''

* Used in ''Manga/ProjectARMS'', when Ryo and his allies spend most of the series trying to find and rescue Katsumi.
* ''Franchise/YuGiOh'':
** During the Orichalcos Arc of ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Atem loses a duel due to being tempted by the Seal's dark powers and should have his soul taken, Yugi sacrifices his own soul instead. Atem spends the rest of the season vowing to find Yugi and redeem himself for his mistake.
** In Season 3 of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', Judai's [[LivingEmotionalCrutch best]] [[HoYay friend]] Johan pulls a HeroicSacrifice to save everyone from Yubel, [[spoiler:being transported along with them to another dimension]]. Judai, [[ItsAllMyFault feeling responsible for this]], vows to find Johan and redeem himself for his mistake.
** After the first season of ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', Yuya's main goal is to find his [[LivingEmotionalCrutch best]] friend Yuzu as the [[spoiler:interdimensional war]] pushes her through all of reality. [[spoiler:After looking through reality again, Yuya is able to find her in the last episode.]]
** ''Anime/YuGiOhVRAINS'':
*** Yusaku has been searching for the person who saved him during the [[ElectricTorture Lost Incident]]/[[ForScience Hanoi Project]]. ''For ten years''. Yusaku is sixteen. [[spoiler:Turns out the voice was [[ArchEnemy Revolver]]. Yusaku ''still'' wants to save him though and only fought him because he couldn't be convinced otherwise.]]
*** The final episode has [[spoiler:[[ArtificialIntelligence Ai]] [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dying in Yusaku's arms]]. Yusaku is ''devastated'' and, despite telling Ai earlier that forging emotional bonds is vital, disappears for at least three months, with the show hinting that he's looking for remnants of Ai's data.]]
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' has Claire telling Raki she will find him when they are escaping [[spoiler:Ophelia]] and need to go separate ways. It results in them looking for each other for years, even after [[spoiler:Claire hears that Raki has been taken to the North, which was entirely destroyed during that time]].
* Haji in ''Anime/BloodPlus'' spends many years searching for Saya after the Vietnam War incident, only finding her many years later in modern-day Japan.
* In ''Anime/MillenniumActress'', Chiyoko (the titular actress) spends most of her life searching for a man she briefly knew (and fell in love with) as a girl. She doesn't find him [[spoiler:as he died not long after they parted company, a fact which she never learns. In the end, she decides she doesn't much mind not finding him, since chasing after him is what she really loves]].

* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', after [[WalkingTheEarth wandering for two years]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge on his quest for revenge]], Guts returns to his safe haven to find his lover Casca gone. When Guts gets his bearings straight, he sets out [[RescueArc on his quest to find her]].
* Claire and Chane to each other in ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' after the Flying Pussyfoot incident. [[spoiler:They do reunite, and rather quickly compared to most examples.]]
* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', Iori has always been able to sense where Yuuichi is, and at the end promises that as long as Yuuichi is running from him he will follow behind until Yuuichi gives up.
* The very beginning plot of ''Anime/EurekaSevenGoodNightSleepTightYoungLovers'' movie. Eureka gets kidnapped, Renton sets out to find her for 8 years.
* [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] in ''Manga/BlackButler'' where it begins with the standards boy-searching-for-girl plot where spoiled prince Soma traveled to England to rescue the girl he loves, Meena, who was taken away from him by an Englishman. He eventually found her... but it turned out that she was perfectly happy with said Englishman, having taken great lengths to sneak out of India with him -- and that she never wanted to be with Souma in the first place, because she ''hated'' him for being a RoyalBrat. '''OUCH'''. Having gone through CharacterDevelopment in the meantime, Soma accepts this and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy parts ways with her]].

* Kanda's search for his girlfriend in ''Manga/DGrayMan'' who's later reincarnated as [[spoiler: a boy named Alma.]]
* ''Anime/ThreeThousandLeaguesInSearchOfMother'':
** The main plot is about a boy called Marco Rossi, who is trying to find his mother Anna. Word for word in the Spanish opening, since it says: "Never forget, mom, here is your home. If you don't come back, I will go, and I'll search for you wherever you are. Doesn't matter where you are, I will find you." [[spoiler:And he finds her... when she was very sick and waiting for her upcoming DeathByDespair. But Marco's presence gives Anna the courage to get operated, and she gets better.]]
** It also counts as AdaptationExpansion, as there are some parts dwelling in Marco's daily life and how he and his remaining family (his dad and older brother Antonio) get ready for his travel, as well as some more adventures not included in the novel it comes from. Marcos's adventures were as much a chapter in the original book, the series could be a whole book in itself.
* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'' revolves around Hazuki travelling through countless alternate worlds trying to find her step-sister/crush Hatsumi after she disappears mysteriously on her [[Dangerous16thBirthday sixteenth birthday]].

* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugiGenbuKaiden'', these are Uruki's last words to [[spoiler: the dying Takiko, whose father has just killed both her and himself in a MercyKill as she was being devoured by Genbu.]] Though he probably meant it in more of a ReincarnationRomance way.
-->'''Uruki''': Even if we are separated, I will still love you. No matter what, I will look for you... I will find you.
* The WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' revealed that [[spoiler:Kotaro simply ran off for some "ninja training" and Natsumi returned to the Magical World to chase him down. She found him and after years of BelligerentSexualTension, they finally ended up getting married in 2015.]]

* In TheStinger of ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords'', [[spoiler:we see Takao decides to find and meet Yukari once more.]]
* In ''Anime/YourName'', after he and Mitsuha suddenly stop switching bodies, Taki resolves to find her, traveling all the way from Tokyo to Itomori. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:Mitsuha had beaten him by three years. She had traveled to Tokyo to meet him a day before the impact of the comet Tiamat, and actually did, but chickened out because he did not recognize her, this being three years too early from his perspective, after all.]]
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'' features a tragic example: [[spoiler:when Eren starts seeing his father's memories, he finds out that Grisha's first wife, Dina Fritz, was turned into a titan by Marley for being part of Grisha's rebel group. Just before she transformed, she promised that no matter what form they took, she would find him. Eren then sees that Dina became the smiling titan, the one that ate his mother Carla, and later his friend Hannes. The implication being that the "paths" connecting their race may have led Dina to them, through her unconscious desire to reunite with Grisha.]]
* ''Manga/HunterXHunter'': The story started because he wanted to find his father Ging and ask why he would choose the life of a hunter instead of him. [[spoiler:Unlike the other instances of this trope, Gon spends a large part of the series looking for him, and while they do get along, even Gon acknowledges that he doesn't really see him as a father, but as an awesome relative he's heard great things about, and realizes that he [[ItsTheJourneyThatCounts didn't necessarily want to meet Ging so much as find him]]. After he finally accomplishes this goal he's left [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife wondering where to go from there.]]]]
* Discussed in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' when Shirogane and Kaguya are talking about ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheBambooCutter''. Shirogane says that if he were in the emperor's position, he would have drunk the elixir of immortality rather than burn it and get Princess Kaguya back no matter how long it took. [[spoiler:And sure enough, when Kaguya is taken back to her family's home and going to be forced into an ArrangedMarriage at the end of the series, he moves metaphorical heaven and earth to set her free.]]

* In ''Fanfic/BlizzardStorm'', Sakido promises this to Buwaro prior to going off to fight the BigBad of the fic.
* ''Fanfic/LokiAgentOfDoomgard'' is about Loki taking the agent job for several reasons, one being to be able to look for his brother Thor, who was lost when the world ended, [[spoiler:their own two previous incarnations (Kid!Loki, Teen!Loki), and the ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'', whom Teen!Loki considers as friends]].
* In the ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MaybeSproutWings'' Sam has been searching for Dean since Dean was enslaved at age sixteen. Sam is obsessed with finding him and sets out for Washington State as soon as he gets a lead on his brother's whereabouts.
* ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': In chapter 29 of the sequel ''Picking Up the Pieces'', Wind Breaker learns that he was kidnapped from his mother as an egg, and that she's always wished she could come back to Equestria to find him, but it's been too dangerous until now.

* ''Franchise/MyHeroAcademia'' ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27853170/chapters/68194306 Pulse and Void]]'' Present Mic is kidnapped and Aizawa doesn’t stop until he finds his husband and rescues him. Learning that the villains obtained things like a shock collar and custom muzzle clues him into Mic being tortured and drives him harder.
* In ''Fanfic/TorqueJakAndDaxter'', the Dark Warrior declares to himself that he will find Keira so she can answer his questions about the dreams he has been having.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'' is the children's journey to find their parents when they are separated in the earthquake.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnythingAVeggieTalesMovie The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie]]'': Princess Eloise searches for her brother. [[spoiler:Later on, George, the main protagonist of the film, searches for Eloise.]]

* {{Deconstructed|Trope}} in ''Film/Shazam2019''. Billy has spent the past ten years searching for his long-lost mother after he got separated from her at a local fair as a toddler. Even if it was breaking the law or ditching his foster families, he did [[{{Determinator}} whatever it takes]] to see her again. But when he finally meets up with her, [[spoiler:she reveals that she purposely abandoned him at the fair due to her constant struggles of raising him as a young single mom. Not only that but she barely wanted to reconcile with him, and when he shows her the compass he gave her at the fair the last time he saw her, [[ButForMeItWasTuesday she's unfamiliar with it]]. After that, Billy decides to move on from her and [[FamilyOfChoice reconnect with his foster family]].]]
* ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}''. Doubles as a BadassBoast.
-->'''Etienne Navarre:''' And know this -- if you fail, I will follow you the length of my days. And I ''will'' find you.
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfMiloAndOtis'' is about two friends, a dog and a cat, who go on a journey to find each other after becoming separated.
* The premise of the movie ''Film/HomewardBoundTheIncredibleJourney'' is where the pets travel cross country to find their owners.

* ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'':
-->'''Hawkeye:''' No, you submit, do you hear? You be strong, you survive... You stay alive, no matter what occurs! I will find you. No matter how long it takes, no matter how far, I will find you.
* ''Film/TheSearchers''. Ethan Edwards' family is slaughtered and the youngest daughter taken captive by Indians. He spends nearly a decade hunting down the group that took her to rescue her.
* And on that token, the movie ''Film/{{Hardcore}}'' as well.

* ''Film/TheVanishing'' (US version). Sandra Bullock goes missing; her boyfriend [[strike:Jack Bauer]] Kiefer Sutherland looks for her for years. Ditto for the original Dutch version. A slight variant, in that after three years of searching, Rex doesn't believe Saskia will turn up ''alive''. He's still consumed by his desire to find out what happened to her.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'':
** From the second movie, ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'', when the Dunlendings began raiding the villages, a mother sends her two children away on their only horse. Before they leave, she tells them that she would find them again. And she does.
** Heck, the whole episode of the Three Hunters looking for Merry and Pippin. Because ThePowerOfFriendship matters more than [[FriendOrIdolDecision going after Frodo and the Ring]]. Aww.
** Sam tracking Frodo to the tower of Cirith Ungol in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' might also count, although crossed with RoaringRampageOfRescue.
* Thorold Stone (Jeff Fahey) in the Christian movie ''Revelation'' from the {{Film/Apocalypse}} film series is looking for his wife and daughter who disappeared in the Rapture and will do anything to get them back, eventually realizing from the people he meets in the movie that he will have to put his faith in Jesus Christ in order to see them again.
* ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'': the ''Enterprise'' crew hear from Sarek that their lost friend can be brought BackFromTheDead. They spend the rest of the film doing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that]], plus or minus fighting some Klingons.

* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', when Alan tries to find his family, he finds out that his father abandoned his business and devoted the rest of his life trying to find his missing son to no avail.
* What General Zod vows to do with Kal-El in ''Film/ManOfSteel'' as a villainous example. "I WILL FIND HIM!"
* Both ''Film/SilentHill'' films are centered on people looking for their loved ones. In the first film, Rose da Silva braves the hellish town of Silent Hill to find her daughter, Sharon. In [[Film/SilentHillRevelation3D the sequel]], Sharon returns to Silent Hill to rescue her kidnapped dad, Christopher, and in the ending, Christopher ends up deciding to stay in the town so he can find Rose, who has remained stuck there ever since the events of the first film.
* ''Film/ManilaInTheClawsOfLight'''s protagonist Julio wanders Manila in hopes of finding his girlfriend Ligaya.

* In ''Literature/DragonQueen'', Trava searches for her MissingMom.

* In ''Ranger's Apprentice'', Halt swears this when his apprentice Will is kidnapped by Skandian slavers.
* The narrative poem ''Evangeline'' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is about a woman searching for her lost lover.
* The climactic plot point in ''Literature/YoungWizards: A Wizard Alone'' where Kit, ensnared in the mind-universe of autistic wizard Daryl, goes missing and Nita has to find him.
* This is the plot of Koji Suzuki's ''Paradise'', in which the main character's quest to find his kidnapped wife continues through three lifetimes.
* ''Literature/{{Pax}}'': Peter and Pax spend the book looking for each other.

* Henri Tod tries to find his dead little sister in [[Literature/BlackfordOakes The Story of Henri Tod]]. Unfortunately he is betrayed and killed in the process.
* ''Literature/DavidCopperfield'': "I'm a-going to seek my niece." from [[spoiler:Daniel Peggotty, in regards to Emily who has left with Steerforth. He finds her.]]

* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', the [=SkyClan=] leader Cloudstar and his mate Birdflight are separated for good when [=SkyClan=] is forced to leave the forest and Birdflight stays behind as a [=ThunderClan=] cat because her kits are too young to travel. The two promise to find each other in the afterlife, and they eventually do, after many years.
* ''Literature/WarWithNoName'': Mort(e) looks for his friend Sheba, who was separated from him early in the story.
* ''Literature/TheFifthWave'': Cassie spends the first book searching for her younger brother.
* In ''[[Literature/HisDarkMaterials Northern Lights]]'' Lyra's quest begins when her friend Roger goes missing and she determines to find him. She takes a while to fully shoulder this responsibility or, debatably, realise it's there to shoulder, but when she does it's with a vengeance; she throws rescuing her imprisoned uncle into the mix, just in case one globe-trotting rescue mission wasn't enough, and at some point her plan to save Roger turns into plans to save all the children that have been taken. This becomes a running theme of the trilogy; Lyra's quest to reunite with Roger [[spoiler:turns into a plan to reunite and reconcile with his ghost, after her initial quest fails]], Will spends a good amount of time in ''The Amber Spyglass'' hunting for the kidnapped Lyra etc, etc.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', Brienne swears an oath to Catelyn to bring her daughter Sansa back to her. She spends an entire book searching for her desperately.
* The aforementioned ''1000 Leagues...'' example is an AnimatedAdaptation of a story found in Edmondo D'Amici book ''Cuore'', where a boy from Geneva goes to search for his mother in Argentina. [[spoiler:The same end happens: Mom is sick. Doctors try to convince her to get operated. Mom is close to the DespairEventHorizon and refuses. Boy shows up. Mom emotionally recovers and gets operated on. Mom gets better.]]
* Creator/HansChristianAndersen's story ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'' is all about a girl searching for her kidnapped boyfr-- er, playmate.
* [[spoiler:Heath's last words to Zoey before he leaves the Otherworld to be re-born]]. One of the biggest [[TearJerker Tear Jerkers]] in ''Literature/TheHouseOfNight''. [[spoiler:At the end of ''Awakened'', he does come back to find her... albeit as a Vessel. Heath no longer exists, but he possesses the memories to protect her]].
* ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles'': Grella and Yolen spend years searching for [[spoiler:Agawin]] after the battle on Kasgerden.

* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has an offscreen version: In one book Cassie accidentally ends up sent to Australia and is unable to communicate with the others. When she gets back, she's told that Jake went into this mode.
--> "Talk?" Rachel rolled her eyes. "Puh-leez. He wants to give you a big, fat, sloppy kiss. You should've seen him. He was a total zombie the whole time you were gone."\\
I smiled at Jake. "A zombie? Really?"\\
Jake shot Rachel a dirty look, then stared down at his French fries. "Depends on your definition of a zombie."\\
"How's this for a definition?" Tobias said. "Somebody who can't eat, can't sleep, spends every minute of the night and day searching the airport and all other known Yeerk hangouts, and can only utter one intelligible sentence: 'I have to FIND HER.'"
* ''Literature/{{Beatles}}'' has Sebastian, one of the four main characters, getting lost in Paris. The three other friends hitchhike to Paris from Oslo, searching the city from end to end until they accidentally stumble upon him at a metro station (hung up on narcotics and in a miserable state).
* ''The Survivalist'' series by Jerry Ahern. John Rourke is seeking his wife and children after WorldWarIII breaks out. His wife is [[MamaBear more concerned with protecting her children]] AfterTheEnd until she discovers he's alive and searching for her.
* Deconstructed in ''The Zone'' series by James Rouch, set in a war-torn Europe during WorldWarIII. One of the soldiers is obsessed with finding his wife, but the fruitless search eventually drives him insane.
* ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' starts with Tailchaser trying to find out what happened to his crush Hushpad, who has mysteriously disappeared along with many other cats. [[spoiler:She was gone for reasons unrelated to everything else. Her owners just moved away. Once Tailchaser finally does find her, he finds that they've grown apart and runs off]].
* In ''Literature/WingsOfFire'', Mangrove is desperately determined to find Orchid, who has gone missing, but the rest of his tribe [[HeadInTheSandManagement seem to not care about the dragons going missing at all.]]

* In ''Literature/TheBrokenEarthTrilogy'', the protagonist Essun's initial motivation is to find her daughter Nassun, whose father Jija left with her after killing their son Uche due to [[HaveYouTriedNotBeingAMonster him being an orogene.]] Given that Nassun is also an orogene, she is in potentially serious danger. And it doesn't help that TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt is going on at the same time...

* In the ''Series/DrQuinnMedicineWoman'' episode "The Abduction", the title character is kidnapped by vengeful dog soldiers. Paramour Sully tries to fight them off but fails. As they ride off with her, he screams after them, "Michaela! ''I'll find you!''"

* In the Dark Side ending to ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' Bastila gets fed up with waiting and trying to hold the decaying Sith Empire together and sets off after Revan, never to be seen again.
** Ditto the Exile in the sequel.
* The game ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' -- for all the Epileptic Trees surrounding it, on the surface it's about a guy finding the Princess who left him. Braid in turn has a lot of {{Shout Out}}s to ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros, so you could argue this trope coming into play for that.
* [[UndyingLoyalty Liara's hunt for Shepard]] in the interim between ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' and ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''. Followed by her longer hunt for Feron, the Drell KnowledgeBroker who assisted her in reclaiming Shepard, but was abducted in the process. Miranda spends most of ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' trying to find her younger sister Oriana.

* A big chunk of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series revolves around Sora traveling across different worlds, looking for the friends he was separated from at the start of the first game.
** Axel: "Go on, you just keep running. But I'll always be there to bring you back!"
** Riku also says this trope almost word for word at the end of ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'' [[spoiler: after diving into Sora's heart]].
--> '''Riku:''' I'll find you, Sora.
* This is the motivation for several ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' characters to join your army.
** ''Blazing Sword'' has Priscilla looking for her brother Raymond, Rebecca looking for her brother Dan, and Natalie looking for her husband Dorcas. The main story basically starts with Eliwood looking for [[DisappearedDad his father]].
** The first eight chapters of ''Sacred Stones'' revolve around main character Eirika trying to find her twin brother Ephraim.
** In ''Path of Radiance'', Marcia is looking for her brother Makalov and Sothe is looking for his [[NotBloodSiblings Not Blood Sister]] Micaiah. Makalov is found halfway through the game, but Sothe doesn't find Micaiah until sometime between the end of this game and the beginning of the sequel.
** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', [[spoiler:if the Avatar sacrifices himself/herself to permanently slay Grima]] the entire party will refuse to believe the person is dead and promise to find them. [[spoiler:In a scene after "The End" screen, they do.]]
* One possible ending of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' has the Grey Warden searching for [[spoiler:Morrigan]].

* Forms the basis of the plot for ''VideoGame/SilentHill1'' - main character Harry's daughter goes missing in the eponymous haunted town, and he resolves to find her.
* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', Fall-From-Grace will promise this to The Nameless One [[spoiler:if you get the Good Ending, where The Nameless One is allowed to die and becomes a petitioner in Hell for his past crimes.]]
* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' is about Ethan's determination to do anything to find his son.
* VideoGame/EccoTheDolphin's motive in his first game is to find his family, who have been stolen by a storm. The trope's even mentioned in the only official vocal song about the series.

* ''VideoGame/Fallout3'''s player character, the Lone Wanderer, starts out leaving Vault 101 to find the DisappearedDad.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout4'''s SoleSurvivor PlayerCharacter spends most of the game trying to find their kidnapped baby boy Shaun. They do find him [[spoiler: sixty years too late and spend the rest of the game, either destroying him or helping him in his evil plans]].
* ''VideoGame/FragileDreamsFarewellRuinsOfTheMoon'' is about the hero, Seto, trying to find the silver-haired girl, Ren. In this example, they did not actually know each other and only met for a brief moment. The story takes place AfterTheEnd, and before Ren, the only other human Seto had ever seen was an old man he lived with who had since passed away. Seto looks for Ren on his journey to the "[[TokyoTower tall, red tower]]" where he was told he might find survivors.
* At the end of ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', [[spoiler:Kid promises that she'll use her newfound powers to find Serge in the timelines, no matter how long it takes.]]
* Though it's only brought up in backstories, at least two of the characters in ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'' (Chill and Gill Grunt) joined the titular team to try and find someone important to them.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2'': Yuna was spurred into action when Rikku showed her a sphere that appeared to show Tidus alive and well; she joins the Gullwings in hopes of finding more spheres like that one, and eventually, finding him. Depending on your ending, she may get her wish, or she'll learn that she has to move on with her life. [[EarthShatteringKaboom Or the world might explode]].
** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'': Serah goes on her quest to find Lightning, who was [[RetGone removed from history]] after the previous game's ending. [[spoiler:She does see her again. [[DownerEnding After she dies]].]]
* In ''VideoGame/EmeraldCityConfidential'', Petra's main motivation is finding her missing little brother after he was kidnapped as a baby during the Phanfasm War. [[spoiler:She does find him when he's grown up, but it turns out that he's the {{Big Bad}}'s [[TheMole mole]].]]

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction'' after [[spoiler:Ragna erases himself from the world and everyone's memories]], Rachel, despite not remembering him, vows to find him no matter what.
* The main plot of ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'' revolves around Chloe trying to find Rachel.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Limbo}}'', the protagonist is a boy who is searching for his sister. No further explanation is given.
* This trope is the catalyst of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. At the prologue of the game, Link is off to the Lost Woods, looking for a dear friend he lost after his previous adventure in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'', only to be sidetracked by the Skull Kid's ambush. The prologue heavily implies that the friend he's looking for is his FairyCompanion throughout his battle against Ganondorf, Navi, which is later confirmed to be the case by the ''Literature/HyruleHistoria'' book.

* ''VideoGame/VirtuaQuest'' has [[spoiler:Sei's father sacrifice himself to save Acropolis. Sei is initially devastated but remembers that dying in Nexus simply traps your consciousness in the system, and vows to find him.]]

%%* In ''Webcomic/DivineBells'', everyone's looking for Ga-bi.
* Ariel, the main character of ''Webcomic/{{Drowtales}}'', swears this regarding Faen.
%%* [[http://xkcd.com/104/ This]] ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' strip.
* ''Webcomic/TheBeastLegion'' [[http://www.thebeastlegion.com/issue04page52-infuriated-dragon/ In Issue 4]] Dragos swears he'll find Xeus one day & kill him.

* ''Webcomic/BloodReverie'': Xavier's little sister ran away from home, and he spent years unsuccessfully trying to track her down. He believes she intentionally doesn't want to be found.

* In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', [[ActionGirl Natsumi]] is looking for her brother who was kidnapped by demons. [[ActionMom Skye]] seeks her husband [[FallenHero Refan]] from whom she got separated in a battle. The [[AsianFoxSpirit kitsune]] lovers [[TheTrickster Katsutoshi]] and [[MysteriousWaif Haruko]] also swear to find each other when they're forcibly separated, and a more villainous variant occurs when [[AxCrazy Gilgamesh]] swears to stop at nothing to find Haruko whom he sees as his property.

* ''VisualNovel/YamiToBoushiToHonNoTabibito'' revolves around Hazuki travelling through countless alternate worlds trying to find her step-sister/crush Hatsumi after she disappears mysteriously on her [[DangerousSixteenthBirthday sixteenth birthday]].