Line #66 Main/YouCanRunButYouCantHide


1	->''"I don't see you, but she does! She does!"''
2	-->-- '''Zealot of the Lady''', ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite''
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4	One character is on the run from another, generally the good guy from the bad guy. The pursuer, usually an ImplacableMan, has some sort of clairvoyance, super-powers or near-omnipresent surveillance capabilities; this (or a near-identical phrase) is said to the quarry as some kind of intimidation. Of course, the bad guy could ''lack'' such super-detecting powers, and merely be using this phrase [[ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre to try to scare his prey out into the open]]. (The fact that this so often ''works'' is either a sad testament to the supremacy of fear over logic, or else evidence of who is carrying the IdiotBall today.)
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6	The inversion-- "You can hide, but you can't run!"-- shows up so frequently that it's almost a separate phrase in itself. This most often appears in super-power examples, where the quarry is far outclassed in a straight fight and literally could not run away fast enough if he were to be spotted.
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8	Add points if it has Nowhere To Run as the sound track for the upcoming chase.
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10	See also YouWillNotEvadeMe, where you might as well not even ''bother'' trying to run, let alone hide.
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12	!!Examples
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16	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
17	* ''Anime/{{Voltron}}'': "You can hide, but I'll find ya!"
18	* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
19	** Shampoo: "You can run, but you can no hide!"
20	** Also Kuno in a mid-series story. After somehow acquiring a massive powerup that lets him defeat Ranma easily, and a LaserGuidedAmnesia that erased his chivalrous attitude and gave him a more aggressive personality, he traps the female Ranma alone on a deserted island. His delivery of the line isn't BlackComedyRape as much as it is ValuesDissonance, with a AttemptedRape.
21	* ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'': Jetfire says this while chasing Thundercracker, then adds "Actually, you can't even run!" Cue [[ButtMonkey Thundercracker]] getting his afterburners kicked for the umpteenth time. AmusingInjuries ensue.
22	* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
23	** In the Ocean dub of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Dodoria chases Gohan, Krillin and Dende and shouts out, "You can run, but there's nowhere you can hide!"
24	** In ''Anime/DragonBallZKai'', Frieza shouts this towards Goku as he evades his DeadlyDisc; "You can run, but it doesn't matter where you hide, they will find you"!
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27	[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
28	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', Victor tells the Were-Rabbit "You can hop but you can't hide!"
29	* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheWWECurseOfTheSpeedDemon'': When Inferno runs off after damaging the Legendmobile and injuring Wrestling/DustyRhodes, Wrestling/{{Undertaker}} calls after him that he can run, but no creature can evade the Undertaker.
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32	[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
33	* ''Film/TheWarriors'' did it with "Nowhere To Run" for sound.
34	* Jester says this to Maverick in ''Film/TopGun'' during a dogfight scene.
35	%% ZCE * ''Film/LiarLiar''
36	* Used in the trailer of ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad'' by the BigBad Diesel 10.
37	%% Needs Context * Used by Ivan Ooze around the climax of ''Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangersTheMovie''.
38	%% Needs Context * Wez delivers one of the best examples on film in ''Film/MadMax2TheRoadWarrior''.
39	* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Harrison reminds Carol of this in regards to the ability of the ''Vengeance'' to [[spoiler:catch and fight ships at warp speed]].
40	-->'''Harrison:''' You think you are safe at warp? You are not.
41	* ''Film/ForcedVengeance'': Creator/ChuckNorris' character goes on the run in Hong Kong, but keeps getting attacked out of nowhere by various Triad goons, providing an excuse for many martial arts scenes. He finally finds a place to hide only to get called on the phone there by the BigBad.
42	-->'''Ramandi:''' By now you know that my network is inescapable.
43	* The entire premise of ''Film/ItFollows''. Once "It" sets its sight on you, the only option you have is to run away from it, as no matter where you are, "It" WILL find you eventually despite only being able to travel by walking. The best "It's" target can do is put as much distance between them as possible.
44	* ''Film/JurassicWorld'': Nick hides behind a truck, as he's too big to get underneath. The Indominus doesn't even bother walking around it, just picking up the truck and throwing it away, then eating Nick.
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47	[[folder:Literature]]
48	* ''Literature/{{FatherLand}}'': Nebe gives March a speech of this kind, lest he consider fleeing while in Switzerland.
49	-->'''Nebe:''' If you try to make a run to Bern, to enter a foreign embassy, you will be stopped. In any case, there is nowhere for you to go.
50	* ''Literature/{{Gypsies}}'': Michael and his family can move between worlds, but they can’t ultimately hide from the Grey Man, since he follows their "scent".
51	* ''Literature/TheFarwalkerTrilogy'': The pursuers are mostly Finders, which is a trade that involves being able to find things, and people.
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54	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
55	* Surreal British sitcom ''mr don and mr george'' has an episode entitled "You Can Run, But You Can't Hide Your Legs". The line is used in the episode during a discussion about hiding in a cardboard box. The inverse - "You can hide your legs, but you can't run" - is also used.
56	* ''Series/PowerRangersDinoThunder'' - Trent (during his BrainwashedAndCrazy phase) to Tommy during an [=ATV=] chase.
57	* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Sam and Dean are trying to evade Zachariah in Heaven, which he finds quite amusing. Angels can teleport anywhere they want even on Earth.
58	--> "You can run but you can't... ''run''".
59	* An episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' featured a woman who was repeatedly getting raped by the same man. No matter what she did, be it moving to a new state or changing her name, she could ''not'' escape him.
60	* In ''Series/KamenRiderDragonKnight'', [[TheDragon Kamen Rider Strike]] says this when he corners [[TheStarscream Kamen Rider Torque]] at the end of episode 13, ''[[MeaningfulName Thrill Of The Hunt]]''.
61	* The ''Series/ForensicFiles'' episode "Marked for Life" covers the case of Gerald Mason, who wasn't caught until 45 years after his night of armed robbery, raping a teenaged girl, and killing 2 police officers. Peter Thomas closes the episode's introduction with "You can run... but you can't hide."
62	* ''Series/{{Monk}}'': In "[[Recap/MonkS2E1MrMonkGoesBackToSchool Mr. Monk Goes Back to School]]," circumstances require Monk to take a job as a substitute teacher at the high school Trudy went to. As such, he become the butt of an arrogant student's jokes. Sharona tells the kid off and stomps on his foot. The boy's dad comes after Monk and threatens him, prompting this exchange:
63	-->'''Patterson:''' You can run, but you can't hide.\
64	'''Monk:''' Oh, yeah. I can hide. Don't think I can't hide. He thinks I can't hide.\
65	'''Sharona:''' He doesn't know who he's messing with. Nobody hides like you.
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69	* A song by Matchbook Romance from the album "Voices," played completely straight. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_UT2otAkrI It is noticeably creepy.]]
70	* Loveless says this to Jim West in the music video for "Film/WildWildWest" by Creator/WillSmith.
71	* In the song by Music/PhilCollins, "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven", the lyrics say, "You can run and you can hide/ But I'm not leaving unless you come with me" or "...But I'm not leaving 'til it's all over."
72	* In the Enrique Iglesias song "Escape", he says that you ''can'' run and hide... but you still can't escape his love.
73	* The song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEjPohtfhcc "Hand of Doom"]] by {{Music/Manowar}} has the lyrics [[BadassBoast "I see the fear you have inside / You can run but never hide"]]
74	* In the music video for "The Wolf" by Siamés, three characters, two men and one woman, are chased by a bloodthirsty wolf with intense stamina and [[LivingShadow shadow powers,]] [[TheUnfettered undeterred by long distances or physical attack,]] symbolizing the addictions that they each have: reckless driving, alcohol, and nicotine. They all desperately try to evade it, but they can't escape its wrath for long, and their vices will do their damnedest to kill them. The three of them find each other while evading their respective wolves, and [[HopeSpot the wolf of the alcoholic man dies in an explosion,]] only to for them to turn around and find the gang of wolves pursuing reckless man ready to pounce. The reckless man [[TiredOfRunning pulls himself off from the ground]] and [[BringIt charges at the pack.]]
75	--> I'm out of my head, of my heart, and my mind/'Cause you can run but you can't hide/I'm gonna make you mine
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78	[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
79	* Wrestling/BillyKidman's WWE titantron came with this theme.
80	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgqHn4IqA3o segment]] with Wrestling/HulkHogan in the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom at ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} Clash of the Champions XXXI'', August 6, 1995, ended with Wrestling/RandySavage, Wrestling/{{Sting}}, Wrestling/{{Vader}} and Hogan's manager Wrestling/JimmyHart rescuing Hogan from a DOD beatdown and leaving the scene. [[Wrestling/BigShow The Giant]] roared, "RUN YOU COWARDS RUN!" and then turning to the camera and saying the trope name word for word.
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83	[[folder:Video Games]]
84	* ''VideoGame/ANNOMutationem'': Eager to have Ann wear a LittleBlackDress, Ayane tells her that she can't run or hide and should go with flow now that the dress shop assistants have arrived to [[ForcedIntoTheirSundayBest make sure]] Ann wears the dress, even as she tries to escape.
85	* ''VideoGame/Killer7'': Travis quotes this about Pedro unable to escape the actions he's committed.
86	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'': "Hiding won't help you! I understand the bullets, you see... [[ImprobableAimingSkills They go where I tell them to!"]]
87	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'':
88	** He never says it (in fact, he can't say anything but "STARS."), but the Nemesis in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Nemesis'' embodies it as the only monster in the series that will follow you from room to room, until you reach a save room... and then he just waits outside for you to come out.
89	** ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5''. Wesker puts [[LargeHam ham]] into ''all'' his dialogue, including his "You can't hide FOREVER!"
90	* The FlavorText for the Boots of Speed in ''VideoGame/BaldursGate'' uses the inversion. Apparently the boots were originally owned by an assassin, who was rather fond of spouting the line as he ran down his quarry before they could actually get to the hiding part.
91	* A heroic example can occur in ''VideoGame/StarFox1'' when Falco shoots down an enemy fighter, taunting the Venom forces with this line.
92	* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Covenant enemies will often threaten a hiding player with phrases like "Hiding will not save you" or "You think you can hide from me?"
93	* ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': The "Wader" Splicer occasionally threatens the player with this, as well as a variant - he informs them that they can't hide from ''God''.
94	* Spoken by Daphne's mother to Dirk during the first stage of ''VideoGame/DragonsLair II: Time Warp''.
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97	[[folder:Web Original]]
98	* Used now and then in ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', often explicitely. For example, Paris Persphone (sic), being haunted by hallucinations of his victims, hears one of the ghosts call this after him. Another statement with the same intent:
99	--> '''Franco Sebberts''': I know you're in here! Might as well come out and spare me the trouble of hunting you down like animals!
100	* The Website/SCPFoundation: once you see the face of [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-096 SCP-096]] it ''knows'' where you are, and [[TheJuggernaut nothing on Earth will stop it from getting to you]].
101	* In ''WebVideo/TheHorriblySlowMurdererWithTheExtremelyInefficientWeapon'', Jack can run, but it won't do him any good. He can't even hide ''by dying''.
102	* ''WebAnimation/WeekendPussyHunt'': Dirty says this almost word for word to Cigarettes, but basically says he ''can'' run and hide, but it won't help him anyway.
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105	[[folder:Western Animation]]
106	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': From the special ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'':
107	-->'''Crocker:''' Go ahead and run! But there's nowhere in the world you can run to when it's my world!
108	* [[WakeUpCallBoss Princess Azula]] in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' says this almost verbatim to Aang during one of their earliest confrontations after an episode-long pursuit fittingly called "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheChase The Chase]]". Turns out he had no intention of running, but is going to stand and fight.
109	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': "You can hide, Zim, but you can't... hide!"
110	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer goes for the pun in an ImagineSpot.
111	-->'''Homer''' ''[hang-gliding through a war-torn city and shooting people randomly]'' You can run, but you can't ''glide''!
112	** In the German dub, Homer's line was translated literally which ruined the pun because the German words for "glide" and "hide" don't rhyme or sound similar at all. It became a popular quote anyway due to its exceptional randomness.
113	* ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'':
114	** Aku delivers this when Jack is hidden during their battle at a zombie-infested graveyard.
115	--> '''Aku''': You can run but you cannot hide cause I can smell your blood!
116	** An inversion of this was said by Jack's one of Jack's last opponents in the episode [[[[Recap/SamuraiJackS2E3JackAndTheSmackback Jack and the Smackback]]]] whom is a six-armed Hinduesque warrior.
117	--> '''Ganeesh''': You can hide, but you cannot run!
118	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "Insheeption" has the school bullies remind Young Mr. Mackey of this.
119	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': "A Better Mousetrap":
120	-->'''Stockman''': You can run, Ms. O'Neil, but you cannot hide from my Mousers.
121	* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'': [[KidAppealCharacter Bumblebee]], being the [[FragileSpeedster team speedster]], goes for the inversion against Lockdown. "You can hide, but you can't run!" As it turns out, Lockdown doesn't have to do either.
122	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': "You can run, but you can't hide... not from Captain Pollution!"
123	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has Demona trapping Hudson and an injured Goliath in a cemetery, stalking them with a laser rifle. She tells them, "You can run, but you can't hide. In fact, you can't even ''run''."
124	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''. The main characters are running from Scary Terry, a [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] parody, who uses this threat on them. Rick decides to try hiding any way, pointing out that Scary Terry is the antagonist, and therefore probably wouldn't give them advice that would actually help them. Morty agrees with the soundness of his logic, and they point out that if hiding does fail, they can always just fall back on "running" again. They manage to successfully hide from Terry for six dream hours before he gives up and goes home in frustation.
125	* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'': Several villains made this threat to the heroes. It is usually followed by Vinnie asking: "What makes you think we want to do either?".
126	* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbOneGoodScareOughtToDoIt One Good Scare Ought to Do It!]]", when Phineas and Isabella leave Baljeet, who is dressed as a failed math test.
127	-->'''Baljeet:''' You can run, but it won't be to the college of your choice, I tell you!
128	* ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'': In "Bride of the Pastmaster", the Pastmaster says this line while his cyclops chases Razor and T-Bone. T-Bone retorts, "Why hide, when you can ride!?" as he and Razor get on a motorcycle and escape.
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131	[[folder:Real Life]]
132	* Ur-Example: This phrase is said to have been originally coined by the boxer Joe Louis, who stated, "He can run, but he can't hide," in response to hearing that an opponent would attempt to use hit-and-run tactics against him. The opponent was light-heavyweight champion Billy Conn. Louis was right: Conn used his quickness to outpoint Louis for 12 rounds, only to get knocked out in the 13th.
133	* A variation frequently attributed to [[ColdSniper snipers]] is "You can run, but you'll just die tired."
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