->"Professor Pucefoot immediately begins drawing a pointless chalk outline around the body, as is standard protocol."
-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', describing the trope in a single sentence

->'''[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]]:''' Why is there tape all over the grass?
->'''[[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]]:''' If it's anything like my world, this is probably where they found [[PosthumousCharacter Ace Swift's]] body.
->'''Twilight Sparkle:''' Ugh... [[{{Squick}} I think I'm going to be sick...]]
-->-- ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm''

->'''Inspector Jacques Clouseau''': (''about Bizu--dead'') Don't you find it a bit of a coincidence that the body fell perfectly within the chalk outline on the floor?
->'''Gilbert Ponton''': I think they drew the chalk outline later.
->'''Inspector Jacques Clouseau''': Ah! [[ComicallyMissingThePoint We must be working with some kind of mastermind!]]
-->-- ''Film/ThePinkPanther2006''

->''"I know! We'll draw chalk around where the body is... that way, we'll know where it was."''
-->--'''Creator/JohnMulaney''', making fun of obsolete crime-solving methods.

->''Realising that his symptoms indicated a virtually undetectable, fast acting neurotoxin, CIA coroner Quinn Abner frantically wrote up the details, lay on the floor and, as a professional courtesy, did his best to draw a chalk outline of himself.''
-->-- '''Jeremy Das''', ''Literature/BulwerLyttonFictionContest 2019''
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