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Author: Unicorndance

Oct 22nd 2017 at 10:54:51 PM

!! Animated Movies
* Several times in ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', the boy Hogarth wanders into the woods to visit the giant robot, leaving his mother Annie to wonder where he is.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'' focuses on the babies Tommy, Chuckie, Phil and Lil trying to send Tommy's younger brother Dil back to the hospital and ending up getting lost in the woods. Tommy's spoilt, older cousin Angelica later goes missing too when she sets out to look for her doll Cynthia.
!! Literature
* One of the interactive ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' books focuses on the main character's younger brother Denny going missing due to stepping into a time machine.
!! Live-Action Movies
* In one scene in the ''Film/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'' movie "The Long Haul", Rodrick and Greg sneak off to a video game convention and their mother Susan notices they're gone. However, she sees them on TV and goes to the convention to tell them off.
* While trick-or-treating in ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial'', Elliot goes off into the woods to help the alien E.T. and stays the night, causing his mother to report him missing. However, he comes back and that's when she discovers E.T.
* In ''Film/HocusPocus'', three hundred years from the year the film takes place, a girl named Emily Binks goes missing, and it turns out she was kidnapped by three evil witches who take her soul. Later, the witches capture a little girl named Danni, but she gets saved.
!! Poetry
* In the poem ''Emmeline'' by A.A.Milne, a small girl named Emmeline disappears for more than a week after being told her hands were dirty. Where she went is a mystery, but when she returns, she claims to have gone to visit the Queen, who said her hands were "purfickly clean".
!! WesternAnimation
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "Lost!", Arthur gets lost after falling asleep on the bus.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Babar}}'', Princess Elizabeth goes missing in the castle, and her brother Prince Alexander thinks she has gone to the dump.