History Main / ChasingAButterfly

* In the anime version of ''FushigiYuugi'', Miaka chases after an apparition of a phoenix (representing, of course, [[TheFourGods Suzaku.]]). In the manga, she discovers the phoenix while chasing after an errant pencil.

* At the beginning of ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}} Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa]]'', Baby Alakay (who would later grow up to be Alex) chases a butterfly to the edge of the animal reserve, which leads him to get captured by a pair of hunters.

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* Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': WALL�E notices a glowing red dot near his home, which seems to dart away from him tantalizingly. The lonely robot pursues the curious dot to a barren area, until he discovers that it's a targeting light for a landing spacecraft. WALL�E did well to dig himself into a bunker before the landing rockets melted him into slag.

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* Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/WallE'': WALL•E notices a glowing red dot near his home, which seems to dart away from him tantalizingly. The lonely robot pursues the curious dot to a barren area, until he discovers that it's a targeting light for a landing spacecraft. WALL•E did well to dig himself into a bunker before the landing rockets melted him into slag.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Talespin}}'' episode, "A Bad Reflection on You, Part One", a baby bear tries to catch a butterfly that lands on the flower of her windowsill. This, of course, leads to the baby bear falling out the open window of her apartment. It's a good thing Baloo and Kit were there to save her in time.

* In ''Disney/TheLionKing'', Simba, while waiting in the gorge, chases a chameleon, practicing his roar on it. Then the stampede arrives.

* In ''Film/TheLandBeforeTime'', Littlefoot and Cera chase a frog before their first encounter with Sharptooth.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Talespin}}'' episode, "A Bad Reflection on You, Part One", a baby bear tries to catch a butterfly that lands on the flower of her windowsill. This, of course, leads to the baby bear falling out the open window of her apartment. It's a good thing Baloo and Kit were there to save her in time.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'', a young Merida follows the wisp-o-willows into the forest, where she is attacked by [[BearsAreBadNews Mor'du the bear]].

* The title character of ''Animation/SusuASarkany'' is a GentleGiant dragon with a childlike personality, who quite obsessed with butterflies; he loves to run after them, even though he never catches them.

Related to AttentionDeficitOohShiny, StrayingBaby and FollowTheWhiteRabbit. PrettyButterflies are a common choice, so are FrogsAndToads, but it works with any other small and non-threatening creature, or even some pretty, moving inanimate object.

* ''Literature/AliceInWonderland'' starts with Alice [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit following a white rabbit]] out of curiosity and falling down its hole.

* Deconstructd in ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', where Kala and Kerchak's baby follows a frog, which leads him to Sabor the leopard. [[AdultFear The results aren't pretty.]]

* In ''Disney/{{Tarzan}}'', Kala and Kerchak's baby follows a frog, which leads him to Sabor the leopard.

* At the beginning of ''Literature/TheLostWorld1995'' a child finds a cute little dinosaur and chases after it, only to discover an entire pack of them waiting to pounce.

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* The ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'' between [[VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}} Felicia]] and [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Taokaka]] begins with Felicia engaging in this activity, leading to her accidentally bumping into Taokaka. The fight later pauses for a bit when the butterfly floats by the two {{Cat Girl}}s, leading to ''both'' of them chasing after it.

* The title character of ''SusuASarkany'' is a GentleGiant dragon with a childlike personality, who quite obsessed with butterflies; he loves to run after them, even though he never catches them.

-->When you're cable's on the fritz...you chase imaginary butterflies into something highly illegal. Don't chase butterflies into something highly illegal. Get rid of cable and upgrade to [=DirecTV=].

* Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' notices a glowing red dot near his home, which seems to dart away from him tantalizingly. The lonely robot pursues the curious dot to a barren area, until he discovers that it's a targeting light for a landing spacecraft. WallE did well to dig himself into a bunker before the landing rockets melted him into slag.

* Mei, the younger girl from ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro'' tends to do this. First she chases the soot gremlins all over the house; then she gets lost when she [[FollowTheWhiteRabbit follows Chibi-Totoro into the woods]]. Although she enounters a monstrous creature (the titular Totoro), fortunately he is a GentleGiant, so the danger part is averted.