History Main / IWillFindYou

-->'''Doctor:''' A collision between Flux and Vortex energy. You're falling through Space and Time. Yaz, stay calm. I will find you.\\

Compare SheWillComeForMe, in which the missing person believes s/he will be found. See also RescueArc and SaveThePrincess, which this frequently overlaps with. The protagonist of this trope is often the {{Determinator}}. Contrast situations where the words are spoken as a threat, perhaps by an ImplacableMan or [[Film/{{Taken}} Liam Neeson]].

* ''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]].

* ''Webcomic/BloodReverie'': Xavier's little sister ran away form 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 {{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.

* [[UndyingLoyalty Liara's hunt for Shepard]] in the interim between ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' and ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''.

* 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 so she can find her daughter, Sharon. In [[Film/SilentHillRevelation3D the sequel]], Sharon returns to Silent Hill so she can 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.

* After he and Mitsuha suddenly stops switching bodies ''Anime/YourName'', 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.]]

* This became Taki's motive in ''Anime/YourName'' after [[spoiler:he and Mitsuha suddenly stopped swapping bodies.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'', Tip's main goal throughout the movie is to rescue her kidnapped mother. [[spoiler:Turns out it's also Gorg's, who's looking for the next generation of his species]].

* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Chloe runs away from home after an argument with Goh and gets sucked into the Infinity Train. Goh, who heavily regrets telling Chloe she has no dreams or ambitions on her own, only arrives just to see her hair scrunchie in the trash and becomes determined to find her...even though the reader knows that she ''doesn't'' want to see him again. By the Intermission, Chloe texts him to tell her that she doesn't want to be found, especially by him, and bids him farwell.

* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', after awakening in the new timeline, Ash promises to himself that he will reunite with each and every one of his Pokémon. [[spoiler: However, he fails to reach to his Primeape in time, only seeing him [[get blasted into the sky by [[TheRival Paul]], and his Pokédex hints that he might ''not'' survive this.]]

* Two instances in ''Series/Diablero'':

* ''Series/DoctorWho'':

** ''Blazing Sword'' has Priscilla looking for her brother Raymond, Rebecca looking for her brother Dan, and [[IllGirl Natalie]] looking for her husband Dorcas. The main story basically starts with Eliwood looking for [[DisappearedDad his father]].

* The manga author Creator/TiteKubo revealed on Twitter that the tenth year of publishing [[CreatorBreakdown was incredibly hard on him]] due to stress and bad health. Then a letter gave him his spirits back - it was from a deceased 10-year-old IllBoy, whose LastRequest was to have an anonymous letter with encouraging words given to him after his death. At the end of the reveal, Kubo [[http://archive.is/JNIBt asked for leads about the boy's family's whereabouts]], intending to find them. [[http://solcito93.tumblr.com/post/168489224969/ And around a year later, he did.]]

* The John Wayne movie ''Film/TheSearchers''. His 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 ''Hardcore'' as well.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''';

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS39E2FluxChapterTwoWarOfTheSontarans "War Of The Sontarans"]], the Doctor says this to Yaz as she starts to disappear, falling through Space and Time.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Played for horror in the {{cliffhanger}} ending of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E6TheAlmostPeople "The Almost People"]]. [[spoiler:The Doctor promises this to Amy, ''who is standing right in front of him''... until she dissolves into a pile of goo. Turns out Amy was kidnapped at the start of the season and replaced by a replicated human. The real Amy (who's been mentally piloting the replicant) then wakes up to find she's pregnant and confined in a cell by the BigBad.]]

-->'''Spike:''' Listen to me! Maybe you get past us. Maybe by some miracle you get outof the country. You know what? Doesn't matter. I don't care what third-world jungle you hide out in, I will find you. Whatever I have to do, I will do. I will never forget you. Not after what you did my friend's sister, and not after what you did to my team!\\

* Deconstructed in ''The Zone'' series by James Rouch, set in a war-torn Europe during WW3. One of the soldiers is obsessed with finding his wife, but the fruitless search eventually drives him insane.

* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' has Claire telling Raki she [[IWillFindYou 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]].

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

* Manny in ''WesternAnimation/IceAge4ContinentalDrift'' gets separated from his wife and daughter because of an earthquake. He does a ShoutOut to the classic ''Film/LastOfTheMohicans'' quote.

* Manga/HunterXHunter: The story started because he wanted to find Ging. [[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.]]]]