History Main / StringTheory

* In the Swedish original of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (cf. ''{{TheMillenniumTrilogy}}''), Mikael Blomkvist investigates the mystery by assembling all the pieces of information on his wall and connecting them.

* {{Series/Heroes}}, possibly to the point of being the TropeCodifier with both Mohinder's map of specials, and Future Hiro's map of all time.
* [[FlashForward2009 Flash Forward]], blatantly following in Heroes' footsteps with Mark's Blackout wall. [[spoiler: A case could be made for D. Gibbon's "Garden of Forking Paths" as well.]]

* StarTrekVoyager, Time Fleet and the "Year of Hell" aliens has an automated version of this to keep up with their monkeying in the timescape.
* {{Chuck}}, [[spoiler:when he is keeping data of the Intersect and Orion on the back of his Tron Poster.]] Granted, it's in marker, but it's the thought that counts.

* {{Series/Supernatural}} presents a beautiful example of a string theory during the first season's first episode. The main character's missing father was investigating on a Woman in White, using his motel room's wall to externalize his deductive reasoning.
* The episode of {{Castle}}, "Linchpin", briefly displayed a room that looked very much like the page image, as belonging to a statistics genius - the strings started at one murder, the branches were cause and effects, and they converged on [[spoiler:WorldWarThree]] at the other side.

* Charlie Crews on ''Life'' has an entire room dedicated to finding out who framed him for murder.

* The episode of {{Castle}}, "Linchpin", briefly displayed a room that looked very much like the page image, as belonging to a statistics genius - the strings started at one murder, the branches were cause and effects, and they converged on [[spoiler:WorldWarThree]] at the other side.

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[[caption-width:350: He does that a lot.]]

-->-- ''AmericanDad'', "Bush Comes to Dinner"

* Ben10UltimateAlien: Jimmy has one of these going for alien encounters, specifically involving those with the Omnitrix ensignia.
* In the ''AmericanDad'' episode "Bush Comes to Dinner," Roger determines Osama bin Laden's location by studying a variety of popular media which he's hung all over his attic. Cue the page quote.

* Leonard has one of all his current Polaroids in ''{{Memento}}''.

* Connor sets up one of these in ''{{Primeval}}'', trying to track the various anomalies across time and space. Later, [[spoiler:the characters discover a heavily upgraded holographic version of his chart brought from the future.]]

* If [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=lNxhpNpnAkk#t=60s the trailer]] is anything to go by, Holmes has quite an impressive string setup in Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.

* Sam and Dean occasionally put these up in their motel rooms in ''{{Supernatural}}'', which seems like a lot of effort for something you're going to have to take down in a few days.

* ''{{CSI}}'' has one. It was once PlayedForDrama in the episode ''"The Case Of The Cross-dressing Carp"'' when the mother of a victim saw one of the victims' friends (a scientist who was investigating the cause of [[spoiler: the water contamination which caused [[GenderBender the condition]] that caused him to be DrivenToSuicide]]) connected to him via a line and wrongly assumed he was a suspect [[spoiler: and shot him [[NiceJobBreakingItHero ending any chance of his work being used to prosecute]] the CorruptCorperateExecutive responsible for the water contamination]].

* In ''{{Megamind}}'', Metro Man finds Megamind's plan all layed out, but can't understand it, then backs up for some prespective and BANG, the clue that was needed is right there.

* In Megamind, the hero finds the villians plan all layed out, but can't understand it, then backs up for some prespective and BANG, the clue that was needed is right there.

* [[{{Magneto}} Erik Lensherr]] uses one to track down Sebastian Shaw in [[Film/X-Men X-Men: First Class]]

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* In one ''QuestionableContent'' strip, when Faye is trying to explain the main character's relationships to one another, her therapist stops her so she can get thumbtacks and colored string and diagram everything.
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* ''NewTricks'' has one. Most episodes have a few scenes with the main characters sat around and one of them explaining what they've just discovered. They once discovered that [[spoiler: a retired fireman who was helping them was an arsonist when they realised he would have been able to find his targets after seeing ther board]].

* ''{{CSI}}'' has one. It was once PlayedForDrama in the episode ''"The Case Of The Crossdressing Carp"'' when the mother of a victim saw one of the victims' friends (a scientist who was investigating the cause of [[spoiler: the water contamination which caused [[GenderBender the condition]] that caused him to be DrivenToSuicide]]) connected to him via a line and wrongly assumed he was a suspect [[spoiler: and shot him [[NiceJobBreakingItHero ending any chance of his work being used to procecute the CorruptCorperateExecutive responsable for the water contamination]]]].
* ''NewTricks'' has one. Most episodes have a few scenes with the main characters sat around and one of them explaining what they've just discovered. They once discovered that [[spoiler: a retired fireman who was helping them was an arsonist when they realised he would have been able to find his targets after seeing ther board.]]