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* ''WesternAnimation/MyAdventuresWithSuperman'': Jimmy has a "murder board" in the Daily Planet's morgue to keep track of his conspiracy theories. At the end of Episode 4, Lois uses the board to connect old tabloid articles in hopes of figuring out Superman's identity, which she does with an article about a "flying boy" spotted over her friend Clark's hometown of Smallville.
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* ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfDoubt'' uses this as a gameplay mechanic. Player is a detective, and works by connecting various pieces of information until they can figure out the killer. Each item and information is connected to something via colored string in players case file. This can be as simple or as complex as players want to make them.
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* In ''VideoGame/LilysWell'', you can find one of these in [[spoiler:one of the offices at the bottom of the well]], covered in notes and photos. The photos aren't of anyone Lily recognizes, but [[spoiler:the notes include names, ages, blood types, and "capture risk", implying they were abducting people and harvesting them for the raw materials--the "meat" Papa mentions later--to make the Lily clones]].
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* ''Series/BreakingBad'': The episode "Fifty-One" has a scene of Hank and Gomez going over what they know and don't know involving the case of [[spoiler:Gus Fring]], visualized by a large cork board of various head shots, locations, and labels, connected by red and blue twine to [[spoiler:Gus and his former]] subordinates.
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* In volume 9 of ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', a [[LaserGuidedAmnesia slightly]]-amnesiac Kyousuke creates a string board to pinpoint his childhood home's address. The usual connotations of obsession and madness apply to him.
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* In volume 9 of ''LightNovel/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', ''Literature/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'', a [[LaserGuidedAmnesia slightly]]-amnesiac Kyousuke creates a string board to pinpoint his childhood home's address. The usual connotations of obsession and madness apply to him.
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* ''[[Fanfic/SixesAndSevens Agent Carter: Phantom Pain]]'': Howard Stark's study becomes host to this as Peggy and co try to figure out the plans of Manfredi, Whitney, and Cassandra Romulus.
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* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'': Parodied. You can purchase an emote that turns your Guardian into a paranoid conspiracy theorist, as they use their magic to conjure a billboard with randomized page placements and connections. They'll try to explain the whole thing with frantic silent arm-waving, before angrily throwing the billboard to the side.
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* Mind Maps are basically jumbled decision trees that start from one major subject and branch out with strings. Supposedly, this helps with memorizing topics with loads of subjects and connections.
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* ''Series/GhostsUS'': Jay sets up a "murder board" in "Whodunnit" to figure out who killed Alberta. He mentions having trouble finding red string for the board.
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* A whole scene in ''VideoGame/AlfredHitchcockVertigo'' revolves around the sheriff and Dr. Lomas doing a summary of the clues and evidences they gathered and trying to reconstitute the story of what Ed Miller went through.
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** In "[[Recap/ElementaryS01E11DirtyLaundry Dirty Laundry]]", Joan Watson, who at this point is still working as Holmes's sober companion and not officially a detective yet, creates a board in her room after becoming invested in the case of the week. Despite the investigation apparently being over, her board helps Holmes find a clue that doesn't fit and leads them to the actual murderer.
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* Ben Stone in ''Series/{{Manifest}}'' has one, a seating chart of the airplane with a string from each seat to a profile of the passenger who sat there. The government investigation has a computerized version.
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* A variation occurs in the film ''Film/{{Spider}}'' where the eponymous paranoid schizophrenic protagonist has a penchant for creating webs with bits of discarded string as he [[UnreliableNarrator investigates]] the death of his mother during his traumatic childhood. As befits his character, the strings never connect up anything useful and his notes are complete gibberish.
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* In ''Film/LeftBehindRiseOfTheAntichrist'', conspiracy theorist and informant Dirk Burton has a board like this in his office that connects every news and media outlet that he knows about to power broker Jonathan Stonagal, including the news network reporter Buck Williams has worked for.
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* ''Film/{{Navalny}}'': This film is a documentary but still, Alexander Navalny and his team have just such a wall diagram of the conspiracy to kill him, with various suspects at the bottom, red strings connecting photos, and a photo of Vladimir Putin at the top. Navalny himself lampshades this when he pronounces it a "a flow chart, like in a movie!"
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* ''Film/Deadpool2016'' has Deadpool create one before his RoaringRampageOfRevenge as he wipes out one lead after another trying to track down [[BigBad Ajax]].
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* "Aliens Resurrected" opens with Wacko having filled the inside of the watertower with conspircy theories involving aliens, all connected by string.
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* In an episode of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nTpsv9PNqo Charlie makes one of these]] when he believes he's uncovered a corporate conspiracy while working in the mail room. [[SignatureScene It is one of the most well-known scenes in the show.]]
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* In ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'', one of the last {{DLC}}s included a Challenge Map in Wayne Manor. Interacting with the piano on that level opens a hidden wall panel that reveals a whiteboard full of clues pointing to some sort of murder mystery that Bruce has apparently been trying to solve, the most prominent clue being a drawing of a cell door with the number “4-25” on it. [[spoiler:This is all an EasterEgg teasing the plot of ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamVR''.]]
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%%* In ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'', Aidan has one of these in the hotel room he's living out of. Oddly, he only references it a few times and you can't interact with it in-game at all. (Administrivia/ZeroContextExample; what's the purpose of it, either in or out of universe?)
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* In ''WebAnimation/{{HFIL}}'', Raditz has one of these that he uses to keep track of the pecking order of the villains (sorry, [[InsistentTerminology Morally Compromised Malefactors]]) of HFIL, including, as it's revealed, King Cold, who ''graduated'' from HFIL.
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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Exit Strategy," Jo sees the bulletin board in Mac's office with string connecting a series of points and tells him he's "really going old school." He explains that he's dealing with a cold case in which the suspect's whereabouts were originally tracked that way, so he's picking up where the original investigation left off.
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* In the Swedish original of ''Literature/TheGirlWithTheDragonTattoo'', Mikael Blomkvist investigates the mystery by assembling all the pieces of information on his wall and connecting them.
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* A major subplot of ''Series/{{Forever}}'' has immortal Henry searching for what happened to his beloved wife, Abigail, who vanished in the 1980s. In a late season episode, Henry seems to have a clue, but at the end tells their adoptive son Abe that he's been held back too long by this and it's time to move on. Abe says he's happy and good for Henry. As soon as Henry leaves, Abe goes to a secret room in his basement to add this clue to the boards of evidence he's been collecting, revealing that he's been investigating his mother's disappearance for years without Henry knowing.
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* One sidequest in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'' event in ''VideoGame/DisneyMagicKingdoms'' has Russell find "one of those corkboards with pins and red string" about Kevin in one of Charles Muntz's crates, noting that he's seen one on TV and that "you're supposed to make one when you're thinking WAY too much about something".
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* In ''Webcomic/JupiterMen'', Quintin unfurls his project on Jupiter-Man to reveal an oaktag poster covered in in a motley mess of pamphlets, photos he's taken himself, and newspaper clippings. He's proud of how he used red string to make it easier to follow and is confused when his teacher writes his research off as mythology and conspiracy theories.
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* ''Fanfic/HeroChat'': ConspiracyTheorist Zoe has set one up for her various theories, such as peggin Rose Lavillant as either a dryad or a fae. Chloe mentioned that Zoe tore down the board after Team Miraculous learns [[spoiler:that Rose is a {{Necromancer}} and inherited her powers from her supervillain grandfather]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' CrackFic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27517666 An Ice Cream Spiral into Madness]]'': Marinette makes one into to find out what Andre meant in "Hearthunter" about how too many ice cream flavors together would be problematic and how that would relate to a [[{{Polygamy}} relationship between herself, Adrien, and Kagami]]. Her "theories" include Andre being a Bunny Miraculous holder, that they have to enjoy each other individually, and even that she subconsciously picked Adrien as TheBeard to avoid her sexuality and she's meant to be with Kagami because mint can't mix with either blueberry or orange. [[spoiler:Eventually, at the next ice cream "date" and Adrien and Kagami telling her that ice cream doesn't have subtext, she decides to get all the flavours together and work things out]].
* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' CrackFic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27517666 An Ice Cream Spiral into Madness]]'': Marinette makes one into to find out what Andre meant in "Hearthunter" about how too many ice cream flavors together would be problematic and how that would relate to a [[{{Polygamy}} relationship between herself, Adrien, and Kagami]]. Her "theories" include Andre being a Bunny Miraculous holder, that they have to enjoy each other individually, and even that she subconsciously picked Adrien as TheBeard to avoid her sexuality and she's meant to be with Kagami because mint can't mix with either blueberry or orange. [[spoiler:Eventually, at the next ice cream "date" and Adrien and Kagami telling her that ice cream doesn't have subtext, she decides to get all the flavours together and work things out]].
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* Leftist streamer Vaush frequently does this in tracking down who is and isn't a fascist on youtube. Hilarity ensues when Vaush desperately goes full captain-save-a-hoe whenever his chat accuses a girl he likes of being a fascist, even if the girl would other-wise be a fascist by his own yarn-conspiracy logic.
