Basic Trope: A character who can and will find you based on clues you leave behind, even if they're illogical.
- Straight: Alice can find anyone through a variety of means such as footprints and hair threads.
- Exaggerated: Alice can find you in another universe and an alternate timeline in that other universe based on your scent.
- Downplayed: Alice is indeed a competent tracker, but she can't find absolutely anyone based on little to no clues.
- Justified:
- Alice has a lot of experience in this and can made educated assumptions based on her clues.
- …and/or she knows her target.
- Alice has retrocognition and can accurately envision past events.
- Alice lives in a world where Everything Is Online and people inevitably leave some kind of digital trace. Even going to live in a dead zone is not a guarantee because Alice will eventually begin to look into them as well.
- Inverted: Everyone can find Alice, but she can't find anyone.
- Subverted: Alice seems like a great tracker, but it's later revealed she's a fraud and was faking it all.
- Double Subverted: ... at least, that's what she wants you to think, but actually she is a great tracker.
- Parodied: Alice is the absolute best at finding people in hide and seek.
- Zig Zagged: Alice has often found people based on no clues and sometimes can't find anyone when they're hiding in plain sight.
- Averted:
- Alice is a good tracker, but within reason.
- Alice is not a tracker.
- Enforced: "We need a way for the villain to be followed, even though he's supposed to be a Stealth Expert." "How 'bout a super good tracker?"
- Lampshaded: "Alice is so good at tracking it's frightening."
- Invoked: Alice purposefully trains for years in tracking, with the goal of becoming a master tracker.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Alice's enemies are Crazy-Prepared to leave absolutely no trace of any sort to prevent Alice from tracking them.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Implied: Alice is always able to find her targets even when she has little information about where they are, but her methods are not discussed in detail.
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