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GPS Evidence

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91 feature instances
62 referencing feature instances

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GPS Evidence	label	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence	page	GPSEvidence
GPS Evidence	comment	So your investigation seems to have hit a dead end. Either you have no prints, or you stumbled across a Red Herring, either way the situation seems hopeless... But wait! The guys at the lab have found the clue you were looking for! Turns out some of the trace in the crime scene is a rare plant that can only be found in a certain part of your town! Or sand that comes from a specific island that one of the suspects has visited recently! Either way, now you're certain where to go. The Lab Rats have stumbled across GPS Evidence. GPS Evidence is able to pinpoint a certain geographical location with amazing accuracy. It points straight to either the location the heroes are trying to find, or the person they are seeking (if said person was the only person who visited the place that the evidence pinpoints). While this can border on Deus ex Machina if done badly, the Real Life examples show that there is some Truth in Television to it. Usually goes hand in hand with Sherlock Scan. But compare Sherlock Can Read if what you actually found was a piece of text labeling the thing's location.
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GPS Evidence / int_109f7814	comment	Used in almost every episode of Sherlock although when the eponymous character does it, he normally uses a variety of clues. He makes basically a Venn Diagram of clues, each one corresponding to a few locations, and then sees which location fits them all. Played with in "The Blind Banker", where Sherlock meets an acquaintance from the university and tells him that he knows he has recently flown around the world twice. The guy asks if it was some sort of stain from tea that only comes from India. Sherlock calmly replies that he spoke with the guy's secretary. After the meeting, John confronts him about it, as he was there and didn't see Sherlock speaking with the secretary. Sherlock admits that he just wanted to put the guy down and really got the clue from the guy's watch which is two days off.
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GPS Evidence / int_13665790	comment	In Thud!, Angua smells clay from Quarry Lane, the home of a large part of the Ankh-Morpork troll community down in the dwarf mine. She however remembers Vimes philosophy on clues: "Don't trust them, you could walk around with pockets full of them." It is a really important clue for that reason, because it tells them a dwarf is trying to frame the trolls.
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GPS Evidence / int_15d17004	comment	In the first film, members of the Temple of the Four Orders bail Holmes out of jail. As soon as Holmes gets in, a man apologetically puts a bag over his head. When it's removed, Holmes is sitting in front of Sir Thomas in the Temple's headquarters.
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GPS Evidence / int_16fc4335	comment	Heralds of Valdemar: An artist-slash-assassin in Storm Warning gives himself away when he mentions the use of a certain pigment in his work â€” which comes from a mineral found only in the Eastern Empire for which he is The Mole.
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GPS Evidence / int_18acb3a5	comment	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air: Brit Geoffrey pinpoints exactly where in the UK his British date is from after hearing her accent. The only thing he guesses wrong is the floor of the building that she lived on â€” it's the second, not third.
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GPS Evidence / int_19d740d8	comment	In The Great Mouse Detective, a Mouse World version of Sherlock Holmes, the combination of three substances on a piece of paper are used to pinpoint a villain's hangout, the only bar (brandy) located where the sewer (coal dust) meets the river front (salt water). It could of course have been dropped by a coal deliveryman who'd treated himself to a Quick Nip and bought a bag of chips on his way home from work, but hey.
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GPS Evidence / int_20409a0a	comment	The Defenders (2017): Danny Rand and Colleen Wing, trying to find leads on the Hand, face a setback when Elektra kills a man they have been tracking for months. The man says with his dying breath that the war with the Hand is in New York City. On returning to Manhattan, they determine that the sword the dead man was carrying must have been to an exclusive sword shop that is only located in Manhattan. They travel there and encounter Hand henchmen destroying bodies with acid, and Danny's attempt to rough up Cole for answers leads to him encountering Luke Cage (2016).
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GPS Evidence / int_22147342	comment	Arrow just loves this trope. Apparently it's super popular for villains in Starling/Star City to hide in abandoned factories that used to be dedicated to manufacturing an exclusive chemical formula that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world.
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GPS Evidence / int_22211d68	comment	Abused mercilessly in Bones, usually resulting from a spore sample analyzed by Hodgins.
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GPS Evidence / int_2221ecbd	comment	Subversion: CSI: NY played a long game with this trope in the fourth season. In the season's first few episodes, a lot of cases were solved using GPS Evidence. However, in "One Wedding And A Funeral," Stella finds tree bark at a crime scene. She locates the only furniture store in New York that uses wood from that tree, and lo and behold there's someone with a record who works there. But wait! He didn't do anything! The tree bark was actually a clue left by Mac's stalker, intended to lead him to the Tribune Tower in Chicago.
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GPS Evidence / int_225c51e0	comment	The Naked Gun: Parodied in the series when the scientist involved outlines his plan to do an exhaustive study and analysis of the city's soil sample from a footprint found at the crime scene. When the police tell him that they don't have time for him to run his tests, the scientist helpfully suggests getting the criminal's address from the driver's license in his wallet, also found at the crime scene. And again when Ted the lab guy tries to analyze the wood fiber in a message from their suspect and determines that it came from a specific tree found only in one region and used as raw material in only one paper mill. The trail unfortunately went cold from there, so it's a good thing the message had their suspect's address on the letterhead, eh?
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GPS Evidence / int_22665be6	comment	In Fast & Furious, Dom looks at the crash scene where Letty (allegedly) died, and finds ash of a peculiar color which he recognizes as coming from a meth-nitro afterburner system. That part is fairly plausible since as a former champion street racer, he would know a lot about exotic car modifications. But from that clue, he then immediately figures out exactly what garage the person responsible for the crash went to. This despite the fact that 1: The idea that there is literally only one mechanic willing to do a particular car mod in a region as heavily populated as the LA Metro area is ridiculous, and 2: Since Dom hadn't been to LA in five years, even if it had been true when he last lived there, there was a good chance it wasn't true now. It still works.
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GPS Evidence / int_22b62a34	comment	DCI Banks: In "The Buried," a footprint left behind at the scene of a crime contains the mixture of the chemicals used in match heads. This leads the police to the only old match factory in the area.
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GPS Evidence / int_24e41891	comment	The algae on the rocks Dexter used to weigh down his victims help the cops narrow down the list of suspects... It helps in that case that they already had a small number of possible marinas to gather samples from and compare the evidence to. It was Dexter's conceit that he kept weighing bodies down using rocks from the marina where he keeps his boat.
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GPS Evidence / int_25d97c04	comment	James Bond knows to search the Amazon jungle for Drax's secret base in Moonraker — it's where the specific orchid used in Drax's neurotoxin came from.
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GPS Evidence / int_2ba48a26	comment	Subverted in one episode of Castle. The victims of the week both have traces of water containing diatoms (single-celled organisms). The forensic tech promises that they can identify the water source, and Castle and Beckett get her to test the water from a single fish tank. It's not it. Turns out, the water was from the harbor.
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GPS Evidence / int_2c1809f5	comment	In one episode of Totally Spies! a villain is tracked down by an unusual shoe print at a crime scene that matches a rare shoe that only three people in the world own. The first, a female basketball player, is crossed off because the spies had seen the perp from a distance and identified him as male. When Jerry continues by identifying a clown as the second buyer, he and the girls just share a glance over the communicator before he brings up a scientist as the last one and gives them the address to investigate.
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GPS Evidence / int_2d311a08	comment	In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode "Case of the Hot Kimono", April's famous detective aunt traced a very rare olive oil only found in one island and the only place where it's shipped to.
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GPS Evidence / int_32066b8e	comment	Referenced in the film of V for Vendetta. V says he can't let Evey leave because though she was unconscious when he brought her to his home, she's seen the color of the stone in the underground lair, and the government would be able to find him with that information.
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GPS Evidence / int_34d050c6	comment	Darkwing Duck: In "Just Us Justice Ducks, Part 1", Darkwing deduces the location of Negaduck's hideout from a single bread crumb left at the crime scene — completely failing to notice the building in the background currently raising a giant flag with Negaduck's face on it. Negaduck planted the crumb there on purpose because he knew Darkwing wouldn't notice the flag. In "In Like Blunt", Darkwing presents a grain of sand as their only clue to a case. All of his chemical tests can only reveal that it is indeed a grain of sand, so the James Bond Expy tastes it and says that it could only have come from one of several hundred islands... but only one of those islands didn't have a plant that the villain was deathly allergic to growing there indigenously.
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GPS Evidence / int_35af2104	comment	In The Fifth Elephant, Reg Shoe remembers Vimes' advice as well when investigating the murder of rubber goods manufacturer Sonky. One must beware of trusting clues too much, otherwise one might find a wooden leg, a pink slipper, and a feather and "hatch up a theory involving a one-legged ballet dancer and a production of Chicken Lake".
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GPS Evidence / int_3ac51861	comment	Occasionally used in Cadfael. Cadfael, the abbey apothecary, knows where and when every plant grows in the Shrewsbury area and has tracked down where people have been, evidence has been, and murders have taken place on the basis of what plant matter is caught up with them.
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GPS Evidence / int_427c8ba0	comment	In Pineapple Express, Dale sees drug lord Ted kill a man and go on the run, leaving behind a roach of marijuana at the scene. This roach is full of a very rare kind of marijuana named "Pineapple Express", only sold by Ted, and who sold it to only one dealer in the entire valley — Saul, Dale's friend. Half an hour later, Dale and Saul barely escape with their lives when Ted's goons come kicking down the door.
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GPS Evidence / int_468bebb0	comment	Frequently subverted in the Discworld books featuring the Night Watch: In Thud!, Angua smells clay from Quarry Lane, the home of a large part of the Ankh-Morpork troll community down in the dwarf mine. She however remembers Vimes philosophy on clues: "Don't trust them, you could walk around with pockets full of them." It is a really important clue for that reason, because it tells them a dwarf is trying to frame the trolls. In The Fifth Elephant, Reg Shoe remembers Vimes' advice as well when investigating the murder of rubber goods manufacturer Sonky. One must beware of trusting clues too much, otherwise one might find a wooden leg, a pink slipper, and a feather and "hatch up a theory involving a one-legged ballet dancer and a production of Chicken Lake". Jingo: Klatchian coins and sand in the room of the man suspected for the assassination attempt of the ambassador is supposed to be seen as proof that "Someone in Ankh-Morpork did a bad job trying to frame the Klatchians". It turns out to be "Klatchians are smarter than Morporkians give them credit for." Played straight: Angua can smell a particular dye on the coat belonging to an assassin (not to be confused with an Assassin) which she knows comes from a specific city and is important in discovering said assassin's identity. In Feet of Clay: Angua and Cheery bring some clay from a crime scene to a pottery hoping that there's lots of different kinds or something, but are disappointed to be told that "It's just clay." However, double-subverted in that they also learn where it's from in the process, and this turns out to be an important clue. Played With in Night Watch, where Vimes is shown to be able to tell where in the city he is by feeling the brickwork on the road through thin-soled boots since he spent decades patrolling the city while wearing cardboard-soled boots.
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GPS Evidence / int_4bcaa9d6	comment	Triptych Continuum: In Glimmer, one of the oddities about Lynchpin's corpse is a specific kind of rash caused by exposure to the oils of the flamethorn tree, which only grows wild in a few countries in Menajeria's southern hemisphere.
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GPS Evidence / int_4d551426	comment	In A Miracle of Science, the police use isotope ratios to track which planet the raw materials for the bad guy's robots were mined on. He anticipated this. This sort of analysis is real science, usually used for classifying meteorites.
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GPS Evidence / int_5320ab5e	comment	Columbo, more than once. In "Caution: Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health", Columbo is able to destroy a killer's alibi thanks to the victim's dog. It was friendly and had a habit of scratching at car doors, and is missing a claw on one paw. The killer claims he had never been to the victim's house, yet as Columbo points out, his car door has the dog's distinct claw marks on it. In "Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star", Columbo figured out a killer had been in the area of a murder because mulberries, which grow in an area near where the victim lived, had fallen inside the killer's luxury car's hood. In "Strange Bedfellows", a pivotal piece of evidence turned out to be a dead mouse—specifically, the mouse was found in a Los Angeles restaurant but it turned out to be a breed native to the mountains of Southern California but not the city.
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GPS Evidence / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Blue Shadow Virus", a bug is used to pinpoint a hidden Separatist base to a specific part of Naboo.
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GPS Evidence / int_58d80a4a	comment	Jingo: Klatchian coins and sand in the room of the man suspected for the assassination attempt of the ambassador is supposed to be seen as proof that "Someone in Ankh-Morpork did a bad job trying to frame the Klatchians". It turns out to be "Klatchians are smarter than Morporkians give them credit for." Played straight: Angua can smell a particular dye on the coat belonging to an assassin (not to be confused with an Assassin) which she knows comes from a specific city and is important in discovering said assassin's identity.
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GPS Evidence / int_59140854	comment	Jessica Jones (2015): Jessica has to rely on various takes on this trope to get clues for cases. When Jessica realizes that Kilgrave has someone taking pictures of her, she initially tries to go to various spots around the city where these pictures have been taken, in order to pinpoint the photographer's position. While on another job, she sees an NYPD surveillance camera and realizes that maybe one of those cameras caught the spy. So she contacts Will Simpson and gives him times and dates from various cameras she's passed, so she can look and see if any faces show up following her in any of them. To track down Kilgrave after he takes control of Luke, Jessica looks through news articles trying to find anything from people who mistook his powers for performance art. Early in season 2, after an encounter with the fake "Dr. Leslie Hansen" (actually Jessica's mom), Jessica realizes that the imposter was wearing a wig made of real human hair. Trish notes it's a pretty high-quality wig as she didn't catch it, and says there are only three wig shops in New York City that make wigs of that quality. The first one they hit (owned by a woman who made wigs for Trish during her It's Patsy days) recognizes the woman.
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GPS Evidence / int_5a6dbe3	comment	In Jack the Ripper (1976), the pine needle found clutched in the dead woman's hand comes from an Indian species; the only examples of which in London are in Kensington Gardens. This tallies with the scent the blind man Mr. Bridger had smelled on Jack.
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GPS Evidence / int_5b6730c9	comment	In Force of Nature: The Dry 2, the nest of fruit bats the women disturbed allow Aaron and Ian to work out which of the dozens of possible valleys they had actually entered.
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GPS Evidence / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: Parodied by "Science Montage," which contrasts a "Movie Science Montage" (lots of lasers and test tubes) with an "Actual Science Montage" (lots of waiting for a centrifuge). The strip provides the page image.
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GPS Evidence / int_60996c02	comment	Spider-Man: The Animated Series - When Spider-Man mutates into a bestial "Man-Spider", a post-Heelâ€“Face Turn Kraven the Hunter uses this to track down his lair.
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GPS Evidence / int_68d7b51d	comment	The userbase of 4chan is infamous for its ability to coordinate and track down individuals & locations using this, to the point of being Scarily Competent Trackers. In the earlier days of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, a troll started a coordinated bullying campaign against the author of Ask Princess Molestia, and later fans of the show in general for "not being 'proper' fans like she was". When said campaign went too far, and one of its followers attempted to have a naturalized citizen deported in response to his wife criticizing said campaignnote this really happened; said person won a $50,000 settlement from the person who made the bogus call to ICE, 4Chan retaliated by doxxing the troll who started it by using photos on her blog to narrow down the city she was in and then comparing selfies she took in her backyard to images taken from Google Satellite to geolocate her home address and post it online. The most famous instance being Shia LaBeouf's "He Will Not Divide Us" livestream, in which he raised a flag in protest leading to the most elaborate game of "Capture the Flag" known to man. At one point he attempted to hide it by filming the flag from below with nothing but the sky in view, but 4chan trolls managed to locate the flag in under two days by using astronomy, time zones, and detective work with airline flight paths. When he moved it to a deserted cabin, they found it by examining the wood pattern on the walls. The final location was in front of a blank white wall, which they tracked down to a house in London within four hours by examining how a light from off-screen shifted and eventually dimmed. On another occasion, 4chan users managed to pin down the coordinates of a terrorist training camp in southern Aleppo, Syria and coordinated with a Russian journalist to successfully arrange an airstrike on the location using a combination of Google Maps and footage from one of their own recruitment videos.
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GPS Evidence / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: The Defenders (2017): Danny Rand and Colleen Wing, trying to find leads on the Hand, face a setback when Elektra kills a man they have been tracking for months. The man says with his dying breath that the war with the Hand is in New York City. On returning to Manhattan, they determine that the sword the dead man was carrying must have been to an exclusive sword shop that is only located in Manhattan. They travel there and encounter Hand henchmen destroying bodies with acid, and Danny's attempt to rough up Cole for answers leads to him encountering Luke Cage (2016). Daredevil (2015): Early in season 2, Matt locates Frank Castle's den and armory by following a blood trail left by a wounded dog he stole from the Kitchen Irish. As he's blind, he has to rely on the smell of the blood and his other senses in order to trace the route. Jessica Jones (2015): Jessica has to rely on various takes on this trope to get clues for cases. When Jessica realizes that Kilgrave has someone taking pictures of her, she initially tries to go to various spots around the city where these pictures have been taken, in order to pinpoint the photographer's position. While on another job, she sees an NYPD surveillance camera and realizes that maybe one of those cameras caught the spy. So she contacts Will Simpson and gives him times and dates from various cameras she's passed, so she can look and see if any faces show up following her in any of them. To track down Kilgrave after he takes control of Luke, Jessica looks through news articles trying to find anything from people who mistook his powers for performance art. Early in season 2, after an encounter with the fake "Dr. Leslie Hansen" (actually Jessica's mom), Jessica realizes that the imposter was wearing a wig made of real human hair. Trish notes it's a pretty high-quality wig as she didn't catch it, and says there are only three wig shops in New York City that make wigs of that quality. The first one they hit (owned by a woman who made wigs for Trish during her It's Patsy days) recognizes the woman. Loki (2021): The Kablooie gum the Variant left as an Anachronistic Clue was sold in a limited region for a short span of years, narrowing down the Variant's hiding place.
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GPS Evidence / int_7291539d	comment	In the Deadshot sidequest of Batman: Arkham City, Batman finds one of these at the site of the second and third Deadshot killings. Neither of these is useful by itself (Each individually can be found in dozens of places around Arkham City), but there are only three places where both of the items he found trace samples of can be located, which narrows the search area down enough that he can start investigating.
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GPS Evidence / int_73d7930f	comment	On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Dr. Bashir's James Bond holodeck program invokes this trope. He sees a ruby and is able to narrow its origin down to a small geographic area based on what shade of red it is (the redness is directly proportionate to the concentration of chromium ions).
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GPS Evidence / int_75149ccd	comment	In the book Isard's Revenge, Iella and Mirax examined a poisoned device that had been implanted in a man and had killed him. They went through computer programs to look up what planets had the facilities to make that sort of highly specific poison.
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GPS Evidence / int_7c038c18	comment	Played straight in the episode of Phineas and Ferb where Carl is briefly turned evil by Dr. Doofenshmirtz. Carl is trying to find Perry the Platypus as part of his evil plan and is able to narrow down his location based on an extremely rare flower he sees in the background of Perry's video communicator which only grows in one spot on the entire continent of Africa.
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GPS Evidence / int_7cf0865	comment	Barry identifies the location of the villain's lair in the debut episode of The Flash (1990) by identifying several soil samples, and figuring out where they overlap.
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GPS Evidence / int_7d1b5428	comment	Played with in an episode of A Touch of Frost involved a suspect in a murder whose trainers had been determined to have fragments of glass embedded in the soles. DI Frost then went on to point out to the suspect that Forensics could match the composition of the glass fragments to a specific manufacturer, namely a local glassware firm with a skip full of quality-control rejects quite near where the body had been found. Even if it really is possible to identify the origin of glass fragments that closely this isn't exactly the most damning evidence imaginable, and Frost was merely using it for Perp Sweating value.
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GPS Evidence / int_80f63b6b	comment	In Charlie's Angels (2000), one of the Angels hears a bird call on a tape sent by the bad guys, and recognizes it as a species that only lives on one very small island. Except she identifies it as a pygmy nuthatch, which isn't even close to rare, and lives pretty much everywhere in California.
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GPS Evidence / int_8125b468	comment	Done too often to list by Batman. Gotham City must have some truly bizarre geology given the number of soil types unique to one area of the city.
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GPS Evidence / int_8459204b	comment	Subverted in Legend of the Seeker by a clever villain. Richard, investigating a murder, finds residue from a certain type of plant on one suspect's clothing that implicates him in the murder. After the man is tried, found guilty, and executed, they find out that the real killer planted it as evidence, counting on Richard to find it.
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GPS Evidence / int_88be979a	comment	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes: After the mechanical dinosaurs blow up the rubber factory, Holmes finds a pebble clinging to the owner's body which, because of its lack of singeing, had to have become attached to his clothes immediately before he was flung through the window. It is a type of rock found in only one place in Britain, which happens to be near Holmes' boyhood home. Given we later learn that the Big Bad is Sherlock's brother, it is entirely possible it was placed there deliberately for Sherlock to find.
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GPS Evidence / int_89b7cf47	comment	Rizzoli & Isles: Maura finds a killer by tracking the poison to a flower native to Boston. Of course, the suspect has said flower growing in front of their house. Maura does a spectroscopy on a hair left by the killer, which somehow can tell what type of food the hair-bearer ate. This hair was from someone who had recently eaten fermented whale meat, a common dish in Scandinavia. Turns out the victim's assistant had just gotten back from Iceland.
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GPS Evidence / int_8d81bb26	comment	NCIS has done this a number of times. Examples include: In one episode, the team placed a suspect at the scene of a crime because Abby found silica dioxide and calcium oxide in his shoes. Basically, they found sand and lime, one incredibly, and one reasonably, common substance, and arrested him on that. It helped that they already suspected him, and there was a glass-making company next door to the crime scene, however. There was the time Abby tracked Reynosa's movements by tracking bug bites on her dead smuggler's skin... In a matter of hours... In the second-season episode "The Good Wives Club", the team got pointed in the right direction when Abby found bits of beetle exoskeleton at a crime scene in Norfolk - a species of beetle that only lives in a small region of Florida. In "My Other Left Foot", a seed found on the boot of a dead Marine gets linked to a tree near the suspect's house. More justified than many examples, since individual plants can in fact be identified by their DNA just like humans (or any other organism) can. In "Agent Afloat", the team knew to look for a suspect from American Samoa after Abby found traces of a flu virus on a murder victim, and identified it as a strain unique to Samoa.
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GPS Evidence / int_8d81f086	comment	Monk: In "Mr. Monk and the Three Pies", Adrian's brother Ambrose points out that of course Pat van Ranken's old pickup truck runs, and that it's been to a certain section of the park because it has yellow acorns in the truckbed that only grow in one spot in the park. Impressive knowledge of the local ecology, for a guy who never leaves his house. Subverted in "Mr. Monk and the Genius": Monk realizes that one of the flowers in Patrick Kloster's yard is an oleander plant, and oleander sap can be used to create a poison that imitates the symptoms of a heart attack. He takes it to Stottlemeyer as his primary evidence... only to be immediately shot down because of how common it is. Subverted (and possibly parodied) in "Mr. Monk and the Other Detective". Marty Eels, a private investigator who has a loser's reputation, shows up at a jewelry store robbery with all the answers. When the store manager's car is found abandoned on a back road, Marty finds a mosquito on the floor of the car and is able to recognize its species and genus and whatever and point out that it only appears in this one particular place in the city that the body is at. Monk and Natalie eventually determine that he had been faking it and knew where the body was the whole time, as his mother, a quality control operator, had overheard the killers bragging about their crime while on hold to buy plane tickets to flee the country, and told Marty all of the information rather than call the police and turn the guys in. Done in a Show Within a Show of "Mr. Monk and the TV Star". The CSI rip-off Crime Scene S.F. has a fictional device being used to analyze a fiber that is immediately traced to Colombia and a certain drug cartel that appears to be a recurring villain on the show. Monk is incredulous that people believe that crap. Meanwhile, his police friends don't care, even though they obviously know better, as they're happy to be consultants on the show. In "Mr. Monk and the Paperboy", Monk comes across an article in the newspaper about an unrelated murder in Paris where a woman who worked as a curator at the Bastille Prison Museum was found dead with her hands severed. Monk then calls the Paris police and tells them the murderer was her husband. Both he and the victim, his wife, were curators of the Bastille Prison Museum, and he used an old pair of handcuffs from the collection to bind her while he strangled her to death. However, he lost the key to the cuffs, and it would be ungodly obvious to the police who had killed her if her body was found with them still on, which was why he had to cut off her hands.
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GPS Evidence / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Done twice in Kim Possible, first with a rare plant that grows only around one specific waterfall, and again with a rare dog breed that comes from only one breeder in the whole world.
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GPS Evidence / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: One episode made this a little more justifiable: Batman still took a random mud sample, but rather than discovering an obscure location from which it came, he instead discovered that it was part of Clayface... and he's unique. In another episode, Batman is able to figure out where Robin's kidnappers have taken him based on the photo of him they left behind as evidence of their action. He recognizes the unique knife type and rope-making technique to a very specific area of the world. Justified as this is a test of skill fabricated by Ra's Al Ghul to evaluate Batman's detective abilities.
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GPS Evidence / int_942349dc	comment	Used a couple of times in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders. First, the actual adventure is kicked off when Star Platinum spots an insect native to Egypt in Joseph's psychic photo of Dio. Once in the country, the group acquires a photo of Dio's mansion and asks around to find its location, attracting the attention of one of Dio's henchmen who later admits to their destination being in lower Cairo. In the manga, the photo is also given to a (professional) beggar who does manage to find the mansion on his own. He's picked off by another of Dio's subordinates before the information can be relayed.
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GPS Evidence / int_968513c4	comment	Done a few times on Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? (the 1990s cartoon). In these cases, they had a bit more credibility, as the clues were often intentional hints left by Carmen for the detectives, and were usually significant enough culturally or historically to be useful: for instance, the idea that Komodo dragons are found on only one island in Indonesia.
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GPS Evidence / int_972c43d5	comment	In The King's Man, Oxford is able to find the Shepherd's hideout when he takes a cashmere scarf worn by the captured Mata Hari to the Kingsmen tailors, who identify the wool as coming from a rare breed of goat only found in a specific region of Scotland.
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GPS Evidence / int_987ae287	comment	Downplayed in Cars 2 where a special piece of evidence clues Mater into the identity of the Big Bad. After the Lemons bolt a bomb into his air filter to try and kill McQueen, he gets a "Eureka!" Moment after Guido fails to remove the bomb since they used an old brand of bolts which have an unconventional size that don't match many common tools, Mater realises that these were the same brand of bolts used by the Lemons' leader which combined with his oil-leaking incident in Japan, leads him to correctly deduce it's Sir Miles Axelrod after he threatens to blow both of them up unless he disarms the bomb.
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GPS Evidence / int_9910cc85	comment	In Disney's Mulan, Shan-Yu's falcon brings him a doll from a village to which they are en route. The doll has evidence on it â€” pine tar, a white horse hair, and sulphur from cannons â€” that tells him the location of the village and that the Imperial Army are there.
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GPS Evidence / int_998cbda3	comment	Daredevil (2015): Early in season 2, Matt locates Frank Castle's den and armory by following a blood trail left by a wounded dog he stole from the Kitchen Irish. As he's blind, he has to rely on the smell of the blood and his other senses in order to trace the route.
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GPS Evidence / int_9a38e9a0	comment	My Life Is Murder: In "Feet of Clay", Alexa identifies the killer, and then is able to provide the evidence the police need because of the dirt and leaf litter trapped in the killer's shoes that could only have been picked up at the murder scene.
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GPS Evidence / int_9d7264f	comment	In CSI: Miami, the team discovered a missing child's location by traces of a plant found only in a specific area of the Everglades.
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GPS Evidence / int_9dfa8216	comment	Done on all versions of Law & Order. In particular, the UK version has them realizing that a victim was not killed where he was buried when their forensics expert reveals that the soil samples found on the sheet he was wrapped are from different locations. With this, the detectives realize that their chief witness â€” the killer's accomplice â€” is telling the truth.
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GPS Evidence / int_a86b7660	comment	Subverted in an episode of Due South. Fraser figures out that a man involved in a case is a boxer by means of a Sherlock Scan. What makes him so certain that he trains in this particular gym? He was wearing a shirt with that gym's name and address on it.
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GPS Evidence / int_a9071945	comment	Quadriplegic Forensic Expert Lincoln Rhyme, from the Jeffrey Deaver novels, seemingly has samples of everything in the city. Most notable in The Bone Collector, where he can narrow dirt samples down to a particular building.
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GPS Evidence / int_ab3a6a48	comment	This is the point of the Police Officer's story in Heavy Rain. Once the evidence is found, the culprit can be tracked. Final evidence? Figure out the general area, then narrow things down with the evidence you've collected: the location of the owners of a particular type of car, for example, and the flower shops that sell a particular type of flower. At first, the area starts very large, but each piece of evidence narrows it down until finally, you have the last bit of evidence: a particular type of watch specifically given to police officers on their 20th year of service. And in the area you've narrowed down, there's only one police officer who's received that watch...
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GPS Evidence / int_af104bc5	comment	In Pygmalion, Henry Higgins can determine a Londoner's address down to the street name by his accent alone. The musical adaptation, My Fair Lady downplays it a bit, with Higgins only claiming a precision of "within three streets", and then only for some parts of London.
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GPS Evidence / int_b29621f3	comment	In Feet of Clay: Angua and Cheery bring some clay from a crime scene to a pottery hoping that there's lots of different kinds or something, but are disappointed to be told that "It's just clay." However, double-subverted in that they also learn where it's from in the process, and this turns out to be an important clue.
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GPS Evidence / int_b3e0e2e0	comment	In The Sum of All Fears, scientists are able to examine plutonium fragments left behind from a thermonuclear detonation and identify what reactor it came from. Which is an important clue, as everyone thought the Russians had exploded the bomb, but it had been made from American plutonium.
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GPS Evidence / int_b565ccc5	comment	Loki (2021): The Kablooie gum the Variant left as an Anachronistic Clue was sold in a limited region for a short span of years, narrowing down the Variant's hiding place.
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GPS Evidence / int_b7db5642	comment	Stranger Things: One of the plot hooks in Season 3 is a strange communication in Russian that Dustin's radio picked up. Steve realises that the call must have been sent from Hawkins, rather than to it, because the music in the background is the same as that played by the kid's amusement facilities in the mall.
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GPS Evidence / int_b9afed9a	comment	Spoofed in Superman & Batman: Generations in the chapter depicting the eponymous heroes' first meeting in 1929. Superboy uses his microscopic vision to analyze a crate for clues while Robin (Bruce Wayne) says that they can track the sender using Superboy's findings. At this point, Lois Lane names the crate's exact point of origin... by reading it off the shipping label.
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GPS Evidence / int_c4282b71	comment	In the earlier days of the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fandom, a troll started a coordinated bullying campaign against the author of Ask Princess Molestia, and later fans of the show in general for "not being 'proper' fans like she was". When said campaign went too far, and one of its followers attempted to have a naturalized citizen deported in response to his wife criticizing said campaignnote this really happened; said person won a $50,000 settlement from the person who made the bogus call to ICE, 4Chan retaliated by doxxing the troll who started it by using photos on her blog to narrow down the city she was in and then comparing selfies she took in her backyard to images taken from Google Satellite to geolocate her home address and post it online.
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GPS Evidence / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Used by the Ninth Doctor, of all people, in "World War Three." The Doctor gathers up everything the cast has learned about the Slitheen and is able to use the outer space equivalent of the trope to identify their home planet, thus their species, thus their Weaksauce Weakness.
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GPS Evidence / int_c4a5dbe1	comment	In the Bond parody Our Man Flint, Flint is able to track Galaxy to Marseilles through trace quantities of garlic, saffron and paprika left on a dart used by a Galaxy agent in a ratio that he somehow knows is only used in bouillabaisse, and only in restaurants in Marseilles.
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GPS Evidence / int_c822f1f3	comment	Jake and the Fatman: In "Rhapsody in Blue", Jake gets sticky sap stuck to the roof of his car when he visits the murder scene. Later, while talking to the garage attendant, the attendant sympathizes and says that he had to clean that sap off the car of one of the suspects twice within 24 hours. Jake realises that the suspect had returned to the scene of the crime after the legitimate visit he had told the police about.
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GPS Evidence / int_ca08598f	comment	Season 2 of The Wire revolves around the case of the dead women in a shipping container. While McNulty uses his detective skills — and the help of tide charts and a mining engineer — to prove the deaths happened within the juristiction of the Baltimore Police Department, it's less to do with solving the case than to spite his old boss. The investigation into the girls shows they come from Eastern Europe, and many of them recieved breast implants at the same clinic in Budapest, Hungary, but ultimately the leads go cold and despite his efforts, McNulty fails at his attempt to find the name of the first girl he pulled out the water.
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The Wire	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_ca08598f
GPS Evidence / int_ca298d36	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_ca298d36	comment	Star Wars: Darth Vader: Vader arranges for funds confiscated by the Empire to be "lost" in transit so he can use them to fund his own agenda. Not only does General Tagge realize the money was stolen and order Vader himself to find the one responsible, but Vader's new adjutant, Inspector Thanoth, deduces Vader was on a nearby moon at the time of the theft. How? The slight ionization of surface dust on his armor.
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GPS Evidence / int_ca298d36	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Wars: Darth Vader (Comic Book)	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_ca298d36
GPS Evidence / int_ca846d7d	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_ca846d7d	comment	Halo: Nightfall has Jamieson Locke and his fellow ONI operatives trying to determine the exact source of the primary substance used in a Covenant bioweapon that only affects humans. They are able to find out that it used a previously unrecorded heavy transuranium element that can only be found on a shard of the Halo ring that Master Chief destroyed in Halo: Combat Evolved.
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GPS Evidence / int_ca846d7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Halo: Nightfall	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_ca846d7d
GPS Evidence / int_cac1f772	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI used this in a remarkably literal sense in the episode "Fracked." GPS data from a car and cell phone played important parts in the investigation of the title case.
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GPS Evidence / int_cac1f772	featureConfidence	1.0
CSI	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_cac1f772
GPS Evidence / int_cad487df	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_cad487df	comment	In the Sushi Pack episode "But Is It Art?", while investigating a recent art theft, Kani finds a small piece of granite found only in one region along the coastal mountains. Which she identifies as such on sight.
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GPS Evidence / int_cad487df	featureConfidence	1.0
Sushi Pack	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_cad487df
GPS Evidence / int_d0c75992	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_d0c75992	comment	Subverted in Inspector Morse, when an analyst realises where and when a photo was taken. Morse is positively impressed, and asks 'how on earth did you realise that?' (or something to that effect), only to hear the obvious response: 'it's written on the back'.
GPS Evidence / int_d0c75992	featureApplicability	-0.3
GPS Evidence / int_d0c75992	featureConfidence	1.0
Inspector Morse	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_d0c75992
GPS Evidence / int_d5d98e35	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_d5d98e35	comment	Parodied in Police Squad! when Lieutenant Drebin gets a rock thrown through his window. He asks the forensics lab to find out where the rock came from and gets a geology lesson in response. Later on, Drebin confronts the thug who threw the rock, who starts giving the exact same geology lesson.
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GPS Evidence / int_d5d98e35	featureConfidence	1.0
Police Squad!	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_d5d98e35
GPS Evidence / int_d68df17d	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_d68df17d	comment	Subverted in an episode of Top Gear: The boys are having their used cars examined at a forensics lab to see how their previous owners had treated them. At one point, James tells Jeremy that the techs had discovered that his car had belonged to a Muslim man in Birmingham. Jeremy and Richard are amazed that they were able to find that out just by "squabbing the seats" until James elaborates that they had found a letter from a mosque in Birmingham in the glove box. Here's the clip.
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GPS Evidence / int_d68df17d	featureConfidence	1.0
Top Gear	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_d68df17d
GPS Evidence / int_d90810c0	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_d90810c0	comment	In White Sands, a bit of carpet fuzz on a body found in the desert is traced to the motel where he was staying.
GPS Evidence / int_d90810c0	featureApplicability	1.0
GPS Evidence / int_d90810c0	featureConfidence	1.0
White Sands	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_d90810c0
GPS Evidence / int_e5feb1e	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney: Featured in one case when it's necessary to locate a kidnapped spirit medium. The medium channels a spirit that takes note of the surroundings, and is then channeled by another medium to relay the information. Averted in that the clues are vague and not especially useful. There's also the stuffed bear, which turns out to be really, really rare. Also averted in that Gumshoe tries this trick with the electrical equipment but it doesn't work because you could get that equipment from just about any shop.
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GPS Evidence / int_e5feb1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Ace Attorney (Franchise)	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_e5feb1e
GPS Evidence / int_e6267766	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: In the book Isard's Revenge, Iella and Mirax examined a poisoned device that had been implanted in a man and had killed him. They went through computer programs to look up what planets had the facilities to make that sort of highly specific poison. Also showed up in the original Rogue Squadron, with stormtrooper corpses from an attack on their temporary base turning out to have rashes caused by a specific minor illness from the Rachuk system, and analysing the DNA showed it to be a very recent strain.
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GPS Evidence / int_e6267766	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Wars Legends (Franchise)	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_e6267766
GPS Evidence / int_eb049de6	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_eb049de6	comment	In the second film, when looking at some letters that Simza's brother Rene has sent her, Holmes and Watson notice that they are of the stock used by a printing press, and are musty, as if stored in a damp place. A wine stain on one of the sheets allows Holmes to conclude that they were from a wine cellar near a printing press, which is how they locate the anarchist leader Claude Ravache.
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GPS Evidence / int_eb049de6	featureConfidence	1.0
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_eb049de6
GPS Evidence / int_eef69f10	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_eef69f10	comment	A staple of the methods used by Sherlock Holmes. Among them, he's done studies on soil composition on a large radius from London and he can notice and identify tattoo styles from around the world and can pinpoint a perpetrator's whereabouts down to a pretty good range. Given that modern forensics owes something to Holmes (Doyle wrote about fingerprint and blood analysis years before anyone used it for real) it may be a Trope Maker.
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GPS Evidence / int_eef69f10	featureConfidence	1.0
Sherlock Holmes	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_eef69f10
GPS Evidence / int_f15f622e	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_f15f622e	comment	MacGyver (1985): In "Walking Dead", Mac is able to identify that the cult is using an abandoned dam as their base from the mixture of dried river silt and machine oil on a voodoo doll.
GPS Evidence / int_f15f622e	featureApplicability	1.0
GPS Evidence / int_f15f622e	featureConfidence	1.0
MacGyver (1985)	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_f15f622e
GPS Evidence / int_f2da188a	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_f2da188a	comment	The Batman's version of Bruce Wayne was also shown occasionally dabbling in this, including tracking down a kidnapped Ethan Bennett to a carnival hideout of the Joker's.
GPS Evidence / int_f2da188a	featureApplicability	1.0
GPS Evidence / int_f2da188a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Batman	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_f2da188a
GPS Evidence / int_f90f1b9f	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_f90f1b9f	comment	Subverted in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. Gadget performs some chemical tests on a flyer from a travel agency which is the villain's lair, and then she tells her friends the exact address. She read it on the flyer.
GPS Evidence / int_f90f1b9f	featureApplicability	-0.3
GPS Evidence / int_f90f1b9f	featureConfidence	1.0
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_f90f1b9f
GPS Evidence / int_faf84cd	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_faf84cd	comment	Parodied in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, in which Adventurer Archaeologist Beckett pinpoints the local headquarters of a secret society of vampire hunters by simply examining the hue and texture of a pinch of beach sand, the distinct yet subtle aroma of a whiff of incense, and the testimony of a vampire hunter dangled over a balcony by his ankle.
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GPS Evidence / int_faf84cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines (Video Game)	hasFeature	GPS Evidence / int_faf84cd
GPS Evidence / int_febc4d2c	type	GPS Evidence
GPS Evidence / int_febc4d2c	comment	In The Fugitive, Gerard and his men get a wiretap recording of Kimble calling his lawyer. As they listen, Henry and another marshal hear the sounds of an elevated train in the background. This helps them narrow down his location to cities with such trains. Enhancing the tape provides them with a specific city when they discover a PA system in the background announcing "Next stop: Merchandise Mart," telling Gerard and his men that Kimble is back in Chicago.
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Batman: Black and White (Comic Book) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Star Wars: Darth Vader (Comic Book) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Superman & Batman: Generations (Comic Book) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Mulan / Disney / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Ace Ventura / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Attack of the Clones / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Austin Powers / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Charlie's Angels (2000) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Clear and Present Danger / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Die Hard with a Vengeance / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Doctor X / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Fast & Furious / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Force of Nature: The Dry 2 / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Minority Report / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Moonraker / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Our Man Flint / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Pineapple Express / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Ready Player One (2018) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Sherlock Holmes (2009) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Skyfall / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Snakes on a Plane / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
The Baker Street Dozen / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
The Bone Collector / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
The Fugitive / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
The King's Man / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
The Naked Gun / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
White Sands / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Basil of Baker Street / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Dr. Thorndyke / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Lincoln Rhyme / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Nemesis Series / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Room / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
The Pledge / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Worm / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
SupermanAndBatmanGenerations	seeAlso	GPS Evidence
CSI / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Columbo / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
DCI Banks / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Furuhata Ninzaburo / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Hannibal / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Jake and the Fatman / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
MacGyver (1985) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
MonkTropesF-J	seeAlso	GPS Evidence
My Life Is Murder / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Quincy, M.E. / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Rizzoli & Isles / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Silent Witness / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Street Hawk / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Pygmalion (Theatre) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Star Fox Command (Video Game) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
The Testament of Sherlock Holmes (Video Game) / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Hotel Transylvania / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Superman: The Animated Series / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
The Great Mouse Detective / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Young Justice - Original Series / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence

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