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Going in Circles
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The characters take a recommended short cut or are traveling through uncharted territory. After a while a character will see a notable marking, and point out that they passed one just like it half an hour ago, and an hour before that... When normal people get lost, it tends to be a gradual realization. But having a group suddenly realize they're at a landmark they passed earlier allows one moment of despair at being lost, and quite definitely no closer to their goal. It can also imply that something weird is going on. Occasionally it won't be a landmark, but a set of footprints. Either the presence of footprints where you wouldn't expect anyone else, or the revelation that a character is following his own trail. Compare Unnaturally Looping Location, Hot on His Own Trail. See also Wraparound Background, where the appearance of this is used to save on animation; the two tropes can overlap, usually if lampshaded or referenced. |
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Finding Nemo: "Okay, I've definitely seen this speck of dust before." | |
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In Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld Doraemon and gang made it (barely) to the Demon Planet's surface, and tries navigating their way through the demon plains to locate Demon Lord Demaon's fortress. They pass a demon skeleton along the way (with Doraemon remarking "even demons are vulnerable") and spend most of the day traveling, but fail to reach the fortress even until nightfall. It was then they suddenly come across the same skeleton again, at which point they realize the plains are an Eldritch Location which is alive - they've utterly wasted their journey going back to where they started. | |
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Naruto has a variation where recognizing a tree makes the group realize that they are in a genjutsu (illusion). | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Fighter insists that they can't be lost, as he's been following the tracks of two guys, a big guy in armor and a small guy in a robe. Black Mage quickly points out the problem with this logic. | |
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Haunter: When Lisa can't take it anymore, she tries to leave the house on her bike, only to end up back at the house each time. | |
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Desert Nights: Jewel thieves Steve and Diana rob a diamond mine, kidnap Hugh the mine foreman, and make their escape into the desert. They run out of water and start to get desperate, before Hugh finally leads them to an oasis. Steve pulls a gun, takes all the diamonds, and follows the stream trickling out of the oasis—and winds up right back at the diamond mine, to his shock. It turns out that Hugh deliberately led them in a circle through the desert. | |
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Franklin: In "Franklin is Lost,", Franklin and Fox get lost in a forest. They try to get out, only to end up circling right back to where they started. They then decide it's best to stay right where they are until someone comes looking for them. | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master: Freddy has the Final Girl running in circles as he stalks another victim, which gives the Final Girl's boyfriend a sense of déjà vu. | |
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In Open Season, Boog realizes that Elliot has been leading him around in circles when he sees the same animals he met before. Elliot corrects him: "Circle. One time around." | |
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In the Alice Isn't Dead episode, "Alice," this is a power of mobile Vanishing Village Charlatan, which appears four times in different locations, forcing the long-haul trucker Character Narrator to drive through it to bear witness to an increasingly disturbing, physics-defying "Groundhog Day" Loop. | |
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Worlds 4-4 and 7-4 in Super Mario Bros. will keep repeating unless Mario finds the correct route. | |
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The X-Files: Used in a Christmas episode. Mulder and Scully are investigating a haunted mansion and find themselves in a room where the only door leads into the same room. | |
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Long Weekend: When Peter and Marcia are trying find Lunda Beach, Marcia's tells him they are driving in circles, as they've passed the same tree multiple times. Later, when Peter is attempting to escape he beach, he stops to refill the car's rank and drops the empty fuel can by the side of the track. He drives off, but a few minutes later her finds himself driving past the bright orange fuel can. | |
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Doraemon films: In Doraemon: Nobita's Great Adventure into the Underworld Doraemon and gang made it (barely) to the Demon Planet's surface, and tries navigating their way through the demon plains to locate Demon Lord Demaon's fortress. They pass a demon skeleton along the way (with Doraemon remarking "even demons are vulnerable") and spend most of the day traveling, but fail to reach the fortress even until nightfall. It was then they suddenly come across the same skeleton again, at which point they realize the plains are an Eldritch Location which is alive - they've utterly wasted their journey going back to where they started. Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth have this happening to Nobita, Shizuka and their friends Sapio and Tap in the middle of the titular labyrinth, when their gadget guide-mouse gets unexpectedly destroyed when they're in the heart of the maze. Sapio decides to use his memory to lead everyone out, but after walking for some hours Nobita remarks the checkpoint they're passing through looks familiar. Sapio then responds in horror that it is the exact checkpoint - they've been wandering around and got back where they started. |
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In the Lucky Star OVA, while the main four are on a school camp, Konata forgets the compass and takes the gang on a detour, leaving them lost and causing Miyuki to remark that they seem to be Going in Circles. | |
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Chapito in Grim Fandango uses the moon to navigate when he's underwater, and keeps encountering shipwrecks with Manny and Glottis. | |
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In Uzumaki, when Kirie and the others escape from Kurozu-Cho and head into the spiral infested forest, they find themselves face to face another group that had escaped as well, but had gone a different way. They soon realize that they've gone in circles. | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Where Silence Has Lease", an entity called Nagilum has Worf and Riker going in circles from one bridge on a phantom Enterprise into the same bridge. Earlier in the episode, the Enterprise crew tries to fly the ship out of the void they find themselves in, only to end up back at their starting position each time. Star Trek: Voyager: In "The Fight", beacons are being released as a tech-Trail of Bread Crumbs to help Voyager navigate its way out of Chaotic Space, only the ship runs into the first beacon they released an hour earlier. |
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Warehouse 13: One episode has three main characters trapped in a house where every exit leads back into the house. | |
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In the Lunar Diplomacy quest in RuneScape, the ship is jinxed so that it will sail in circles. Cleaning off the symbol removes the curse. | |
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In one Knights of the Dinner Table story, the party repeatedly falls into a spiked-pit trap. They eventually figure out that it's the same spiked-pit trap, and that they keep returning to it because of Dave's incompetent mapping. | |
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In Jungle, Yossi finds a fresh boot print in the mud and is ecstatic because he thinks he must be close to another person. Then he sees the shells from the eggs he had eaten earlier and checks the print against his own boot. He then breaks down as he realizes he has been walking in a circle. | |
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Nyx Crossing has the characters notice it in episode 2. | |
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Happens in Shrek 2, though a bit of a Subverted Trope as King Harold purposefully gave Shrek and Donkey bad instructions so they’d get lost in the woods with the Ogre Killer. | |
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Happens in the camping episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius. | |
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Zigby: Happens to Zigby the zebra and his friends in "Zigby's Kite". | |
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One Piece: During the Skypiea arc, "it was on the right side of the map" Zoro ends up right back where he started at the sacrificial altar. After a bit of back and forth regarding whether he's been there before, he finally decides that this "new place" just looks the same as the old one and shrugs it off. | |
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Happened in the Futurama episode "Neutopia". | |
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Some Bible students believe God purposely led the Israelites around the same mountain over and over until most of the generation that came out of Egypt, those twenty and older that refused to enter into the Promised Land due to unbelief, had died in the wilderness, and when there was only Moses, Joshua, and Caleb left, God told them to start moving to the Promised Land, with Moses being the one who would die before the others would enter in. | |
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The Partridge Family: When Keith, Danny, and Reuben get lost during the Camping Episode, Danny starts hanging his socks and underwear on the branches to mark their path. Eventually Reuben finds some of his clothes and realizes they've been walking in a big circle. They start screaming for help and are rescued by Shirley and Laurie, followed by a troop of girl scouts, who inform them that they were only a few dozen yards away from their lodge. | |
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One unlucky character in Frogs flees from a rattlesnake by heading off the path into the swamp, slogs through leech-infested mud for a while, then winds up right back on the same path where the same snake is waiting. | |
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The Monkees episode "Monkees Marooned": | |
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The Edge: Despite keeping the same peak ahead of themselves and crossing over a very prominent ridge, the main characters still end up right back where they started somehow. | |
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Dark Crisis: In Dark Crisis: The Deadly Green, Jon Kent, Swamp Thing, and Raven are trying to contact the Great Darkness via a Mental World in Alan Scott's ring resembling 1940s Gotham. Raven is supposed to be the guide due to her connection to darkness, but when they pass the same car several times, the other two realise they're going in circles, and increased paranoia due to the Great Darkness's influence makes them suspect she's leading them astray on purpose. It turns out she was leading them directly to the Darkness in a straight line, it just looked like they were going in circles because Alan was unconciously turning it into an Unnaturally Looping Location as his mind tried to protect itself from what they were seeking. | |
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Lampshaded in a Cartoon Network music video featuring Fred and Barney going past the same scenery multiple times (and commenting on it in subtitles). The song? "Circles" by Soul Coughing. Due to the cost-cutting techniques of many Hanna-Barbera cartoons, the same background would loop as characters walked from point A to B. |
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Spriggan. While in the Forest of No Return, there's a montage where Yu and the others carve a notch on the tree—cut to them running into the same notch, then several notches later ending right back where they started. Even GPS trackers and compasses are shown not to work. | |
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—And He Built a Crooked House—: The tesseract case was born in Robert A. Heinlein's story. In this case, one of the main characters winds up chasing himself around the entire tesseract several times before retrieving his own dropped hat and realizing what's happened. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "What Lies Beneath", Smolder is trying very hard to avoid the cave of the Stepford ponies, but every time she ventures in the tunnels they invariably bring her back to the same spot. "Student Counsel": In the Everfree Forest, the search party is quickly seen passing over and over on the same spots, from trusting Trixie to know where she was going, while from her own admission she was winging it. |
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In the classic Doctor Who story "Logopolis", the city begins to "fold" in upon itself when its underlying mathematics is disrupted, with streets on one side of the map feeding back into those on the other side. | |
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The Mythbusters tested this, with both Adam and Jaime attempting to walk a straight line in an open field while blindfolded. Both failed miserably. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita and the Tin Labyrinth have this happening to Nobita, Shizuka and their friends Sapio and Tap in the middle of the titular labyrinth, when their gadget guide-mouse gets unexpectedly destroyed when they're in the heart of the maze. Sapio decides to use his memory to lead everyone out, but after walking for some hours Nobita remarks the checkpoint they're passing through looks familiar. Sapio then responds in horror that it is the exact checkpoint - they've been wandering around and got back where they started. | |
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In The Avengers (1998), a drugged Emma Peel is running through the Big Bad's mansion and notices that she has run through the same room twice. She throws down a vase, breaking it, and continues running. When she runs into the room again and sees the broken vase on the floor, she knows she is trapped inside a tesseract. A variation on the original The Avengers (1960s) episode "The House that Jack Built". | |
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The Blair Witch Project pulls this off nicely. The three kids start to worry that something has them going in complete circles despite the fact that they've been heading south all day (especially confusing and creepy since they have been confirming their southerly progress all day with a compass). The directors pulled this on the cast by giving them specific directions to follow each day; one day, the directions led them in a complete circle. | |
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The Legend of Korra does this humorously in Darkness Falls with Tenzin, Bumi and Kya lost in the Spirit World. | |
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Winnie the Pooh Pooh and Piglet follow their own tracks around a tree and decide that the footprints were made by woozles. Rabbit's plan to lose Tigger in the mist results in Rabbit, Pooh, and Piglet getting lost and repeatedly finding a pit. |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In "The Fight", beacons are being released as a tech-Trail of Bread Crumbs to help Voyager navigate its way out of Chaotic Space, only the ship runs into the first beacon they released an hour earlier. | |
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In Tarnsman of Gor, the first book of the series, Tarl Cabot runs away in terror from a clearing where he had made camp, but ends up back at the same spot just before a spaceship picks him up to take him to Gor. | |
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A three-dimensional version in Grave Encounters, in which characters not only keep Going in Circles as they're lost within the haunted asylum, but find themselves on the ground floor after ascending multiple stairwells in an attempt to reach the roof. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: "Where Silence Has Lease", an entity called Nagilum has Worf and Riker going in circles from one bridge on a phantom Enterprise into the same bridge. Earlier in the episode, the Enterprise crew tries to fly the ship out of the void they find themselves in, only to end up back at their starting position each time. | |
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