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Needle in a Stack of Needles

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Needle in a Stack of Needles	comment	It's sometimes said the best place to hide something is in plain sight. But suppose that logic won't work — the object you're trying to hide happens to be something that would stand out no matter where you put it. How do you hide such a thing? Why, by making about a thousand duplicates and hiding it amongst them! It'll be nigh-impossible for future treasure hunters to figure out which is the right one. They don't have to be exact copies, either: So long as there are too many to go through, the object is completely safe. This kind of challenge is set up so characters can demonstrate their intellect rather than physical prowess. Figuring out the clue to deduce which is the real MacGuffin may be a Secret Test of Character. Or perhaps a test of lateral thinking —there is often a way to Cut The Knot. A variation on Hidden in Plain Sight. DoppelgÃ¤nger Spin is this tactic applied to battle. For hiding people, the equivalents are Lost in a Crowd, I Am Spartacus, or the Ringer Ploy. Pixel Hunt is the video game equivalent. Compare and contrast 12 Coins Puzzle; of twelve coins, one weighs differently than the rest; you have three or fewer weightings to determine which. Shell Game is when a stack of needles is made while a witness watches. Serial Killings, Specific Target is when the 'needle' that's being hidden is a specific murder amongst what appears to be the work of a serial killer. Decoy Convoy is when the "needle" is hidden in separate transports. Wire Dilemma is when the "needle" is a specific wire in a nest of wiring, and Key Confusion is the key version. See also Invisible Subtle Difference.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_11859033	comment	In Narbonic, when Dave (in the appearance of Professor Madblood) is trapped on Professor Madblood's moon base, he tries to hide out in Madblood's hanger of 15000 robotic duplicates of himself. The real Madblood comes up with a very direct way of dealing with the problem:
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_11acfa31	comment	In The General, Johnnie loses a shoe as he's about to sneak into a Union encampment with his girlfriend in a sack. Thing is, it was originally a sack of shoes before he talked her into getting in and he'd just poured them all over the ground.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_1212c9a3	comment	"Little Lost Robot": An NS-2 model robot is told to "go lose yourself" by an angry engineer, so it hides within a shipment of 62 other NS-2 robots. Dr Susan Calvin is angry upon learning that this particular lost robot had their First Law modified to allow Murder by Inaction. She conducts several tests of the 63 Nestor robots, finally tricking the lost robot into revealing itself because it could tell lethal radiation from non-lethal due to experience, and is suckered by an IR hazard that Dr Calvin knew the others would see as gamma rays.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_13665790	comment	Proving this trope doesn't take a genius to come up with, the drugged-out troll Brick hides from the Watch and the troll Mafia by tagging along with a bunch of other gutter-trolls in Thud!.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_1484a16e	comment	In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry has to find the right key from amongst a group of flying keys. Ron deduces it should be similar to the handle on the door, and Harry spots it amongst the rest, noticing it has a broken wing, as it had been caught by Quirrell when he passed through.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_16fc4335	comment	In Winds of Fury of the Heralds of Valdemar series, freshly minted Herald-Mage Elspeth leads a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits into the lands of their archenemy, Hardorn, in an attempt to assassinate the nation's leaders before their armies overrun Valdemar. They conceal their extremely out-of-place appearances by posing as members of a wandering carnival. They cite an "ancient Shin'a'in proverb" in doing so — "Where do you hide a red fish? In a pond full of red fish."
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_1785d9d5	comment	Brother Cadfael: In one of the first cases Cadfael investigates, a murder victim is left among 94 prisoners that King Stephen has ordered hung for treason, presumably in hope that nobody will count them.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_1869a077	comment	Samurai Jack: In "Jack vs Aku", Jack and Aku agree to a one-on-one fair fight with no swords or magic. Aku, of course, cheats and uses magic. But Jack expected he would cheat and hid his sword on the battlefield in case he needed it to even the odds. But Aku expected Jack would expect he would cheat so he had his Mooks find the sword and take it away. But Jack expected that and planted dozens of fake swords all over the battlefield. But Aku expected that and made sure his Mooks found every last sword. But Jack expected that and buried his real sword underground where Aku wouldn't think to look.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_1a044a10	comment	In Return to Oz, there's a scene where Dorothy had to rescue the Scarecrow (and her friends who'd previously failed the test), who'd been turned into an ornament - in a large room filled with various ornaments. And if she picked the wrong one three times, she'd get turned into an ornament too. The clue was that the correct objects were all green.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_1cc09117	comment	In Bleach, for Ichigo's training to learn bankai, he must find his zanpakuto amongst a field of hundreds of other zanpakuto, which shatter immediately if he tries to use them to defend himself against the manifestation of his zanpakuto spirit that is attacking him. However, they're all of wildly different shapes, and one of the first that Ichigo picks looks exactly like his real one... and it immediately breaks. It was a manifestation of him depending too much on Zangetsu.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_1f72b18d	comment	A Tom and Jerry cartoon, taking place in a toy store, has Jerry hiding among a pile of lookalike mouse dolls. All Tom can do is pull each mouse's tail to see which one screams in pain instead of saying "Mama".
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2170eb0a	comment	At the beginning of Deathly Hallows, the Order has to transport Harry safely from the Dursleys' to the Burrow. They have six Order members take Polyjuice Potion, turning them into exact replicas of Harry, so that when the Death Eaters attack they'll be unable to tell which is the real Harry. The Death Eaters discover him fairly easily; all they had to do was focus their attack on a random replica; they knew from repeated experience that the professionals who volunteered for the scheme are dedicated to the ruse, but the real Harry would Stop to Help.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: "To What End?" had a killer disguised as a clown to perform a murder, and when he fled the scene, it turned out he'd hired a bunch of other clowns to dress up like him and hang out around the scene of the crime. Invoked by Sheldon Hawkes in another episode. "With a constantly changing IP address, we're looking for a needle in a stack of needles."
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_22c403ac	comment	In Erstwhile, the husband has to identify his wife among three flowers, all identical. She had visited him the night before to tell him how he could rescue her, and so had no dew on her.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_22dfb2a	comment	Level 2 of the All Dogs Go to Heaven computer game has Charlie's watch floating along the top of the screen with several other identical watches, with Charlie having to grab the right one while the Whippet's back is turned. The level ends once he does.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_247422c7	comment	In the Honorverse Houdini is the plan for the Mesan Alignment to disappear. When it needs to be accelerated, a campaign of terror begins to hide the people disappearing in massive terror attacks, killing thousands each incident to cover the removal of their people. It works out to something like a few hundred civilian deaths per evacuee.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_24e41891	comment	Dexter: In Season 3, after having killed a man in front of Prado, Dexter lies to him, telling him he hid the body a foot underneath the soil...in a freshly-dug grave at a local cemetery. In Season 4, after the police piece together what the Trinity Killer must look like:
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_24f8c6a	comment	Tea with the Black Dragon, part of the plot involves a document the villains want to get their hands on because it details their wrong-doings. It turns out that, in addition to the physical document, there is an electronic back-up copy — saved on the villain's own receptionist's office computer, hidden among the boring documents of the office's day-to-day operations.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_261c8d3f	comment	In The Simpsons episode "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds," Mr. Burns is going to skin a bunch of Santa's Little Helper's puppies except for one, who stands up on his hind legs. Lisa uses Bart's socks (which the puppies love to tear up) to get all the puppies to stand up on their hind legs, in order to save them from Mr. Burns.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_26744f7f	comment	Ted tries to hide from Donny at New York Comic Con by standing motionless in a group of identical teddy bear dolls. Donny manages to flush him out by singing "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond so that Ted will instinctively sing the "bum-bum-bum" part.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2675c915	comment	One episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. starts with a group of guards dressed identically and all wearing red masks while carrying identical briefcases to protect a shipment of diamonds. It doesn't work because the one tracking them has X-Ray Vision, and thus can see which of the needles is the right one to target.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_295048d5	comment	Bloodborne pulls a similar trick as Dark Souls 2 with the Celestial Emissary. The boss is flanked by a whole bunch of Celestial Minions that look identical to it, and while they all die easily, more will just keep spawning in. The only thing that differentiates the Emissary from the Minions is that it doesn't charge in and attack you, preferring to stay in the back. But once you do enough damage to it, it grows larger and becomes more willing to inflict violence on you.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2a04866b	comment	In Guild Wars, the lair of the ancient dragon, Glint, is hidden inside a single grain of crystalline sand, in what is aptly known as the Crystal Desert. While it might be possible to find that grain and magic your way inside, finding a portal inside a specific ruin is much faster.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2a8943c0	comment	Miraculous Ladybug: In "Simon Says", Simon's akuma is located inside one of the cards in his deck. After futily ripping up cards at random, the heroes eventually just resort to destroying the whole deck at once. In "Sapotis", the titular Sapotis are imps that double each time they eat something. Their akuma is in their propeller hat and Ladybug knows that from the off, but they're all identical and grow in number so quickly that finding the real one soon becomes impossible; destroying the fakes only takes out that one copy. She ultimately rigs a contraption to gather all their hats up into a trash can and has Cat Noir Cataclysm it to destroy them all at once. The namesake Monster of the Week of "Gorizilla" has a strong sense of smell and uses it to look for Adrien Agreste. Once one of Adrien's fans neutralize the sense of smell, it's hard to locate him among the several billboards featuring him. In "Reflekdoll", Tikki and Plagg have to find Marinette and Adrien, respectively, after the two have been transformed into physical copies of the villain Reflekta, along with dozens of civilians. This leads to Swapped Roles when Plagg happens upon Marinette first, and she rolls with it rather than wait for Tikki to find her.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2ab52cee	comment	The ABC Murders is built around this trope: the murderer commits four letter-themed serial killings to hide his true target and thus his motives. Poirot even lampshades the use of the trope: Another Hercule Poirot story, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim, has the villain and titular character pull this. After embezzling from your bank, robbing your own safe, and framing someone for the robbery and your own disappearance, where does a criminal hide? In prison.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2ba48a26	comment	Occurs in the pilot episode of Castle, with a lampshade from Castle about why criminals use this trope. Another episode had a little girl's kidnapper give specific instructions on the backpack the ransom is to be left in. Esposito tackles the first person he sees with said backpack, but it's full of tissue paper. Then they see that almost everyone in the area has one. It turns out the kidnapper had posted online about a flash mob, enticing unwitting strangers to create the needle stack.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2bafb6dc	comment	In The Wrong Mans, Phil thinks he's found the missing musical box he's looking for only to turn around and realise the room is filled with a collection of musical boxes, they're all different but as he doesn't know what the one he needs actually looks like, he's stumped.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2bbcacd9	comment	In a 1980s Looney Tunes TV special, Daffy Duck and Sylvester wanted to hide a golden egg for safekeeping, so Daffy painted it white and hid it among some ordinary eggs. This wasn't such a bright idea.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2d71a0a7	comment	Off the Line: Cloud uses an enchanted necklace that turns him into a woman to hide from bounty hunters and visit a city in peace. It works because the Viera are mostly female and Cloud stands out for being the only male Viera in Gaia Online. While this works for a while, it backfires after Cloud gets caught because bounty hunters start killing Viera women because one of them could be Cloud in disguise.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2dc12aeb	comment	In NetHack, when running to the Astral Plane with the Amulet of Yendor, be sure not to confuse it for one of many Cheap Plastic Imitations of the Amulet of Yendor. There are a few easy ways to tell it apart. The genuine amulet cannot be placed in a container, and a plastic imitation is revealed by the "Identify" spell. The standard way to tell it apart is to name it the moment you get it.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	In Part II of the Justice League Season Finale "Starcrossed", Batman and Wonder Woman are supposed to lay low from the Thanagarians as they rendezvous with the rest of the League, but they expose themselves anyway trying to save a couple of bystanders. Fortunately, a restaurant owner urges them to seek shelter at his place. When the soldiers in pursuit arrives, they give a vague description of their quarry ("a dark-haired man and woman"), but the restaurant owner asks him to be more specific, since almost everyone in his restaurant fits said descriptions.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2e3e7ac2	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2e3e7ac2	featureConfidence	1.0
Justice League	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2e3e7ac2
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2f9517bf	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2f9517bf	comment	Used by Jasdero and Devit in D.Gray-Man while they were screwing with the exorcists on the Ark. During the initial fight, they dropped the key to the door leading deeper in- so Jasdevi materialized enough keys to cover the entire floor of the room. However, Lavi has a Photographic Memory and eventually picked it out by the patterns of wear.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2f9517bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2f9517bf	featureConfidence	1.0
D.Gray-Man (Manga)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_2f9517bf
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_304d4028	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_304d4028	comment	In the Spirou & Fantasio book "Yellow-Horned Rhinoceros", the duo is tasked to find a microfilm containing a prototype supercar schematic. The duo learns that the man who had it gave it to an African tribal chief, who bored a random rhino's horn, put the microfilm in there, and... released it back to the wild, amongst thousands of other rhinos out there. The eponymous yellow-horned rhinos are results of the duo's attempt to identify which rhinos they had tranq'ed, examined, and marked off.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_304d4028	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_304d4028	featureConfidence	1.0
Spirou & Fantasio (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_304d4028
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_32483a45	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_32483a45	comment	MirrorMask - the heroes have the key to the box containing the eponymous MacGuffin. But there are thousands of boxes there, with no way of knowing which one is correct. Without any better ideas, one of them simply brute-forces the puzzle. Too bad the MacGuffin was already taken by someone else.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_32483a45	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_32483a45	featureConfidence	1.0
MirrorMask	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_32483a45
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_336a5711	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_336a5711	comment	In the Season 2 finale of BBC's Luther, the numbers in a notebook turn out to be The Book Cipher used to communicate between two killers. This gives the police an Oh, Crap! moment when the suspect's Room Full of Crazy turns out to be full of books. But as any book used must not only be the same title but also the same edition, Luther realises this collection of secondhand books can't be the one used for the cipher. It's a Gideon's bible that the killers could find in any hotel room if needed.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_336a5711	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_336a5711	featureConfidence	1.0
Luther	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_336a5711
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_341c02e9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_341c02e9	comment	Batman Begins: When constructing Batman's distinctive cowl, Alfred suggests ordering the parts separately, each from a different overseas company, in batches of thousands to avert suspicion that it's a custom order.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_341c02e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_341c02e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman Begins	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_341c02e9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_34a70b48	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_34a70b48	comment	In the climax of Batman Forever, when Two-Face corners Batman, Robin, and Dr. Chase on a beam, Batman convinces him to flip his Two-Headed Coin before deciding to shoot them, before throwing a handful of similar coins into the air. In trying to catch all the coins at once, Two-Face lost his balance and fell into Riddler's watery pit. This is similar to how Batman (non-fatally) defeated in their first encounter in the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Two-Face: Part II" (see Western Animation).
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_34a70b48	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_34a70b48	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman Forever	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_34a70b48
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3549533	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3549533	comment	An early film example is in Shall We Dance? (1937): In Peter's show, all the Chorus Girls wear masks with his lost love Linda's face. Linda sneaks in among them and dances with him for the finale.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3549533	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3549533	featureConfidence	1.0
Shall We Dance	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3549533
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3558eaa2	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3558eaa2	comment	In Community the plan to grift Professor of Grifting De Salvo involves dozens of identical briefcases filled with fake money and one with real money. Disdainful of their grifting abilities, he complains that there's no point to this element, as the real briefcase was just taken away and isn't hidden among the fakes. On the other hand, it did frustrate him further, and due to his class requiring students to buy two $150 "standard-issue grifting briefcases", they did have a lot of identical briefcases filled with fake money already on hand.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3558eaa2	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3558eaa2	featureConfidence	1.0
Community	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3558eaa2
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_36151c14	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_36151c14	comment	A similar stunt was used by some thieves in the new Hawaii Five-0: knowing that there'd be video surveillance of the area where they heisted an armoured car, they dressed in painter coveralls and wore breath masks, having previously advertised for painters to show up at that location for a potential job with coveralls and masks.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_36151c14	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_36151c14	featureConfidence	1.0
Hawaii Five-0	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_36151c14
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_375da5af	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_375da5af	comment	In E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, the title character, who is a cute but not very human alien lifeform, hides in a pile of stuffed animals.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_375da5af	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_375da5af	featureConfidence	1.0
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_375da5af
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_377e6a9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_377e6a9	comment	Some maps in Prop Hunt allow for this strategy. Taken to the extreme in the 'blue barrel room' map. Which, as the name suggests, is a large room filled with nothing but identical blue barrels for players to hide themselves amongst.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_377e6a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_377e6a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Prop Hunt (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_377e6a9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_39492052	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_39492052	comment	The Adventures Of Dr Mcninja: In "First Generation Ninja American", the protagonist, while still a child, goes on his first assassination assignment with his grandfather. He needs to get to a place where a children's party is being held without being noticed. They arrange this by making it so it's a ninja-themed party, so another child in a ninja outfit and even armed as a ninja goes unnoticed.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_39492052	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_39492052	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_39492052
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3b34143f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3b34143f	comment	Harry Potter likes this trope: In Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry has to find the right key from amongst a group of flying keys. Ron deduces it should be similar to the handle on the door, and Harry spots it amongst the rest, noticing it has a broken wing, as it had been caught by Quirrell when he passed through. At the beginning of Deathly Hallows, the Order has to transport Harry safely from the Dursleys' to the Burrow. They have six Order members take Polyjuice Potion, turning them into exact replicas of Harry, so that when the Death Eaters attack they'll be unable to tell which is the real Harry. The Death Eaters discover him fairly easily; all they had to do was focus their attack on a random replica; they knew from repeated experience that the professionals who volunteered for the scheme are dedicated to the ruse, but the real Harry would Stop to Help. Also in Deathly Hallows, one of the Horcruxes is enchanted to create burning hot duplicates of itself every time it's touched. The duplicates themselves are similarly enchanted so that touching the cup sets off a chain reaction that buries the thief alive in burning hot cups. Everything in the room is enchanted to burn and multiply if touched, which makes it all the worse. This is the reason Harry gives to not go back and try to "properly" hide the Resurrection Stone once all is said and done. As he dropped it in the middle of a forest on the way to his duel with Voldemort, it's just one pebble amongst countless others, and he wouldn't be able to find it himself. Defied with the Horcruxes. It was noted how all Voldemort had to do was just do this trope when making them and he would have been invincible, but his pride wouldn't allow him to make them just some mundane object.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3b34143f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3b34143f	featureConfidence	1.0
Harry Potter	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3b34143f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3bfac359	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3bfac359	comment	On "The Wind in the Willows" segment of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Toad and his friends need to take the deed to Toad Hall away from Mr. Winkie and his weasel henchmen. As Winky and the weasels chase after the deed, which has been made into a paper airplane, Toad throws more decoy paper planes to throw them off the trail while he pockets the real deed.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3bfac359	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3bfac359	featureConfidence	1.0
The Wind in the Willows	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3bfac359
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3fbd173e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3fbd173e	comment	Freefall: Pointed out by Florence in this comic. Also, 2001 crickets? Talk about bugs in the security system! As a result, the real alarm that's raised when he barges into an off-limits facility is silenced with all the others. Invoked by Florence to hide the programming modifications she developed to block the Gardner in the Dark program from wiping out the robot population, by including her programs with a bunch of other patches and updates that were set to be installed anyway.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3fbd173e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3fbd173e	featureConfidence	1.0
Freefall (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_3fbd173e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_404622d6	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_404622d6	comment	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: In "A Sight For Sore Eyes", the gang tries to help a multi-eyed friend named Ivan find his creator, whom he gives a vague description of until he remembers that he was wearing a pointy hat when he last saw him. Unfortunately, it was at a birthday party. In "Bloooo", Frankie is outside the house trying to avoid an apparently dangerous character and drops her key. However, the key landed in a pile of dozens of keys (that Wilt, Eduardo, and Coco threw out the window earlier) and Frankie has to find her key before she's spotted by her stalker. In "Emancipation Complication", Li'l Lincoln, a pen-shaped imaginary friend tricks Madame Foster into selling all the imaginary friends so he can turn Foster's into a casino. When Frankie, Mr. Herriman and Mac try to stop him, Li'l Lincoln's partner Moose locks them in a closet. Bloo breaks into Foster's in search of a pair of batteries for his handheld game, inadvertently saving Frankie, Mr. Herriman and Mac in the process. At one point, Bloo tosses a box of pens onto the floor, and Li'l Lincoln falls into the pile of pens. Frankie, Mr. Herriman and Mac then try to find Li'l Lincoln before Moose does.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_404622d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_404622d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_404622d6
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4091eb35	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4091eb35	comment	In After the Funeral (or Funerals are Fatal), the Abernethie family gathers after the death of patriarch Richard. Everyone believes that he died of natural causes, but Cora Lansquenet, his eccentric sister, comments offhand that "He was murdered, wasn't he?" The next day, Cora is found murdered herself, and it seems like the killer is on the trail of anyone who knows too much about the plot; various other attacks on family members, plus their own suspicious secrets getting out, lend credence to this theory. Hercule Poirot eventually realizes that the "Cora" at the funeral was actually Mrs. Gilchrist, the real Cora's housekeeper, who planned to murder her employer to get her hands on a rare painting that she'd inadvertently acquired without realizing its value. Richard actually did die naturally—Mrs. Gilchrist assumed the Cora disguise to trick everyone into thinking a murderer was on the loose, with Cora's death glossed over as part of the chain.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4091eb35	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4091eb35	featureConfidence	1.0
After the Funeral	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4091eb35
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_40b4d50d	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_40b4d50d	comment	Father Brown: In "The Sign of the Broken Sword", a corpse was hidden on a battlefield - one where a battle was staged solely to hide the corpse. This was then referenced by Neil Gaiman in American Gods. Chesterton uses the trope earlier in "The Flying Stars", with a diamond hidden among many paste diamonds (referred to in the above conversation), and again in "Pond the Pantaloon" (not a Father Brown story) with a brown paper parcel hidden among numerous similar parcels.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_40b4d50d	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_40b4d50d	featureConfidence	1.0
Father Brown	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_40b4d50d
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_427ae18f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_427ae18f	comment	Also happened the same way in "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" with Ali Baba's door.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_427ae18f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_427ae18f	featureConfidence	1.0
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_427ae18f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43576f5	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43576f5	comment	Used by name in Supernatural when talking about looking for cursed objects which, of course, look exactly like regular objects. In the episode "The Mentalists", when the heroes have to find a real psychic in a whole town of phonies, Dean states that "It's like searching for a needle in a stack of fake needles." In the seventh season finale "Survival of the Fittest", Sam and Dean finally get the means to kill leviathans. The problem? It only works once, so they have to use it on the boss leviathan. Upon learning this, said boss leviathan has several dozen or so of his underlings assume the same form as he does. However, he fails to account for the angel Castiel, who can perceive the leviathan's true form and, as a result of having briefly shared a body with them, knows which one is the Big Bad.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43576f5	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43576f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Supernatural	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43576f5
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43f52aa9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43f52aa9	comment	Invoked and subverted in Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion. In one quest, you're tasked with stopping several treasure hunters convinced they've found a ruin filled with riches when they've really stumbled into the fringes of the Realm of Madness. In one room, they are set before a giant cage filled with riches with a big, obvious lock. The "Manic" solution here is to dump thousands of identical keys in front of them but, since this is just a trap, none of them will actually open the cage. One of the adventurers will start frantically searching through the pile of keys to get the treasure and their obsession with finding the "right" one will drive them completely insane before their companion gives up and leaves without them. Fun stuff.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43f52aa9	featureApplicability	-0.3
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43f52aa9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_43f52aa9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_44e08ee8	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_44e08ee8	comment	Happens by accident on Homicide: Life on the Street, when a murdered body is left in the morgue by a killer, and the incongruity isn't noticed for hours because no one thought to check how many bodies were supposed to be there. Turns out the killer hadn't even realized the victim was fatally injured and had laid the soon-to-be-corpse (his cousin) on a handy table to recuperate after they'd fought, then gone home.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_44e08ee8	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_44e08ee8	featureConfidence	1.0
Homicide: Life on the Street	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_44e08ee8
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_468bebb0	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Wyrd Sisters, the Royal Crown of Lancre is hidden in a theatre props box full of stage crowns. In Witches Abroad, both Granny and her sister are shown a whole bunch of reflections and are told they have to find the real one. The sister runs among them. Granny says — herself. Proving this trope doesn't take a genius to come up with, the drugged-out troll Brick hides from the Watch and the troll Mafia by tagging along with a bunch of other gutter-trolls in Thud!. At the climax of A Hat Full of Sky, Tiffany is desperate to find Granny Weatherwax - and learns that the Witch Trials are a very bad place to look for someone in black with a pointy hat. The Science of Discworld compares separating uranium-235 from uranium-238 to "looking for a needle in a haystack when the needle is made of straw".
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_468bebb0	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_468bebb0	featureConfidence	1.0
Discworld	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_468bebb0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47029c77	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47029c77	comment	Dad Villain AU: Unlike the original Hawkmoth, Viceroy doesn't have anywhere to secretly raise and store all the glowing white butterflies created by his powers. So he floods all of Paris with said butterflies, helping ensure that others don't find it particularly strange that any of them are hanging out around the Dupain-Cheng bakery.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47029c77	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47029c77	featureConfidence	1.0
Dad Villain AU (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47029c77
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47a4daec	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47a4daec	comment	Mission: Impossible â€“ Fallout: The bad guys hide two nuclear bombs set to go off in a medical camp. The heroes try to find them with Geiger Counters, but since the camp has so much equipment with radioactive materials like X-Ray machines, the Geiger Counters keep getting readings everywhere. The heroes find the bombs by pure chance.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47a4daec	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47a4daec	featureConfidence	1.0
Mission: Impossible â€“ Fallout	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_47a4daec
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_480d1f2c	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_480d1f2c	comment	Another Century's Episode uses this trope as a very tragic Sadistic Choice: Char Aznable places a devastatingly powerful bomb inside an ordinary space shuttle and sends it at Earth as part of a giant fleet of refugee shuttles. The heroes end up attacking the entire fleet to stop the bomb since they don't have the time to search every shuttle and it'll kill a lot more people if it gets to Earth. When footage of the attack circulates, the world at large believes the heroes have gone rogue.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_480d1f2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_480d1f2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Another Century's Episode (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_480d1f2c
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_497bd288	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_497bd288	comment	Cruella: Cruella manages to sneak into the Baroness' charity gala by arranging for all of the female guests to be dressed as her, in identical black and white wigs and black gowns, thereby making her impossible to spot.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_497bd288	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_497bd288	featureConfidence	1.0
Cruella	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_497bd288
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4a31a92e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4a31a92e	comment	"The Troll's Daughter": The troll insists that the hero picks his daughter and the fish that holds his heart out of a myriad of identical duplicates. The young woman helps both times by giving her suitor a clue.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4a31a92e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4a31a92e	featureConfidence	1.0
The Troll's Daughter	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4a31a92e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4bb4c311	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4bb4c311	comment	Yogi's Treasure Hunt: In one episode, the treasure of the week is a pot of gold and Dastardly and Muttley force two leprechauns to reveal its location. Needing shovels to pick it up, the villains tie a handkerchief to a nearby tree and make the leprechauns promise they won't remove it. When Dastardly and Muttley return with shovels, they find several trees with one identical handkerchief each.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4bb4c311	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4bb4c311	featureConfidence	1.0
Yogi's Treasure Hunt	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4bb4c311
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f01368	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f01368	comment	Anansi, a recurring hero on Static Shock, gets his illusion powers from a spider amulet. When the villain Osebo is about to destroy it, the hero uses the last of his power to create hundreds of identical spider amulets, distracting Osebo long enough for Static to interrupt and allow Anansi to reclaim the amulet.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f01368	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f01368	featureConfidence	1.0
Static Shock	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f01368
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f9a3b9f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f9a3b9f	comment	Rabbi Garfinkle explains on In Plain Sight that finding the needle is easy "If you are willing to look at each and every piece of straw." The rabbi has patiently spent years in a methodical search and successfully found one of Mary's witnesses. He tells her that witness protection works because "Criminals are lazy. That is why they are criminals. I on the other hand..."
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f9a3b9f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f9a3b9f	featureConfidence	1.0
In Plain Sight	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_4f9a3b9f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5079f984	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5079f984	comment	In Inside Man, the thieves have all their hostages put on clothes identical to the ones they (the thieves) are wearing, making it next to impossible for the police to identify the thieves.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5079f984	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5079f984	featureConfidence	1.0
Inside Man	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5079f984
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_50bcf7a6	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_50bcf7a6	comment	In Homestuck, the Trolls' Last Bastion is a meteor hidden in a ring of meteors.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_50bcf7a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_50bcf7a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Homestuck (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_50bcf7a6
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5144055f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5144055f	comment	In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Guybrush has to find a map hidden within a pile of maps.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5144055f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5144055f	featureConfidence	1.0
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5144055f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5178149f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5178149f	comment	Batman: The Brave and the Bold: In the "Four Star Spectacular!" short "Flash in Double Jeopardy", Mirror Master attacks Flash with a neverending army of duplicates. Flash figures out thanks to an inadvertent hint from Abra Kadabra that Mirror Master's teeth are crooked, so they are reversed in the duplicates, allowing him to find the real one and knock him out.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5178149f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5178149f	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: The Brave and the Bold	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5178149f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5319ce6c	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5319ce6c	comment	In Spy X Family, Twilight had to find the one penguin among the 200 that had the film fed to it that he's supposed to retrieve for his mission. Anya uses her telepathy to notice which one has it and points him out by claiming that one penguin is acting strangely. He also had a red mark on the bottom of his left foot, but Twilight doesn't find it until he's already retrieved the film.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5319ce6c	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5319ce6c	featureConfidence	1.0
SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5319ce6c
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_54597b8d	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_54597b8d	comment	In Horton Hears a Who!, Vlad the vulture drops the clover that carries the speck of dust that contains the Whos into a huge clover field. Horton painstakingly sorts through the field and finds it on the 3 millionth clover.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_54597b8d	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_54597b8d	featureConfidence	1.0
Horton Hears a Who!	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_54597b8d
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5690420f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5690420f	comment	One episode of DuckTales (1987) had Scrooge McDuck mark the entrance to a leprechaun's hidden passageway with a handkerchief tied to a branch and he forbade the leprechaun from messing with it. So the leprechaun marked all of the surrounding trees in the same way, instead.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5690420f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5690420f	featureConfidence	1.0
DuckTales (1987)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5690420f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_569093cc	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_569093cc	comment	In the DuckTales (2017) episode "The Secret(s) of Castle McDuck!", Huey, Dewey and Louie at one point have to find a key made of gold that's buried among a pile of keys made of iron pyrite. Dewey thinks there's no way they can find it in time, only for Louie to find the correct key before Dewey even finishes speaking. He then tells his dumbfounded brothers that it was easy for him because he has knowledge of the different physical properties of gold and pyrite.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_569093cc	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_569093cc	featureConfidence	1.0
DuckTales (2017)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_569093cc
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5b468577	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5b468577	comment	Frog Story: Harry finds a magic frog that changes into a beautiful woman when kissed. For obvious reasons, he doesn't tell his wife. His wife finds the frog and takes it to the pet store. Harry winds up buying a whole aquarium full of frogs, and the movie ends with him kissing them one at a time as they hop around.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5b468577	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5b468577	featureConfidence	1.0
Frog Story	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5b468577
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5c208620	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5c208620	comment	In the Superman: The Animated Series episode "Monkey Fun", Superman fights a chimpanzee named Titano, whom Lois had treated as a pet when she was a child, and who had been turned into a giant mutant by outer-space radiation. At one point, General Lane arrived with Titano's favorite toy, a plush monkey doll named Beppo that contained a music box which played "Pop Goes the Weasel" when squeezed, hoping that Beppo could calm Titano. Unfortunately Beppo wound up lost in a pile of non-musical toy monkeys during Titano's battle with Superman, which led to Lois telling Jimmy Olsen "Shut up and keep squeezing the monkeys!"
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5c208620	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5c208620	featureConfidence	1.0
Superman: The Animated Series	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5c208620
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5cc61e92	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5cc61e92	comment	My Monster Secret spoofs this when Akane steals Mikan's glasses. First, Akane attempts to hide the glasses by throwing out dozens of pairs of glasses. It fails because aside from the other pairs being completely different designs, she's wearing the glasses she stole. Then she tries again, by replicating herself. It fails again because none of the clones are actually wearing the glasses. She gets it right on the third try.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5cc61e92	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5cc61e92	featureConfidence	1.0
My Monster Secret (Manga)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5cc61e92
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5db577ba	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5db577ba	comment	The Dark Knight The Joker uses a school bus as a getaway vehicle for his heist timed to leave the bank just as the city becomes bumper to bumper with identical buses.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5db577ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5db577ba	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Knight	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5db577ba
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5e91c79	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5e91c79	comment	Resident Evil 0 has a clue for a hidden key be "To hide a leaf, put it in a forest." Since it's a leech-shaped key, you find it in the laboratory among the mutated leeches.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5e91c79	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5e91c79	featureConfidence	1.0
Resident Evil 0 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_5e91c79
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_62486c4	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_62486c4	comment	In the "Kindaichi the Killer" arc of The Kindaichi Casefiles one of the most suspicious things Kindaichi noticed in the first murder scene was a smashed fishtank, and everyone was led to believe that it was destroyed in a struggle between the true killer and his victim, or the killer used the water in the tank to wash away any traces. Both theories are technically half-correct: The killer and his victim had a fight, but it instead caused the killer to accidentally smash his glasses. Since both the victim and Kindaichi aren't wearing glasses, the killer destroyed the tank in order to hide any of his glasses' shards among the rest of the tank's remains.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_62486c4	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_62486c4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Kindaichi Case Files (Manga)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_62486c4
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_63409895	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_63409895	comment	In one episode of Sofia the First, it looks like Sofia and Amber are facing this when their run-away flying carpet hides in a stall selling carpets. But as it's the only one standing up, they spot it pretty quickly.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_63409895	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_63409895	featureConfidence	1.0
Sofia the First	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_63409895
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638624c8	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638624c8	comment	In Slayers TRY (ep. 11 to be precise), a revenge-crazed Jillas devises a plan to steal the Sword of Light from Gourry by getting him to fall on a huge pile of weapons with the same design, most of them useless (memorably, a bright red hammer). It works. Gourry is devastated by the loss, and carries the aforementioned hammer as a temporary replacement.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638624c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638624c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Slayers	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638624c8
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638a556e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638a556e	comment	In the My Goldfish is Evil episode "School Trip To Aquaworld!" Admiral Bubbles jumps into a pond and Beanie has to find him in a sea of identical looking goldfish.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638a556e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638a556e	featureConfidence	1.0
My Goldfish is Evil	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_638a556e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_639fb388	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_639fb388	comment	The Corridor: At one point the narrator puts the button in a room full of a few hundred fake buttons. After you've pressed several fake buttons he decides it's actually more painful watching you do that and tells you where the real one is.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_639fb388	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_639fb388	featureConfidence	1.0
The Corridor (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_639fb388
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_694ab80	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_694ab80	comment	Batman Beyond: In "Ascension", Blight, a man with uncontrollable nuclear powers hides in a nuclear submarine.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_694ab80	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_694ab80	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman Beyond	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_694ab80
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_69fa7496	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe: In Carl Barks's "The Status Seeker", Scrooge McDuck seeks out a gem called the Candy-Striped Ruby in order to impress Duckburg's wealthy elite. He brings along a few crates of striped peppermint candies that just so happen to resemble the ruby and hides it among them once he gets his hands on the gem.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_69fa7496	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_69fa7496	featureConfidence	1.0
Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_69fa7496
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6bb875f9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6bb875f9	comment	Forced Vengeance. Chuck Norris is on the run in Hong Kong with two attractive women. Where to hide them?
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6bb875f9	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6bb875f9	featureConfidence	1.0
Forced Vengeance	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6bb875f9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6ecaff2e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6ecaff2e	comment	In the first Scribblenauts game, there is a puzzle where, when the answer is found, it causes a large number of Starites to rain down from the sky. One of them is real; the rest are made of plastic, but look identical to the real one. This is easily dealt with by running across the pile since Maxwell automatically picks up any real Starite he's close enough to.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6ecaff2e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6ecaff2e	featureConfidence	1.0
Scribblenauts (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_6ecaff2e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72262aee	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, while the gang was hiding out in a Fire Nation city, they threw a party with all the kids at the school Aang was "attending". The party got busted by some Fire Nation military officials who were looking for the boy with the headband, which was Aang. Within seconds, all the kids had put on identical headbands so that Aang and the gang could sneak away unnoticed.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72262aee	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72262aee	featureConfidence	1.0
Avatar: The Last Airbender	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72262aee
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72e7d7f6	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72e7d7f6	comment	in "The Necklace of Pearls", a Lord Peter Wimsey short story, a thief hides pearls at a
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72e7d7f6	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72e7d7f6	featureConfidence	1.0
Lord Peter Wimsey	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_72e7d7f6
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7333cf0c	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7333cf0c	comment	In PokÃ©mon: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages, Hoopa tries to prank/test Ash by summoning a horde of Pikachu and asking him to figure out which of them is his partner. To Hoopa's disappointment, Ash picks the correct Pikachu instantly.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7333cf0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7333cf0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Pokémon: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7333cf0c
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73715eef	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73715eef	comment	There's also a fairytale (Andersen's The Magic Tinderbox) in which a princess is carried away by a dog each night to a waiting man. Her mother the queen follows her and draws a cross on the door of the house she enters in chalk. To avoid being caught, the dog draws crosses on every house in the area.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73715eef	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73715eef	featureConfidence	1.0
The Tinder Box	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73715eef
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73d7930f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73d7930f	comment	The tribble bomb in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" "Trials and Tribble-ations", hidden in grain storage with all the other hungry (& dead) Tribbles.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73d7930f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73d7930f	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_73d7930f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_755d1424	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_755d1424	comment	Anyone who's ever owned LEGO sets and kept all the loose pieces in a big box or plastic tub can tell you how hard it is digging around for the one piece you're looking for, never mind if you need a piece of a specific color.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_755d1424	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_755d1424	featureConfidence	1.0
LEGO (Franchise)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_755d1424
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_75602a19	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_75602a19	comment	Fort Boyard: The end of the Labyrinth challenge requires the contestant to find a word on a mostly naked body; the word being very small, and hidden among lots of tattoos.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_75602a19	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_75602a19	featureConfidence	1.0
Fort Boyard	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_75602a19
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_77bda8e9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_77bda8e9	comment	In Witches Abroad, both Granny and her sister are shown a whole bunch of reflections and are told they have to find the real one. The sister runs among them. Granny says — herself.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_77bda8e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_77bda8e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Witches Abroad	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_77bda8e9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7832b74c	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7832b74c	comment	In the Steven Universe episode "Steven and the Stevens", the legendary glass of time is hidden in an underwater temple filled with dozens of fake timeglasses. Grabbing the wrong one causes the windows to vanish, transforming the temple into a Drowning Pit. Implied to be a Secret Test of Character, as the device is shown to have enormous Time Crash-inducing potential even in the hands of good-natured Steven. Dozens of alternate Stevens get killed through Temporal Paradox — and each one may have taken an entire timeline with them. The only winning move was not to play.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7832b74c	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7832b74c	featureConfidence	1.0
Steven Universe	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7832b74c
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7aaf9e41	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7aaf9e41	comment	One early Batman comic had Joker offering his services as a criminal superhero; In exchange for some loot, he would rescue crooks pinned down by the cops during heists. He stashed "Joker signals" at every potential robbery target in Gotham, and even built Joker-versions of Batman's vehicles. In order to get him, Batman discovered the signals and had the cops set off all of them; as a result, Joker couldn't figure out which one had the most loot to take a percentage of. Naturally, the first stop he made had Batman waiting to collar him.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7aaf9e41	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7aaf9e41	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7aaf9e41
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7b64a761	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7b64a761	comment	In an early Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strange Tales) story, S.H.I.E.L.D. outwits agents of HYDRA who target Fury by sending out a number of Life Model Decoy android replicas of Fury.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7b64a761	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7b64a761	featureConfidence	1.0
Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Strange Tales) (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7b64a761
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7de1376e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7de1376e	comment	In Wyrd Sisters, the Royal Crown of Lancre is hidden in a theatre props box full of stage crowns.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7de1376e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7de1376e	featureConfidence	1.0
Wyrd Sisters	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7de1376e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7f6f60da	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7f6f60da	comment	In Urban Legends: Final Cut, during the big face-off with the serial killer, both the guilty party and the campus cop drop their guns in the struggle. A prop rack promptly gets tipped over, scattering dozens of realistic prop guns across the floor and sending everyone scrambling to snatch whatever's in reach and hope they lucked out.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7f6f60da	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7f6f60da	featureConfidence	1.0
Urban Legends: Final Cut	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_7f6f60da
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_81692f99	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_81692f99	comment	This happens again during the climax, Ted tries to finger Donny as the one who caused the giant Starship Enterprise model to hit John. Since Donny is dressed as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and standing alongside a group of Turtle cosplayers, Ted grabs a cellphone and plays "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany so that Donny will twerk to it.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_81692f99	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_81692f99	featureConfidence	1.0
Star Trek (Franchise)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_81692f99
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_82c3f2d3	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_82c3f2d3	comment	In The Laughing Policeman someone shoots up a bus and kills nine people — all eight passengers and the driver. One of the victims was a detective investigating an old murder (nearing the statute of limitations), and police assume he was the intended target because of that case. They are only half right: The primary target was the suspect in the old case, acquitted on insufficient evidence. The one who killed this time was the one who hired him back then. The murderer later said that he told the victim to take the bus at this precise time so that there'd be a few other passengers to throw the police off.note Ironically, he was a respectable businessman who first organized murdering his ex-lover, then covered the tracks â€” all to protect the well-being of his family. In addition, the old case being re-investigated is full of false leads, and the detectives find the murderer in the old case files only after the confession.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_82c3f2d3	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_82c3f2d3	featureConfidence	1.0
Martin Beck	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_82c3f2d3
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_85ba04e3	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_85ba04e3	comment	Tales of Halloween: In"Bad Seed", the man-eating jack-o'-lantern hides from Detective McNally in a display of jack-o'-lanterns.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_85ba04e3	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_85ba04e3	featureConfidence	1.0
Tales of Halloween	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_85ba04e3
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814e7d	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814e7d	comment	Final Fantasy X-2 has a minigame where Yuna must fire at Cactuars until they run out of health and surrender. In all of these "battles", the target Cactuar is surrounded by flunkies (NPCs, Fiends or even inanimate objects) and the screen shuffles focus on them one at a time and Yuna has to time it that she hits the Cactuar. The last one, however, are all Cactuars. Yuna has to figure out which of them is the real target.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814e7d	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814e7d	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy X-2 (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814e7d
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814ea1	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814ea1	comment	Final Fantasy XV did a crossover with Assassin's Creed in which the party attends the Assassin's Festival in Lestallum, with complimentary Assassin cosplay; every playable Assassin in the series thus far has their outfit cameo on at least one NPC, with the party geting Bayek's. After the first night the party spends at the Leville hotel, imperials show up looking for Noctis. Noctis' solution? Put his hood up so they don't notice his face, and hide in plain sight like the Assassin of legend. (The AC franchise exists in Eos.)
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814ea1	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814ea1	featureConfidence	1.0
Final Fantasy XV (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86814ea1
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86b52b7b	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86b52b7b	comment	I, Robot: When escaping from Spooner, Sonny hides himself in a batch of 1,000 identical NS-5s. They know he's in there - the room's inventory shows 1,001 robots - but Dr. Calvin laments it will take weeks to work out which one is Sonny. Spooner just starts shooting them, which spooks Sonny enough to give himself away.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86b52b7b	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86b52b7b	featureConfidence	1.0
I, Robot	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_86b52b7b
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_87b55b5d	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_87b55b5d	comment	The Onion: "Thousands Of Girls Match Description Of Missing Sorority Sister"
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_87b55b5d	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_87b55b5d	featureConfidence	1.0
The Onion (Website)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_87b55b5d
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8962c09d	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8962c09d	comment	One King's Quest V puzzle includes a literal needle-in-a-haystack scenario, made more complicated by the fact that the needle is also a golden needle. Fortunately, Graham doesn't have to do the searching himself to find it.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8962c09d	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8962c09d	featureConfidence	1.0
KingsQuestV	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8962c09d
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a08048e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a08048e	comment	In season 4, episode 3 of Taskmaster, one task had the contestants try to camouflage themselves as well as possible in one hour. Joe Lycett did this by grouping himself with ten other people wearing the exact same outfit and hat as him and all of them sitting with their backs to the camera. Greg was unable to figure out which person he was and Joe ended up ranking second in the task, coming behind only Noel who had ingeniously greenscreened himself into a scene as the banana in a fruit bowl.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a08048e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a08048e	featureConfidence	1.0
Taskmaster	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a08048e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a1a376a	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a1a376a	comment	Pajama Sam in No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside: The game's final puzzle asks you to find the key to Darkness's locked closest. Opening the cupboard in his room causes a huge stack of keys to fall out on the floor, and clicking on the resulting pile yields no results. The real key is still in the cupboard hanging on a hook, which you are shown for a split second when the other keys fall out.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a1a376a	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a1a376a	featureConfidence	1.0
Pajama Sam in No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a1a376a
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a339030	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a339030	comment	Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark: A government agency hides The Ark of the Covenant in a shipping crate, which is stored in an immense room filled to the roof with identical shipping crates. Marion tries to hide inside a laundry basket, but gets discovered and is taken away inside the basket. Indy sees her, but eventually, he finds himself in a market square where dozens of people are carrying identical baskets. He frantically turns over every basket until he hears her shouting elsewhere. Early in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Willie's efforts to recover a large diamond from the nightclub floor are nullified when an ice bucket is knocked over and scatters its contents across the area where she last spotted it. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Holy Grail is hidden in a room with dozens of ornate, bejeweled, golden grails. Indy et al have to figure out which of them is the real one. The true Grail is the only one in the room made out of a humble material: "There. That's the cup of a carpenter."
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a339030	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a339030	featureConfidence	1.0
Indiana Jones (Franchise)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8a339030
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bbda387	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bbda387	comment	In The Rocketeer, when Cliff arrives at the South Seas Club, he hides the rocket and helmet in a laundry bag in the laundry room. But when he returns, he finds the room full of a dozen more bags.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bbda387	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bbda387	featureConfidence	1.0
The Rocketeer	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bbda387
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bf08bcd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bf08bcd	comment	In Ultima Underworld II there's a room with a single Corp rune among a whole pile of Kal runes. All runes on the floor use the same sprite, but Kal and Corp are virtually indistinguishable anyway.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bf08bcd	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bf08bcd	featureConfidence	1.0
Ultima Underworld (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8bf08bcd
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81bb26	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81bb26	comment	On NCIS, Ziva describes the task of finding a stolen defense system in a room full of computers as "looking for a needle in a needlestack". It was on what looked like an obsolete laptop which inexplicably had some modern PC ports and had a suspiciously fast boot-up time; the guts were state-of-the-art.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81bb26	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81bb26	featureConfidence	1.0
NCIS	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81bb26
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81f086	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81f086	comment	Although Monk never did this in the main series, there is a case of this in the Expanded Universe novel Mr. Monk in Outer Space where a killer, dressed as a popular character from a TV show, shoots and kills the show's producer as he is arriving for a convention, then escapes into the convention center, vanishing because there are dozens of other people dressed in similar costumes to the killer's.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81f086	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81f086	featureConfidence	1.0
Monk	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8d81f086
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8df5521b	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8df5521b	comment	Subverted in Superman (Volume 2) #9. The Joker kidnaps Lois Lane, Perry White, and Jimmy Olsen, then sends a message to Superman that his friends are trapped in lead-lined coffins in three different locations in the city, where they will suffocate if Superman doesn't act fast. Joker actually has Superman's friends with him on a train heading out of Metropolis; he reasons that the lead-lined coffins would make finding the coffins difficult for Superman since his x-ray vision wouldn't work on them, but instead the opposite proves to be true; the lead-lined coffins stick out like sore thumbs. Superman is able to find Joker and his hostages with ease from there.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8df5521b	featureApplicability	-0.3
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8df5521b	featureConfidence	1.0
Superman (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8df5521b
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8f99cb4c	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8f99cb4c	comment	American Dragon: Jake Long: In the episode "The Talented Mr Long", an ancient magical chalice is lost when it is dropped amid a stack of identical-looking cheap trophy cups. In "The Egg", when Jake and Fu chase the Huntsclan all over the city to recover the titular gryphon egg, it accidentally gets covered in chocolate and peanut butter dropped amid a pile of chocolate-covered Easter eggs. Jake and Fu find it by eating the chocolate off the eggs, gaining a lot of weight in the process.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8f99cb4c	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8f99cb4c	featureConfidence	1.0
American Dragon: Jake Long	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_8f99cb4c
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_90b916ba	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_90b916ba	comment	Batman: The Animated Series: In "Two-Face: Part II", Two-Face flips a coin to decide if one of his targets lives or dies. Batman hastily throws a box full of coins at Two-Face, and he completely loses it because he needs to find his coin to decide.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_90b916ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_90b916ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman: The Animated Series	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_90b916ba
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9614fa1e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9614fa1e	comment	Raiders of the Lost Ark: A government agency hides The Ark of the Covenant in a shipping crate, which is stored in an immense room filled to the roof with identical shipping crates. Marion tries to hide inside a laundry basket, but gets discovered and is taken away inside the basket. Indy sees her, but eventually, he finds himself in a market square where dozens of people are carrying identical baskets. He frantically turns over every basket until he hears her shouting elsewhere.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9614fa1e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9614fa1e	featureConfidence	1.0
Raiders of the Lost Ark	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9614fa1e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_979d8a9d	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_979d8a9d	comment	In Requiem Vampire Knight, the main protagonist has to rescue his love interest, who has been forced to become Dracula's bride. After entering the temple where he thinks she is being held, he finds out another vampire has kidnapped her. He asks a bride of Dracula about her captor, all she can say is that he was pale, had big teeth, and dressed in black; in other words, like every other vampire ever.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_979d8a9d	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_979d8a9d	featureConfidence	1.0
Requiem Vampire Knight (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_979d8a9d
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_97abe183	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_97abe183	comment	In one episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, an accident causes Jimmy's birthday gift to Libby to be replaced by a chemical that makes anyone it touches Drunk with Power. To prevent a Bad Future where an evil Libby rules the world, Jimmy and the others race to find the present before it's too late. Unfortunately, it's in a room filled with similarly wrapped presents.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_97abe183	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_97abe183	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_97abe183
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9820db50	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9820db50	comment	This nearly gets one of The Three Investigators killed. One of the Investigators finds himself locked in the trunk of a car driven by a group of criminals but managed to mark the floor of the garage the car will eventually return to with a large chalk "X", and even informs the other investigators of this via a walkie-talkie. Unfortunately, a Jerk Jock was listening in and had his gang mark every garage they could get into just to be an ass. Time for Plan B!
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9820db50	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9820db50	featureConfidence	1.0
The Three Investigators	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9820db50
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_986cb4dc	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_986cb4dc	comment	In Balto, when Balto attempts to rescue the lost dog sled team, he scratches every tree he passes to mark his trail. Out of spite, Steele sabotages his mission by scratching every tree in the area. Fortunately, after Balto calms down and gathers himself, he sniffs the scratches and is able to tell which ones belong to him.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_986cb4dc	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_986cb4dc	featureConfidence	1.0
Balto	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_986cb4dc
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9989595b	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9989595b	comment	In an episode of W.I.T.C.H., Cedric threatens to kill Matt unless Will gives him the Heart of Kandrakar. Will responds by using magic to create several duplicates that disappear when touched. After Cedrick lets Matt go, Will reveals that she still has the real one.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9989595b	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9989595b	featureConfidence	1.0
WITCH	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9989595b
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9a67b688	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9a67b688	comment	In one arc of Case Closed, a priceless pearl is hidden from a Phantom Thief by giving every guest to a party on a ship a replica. Of course, this being the Kaitou KID, he finds it anyway. He figures out that the pearl's owner has the real thing because he sees her handle it carefully to avoid damaging it.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9a67b688	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9a67b688	featureConfidence	1.0
Case Closed (Manga)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9a67b688
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9ab32c13	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9ab32c13	comment	Pony POV Series: When Twilight goes into Trixie's mind to heal her of her Discording, Loneliness tries to trap her in an illusion of a town populated entirely by copies of Trixie in various ages and genders. It is a representation of Trixie always feeling like she has never been anything special and has never been able to stand out from her many identical siblings. When Twilight asserts that she's going to save Trixie, she sees the real Trixie: a very young filly with greyed-out colors, crying on the street while everypony ignores her.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9ab32c13	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9ab32c13	featureConfidence	1.0
Pony POV Series / Fan Fic	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9ab32c13
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b4ab849	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b4ab849	comment	In one episode of Lupin III, the Mona Lisa gets lost in an ocean of copies, made by an expert painter who copied Leonardo's painting for so long and so many times that they were indistinguishable from the original.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b4ab849	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b4ab849	featureConfidence	1.0
Lupin III	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b4ab849
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b530c26	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b530c26	comment	Archie Comics had one story where kids from a rival school swipe a noted football jersey that's Riverdale's Good Luck Charm, whereupon Archie and the gang swipe the rival's charm, a lucky coach's hat. After several hijinks, both jersey and hat are returned to the rightful owners, but the lucky hat is accompanied by 49 identical others, all in a huge pile.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b530c26	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b530c26	featureConfidence	1.0
Archie Comics (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9b530c26
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9d34190a	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: There's a fairly small but highly intricate quest mod for Morrowind which at one point requires you to find a special key to continue. The only room it could possibly be in is entirely filled with keys. Every table and every nook and cranny of the room is covered in keys. As it turns out, the right one is sticking out from the lock in the door. Invoked and subverted in Oblivion's Shivering Isles expansion. In one quest, you're tasked with stopping several treasure hunters convinced they've found a ruin filled with riches when they've really stumbled into the fringes of the Realm of Madness. In one room, they are set before a giant cage filled with riches with a big, obvious lock. The "Manic" solution here is to dump thousands of identical keys in front of them but, since this is just a trap, none of them will actually open the cage. One of the adventurers will start frantically searching through the pile of keys to get the treasure and their obsession with finding the "right" one will drive them completely insane before their companion gives up and leaves without them. Fun stuff.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9d34190a	featureApplicability	-0.3
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9d34190a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Elder Scrolls (Franchise)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9d34190a
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9db31bab	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9db31bab	comment	The novel and various film adaptations of The Twelve Chairs are about the search for a fortune in jewelry that was sewn into the cushions of one of a dozen externally identical chairs.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9db31bab	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9db31bab	featureConfidence	1.0
The Twelve Chairs	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9db31bab
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e2f90f4	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: In the G-8 arc, when the Starw Hats need to hide the Going Merry while retrieving their gold from the marines, Luffy, of all people, is the one to bring up the adage "hide a tree among trees", suggesting they just need to hide their ships among other ships. They placed a disguised Merry inside an old shipyard that the marines barely use.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e2f90f4	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e2f90f4	featureConfidence	1.0
One Piece (Manga)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e2f90f4
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e572fed	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e572fed	comment	Little Hands, Big Attitude: The mysterious voice helping Shadow hides him from GUN's Chaos Energy-detecting radars by flooding the entire area with Chaos Energy. Now their radars are going off all the time, making them useless.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e572fed	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e572fed	featureConfidence	1.0
Little Hands, Big Attitude (Fanfic)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9e572fed
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9f78fda3	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9f78fda3	comment	Done at least once in Murder, She Wrote: The town is flooded with gossipy letters. Some are printed, some are written, some are typed; they're on all types of paper; and they are all mailed from Cabot Cove. In this case, the letters were sent by the killer, who had been told by the victim that her friend would mail a letter revealing their dirty dealings if anything happened to her. The killer inundated the town with mail, hoping the letter incriminating him would be taken as a joke.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9f78fda3	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9f78fda3	featureConfidence	1.0
Murder, She Wrote	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_9f78fda3
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a02df5f5	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a02df5f5	comment	Partners in Crime: In "The Crackler", when Tommy and a confederate find the villains' hideout, he marks the door with a cross, referencing The Tinderbox. The confederate is actually one of the gang, and marks the other doors as in the story. Subverted because Tommy already suspected that, and referenced the story to distract him while he dropped a bottle of valarian essence. Tuppence and the police just have to find the door surrounded by cats.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a02df5f5	featureApplicability	-0.3
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a02df5f5	featureConfidence	1.0
Partners in Crime	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a02df5f5
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a183d57f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a183d57f	comment	An episode of Futurama has Leela and Fry at the Central Bureaucracy in search of a pneumatic delivery tube that contains Bender's personality chip, which was dumped amongst a mountainous pile of pneumatic delivery tubes. They find it by having Hermes, a natural bureaucrat, sort them and toss all the surplus tubes into their respective slots - in song.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a183d57f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a183d57f	featureConfidence	1.0
Futurama	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a183d57f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a33c20a6	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a33c20a6	comment	In one episode of Covert Affairs, an operative is killed right before delivering important information to the CIA. They know that he hid the information inside a period on a piece of paper. His cover was a college professor, so his house was full of books and writings. Trope played straight, but Auggie inverts the Stock Phrase, describing it as "like finding a needle in a haystack... in a forest full of haystacks."
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a33c20a6	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a33c20a6	featureConfidence	1.0
Covert Affairs	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a33c20a6
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a346e791	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a346e791	comment	NUMB3RS: The case in "Graphic" involved a very rare comic book being hidden amongst forgeries and all being sold off at an auction.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a346e791	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a346e791	featureConfidence	1.0
NUMB3RS	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a346e791
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a34863aa	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a34863aa	comment	In the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles anime, Shredder and his gang are trying to steal a sacred mirror from a clan of Japanese ninja. The mirror ends up on the roof, and to stop Shredder from getting it, the ninja throw out dozens of identical mirrors to confuse him. Just as the ninja are laughing at their cleverness, Shredder asks how they know which mirror is real, causing them to panic. It becomes a moot point anyway, as the evil spirit haunting the mirror just points out the way.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a34863aa	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a34863aa	featureConfidence	1.0
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Franchise)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a34863aa
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a495544e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a495544e	comment	In one episode of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, when one of Zurg's Grubs disguised as an LGM hides among a crowd of real ones, XR decides to flush him out by giving out Buzz t-shirts. All the real LGMs run up to XR, leaving the spy out in the open.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a495544e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a495544e	featureConfidence	1.0
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a495544e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a4a6b86a	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a4a6b86a	comment	And in Code Geass R2, Zero bargains with the Britannians to be exiled instead of executed along with the rest of the Black Knights. Cue every member of the Black Knights and every other Japanese citizen at the assembly dressing up in Zero's trademark outfit. This left the Brittanians stuck between letting them all go, which they ultimately choose, or killing them, which would spark riots and violence all over Japan. Zero was relying upon the fact that he knew the person behind the agreement would do everything in his power to avoid senseless bloodshed - which is good, because a lower-ranking member of the Britannian government pulled out her gun, planning to shoot first and ask for token forgiveness later.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a4a6b86a	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a4a6b86a	featureConfidence	1.0
Code Geass	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a4a6b86a
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a535581a	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a535581a	comment	At the climax of The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma tries to keep Kuzco and Pacha from finding the right Forced Transformation potion by knocking over an entire shelf of them, forcing them to try out every potion they can in order to get it right (time wasn't on their side since Yzma had called the guards on them).
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a535581a	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a535581a	featureConfidence	1.0
The Emperor's New Groove	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a535581a
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a651645f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a651645f	comment	In Policenauts, a criminal steals a woman's designer handbag, leaves a bomb in it, and puts it in a shop filled with handbags of the same make. Fortunately for Jonathan and Ed, the shop actually only sells knock-off handbags, resulting in a puzzle where the player must compare every single handbag in the shop to a genuine designer handbag and discard every one that doesn't match the real handbag they have.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a651645f	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a651645f	featureConfidence	1.0
Policenauts (Visual Novel)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a651645f
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a7c9f8e9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	Legend of the Five Rings: The ancestral sword of the Scorpion Clan is kept in a room with dozens of other, completely identical swords. If you pick up one of the fakes, you die on the spot. And whenever no one is in the room, the swords shuffle themselves. Only the Scorpion clan champion or their chosen heir is able to distinguish the true sword from its doppelgangers.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a7c9f8e9	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a7c9f8e9	featureConfidence	1.0
Legend of the Five Rings (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a7c9f8e9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a81325d3	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy Final Fantasy X-2 has a minigame where Yuna must fire at Cactuars until they run out of health and surrender. In all of these "battles", the target Cactuar is surrounded by flunkies (NPCs, Fiends or even inanimate objects) and the screen shuffles focus on them one at a time and Yuna has to time it that she hits the Cactuar. The last one, however, are all Cactuars. Yuna has to figure out which of them is the real target. Final Fantasy XV did a crossover with Assassin's Creed in which the party attends the Assassin's Festival in Lestallum, with complimentary Assassin cosplay; every playable Assassin in the series thus far has their outfit cameo on at least one NPC, with the party geting Bayek's. After the first night the party spends at the Leville hotel, imperials show up looking for Noctis. Noctis' solution? Put his hood up so they don't notice his face, and hide in plain sight like the Assassin of legend. (The AC franchise exists in Eos.)
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Final Fantasy (Franchise)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a81325d3
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a825da3e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering has an interesting variation in the Flavor Text of one of its cards: One miraculous artifact that can copy any object, dropped in a vault of ordinary coins.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a825da3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a825da3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Magic: The Gathering (Tabletop Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a825da3e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a8729c90	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a8729c90	comment	The Fairly OddParents!: In the episode "Mind Over Magic", Mr. Crocker lures Timmy into a "party" in the gym, tries to expose the mind-reading powers he wished for by having his classmates think constantly to overload his mind. To make sure Timmy had difficulty finding Cosmo and Wanda to help him, Crocker decorated the place with pink and green balloons and cups and such. Timmy finally finds them, disguised as basketballs, by using his mind powers to hear the elevator music playing in Cosmo's mind. "Homewrecker" has Cosmo and Wanda search for their wands amongst a bunch of fake wands owned by Tootie.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a8729c90	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a8729c90	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a8efc554	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a8efc554	comment	Assassins: While being chased by police including helicopter units, Sylvester Stallone's character hides a stolen taxi cab among a bunch of other cabs at their terminal, then climbs into another cab as a passenger and rides it out of there.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a8efc554	featureConfidence	1.0
Assassins	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_a8efc554
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_aa4e351a	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_aa4e351a	comment	Niels posits that a furry convention would be the perfect place to carry out a hit, because so many attendees wear fursuits that hide their features and can plausibly conceal weapons. Niels kills a man whilst dressed as a fox, giving the police a list of approximately 700 suspects to question.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_aa4e351a	featureConfidence	1.0
Niels (Webcomic)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_aa4e351a
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ab42c63a	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ab42c63a	comment	Get Smart. In "Schwartz's Island", the eponymous island is actually a disguised mobile KAOS base. When asked how you could possibly hide an entire island...
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ab42c63a	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ab42c63a	featureConfidence	1.0
Get Smart	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ab42c63a
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac07f986	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac07f986	comment	Super Friends: In "The Case of the Dreadful Dolls", the villain Dollmaker creates clay dolls that allow him to control the people in whose likeness they are made. He manages to control all the Super Friends except El Dorado, who kicks his doll out of Dollmaker's hands. When Dollmaker attempts to retrieve it, El Dorado uses his illusion powers to surround the doll with dozens of copies, distracting the villain long enough for El Dorado to activate the fire sprinklers to destroy the dolls and free his friends.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac07f986	featureConfidence	1.0
Superfriends	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac07f986
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac4effce	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac4effce	comment	In an early The Mighty Thor story, Loki tried to escape from Thor by turning into a pigeon and flying away. When Thor followed, Loki hid in a flock of pigeons. Thor found him by throwing some food down. The real pigeons immediately went to it, but Loki didn't react.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac4effce	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac4effce	featureConfidence	1.0
The Mighty Thor (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ac4effce
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ad8541c9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ad8541c9	comment	One Encyclopedia Brown movie had a plot mainly revolving around a missing derby boxcar. Other cases are picked up by Brown and Sally, including one where one of their friends accidentally took a bully's bike, mistaking it for his own. Encyclopedia then imagines being in a court, acting as a lawyer for the friend and eventually asserting that among a bunch of other bikes (though each were different), the bike in question could be mistaken for another. This became his "Eureka!" Moment as to how the boxcar could have been stolen: it hadn't been removed from the fairgrounds — Bugs just had it spray-painted black. He later invokes it when talking with Sally:
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ad8541c9	featureApplicability	1.0
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ad8541c9	featureConfidence	1.0
Encyclopedia Brown	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ad8541c9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_af6a4464	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_af6a4464	comment	In The Secret World you're tasked to steal the Ancile of Mars from a Roman temple. Unfortunately, there are multiple temples on the same square, each filled with decoys (see below for historical reference). Also, the pedestals are all pressure triggers that lock the doors if empty, so you have to make a replacement fake too. There's no solution - you just pick a random one, and the questgiver will inevitably say that it's fake and brush off the whole story. He will jokingly say that one time one of the players he's sending there will finally get it right, but it's implied the real deal was never there to begin with.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b0f7bb9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b0f7bb9	comment	In Heaven Officialâ€™s Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu, the Brocade Immortal, a Haunted Fetter for the powerful ghost Bai Jing disguised as an ordinary piece of clothing, is suspected to be for sale in the Ghost City alongside nearly a hundred counterfeits. Double Subverted as the real Brocade Immortal was actually hidden in the discount bin of the clothing shop in Puqi Village, where Xie Lian unwittingly bought it.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b370d0f9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b370d0f9	comment	Ted 2: Ted tries to hide from Donny at New York Comic Con by standing motionless in a group of identical teddy bear dolls. Donny manages to flush him out by singing "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond so that Ted will instinctively sing the "bum-bum-bum" part. This happens again during the climax, Ted tries to finger Donny as the one who caused the giant Starship Enterprise model to hit John. Since Donny is dressed as a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle and standing alongside a group of Turtle cosplayers, Ted grabs a cellphone and plays "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany so that Donny will twerk to it.
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Ted 2	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b370d0f9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b5f08143	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b5f08143	comment	In Saving Private Ryan, Tom Hanks' character actually refers to their task, finding one soldier in all of Nazi-occupied France, as "Trying to find a needle in a stack of needles."
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b88873ad	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b88873ad	comment	In The Book of Lost Things, the Woodsman marks the tree portal that David arrived through with a string layered with unpleasant-smelling ointment, all in the hope that they'll be able to find the portal next morning when it's safe to return. However, when they return, they find that someone has marked all the trees in the area with the same string, making the portal effectively invisible; David points out that it'd be easier just to remove the string from original portal, but the Woodsman notes that the perpetrator - the Crooked Man - would have found that boring.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b9821fa9	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b9821fa9	comment	In The Dark Crystal, Jen must find the true crystal shard from among a pile of similar shards.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b9821fa9	featureConfidence	1.0
The Dark Crystal	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b9821fa9
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b9c1650d	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_b9c1650d	comment	Scarlet Lady: When Marinette is entrusted with her own Miraculous, she stays up all night creating a collection of resin-cast jewelry, presenting them to her classmates the next day and claiming to have been inspired by the new heroine. As she hoped, all of her female classmates (aside from ChloÃ©) pick out their favorite pieces, enabling her to pass off her Miraculous as just another one of her creations.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ba2ab0a2	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ba2ab0a2	comment	In the Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood multiplayer game, there's an unlockable ability called "Morph", which, when used while stand in a crowd of people, will change all of them into duplicates of you.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ba2ab0a2	featureConfidence	1.0
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ba2ab0a2
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_bca5b926	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_bca5b926	comment	In The Magician King one of the magical keys they're looking for is hidden on a beach entirely composed of thousands of keys. All of the other keys were guarded by either a puzzle or a monster, so they figure there's probably a trick to finding it, but they can't work out what it is so they just spend twenty-four hours a day for a couple weeks trying every key until they get the right one.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c4282b71	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In the episode "Maud Pie", Maud does this as a game. She invites the rest of the ponies to find her "pet rock", Boulder, who's hiding in a field full of rocks. But when the others give up, Maud reveals that Boulder was actually in her pocket the whole time. In the episode "Stranger Than Fan Fiction", Daring Do is at the convention to blend in and be mistaken for another cosplayer. Dr. Caballaron, who follows her, is likewise hidden amongst cosplayers when Rainbow Dash tries to warn someone about him, but he's confused and dismayed at all the ponies dressing up as him. In the episode "Viva Las Pegasus", Applejack says this exact phrase.
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c4282b71
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c43df4d8	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Subverted in "The Invasion of Time". The Doctor wants the Great Key of Rassilon from Borusa, who reaches up to an abstract wall structure made up of keys. The Doctor mentions that the best place to hide a tree is in a forest, but then he tosses the key aside, realising Borusa wouldn't give him the Key so easily. It turns out the real Key is stuck in the keyhole of Borusa's desk drawer. In "The Time of Angels", the Doctor goes hunting for a Weeping Angel... in a building of statues. The episode, were it not for the adventurous feel of the fifth series, would be Nightmare Fuel â€” as anyone who's watched "Blink" can attest to. Naturally, the Nightmare Fuel comes roaring back in the last ten minutes. Why? Because all the statues are Angels. The Doctor lampshades it with a brilliant example of Metaphorgotten on top:
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Doctor Who	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c43df4d8
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c456ee48	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c456ee48	comment	In The Satanic Mill, an evil sorcerer turns his apprentices into ravens, then challenges the heroine to determine which one's her beau. She succeeds because she senses which one of the identical ravens is afraid for her safety.
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Krabat	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c456ee48
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c487221e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c487221e	comment	In Men in Black, when "Edgar" escapes with the Galaxy and Laurel, Jay realizes that he's escaped in a cab. The trouble is, the movie is set in New York, and it's rush hour. However, Kay makes him stop, saying "He's not leaving [Earth] in a cab.".
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c487221e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Men in Black	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c487221e
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c511c682	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c511c682	comment	In Asterix in Britain, a keg of magic potion ends up with a multitude of kegs of wine. The Roman Army decides to find it by drinking from all kegs. Naturally, this results in a large number of very drunk soldiers. Even more chaos ensues when they do find the potion... while completely wasted.
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c511c682	featureApplicability	1.0
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Asterix (Comic Book)	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c511c682
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c5c11fd2	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c5c11fd2	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack, the Londo Bell forces fire salvos of nuclear warheads mixed in with more conventional missiles in order to make it harder for the Neo Zeon forces to shoot them down. Char is able to use his Psychic Powers and Attack Drones to shoot down most of the nukes, but one or two still get through.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c60c11f4	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c60c11f4	comment	Money Heist: At the beginning, the crew forces everyone at the bank to put on the same masks and clothes as them, as well as fake weapons. This prevents the police from knowing who are the thieves. The police attempts to exploit this by sneaking several cops dressed in the same costumes. However, the Professor has hacked their comms and learns this, so the crew just has everyone switch masks. When the Professor learns Ã�ngel may be about to awaken, he knows it's a trap but also needs to check if it's true. So he publishes a false request for clowns to flood the hospital and sneaks as one of them, so he can give one of the kids at the hospital a teddy bear with a camera and have him go to Ã�ngel's room.
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Money Heist	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c60c11f4
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c66ffb9c	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c66ffb9c	comment	In the Disney Fairies book "Vidia and the Fairy Crown," the queen's missing crown was accidentally placed in a room full of duplicate crowns (made as favors for the queen's birthday arrival day party). The only difference between the real crown and the fake crowns was that the real crown would shrink or grow to fit the wearer's head. Cue four fairies trying on thousands of crowns long into the night...
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c66ffb9c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c97b4034	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c97b4034	comment	At the climax of A Hat Full of Sky, Tiffany is desperate to find Granny Weatherwax - and learns that the Witch Trials are a very bad place to look for someone in black with a pointy hat.
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A Hat Full of Sky	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c97b4034
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c9d6c480	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c9d6c480	comment	Another Hercule Poirot story, The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim, has the villain and titular character pull this. After embezzling from your bank, robbing your own safe, and framing someone for the robbery and your own disappearance, where does a criminal hide? In prison.
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HerculePoirot	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_c9d6c480
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cac1f772	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cac1f772	comment	CSI: There was an episode where a murder victim was put inside a body-farm: a place where bodies are put in a number of different positions/environments so people can learn how they decay. It's also subverted as they immediately notice that it's out of place and not on record. In another episode, the CSIs are initially asked to find a missing horror movie star, and it takes a while for them to actually find her corpse...because she was almost Hidden in Plain Sight among the movie's props. The first season finale features a serial killer with a particular signature. A copycat tries to use him as cover for his own murder plan, but his killing doesn't match closely enough to throw off the CSIs. (He is close enough to fool the Feds, who promptly (and wrongly) name him as the serial killer.)
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CSI	hasFeature	Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cac1f772
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cb1d762a	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cb1d762a	comment	Poptropica: On Nabooti Island, one of the rare jewels you need is in a deposit of other identical-looking ones. You identify the real one by using a magnifying glass to look for an inscription that only it has.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cb1d762a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ccf875f7	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ccf875f7	comment	In Criminal Minds, Reid points out that this is a more apt metaphor when looking for an UnSub who they predict will look and behave just like he belongs in the neighborhood.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cf2d20a8	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cf2d20a8	comment	In an episode of Johnny Bravo, Johnny chases a leprechaun, who turns into a sheep and hides in a herd of them. In a rare moment of intelligence, Johnny finds him by shouting, "Scotland Rules!" The leprechaun got so offended that he stood up and yelled at him.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_cf2d20a8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d2bae484	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d2bae484	comment	The Amazing Race is a huge fan of this trope. One notable Road Block involved finding fake pieces of food amongst a huge table of real food. The catch was that if you chose wrong, you had to eat the food you picked. This, obviously, became a huge problem when some teams made several dozen wrong choices...
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d2bae484	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d5ddd6c1	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	PokÃ©mon: The Series: Team Rocket does this in order to steal a Togepi egg. In another episode, Team Rocket steals numerous people's Pokeballs by claiming that they had a special Pokemon-trading machine when Meowth was actually hiding inside the machine and swapping out the filled Pokeballs that came in with empty ones. When Ash locates the place where they hid all the Pokeballs, he initially can't find his own Pokeballs among the countless identical-looking ones until Pikachu sniffs them out for him. "Gotta Catch a What?!" has a whole group of wild Pikachu captured alongside Ash's by Team Rocket. Thing is, aside from knowing the gender difference they barely have any way of telling which Pikachu is the one they're looking for (and the wild Pikachu aren't giving up the answer to Meowth). In PokÃ©mon: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages, Hoopa tries to prank/test Ash by summoning a horde of Pikachu and asking him to figure out which of them is his partner. To Hoopa's disappointment, Ash picks the correct Pikachu instantly.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d6778009	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d6778009	comment	In the Cabin Pressure episode "Uskerty", Martin's ring is swallowed by one of a flock of geese, and Martin can't tell which one. Fortunately, the airport manager lets him use the security equipment to find the ring.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d6778009	featureConfidence	1.0
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d88c6466	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_d88c6466	comment	The Science of Discworld compares separating uranium-235 from uranium-238 to "looking for a needle in a haystack when the needle is made of straw".
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_da275e44	comment	The 4400: "The Wrath of Graham" featured a teenage loser named Graham who, after taking a promicin shot, develops the ability to make people worship and obey him like a god. He quickly begins abusing his power and brings his entire school under his thrall, with plans to spread even further. When a few cops show up to take him down, they're told that Graham will be wearing a hoodie... unfortunately, Graham suspects this and has all of the people in his cult wear one. This confuses the officers and gives him enough time to sneak up and steal their free will as well.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_dc46d036	comment	In Corto Maltese, in "Burlesque entre Zuydcoote et Bray-Dunes", the last story in "The Celtics", a killer disguised as a wooden puppet hides in a room full of similar wooden puppets.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_dff248f8	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_dff248f8	comment	An episode of The Adventures of Puss in Boots involves Puss searching for the Fountain of Youth. Turns out it is hidden in the forest of Fountainwood, along with a myriad of identical magical fountains that all do different things when you drink from them. Dulcinea helpfully labels them all as they search.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_e16fa1a8	comment	The Impossible Quiz's question 42: You have to find the 42 (Hint: It's 42). There are 50 on screen. The answer is the 42nd 42.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_e21e4293	comment	In Kubo and the Two Strings, the hero has to find three magical items that belonged to his father. One of them, the Sword Unbreakable, is hidden among several other swords, embedded on the skull of a giant skeleton demon.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_e2950b55	comment	Never Gives Up Her Dead: In the train dimension is a box full of fake crystal shards, but there's a real one in there somewhere as well. You use these real shards to upgrade a tool you have throughout the game. You can only find the real shard once you've upgraded the tool enough that it can detect items that are displaced in time; bringing it back to the box allows you to pick out which one it is.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_e2964820	comment	In episode three of Mystery Show, Starlee goes to a meeting of chefs in Arizona looking for an elderly Swiss-German man named Hans Jordi and finds herself surrounded by a roomful of older men with European accents.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_e2cb4c1	comment	Doctor Strange: During the "Montesi Formula" arc, Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum was being closely monitored by minions of Dracula. Two of Strange's allies, Morgana Blessing and Sara Wolfe, both took trains out of New York while wearing talismans that disguised themselves as Strange, to lure Dracula's minions away from their real target, who was able to escape by wearing a conventional disguise.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_e542bff1	comment	The Secret Return of Alex Mack: The Collective attempts to determine Terawatt's identity by stealing blood samples and hospital records from medical offices in Paradise Valley. However, it turns out that a good 8% of Paradise valley inhabitants had noticeable amounts of GC-161 exposure, not to mention people too poor to visit, those passing through (the origin story of at least three superheroes in the series at large), or those who — like Alex — avoided the doctor due to their exposure.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_eb0d248e	comment	At one point in Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra, the stolen dagger is hidden in the museum gift shop in a row of replica daggers. You can tell it's the real one because it doesn't have "Made in Pittsburgh" engraved on it.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_eda6d96a	comment	At the end of Spirited Away, Chihiro must figure out which two pigs out of a group of them are her parents. Her parents aren't there at all, because they're not really pigs to Chihiro. She wins simply by pointing this out.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_edaa765e	comment	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Holy Grail is hidden in a room with dozens of ornate, bejeweled, golden grails. Indy et al have to figure out which of them is the real one. The true Grail is the only one in the room made out of a humble material: "There. That's the cup of a carpenter."
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ef26ede1	comment	In the Hidamari Sketch manga, after Yuno lost her room key, the replacement key is in a box full of other keys, forcing Yuno to try them one by one to find out which one's the correct key. In the anime, it was the landlady who has to do it.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_efa49b17	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_efa49b17	comment	In The Mentalist episode "18-5-4", the Killer of the Week dresses up as a clown. She had earlier put out a fake casting call for clowns in a movie, so the police picked up several hundred clowns based on the witness description.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f12f9b66	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f12f9b66	comment	Wander over Yonder: In "The Battle Royale", Wander gets Sourdough the Evil Sandwich out of the way by dropping several other sandwiches on him so it'll take a long time for his servants to find him.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f15f622e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f15f622e	comment	In one episode of MacGyver, Mac is carrying a valuable Chinese artifact which he needs to get rid of in a hurry—so he finds a shop selling cheap replicas of the thing and puts it on the back of the shelf.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f1853fcd	comment	Cannon God Exaxxion: A Played for Horror example. The Riofaldians theorize that the pilot of the Exaxxion mecha that is defying them is a Japanese teenager, but they don't know whichâ€¦ so they execute all Japanese male teenagers with a similar height, and build to the pilot. Scarier yet, they actually succeed — if not for Nano Machines in his body that brought him back to life, Hoichi Kano would have become a Decoy Protagonist.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f1f1c74b	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f1f1c74b	comment	Dragon Steel: Near the end of the book, the heroes break into King Sambarâ€™s treasury to retrieve Monkeyâ€™s staff and the magic cauldron they came for, but find that everything is hidden among countless perfect replicas; the only way to identify the real from the fakes is with the guards' Magic Mirror, which only reflects the real one.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f25d9c54	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f25d9c54	comment	In Mr. Bean's Holiday, Bean's bus ticket gets carried away by the breeze and ends up stuck to a chicken's foot (at an open-air market), and the rancher then puts the chicken cages into his pickup and drives off. Bean steals a bicycle and follows the pickup all the way back to the ranch, but by the time he gets there, the chicken with the bus ticket is among a large flock of chickens.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f36a428d	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f36a428d	comment	Subverted in Bridge of Birds. Li Kao guesses that the MacGuffin Super-Person may have been transformed into a rose petal in a huge meadow of wildflowers, or a single raindrop in a thunderstorm, or any number of things... Except that it's far better to keep the goddess in plain sight, where she can bankrupt any pure-hearted man in China by just smiling at him.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f4e799ee	comment	Burn Notice featured something similar when Maddie had to hide from some armed thugs. Instead of making Sam drive her to Orlando to hide, she joined up with a senior citizen gambling group, saying something along the lines of "If they can find an old woman here... they deserve to get me." (Thereby freeing up Sam to help Michael.)
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f5855286	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: In the southern reaches of the Eldin region, there's a pair of treasure-hunting brothers who found a cave purported to contain a treasure hidden by the ancient thief Misko. Unfortunately, the cave is loaded with treasure chests, and the brothers gave up after they kept finding Green Rupees in the ones they opened. The solution? Feed the dog in the brothers' camp, and it will lead you to the right chest.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f5fbfb07	comment	This very phrase is uttered by Lust in the dub of Full Metal Alchemist 2003 when she and Gluttony are looking for Dr. Marcoh's notes on how to create a Philosopher's Stone. His notes are in the form of an unidentified book. And the book is written in code so you can't tell just by reading it that it's about the Philosopher's Stone. And it's in the largest library in the entire country. Unfortunately, they soon get into a battle with Scar that results in the entire library being burned down, preventing either of them from accessing the information they need. What they don't know, however, is that Sheska recreates the very book from her own memory. In fact, she recreates the entire burned section of the library!
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_f652bffd	comment	Little Brother: The protagonist is careful to keep all of his communication encrypted so that the Government Conspiracy can't keep tabs on him. However, he realizes that if they think to analyze system traffic based on how much of it is encrypted, rather than trying to read the messages, that fact alone is a huge red flag — since most systems only encrypt data that's actually important. He convinces his ISP (he uses a local, independent operation that he works part-time for) to encrypt everyone's traffic so that he and his allies no longer stand out.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fa00b130	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fa00b130	comment	In one episode of Spongebob Squarepants, Sandy insists on playing a game based on an entirely different and separate concept called "find the hay in the needle stack". You can guess what this involved.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fb4e4429	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fb4e4429	comment	The Mike Hammer novel The Twisted Thing by Mickey Spillane. The first elaborate murder plan having failed, the killer simply murders the victim with a hatchet, knowing his death will lead to other crimes and revealed secrets among his Big, Screwed-Up Family as they all scramble for his fortune, thus creating a large number of suspects.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fcfa72e	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fcfa72e	comment	In Drive (2011), this trope turns a tense cat-and-mouse getaway chase becomes a Hot Pursuit and The Driver evades the police by driving into the Staples Center just as the crowds rush out of a Clippers game. There are 3,300 parking spaces at Staples and the getaway vehicle is an Impala (one of Chevrolet's most popular models). The related Lost in a Crowd trope is performed as an encore when The Driver proceeds to walk right past the police, lost in a 15,000 strong crowd of celebrating Clippers fans.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fd0b756	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fd0b756	comment	The Hobbit had this once the dwarves finally get rid of Smaug and begin looking for the Arkenstone. You'd think such a beautifully, stunning gem would be easy to spot but it's buried among all the other countless jewels and trinkets in Smaug's massive hoard. They dig through the pile for days without finding it. This case is actually a subversion, however: Bilbo found it right away, in the dark, and took it before the dwarves had even begun to look.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fe94578f	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_fe94578f	comment	In the Alex Rider book Snakehead, Major Yu has been hired to kill a few high placed people, and so plans to use a bomb on an oil rig off the coast to cause a tsunami that will cause such death and destruction that the twenty-odd dead people that were on a resort won't register as particularly significant.
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Needle in a Stack of Needles / int_ffbcb90e	comment	Early in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Willie's efforts to recover a large diamond from the nightclub floor are nullified when an ice bucket is knocked over and scatters its contents across the area where she last spotted it.
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Saw / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
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Heretical Edge / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Horton Hears a Who! / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
How I Got My Shrunken Head / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Krabat / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
La Saga du Prêtre Jean / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Little Lost Robot / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Making Money / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
March Violets / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Martin Beck / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Night Watch (Discworld) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Ozma of Oz / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Patriot Games / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Sir Henry Merrivale / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Boxcar Children / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Three Investigators / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Tinder Box / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Twelve Chairs / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Where's Wally? / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Witches Abroad / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Worldwar / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
SPYÃ—FAMILY (Manga) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Mystery Show (Podcast) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Blackadder / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Cutthroat Kitchen / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Defiance / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Fort Boyard / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Foyle's War / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Galileo / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
In Plain Sight / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Kamen Rider Ghost / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Killjoys / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
MacGyver (1985) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Scream: Resurrection / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Stan Against Evil / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Amazing Race / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Lost Room / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Mole / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Wrong Mans / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Ultraseven / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Root (Tabletop Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Annventure (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Chip's Challenge (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Enchanter (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Hitman 2 (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Hitman (2016) (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Inscryption (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Life Is Strange (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
McPixel (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Mitadake High (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
NEO: The World Ends with You (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
NetHack (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Never Gives Up Her Dead (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Pajama Sam in No Need to Hide When It's Dark Outside (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Poptropica (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Prop Hunt (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Impossible Quiz (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Warriors (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Yooka-Laylee (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Zork Zero (Video Game) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Case 5: Turnabout Substitution (Visual Novel) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Crimes of Passion (Visual Novel) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Dark Lord Jadow 1 (Web Video) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Dad Villain AU (Webcomic) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures (Webcomic) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Erstwhile (Webcomic) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Kiwi Blitz (Webcomic) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Narbonic (Webcomic) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Super Brothers (Webcomic) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Onion (Website) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Abra-Catastrophe! / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Along Came Daffy / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Danger Mouse / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Garfield and Friends / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Justice League: Doom / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Kubo and the Two Strings / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Mr. Bean: The Animated Series / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
My Goldfish is Evil / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Planet 51 / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Soul / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Adventures of Puss in Boots / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Emperor's New Groove / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Real Ghostbusters / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
The Rescuers / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
Yogi's Treasure Hunt / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles
D.Gray-Man (Manga) / int_c41668cd	type	Needle in a Stack of Needles

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