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Omniscient Database
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No matter what sort of clue the Crime Scene lab has found (blood, wire, rope, oil, perfume, etc), somebody has manufactured a database designed to search through them all. Not only that, our heroes at the crime lab have purchased a copy of this software,note not necessarily needed, if the FBI/CIA/NSA already has a copy of the database — these organizations can be hacked within seconds by the average crime lab nerd the interface devices to input the data in question and have acquired the expertise to use this software (which has so far never been used in another one of their cases) with 100% accuracy on the first attempt. It should be noted that some of these "Omniscient Databases" actually exist, and are in use by various agencies, though they aren't quite as stunningly accurate or omniscient as the Police Procedural suggests. In real life, "Data Mining" is a time-consuming task that has to be practiced. Does each agency host a different server? Which ones pull from each other? Are all servers identical? Are there delays in updating the databases? These are all questions the searcher needs to be aware of, and there is no single database that stores 100% of the information. A key aspect of this trope is that there must be a pre-existing compendium of all possible samples of whatever is being identified. In Real Life, forensics can indeed match samples of, say, paint or glass not only down to manufacturer but even to a specific batch, but this requires two samples: one sample from evidence, and another sample to compare against. This also means that in real forensics, the implications of this evidence are different; while crime dramas typically use the Omniscient Database to find a new lead from trace evidence, real forensics usually confirms identity after the police have already gotten a lead (i.e. the police already suspect the glass came from the suspect's house or workplace and can prove it by comparing them, as opposed to identifying where the suspect lives with no prior knowledge just from the glass sample). Even in cases where there are well established databases, like criminal records, there are computer scientists who have dedicated entire careers just figuring out how to combine databases from various departments and institutions. When computers first started to be used for keeping criminal records, standardization was rarely considered, as they were for the use of that department alone, unless they were in a particularly forward-thinking county or large city where they shared records among local departments. It rapidly became apparent that this was a problem when departments began sharing records over the internet. One database may describe a criminal's eyes as "Light blue", another as "BL" and a third as "Lb". The same departments would describe another criminal's eyes as "Dark Brown", "BrD", and "B". This is after you manage to figure out which column denotes eye color, mind you. Even after the problem was discovered, change was slow because in some cases, such as New York City and London, the same basic forms had been used for over 100 years, and had simply been transferred from index card to hard drive. Forensics labs also have an out for many of these Omniscient Databases, since it's generally believable that they would have a database of common murder weapons or components of weapons. Narratively, there are two distinct (but related) uses of this trope: As a time-saving device. Real forensic work or database searches might take days or weeks, and involve dozens or hundreds of hours of mind-numbing desk work that makes for poor viewing. Judicious use of this trope can reduce that boring search to a perky geek girl pushing a button and giving you instant DNA results so your characters can get back to busting bad guys. As a work-saving device. Sometimes, writers just don't have time to come up with plausible ways to solve the convoluted plot they came up with this week. Maybe they're more interested in the detectives as characters than the police work itself. If you can't come up with a way for the protagonists to locate the bad guy realistically, the Omniscient Database is a cheap and easy way to gloss over that and advance the plot. Omniscient Databases almost always have a Viewer-Friendly Interface. If it's on paper or supernatural, it's a Great Big Book of Everything or Great Big Library of Everything. See Akashic Records for a related but older trope. These are a special Applied Phlebotinum used primarily in Police Procedural dramas, sometimes ones with a supernatural element. Compare Expositron 9000. Not to be confused with the Magical Database, which holds information on supernatural elements as well. |
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On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, they often query some supposed national database implied to consist of all sex crime reports recorded by all local precincts throughout the entire country. They also have Warner, whose mind occasionally acts as a virtual omniscient database. | |
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In Kingdom Hearts II, Sora seems to think that Ansem's computer is one of these. Because the computer belonging to the guy you killed last year will have info on where your friends are right now, right? | |
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On Angel, Wolfram & Hart has access to several databases which actually are magical. Before Angel's team got access to these they used "Demons, Demons, Demons: The Demon Database". In "Dad", Lilah Morgan has to dig through cabinets of files to find information on Angel, it seems like the trope is being averted. At least until she's about to give up on finding the information she needs, at which point the clerk at the desk of the records room reveals herself as the example of this trope, able to magically access, search, sort, and recall all the information the firm has stored in their records. Lilah asks her a few simple questions and is immediately pointed to exactly the records and information she wants. |
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Bones uses "The Jeffersonian" (an obvious reference to the real world Smithsonian Institute) as an Omniscient Database. Lots of it is online for easy searching (such as tidal flow patterns and weather data for a given day, to determine from where a body washed up to where it was dropped in a river), but even more of it are the incredibly detailed exhibits and storehouses which just happen to coincide with the investigation of the day (such as every insect ever known with specific details of their exact location, which is precise enough to enable the team to find crime scenes). | |
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Chuck is a walking-talking database, able to identify terrorists on sight, however there is also such a database under the Orange Orange used by Sarah and Casey. In "Chuck vs. Santa Claus" we see it pulls up the record of "Ned" who has no criminal record, and is listed as having never been married or divorced. You know how powerful a computer is when it categorizes you by things you haven't done rather than by what you have done. Then again, it is a U.S. government computer... It doesn't seem too farfetched since getting married in a legal sense requires a marriage license. And since in the US, being married grants several benefits in things like taxes, marital status is generally a standard appearance on many forms. The Intersect and its legacy is in fact what drives the entire plot of Chuck. It's mere existence is what would destroy Chuck's family. Chuck's father created it, which would eventually force him into hiding. One of the earlier versions was later tested on his friend Hartley in order to implant a cover personality, but the personality took over, creating one of the most dangerous men in the world: the psychotic arms dealer Alexei Volkoff, who would later in fall in love with CIA agent Mary Bartowski, forcing her into an undercover assignment for decades and separating her from her family. To say nothing of what it did to Chuck, Ellie, and their friends and (other) family over the course of the series. Then again, it is a database that allows access to top secret information and several other skills such as martial arts, so there is a legitimate reason as to why people are after it. |
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E-Ring had an example in the episode "The General". Said general is kidnapped in Spain. In order to identify his kidnapper, the main character asks to consult the Voice Database of the Spanish Government (which apparently includes voice samples of each of the 40 million citizens of the country and is regularly updated to match voice changes due to aging, disease or plain mood swings), and then uses an experimental, American exclusive application to compare its files with the record of the kidnapper's voice he has. This leads to the obvious question of why on Earth would a government keep a voice database of all its citizens if it had no way of consulting it. | |
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Probe's "Quit-It": Austin's computer can analyze a microscopic compound in under a minute, so he puts an empty bottle of "Quit-It" to the test. The molecular analysis tells him... the pills had been contained inside a gelatin capsule. He will have to get a sample from the source if he really wants to analyze it. | |
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Dexter An episode had Dexter identifying an STD in some bloodwork, then going into the Florida STD Database to find the names of people afflicted with that particular — and, of course, extremely rare—strain. It is implied that he never leaves the building during all of this, so Dexter's miraculous set of databases even cover what you might be doing with your genitals. Subverted with Trinity. His DNA is collected halfway through the season but it can't be used to identify him because he has no criminal record and isn't in the database. |
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Castle: Although the NYPD police detectives usually make do with a humble whiteboard and footwork, this trope is taken to hilariously ludicrous extremes in the two-parter "Tick... Tick... Tick..." / "Boom!" in which the FBI have smart boards so amazing that they gradually go from matching driver's license photos to witness sketches to being able to pinpoint the exact location of a hostage (down to the room she's being held in) thanks to a blurry image of what might be a bridge and the ambient noise of a subway. It's memorably subverted in a first season episode, when Beckett says they'll need to look someone up in the missing persons' database- a bunch of paper folders. The man from The Men in Black in one episode has a database in a suitcase. It instantly pinpoints a man's location by using his cellphone then automatically finds a Magical Security Cam in the area and maps a small part of the man's face onto a model, extrapolates the rest of his face from that, and pops up with an identity. Castle and Beckett are surprisingly unfazed by the technology. In "The Good, the Bad, and the Baby," Castle and Beckett use a prison tattoo database. |
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The Flash: Impulse is the only Flash able to permanently remember what he reads at super-speed. Once, he read an entire San Francisco public library. It came in less handy than you'd think. | |
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And similar to John Doe, there's Kyle from Kyle XY, who didn't know every trivial fact, only things like mathematical formulas. Well, until he spent a single day reading the World Book. More literally, it is revealed that Kyle possesses the entire Zzyzx database in his mind. |
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Ms Lemon's files in Poirot, made all the more impressive by the fact that the series is set in the 1930s. This is partly lampshaded in that the other characters are constantly astounded by what Ms Lemon can come up with when she digs through her records - she's one of the few people meticulous enough to work for Poirot. | |
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To push the point home, the only character who probably trumps her in intelligence might be Eirin Yagokoro, the Brain of the Moon. Very few humans know anything significant about the advanced Lunarian society and their technology (for their own protection, to some extent). In Silent Sinner In Blue, Patchouli not only makes remarkably accurate predictions regarding the timing of their rocket's flight to get to the Lunar Capital but she also immediately identifies the Lunar Veil, a Lunarian device that allows flawless travel between the Earth and Moon, that Eirin had covertly attached to the rocket. The ever-collected Eirin's first thought is stab this person now. | |
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Spooks - well, maybe it's magic, or maybe MI5 really can do that stuff... | |
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The Dresden Files: The Archive in is a being that holds the knowledge of everything ever written down, ever, in the history of mankind. Her information is updated in real-time, a fact which Harry puts to good use in Small Favor. There's also Bob, Harry's knowledge spirit in a skull. Bob doesn't have the extensive knowledge of the Archive, but he is Dresden's go-to guy for magical knowledge, and he instinctively knows the current rules of magic. |
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Torchwood's main characters are a secret organization with nationwide database records sorted by an ancient alien computer system. The team is capable of literally retconning anything by changing the database. Torchwood also subverted it once - just as Jack and Toshiko are getting ready to search every database they have, Owen announces that he's already found the man they're looking for. He was listed in the phone book. |
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Somewhat subverted in Ben 10: Alien Force; the Codon Stream on planet Primus is the actual source of the Omnitrix's DNA samples; the Omnitrix itself is a sort of wireless reciever. Played straight in later installments where Primus is retconned out and all the DNA information is stored digitally within the Omnitrix. | |
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In Robin (1993), Tim, who helped design and build the current computer in the batcave, notes that the system may have a ton of info but doesn't always have the info he wants from it when he faces an opponent who he recognizes from a file that has no more information on the villain than their villain name and a picture. | |
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An episode of the Red Dwarf 2009 revival parodies this. After returning to Earth circa 2009, the guys from Red Dwarf find out that they are characters from a TV show by way of a video store showing the currently playing episode on their TVs. One salesman comments he never liked the show, and questions how a device Kryten is holding could know everything. Lister then asks the Kryten who the man is, which Kryten finds out from the device that he is "a pompous know-it-all, with a very small penis." It does explain that it learns this by hacking into and reading his emails. Less magic database, more magic scanner. |
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From the Jem episode "In Search of the Stolen Album": Synergy, Jem's super-computer, is able to scan clues that the Misfits' treasure hunt joke on the Holograms in a matter of moments—and even the reasons behind the places. | |
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The man from The Men in Black in one episode has a database in a suitcase. It instantly pinpoints a man's location by using his cellphone then automatically finds a Magical Security Cam in the area and maps a small part of the man's face onto a model, extrapolates the rest of his face from that, and pops up with an identity. Castle and Beckett are surprisingly unfazed by the technology. | |
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Zig-zagged in the sequel series; while she is capable of holographically reproducing a prize fight from 1977, Ziggy on the whole is not quite as omniscient as before. Her knowledge is often supplanted by information from the internet, and she even has trouble locating an off-grid cabin in 1996 due to a lack of official records. Ian later lampshades how Ziggy isn't omniscient in the traditional sense. | |
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Lord Peter Wimsey series: Wimsey is a living magical database. He also had a home-made "Who's Who" of the underworld, and once managed to identify the maker of a hat which had had its label removed, purely from the style. (Parker remarks that if he hadn't got the hatter, they'd have tried him on the man's dress suit, similarly de-labelled.) | |
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The Young Wizards series: A wizard's manual is a constantly-updating collection of knowledge spanning most of the known universe and several others besides. Every wizard has a copy, in formats ranging from Spell Book to laptop to disembodied voice, and the contents rearrange themselves according to the wizard's needs and talents. | |
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Almost every depiction of Batman has this, whether it's his own vast knowledge (a la Sherlock Holmes), the Batcave computer, or a combination of both. In one Justice League of America issue, it is shown that Batman's database of fingerprints looks at the magical databases of the Batcave, the GCPD, AFIS, JLA Headquarters and Superman's fortress of solitude. This allows him to determine the identity of a 31st century superhero because Superman had been friends with him in the past... err... future... Sort of justified, as Batman owns a Cray. The specific model depicted in one comic has an amazing 8MB. For comparison: this very tvtopes page has about 1MB (including images). Well, on second thought, not justified at all. The Cray's power is number crunching, not database operation. In Robin (1993), Tim, who helped design and build the current computer in the batcave, notes that the system may have a ton of info but doesn't always have the info he wants from it when he faces an opponent who he recognizes from a file that has no more information on the villain than their villain name and a picture. |
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Subverted in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005): When the eponymous female character commands her subordinates to "search the database!", she gets rebutted with a snarky "For what? John Smith?" | |
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The Star Trek franchise must hold the freakin' copyright on the omniscient database, 'cause there are like 1500 of them in the series and movies. The holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation can recreate any setting or fictional story known to Man and several other species. (In one of the books, the holodeck can even replay every Opera performance from 1400 to the year 2356. How they managed to record pre-Renaissance operas... best not to ask.) At one point, Picard commands the holodeck to recreate a specific date and time in a Parisian café, complete with accurate interactive portrayals of everyone who was present in the café at the time, in order to relive a memory on a whim. His subsequent disgust at himself for doing so clearly indicates this is not a holodeck program he'd built himself - the data already existed in the computer. The Enterprise Main Computer carries all kinds of info like the launch codes to the Voyager probe built over 200 years earlier, or the command codes to every other Federation ship. And yet, when it would actually be useful for the computer to find a piece of obscure information, such as in "The Naked Now" or "Darmok", it takes hours. On the other hand, this matches real database performance - selecting a specific single record is far, far, FAR faster and easier than a complex query with plenty of cross-referencing, calculations on and parsing of retrieved data, and presumably multiple sources. "Darmok" also contains more than a little Fridge Logic, in that the database actually knew the stories they were talking about, and yet nobody had made the link before. Voyager has some rather odd entries in its database as well, like, say, Earth's entire paleontological record. You never know when you might encounter a race on the other side of the galaxy that's descended from our dinosaurs. Or the time Janeway decided to research one of her ancestors; it was averted at first when she couldn't find much info in Starfleet records, until she had the bright idea to look up Ferengi newspaper clippings (despite this ancestor living during pre-warp times on Earth). |
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NCIS: Abby, the forensic scientist, tells us that her ex-boyfriend has made a database of databases after using a magic database of the measures of car fronts. A database of turkey DNA comes in to play. Abby often gets amazingly precise information about what type of gun was used in a murder from just the bullet retrieved from the victim. This is in part because an implausibly large percentage of the villains use rare or even custom-made guns; it's almost as if they're trying to get caught. |
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Alcatraz has a database in their Bat Cave that can find, in seconds, a complete map of all private bomb shelters built in the 1960s by a company that went out of business decades ago. | |
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Secret Histories: The Karma Catechist is a living database of every spell, ritual and magical concept conceivable in his universe. | |
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An omniscient database is often an implicit background element of investigations in all the Law & Order series. Although they have used such databases for many of the same types of queries as in CSI, the database query itself is more often carried out off-screen, with a lab analyst mentioning that a fiber found at the crime scene matches a luxury brand of purse that is only sold in only three stores in New York City. On Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, they often query some supposed national database implied to consist of all sex crime reports recorded by all local precincts throughout the entire country. They also have Warner, whose mind occasionally acts as a virtual omniscient database. |
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The DCU: Almost every depiction of Batman has this, whether it's his own vast knowledge (a la Sherlock Holmes), the Batcave computer, or a combination of both. In one Justice League of America issue, it is shown that Batman's database of fingerprints looks at the magical databases of the Batcave, the GCPD, AFIS, JLA Headquarters and Superman's fortress of solitude. This allows him to determine the identity of a 31st century superhero because Superman had been friends with him in the past... err... future... Sort of justified, as Batman owns a Cray. The specific model depicted in one comic has an amazing 8MB. For comparison: this very tvtopes page has about 1MB (including images). Well, on second thought, not justified at all. The Cray's power is number crunching, not database operation. In Robin (1993), Tim, who helped design and build the current computer in the batcave, notes that the system may have a ton of info but doesn't always have the info he wants from it when he faces an opponent who he recognizes from a file that has no more information on the villain than their villain name and a picture. Oracle has taken on the role of database for the hero community at large. She serves as information retriever and disseminator, as well as offering mission-specific hacking and guidance. In an issue of Gotham Central, which focused on the members of the Major Crimes Unit of the Gotham City Police Department, Renee Montoya was attempting to track down the history of a sniper rifle that had been used in several high-profile assassinations. She is seen accessing numerous government databases, including the FBI and ATF, but none of them can give her any useful information. When she mysteriously gains access to a system named "Oracle," which neither she nor her partner can identify, she is shocked (but happy) when it suddenly gives her the complete history of the gun, including the gun shop where it was sold. The Flash: Impulse is the only Flash able to permanently remember what he reads at super-speed. Once, he read an entire San Francisco public library. It came in less handy than you'd think. |
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In an episode of Judging Amy, the DNA identifying computer with a database of known criminals returned a result of... cat DNA! Which actually justified. Its not that uncommon to stumble upon Animal DNA (Pets, Strays etc.) on a crime scene so checking for the right number of chromosomes and some markers makes sense before you go onto a useless orgy of comparing datasets to a nonsensical sample. | |
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Classics Dark and Dangerous: "The Ugly Little Boy": Edyth Fellows was selected by the "young earth" computer from a pool of over five thousand applicants. She was chosen based on her professional skills and lack of personal relationships. | |
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The Archive in is a being that holds the knowledge of everything ever written down, ever, in the history of mankind. Her information is updated in real-time, a fact which Harry puts to good use in Small Favor. | |
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Subverted in Queen and Country - when trying to identify a man on a video being used to blackmail a well-known telecom industrialist, the technicians mention to Crocker that they ran his face through a visual database to match him to someone on file. Crocker asks if that actually worked, and one of the techs says it never does, mentioning that the database always wants to match the subject to the late Queen Mother. | |
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Painkiller Jane: This is almost the entire purpose of Riley's character — to run the computers that have access to these things. | |
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In Aristoi, all human knowledge is contained within the Hyperlogos. The database is so big, in fact, that the Moon has been entirely converted into a dedicated server farm, and it's only one of many such farms throughout the known galaxy. | |
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In an issue of Gotham Central, which focused on the members of the Major Crimes Unit of the Gotham City Police Department, Renee Montoya was attempting to track down the history of a sniper rifle that had been used in several high-profile assassinations. She is seen accessing numerous government databases, including the FBI and ATF, but none of them can give her any useful information. When she mysteriously gains access to a system named "Oracle," which neither she nor her partner can identify, she is shocked (but happy) when it suddenly gives her the complete history of the gun, including the gun shop where it was sold. | |
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Doctor Who: The Doctor is a living Omniscient Database. For later incarnations, there isn’t a single episode in the new or old series where he met an alien, visited a planet, or saw a piece of technology he hadn’t seen, invented, or met previously (with extremely rare exceptions, which he rather enjoys). In the new series, when a bunch of alien cops threaten him and Donna, he easily understands and berates them in the same language. The man is awesome. But then who knows what anybody might know after traveling the universe for a thousand years... And then there's CAL, which contains every book ever written in any language, by any species, since the beginning of time. Including lost works. In both hard copy and digital. The episode "Midnight" averts this somewhat. The 10th Doctor has no idea what the enemy is or how to fight it. It's worth mentioning that he IS over nine hundred years oldnote now more than 2000 , and putting everything we've seen on-screen together would make about one-hundredth of his life. |
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John Doe features a hero that displays ability of knowing everything that can be known about on earth. He's basically a walking and talking magical database. Actually, he knows everything about everything except himself. It might be more accurate to say that he has the internet in his head. For example, he doesn't know who Jack the Ripper was, but he knows all the theories on the subject. He also only has access to publicly available information. So when he is asked if the US government has a secret space program, he honestly answers that he doesn't know. |
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Inspector Runge from Monster keeps an absurdly expansive encyclopedia on practically everything in his head by constantly making a typing motion and saying that he's just calling up the memories as he needs them, or something along those lines. | |
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Blake's 7: Orac, the super computer, who can read any computer with "tarial cells" and is therefore able to find any data the characters can possibly want. Whether he then tells them what he finds out is another story... | |
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Person of Interest: That trope and its exploitation is the basic concept behind the show. Somewhat more justified than usual in that when Finch built the Machine, he was explicitly given access to every data feed the NSA could get its hands on (plus every electronic device the Machine itself hacked on the fly, plus data from an ingenious invention of Finch called "social networks" (aka Facebook), where people would voluntarily enter all kinds data about themselves), and now that he no longer has such access he often has to resort to asking Carter or Fusco to look through the NYPD databases on his behalf, which quite frequently turns out to be a dead end. So while the database may be omniscient, the cast's ability to make use of its omniscience is surprisingly limited given the premise of the show. In fact Finch deliberately set things up so the government could not use the Machine as a omniscient database. The government gets warning of impeding threats but is otherwise locked out of the Machine's data processing functions. A key part of the premise is that such an enormous amount of data is useless without having an Artificial Intelligence constantly sifting through it and deciding what is relevant and what is not. Finch spent years training the Machine to prioritize and make educated guesses. Made full use of in the few cases the Machine's shackles are taken off, like the second and fourth season's finale, Root's status as the Machine's Analog Interface and finally Finch's endgame in the last episodes of the fifth season. Full-scale Awesomeness by Analysis usually follows, which is why the status of being helped/directed by the Machine is usually called God Mode in the series. |
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CSI is the king of the Omniscient Database. They have demonstrated databases on blood, hair, rope, wire, shoe prints, tire treads, tire rubber compositions, and even clown makeup patterns. There was a Lampshade Hanging in a sixth season episode, in which a character sarcastically suggested searching a database to discover the brand of a hot dog. And yes, there is a national clown registry to prevent identical makeup. Amusingly subverted in one episode where Greg is disappointed to learn that there is no hotdog database & winds up spending his entire year's food budget on various brands of hotdogs in an attempt to find a match to one found in a vic's stomach. (He thought the department would re-imburse him. They didn't.) The software/database that allows one to find where a picture in New York was taken by measuring the skyline in comparison to a reference height (while the technique is sound, there is no such software). However, one episode shows them using Photosynth. In fact, it's when CSI avoids the trope that it can be jarring. A reoccurring scene is the local trace evidence guy naming a compound, and the CSI identifying the compound's common name, and its uses, including the more arcane (say, Jeweller grinder lubricant) off the top of their head. Said arcane uses are always the key to cracking the case. This gets jarring because there are databases to identify the most common uses of chemicals. There actually are multiple shoe-print databases available to police. An episode of the True Crime series Cold Case Files discussed a murder case that was solved, thanks to a partial shoe-print on a piece of glass that matched the shoes of a person in the neighborhood, who was found to be the killer. The characters in CSI are also lucky that whatever sample of fabric or metal they find, there is always some unique element or polymer in it which is used by a single company in the world, and is located a short car drive away. Did we forget to mention that the magical database knows the exact 100% correct composition of everything you can buy? |
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Criminal Minds: Garcia, oh my God. It's hilarious. The team is like, "We need a list of every young, poorly adjusted white male who recently broke up with his girlfriend and has a mole on his upper left cheek." Garcia is like, "Oh, sure, I'll just check my database of who's dating whom and my mole-dar. Why not?" It borders on Self-Parody, as it is implied at several points during the series that Garcia can find anything. She does hit a wall at one point. In the episode "Fatal," she bemoans the fact that there's no database of people who wear hats. |
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In the Art of Fighting OVA, King is shown searching through a database that has complete biographies of Ryo Sakazaki and Robert Garcia, and uses this knowledge to track down and kidnap Ryo's sister Yuri. | |
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In The Sandman (1989), Dream has a library of all the books that were never written. Including some famous real-world classics whose authors died before they could finish writing them. It also has the books that you might dream of writing some day. Trippy. | |
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Oracle has taken on the role of database for the hero community at large. She serves as information retriever and disseminator, as well as offering mission-specific hacking and guidance. | |
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There is a notable aversion in The Fall (2013). It takes several days to identify the brand of nail polish that the murderer applied to his victim postmortem, and even then the brand is sold everywhere, so it's a bit moot. | |
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In Grand Theft Auto IV, the criminal dispatching minigame starts by looking up a perp from a stolen cop car's laptop. This gives an exact, updating location of the criminal for you to chase down. | |
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Uplink is a game basically built in databases, it features a Social Security Database, a Criminal Database and an Academic Database which store all the important people in the game and every life you'll ever need to ruin (including yours). And the InterNIC, a database containing every public website in the world, which is to say a few hundred in the actual game. | |
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Sherlock Holmes: Holmes kept such databases in his head, being able to identify, for example, varieties of tobacco after examination of the ash (he had "written a monograph" on the subject). He also had a substantial collection of home-made biographies, which were usually spoken aloud by Watson for the reader's benefit. So, despite its modern-tech dressing, this is a pretty old detective-story trope. Sherlock's older brother Mycroft actually made a living out of this, being a living database for the British Government. |
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Voyager has some rather odd entries in its database as well, like, say, Earth's entire paleontological record. You never know when you might encounter a race on the other side of the galaxy that's descended from our dinosaurs. Or the time Janeway decided to research one of her ancestors; it was averted at first when she couldn't find much info in Starfleet records, until she had the bright idea to look up Ferengi newspaper clippings (despite this ancestor living during pre-warp times on Earth). | |
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Connor's magnum opus in Primeval is a database of the identifying traits of every dinosaur and other prehistoric animal known to man. It's just barely conceivable that Connor could have created such a thing single-handed if what he actually did was acquire copies of databases previously compiled by other researchers, tidy up and standardize the formatting and make them all searchable from a common web interface, but still rather unlikely.note Unless of course Connor was lying about doing it all by himself, which would be in-character for him in early Season 1. Accessing it on his laptop from just about anywhere without any apparent means of connecting to the Internet, on the other hand... | |
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While it generally avoided this sort of thing, there was once an episode of Babylon 5 where they were able to look up the name of the person living at a specific London address nearly 400 years earlier and also the fact that the person disappeared the day after the last Jack the Ripper murder. | |
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In Lupin III: Dead or Alive, Lupin's computer is capable of analyzing sand, and determining the atomic composition of Nanomachines. | |
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In the Wishbone episode "The Slobbery Hound," David apparently has access to a database of dog breeds that includes things like their jaw measurements, for some reason. It has a very '90s aesthetic to it, like an over-the-top hacker-movie interface run on an old Apple Macintosh OS. | |
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The holodeck from Star Trek: The Next Generation can recreate any setting or fictional story known to Man and several other species. (In one of the books, the holodeck can even replay every Opera performance from 1400 to the year 2356. How they managed to record pre-Renaissance operas... best not to ask.) At one point, Picard commands the holodeck to recreate a specific date and time in a Parisian café, complete with accurate interactive portrayals of everyone who was present in the café at the time, in order to relive a memory on a whim. His subsequent disgust at himself for doing so clearly indicates this is not a holodeck program he'd built himself - the data already existed in the computer. |
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