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The Little Detecto
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It's a wonderful device — a detector that detects the things you need! There is a detector for everything — Applied Phlebotinum, Green Rocks, guns, bombs, spaceships, ghosts, mice, cheese, socks... If you live in a high-tech setting and need to find something, there is a type of The Little Detecto that will detect it! The physics behind the Little Detecto is never explained. It just detects the thing that is the local Serious Business. The Trope Namer is a gadget from one Tom and Jerry cartoon that was used to detect mice. Compare Thing-O-Meter, a comedy trope. Contrast with Everything Sensor; The Little Detecto only detects the one thing that is Serious Business. |
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Cole from inFAMOUS has the inherent ability to detect nearby Blast Shards, the general direction of dead drops and sources of electricity, including ones in people. This is denoted by icons on the radar and a quick Aura Vision onscreen. | |
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The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series has the Artifact Detectors, though they only really appeared in Call of Pripyat after being Dummied Out of the earlier installments. There are several different versions, the best of which leans slightly towards being an Everything Sensor as it can also mark the position of non-moving anomalies. | |
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Starbound has the Ore Detector, which sends a pulse that detects different ores in the screen you're in, even if they're within the ground. | |
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The World Ends with You: Joshua gets an app from Hanekoma that lets him track some kind of "energy spikes". Things that set it off include the mysterious new Shadow Ramen shop and large crowds of people wearing Red Skull pins. Unfortunately for Neku, the only explanation Josh is willing to give him is that he's looking for "what this tracker is tracking". The Secret Reports explain that it detects the Conductor's Imagination — anything related to Kitaniji's plan will ping it, allowing Joshua to put together what he's up against. At this point, even Hanekoma himself doesn't know what Kitaniji's plan is, so the tracker is the best bet for both of them. | |
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The Sheikah Sensor from The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild normally targets shrines, but can be upgraded by Purah to target items in the game's compendium as well. It also becomes available with the item targeting already unlocked after a sidequest in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. | |
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Rainbow Six Siege has IQ's electronics detector and Pulse's heartbeat sensor. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, a bomb disposal expert creates one which specifically searches for the aftershave his Apprentice turned Mad Bomber applies to all his bombs. It turns out he no longer applies it to all his bombs. | |
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Molly Walker from Heroes can find people. | |
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The Return, pattern detectors. Little palmtop things that tell you if the creature currently ripping your heart out through your ribcage is a demon or not. | |
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In People of Earth a guy at a UFO convention has a device that he claims detects cosmic radiation on people, but Alex is quite skeptical when he claims she has a very high level of cosmic rays, indicating she's been to space.note Her mother was abducted by aliens while giving birth, and she was born in space then dropped off in a baby supply store, but she's unaware of that at that point. She thinks the wand looks like a curling iron. But, later Don passes by the booth and the device goes crazy. | |
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In Paranoia, the detecto ties in with the game's Color-Coded for Your Convenience security level system. | |
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At the end of Xiaolin Showdown's first season, Jack Spicer builds a Shen Gong Wu detecto-bot. | |
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In The Fairly Oddparents, Mr. Crocker has a "fairy detector" that he uses to hunt down Timmy's fairies. | |
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Sam Fisher's goggles in Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory gain the ability to view electromagnetic fields, which essentially shows the player electric/electronic devices they can interact with. | |
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The Muppet Show: Bunsen Honeydew once invented a gorilla detector. It completely failed to detect the gorilla until after it had already attacked his computers, and him. Bunsen originally attributed the failure to the fact that the attacker was not actually a gorilla. | |
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Cheat Code: Support Strategist has Midoriya figure out how to make a device that detects gravitational anomalies in order to figure out where Ochako goes once she gains the ability to teleport from One For Alll He later learns he can also use it to detect Kurogiri's warping as well. | |
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In Dungeons & Dragons, many spells work like The Little Detecto. They have titles beginning with "Detect", as simple as that: Earlier editions had quite a few; Detect Magic, Detect Evil, Detect Good, Detect Undead, Detect Traps...etc. 5th edition simplified them to four broader spells: Detect Evil & Good note Detect any creature that not native to the Prime Material World (e.g. Fiends, Celestials, Elementals, Undead, and Aberations- contrary to the name the creature's alignment is irrelevant) — earlier editions had similar spells for each alignment and they actually detected targets based on their alignment, Detect Magicnote Makes any magically affected item or person glow, indicating the intensity of magic and the school it belongs to, Detect Poison & Diseasenote Instantly sense and identify any poison or poisonous creature or disease within 30ft and Detect Thoughtsnote You can sense any thinking creature within 30ft., and also try to read the mind of any one such creature nearby. They all have the stipulation, in every edition "it is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt" to help a savvy DM keep them from breaking the game (as all of them are level 1 spells, aside from Thoughts, which is second). Find Traps works as this. Contrary to the name, it does not actually find any traps, it just lets you know if there are any mechanical or magical traps within line of sight of you inside the spell's range. It also only detects traps that were deliberately set, so natural hazards that are otherwise identical to traps won't be detected. It's generally regarded as a completely useless spell. Paladins in 5th Edition get Divine Sense, which allows them to know the location of any celestial, fiend, or undead that's within 60 feet of them and not behind total cover. Under most circumstances, they can probably already see any creatures that would be detected by the ability, so it's largely only useful for confirming that a being is what it appears to be. Rangers in 5th Edition get the Primeval Awareness ability at 3rd level, which lets them burn a spell slot in order to automatically know if there are any aberrations, celestials, dragons, elementals, fey, fiends, or undead within a one mile radius of the ranger. It doesn't tell the ranger anything else, such as how many there are or in what direction they happen to be. |
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Vow of Nudity: After learning how to craft magic spears, Haara (an escaped slave from the Genasi Empire) starts carrying around one that glows faintly if Genasi are ever within 120 feet of her. | |
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In the Harry Potter fic Mr. Black and the Demoness, a mad scientist friend of Harry's made a "Dork Lord" detector out of an old alarm clock. | |
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About the only good thing about the Brand of Sacrifice from Berserk is that it lets Guts know when the demons are coming for him by bleeding. | |
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Spoofed on The Ren & Stimpy Show episode "Marooned". Cadet Stimpy pointed one such device at various things on a strange planet, but all that he found out was that "this thing makes the coolest noises." | |
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Beyond Good & Evil has both the Pearl Detector and the Animal Detector, which help you find Plot Coupons and animals for your First-Person Snapshooter sidequest. | |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past features special devices capable of detecting the Mutant X-gene ... as early as 1973. Makes you wonder why the government didn't use those in any of the films set later… | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "Vanessessary Roughness", Dr. Doofenshmirtz "just happens" to have a pizzazium detector in his top pocket after he and his daughter stumble upon a sample at the mall. It comes in handy when Baljeet snags the pizzazium first. In "The Chronicles of Meap", Phineas converts a GPS into a "cute tracker" to find an adorable alien the boys call "Meap". Isabella, who harbors a crush on Phineas, is annoyed that the device apparently ignores her, until Phineas reveals that he deliberately had it ignore Isabella's cuteness. When he adjusts the device to stop ignoring Isabella, it self-destructs. |
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Our Miss Brooks: Walter and Miss Brooks use a Geiger counter in "Rare Black Orchid" to search for uranium. Walter had discovered some on his shoe and concluded he had unknowingly stepped in uranium recently. | |
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Immortal Hulk: Doctor McGowan produces a device that detects gamma radiation, showing that Jackie has become a gamma mutate. | |
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In The Flash, Earth-2 has a cellphone app that can detect nearby Metahumans. | |
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The swords of the Nac Mac Feegle glow when they're near lawyers, a reference to The Lord of the Rings. | |
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Pokémon Colosseum has a character that can detect an "aura" around Shadow Pokemon. XD replaces her with a device that looks like a DBZ Scouter. | |
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In Final Fantasy IX, the chocobo acts as this while you ride it. They are able to detect things buried in the ground, and a text bubble appears for you to play Hot and Cold as you run around to find the item. | |
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The Powder Toy has DTEC. It generates electricity when a specific type (defined by DTEC's ctype) of particle touches it. | |
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Naomi's Saadahk in Aecast. A medium-sized gold ball that pulls small pebbles and dust from its surroundings and has them orbit it - incoming parties, their size, and what direction they are coming from are all reflected in the "dust ring" of the Saadahk. | |
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Chrestomanci: In Witch Week, Inquisitors carry witchcraft detectors. Chrestomanci's, however, is just a cigarette case that he causes to beep at appropriate times; he doesn't need a machine to tell him when someone's a witch. | |
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In Dishonored, The Heart lets you detect runes and bone talismans, and can tell you secrets about people you point it at. | |
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Viscera Cleanup Detail provides a detector as one of your core tools. Toggle it one way and it detects any liquid waste, the other and it detects solid waste. It's incredibly sensitive, able to find things that are nearly (or entirely due to physics engine weirdness) invisible, and can even detect dangerous living organisms or anchors for most incorporeal malignant entities. While it's theoretically possible to get almost any area perfectly clean without using your detector (provided you're painstakingly careful never to make the slightest extra mess yourself), detector sweeps aren't really optional. | |
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Futurama: Bender once claimed to have built-in Gaydar. Leela has "This thing on my wrist" which sometimes acts as one. For example, in "The Problem with Popplers," it is able to detect whether or not the popplers are poisonous (they're not) before Leela tries them. The robot convention had a Soul Detector. If anything sentient came walking in, they had to pay an admission fee. The Animesque segment of "Reincarnation" features a "deep space emotion detector." Bender once went looking for frozen mammoths. In "Fry Am the Egg Man," Bender is able to detect liquor with his antenna. |
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In the Pokémon games, there's also the Item Finder, which shows you when you're close to items... which can be everything from medicine, to Poke Balls, to glass flutes, to chunks of gold. How it picks these up and ignores everything else is never explained other than "It's just a game, relax." In Diamond and Pearl, in the Sinnoh Underground, you also have a "radar" which lets you find things buried in the ground and walls. These can be both traps and "orbs," which you use to buy things down there. Pokémon Colosseum has a character that can detect an "aura" around Shadow Pokemon. XD replaces her with a device that looks like a DBZ Scouter. |
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind has three detection spells, Detect Magic, Detect Creatures, and Detect Key. While the last is very handy, one wonders what aspect of keys makes them detectable versus any other particular object. (Although it does serve a kind of Mundane Utility verisimilitude. One can only imagine a wizard inventing it after turning his laboratory inside-out trying to figure out where he left his keys last night.) | |
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In Love Hina, Kaolla Su produces a device that detects turtles... and some kind of pot, the two words being homonyms in Japanese. She later upgrades it to detect Keitarou and Naru. | |
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The motion detectors in Alien use changes in air pressure to detect movement. Very small changes in air density are what we call sound. So, it's a microphone? | |
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In the Warhammer 40,000 game Dawn of War II—Retribution, during the Ork Campaign when pursuing teleporting Eldars, trusty second in command Mister Nail-Brainz set his git-finda to "Pansy" mode. | |
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In Mistborn Adventure Game, bronze Allomancers (also known as Seekers), can detect Allomancy. The most basic level is simply being able to sense when Allomancy is being used and who's using it, but more skilled Seekers can detect what metal is being burned, whether or not it's being flared, which emotions a Soother or Rioter is trying to affect, and even how much metal the Allomancer has left. | |
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In the Warhammer fic An ISOT in Grimdark, German scientists invent special "magic indicators" that prove invaluable in helping detect concealed magic wielders and dangerous magical artifacts like the warpstone bombs... | |
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Chillin' in Another World with Level 2 Cheat Powers: After the discovery that someone is using powerful concealment magic to disguise shoddy products as quality products, Flio creates special devices meant specifically to detect the use of concealment magic. | |
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Doctor Who: In "The Time Monster", the Doctor tracked down the Master with a device that Jo christened "a TARDIS sniffer-outer". "The Android Invasion", in which androids are passing as humans, has a robot detector. It's a small box with a single red indicator light on it. "Blink" memorably featured the timey-wimey detector. It goes "ding" when there's stuff. "The Day of the Doctor": The Tenth Doctor has a gadget intended to detect Zygons. However, it's not quite as reliable as he'd like. |
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We have Bakura's Gaydar from Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. | |
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Blake's 7: In "Seek-Locate-Destroy", molecular shift detectors are set up around a Federation base that Blake is expected to attack. No explanation is given as to why we don't see them installed at other Federation bases in later episodes. | |
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Antares Fairchild's route of Starship Promise kicks off because the protagonist has invented one of these which picks up signs of alien life from outside the known galaxy. Upgrading the device (which the protagonist has named the Blip Bop) occupies most of Antares's first season. | |
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The dragon radar in Dragon Ball, made by Bulma to find the Dragon Balls. Handwaved by saying that the Dragonballs emit a special kind of radiation in the first chapter of the series. | |
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Rama II: Nicole, the life sciences officer, uses robotic nanites to monitor the heart rates and chemical levels in the bloodstream of the Newton astronauts. It tells her when Reggie is drugged, though that data was tampered with and she had to recover the originals, and also tells her that Takagishi has a weak heart, which is what did him in. She had warned him that his arrhythmia was flaring up, and he had gone on a night mission and had an unfortunate encounter with an octospider. | |
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Of course, the PKE (psycho-kinetic energy) Meters (for detecting ghosts and ghost phenomena), Ecto-Goggles (for seeing invisible ghosts), Giga-Meter (maybe for environmental psychokinetic effects?), and the ghost-sniffer (may be a real-world gas detector for crossing off "hallucination stemming from gas inhalation," may be an in-universe paranormal detector using a real-world detector as a prop), all from Ghostbusters (1984). | |
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In Pokémon: The Series, Officer Jenny (Junsa in the original) just happens to have a sleep wave detector in her pocket when the situation calls for it. Dogasu (he compares the dub to the original) says here: | |
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In Digimon Tamers, the D-Arc is able to detect where Digital Fields appear, which contain Digimon that crossed to the real world. Every version of the Digivice has something like this, detecting either Digimon, Upgrade Artifacts, rifts that can let someone travel between it and the human world, and so forth... pretty much whatever is needed. |
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Stargate Atlantis features the Life Signs Detector, about the size of a PDA and highly useful in many situations. | |
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The Detect advantage in GURPS, of course. In the Magic book nearly all the spells relating to this stem from "Detect Foes". | |
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Auspexes range from handheld devices to helmet-mounted trackers, mostly used to track invisible enemies, though some can be used to detect incoming enemies. Unfortunately, they can apparently only be calibrated for one species at a time, and if there's something not entirely human about... | |
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The 2009 Ghost Busters The Video Game used the PKE Meters from the films as well the goggles worn by the Player Character to detect objectives, scan ghosts and collect haunted items. Since scanning requires a switch to first person from the camera's usual over the shoulder view, it also made for a Jump Scare or two. | |
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Tarot's aurascope in Housepets!. Who built it (although it's implied it may have been Tarot herself), how it works, and how a dog got into possession of it are never explained. It shows up, tells the cast where the demons they need to find are, and disappears. | |
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Gargamel had various items used for detecting Smurfs in The Smurfs (1981) cartoon show. | |
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In YuYu Hakusho, when Yusuke and his teammates need to locate Hiei, Botan mentions the Spirit Detective Tools. The Demon Compass finds demons by measuring demon energy. The Mystic Whistle is a whistle for demons that functions like a dog whistle; it causes Hiei to appear. | |
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J-Men Forever. The J-Men use the rock-and-roll-detector to locate the Lightning Bug's secret broadcast cave. Of course the whole thing is Played for Laughs, which is why they don't just use a Radio Direction Finder. | |
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