The Chase

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    A plot centered around characters pursuing one another.

    A drawn out chase which forms an underlying theme for a series is a Stern Chase.

    They Have the Scent is common in short chases.

    See also the subtrope Hunting the Most Dangerous Game.

    Examples of The Chase include:

    Film

    Literature

    • Honored Enemy of The Riftwar Cycle in which soldiers on the opposing sides of a war band together to escape the dark elves chasing after them to kill them for a variety of reasons.
    • In Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian story "Black Colossus", after his defeat, Natohk abducts Yasmela. Conan chases after them.
      • In "The Gods of the North", an obviously magical woman lures Conan into a chase that brings him to her giant brothers. When he kills them, he chases her again—this time, she is seriously frightened.
    • In Poul Anderson's A Midsummer Tempest, chasing the escaped Rupert is half the book.
    • The Time Scout series is full of these, starting with the second book. Mostly they involve Skeeter Jackson.

    Live-Action TV

    Newspaper Comics

    • Dick Tracy had this as a major element in his stories as the police detective relentlessly chases a particular villain who gets more and more desperate as he realizes to his terror that this cop will not stop.

    Web Comics

    Western Animation

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