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| rdfs:comment | - Whenever a character is being tailed, the pursuer will be very obvious to the prey if the prey would only look behind himself/herself. Occasionally this is done deliberately, if the authorities want the suspect to know that they're onto him so that he won't do what he's thinking of doing. This occurs in a variety of genres, but is most telling in espionage and, to a lesser extent, Crime and Punishment Series, as both the pursued character and the pursuer should have a rudimentary knowledge of surveillance and counter-surveillance. Examples of Incredibly Obvious Tail include:
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| abstract | - Whenever a character is being tailed, the pursuer will be very obvious to the prey if the prey would only look behind himself/herself. Occasionally this is done deliberately, if the authorities want the suspect to know that they're onto him so that he won't do what he's thinking of doing. This occurs in a variety of genres, but is most telling in espionage and, to a lesser extent, Crime and Punishment Series, as both the pursued character and the pursuer should have a rudimentary knowledge of surveillance and counter-surveillance. Note that advanced stories have clever spies use two tails. One is obvious and when the person being tailed shakes them off they are too busy feeling smug to notice the other skillful tail. Other stories avoid this trope by using a Tracking Device on the subject, allowing the followers to follow them much more subtly, unless they discover it of course. Not to be confused with the thing cat-girls have. Or that thang J-Lo has, either. Compare the Incredibly Obvious Bug. Examples of Incredibly Obvious Tail include:
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