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In When Darkness Falls , Nina's family tries to force her to suicice because they think that she destroyed the family honor. She then locks herself in her room together with her sister Leyla and escapes through the window before the family can open the door with a picklock. In Dante 's Inferno , a visit to the tar-pit of corrupt politicians ends with flying demons chasing some Italians up and off the wall surrounding the evil ditch.

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Thankfully for their victims, the demons can't move past the walls by divine decree and the flying princes of Hell are trapped within their own walls. Lovecraft 's The Shadow Over Innsmouth , the protagonist is forced to jump through a skylight into the abandoned building below to escape his monstrous pursuers. In the Queen of Swords episode "Death to the Queen", the cornered Queen escapes by diving off the cliff into the ocean.

Rose does one in "The Doctor Dances". Although in that case Rose "makes" the exit with Jack's squareness gun. Played with it in "Forest of the Dead", at a particularly tense moment where the Doctor was surrounded by possessed skeletons. A reverse of this was used by the Doctor in "Flesh and Stone. Both Jack and Liz then had to metaphorically "go into the crevasse" to solve their dilemmas that week by debasing themselves. The Night Stalker episode "Bad Medicine". The Diablero is chased up to the top of the building by security guards, then jumps off and disappears.

He used his magical powers to turn into a raven and fly away. Happens on Buffy the Vampire Slayer when Faith jumps off the roof of her apartment building to escape Buffy and lands on the top of a truck, but the landing knocks her unconscious. It probably happens other times on Buffy too but that's the one that jumps to mind no pun intended.

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Having a gaping stomach wound doesn't help At the end of the Babylon 5 episode "Za'ha'dum," John Sheridan is pursued by the Shadows and what's left of his wife and ends up trapped on a balcony high above a miles deep pit in the center of the Shadow City. Which makes him resort to remote activate his ship in orbit to aim at his position and arm the two fusion bombs he stole.

Facing certain death, he receives a telepathic message imprinted in his mind by Kosh, before he died, urging him to jump. It all worked out, in the end. Burn Notice uses this a few times. One episode has Michael lampshade this through his narration by stating that the best way to escape a pursuit is to do something that the pursuers will not do, like jump off a building.

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He then jumps off the roof so the security guards chasing him won't follow it's not very high but one can easily break bones if landing badly. In another episode Michael is in a helicopter with Management flying out to sea and is told that he really has not choice but work for the people who burned him since they are the only thing protecting him.

He promptly jumps out and swims to shore. Chance, of Human Target , did this at least twice: On White Collar Neal has to get to the penthouse of a highrise building and swap a painting for a forgery before Peter shows up and catches him in the act. He simply takes the elevator up but does not have the time to escape the same way.

Just as Peter is entering the apartment, Neal jumps off the top of the building and opens up a parachute. On Leverage , Parker uses this fairly often. Most notably is when she base jumps off one of the world's tallest buildings. It was too high a fall for her bionic legs to take, and she was injured seriously. In "Public Enemy", Arrow, Arsenal and Canary escape from the Vigilante Taskforce by leaping off the roof of the building where they are cornered; firing grapple lines to slow their descent as they fall.

A Running Gag on Get Smart: The villain, exposed and cornered by the good guys, prepares to jump out a window. The heroes warn him he won't survive. He gloats that he'll get away because there's an awning or the like to break his fall, gets off one last evil laugh or We Will Meet Again one-liner, and jumps. In the video for Disturbed 's " Asylum ", the patient being pursued by the men in white coats chooses this option, jumping from the top of the building, one of them smirking at his corpse.

This was just one of his "deaths" in the video, all of which lead to him being back in his padded cell. Used at the end of the Gorillaz video for Stylo- Murdoc drives the car into the ocean and it turns into a shark submarine! In "A Present for the Princess'', Willie escapes from a trio of bandits by dropping off a broken rope bridge into a river. The Undermontain complex in Forgotten Realms sometimes.

The point is, there are even rings made by its owner Halaster the Mad that allow to teleport inside the labyrinth at will Combat Evolved , Master Chief has to jump out of a Covenant battleship into a pool of leaked coolant after the Flood had overrun all the other passages on the ship.

In Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater , Naked Snake falls from the top of a waterfall after he is cornered by Ocelot. Unlike most escape examples, the drop temporarily kills him.

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Mirror's Edge frequently requires you to escape from persuing cops and the occasional police helicopters with machine guns, by pulling off almost suicidal jumps off the roofs of skyscrapers. The final jump in Heat being exceptionally crazy. I just spilt my joe all over my keyboard. In Season 10 of Red vs. Blue , the Freelancers find themselves with two options in Episode Jump off a story building, or die horribly. They take option A. I guess this is karma for kicking Maine out the window.

Koon and Anak subverted this in Tower of God when they made Quant think they had applied this trope to lure him to the lower exit of the Hide and Seek testing area while they headed for the upper one.

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The Looney Tunes Show: Daffy and Bugs escape from the prison guards by jumping off a cliff into the river in "Jailbird and Jailbunny". Or rather Daffy jumps off the cliff and Bugs goes along because they are shackled together. Grouchy and the Smurflings escape Gargamel in the early part of The Smurfs episode "Grouchy Makes A Splash" by jumping from a precipice into the river. Well, the Smurflings escape into the river, but Grouchy, who doesn't know how to swim, clings onto a root and causes Gargamel to fall into the river before he climbs to safety.

During their first meeting, Samurai Jack and the Scotsman end up stuck on a narrow bridge with two mobs of bounty hunters closing in from either side.

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They initially try jumping off the side, but they each go a different direction and being chained together don't end up going anywhere. Jack cuts the planks beneath them and drops them into a swamp to escape. In the Donald Duck cartoon Donald's Crime , Donald climbs the stairs of a skycraper to escape the law, and with no way out, jumps off the roof onto another building.

Just barely—the bricks he tries to grasp give way one after another until he can climb back up. A group of resistance fighters assassinated the head of the Warsaw Gestapo. As they were making their escape, two of them ended up trapped on a bridge with German soldiers closing in from both sides. No cancellation after ordering - Return allowed only for defective and wrong items - No warranty. Description Specifications Reviews Product Name: Mini Keychain Safety Hammer Product model: Available in a variety of colors, suitable for all car owners; 2.

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