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When a character needs to get from one room to another and the door is not an option, they will climb out the window and either shimmy along the ledge or jump from balcony to balcony until they can enter another window. Hotels and office buildings are common settings for this kind of stunt. It's also used a lot in stealth missions. The act adds an element of danger without actually requiring the character to be super fit or agile.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[
* Silverstein does this in ''Tiempo De Valientes'' (an argentine film) to get into the restricted area of SIDE (the argentine intelligence agency).
* Indy does this in ''[[Indiana Jones and
* Subverted in ''[[The Matrix]]''. Neo is told to do this, but chokes when he sees the skinny ledge and great height.
* Maggie Carpenter does this in ''[[Runaway Bride (
* In ''[[
* A segment of the film ''Cat's Eye'' is based on [[Stephen King]]'s "The Ledge" (listed below).
* In ''[[
* Attempted in ''[[
* In ''[[That Man From Rio]]'', Adrian tracks his kidnapped girlfriend Agnes to a hotel, where she's kept in one room in a suite with a gunman in the front room. Adrian gets around him by climbing out a corridor window and creeping along a high, narrow ledge to her room.
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[
* The [[Stephen King]] short story "The Ledge" is a very slight variation on this, as the protagonist is forced to circumnavigate the building and return to the ''same'' window.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[
* In ''[[Grim Fandango]]'', You climb out the window to get into the office next door.
* ''Amnesia: The Dark Descent''. You have to smash a window, then hop across balconies to reach an otherwise blocked-off room.
* In ''[[Paper Mario (
* Required frequently in ''[[Splinter Cell]]''.
* In ''[[
* [[James Bond]] can sneak across a ledge to bypass most of the second mission in ''007 [[James Bond 007: Nightfire]]''. Unfortunately, there are windows on the wall with guards on the other side, so he has to be careful.
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[[Category:Escape Tropes]]
[[Category:Balcony Escape]]
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