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{{trope}}
The bad guys are on your tail! There's nowhere to hide, nowhere to go... but if you're anywhere near a body of water, don't worry: Guaranteed, there's a
This also counts if you drive off a bridge and a barge shows up below. Very rarely is the subject of how the escapee gets off the boat addressed-- ''they'' might end up swimming back to shore, too. Sometimes justified by having the pursuers cuss about how their quarry not only got away, but stole their boat as well.
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Often subverted by having the jumper land on the boat, only to discover that the boat is pulling ''in'', not out. Closely related to its action-movie brethren [[Roof Hopping]], [[Trash Landing]], and [[Train Escape]]. Car examples may include a [[Ramp Jump]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Pokémon
* Greenback Jane arc of ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' features such an emergency escape. Only some of the pursuers manage to follow.
▲== [[Comics]] ==
* This happens to Ethan and Skink the first time they escape the Raven castle in ''Scion''.
== [[Film]] ==
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* This happens in ''[[White Lightning]]'', and inspired a similar act in ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (see below)
* Happens in ''[[In Bruges]]'' when Colin Farrell's character is attempting to outrun {{spoiler|Ralph Fiennes, the boss of his crime syndicate}}.
* ''[[Dawn of the Dead (2004
* This is done somewhat in the movie ''[[The Lord of the Rings (
* This is also done in the movie ''[[Some Like It Hot]],'' where Jack Lemmon's "Fiance" just happens to be there waiting for him in a boat.
* This is how [[Historical Domain Character|Sun Yat Sen]] escapes the authorities at the end of one of the Wang Fei Hong movies.
* ''[[Indiana Jones and
** Subverted while Indiana and Dr. Schneider are fleeing members of the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword. They find a boat and try to escape, but the Brotherhood members also find boats, pursue and catch up to them.
** Invoked when Indy and his dad are trying to escape Castle Brunwald. They find several boats and Indy acts like he's going to use one of them to escape, fooling even his father. However, he's really trying to trick the Nazis into thinking they used the boat: he actually plans to escape using a motorcycle with attached sidecar.
* Parodied in ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[Watership Down]]'', a group of ''rabbits'' manage to pull this off, though the author quickly comments that it worked mainly by chance and circumstance.
* In the first (of many) ''[[Dragonlance]]'' trilogies. Too bad the dwarf had a fear of water.
* In ''[[Horatio Hornblower]]'', the title hero and his some of his best sailors are captured and taken into France for a show trial and execution. While they are being transported, they stop near a river with a convenient row boat available. Being Badass Sailors, they are able to work out an escape once they have access to a boat and water.
* Played with in ''[[Garrett
* Subverted in ''[[
* The absence of one of these is a source of profound shock in ''[[The Pyrates]]''. As Colonel Blood says:
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* ''[[
* Happens repeatedly in Tim Dorsey's Serge Storms novels, although sometimes Serge arranges things in advance, as in ''Electric Barracuda.''
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Psych]]'': In "You Can't Handle This Episode" Juliet's secret-agent brother Ewen is introduced by having him jump obstacles and dodge bullet fire while being chased. He runs onto a public beach, jumps into the water, knocks a civilian off of a Jet Ski and zooms off to safety. ''All while having a conversation Juliet on the phone''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* Somewhat inverted in ''[[Time Crisis]]'', as it's one of the Bad Guys who escapes this way, and you have to give chase on your own motorboat.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[The Dreamer]]'', Alan and Beatrice escape Gen. Howe's ship by boat.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** They also invert is with the [[Show Within a Show]] ''Knightboat''. The boat always has a canal or inlet that it can follow when enemies try to escape by going inland.
*** Lisa: "Or a fjord."
== [[Real Life]] ==
* One of the tests in the [[SOE]] course was to anchor a [[MacGuffin]] in a pond, show a team some random material that can be built into a raft and tell them to fetch the Macguffin (It sounds like whoever was in charge of that thing at the time, thought he was teaching boy scouts not aspiring assassins). Just to mess with people they always left a completed raft buried under some brush to see if anyone was [[Genre Savvy]] enough to look somewhere else.
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[[Category:Vehicle Tropes]]
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