Convenient Escape Boat: Difference between revisions

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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.

* ''[[Pokémon 4Ever|Pokémon 4 Ever]]'' used this at the beginning when Ash tried to catch a ferry.

* Greenback Jane arc of ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' features such an emergency escape. Only some of the pursuers manage to follow.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

* This happens to Ethan and Skink the first time they escape the Raven castle in ''Scion''.

 

== [[Film]] ==

** 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 ''[[50 First Dates]]'' when Adam Sandler's character pretends to be a CIA agent, he leaps off the dock and onto some guy's jet ski. He bribes the guy to just keep driving as if this was normal.

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* 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 P.I.|Sweet Silver Blues]]'', twice. The first time, Garrett gives a thug the slip by running out to the end of a dock and onto a ship, then keeps going ''off'' the ship into the water. The thug backs off rather than encounter the {{spoiler|Crown agents}} whose ship it is. The second time, Morley plays this trope straight as he runs along the dock to the ship that's taking him and Garrett home ... only he's arranged for his pursuer to be nabbed by {{spoiler|those same Crown agents}} who are waiting in ambush at the dockyard.

* The absence of one of these is a source of profound shock in ''[[The Pyrates]]''. As Colonel Blood says:

{{quote|"Whoever heard o' pirate ship without a small boat moored 'neath the stern an' provisioned wi' all necessities, so that fugitives can light out unseen!"}}

* Happens repeatedly in Tim Dorsey's Serge Storms novels, although sometimes Serge arranges things in advance, as in ''Electric Barracuda.''

 

* ''[[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]] ==

* 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.

 

* In ''[[The Dreamer]]'', Alan and Beatrice escape Gen. Howe's ship by boat.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

*** Lisa: "Or a fjord."

 

* 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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