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{{quote|''"[[Reverse Psychology|Everybody looks down when you tell them not to look down]], do you know that?!"''|'''Bill Rago''' (Danny DeVito), ''Renaissance Man''}}
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[[Plummet Perspective]] describes one of the things that might happen if the character ''does'' look down.
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* Inverted in ''[[The Castle of Cagliostro|The Castleof Cagliostro]]'': Lupin tells Clarisse to look down in order to ''calm'' her so she realizes they're hanging several hundred feet in the air from a thin line and screaming and flailing at the strange man holding her is a really bad idea.
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* ''[[War of the Worlds]]'' (2005): Ray Ferrier
* ''[[Shrek]]'' says this to Donkey as they're crossing the rope bridge to Dragon's castle. When Donkey looks down and freaks out, Shrek teases him and has a good laugh about it.
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* Used hilariously in ''[[The Incredibles]]'': Helen and Jack-Jack are falling, with the huge explosion above them, and Helen reassures Jack-Jack in this way.
* The quote from ''Renaissance Man'' above, when Bill Rago is about to rappel down the large victory tower.
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* The 80s music group Go West has the trope as the [[Title Drop|title]] as well as the lyrics:
{{quote|''Don't look down, girl! (Don't look down!)''
''You know you're holding aces''
''Don't look down, girl! (Don't look down!)''|''Don't give the game away!''}}
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' #[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0647.html 647]:
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'''Durkon''': Dinnae look down, dinnae look down, dinnae look down... }}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Done in an episode of ''[[Animaniacs]]''. Also used in ''[[Wakko's Wish|Wakkos Wish]]'':
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'''Wakko''': Do you get vertigo?
'''Yakko''': No.
'''Wakko''': Me neither.
'''Yakko''': Yeah, I watched [[Vertigo|that movie]] six times and I ''still'' don't get it. }}
* [[Looney Tunes]] and [[Hanna-Barbera]] cartoons, which combine [[Toon Physics]] with [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]. The classic case: a cartoon character can run over or stand on thin air untill he realizes something is wrong and looks down. Only then does gravity take over.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' in "[[The Poseidon Adventure|The Neptune Adventure]]"
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{{smallcaps|Carl}}: It's not that confusing. }}
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'': in "Under Construction" (about engineering), Wanda says this to Arnold as he's [[It Makes Sense in Context|slowly crawling across a suspension bridge made of Q-tips, dental floss, and bandages over a bathtub with a baby alligator in it.]] He looks down, alligator snaps jaws shut, and Arnold books it to the other side.
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