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Line 1: {{trope}}{{Needs Image}} A character is holding onto a ledge or rope by his/her fingers. One by one, each finger loses its grip or someone or something peels them off manually. The trope is often paired with a villain at the ledge stomping on their hands [[For the Evulz]] or peeling the finger off. When there isn't a villain around, another hero will try to grasp their hands. If [[~~Playedfor~~Played ~~Comedy~~for Laughs]], the rescuer may themselves fall and have to be grabbed by an even stronger person. See also [[Take My Hand]], [[Chain of People]], [[Literal Cliff Hanger]]. Line 11: == [[Film]] == * The losing grip variety happens in the movie version of ''[[A Little Princess]]''. * ''[[The Lion King]]'': Mufasa, and later Simba are in this position. * ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'', where Tweety talks about pigs going to the market. * [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYZsJYZVt5g In the 2005] ''[[King Kong]]'', Kong hangs briefly by his fingers off a cliff before being dragged down by the V-rex that grabbed his leg. * Sully and Randall's battle in ''[[Monsters, ~~Inc. (Animation)\|Monsters~~ Inc.]]'' climaxes with Sully hanging off the edge of a door over a chasm, while Randall prepares to stomp him off. * ''[[Star Trek (~~Film~~film)\|Star Trek]]'': Kirk gets thrown off the edge of the drill during the fight but manages to grab the edge and hang on. A mook tries to stomp him off, but Sulu stabs him just in time. * [[Mel Brooks]]'s ''[[High Anxiety]]'' parodies this. In a climactic scene the protagonist (played by Brooks) has a slipping hold on a ledge until he is improbably hanging on by a single fingertip. Once he gets a morale boost from another character he manages to regain his hold and climb up. == [[Live Action TV]] == * Parker in ''[[~~Leverage (TV)\|~~Leverage]]'' does this on occasion. She also points this fact out when someone tries to overpower her. * Tested on ''[[~~Myth Busters (TV)\|Myth Busters~~MythBusters]]'', and was deemed plausible that you could support your weight by your fingertips for a short time, though Tory did smash his knee on a window ledge during the experiment and required stitches. * ''[[~~Castle (TV)\|~~Castle]]'': Beckett was hanging by a thread, only to get saved in the last minute by the other cops. She's ''very happy'' to be alive, as she later shows Castle {{spoiler\|with a rather passionate kiss scene}}. == [[Video Games]] == Line 28: == [[Web Comics]] == * ''[[Hitmen for Destiny]]'' has one character grabbing hold of a ledge inside the invisible castle, and calling for help. The drop isn't lethal. == [[Western Animation]] == * In ''[[Danger Mouse]]'', there's an episode where DM, hanging from a branch, has his fingers attacked by a nest of hungry baby birds who mistake them for worms. * ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': at the end of the episode about a traffic cam, Phineas and the disc both hover on the edge of a split bridge. Candace has to make a choice to grab either Phineas or the disc. * In one of the climatic final episodes of ''Avatar:[[The Last Airbender]]", Toph is barely holding on to Sokka's hand when {{spoiler\|Suki saves them by flying down with a stolen airship}} * ''[[Family Guy]]'': The Evil Monkey who lives in Chris's closet is thrown from the top of a skyscraper by an insane robot girl. He grabs onto a lege but his fingers lip off one by one. After the last one he falls, but is caught by Peter & Quagmire in a biplane [[Not the Fall That Kills You\|just before hitting the ground]]. * The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "China Jones" has Daffy hanging over [[Shark Pool\|crocodile pool]] after a trapdoor opened under him. The villain unhooks his fingers one by one. * The [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[Tintin ~~(Comic Book)~~]] in America'' has him lose his footing when moving from a window to another (to attack a bandit guarding his door). He manages to pull himself up. Note that in the comic, he just crossed the gap without incident. {{reflist}} Line 43: [[Category:Index to The Rescue]] [[Category:Hand Tropes]] [[Category:~~Hanging by the Fingers~~{{PAGENAME}}]]