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You're on a cliff and fall off. Unless you're a [[
Being a dead tree, it will break. Perfect timing for [[Take My Hand]], or falling to another branch. Another variation is to have another character join you, only to overload the branch. A third variation is having an irate eagle or vulture there guarding its nest. A fourth, scaled up variant, is for it to be a [[Bus Full of Innocents]] tilting precariously on said cliff.
This also includes the urban version: hanging from a flag pole. Another way to stop the fall in with a [[Blade Brake]]. When it's too much for writers to find a decent excuse, expect [[Cliffhanger Copout]]. If the character's items or equipment fall while or before they fall, you're being given a [[Plummet Perspective]]. This is one of the building blocks of [[Climb, Slip, Hang, Climb]].
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Fruits Basket]]''. At the end,
* In a [[Filler]] episode of ''[[Ranma ½]]'', both Akane and Ranma jump over a cliff to retrieve a [[MacGuffin]]. Ranma catches the MacGuffin, Akane catches Ranma's hand and a convenient branch on the side of the cliff.
* A [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] is delivered to a character in ''[[Futakoi Alternative]]'' as she is being held up by her arm by the male protagonist. She's dangling a few hundred feet above the ocean, he's trying to left her up onto a collapsing bridge.
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* In the [[DC Comics]] fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4191221/1/Stripped Stripped]'', [[Blue Beetle]] II and [[Booster Gold]] are [[Title Drop|stripped]] of their technological advantages, get beaten and thrown off a cliff. Beetle's leg, broken, catches on a tree and Ted tries to bear the pain while he holds on to the dangling Booster for hours. [[Tear Jerker]], [[Heartwarming Moments|heartwarming]], and [[Ho Yay]] ensues. Most of the fic relies on the tension of wondering how long they can avoid dying.
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* ''[[The Lion King]]'' plays this twice. The first time, Mufasa is thrown into the chasm by Scar. The second time, Simba jumps and attacks Scar.
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': Eddie ends up hanging from a flagpole in Toon Town by one hand. Unfortunately, Tweety Bird is nesting there, and he wants to play "this widdle piddie".
* ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'' has a character hanging on to the ledge of a six-story building. Fortunately, [[Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever|said character]] is ''five'' stories high.
* This occurs in ''[[Mulan]]'' during the avalanche scene.
* ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'': Tank goes off a cliff, Nazi dies, Dr. Jones mourns, Indy climbs up a vine behind him and sneaks up during his eulogy.
** Also in ''The Last Crusade,'' Elsa Schneider finds herself dangling from a cliff created by the earthquake she caused when trying to leave a temple with the Holy Grail. In a pure [[Take My Hand]] scene, she attempts to recover the Grail resting underneath her arm's reach. Her persistence is her ultimate undoing and she falls to her death. Indiana then tumbles over and finds himself in the exact predicament, but his father is able to act as the voice of reason.
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