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{{quote|''Gentlemen, I trust you will remember this as the day that you almost caught'' ~~--|'''Captain Jack Sparrow''', '''''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'''''}}~~

{{quote|''Gentlemen, I trust you will remember this as the day that you almost caught.''

|'''Captain Jack Sparrow''', '''''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'''''}}

A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[No Escape but Down]].

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** Subverted in ''Dead Man's Chest'' when he is hit by a tidal wave, interrupting his dramatic exit.

* Although not at the climax of the film, Prince Septimus escapes from Captain Shakespeare's ship this way in ''[[Stardust (film)|Stardust]]''. The window isn't open at the time, which just screams of a missed chance to awesomely subvert the trope by having the guy bleeding horribly after - but no, [[Super Window Jump]] was in full effect.

* Used in ''[[Don ~~the~~ Chase Begins Again]]''.

* Used in ''[[Don: The Chase Begins Again]]''.

* Milady does this in ''[[The Three Musketeers (2011 film)|The Three Musketeers 2011]]''; preferring to leap from the airship into the English Channel rather than be shot.

* In ''[[Solomon Kane (film)|Solomon Kane]]'', Kane escapes from the Devil's Reaper by diving through a stained glass window into the ocean below.