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* The book ''Emergence'' had a case of this where the heroine could go up to a satellite and save everyone, but had no way back. The third option is that some people came to stop her, and they had a spaceship which she could use to get back. I no longer remember enough details to describe this accurately....
** More accurately, the only way to reach the planetkiller bomb in high orbit is use a [[Space Shuttle]] stripped of ''everything'' nonessential, including its wings and protective tiles. She gets out of it by {{spoiler|disarming the bomb and piloting its reentry vehicle back to Earth.}}
* Played with in ''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (novel)|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]''. The titular Chamber is accessed via {{spoiler|a sewage pipe}}, and the characters debate how to reverse the trip. {{spoiler|Luckily for them, Dumbledore's Phoenix is strong enough to carry them all out. And when they revisit the place in ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', they just bring brooms}}. Similarly, in the first book, the end-of-book mission required the trio to drop down a hole with no idea whether there'd be a way back (there was).
* In the book ''[[Angels & Demons]]'', when the camerlengo boards the helicopter with the antimatter bomb, Langdon follows him aboard, expecting him to drop the bomb where it can explode safely (such as in a quarry, or far out to sea). Unfortunately, it turns out that the camerlengo is going nowhere except straight up—and there's only one parachute...
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