Staircase Tumble: Difference between revisions

[[File:sbahjstairs 9005.png|link=Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff|frame|Alas, even with extensive warning about the staircase...]]

 

 

Stairs can be dangerous if you misstep and fall down, even worse depending on how long it is. Still, it can be [[Rule of Funny|funny]], especially in cartoons.

This is one of the common ways a [[Fright Deathtrap]] is used to kill someone. It can be caused by a case of [[Mind Your Step]], but there are plenty of ways to misstep and fall without the stairs containing a trap or problem.

 

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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* [[Pinocchio]] did this on stage at the start of his number "I've Got No Strings." Not really injurious, but humiliating.

* In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', Indy and his dad escape through Castle Brunwald only to find themselves at a dead end. Indy tries looking for a secret exit; his dad ends up finding it when he sits down and leans back in a chair, revealing a hidden staircase. Unfortunately, Indy was standing right on top of it at the time...

'''Henry Jones, Sr.:''' ''[[Orphaned Punchline|...a solution presents itself!]]'' }}

* In ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'', Madeleine is pushed down a very long flight of marble stairs, [[No One Could Survive That|ending in a battered heap at the bottom with her head twisted around backwards.]]

So I took him by his left leg

And threw him down the stairs. }}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* In ''[[Deardrops]]'', Shinichi pushed his fellow violinist Johan down a flight of stairs on impulse, injuring him, due to stress.

* In the [[Otome Game|otome]] [[Visual Novel]], ''[[Planets|(P)lanets]]'', the main character gains her [[Telepathy|telepathic powers]] after tripping down a flight of stairs at her school.

 

== [[Web Animation]] ==

* In ''[[Wapsi Square]]'', both [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/homeagain/ Monica] and [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/unscathed/ Tina] have fallen victim to this.

* [[Xkcd]]: [http://xkcd.com/954/ "The stampede lasted two hours and reached the bottom three times."]

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* This happens in a season 1 episode of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]''.

* In ''[[Drawn Together]]'', [[Miss Conception|Princess Clara]] thinks she's pregnant and submits to a tumble or two down the stairs of the "[[M. C. Escher]] Room" in an attempt to force a [[Convenient Miscarriage]].

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[[Category:Injury Tropes]]