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{{quote|"Take my hand!"
"Why? [[Waxing Lyrical|Are you a stranger in paradise?]]"
|''[[The Goon Show]]''}}
[[Take My Hand]] moments happen whenever a character is about to [[Literal Cliff Hanger|fall off a cliff]], into a [[Lava Pit]], or out of a speeding car and another one tries to catch their hand. First, it's not granted that their hands will reach at all. Second, even if they do grasp hands the audience is kept wondering for several seconds if the rescuer will be able to pull the falling character up or if their hand will slip. The whole act is typically accompanied by phrases like "Don't give up!" and "I'm not going to let you fall!", and occasionally a slow-motion shot of slipping fingers. Such moments are primarily used in thrillers and action movies to pump up the suspense.
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This trope is not limited to physical contact: any sequence where a character bails another one out of impending danger in an inconceivably dramatic way can be considered an example. Compare [[Catch a Falling Star]]; contrast with [[Unhand Them, Villain!]].
[[Save the Villain]] often involves a
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the manga of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', Lanfan attempts to save Ling this way. However, {{spoiler|Wrath is hanging onto ''Ling's'' hand, and the strain of their weight threatens to rip Lanfan's automail arm off. Ling tells her to drop them both, but when she refuses he manages to force Wrath off so Lanfan can pull him up.}}
* ''[[The Vision of Escaflowne]]'' - Van saves Hitomi from certain doom more than once. Foklen saves the cat girls.
* In the last episode of ''[[Noir (anime)|Noir]]'', Kirika tackles the series' [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Altena}} into a lava pit, and then goes all [[Redemption Equals Death]] when Mireille tries to haul her out. {{spoiler|Mireille's last-second, teary [[Dying Declaration of Love|"I'm begging you to live"]] declaration convinces her that suicide isn't such a good idea after all.}} Made slightly more realistic by virtue of the facts that both girls link both hands at the wrists, both girls are in ''very'' good shape despite a collection of cuts, contusions and one abdominal gunshot wound, and Kirika is fairly small, which would make her an easier lift.
* In end of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', the titular character tries to pull
** {{spoiler|And actually fails.}}
*** {{spoiler|Or not. The point of the whole thing was to get Anthy out of that black pit, and, thanks to Utena, it does happen in the end - though not exactly in the way she intended to do it. It was more important that Anthy
** The wrist thing is averted twice: {{spoiler|Utena pulls Anthy back up to the tower successfully, holding Anthy's wrist, but the time at the end when she fails, they were only holding fingers.}}
* ''[[Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple]]'' - Kenichi grabs Takeda's right arm after Takeda falls off the roof. He calls for Takeda to use his other arm. Cue plot revelation (that Takeda's left is paralyzed).
* The episode 40 of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' sees a rather unusual development of this trope: both characters involved are piloting [[Humongous Mecha]] and the "rescuer" has to pull the "rescued" onto an accelerating space shuttle.
** Also, in the very last phase of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', Athrun is about to blow himself up together with the entire enemy base when Cagalli comes after him and convinces him to live on. This is an indirect but obvious
* An variation of this happens 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. So it ends up being a double [[Literal Cliff Hanger|cliffhanger]] (until the branch breaks).
** In the climax of the long-running Nodoka storyline, Ranma's mother accidentally goes flying up and over a cliff overlooking the ocean. Ranma doesn't bother trying to catch her from solid ground: he leaps down to catch her mid-flight -defying the known laws of physics-, reaching out with his hand and pulling her up mere instants before they hit the rocks below. Then he hurls her (sheathed) katana at the cliff face hard enough to embed it in the rock, providing a small (but sufficient) foothold.
* Happens quite often in ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', (including in some of the title sequences,) though often without the actual words being spoken. Oh, and it usually happens thousands of feet in the air, with one character in a giant flying robot. Because that's how they roll.
* In the last episode of the first season of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (anime)|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'', Nanoha has to convince Fate to break out of her [[Anti-Hero|anti]][[Heroic BSOD]] and take her hand to be hauled to safety. This is almost entirely symbolic, however, since both characters are fully capable of personal flight, occasionally against their will. Who says magic wands don't have self-preservation programming?
* In episode 9 of ''[[Grenadier]]'', Yajiro attempts to save Fuuka Shiratou from falling off a cliff ''twice'' {{spoiler|and fails on both occasions}}.
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** Earlier in the series proper, Beelzemon {{spoiler|desperately tries to save Juri from the D-Reaper by breaking into where it is keeping her prisoner, as penance for killing her Digimon partner, Leomon. Unfortunately, it's Leomon's data he uses to break into the Kernel Sphere; seeing Leomon's attack coming from his killer scared and confused Juri, however, and he failed.}}
*** In the manga version of that scene, {{spoiler|Juri}} ''does'' attempt to take his hand, but he is cut down before she can.
** In the
* ''[[Wolf's Rain]]''
** Also attempted at the end of the series once again by Tsume. Hubb is {{spoiler|falling to his death. Tsume reaches out his hand to try and grab him out of midair. But since Hubb has resigned himself to his end and has nothing else to live for, he doesn't even reach out, only smiling as he continues to plunge downward.}}
* Subverted hilariously in ''[[Dai-Guard]]'', when the [[Monster of the Week]] grabs the titular mech's arm, and one of the pilots says something along the lines of "You want my arm? Then TAKE MY ARM!" At which point the arm breaks off at the elbow and the monster plunges into the sea.
* The ending of the ''[[.hack|.hack//G.U. Trilogy]]'' movie is basically one big
* Played absolutely straight to type in ''[[The Daughter of Twenty Faces]]'', in a [[Save the Villain]] moment atop a speeding train during a snowstorm. It sounds horribly cliche but it was still excellent {{spoiler|and tragic}}.
* ''[[Now and Then, Here and There]]'' Shu saves Nabuca from falling off to his certain death despite the fact that the two were fighting just a few moments previously, thus establishing Shu as a certified [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]].
* ''[[X 1999]]'' uses this trope twice in similar and parallel situations in which Kamui keeps Kotori from falling off a tree when they were children and later from falling into an abyss.
** Also used in [[The Movie]], when Yuzuriha almost plummets to her death from a skyscraper and Kamui grabs her hand, then uses his [[Psychic Powers]] to teleport both of them to the top of the building.
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* Subverted in ''[[Detective Conan]]''. {{spoiler|Heiji and Kazuha dangling from a cliff. Kazuha stabs him with an arrowhead to make him let her go. He ''still'' holds on.}}
* After the big fight with Creed in the ''[[Black Cat (manga)|Black Cat]]'' manga, Train grabs an unconscious Creed's arm to keep him from falling off a tower's roof. Train's hand was going to slip, but Leon intervenes and uses his wind powers to keep them afloat.
* Doumeki of ''[[
* Used with a variation in the ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' SuperS manga. {{spoiler|Minako, who has been [[Brought Down to Normal]], enters a mysterious [[Idol Singer]] contest. During that, she is attacked by the enemy and, at some point, she's desperately hanging on the edge of a tower. Artemis (her ''cat'') attempts to help her in by taking her hand with his paws, but Palla Palla launches a boulder at him and Minako is horrified as she thinks he's dead. Cue to Artemis temporarily acquiring his human form and being able to give Minako the boost she needs to transform into Sailor Venus, saving them both.}}
** In ''Stars'', Neptune does this with Uranus when the latter is knocked off a building, complete with their gloves starting to slip off.
** Happens again in the very last battle with Galaxia. Sailor Moon reaches for her hand in a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
* In ''[[Fushigi Yugi]]'', Miaka reaches down to save [[The Mole]] by grabbing his
* Happens a few times in ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]''. Syaoran to Sakura {{spoiler|he fails the first time}} but {{spoiler|saves her after messing up the time space continuum.}} Also Kurogane to Fai to save him from a dying world {{spoiler|this doesn't work either and Kurogane must sacrifice his arm.}}
* Attempted on a large scale at the end of the [[Wham! Episode|Wham Volume]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''. It utterly fails.
* Subverted in episode 11 of ''[[Jyu-Oh-Sei]]'' when Thor tries to save a falling Third. Thor won't let go even after Third tells him it's for the best. {{spoiler|Third ends the debate by shooting himself in the head. He can be a weird bastard like that.}}
* ''[[Bleach]]'': During episode 146, Ichigo does this twice to Nel while saving her from hazards in Hueco Mundo - a sand tornado and a sand sinkhole similar to an ant-lion's trap.
** Ichigo and Orihime attempt this as they're about to be separated on their entry to the Seireitei, but they fail. Similarly, Ichigo tries this with Senna as she's abducted by the Dark Ones in the first movie, but it also fails.
* In a rare, falling-free example, a climactic scene in ''[[Double Arts]]'' has [[Healing Hands|Kiri]] demanding that [[Ill Girl|Elle]] do
* ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' has a different take on this. When Haruhi drags Mikuru outside of the club room (both in a [[Playboy Bunny|bunny outfit]]), Mikuru extends her hand to Kyon to save her. Kyon couldn't take her hand, though.
* Used in ''[[Baccano!]]'' with Isaac saying this Czeslaw when he's about to fall off a speeding train. {{spoiler|Of course, since the fall can't kill him but Isaac could, even if he doesn't know it, Czeslaw doesn't and Isaac has reach a little further.}}
** Which leads to a ridiculous extended sequence in which this trope is used multiple times. Isaac grabs Czes but is knocked off the train, Miria grabs him, but loses her grip, Rachel tries to save all three of them by grabbing Isaac's lasso, but lets go due to an injury, leading to Claire grabbing the rope and then handing it off to a minor character who finaly pulls them up.
* Towards the end of the first season of ''[[Queen's Blade]]'' Reina is grabbed by her sister, Claudette, who she then convinces to let her fall. Still not sure how she survives, apparently without a scratch.
** Reina did seem to have died and Menace brought her back to life, curing her wounds since it wouldn't do to have her 'plaything' injured. Also, [[Fan Service]].
* Played with in episode 12 of ''[[
* In the ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' anime's final episode Haruhi is riding alongside Tamaki's convertible in a horse-drawn carriage. She lets go of the reins with one hand to offer it to him as she tells him {{spoiler|that no one sees him as a burden and everyone enjoys the Host Club, herself included. Before Tamaki has time to reply the carriage loses control and Haruhi falls over the side of the bridge they were on. Tamaki quickly jumps out of his car and off the bridge after her. As they're both falling Tamaki shouts Haruhi's name as he reaches his hand out to her. She reciprocates, and he pulls her into a [[Squee|protective embrace]]. Then they both hit the [[Soft Water|water]], and next we see them walking out of the lake [[No One Could Survive That|perfectly fine]], albeit soaked.}}
* In Episode 35 of the ''[[Monster Rancher]]'' anime, Naga, one of the chief villains, {{spoiler|is blasted through a wall by Mocchi and is now hanging onto the edge of his castle above a deep canyon. Holly reaches her hand out to him and tells him to take her hand. Genki and Mocchi do the same. Suezo is reluctant because Naga destroyed his village, but eventually extends his tongue with the others' hands. However, instead of taking their hands, Naga says "So that's why you're all so strong" and lets go, falling to his death. This is combined with [[Save the Villain]]. (He is later resurrected as a purified monster once Moo is destroyed)}}
* In [[Kyou Kara Maou]], the main character Yuuri is about to fall into a newly-made giant canyon when he is caught by his [[Accidental Marriage|fiance]], Wolfram in a particularly [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]. Wolfram pulls him up using both arms and quite a lot effort, but has only one arm to pull on because Yuuri refuses to let go of Conrad's severed arm.
** A lesser moment earlier on when Yuuri and Wolfram are climbing a mountain and Wolfram slips. Yuuri ends up dropping Wolfram to distinctly non-fatal consequences.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' features an interesting variation on this. {{spoiler|Cassidy, the super-strong vampire, catches Jesse, the preacher with the [[Compelling Voice|Word of God]] who can force anyone to do what he says, as Jesse falls out of a plane. Unfortunately, A) a nuclear bomb has just gone off behind them, so B) the electromagnetic pulse has shorted out all the plane's electronics, turning it into an unwieldy glider, and C) it's daytime, so Cassidy's forearm is starting to catch on fire in the sunlight. Cassidy isn't willing to let his best mate die--but Jesse tells him to, and with the Word of God on his side, Cassidy has no choice but to do so}}. One of the finest moments in the series.
* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' has its share, among them:
** In the first graphic novel, Cutter tries to save Rayek this way. Rayek climbs to safety, then, panic receding, falls back on pure hatred for losing face that way.
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*** Interestingly, this was originally going to be the scene where Skywise ''dies'' - but as series creator Wendy was explaining the upcoming plot to new co-creator Richard, she "made the mistake" of mentioning that Skywise was a star-gazer, and Richard, deeply interested in astronomy, adopted the elf on the spot. "He's mine. I take possession. You are not going to kill him."
** A later variant has Skywise trapped in a collapsing mountain, the rock having shaped itself around him like a personal tomb; as another elf was holding his hand at the time, his hand is the only thing left sticking out of the rock. Elves on both sides of the newly erected wall have to flee, leaving Skywise trapped and rapidly losing oxygen. But, hey, this is Richard's pet character, and it all works out.
* The ''[[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'' villain Baron Zemo was subject to this on multiple occasions before falling to his death again.
* Subverted in ''[[Daredevil]]''; after Bullseye kills DD's love interest Elektra, there's a chase sequence that ends with Daredevil's grip on Bullseye's wrist the only thing saving him from a long drop. Bullseye starts ranting hysterically about how he won't let Daredevil save him, how he's going to kill
* Doubly Subverted in the recent ''X-Force'' comic. {{spoiler|X-23, having been infected by the last sample of the Legacy Virus, attempts to leap into a vat of molten steel to destroy it. Elixer grabs her at the last second and, despite her threat to sever his arm, managed to use his [[Healing Hands|healing powers]] in conjunction with her [[Healing Factor|regeneration]] to burn it out of her system completely... but the effort weakens him to the point where [[Disney Death|he drops her anyway]]. Fortunately, without the outward momentum she managed to hit/catch the edge of the tank and [[Good Thing You Can Heal|merely caught on fire]].}}
* In pre-Flashpoint [[Blue Beetle]], the finale of Jaime's battle with the Reach has a variation of this. Booster Gold teleports into the self-destructing Reach Commander's ship to get Jaime to safety. Jaime protests against leaving the Commander to die and begs him to take Jaime's hand. The Commander simply falls to his knees whispering "...we never had a chance".
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** A fall was only implied the first time, and it was when she ''trusts'' him that they jump off (safely).
** Averted by Jafar. Aladdin needs to be pulled up, Jafar says "First give me the lamp," takes the lamp and then, instead of pulling Aladdin up, tries to kill him with a dagger, then when Abu bites him, leaves Aladdin in the Cave of Wonders to die.
* ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]''. As Buzz and Woody are riding RC toward the truck, Slinky Dog grabs Woody's hand and tries to pull them aboard.
* In Disney's ''[[Mulan]]'', a kinda twisted version of this happens when Mulan and Shang (along with Mushu, Cri-Kee and Mulan's horse) get caught in the avalanche and the rest of the soldiers try to pull them all up with a rope. Everybody involved almost gets pulled off the cliff in the process. It then turns into a completely comical scene when Chien Po picks ''everyone'' up and pulls them all to safety.
* Esmeralda attempts to do this to Quasimodo at the end of ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' during the final battle with [[Complete Monster|Frollo.]] Just right after [[Disney Villain Death|Frollo falls to his doom,]] Esmeralda loses her grip, and as a result Quasimodo falls off the balcony as well, only to be caught and pulled back up by Phoebus (who is waiting at a lower balcony) at the last minute.
* {{spoiler|Bear Elinor}} tries to do this to Princess Merida during the climax of the upcoming film ''[[Brave]]'' as an attempt to save her daughter from the evil bear Mordu.
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== Film - Live Action ==
* They do this, and variations of this, about a dozen times in ''[[2012
* In ''[[The Matrix]]'', Neo jumps from a chopper to grab Morpheus as he just out of a sky scraper window. He doesn't try to pull him up, however (as he is dangling on a rope attached to the chopper himself at that moment), but maintains the hand-grip until they are above another roof.
* In the first ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'' movie, Frodo saves Sam from drowning by pulling him up by his wrist. It appears in the book as well:
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* ''[[Indiana Jones]]''
** In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', Elsa Schneider tries to leave with the Holy Grail. This causes a huge earthquake and the grail goes flying into a large crack in the floor. Indy dives and grabs Elsa's gloved hands. She ends up hanging onto Indy over a deep abyss. Before he can pull her up, she takes one of her hands and reaches for the [[Public Domain Artifact|Holy Grail]] instead. The leather glove on her other hand begins to slowly slip off. Right before she can touch the grail with her fingertips, the glove is completely undone from her hand and she falls to her [[Karmic Death]]. Indy falls in immediately after, and he tries reaching for the Grail rather than Henry Sr's hand, until dad begs "Indiana, let it go." (Apparently the Holy Grail was an in-universe [[Idiot Ball]].)
*** Potentially [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in the [[
** In ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'', Indy tries to rescue Mac, but the latter intentionally lets go, getting himself sucked into the {{spoiler|interdimensional vortex that was consuming the temple they were in}}.
* Also done to great dramatic effect at the end of the climactic fight between Rick Deckard and Roy in ''[[Blade Runner]]''.
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* Done horizontally rather than vertically in ''Air Force One'', when Harrison Ford nearly falls out the belly hatch of the plane.
* Inverted in ''[[Die Hard]]'' where John McClain separates [[Big Bad]] Hans Gruber from his wife's outstretched arm causing him to plummet to his death.
* Averted in ''[[The Great Waldo Pepper]]'' when Robert Redford's [[Ace Pilot]] title character tells Susan Sarandon's character, Mary Beth, to take his hand while trying to coax her off an airplane wing after she freezes in panic during a midair wing-walking stunt. Unfortunately she lets go of the strut she's clinging to and lunges at Waldo with BOTH hands. He can't catch her and she falls to her death.
* ''[[Dreamscape]]''. While Alex Gardner is sharing a dream with a construction worker, the worker is knocked off the top of a building and clings to a hanging girder. Alex jumps onto the girder with him and says "Gimme your hand!" before trying to pull him to safety.
* In ''[[The Abyss]]'', a strange and almost beautiful version of this plays completely wordlessly. Lt. Coffey is in one sub that's about to slip down the wall of the abyssal trench; Lindsay Brigman is in another sub, nose-to-nose with his. As his sub slips, both Coffey and Lindsay instinctively reach towards one another, but all they can do is put their hands on the inside of their own glass.
* The first ''[[Resident Evil (film)|Resident Evil]]'' movie. When J.D. is being pulled into a group of zombies Rain Ocampo calls out "Grab my hand" and tries to pull him out. It doesn't work and JD is killed.
* Disturbingly subverted in ''[[Cube]]'' - as Holloway is lowered into the unthinkable abyss outside the cube by the other characters, using a rope made of their clothes, the structure shakes and everyone drops the rope. She begins to fall and Quentin is the only one who quickly manages to grab the slipping rope, almost getting pulled down himself. He then manages to pull back all of the rope and grab Holloway's hand, but just as she lets out a sigh of relief his smile turns to a
* In the movie version of ''[[Jumanji]]'', this is played to a T as the rest of the characters try to rescue Allen as he is being sucked out of the house along with the crocodiles and lake induced by the indoor monsoon, complete with the shouting of "Take my hand!"
* ''[[Tron]]''. Tron pulls Flynn to safety while he's hanging off the Solar
* ''[[In the Line of Fire]]'': First the villain to the hero, then [[Save the Villain|the hero to the villain]] with an [[Ironic Echo]].
* ''[[Deep Blue Sea]]'': When traveling up the service shaft, this happens with Carter trying to grab {{spoiler|Janice}} out of the water when she falls in. {{spoiler|The shark eats her}}.
* In ''[[
* In ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'', Thor offers his hand to an exhausted Steve to help him stand during the Battle of
* Alita with {{spoiler|the cyborged and partially-dismembered Hugo}} at the climax of ''[[Alita: Battle Angel]]''.
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* In ''Isle of the Dead'' the hero's resurrected [[The Lancer|best friend]] tries to save the hero's resurrected wife this way. {{spoiler|He fails, for the same reasons and in the same way Miles would have.}}
* Oddly enough, played realistically in [[Enid Blyton]]'s ''Malory Towers'' series. A skinny nonathletic schoolgirl, in fact, ''cannot'' rescue her friend dangling off a cliff, and they just barely hang on to each other until help arrives.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** The end of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
** Also, three members of the Band With Rocks In wind up dangling from a cliff in ''[[
* In William King's ''[[Warhammer
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* [[Mercedes Lackey]]'s ''Dragon Jousters'' series had Kiron trying to save Ari - his dragon puts her head under him so Ari slides down her neck to Kiron, but Ari slid wrong and Kiron's hand slipped. When he does fall a third dragon jouster catches him and this time he doesn't fall.
* In Nick Kyme's ''[[Warhammer
* In ''[[Splinter of the
* In P.N. Elrod's ''[[Ravenloft]]'' prequel, ''I, Strahd'', the still-living Strahd invokes this trope to save his vassal and friend, Alek, who's been knocked off a cliff in a skirmish. His companion's armor is so heavy that he can't pull him up, and Alek threatens to jab Strahd's wrist with a dagger and ''make'' him let go before they're both dragged over the edge. They're spotted before that can happen, though {{spoiler|... ironically, by Strahd's brother Sergei, whom he would [[Cain and Abel|murder in a fit of jealousy]] a few months later}}.
* Happens in ''[[Septimus Heap|Queste]]'', where {{spoiler|the Toll-Man throws Septimus into the Abyss and gets rescued by Jenna, despite telling her not to do so to avoid pulling her over as well.}}
* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'': [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in ''A Clash of Kings'' when {{spoiler|Ser Mandon Moore}} tries this on {{spoiler|Tyrion}} during battle, intending to strike him with a sword. It fails when {{spoiler|Tyrion}} wonders, [[Imminent Danger Clue|at the last second,]] why he is offering his left hand instead of his right.
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*** And it was a vital plot point for this as it develops Masumi as [[The Lancer]] of the team as he butts heads with Satoru and his descent to darkness and out again.
* In the 1960s ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'' episode "Better Luck Next Time", Catwoman is barely holding onto the edge of an underground crevasse. Batman tries to save her but she [[Death by Materialism|refuses to let go of the bag of treasure she's holding]], and ends up plummeting into the abyss. She appears in a later episode, so she survived the fall (either that, or she used up one of her nine lives).
* In ''V.I.P.'', [[Action Girl|Tasha]] is fighting a woman who's trying to get to the Vice President's therapist (so they can figure out what to use to prevent the VP from casting a tie-breaking vote on a law that would make things much harder on their organisation). The woman is knocked on the ground and starts sliding towards a cliff. Tasha yells
* In the 1996 ''[[Doctor Who]]
** [[Only Mostly Dead|It doesn't stick, of course]].
** At the end of Season 4 of the revived series The Doctor attempts to save {{spoiler|Davros this way too, we're not sure how it would work given Davros is in a heavy wheelchair and was trapped on the other side of room filled with burning debris though, thankfully Davros refuses the offer making the whole thing academic}}. So that is him
* In the season 5 finale of ''[[Lost]]'', Sawyer grabs {{spoiler|Juliet}} before she can be pulled into an extremely deep shaft. Considering the force that the magnetic force was displaying and the amount of metal chain wrapped around her, Sawyer being able to hold her at all wanders into [[You Fail Physics Forever]] territory.
* In the Australian series ''Police Rescue'', a corrupt police officer is dangling off the edge of a building. His partner-in-crime tries to haul him up and gets yanked off the building to his death. Whereupon the protagonist, a trained rescue officer, does it properly by lying down on the roof and pulling him up with both arms.
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* ''[[The Wild Wild West (TV series)|The Wild Wild West]]'' episode "The Night of the Steel Assassin" had the villain, at the end, fall into a deep pool of water. Barely clinging to the edge, he was weighed down by the [[Hollywood Cyborg|armor plate built into his body]]. West '''literally''' said, [[Save the Villain|"Take my hand,"]] and the villain replied that [[Worthy Opponent|under other circumstances he would be happy to do so]]. Then he deliberately let go of the edge, slipped underwater, and drowned.
* At the climax of ''[[Tin Man (TV series)|Tin Man]]'', the whole confrontation between DG and Azkedellia is a cross of this and a [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]. In this case, it's because joining hands would {{spoiler|activate an innate protection spell and drive away the Witch possessing Az.}}
* An odd variation occurs in [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|the re-imagined ''
* In the ''[[Misfits]]'' series 1 finale, Simon tries to save Nathan (even though they disliked each other intensely and had just had a big argument) by catching his hand as he falls from the community centre roof. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, he can't maintain his grip and Nathan falls to his death. Still, he comes [[Back
* In the ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' episode "Altared States
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)
* In the end of the first ''[[Xenosaga]]'' game, when KOS-MOS jumps out of exploding Proto Merkabah, Shion reaches out for her hand but lets it slip (not surprising seeing how KOS-MOS is an [[Robot Girl|android]] weighting twice as much as Shion). However, Ziggy appears just in time to save the day.
* At the (canonical) end of ''[[Fatal Fury]]: Real Bout'', Terry Bogard tries to [[Save the Villain]] by grabbing Geese's hand as he falls from Geese Tower. Geese just smiles and pushes out of Terry's grip, letting himself fall to his death.
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* At the end of ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', as the heroes escape from Kefka's [[Load-Bearing Boss|crumbling headquarters]], Celes drops Locke's bandana, an item of tremendous sentimental value to her. She hurries back to retrieve it, and as she does, the ground gives way underneath her. Locke himself (or Setzer, if you didn't re-recruit Locke in the game's second half) rushes to her rescue.
* In the last cutscene of ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'', after Dante finally defeats his evil brother Virgil. Virgil is depressed and chooses to stay in the devil world "where the battle took place". He allows himself to fall off the top of the waterfall where they fought. Dante attempts this trope, but is cut by Virgil's blade one last time as his brother falls into oblivion.
* In ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]'', a
* And then there was ''[[Ico]]'', which was basically an entire game with an built-in
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140108152949/http://www.rose-tainted.net/ico/essays/17.jpg Which can lead to some intense moments that embody this trope.]
** Then there's the scene near the end {{spoiler|when the bridge opens up and the player is separated from Yorda and Ico jumps back and she holds onto him. She's forced to let go.}}
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', the opening is basically one prolonged Take My Hand moment, from the opening theme (which alludes to it) to the actual moment when Riku is taken by darkness.
** The ending to the first game, as well, when Sora reaches after Kairi as they're
* In the DS game ''[[Another Code]]'' (or ''[[Trace Memory]]'', depending on where you live) the ending features two. In the first the [[Big Bad]] {{spoiler|Bill}} falls to his death, the protagonist, {{spoiler|her father}} and a ghost all fail to catch him. In addition, if you get the "good" ending by find all of the clues to the D's death (he appears in the game as a ghost only the protagonist can see) he will recall that {{spoiler|his last memory was of his uncle (who he was fleeing from after seeing him shoot his [[Shoot the Dog|violent alcoholic father]]) trying to catch him as he fell (it's left open whether or not he actually managed to catch him and [[All for Nothing|D may or may not have died from a heart attack anyway after he was rescued though]])}}.
* The arcade shooter ''[[Confidential Mission]]'' has your character holding your companion's hand over a speeding train. You must tap the Start button at full speed to get pulled back on the roof.
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* Played with in the [[Prince of Tennis]] [[Dating Sim]] ''Doki Doki Survival''. In the first scenes of the games, your character (either the [[Shrinking Violet]] Tsugumi in ''Sanroku no Mystic'' or the [[Shorttank]] Ayaka in ''Umibe no Secret'') has to take the hand of two of her prospect love interests (Momoshiro and Kaidoh, for Tsugumi; Dabide and Saeki, for Ayaka) to get out of a room in a boat that's about to become a [[Drowning Pit]].
** In ''Sanroku'', if some events are met, main girl Tsugumi and [[Not So Stoic]] Genichirou Sanada will be like this, with Sanada using a hand to grab on [[Literal Cliff Hanger|a cliff's border]] and [http://i36.tinypic.com/73i7ig.jpg holding on a panicking Tsugumi with the other]. Sanada will actually ''[[Rule of Cool|lift the girl over the cliff with a single hand]]'' to get her out of trouble, then get out of danger's way by himself; granted, Sanada ''does'' have an impressive physical might that borders on [[Super Strength]] in canon, but ''still''...
* In ''[[Metroid Prime]] 3: Corruption'', Samus gets rescued in this fashion by Rundas during the opening area. As she and Meta-Ridley tumble down the ventilation shaft, she delivers the final blow to him... But the problem is, she's still falling down the shaft. Never fear! [[An Ice Person|Gliding on ice]], Rundas appears, and snatches her by her hand as Ridley falls away beneath them. Befitting his grumpy personality, he tells her she owes him one. {{spoiler|
* A cutscene in ''[[Uncharted Drakes Fortune]]'' shows Nate and Elena crossing a rickety old bridge, when (naturally) the bridge gives way beneath Elena precisely as Nate warns her about watching her step. She nearly falls to her death, but Nathan grabs onto her wrist just in time. However, her other hand is grasping her beloved video camera, and Nathan must urge her to give her his other hand, because he can't hold on for much longer. After a moment of hesitation on Elena's part, she let's her camera drop to the waters and wreckage below, and Nate is able to pull her back up to safety once she grasps onto him with her other hand.
* This happens in the opening cinematic of ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', although with the person needing rescue (Zoey) asking the rescuer (Francis) to help her up. Makes a bit more sense than some examples, given that Francis gets a firmer grip than most examples and probably is strong enough to lift up Zoey.
* One of the final cutscenes in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'' involves Chris doing this for Sheva as she falls out the back end of {{spoiler|a jet bomber.}} Being a quicktime event, he can either succeed ''or'' fail at grabbing her hand in time.
* The first regular level of ''[[Call of Duty]] 4'' ends this way with Capt. Price saving Soap from falling out of a helicopter.
** In the sequel, Soap himself does this trick at least twice to Roach, the new PC: first time, {{spoiler|during the snowmobile mission}}, he succeeds, the second time, {{spoiler|in the Brazil mission}}, he doesn't. May indicate that he is still not one the same level of [[Badass]] as Price.
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''. After defeating the [[Final Boss]], the [[Load-Bearing Boss|structure begins to collapse]] and one of your party members goes sliding towards oblivion, until Shepard saves them with a
** Takes on an extra meaning if it's Shepard's love interest that {{spoiler|1=goes over the edge/pulls him/her up.}}
* Appears twice in ''[[Dragon Quest VIII]]''. The first time appears in a [[How We Got Here]] [[Flash Back]], explaining how Eight [[I Owe You My Life|saved Yangus' life]] after the bandit tried robbing them. The second occurs near the end of the main plot, when {{spoiler|Angelo saves Marcello's life}}. Unlike Yangus, who took advantage of it to successfully turn his life around [[Reformed but Rejected|like he'd wanted to before slipping back into banditry right before meeting Eight]], the latter turns out to be an [[Ungrateful Bastard]].
* ''[[Star Ocean
* In the ending of ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'', Cloud has a vision in which he's taking Aerith's hand, but the scene then shifts back to reality and he sees Tifa reaching out for him, only for the ledge beneath her to give way and for him to have to catch her and grab onto the platform.
* ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Sands of Time'': Near the end, [[Love Interest|Farah]] slips off a ledge with [[MacGuffin|the Dagger of Time]], so the Prince lunges for her...and grabs ''the blade of the dagger''. {{spoiler|Farah, willing to give her own life to ensure the sands are contained, says goodbye, lets go of the dagger and falls to her death.}}
** And in the later reboot in 2008 of ''[[Prince of Persia]]'', this happens ''every single time you fall'' thanks to Elika's magic.
* ''[[Singularity]]'' has it occur several times, from both sides. You offer a hand to Demichev early in the game so he doesn't fall from the ledge in the burning building, while on more than one occasion you're saved or pulled up by allies yourself.
* In the prologue of ''Metro 2033'', Miller catches and saves [[Player Character|Artiom]] when a ladder breaks.
* Used as the last hero or villain choice in ''[[Spider-Man: Web of Shadows]]'' when Spider-Man reaches out for Venom. Subverted with both choices, the hero has Venom knocking Spider-Man out of the way and killing himself in a [[Redemption Equals Death]] moment, and the villain choice has Spider-Man webbing Venom into the Shield helicarrier's engine.
* Happens in ''[[Dead Space 2]]'' {{spoiler|at the very end of the game; when Isaac's [[Obi-Wan Moment]] is interrupted by Ellie arriving in a [[Big Damn Gunship]]. "Isaac! Take my hand!"}}
* In ''[[Jak II]]'', Sig catches Jak by the hand right as he and Daxter are plummeting to their death. Sig, being [[Muscles Are Meaningful|6'6" and 270 lbs]], has no trouble pulling up the [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse|5'8", 165 lbs Jak]]. The cutscene is fittingly titled "Sig's Strong Arm".
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== Webcomics ==
* In the [[Dungeons
* Parodied in an ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' [[Imagine Spot]] after Susan accuses Elliot of being so darn noble he'd save his own worst enemy. Elliot promptly imagines having [[Complete Monster]] Damien in a
* Monica and Amanda try to haul Shelly back up onto a platform in [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/08242004/ this] strip of ''[[Wapsi Square]]''. [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/08252004/ They drop her.] {{spoiler|[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/08262004/ she doesn't fall very far.]}}
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20120616140357/http://endstone.net/2010/11/08/4-39/ it doesn't go well.]
* In ''[[American Barbarian]]'', [http://www.ambarb.com/?p=218 getting Rick off the cliff.]
== Web Original ==
* Happens in season two of ''[[I'm a Marvel
* Gordon Freeman tries this in [[Freeman's Mind]] when he sees a dangling scientist. The scientist plummets to the bottom of a pit, and Gordon yells "No, your ''other'' hand you idiot!"
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== Western Animation ==
* At the end of the ''[[Justice League]]'' episode "The Enemy Below" Aquaman's treacherous brother Orm is hanging on for his life in a [[Literal Cliff Hanger]] and begs his brother to save him. Aquaman reaches out and {{spoiler|grabs his trident, which Orm had stolen, with the words "[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|I believe this is mine]]" and lets him fall to his death. You ''really'' shouldn't have attempted to [[Papa Wolf|assassinate your baby nephew, Orm]].}}
** Done again in the ''[[Justice League Unlimited|Unlimited]]'' episode
* Parodied in ''[[South Park]]'', where the person (or rather, louse) about to fall is slipping, slipping...and then her arm tears in half and she goes flying.
* Subverted in the first season finale of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' and played straight in the third. In the first, Zhao {{spoiler|is about to get killed by an angry ocean spirit, and Zuko, after some inner debate, reaches out to him and says "take my hand!". Zhao reaches forward, but changes his mind halfway there, too proud to accept help from Zuko. The ocean spirit then kills him.}} In the second, {{spoiler|Sokka and Toph are dangling from an airship. Sokka's leg is broken, and he's lying across a jutting part of the blimp, gripping Toph's hand tightly. They have a handslip moment. Just when it seemed like they wouldn't make it (Toph actually started to ''cry''), Suki rescued them.}}
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* This happens in ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'' when Abigail is hanging off of the wing of their flying machine and the formerly cowardly Edgar has to climb onto the wing and save her.
* This is combined with [[Save the Villain]] in one of the last episodes of ''[[Storm Hawks]]''. Repton and Stork are fighting, and Repton ends up dangling over the edge of the ship. Stork tries to save him, but Repton tries to stab him instead. This causes Stork to move out of the way, so when Repton finally slips and falls to his death, he ''can't'' save him.
* Subverted hard in the series ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', in the "Black Sand" episode, when Aladdin's enemy Mozenrath ends up dangling from a ledge of the Sultan's palace after a pitched battle. Aladdin [[Save the Villain|reaches out to him]], saying "Take my hand!" Mozenrath instead tries to blast Aladdin with his magic, shouting "I'd rather take your ''life''!" His attack at Aladdin results in his losing his grip on the ledge and falling to his [[Joker Immunity|
* In the first episode of ''[[Beast Wars]]'', [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Dinobot]] [[Establishing Character Moment|does this]] for [[The Hero|Optimus]] when the latter slips and nearly falls off of the bridge during their fight.
* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "The Beak", {{spoiler|Phineas saves Isabella from falling of the side of a building by grabbing her hand.}} [[Ship Tease|And the fangirls rejoiced]]...
* ''[[The Mighty Mightor]]'' episode "Battle of the Mightors". Tor to L'il Roc after he falls off a cliff and lands on a branch.
* [[Played With]] in the second half of the pilot of ''[[My Little Pony:
* In ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' episode "Ragnarok and Roll" revolves around a guy who wants to destroy the world because everything is so awful. His sidekick and only friend, who is having increasing doubts about this plan, finally gets knocked off the roof of a building, clinging to the edge by his fingertips; the guy desperately tries to save him, but the sidekick flatly refuses to take his hand until he agrees to quit destroying the world.
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