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{{quote|"Take my hand!"<br />
"Why? [[Waxing Lyrical|Are you a stranger in paradise?]]"|''[[
[[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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* The hanging character will sometimes be wearing gloves (usually leather) on their hands, which slowly start to slip off - with each successive shot of the gloved hand showing it more on the verge of slipping off completely.
* A [[Chain of People]] comes to the rescue, instead of just one person.
* The rescuer ends up in the same predicament, either accidentally or because the falling character deliberately tried to [[Taking You
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!]].
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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.}}
* ''[[
* In the last episode of ''[[Noir (
* In end of ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'', the titular character tries to pull {{spoiler|Anthy}} out of her personal hell she confined herself to.
** {{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 CHOSE to take Utena's hand.}}
** 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 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 [[Take My Hand]] moment.
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** 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 (
* In episode 9 of ''[[Grenadier]]'', Yajiro attempts to save Fuuka Shiratou from falling off a cliff ''twice'' {{spoiler|and fails on both occasions}}.
* In episode 6 of ''[[Code Geass]]'', the [[Magnificent Bastard]] Lelouch stages a dramatic fall from the school bell tower and is "saved" by his childhood friend Suzaku, thus, preventing the latter from discovering some troublesome facts about him. It also has the side benefit of endearing Suzaku to Lelouch's classmates, helping deal with the racism he had experienced the rest of the episode.
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*** 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 ''first'' Digimon series, {{spoiler|Tai saves Sora from falling into a huge hole by grabbing her arm. Datamon, who had kidnapped Sora and tried to clone her so he could use her Crest of Love to his advantage, uses his mechanic arms to try injuring both of them and force Tai drop her, but Tai still holds on}}.
* [[
** 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 [[Take My Hand]] scene between {{spoiler|Haseo and Ovan}}.
* 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
* ''[[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.
* Occurs during the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog
* Also occurs in ''[[Sonic X]]'' when Yellow Zelkova basically commits suicide rather than choosing to let Knuckles save him.
* Inverted in ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[
* After the big fight with Creed in the ''[[Black Cat (
* 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.
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* 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
* ''[[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 [[Take My Hand|this]] when she begs [[The Chosen One|him]] to leave [[Your Days Are Numbered|her]] behind to escape an assassin. She does. (He's [[No One Gets Left Behind|very]] [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|persuasive]].)
* ''[[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 ''[[
** 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 [[
** 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 ''[[Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai
* 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.
* Near the end of ''[[Metropolis (
* About 50 seconds into the opening for ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[
* The ''[[Record of Lodoss War]]'' OVA ends this way when Deedlit grabs Parn's hand before he departs on a horse and rides off with him at the end.
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== Film - Animated ==
* Scar from ''[[
* Meanwhile, in ''[[
* In ''[[Finding Nemo]],'' Marlin catches Dory by one fin as they're falling toward the back of the whale's throat. This might be considered something of an inversion, since not only does Dory not want to be rescued, falling is in fact the ''only'' way for them to get out of the whale.
* In ''[[Treasure Planet]]'', the only way [[Anti-Villain|Silver]] could've kept Jim from falling to a very painful death was to let go of a boatload of Flint's treasure, [["Friend or Idol?" Decision|which he had spent the better part of his life searching for.]] {{spoiler|[[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|He chooses Jim]] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|over the treasure,]] solidifying his [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
* ''* gapes* '' Oh ''tell me'', ya'll didn't forget ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''?!
{{quote| ''"Do you trust me?"''}}
** A fall was only implied the first time, and it was when she ''trusts'' him that they jump off (safely).
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* ''[[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 ''[[
* Subverted in ''[[The Great Mouse Detective]]''. Basil is holding out Olivia while leaning over the edge of Big Ben. She strains to reach her father's hand, but ultimately can't reach him. It's only when Ratigan knocks them off the edge that her father is finally able to grab his daughter and save her from plunging over.
* In [[Beauty and The Beast]] the Beast tries to save [[Jerkass|Gaston]] this way. He falls to his [[Disney Death]], however.
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* 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 (
{{quote| "Up you come, Sam my lad!" said Frodo. "Now take my hand!"<br />
"Save me, Mr. Frodo!" gasped Sam. "I'm drownded. I can't see your hand." }}
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{{quote| "Don't you let go!"}}
* In ''[[Dark Knight Trilogy|Batman Begins]]'', Bruce Wayne saves the unconscious Ducard in this manner. He can only use one arm because he is flat on his back, with the gauntlet on his other arm wedged into the ice to hold him in place. At least Bruce yells to let the audience know it was really hard.
* ''[[
** In ''[[Indiana Jones and
*** Potentially [[Subverted Trope|subverted]] in the [[Lucas Arts]] Games Graphic Adventure version of the film. A player can allow Indy to avoid this trope and obtain the Grail if the player has the presence of mind to do something reasonably clever: {{spoiler|use the whip to grab the Grail}}.
** In ''[[Indiana Jones and
* Also done to great dramatic effect at the end of the climactic fight between Rick Deckard and Roy in ''[[Blade Runner]]''.
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Vertigo]]'' opens with this trope, but then adds a twist when the rescuer falls to his death.
** He also used this in ''[[North
* A climactic scene in the James Cameron film ''[[True Lies]]'' has character Harry Tasker (Arnold Schwarzenegger) grabbing his wife by one hand while the limousine she's travelling in barrels towards a broken gap in a bridge, from a helicopter.
* In ''[[Maverick (
* Parodied in ''[[Scary Movie]] 2,'' where Dwight (David Cross) falls out of a two-story window because he refuses to take the disfigured hand of the perverted Hanson (Chris Elliott), despite Hanson insisting it's his "strong hand".
* ''[[
* In the movie ''[[Mannequin]]'', the titular character is falling into a shredder while still in her inanimate mannequin form. Jonathan reaches in at the last second and catches one of her arms with both of his hands; when she turns back into human, her increased weight nearly pulls them both over the edge, but it also makes it easier for her to pull herself along his arm.
* The movie ''[[
** This scene would later be spoofed with ''[[Ace Ventura]]: When Nature Calls'', with a raccoon standing in for the climber.
* In ''[[The Princess Bride (
* Near the climax of ''[[
{{quote| '''Two-Face''': "[[Honor Before Reason|Stupid. But very noble]]."}}
** Subverted in the first film; Batman and Vicki Vale are hanging off the ledge of a cathedral. The Joker lends a 'hand' to Vicki, only for it to drop off, nearly sending her to her death.
* ''[[Judge Dredd (
* In ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]'', Alexa and another [[Red Shirt|scientist]] jump across a chasm to escape a pursuing alien. He makes it, she lands on loose bricks and begins to fall. The editing suggests that she's [[It Just Bugs Me|past the point of no return]], but sure enough, he grabs her wrist just in time ''and'' manages to pull her back up.
* ''[[Star Trek III:
* Used briefly in the 2009 ''[[Star Trek]]'' movie, when Sulu pulls Kirk back up onto the drill platform.
* ''[[
* Interesting take on this in ''[[The Good Son]]''. The climactic scene has the much-put upon mom forced to choose between her evil son Macaulay Culkin and good nephew Elijah Wood, as both dangle from [[Chekhov's Gun|Chekhov's Cliff]].
* Done horizontally rather than vertically in ''Air Force One'', when Harrison Ford nearly falls out the belly hatch of the plane.
* Inverted in ''[[
* 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 (
* Disturbingly subverted in ''[[
* 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 Sailer.
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* ''[[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 ''[[Mad Max|Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome]]'', a [[Chain of People|chain of children]] are trying to save one of their own from being swallowed up by the same quicksand that earlier claimed Max's dead horse. The human chain is about to break when Max arrives, and he saves them all {{spoiler|except for the little boy the others were trying to rescue}}.
* In ''[[The Avengers (
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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.
* The end of [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Discworld
** Also, three members of the Band With Rocks In wind up dangling from a cliff in ''[[Discworld
* In William King's [[Warhammer 40000]] novel ''[[Space Wolf]]'', when the aspirants are climbing a mountain and Ragnor starts to slip, Kjel comes to help him like this. It also inspires Ragnor to get a grip, because he is afraid he might drag Kjel down if he falls.
* In [[Graham McNeill]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] [[Ultramarines (
* In [[James Swallow]]'s [[Warhammer 40000]] ''[[Blood Angels
* [[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 40000]] novel ''[[Salamanders
* In [[Splinter of the Minds Eye]], Leia falls into a pit and Luke, hauling her out, has to brace against a stalagmite. As he heaves her up and out the stalagmite breaks, and then ''she'' gets ''him'' out of the same pit, leading to one of the novel's many, many moments of unwitting [[Incest Subtext]].
* 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
* [[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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** It was a straight version of a subversion in the [[Super Sentai]] episode the Stock Footage came from, where Red threw Black off a cliff to Lava below, offering to pull him up if and only if he would rejoin the team (as he had just tried to take the treasure and run, claiming he never intended to join them for real). For some reason, Disney felt the need to dilute this a bit before showing it to young children. Poor role model, or something.
*** 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
* 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 [[Take My Hand]] and starts moving towards the woman, trying to grab her. The woman slips too fast for Tasha to catch her.
* In [[Doctor Who]]: The Movie (with Paul McGann), The Master is being sucked into the Eye of Harmony. The Doctor offers him his hand, and the Master deliberatly lets himself be sucked into the Eye and be killed so he is [[Deader Than Dead]] (again).
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* ''[[Kamen Rider Kiva]]'' plays this a little differently in the finale. When Wataru and {{spoiler|his brother}} Taiga take on a revived King, King knocks Wataru off a cliff, and as he falls, he grabs onto...{{spoiler|the hand of the IXA armor, which was destroyed in 1986 when a time-traveling Wataru and his father Otoya fought and killed King in the first place. This reminds Wataru of his father, giving him a confidence boost that lets him return to the fight and defeat King alongside Taiga.}}
** "Reaching out your hand" is one of the big themes in ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]'', {{spoiler|as shown in [[Stepford Smiler|Eiji's]] flashbacks, he tries reaching out to save a little girl he befriended, but [[My Greatest Failure|fails]]}}.
* ''[[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 Are 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 the re-imagined ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]''. It's not a cliff but a burning Raptor in which Baltar is stuck. Crashdown is urging him to reach for his hand over the fires before the Raptor blows up. What Baltar sees, however, is [[Our Angels Are Different|Head-Six]] who calmly says "Gaius, take my hand".
* In the ''[[
* In the ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' episode "Altared States," the villain (who wants to persuade his religious father that he has to sacrifice his other son Icus - [[The Bible
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]'' (''[[
* In the end of the first ''[[
* 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.
* Right at the beginning of ''[[
* At the end of ''[[
* In the last cutscene of ''[[
* In ''[[Beyond Good
* And then there was ''[[
** [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.}}
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* ''[[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 [[Take My Hand]] ({{spoiler|they can still die under falling debris a moment later}}). Shortly thereafter, {{spoiler|this always happens to Shepard, too... and whether ''s/he'' is rescued depends entirely on whether you kept at least some of your crew alive}}. Watch [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZY-sXrQeh0 the video], but spoilers ahoy.
** 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 ''[[
* ''[[Star Ocean]]:[[The Last Hope]]'' Happens when Edge grabs Meracle when she makes a leap for the departing Calnus after having faced a moment of indecision about leaving at all. Edge starts to fall and is grabbed by Faize who begins to fall and is grabbed by Lymle and Reimi. Only for the whole lot of them to be rescued by Bacchus. It happens again at the end. {{spoiler|Edge is carrying Faize out of the collapsing Cathedral when the floor gives way and Faize falls. Edge is still holding him but in an odd moment of realism doesn't have the strength to lift him. Faize lets go of him out of a combination of guilt and probably the hope that Edge can still save himself. The collapse has gone on too long by this point though and Edge ends up falling after Faize only to be rescued by the Sol. Theoretically Faize is also saved this way. It gets hard to tell after this point.}}
* 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.
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* ''[[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 ''[[
* 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".
** In [[Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy|the first game]], when you let Jak hang on a ledge for a while, [[Idle Animation|Daxter will jump from Jak's shoulder to the ledge]] and try to pull up Jak. Of course, it doesn't really help much.
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== Webcomics ==
* In the [[Dungeons and Dragons
* Parodied in an ''[[
* 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]]'', [http://endstone.net/2010/11/08/4-39/ it doesn't go well.]
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== Web Original ==
* Happens in season two of [[I'm a Marvel And
* Gordon Freeman tries this in [[Freemans Mind|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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* 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 ''Divided We Fall'' when Shayera reaches into the Speedforce that Flash has just vanished into and yells at him to take her hand before they yank him out. Note: {{spoiler|he doesn't.}} Made all the more significant by the fact that this act concluded two story arcs at once: that of Shayera's repatriation into the League after the events of the ''JL'' finale "Starcrossed" and that of [[Lex Luthor]]'s "destiny" to kill Wally, which started back in "A Better World" and was repeatedly referenced during the Cadmus Arc.
* Parodied in ''[[
* Subverted in the first season finale of ''[[
** A version of this is used during the first season when Sokka is taken by Hei Bai. But just as Aang is to reach Sokka's hand, Hei Bai takes Sokka with him into the spirit world.
* ''[[Teen Titans (
** Done again in "Troq" when Starfire saves the life of Val-Yor, an example of [[The Ace]], who had pretty much been a racist asshole to her the entire episode.
* ''[[
* The pilot episode of ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' has [[Kid Appeal Character|Bumblebee]] and [[Team Pet|Sari]] doing this. It's the "too terrified to let go" variant, understandable since the eight-year-old girl is the only one left in a train car that was knocked off a skyscraper and is still falling and she's clinging to a pole inside. She does let go and grab his hand (reaching it by what can only be described as swimming through the air) after an [[Ironic Echo]] ("You can trust this face, can't you?").
* This trope is combined with [[Redemption Equals Death]] in an episode of ''[[Cybersix]]'': the villain falls off a bridge and when Cybersix grabs her hand, the villain lets go intentionally... so Cybersix won't get run over by the oncoming train.
* 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|apparant death]].
* In the first episode of ''[[
* 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: Friendship Is Magic
* 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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