Her fingers rip into the metal and tear a long gash in the shaft as she falls, but she manages to slow down her descent. In The Phantom Zone, Supergirl stops herself from falling right into the Disintegration Pit's radioactive flames by clinging to the giant cauldron's walls.The cliffhanger has the Big Bad sending another Indian to stomp on Indy's fingers. Indy manages to grab hold of the ledge but is left holding on only by his fingers. Indy knocks the Indian off, but the Indian grabs Indy's jacket and yanks him off as well. In The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones #9, Indy attacks a Hovito Indian on a narrow ledge atop a skyscraper with his tuxedo jacket.Although no one comes to stomp on his hand, something even worse happens: a bird comes by and shits on his fingers, causing him to slip and fall to his death. Ichi the Killer has the fight between Ichi and Kakihara come to a close when Kakihara runs away and tries to jump from one apartment building to another, only to invoke this trope.Thankfully, in the present Nobita (thanks to his new sidekick Mofusuke) managed to collect the spare Time Belt battery hidden 100,000 years ago and bring everyone back to the past, just in time to catch Doraemon as he fell. Doraemon: Great Adventure in the Antarctic Kachi Kochi: The climax has Doraemon, stranded in the past (100,000 years ago) after being blown away from the Time Belt, clinging for life on a ledge with a drop several hundreds of meters below him as the monster Blizarga, intending to turn the world into a frozen wasteland, freezes the whole city in the back.Deltora Quest: Dain first stomps on Leif's fingers while he's hanging over the edge, then helps him back up, only so he can taunt him and fight him some more.See also Stock Clock Hand Hang, Take My Hand!, Chain of People, Hand Stomp. If Played for Comedy, the rescuer may themselves fall and have to be grabbed by an even stronger person. If the creator wants to do Fanservice, they may show a female character from below with a gratuitous Panty Shot. Villains in kids' movies have a high propensity to lose their grip and fall to their doom, because Moral Guardians find it more acceptable than having a scene where the hero stabs the villain ten times. Villains who are dangling by their fingers near the end of a story (when they have no Plot Armor) may lose their grip and plummet to their death, giving a satisfying moral about how "crime does not pay". If they need to survive for plot purposes, they may grab a vine/gutter/drainpipe in mid-air or land on a conveniently-present soft surface (bales of hay in a Period Piece or a pile of garbage bags in modern stories). If they do fall, their death isn't certain if they are a hero, especially if they are "wearing" Plot Armor. When there isn't a villain around, another hero or their ally will try to grasp their hands. The trope is often paired with a villain at the ledge stomping on their hands or peeling the finger off. Or someone or something may peel the fingers off slowly, one by one. To ramp up the tension, the ledge or rope may be wet, or rain is falling. "Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it?"Ī character is holding onto a ledge or rope by their fingers far above a rocky chasm or atop a building.
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