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Sometimes, just fighting head to head in the air isn't enough. When a creator really wants to showcase the Ace Pilot's skills and keep the audience on the edge of their seats, he'll have the character lead the bad guys on a high speed chase through a very narrow area. As the name might suggest, these usually occur in canyons, although Asteroid Thickets are the go-to replacement for Science Fiction. Modern settings may substitute skyscrapers for the canyon walls, as well. Caves or tunnels can also be substituted. Note that if the pursuers crash before entering the canyon/asteroid thicket/alley/tunnel, it's just Try and Follow, not this trope. Expect to see lots of fast pans and quick camera changes, as well as tense music and close calls. This also has the benefit of missed shots from the pursuer striking the surroundings to showcase how dangerous they really are, lending more urgency to the fight. Sub-Trope of Try and Follow. Sister Trope of Airstrike Impossible. Often includes instances of a Wronski Feint, Belly-Scraping Flight, or Dodge by Braking. |
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The Trumpet of the Swan: "DANGEROUS CURVES AHEAD." | |
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This trope happens at least twice in The Blue Max, once where anti-hero Bruno Stachel leads a naive young wingmate to his doom in a chase-game of progressively more dangerous low-level stunting, near tall buildings and inconvenient telegraph wires. Other films about First World War aerial combat have used this to spectacular effect; Aces High 1976 sees an aerial chase at low level lead to the destruction of both aircraft. | |
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Philosoma contain stages set in "space" canyons, where the player takes on enemy fighters in between gorges while trying not to crash on the sides. More often than not these gorges also contain floating asteroids as an additional hazard. | |
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A variation in the Area 88 OAV, where several pilots fly through a canyon to avoid SAM batteries. Many don't make it. | |
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The Empire Strikes Back: Han Solo and the Millennium Falcon do this during the famous asteroid chase scene. As Solo noted, "They'd be crazy to follow us." Unfortunately, Darth Vader is quite a motivator for his troops and they dive in after him. | |
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The series TaleSpin does this all the time, with Baloo being a master pilot. For instance, in the climax of the first story, Baloo leads a merry aerial chase into the bowels of the city, causing all his pursuers to eventually crash, and he crows, "If you can't fly, don't mess with the eagles!" Another episode has Baloo pull up in front of a wall in a cave. Don Karnage hits it, with the statement, "What a lousy place for a wall!" |
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The final battle in Top Gun: Maverick has one of these between Maverick's F-14 and the Su-57 Felon. | |
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Doraemon: Nobita's Dinosaur had Nobita, Doraemon and friends being trapped in prehistoric times and getting pursued by a flock of pterodactyls in a narrow canyon while wearing their take-copters. Things took a turn for the worse when Doraemon couldn't find a suitable gadget in the chaos (Rummage Fail happens as usual, no surprise) and when he eventually found the pack of Momotaro pills (which is used to tame wild beasts), a passing pterosaur knocks the pills out of Doraemon's hands. And then another pterosaur caused Gian's take-copter to fall off, where Nobita had to hold Gian before he could fall to his death. When things start looking really hopeless... comes the Dinosaur Hunters suddenly blasting the pterosaurs out of the sky. | |
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The winged flyers in Transformers: Dark of the Moon are able to outmaneuver the Decepticon patrol ships by flying through damaged buildings. Due to their size, they are more than capable of fitting into places those ships can't. | |
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Dan Dare actually went and subverted this in at least one of its iterations, during the 'All Treens Must Die' storyline. After being released from his imprisonment for genocide as Earth, now with its defences offline, came under a surprise assault from the Mekon's invasion force, in a last, desperate bid to do something, Dan and his crew were bunged into the Anastasia and told to do whatever they could. When one enemy fighter launched a missile on their tail, Dan tried to use the Wronski Feint with a local canyon to escape it. Unfortunately, the missile was just as good, and his attempts to get back out of the canyon were thwarted by fighter wings at a higher altitude keeping them pinned down. With a mountain looming up ahead, Dan tried pulling straight up anyway, noted the missile was still unfazed, and just turned to his crew and apologised. Annie promptly took the missile up the tailpipe. | |
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Gene Troopers has Planet A412, a lengthy chase across a Derelict Graveyard of gigantic spaceships on a desert planet, between enemy drones and the rebels, with you controlling a turret from behind. More often than not the chase will lead through tunnels and between canyon-like walls. | |
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Sky Odyssey is an unusual example. Nothing actually chases you, as there's no combat in the game. It more than makes up for it in the "fly through the narrow canyon" part, which the game has in spades. In fact from the first to the last level the most common form of death in this game is usually crashing into canyon walls. Often you even have to fly through caves. To top it all off earthquakes hit frequently on the islands the game is set in, meaning you sometimes have to dodge rockslides falling down from above. | |
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In the novellas and audio dramas of the Dark Forces Saga, Jan pilots the Moldy Crow through a canyon on Sulon at Kyle's urging in order to evade TIE fighters. As usual, a TIE fighter fails evade a canyon wall. | |
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This is used as one of the big action scenes in Shrek 4D, with Shrek, Donkey, and Dragon going into a canyon in order to outrun an evil stone dragon. | |
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Not necessarily a chase scene, but pretty much every Ace Combat game requires the player to do this for some reason. Sometimes, there are enemy planes or helicopters skulking in the canyons or other narrow passageways or tunnels, just waiting to achieve missile lock. | |
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The Mandalorian: In "The Passenger", Din is running from a pair of New Republic X-wings and flees to a nearby ice planet where he flies into the canyons present to elude pursuit. In "The Siege", Greef, Cara, and Mythrol flee several TIEs through a narrow canyon in a stolen Imperial troop transport. Greef nails one, but the wreck crashes into their gun turret and leaves them a sitting duck for the other three when they run out of canyon. |
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Hot Shots!: Charlie Sheen's character luring enemies into a canyon and Top Gunning them by stepping on the brakes. Yes, he's piloting an airplane. No, that's not because it's cool. | |
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Command & Conquer: Tiberian Dawn features this in an FMV cut-scene showing off the Orca VTOL attack craft. In-fact, the song used in the scene is officially called "Canyon Chase" by Frank Klepacki. | |
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Return of the Jedi: The Millennium Falcon again, this time piloted by Lando Calrissian, in the attack on the second Death Star. Along with Wedge Antilles' X-wing, they fly directly into a tunnel going through the giant space station, pursued by TIE fighters. The tunnel gets rather narrow in places, costing the Falcon its radar dish at one point. | |
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Appears in the cinematic for a secret project in Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri. | |
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In the Crimson Skies wargame, one of the maps supplied is of a canyon, with several hexes marked as impassable. Planning your move wrong so you crash into one of these can be surprisingly easy. | |
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Captain Marvel: Maria Rambeau takes down Minn-Erva in one of these in the final battle. | |
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In Spider-Man 3, during the first fight between Peter Parker and Harry Osborn as "New Goblin", Peter tries to escape by webslinging into a narrow gap between two buildings. Harry manages to follow by turning his Sky Surfing glider sideways (unlike his father's, his is no bigger than a snow surf), but he has a hard time avoiding obstacles and scrapping the walls. | |
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The Last Jedi: Chewie and Rey, aboard the Millennium Falcon, draw away the TIE fighters from the battleground above the Rebel base on Crait, mostly thanks to Kylo Ren's hatred of this ship. The starfighters are then shot or crashed one by one in a chase through the crystal canyons and caverns of the salt planet, including some very narrow passages where the Falcon barely squeeze by flying on its side. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Captain Marvel: Maria Rambeau takes down Minn-Erva in one of these in the final battle. The Avengers: Iron Man takes out many of the invading flying charioteers by getting them to chase him through the streets of New York after Hawkeye notes that they aren't as maneuverable as he is. |
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This happens in the first episode of Yukikaze, as Fukai and Yukikaze chase Copy Sylph into a canyon. The chase ends when Copy Sylph simply vanishes into thin air... after calling in an antiaircraft nuclear missile to take out Yukikaze. | |
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During Galaxy of Fear, Tash Arranda tries this through an Asteroid Thicket with a Star Destroyer in hot pursuit, not unlike The Empire Strikes Back's scene. The Star Destroyer plows in after her, able to blast asteroids big enough to do it harm, but was not aware of the space slugs. | |
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Farscape. Aeryn Sun pursues a Harvey-possessed John Crichton through a glacier in "Die Me, Dichotomy". | |
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In an episode of Storm Hawks, Aerrow tries this to defeat the Dark Ace. As demonstrated earlier in the episode, the very end of the canyon is so narrow, one must turn one's fliers to motorcycle mode to get through, and then back again as to not plummet to the ground. The trick here is that, earlier in the fight, Aerrow had stuck a wrench into the Dark Ace's wing mechanism, preventing him from retracting them. | |
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In X2: X-Men United, lacking a conveniently placed canyon with which to perform this, Storm uses her weather manipulating powers to create one from tornadoes, giving the X-Men a chance to escape. It has the added benefit of making sure the inevitable crashes aren't actually fatal for their pursuers, but also the downside of allowing a clean missile lock. | |
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Used repeatedly in the X-Wing Series, using canyons, buildings, asteroids, and tall trees. Whatever's available. It helps that our heroes are usually in X-Wings or TIE Interceptors, while their opponents are either in more Interceptors or TIE fighters. Each of these fighters has a different profile, a different height or width, so some can slip through a gap by turning sideways while others can't. Also, TIEs and Interceptors have those large square wings, which get snagged by the wind if they make certain maneuvers in atmosphere. Some pilots can compensate for that, some can't. | |
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At one point in Mass Effect 2, the Normandy SR-2 has to evade pursuers by flying through a massive debris field that would destroy any ship, the Normandy included, were it not for the skill of the ship's pilot. However, even this is a close shave; the Normandy survives, but if the player doesn't upgrade the ship's barriers, the stress placed on them by debris collisions overloads the ship's power core, killing a squadmate in the resulting explosion. | |
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The canyon level of Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge is pretty much this trope. | |
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Shows up in several of the space rail shooter missions in Star Wars: The Old Republic, likely as a reference to some of the source material. | |
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Deff Skwadron: As Deff Skwadron is pursuing a messenger squigeon, it flies into a canyon. Goose tries to follow it, taking his time to line up the shot... and promptly crashes. | |
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Rescue on Fractalus! was originally going to have this be the only way to defeat enemies; George Lucas said that was silly. | |
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Avania: Una Pennrose pursues her target into a canyon despite her own aircraft being significantly larger. | |
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A New Hope: The battle on the Death Star in the climax becomes this once Rebel fighters and bombers get into the trench leading to the battle station's weakness. | |
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Red vs. Blue: In season 9 episode 4, Four-Seven-Niner flies the Pelican through a canyon to try and lose their pursuers. | |
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Air Force Delta Strike features two missions where the player has to run the length of one very winding canyon. In the first, the canyon is wide but has gigantic steam-rollers that must be flown past and an artificial ceiling is placed over the canyon by an inadequately explained air defense network. In the second, you are the one being chased by enemy ace pilots as you make your way through it. A gigantic wind generator is making it impossible for you to fly above the canyon rim and you have to reach the end in order to destroy it. |
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The movie Stealth has the out-of-control robot plane use this trope to dispose of one of the overconfident heroes. | |
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Used in the last episode of Grendizer, when General Gandal (Minos) tries to ram his ship into Grendizer in a suicide attack. Duke Freed manages to make him crash into a cliff, since the Spazer (Grendizer's UFO) was still controllable, while Gandal's flagship was a flaming mess. | |
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The Futurama episode "A Clone of My Own" features an extended parody of the above scene during the escape from the Near-Death Star. | |
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The film version of The Hunt for Red October has the titular submarine using the cliffs of an undersea canyon system to scrape off a torpedo dropped on them by a "Bear" that was part of the Soviet group tasked to prevent the Red October from making it to the US. | |
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How to Train Your Dragon features this a couple times. Once with no chase in a training stage and then with a chase in the climax. | |
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In the original Wing Commander, one of your fellow pilots suggests that asteroid fields are great equalizers when you're outnumbered. Asteroids are great shields, and you only have to concentrate on not hitting them, while your pursuers have to divide their attention between shooting you and not crashing. Sooner or later, they're more likely to screw up than you are. While it actually didn't work out that way in the game, it sometimes does in the later games or the FreeSpace series. | |
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The Force Awakens: Rey and Finn's maiden flight with the Millennium Falcon has them trying to shake off two First Order TIE Fighters through Jakku's ship graveyard, dodging incoming fire and occasionally making sharp turns around crashed Star Destroyers. When Finn's turret is damaged and stuck in forward position, Rey decides to go for broke and dive the Falcon into a derelict Super Star Destroyer's turbines in hopes of losing the remaining TIE Fighter in the tight corridors. | |
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Star Trek Into Darkness: On Qo'noS, when the infiltration ship sent by the Entreprise is located by the Klingons and pursued by a pair of interceptors, Kirks flies it through the ruins of the Ketha Province until he finds a very narrow space between buildings, tips the saucer-shaped navette to the side and goes through, despite the protests of his teammates. So narrow, in fact, that the ship scraps the walls both on top and bottom. Though it's all for naught since it's stopped by more Klingon interceptors on the other side. | |
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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs has one when Buck, Crash, and Eddie ride a pterosaur to recover Sid. On the way there, a flock of more hostile pterosaurs force them to detour and fly through a canyon. The canyon chase itself has many moments between both the mammals and the predators (including a shot parodying a televised car race), mostly when berry bombs are used to get rid of the pursuers. Several pterosaurs have themselves blasted down by the explosions. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Altitude in Aeronautica Imperialis is rated on a scale of 1 to 9, with 0 being the ground and 10 being orbit. Seriously tall mountains can reach altitude 6, which allows for the construction of maps designed for this fairly easily. | |
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House of the Dragon: In the final episode of Season 1, Lucerys, on the back of his dragon Arrax, escapes Aemond (who's on Vhagar's back) by flying through a canyon. Vhagar is too humongous to even enter the canyon and thus chases Arrax from above it. | |
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In the original novel The Hunt for Red October, the canyon used for the dodge noted in the Film section was discussed in greater detail, and it was mentioned that the canyon systems the Soviet subs were using to elude NATO anti-sub operations were extensively mapped by Soviet oceanographers during The '70s for that very purpose. | |
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The Avengers: Iron Man takes out many of the invading flying charioteers by getting them to chase him through the streets of New York after Hawkeye notes that they aren't as maneuverable as he is. | |
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Cheetor tries this with a canyon that has many close pillars in Beast Wars. Even though he manages to shake off the Mooks with this technique, Megatron just plows head-first right through the pillars to no ill effect. | |
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Breed have the last earth-based level, right before you make your way to outer space, where you infiltrate one of the Breed's last earth outpost which is located atop some canyons. You're inevitably spotted and takes on Breed ships in an intense chase along a valley, while turrets on the top tries taking potshots at you. | |
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. The title character flies his fighter plane along the streets of New York just above ground level while trying to escape Dr. Totenkopf's robot ornithopters. | |
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier starts with Falcon persuing Batroc the Leaper and his minions (in wingsuits) and getting chased in turn by attack helicopters. | |
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The Book of Boba Fett: A non-chase variant happens when Din takes his new N-1 Starfighter on a test run through Beggar's Canyon, through the very same route Anakin Skywalker once passed through during the Boonta Eve Classic Podrace decades ago in The Phantom Menace. | |
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The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: There’s one during the escape from the Lower East-South Quarter, and it is epic. | |
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Star Wars Legends loves this in general. If a book has "X-Wing" in the title (and even occasionally if it doesn't), expect there to be at least one of some sort. X-Wings are actually somewhat slower and less maneuverable than TIE fighters, but there are a few reasons why the canyon trick can work. TIE fighters, with those square wings, have greater air resistance, and those pilots who haven't trained in atmosphere often don't compensate for that. And an X-Wing can turn on its side and use its targeting computer to get through a gap only a handful of meters wide, while TIE fighters are almost as wide as they are tall. As Iron Fist showed, a TIE interceptor can pull off a similar maneuver due to it having a narrower profile than a TIE fighter. | |
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Subverted in the Firefly episode "The Message". When this trope is attempted by Serenity, the pursuing ship simply flies above the canyon, keeping the ship in view. And when the heroes try to hide, the pursuers flush them out with saturation bombing. | |
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An aquatic version: In Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Indiana and Elsa piloted their speedboat between two large ships while being pursued by the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword. Somewhat subverted because they both knew it was an insane maneuver, but Elsa misheard Indy's instructions to go around the ships, not between them. | |
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In a Season 2 episode of Code Lyoko, Aelita riding on Odd's Hover Board has to shake off a whole swarm of Hornets by tricking some into crashing over cliffs of the Mountain Sector, before luring the rest in a cavern with lots of twists and turns, further eliminating more. Helped by the fact that, as deadly and maneuverable Hornets are, they suffer from acute Artificial Stupidity. | |
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Several chapters in Star Wars: Rebel Assault 2 involve some variant of this trope. There are two straight versions involving an actual canyon run and a forest, while other chapters include two Asteroid Thickets and four separate instances of flying through the interior of a space station or similar. Combined, that's more than half the game's chapters. | |
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In the second Mortal Engines novel, Predator's Gold, Tom flies an airship at street level through a moving city to lose the pursuit. One of the airships chasing him does crash. | |
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The climax of Lilo & Stitch involved Jumba, Pleakley, Nani, and Stitch flying in a giant spaceship to save Lilo from Gantu, who accidentally captured her while attempting to capture Stitch (he escaped), by chasing him down a series of volcano-filled canyons located all over Hawaii. Originally, they were going to go after Gantu by chasing him down with a stolen passenger jet into the capital city of Honolulu, but due to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City, the entire scene had to be reanimated into what we see in the final version of the film. | |
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