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Balcony Escape
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When a character needs to get from one room to another and the door is not an option, they will climb out the window and either shimmy along the ledge or jump from balcony to balcony until they can enter another window. Hotels and office buildings are common settings for this kind of stunt. It's also used a lot in stealth missions. The act adds an element of danger without actually requiring the character to be super fit or agile. A sub trope of The Precarious Ledge. Compare Bathroom Break-Out and Lover's Ledge. |
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In The Naked Gun, Frank Drebin does this. He needs to grab hold of the carvings of naked men and women to maintain his balance. | |
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In Wicker Park, Lisa escapes from her upset lover across balconies and ends up meeting Alex. | |
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James Bond can sneak across a ledge to bypass most of the second mission in NightFire. Unfortunately, there are windows on the wall with guards on the other side, so he has to be careful. | |
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Subverted in The Matrix. Neo is told to do this to escape the Agents looking for him near the beginning, but chokes when he sees the skinny ledge and great height. | |
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In Charade, Cary Grant's character follows an assailant out the window and across a few balconies. | |
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Maggie Carpenter does this in Runaway Bride to try and avoid getting caught snooping around the reporter's room. | |
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In Assassin's Creed the only way to get into the local offices of the Assassins is to enter from the rooftop. Getting to that rooftop will often mandate some unconventional approaches. | |
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Attempted in 1408. The protagonist attempts to escape from the cursed room by climbing out the window and going to an adjacent room. Unfortunately for him all the other rooms disappear from the wall of the hotel. | |
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Required frequently in Splinter Cell. | |
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In April and the Extraordinary World, April's parents attempt to escape from the secret police by climbing off the balcony and clambering across the outside of the cable car. | |
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In Wyatt by Garry Disher, Wyatt escape from his safe house of the upper floors of an apartment building by putting a ladder from his balcony to the balcony of the apartment next door, breaking in through neighbour's balcony doors, and sneaking out through the apartment while the occupant is in the bedroom with headphones on. | |
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In That Man from Rio, Adrian tracks his kidnapped girlfriend Agnes to a hotel, where she's kept in one room in a suite with a gunman in the front room. Adrian gets around him by climbing out a corridor window and creeping along a high, narrow ledge to her room. | |
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In Year One of Grim Fandango, Manny has to climb out the window of his office to get into his rival Domino's office next door. | |
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In Arcane, Vi leads her gang on a rooftop escape during the first act. | |
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This is a common way to escape in the Hitman series. | |
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In Paper Mario, to get one of the badges, Mario has to enter one building, climb the stairs, exit through a window onto a ledge, go to the end of that ledge, hop to the next ledge, then enter through a ledge on that building... which has no visible street-level doors, even blocked or locked ones. | |
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Best of My Love opens with one of these, as Meng Yao is escaping a date. His internal monologue suggests he's gotten good at escaping like this. | |
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Graceling Realm: After using the winter's ball to interrogate and kill two visiting rebelling nobles in the king's palace, Brigan and Fire escape the murder scene by climbing up from their balcony to the one one story higher. | |
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In What About Witch Queen?, Hans' escape from Koenigsberg starts with him exiting his room through the window and climbing down the castle wall. | |
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In Salt, the title character escapes persecution by climbing from the window of her apartment to a neighbor's. | |
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In Left 4 Dead 2, the survivors are forced to go out on the ledges of the Vannah Hotel to get around the fires. | |
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In Murder Mystery, Nick and Audrey are forced to do this to exit Sergei's room, allowing them to rule out three of the suspects of his death by witnessing them in passing. | |
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In The Man Who Knew Too Little, Lori escapes from Boris' hotel room this way. Wallace asks why they just don't use the hallway. | |
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Variation happens twice in the Losing Christina series. Book One Christina needs it to get out the Manor to rescue Anya. In Book three she and Val have to use the balcony to escape the fire. | |
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Amnesia: The Dark Descent. You have to smash a window, then hop across balconies to reach an otherwise blocked-off room. | |
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In Grand Hotel, the Baron burgles a hotel room by climbing from balcony to balcony — then finds his return path blocked when someone emerges onto an adjoining balcony, trapping him in the room at a plot-critical moment. | |
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In The Lady in the Lake, Marlowe is knocked out in a hotel room and recovers consciousness to find himself sharing the room with a dead body and police knocking on the door. He buys time by climbing out the window and in through the window of the next hotel room. | |
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Alex Rider does this in Stormbreaker | |
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