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Checkpoint Charlie
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The endgame of Run for the Border. An Espionage Trope, especially during the Cold War what with the Berlin Wall and other well-guarded communist frontiers. Sometimes the border is marked by concrete walls, barbed wire, machine guns, attack dogs, and constantly roving searchlight beams. At other times it's merely a stretch of open water or wilderness, but still patrolled at regular intervals. The Checkpoint Charlie version is when this crossing has to be made at an official border control station. In that case the protagonist better hope their papers are in order. The real Checkpoint Charlie is now a tourist attraction. A Super-Trope to Checkpoint Bluff. Compare Metal Detector Checkpoint, Road Block and Walk into Mordor. Nothing to do with reaching video game checkpoints. |
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The Bourne Identity: A version where Bourne is being pursued by Swiss police officers and barely manages to make it into the US embassy — at which point he is almost immediately pursued by the marine guards there. | |
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El ChapulÃn Colorado: One episode involves a small group of people trying to escape from Nazi Germany, and their truck getting stuck in the mud two meters away from the border's line. After some wacky hijinks as they try to get past, El ChapulÃn saves them by moving the sign that marks the border to behind the truck right before the Nazi soldiers come for them. | |
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The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making features a gnome as a border guard for Fairyland who enforces the entry requirements of the Marquess (including allowing Ravished humans in without a visa) and keeping out wind spirits who haven't been granted citizenship yet. She works from inside a kind of Steampunk gargoyle, since it embodies the authority that makes people willing to put up with customs inspections in the first place (and also doubles up to make humans a bit sensitive to the Glamour of Fairyland). | |
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Euro Truck Simulator features the most mundane version of this trope possible, with you needing to go through customs when travelling between countries outside the Schengen Area. You will never fail these border checks, though there is a rare chance at some border crossings where you may be pulled over for x-rays and physical searches. American Truck Simulator features an even more mundane example with the agricultural control stations you must go through when entering California. |
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MythBusters tested a myth where illegal border-crossers attempted to use a giant portable slingshot to fling people over the U.S. border. The reality of the situation was that any device that could fling a person as far as the myth stated (300 yards) would have to be implausibly large and not portable at all (the MythBusters version, which used radio towers, couldn't fling a person that distance), and that doesn't even get into the injuries the people would suffer in making the transition. Long story short: myth Busted. | |
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Game, Set & Match by Len Deighton. Bernard Samson is haunted by the memory of a friend who performed a Heroic Sacrifice while crossing the Berlin Wall, enabling him to escape. This scene is shown in the TV series, as is another incident in which a defector is smuggled across by lying in a coffin-sized box with oxygen feed in the bed of a dump truck, which is then filled up. | |
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Friends at the Table: "Sangfielle": Before the Blackwick Group can enter Sapodilla, the largest city in Sangfielle, they first have to go through customs in a special intermission episode. Adapting the rules of Inhuman Conditions, a game inspired by the Voight-Campff Test from Blade Runner, each member of the group is subjected to an invasive, cryptic, and dehumanizing interrogation regarding their identity and reasons for visiting, as the Glim Macula, Sapodilla's police force, seeks to bar anyone insufficiently normal (by the Glim Macula's standards of normal) from entry. One of them doesn't make it through and gets thrown in a dungeon, most of the rest are arbitrarily restricted from entering certain parts of the city, and none of them ever learn why. | |
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Machete begins with a failed US-Mexico border crossing, serving to demonstrate the villain's complete lack of morals (and intelligence, as they capture the whole thing on film, with the US Senator helpfully identifying himself as he shoots a pregnant woman). | |
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Total Recall (1990): Quaid has to go through immigration to enter Mars. | |
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Papers, Please is a game all about playing a faceless official manning one of these in a fictional Communist nation. With the extra tip of the checkpoint being between East and West Grestin. | |
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The Dogs of War details how guns are smuggled across the French border — they can either take the random risk of a permanent customs point, or try a forest road that could be manned by a flying customs check that searches every vehicle. To reduce the risk they send another vehicle first; if it fails to return in a certain time, they know it's been stopped and searched. | |
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James Bond: In The Living Daylights, Bond arranges for a defector to cross the Czechoslovakian border twice — first by being shunted through a pipeline and on the second occasion by Weaponised Car. And a cello. Even more so, Octopussy partially takes place around the border sections near Karl-Marx-stadt (Chemnitz). 009 and General Orlov get killed trying to cross it (though not by border guards in 009's case). |
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In White Rabbit Project the team construct a hot-air balloon from scrap metal and sailcloth based on a tale of an East German family escaping over the Berlin Wall that way. They fared much better than the Mythbusters border catapult, as not only did the reconstruction work properly, but the research confirmed that the real people made their escape. | |
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold opens with the Checkpoint Charlie version. It doesn't go well — the spy is gunned down right in front of the protagonist Alec Leamas. At the end an escape route is organised across the Berlin Wall, but the Love Interest is gunned down in a pre-arranged setup, as is Leamas when he goes back for her. | |
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Champions supplement Red Doom. In one of the adventures the superhero PCs have to smuggle a defecting superhero out of the Soviet Union. If the PCs head west they'll probably end up trying to cross the East/West German border. | |
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Even more so, Octopussy partially takes place around the border sections near Karl-Marx-stadt (Chemnitz). 009 and General Orlov get killed trying to cross it (though not by border guards in 009's case). | |
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Babylon A.D.. Vin Diesel has to cross the Bering Strait on a Live-Action Escort Mission, despite it being patrolled by Attack Drones that kill everything that moves (literally, the drones killed two polar bears). | |
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Charlie Muffin (1979). Charlie's superiors set him up to be arrested when he crosses the Berlin Wall. Fortunately Charlie is suspicious and gives his papers to an East German hoping to escape to the West. The German panics when the arrest takes place and gets killed. | |
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The Professionals. At the start of "Dead Reckoning", Bodie is shown leading a man into the woods as if to be executed, only to end up on another road where the Bulgarian Secret Police are waiting to hand over a Double Agent in exchange. After the spy swap has been made the local border patrol turn up, so everyone has make an undignified run for it. | |
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Happens several times in the Quiller series, and often mentioned as a Noodle Incident. | |
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Subverted in Monsters. When the protagonists arrive at the huge wall at the US border they find it abandoned, as the aliens have overrun it. | |
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Stripes. An Army unit is accidentally led into Soviet-controlled Czechoslovakia. Some members of the unit break into the country through a poorly defended border outpost to rescue them, and break out again through the same outpost. | |
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Spoofed in the 1985 action-comedy Gotcha where the young protagonist has to run the gauntlet of Checkpoint Charlie's Obstructive Bureaucrats. He flips them the bird once he's safely through. | |
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Mentioned in the song "Oliver's Army" by Elvis Costello. | |
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In the climax of The Soldier, the title character has to drive through Checkpoint Charlie, but is recognised and pursued by a US marine who's encountered him before. Fortunately his Crazy-Prepared Mossad allies have set up a Ramp Jump so he can get over the Berlin Wall the hard way. | |
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The Modesty Blaise short story "The Giggle Wrecker" has Modesty and Willie trying to sneak a Soviet defector past the Berlin Wall. | |
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American Truck Simulator features an even more mundane example with the agricultural control stations you must go through when entering California. | |
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The climax of Argo is one of these, made much more dramatic than it was in the real story. In this case the airport in Tehran serves as the border crossing. | |
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Congo. The expedition tries to surmount this problem by flying over the Zaire border, only to be shot down by army units armed with heat-seeking missiles. | |
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The Debt. The main characters must cross into East Berlin, and then try to cross back. | |
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Friday by Robert A. Heinlein. Action Girl Friday has to cross the Divided States of America. In one case she knocks down someone repairing a border fence, only for him to follow after her because he wants to escape as well. | |
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Shadowrun. Several adventures feature the runners having to pass through heavily defended borders, either through force or guile. | |
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Men in Black starts with K arresting one of the aliens trying to cross the Mexican border, as the alien was trying to disguise as a human illegal immigrant but gets sussed out for not understanding Spanish. MIB headquarters in New York also serves as an immigration checkpoint for extraterrestrials wanting to enter Earth for whatever reason — unauthorized ship launches or leaving Manhattan tends to draw their attention quickly. | |
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Asterix: In Asterix in Spain, there is a huge traffic jam on the border between Gaul and Spain due to the Romans checking each carriage. Since they have Pepe, the boy the Romans are looking for, with them, Asterix and Obelix hire a guide to get them across the border without getting seen by the Romans. | |
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The Call of Duty: Black Ops multiplayer includes a level named "Berlin Wall", based on the Trope Namer, where the Soviets have abandoned subtlety and smashed the wall with tanks. | |
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In The Living Daylights, Bond arranges for a defector to cross the Czechoslovakian border twice — first by being shunted through a pipeline and on the second occasion by Weaponised Car. And a cello. | |
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Funeral in Berlin, also by Len Deighton, has a defector being smuggled by faking his death and being taken across the Berlin Wall in a coffin. The idea has been reused several times, such as in the TV series Jason King and MacGyver. | |
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The Sandbaggers has repeated crossings of the Iron Curtain. In one memorable instance in season 3, one of the main characters gets out of Russia on dodgy papers by going for his passport and accidentally-on-purpose showing the officials a sheaf of dirty photographs instead; they're too busy laughing at him to check his actual passport very thoroughly. | |
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In the Nomad lifepath story from Cyberpunk 2077, Nomad V is tasked with smuggling corpo contraband across the border from the NUSA state of South California to Night City. Because the world of Cyberpunk is a Crapsack World, the border guard's response is to rat them and Jackie out to Arasaka, the corp that owns the contraband, leading to a chase across the Badlands of North California. | |
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One episode of MacGyver (1985) has a Cold Open in which Mac is attempting to get out of an Iron Curtain country concealed inside a coffin. | |
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In an episode of Mission: Impossible, one of the agents (Barbara Bain) is captured in East Berlin. After she is tortured and tells them nothing, the team's leader (Peter Graves) manages to talk them into releasing her. He gives her an overcoat against the cold and they start across to West Berlin when the Germans behind them open fire with machine guns, apparently killing them. They are quite satisfied that it no longer matters who they were or what they were after. When it is clear the agents get up and he explains that he anticipated that and used bulletproof coats. She laughs and says "I thought it felt heavy." | |
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The Man in the High Castle: In season 2, Juliana Crain realizes that she's no longer safe in the JPS and defects to the Reich by crossing a border checkpoint at their San Francisco embassy. The Kempeitai troops standing guard attempt to stop her when they see what she's doing, but she manages to cross safely. | |
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| Checkpoint Charlie / int_fcacaa36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Man in the High Castle | hasFeature |
Checkpoint Charlie / int_fcacaa36 |
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