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High-Altitude Interrogation

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In fiction, just about everyone is afraid of heights so when the hardass cop or Anti-Hero finally corners one of the Big Bad's buddies who refuses to spill the beans about his boss's Evil Plan on a very high balcony, at the top of a cliff, in a helicopter, or anywhere else that's high off the ground, that hapless mook is guaranteed to be dangled over the edge by our protagonist in an attempt to loosen his lips. With his life literally hanging in the balance, the mook finds himself in a position where he is forced to tell the badass hero whatever he wants to know or be dropped to his death.
In Real Life, however, this is perhaps the single worst interrogation technique imaginable, taking the Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique to new heights of unreliability. Anyone with any bit of common sense should realize that an interrogator would need to keep his man alive if he's ever going to get some answers, but because this method relies on threatening to kill the person with the needed information, this means that in the event that a suspect remains uncooperative or is already willing to die for a cause, the interrogator would be put in a position where he has to either (1) not do it and lose all credibility and control of the situation, or (2) let his lead fall to his death and lose the information he would have had. Dead men tell no tales, after all. Furthermore, any sort of death threat may give a potential informant the impression that his interrogator may just kill him after he shares the information that is asked of him, anyway, which doesn't give the potential informant any additional incentive to cooperate.
Regardless, this technique has an extraordinarily high success rate in all fictional formats. The mook will almost always be willing to comply and do whatever the hero asks, and the hero will always gain enough new information to move the story forward. Uncommon cases where someone is dropped from a height that wouldn't prove fatal but would still be pretty harmful would qualify as Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique.
Compare Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique and Torture Always Works.
Contrast Death Flight.
Watch out for Unhand Them, Villain! when a bad guy does this. Not to be confused with Dramatic Dangling.
A subtrope of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques. See Death Flight when done as a method of execution.
See Also: Disney Villain Death.

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Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony has Luis do this in two missions. In the first he meets with two of Yusuf's business partners atop Rotterdam Tower, and after suspecting he might have been set up he hoists one of them over the railing and demands to know what he walked into. Meanwhile in the second he has to intimidate The Celebinator, a Shallow Parody of Perez Hilton, into not printing anything about Tony anymore by dangling him out the side of a helicopter, then throwing him out and catching him before he hits the ground, effectively making him crap his pants in embarrassment.
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Finding Nemo: A Jerkass crab suffers this fate after he refused to tell Dory and Nemo where the latter's father went. Cue Dory giving the crab a Death Glare and thrusting him above the water for the hungry seagulls to see.
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Wonder Woman: During the period when Artemis was acting as Wonder Woman, she made a delusional Stalker with a Crush agree to being forcibly relocated and institutionalized by flying high and then dropping him and having a chat as he fell.
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In the Nikolai Dante story arc "The Great Game," when a spy suggests to Jena Makarov the existence of a superweapon that the Makarov Dynasty does not know about as a means of raising his "bargaining power," Jena responds by hanging the spy over a high balcony by his nostrils and demanding he tell her everything he knows about the weapon or be dropped. The spy is killed by intervening assassination droids shortly after he begins spilling the beans.
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Spider-Man 2099: In the 2015 series, at one point Miguel and Electra interrogate an engineer they captured on the activities of the Fist, with Electra holding him one handed over a cliff. Miguel asks her if her hand is getting tired.
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Happens frequently on Chuck with Chuck himself the one being dangled.
Chuck subverted the trope when he grabbed a Fulcrum agent who was about to fall from a building. When the agent asked Chuck if he would drop him if he didn't talk, Chuck told him no, noting it would be a terrible thing to do. The agent agreed to talk, but lost his grip before he could do so.
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In Fast & Furious, Dom holds one of Braga's drivers over a window by his foot while questioning him about his boss. Even after the guy talks, Dom drops him anyway, but he grabs onto a ledge and Brian pulls him up.
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Subverted in The Secret Life of Pets, when Tiberius interrogates the cat who stole Max's collar, in an attempt to find out Max's whereabouts. The cat isn't fazed in the slightest, since he's a cat and will just land on his feet, so Tiberius turns him over to Gidget, whose Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique proves far more effective.
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), Leonardo — who by then is going through a "hard-core" phase — attempts this once with an informant in order to get information on the Purple Dragons.
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Justice League:
In "Secret Society", the Flash tries interrogating someone this way. The unimpressed punk opines that Flash is "no Batman", at which point the Flash drops him, then runs down the side of the building to the street, where he creates enough of an air cushion to prevent him from splattering, and finds the man much more willing to talk after having just been dropped 30 stories.
In "The Once and Future Thing: Time, Warped", Bruce Wayne/Batman does this to Ghoul. His older self chides him for being "that green" and shows him the proper way to interrogate someone, which then leads to the two of them doing the Good Cop/Bad Cop routine. The others are stunned at seeing Batman be the Good Cop.
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An episode of The Fall Guy had Colt interrogating a mook on a plane. When said mook wouldn't talk, Colt shoved him out of the plane and jumped after him. During their freefall, Colt showed the mook the altimeter on his wrist and said he had until they reached a certain height (when Colt would have open his chute) to talk. He talked.
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Kara (Actually Brainiac at the time) does this to someone by smashing a hole in his plane and shoving his face out at 20,000 feet.
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A variant in an NCIS: Los Angeles episode where Callen drags a second prisoner into interrogation when the first one won't talk, then opens a trap-door in the floor and drops him in the ocean. Prisoner #1 talks very fast. Cut to the next scene when Prisoner #2, who is really a one-shot NCIS agent, is in the boat shed towelling himself off as Callen thanks him for helping out.
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Luther does this in the first episode of his third series. When a suspect in a tower flat tries to make a break for it, he somehow ends up dangling over the edge. It's unclear if Luther actually pushed him, but he's certainly willing to milk the moment to get information. What he doesn't know is that Internal Affairs are gunning for him and his partner has been coerced into wearing a wire. There's too much noise for them to tell precisely what's going on, and Luther relents before they can actually lay eyes on the scene.
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In Accidental Death of an Anarchist, it is not initially clear if the police were attempting this on the anarchist and accidentally dropped him, or if they just deliberately pushed/threw him out the window.
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Batman Begins features the title character dangling and dropping Det. Flass almost as if he were bungee jumping until Batman is satisfied with what information he's given.
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Modesty Blaise: In "The Killing Distance", Willie extracts information from an assassin by holding him over the edge of a well.
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In Darkwing Duck, Taurus Bulba puts a spin on this by interrogating Darkwing while threatening to drop Gosalyn.
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The re-imagined Hawaii Five-0 has McGarret doing this to a Serbian Mafia criminal involved in a kidnapping from the roof of a grand hotel. Danno then chew him out about the rights of the suspects.
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Subverted in Tango & Cash: the protagonists try this on a Mook. It doesn't work. Then Tango attaches a grenade to his head and starts to take the pin away slowly with Cash trying to dissuade him. It works. The grenade turns out to be fake.
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In Black Dynamite, the title character holds Cream Corn upside down over the edge of a high roof. Cream Corn then tells Dynamite everything he knows.
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Richie did this with the punk who shot Tessa in Highlander. He was really close to letting go, especially because Duncan was pressuring him to back off-the kid had been in a drug-induced haze and didn't even remember doing it, and he had cleaned up and had a family now. Fortunately, Richie settles for finally triggering the guy's memory and getting a confession;he doesn't kill him.
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In his very first appearance, in Action Comics #1 he interrogates a corrupt lobbyist by picking him up, running along an electric wire, and then making improbably large building-to-building leaps.
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In Nemesis the Warlock, Book I, when Brother Gogol insists that he'd rather die than help Nemesis let every alien prisoner and human traitor escape Termight, Nemesis's response is to levitate Brother Gogol and hover him over a cliff until he changes his mind.
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Also subverted and lampshaded in the opening scenes of The Dark Knight Rises. A CIA team has captured a group of Bane's minions and is trying to get Bane's location out of them; they have them all in hoods, bring one to the open door of the plane, and stick the mook's head out of it. The suspect refuses to talk, and the CIA interrogator pretends to have him killed (shooting his gun into open air before claiming to have thrown the mook from the plane) before moving him out of the way.
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In Attack on Titan chapter 34, Hanji reaches Rage Breaking Point and pulls this on Pastor Nick, prompted by the latter's asking to be let off the wall, when it turns out that there's a Titan inside the giant wall. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, as Nick is Not Afraid to Die, and she pulls him back to safety to interrogate him conventionally.
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In Antigang, the squad shakes information about Kaspar's associates out of a crook by holding him off the roof of a building by his ankles.
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The Secret Saturdays: Doyle and Van Rook do this to Finster in "Into the Mouth of Darkness".
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In the Harmony and Valor story Cultural Differences, after the extremely sexist Casanova Wannabe Zephyr Breeze harasses Flash Sentry's little sister True Action, Flash becomes so pissed that he beats the crap out of him, then dangles him from the roof of the mall until he promises to never bother girls again. Flash and True then have a nice talk, and Sunset Shimmer has to remind him to pull Zephyr up before someone spots them or he loses his grip.
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Forever Knight. In "Last Act" Vampire Detective Nick Knight shoves a murderer through a high-rise window (without opening it), though the fact that he's wearing his Nightmare Face also inspires the man to talk. Nick is planning to kill him anyway, but fortunately his partner shows up.
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In one quest line in World of Warcraft's Cataclysm expansion, a Twilight's Hammer higher-up is interrogated this way, with the added feature that he'll suffer Propeller Blender if dropped. At the close, the shaman doing the interrogation reveals that she had several air elementals ready to catch him if he did come loose, so the problem of losing the information with his life was never actually there.
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In The Green Eagle, Doc Savage captures a group of mooks. To make one talk he hangs him outside a window. When the mook refuses, he drops him. Being a Technical Pacifist, he had Renny and Long Tom catch the mook in a net, but the other mooks don't know that.
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In Supergirl series tie-in comic Adventures of Supergirl, Kara grabs villain Facet, takes her to the edge of the atmosphere and demands answers. When Facet fails to give them, Kara lets her drop (she was invulnerable so no real damage done).
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In Origins, a Mass Effect/Star Wars/Borderlands/Halo Massive Multiplayer Crossover, Sarah attempts this, but the person refuses to talk and is dropped at least two hundred meters.
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The Order of the Stick: We see a flashback of Roy and Durkon dangling the kobold oracle upside-down out a window to "persuade" him to let them have another answer after he responded to the question "Where is Xykon?" with the spectacularly useless "In his throne room." (The Oracle usually has a "one question per person per visit" rule.)
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In Copperhead, when Boo is tracking down Floyd Sewell, he dangles an informant off the highest level of a fire escape staircase.
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The Hot Rock: When Dortmunder and Kelp are interrogating Abe Greenberg, they threaten to toss first his son and then him down an elevator shaft.
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In April and the Extraordinary World: April and Julius dangle one of the lizard guards off a catwalk by his tail until he divulges the location of April's father.
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Batman: Arkham Series:
Batman: Arkham City:
The Hugo Strange promotional trailer shows Batman interrogating a Mook in such a manner as this, with Batman demanding to know who sent him and the mook promptly answering, "Hugo Strange."
In game, Batman can do this while interrogating Riddler's henchmen, provided that the player performs the interrogation command close enough to a ledge. Once they've spilled their guts, Batman lets go of them and either (1) the cable Batman attached to them catches them and leaves hanging upside down, or (2-if the fall is short enough) they simply fall until the hit they ground and get knocked out.
This is also Batman's chosen method for questioning Quincy Sharp during a cutscene.
Early on in Batman: Arkham Origins, we get to see it from the mook's perspective as he wakes up while being dangled off a building.
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James Bond:
Bond does this to a mook in The Spy Who Loved Me and then lets the mook plummet to death when he hears everything he needs.
And he attempts it with Patrice in Skyfall, but Patrice dies, rather than talk.
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This is Nigel's method of "negotiating" in Rio.
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In Iron Man: Armored Adventures, War Machine tosses a villain out of a transport helicopter to get him to reveal the whereabouts of Tony, Gene, and Pepper. The first time War Machine catches him, he refuses to crack, so he drops him a second time, this time catching him so the ground is actually in sight. With the prospect that War Machine will keep this up until they close the distance, he breaks.
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In Batman Beyond, following in his mentor's footsteps, Terry uses this technique on Inque's latest client.
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In the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare mission "Blackout", Gaz, frustrated over Sgt. Kamarov's repeated requests for fire support taking priority over his, Price, and Soap's mission to rescue Nikolai, threatens to throw Kamarov off their elevated vantage point to get him to spit out Nikolai's location.
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Iron Man did this to one of Justin Hammer's scientists after destroying Hammer's floating island mansion.
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In A Fish Called Wanda Kevin Kline's criminal does this to John Cleese's barrister to extract an apology for Cleese calling Kline stupid (which Kline's character indubitably is).
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In Smallville:
Kara (Actually Brainiac at the time) does this to someone by smashing a hole in his plane and shoving his face out at 20,000 feet.
Clark does this with Tess in order to find out what Checkmate was up to. He holds her over the edge of a building for a few seconds until she agrees to talk to him. He pulls her back before he starts asking questions, but given how she glances at the edge before she answers, it's pretty clear that this trope was still part of the situation.
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Batman: Arkham City:
The Hugo Strange promotional trailer shows Batman interrogating a Mook in such a manner as this, with Batman demanding to know who sent him and the mook promptly answering, "Hugo Strange."
In game, Batman can do this while interrogating Riddler's henchmen, provided that the player performs the interrogation command close enough to a ledge. Once they've spilled their guts, Batman lets go of them and either (1) the cable Batman attached to them catches them and leaves hanging upside down, or (2-if the fall is short enough) they simply fall until the hit they ground and get knocked out.
This is also Batman's chosen method for questioning Quincy Sharp during a cutscene.
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The Flash once did this to a mook. The mook taunted that Flash was trying to copy Batman, but Flash drops him, uses his superspeed to catch him, and then continues dangling him.
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The Gentlemen: While trying to retrieve the phone with the incriminating footage on it, Dave holds one of the chavs off the side of an overpass until he gives up the phone.
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On an episode of The A-Team, the team interrogate a mook by having BA hold him over a cliff above the carnivore pit at a zoo.
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In Mass Effect 2 during Thane's recruitment mission, Shepard happens upon a poor mook, standing too close to a window, in a skyscraper. Shepard asks about Thane, threatening to throw the guy out the window. Subverted in that the mook doesn't have vital information necessary for you to continue the mission, and a renegade Shepard knows it.
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Mass Effect:
In Mass Effect 2 during Thane's recruitment mission, Shepard happens upon a poor mook, standing too close to a window, in a skyscraper. Shepard asks about Thane, threatening to throw the guy out the window. Subverted in that the mook doesn't have vital information necessary for you to continue the mission, and a renegade Shepard knows it.
Mass Effect: Andromeda: At the end of Drack's loyalty mission, he does this to Aroane to get him to squeal. It's entirely possible to let Drack actually drop the guy when he's done.
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He does it to a reporter who calls him a liar in Superman: Grounded. Not to interrogate him, just to terrify him.
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Batman movies:
In Batman (1989), Batman does this to a Bit Part Bad Guy at the beginning of the film. Interestingly for a trope that generally works as a death threat, just before Batman holds the guy over the edge of the building, he tells the mook, "I'm not going to kill you."
Batman Begins features the title character dangling and dropping Det. Flass almost as if he were bungee jumping until Batman is satisfied with what information he's given.
Subverted and lampshaded in The Dark Knight; Maroni casually tells Batman that a fall wouldn't kill him. Batman retorts that he's counting on it, then drops him and breaks his legs, making it Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique. Maroni doesn't tell him anything anyway, because he's not going to rat out the Joker for anyone, least of all Batman. "We're on to you," he says. "You've got rules. The Joker has no rules."
Also subverted and lampshaded in the opening scenes of The Dark Knight Rises. A CIA team has captured a group of Bane's minions and is trying to get Bane's location out of them; they have them all in hoods, bring one to the open door of the plane, and stick the mook's head out of it. The suspect refuses to talk, and the CIA interrogator pretends to have him killed (shooting his gun into open air before claiming to have thrown the mook from the plane) before moving him out of the way.
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In The Wolf of Wall Street, Chester and Toby do this to Belfort's butler Nicholas after Belfort finds out that one of Nicholas' friends has stolen money from him.
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In the 1990's movie Gunmen Armor (Denis Leary) hangs Dani (Christopher Lambert) upside-down from a rope underneath a helicopter to get him to talk. For good measure, Armor had the pilot fly low so that Dani would hit the trees underneath.
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In Gotham City Garage, Batgirl grabs Harley Quinn, starts her Jet Pack up and takes her over the city to interrogate her.
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In How to Train Your Dragon 2 Astrid has Stormfly take Eret up into the sky and threatens to drop him if he doesn't lead them to Drago. When he refuses, she does have Stormfly drop him and lets him fall for a while before catching him. It works.
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It's reported in the The Onion's web video "Nation's Hardass Cops Finally Find Time to Play Games" that "hardass cops can be fucked with for two more hours, at which point they will resume dangling lowlifes from rooftops until they get the answers they want."
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In New Town Killers, Jamie dangles Sam out of the window of his flat in attempt to get Sean to turn himself in.
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And he attempts it with Patrice in Skyfall, but Patrice dies, rather than talk.
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Superman:
In his very first appearance, in Action Comics #1 he interrogates a corrupt lobbyist by picking him up, running along an electric wire, and then making improbably large building-to-building leaps.
On at least one occasion, he drops a mook, uses superspeed to catch him, and says, "Now, we can keep doing this until I get tired, or..."
Back in the Golden Age, he threw the mook to a high altitude and then caught them on the way down (why being caught by Superman at five feet above ground level is safer than hitting the ground is never mentioned).
He does it to a reporter who calls him a liar in Superman: Grounded. Not to interrogate him, just to terrify him.
A minor version called Superman 2020 has Superman's grandson, who has a rougher style, doing a variant. He takes two suspects to a high altitude and demands they talk lest he drops them, but they naturally think he's bluffing. At that, Supes III drops one of them (to a hidden soft landing he prepared earlier) and threatens the other; that crook starts to sing.
Supergirl did this in the New 52 storyline Crucible. After being abducted and taken to a weird, unknown place, she grabs the neck of one of her kidnappers and hovers over an abyss, demanding answers while reminding him that "It looks like a long way down."
In Supergirl series tie-in comic Adventures of Supergirl, Kara grabs villain Facet, takes her to the edge of the atmosphere and demands answers. When Facet fails to give them, Kara lets her drop (she was invulnerable so no real damage done).
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The Pumaman: Pumaman does this to one of Kobras' mooks, repeatedly dropping and catching him until he gives him the information he wants.
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In The Spectacular Spider-Man episode "Shear Strength," Gwen is being held hostage by The Master Planner, and Spidey attempts to get information out of the captured Tinkerer by dangling him off a building. Tinkerer unwisely calls his bluff, and Spidey really does drop him, only to save him with a webline at the last minute so he'll talk. The best part is Spidey realistically points out that his reflexes might not be enough to pull that trick off a second time.
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Batman does this to a Mutant in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.
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In Black Fox, Rikka decides to make an informant more pliant by kicking him off a rooftop before pinning the back of his jacket to the building with kunai, which she starts removing one by one until she gets her answers. She drops him into a dumpster when she's done with him.
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Police Academy: In Assignment Miami Beach, Hightower holds one of the diamond thieves over the railing at the roof of the hotel to make him talk.
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The Professionals. In "Involvement", Ray Doyle does the balcony version on a junkie responsible for the death of an informant friend of Doyle's, making even Bodie worry he's going too far, as he's normally the one pulling that kind of stunt.
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Daredevil: In the season 3 finale, Matt dangles Wilson Fisk's fixer Felix Manning off a rooftop by a cord attached to his leg, and gets Felix to confess to Vanessa's role in Ray Nadeem's murder as well as reveal leverage that Matt can use to get Dex to turn against Fisk.
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In the sister series to Irredeemable, Incorruptable, the main character, Max Damage at one point needs to score information from Origin, a mad scientist who specializes in giving people super-powers. He does so by dangling him over a vat of chemicals containing a tentacled monster (in actuality his last client). After Damage gets his information, Origin attempts to blackmail him over some information involving his powers. Max responds by blowing up his hideout.
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Done in Six of Crows by Kaz, accompanied by Wylan. Kaz is about to pull his suspect back up after he's provided with information, until the suspect panics and reveals that he's been blackmailing a girl who works in the same place Inej used to be enslaved, after which Kaz drops the man to his death.
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The Executioner. In "Tiger War", Mack Bolan does the helicopter version, but also exploits the prisoner's religious beliefs, pointing out that when his body hits the ground from that height, it will break apart and be eaten by various animals, meaning his spirit will be divided and so never find rest.
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In episode 1x06 of By Any Means, Jessica and Charlie persuade a drug dealer to talk by hanging him by his ankles from the top story of an apartment high-rise.
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The Magician: In "The Vanishing Lady", a kidnapper is fleeing from Blake when he trips and falls over the edge of a catwalk. Blake grabs him by the foot and refuses to haul him up until he tells him where a missing woman is being held.
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In Blank Check, Carl Quigley, Juice, and Edward Biederman do this to Butch to find out where Preston lives.
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Bond does this to a mook in The Spy Who Loved Me and then lets the mook plummet to death when he hears everything he needs.
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Bud White interviewing Ellis Loew in L.A. Confidential. Loew is primed to dismiss White and Ed Exley as a standard-issue Good Cop/Bad Cop pair, so they need something drastic to get his attention.
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Subverted in Mission: Impossible III. Ethan has the Big Bad captive in an airplane and after initial interrogation fails, he opens a hatch in the floor and hangs his hostage down the hatch such that he feels the massive winds in his face, meanwhile cutting the zips holding him in his seat. The Big Bad doesn't crack and worse, he learns Ethan's name from the others shouting at him to stop.
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One Robot Chicken sketch revolving around Ted Turner becoming Captain Planet sees him smash through the window of a corporate office while two executives are contemplating dumping polluted waste in the Grand Canyon. Turner then proceeds to hold one of the two men out the window until he agrees to sign a clause agreeing to not dump waste in the Grand Canyon, at which point Ted Turner would agree to let the guy go.
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In Superman & Batman: Generations, highlighting that they were both rougher characters in the early years, Batman does this, and actually does drop him. When Superman returns the mook, Batman says "If I'd known you were going to catch him I wouldn't have dropped him." And then Supes replies "If I'd known you'd dropped him, I wouldn't have caught him!"
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Played with in The Heat; Mullins and Ashburn aren't strong enough to pull the suspect back to safety when they attempt this and end up dropping him a couple stories onto the hood of his cherished car.
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Justice League: before her big entrance to save a bunch of hostages from a group of reactionary terrorists at old Bailey in London, Wonder Woman captures one of them with her Lasso of truth from the ceiling and interrogates him there (the Lasso helps more than the altitude there).
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In Batman (1989), Batman does this to a Bit Part Bad Guy at the beginning of the film. Interestingly for a trope that generally works as a death threat, just before Batman holds the guy over the edge of the building, he tells the mook, "I'm not going to kill you."
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The Punisher:
Frank Castle uses this among other interrogation techniques. Like most typical Anti-Heroes, he often does go through with the threat of letting them plummet to death.
Probably the only time in which this trope was used sensibly was when General Zakharov in The Punisher MAX was doing this to Rawlings; he had no intention of letting the latter live anyway unless Rawlings came up with an epic plan under fear of death — if he wasn't able to, well, then no skin off the General's nose.
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The protagonist does this to the terrorist who killed his mother in Jumper, but in a particularly nasty way. Davey can teleport, so he teleports the guy to the top of the World Trade Center, drops him, and teleports down to catch him just before he hits the ground. Then he does it again, and again, letting him get closer to the ground with each drop...
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The Fast and the Furious:
In Fast & Furious, Dom holds one of Braga's drivers over a window by his foot while questioning him about his boss. Even after the guy talks, Dom drops him anyway, but he grabs onto a ledge and Brian pulls him up.
The Action Prologue to Hobbs & Shaw has Deckard Shaw beating up some mooks and holding one of them against an open window while questioning about Eteon. He even ties him to a ceiling lamp and leaves him still suspending against the window.
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In one episode of The Cape, Vince dangles a corrupt cop by dangling him over a bridge with his cape. It doesn't work.
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Mick performs one on a hitman in Crocodile Dundee 2.
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Played with in True Lies. When Harry and his fellow Omega Sector agents capture Simon, a man pretending to be a spy in order to seduce Harry's wife, they bring him to the top of a hydroelectric dam and threaten to throw him off. They're not after information, however; they know full well he's a phony and just want to scare him away.
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Daredevil has been known to do a variation of this. Instead of simply threatening to drop the criminal/mobster/what have you he is currently engaged with, he actually does drop them, and then catches them in the nick of time.
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The fake helicopter drop was used in The Gods Must Be Crazy, leaving the prisoner thrashing on the ground, screaming his head off. The helicopter is sitting on the ground with the engine running, and the questioner is threatening to chuck the blindfolded prisoner out (a one meter drop, tops). When the prisoner refuses, he's chucked out, and is screaming the location of his compatriots as he's thrashing on the ground, even when it should be clear to him that he's no longer falling and that the whole thing was a ruse. Immediately before he gives them information the Interrogator gleefully says "Next time we'll be a bit higher!", and the prisoner has no interest in going from an actually dangerous height.
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In Amazing Fantasy, Peter interrogates the new White Rabbit by giving her a ride on the "Spider-Bungee" a few times.
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier: Played with when Captain America and Natasha do this to a mole. He makes Cap admit that he'd never throw someone off a roof. So Natasha does it. But as planned, Sam "Falcon" Wilson catches him and flies him back to the roof. Then the guy talks, presumably not wanting to repeat the incident. The implicit threat is that they've already proven a willingness to throw him off, and now that Sam's on the roof with him, he's a lot less likely to catch him if he has to catch up to him on the way down.
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Done in Blade: Trinity. A mook is dangled in an attempt to lead the protagonists to the Big Bad, but he refuses to talk. Then his cell phone rings. Blade answers, tells the mook it's for him, and lets go of the rope.
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Bad Company: Ryuji dangles one of the other students out a third-floor window to get him to admit he wrote the graffiti on Ryuji's desk.
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In Lucifer, the title character inverts this with Mahu. Since a fall won't kill Mahu, Lucifer threatens to throw him into orbit, from which re-entry will kill him... eventually.
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Sam & Max: Freelance Police: In Culture Shock, Max gets Jimmy Two-Teeth to talk by dangling him out of his office window on a very high floor in the apartment building. Max being Max, he drops Jimmy, anyway, once he gets the information. Jimmy shows up just fine in later episodes, though.
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The Four Brothers do this to one of the bad guys they come across early on during their quest to find out who killed their adoptive mother. Like The Punisher above, they also let him fall, but then they continue the interrogation on the ground, since the roof they dropped him from wasn't high enough to kill him, but enough to fuck him up.
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The Lois & Clark episode "That Old Gang Of Mine" sees Superman do this to John Dillinger (or his clone, anyway).
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Mirror's Edge: When Faith comes face-to-face with Ropeburn, the two have a very brief scuffle that ends with Ropeburn hanging off the side of a building. Faith takes advantage of this by interrogating him about the murder her sister was framed for and why he was talking with a police officer earlier, but he gets shot by a mysterious assailant and falls to his death before he can answer the latter.
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Invincible (2021): In episode 5, Nolan teaches this to Mark while holding a bad guy up in the air. While Mark is hesitant to actually drop the guy, Nolan quickly grabs him and sends him falling down.
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Dragons: Race to the Edge: Heather uses this technique on a dragon hunter in "Stryke Out" to try to find out where Hiccup and Toothless are being held.
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Early on in Batman: Arkham Origins, we get to see it from the mook's perspective as he wakes up while being dangled off a building.
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Mass Effect: Andromeda: At the end of Drack's loyalty mission, he does this to Aroane to get him to squeal. It's entirely possible to let Drack actually drop the guy when he's done.
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In Bolt, the title talking dog does this to a mook in the TV show, which, per the script, works perfectly. It doesn't work so well when he tries it with Mittens, who isn't part of the TV show, and just tells him what he wants to hear.
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Commando (1985): John Matrix dangles one of the kidnappers of his daughter above a cliff to make him talk. This one is actually a lot more cold-blooded: While Sully is willing to cooperate and bring Matrix to where he's supposed to meet Cooke, who knows where Matrix's daughter is being held, Matrix had already found the necessary Plot Coupon in Sully's coat pocket to lead him to Cooke before holding him over the cliff's edge. Matrix just brought Sully there solely to let him go.
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Charmed:
Where demons are capable of surviving a fall from high ground, Chris prefers to hang them over a flaming volcano. He also tends to kill them even if they talk.
Phoebe did it once to a corrupt landlord in a episode where she was granted superpowers.
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In Burn Notice, Michael and Sam use this technique on two men to try to find the boss of a medical scam ring. The interrogatees, however, were in no real danger as they were tied to the ground; Michael and Sam's plan was just to pretended they dropped one of them so the other would squeal from terror.
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In Bringing Down the House, Charlene holds an (ex-) boyfriend over a balcony until he apologizes to the girl.
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Transformers: According to his bio card, this was Combaticon Vortex's specialty. He could turn into a helicopter and he would interrogate prisoners by subjecting them to high-altitude acrobatics until they spilled their guts literally or figuratively.
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High-Altitude Interrogation
 Adventures of Supergirl (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Crucible (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Gotham City Garage (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Irredeemable (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Low (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Marvel Star Wars (2015) (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Nemesis the Warlock (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Nikolai Dante (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Spider-Man 2099 (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Star Wars (Marvel 2015) (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Superman: Grounded (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Human Target (2021) (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Punisher (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Punisher MAX (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Modesty Blaise (Comic Strip) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Superman (Comic Book) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 A Change of Pace (Fanfic) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Kyon: Big Damn Hero (Fanfic) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse (Fanfic) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Defenders of Remnant (Fanfic) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Trump Card (Fanfic) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 200 Years, A Long Wait for Friends (Fanfic) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Analyze This / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Antigang / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Batman (1989) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Batman Begins / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Black Adam (2022) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Black Dynamite / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Blade: Trinity / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Captain America: The Winter Soldier / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Commando / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Commando (1985) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 "Crocodile" Dundee / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Fast & Furious / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Four Brothers / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Icebreaker / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 L.A. Confidential / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 L.A. Confidential (1997) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 L'amore molesto / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Layer Cake / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Memories of Murder / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Mission: Impossible III / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Money Train / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Mysterious Doctor Satan / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Olsen-banden / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Police Academy / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Puma Man / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Razorback / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Skyfall / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Super Fly / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Tango & Cash / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Dark Knight / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Dark Knight Rises / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Dark Knight Trilogy / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Dark Tower (2017) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Gentlemen / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Heat / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Hot Rock / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Last Circus / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Peacemaker / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Pumaman / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Spy Who Loved Me / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Wolf of Wall Street / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 True Lies / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Underworld (2003) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Doc Savage / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Jumper / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Six of Crows / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Till Eulenspiegel / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Two Kinds of Truth / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Bored Now
seeAlso
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Bad Company (Manga) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Charmed (1998) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Chuck / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Hunter (1984) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Legion (2017) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Luther / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Psych / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Supergirl (2015) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The A-Team / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Cape / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Fall Guy / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Magician / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Ultimate Force / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Theatre) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Batman: Arkham VR (Video Game) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Grand Theft Auto IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony (Video Game) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Drawga (Web Video) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Particle Fiction (Webcomic) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Sonic the Comic – Online! (Webcomic) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Onion (Website) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Batman: The Dark Knight Returns / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Big Hero 6: The Series / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Bolt / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 How to Train Your Dragon 2 / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Rio / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Secret Life of Pets / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Secret Saturdays / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 The Spectacular Spider-Man / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation
 Iron Man: Armored Adventures / int_1f17e9fe
type
High-Altitude Interrogation