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"Mission: Impossible" Cable Drop
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The commonly spoofed scene for which everyone remembers Mission: Impossible (1996). Tom Cruise hacks a CIA computer while dangling horizontally from two cables in a heavily protected room. The floor is pressure and weight sensitive, to the point that even a single drop of condensation dripping off of a forgotten soft drink and onto the floor is enough to set off the alarm. To get into the room, he has to bypass a laser grid in a ceiling ventilation duct. It was an homage to a similar scene in the 1964 film Topkapi, and it's now a must whenever there's a spy or Heist Episode in a show. Sometimes a Desperate Object Catch is thrown in for added drama. See also Fast-Roping and The Ground Is Lava. |
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Torg tests this out as one of their plans to infiltrate Ayleeorgnet in Sluggy Freelance. Owing to miscalculating the length of the cables, he knocks himself out. Note that it was to be called "Operation Look I'm Tom Cruise!" (Given that the competition included "Operation Run Around Willy-Nilly"...) | |
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In the Bones episode "El Carnicero en el Coche" Hodgins lowers himself like this into the burnt out husk of a car, to avoid the car falling apart at the slightest touch whilst hunting for evidence. | |
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Chuck: Half-parody in the first promos for the TV show, in which Sarah would drop down successfully while Chuck would start spinning in place and get told to "Tense your abs!" Also played (relatively) straight in "Chuck vs. The Mask". |
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Julie does this in the "Off the Rack" episode of Motorcity before hacking into the KaneCo computer. There's even a Suspiciously Similar Song of the Mission Impossible theme. | |
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Supposedly, the WWF were trying to replicate WCW's stunt of Sting regularly dropping to the ring on a cable to attack opponents (usually the New World Order). After Owen's death, Sting would repel from the ceiling instead of being lowered on a cable. | |
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The Simpsons: In "A Streetcar Named Marge", Maggie uses the ripcord of a talking Krusty doll to descend from an air vent to steal some keys on top of a desk. | |
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In Spice World, Mel C is introduced doing a drop to a Subbuteo table and making a half-field shot. | |
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In an episode of iCarly, Freddy drops into a room on cables and is mistaken for a spider. | |
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In the Totally Spies! Fifth season episode Miss Spirit Fingers, Sam uses her Expandable Cable Bungee Belt to break into a government weapons lab and steal a device for supervillian Jazz Hands | |
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The Bad Guys (2022) has a variant; Snake is used as the cable by Wolf and Piranha, who grab onto him as they enter the room with the Golden Dolphin in it during their big heist. Piranha climbs up to the top of the air vent Snake came out of and holds him there, with Wolf being lowered along with Snake towards the trophy. Things go well until a machine designed to prevent the Bad Guys from stealing the bounty turns on, forcing Tarantula to hack into it. | |
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Used in The Latest Buzz, of all places, with one of the teen reporters trying to retrieve a column from the editor's desk. | |
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The Princess and the Frog briefly references the scene as Tiana (in frog form) falls into the bayou and gets tangled in some spiderwebs right above the water in the same pose as Ethan Hunt. | |
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In her first appearance on Highlander, Amanda used one as part of a heist, to avoid a pressure-sensitive floor alarm. When she had the item she wanted to steal but before her accomplice could pull her up, Duncan appeared in a balcony. He tossed a coin to determine whether or not he should call the cops on them, then "missed" catching the coin, which hit the floor and set off the alarms. | |
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In the Whateley Universe, it's done in "Ayla and the Networks", as the good guys of the the Intelligence Cadet Corps lower themselves down a cable into an air shaft, diasbling alarms as they go, in order to break into the secret lair being rented by The Masterminds and figure out their caper. Lampshaded by one of the team, who won't stop humming the theme song to Mission: Impossible. | |
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In a PBS Ad, it shows Cookie Monster dropping from a cable in this style, while solving a word puzzle under a time limit while Arty Smartypants from Between the Lions briefs him. | |
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Discworld: Darktan in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents hangs suspended in a harness to inspect and disarm a deadly trap. As Darktan is an intelligent rat and weighs very little, this is done with bits of string rather than fancy high-tech cables. | |
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Mission: Impossible – Fallout replaces the cable with a HALO skydive (High Altitude low opening, jump from heights that need supplemental oxygen and open the parachute low to avoid detection) to avoid security in a club. Skydiving's "arms splayed out" position resembles similiar positions in previous drops. | |
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In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "Gailbreak!", Penny Ling attempts to sneak into Largest Ever Pet Shop this way, but the rope breaks and she falls to the floor. | |
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Inspector Gadget (1999) does this with a sound-sensitive alarm. | |
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Occurs in the final mission of Metal Slug 4. | |
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Persona 5's second dungeon has Morgana pull this off to grab the heavily-guarded Treasure using a hooked stage cable. However, Madarame saw this coming and switched it for a fake before the heist was pulled. | |
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Done in the first heist of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time when Sly has to steal the dagger. | |
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The Pink Panther (1963) uses a variant predating Mission: Impossible. | |
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In Pokémon Adventures, in order to test the museum's security, Janine uses her Weezing's smoke to reveal the lasers then lowers herself with her Ariados's thread to steal the museum display. | |
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Grojband: Grojband's groupies Kate and Allie do this when they break into Trina's room to steal her beloved Mr Moosehead toy for Corey. There are complications. | |
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In College Roomies from Hell!!!, Roger does this (through the floor of one of the upstairs apartments) to get to a videotape in the girls' apartment. When Margaret catches him, she points out that loudly humming the Mission Impossible theme isn't especially stealthy. | |
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Parodied in The Basil Brush Show, when the group finds a pool of Anil's chilli sauce between them and a safe containing the answers for the Quiz Night. | |
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Doraemon: In "Noby, the Great Illusionist", to retrieve his Beast Mask comic from Big G, Noby has Doraemon hold him by his cape when they use the Pass Loop on the roof of Big G's house so that he can dodge some bells attached to strings set up by Big G. | |
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Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide had Ned attempt one of these out of the ceiling. Notable in that it was a science class and a student notices Ned and greets him before leaving; also in that instead of dropping stealthily, Ned plummeted like a rock and then swung back and forth helplessly, wrecking the classroom. | |
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A variation in the first Charlie's Angels (2000), where she had to do cartwheels across a pressure-sensitive floor and then handstand on a computer box. | |
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Jonathan Kane: The Protector have a bunch of mooks breaking into Jonathan's safehouse through the skylight in this way, during an intense All Your Base Are Belong to Us moment. | |
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Mission: Impossible II sure enough has Ethan Cable drop down a skyscraper's ventilation shaft, with a time limit due to closing louvres at the top and some security guards to dodge. | |
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Naturally, Kim Possible gets to pull off this trope with the accompanying lampshade. In "Two for Tutor" this is the subject of the obligatory Training Montage when Shego is instructing Señor Senior Junior on how to be a supervillain. | |
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Parodied in Shrek 2, when Pinocchio does this with his puppet strings, complete with Mission: Impossible music. However, with all his turning and tumbling, Pinocchio gets wrapped up in his own strings and just hangs there. | |
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It goes catastrophically wrong for one of The Lone Gunmen in the first episode of their series. However it's possible that they could actually have pulled it off, if left to their own. The only reason they didn't manage it was because Yves was after the same thing they were, and she had the technological know-how to royally mess it up for them. | |
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A similar stunt led to the tragic death of Owen Hart. As the masked, buffoonish superhero "Blue Blazer," he was to be lowered on a cable to ground level, only to become tangled in the line just above the ring, a stunt he had performed a few times before. He would then have used a quick release to fall a few feet, comically, on his face. However, a malfunction or unintentional release caused him to fall from over 70 feet, leading to his death. | |
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Fat Slags does a surprisingly in-depth parody of this scene when the heroines decide to ruin the villain by stealing his laptop, which is full of incriminating information. | |
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This also happened in an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, where the kids were breaking into a museum and trying to steal an artifact. | |
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Referenced in The Magicians (2016) Bank Robbery episode when the team plans to use an anti-gravity belt to drop Penny down into a bank vault and steal gold. | |
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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol re-enacts the scene, but with magnets taking the place of the cable and with a spinning fan blade in place of the lasers. | |
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In Toy Story 3, after Woody drops from the tree he is temporarily suspended inches from the ground by his pullstring. | |
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In The Santa Clause 2, Charlie ropes into the school gym through a skylight in order to spray-paint graffiti. | |
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Happened in Teen Titans where Gizmo is hacking into a museum's security system. | |
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In the Father Ted Christmas Special "A Christmassy Ted", Father Todd Unctious uses one of these to attempt to steal Father Ted's Golden Cleric Award. It breaks partway through, leaving him hanging helplessly in full view of Father Dougal, who fails to notice him anyway. And afterwards Mrs. Doyle uses it to clean the windows. | |
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There's a variation of this in The Boondock Saints, with the protagonists falling though the ceiling accidentally, getting tangled in their rope... and killing everyone in the room as they spin about upside down. This happened because they got lost in the building's vents and got into a fight right there, leading to the vents giving way. It was only through sheer luck that they managed to fall into the right room, the room that the Russian mob dudes were that they were aiming to kill. | |
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Batwoman (2019). Magpie does this for her introductory jewel heist. The next time she does it, Batwoman introduces herself by cutting her cable and dumping her onto the floor. | |
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Freddy Fox: In the 72nd strip (which happens to be called "Mission Impossible"), Freddy tries to snatch Simon's sandwich via lowering himself with a cable attached to his body, but the latter cuts it with a pair of scissors and says "Nice try... better luck next time!" | |
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Parker's trademark maneuver on Leverage is to jump off the side of buildings and lower down on a cable, instead of doing this on the inside. She then goes in through the window. No one but Parker is crazy enough to do it willingly, though they are often forced to anyway. | |
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The Wallace & Gromit short The Wrong Trousers has a variant that predates the movie, involving a robotic pair of trousers fitted with suction cups walking across a ceiling of a museum to steal a heavily protected diamond. | |
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The drop is done in Heroes Wanted when Santi and Lola are dropped down the central shaft of the Conaco building as part of an infiltration. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Applejack's Day Off", Twilight is forced to do this as part of a crazy ritual that Applejack has in order to feed the pigs. | |
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Doctor Who: Done in "Planet of the Dead". Lady Christina steals the chalice in the prologue, and then she uses the same skill to retrieve the antigravity clamps in the Tritovore ship. | |
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Topkapi was the Ur-Example, as stated above. A thief is lowered by rope into a museum to steal a priceless bejeweled dagger, because the slightest pressure on the floor triggers the alarm. | |
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Parodied in, of all places, Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition. Duke is breaking into the CIA and has to drop into a room modeled on this scene. Since Duke is very unsubtle, you just drop right in and shoot the mutant aliens who respond. Or use the jetpack to slowly lower yourself down. The room is worth taking a safe look at too, using this method, as they went to an impressive amount of detail for the reference — not only is there a knife stuck in the table, but there's a garbage can full of puke on the floor! | |
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Entrèe does it in an episode of Spliced to steal Joe's hat, apparently attaching himself to the ceiling with bubblegum. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: Lola does it to break into Bugs' house in the song "We Are in Love". | |
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Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: In Flying Island: The Sky Adventure episode 38, Wolffy attempts to break into the Elder Stars' house to kidnap baby Slowy by sawing the building's roof off and lowering himself to Slowy's crib with a rope. Unfortunately for Wolffy, the rope's too short for him to actually reach his target. | |
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The second Thief had a medieval-tech version, with ropes that could be attached to the ceiling beams and shimmied down. In the penultimate mission, it's the easiestnote if you don't count turning off the security, but that's no fun way to retrieve the masks, which are guarded by a pressure-sensitive floor with Deadly Gas. | |
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This makes up the objective of the second mission in JumpStart 5th Grade, where Jo Hammett has to use climbing gear to rappel onto a bomb and divert a grid of security lasers before she can disarm the bomb itself. | |
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Played for laughs in the South Park episode "Fun with Veal" when the boys use the Mission Impossible: Breaking and Entering Spy Kit to steal baby cows from a cattle ranch before they're turned into veal. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Parodied in "Smashed" when Andrew drops down to steal a diamond, only to have Warren and Jonathan stroll into the museum without issue. Played straight in "Choices" when the Scoobies break into the Mayor's office in season three. Buffy is the one lowered down on the harness to steal the MacGuffin. When the alarms go off however, the pulley jams and Angel has to jump in and save her; though Buffy uses the harness to do a flip so she can kick a henchvamp in the face. |
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In Shoot 'Em Up, both Smith and one of the Mooks try this down the middle of a spiral staircase during a shootout. However, Smith shoots the mook's rope, leading to him taking a long fall. | |
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In Tangled, this is how Flynn steals the crown at the start of the film. | |
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A season 3 episode of LazyTown has Robbie Rotten confronted with a laser grid and trying one of these to steal Sportacus's crystal; he's unsuccessful in his attempts and ends up framing Stingy for his crimes. | |
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For that matter, it's been paid homage to in every Mission: Impossible Film Series sequel to date. It even gets lampshaded in Mission: Impossible II, with the Big Bad predicting that Hunt will break into the building holding the MacGuffin they both want by some sort of "acrobatic insanity". Mission: Impossible II sure enough has Ethan Cable drop down a skyscraper's ventilation shaft, with a time limit due to closing louvres at the top and some security guards to dodge. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol re-enacts the scene, but with magnets taking the place of the cable and with a spinning fan blade in place of the lasers. Mission: Impossible – Fallout replaces the cable with a HALO skydive (High Altitude low opening, jump from heights that need supplemental oxygen and open the parachute low to avoid detection) to avoid security in a club. Skydiving's "arms splayed out" position resembles similiar positions in previous drops. |
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Used in episode six of the third season of Primeval when Danny Quinn is testing the security systems at the Anomaly Research Center. | |
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Actually done in the Mission: Impossible television series (both the original and the 1980s remake). In "Doomsday", Barney used a cable drop to steal the plutonium from a nuclear warhead that was surrounded by photoelectric sensors and so could only be approached from above. In "The Lions", Grant gets lowered into the temple and is suspended above the altar so he can tamper with the eponymous lions. |
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