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Stairs Are Faster

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Stairs Are Faster	comment	Alice is being pursued by some Mooks through a high-rise building. She pushes the button for the elevator, but it takes its time getting to her floor. With the mooks catching up to her, she takes the stairs, realizing that by the time the elevator arrives, she could already be captured. It's common in chase scenes, but a chase isn't necessary for this trope to work. This could come into play during any situation where a character, sick of waiting for an elevator, decides to take the stairs instead. Note that over one or two floors, stairs are typically faster even if the elevator is immediately available, though this changes quickly once you need to climb more flights of stairs than that—elevators don't tire, but people do. Super-Trope of Elevator Snare, when the pursuers take the stairs and the pursued takes the elevator only to be caught. This trope can also mean that sometimes it is faster to take the stairs than to fall the same distance. See also Variable Terminal Velocity. Examples
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Stairs Are Faster / int_20409a0a	comment	Averted in The Defenders (2017). When Matt Murdock hears a gunshot on the executive floor of Midland Circle, he steals Jessica Jones' scarf for a makeshift mask and Le Parkours his way up the stairwell. Jessica just takes the elevator and makes it there at the same time as he does.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_22119589	comment	Happens a few times on Alias. Sometimes the stairs aren't necessarily faster, but are stealthier than an elevator.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_34de22dc	comment	Parodied in Mr. Bean in Room 426. Another guest makes it into the elevator to head to the top floor, and the doors close just before Mr Bean gets there. He races up the stairs to the next floor and presses the button there so that the elevator stops; he does this on every floor.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_38ce5997	comment	The Boys (2019). The superhero version occurs in "Get Some" when Queen Maeve has to take the elevator while Homelander just flies up to the floor, smashes through the window and waits for her, continuing the conversation they were having when she arrives.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed on Red Dwarf, when the elevator's AI deliberately lies to Rimmer about how long it'll take for a lift to arrive. When pressed for the truth, it explains that it has to make its services sound speedier than they are, for fear of losing business to its chief competitor: the stairs.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_457b671e	comment	24: Jack Bauer proves this trope when he outruns Coffel's elevator, beating him to his limo.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_45e003dc	comment	Rat Race: After Donald Sinclair has told the characters the rules of the race, all of them claim that they're not going to participate, and then each makes an excuse to take the stairs instead of waiting for the elevator, hoping to get a head start on the rest.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_46518682	comment	Sesame Street: In a sketch involving Count Von Count, the Count gets a job as an elevator operator so he can count the numbers for each floor he goes to, and Kermit is his first customer. Kermit wants to go to the seventh floor, but the Count doesn't stop when he gets to the seventh floor, as he wants to keep counting until he reaches the tenth. When Kermit tells the Count that they missed the seventh floor, the Count takes him back down, but once again does not stop at the seventh floor, as he wants to count all the way back to the first. Kermit even tries to take control of the elevator, but the Count prevents him from doing so. In the end, the Count tells Kermit to take the stairs, that way he (Kermit) can get to the seventh floor, and he (the Count) can keep counting each floor without stopping.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_513f5832	comment	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: Kirk and co. get on the hospital elevator, while the cops chasing them take the stairs. The police are waiting for them when the elevator arrives, only for it to be empty (Kirk and co. beamed to the park).
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Stairs Are Faster / int_56b09616	comment	In the pilot of Carmen Sandiego, Inspector Chase Deveraux pursues Carmen in a museum's painfully slow elevator.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_5e3f6639	comment	Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu: In a hurry to get up to SÃ´suke's apartment to retrieve her homework, Kaname first goes to the elevator, presses the button, and waits for a few seconds — then screams in frustration and runs for the stairs.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_600454b2	comment	Always Visible: It is curiously played out in the last chapters of the third act, when employees of the underground university lead Galbraith down the stairs for the reason that if they took the elevator, they would not have time to introduce their guest to the situation.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_607f6b7	comment	Hilariously played with on Inspector Gadget: Gadget's chasing Brain. Brain desperately calls for the elevator while his pursuer comes barrelling in on Gadget Skates. Brain makes it just in time; Gadget realizes he needs to take the stairs. Upon seeing the seemingly endless flight of stairs above, the inspector deploys his Copter Hat. All goes well until Gadget gets entangled in a chandelier. Flying Inspector of Doom, anyone?
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Stairs Are Faster / int_674f5997	comment	Human Target: Played Straight. Ames takes the stairs when she realizes Winston is on to her. It doesn't work out for her, though.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers: The Monarch and Henchman 21 take the chute down to the Monarchmobile while Henchman 24 takes the more sensible stairs. He gets there first and closes the sunroof just as they would fall into the car.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_6ea7c33b	comment	Altered Carbon. Takeshi Kovacs realises too late that his Love Interest and the prisoner she was escorting are in an elevator with a hitman who is Impersonating an Officer. He races up and down the stairs while a bloody Elevator Action Sequence ensues, but only arrives after everything is over and the villains have escaped.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_6eb4ca5c	comment	Jackie Chan Adventures: The first episode has this in spades. None too happy that his friend Captain Augustus Black knocked him out, Jackie steps out of his work van and enters a phone booth to call a taxi, not knowing its the secret entrance to Section 13. When he comes out, he sees Black reached his area first; Jackie questions this and Black replies "the stairs". Less than two minutes later, Jade rips through the area with a motor scooter. Two agents capture her and asks her how she got in, and she gives Black the same answer he gave Jackie. When Jackie gets a call from Tohru telling him Uncle is hostage and demands a trade for an antique Jackie acquired from his recent expedition. He returns to Uncle's shop and asks Black to watch Jade. Black is about to only to see Jade disappeared. When Jackie gets home, he startled by Jade's sudden appearance, with Jade giving the same answer. Jackie then demands Jade take extra stairs to her room. Then it gets inverted around in a different building where Jade and Uncle take the stairs to get away from Tohru—who simply takes the elevator down and exits it just as the now-exhausted Jade and Uncle reach the bottom. Inverted in a Season Five episode where the group must recover moss from the top of an enormous statue to break a curse. Jackie rappels up the statue and, after a lot of effort, reaches the top, exhausted...only to see Jade already standing there. She points out a nearby—and much faster—tourist tram that she rode instead: "I'm stubborn. Not stupid."
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Stairs Are Faster / int_6ef684b9	comment	Zig-zag: In the Porky Pig cartoon "Porky's Hotel" (Clampett, 1939), Porky carts a guest's luggage to an elevator. He presses the "up" button, and when the doors open, it displays a flight of stairs.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_70bc8cd8	comment	In Silk Stockings, in a hotel in Paris, Nina Yashenko, carrying her suitcase, starts walking up several flights of stairs at the same time three of the men she's working with start up in an elevator. She is already waiting there when they arrive.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_7a7a1a86	comment	Nearly happens in Aliens. Ripley, carrying Newt, races back towards the sub-basement's elevators and frantically hits the buttons for both, with the Alien Queen in hot pursuit. Increasingly desperate, she slings Newt onto her shoulders and starts to climb a nearby ladder, only for the first elevator to finally touch down; they promptly board it instead. The Queen, naturally, ends up taking the second elevator.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_8c13498e	comment	Tanghi Argentini: Andre and Franz are on an elevator together after Franz has rejected Andre's request for tango lessons. Andre gets off on his floor. Franz goes a couple of floors down, only to be very surprised when the doors open again and he sees Andre outside, demanding lessons.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_90b916ba	comment	In an episode of Batman: The Animated Series, the Clock King pulls a heist using a device that accelerates time for him to the point of the rest of the world effectively being at a complete standstill. As the goods he's after are on an upper floor, he hits the elevator button...then remembers that it's just as temporally frozen to him as everything else and opts for the stairs.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_a183d57f	comment	Parodied in the Futurama episode "Less than Hero", in which Leela descends a set of stairs faster than Fry can fall the same distance. (Since she and Fry, in this episode, can run at super-speed, but not fly, this might even be justified.)
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Stairs Are Faster / int_b0cf0ed6	comment	Normally, Danger Mouse and Penfold take a sofa lift down to the Mk. III car and then back up when the mission is completed. There were two instances where they wind up taking the stairs instead. "Mechanised Mayhem" had them taking the stairs after a mechanical revolution pre-empts the sofa lift function, while in "Viva Danger Mouse," they consign themselves to the stairs after they find cactus needles in the sofa cushions.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_b712435c	comment	Leverage: In an effort to delay Sterling, who's taking the elevator, Nate runs up the stairs and pushes all the elevator call buttons, causing Sterling's elevator to stop at every floor. He's more and more winded at each floor, beating the elevator by narrower and narrower margins, until on the very last floor he's totally out of energy and has to just slump against the wall just out of eye-line as the elevator doors open
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Stairs Are Faster / int_b78ae0b5	comment	In The Blues Brothers, the brothers take the elevator up to the floor the Assessor's office is on, then disable the one elevator they came up in. The combined might of the Chicago Police, SWAT, National Guard, etc. try to follow up the elevator, but after waiting a few seconds they decide to charge up the stairway instead.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_bf0f252d	comment	Spriggan. Rie Yamabishi dives into the elevator Just in Time to escape an American armored soldier, only for the soldier to jump onto the top of the elevator and rip his way inside, forcing her to flee the elevator and take the stairs. This is in contrats to the manga, where the armored soldier tries to force his way through the elevator after killing the ARCAM guards on the top floors of the ARCAM office.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_c75d67d	comment	Person of Interest. In "Dead Reckoning", John Reese (wearing a bomb vest that's counting down to zero) is trapped on a Missing Floor only accessible via a code-locked elevator. Detective Carter and Fusco take the fire exit up to him. It's on the 21st floor, which doesn't make Fusco happy.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_ca03e3a5	comment	The Mole: In the Belgian version, season 6 had one challenge where a contestant rode an elevator all the way to the top of a building while the other contestants tried to outrace the elevator on the stairs for an exemption. One of the racing contestants just managed to beat the contestant in the elevator — though it must be noted that: 1) she was the most athletic contestant in the cast, 2) she was allowed to ride another elevator partway up the building and thus only had to take the stairs for part of the trip, and 3) all other contestants on the stairs became far too exhausted to catch the elevator.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_d148f51d	comment	The Looney Tunes Show: In "Customer Service", Cecil Turtle is an employee at the Trans-Visitron cable company and cuts off Bugs Bunny's cable just to mess with him. This prompts Bugs to get back at Cecil. At one point, Cecil arrives at Trans-Visitron headquarters two minutes before his break is about to end. When he tries to take the elevator to the 22nd floor, Bugs appears as the elevator operator, treating him in a way similar to how Cecil treated him earlier by telling him about the various packages he has that could take him to the 22nd floor. Cecil decides to take the stairs instead.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	In an episode of PokÃ©mon, Jessie is hastily crawling across a wooden beam suspended between two buildings ("Would you just give me a break?"), and falls. James and Meowth race down the stairs and arrive at the bottom before Jessie does — they still don't catch her.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_e0d88981	comment	The Lavender Hill Mob. Holland and Pendlebury realise six of the solid gold paperweights have inadvertently been sold to a party of schoolgirls at the top of the Eiffel Tower. They try to catch the schoolgirls before they get to the lift, but the doors close ahead of them, so they take a set of spiraling emergency stairs down to the ground, by which time they are too dizzy to intercept the schoolgirls' car before it leaves.
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Stairs Are Faster / int_f31d7d98	comment	An extreme example in Drawn Together: events in the episode had left Captain Hero a quadriplegic. At one point he has to ascend a ludicrously long flight of stairs in his wheelchair. Just a moment after he finally reaches the top, his housemates arrive by elevator.
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