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First Rule of being followed: do what your pursuer is unwilling to do. Of course, part of this is to what extent the prey does not want to be caught. In some cases you can expect someone to say "No One Could Survive That!," because the escape appeared just that insane. In many other cases those following are fully aware that the person survived but are dumbfounded that they are still moving. Especially if surviving that fall was a Million to One Chance. And if the pursuers do keep on following, the hunted still has the Wronski Feint to fall back on. If you are feeling particularly ballsy, you can give your hunters the raspberry and issue the challenge of "Go ahead, try and follow me!" If you take the chase into an environment where you have a concrete advantage over your pursuers, you are using Exploited Immunity. If the hazard is a hostile third party, see Give Chase with Angry Natives. Supertrope to Wronski Feint, Chase Stops at Water, and Aerial Canyon Chase. Compare Briar Patching and Suicidal "Gotcha!". Rarely, if ever, works on the Implacable Man or The Juggernaut. Is very likely to be pulled off at least once by the Ace Pilot. |
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Dune. Paul and Jessica Atreides are able to escape their Harkonnen pursuers by piloting an aircraft into a Coriolis storm, a massive sandstorm with winds over 400 kph. Everyone agrees (with good reason) that they are "certainly dead", which turns out to be a huge mistake. | |
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Done by The Question in Justice League to escape Huntress and Green Arrow. Question may not have superpowers or extensive martial arts training, but he's very willing to play chicken with a train. | |
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Bone has a famous and catchphrase-launching subversion in an early sequence where little Fone Bone is being pursued by giant rat creatures. "Those rat creatures would have to be pretty stupid to follow me on this frail, little branch!" | |
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In the Descent novels, St. John, during a dogfight around Shiva Station, decides to lose his tail by flying mere meters above the station's hull, dodging and weaving among the towers, antennae, and other assorted space station stuff. This absolutely horrifies his co-pilot, who is convinced that they are going to die. Fortunately, they do not. Unfortunately, the pilot chasing them is good enough to follow them. | |
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This sets off the events of Ship Breaker. Nita is the Sole Survivor on the wrecked clipper ship that the protagonist Nailer finds washed up on the shore. It's later revealed that her Evil Uncle was trying to capture her, so they sailed into a city-killer hurricane to escape. | |
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Oliver of Oliver & Company proves his mettle to the Dodger by successfully following him all over New York, through chaos, traffic, and construction zones, in pursuit of his share of a string of stolen sausages. | |
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Master and Commander. After being ambushed by the superior French privateer, Captain Aubrey has his crew put out boats and tow Surprise into a handy fog bank, knowing the French won't pursue and risk losing their advantage. Sure enough the privateer turns away, firing one last broadside in a final attempt to inflict damage. | |
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid jumped off the cliff into the river below to avoid being caught. But that wasn't enough and they learned later that their pursuers would keep after them until they were captured or dead. | |
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It's possible to invoke this trope in the X-Universe games. If your ship is small enough, you can do things like fly through gaps in space stations and make tight passes through asteroid thickets. Meanwhile, your A.I. pursuer's collision avoidance programming is likely to force it into going through a wide loop around the object while you continue to open the gap. | |
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Path of Neo allows you to pursue the first option described in the second The Matrix example above, and see what could have happened. They might catch you anyway, but if you're good enough to escape them, Trinity is waiting outside on her motorcycle and will instantly take you to Morpheus. | |
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Parodied in an episode of King of the Hill: Hank is caught in a car chase with a pimp, and so he waits at an intersection for a yellow light and then guns it. When the pimp runs through the subsequent red light, Hank is shocked. | |
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Discworld: In Men at Arms, Sergeant Angua (a w-erewolf) is running from a dog pack on the rooftops. She jumps over a wide street, and the dogs following stop. The leader tells them to keep chasing, and jumps over to demonstrate. It doesn't work. | |
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Star Trek: Insurrection. With Enterprise on the verge of a warp core breach, Commander Riker takes her into the Briar Patch to escape the pursuing Son'a ships. | |
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In Rusty and Co., Prestige jumps out the window onto a cloud. The pursuing illithid is obviously thinking of this trope. Then he assumes she's got something that makes it solid and assumes that he can follow right after her. He falls right through the cloud and she reveals that she was only pretending to walk on the cloud and was actually using a flight spell. | |
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In "Witness", John Reese and the witness flee The Mafiya into an apartment block controlled by Bulgarian gangsters. The Russian gangsters chasing them have to call their boss to negotiate entry with the Bulgarians, giving Reese time to treat their injuries and find a phone to call Finch. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road. Imperator Furisoa takes her War Rig into a sandstorm that's a virtual tornado, to (temporarily) escape the pursuing War Boys. Given their Blood Knight nature not all of the pursuers are deterred, but as Furiosa's Big Badass Rig is heavier it survives while lighter vehicles are blown into the air and destroyed. | |
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In Apocalypto, Jaguar Paw escapes from the bunch of sadistic Maya city dwellers led by Zero Wolf who are after him by jumping down a waterfall. While he feels momentarily safe and taunts them from below, Zero Wolf forces his men to jump (after killing one for merely suggesting to take a detour). They all jump down the waterfall (one more of them dies, this time because his head hits a rock at the bottom of the waterfall), and the chase resumes. This forces their quarry to realize that he can't just outrun them. After all, he is Jaguar Paw. He is a hunter. And this is his forest. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who. In "I, Davros", the title character is assigned to a commando team sent behind Thal lines. Having completed their mission, Davros proposes they evade the pursuing Thal troops in the Wastelands, an area poisoned by the Forever War inhabited by Nuclear Mutants and Dangerous Deserters. The Thals do turn back rather than pursue them, but Davros is the only member of the team who makes it back to the Kaled lines alive. | |
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Galaxy of Fear: To take a big ship into an Asteroid Thicket after a tiny agile ship is practically suicide, but Spore does it anyway. And runs into the giant space slugs Tash knew were there. | |
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In Sin City, a common technique in avoiding pursuing cop cars is to head to Old Town where they aren't allowed. A civilian car is fine since it's a possible customer for the prostitutes but since the girls have their own rules, a squad car is likely to get blown apart. | |
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The many chase setpieces in both Outlast games are usually broken up by the Player Character performing a jump across a long gap or some other similar maneuver, so the pursuers are unable to follow. | |
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Subverted in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. When Johnny tries this move, apparently hoping his superior knowledge of the area will pay off, the Surfer phases stoically through the obstacles. | |
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In Girl Genius Tarvek, has a bright idea to run into the Castle Heterodyne. At the time, it's one big insane deathtrap used as a prison not seriously guarded once the prisoners are shepherded into the gate — usually the equivalent of a death sentence. Yes, the guards didn't follow him inside... In fairness, Tarvek was heading into the Castle anyway. Agatha does the same tactic earlier by fleeing into an uncharted corridor that hasn't been mapped for deathtraps. However the mooks end up following her anyway, when their Bad Boss shoots one to encourage the others. |
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The Lion King (1994): Following Mufasa's death, Simba is chased by the hyenas and inadvertently escapes them when he trips into and crawls through a forest of thorn bushes. | |
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The Trigan Empire. The heroes are being chased by Lokan hover-tanks, so drive into a cave in an attempt to invoke this trope. The Lokans are brave or suicidal enough to follow, so everyone gets smashed up on the stalagmites inside. The heroes, of course, survive unharmed. | |
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In U.S. Marshals, the fugitive jumps off the roof of a building, uses a rope to swing over to a train station on the other side of the street, then jumps onto the roof of the departing train in order to evade Gerard. | |
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In Case Closed, Shinichi's mother once hung around too long at an intersection and then pulled away at the last possible minute to evade a car that had been surreptitiously following them. | |
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Batman Returns: Batman heads directly toward a narrow alley far too small to accommodate the Batmobile, then transforms his vehicle until it will fit. The police following him obliviously maintain acceleration right until they crash into the alley. | |
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The car chase in episode 2 of Canaan, making the unnamed taxi driver into an Ensemble Dark Horse. | |
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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power: Galadriel escapes the City Guards that were tasked to keep an eye on her, by leaping between buildings where they cannot see her. | |
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Cube 2: Hypercube. One of the people imprisoned in the Hypercube turns out to be a hacker who is fleeing the MegaCorp who built it, as it was the one place they wouldn't follow. Turns out she's wrong, as the person she's talking to is an operative sent after her. Knowing it would be a Suicide Mission, they simply used an expendable asset for the job. | |
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In Heavy Rain, Ethan can escape from the police by jumping off a building and hijacking a taxi. It's not clear why this works though, since the police have a helicopter. | |
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Axel Foley pulls off a less spectacular, but nonetheless clever, version in in Beverly Hills Cop. While driving, he spots two plainclothes cops tailing him. He stops at a traffic light and waits through the green and yellow cycles, confusing the cops. Just as the light turns red, he speeds through the intersection. By the time the cops recover from their surprise and try to give chase they're cut off by the cross traffic. | |
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Game of Thrones. In "Kill The Boy", Jorah Mormont takes his boat carrying a kidnapped Tyrion through the ruins of Valyria, where any pirates won't dare follow. Although this is mainly due to superstition, there are very real threats as our heroes discover when the Stonemen attack. | |
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When playing games such as Snake or Light Cycles (TRON), getting into tight alleys that your opponent can't follow is a key tactic in advanced play. Of course, one has to be sure they can actually make it through the often tight maze to the other end before someone seals it off. | |
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In The Ballad of Edgardo, when fleeing from a mob of angry players who are ignoring the travelling rules, the title character and his sidekick A Guy Called Squid briefly manage to escape their pursuers by deliberately following a Ridiculously Difficult Route through snowy mountains strewn with especially dangerous random events and monsters, correctly guessing both that no other player would dare follow them through such a dangerous route and risk getting their precious characters killed, and that they themselves would be relatively safe from said dangerous random encounters since the forum mods had long stopped giving a shit about what the two of them were doing and just ignored them for the most part. | |
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Mission: Impossible III. Ethan's team in a Huey helicopter try to evade a Cobra gunship by flying through a wind turbine farm. For some reason the Cobra doesn't fly above the farm and fire its missiles (which are heat-seaking) down at them — but then if it did that we wouldn't have a cool scene of the Huey flying between the spinning turbine blades and the Cobra being smashed when it decides to Try And Follow. | |
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In Invader Zim, when Dib and Zim are driving the planets Mercury and Mars, Zim attempts this with Dib by challenging him to follow him through the asteroid belt. Dib is smart enough not to take on the challenge. | |
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The Princess Bride: When Wesley and Buttercup escape into The Fire Swamp to evade their pursuers. He makes a habit of this; see Vizzini's gang climbing the Cliffs of Insanity. |
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On Leverage, Parker specializes in this. She has rappelled down the side of a building, base jumped off a building, and flipped off a bridge and held on by her fingertips to avoid pursuit. | |
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In Fairy Tail, Lucy is captured and tied up by the Phantom Lords and held prisoner on a very tall tower. After she kicks the guild leader in the crotch she realizes that there is no way down, so rather than face returning home to her father and/or torture at the hands of the guild, she jumps off the building relying on the fact that she had heard Natsu in the distance and she knew he'd come to save her. Sure enough, he catches her. | |
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In Call of Juarez: Gunslinger Silas Greaves is after the Indian Chief Grey Wolf. After their first encounter, Grey Wolf flees and you have to follow him through a series of caves and on narrow paths leading down a cliff face. You have to do a number of 'Leap of Faith' jumps to get from one rock shelf to another and when you finally catch up to Grey Wolf, you end up walking straight into a major ambush. After all this, Grey Wolf still manages to escape and you never see him again. | |
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In Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, at one point Remo is being chased by a relentless trio of doberman pinschers. He climbs to the roof of a building to escape, but they follow somehow, at which point he runs across a cable connecting the building he's on to another building. He even lampshades the situation by uttering a sarcastic, "Try and follow me now, you bastards!" Two of the dogs leave the roof to find other avenues of approach. But the third dog follows him across the cable. | |
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In First Blood, Rambo is being chased through the woods and actually jumps from a small cliff into trees to escape. | |
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Doctor Who. In "The Pilot", the Doctor takes the TARDIS to Australia, then 23 million years in the future on the other side of the Universe, then into the midst of a Dalek war to see if the Monster of the Week will follow. It does. | |
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Part of the reason Agent J was recruited into the Men in Black was because he was able to keep up with an alien criminal who did this. | |
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In Watership Down (2018) the escape from Efrafa is on the punt is dropped, with Hazel trying to deter pursuit by taking the rabbits through the "human warren". It doesn't work as General Woundwort, obsessed with vengeance, drives the Efrafans to track them back to Watership Down. | |
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Blake's 7: In "Pressure Point", Space Commander Travis realises that Blake, having just escaped, will go into the Forbidden Zone despite its automated defenses because it's the last place anyone would look (though Blake is also after the Master Computer the zone is protecting). In "Volcano", Federation troopers capture two of our heroes and hide just inside the crater rim of an active volcano, thinking it's the last place anyone will look for them. Fortunately one of their captives is a telepath and can tell the others where they are. |
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Person of Interest: In "Witness", John Reese and the witness flee The Mafiya into an apartment block controlled by Bulgarian gangsters. The Russian gangsters chasing them have to call their boss to negotiate entry with the Bulgarians, giving Reese time to treat their injuries and find a phone to call Finch. In "No Good Dead", the Victim of the Week is being chased by government assassins, so he throws a bottle at a passing police car so he'll get arrested. |
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In the second "Crocodile" Dundee movie, Mick is interrogating a criminal who's tied upside down hundreds of feet in the air when the police arrive. He uses the end of the rope to leap off the building and swing into a window. One police officer suggests they follow him, which is met with utter disbelief. | |
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In Appointment with Venus, the heroes spirit the cow and her calf onto a Royal Navy Motor Torpedo Boat to take them to Britain. They are pursued by a German E-boat, which they sink when Trawler steers the torpedo boat through a narrow channel and the E-boat—with its deeper draught—rips out its hull on the rocks just below the surface. | |
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The most hilarious moment in the film True Lies involves Arnold Schwarzenegger on a horse (borrowed from a mounted city cop) chasing a bad guy on a motorcycle through an improbable array of settings, including crashing through an elegant soiree in a grand hotel. Eventually the villain uses a ramp to do a suicidal leap from the hotel roof... into a rooftop swimming pool a hundred feet away and twenty feet down. Arnold attempts to follow — only to have his horse come to a dead stop and give him an "Are you insane?" look. | |
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Q*bert: One way to escape Coily the snake is to jump off the edge of the board onto a spinning disc. Coily attempts to follow and plummets to his doom. | |
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On Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson (being pursued through a shopping mall by "baddies" in a Corvette as part of an "extreme road test"), attempted dodging in and out of several tight spaces in his Ford Fiesta. The 'Vette still gave chase, but it got significantly delayed, and Clarkson eventually made his escape. | |
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The Machine Gunners. The police suspect the children are hiding the missing machine gun, so try following them to their hideout. Chas enjoys leading them through a swamp and various other places an adult policeman is too big or heavy to follow. He gets a nasty shock when his pursuer keeps following him — because he's actually another child, Boddser Brown. | |
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Probably one of the most popular sequences from Casino Royale (2006) is when Bond is chasing after a bomber who is employing Le Parkour moves to navigate a construction site and trying to lose Bond in the process. Instead of replicating his nimble target's movements, Bond would go for far more direct approaches to navigate the same obstacles, like slamming through a sheet of drywall after his target squeezed through a small, hard-to-reach hole. | |
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In an episode of Firefly, Wash attempts to lose the Feds on their tail by saying "Let's see them follow us through here!" and ducking and weaving through a narrow canyon. The camera pulls back to show the Feds are simply flying above the canyon and watching them from there. "Oh...I didn't think of that." Then they start with the bombing. | |
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Family Guy: Parodied when Peter and Lois escape from wheelchair-bound cop Joe by jumping over a fence. Another episode has a robber do the same thing. After he got away, Joe went through a Heroic BSoD and quit the force, but at the end crossed paths with the robber again, who tried the same thing, only for Joe to find a way to fling himself over the fence and land on the guy which ended up breaking his spine... killing him. |
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In National Treasure, Ben Gates evades his FBI detail with a death-defying jump off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier into the river below. The agents following him are advised to "Pursue at own risk." (They don't.) | |
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To escape a police chase in Need for Speed, Tobey uses a grassy embankment to drive off a highway and jump over a street packed with traffic. The cops abort the chase rather than follow. | |
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This is basically how both Izaya and Shizuo of Durarara!! learned Parkour. Izaya learned it so he could escape and reach places where Shizuo would have to be insane to follow him to. Shizuo was simply insane enough to follow him. Shizuo eventually ends up doing this himself. Instead of letting himself be captured by the Yakuza for a murder he didn't commit, or undermining any chance of proving his innocence by attacking them, he instead opts to escape — and starts with a superhuman climb up a nearby building. | |
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Star Trek: Voyager: In the Action Prologue of the pilot episode, Chakotay flies his ship into the Badlands to escape a much larger Cardassian warship, which is damaged by a plasma storm when it tries to pursue. In "Scientific Method", aliens have taken over Voyager and threaten to kill the crew if they resist their medical experiments. Captain Janeway flies the ship on a reckless course between two binary pulsars whose combined gravitational force could tear the ship apart, so the aliens have a choice between risking destruction or fleeing in their own ships. Not being as crazy as Janeway is, they flee. |
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Burn Notice: Explained in the top quote. The show has a "Spy Work for Dummies" narration and in trying to escape some pursuers, Michael jumped down two stories and ran home on a twisted ankle. From a later episode, "You bend your knees, tuck and roll... and just accept that it's going to hurt." In another episode, he said that this is also an effective way to tell if you are being trailed, you take unnecessary risks. If in a car, you signal one way and go the other, speed through red lights, etc. In at least one episode, he notes that doing this is a tip-off to your pursuers that you suspect you're being followed, and gives the variant of driving extremely prudently... signaling well before turns or lane changes, braking and accelerating slowly and smoothly, stopping on yellow lights... until suddenly you do something like pull a right turn from the left lane to leave your tail behind, having lulled them into thinking you'd never do anything crazy like that. |
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The dam jump of The Fugitive is homaged in, among many other things, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, where Snake does the same to escape Ocelot, whose response to this is "Don't you die on me yet..." | |
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