History Main / BottomlessPitRescueService

!!Non Video Game Examples
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Veggietales}}'' LicensedGame ''Minnesota Cuke and the Coconut Apes'' in normal play lacks this, but hitting the "[[EasierThanEasy Easyplay Button]]" in the options menu will cause Larry/Minnesota to simply go flying out of any Bottomless Pits he falls into with a comical bouncing noise.

!!Examples
* Pictured is the ''VideoGame/XMen1993'' game on the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, in which ComicBook/JeanGrey uses her {{Telekinesis}} to pull players up when they fall in a pit.
* Layle's GravityMaster powers in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesTheCrystalBearers'' includes this ability, though there is one area that's an exception, where you just respawn at the start instead.
* In The High Caves of the first ''Videogame/SpyroTheDragon'', 3 fairies do this for you. Only if you fall within the specific area in the center where you're expected to use [[SprintShoes the super charge]], though. Fall off the edge anywhere else, you're screwed.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro: Dawn of the Dragon'', the player is automatically forced into flight mode if they fall into an otherwise bottomless pit. ([[InvisibleWall Thermal updrafts]]?)
** The GameBoyAdvance games ''Spyro: Season of Ice''/''Season of Flame'' probably count as well. Fairy magic saves you from falling into [[SuperDrowningSkills water]] in a home world.

* In ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'', a GoodBadBug allows Player 2 to perform this service, rendering Mega Man invincible (but unable to shoot regular bullets) in the process.
** In ''VideoGame/MegaMan7'', ''VideoGame/MegaMan9'' and ''VideoGame/MegaMan10'', you can purchase a one-time use Beat Whistle that will save you from a bottomless pit. Unfortunately, it's not completely reliable, as the amount of time Beat will carry you for is not always sufficient to get you back to solid ground.
** Something similar takes place in ''VideoGame/Rockman4MinusInfinity''; rescuing Beat in Skull Man's stage and Cossack Stage 1 lets the bird rescue Mega Man an unlimited amount of times at the cost of some of his health.
*** In the same game, you have the option of sucking up a Balloon Adaptor (found in either Dive Man's stage or Dr. Cossack's first stage) with the Recycle Inhaler (Dust Man's weapon) to get the Trampoline, which works similar to Beat, except that it's effective for the entire game.
** Certain Cyber-elves do this in ''VideoGame/MegaManZero'', but there is usually a better use for any given elf slot.
** Your Biometal does this in the easy mode of both ''VideoGame/MegaManZX'' games.
* Lakitus from the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games pulls the player out of things like bottomless pits, water and lava. Of course being a racing game, it still costs valuable time (and coins in the original game, ''Super Circuit'', and ''7'').
* In ''VideoGame/SlyCooperAndTheThieviusRaccoonus'', you can learn the ability to recover from [[SuperDrowningSkills falling into water]], followed by falling into bottomless pits.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', Rosalina will pull Mario up if he falls in the HubLevel. The Gate's appearance at the end of "The Perfect Run" in [[VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2 the sequel]] [[KaizoTrap averts this.]]
* In the GBA version of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', an e-reader card (not released in certain regions) will cause a flying platform to lift Mario out of bottomless pits- 3 times per level.

* The Marble Garden Zone boss battle in ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic the Hedgehog 3]]'' has Tails pick you up and fly you after the boss. If Sonic jumps and hits the boss and falls offscreen, Tails will fly back up with him moments later.
* Corvus from ''VideoGame/{{Heretic}} 2'' is inexplicably teleported back to safety if he falls while trying to jump across a broken bridge. No explanation is given and it only seems to happen in one place. Later you get a power that lets you do the same manually.

* ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' let Kirby's helpers (controlled either by the computer or player two) teleport back to Kirby at will, or if they went too far off-screen.
* In ''VideoGame/StimpysInvention'', Powdered Toast Man will rescue you if you fall into a pit.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Bomberman}} [[SuperTitle64Advance 64]]'', if Bomberman falls through the cracks of the web made by the spider boss of the {{Slippy Slidey Ice World}}, Sirius will swoop in and save him. This has its limits; fall too often, and Sirius won't appear, costing the player a life.
** If you have collected 100 Gold Cards and are replaying the boss for fun, [[spoiler: Sirius will actually not save you from falling at all as a result of his FaceHeelTurn, making this stage of the fight a little more challenging than before.]]
* In ''VideoGame/BeyondOasis'', your [[SummonMagic summon spirit]] Shade will save you from falls as long as you have MP.
* In ''Videogame/CrashTeamRacing'', your friendly mask spirit (Aku Aku for the good guys and Uka Uka for the baddies) will save you from bottomless pits. This is more complicated in ''VideoGame/CrashNitroKart'', where Emperor Velo's team gets pulled back from a pit by a mask resembling his face. Very [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment unexpected]], yet very chilling.
* In ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'', getting knocked out of the battle area will KO a phantom or minor enemy, but major enemies and Marona will just teleport back on the field; some fields also have a "no OOB" effect on either the entire field or particular items that you can confine phantoms to.

* The Phoenix in ''Demon Sword''.
* An analogous situation can be found in ''VideoGame/StarControl II'', where running out of fuel would leave you stranded in deep space—except that the Melnorme (or the Druuge, if you're unlucky enough to be in their space) will show up to sell you fuel, in exchange for bits of your ship (or crewmen) if necessary.
* This also occurs in a few multi-player minigames in the ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' franchise.

* In ''SpiderManShatteredDimensions'', if any of the Spideys fall into a bottomless pit, it'll switch to first person mode and you can fire a webline to save yourself.
** Also, Madame Web will teleport enemies that fall into bottomless platforms to safe locations so that the Spideys don't have to worry about accidentally killing people.
* ''[[VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn Kirby's Epic Yarn]]'' has a character called Angie who carries Kirby out of bottomless pits but many beads are dropped in the process.
* VideoGame/LEGOAdaptationGame:
** ''VideoGame/LEGOHarryPotter: Years 1-4'' has a Red Brick extra that levitates you back out of pits.
** Fall Rescue is an available Red Brick in various other LEGO Adaptation Games as well. Also, if you fall off the Helicarrier in ''Lego Marvel Superheroes'', a robot picks you back up.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' offers this with patrolmen, but only near Skyloft. Elsewhere, the NonlethalBottomlessPits are unexplained, though Link does have a sailcloth that prevents falling damage.
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', in the Molten Front daily questing area, the Druids of the Talon will do this for you once you recruit them.
* In ''Märchen Maze'', the balloon item will bring Alice back if she falls off the edge of the level.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns [[VideoGameRemake 3D]]'' features Green Balloons, available only in [[IdiosyncraticDifficultyLevels New Mode]]. Upon buying at least one from Cranky's shop, it will carry Donkey and Diddy out of the bottom of the screen.

* In ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'', Jazz will use his GrapplingHookPistol to grab back onto a ledge if he falls into a pit (Unless it's during an EscapeSequence where he's stuck in car form, in which case you're dead).

* ''VideoGame/TheOutfoxies'' has two levels like this. On Dweeb's plane stage, a helicopter will rescue you and drop you back on the level at the cost of some health. The handcar on Bernard's train stage works the same way.
* The Rainbow Arts game ''Rock 'n' Roll'' has a parachute that provides this service.
* The original ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon'' had three fairy beings that would lift Spyro up if his glides went wrong in certain levels.
* The ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' of games use this. While there are bottomless pits, if Batman falls into one of them, he just uses his grappling hook to launch himself to the nearest ledge, unharmed. The series also averts SuperDrowningSkills if Batman falls into the water, having him do the same thing as if he fell into a pit.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow Stimpy's Invention]]'', Powdered Toast Man will rescue you if you fall into a pit.

** ''VideoGame/LEGOHarryPotter: Years 1-4]]'' has a Red Brick extra that levitates you back out of pits.

* Lakitus from the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games pull the player out of things like bottomless pits, water and lava. Of course being a racing game, it still costs valuable time (and coins in the original game, ''Super Circuit'', and ''7'').

A type of [[NonLethalBottomlessPits Nonlethal Bottomless Pit]], except that instead of respawning back on safe ground with no explanation, something automatically retrieves you from the pit first.

* Layle's powers in ''FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesCrystalBearers'' includes this, with one area as an exception, where you just respawn at the start.

* Lakitus from the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games would pull the player out of things like a bottomless pit, water and lava. Of course being a racing game, it still costs valuable time (and coins in the original game, ''Super Circuit'', and ''7'').

* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', Rosalina will pull Mario up if he falls in the HubLevel.
** The Gate's appearance at the end of "The Perfect Run" in [[SuperMarioGalaxy2 the sequel]] [[KaizoTrap averts this.]]

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' offers this with patrolmen, but only near Skyloft.

* Night Terror, a winged BonusBoss from ''SoulCalibur 3'', cannot be defeated by a ring out. He flies back into the arena.

* In one area of the first ''SpyroTheDragon'' game, fairies do this for you.
** Only if you fall within the specific area in the center, though. Fall off the edge anywhere else, you're screwed.

* Pictured is the ''VideoGame/XMen1993'' game on the SegaGenesis, in which ComicBook/JeanGrey uses her {{Telekinesis}} to pull players up when they fall in a pit.

[[caption-width-right:240:[-ComicBook/JeanGrey works hard [[MindOverMatter to keep her teammates' feet on the ground.]]-] ]]

* Pictured is the first ''Comicbook/{{X-Men}}'' game on the SegaGenesis, in which Jean Grey uses her {{Telekinesis}} to pull players up.

[[quoteright:240:[[Franchise/XMen http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xmen_genesis_jean_saftey_net_5179.png]]]]
[[caption-width-right:240:[-ComicBook/JeanGrey, works hard [[MindOverMatter to keep her teammates' feet on the ground.]]-] ]]

* In ''[[TheRenAndStimpyShow Stimpy's Invention]]'', Powdered Toast Man will rescue you if you fall into a pit.

* ''[[LegoAdaptationGame LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4]]'' has a Red Brick extra that levitates you back out of pits.

[[quoteright:240:[[VideoGame/XMen http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xmen_genesis_jean_saftey_net_5179.png]]]]

* In ''Videogame/CrashTeamRacing'', your friendly mask spirit (Aku Aku for the good guys and Uka Uka for the baddies) will save you from bottomless pits. This is more complicated in ''CrashNitroKart'', where Emperor Velo's team gets pulled back from a pit by a mask resembling his face. Very [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment unexpected]], yet very chilling.

* The ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries'' of games use this. While there are bottomless pits, if Batman falls into one of them, he just uses his grappling hook to launch himself to the nearest ledge, unharmed. The series also averts SuperDrowningSkills if Batman falls into the water, having him do the same thing as if he fell into a pit.

[[caption-width-right:240:[-[[MindOverMatter Jean Grey, working hard to keep her teammates' feet on the ground.]]-] ]]

* In ''VideoGame/PhantomBrave'', getting knocked out of the battle area will KO a phantom or minor enemy, but major enemies and Marona will just teleport back on the field.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' and ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'' both use this. While there are bottomless pits, if Batman falls into one of them, he just uses his grappling hook to launch himself to the nearest ledge, unharmed. ''City'' also averts SuperDrowningSkills if Batman falls into the water, having him do the same thing as if he fell into a pit.

* ''BreathOfFireII'' features this ONLY if Nina is in your party as the leader, and if she's NOT transformed into her angelic shaman-fused form. Most party members have special abilities either on the overworld map, or on the field map - Nina's field map ability includes flying your party out of pits you may have fallen into inside a dungeon (though this doesn't work in the Thieves' Tomb, most likely because the pits on the floors are moving).

* VideoGame/TheOutfoxies has two levels like this. On Dweeb's plane stage, a helicopter will rescue you and drop you back on the level at the cost of some health. The handcar on Bernard's train stage works the same way.

* ''The credits'' serve as this for the PlayableCredits sequence in ''VideoGame/ASuperMarioThing''.

[[caption-width-right:240:[[MindOverMatter Jean Grey, working hard to keep her teammates' feet on the ground.]]]]

[[quoteright:240:[[{{Comicbook/X-Men}} http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/xmen_genesis_jean_saftey_net_5179.png]]]]