History Main / ClimbSlipHangClimb

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleII'': Happens to Ethan Hunt whilst on holiday free soloing - rock climbing without ropes - in Utah.
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'': Then happens to Ethan Hunt while climbing the Burj Khalifa with adhesive gloves, one of which fails.

* ''A Clash of Kings'', the second book of ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'', has this happening to Jon, in one of his chapters.

* This happens in the N-Gon Mountains level in [[VideoGame/BlasterSeries Geometry Blaster]] each time you get a problem wrong.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Homer does it as he climbs to the top of what he hopes to be the worlds tallest human pyramid.

* During the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'' episode Legend of a Pretty Lady, Judge J. B. McBride is moving along a cliff edge when part of the cliff breaks away and causes her to fall. She manages to hang on, however, and climbs back up.

* In ''Film/TheAirUpThere'', this happens to Jimmy twice while he climbs a mountain as part of his initiation ceremony. First his foot slips on a rock, leaving him hanging on by his fingertips until he can get his footing again. Later he grabs onto a sapling, which tears loose, sending him plummeting a good ten feet until he manages to grab on again.

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%%* An integral part of ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'''s gameplay.

* This happens in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movies when Frodo and Sam are following Gollum to Shelob's lair.
* [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm129211904/tt0106582 This,]] one of the posters for the Creator/SylvesterStallone film ''{{Film/Cliffhanger}}''.

* All climbing in ''Videogame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' is freestyle, and if your Stamina Wheel runs out, Link will slip and fall; however, if the surface isn't too steep, you can keep pushing toward the rockface to break your fall and give the Wheel some time to refill before continuing.

* During the ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'' world in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', the party climbs one of the nearby columns to enter the Emperor's palace. Mulan then slips down, but regains her hold and continues to climb.

* ''Film/{{Jungle}}'': Happens to Yossi when he is attempting to climb the wall of the canyon above the rapids after the raft is wrecked. A loose rock pulls out and he slides most of the way back down the wall before he manages to catch himself and start climbing back up.

* In an example of TropesAreTools, this was used as a central metaphor in the classic ComicBook/{{Elektra}} story from ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'', where the monastery of the heroic ninjas is atop a forbidding cliff that only the spiritually pure can climb. Unsurprisingly, [[AntiHero Elektra]] can't quite climb it due to her serious anger issues, and her literal fall foreshadows her later metaphorical fall.

* The Ellipse-Creator/{{Nelvana}} animated version of ''Franchise/{{Tintin}} in America'' added this to a scene that had averted it in the book.

* Ordinarily this never happens to {{Spider-Man}} for [[WallCrawl obvious reasons]], but it does turn up in stories where he loses one or more of his powers and has to fake it.

* At the climax of the Bond film ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', though that version did involve a rope. In this case a guard has seen the rope and is hammering out the pitons so Bond will fall to his death. Bond climbs high enough to kill him just before the last piton goes.

%%* At the climax of the Bond film ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', though that version did involve a rope.

* This happens in the N-Gon Mountains level in [[BlasterSeries Geometry Blaster]] each time you get a problem wrong.

* During the ''Bravestarr'' episode Legend of a Pretty Lady, Judge J. B. McBride is moving along a cliff edge when part of the cliff breaks away and causes her to fall. She manages to hang on, however, and climbs back up.

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%%* Happens to Kakashi in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', who [[{{Badass}} proceeds to climb one-handed]].

%%* The beginning of the level "[[MeaningfulName Cliffhanger]]" in ''ModernWarfare 2''.
%%* An integral part of ''{{Catherine}}'''s gameplay.

* In ''[[{{Dragonlance}} Dragons of Autumn Twilight]]'', this happens to Goldmoon, who's terribly afraid of heights, when she needs to climb down a vine-encrusted cliff.
* ''A Clash of Kings'', the second book of ''{{A Song of Ice And Fire}}'', has this happening to Jon, in one of his chapters.

* [[http://www.imdb.com/media/rm129211904/tt0106582 This,]] one of the posters for the SylvesterStallone film ''{{Film/Cliffhanger}}''.

* In an example of TropesAreNotCliches, this was used as a central metaphor in the classic ComicBook/{{Elektra}} story from ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'', where the monastery of the heroic ninjas is atop a forbidding cliff that only the spiritually pure can climb. Unsurprisingly, [[AntiHero Elektra]] can't quite climb it due to her serious anger issues, and her literal fall foreshadows her later metaphorical fall.

* Happens to Kakashi in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', who [[{{Badass}} proceeds to climb one-handed]].

* Ryu gets a scene like this in ''Anime/StreetFighterIITheAnimatedMovie''.
* Happens to Lupin while scaling the titular castle in ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro''.

* At the climax of the Bond film ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', though that version did involve a rope.

* Used in the ''{{Series/Dollhouse}}'' episode "The Target."
* Happens to Gao Black in episode 4 of ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger''.

* The beginning of the level "[[MeaningfulName Cliffhanger]]" in ''ModernWarfare 2''.
* An integral part of ''{{Catherine}}'''s gameplay.

* This happens so often to Nathan Drake in the ''VideoGame/{{Uncharted}}'' series it could be a DrinkingGame.

Related to PlummetPerspective. Contrast LiteralCliffhanger, which is about the hanging in general, while this is about the slipping.