History Main / EscalatingChase

* Film/TheBluesBrothers not only get dozens of LemmingCops on their tail but also Jake's PsychoExGirlfriend and the Illinois Nazis.

* ''TheDukesOfHazzard'' sometimes (but not always) used this technique. When this trope was employed, one of the regular characters (most often, Bo and Luke and not always in the General Lee) would chase the villains, but the villains would be able to keep ahead of the Duke boys before the other Dukes, Rosco and Boss, and Enos would join in the chase and ultimately run the bad guys off the road to capture them.

* The 1st ''Anime/RanmaOneHalf'' movie, the movie begins with Ranma chasing Happosai, then he is pursued by his rivals other love interest and dozens of other people latter on.

* Dates back at least as far as 1909 and ''Film/TheCurtainPole'', in which Monsieur Dupont attempts to bring back a curtain pole that is at least fifteen feet long--too long to fit inside a moving cab, in other words. He winds up clubbing or antagonizing virtually everyone he passes, starting with the patrons of a bar, whom he whacks on the head as he enters looking for a ride. Then there's the owners of the cab that he steals, the parents of the baby carriage he knocks over, the farmer whose FruitCart he knocks over, the vendors at the open-air market he destroys, and more.

* Creator/ChuckJones' 1946 cartoon "Fair and Worm-er" is this trope by fact (although maybe not by spirit) - first the bird hunts the worm, then the cat the bird, then the dog the cat, then the dog catcher the dog, then the dog catcher's wife...the mouse...the random skunk...the everyone the everyone else...it must be the most chaotic mass chase ever animated.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' has this happen during one of the season finales in which all their actions over the past episodes catch up to them and the whole town starts chasing them.

* Merry Melodies "Fairer and Worm-er" is this trope by fact (although maybe not by spirit) - first the bird hunts the worm, then the cat the bird, then the dog the cat, then the dog catcher the dog, then the dog catcher's wife...the mouse...the random skunk...the everyone the everyone else...it must be the most chaotic mass chase ever animated.

* ''SinCity'' has its fair share of chases for a comic series. The one shown early in ''A Dame to Kill For'' starts with one or two cop cars following the protagonists. More cars show up. Followed by at least one motorcycle... and then a police helicopter.

* Merry Melodies "Fairer and Worm-er" is this trope by fact (although maybe not by spirit) - first the bird hunts the worm, then the cat the bird, then the dog the cat, then the dog catcher the dog, then the dog catchers wife...the mouse...the random skunk...the everyone the everyone else...it must be the most chaotic mass chase ever animated.

* AmazingWorldOfGumball has this happen during one of the season finales in which all their actions over the past episodes catch up to them and the whole town starts chasing them.
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* In ''{{PCU}}'', the compound payoff to a series of [[BrickJoke brick jokes]] set up by visiting Pre-Frosh [[OnlySaneMan Tom]] accidentally pissing off every student group on campus over the course of the movie. He [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this by running around campus and antagonizing each of them in turn before leading them [[spoiler: back to The Pit where Droz is organizing a party to raise money to pay all the various fines the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits protagonists]] have incurred throughout the movie.]]

* The 1st RanmaOneHalf movie, the movie begins with Ranma chasing Happosai, then he is pursued by his rivals other love interest and dozens of other people latter on.

* Merry Melodies "Fairer and Worm-er" is this trope by fact (although maybe
not by spirit) - first the bird hunts the worm, then the cat the bird, then the dog the cat, then the dog catcher the dog, then the dog catchers wife...the mouse...the random skunk...the everyone the everyone else...it must be the most chaotic mass chase ever animated.

* Creator/BusterKeaton in the two-reeler "Cops"

* BusterKeaton in the two-reeler "Cops"

* In ''OnTheTown'', the chase starts with a little old lady trying to get Gabey arrested for tearing a poster down in the NewYorkCitySubway. To her and a policeman are added Hildy's boss going after her for stealing a cab after he fired her, the man who built the dinosaur skeleton Claire and Ozzie destroyed, and finally Claire's judge fiancé, who does ''not'' understand why the protagonists have gotten themselves into so much trouble.

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* SinCity has its fair share of chases for a comic series. The one shown early in ''A Dame To Kill For'' starts with one or two cop cars following the protagonists. More cars show up. Followed by at least one motorcycle... and then a police helicopter.

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* TheBluesBrothers not only get dozens of LemmingCops on their tail but also Jake's PsychoExGirlfriend and the Illinois Nazis.

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* At the end of practically [[OnceAnEpisode every episode]] of ''The BennyHill Show'' Benny is chased by a larger and larger crowd, to a fast rendition of ''Für Elise''.
* ''TheDukesOfHazzard'' sometimes (but not always) used this technique. When this trope was employed, one of the regular characters (most often, Bo and Luke and not always in the General Lee) would chase the villians, but the villians would be able to keep ahead of the Duke boys before the other Dukes, Rosco and Boss, and Enos would join in the chase and ultimately run the bad guys off the road to capture them.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''. At the end of the adventure the {{PC}}s are returning to Alpha Complex. They're pursued by the Cyberpunks, the Nouvelle Vaguers, the Studio Engineers, hostile natives, various joke monsters and all of the Vulture craft the Computer can scrape together.

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* ''{{Paranoia}}'' adventure ''The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues''. At the end of the adventure the {{PC}}s are returning to Alpha Complex. They're pursued by the Cyberpunks, the Nouvelle Vaguers, the Studio Engineers, hostile natives, various joke monsters and all of the Vulture craft the Computer can scrape together.

* In ''PCU'', the compound payoff to a series of [[BrickJoke brick jokes]] set up by visiting Pre-Frosh [[OnlySaneMan Tom]] accidentally pissing off every student group on campus over the course of the movie. He [[InvokedTrope invokes]] this by running around campus and antagonizing each of them in turn before leading them [[spoiler: back to The Pit where Droz is organizing a party to raise money to pay all the various fines the [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits protagonists]] have incurred throughout the movie.]]

* At the end of practically [[OnceAnEpisode every episode]] of ''The BennyHill Show'' Benny is chased by a larger and larger crowd.

* At the end of practically EveryEpisode of ''The BennyHill Show'' Benny is chased by a larger and larger crowd.