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* ''UsefulNotes/D20System'' and other RPG systems based on it feature a SkillScore responsible for moving on narrow surfaces.

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* ''UsefulNotes/D20System'' ''MediaNotes/D20System'' and other RPG systems based on it feature a SkillScore responsible for moving on narrow surfaces.
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->''"My driver told me about circus people who walk tightropes, but I just didn't fancy doing it myself!"''
-->-- '''Toby''', ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', "Toby's Tightrope"
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* ''Literature/TrappedInTheCircusOfFear'' have a bad ending where you decide to partake in the circus' tightrope act, because you're wearing your "lucky" baseball cap. Unfortunately, the act occurs on [[ThirteenIsUnlucky page 13]], which counteracts your "lucky" cap causing you to fall to your death.

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* ''Literature/TrappedInTheCircusOfFear'' have has a bad ending where you decide to partake in the circus' tightrope act, because you're wearing your "lucky" baseball cap. Unfortunately, the act occurs on [[ThirteenIsUnlucky page 13]], which counteracts your "lucky" cap causing you to fall to your death.
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* ''Fanfic/ADarkerPath'': Atropos crosses a fifty-foot wire covered in slippery bird droppings, thanks to her power nudging her body into exactly the right moves.
--> Any self-respecting high-wire artist, upon seeing it, would back away slowly.\\
To me, on the other hand, it could've been a paved walkway with a hand-rail.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SantasChristmasCrash'': When SantaClaus finally reaches the city to drop off toys, he moves between two roofs by walking along some Christmas lights.
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* The second ''Film/BattalGazi'' has the titular WarriorPrince crossing a tightrope over a fortress to catch up with the villain, Igor Yanos. From the ground level, Yanos' men tries making things difficult by firing flaming arrows at Battal Gazi, one which burns the rope, but Battal Gazi crosses just in time.
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* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' games, Altaïr, Ezio, and Connor can all run on certain incredibly thin ropes, wires, and the like.

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* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' ''Franchise/AssassinsCreed'' games, Altaïr, Ezio, and Connor can all run on certain incredibly thin ropes, wires, and the like.

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* In ''Literature/TheCaliforniaVoodooGame'', Acacia crosses a rope strung over a chasm in the Crystal Maze. The narrative mentions that she's actually capable of such a feat for real, although in-Game it's her ''character's'' skill that determines her chances.


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* ''Literature/DreamPark'': In ''The California Voodoo Game'', Acacia crosses a rope strung over a chasm in the Crystal Maze. The narrative mentions that she's actually capable of such a feat for real, although in-Game, it's her ''character's'' skill that determines her chances.
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* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' games, Alta�r, Ezio, and Connor can all run on certain incredibly thin ropes, wires, and the like.

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* In ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreed'' games, Alta�r, Altaïr, Ezio, and Connor can all run on certain incredibly thin ropes, wires, and the like.



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* ''Literature/TheSecretLivesOfPrincesses'': Princess Picaresque is a circus artist. Her favorite trick is to walk a tightrope so high it cuts into the clouds.
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*** ''VideoGame/MarioParty8'': The minigame Treacherous Tightrope has all characters walk over color-coded tightropes while wearing balancing poles whose colors match respectively those of the tightropes. The player has to keep their character in balance by tilting the Wiimote accordingly, especially when wind begins to blow. Whoever reaches the other end first wins, but if all four characters end up falling down the minigame ends in a tie.

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