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Margo: Relax, dummy. You just go stuck if yous hit the flooring.
Quentin: Oh, and then it's similar Mission Impossible.
Eliot: That movie was stupidly unrealistic.

The commonly spoofed scene for which anybody remembers the commencement Mission Impossible movie. Tom Cruise hacks a CIA calculator while dangling horizontally from 2 cables in a heavily protected room. The floor is force per unit area and weight sensitive, to the point that even a single driblet of condensation dripping off of a forgotten soft drink and onto the flooring is plenty to set off the alarm. To go into the room, he has to bypass a laser filigree in a ceiling ventilation duct.

It was an homage to a similar scene in the 1964 film Topkapi. Now a must whenever at that place'due south a spy or Heist Episode in a evidence.

Sometimes a Desperate Object Take hold of is thrown in for added drama. See too Fast-Roping and The Ground Is Lava.

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    Advertizing

  • The scene has been parodied countless times, and fifty-fifty continues to be, past advertisers, particularly for dandruff shampoo, deodorant or muscle relaxant.
  • In a PBS Advertisement, it shows Cookie Monster dropping from a cablevision in this fashion, while solving a word puzzle nether a time limit while Arty Smartypants from Between the Lions briefs him.
  • A 2014 Progressive car insurance commercial shows the two bumbling agents from A. Nother Insurance Company trying to steal the Name Your Toll scanner from a protected room. It goes about as well equally you would expect, with Flo and an assistant watching the ineptitude on the security feed with popcorn.
  • Apple'due south promotional short film advertising the new iPad Pro containing the M1 flake involves a Mission: Impossible spoof where a somewhat geeky-looking spy (later revealed to be Apple CEO Tim Cook in a Latex Perfection mask) who uses this method to snatches an M1 bit from a MacBook Air.

    Anime & Manga

  • In Pokémon Adventures, in order to test the museum's security, Janine uses her Weezing's smoke to reveal the lasers so lowers herself with her Ariados's thread to steal the museum display.
  • The Belladonna Lily Woman in Noir attempts this to kill Mireille with a knife and is very close to pulling information technology off when a nearby bit of light from a gunshot hits her knife and attracts Mireille's attention, allowing her to shoot the woman first.
  • Doraemon: In "Noby, the Great Illusionist", to retrieve his Beast Mask comic from Big G, Noby has Doraemon hold him by his greatcoat when they use the Laissez passer Loop on the roof of Big K'due south house so that he can dodge some bells attached to strings set upwards past Big 1000.

    Asian Animation

  • Pleasant Caprine animal and Large Big Wolf: In Flight Island: The Heaven Adventure episode 38, Wolffy attempts to break into the Elder Stars' house to kidnap baby Slowy by sawing the building'due south roof off and lowering himself to Slowy'due south crib with a rope. Unfortunately for Wolffy, the rope's too short for him to really reach his target.

    Comic Books

  • In Robin plus Impulse Tim tries to acquire records from the phone company while dangling from a wire extended from a skylight and property a flashlight in his mouth. In this case at that place was no pressure sensitive floor, merely at that place was a lot of debris he was hoping not to make noise by standing on and he intended for a speedy exit using the line he was hanging from.

    Fan Works

  • Performed past Undercover Amanuensis Sweetie Drops, trying to steal the Twilicane. With Lyra Heartstrings property the cable.

    Lyra: [thinking] She Really needs to cutting back on those sweets...

    Films — Blitheness

  • Washed by super-agent Finn McMissile in Cars 2.
  • Parodied in Shrek 2, when Pinocchio does this with his puppet strings, complete with Mission: Incommunicable music. However, with all his turning and tumbling, Pinocchio gets wrapped up in his own strings and just hangs there.
  • In Toy Story three, after Woody drops from the tree he is temporarily suspended inches from the footing by his pullstring.
  • In Tangled, this is how Flynn steals the crown at the start of the motion-picture show.
  • The Wallace & Gromit short The Incorrect Trousers has a variant that predates the motion picture, involving a robotic pair of trousers fitted with suction cups walking across a ceiling of a museum to steal a heavily protected diamond.

    Films — Live-Action

  • A variation in the first Charlie's Angels (2000), where she had to do cartwheels across a pressure level-sensitive floor and so handstand on a reckoner box.
  • The Inspector Gadget movie did it, too, with a sound-sensitive alert.
  • This trope predates Mission: Incommunicable, the original Pink Panther movie uses a variant.
  • Topkapi was the Ur-Example, as stated above. A thief is lowered past rope into a museum to steal a priceless bejeweled dagger, considering the slightest pressure level on the flooring triggers the alarm.
  • Inverted in 9 to 5, where rather than anyone hanging from wires to avoid triggering a trap, the rebellious secretaries rig up a remote-control cable harness for their kidnapped boss, which volition reel him up to the ceiling every bit a trap if he tries to escape.
  • There'southward a variation of this in The Boondock Saints, with the protagonists falling though the ceiling accidentally, getting tangled in their rope... and killing anybody in the room equally they spin virtually upside down. This happened because they got lost in the building'southward vents and got into a fight right there, leading to the vents giving way. It was only through sheer luck that they managed to fall into the right room, the room that the Russian mob dudes were that they were aiming to impale.
  • In Spice Globe, Mel C is introduced doing a drop to a Subbuteo table and making a half-field shot.
  • For that matter, information technology's been paid homage to in every Mission: Impossible sequel to date. It even gets lampshaded in the second picture show, with the Big Bad predicting that Hunt will pause into the building belongings the MacGuffin they both desire by some sort of "acrobatic insanity". Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol re-enacts the scene, simply with magnets taking the place of the cablevision and with a spinning fan bract in identify of the lasers.
  • In Shoot 'em Upwards, both Smith and ane of the Mooks try this down the eye of a screw staircase during a shootout. However, Smith shoots the mook's rope, leading to him taking a long fall.
  • Fat Slags does a surprisingly in-depth parody of this scene when the heroines decide to ruin the villain by stealing his laptop, which is full of incriminating data.
  • Parodied in Wrongfully Defendant, where Leslie Nielsen dangles by the wires of an air conditioner to a higher place a laser grid shaped as the Star of David and stops a comically big amount of things falling from his pockets.
  • The driblet is done in Heroes Wanted when Santi and Lola are dropped downwards the central shaft of the Conaco building equally part of an infiltration.
  • In The Santa Clause two, Charlie ropes into the school gym through a skylight in order to spray-paint graffiti.

    Literature

  • Discworld: Darktan in The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents hangs suspended in a harness to audit and disarm a deadly trap. Equally Darktan is an intelligent rat and weighs very little, this is washed with bits of string rather than fancy high-tech cables.

    Live-Activeness TV

  • Parodied in The Basil Castor Evidence, when the group finds a puddle of Anil'south chilli sauce between them and a safety containing the answers for the Quiz Dark.
  • In the Bones episode "El Carnicero en el Coche" Hodgins lowers himself like this into the burnt out husk of a car, to avert the car falling autonomously at the slightest touch whilst hunting for evidence.
  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
    • Parodied in "Smashed" when Andrew drops down to steal a diamond, merely to have Warren and Jonathan stroll into the museum without outcome.
    • Played straight in "Choices" when the Scoobies break into the Mayor'southward office in flavor three. Buffy is the one lowered down on the harness to steal the MacGuffin. When the alarms get off however, the pulley jams and Angel has to jump in and salvage her; though Buffy uses the harness to practise a flip so she can boot a henchvamp in the face.
  • Chuck:
    • One-half-parody in the first promos for the TV show, in which Sarah would drop downward successfully while Chuck would start spinning in place and get told to "Tense your abs!"
    • Likewise played (relatively) straight in "Chuck vs. The Mask".
  • Md Who: Done in "Planet of the Dead". Lady Christina steals the chalice in the prologue, and and then she uses the aforementioned skill to remember the antigravity clamps in the Tritovore ship.
  • In the Father Ted Christmas Special "A Christmassy Ted", Father Todd Unctious uses one of these to effort to steal Father Ted'southward Golden Cleric Award. It breaks partway through, leaving him hanging helplessly in full view of Father Dougal, who fails to notice him anyway. And afterwards Mrs. Doyle uses it to clean the windows.
  • In her showtime advent on Highlander, Amanda used 1 as office of a heist, to avoid a pressure-sensitive floor alarm. When she had the detail she wanted to steal but before her accomplice could pull her upward, Duncan appeared in a balcony. He tossed a coin to decide whether or not he should phone call the cops on them, then "missed" catching the coin, which hit the flooring and set off the alarms.
  • In an episode of iCarly, Freddy drops into a room on cables and is mistaken for a spider.
  • Used in The Latest Buzz, of all places, with 1 of the teen reporters trying to retrieve a cavalcade from the editor's desk.
  • A flavor iii episode of LazyTown has Robbie Rotten confronted with a laser grid and trying ane of these to steal Sportacus's crystal; he's unsuccessful in his attempts and ends upwardly framing Stingy for his crimes.
  • Parker'due south trademark maneuver on Leverage is to jump off the side of buildings and lower downwards on a cable, instead of doing this on the inside. She so goes in through the window. No one but Parker is crazy enough to do information technology willingly, though they are often forced to anyhow.
  • It goes catastrophically wrong for one of The Lone Gunmen in the start episode of their series. Withal it's possible that they could actually accept pulled information technology off, if left to their ain. The just reason they didn't manage it was because Yves was afterward the aforementioned thing they were, and she had the technological know-how to royally mess it up for them.
  • Referenced in The Magicians (2016) Bank Robbery episode when the team plans to utilise an anti-gravity belt to drop Penny down into a bank vault and steal gold.
  • Actually done in the Mission: Impossible television set series (both the original and the 1980s remake).
    • In "Doomsday", Barney used a cable drop to steal the plutonium from a nuclear warhead that was surrounded by photoelectric sensors and then could only be approached from above.
    • In "The Lions", Grant gets lowered into the temple and is suspended above the altar then he can tamper with the eponymous lions.
  • Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide had Ned attempt ane of these out of the ceiling. Notable in that it was a science course and a educatee notices Ned and greets him before leaving; besides in that instead of dropping stealthily, Ned plummeted like a rock and then swung back and along helplessly, wrecking the classroom.
  • Used in episode 6 of the third season of Primeval when Danny Quinn is testing the security systems at the Anomaly Enquiry Center.
  • Batwoman (2019). Magpie does this for her introductory jewel heist. The side by side time she does it, Batwoman introduces herself by cut her cablevision and dumping her onto the floor.

    Music Videos

    Pro Wrestling

  • A similar stunt led to the tragic death of Owen Hart. Every bit the masked, buffoonish superhero "Blue Blazer," he was to be lowered on a cablevision to ground level, only to become tangled in the line just above the ring, a stunt he had performed a few times earlier. He would then have used a quick release to fall a few feet, comically, on his face. However, a malfunction or unintentional release caused him to fall from over 70 feet, leading to his death.
  • Supposedly, the WWF were trying to replicate WCW'southward stunt of Sting regularly dropping to the band on a cable to attack opponents (usually the New World Order). After Owen'due south decease, Sting would repel from the ceiling instead of being lowered on a cable.

    Video Games

  • Every at present and then in the Beat 'em Up game Nighttime Judgement, enemy commandoes armed with machine-guns will drop down on ropes and spray bullets all over the area with their weapons. They're slightly harder to reach than the ground-level mooks, and will proceed firing until you knocked them down past jumping and punching or until they have finished their ammunition. In the instance of the former, you tin collect their guns for yourself after beating them downwards.
  • Parodied in, of all places, Knuckles Nukem 3D: Diminutive Edition. Knuckles is breaking into the CIA and has to drib into a room modeled on this scene. Since Knuckles is very unsubtle, you just drop correct in and shoot the mutant aliens who respond. Or apply the jetpack to slowly lower yourself down. The room is worth taking a safe await at too, using this method, as they went to an impressive amount of item for the reference — not only is there a knife stuck in the table, but there's a garbage tin full of puke on the floor!
  • The second Thief had a medieval-tech version, with ropes that could be fastened to the ceiling beams and shimmied downwards. In the penultimate mission, it'southward the easiest notation if you don't count turning off the security, but that's no fun style to retrieve the masks, which are guarded past a pressure level-sensitive floor with Deadly Gas.
  • There's is a segment in Spy Fiction where you must access a figurer in a high security room and the entire sequence plays out almost exactly as information technology occurs in Mission Impossible.
  • This exact trope — a spy dangling from a body rope to hack into computers — is used in the Totally Spies! Game Boy Advance game.
  • This makes upwardly the objective of the second mission in JumpStart 5th Grade, where Jo Hammett has to utilize climbing gear to rappel onto a bomb and divert a grid of security lasers before she can disarm the flop itself.
  • Occurs in the last mission of Metal Slug 4.
  • Done in the commencement heist of Sly Cooper: Thieves in Fourth dimension when Sly has to steal the dagger.

    Web Comics

    Web Original

  • In the Whateley Universe, it's done in "Ayla and the Networks", as the good guys of the the Intelligence Cadet Corps lower themselves down a cable into an air shaft, diasbling alarms as they go, in social club to suspension into the clandestine lair being rented by The Masterminds and figure out their caper. Lampshaded by one of the team, who won't stop humming the theme song to Mission: Impossible.

    Western Animation

  • This likewise happened in an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, where the kids were breaking into a museum and trying to steal an artifact.
  • Happened in Teen Titans where Gizmo is hacking into a museum's security organisation.
  • Naturally, Kim Possible gets to pull off this trope with the accompanying lampshade.
  • Played for laughs in the South Park episode "Fun with Veal" when the boys use the Mission Impossible: Breaking and Entering Spy Kit to steal baby cows from a cattle ranch before they're turned into veal.
  • Entrèe does it in an episode of Spliced to steal Joe's lid, apparently attaching himself to the ceiling with bubblegum.
  • The Looney Tunes Show: Lola does information technology to suspension into Bugs' house in the song "We Are in Love".
  • Julie does this in the "Off the Rack" episode of Motorcity before hacking into the KaneCo computer. In that location's even a Suspiciously Like Song of the Mission Impossible theme.
  • In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "Gailbreak!", Penny Ling attempts to sneak into Largest Ever Pet Store this way, but the rope breaks and she falls to the floor.
  • The Simpsons: In "A Streetcar Named Marge", Maggie uses the ripcord of a talking Krusty doll to descend from an air vent to steal some keys on top of a desk.
  • In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Applejack's Day Off", Twilight is forced to do this as part of a crazy ritual that Applejack has in order to feed the pigs.
  • Grojband: Grojband's groupies Kate and Allie do this when they break into Trina's room to steal her beloved Mr Moosehead toy for Corey. In that location are complications.

    Real Life

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