History Film / CliffHanger

-->'''Qualen''': "Send him to the nearest hospital. Fast." ''(throws mook out of the airplane)''

* RennyHarlinHelicopterExplosion: TropeMaker

* DieHardOnAnX: ''DieHard'' on a mountain.

* TheAppleFallsFar: Used to horrifying effect in the opening with a falling teddy bear.

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* EverythingsWorseWithWolves: After one of the basjumpers crash down on the woods, bunch of wolves appear to check him out. Luckily Frank arrives and chases them away.

* BondOneLiner: "''Remember shithead! Keep your arms and legs in the vehicle '''[[ThisIsSpartaAt. All. Times!]]'''"''

* BondOneLiner: "''Remember shithead! Keep your arms and legs in the vehicle '''At. All. Times!'''"''

Gabe Walker (SylvesterStallone) was just your friendly everyday mountain rescue worker, happily flying to the rescue in the Rockies with his helicopter-pilot girlfriend Jessie Deighan (Janine Turner, from NorthernExposure), until his best friend Hal Tucker [[WhatAnIdiot took his completely untrained girlfriend]] to climb to the summit of a cliff. Of course, this lead to her horrifying death hundreds of feet below when the rescue equipment failed to function properly. In spite of Gabe's valiant efforts, Tucker [[{{Jerkass}} blamed him for the tragedy]]. Gabe, being the good-hearted musclehead that he is, took the blame to heart and left the mountains in guilt and grief.

This film provides examples of:

* BondOneLiner: ''Remember shithead! Keep your arms and legs in the vehicle ''At. All. Times!''"''

* [=~Hey, It's That Guy!~=]: Delmar voiced Gaz/Ghost. YES.

* CompleteMonster: Eric Qualen and his men. Especially Qualen, who has no problems killing innocent people to further his goals (which he does several times), and then coolly murders his lover so that he'll be the only remaining pilot.
-->'''Qualen:''' Do you know what real love is, Kristel?
-->'''Kristel:''' No.
-->'''Qualen:''' [whispers in her ear] Sacrifice...
-->[shoots her]
** Delmar could be considered EVEN WORSE then Qualen himself - he shots poor Frank dead for apparently no reason - probalby for pure sadism - and then tortures Hal using him as a football in order to practice his kicking technique.

* MoralEventHorizon: Renny Harlin makes you hate Qualen and his fellows so much that you'll cheer when they all meet their ends.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Tucker's girlfriend's horrifying demise, Walker's grief, and Frank's murder.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Tucker's girlfriend's horrifying demise, Walker's grief, and Frank's murder.
* WallBanger: So Gabe falls into a into a frozen pond, and his first reaction is to strip half way naked? Then when he gets out, all he does to warm himself up is to wear a wifebeater and rub his arms half heartedly? Why God, why?

* GuiltyPleasure: A man's film made by men for men.

** Matheson, as well. The man becomes entirely responsible for Qualen's predicament by killing two of Qualen's men and crippling Qualen's plane with a machine gun, ''all while at death's door'' from being shot in the chest.

* MauveShirt: Agent Matheson. The man becomes entirely responsible for Qualen's predicament by killing two of Qualen's men and crippling Qualen's plane with a machine gun, ''all while at death's door'' from being shot in the chest.

* AxCrazy: Eric Qualen.

* TheMole: agent Travers.

* Hey It's That Guy: Delmar voiced Gaz/Ghost. YES.

* {{Heel Realization}} Tucker when he finds himself faced with a similar choice to that of the opening.

* WallBanger: So Gabe falls into a into a frozen pond, and his first reaction is to strip half way naked? Then when he gets out, all he does to warm himself up is to wear a wifebeater and rub his arms half heartedly? Why God, why?
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-->'''Qualen''': "Send him to the nearest hospital." ''(throws mook out of the airplane)''

Gabe Walker (SylvesterStallone) was just your friendly everyday mountain rescue worker, happily flying to the rescue in the Rockies with his helicopter-pilot girlfriend Jessie Deighan (Jenine Turner, from NorthernExposure), until his best friend Hal Tucker [[WhatAnIdiot took his completely untrained girlfriend]] to climb to the summit of a cliff. Of course, this lead to her horrifying death hundreds of feet below when the rescue equipment failed to function properly. In spite of Gabe's valiant efforts, Tucker [[{{Jerkass}} blamed him for the tragedy]]. Gabe, being the good-hearted musclehead that he is, took the blame to heart and left the mountains in guilt and grief.

* CompleteMonster: Eric Qualen and his men. Especially Qualen, who coolly murders his lover so that he'll be the only remaining pilot.

* BondOneLiner: ''Remember shithead! Keep your arms and legs in the vehicle ''At. All. Times!''"''
** Also when one of the mooks is fighting Tucker and announcing it like a soccer game as he beats him down and dangles him from the cliff. Tucker manages to stab the sadistic Irishman in the ankle with Frank's dagger, grabbing his shotgun while he's distracted by the pain and yells "SEASONS OVER ASSHOLE" before blasting ''him'' and sending him over the cliff instead.

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Kynettes' brutal beating of Walker and Delmar's "soccer-torture" of Tucker.