History Main / ChainOfPeople

* One of Olimar's moves in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' has him forming a Chain of ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' to attack. It's useful to grab off ledges too.

** In ''Shovel of Hope'' [[spoiler:The Order of No Quarter end up like this once you beat them all in a BossRush. You can help them back up onto solid ground, if you want to. Humoursly, they all end up hanging in the order they choose to fight you in- leading to such hilarious scenarios as the scrawny Tinker Knight holding everyone up. This scene is repeated at the end of ''Plague of Shadows''- but Shovel Knight leaves the Order to hang while Plague Knight jumps off the end of the chain to escape.]]

* In the Mickey Mouse short "[[WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse Mickey Foils the Phantom Blot]]," Mickey, Goofy, and DonaldDuck use this to get to the Phantom blot's airship.

* In ''[[AudioPlay/SaintBeast Seijuu Kourin Hen]]'' after a bunch of characters are sucked into hell and the rest jump in after them to save them, they try to form a [[strike:human]] angelic chain. Slight variant in that a few are holding hands but most are holding onto the whip of the bottom-most guy while the winged character tries to fly back to the surface hauling 8 people this way. RuleOfCool, I think.

* Chapter 37 of ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' has the gang do this to Kimihito to save him from drowning, then Kimihito continues this with Mero when she's sinking into her mother's DeathTrap after she loses her air in her swim bladder (which she used to give Kimihito breating air and stop him from drowning), and her tail fin was damaged so she couldn't swim out.

* One of Olimar's moves in ''Videogame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' has him forming a Chain of ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' to attack. It's useful to grab off ledges too.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Videogame/RivieraThePromisedLand'', where an optional event has the party members slip one by one into a river, with each grabbing onto someone else, who grabs on to someone else, who grabs onto someone else until they all fall into the drink.
* In ''Videogame/ShovelKnight'', this happens in two separate campaigns:

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* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam La Verite'' episode 7. Taro, Ryuuka and Ikyo Suzuki form one after they fall over the edge of a cliff while exploring an underground dungeon below the mansion.

* ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai La Verite'' episode 7. Taro, Ryuuka and Ikyo Suzuki form one after they fall over the edge of a cliff while exploring an underground dungeon below the mansion.

* In ''Series/ChicagoFire'' "A Chicago Welcome, a group of {{Badass Bystander}}s (including one guy on his ''stomach'') do this to prevent a child from falling in a river. Impressively, not only do ''none'' of them know the child, most don't even seem to know each other. This keeps the kid alive long enough for the CFD to arrive, but also means multiple members of the chain need to be helped back up the hill by the fire fighters. Once everyone is safe, the main characters make a point to shake each person's hand.

--->'''Narrator:''' And if their hadn't been a winch in my truck, they would still be there today.

* A variation in ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales: The Toy that Saved Christmas'', as Wally P. Nezzer goes flying into the air over a cliff, then Buzzsaw Louie and a gaggle of penguins go flying after him. Louie and the penguins form a chain in midair, and then one end of the chain gets snagged by someone on solid ground, and the other end catches Mr. Nezzer.

* In ''Videogame/ShovelKnight'', [[spoiler:The Order of No Quarter end up like this once you beat them all in a BossRush. You can help them back up onto solid ground, if you want to. Humoursly, they all end up hanging in the order they choose to fight you in- leading to such hilarious scenarios as the scrawny Tinker Knight holding everyone up.]]

* Disney's ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': Mulan and the captain are about to fall off a cliff, but Mulan fires an arrow up into the heavens. Cut to Yao, who is distraught because he let go of the rope that could have saved them. As he says it, the rope [[RuleOfFunny falls into his hands]]; naturally, he's dragged away, but then the whole troop jumps on him in an attempt to save Mulan and the captain. Then TheBigGuy arrives and gets the job done.
* During the original sky-is-falling panic recounted in ''Disney/ChickenLittle'', one mama bunny has apparently trained her baby bunnies to form a chain during evacuations, as seen by the steadily growing chain of bunnies she pulls out of her ClownCar pram. With just a hair's breadth of leeway, it ''worked''.

* This occurred in three episodes of ''[[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians 101 Dalmatians: The Series]]''.

* On an episode of ''Anime/KirbyOfTheStars'', King Dedede almost falls to his doom, but his life is saved by all his Waddle Dee's forming an amazing chain and catching him just before he hits the ground.

* Chapter 37 of ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' has the gang do this to Kimihito to save him from drowning, then Kimihito continues this with Mero when she's sinking into her mother's DeathTrap after she loses her air in her swim bladder (which she used to prevent Kimihito from drowning), and her tail was damaged so she couldn't swim out.

* Chapter 37 of ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' has the gang do this to Mero when she's sinking into her mother's DeathTrap after she loses her air in her swim bladder (which she used to prevent Kimihito from drowning), and her tail was damaged so she couldn't swim out.

* ''ComicBook/BeastsOfBurden'': In ''The Unfamiliar'', the dogs form a chain to stop the Orphan from getting sucked into a magical vortex.

* ''ComicBook/BeastsOfBurden'': In ''The Unfamiliar'', the dogs form a chain to stop Rex and the Orphan from getting sucked into a magical vortex.

* During the climatic waterfall scene in ''WesternAnimation/ShrekFourD'', Fiona manages to grab Thelonius' hand (who was hanging onto a branch), Shrek then grabs her hand, then grabs Donkey by the tail. The four are left dangling for a few seconds just before the branch breaks.

** In the episode, "Splishing and Splashing", Lucky, Rolly and Cadpig do this as a {{Tarzan}} impersonation to rescue Spot from an alligator.

* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' had one when Flash is nearly sucked into an alternate dimension [[spoiler:after running so fast he taps into the Speed Force]]. First Hawkgirl, then Green Lantern, then everyone else joins hands as they try to pull Wally out. Strangely, Batman winds up anchoring them, when the next four people (pictured above as GreenLantern, ComicBook/MartianManhunter, Superman and WonderWoman) would've performed the same role better, showing that strength isn't necessarily key to this trope.

* A variation on ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': When Louise falls into a pit trap in an abandoned factory, Tina suggests everyone form a human ladder to help get her out. It almost fails, until Louise uses the taffy dummy she "befriended" as a bridge between her and the end of the chain.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'', The Mane 6 form a rope while holding each other in order for Twilight Sparkle to retrieve the staff of Sacanas before the Storm King does, all the while the staff is going out of control and a tornado that got conjured up by the Storm King is also doing damage. [[spoiler: She is successful, but this causes Twilight Sparkle to be sucked into the tornado when Pinkie Pie accidentally lets her go.]]