History Main / ClimacticElevatorRide

* Happens in ''VanillaSky'' as well. Tom Cruise's character meets with [[spoiler:"Tech Support"]], who proceeds to explain what exactly's been happening to him throughout the film. To drive it home, the elevator ride is [[spoiler:impossibly long, making it clear that Cruise is in a dreamworld]].

* ''Film/{{RoboCop}}'': [=RoboCop=] takes one just before he confronts Dick Jones about his complicity with the crimes of Clarence Boddicker, but this isn't anywhere close to his final confrontation with either.

* ''Film/ThePunisher'' (1989). Mafia boss Franco and the Punisher are going up into a skyscraper to confront the Yakuza. Franco stops the elevator with the lift key for a moment to ask why he's driven to kill so many people. "Revenge has its limits." The Punisher just replies, "Maybe I haven't reached it yet."

* ''{{Runaway}}''. The police officer protagonist has to take a robots-only elevator with NoOSHACompliance up a building site to confront the villain for a HostageForMacGuffin trade, despite his fear of heights.

* The movie ''The Brave'', written and directed by JohnnyDepp, ends with him taking an elevator ride up to meet the SnuffFilm makers with whom, he has a debt.

* ''MirrorsEdge'' - Reaching the final levels objective an elevator ride shows how the player raises beyond all the rest of the citys rooftops where the player has been running all game long.

* ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life 2}}'' has Gordon and Alyx ride up an elevator before the final battle. Alyx takes this time to have say a few things.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{InvaderZim}}" episode "Game Slave 2" plays with this trope; [[Jerkass Iggins]] is rushing to [[ItMakesSenseInContext get batteries on a high floor of a skyscraper, while simultaneously trying to escape Gaz]]. However, in his hysteria, he slams on the same button several times and breaks the elevator, sending him flying up to the roof. There, Gaz climbs in with him before he can get the door to close. After he refuses to give her the Game Slave, she punches the control panel and sends the elevator plummeting downward; finally, he gives her the game, and she miraculously stops the elevator at the floor with the batteries. Then she cuts the cord and [[BlackComedy lets Iggins fall to his death anyway]].

* ''MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'' gives us two at the climax: An elevator ride, and a long series of catwalks, both containing quotes by various characters echoing in Snake's head as he moves ever closer to a likely death and the end of his mission.

* ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' - In the first campaign, the survivors take an elevator down to the ground floor of the mall where Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s car (and their best chance of escape) is parked.

* In ''Film/{{Alien}}s'', Ripley rides down an elevator deep into the soon-to-be-exploding colony to rescue a little girl. She takes this time to ready all her weapons.

The elavator ride serves as a good pause point in the action to resolve some loose ends, or just prepare for the final battle. The quiet ascent --or descent-- is the calm before the storm and really builds up what is about to unfold.

The elavator ride serves as a good pause point in the action to resolve some loose ends, or just prepare for the final battle. The quiet ascent --or descent-- is the CalmBeforeTheStorm and really builds up what is about to unfold.

* Jack rides up the elevator to the top of city hall to face the final boss in ''BioShock''.

* ''TimeCrisis'' - Right before the final boss battle, Wild Dog takes Rachel hostage in an elevator. Richard has to take the other elevator to catch up.

* ''MirrorsEdge'' - Reaching the final levels objective an elevator ride shows how the player raises beyond all the rest of the citys rooftops where the player has been running all game long.

* ''HalfLife2'' has Gordon and Alyx ride up an elevator before the final battle. Alyx takes this time to have say a few things.

* ''Left4Dead'' - In the No Mercy campaign, the end of the penultimate stage involves traveling 25 floors up an elevator where some conversation takes place.
* ''Left4Dead2'' - In the first campaign, the survivors take an elevator down to the ground floor of the mall where Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s car (and their best chance of escape) is parked.

* HalfLife2 has Gordon and Alyx ride up an elevator before the final battle. Alyx takes this time to have say a few things.
* Jack rides up the elevator to the top of city hall to face the final boss in BioShock
* SpecOps - The Line shows the main character taking heading to the final showdown by riding an elevator to the penthouse of the tallest skyscraper in Dubai.
* TimeCrisis - Right before the final boss battle, Wild Dog takes Rachel hostage in an elevator. Richard has to take the other elevator to catch up.
* EliteBeatAgents - In the "Just A Peanut Matter" (song: "I'm a Survivor") stage, the main character takes the freight elevator to the top of the peanut warehouse where the evil alien queen is.
* Left4Dead - In the No Mercy campaign, the end of the penultimate stage involves traveling 25 floors up an elevator where some conversation takes place.
* Left4Dead2 - In the first campaign, the survivors take an elevator down to the ground floor of the mall where Jimmy Gibbs Jr.'s car (and their best chance of escape) is parked.

* MirrorsEdge - Reaching the final levels objective an elevator ride shows how the player raises beyond all the rest of the citys rooftops where the player has been running all game long.

* In ''Film/Aliens'', Ripley rides down an elevator deep into the soon-to-be-exploding colony to rescue a little girl. She takes this time to ready all her weapons.

* ''ModernWarfare 3'' has one halfway through the last level, when Price and Yuri ride an elevator to the final battle with Makarov and his goons.

* ''ModernWarfare 3'' has one halfway through the last level, when Price and Yuri ride an elevator to the final battle with Makarov and his goons.

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