History Main / FiremansSafetyNet

* Subverted ''painfully'' in ''Manhua/OldMasterQ''. Big Potato tries jumping on a safety net, but unfortunately said net was above an inconveniently-placed fire hydrant. CranialEruption ensues.

* In ''Hostage Negotiator'', some of the expansions[[note]]Specifically Demand Pack #1, which is used in conjunction with Abductor Pack #1[[/note]] introduce the Life Saving Net card. In this scenario, the abductor is holding his ex-employer's board of directors hostage, and he can throw them out of the boardroom window (several stories up). If the Life Saving Net card is used, though, hostages that would otherwise have been killed end up being saved. This is notable because, in ''Hostage Negotiator'', the best-case scenario for most attempts on hostages' lives is that they remain alive but still in the abductor's clutches; it's rare to be able to turn what would otherwise have been in a death into a full-on rescue.

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* In the online game ''Save Me'', the player controls two firemen holding a net between them as they catch people, animals, and furniture falling from the windows of a burning apartment building.

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** In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', this is Mr. Game and Watch's recovery move. Since ''Brawl'' the move is even followed by a [[HammerspaceParachute parachute]] from the eponymous game ''Parachute''.

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* This comes into play in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Skyscraper Smurfs", when the Smurfs have to jump out of the burning smurfominium and Papa Smurf with a few other Smurfs come to their rescue.

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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has an event where you need to maneuver a straw-filled truck under a suicidal rapper to break his fall. An infamous bug led to UnwinnableByMistake where he jumps before you can get to him.

* The main premise of the Creator/{{Nintendo}} UsefulNotes/GameAndWatch game ''Fire'' was to save people jumping out of a flaming building into a waiting ambulance with a trampoline.

* The clown firemen routine in ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'' ends with the clowns catching Dumbo with a trampoline, but he falls through it and into a vat of whitewash.

* Used by ScrewySquirrel in one of his cartoons. At the last second he pulls it away, because that's just the way he is.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Ned throws Homer from the second-story window of a burning building onto a mattress. When he lands, the mattress bounces him back into the house through the ground floor window.

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* Subverted in a commercial for Glad garbage bags. A piano breaks loose from the rope used to pull it up to a third-story window. Two workers use a Glad bag to make a fireman's trampoline. The piano completely misses, it breaks into a hundred pieces, and the workers use the trash bag to deliver the pieces to the piano's owner.

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* In ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'', Christopher Robin improvises one of these using his jacket to help Roo jump down from a tree. Tigger, on the other hand, is unwilling to use it.
** In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'', a fire drill fails when Pooh is not there to help hold up the trampoline.
* Used by ScrewySquirrel in one of his cartoons. At the last second he pulls it away, because that's just the way he is.

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