History Main / TryAndFollow

* In ''Roleplay/TheBalladOfEdgardo'', when fleeing from a mob of angry players who are [[TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot ignoring the travelling rules]], the title character and his sidekick A Guy Called Squid briefly manage to escape their pursuers by deliberately following a RidiculouslyDifficultRoute through snowy mountains strewn with especially dangerous random events and monsters, correctly guessing that an area the other players are [[DirtyCoward too scared to enter]] is an area through which no one would ever [[CrazyEnoughToWork follow him and Squid]].

Supertrope to WronskiFeint, ChaseStopsAtWater, and AerialCanyonChase. Compare BriarPatching and SuicidalGotcha. Rarely, if ever, works on the ImplacableMan or TheJuggernaut. Is very likely to be pulled of at least once by the AcePilot.

* In ''Manga/CaseClosed'', Shinichi's mother once hung around too long at an intersection and then pulled away at the last possible minute to evade a car that had been surrepticiously following them.

Supertrope to WronskiFeint and AerialCanyonChase. Compare BriarPatching and SuicidalGotcha. Rarely, if ever, works on the ImplacableMan or TheJuggernaut. Is very likely to be pulled of at least once by the AcePilot.

* ''Film/TheFugitive''
** The famous dam jump. They made this into a perfect moment between hunted and hunter, and showed what extreme Richard Kimble was willing to go to prove his innocence.
** In the sequel ''Film/USMarshals'', the fugitive jumps off the roof of a building, uses a rope to swing over to a train station on the other side of the street, then jumps onto the roof of the departing train in order to evade Gerard.

* Simba's escape from the Hyenas through a thorn bush field after Mufasa's death in ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. Simba didn't mean to do this, but it had the same effect.

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'', Shinichi's mother once hung around too long at an intersection and then pulled away at the last possible minute to evade a car that had been surrepticiously following them.

* ''Film/Cube2Hypercube''. One of the people imprisoned in the Hypercube turns out to be a hacker who is fleeing the MegaCorp who built it, as it was the one place they wouldn't follow. [[spoiler:Turns out she's wrong, as the person she's talking to is an operative sent after her.]]

** There is one instance of a guy in a stolen tank leading the police on a merry chase that they couldn't follow directly (mainly because he was in a tank and crushed things rather than going around them); when he tried to lose them by swerving into oncoming traffic, [[RealityEnsues Reality Ensued]] and the tank got stuck on the concrete lane dividers. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Nelson_(plumber) Linkage]]

* One standard tactic in aerial combat is to try and dive out of the fight if you're outmatched. Diving is the easiest way to accelerate, and if done improperly, brings the risk of exceeding the airframe's structural limits (in other words, you will break the airplane). If pursued, a pilot might attempt to hold the dive as long as possible and pull out at the last second. More than a few times either the pursuing or fleeing pilot ended up either crashing into the ground or ripping a wing off trying to pull out of the dive (followed by crashing into the ground).

* ''VideoGame/Qbert'': One way to escape Coily the snake is to jump off the edge of the board onto a spinning disc. Coily attempts to follow and plummets to his doom.

* ''Series/BlakesSeven''. In "Pressure Point", [[TheDragon Space Commander Travis]] realises that [[RebelLeader Blake]], having just escaped, will go into the ForbiddenZone despite its automated defenses because it's the last place anyone would look (though Blake is also after the MasterComputer the zone is protecting).

* In ''Literature/LuckyStarr and the Rings of Saturn'', Starr evades pursuit by flying directly at Saturn's moon Mimas in an apparent crash dive. [[spoiler:His [[WeaponizedExhaust drive exhaust]] vaporizes the icy substance of the moon ahead of him, giving him sufficient room to come to a stop beneath the moon's surface.]]

* In ''Discworld/MenAtArms'', Sergeant Angua (a w-[[spoiler:erewolf]]) is running from a dog pack on the rooftops. She jumps over a wide street, and the dogs following stop. The leader tells them to keep chasing, and jumps over to demonstrate. [[spoiler:It doesn't work.]]

* Simba's escape from the Hyenas through a thorn bush field after Mufasa's death in ''Disney/TheLionKing.'' Simba didn't mean to do this, but it had the same effect.

* Oliver of ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' proves his mettle to the Dodger by successfully following him all over New York, through chaos, traffic, and construction zones, in pursuit of his share of a string of stolen sausages.

* ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII''. Ethan's team in a Huey helicopter try to evade a Cobra gunship by flying through a wind turbine farm. [[AcrophobicBird For some reason]] the Cobra doesn't fly above the farm and fire its missiles (which are heat-seaking) down at them -- but then if it did that we wouldn't have a cool scene of the Huey flying ''between'' the spinning turbine blades and the Cobra being smashed when it decides to TryAndFollow.

* The entire "[[IAmSong I Stand Alone]]" number in ''WesternAnimation/QuestForCamelot'' is essentially one extended Try-And-Follow sequence, as our forest-dwelling male lead attempts to ditch the heroine.

** In the ActionPrologue of the pilot episode, Chakotay flies his ship into the Badlands to escape a much larger Cardassian warship, which is damaged trying to follow.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Scientific Method", aliens have taken over Voyager and threaten to kill the crew if they resist their [[TestedOnHumans medical experiments]]. Captain Janeway flies the ship on a reckless course between two binary pulsars whose combined gravitational force could tear the ship apart, so the aliens have a choice between risking destruction or fleeing in their own ships. Not being as crazy as Janeway is, they flee.