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* {{Lampshaded}} in {{Disney/Aladdin}} episode "The Lost Ones", after Al & co. go through a magic portal into a place that seems to be in midair.
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* In WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime Bulkhead gets a little nervous when going out to fight in space. "Don't look down. Or up. Or left."
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* Simon says to to Theodor in ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' when the two are crossing a bridge. The second he finishes speaking, Theodor looks down.
* Simon says to to Theodor in ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure'' when the two are crossing a bridge. The second he finishes speaking, Theodor looks down.
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* During the sequence on the outside of the Shadow Broker's ship in ''MassEffect2'', Liara mistakenly looks down and then tells herself not to.
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* Done in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. Also used in ''Film/WakkosWish'':
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* Done in an the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''. "The Big Candy Store":
-->'''Dot''': Don't look down! You might fall and hit your head and die and your brains would leak out all over!
** Also used in ''Film/WakkosWish'':
-->'''Yakko''':Now Whoa! Just don't look down.
-->'''Dot''': Don't look down! You might fall and hit your head and die and your brains would leak out all over!
** Also used in ''Film/WakkosWish'':
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* ''TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'' - Frodo to Sam.
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-->'''Anais''': (while telling Gumball and Darwin to cross a log) It's OK, just don't look down.
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* Anais uses this in an episode of {{The Adventures of Gumball}}
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-->''(Gumball and Darwin look down)''
-->'''Gumball''': AAAHHH! Why did you do that?!
-->'''Anais''': What? I said, ''don't'' look down.
-->''(Gumball and Darwin look down again)''
-->'''Gumball''': AAAHHH! You did it again!!
-->'''Anais''': (while telling Gumball and Darwin to cross a log) It's OK, just don't look down.
-->''(Gumball and Darwin look down)''
-->'''Gumball''': AAAHHH! Why did you do that?!
-->'''Anais''': What? I said, ''don't'' look down.
-->''(Gumball and Darwin look down again)''
-->'''Gumball''': AAAHHH! You did it again!!
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* LooneyTunes and HannaBarbera cartoons, which combine ToonPhysics with GravityIsAHarshMistress. The classic case: a cartoon character can run over or stand on thin air untill he realizes something is wrong and looks down. Only then does gravity take over.
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* LooneyTunes WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and HannaBarbera cartoons, which combine ToonPhysics with GravityIsAHarshMistress. The classic case: a cartoon character can run over or stand on thin air untill he realizes something is wrong and looks down. Only then does gravity take over.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', after [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie]]'s antics allowed [[CowardlyLion Fluttershy]] to temporarily get over her fear of heights in "Dragonshy", she finally attempts to jump over a mountain chasm only for Twilight Sparkle to say this phrase as words of encouragement. Sure enough, Fluttershy does just that and immediately loses her momentum in fright, causing her to drop like a rock... on top of a narrow gap that she could have just walked over.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', after [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie]]'s Pie's]] antics allowed [[CowardlyLion Fluttershy]] to temporarily get over her fear of heights in "Dragonshy", she finally attempts to jump over a mountain chasm only for Twilight Sparkle to say this phrase as words of encouragement. Sure enough, Fluttershy does just that and immediately loses her momentum in fright, causing her to drop like a rock... on top of a narrow gap that she could have just walked over.
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* Used hilariously in ''{{The Incredibles}}'': Helen and Jack-Jack are falling, with the huge explosion above them, and Helen reassures Jack-Jack in this way.
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* ''ShadowTheHedgehog'': Eggman says it to Shadow when he passes through [[spoiler:a Chao room]].
* ''ShadowTheHedgehog'': Eggman says it to Shadow when he passes through [[spoiler:a Chao room]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', after [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie's]] Pie]]'s antics allowed [[CowardlyLion Fluttershy]] to temporarily get over her fear of heights in "Dragonshy", she finally attempts to jump over a mountain chasm only for Twilight Sparkle to say this phrase as words of encouragement. Sure enough, Fluttershy does just that and immediately loses her momentum in fright, causing her to drop like a rock... on top of a narrow gap that she could have just walked over.
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* During the sequence on the outside of the Shadow Broker's ship in ''MassEffect2'', Liara mistakenly looks down and then tells herself not to.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'': It seems that the older parts of the Aperture Science facility are full of fathomless drops, and when Wheatley is carried over one of them by Chell, he says this to her. She [[HeroicMime doesn't react]], naturally, but he immediately takes his own SchmuckBait and regrets it - ''twice''.
* ''ShadowTheHedgehog'': Eggman says it to Shadow when he passes through [[spoiler:a Chao room]].
* During the sequence on the outside of the Shadow Broker's ship in ''MassEffect2'', Liara mistakenly looks down and then tells herself not to.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'': It seems that the older parts of the Aperture Science facility are full of fathomless drops, and when Wheatley is carried over one of them by Chell, he says this to her. She [[HeroicMime doesn't react]], naturally, but he immediately takes his own SchmuckBait and regrets it - ''twice''.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'': It seems that the older parts of the Aperture Science facility are full of fathomless drops, and when Wheatley is carried over one of them by Chell, he says this to her. She [[HeroicMime doesn't react]], naturally, but he immediately takes his own SchmuckBait and regrets it - ''twice''.
* ''ShadowTheHedgehog'': Eggman says it to Shadow when he passes through [[spoiler:a Chao room]].
* During the sequence on the outside of the Shadow Broker's ship in ''MassEffect2'', Liara mistakenly looks down and then tells herself not to.
* ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'': It seems that the older parts of the Aperture Science facility are full of fathomless drops, and when Wheatley is carried over one of them by Chell, he says this to her. She [[HeroicMime doesn't react]], naturally, but he immediately takes his own SchmuckBait and regrets it - ''twice''.
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* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', Ron says this to ''himself'' as he's being chased through a towering collection of machinery in Drakken's lair, and promptly steps on and breaks through a flimsy grillwork, falling into the tube it is covering.
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* ''{{Portal ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'': It seems that the older parts of the Aperture Science facility are full of fathomless drops, and when Wheatley is carried over one of them by Chell, he says this to her. She [[HeroicMime doesn't react]], naturally, but he immediately takes his own SchmuckBait and regrets it - ''twice''.
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* The 80s music group Go West has the trope as the [[TitleDrop title]] as well as the lyrics:
-->''Don't look down, girl! (Don't look down!)''
--->''You know you're holding aces''
-->''Don't look down, girl! (Don't look down!)''
--->''Don't give the game away!''
* The 80s music group Go West has the trope as the [[TitleDrop title]] as well as the lyrics:
-->''Don't look down, girl! (Don't look down!)''
--->''You know you're holding aces''
-->''Don't look down, girl! (Don't look down!)''
--->''Don't give the game away!''
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* During the sequence on the outside of the Shadow Broker's ship in MassEffect2, Liara mistakenly looks down and then tells herself not to.
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* During the sequence on the outside of the Shadow Broker's ship in MassEffect2, ''MassEffect2'', Liara mistakenly looks down and then tells herself not to.
* ''{{Portal 2}}'': It seems that the older parts of the Aperture Science facility are full of fathomless drops, and when Wheatley is carried over one of them by Chell, he says this to her. She [[HeroicMime doesn't react]], naturally, but he immediately takes his own SchmuckBait and regrets it - ''twice''.
* ''{{Portal 2}}'': It seems that the older parts of the Aperture Science facility are full of fathomless drops, and when Wheatley is carried over one of them by Chell, he says this to her. She [[HeroicMime doesn't react]], naturally, but he immediately takes his own SchmuckBait and regrets it - ''twice''.
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* In ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', after [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie's]] antics allowed [[CowardlyLion Fluttershy]] to temporarily get over her fear of heights in "Dragonshy", she finally attempts to jump over a mountain chasm only for Twilight Sparkle to say this phrase as words of encouragement. Sure enough, Fluttershy does just that and immediately loses her momentum in fright, causing her to drop like a rock... on top of a narrow gap that she could have just walked over.
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* In ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', after [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie's]] antics allowed [[CowardlyLion Fluttershy]] to temporarily get over her fear of heights in "Dragonshy", she finally attempts to jump over a mountain chasm only for Twilight Sparkle to say this phrase as words of encouragement. Sure enough, Fluttershy does just that and immediately loses her momentum in fright, causing her to drop like a rock... on top of a narrow gap that she could have just walked over.
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* Inverted in ''TheCastleOfCagliostro'': Lupin tells Clarisse to look down in order to ''calm'' her so she realizes they're hanging several hundred feet in the air from a thin line and screaming and flailing at the strange man holding her is a really bad idea.
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--> '''Durkon''': Dinnae look down, dinnae look down, dinnae look down...
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--> '''Durkon''': Dinnae look down, dinnae look down, dinnae look down...
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->''"Everybody looks down when you tell them not to look down, do you know that?!"''
-->-- '''Bill Rago''' (Danny [=DeVito=]), ''Renaissance Man''
A StockPhrase you have certainly [[SeenItAMillionTimes heard a million times]]. Insert in nearly any situation where the characters have to traverse some area where the penalty for a misstep or equipment failure is a one way trip courtesy of gravity. Or, they're hanging over such an area by their fingernails or a very unsteady rope, branch or other dubious support. "Just stay calm, and don't look down" or some variant is uttered.
Why? Because you really don't want to know what's down there.
However, sometimes the person won't listen and they will look down anyway. Cue FreakOut. A massive source of SchmuckBait.
When invoked in a comedy or an animated work, may lead to the realization that GravityIsAHarshMistress... two seconds before you start falling.
TheAppleFallsFar describes one of the things that might happen if the character ''does'' look down.
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* Inverted in ''TheCastleOfCagliostro'': Lupin tells Clarisse to look down in order to ''calm'' her so she realizes they're hanging several hundred feet in the air from a thin line and screaming and flailing at the strange man holding her is a really bad idea.
* Inverted in a different manner in an episode of ''{{Slayers}}''. The gang is clinging to a rope across a chasm, and Filia tells Gourry to not look ''up''. This is because he's holding on to her legs and she's wearing a dress.
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* ''BackToTheFuture Part III'': Doc to Clara.
* ''{{Dumbo}}'': Timothy Mouse to the title character.
* ''TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'' - Frodo to Sam.
** Also done humorously in the third film when Aragorn tells Gimli not to look down because they were walking on skulls.
* ''ThePoseidonAdventure'' (1972) - Reverend Scott to Linda Rogo.
* ''WarOfTheWorlds'' (2005): Ray Ferrier
* ''{{Shrek}}'' says this to Donkey as they're crossing the rope bridge to Dragon's castle. When Donkey looks down and freaks out, Shrek teases him and has a good laugh about it.
--> '''Donkey:''' Shrek, I'm looking down! Aaaaah!!!!!
* Used hilariously in ''{{The Incredibles}}'': Helen and Jack-Jack are falling, with the huge explosion above them, and Helen reassures Jack-Jack in this way.
* The quote from ''Renaissance Man'' above, when Bill Rago is about to rappel down the large victory tower.
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* ''ShadowTheHedgehog'': Eggman says it to Shadow when he passes through [[spoiler:a Chao room]].
* During the sequence on the outside of the Shadow Broker's ship in MassEffect2, Liara mistakenly looks down and then tells herself not to.
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* ''{{Neverwhere}}'': The Marquis de Carabas says this to Richard, who, predictably, doesn't listen.
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* Done in an episode of ''{{Animaniacs}}''. Also used in ''Wakko's Wish'':
-->'''Yakko''': Now don't look down.
-->'''Wakko''': Do you get vertigo?
-->'''Yakko''': No.
-->'''Wakko''': Me neither.
-->'''Yakko''': Yeah, I watched [[{{Vertigo}} that movie]] six times and I ''still'' don't get it.
* LooneyTunes and HannaBarbera cartoons, which combine ToonPhysics with GravityIsAHarshMistress. The classic case: a cartoon character can run over or stand on thin air untill he realizes something is wrong and looks down. Only then does gravity take over.
* ''TheSimpsons'' in "[[ThePoseidonAdventure The Neptune Adventure]]"
-->[[AC:Lenny]] ''(on the ladder; panicking)'': Whatever you do, don't look down! I mean up! I can't do this anymore! It's too confusing! ''(falls to his death)''
-->[[AC:Carl]]: It's not that confusing.
* ''TheMagicSchoolBus'': in "Under Construction" (about engineering), Wanda says this to Arnold as he's [[ItMakesSenseInContext slowly crawling across a suspension bridge made of Q-tips, dental floss, and bandages over a bathtub with a baby alligator in it.]] He looks down, alligator snaps jaws shut, and Arnold books it to the other side.
* In ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', after [[GenkiGirl Pinkie Pie's]] antics allowed [[CowardlyLion Fluttershy]] to temporarily get over her fear of heights in "Dragonshy", she finally attempts to jump over a mountain chasm only for Twilight Sparkle to say this phrase as words of encouragement. Sure enough, Fluttershy does just that and immediately loses her momentum in fright, causing her to drop like a rock... on top of a narrow gap that she could have just walked over.
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