History Main / DramaticSlip

* in 2020 New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4nxdE2OTo tripped over his own feet]] during an 80 yard run against the Philadelphia Eagles, denying him what would have been an almost guaranteed touchdown. The Giants did score that touchdown a few plays later but lost the game in the end. Jones later said the slip happened because he was going faster than he was actually able to run (reports clocked him at over 21 miles per hour), causing his feet to slip out from under him.

* New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4nxdE2OTo tripped over his own feet]] after running 80 yards in 2020 against the Philadelphia Eagles, denying what would have been an almost guaranteed touchdown. The Giants did score that touchdown a few plays later but ended up losing the game. Jones later said the slip happened because he was going faster than he was actually able to run (reports clocked him at over 21 miles per hour), causing his feet to slip out from under him.

* New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4nxdE2OTo tripped over his own feet]] after running 80 yards in 2020 against the Philadelphia Eagles, messing up what would have otherwise been an almost guaranteed touchdown. And unfortunately, in American Football, once you're down the play is over even without the opposing team barreling down on you. The Giants did score a touchdown a few plays later but ended up losing the game. Jones later said it happened because he was going faster than he was actually able to run (reports clocked him at over 21 miles per hour), causing his feet to slip on the turf.

* In ''Film/SurfNinjas'', the evil general ([[WhatTheHellCastingAgency played by Leslie Nielson]]), is knocked down and stepped on by an elephant necessitating cybernetic face and other body parts. However, he has a good three seconds of hammily screaming to the camera during which he easily could have avoided the elephant's foot.

* ''DoctorWho'': In "The Five Doctors", grand daughter Susan [[TwistedAnkle twists her ankle]] by hilariously tripping over a small stone in the middle of an otherwise empty field. It looks every bit as silly as it sounds.

* ''Doctor Who'': In "The Five Doctors", grand daughter Susan [[TwistedAnkle twists her ankle]] by hilariously tripping over a small stone in the middle of an otherwise empty field. It looks every bit as silly as it sounds.

* New York Giants player Daniel Jones [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4nxdE2OTo tripped over his own feet]] after running 80 yards in 2020 against the Philadelphia Eagles, messing up what would have otherwise been an almost guaranteed touchdown. And unfortunately, in American Football, once you're down, the play is over even without the opposing team barreling down on you. The Giants did score a touchdown a few plays later but ended up losing the game.

* New York Giants player Daniel Jones [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4nxdE2OTo explicably tripped over his own feet]] after running 80 in 2020 against the Philadelphia Eagles, messing up what would have otherwise been an almost guaranteed touchdown. And unfortunately, in American Football, once you're down, the play is over even without the opposing team barreling down on you. The Giants did score a touchdown a few plays later but ended up losing the game.

* New York Giants player Daniel Jones [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY4nxdE2OTo explicably tripped over his own feet]] after running 80 in 2020 against the Philadelphia Eagles, messing up what would have otherwise been an almost guaranteed touchdown. And unfortunately, in American Football, once you're down, the play is over even without the opposing team barreling down on you. The Giants did score a touchdown a few plays later but ended up losing the game.

We've all seen it happen. Two or more people are running from something that promises pain and/or death. While they're running, one of the characters trips. For some strange reason, they're almost always incapable of getting up on their own, even if there's no logical reason they shouldn't be able to, though sometimes it is justified by either an injury sustained from said-trip or the speed at which the danger is closing in means they can't get up fast enough before the threat catches up with them. The other characters then have to decide whether or not to stop running and go back for them. This can either lead to {{No Man Left Behind}} or ScrewThisImOuttaHere from a {{Dirty Coward}}.

We've all seen it happen. Two or more people are running from something that promises pain and/or death. While they're running, one of the characters trips. For some strange reason, they're almost always incapable of getting up on their own, even if there's no logical reason they shouldn't be able to. The other characters then have to decide whether or not to stop running and go back for them. This can either lead to {{No Man Left Behind}} or ScrewThisImOuttaHere from a {{Dirty Coward}}.

* WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck quotes the trope verbatim in one episode, with his usual order of LargeHam. [[spoiler:He's actually [[SubvertedTrope faking out a pursuer,]] and his next line is "Just kidding."]]

* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', Nick and Judy are trying to escape with evidence of [[spoiler: [[BigBad Bellwether's]] anti-predator conspiracy]] in the museum. Judy suddenly runs into an old mammoth tusk display, [[DramaPreservingHandicap getting a horrible gash on her right leg in the process]], and crashes to the floor. Nick immediately rushes back, picks her up, and carries her to a temporary hiding place so he can bandage up the wound. Judy [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown then tells him to leave her behind and rush the case of evidence over to the ZPD]], [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind but he refuses to do so]].

* ''Film/Dune2021''. Paul Atreides stumbles while fleeing a {{sandworm}}. Justified as he's not used to running in sand. And even though his mother is fleeing with him, there's no scene where she runs back, helps him to his feet and they flee while HoldingHands--when you have WormSign coming up behind you, it's RunOrDie. So Paul just gets to his feet and keeps running.
* Subverted in ''Film/EuroTrip'' - one of them falls, says "[[IWillOnlySlowYouDown Go on without me!]]".... and then, when he realizes nobody's helping him, gets up again and keeps running.

* ''VideoGame/{{Insanity}}: While being chased by Shigeki, Kyouko runs into Emiko's old room and trips over, with her hat falling off. Shigeki corners her, but when he sees her without her hat, he notices [[IdenticalStranger her resemblance]] to his late daughter and stops attacking her.

* ''Series/Dune2021''. Paul Atreides stumbles while fleeing a {{sandworm}}. Justified as he's not used to running in sand. And even though his mother is fleeing with him, there's no scene where she runs back, helps him to his feet and they flee while HoldingHands--when you have WormSign coming up behind you, it's RunOrDie. So Paul just gets to his feet and keeps running.

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* ''Series/SquidGame'': In "Red Light, Green Light", players are gunned down if the singing doll catches them moving if they aren't supposed to. When Gi-hun is about to cross the finish line, his foot catches on a dead body, and he falls just as the doll turns around. Fortunately, Ali catches him just in time and holds him steady, saving his life.

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* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', Nick and Judy are trying to escape with evidence of [[spoiler: [[BigBad Bellwether's]] anti-predator conspiracy]] in the museum. Judy suddenly runs into an old mammoth tusk display, [[DramaPreservingHandicap getting a horrible gash on her right leg in the process]], and crashes to the floor. Nick immediately rushes back, picks her up, and carries her to a temporary hiding place so he can bandage up the wound. Judy [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown then tells him to leave her behind and rush the case of evidence over to the ZPD]], [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind but he refuses to do so]].

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* ''Film/JudgeDredd'': the part where they're running along the flame-spewing shaft, only for one of them to stumble and immediately yell for the other to help him up.
* Occurs in ''Film/JurassicPark'', and then in [[Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark the sequel]] as well, where the guy is subsequently stepped on by a T-Rex.
* Subverted in ''Film/EuroTrip'' - one of them falls, says "[[IWillOnlySlowYouDown Go on without me!]]".... and then, when he realizes nobody's helping him, gets up again and keeps running.

* ''Film/{{Godzilla 1998}}'' has Audrey stumble during the climactic chase scene, and Nick has to climb back down off the fence he was halfway over and go back to help her up. It says quite a bit about the character of Audrey and the film in general that this example doesn't actually stand out too much.
* ''Film/TheBlackHole''. When the giant fiery asteroid crashes through the spaceship and starts rolling towards the protagonists as they race to cross a flimsy looking catwalk in front of it, one of them is seen to stumble before getting up to keep running. It's more effective given that the trope isn't emphasized.

* This can easily happen as panic can easily keep someone from paying attention to their surroundings or ruining their coordination, causing them to trip over things they otherwise wouldn't trip over if they were a little calmer due to their Flight of Fight response causing tunnel vision in their single minded focus on getting away. Hence why the first piece of advice that is usually said to people is to not panic when they find themselves in a crisis.