History Main / LoversLedge

* Lope de Vega in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Ruled Britannia'' is introduced in a scene like this. It's a second-story window in [[strike: Elizabethan]] Spanish-dominated England, so he can just make the jump; the real inconvenience comes from the fact that English attire constitutes ''way'' too many separate articles for a last-minute escape.

* A StockSchtick in ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' single panel cartoons.

So you're a Lothario, perhaps even TheCasanova, and you've just bedded your latest conquest after going back to her place. But what's that sound? Oh no, her (or in [[AlwaysMale very rare cases]], his) spouse is home! You're a LoverNotAFighter, so deciding discretion is the better part of valor you grab your clothes (or not) and hightail it...out the window, where you're trapped thirty floors up on the convenient but narrow ledge, often in your GoofyPrintUnderwear, until it's safe for you to come back in. Better hope it's not raining.

So you're a Lothario, perhaps even TheCasanova, and you've just bedded your latest conquest after going back to her place. But what's that sound? Oh no, her (or in [[AlwaysMale very rare cases]], his) spouse is home! You're a lover, not a fighter, so deciding discretion is the better part of valor you grab your clothes (or not) and hightail it...out the window, where you're trapped thirty floors up on the convenient but narrow ledge, often in your GoofyPrintUnderwear, until it's safe for you to come back in. Better hope it's not raining.

It's becoming a DiscreditedTrope as art deco buildings are replaced by glass towers with no ledges and windows that don't open. The less physically daring version, but more likely to get caught, would be ClosetShuffle.

* Twisted in a very cruel way in ''Film/TheLedge''. The choice of place for Gavin's upcoming death is no accident.

So you're a Lothario, perhaps even TheCasanova, and you've just bedded your latest conquest after going back to her place. But what's that sound? Oh no, her husband (or [[AlwaysMale very rarely]] his wife) is home! You're a lover, not a fighter, so deciding discretion is the better part of valor you grab your clothes (or not) and hightail it...out the window, where you're trapped thirty floors up on the convenient but narrow ledge, often in your GoofyPrintUnderwear, until it's safe for you to come back in. Better hope it's not raining.

* Apparently there's a Russian forum where people issue "challenges"/dramatic situations and then various groups of forum members go stage (and/or Photoshop) photos of that situation. One such challenge involved this trope. [[http://englishrussia.com/?p=1691 Here,]] more pictures of half-naked Russian guys hanging off window ledges while being aimed at by a gun-toting Russian than you probably ever needed to see.

* Apparently there's a Russian forum where people issue "challenges"/dramatic situations and then various groups of forum members go stage (and/or Photoshop) photos of that situation. One such challenge involved this trope. [[http://englishrussia.com/?p=1691 Here,]] more pictures of half-naked Russian guys hanging off window ledges than you probably ever needed to see.

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* WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation review of... er, Call of Duty

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So you're a Lothario, perhaps even TheCasanova, and you've just bedded your latest conquest after going back to her place. But what's that sound? Oh no, her husband (or [[AlwaysMale very rarely]] his wife) is home! You're a Lover not a Fighter, so deciding Discretion is the Better Part of Valor you grab your clothes (or not) and hightail it...out the window, where you're trapped thirty floors up on the convenient but narrow ledge, often in your GoofyPrintUnderwear, until it's safe for you to come back in. Better hope it's not raining.

It's becoming a DiscreditedTrope as Art Deco buildings are replaced by Glass Towers with no ledges and windows that don't open. The less physically daring version, but more likely to get caught, would be ClosetShuffle.

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%%* [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ledge.jpg]]
%%* http://caricatura.ru/strip/Serdyukov/212/
%%* [[http://caricatura.ru/erotica/gorbachev/1002/ Metahumorous variant]]
%%* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/marchenkov/6201/ and again]]
%%* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/rogozhin/6780/ close enough]]
%%* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/alexander_shmidt/6227/ "So, you say the love gives wings?.."]]
%%* http://caricatura.ru/parad/lebedev_eugene/2749/
%%* http://caricatura.ru/parad/shugaj/7423/
%%* [[http://caricatura.ru/erotica/dva/1480/ "Why you always pass by? Could drop in once."]]
%%* http://caricatura.ru/parad/saveliev/7179/
%%* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/saveliev/5788/ "Hello! How long you're here?"]]
%%* [[http://caricatura.ru/parad/tkachenko/123/ a little mix-up]]
%%* [[http://caricatura.ru/erotica/kanenkov/1537/ "Adults Only"]] - Sex reversed, "Adults Only"
%%* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy-ps.jpg This]] piece of graffiti by the artist Creator/{{Banksy}}: (it's quite large, and in a very prominent position on a main street in Bristol, UK.)

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* WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation review of... er, Call of Duty <insertnumberhere>

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%%* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Banksy-ps.jpg This]] piece of graffiti by the artist Creator/{{Banksy}}: (it's quite large, and in a very prominent position on a main street in Bristol, UK. )

* Apparently there's a Russian forum where people issue "challenges"/dramatic situations and then various groups of forum members go stage (and/or Photoshop) photos of that situation. One such challenge involved this trope. [[http://englishrussia.com/?p=1691 Here]], more pictures of half-naked Russian guys hanging off window ledges than you probably ever needed to see.

* Three men were waiting at the Pearly Gates to Heaven, but were told that there was only one spot left. That spot would go to whoever had the most worthy death. The first man says, "I suspected my wife was cheating, but I didn't have any proof. So I decided to catch her by surprise, by coming home early from work. She was wearing a towel, but her hair wasn't wet, so I knew she wasn't taking a shower. I searched all over for the guy, and finally found him clinging pathetically to my windowsill. I pounded on his fingers until he let go, but he landed in the bushes and survived, so I threw my refrigerator out the window to finish him off. After all the excitement, I fell dead from a heart attack." "Interesting," replied St. Peter. "Next?" The second man said, "I was minding my own business, riding one of those stationary exercise bikes on top of my apartment building, when the screws came loose, and I fell off the edge of the roof. I grabbed for dear life onto the first open windowsill I saw, but then some idiot started pounding on my fingers. It must have been my lucky day, because I landed in the bushes, alive and unharmed, but then that same idiot threw his refrigerator out the window and crushed me to death with it!" "That, too, is horrible," said St. Peter. "And you?"
The third man replied, "OK, picture this, I'm naked inside a refrigerator..."