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5	->''"Traditional rappelling requires holding a rope with both hands. Which is inconvenient if you're being shot at. That's why special forces are trained to rappel in unconventional ways."''
6	-->-- ''Series/BurnNotice'', "[[Recap/BurnNoticeS3E11FriendlyFire Friendly Fire]]"
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8	So you have TheSquad, commandos from the BadassArmy, or just some EliteMooks. What's a great way to have them join the action in a dramatic or badass manner? Why, have them rappel down into the scene from above! [[DramaticShattering Shattering windows or skylights]] on the way is optional (though it may seem obligatory) and adds [[RuleOfCool great effect]].
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10	Named after the real military tactic of fast-roping, making this TruthInTelevision. Although, it can be a case of AwesomeButImpractical considering that the fast-roper is exposed to enemy fire the moment he draws attention. Fast-roping is normally used to insert soldiers in places helicopters cannot land, as opposed to [[TooDumbToLive making a grand entrance in front of a machine gun nest]]. Note that there is a difference between fast-roping and rappelling.
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12	A type of DynamicEntry that invokes DeathFromAbove. It's the faster-paced, tactical-level SisterTrope of ItsRainingMen. Related to SuperWindowJump, which does not require a rope and does require a window or skylight.
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14	Tends to be a case of BigDamnHeroes. See also MissionImpossibleCableDrop when it's done in stealth, not action. GrapplingHookPistol is the (literal) inversion of this trope, when you use the rope to go ''up'' rather than down. Compare BuildingSwing.
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17	!!Examples:
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20	* Balaclavaed soldiers armed with a bottle of HP sauce crash through the window in front of a startled general at his dinner table because "an [[AcronymAndAbbreviationOverload SOS from HQ said that a VIP with an OBE was tucking into a baked potato with no HP!]]" Everything's better with HP.
21	* In a Coke Zero ad, a guy drinks one after waking up in bed with a woman and her dad at the door and a squad of special forces enter the scene this way.
22	* The now [[MemeticMutation memetic]] Morning Rescue commercial made popular by ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'', where some stressed out office workers are "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin rescued]]" by a group of guys in orange jumpsuits who rappel into the office [[FridgeLogic down from the ceiling, apparently]] by handing them bottles of the eponymous drink.
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26	* Used by Train Heartnet in his first on-panel encounter with Creed in the Manga version of ''Manga/BlackCat''.
27	* Done by Touma and Gaomon in Episode 8 of ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' when raiding a suspect's hideout. True to form, they shattered the windows using Gaomon's punch attack.
28	* In a bit of AdaptationExpansion / AdaptationalExplanation in Episode 5 of the AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/EndoAndKobayashiLive The Latest On Tsundere Villainess Lieselotte'', we see [[spoiler:Elizabeth]] doing this to sneak out of her room [[spoiler:to meet August--it is implied that it's how Fiene gets conceived.]]
29	* Used by the Amestrian military in episode 49 of ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'' to get the jump on [[spoiler:Roy and his group]].
30	* Gojo Shiouji in ''Anime/ExcelSaga'' swings through the window in his first appearance, holding a small girl under his arm.
31	* All continuities of ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' use this repeatedly, befitting a series with a strong spec-ops theme. In [[Anime/GhostInTheShell1995 the 1995 film]], Major Kusanagi is in fact ''introduced'' in the act of fast-roping to an assassination target's window; several homages to the scene can be spotted in later media.
32	* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'': Onizuka and some of his students play paintball, and two of them decide to drop in via the window.
33	* ''Manga/GunslingerGirl''
34	** Done in episode 12 of the anime, when Triela and Angelica break into a mountain terrorist base. The glass is weakened beforehand to enable their subsequent SuperWindowJump.
35	** Triela and Beatrice pull this off [[InvertedTrope in reverse]] (climbing up a tower hand-over-hand ''really'' fast) during Vol 11 of the manga. Cybernetics are cool like that.
36	* The entire plot of the ''Literature/LoveChunibyoAndOtherDelusions'' anime starts with this, with Rikka and Yuuta's MeetCute started by Rikka's trying to leave her apartment this way. Throughout the anime she enters and leaves Yuuta's room this way as well.
37	* The [[UsefulNotes/KaijuDefenseForce Self-Defense Force]] breaks into Rin's office this way in episode 4 of ''Anime/{{Mnemosyne}}''.
38	* In ''Literature/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' Misaki installs a rope from her window, which she uses to drop into Sorata's room quickly.
39	* This is how [[spoiler: Youhei and the rest of Sakuragi's friends]] get into the Shohoku gym in ''Manga/SlamDunk'', since [[spoiler: the door's locked from the inside to hide how Mitsui and his gang are beating up the basketball club members (because if a sports club gets into a fight, they'll be banned from going to the Nationals... [[KickTheDog which is what Mitsui and Co. want to do in the first place]].]]
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43	* One arc from ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', depicts a squadron of [[{{Mooks}} Russian soldiers]] using this tactic to enter a missile silo base via an empty elevator shaft, with the goal of eliminating a terrorist unit that has infiltrated the base. Unfortunately for them, the "terrorist" waiting for them happens to be [[OneManArmy Frank]] [[TheDreaded Castle]]. Who just happens to have rigged the aforementioned shaft with a ''[[OhCrap truck load of explosives]]''.
44	* [=ODSTs=] performed this tactic during the Battle of Cleveland in ''ComicBook/HaloUprising''.
45	* In ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'', ARC Troopers are shown doing this in one panel of the comic depicting the Battle of Kamino.
46	* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Mather's PrivateMilitaryContractors rope in guns blazing from the rooftop to murder the huddled surviving victims of Strader Pharmaceuticals.
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50	* ''Film/AtomicBlonde''. When the East German police raid the hotel apartment she's in, Lorraine Broughton takes down several of them [[ImprovisedWeapon using a fire hose]], which ends up wrapped around a cop's neck so she can choke him. Then more police arrive so she grabs the other end of the hose and jumps off the balcony, causing the poor cop to get dragged across the room and slammed up against the railing as an anchor so she can swing onto the balcony below.
51	* Subverted in ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'' when Cage is in a VTOL transport that's been hit by enemy fire and starts breaking up. He works out how to hit the emergency release mechanism, only to end up swinging wildly at the end of a rope beneath the crashing helicopter, colliding with the other soldiers who are doing the same, until his rope breaks and dumps him on the beach. Thanks to the GroundhogDayLoop, he gets better at it.
52	* A [[NewMeat rookie Ranger]] missing the rope (an RPG was fired at his helicopter and it had to dodge it, shaking things up) and falling to the ground was the first incident in the mess that was the Battle of Mogadishu. Said ranger was played by Creator/OrlandoBloom in ''Film/BlackHawkDown''. In the book the film's based on, there's no RPG and no swerve, he just has a hand/eye coordination moment.
53	* ''Film/{{Predator}}''. Dutch's rescue team is carried into enemy territory by helicopter. At the landing zone they descend to the ground on lines because there isn't enough room in the jungle for the copters to set down.
54	* ''Film/ImGonnaGitYouSucka''. During the assault on Mr. Big's hideout, John Slade rappels down the side of a building from the roof with the intent of throwing a stick of dynamite through a window. Unfortunately, he misjudges the length of the fuse.
55	* In ''Film/TheRelic'', commandos enter the Museum of Natural History in this way in order to deal with the monster threat. Possibly a subversion, since it doesn't work out so well for the commandos.
56	* ''Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries'':
57	** ''Film/ResidentEvil2002''. The soldiers do this while entering the mansion (smashing through the windows as they do so). It's in the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiS6gtClrqk here, at about 0:40]]. Why they decided to go up on the roof first [[FridgeLogic is never explained]], but it was clearly RuleOfCool.
58	** Umbrella soldiers in the ActionPrologue of ''Film/ResidentEvilRetribution'' rappel out of tilt-rotor gunships onto the deck of the Aurora, looking especially cool as they're wearing {{Badass Longcoat}}s and are led by Jill Valentine firing GunsAkimbo machine-pistols. [[FridgeLogic Which means she doesn't have a hand free to control her descent or release her harness...]]
59	* The opening action scene of ''Film/MinorityReport'' shows the pre crime operatives rappelling down through a man's skylight ''after'' John Anderton has already subdued the suspect.
60	* Near the end of ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'', a number of SWAT officers are seen rappelling down the side of a building. Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x77ay9la8BM here, starting at 3:55]].
61	* Used several times in ''Film/JamesBond'' films, sometimes with gadgets and sometimes improvised but nearly always fast roping.
62	** Tiger Tanaka's ninjas descend into Blofeld's volcano this way in ''Film/YouOnlyLiveTwice''. Played with since the ninjas have special roller apparatus on their belts to get down really fast, but given the crossfire by the SPECTRE goons, multiple ninjas are shot up and dead by the time they reach the floor.
63	** Xenia in ''Film/GoldenEye'' rappels down from a helicopter in her final confrontation with James Bond. This ultimately gets her killed when Bond commandeers her AK-47 and blows away the pilot of the helicopter, and she gets yanked off him by her own rope and strangled to death against a tree.
64	** In ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'' he improvises a rope using the blind in a banker's office.
65	** ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''. During the UnwinnableTrainingSimulation at the beginning Bond uses a rope to swing down from the roof of a building and break in through a window.
66	** In ''Film/{{Octopussy}}'', Magda [[NotStayingForBreakfast slips out on Bond]] by tying one end of the sari she's wearing to a balustrade and falling backwards off the balcony [[KissDiss as Bond goes to kiss her]], "riding" the garment down to safety as it unravels.
67	* ''Franchise/StarWars'' Episode III: ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''. As Obi-Wan is battling General Grievous, clone troopers come down on ziplines, guns blazing. Done much more epically in [[Literature/RevengeOfTheSith the novelization]] in which they do this from extreme altitude as the ''Star Wars'' version of an airborne assault.
68	* ''Film/TheBoondockSaints'':
69	** Lampshaded while stocking up on weapons/gear Connor and Murphy argue:
70	-->'''Connor''' Do ya know what we need, man? Some rope.\
71	'''Murphy''' Absolutely. What are ya, insane?\
72	'''Connor''' No I ain't. Charlie Bronson's always got rope.\
73	'''Murphy''' What?\
74	'''Connor''' Yeah. He's got a lot of rope strapped around him in the movies, and they always end up using it.
75	** Then later they accidentally become entwined in the rope, fall through a ceiling vent, hang upside down and shoot all the heavily armed gangsters.
76	** They do it AGAIN, and do it right, in the sequel--this time busting through a skyscraper window and blasting off with [[HandCannon Desert Eagles]] [[GunsAkimbo akimbo]]. And they proceed to have another rope argument just before this.
77	* Shows up in ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'' (yes, really) towards the end. Robin Hood uses a long pennant to do this.
78	* In ''Film/HudsonHawk'', Kit Kat first appears by sliding down a rope in front of Eddie. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eLc5LB1n9k Starting at 2:15]].
79	* ''Film/TheAvengers1998'': Bailey rappels down from above to fight Mrs. Peel.
80	* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'':
81	** A couple of the SWAT teams do this in the climax as they storm the Joker's building. As Batman is trying to stop them, he ends up using their still-attached cables to his advantage.
82	** Would the awesome instance when Batman pulls Lau out of his office building count as a reversal of this trope?
83	* In ''Film/{{Brazil}}'', The Ministry of Information troops crash into Mr. Buttle's living room through the windows on ropes, through the door and through a hole sliced through the roof.
84	* The Reavers do this during their attack on a small town in ''Film/{{Serenity}}''.
85	* ''Film/Water1985'': The mercenaries do this when mining the cliffs, sending the mineral water gushing into the ocean. Serves as a {{bookend\|s}} to wannabe communist rebel Delgado's less-then-professional ImprovisedZipline at the start of the movie.
86	* In ''Film/TheNegotiator'', the police attempt to ambush former hostage negotiator Danny Roman with a pair of fast-roping SWAT members entering through the windows. However, being an ex-cop, Roman is prepared for this and the whole operation backfires when Roman manages to add both SWAT cops to his collection of hostages.
87	* In ''Film/BattleLosAngeles'', fast roping is used by the Marines twice. The first is to get off of an exposed freeway, and the second is when Nantz discovers the location of the alien command center, but his helicopter can't afford to land. There's also a moment when after Nantz reaches the ground, more ropes suddenly drop from the sky as his squadmates loyally follow him on what could realistically be considered a suicide mission.
88	* In ''Film/UniversalSoldier1992'', the assault on a team of hostage taking terrorists involves several [[SuperSoldier UniSols]] rappelling down a dam facing ''down''. This is ''not'' RuleOfCool, surprisingly: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_rappel It's a real rappelling technique]] invented by the Australian Army in the 1960s.
89	* ''Film/TheATeam'': The team does this when trying to capture someone involved with the [[MacGuffin plates]]. We get to see it from the outside; the roper doesn't just smash through the window, his teammate blows it out with a {{BFG}} just before he gets there.
90	* Played for BlackComedy in ''Film/{{Machete}}'' when the title character uses a [[BloodyHilarious mooks' intestines]] to rappel out the window and crash through the window below.
91	* ''Film/ActOfValor'' features Fast Roping used several times to transfer [=SEALs=] from helicopter to boat. In the first instance, Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen fast rope out of Chinooks into their boats. ''In mid-flight.''
92	* In ''Film/MissionImpossibleGhostProtocol'', Ethan has to free-climb up the outside of the tallest building in the world to get to its well-secured server room. He uses adhesive gloves which stop working, so to get out of the room he improvises a line and does an Australian rappel down the side ... [[OhCrap stopping ten metres short of the window he climbed out of.]]
93	-->'''Brandt:''' [[CaptainObvious The line's not long enough!]]\
94	'''Ethan:''' No shit!
95	* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
96	** In the ActionPrologue to ''Film/StarTrek2009'', Engineering personnel can be seen doing this during the evacuation of the ''USS Kelvin''. Presumably it's a quick way of getting about the StarshipLuxurious if the turbolifts are full or otherwise engaged.
97	** In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon soldiers]] do this out of a Warbird ''while it's still flying''. [[CurbStompBattle Unfortunately for them]], they're up against a OneManArmy.
98	* ''Film/{{Yellowbeard}}''. Near the end of the film Yellowbeard, his son Dan and Lord Lambourn swing through the windows on a British frigate to capture the captain and the ship.
99	* ''Film/SWAT2003'' has a helicopter use this trope in the opening sequence to deposit a group of LAPD SWAT officers on the roof of a bank where hostages are being held.
100	* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'': Fast-roping minions drop in through the Croft Mansion's skylight while Lara is doing indoors bungee-jumping. They would probably have done a lot better if they had stayed on the ground.
101	* ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'': Jason Bourne arrives at his apartment in Paris. Everything appears OK at first, but then he starts worrying that he might not be alone there, grabs a kitchen knife and starts checking all the rooms which turn out to be empty. Then he goes over to check the French doors leading to the balcony, right when an assassin attached to a climbing harness smashes through them.
102	* In ''Film/TheOddAngryShot'', the long-range patrol team deploy into the middle of their sector by fast roping out of a Huey.
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106	* The ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''The Guns of Tanith'' has the Ghosts taking part in an airborne assault on a mountain city, deploying from their dropships via rope. It's a shame they're all light infantry, not drop troops...
107	* Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/RainbowSix'' has the anti-terrorist group that's the focus of the novel, made up of members from the various elite forces for NATO, do this from time to time.
108	* If you're a White Court Vampire in the ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', you don't need a bunch of lines to rappel from a helicopter. Or ''lines'' at all. While wearing heels. From above trees. [[BigEntrance Jim Butcher knows how to write a good entrance.]]
109	* ''The Specialist'' by Gayle Rivers. The protagonist is teaching this technique to an Iraqi special forces unit in the 1980's. An Iraqi sergeant takes offense as he'd become the unit champion using an older rappelling system, so after the protagonist demonstrates a SuperWindowJump decides to repeat the trick using the old system. He gets his braking technique wrong and plummets all the way to the ground, breaking several bones.
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113	* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''
114	** A variation in "Heir to the Demon" when members of the League of Assassins unfurl themselves down a long banner-like cloth.
115	** In "Three Ghosts", Oliver Queen flees Slade Wilson by shooting a [[TrickArrow grappling arrow]] into the wall and abseiling down the side of the building. Given Slade's nationality in the series this may be a VisualPun as he descends face down, commonly known as the "Australian rappel".
116	* This happens a few times on ''Series/BurnNotice''. One time, Michael uses a [[EliteMook special forces trained enemy soldier]] as a counterweight.
117	* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'':
118	** Casey's team fast-ropes into the gift room at Devon and Ellie's wedding to stop a Fulcrum team.
119	** In the next season it happens again but this time it's Chuck's team. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for him, he wasn't actually saving Sarah from Shaw. At least not yet.]] She appreciated the tank, though.
120	* Shows up in the opening for ''Series/NinjaSentaiKakuranger'', as well as a few other points in the show.
121	** Similarly, this is often how the members of ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' get in and out of their spaceship mecha.
122	* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}''
123	-->'''J.D.:''' "This is a case for Miss Busybody Smarty-Pants." ''(Carla promptly rappels through the window)''
124	* In the ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' episode "The Xindi", a MACO squad abseils in a mine to rescue Captain Archer and the away team. The scene was used in the altered opening credit sequence for "In a Mirror, Darkly."
125	* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. Jonathan rappels down into Sunnydale High from a skylight, followed by Andrew who loses his grip and crashes into the floor.
126	* ''Series/DoctorWho'': This is how the Paternoster Gang arrive in the base underneath Mancini's in "Deep Breath", except they uses tablecloths wrapped around their waists, that unravel as they fall. Rather, Vastra and Jenny do. [[FailedAttemptAtDrama Strax just falls.]]
127	* ''Series/PersonOfInterest''. Reese has to deal with a robbery of a room safe in a residential tower. So he goes up to a higher balcony and starts breaking out the nylon rope and carabiners.
128	-->'''Finch:''' Mr Reese they have hostages and there are ''two other'' armed men. I don't think you're going to be able to simply walk through the front door.
129	-->'''Reese:''' Wasn't planning on it. ''(jumps off the balcony)''
130	* A rare non-combat but not PlayedForLaughs version of this trope showed up in an episode of ''Series/LondonsBurning'' when a window cleaner working on a tall building got his arm caught up in the basket's winch, and Blue Watch had to call in a specialist rescue team ([[BackedByThePentagon played by the real-life London Fire Brigade team that does this kind of thing]]) to get him safely down to ground level.
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134	* In the Cities of Death expansion for ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', one of the stratagems you can use is rappelling lines, which allows troops to disembark from skimmers directly on top of buildings.
135	* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: High-Tech'' has rules not just for rappelling but for using the climbing equipment to ''run'' straight down the side of a building.
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139	* The ACE mod for ''[[VideoGame/{{ARMA}} ARMA 2]]'' adds realistic fast roping to the game.
140	* For only a four/five-story descent, ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 3}}'' manages to be pretty scary with its first-person Australian rappel.
141	* ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'':
142	** Both campaigns in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' begin with your character doing this, at the beginning of the missions "Crew Expendable" and "Charlie Don't Surf". Enemies also do it from helicopters throughout the game and in ''Modern Warfare 2'' - the two games have an achievement for, respectively, shooting down a helicopter as enemies are roping out of it and killing a certain number of enemies doing so before they can hit the ground.
143	** There's also same moment as in ''MGS'' example below - Lt. Price and Cpt. [=MacMillan=] use fast-roping to evade a helicopter's [[MacrossMissileMassacre rocket attack]]. Although technically speaking, they are rappelling, the level of action justifies its being a fast-rope scene.
144	** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps'' has, in addition to Spetsnaz soldiers still roping out of helicopters, one instance where the player and his squadmates attempt to do this, but are sent crashing through a window when their copter is shot down.
145	* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'':
146	** In ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade Renegade]]'' this seems to be the standard method for disembarking from Chinook helicopters, be it for the enemies or for Havoc himself in the intro cutscene.
147	** In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerGenerals'', Chinooks have the "Combat Drop" ability, letting their passengers rope down onto building roofs to commandeer them from occupying enemy infantry. Alternatively, you can use it to deploy {{Ranger}}s onto the battlefield in a badass way, if you don't want to expose the Chinook to ground fire by having it land normally.
148	* ''VideoGame/{{Contra}}'' and the sequel ''Super C'' start with our OneHitWonder roping out of a helicopter. Due to graphical limitations it looks more like he's jumping 30 feet to the ground when [[ThereWasADoor there was a perfectly good rope to shimmy down.]]
149	* Sporadically, the player's co-pilot in ''VideoGame/DesertStrike'' will use this method in order to perform a certain task on the ground (e.g. entering a building and freeing an important prisoner).
150	* In ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', the [[PlayerCharacter Point Man]] does this at the very beginning alongside a [[RedShirt Delta Force squad]], right before [[FromBadToWorse the shit hits the fan]]. Later, Replica forces do it mid-mission to attack you.
151	* Cops do this in the ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' games, especially on higher Wanted levels. And if you're not focused on the ground cops shooting at you, they're ridiculously easy targets.
152	* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' and its expansions, enemy soldiers can be seen doing this once in a while.
153	** In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', Civil Protection officers indulge in this, usually just in time to get run over, and later Overwatch soldiers do it too.
154	* This is one way stormtroopers can enter a stage in ''VideoGame/LegoStarWars''.
155	* Reversed? Inverted? Certainly played with in the first ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid''. Rather than a roping into a scene, it's a roping out of one. Snake rappels down the side of a communication tower to escape a Hind-D attack helicopter.
156	* Also shows up in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', when the Navy SEAL team lands on the Big Shell. [[spoiler: Raiden becomes suspicious of Pliskin's claim of fast-roping in when he notices a sea louse crawl from underneath him.]]
157	* On ''VideoGame/NinjaGaiden'''s Skies of Vengeance stage, MSAT soldiers make their entrance onto the zeppelin this way.
158	* SWAT enemies of all kinds will do this in ''VideoGame/PAYDAY2'' and ''VideoGame/PAYDAY3''. It buckles a little from the norm, as they won't attempt to rappel in on every heist and will generally only do so out of reach of the main point of action (for example, in the ''PAYDAY 2'' Bank Heists, they attempt to rappel down the wall of the building ''behind'' the bank), though sometimes they will drop straight in from helicopters that enter the scene. They are about as vulnerable as one would expect, and one of the sniper rifle achievements in ''[=PD2=]'' involves shooting down rappelling enemies using a specific weapon.
159	* Used in ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' at the beginning of the first mission in order to get Joanna onto the roof of [=dataDyne=] headquarters while giving her at least some amount of stealth to play with as she needs to make her way all the way to the basement -- time is of the essence as Dr. Carroll is at risk of mind-conditioning and needs to be extracted as quickly as possible.
160	* Played more or less straight in the ''VideoGame/RainbowSix'' series, most notably in the two ''Vegas'' games and ''[[VideoGame/RainbowSixSiege Siege]]''. If there is a window below a ledge, chances are you can rappel down and breach it. In fact, the architects were often nice enough to attach inexplicable "rappel-hooks" above such windows. [[AwesomeButImpractical On the other hand, it's pretty much as useless for entering a firefight as it is in RealLife, which makes its use of the trope less straight.]] And any enemy attempting to fast rope or rappel into a fight is an easy target for you. ''Vegas 2'' even has an achievement for killing enemies on ropes.
161	* ''Rescue: The Embassy Mission'' on the {{Platform/NES}} had [[MinigameGame four phases]], of which the third was rappelling from the roof into the windows of the embassy.
162	* ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'' has a subtle bit of horror and MindScrew to this - nearly every level begins with Capt. Walker and his squad rappelling down to the next stretch of war-torn Dubai. But no matter how far you descended in the last level, you always start the next at a high vantage point before [[AlienGeometries you continue going down, and down...]]
163	* In ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/EmpireAtWar'', this is how [[WalkingTank AT-AT's]] deploy Stormtroopers. While it is only possible to have two squads of stormtroopers deployed from an AT-AT at any given time, they can deploy an unlimited number of them to replace fallen squads.
164	* Delta Squad in ''VideoGame/StarWarsRepublicCommando'' rappels down to somewhere at least twice per chapter: once at the start of their deployment and at some point during it.
165	* In ''VideoGame/TimeSplittersFuturePerfect'', there are a couple of moments in the "Breaking and Entering" level in which security guards ambush you by swinging in through skyscraper windows.
166	* Done by Lacroix SWAT teams in ''VideoGame/VampireTheMasqueradeBloodlines'' game.
167	* While not an actual game mechanic in ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'', some mission intro cutscenes show your squad rappelling from a hovering Skyranger dropship when there isn't enough room for it to land normally, or in one case dropping through the ceiling of an alien base. Averted for your [[{{Cyborg}} MEC Troopers]], though, [[DynamicEntry they skip the "roping" part.]]
168	* ''VideoGame/XCOM2'' can also show soldiers making their entry this way, especially in ADVENT retaliation missions. Speaking of ADVENT, their reinforcements like to arrive from aerial transports, but the soldiers have so many genetic enhancements that they're able to drop to the ground without the benefit of a rope.
169	* In VideoGame/{{Xenonauts}}, employed in the form of a [[spoiler:personal teleporter of sorts]] for human troops, once [[spoiler:Valkyrie]] goes into action.
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173	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' had Wooster using this method to enter and exit the Jaegergenerals' conference with Boris, though as the window's open there's no breaking glass. He does get a little mechanical help slowing his descent on the exit, but 1. this is {{Steampunk}}, after all, and 2. this is entering and exiting an ''airship.'' It's a long, long way down.
174	** Later, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120521 Wulfenbach troops]] pursuing a runaway airship downed over Mechanicsburg.4 They even use some sort of rappel brakes. Too bad for them, their commander made a common mistake and drops right on a bunch of Jäger generals and Tarvek. Of course, the local air defenses didn't stop this reckless maneuver even more spectacularly long before city walls only because there was an order to not attack Wulfenbach forces... so far.
175	* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' , Elan gets a prestige class (Dashing Swordsman) that excels at this, to the point that he becomes immune to damage from [[DramaticShattering broken glass]]. [[spoiler: This is how he saves Hailey from Nale who switched places with him]]
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179	* Done at the end of ''WesternAnimation/RecessSchoolsOut'' by the teachers.
180	* Done by the Monarch's henchmen in the 'best entrance EVER' scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''.
181	* Done at the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' episode "Immune To All But Justice" by the Safety Patrol.
182	* The CDA is almost contractually obligated to do this (the window-opened-not-broken variant) in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'' whenever a 23-19 is reported. One of the HilariousOuttakes features a CDA agent splatting on a window instead of rappelling through it.
183	* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when Mr. Slave tries this, only to pass out on impact and collapse on the floor.
184	-->'''Mr. Garrison:''' Well crap, that didn't work.
185	* Parodied in the teleporter episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', where instead of doing the "rappel through the window" part of this trope, Perry the Platypus taps on Dr. Doof's window with his feet instead ... and then rappels his way through Dr. Doof's face when the latter opens the window to check who was knocking.
186	* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'' the ARC troopers, after [[GrapplingHookPistol grappling up]] a tower, enter through the top windows and rappel right back down into the enemy war room.
187	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' did this in the ''James Bond'' parody "Tearjerker". After Stan has foiled the plot of the criminal mastermind Tearjerker (played by Roger), he sends his henchmen after Stan by having them fast rope down from his zeppelin...and they proceed to smash right through the floor as they land, as part of the RunningGag that the contractor Tearjerker hired to build his evil lair was incompetent and cut corners everywhere.
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191	* Various militaries with air assault troops have been using this technique since its debut in UsefulNotes/TheFalklandsWar. Specific examples of units that use fast-roping include:
192	** The US Army's 101st Air Assault Division (sometimes referred to by ordinary soldiers as "dope on a rope").
193	** The [[SemperFi US Marine Corps]]
194	** The British Army's 16th Air Assault Brigade
195	** UsefulNotes/CoastGuard [=MSSTs=] and [=TACLETs=] and other such fun acronyms. Usually law enforcement rather than military.
196	** The US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment.
197	** Various special forces units in law enforcement and in the military.
198	** The page image was created based on the events of the 2010 boarding of the Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandos, where they fast-roped into a mob... with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYjkLUcbJWo predictable results]].
199	** The [[UsefulNotes/IndiansWithIglas Indian Army]] uses a fast roping technique called “slithering”. Indian Navy Marine Commandos are also trained in this technique.
200	* Outside of military or law-enforcement, this technique is sometimes used by Cliff Rescue personnel to reach a trapped or injured person.
201	* The SAS' attack during the Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980 was not an example of fast-roping, but was important in the development of the technique. One trooper got tangled in his abseil gear on descent and suffered 60% burns when a fire caused by the detonation of a stun grenade reached him. [[{{Determinator}} He continued with the operation anyway.]] It was in part this specific incident that led to the development of fast-roping, where no abseil gear is used and this kind of tangle can't happen. A movie about the seige - ''Who Dares Wins'' - presumably because the makers thought it looked cool, had the SAS hanging from helicopters that were flying over the embassy to smash through the windows, a tactic that would definitely result in smashing several soldiers straight into walls if it was ever tried in real life. [[https://youtu.be/IuGJ8k6lcOY?t=549 Mark "Billy" Billingham rips them a new one over this here.]]
202	* A similar and equally spectacular technique was developed by the [[UsefulNotes/NepaliWithNastyKnives Gurkha Rifles]], the last remnant of the British Indian Army of colonial days, who dispensed with the rope altogether. In a situation where the Gurkhas had to de-bus from a moving softskin lorry ''very, very, quickly'', let us say if the lorry was under fire and it would be dangerous to stop altogether so as to present a sitting target, the Gurkhas trained themselves in bailing out of a moving truck going up to 30mph and hitting the ground running. Observers have incredulously said it looks bloody dangerous and they are frankly surprised the tough little sods get up and dust themselves down as if nothing out of the ordinary has just happened.
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