4/1/2023 0 Comments Extreme landings windows![]() ![]() but then Novak draws a gun and starts blowing holes in the tank, letting out the water just in time. For a moment, it looks as though Novak's too late and he'll have to watch her drown through the glass. Subverted in the finale of The Cell: after finally tracking down Stargher's hidden base brain, Agent Novak arrives on the scene to find the serial killer's most recent victim in the nearly-full drowning tank, breathing through an air pocket.After Sato's gang helps him escape, Sato and company later separate Nick and Charlie and attack the latter while the former can only helplessly look on from behind a security gate. In Black Rain, New York City cops Nick and Charlie transport a Yakuza gangster, Sato, that they captured back to Japan.They don't and swiftly drown as Bud watches them through a glass window in the door. The Abyss: When the disaster occurs, Bud tries to tell the men trapped inside a flooding room to cut a hose so they can open a door.If this is occurring over an extreme distance, if the incident was deliberately caused by the observer, or if the observer is demonstrably indifferent to the suffering, then it doesn't count. Please note that the key elements of this trope are proximity and urgency: the observer has to be close and willing to help the victim, but unable. ![]() Also, for reasons unknown, it's very rare for the glass to be broken at any point during the carnage on the other side, no matter how brutal things get. Scenes such as these frequently end with a blood-splattered window, and perhaps the aforementioned Red Shirt's Hand Sliding Down the Glass (if not their entire body), especially in horror works. A trope common to horror stories and its imitations in other genres, the premise of the Helpless Window Death is simple: the protagonist is trapped behind a window or door made of glass, or at the very least, a material just transparent enough to see through they witness a character die - usually a Red Shirt and often in an extremely painful way and for whatever reason, they are unable to intervene. ![]()
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