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::In the movie, President Marshall ( Harrison Ford ) was taken by Secret Service to an escape pod inside Air Force One, but he launches it only as a decoy and remains hidden inside the plane. ::NOTE: Despite at least two movies featuring Air Force One with an escape pod, the aircraft does not have one in real life.
::At the end of the first film, Ellen Ripley attempts to kill the Alien by blowing up the '' Nostromo '' and escaping in the escape pod ''Narcissus''. The pod, with Ripley and Jones the cat, is recovered some 57 years later, at the start of '' Aliens ''. The ''Narcissus'' was more than just an escape pod; it doubled as the ''Nostromo's'' command bridge. ::At the beginning of '' Alien³ '', the hibernating bodies of Ripley, Hicks and Newt, and Bishop, are automatically ejected to safety in an emergency escape vehicle, when aliens loose aboard the ship cause a fire. The vehicle crashlands on a nearby prison planet, killing Hicks and Newt.
::The President Of The United States escapes Air Force One in an escape pod and lands inside the New York City prison.
::At the beginning of the game, the player's character " Master Chief ", abandons the ''Pillar of Autumn'' warship and lands on the ''Halo'' in an escape pod.
::During the Alliance-Reaver space battle, the Alliance Operative abandons his crumbling warship in a bridge escape pod.
::In the pilot of '' Deep Space Nine '', a flashback to the Battle Of Wolf 359 depicts Commander Benjamin Sisko and Jake Sisko escaping the doomed USS ''Saratoga''. ::In '' in the northwest Pacific. ::In the '' Deep Space Nine '' episode " The Changing Face Of Evil ," during the Second Battle of Chin'toka, the crew of the USS ''Defiant'' used them to evacuate when their ship was completely disabled by a Breen power draining weapon.
::In '''', General Grievous abandons his Trade Federation crusier above Coruscant using an escape pod. ::Near the beginning of '''', the Droid s R2-D2 and C-3PO escape the Rebel Blockade Runner when it is captured by an Imperial Star Destroyer ; Princess Leia directs them to deliver vital strategic information to Obi-Wan Kenobi on Tatooine , where the pod crashes, and the droids are first captured by Jawas and later bought by Luke Skywalker 's Uncle . ::In '''', Luke Skywalker escapes the exploding Death Star in an Imperial Shuttle . In this case, the shuttle was used as an "escape ship".
::In ''System Shock'' the player can attempt to depart Citadel station after setting the self destruct sequence but SHODAN prevents the launch. ::In '' System Shock 2 '' the player launches himself into the body of The Many using one of the UNN ''Rickenbacker'''s escape pods.
::As one of the mission objectives in the level Air Force One - Anti-Terrorism, Joanna Dark has to escort the President of the United States to an escape pod. In the next mission, after the plane has crashed landed, Joanna has to find the pod and activate a distress beacon, before rescuing the President from his captors. SEE ALSO
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