Not to be confused with the video game series Clock Tower or the magazine The Watchtower. If someone climbs up one of these with a weapon in real life, duck. Please list only the famous ones under the Real Life section.Īka Cathedral Climax, a subtrope of Climbing Climax. Used mostly for aesthetic appeal in modern times. Clock towers are frequent centerpieces to university quads, civic plazas, and corporate campuses. This trope is extremely prevalent in Real Life. The Palace of Westminster Clock Tower (now the Elizabeth Tower) shows up the most of any real tower it is more often referred to as Big Ben, the nickname of its main bell (it has five). The workings of the Custom House Tower clock in Boston, for example, are about the size of a file cabinet those of Big Ben, though weighing about five tonnes, cover the same sort of area as a large table.) (The mechanism inside real clock towers is often much smaller than in fiction. Alternately, it might stop the clock on somebody about to be crushed, but only until the wrench breaks. When the gears are invariably jammed with an errant sword or wrench, expect the whole thing to tear itself apart as the designers conveniently forgot to include any sort of clutch, disconnect, or even an emergency "off" switch. Expect a stadium-sized Clockworks Area chamber full of spur gears the size of Volkswagens, on and about which the hero and villain will climb and clamber as they fight. If inside, there will be plenty of gears and other mechanisms, or at least a rope to ring the bell.Often leads to subtrope of Clock Tower Stock Clock Hand Hang. For whatever reason, escaped parrots also like to perch here.
Characters nervously perching on the ledge invariably located above the clock face.One may be used to increase the suspense in a Race Against the Clock, act as the home or base for the main characters, or become the stage for a Fight Scene or Climbing Climax. Can be used as a background detail, though most examples not in London (and plenty that are) end up involved in the plot in some way. Beloved of hunchbacks, of villains who need their capes to billow dramatically, and of snipers with poor tactical sense. A giant timepiece, visible throughout its locale.
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