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Most often, the rescue comes from some sort of aircraft: The pilot dives sharply in pursuit of their falling friend, and either positions the craft underneath to catch them, in which case they land uninjured [[Not the Fall That Kills You|regardless of how fast they were falling]], or else flies parallel to them, and someone pulls them back in by the wrist. (In the latter case, the diving craft will just barely pull out of the dive before smacking into the ground.) This can be accomplished even if you fell ''from that aircraft''.
Alternatively, an individual with the superpower of [[Flight]], or some kind of [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives|giant robot]], or just a mean [[Building Swing]], may swoop in to catch you.
Physics says that [[Not the Fall That Kills You|this really shouldn't work]], but you'll probably be too thankful that you're alive to care.
Compare with [[Take My Hand]]. See also the [[Inevitable Waterfall]] and [[No OSHA Compliance]] for places to fall from.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]'': Minmay falls from Hikaru's Valkyrie during the attack on South Ataria Island, and Hikaru not only does a power dive to save her, but manages to open the jet canopy, pull her in, close the canopy, and pull up in time.
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* In episode 6 of ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', Spike catches Giraffe on the Swordfish after he falls out a window.
** A technique he'd had a chance to practice on Ein four episodes earlier, when the pooch threw himself off a bridge to escape a dognapper.
* Haji pulls this one in ''[[Blood
* Near the end of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'', just as Vita exhausts her magical energy and falls from a great height, Hayate reaches the room where Vita is and catches her badly battered body.
* Played with in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'': every time the girls are summoned to Cephiro, they pop into existence several kilometers above ground. They scream all the way down, until they're caught by Fyula, Clef's giant, [[Summon Magic|summoned]] flying fish. They actually ''bounce'' on impact with Fyula's back before settling down, [[Not the Fall That Kills You|none the worse for wear]].
* Renton and Eureka pull this off at least twice in ''[[Eureka Seven]]''.
* In the final episode of ''[[Gate Keepers]] 21'', Miyu catches Yukino after the latter is struck down in a [[Blast Out]] and falls from the top of a [[Humongous Mecha]]. {{spoiler|Yukino is mortally wounded, however, and dies in Miyu's arms.}}
* In ''[[
* The finale of ''[[Sailor Moon]] SuperS'' has Moon and an unconscious Chibimoon falling to their deaths. After catching Chibimoon, Moon spends the rest of the fall trying to get her to wake up so that they can use the Golden Crystal to save them. When she finally does, the Golden Crystal gives them wings which they use to land safely. It's a touching scene, as long as you ignore how long they spend falling.
** There ''is'' some attempt at physics in this scene. Chibimoon is flung, unconscious and limp, off a huge floating platform; Moon jumps after her using her weight and the velocity of her dive to make up the distance between them. Chibimoon is a little girl no older than 7, so she's also light enough to be blown by the wind. By the time Moon catches her, they have matched velocity. But don't ask me how [[Rule of Cool|transforming into Princess Serenity, flowing gown and all, helped here]].
*** The transformation to her more powerful form may have enabled her to speed up even further to catch up with Chibi Moon. And then once she caught Chibi Moon, the flowing dress helped slow down their fall so that she would have more time to get Chibi Moon to wake up before they both went splat.
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Negi and {{spoiler|Chao}} run out of magic power and start plummeting from their [[High Altitude Battle]]. They are saved by Satsuki, piloting a tramway car that Chao had converted into a ''[[Flying Car|flying restaurant]]''.
* Happens often in ''[[Sonic X]]'', except with Cosmo during her first appearance, where she hit the ground a good few moments before anyone found her... but her dress allowed her to land safely.
** Also used in ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog The Movie]]'', with Knuckles gliding over to catch Sara after she falls out of Robotnik's aircraft.
* In ''[[Pokémon 3]]'', Ash is knocked off the mansion by Entei, but is caught by his Charizard in a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.
* Kaitou Kid in ''Detective Conan'' has a to do this from time to time by virtue of having a Cape that turns into a hang glider. In movie 8 Conan uses it against Kid.
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* Subverted<s>logically</s>, coldly, cruelly with [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]] and Gwen Stacy...
* In [[Kurt Busiek|Kurt Busiek's]] "Walking the Earth" storyline in [[Superman]], Kal-el Actually manages to stop a young girl from jumping in the first place. He still would've caught her if she had, but it seems especially sweet that he went up to talk to her instead of waiting for her to jump.
* ''[[PS238]]'' had a lite version: 84 was de-powered and sliding off an alien spaceship hovering over the town, and Moonshadow threw himself after her, requesting his mentor's nearby stealth plane while moving. {{spoiler|The plane was needed mostly to leave in a dignified way rather than dangle and wait until someone who can fly picks them up - he did successfully [[Grappling Hook Pistol|use the grapple]] with his other hand after grabbing her.}}
== Radio ==
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* And, of course, we can't forget Spock halting Kirk's fall from El Capitan in ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|Star Trek V the Final Frontier]]''... [[Broad Strokes|although much of that film is officially dubious as to its canon status....]]
** And let's not omit Kirk catching Sulu mid-air over Vulcan in [[Star Trek (film)|XI]]. But at least they do take some physics into account and have Kirk's chute be unable to hold them both.
* Gandalf's escape from Isengard via Gwaihir Air Service in the first film of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''. Also counts as a [[Suicidal Gotcha]].
* In ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action|Looney Tunes Back in Action]]'', Jenna Elfman is hurled off the top of the Eiffel Tower, and Brendan Fraser leaps after her, busting out a grappling hook after successfully grabbing her. The movie goes in a different direction from the rather obvious ''Spider-Man'' element by having them swing right through some road stalls, getting stuck with a bunch of flowers, and landing comfortably at a roadside cafe, looking like they're really on a date...
* Subverted in the ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' movie, where instead of catching the falling jet pilot, Iron Man just activates his jammed parachute.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Cave Story]]'': Occurs in the normal ending to the game, where the player and a companion are both caught by a small flying dragon.
* A variation occurs in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'''s Subspace Emissary mode, where several of the heroes jump out of a bomb-filled room and land in Captain Falcon's [[Cool Car]]. They're falling at enough of a height that they ought to be at terminal velocity, but ''Smash'' never really bothered with falling damage, what with being [[Rule of Cool]] and all.
** Really, The terminal velocity for the story doesn't appear to fall under [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]], and is thus about 5
** Also, Meta Knight pulls this off with Lucas and the Pokemon Trainer, ''right'' before they hit the ground. Although at least in that case it seemed like Lucas was trying to psychokinetically slow their fall.
*** Also, the Trainer had already recovered his Charizard at that point, and could have used it to save them. Too bad he was unconscious...
* In ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star
* In ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'', Terra's magic power vanishes, taking away her Esper half and its ability to fly. Setzer then dives his zeppelin-sized (and shaped) airship to catch her, flying fast enough to ''knock out everyone on board'', and [[Improbable Piloting Skills|apparently scooping her up on the bow of the "boat" part of the airship]] (which, aside from being a tenth of the size of the dirigible, hangs from the stern end of the ship.)
* ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'' parodies and subverts this one at the same time. After the second major dungeon, the hero Will falls from a floating continent, but luckily his cousin Neil owns the only biplane in existence, and flies up to catch him. Except he misses Will the first time! The second time he catches him, but <s>in doing so plunges into the ocean</s> runs out of fuel before they reach land, causing them to crash in the ocean ''near'' an island.
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* In ''[[Drakengard]] 2'', Nowe seems to be in the habit of jumping off of high places on purpose simply because he knows that Legna will catch him. He also gets to play hero by doing this: Manah falls off a cliff, Nowe jumps off after her, lands on Legna, and the pair of them race downwards until they're beneath Manah, where Nowe catches her safely in his arms. It's not quite a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], considering some of the things Nowe gets to do later in the game, but it's pretty close.
* The ending of ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' has Ada Wong jump down from a ledge. A few seconds later a helicopter rises into view with Ada sitting inside it, having apparently fallen through the roof and, yes, the rotors.
* [[Final Fantasy XIII]] has the beginning of Chapter 11, where Fang ''and'' Lightning summon [[Transforming Mecha|Bahamut]] to save the party after their airship is crippled
* ''[[Adventure Island]] III'' ending. Higgins and [[
* Done routinely in ''[[Skyward Sword|The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword]]''. Traveling is accomplished by either leaping off one of the [[Floating Continent
== Web Comics ==
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* In ''[[Spacetrawler]]'', both Emily and Growp get knocked out a window during a fight. Both of them snatch passing hoverbikes to stop their descent... and then crash their bikes into the ground.
* In the [[David Gonterman]] comic ''[[Sailor Moon]] USA'', Gonterman's [[Author Avatar]] at the time does this to Sailor Moon herself. What's worse was that this was done after Queen Beryl launched her from ''Tokyo to St. Louis''. And the worst Usagi suffered was passing out and a ravaged uniform. [[MST3K Mantra|It's best not to think of it too much.]]
* ''[[mezzacotta|Lightning Made of Owls]]'' [http://www.mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=29 once] joked about the physics of catching by superheroes.
== Web Original ==
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* In an unusual case of the craft doing the falling part, the second season finale of ''[[Justice League]]'', "Starcrossed," has Batman piloting the Watchtower (the League's orbital base) on a kamikaze descent to destroy an alien engine. He's pulled out of the collapsing wreckage by Superman seconds before impact.
** This is pretty much what [[Superman]] ''does''. Word of advice: If you plan on killing yourself by jumping off a building, don't do it in Metropolis. If you're looking for an exclusive interview, on the other hand, by all means jump out that 30th-story window...
*** Parodied in [[
*** This is [[Deconstruction|deconstructed]] in [[The Incredibles]]. A guy jumps off a building, Mr. Incredible catches him at an 90-degree angle, smashing through a glass window in the process. Mr. Incredible is [[
** Superman (again) does it to Batman (again) after the Batplane is eaten by alien nanomachine dogs, and his ejection seat is destroyed. Fortunately, Batman is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know he's got time, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unl8l8VdONw calmly calls for help over the radio].
** Dr. Light bails Batman out ''the second time he plummets in the same episode''.
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