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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]''
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** ''[[Die Another Day]]'': Bond shoots a [[Falling Chandelier of Doom|a giant chandelier]], Zao looks up and screams as it crushes him.
* ''[[The Dark Knight]]'' has such a scene, though it's a bit different: it was a car bomb. One of the Joker's victims was given an envelope telling her where she was going into hiding, and the only word inside was "up". She looked up... and then the car ''went'' up.
* ''[[The Transporter|Transporter 3]]'': The warehouse fight scene ends with Frank Martin hitting a switch that drops a car onto two temporarily incapacitated bad guys, who look up, scream, and hold their hands up (ineffectually).
* ''Over Her Dead Body'': The [[Villain Protagonist]] dies at the beginning of the film because she just stood there staring at the falling statue, even though [[What an Idiot!|she had plenty of time to get out of the way]].
* ''[[Mission: Impossible (film)||Mission Impossible]]'': In the opening, the Hacker-type on Tom Cruise's team is killed in this way. However, he was sitting on top of a rising elevator at the time: it rose upwards and drove his face into some spikes ([[No Kill Like Overkill|not to mention being crushed as well]]).
* [[The Dragon]] from ''[[Lethal Weapon|Lethal Weapon 2]]'' got a face full of shipping container.
* Subverted in ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Return of the King]]'', where Gothmog stares at the huge chunk of rock that is about to crush him, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|only to take a step back at the last second, causing it to miss him completely]]. And then he ''[[Badass|spits on it]]''.
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== Real Life ==
* Rock climbers never yell "heads up" or "look out" for exactly this reason; people looking up may get hit in the unprotected face instead of on the top of their helmets. Instead, climbers shout "Rock!" (even if what's falling is a piece of equipment or some other non-rock object), which means to get your head down and stand close to the wall. If something very large falls, the shout is instead "Boulder!", which means you ''should'' look up, at least so you can see what's about to smash you.
* Similarly, at least one construction company has "don'bethere!" as a code word for telling people to vacate where they're standing, without wasting any time to "look out" or figure out where to "move."
* Theater. One of the first things they teach on tech crew is ''don't'' look up when people yell "heads up," as that's a great way to get a faceful of molten plastic, shattered glass, broken light, falling planks . . . you get the picture. Run, duck, cover your head, just ''don't'' look up.
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