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[[File:KorraGroundShatteringLanding_313KorraGroundShatteringLanding 313.jpg|link=The Legend of Korra (Animation)|rightframe|Complete with a [[Three -Point Landing]]!]]
 
What goes up must always come down. In this case, it comes down HARD''hard''.▼
 
▲What goes up must always come down. In this case, it comes down HARD.
 
This trope illustrates characters who can land with such an impact that it can break the ground beneath them. Remember though, to have enough force to break the ground, (often a concrete sidewalk or asphalt street) you also would have enough force to break your legs, or if you are falling from high enough, every bone in your body. Though given the mass of the human body even that isn't likely to be enough to break solid concrete. However, those who make a dramatic entrance this way are rarely human anyway.
 
Can be combined with [[Three -Point Landing]] for extra [[Badass]] points.
 
See [[In a Single Bound]] who this would probably apply to. Also see [[Ground Pound]] for examples of more hard landings.
 
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Happens a few times in ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2½]]''
* Also in ''[[DragonballDragon Ball]] Z'', when the Saiyans land their space pods. Raditz's makes quite a crater, and Nappa and Vegeta's actually destroy buildings before leaving their mark on the Earth. And that's not to mention what happens during the fights that the characters get into.
** The series also features Ground Shattering Takeoffs - As the characters get stronger, the [[Chunky Updraft]] climbs to ridiculous levels, usually culminating in a violent explosion just as a character launches into flight.
* Major Kusanagi does it both in the ''[[Stand Alone Complex]]'' and [[Ghost in Thethe Shell (Anime1995 film)||the movie version]] of ''[[Ghost in Thethe Shell]]'', who is a full-body cyborg. The series tends to be inconsistent on this part, however, as she rarely leaves markings when starting her leaps and is on one occasion capable of doing huge leaps on the roof of an antique wooden building without any of the old lumber giving way during take-off or landing.
* In the [[Appleseed]] manga Briareos (a full conversion cyborg) inflicts a fair amount of damage to things he lands on.
 
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* See Superman, The Incredible Hulk, and other heroes with massive strength or mass.
** [[The Incredible Hulk (Comic Book)|The Incredible Hulk]] often uses this as an attack.
** [[Iron Man]]'s famous [[Three -Point Landing]] pose is well known for causing this kind of damage.
 
== Fan Works ==
* When Paul lands (or jumps, for that matter) with significant force in ''[[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]]'', he leaves a big hole. Enough of a problem that he's very careful about when and where he jumps.
 
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Iron Man (Filmfilm)|Iron Man]]'' does it in the movie version: he crashes through the ground and ends up in his underground garage.
* Colossus landing in the battlefield in ''[[X-Men (Filmfilm)|X-Men]]: The Last Stand''.
* [[Hancock]] does this after flying to show how messy and inefficient he is.
* Morpheus ends his demonstration of his gravity-defying skills with this in the first ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' film.
** And in the second, Neo makes the ground ''ripple'' when landing or taking off.
* Selene does this in the opening of ''[[Underworld (Filmfilm)|Underworld]]''. Her legs not breaking can be excused by her being a vampire. Her '''high-heeled boots''' on the other hand...
* The film ''[[Chronicle (Film)|Chronicle]]'' features this trope when the film's protagonist lands in front of several neighborhood bullies.
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Alex Mercer in the game ''[[Prototype (Videovideo Gamegame)|Prototype]]'' can do this. The best part is that some landings can send cars flying depending on the height you jump from!
* Cole in ''[[In FamousInfamous (Videovideo game Gameseries)|In Famous]]'' also can do this. Extra fun when you [[Dynamic Entry|charge up with electricity on your way down...]]
** Both the ''Prototype'' and ''inFAMOUS'' characters, while they can do it, also have special attacks that charge up the slam.
* Added as an ability in the first patch to [[Crackdown]].
** Oddly enough, the ground ''heals''.
* When the title characters in ''[[EarthboundEarthBound]]'' land in their incredible flying machine, they typically crash land, making a nice big boom.
* In ''[[War CraftWarcraft]]'', Infernals are summoned demons that land meteor-style, doing damage and stunning any unfortunate enough to have been landed on.
** In War3, stomp-type spells leave a small crater around the caster, despite going no more than an inch or so in the air (and ''this'' assuming they didn't simply raise a single foot and bring it down in an almighty impact).
* In the later Tekken and [[Soul Calibur]] games, being thrown onto the ground (via either a literal throw or a botched landing) results in that spot being cracked. It only disappears when another crack happens.
* The fat and heavily armored knight in ''[[Trine (Video Game)|Trine]]'' is heavy enough to break fragile surfaces (such as wooden planks) by falling on them from a good height.
* Characters on ''[[Champions Online (Video Game)|Champions Online]]'' do this if falling from a high enough height. Always happens if you use Super Jump or Rocket Jump.
** The same is true of [[DC Universe Online]].
* This is [[Badass|Mace Windu]]'s trademark jump attack in ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]] II''.
* The DS game of the ''[[Transformers]]'' film does this whenever you jump.
* An actual power in ''[[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction]]'', with several variations.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] can do this with the bounce/bound attack in some of the games. Knuckles can also do this.
* Shogun type enemies in [[The Dishwasher]]: Vampire smile do this either when they spawn or when they leap in the middle of combat. And at higher difficulties, ''[[For Massive Damage|they really, really hurt.]]''
* Jarvan in ''[[League of Legends]]'' does this, leaping on someone and trapping them within the circle of rock that shoots up around the impact point.
* Ezio in ''[[Assassin's Creed Revelations (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed: Revelations]]'' does this to a wooden platform during the opening cinematic, after escaping from his impending hanging by wrapping the rope around the hangman's neck and jumping off, untying himself while dangling in midair, then falling at least three stories and finishing with a [[Three -Point Landing]]. Better, this is [[Canon]], as gameplay starts immediately following the event, from which Ezio [[Unflinching Walk|walks away]] [[Made of Iron|without a scratch]]. Did we mention that he's [[Badass Grandpa|52]] at the time?
* You can do this everytime you respawn in [[Section 8 (video game)]]'s multiplayer, complete with [[Three -Point Landing]]... which is to be expected since 'respawning' includes dropping in (Being shot out of a [[Drop Ship]]) from 15 kilometers above ground with nothing but your [[Power Armor]]. While you do have airbrakes to give you a somewhat softer landing, there's always the possibility of some self-induced [[Death From Above]] on some poor sap who forgot to look up to see you coming.
 
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Nathan Explosion does this in the title-opening for ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', but it's just for drama since he can't do this in the actual series.
* [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earthbenders]] in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' and its [[Sequel Series]] ''[[The Legend of Korra (Animation)|The Legend of Korra]]'' can do this to greater or lesser degrees.
** Also to [[Not the Fall That Kills You|soften their landing]]
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]''. He also tends to leave indents and craters when starting his leaps, in according to Newton's third law.
 
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