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What goes up must always come down. In this case, it comes down ''hard''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Happens a few times in ''[[Ranma One Half|Ranma 1/2]]''
* Also in ''[[
** 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 The Shell (
* 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.
** [[
** [[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 ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Iron Man (
* Colossus landing in the battlefield in ''[[X-Men (
* [[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 (
* The film ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Alex Mercer in the game ''[[Prototype (
* Cole in ''[[
** 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 ''[[Earthbound]]'' land in their incredible flying machine, they typically crash land, making a nice big boom.
* In ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* Characters on ''[[
** 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 ''[[
* 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 ''[[
** Also to [[Not the Fall That Kills You|soften their landing]]
* ''[[The Tick]]''. He also tends to leave indents and craters when starting his leaps, in according to Newton's third law.
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