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{{quote|'''Maroni:''' From one professional to another, if you're going to threaten somebody, pick a better spot! [[Lampshade Hanging|From this height... the fall wouldn't kill me]].
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* The [[Flash]] once did this to a mook. The mook taunted that Flash was trying to copy Batman, but Flash drops him, uses his superspeed to catch him, and then continues dangling him.
* [[Spider-Man]] occasionally does this.
* [[The Punisher]] uses this among other interrogation techniques. Like most typical [[Anti-Hero
** Probably the only time in which this trope was used sensibly was when [[Magnificent Bastard|General]] [[Complete Monster|Zakharov]] was doing this to [[Smug Snake|Rawlings]]; he had no intention of letting the latter live anyway unless Rawlings came up with an epic [[Plan]] under fear of
* [[Superman]], [[The Cape (trope)|surprisingly]], has done this.
** On at least one occasion, he dropped a mook, used superspeed to catch him, and said, "Now, we can keep doing this until I get tired, or..."
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* In ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' episode "Shear Strength," Gwen is being held hostage by The Master Planner, and Spidey attempts to get information out of the captured Tinkerer by dangling him off a building. Tinkerer unwisely calls his bluff, and Spidey really ''does'' drop him, only to save him with a webline at the last minute so he'll talk. The best part is Spidey realistically points out that his reflexes might not be enough to pull that trick off a second time.
* One ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' sketch revolving around Ted Turner becoming [[Captain Planet]] sees him smash through the window of a corporate office while two [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|executives]] are contemplating dumping polluted waste in the Grand Canyon. Turner then proceeds to hold one of the two men out the window until he agrees to sign a clause agreeing to not dump waste in the Grand Canyon, at which point Ted Turner would agree to [[Unhand Them, Villain!|let the guy go]].
* In ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'',
* In ''[[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]]'', War Machine tosses a villain out of a transport helicopter to get him to reveal the whereabouts of Tony, Gene, and Pepper. The first time War Machine catches him, he refuses to crack, so he drops him a second time, this time catching him so the ground is actually in sight. With the prospect that War Machine will keep this up until they close the distance, he breaks.
== Real Life ==
* During [[The Vietnam War]], captured Viet Cong fighters would be loaded into a helicopter and interrogated in the air. If they didn't talk, they would be thrown out of the helicopter, one-by-one, until either they started talking or until they had all been pushed out. However, they were bindfolded and not aware that the pilot had actually lowered the chopper to a non-fatal level and the POWs only fell a few feet, but the other captives didn't know
** Some Vietcong actually died from the fall; they believed the scenario to the extent that falling out of the helicopter triggered a heart attack from which they died.
* Suge Knight of Death Row Records implied to [[Vanilla Ice]] that his thugs would throw him over a balcony unless he signed over the rights to "Ice, Ice Baby". Tabloid rumors suggested that Knight ''did'' this, rather than merely implied it.
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