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{{quote|'''Luigi''': [[Trope Namer|I fell for hours!]]<br />
'''Yoshi''': Oh, hours long time!<br />
'''Luigi''': ... well, it seemed like hours.|The ''[[Memetic Mutation|Mama Luigi]]'' episode of ''[[Super Mario World (
Namely, it's when [[Not the Fall That Kills You]] meets [[Overly Long Gag]]; a character takes a fall (perhaps from an [[Absurd Altitude]]), and falls for a really, really long time, long enough for either the character or the audience to start wondering when the fall will end. Generally unrealistic (unless someone is sky diving), especially since the character will almost always survive the fall. It's rather hard for it not to be [[Played for Laughs]]. It might involve a [[Bottomless Pit]], or at least a near-bottomless one. [[Bonus Points]] if the character becomes bored and starts to look for things to do to pass the time, though it can be equally hilarious to just have them [[Overly Long Scream|scream their lungs out the entire time]] (perhaps even stopping to take a breath mid-scream, which is a sure indicator that this trope is in effect).
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The trap-door pit in Ilpalazzo's headquarters in ''[[Excel Saga (
** Usually it's a fairly short fall, ending in a splash. However, the first time, Excel spends a good two minutes lamenting her fate, and later we see Il Palazzo hired Puchus to expand it. He eventually uses it to drop Excel from Japan to America.
* In the finale of ''[[Sailor Moon]] SuperS'' Chibi-Moon is thrown from an asteroid that is rising up to the moon and falls down to earth, down to Tokyo, with Sailor Moon after her, in a sequence that takes about four minutes within the show.
* ''[[
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* Kevin Matchstick is suspended over a bottomless pit while being interrogated by the Umbra Sprite in ''[[wikipedia:Mage (comics)|The Hero Discovered]]''. In a horrific variant of this trope, the Umbra Sprite describes a cat he tossed down the pit whose cries he could hear echoing back up for weeks.
* At one point in the ''Tales of Suspense'' story "The New [[Iron Man]] Meets [[X-Men|The Angel]]," Iron Man's jets fail during an aerial battle with a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Angel. While Iron Man exclaims at least twice that he will hit the ground in "seconds," his fall lasts for more than one page of the magazine. During that time, Iron Man reflects on at least two regrets (not coming up with suitable [[Famous Last Words]] and never saying goodbye to Pepper Potts and Happy Hogan) and the Angel pulls a [[Heel Face Turn]], before the Angel finally saves Shellhead about ''16 panels'' after letting him fall.
* In a ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' Eddie Valiant falls off a Toontown sky scraper long enough to have a conversation with [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]] and [[Mickey Mouse]].
* In the 3-D ''[[Journey to The Center of The Earth]]'' movie, the characters fall, scream, stop screaming, realize, "WE'RE STILL FALLING!" and scream some more. In the end they land [[Soft Water|in water.]]
* The second ''[[Spy Kids]]'' movie. The fall was so long, they eventually got bored to tears.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* The rabbit hole Alice tumbles down in ''[[
* In ''[[The
* In the ~Robin McKinley~ novel ''[[The Hero and The Crown]]'', the protagonist climbs an insanely huge staircase, and then falls down it when during her battle with the [[Big Bad]], it's destroyed. The kicker is that it's way, way more than hours.
** Based on the state of her injuries and the landscape she landed in, she spent somewhere between one and five centuries climbing, and six to twelve months falling.
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* In ''Wizard'', second novel in the Gaea series, a character falls from the hub of the gargantuan living space station all the way to the outer torus. Between the low gravity inside of Gaea and the sheer distance, it takes the better part of a hour, {{spoiler|allowing sufficient time for a winged humanoid to notice her, and offer to slow her fall to a survivable speed in exchange for sexual favors.}}
* The Abyss from ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' takes this to a ridiculous extreme -- it's mentioned that someone who fell in would die of starvation long before they reached halfway, then they'd keep falling as a ghost even after this.
* In ''[[Land of Oz
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Many of the ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].'' games feature levels in which Mario falls a long distance, and is able to steer himself through the air to grab rows of coins on his way down.
** A good example is level 5-2 from ''[[
** The Sunken Ghost Ship in ''[[Super Mario World (
** The ''very first part'' of ''[[
** ''[[
* Easily doable in ''[[Glider]] PRO'' given a sufficient expanse of open sky.
* Torin falls down one in the adventure game ''[[
* Doable in most ''[[Grand Theft Auto]]'' games, provided that you use the invincibility cheatcode and have access to aircraft. And depending on where you land (e.g. the sea), sometimes doable ''without'' the aforementioned cheatcode.
* In ''[[Portal (
* The beginning of Chapter 6 in ''[[
{{quote| '''GLaDOS:''' Well, since we aren't going anywhere -- well, we ''are'' going somewhere, alarmingly fast actually, but since we aren't busy other than that...}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Banjo Tooie]]'' features an elevator to move between the five floors of [[Eternal Engine|Grunty Industries]], only there's no elevator and you have to climb a rope to get to the top. Without any elevator to get in your way, however, you can jump off from the top and fall for such a long time that Banjo's falling yell ends before you're even halfway to the bottom. The fall is so long that you will die even with full health (unless you have the fallproof cheat active).
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'':
** In ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog 2]]'', during the Metropolis Zone there's a certain part that turns out to be a vertical [[Wrap Around]], leading to instances of this trope until the player finds a way out of it.
** And this also happens near the beginning of Ice Cap Zone in the sequel, ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles
** ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' had Cosmic Fall. You spend the entire level jumping from falling platforms.
* In the original ''[[
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** Any 3D Zelda game, when using a cheating device and a levitation code, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDH9TlSEpQ can result in this].
* ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'' has one really long fall at one point, in its [[Dark World]].
* Many stage fatalities in the ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' series feature this, but the one most in effect of this trope is the Sky Temple in ''Deception'' (which returns in ''Armageddon''), from which the fall is outrageously long.
* The loading screens of ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]: The Wrath of Cortex'' only show Crash falling, and never hitting any ground.
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** Later, when trying to reach the [[Floating Continent]] via airship, they fight the Imperial Air Force boss in mid-fall. This is quite a lengthy encounter, with clouds scrolling up at high speeds the whole time, but when the party reaches solid ground they're no worse for wear.
* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' has a few of these. The playable introductory sequence has you tumbling down a cliff while fighting angels for four minutes, and the penultimate boss battle has you falling continuously from a skyscraper for however long it takes you to defeat him. The final boss really [[Up to Eleven|takes it up to eleven]] though, when you {{spoiler|punch the spirit of Jubileus out of her body and send it falling into the heart of the sun from beyond the orbit of Pluto}}.
* ''[[
** There is a section of Toad Man's level and it is based on the same thing from Sonic the Hedgehog's Labyrinth Zone.
** After beating Mothraya, Mega Man falls because the explosion knocks Rush away. In fact, the screen fades to black during said fall.
* ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'': At the end of the [[Floating Continent]] dungeon, the protagonist Will jumps off the side and starts falling. His cousin Neil [[Catch a Falling Star|tries to pilot a biplane under him]] but drops a contact lens, resulting in Will continuing to fall for a while while Neil argues with his passengers and brings the plane around again.
* ''[[God of War (
* During the prologue of the H-game ''Sumaga'', the main character has enough time from waking up in freefall to think to himself for a bit, have an extended conversation with three flying girls, watch an aerial battle between said girls and what they mistook him for, and have one of them make a mad dive towards him before he hits the ground and dies. He's awfully calm about it, more so than having [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]].
* One of the bonus levels in ''[[Aero the
== [[Web Original]] ==
* In ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]'', Bunny takes a break from screaming during a leap to his death to look at the time.
* One of the ''[[
* In one of the ''[[
* The German internet phenomena ''[[Coldmirror]]'' has one scetch called "The NEW EIGHTH Harry Potter Book" in which she, dressed up as JKR, presents "Harry Potter and the bottomless black hole". She even reads an excerpt: "Harry looked at Ron and Hermione and fell and fell and fell and fell and fell and fell and fell and fell[[Overly Long Gag|andfellandfellandfellandfellandfellandfellandfelland]]."
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== Western Animation ==
* The [[Trope Namer]], coming from the ''[[Super Mario World (
* The old ''[[The Legend of Zelda (
* ''[[Bugs Bunny]]'':
** The early cartoon ''Heckling Hare'' had both Bugs and the canine antagonist accidentally plummet off a cliff, screaming hysterically and clutching each other as they fall for a [[Overly Long Gag|ridiculously long time]] by the standards of a seven minute short. Director [[Tex Avery]] wanted to have them fall off yet another cliff after they survived the fall from the first one, but Leon Schlessinger [[Executive Meddling|cut Avery's ending]], which prompted Avery to leave Warner for MGM. The cut part also alluded to a very riske joke. Bug's after they fall again. "Hang on to your hats fellas, here we go again!"
** A similar gag was done in ''Falling Hare'', with Bugs Bunny trapped in a plane which plummets down for a long time, with some hilarious takes of Bugs panicking and becoming sick to his stomach. It only stops just before hitting the ground because it runs out of gas.
** Which gets a redo in [[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]] but with a falling car instead, [[Mythology Gag|once again stops a few inches just before hitting the ground]], [[Lampshade Hanging|Bugs Bunny saying]]: "[[Shout-Out|Heh, out of gas.]], [[Quip to Black|the screen fading out]], [[Subverted Trope|and the girl of the party saying]]: "[[Too Dumb to Live|That doesn't work like that!]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|the car crashing into the ground anyway.]]
* On ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', in the episode "Journey to the Center of Acme Acres", Plucky and Hampton fall down a crack in the ground when a huge earthquake hits Acme Acres. After a while, they start getting bored and hope they eventually hit something just to break the monotony. They eventually end up at the center of the Earth where they float because their gravity reaches an equilibrium.
{{quote| '''Hamton''': Think we'll hit bottom soon?<br />
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'''Freakazoid:''' [[Rule of Funny|'Cause it's funny!]]<br />
'''Lobe:''' No it's not, [[Overly Long Gag|it's just stupid!]] [[Continuity Nod|It's as dumb as that Handman episode!]] }}
* An episode of ''[[
* In the French stop-motion film ''A Town Called Panic'', the main characters ride a falling rock for so long that they eventually lapse into a card game on top of it.
* In the ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' episode "Wallaby on Wheels", Heffer falls down the O-Town Bottomless Pit at the end, taking a breath mid-scream before the [[Iris Out]].
* [[
** The episode 'Shanghaied' has the Flying Dutchman throw Squidward in [[Acid Trip Dimension|the Fly Of Despair]] because of his endless ranting. Squidward doesn't reach his house until near the end of the episode.
** In another Spongebob episode, Plankton uses a device to switch lives with Mr. Krabbs, and he begins falling through a type of portal on his way there. While he is only shown falling for a few seconds before a flash, he actually stops mid-fall/scream, takes a drink of a soda he [[Hammerspace|pulled from nowhere,]] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|and then continues to scream and fall.]]
* In the ''[[My Life
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