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** 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.
* ''[[Kite]]'', otherwise a rather serious OVA, has one of these that doubles as an [[Overly Long Gag]]. Sawa fights a man in a bathroom; the two end up falling out of a large hole in the wall. Sawa grabs onto a sign which snaps off the hinges. Sawa and the man spend about two minutes falling, during which they see a random couple having sex in an office. They hit a tunnel and go through the roof; they hit a car and go through the floor of the tunnel. Another two minutes of falling. The car, the mook and Sawa hit the ground and go through to the subway system, upon which they hit a subway train. The sign then falls the rest of the way and blasts Sawa into a nearby building.
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* 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 ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' comic, Spongebob and Patrick drop down a seemingly bottomless pit. They fall for so long that they grow beards and then shave them off before hitting the ground.
* In ''[[Elf Quest
== [[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 second ''[[Spy Kids]]'' movie. The fall was so long, they eventually got bored to tears.
{{quote|'''Carmen''': How long have we been falling?
'''Juni''': I don't know. [[Shoe Phone|My watch]] [[Brick Joke|doesn't tell time.]] }}
** Though it was actually an illusion; they were being held up by a fan.
*** A variation on this was done in ''[[Undercover Brother]]'', where the titular hero was first being led to the BROTHERHOOD headquarters, the entrance was through a barbershop. Then the seats drop, and we see Undercover Brother and Sistah Girl falling for quite a while, with UB screaming all the time. Then it turns out they only dropped a single story with the fans and some clever lighting providing the falling effect.
* Even in the book Gandalf later on claims to have been falling forever, but in the movie version of ''[[Lord of the Rings]]: The Two Towers'' we actually see Gandalf and the Balrog falling down the pit under the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm, taking several minutes to reach the bottom, and [[Free-Fall Fight|fighting each other all the way down]].
* In ''[[Twice Upon a Time (1983 film)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', Flora falls for so long after stepping out of Rod Rescueman's flying bachelor pad, Rod has enough time to wash and iron one of his dirty capes before flying to her rescue... sorta.
* In "[[Bill and Teds Bogus Journey]]", the two title characters find themselves in this situation when they are exorcised by Missy and her new age friends. After several minutes of screaming, Bill remarks, "Dude. This is a totally deep hole." and Ted replies "Yeah...now what?" and they start screaming again because there is nothing else they can do. The drop last so long and B&T are so bored that they end up playing 'Twenty Questions' before FINALLY hitting the bottom (Hell).
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* In the ''[[Tunnels]]'' series, if you fall into [[Bottomless Pit|the Pore]], you fall for ''days''. What eventually stops you is not any sort of bottom, but the gradual loss of gravity. (The ''Tunnels'' series has a rather strained relationship with [[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress|inertia]]... don't think about it too hard).
* In ''[[House of Leaves]]'', Navidson is stuck at the bottom of the Grand Staircase after it suddenly gets a '''lot''' longer, and hears a coin drop. He realizes it must have been dropped by Tom right after the Staircase stopped expanding, over fifty minutes ago. The book explicitly notes that this makes the shaft of the Staircase longer than the diameter of the Earth. Considering how [[Alien Geometries|fucked-up the geometry of the house is]], it makes perfect sense.
* Used in some [[Choose Your Own Adventure]] books. One has the main protagonist fall into a bottomless pit (one is a dragon, and the current speed prevents the dragon from opening the wings), and another has the lead charcters fall down a bright, cold, icy slide.
* 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.
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== Stand Up ==
* Also, a Demetri Martin joke:
{{quote|One time I was riding the escalator and I tripped. I fell down them for an hour and a half.}}
== [[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 ''[[Super Mario Bros 3]]''
** The Sunken Ghost Ship in ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]''.
** The ''very first part'' of ''[[Super Mario Bros. 2]]'' has you falling from a door in the sky onto a hill in Subcon.
** ''[[Super Mario Sunshine]]'' has a glitch involving Mario, Yoshi, and a flower that forcefully moves sand on the beach to send Mario flying past the sun. The resulting fall can take anywhere from 45 minutes to over an hour.
* Easily doable in ''[[Glider]] PRO'' given a sufficient expanse of open sky.
* Torin falls down one in the adventure game ''[[Torin's Passage]]'', and he falls so long that he has to stop to catch his breath mid-scream.
* 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 (series)|Portal]]'', you can set up a portal loop such that your character falls indefinitely through the ceiling and into the floor. There's an achievement for doing this, called "Terminal Velocity"—you have to set up a portal loop and let yourself fall for about 15 minutes to get it... and hope you aren't subject to motion sickness.
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** And this also happens near the beginning of Ice Cap Zone in the sequel, ''[[Sonic 3 and Knuckles|Sonic 3 & Knuckles]]''. [[Guide Dang It|How do you make it stop?]] {{spoiler|You see that one ice block there? Try to land on it, because it's the only flat surface around. It'll break off from the rest of the ice, then slide along and break through an otherwise-unbreakable wall, thus getting you out of the area.}}
** ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' had Cosmic Fall. You spend the entire level jumping from falling platforms.
* In the original ''[[Castlevania (1986 video game)|Castlevania]]'' on the NES, the entrance to level 4 starts by Simon Falling down a chasm into the level. It was not even close to endless, but some fans came up with a theory that the fall is the reason for Simon now taking 4 damage from ''everything'', due to mortal wounds
* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask|The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'', in Snowhead Temple, there's one area where you must fall for several in-game hours (if you aren't using the Inverted Song of Time, that is) as Deku Link—just to get the last Stray Fairy of the area. Of course, it's worth it to get the Double Magic Meter. All the while, Link's just making strange spasms while holding onto the flowers.
** Any 3D Zelda game, when using a cheating device and a levitation code, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JDH9TlSEpQ can result in this].
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* ''[[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}}.
* ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]''
** 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 (series)|God of War]] 3'' has the sequence right before Cerberus, the game's [[That One Boss]]. Kratos Literally jumps off the Daedelus' Labyrinth and falls forever until he gets to the bottom of the chain. What's really strange, is how the impact from hitting things during the fall causes damage, yet the impact from reaching the ground does nothing.
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** 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?
'''Plucky''': I hope so, this is so boring. Getting splattered would be a nice change! }}
* In ''[[The Flight of Dragons]]'': "It seems like we've been falling for hours!" "Actually, it's been more like ten centuries!"
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'':
** Ozzie Smith falls into a seemingly-bottomless pit tourist attraction in the softball episode. It doesn't stop him from snapping pictures on the way down.
** Also happens when Bart and Sideshow Bob fall off the Springfield Dam in "Brother from Another Series". The fall takes long enough for them to scream, take a long inhale, then keep screaming.
* In the '' [[Freakazoid!]]!'' "Virtual Freak", this happens to Freakazoid and the Lobe.
{{quote|'''Lobe:''' Freakazoid! Why is it taking us so long to fall?!
'''Freakazoid:''' [[Rule of Funny|'Cause it's funny!]]
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