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* [[Neon Genesis Evangelion (Anime)|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]: The titular Evangelions (including {{spoiler|the ones mass-produced by SEELE}}) do hard drops once in a while.

* ''[[Gundam]]:'' ''[[The 08th MS Team]]'' does this in one episode.

* The opening of the ''Spring'' [[OVA]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima (Manga)|Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' had Negi's entire class skydiving from Ayaka's private plane to reach the beach resort. Why? Why not?

* In the unlockable OVA included in ''[[Mega Man X (Video Game)|Mega Man X]]: Maverick Hunter X'', "The Day of Sigma," X is deployed in trying to stop a maverick outbreak by being airdropped at the area the attack is going to occur at, eventually when at close range he fires an immense charge shot at the maverick, knocking it down temporarily.

* In [[Y the Last Man|Y: The Last Man]] every man on Earth [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|(except one)]] has been killed by a mysterious plague, but the protagonists encounter a Russian woman who claims that [[But What About the Astronauts?|two surviving male astronauts]] from the International Space Station will be landing in Kansas. Later in Kansas Dr Mann, who's been skeptical about the whole idea, looks up to see the re-entry vessel falling on the end of its parachutes.

* [[And If That Don't Work (Fanfic)|And If That Don't Work]] uses hard drops regularly, far more than canon. Such as the {{spoiler|Ramiel }}battle. Unlike the canon this time the pilots regularly sing paratrooper songs. It's that kind [[Real Robot|of fic.]]

* A similar scene in ''[[Moonraker (Film)|Moonraker]]'', where Bond catches up with the guy with the parachute and ''steals'' it.

** This was parodied in an episode of the TV show ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'', where Ace Rimmer goes one step further and ''rides a crocodile'' down through the air and ''then'' steals the parachute. [[Running Gag|What a guy!]]

** It was also parodied in the ''[[Get Smart (Film)|Get Smart]]'' movie, where 99 has to save max as he falls without a parachute.

* Another Bond example in ''[[The Spy Who Loved Me (Film)|The Spy Who Loved Me]]'', where [[James Bond]] skis off the edge of a cliff to avoid Soviet troops and pops [[Wearing a Flag On Your Head|a parachute with the British flag on it]].

** ''[[Tomorrow Never Dies (Film)|Tomorrow Never Dies]]'' featured a HALO jump, officially the most [[Badass]] aerial insertion method to be used in [[Real Life]].

* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit]]''

** The [[Star Trek (Film)|latest film]] had Kirk, Sulu, and a [[Red Shirt]] (who opened his chute too late so he could show off) skydiving from the stratosphere.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Shoot Em Up (Film)|Shoot Em Up]]''.

* ''[[Operation Dumbo Drop (Film)|Operation Dumbo Drop]]'', a [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]] movie that ends with an ''elephant'' being parachuted into the drop zone.

* The Mobile Infantry in ''[[Starship Troopers (Literature)|Starship Troopers]]'' drops from orbit and used parachutes and/or jets during part of the reentry. They also [[Hold Your Hippogriffs|refurbished]] an old paratrooper joke about Napoleon's tomb.

* The SF novel ''[[Footfall (Literature)|Footfall]]'' had a mass paratroop drop by invading aliens who looked like small two-trunked elephants.

* ''[[Honor Harrington (Literature)|The Shadow of Saganami]]'' makes a big plot point out of a massed drop of [[Powered Armor|power-armored]] [[Space Marine|Royal Manticoran Marine Corps]] heavy company on a suspected terrorist hideout. They've dropped from the shuttle, though, not from the orbit, and used tethered countergravs, so it was actually very close to [[Real Life]] paradrop.

** As the books are set in the ''[[Master of Orion (Video Game)|Master of Orion]]'' universe, various operations from space are mentioned or described, including orbital drop raids on Alkari planets (the bird-like Alkari are superior in space combat, but their planetside settlements are vulnerable) and never landing on Bulrathi worlds (the bear-like Bulrathi are feared close combat fighters, but their ships aren't particularly remarkable in space combat).

** In the ''[[Warrior Cats (Literature)|Warrior Cats]]'' series, one battle tactic that SkyClan developed and later ThunderClan used involves the attackers hiding in trees above the battlefield, and then dropping down all at once onto the enemy. This often works, seeing as it has quite the element of surprise, and of course it can't feel nice to have someone land on you from many times above your head height, but if the opponent is expecting it and dodges, this can result in nasty injuries for the falling cats.

* ''[[Band of Brothers (TV)|Band of Brothers]]'' follows a company in the 101st Airborne Infantry, and shows the airborne landings during operations Overlord and Market Garden.

* Similarly, ''[[Battle Tech]]'' occasionally makes use of paradropped-from-orbit [[Humongous Mecha]]. The ''preferred'' method is still to let the [[Drop Ship|DropShip]] touch down properly or at least get down far enough to let jump-capable 'Mechs make a low altitude drop onto the battlefield, but special reentry cocoons that break away at the proper altitude and free them to ride down the rest of the way using jump jets or packs make orbital drops feasible, if risky.

* Not men, but goombas in ''[[Super Mario Bros|Super Mario World]]'', can parachute down, sometimes over half a dozen at once.

** And in ''[[Super Mario Bros]] 3'', some flying Paragoombas would rain swarms of Minigoombas down on the plumber's head.

** ''Red Alert 3'' gives the Allies the Century Bomber, which can load a group of infantry and then drop them at a selected location; the Soviets have the Bullfrog, which launches infantry (or [[Everything's Worse With Bears|bears]]) via a machine called the "[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|man-cannon]]".

* In ''[[Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri|Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri]]'', units with the Drop Pods special ability can do air drops. Or "Orbital Insertions" anywhere on the planet, for the faction that builds the Space Elevator.

* ''[[Section 8]]'' is a FPS which utilizes this constantly--your character will 'burn in' instead of respawning, which means they get shot out fast enough to hit the ground ''in ten seconds'' from a dropship at 15000 feet, allowing you to drop anywhere on the game map. Naturally, there is the possibility of enemy interference while burning in (from AA guns). There are also no parachutes, though you may brake and slow your descent anyway. If you don't, you won't have control over your [[Player Character]], so they'll just go straight downward from the chosen burn-in point until they hit the ground, and take an extra second to ready themselves from hitting the ground at 500 feet a second by hitting the ground on impact with both hands and getting up. They wear particularly cool [[Powered Armor]], if you were wondering how one could survive that (Ok, [[Variable Terminal Velocity]] still sounds like it's in effect).

* In ''[[Battlefield (Video Game)|Battlefield 2142]]'', the one of the fastest ways to get from point A to B safely on a Titan map is in a drop-pod launched from the [[Airborne Aircraft Carrier|Titan]]. You ([[Dummied Out|used to]]) get the added bonus of taking down any aircraft, troops, or light vehicles that you meet on the way down. If you're in a squad, and the squad leader deploys a spawn beacon, you can be pod-dropped (from really high up rather than just titan height) at the beacon's location.

* ''[[Americas Army]]'' lets you train your character to take part in para missions.

* In the MMOFPS ''[[Planet Side]]'' you could enter into battle via orbital drop. In the early days the shuttle that took you up to orbit only left every fifteen minutes.

* In ''[[Prototype (Video Game)|Prototype]]'', Alex Mercer enjoys doing this [[Death From Above|from the tops of skyscrapers]].

* Occurs in the Dam level in ''[[Golden Eye Wii (Video Game)|Golden Eye Wii]]'', which swaps out the original's bungee cord for a parachute. Bond jumps off the dam ''without'' the parachute, and uses the water flowing out of the dam to break his fall instead.

* In ''[[Just Cause (Video Game)|Just Cause 2]]'' enemy reinforcements may parachute in. Also, Rico's parachute allows him to rain [[One-Man Army]].

* Adam Jensen of ''[[Deus Ex Human Revolution (Video Game)|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' can safely fall from great heights using the Icarus Landing System. Later, {{spoiler|many heavily armed soldiers drop in to the Alice garden pod area.}}

* ''[[A Miracle of Science (Webcomic)|A Miracle of Science]]'': [http://www.project-apollo.net/mos/mos118.html "Is this a common thing for Martians, re-entering without a spacecraft?" "Actually, it's never been done before."]

* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)|The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': The [[Alt Text]] in [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/17p37 this strip.]

* ''[[A Beginners Guide to The End of The Universe]]'' has a bunch of people descend while using the protagonist itself, who is wearing [[Not Quite Flight|gravity-defying armor]], as a parachute. [http://nixshadow.com/mspfa/?s=132&p=661 In here] (spoilerriffic link warning).

* ''[[Skippys List (Literature)|Skippys List]]'' has examples:

{{quote| 35. Not allowed to sing "High Speed Dirt" by [[Megadeth (Music)|Megadeth]] during airborne operations. ("See the earth below/Soon to make a crater/Blue sky, black death, I’m off to meet my maker")}}

* ''[[X Men Evolution]]'' had one episode where [[Captain America]] and [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Wolverine]] performed this in World War 2. Since their mission required quickness, they did it without parachutes. Justified in that both have a healing factor and the plane nearly landed to accomplish this.

** Covered in various media, such as the ''[[The Longest Day]]'', ''[[Band of Brothers (TV)|Band of Brothers]]'' and ''[[Medal of Honor]] Airborne''.

** [http://tinyurl.com/4ldnko Operation Greif] during the Battle of the Bulge had English-speaking German soldiers paradropping behind Allied lines to perform sabotage missions. [[Cry for The Devil|(It failed).]]