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Compare [[Fast Roping]].

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

* The Forwards in ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] StrikerS'' frequently perform this without the aid of parachutes. Air Mages have [[Flight]] capabilities. Ground Mages have to settle for hard drops, with their Barrier Jackets likely cushioning the impact.

* In the ''[[Escaflowne]]'' movie, the soldiers of the Black Dragon Clan are dropped to a city about to be occupied from airships in capsules that have the aerodynamic properites of a brick, and absolutely no padding inside. This doesn't prevent them from walking out in perfect formations.

* In the unlockable OVA included in ''[[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.

== Comic Books ==

* [[Captain America]] seems to do this a fair amount. Here's [http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/4042187.html one instance], where he actually lets go of the parachute because "I better get down there faster!"

** On another occasion he was dropped out of a plane, ''in a tank''. He landed it on top of the Hulk.

* [[Super Soldier|GIs]] in ''[[Rogue Trooper]]'' are intended to be dropped in capsules from space to quickly overrun enemy positions.

* [[Aeon Natum Engel (Fanfic)|Aeon Natum Engel]] has a example of dropping on already mid-air Migou swarm ships from even higher altitude with Marines in Power Armor and EVA 02. It works.

* [[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.]]

* The films ''Drop Zone'' and ''[[Terminal Velocity]]'', were about skydiving along with an [[Xtreme Sport Xcuse Plot]].

* A scene in ''[[Point Break]]'', which the ''[[Myth Busters]]'' proved was impossible, save for one part.

== Literature ==

* Cordwainer Smith's short story, "When the People Fell". The first step in the Chinese colonisation of Venus is a parachute landing by several million people.

* The Mobile Infantry in ''[[Starship Troopers (novel)|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.

** On the Gral' world the protagonists witness 9 rings of shooting stars and one single shooting star in the middle, until one remarks the "fireworks" are the Empire's regular orbital drop procedure - 9 groups of 111 men each and the commander of the unit dropped last. The actual rings are due to {{spoiler|the part of the planet being "Evil Ground", where only some chosen humans and those bound to the chosen by friendship or insane hate may walk. The marines are dropped around "Evil Ground", their commander is the first of the chosen and lands spot-on to confront the protagonists.}}

** In the ''[[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.

== Live Action TV ==

== Tabletop Games ==

* Various races in ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' have troops equipped with jump packs dropped off by aircraft to descend on a battlefield, as well as drop pods--armoured pods fired straight at a planet ''from orbit''--used for extremely rapid troop deployment. There's even a special term for it--"Deep Strike". The [[Space Marine|Space Marines]] in particular love using this, likely to enforce their imagery of [[Elites Are More Glamorous|elite troops]], as rapid and precise deployment is a common characteristic of elite troops in [[Real Life]]. Some Imperial Guard regiments use grav-chutes instead.

** How endemic is this? One of the Soul Drinkers novels gave us a ''drop assault [[Zombie Apocalypse]]''.

* ''[[Paranoia]]'' missions to Outside occasionally involve replacement clones being delivered by missile. [[Suspiciously Specific Denial|There isn't a 5% chance that the door will be stuck, causing the replacement clone to suffocate before they can get out]], [[Blatant Lies|and there]] ''[[Blatant Lies|certainly]]'' [[Blatant Lies|isn't a 10% chance that the missile will hit one of the other Troubleshooters]].

** In the adventure ''Vapors Don't Shoot Back'' the Troubleshooters got to make a parachute jump. Pity they weren't given adequate instructions on how to actually use their parachutes, which results in an approximately 2/3 chance of being killed.

== Video Games ==

* MICHAEL! Wilson does this in [[Metal Wolf Chaos]] directly FROM SPACE and does a hard landing into a tank.

** It seems to be his preferred method of entrance for most missions, actually.

* 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|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.}}

== Webcomics ==