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== 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!"

* [[Captain America (comics)]] 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.

** In the [[Ultimate Marvel]] universe, he was a member of the 101st Airborne Division during WWII, but curiously enough, he didn't wear a parachute because they were for girls.

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** Another recurring enemy are Lakitus who throw spikeys down at Mario.

** The giant Paragoomba boss in stage 3 of ''[[Super Mario XP]]'' drops Goombas on top of Mario's head as its primary form of attack.

* One of the Special powers gained from the Airfield in ''[[Command ~~and~~ Conquer]]: [[Red Alert]]'' and sequels is "Paratroopers", which drops a bunch of infantrymen at the designated spot. Not particularly useful most of the time, but it allows for some interesting possibilities in the right tactical environments, not to mention the fact that you're getting around a dozen soldiers for free every couple of minutes. When you can garrison these guys inside a structure and expect them to take down even an [[Tank Goodness|Apocalypse Tank]] in a straight fight as a result, that becomes ''extremely'' useful on urbanized maps.

* One of the Special powers gained from the Airfield in ''[[Command & Conquer]]: [[Red Alert]]'' and sequels is "Paratroopers", which drops a bunch of infantrymen at the designated spot. Not particularly useful most of the time, but it allows for some interesting possibilities in the right tactical environments, not to mention the fact that you're getting around a dozen soldiers for free every couple of minutes. When you can garrison these guys inside a structure and expect them to take down even an [[Tank Goodness|Apocalypse Tank]] in a straight fight as a result, that becomes ''extremely'' useful on urbanized maps.

** This was intensely more useful for the Allies in ''Red Alert 2'', as the Allied GI was significantly better than their counterparts, the Soviet Conscripts, and a half dozen of them could put up a significant fight. The USA subfaction also had a different paratrooper ability, which meant that they could conceivably drop fourteen GIs (pretty formidable), anywhere on the map, for free, every few minutes.

** In ''Tiberian Sun'', there's also the elite Orbital Drop Soldiers--veteran soldiers who arrive in drop-pods equipped with machineguns, clearing the drop-zone the hard way. More like ''hailing'' men, really.

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** And inverted in ''JLU'' with Cadmus sending missiles at the watchtower filled with [[Cloning Blues|clone]] [[Tyke Bomb|Tyke Bombs]].

* The theme song for ''[[Total Drama Island|Total Drama World Tour]]'' features the castmates falling off the Jet, parachuting to the ground and landing safely. ...[[My Friends and Zoidberg|Except Ezekiel.]]

* ''[[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.

* ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' had one episode where [[Captain America (comics)]] 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.

* One episode of ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' had them joining the army to become full fledged tank paratroopers. (That is, they were put into tanks that had parachutes strapped to them that were then dropped from planes. Seeing as how the tanks were on fire and falling like stones in ''spite'' of the parachutes, one can only assume they were on a suicide mission.)

* One scene in ''Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within'' involves soldiers jumping from a plane, but instead of using parachutes, they deploy some kind of gel that slows their fall, then dissolves.

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* One of the largest air drops in history was on the eve of D-Day, where Allied airborne units landed to take strategic locations in preparation for the amphibious landing. Due to mistakes in recon, some paratroopers ended up being dropped in waterlogged fields with some of them ending up drowning in water that was maybe 1-2 feet deep, due to their heavy equipment.

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

** And also where the concept of [http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/airborne-tactics.htm Little Groups Of Paratroopers] was realized:

{{quote|''After the demise of [[A Simple Plan|the best Airborne plan]], a most terrifying effect occurs on the battlefield. This effect is known as the rule of the LGOPs (Little Groups of Paratroopers). This is, in its purest form, small groups of pissed-off [[Teens Are Monsters|19 year old]] American paratroopers. [[Badass Army|They are well trained]]. They are [[More Dakka|armed to the teeth]] and [[Teenage Wasteland|lack serious adult supervision]]. They collectively remember [[The Captain|the Commander's]] intent as "March to the sound of the guns and kill anyone who is not dressed like you" - [[Dissimile|or something like that]]. [[Sociopathic Hero|Happily they go about the day's work...]]''}}

* [https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Operation_Varsity Operation Varsity], an airborne drop intended to aid the crossing of the Rhine towards the end of WWII, is the largest single-day drop at 16,000 men.