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You know you're in trouble when you're fighting an opponent that can hit you hard enough to [[Launcher Move|send you flying into the sky]]. Some characters won't stop there; next the hero (or villain) in question immediately flies above you in time to intercept you like the human pinball you have become, then strikes you with such force that you are sent flying toward the ground hundreds of feet below, and crashing into the earth like a meteorite.
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== [[Anime]] & [[Manga]] ==
* A staple of ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. A spectacular example would be when Cell regenerates from Vegeta's last desperate attempt at vaporising him, kicks him into the sky like a pinball and then pounds him into the earth like a rag doll. A definitive example of a Type A Meteor Move.
** Vegeta himself ''loves'' this trope, using a classic Type A -- more specifically, pretty much exactly as it's described in the first paragraph of this
** In fact, the Trope Namer is the guidebook of the ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' Super Nintendo game ''Super Butouden 2'', where it's every character's ultimate move.
** Don't forget Gotenks using it against Buu; somewhat altered, as Gotenks first uses a rather odd attack to bind Buu into a sphere that looks rather like a volleyball, then explicitly mimes volleyball moves.
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** Goku does a BRUTAL Type C (with not one, but ''two'' hits mid-air) on Burter in what is probably the best [[Curb Stomp Battle]] of the Freeza Saga. Him being one of the Ginyu, who were on the verge of effortlessly killing off all the other good characters and Vegeta just a moment ago, makes it all the more impressive.
** Tambourine pulls this on Goku the first time they meet.
* In ''[[Mai-Otome 0
* Ryougi Shiki of ''[[Kara no Kyoukai:]]'' pulls off a magnificent variation of Type B when she plummets ''after'' the falling [[Big Bad]] out of a ''ten stories tall building'' [[Katanas Are Just Better|with a katana]], catches him in mid air and lands ''sword first'' into him. Even though this was enough to slay the villain in question, the impact was enough to break the sword in question ''and'' knock Shiki unconscious.
** And even then she was only saved by the [[Big Bad]]'s Mobile Bounded Field (kind of like a shield) taking most of the landing impact (it's slightly implied he activated it on purpose).
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** Upon releasing the Fourth Gate in his fight against Gaara, Lee kicks this trope up to approximately 13 by using all three types. He kicks Gaara into the air, jumps behind him and kicks him towards the ground, and then jumps in front of him and hits him ''back into the air'', commencing the game of pinball. Things get rather uncomfortable for Gaara thereafter.
*** Although Gaara is actually [[Nigh Invulnerability|only mildly hurt by the entire process because of his sand armor]]. And pulls himself together very quickly after the fight concludes.
* Type A was used quite often by {{spoiler|[["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight|the brainwashed Ginga]]}} in her battle against Subaru near the end of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
* ''[[Shaman King]]'' gives a nice display of Type A in the fight with Bailong. (And probably a few other examples scattered throughout the series.)
* [[One Piece|Luffy]] got hit by one of these by Rob Lucci. Understandable since the enemy in question knows [[Double Jump|"Geppou"]].
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* [[Digimon Frontier|Lucemon]] enjoyed using Type B in his Chaos Mode, dispatching both EmperorGreymon and MagnaGarurumon (one after the other) with a lightning-fast series of punches, followed by a mighty kick into the sky, a leap to the victims, grabbing them and ''piledriving them headfirst into the ground while standing on their arms.'' The first time with EmperorGreymon Lucemon cracked the moon with the impact; the second time with MagnaGarurumon [[Earthshattering Kaboom|he shattered the moon to pieces]].
** The un-[[Henshin Hero|morphed]] kids at the time, on the other hand, were just a little bruised.
* In an episode of ''[[Happiness Charge Pretty Cure|Happiness Charge]] [[Pretty Cure]]'', Cure Lovely
== [[Film]] ==
* Hugo Weaving demonstrates this move for the first time in ''western'' live action cinema as Agent Smith on Keanu Reeves in ''[[The Matrix]]: Revolutions'', wherein Smith performs a Type C, grievously wounding Neo enough to ''defeat'' him in the fistfight that followed.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150107043243/http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/birds-rondeau-park.html This awesome picture] shows two woodpeckers fighting over a nest hole. One of them has grabbed the other's ''tongue'' in its claws and beak and is in the process of slamming its opponent into the ground. [[Feathered Fiend|Birds are hardcore, man]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* The ''"Air Superiority"'' attack from ''[[City of Heroes]]'' is a type A version, a two-handed overhead smash that can turn off an enemy's ability to fly.
* In ''[[Little Fighter]] 2'' Davis' Leap Attack is a low-powered type C. You can also do a Type A by following up a Dragon Punch with a Leap Attack.
* [[The Dragon|Ruru]] of ''[[Magical Battle Arena]]'' uses this for her melee special, using [[Flash Step
* [[Badass Normal|Ryu Hayabusa]] can do the Izuna Drop in both ''[[Ninja Gaiden]]'' and ''[[Dead or Alive]]''. In ''DOA'' he uppercuts the target with his bare hands before [[Flash Step
* [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Yugo]] from ''[[Bloody Roar]]'' gives a nasty combo of B+C and ''more''. Specifically, he kicks and claws his opponent while flying up, then rapidly bites the opponent while falling down, and then ''twists his bite to tear off more flesh after the impact'' before finally jumping off the opponent and morphs back to human.
* One of [[Ninja|Konoha's]] supers in ''[[Arcana Heart]]'' has [[Doppelganger Attack|her and her doppelgangers smacking her opponent higher and higher into the air before they all converge to smash her opponent hard into the ground]].
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** In said series anyone can do it.
*** To clarify: just about everyone has a meteor move. The one refered to as 'literal' involves the Hulk doing a type C on you. ''With a meteor''.
* [[
** Makoto Nanaya has two and Tsubaki Yayoi has one (technically four, but it's the same move with different button inputs), both of them Type A. Taokaka has at least one of each type, with a positively deadly Type C being one of them. Valkenhayn has a mix of Type A and Type C, but only when in his [[Our Werewolves Are Different|Wolf form]].
*** Technically, almost every character has at least a Type A, but only in certain combos.
* The ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' games allow you to smack enemies into the air and also considers enemy bodies as targets for wall-jumping. Hilarity ensues. For some reason this is far more satisfying to do in the first game, possibly because the game's combo reward system doesn't ''expect'' you to torment enemies like this.
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'', the [[Original Generation]] mecha (the Valhawk) uses a
* [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]]'s DaiRaiOh has two of these.
** The aptly named Rising Meteo Inferno launches the target with a kick, catches them, launches them ''again'', then flies after and delivers a Type A meteor via a [[Kamen Rider|Rider Kick]].
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* This is the initial finish of a combination move in [[Sonic Battle]]. It works as Type B.
* [[Prototype (video game)|Alex Mercer]] can do Type A by the middle of his game. He can also (if you're good enough, and have invested in the right skills) throw someone, karate kick them in mid-air, and ''ride them to the ground.''
** One of his
* In ''Red Steel 2'', after the player unlocks "The Eagle" he can send his opponents flying into the air, at which point he has the option of flying up there and obliterating them however he sees fit. (This Troper's favorite technique is the shotgun.)
* In the video game for the ''[[Spider-Man]] 2'' movie, Spidey can do a Type A after webbing up a crook and flinging them into the air. He can also do a Type C by grabbing the foe, jumping into the air, and performing a piledriver all the way back to the ground. Especially [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|cruel]] [[Catharsis Factor|players]] can perform this move ''off the top of the Empire State Building''.
** And to make it better, you can spin the control stick during the move to make it a Zangief-style spinning piledriver.
* Aerial Slam in ''[[Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep]]'' is a variation of type a - the player hits their enemy into the air, flash-steps up to them and hits them even higher, then flash-steps to above them and knocks them down.
* In ''[[
* [[Final Fantasy XIII]] has a commando's smite ability, which finishes off a juggled opponent if their [[Break Meter|stagger meter]] is almost done draining as they attack, almost always guaranteeing an attack that hits the damage cap. An enemy actually uses one of these too, which leads to the ridiculous imagery of a ''giant plant monster doing a backflip jump before spiking you to the ground.''
* The final battle of ''[[Castlevania: Lords of Shadow]]'' does this in the final battle against {{spoiler|Satan}}, Gabriel and his enemy suddenly cause an [[Unexpected Genre Change]] and causes the final fight to go DBZ on you with the action command sequence, success or failure determins who gets spiked, with losing being a [[One-Hit Kill]].
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