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There are three ways this can be done:

 

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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.

** 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.

** A variant of Type B occurs in the first Zarbon/Vegeta fight and the Piccolo/Frieza fight. Zarbon and Piccolo both let go, letting their respective opponents' momentum send them the rest of the way down.

** This is the basis of one of Tien's most famous attacks, where he uses his opponent as a volleyball. Predates Gotenks' version by almost two decades in fiction.

** 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~S.ifr~]]'', Rena Sayers, the ultimate Otome, uses a Type B Meteor Move to defeat Super-Battle Android M9, as she crashes with her from '''orbit''' into the planet below.

** 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).

* This has also become a staple of action sequences in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''; Takahata Sensei in particular seems to be fond of this as a finishing move.

** Negi's the victim of a Type B variant early on in a [[Battle in the Center of the Mind]] against a partial recording of Evangeline. Her staying with him to drive her fist through his heart in the impact signifies the shift in mood away from the by now commonplace sight of Eva spending a couple of hours beating Negi up.

** Negi himself managed to pull Type A off in the Magic World arc against {{spoiler|Rakan after he turned into lightning,}} then capped it off by dive-bombing right on top of him. {{spoiler|Unfortunately, it wasn't quite enough}}.

* In ''[[Naruto]]'', Rock Lee has his "Primary Lotus" attack, which involves kicking the opponent into the sky, jumping alongside him and wrapping his bandages around the foe, adding spin and an assurance that they land headfirst. Sasuke subsequently copies this with his "Lion's Barrage", an attack that substitutes several kicks for the bandage-spinning, and Naruto then copies ''that'' for his "Uzumaki Barrage", a variant that uses shadow clones to begin pummeling the foe into the sky and following up.

** 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.

* ''[[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"]].

* [[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.

== [[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.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* The ''[[Dragonball Z]] Budokai'' games love to use this in multiple ways. Many of the "Launcher" attacks (the ones where players have to guess which button the other is going to press in order to either continue the cinematic assault or end it early) utilize Type A, but a few move into a painful variant of Type C (of note is when the defending character is kicked into the air, punched back down to the ground, then the attacker follows him there and delivers a vicious kick to the gut right before the defender hits the ground). There's also a few opportunities to use a horizontal variant, in which the attacker bounces his opponent back and forth through the air like a tennis ball, teleporting back and forth to play both sides, only stopping when the player screws up the timing or he runs out of Ki.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKVSiCGdDrg#t=07m06s Behold.] A type C followed by a [[No Range Like Point-Blank Range|force]] [[No Kill Like Overkill|fed]] [[Kamehame Hadoken]]. The series is just full of variations and combinations of this trope.

*** Ganondorf's too.

** Ike's Final Smash actually counts as all three. He hits you to the top center of the screen, follows you up, hits you about 20 more times, and smashes you (and him, but he's [[Nigh Invulnerable]] at the time) into the ground. It hurts like hell.

*** Kirby's Final Cutter is this, and is actually ''toned down'' for Super Smash Bros to a Type A. In [[Kirby Super Star]], he slashes several time with the cutter blade first before sending foes flying into the air and dragging them down with the blade, performing a full Type C. In both cases, he finishes with a [[Finishing Move|shockwave]].

* Mayor Mike Haggar from ''[[Final Fight]]'' and Zangief from ''[[Street Fighter]]'' both the spinning piledriver: grab your enemy, jump 20 feet in the air and land on the ground, their head first. Haggar has a [[Super Move]] where he throws his opponent and catches them on the way down. Zangief's [[Super Move]] involves consecutive spinning piledrivers. [[All There in the Manual|According to the manual,]] the two are official rivals, trying to make fancier piledrivers.

** Hugo from ''[[Street Fighter]] III'' has a move where he throws his opponent off a wall, jumps after them, and breaks their back over his as he lands. Alex's [[Super Move]] involves multiple power bombs.

* 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.

* [[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]].

** 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.

* [[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]].

* 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.''

* 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.

* [[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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