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{{quote|''"[[Lois Lane]] is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of thirty-two feet per second per second. [[Superman]] swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel. Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately one hundred twenty miles an hour, hits them, and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces.''"|'''Sheldon''', ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''}}
It's '''not the fall that kills you'''... it's the sudden stop at the end.▼
▲It's not the fall that kills you... it's the sudden stop at the end.
One must specifically hit the ground to get killed in a fall. [[Literal Cliff Hanger|Grabbed a ledge]]? Hooked an outcropping with your [[Grappling Hook Pistol]]? [[Catch a Falling Star|Got caught out of midair?]] [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives|(By a giant robot?)]] [[Soft Water|Hit water instead of ground?]] [[Goomba Springboard|Landed on an enemy?]] [[Trash Landing|Fall in a dumpster?]] Congratulations, you're completely uninjured, no matter how far you fell beforehand. Some characters can fall dozens of stories or even out of aircraft, and survive more or less unrumpled as long as they ''fall through trees'' before encountering the ground.
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This can happen in video games via [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]. All bets are off if you have [[Nigh Invulnerability]].
Subtropes of this include [[Soft Water]] and [[Giant Robot Hands Save Lives]], among all the other tropes [[
{{examples}}
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Kinda subverted in ''[[Kaleido Star]]'': while in the trapeze, Leon drops May off, lets her fall a bit and then catches her by the hand, but the pull dislocates her shoulder. Later he does the same thing to Sora, but this time she's not injured because she was expecting it, and used her own strength to help Leon lift her.
* Mokuba tries to rappel his way down a tower using [[Bedsheet Ladder|rope tied together from old bedsheets]] in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]''. The rope isn't nearly long enough and comes loose, and he falls a ''long distance'' down... into some bushes, which saves him.
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* An early episode of ''[[Macross]]'' averts this. Our hero saves the female lead from a high altitude fall not by catching her in the opened cockpit of his fighter, but by matching her descent before sort of scooping her up. Still pretty crazy, but it ''had'' been established that he was a skilled stunt pilot before going military.
* This pops up all the time in ''[[Immortal Rain]]'': when the only way out of trouble is a long way down, Rain scoops up Machika, tucks her under his arm, and jumps. In one scene they escape bounty hunters by {{spoiler|jumping out of an upper storey of a skyscraper to the city street below}}; in another, {{spoiler|a train bridge has been destroyed and they jump from the falling train to the canyon floor}}. The implication is that since Rain is [[Immortality|perfectly]] [[Nigh Invulnerable|capable]] of surviving that fall, anyone cradled in his arms would be safe as well.
* The characters of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' use a [[Time Machine]] to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]], not fully knowing how to set the spatial coordinates and thus appearing ten days earlier at several hundred feet in the air. Before hitting the ground, lead wizard Negi used his [[Blow You Away|Wind Magic]] to both push the group off the ground and create a cushion of air as well, leaving every character without a scratch. This might have made sense if it were done in a slow descent if not for the fact that it was done at the last second only a dozen metres above ground. On a related note, the two heavy-hitters in the group, Kaede and Setsuna were able to survive the fall on their own abilities (they basically landed on their feet). Problematically in Setsuna's case, she decided to take actions to save Konoka herself, [[Bridal Carry
** Similarly, when [[School Newspaper Newshound]] Kazumi Asakura tried to expose the same wizard's magic, that atop his already-built stress at the other events surrounding him at the time caused his Wind abilities to explode through his voice. This sent Asakura into the air, to which Negi flew upward on his staff to catch her by the arm. Maybe justified in that he caught her before she actually started falling, but the strength of lift-off was enough to crack and break her cellphone.
*** [[A Wizard Did It]]. Literally.
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* In ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'', Russia jumps out of a freaking plane WITHOUT A PARACHUTE because there is snow. Snow will save him. Granted, he does break his arm (in the manga he breaks ''all of his bones'').
* The speedster version is explicitly mentioned in ''[[Cyborg 009]]''. The 00 cyborgs can survive being transported by 009's acceleration mode because they are cyborgs, who have been enhanced to be more durable than regular humans. Any normal human who comes into contact with 009 while he's in acceleration mode would be killed instantly.
* In ''[[Ranma ½
** In one episode of the anime, Akane gets knocked off the side of a cliff. Ranma runs down the side, gets to the bottom before she does, then catches her in his arms. She's perfectly fine afterwards. This is [[Ranma ½]] after all.
* In episode 22 of ''[[Fairy Tail]]'', Lucy jumps out of a jail cell that is at least a skyscraper in height off the ground and Natsu catches her. Amusingly, Lucy (who is a normal human besides her [[Summon Magic]]) is unharmed, while Natsu (who has [[Super Strength]] and is [[Made of Iron]]) is briefly knocked silly.
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* In [[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]], Ed slips off a snowy ledge and plummets fifty feet, landing through the roof of a wooden shed full of soggy dynamite. His only reaction is "Rrrgh… [[Made of Iron|falling like that's]] [[Bratty Half-Pint|gonna stunt]] [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse|my growth]] [[Berserk Button|even more]]!!" {{spoiler|Subsequently averted ''hard'', when he gets blasted down a very deep mine shaft and gets impaled on a support beam, coming extremely close to dying.}}
* Kagura in ''[[Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo|Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo]]'' manages to catch Ureshiko when she falls from the sky. He hurts his leg a little when he lands (no one catches ''him''), but that's taken care of by [[Magical Girl|Ureshiko's magic]].
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Superman]]'' regularly [[Catch a Falling Star|snatches Lois Lane out of the sky]]. He'll sometimes justify it by thinking something to the effect of "I've got to time this right: match my velocity to hers and then gradually slow us," but that doesn't work when they were only seconds from hitting the ground.
** Also, he fairly often knocks or grabs people at super speed, making that hilarious effect where whatever they were holding at the time would suddenly be suspended in the air as they disappear between panels. Lampshaded in ''Emperor Joker,'' where he accidentally kills Lois this way. She gets better. [[Kill'Em All|Briefly]]. After the Joker's control over the universe (long story) is defeated, he grabs her this way again, but this time he apparently remembers not to accelerate so fast.
** Not surprisingly, most [[
** In Superman's case, this was one of the main justifications for the [[Post-Crisis]] "unconscious telekinesis" theory. Later made explicit in the case of [[Superboy]], who learned to control it consciously. One ''[[Action Comics]]'' issue has a very ill Superman convey to villains they better stand down as he, Superman, no longer has the ability to -pull- his punches and their heads might just go explodey.
* Same goes for ''[[The Flash]]'', who would certainly be giving high G-load injuries to the people he picks up and rushes off with at super-speed, as his acceleration is depicted as nearly instantaneous. Indeed, the [[Meta Origin|Speed Force]] was invented largely to "[[Magic A Is Magic A|explain]]" these kinds of mechanics.
** In one issue of the [[Justice League of America]], he saves the population of an entire North Korean town from a nuclear meltdown in about 12 seconds. The speeds he would have needed to achieve this should have turned everyone he touched, carried, or simply ''ran past'' into chunky red jello.
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* Averted in ''[[Batman]]: Hush'', where Batman, after his [[Grappling Hook Gun]] line is mysteriously broken, attempts to grab onto a ledge, and immediately breaks several bones in his arms, falls further, and breaks the rest of his bones (there was even a bone chip in his skull). Ouch. Thank goodness a friendly brain surgeon was nearby.
* Averted in ''[[Batgirl]]: Year One'', when Barbara Gordon's jumpline, made of normal rope, is cut by Batman before she can hurt herself with the sudden deceleration. She is later given some of the special 'batrope' to use with the explanation that it is elastic and extends/contracts in order to prevent the shock of an instant stop.
* Subverted in [[Alan Moore]]'s ''[[Miracleman]]'' series. In one issue, the villain hurls an innocent bystander towards a building. Miracleman catches the lad, saving the child's life but breaking a few ribs in the process. In the same scene, the acceleration when the villain threw him should have had the exact same
* In ''[[Runaways]]'', Victor stops Gert from falling using a steel fire escape, and references this trope, specifically the "matching speeds" angle.
* In ''Astonishing [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'', Hisako catches a plummeting classmate with her mutant armour up. He lives, but he's a mess.
* In a ''[[Captain America (comics)]]'' issue, Cap is flung off a building. He doesn't catch a flagpole, he slams shield first into the cold, hard cement. His [[Handwavium|Vibranium-steel alloy]] shield absorbs ninety-five percent of the impact but it's the five percent that bothers the hell out of him. The same shield Shield can disperse enough force that a punch from the [[Incredible Hulk]] (who bench-presses MOUNTAINS) stops instead of nailing you into the ground like a tent peg and is explicitly the hardest thing in the Marvel universe.
* There's a scene in the ''[[Elf Quest]]: Shards'' storyline (''link pending'') where Strongbow the archer is falling to his certain death - until the human Shuna reaches out an arm so that he can use her ''hand'' as a target for an arrow with a rope attached. The other elves then grab the rope to break his fall before his weight can rip her arm off. Now in order to pull this off both Strongbow and Shuna would need to have incredibly fast reflexes, and one suspects his momentum would drag everyone else over the edge anyway.
* In one issue of ''[[Doom Patrol]]'', the writer carefully averts this trope. Elasti-Girl grows to giant size to catch a plane coming in for a crash landing, by running alongside it and taking hold of the fuselage. Robotman specifically notes that simply standing still and catching it by the wings would have ripped the plane apart.
* Subverted in ''[[2000 AD|Two Thousand AD]]'''s ''Chopper'': A [[Sky Surfing|sky surfer]] catches a young child falling from a high-rise building, but despite the surfer's efforts to cushion the fall, the child dies from the sudden stop.
* Subverted in a ''[[Marshal Law]]'' comic where insane [[Expy|Expies]] of Marvel heroes are fleeing a burning asylum and falling to their deaths. The Daredevil clone tries breaking his fall by latching onto a flagpole... and promptly tears his arms off.
* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Nikolai Dante]]'': When {{spoiler|Dmitri/Arkady}} throws {{spoiler|Galya}} out a high window, Viktor dives to save her in his eagle form. He succeeds, but the force of the impact still kills her.
* [[Supergirl]] saves a guy from a 29,000 feet fall [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1372875.html?#cutid1 here]. It has a happy ending, so he should be fine.
* In a ''[[Cloak and Dagger (comics)|Cloak and Dagger]]'' story where Dagger is thrown out of a plane, Cloak saves her by enclosing her in the dark dimension of his cloak...but she still has all the momentum of the fall. So he repeatedly releases her over water for a second at a time, gradually slowing her down and leaving her extremely bruised but alive.
▲== Film - Animated ==
* In ''[[The Incredibles]]'', when a man jumps from the top of a building to kill himself, Mr. Incredible, who is in the top of a much lower building, jumps across the street, grabs the man in mid-air and lands in a lower floor of the building from which the man had jumped. The man ends up with serious injuries. And ends up suing Mr. Incredible.
** Averted at the end, when Helen/Elastigirl is thrown into the air to catch the
* Used in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' when Quasimodo falls from a parapet of the cathedral only to be caught under the armpits by Phoebus who happened to be on a lower level. Not only does Quasi not die, not only do Phoebus's arms not get completely ripped out of their sockets, but everyone {{spoiler|lives happily ever after}}.
* During the final battle in ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (animation)|How to Train Your Dragon]]'', Astrid gets thrown from her dragon and goes tumbling through the air. Hiccup and Toothless fly in and catch her right before she splats. Hiccup asks Toothless if he caught her, Toothless makes sure he did and Astrid smiles rather happily considering that that catch probably should have broken her legs or spine. And in the same battle, {{spoiler|Hiccup and Toothless (without flight control) should be splats on the ground at the end, and the only injury ends up being a leg needing to be replaced}}, so that should probably be chalked up to [[Nigh Invulnerability|barbarian hardiness and cartoon physics.]]
* Lampshaded in the CG film ''Doogle'', when one of the characters remarks after falling a great distance: "I'm fine: I broke the fall with my face."
== Film - Live-Action ==▼
* ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|Star Trek V the Final Frontier]]'': Kirk falls off a cliff. Spock (wearing rocket boots) races after him and grabs him by one ankle right before impact, arresting his fall inches above the ground with no ill effects whatsoever. Obviously the boots have [[Applied Phlebotinum|Intertial Dampeners]]
* The "arrested fall" version also occurs in ''[[Quantum of Solace]]''.
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* While not a fall, the physics-defying properties of this trope are subverted in the ''[[Blade (film)|Blade]]'' movies, where the titular super-human grabs a hold of the back of a speeding train and painfully dislocates his shoulder. If he hadn't already being superman, otherwise he would have simply ''lost'' his shoulder.
** Dracula throws a baby at him, and he catches it like it's a football or something. [[Infant Immortality|The baby is implied to be unharmed.]]
* Subverted in ''[[Enchanted]]'', where Giselle, the cartoon princess now a real person in New York expects to be caught when she falls, but ends up hurting both herself, and the man trying to catch her when reality doesn't live up to cartoon physics.
* [[Last Action Hero|Jack Slater]], a [[Refugee From TV Land]], has this painfully subverted when he grabs a ledge while falling. In his home universe, he does this all the time without a problem.
* Handled relatively reasonably in the ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]'' film: Instead of trying to catch the pilot who's falling because his ejection seat's parachute isn't opening, Tony Stark goes for the mechanism to trigger the parachute instead. Incidentally, that helps to illuminate the fact that people can be decelerated from terminal velocity pretty dang fast and still survive, just not ''instantaneously''; otherwise parachutes would be useless.
** And when he first escapes from the terrorists in his Mk.1 suit, Tony falls from several hundred feet in the air into a sand dune, and suffers nothing worse than momentary dizziness, making this an example of [[Sand Is Water]].
** In the sequel, it's also averted as Tony visibly drops his speed significantly before {{spoiler|grabbing Pepper and flying her away from the exploding Hammeroid.}}
* John McClane falls down a shaft in ''[[Die Hard]]'' and grabs the edge of an air-vent. Instead of just broken fingers, he gets an [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]] because he's in an action movie. It turns out the air-vent grab was due to a mistake by the stuntman. [[Throw It In|Left in]] because it looks cool, nothing is said on whether the stunt-man got bashed up.
* In the 1989 ''[[Batman (film)|Batman]]'' movie, [[Batman]] uses his grapple gun to save himself and Vicki Vale after they fall off a huge cathedral. He fires the gun and then attaches it to his belt. The grappling hook lands in the belfry, slides across the floor, and then bites into a bit of stonework, and suddenly Batman and Vicki are suspended in the air, swinging romantically back and forth while searchlights play across the cathedral for no very good reason. All this without a) breaking the stonework, b) breaking off whatever attaches the gun to the belt, c) breaking the belt, d) breaking Batman in half at the waist, or e) tearing Vicki from Batman's arms to go plummeting to her doom.
* In ''[[Underworld (film)|Underworld]]'' the Vampires like to make entrances by jumping off buildings without so much as bending their knees.
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* In ''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]'', a skilled Na'vi falling in or over a forest can shed enough velocity on vines and leaves to survive a drop from a great height. It helps a lot that [[All There in the Manual|Pandora has lower gravity and denser atmosphere than Earth]], and correspondingly falling bodies have lower terminal velocity, and Na'vi have much harder skeletal and organ structures than humans.
* In the French film ''La Haine'', there is a recurring motif of the man who falls from the top of a four storey building. As he falls, he repeats, "''Jusqu'ici, tout va bien''" ("So far, so good", or literally "Up to here, all goes well"). ''Mais ce n'est pas la chute, c'est l'atterrissage''.
* Subverted hard in ''[[The Other Guys]]'', where the two [[Decoy Protagonist
* Both averted and played straight at the start of ''[[Attack of the Clones]]''. When Obi-Wan falls several stories, Anakin catches up in a speeder and descends with him, matching his speed and slowing down gradually once he's on board. Not long after, Anakin flings himself out of the speeder, falls several stories himself and catches the canopy of another speeder going ''very'' fast. And yet he doesn't lose his arm. Not yet anyway...
* Averted in ''[[The Rock]]''. [[James Bond|British spy]] [[Expy|John Mason]] offers to shake hands with FBI Director Womack, and slides a slipknot over the latter's wrist. He immediately pulls Womack over the railing of a hotel balcony, and the man is left dangling by the cord; both the sudden stop and the effort to pull him back up dislocate his shoulder and he has to carry his arm in a sling afterwards.
* ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'' has a boy surviving after crushing through walls and even a guy falling off the road while driving his truck. Seems like Maruti the [[God in Human Form|reincarnation of Hanuman]] isn't the only one who's [[Nigh Invulnerable]].
* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' plays with this; in the second film Jack Sparrow falls off a fairly high cliff and hits the ground - and not only survives, but he's in good enough shape to run in blind terror from the group of cannibals chasing him. However, he did smash through several rope bridges on the way down as well, thus decreasing his speed a little and rendering this...slightly less implausible, ''Slightly.''
* ''[[
* In the 2009 B-movie ''Infestation'', a giant wasp grabs a guy and flies away. A policeman patiently waits until the pair are above a roof before shooting the wasp. Unfortunately, the victim lands on the roof headfirst and dies anyway.
* Averted in ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' when {{spoiler|The Hulk}} rescues a falling Iron Man by sliding down a building to slow his fall, then sliding several hundred yards down the street before finally coming to a stop.
== Literature ==
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* ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'': In the Brontital/Shoe Event Horizon arc, Arthur Dent survives a fall of 15 miles by landing on the back of an enormous bird, failing to take into account the fact that the impact with the bird would be as violent as the impact with the ground would have been. The bird and Arthur have an argument about getting safely down to the ground below, which ends when Arthur apologizes for impinging on the birds' time and resumes his fall. {{spoiler|The bird is sufficiently guilt-tripped to dive after Arthur and rescue him by grabbing him by the shoulders, resulting in both a second example of this trope and of [[Variable Terminal Velocity]] as the bird should not have been able to catch up, and even if he could he would have torn Arthur asunder in his attempt to arrest his fall}}.
** In the same arc Marvin falls from the same altitude and has his fall arrested by only the rocky ground below. {{spoiler|He survives, but did decelerate for a whole mile through the rock}}. And he wasn't very happy about it.
* In a strange subversion, in any given
* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[
** Rincewind himself abides by a variation of the trope. He claims he is not afraid of heights but of ''grounds'': rightly recognizing that the ground is the actual instrument of death in a fatal fall. Also, his own life experience (and the fact that he's a just-barely-Wizard) show him multiple times that he can survive falls...provided someone or something intervenes on his behalf.
* ''Rapunzel: The One With All The Hair'' Prince Benjamin falls from Rapunzel's tower and has his fall "broken" when he lands on his horse, unharmed.
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* In the last of the ''[[Lensman]]'' books, Kim Kinnison's daughter Constance is described as having formed a close friendship with Worsel, the flying dragon Lensman, to the point where she ''rides him like a horse'' (and has done so since she was big enough to climb on). One of her sisters describes how he "pretty nearly split her in two with an eleven-gee pull-up", for which she kicked him. Smith, who cranked so much up to eleven for so long, was known for getting little things like this right.
* At least some works of [[Robert Heinlein]] avert this.
** ''Star Lift'' centers around two pilots who have to speed nine days with the constant 3.5''g'' acceleration/deceleration. One of them dies halfway, other is left with his body irrepairably worn-out, causing [[Rapid Aging]].{{verify|reason=This Mod cannot find any story by this name, by Heinlein or anyone else. Does it exist?}}
** In ''[[Double Star]]'', a pilot tells about his strong, but dumb and stubborn passenger, who managed to walk under 5''g''... and who never walked again afterwards.
** "Slow" Free Trader starships in ''[[Citizen of the Galaxy]]'' accelerate at somewhat one km/s per second. It is stated that if the artificial gravity onboard fails for a split-second, all the crew will be instantly splattered into strawberry jam by ''100g'' acceleration.
* Both the Dragon Boat and Simon Heap easily survive their falls in ''[[Septimus Heap]]''.
* Averted in ''Dragon Keeper: Garden Of The Purple Dragon''. Ping jumps off a burning balcony, hits a tree on the way down, then lands in a pool. However, hitting the tree and water are both seperately described as being ''very painful'', and Ping breaks a rib or two in the process.
* Averted in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' when Nathan saves {{spoiler|Tracy}} as soon as she jumps off the bridge before she has time to build up velocity and what not.
* Completely and [[Applied Phlebotinum|technologically]] averted in ''[[Crusade]]'', when Lochley's Starfury is heading into the hangar bay at ~1/2 of the ''Excalibur'''s cruising speed. Gravity traps slow the fighter so it doesn't splat on the back of the bay.
* Averted in ''[[Sanctuary]]'', where a guy with the ability to fly catches a guy jumping out of a high rise building. Having descended maybe 10 to 20 stories, coupled with the would-be rescuer hitting him sideways at what would appear to be about 5
* A Hercules/Xena crossover (can't remember which show) where Xena is in the clutches of a flying monster hundreds of feet in the air and decides to [[Too Dumb to Live|stab it.]] She plummets down to earth and Hercules catches her in his arms. She's fine, of course.
** In one episode of ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'', a baby is flying through the air and he catches it by diving to the ground and holding his hands out, which are ''sitting stationary on the ground'' when the baby lands on them unharmed.
* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] plays it straight in "The End of Time", where he survives a fall from a spaceship in low orbit all the way down to the bottom floor of mansion with little more than a mussed-up suit and some scratches from bursting through the glass ceiling. Notably, the original script called for the fall to be much, much shorter, the ship much closer to the ground, but it was changed to look more dramatic.
** The Fourth Doctor wasn't quite as lucky, or durable - he dies from a much shorter fall.
* [[Discussed Trope]] in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.
{{quote|
'''Leonard, Sheldon, Wolowitz''': One. {{[[[The Voiceless]] Raj}} holds up one finger]
'''Sheldon''': You do know that scene was rife with scientific inaccuracy?
'''Penny''': Yes, I know men can't fly.
'''Sheldon''': No, no, let's assume that they can! Lois Lane is falling, accelerating at an initial rate of thirty-two feet per second per second. Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel. Miss Lane, who is now traveling at approximately one hundred twenty miles an hour, hits them, and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces.
'''Leonard''': ''Unless'' Superman matches her speed and decelerates.
'''Sheldon''': In what space, sir, in what space? She's two feet above the ground. Frankly, if he really loved her, he'd let her hit the pavement. It'd be a more merciful death. }}
* In ''
== Tabletop Games ==
* At least three editions of the [[Champions|Hero System]] rules have used some variant of the following line to open the rules on falling damage:
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* In ''[[Exalted]]'', Perfect Defences allow you to take no damage from anything, falling damage included. This makes sense for the ones that turn your skin to iron or even allow you to block attacks but how in Creation do you dodge the ground? It's not by "throwing yourself at the ground and missing", because Arthur Dent already tried that.
** You can't dodge or parry the ground, even with a perfect
* ''Ninjas & Superspies'' had two martial arts powers that allowed a character to survive extremely long falls with minimal damage.
* The monk class in most editions of ''[[Dungeons
** Pretty much any high level character can survive. You suffer 1d6 damage per 10 feet up to 20d6 damage, or generally between 60 and 80 points. You also have to roll versus death from massive damage but pretty much anyone capable of surviving the damage will make the save. Of course, by the time you're high level, you probably have other means of surviving a fall anyway.
* ''[[
== Video Games ==
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* In the game, ''[[Odin Sphere]]'', after a boss fight in the sky, Gwendolyn laments her impending death and converses with the spirit of her dead sister. This goes on for several minutes and another cutscene plays in the middle of it. After falling long enough for a bathroom break, {{spoiler|her lover, Oswald, saves her by making a quick jump from somewhere below and catching her}}.
** Possibly subverted, since {{spoiler|Gwendolyn is unconscious and Oswald is barely standing afterwards, but this may be because of their previous fights and Oswald's use of his dark power to reach Gwendolyn before she hit the ground}}.
* In ''Rune'', the multiplayer death message may state death by deceleration trauma.
* ''[[Space Quest]]'' quotes the trope word for word for one of their [[The Many Deaths of You]] snarky comments.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] might be the largest offender of this trope, since his ability has always been to run really really fast. [[Required Secondary Powers|Not necessarily stop super fast.]] (Likewise, he doesn't suffer fall damage.)
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** In the ''[[Halo 3]]'' beta if you turned up the movement speed as high as it could go, players could die by simply running into each other fast enough.
** ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' has your character thrown off a doomed Covenant Corvette, and you survive, despite the (relatively) old armor you have access to. How do they explain this? If you look closely enough at the thing on your back, you can see the words "REENTRY PACK" stamped on the side of it. It's [[Informed Ability|(apparently)]] able to lock the Spartan's armor like what Master Chief did in Halo 2/3 and/or augment the energy shield to better withstand the re-entry.
***Reach specifically includes the achievement "If They Came to Hear Me Beg", which requires the player to trigger an assassination animation against a Sangheili to "survive a fall that would’ve been fatal."
** In most gameplay situations, you automatically die in midair after falling about 30 feet.
* Averted with the summoning stones introduced in ''[[World of Warcraft|Burning Crusade]]'', where if someone is falling off a cliff and is summoned to the dungeon, they hit the ground with all the force they should Of course, this would require rather careful timing. When Wrath of the Lich King introduced a dungeon finder that allowed you to teleport to dungeons at will, they made the caveat that teleportation was not possible while falling.
* This is averted in ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]: Project Zoo''. A fall over a certain height will injure or even kill Gromit no matter what is done.
* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' lacks fall damage, but [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it by putting spring mechanisms on Chell's heels that absorb the force of impact. The game's own developer commentary discusses
** Portal is notable in that its unique conservation of momentum allows terminal velocity to be reached over short distances and vertical acceleration can quickly become horizontal. Yet you always land on your feet, completely upright. And if you construct your portals a certain way (both on the floor but "aligned" improperly) and bounce between them over and over, you can quickly get turned upside-down, though Chell is always capable of righting herself.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9Sc88qreg The final promo for the sequel] shows that Chell now has special boots instead of just the springs. The narrator Cave Johnson claims they prevent her from landing anywhere except on her feet (there is no evidence to support this, as all of Chell's flips are of her own accord). Note that this is ''not'' mentioned in the game proper although it is commented on by [[
* ''[[Half-Life]]'' itself ''does'' have falling damage, but if the player character can catch hold of a ladder (or rope, in some sequels) on the way down, all that momentum dissipates like magic. Additionally, [[Soft Water]] is in full effect, such that a few ''inches'' of water will cancel the momentum of the player character.
* Entirely averted in the ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' series: after about two stories' worth of falling, Banjo loses control and can no longer grab anything or use any ability similar to a double jump, which he has several of. You can also perform his and Kazooie's version of the [[Ground Pound]] while falling like that, and if you're close enough to the ground when you do it, you won't take damage.
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* In ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' the Scout doesn't take any fall damage from leaping off of high places if he does a double jump before hitting the ground.
** As other classes (or a Scout, if not double-jumping), you take falling damage if you drop more than twice your height, approximately. If your health is low, this kills you, complete with a [[Have a Nice Death|notification on your clumsy, painful death]].
* In ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'''s Subspace Emissary storyline, [[
* Averted in the latter two of the ''[[Creatures]]'' trilogy, in which you can injure Norns by picking them up and throwing them against walls. However, provided a fall is enough to injure the Norn at all, it injures them just as badly no matter how far they fall. (Although this is partially [[Truth in Television]].)
* Inverted in ''[[Spelunker]]'', especially NES version. Falling by knee-height in NES version kills you mid-air.
* Also inverted in many ''[[Action 52]]'' platformers where the main character is killed mid-air too, if the fall lasts too long.
* Averted in ''[[Fallout 3]]''. Falling from a too large height will damage you, and once you've passed the damaging height limit, you don't need to go much higher to kill yourself. There's also a cheat that increases the size of your character model... but it doesn't scale physics interactions with it. So it is entirely possible to turn yourself into a giant, only to die from a knee-height fall.
* In ''[[Devil May Cry|Devil May Cry 3]]'', [[Badass Normal|Lady]] is thrown off the side of the Temen-ni-Gru by Arkham. She falls for at least 8 seconds before Dante catches her. ''By her ankle.'' [[Made of Iron|Lady takes worse later on.]]
** While it hasn't been explicitly stated, it seems that Dante -and of course Vergil- are just immune to falling harm. Both of them just jump from the freaking top of the Temen-ni-Gru tower to get down. They do have an immense [[Healing Factor]], though (we're talking "getting shot in the forehead in a cutscene is merely annoying" immense.)
* In ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' players that get knocked off a ledge will go into a "perilously clinging" state where they must be rescued by another player. If no one pulls them up after a certain amount of time, they fall and the game registers them as dead. Annoyingly, there was a bug in early versions where players could get stuck in this animation and then "die" from a fall of a few feet.
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* In the ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'' game, the opening cut scene has our heroine leaping out of a helicopter flying high above and landing without trouble, possibly justified by her cyborg nature. And then in the rest of the game play, you die if you fall off an eight-foot high stack of crates, possibly justified by [[They Just Didn't Care]]. Base jumping without any apparent equipment is basically the Major's calling card, and it's never shown how she lands after these jumps.
* ''[[Mirror's Edge]]'' basically is [[Le Parkour]] on the rooftops of a futuristic city. It completely averts this trope and you have to take a roll to dampen the impact of jumps from considerable heights. If you miss a jump between buildings, there's really not much more you can do than bracing yourself for the sickening sound of a body hitting the sidewalk.
* ''[[No More Heroes]] 2'' has a completely insane example in the ending. After finishing off the final boss, Travis plummets several hundred feet to the pavement, and Sylvia catches him...out of the air with one hand, while he's literally an ''inch'' from hitting the pavement, and slings him onto the back of her motorcycle.
** At the aforementioned event, getting shot out of a tower, you also hit several ledges on the way down. Your bones are practically all broken, but the narrator, Theresa, also [[Hand Wave|says]] that "Sometimes the grief is so great, even Death keeps his distance."
* In ''[[Jet Set Radio|Jet Grind Radio]]'' sequel ''Jet Set Radio Future'', as long as you land within the level (i.e. you don't fall from a skyscraper, which deducts a few HP and sends you back to your nearest checkpoint) even ridiculously long falls cause no damage as long as you hit a grind rail or continually strike poses on your way down.
* Painfully inverted in ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield 1942]]''. Fall damage is calculated by judging the distance in your starting height and your end height. The damage scales horribly, and is even applied to vehicles. Walking down a hill too fast and fall 3 inches? Half your HP is gone. Drive a little too fast over a bump in the road and get the front of your tank just barely off the ground? It's probably going to explode and kill you as it "lands".
** This also has an interesting effect when combined with the parachute. Some attacks (grenades, tank shells, aircraft splash damage, etc) blow you up into the air if they don't kill you outright. If you hit your parachute (or land on something even slightly higher than the ground you started from) you'll live. The parachute will nullify all fall damage regardless of how long it has been deployed, with the caveat that you can only deploy it once you've already fallen further than your starting height, making it tricky to deploy in time (due to reflexes and lag) if you're being abused by shoddy map geometry.
* Partially averted and partially played straight in ''[[Just Cause (video game)|Just Cause 2]]''. The aversion: free-falling from great heights will injure or kill Rico, whether the fall is onto land or water. There are no ledges to grab onto, either. However, Rico's [[Awesome Yet Practical|wrist-mounted grappling hook]] is essentially this trope's purest interactive representation. Need to pull yourself 50 meters up the side of a building in 2 seconds? Done! Need to make that same trip in reverse? No problem! And ''the piece de resistance:'' fly a plane 10,000 feet in the air, jump out, wait until you're about 30 feet from the ground, then fire the hook. [[Hit the Ground Harder|It will ''attach to the ground and reel you in'' for no damage]]. So hitting the ground at terminal velocity will kill Rico. Using the grappling hook to ''pull him to the ground even faster'' allows him to survive.
** Also, even if falling from terminal velocity, wait to deploy your parachute at the last possible second and see what happens. That's right! All that will happen is that Rico falls down, says something along the lines of "sheesh" or "Whoa... To close for comfort." and have absolutely no damage.
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'': Averted. Falling from a small height will at least get you injured and limping for a few minutes.
* In the [[Game Boy]] versions of ''[[Turok (series)|Turok]]'' and ''Turok 2'', falling for a certain amount of time causes Turok to enter a different falling animation. He dies as soon as he touches any solid ground while in this animation.
* In the ''[[Assassin's Creed]]'' games (including ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]''), averted with Desmond Miles due to the lack of areas high enough for a fatal
** In ''Brotherhood'', Ezio can acquire Parachutes (after {{spoiler|completing all four of the War Machine missions}}; he's granted five to start and can buy more from tailors, carrying up to fifteen at once) which can be triggered during a fall to avert fall damage.
** The series also features Leaps of Faith, including some [[Rule of Cool|ridiculously cool]] jumps from the tallest towers in each game. The character will survive these leaps just fine, because the landing is softened by a haystack, a pile of leaves or in the latest installment, a ''bush of flowers''.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkJ8ILmGOT0 This] is the ending of ''[[Haunted Castle (video game)|Haunted Castle]] 3'', a Castlevania fangame. It is one of the most [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesome]], [[Rated "M" for Manly|manly]] and [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|over the top]] uses this trope has ever seen.
* In the first ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]'' game {{spoiler|Ratchet and Clank wind up falling from the platform where they fight and defeat Chairman Drek. Ratchet even looks down and you literally can't see the ground from how high up they are. And yet, Clank, changing to his Thruster Pack mode, and propelling himself against Ratchet literally seconds before hitting the ground is enough for the pair to just skid against the ground a bit. The only injury sustained by either of them is Clank's broken servos in his arm, which were from the force of holding up Ratchet's weight BEFORE they fell.}}
* In ''[[Minecraft]]'' falling into water more than two blocks deep will prevent any fall damage. The same applies when catching a ladder.
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* In the ''Spider-Man 2'' game, it's possible to save yourself from a long fall by shooting off a web zip-line, which Spidey uses to sharply pull himself horizontally. It's quite possible to jump off the Empire State Building and then suddenly jerk to the side inches from the ground.
* ''[[Bug!]]!'' You only die if you fell off the terrain itself (each level is a huge floating 3D terrain). As long as Bug lands on a platform, he'll be safe.
* One of the patches to ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004|Unreal Tournament 2003]]'' added falling damage when you perform a wall jump (i.e. you could no longer jump down a tower and wall-jump at the last second). As a concession, the shield gun now protects against falling damage.
* At the end of the manor house level in ''[[Medal of Honor]]: Frontline'', you and Geritt escape by jumping off a several story high balcony into a hay wagon. He hits the ground and survives, but you die if you miss the wagon.
* In the ''[[Syphon Filter]]'' series, falling more than 10 or so feet in-game is fatal, although Logan survives falls much further than this [[Cutscene Power to the Max|in cutscenes]], such as jumping through the glass ceiling of the Pharcom Expo Center's entry hall, off a high bridge onto a train, and down an airshaft in the Agency Biolab to grab a vent just above a giant fan.
* At the end of the first ''[[Golden Sun]]'' game, Sheba falls off the top of Venus Lighthouse, and Felix [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|leaps off the tower after her]], in an apparent suicide dive. It's later noted that [[Soft Water|the seas miraculously rose up to the tower as they fell]], and [[The Stinger]] of that game and beginning of the next shows that they washed up on a beach later, unconscious but otherwise unharmed.
** Sheba is a wind adept, she manipulated the winds to slow their fall, which is what caused the water to appear to rise up. Theorized by Kraden after Sheba's wind adept status is confirmed.
* Played straight initially in ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' then [[Hand Wave
** That would be the appropriately-named Icarus Landing System. It is described with the following technobabble: "A discreet augmentation surgically implanted in the user's lower back, slightly above the coccyx at the base of the vertebral column. The device has an acceleration descent sensor built in; in free fall, the unit will automatically activate the patented High-Fall Safeguard System, an EMF decelerator generating a fixed-focus electromagnetic lensing field, projected downward along the plane of the drop. This field pushes against the Earth's magnetosphere and slows the user's descent to a manageable velocity, allowing him to fall from almost any height (within reason) to a relatively soft landing."
* In ''[[Shadow of the Colossus]]'', Wander can successfully break any fall if he grabs onto something before hitting the ground. This is particularly amusing to witness during the battle with the last colossus, where Wander can plummet ''several stories'' and still emerged unharmed as long as he catches a ledge on his way down. Up to a certain height, hitting the ground will only do damage, and not an enormous amount. Once you pass that height, you die on impact, even if a slightly shorter fall would barely inconvenience Wander with a maxed life bar.
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* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', fall damage is quite lethal (except for the [[Soft Water]]), but a warrior (or druid in bear form) can use their Charge ability on an enemy, which causes them to rush up to that foe. However, the scripted movement for the Charge overrides the fact that they're currently falling, so they end up on the ground having suffered no damage. Also, casting Slow Fall or Levitate will instantly reduce a falling character's speed, to no ill effect, and they will suffer no damage when they hit the ground - regardless of how far they fell prior to that point.
* ''[[Garry's Mod]]'' is even worse than the above ''Half-Life 2'' in this regard - no matter how far you fall, unless you have some addon that ''makes'' falls more realistically painful, at most you will suffer ''ten damage'' (which, by the way, can be easily and immediately regained by spawning and using a pair of one of the default entities that comes with Garry's Mod). As stated, there are some addons that make this more realistic, like the "Perfected Climb SWEP".
* [[
* [[Final Fantasy Tactics]] has characters take fall damage if they fall a greater distance than their jump rating (4 for most classes), at a rate of 10% of Max HP per height level. A fall of 10 or more over the character's jump rating is always fatal. Given the scale of the game, this isn't actually all that high (roughly ten yards).
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Anybody else remember [[The Order of the Stick|Roy Greenhilt's]] monologue before hitting the ground? "(I'm) an adventurer, (I) can weasel my way out of this!" {{spoiler|No, he can't.}}
* Done pretty reasonably in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. When Antimony falls off the bridge, the TicTocs grab her and slow her fall until she's at a safe height... then they drop her [[Soft Water|into the river]].
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''
** Even his Honda can stick a [https://web.archive.org/web/20091205084627/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=39&issue=8 pretty deft landing].
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater
** In another strip this is averted when the main characters are falling at a fast speed from hundreds of feet in the air. Even though they are teleported to the ground, that doesn't stop the acceleration from the fall. Bloody mess.
** And in [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/09/08/episode-1170-happy-landings/ yet another strip], well...
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'''Thief:''' You blocked the Earth.
'''Fighter:''' Why not? I can block magic and fire and all kinds of stuff.
'''Thief:''' I hate it when the things he says that don't make sense ''make'' sense. }}
* Parodied in [http://www.mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=29 this] strip from [[Mezzacotta|Lightning Made of Owls]].
* [[Zig-Zagging Trope|Zigzagged]] in ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' on Coruscant: They have force fields to slow you down, but there's lava on the ground.
* After dropping ''[[Buck Godot]]'' from a great height and allowing him some time to panic, the elusive Teleporter proceeds to gradually [https://web.archive.org/web/20150409232406/http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20070403 break his fall] by repeatedly punching him in the stomach. Ouch.
* ''[[Bug
* Simultaneously averted and somewhat played straight in ''[[Drowtales]]'' when Ariel [https://web.archive.org/web/20120921011404/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=813 falls from the top of one tower] down to the bottom, though she does stop briefly at one point. It's hard to see, but she briefly uses air sorcery to slow her descent. That said, when she hits the ground she's in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120921011352/http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?order=chapters&id=222 bad shape] with internal bleeding (both from the fall and an earlier stab wound) and it's strongly suggested that if it wasn't for the resident [[Empathic Healer]] that she would have died.
* Various methods of doing this in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are explored in [http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?page=0&comic=050409 this] ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'' strip.
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* [[Played for Laughs]]/[[Rule of Funny]] recently in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'', with {{spoiler|Richard Han}}'s death. He falls off a mountain, and screams as he falls... only for him to enter another thread as he falls, apparently screaming the entire time and only stopping when he hits the ground and dies. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|It's actually pretty funny as hell]].
* Subverted or deconstructed every time in the [[Whateley Universe]], where the powers aren't as big and the physics seems to matter more. In "Ayla and the Birthday Brawl", Elite League are running through a holographic simulation. When the [[Squishy Wizard]] Spellbinder gets blasted into the air by a magical trap and [[Flying Brick]] Bombshell flies forward to catch her, the impact knocks Spellbinder out and injures her.
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* On ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' Azula falls very far off a from a flying object and manages to land perfectly on her feet on the side of a cliff.
** Also justified several times with Aang, who can bend the air around him to slow himself down before landing.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[Futurama]]'': Bender is about to leap off a space train (...) and his hobo friend advises him: "We're going at nearly the speed of light, so... roll when you land."
* [[Danny Phantom]] in human form falls dozens of feet from the air and managed to grab onto a flagpole harmlessly. The flagpole later snaps and he falls another dozen or so, bounces off a sheet attached to a building, and into bags of garbage without taking any injury, but hey.
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** Incidentally, [[Skulk Tech]] ([[It Makes Sense in Context|long story]]) tries to do the same thing. It doesn't work.
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** [[The Chick|Sam]] and [[Black Best Friend|Tucker]] are dropped from the top of a building into a dumpster. They just get grossed out.
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Aeon Flux]]'' where a falling Aeon shoots a grappling hook at a bridge, before getting entangled in the rope and dying instantly when the rope finally tightens.
* Happened in the ''[[Tale Spin]]'' pilot: near the end, {{spoiler|Kit is thrown off the Iron Vulture high above Cape Suzette. He is saved by Baloo, who raced to the scene all the way from Louie's with the Sea Duck in constant overdrive, and caught him inches above sea level.}}
* Happened in the [[DCAU|Batman/Superman]] movie "World's Finest." Similar to what happened in Hush, Bruce Wayne tries to catch himself with his arms while falling off a building. He visibly falls at least 10 stories if not more, and is able to catch himself without ripping his arms off or breaking any bones.
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* The ''[[Super Mario World (animation)|Super Mario World]]'' cartoon, in the Mama Luigi episode. "I fell for ''hours''! ... Well, it seemed like hours. Anyway, I was falling, nothing below me but [[Convection, Schmonvection|boiling lava]]! Good thing I found the magic balloon!"
* Averted quite brutally in the ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' episode "Better Off Bread", in which Giggles falls off a cliff and is rescued in mid-air by Splendid the flying squirrel....and the impact ''snaps her spine!''
** [[It Got Worse|It gets worse]]. Splendid's constant acceleration and deceleration repeatedly breaks her spine, each time with a sickly "Crush" sound.
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'': "Aha! I'll bounce off that flagpole and flip to safety!" *snap* "Uh-heh! I'll bounce off that... broad, flat surface and be in a lot of pain!"]] '''CRASH!!!''' '''"AAAAAAGGGGGHHHH!!!"''' "[[Gravity Is a Harsh Mistress]]..."
** In case you were wondering, ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' averts this trope. The main character is [[Nigh Invulnerable]], however, and escapes unharmed. The pavement got a small dent in it, though.
* Happens in the ''[[Bamse]]'' TV series, in the episode with the volcano. Bamse falls off the volcano, but Skalman manages to grab hold of his belt from the helicopter moments before Bamse would have hit the ground. Instead of going from terminal velocity to zero, he's going from terminal velocity downwards to a not insignificant speed upwards. Yeah.
* Parodied in an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', where Bart is thrown off a dam and saved by a [[Heel Face Turn]]'d Sideshow Bob swinging by on a rope. When the rope is cut, they fall for several seconds (long enough that they have to take a breath between screams)...and then Bob lands [[Groin Attack|groin-first]] on a pipe that's sticking out. As he sits frozen in pain, Bart climbs onto a nearby ledge, then pulls Bob up too.
* In an episode of ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', Rarity falls for 50 seconds, which in Earth's gravity and air resistance would be at least a mile. Rainbow Dash accelerates to Mach 1, straight down, before catching her and making an instant 90-degree turn. This is approximately 1670 G's of force.
** This happens again in Secret of My Excess; Spike and Rarity fall for around 30 seconds before Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy save them using only a piece of cloth.
** In [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S1
* In a 2-part ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode, Hank and Peggy go skydiving, but Peggy's parachute ([[Failsafe Failure|and emergency chute]]) fail to deploy. Everyone fears her dead, and it's [[Lampshaded]] just how miraculous a survival from that height is. She ends up in a [[Bandage Mummy|full body cast]], goes through a psychological roller coaster, and for a few episodes is still going through physical therapy just to walk again.
* In the [[Five Episode Pilot]] of ''[[Gargoyles]]'', Goliath falls off a skyscraper and tries to grab a flagpole. It snaps immediately, in what the creators have referred to as a "This-ain't-[[Batman]]" moment.
* Speaking of which, this was lampshaded in an episode of ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' when Terry was forced to use Bruce's old-school gear. He comments that the [[Grappling Hook Pistol]] isn't so bad - right before he wrenches his shoulder using it.
** In ''[[Batman: The Animated Series|Batman the Animated Series]]'', Two-Face prepares to push a terrified Hugo Strange out of a flying plane; [[The Joker]] sadistically tells him:
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* Happens quite sometime in [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]], most egregiously in the Season2 episode Landing at Point Rain. After Anakin and Ahsoka jumped down from the top of a ten-stories high droid fortress, they used the Force to slow themselves down about a meter from the groud, then they catch Rex -whom Anakin threw several meters high into the air before he himself jumped- about fives inches above ground.
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