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* 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.
* Used scientifically in ''[[Gamble Fish]]'', Tomu was able to survive the fall by making sure he hit the branches to slow down and the fact that there was a large amount of fresh snow at the bottom to land on. However he did ad the fact this only gave him a 1/10 chances of actually surviving the fall compared to the slim chance if he didn't. He is a gambler after all.
* 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
* Kagura in ''[[Okusama wa Mahou Shoujo (Anime)|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]].
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* The "arrested fall" version also occurs in ''[[Quantum of Solace (Film)|Quantum of Solace]]''.
* In the new ''[[Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek]]'' movie, this also happens when Chekov manages to beam Kirk and Sulu back onto the Enterprise while they were falling towards the planet's surface; he manages to catch them ''just'' before they hit the ground. This is completely in keeping with how a transporter would have to work, since by re-materializing the person the forces applied to the object/person before dematerialization no longer exist, while a new set of forces are applied (consistent with the space-ship's current movement through space-time) on rematerialization.
** The same problem exists when the Enterprise herself is attacked or grabbed by the [[Negative Space Wedgie|explosion or monster of the week]], causing it to decelerate quickly enough to overcome the artificial gravity and throw people around the room. These people look like they are reacting to a change in velocity of a few feet per second, when just unexpectedly dropping out of Warp 1 to sub-light speed involves deceleration on the order of [[Sci
* ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'': Neo flies very low to the ground, at a velocity that's ''[[Foe-Tossing Charge|knocking cars aside]]'' in its wake, and catches Trinity out of the air. Between the sudden vertical stop and the sudden horizontal acceleration, Trinity should have been splattered all over his sunglasses. Earlier in the same movie, Neo rescues a couple of people from a roof of a crashed and exploding truck by flying onto the scene, grabbing them by their collars, and pulling them straight up while ''[[Outrun the Fireball|Out-Flying the fireball]]''. While the world of the Matrix does have rules, one of Neo's powers is explicitly being able to bend and break them, so this is justified.
* 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.
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== Live Action TV ==
* Averted in ''[[Heroes (TV)|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 ''[[
* 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 mph, the man ends up with four cracked ribs. Such an impact probably should have caused even more damage, though.
* 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 Fourth Doctor wasn't quite as lucky, or durable - he dies from a much shorter fall.
* [[Discussed Trope]] in ''[[The Big Bang Theory]]''.
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* ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]'' games (including ''[[Assassin's Creed II (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed II]]'' and ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]''), averted with Desmond Miles due to the lack of areas high enough for a fatal fall -- though this is stretched in ''Brotherhood'' due to his much greater free-running. However, he becomes "desynchronized" with his ancestors Altaïr and Ezio's memories if they "die," including fatal falls. However, so long as they manage to grab onto ''any'' ledge on the way down they suffer no fall damage. Ezio also has the ability to roll (hold forward on the left stick) to reduce the fall distance for the purposes of calculating damage, which with a low enough fall can prevent fall damage.
** 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. <ref>Trevor defeats Dracula, saves his bride, jumps out of the castle and falls for about 40 seconds while killing harpies. [[Subverted Trope|Then he crashes into the floor, apparently dead.]] [[Double Subverted|...Except]] he's a [[Memetic Badass|Belmont]], you know, so he just stands up and goes back home.</ref>
* 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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* 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.
* Done in ''[[Once Upon a Forest]]'' when Abigail falls off the flapper-wingamathing while trying to retrieve lungwort from the side of a very tall cliff, but is saved by grabbing onto the wing after Russel swoops the flying machine down to catch her.
* 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.
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== Real Life ==
* The examples are the surprising Subversions of this trope; where extraordinarily lucky circumstances allowed something (or several somethings) to break the fall. The list of people who play it straight, so to speak, is much, much longer.
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** More recently, skydiver [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-435377/The-man-fell-12-000-ft---survived.html Michael Holmes] survived a 12,000 foot (3657 meter) fall when his parachute failed.
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* The Peregrine Falcon doesn't hit the ground, but can turn out of a stoop at such speed that it pulls Gs that would easily kill a human.
* Aversion in some instances as well; the shock and fear of falling can be enough to send someone into cardiac arrest, killing them or at least making them pass out before they hit ground.
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