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What goes up must always come down. In this case, it comes down ''hard''.
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This trope illustrates characters who can land with such an impact that it can break the ground beneath them. Remember though, to have enough force to break the ground, (often a concrete sidewalk or asphalt street) you also would have enough force to break your legs, or if you are falling from high enough, every bone in your body. Though given the mass of the human body even that isn't likely to be enough to break solid concrete. However, those who make a dramatic entrance this way are rarely human anyway.
Can be combined with [[Three
See [[In a Single Bound]] who this would probably apply to. Also see [[Ground Pound]] for examples of more hard landings.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Happens a few times in ''[[Ranma
* Also in ''[[
** The series also features Ground Shattering Takeoffs - As the characters get stronger, the [[Chunky Updraft]] climbs to ridiculous levels, usually culminating in a violent explosion just as a character launches into flight.
* Major Kusanagi does it both in the ''[[Stand Alone Complex]]'' and [[Ghost in
* In the [[Appleseed]] manga Briareos (a full conversion cyborg) inflicts a fair amount of damage to things he lands on.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* See Superman, The Incredible Hulk, and other heroes with massive strength or mass.
** [[
** [[Iron Man]]'s famous [[Three
== Fan Works ==
* When Paul lands (or jumps, for that matter) with significant force in ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Iron Man (
* Colossus landing in the battlefield in ''[[X-Men (
* [[Hancock]] does this after flying to show how messy and inefficient he is.
* Morpheus ends his demonstration of his gravity-defying skills with this in the first ''[[The Matrix|Matrix]]'' film.
** And in the second, Neo makes the ground ''ripple'' when landing or taking off.
* Selene does this in the opening of ''[[Underworld (
* The film ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Alex Mercer in the game ''[[Prototype (
* Cole in ''[[
** Both the ''Prototype'' and ''inFAMOUS'' characters, while they can do it, also have special attacks that charge up the slam.
* Added as an ability in the first patch to [[Crackdown]].
** Oddly enough, the ground ''heals''.
* When the title characters in ''[[
* In ''[[
** In War3, stomp-type spells leave a small crater around the caster, despite going no more than an inch or so in the air (and ''this'' assuming they didn't simply raise a single foot and bring it down in an almighty impact).
* In the later Tekken and [[Soul Calibur]] games, being thrown onto the ground (via either a literal throw or a botched landing) results in that spot being cracked. It only disappears when another crack happens.
* The fat and heavily armored knight in ''[[
* Characters on ''[[
** The same is true of [[DC Universe Online]].
* This is [[Badass|Mace Windu]]'s trademark jump attack in ''[[Star Wars Battlefront]] II''.
* The DS game of the ''[[Transformers]]'' film does this whenever you jump.
* An actual power in ''[[The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction]]'', with several variations.
* [[Sonic the Hedgehog]] can do this with the bounce/bound attack in some of the games. Knuckles can also do this.
* Shogun type enemies in [[The Dishwasher]]: Vampire smile do this either when they spawn or when they leap in the middle of combat. And at higher difficulties, ''[[For Massive Damage|they really, really hurt.]]''
* Jarvan in ''[[League of Legends]]'' does this, leaping on someone and trapping them within the circle of rock that shoots up around the impact point.
* Ezio in ''[[Assassin's Creed
* You can do this everytime you respawn in [[Section 8 (video game)]]'s multiplayer, complete with [[Three
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Nathan Explosion does this in the title-opening for ''[[Metalocalypse]]'', but it's just for drama since he can't do this in the actual series.
* [[Dishing Out Dirt|Earthbenders]] in ''[[
** Also to [[Not the Fall That Kills You|soften their landing]]
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]''. He also tends to leave indents and craters when starting his leaps, in according to Newton's third law.
== Webcomics ==
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