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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* In ''[[Kurogane Pukapuka Tai]]'', Commander Kuki lands like this after sliding down a rope to repel boarders, just before kicking ass overboard.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' uses this twice on one page in volume 3; when Asuna face-kicks Evangeline on the bridge, both of them execute a three-point landing. Asuna with rotation pivioting around her right foot, while Evangeline has to [[Knockback Slide|bleed off momentum]]. And this was a few pages before Asuna enters the probationary pacto with Negi.
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* Subverted in ''[[Slayers]]'': Amelia tries to perform acrobatics, but ''accidentally'' lands head down, and it hurts.
* In ''[[Change 123]]'', when [[Hot-Blooded|Hibiki]] {{spoiler|(merged with [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Zero]])}} chases Sora, at one point she does a spectacular three-point landing (presented on a double page spread, no less) after jumping off from a moving truck.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'': You're on a soon-to-explode artificial island, running for your life towards the blimp that is your only means of escape, but your [[Morality Pet]] kid sibling can't keep up. What do you do? If you're Seto Kaiba, the answer is: pick him up and throw him onto the blimp's ramp with one hand, then jump clean over him and land like so. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGjBqQM87uo Seriously.]
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', Sena unintentionally pulled this off as he was thrown into the air and thus making his [[Big Entrance]] against the first game of the tournament against the Cyborgs.* Major Kusanagi does it when she's pursuing a guy in the first ''[[Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)|Ghost in The Shell]]'' movie.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Spider-Man]]'' does this frequently.
* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'': Nightcrawler too.
* As do almost all of the [[Primal Stance|"animalistic"]] characters like [[Wolverine]], Beast, Creeper, Sabretooth, X-23 and so on...
* [[Iron Man]] does this so often it is his signature pose, although unlike most characters, his legs aren't widely spread apart. And his fist usually ends up ''in'' the ground as opposed to on top of it, since Iron Man usually does this at high speed and wearing heavy, durable armor.
* ''[[PS238]]'' has those occasionally. [http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/03122008/ Revenant] does this at the end of a grapple swing. Tyler chose the "octopus wrapped around a flagpole" style of landing.
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Sailor Venus makes one the first time she literally drops in to meet Sailor Moon in ''[[Drunkard's Walk]] S''.
* Amy "Panacea"/"Ianthe" Dallon performs one during her first training in the Family martial arts style in the ''[[Worm]]/[[Luna Varga]]'' crossover ''[[Taylor Varga]]''. It gets both lampshaded and applauded.
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* ''[[The Animatrix]]'' uses this, in particular ''Last Flight of the Osiris''.
* Tifa does it [[Rule of Cool|against a wall]] in ''[[Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children]]''.
* Jim from ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' does this when the ship sets sail into space. There's a few seconds where he and the rest of the crew start to float in the air, before Captain Amelia has the gravity turned on and everyone gets a quick drop to the ground. Jim's the only one who does it, while most everyone else just lands on their feet, unfazed (and Dr. Doppler [[Crowning Moment of Funny|lands on his head with a loud crash, because of the clunky space suit he was wearing]])
* [[Action Girl|7]] in ''[[9
* Trinity from ''[[The Matrix]]'' does this a few times, most notably {{spoiler|when she spectacularly makes this landing in front of a small building, having just backflipped off a motorcycle moving at an extreme speed through the air. As she lands, the motorcycle smashes into the building and [[Every Car Is a Pinto|explodes]].}}
* The Bride does this at one point in ''[[Kill Bill]]''.
* Chun-Li does this in ''[[Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-
* [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] examples:
** [[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] does this basically whenever he lands at high speed (and at one point, hovering at head level before cutting thrust and literally dropping himself into this pose)
* Jet Li does it a lot, but hell he and Vicent Zhao (who also does it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amjjD18lFbE&feature=related here]) have a whole fight scene almost entirely crouching in ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBs4VpNcV5o Fong Say Yuk]''.▼
** Black Widow first does it in ''Iron Man 2'', as seen in the page image, but in that case it's not a landing; she's actually getting up from a slide along the ground. However, she does it -- and always with the head pop -- over and over again in subsequent films.
** Her "sister" Yelena mocks her for it (and is disgusted at herself when she finds herself doing one) in ''[[Black Widow (2021 film)|Black Widow]]''.
* [[Deadpool (film)|Deadpool]] points out when Angel Dust is going to do this, calling it a "superhero landing", and then applauds when she does the optional head snap.
▲* Jet Li does it a lot, but hell he and
* Donnie Yen and almost everyone in ''[[Dragon Tiger Gate]]''.
* Whenever the girls from ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' land from leaping out of their transport during the dream sequences. Also, after Baby Doll kills off a samurai.
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* Over the run of ''[[Tron: Legacy]]'', this is seen being performed by Quorra, Sam, and Rinzler. This seems to be carried over to ''Tron Uprising''.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* [[Conan the Barbarian]] does this from time to time since he'd rather hit the ground a bit harder than be disarmed.
* Lara and her sisters from ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' does this on one occasion in ''Turn Coat''. From a helicopter. Without descent lines. It was flying above treetops before it reach the drop zone.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]''
** Dante does this at the beginning of ''Devil May Cry 2''.
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* In ''Crysis 2'', whenever someone falls for a long but not quite fatal distance they do this, especially while in Armor Mode.
* ''[[Oni]]'''s Konoko lands like this after jumping from an airplane to infiltrate the [[Very Definite Last Dungeon|Big Bad's base]]. Without a parachute. Bonus points for [[Ground-Shattering Landing|ground shatter]].
* The second opening cutscene of ''[[
* Adam Jensen of ''[[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]]'' falls into this stance every time he uses the [http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Icarus_Landing_System Icarus Landing System].
* Player Characters in ''[[DC Universe Online]]'' do this after drops from great heights, including a proper spray of dust and debris.
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
▲== Web Animation ==
* [http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Stephen+Fry/ Stephen Fry] jumps down the loft.
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
* Kareem of ''[[Project 0]]''. Ciro [https://web.archive.org/web/20150720012512/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/12/project-0-page-210-sunrise-falling.html opts out].▼
▲== Web Comics ==
▲* Kareem of ''[[Project 0]]''. Ciro [http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/12/project-0-page-210-sunrise-falling.html opts out].
* Elliot of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' performs one of these [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-26 while sneaking into PTTAPUTASF].
* Dan's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_939.php here] in ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]'', although the wings probably helped.
* [[The Big Girl|Tiren]], of ''[[Dubious Company]]'', jumps off the airship, does several flips and lands this way [[You Shall Not Pass|between]] a cornered [[Damsel in Distress|Sal]] and advancing [[The Dragon|Izor]]. Too bad the acrobatics gives her motion sickness and [[Vomit Discretion Shot|ruins]] the [[Big Damn Heroes|moment]].
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* In the ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' episode "Flippin' Burgers", Flippy does this after his [[Ax Crazy|burger joint massacre]]
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' often do this.
* In the ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' episode "The Revengencers", when the band manager Charles is thrown out of a third story window, he lands in a perfect three-point landing.
* Aang, from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', sometimes lands this way.
* True to the comic, film, and video game examples, Iron Man pulls this off fairly often in ''[[Iron Man: Armored Adventures]]'', too.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* This [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCuGJD1u58&feature=PlayList&p=298A9A6DA98393C9&playnext=1&index=37 guy] does it a lot in his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_0XqZqxCaQ presentations] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwegzn92_i0 competitions] though [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on the "real" part of such things.
* It exists in real Wushu and could be a variation of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20111212070525/http://www.yangsandover.com/membersarea.shtml?page=terminology "ZUO PAN BU" stance.]
* Quest Crew did this at the end of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lR96t4TRaY this performance].
* If you have forward momentum, jump down as little as six or seven feet, you'll put at least one hand out to help slow your landing. Try it by running and then jumping down about a dozen stairs—though for safety's sake, try it with smaller numbers of stairs first so when you land badly and fall, you won't break yourself.
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