Trash Landing: Difference between revisions

* Purposely arranged in ''[[Death Note]]'' so Matsuda can convincingly fake his death to escape from a cabal of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]s.

* The guards chasing [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]] land on Crazy Hakim's Discount Fertilizer.

* In the trailers for the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (film)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' CG Movie, three of the turtles land from a jump off a fire escape, and make badass poses, looking menacing and ninja-y... and then Michelangelo takes a header into a dumpster instead, prompting [[Face Palm|facepalms]] from the other Turtles.

* During the chase at Tokyo Airport in [[Cars|''Cars 2'']], both Mater and Finn McMissile escape from villains Grem and Acer by leading them through the fuselage of a Samairai plane, causing the two villains to fall into a waste disposal truck parked next to that plane. According to the novelization and comic, this happens to said villains again during the chase in London near the end, but such did not happen in the film (in the actual movie, both Grem and Acer meet their end when Holly Shiftwell knocks the two away from Mater and Lightning McQueen, then luring them both into a pub called "Ye Left Turn Inn", where [[Bar Brawl|the two are immediately beaten up]] by several trucks inside, including [[Mind Screw|automobile]] [[Early-Bird Cameo|versions]] of [[Brave|King Fergus, Lord Dingwall, Lord MacGuffin, and Lord Macintosh)]].

* Done hilariously to Cady in ''[[Mean Girls]]'' after parading down the hall with "The Plastics".

* Neo, while running from the three Agents in ''[[The Matrix]]''.

* A [[Running Gag]] in ''[[The Fighter]]'' has Dickie constantly jumping out a second story window into a trash heap to avoid his family catching him in a crack house. They quickly learn to anticipate the move.

* Spider Robinson's ''[[Callahan's Crosstime Saloon|Callahan's Lady]]'' includes a short story with a villainess with some [[Applied Phlebotinum]] that forces the characters to do anything she asks them to. One of the orders she gives to the protagonist and another character is "don't go downstairs". They use [[Exact Words]] to turn that into "Do not descend a staircase" and the protagonist jumps into a dumpster from an upstairs window.

{{quote|'''Maureen:''' "If you are able to arrange your life to avoid dropping into whorehouse garbage from a height, I suggest you do so."}}

* ''[[Scrubs]]'': Ted accidentally falls off the hospital roof after being startled (while [[Butt Monkey|contemplating suicide]]). He is saved by landing on a pile of garbage bags that the [[Almighty Janitor]] and his sidekick had been hiding on a lower roof as part of a money-making scheme.

* ''[[CSI]]'' has an episode where a liquor store robber jumped out a window and into a dumpster to escape the cops, but in a subversion of the [[Soft Glass]] trope the window glass cut into his neck and killed him.

* In the ''[[Chuck]]'' episode "Chuck Versus the Marlin", Sarah and a Fulcrom agent fight on a rooftop. Chuck arrives just in time to see them both go over the edge, but running to the edge he discovers that they landed safely in a dumpster.

* Like in ''L&O SVU'' above, in ''[[The X-Files]]'' episode "Essence" a foe falls off a roof while fighting Mulder and Scully. He seems to land safely in a garbage truck... but then the compactor is activated.

* ''[[MacGyver]]'': In "The Coltons", Frank and Jesse tackle a pair of bad guys out throw a second storey window and land in a dumpster which is miraculously full of bags of shredded paper.

* Although she didn't fall very far, Penny lands in the trash in ''[[Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog]]''

{{quote|"Did you notice that he threw you in the garbage?"}}

* The ''[[Bastard Operator From Hell]]'' has caused this to happen to annoying lusers a few times, although more realistically, often not without injury.

* ''[[Freefall]]'' has it happening now and then. [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00370.htm Especially to Sam].

* Eotain (one of the two recurring Geisterdamen) in ''[[Girl Genius]]'' [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20161031 here], after a [[Roof Hopping|rooftop chase]] ended badly for her mount.

* Parodied and subverted in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. Rammer doesn't just fall on a dumpster, he falls on a dumpster full of pillows. Unfortunately it was closed at the time, so he busted up his ribs. Torg later points out the irony.

** In "Marge on the Lam", Ruth with Marge brakes and stops in time before driving into the chasm, but Homer and Chief Wiggum fail to stop and fly over the cliff until they are saved by a landfill mountain.

{{quote|'''Wiggum:''' And to think, those stupid environmentalists were protesting this landfill.

* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Luck of the Fryish", Fry falls headfirst into a garbage can after electrocuting himself on some power-lines. A fast-food clerk then comments "That is one unlucky guy!" as he dumps his bucketful of waste into the same can.

* In ''[[Batman Beyond]]'', Terry gets thrown into a dumptster, and flies out of it just as it's being picked up by a couple of garbagemen. While the one is shocked, his companion just shrugs it off with, "A guy's gotta eat."

{{quote|'''Hadji:''' Jonny, this was--

'''Jonny:''' [[Incredibly Lame Pun|...A really rotten idea?]] }}