Search/Recent Changes
DBTropes
...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

Not the Fall That Kills You

 Not the Fall That Kills You
type
FeatureClass
 Not the Fall That Kills You
label
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You
page
notthefallthatkillsyou
 Not the Fall That Kills You
comment
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })... It's hitting the ground ("the deceleration trauma", "it's the sudden stop").
The laws of physics are frequently ignored in service to the story, with someone taking a plunge from a great height being probably the most frequent offender. Writers tend to forget that it's not the fall that kills you... it's the sudden stop at the end. Or to put it another way, your velocity can't hurt you, until you try to change it.
In fiction, however, one must specifically hit the ground to get killed in a fall. Grabbed a ledge? Hooked an outcropping with your Grappling-Hook Pistol? Got caught out of midair? (By a giant robot?) Hit water instead of ground? Landed on an enemy? On a car? 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 perhaps fell through some trees before encountering the ground.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Under Newtonian physics, this is nonsense: you still decelerate from terminal velocity to a dead stop in less than a second, and it is the sudden deceleration of that stop that kills. It makes no difference what specifically causes that sudden deceleration. Then again, if you have a Variable Terminal Velocity, the laws of Newtonian physics might not apply in the first place.
Amusingly, even works that take the stress of deceleration into account will paradoxically ignore the stress of acceleration. Trauma from rapid velocity change works both ways. Getting thrown halfway across a city square is pretty much equivalent to standing still and getting hit by a train. Even if Superman catches you at the other end, you still end up ripped apart like tissue paper by steel-hard fingers pushing at you like jackhammers. If writers considered the way vehicles work, they could avoid this. Don't want your hero bisecting flying civilians? Try having them travel at the same speed and gradually decelerate the target to a more reasonable velocity. Air braking is your friend.
Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })This can happen in video games via Gameplay and Story Segregation. On the other hand, video games also sometimes invert this, so it is in fact the fall that kills you... in mid-air. 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 potholed in that second paragraph. See also I Fell for Hours for incredibly long falls. See also Inertial Dampening, which can justify it in worlds where it exists. May overlap with Required Secondary Powers.
Examples:
 Not the Fall That Kills You
fetched
2018-10-15T20:14:32Z
 Not the Fall That Kills You
parsed
2020-06-25T17:27:56Z
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to AWizardDidIt: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to AppliedPhlebotinum: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to AvertedTrope: Not an Item - IGNORE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to BedsheetLadder: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to BottomlessPits: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to FanWank: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to FiveEpisodePilot: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to FloatingIsland: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to GoodBadBugs: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to GoombaStomp: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to HandWave: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to HaveANiceDeath: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to HealingFactor: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to HitPoints: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to InfantImmortality: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to Intangibility: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to InvertedTrope: Not an Item - IGNORE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to ItMakesSenseInContext: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to Miko: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to NegativeSpaceWedgie: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to NighInvulnerability: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to PhotographicMemory: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to PlayedForLaughs: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to RanmaOneHalf: Not an Item - UNKNOWN
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to RapidAging: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to RealityWarper: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to Reconstruction: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to ReentryScare: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to RuleOfCool: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to RuleOfFun: Not an Item - CAT
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to RunningGag: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to SandIsWater: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to SchoolNewsPaperNewsHound: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to SoftWater: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to StockShticks: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to SubvertedTrope: Not an Item - CAT
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to Superhero: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to TheChick: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to TheManTheyCouldntHang: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to TheSmartGuy: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to TooDumbToLive: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to TruthInTelevision: Not an Item - CAT
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to Understatement: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to VariableTerminalVelocity: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to WideOpenSandbox: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to WordOfGod: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingComment
Dropped link to ZigZaggingTrope: Not an Item - FEATURE
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingUnknown
RanmaOneHalf
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingUnknown
FloatingIsland
 Not the Fall That Kills You
isPartOf
DBTropes
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_102b7173
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_102b7173
comment
In In FAMOUS, Cole can leap off the tallest building in the game, and suffer no damage at all. Unless he falls into water. Also, anything he lands on (unless he's using the Thunder Drop) will also be perfectly fine. Turns out he uses his Kinetic Shockwave to dampen his fall (notice the dust spreading from his impact point).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_102b7173
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_102b7173
featureConfidence
1.0
 inFAMOUS (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_102b7173
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_10b03dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_10b03dcf
comment
Batman: Arkham Asylum attempted to justify this by means of Batman's glider cape: if he is falling towards the ground, the cape will automatically open a few feet before the ground, slowing his descent somewhat. However, it's played completely straight in the sequel, in which Batman gains a new move which allows him to dive vertically (without his cape opening) and still hit the ground unharmed. Additionally, Catwoman is able to jump huge vertical distances and not take any damage when hitting the ground (it's occasionally handwaved by having her perform a combat roll when landing). Finally, in both games it's played straight in another instance, as Batman and Catwoman are able to throw mooks off of very tall buildings, but when their bodies are scanned after the fact they are invariably described as "Unconscious", even if the falls are long enough to realistically kill even a very strong person.
Partial "justification" for Batman's vertical dive bomb attack in Arkham City: the move utilizes the same comic book technology involved in the cape, the utility belt, the helmet, and pretty much every square inch of the suit, to store up the kinetic energy of the impact to release in an area of effect. The Batsuit in the games is not so much the classic "skintight silk costume" as "powered armor with a bat motif."
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_10b03dcf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_10b03dcf
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_10b03dcf
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1139927a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1139927a
comment
In the premiere episode of Preacher (2016), Cassidy (a vampire) was forced to jump out of an airplane at 30,000 feet (the pilots realized what he was and the plane was flying towards the sunrise). The trope is both played straight (when we see him in the crater later, basically half his body had gone SPLAT) and subverted (being a vampire, he was still alive; all he needed was a meal in the form of a nearby cow to recover).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1139927a
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1139927a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Preacher (2016)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1139927a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_11b7db91
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_11b7db91
comment
In one episode of Adventure Time, a shrunken Finn jumps out of a tree riding a squirrel to escape pursuers. Less than a second before they hit the ground, they land on a flying (parallel to the ground!) disc completely unharmed. Ah, but this is explained away easily. Size matters when you fall. Finn is clearly smaller than the squirrel. Their fall impacted the disc, but their combined weight and therefore force, would not be large at all.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_11b7db91
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_11b7db91
featureConfidence
1.0
 Adventure Time
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_11b7db91
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1510822e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1510822e
comment
GoldenEye: Zig-Zagged; Alec falls from a great height and lands onto a concrete pool floor, but still manages to survive despite snapping his leg and visibly smashing his back; the only reason we don't see the full severity of the fall is because he is promptly crushed by the scenery.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1510822e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1510822e
featureConfidence
1.0
 GoldenEye
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1510822e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_16861a09
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_16861a09
comment
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 baby—she visibly extends her arms upwards, then contracts her body upwards towards the baby before turning into a parachute.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_16861a09
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_16861a09
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Incredibles
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_16861a09
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_17b5240a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_17b5240a
comment
In Frozen when Kristoff and Anna fall two hundred feet, their fall is stopped by a layer of fresh snow at the bottom of the cliff, but their fall ends after only a few feet of snow.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_17b5240a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_17b5240a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Frozen
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_17b5240a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1825e407
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1825e407
comment
In Astonishing X-Men (Whedon), Hisako catches a plummeting classmate with her mutant armour up. He lives, but he's a mess.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1825e407
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1825e407
featureConfidence
1.0
 Astonishing X-Men (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1825e407
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a1a594f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a1a594f
comment
Painfully inverted in 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a1a594f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a1a594f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Battlefield (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a1a594f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a5358c8
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a5358c8
comment
Dungeons & Dragons Online, true to its tabletop roots, allows high-level monks to fall very long distances without taking damage. There are feather fall items that allow any character to drift slowly downward and take no damage, but monks take no damage despite falling at full speed. There's one instance where monks are well advised to have a feather fall item anyway: not because they'll take damage from hitting the ground, but because otherwise they'll be alone in combat at the bottom of the shaft for a minute or so while the rest of the party is wafting lazily downward. If you know it's coming, you can try to land on a ledge a little above the bottom and wait for the rest of the party, but if you miss that you're in trouble.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a5358c8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a5358c8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dungeons & Dragons Online (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1a5358c8
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b386512
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b386512
comment
In Ranma ½, it's not unheard of for characters to walk away from hundred-meter drops (in one such instance, they even left perfect character-shaped holes upon impact after falling off a mountain bridge and all the way to the ground.) On one occasion, though, Ranma fell off a Giant Flyer's back several hundred meters in the air, and was knocked out cold upon landing on a convenient log floating downstream. On another, Ranma, while carrying four girls on his back, blasted himself (and the girls) out of a Garden of Evil up to a height of at least thirty meters, and landed perfectly on his feet... then collapsed in a heap, both legs broken.
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.
A reconstructional attempt in second movie, when Mousse has his Post-Victory Collapse in his Ship Tease liberation of abducted Shampoo. He falls off large height past never-asked-to-be-saved Shampoo. She grabs him, joining the fall and then she lands seemingly flawlessly onto straight legs (in line with own cat motif), following with immediate and fluid transit into crouching position and kneeling all the while decelerating and laying unconscious Mousse to rest on the wooden floor. Everyone is a martial artist of worth there, so the legwork goes as means of absorbing the landing impact, with a pinch of No-Sell of strain it would cause to bodies of both parties regardless.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b386512
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b386512
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ranma ½ (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b386512
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b7f85df
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b7f85df
comment
Averted in K - As seen in the opening, Shiro falls from the airship through the roof of the school gym, but survives with barely any injury. In episode 11, it's revealed that he is immortal.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b7f85df
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b7f85df
featureConfidence
1.0
 http://dbtropes.org/resource/Anime/K
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1b7f85df
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1c1ceec7
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1c1ceec7
comment
Subverted in Monster Hunter. Falling off a large height will cause you to "stick" your landing, forcing you to be still for a few seconds, and if you were in transport mode, whatever you were carrying will be destroyed unless you have a skill that negates the effect (e.g. Felyne Lander). However, you can never take damage from a fall, even if it was off a volcanic peak that has to be at least 100 meters high. Then again, it probably makes sense, given that Hunters can also withstand inhuman amounts of abuse from monsters without so much as a finger broken.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1c1ceec7
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1c1ceec7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Monster Hunter (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1c1ceec7
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1f418bf4
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1f418bf4
comment
Happened in the TaleSpin pilot: near the end, 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 by his sweater inches above sea level —instantly arresting his vertical momentum, and instantly accelerating him to hundreds of MPH horizontally. His sweater wasn't even stretched.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1f418bf4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1f418bf4
featureConfidence
1.0
 TaleSpin
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_1f418bf4
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_223c2a48
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_223c2a48
comment
Zig-Zagged in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. At face value, it's played more realistically than every other game; whereas fall damage in those would take out 3 hearts at worst, it can scale all the way up to 30 hearts here, enough to instantly kill you at any point. However, you also get the Paraglider at the end of the tutorial, which brings any fall to an immediate midair stop without any consequences.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_223c2a48
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_223c2a48
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_223c2a48
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_225c51e0
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_225c51e0
comment
Played straight to set up a joke in The Naked Gun 2 1/2. Towards the end of the film, the villain falls off a tall building, hits the awning on the ground floor, then tumbles to the street, and gets up completely unharmed. He takes a few steps and is then mauled by a lion.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_225c51e0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_225c51e0
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Naked Gun
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_225c51e0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_23d67c89
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_23d67c89
comment
In The Hobbit, Bilbo and a goblin tumble over the edge of a landing in the goblin caves. Bilbo loses consciousness but survived with a few bruises and cuts and was up and running in no time thanks to a cluster of mushrooms that cushioned his fall when he should have been in a much worse condition with or without the mushrooms. The goblin had nothing to cushion its fall, leaving it easy prey for Gollum.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_23d67c89
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_23d67c89
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Hobbit
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_23d67c89
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_257b0d6e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_257b0d6e
comment
This rule was abused in the sequel to The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters. Ridiculous Sword is hurling toward Central Earth at nearly the speed of light. The last few feet of vertical travel before she hits the ground, however, just happen to be within 8 feet of a castle wall. So, although she makes a self-shaped impact crater over a mile deep, she takes no damage from the fall.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_257b0d6e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_257b0d6e
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_257b0d6e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_261c8d3f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_261c8d3f
comment
Parodied in an episode of 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-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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_261c8d3f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_261c8d3f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Simpsons
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_261c8d3f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_271bf056
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_271bf056
comment
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. Also, a man who tries to jump from a moving truck breaks both of his legs.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_271bf056
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_271bf056
featureConfidence
1.0
 Infestation
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_271bf056
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_291e9857
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_291e9857
comment
Played with oddly in Dark Souls. It IS the fall that kills you. Fall damage is calculated based on time in the air and is applied when you hit the ground; if you get yourself in an animation loop of infinitely falling, you'll still die eventually. Even items that completely negate fall damage don't apply to some specific drops.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_291e9857
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_291e9857
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dark Souls (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_291e9857
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2a5e52e7
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2a5e52e7
comment
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. Base jumping without any apparent equipment is the Major's calling card, and it's never shown how she lands after these jumps.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2a5e52e7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2a5e52e7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ghost in the Shell
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2a5e52e7
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2bb4ae0f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2bb4ae0f
comment
Averted in Heroes when Nathan saves Tracy as soon as she jumps off the bridge before she has time to build up velocity and what not.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2bb4ae0f
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2bb4ae0f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Heroes
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2bb4ae0f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2e79ce7a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2e79ce7a
comment
In 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, her lover, Oswald, saves her by making a quick jump from somewhere below and catching her.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2e79ce7a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2e79ce7a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Odin Sphere (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_2e79ce7a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30a5ebfd
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30a5ebfd
comment
Played straight during Naruto's training for the Chuunin Exams. Thrown into a deep chasm, after falling for several minutes he managed to summon a toad large enough to stop his descent... and bouncing off of his hard back didn't hurt at all, apparently.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30a5ebfd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30a5ebfd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Naruto (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30a5ebfd
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30b255fb
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30b255fb
comment
Supergirl saves a guy from a 29,000 feet fall here. It has a happy ending, so he should be fine.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30b255fb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30b255fb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Supergirl (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_30b255fb
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3138dd1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3138dd1
comment
Per this page's image, Bug Martini explored this. Sort of.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3138dd1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3138dd1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bug Martini (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3138dd1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_32c541e6
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_32c541e6
comment
In 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… falling like that's gonna stunt my growth even more!!"
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_32c541e6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_32c541e6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Fullmetal Alchemist (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_32c541e6
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_334120fc
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_334120fc
comment
In 8-Bit Theater, Thief survives an extremely long fall via the aforementioned "double jump" method.
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.
Bear in mind that the one that teleported them could have done something to arrest their fall and get them to land unharmed, but Sarda is called an Omnipotent Jackass for a reason.
And in yet another strip, well...
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_334120fc
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_334120fc
featureConfidence
1.0
 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_334120fc
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3444a38d
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3444a38d
comment
In a Cloak & 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3444a38d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3444a38d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Cloak & Dagger / Comicbook
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3444a38d
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3495152f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3495152f
comment
Hancock shows the Flying Brick titular hero grabbing a Jerk Ass kid, flying him high up into the air, zooming back down, and catching him by sticking his arm out. Even leaving aside the deceleration, he hit someone who can shrug off bullets and is harder than pavement.
He also tosses a whale by its tail (it rhymes!) without ripping its flukes off.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3495152f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3495152f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Hancock
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3495152f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_34a70b48
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_34a70b48
comment
Averted in Batman Forever, when Batman dives into the death trap to save Chase and Robin. When Batman attaches the cords to Chase and when he grabs Robin, they can be seen decelerating, rather than coming to a complete stop, implying the cords are elastic. This is more noticeable when Batman rescues Robin.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_34a70b48
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_34a70b48
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman Forever
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_34a70b48
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_35e05f2a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_35e05f2a
comment
In RWBY, the characters almost never get hurt, even when falling from immense heights. Season 2's opening credits has them falling from suborbital heights, accelerating their falls, and then performing superhero landings with no ill effects at all. As early as the fifth episode, we see them all slowing down in various ways after being launched into a wooded area, and but for Rule of Cool, not one would survive. Ruby uses her scythe as a Blade Brake against a tree limb, which should have ripped her arms out of their sockets; Ren circles a tree trunk using his bladed SMGs, and Yang uses her shotgun gauntlets to keep herself accelerated before bouncing off of two trees and rolling to a stop. Definitely justified by Aura and the strengthening effects it has on the human body, as evidenced by Yang surviving a fall at terminal velocity with no ill effects.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_35e05f2a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_35e05f2a
featureConfidence
1.0
 RWBY (Web Animation)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_35e05f2a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_363880e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_363880e
comment
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 separately described as being very painful, and Ping breaks a rib or two in the process.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_363880e
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_363880e
featureConfidence
1.0
 DragonKeeperTrilogy
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_363880e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3717ea4a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3717ea4a
comment
Happened in the 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3717ea4a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3717ea4a
featureConfidence
1.0
 DC Animated Universe (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3717ea4a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_373fcc3
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_373fcc3
comment
Gwen Stacy's death from the comics gets its revisit in The Amazing Spider-Man 2. What kills her this time isn't Spidey jerking her to a stop and snapping her neck, as in the original. It's the fact that Spidey's webs stretch like bungee cords in these movies. At terminal velocity, Gwen is falling too fast for Peter's one strand of web to slow her fall enough for her to survive hitting the ground.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_373fcc3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_373fcc3
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Amazing Spider-Man 2
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_373fcc3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_397c7840
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_397c7840
comment
Subverted in a Marshal Law comic where insane 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_397c7840
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_397c7840
featureConfidence
1.0
 Marshal Law (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_397c7840
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3b7abee2
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3b7abee2
comment
The Half-Life series does have falling damage, but if the player character can catch hold of a ladder (or rope, in Opposing Force) on the way down, all that momentum dissipates like magic. Additionally, Soft Water is in full effect, such that a few inches of water that can't even noticeably impact your movement on the ground will still cancel all downward momentum.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3b7abee2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3b7abee2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Half-Life (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3b7abee2
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3c5675b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3c5675b
comment
In an old issue of Marvel Team-Up, Black Panther tried to catch Spider-Man after he was knocked from a great height. Panther noted that if he didn't time the catch exactly right, it would likely break both of their necks.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3c5675b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3c5675b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Black Panther (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3c5675b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3db49365
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3db49365
comment
Spider-Man Trilogy:
Painfully obvious in Spider-Man, where Mary Jane is over water and in danger of falling; she does fall, but after about 40 feet she grabs onto a metal pipe. Her arms are not ripped out of their sockets.
In contrast to Gwen Stacy above, Spider-Man successfully catches Aunt May with his webbing in his second movie. This movies' webbing is shown to be very elastic, but that doesn't stop the RiffTrax from hanging a lampshade: "And her entire skeletal system was pulverized." If anyone was going to have a heart attack from the shock, it would be May.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3db49365
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3db49365
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man Trilogy
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3db49365
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3defe34c
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3defe34c
comment
Discussed in The Big Bang Theory.
And yet Leonard is correct - that's exactly what Superman does and Sheldon, having a Photographic Memory, should know that already.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3defe34c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3defe34c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Discussed Trope
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3defe34c
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3e374b30
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3e374b30
comment
In The Dark Knight Rises, the "safety rope" the prisoners use when they try to climb out of the pit lets them drop a long way before snapping taut, breaking their fall very suddenly while tied around their waist in one place, with no padding or harness to spread the load. This is ignoring the fact that they then get swung straight into a stone wall. There is no way Batman would be in any fit state to try again after falling once, especially considering how much damage his spine took already.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3e374b30
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3e374b30
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Dark Knight Rises
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_3e374b30
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41671603
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41671603
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41671603
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41671603
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman: Hush (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41671603
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41ecc735
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41ecc735
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41ecc735
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41ecc735
featureConfidence
1.0
 Cyborg 009 (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41ecc735
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41f626f9
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41f626f9
comment
In Quantum Conundrum, you'll survive any fall as long as you shift to the Fluffy dimension, giving you a plush cotton floor to land on. Though even in normal dimensions, you seem pretty resistant to fall damage for a child.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41f626f9
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41f626f9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Quantum Conundrum (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_41f626f9
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_42bb8b78
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_42bb8b78
comment
Subverted in an episode of Æon 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_42bb8b78
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_42bb8b78
featureConfidence
1.0
 Æon Flux
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_42bb8b78
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_43351528
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_43351528
comment
Inverted in Spelunker, especially the NES version. Falling by knee-height in the NES version kills you mid-air.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_43351528
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_43351528
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spelunker (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_43351528
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_437dd88e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_437dd88e
comment
Parodied in Cyborg Grandpa G, where the titular cyborg sees the old lady from the tobacco store in the path of a bus, and rushes over to push her out of the way. After he does so, he says, "Whew! That's great that my body can reach Mach two! If I was one second slower, she'd have been hit by that 30 km/h bus!" The old lady has been smashed to bits to the point where he has to rebuild her body as a cyborg like him...
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_437dd88e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_437dd88e
featureConfidence
1.0
 CyborgGrandpaG
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_437dd88e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4522fd1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4522fd1
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4522fd1
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4522fd1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Whateley Universe
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4522fd1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4535c8ef
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4535c8ef
comment
Calvin and Hobbes Get XTREME! has the two protagonists getting blasted off an erupting volcano, then landing safely on a palm tree.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4535c8ef
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4535c8ef
featureConfidence
1.0
 CalvinAndHobbesGetXtreme
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4535c8ef
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_455e3038
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_455e3038
comment
In a 2-part King of the Hill episode, Hank and Peggy go skydiving, but Peggy's parachute (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 full body cast, goes through a psychological roller coaster, and for a few episodes is still going through physical therapy just to walk again.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_455e3038
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_455e3038
featureConfidence
1.0
 King of the Hill
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_455e3038
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_467c89f7
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_467c89f7
comment
An early episode of Super Dimension Fortress 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_467c89f7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_467c89f7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Super Dimension Fortress Macross
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_467c89f7
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4685048b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4685048b
comment
At the climax of Pokémon 4Ever, Ash, Pikachu and the Iron Masked Marauder start to fall to their supposed deaths from thousands of feet in the air. Ash and Pikachu are saved by Celebi, but as for the Marauder…he wasn't so lucky. The Marauder continues to fall to Earth, and just when you were hoping for a Disney Villain Death, he lands in a tree and continues his fall, breaking a branch along the way. He then falls to the ground and starts to roll down a hill and off a miniature cliff, and somehow survives this.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4685048b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4685048b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pokémon 4Ever
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4685048b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_469771d2
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_469771d2
comment
The Powerpuff Girls: In "Stuck Up, Up and Away", Princess plummets from a dizzying height after her flying power armor is destroyed, but Blossom grabs her right before she hits the ground.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_469771d2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_469771d2
featureConfidence
1.0
 ThePowerpuffGirls
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_469771d2
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_474c18c1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_474c18c1
comment
BioShock Infinite the player can jump from one skyline to another with the sky-hook, and even if he falls a hundred feet from the air as long as he can latch on a skyline with his sky-hook he's ok. If it were real the fall would have dislodged his arm from his socket, or should have broken the sky-hook from all that force.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_474c18c1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_474c18c1
featureConfidence
1.0
 BioShock Infinite (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_474c18c1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49a88442
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49a88442
comment
Final Fantasy XIV has players suffering fall damage if they jump off a cliff that is too high. However, you can't die from fall damage, only be reduced to 1 HP... as long as you're not currently in battle. If you are, you will die from falling too far.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49a88442
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49a88442
featureConfidence
1.0
 Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49a88442
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49ad83ee
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49ad83ee
comment
Various methods of doing this in World of Warcraft are explored in this Awkward Zombie strip.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49ad83ee
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49ad83ee
featureConfidence
1.0
 World of Warcraft (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_49ad83ee
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4ab17360
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4ab17360
comment
InuYasha:
Almost every character has fallen off a cliff at least once, but by far the most egregious example is Kikyo. Early on in the series this was her primary means of exit; she would fall off a cliff, be presumed dead, then show up two episodes later and fall off another cliff, causing no end of drama with Inuyasha. Of course, what is dead may never die, regardless of how many cliffs you fall from.
Inuyasha himself falls off no end of high places; given his practical indestructibility, this is to be expected. This trope comes in to play when he is trapped in human form and then falls off a cliff in one of the mid-series episodes. In the anime, he is caught by the demon tree they were fighting (long story), but in the manga he lands in a tree at the base of the cliff and awakens when the sun rises and he reverts.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4ab17360
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4ab17360
featureConfidence
1.0
 Inuyasha (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4ab17360
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4abc1cbe
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4abc1cbe
comment
Used in 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 lives happily ever after.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4abc1cbe
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4abc1cbe
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Hunchback of Notre Dame / Disney
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4abc1cbe
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b40ff6e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b40ff6e
comment
Zig-Zagged in Metal Gear Solid V; there's still "pain" and "death" falls for Snake, but enemies who fall off of ledges can crack their skulls and die at much shorter heights than would even make him grunt. Riding D-Walker also completely negates any fall damage Snake would take.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b40ff6e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b40ff6e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Metal Gear Solid V (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b40ff6e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c79
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c79
comment
Iron Man:
Handled relatively reasonably at one point: 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.
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. Slamming headfirst into the dune like that, his liver is going to end up inside his skull. Iron Man is a comic-book character, which the film duly acknowledges, so Rule of Funny may apply here - a bit of comic relief to cap off the drama just past. It probably also hurt later to have his lifters backflip him face-first into the wall.
Later on, Tony gets blasted out of the sky by a tank, and slams hard into the ground, making a large crater. He then crawls out, damaged but alive.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c79
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c79
featureConfidence
1.0
 Iron Man
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c79
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7a
comment
In Iron Man 2, it's also averted as Tony visibly drops his speed significantly before grabbing Pepper and flying her away from the exploding Hammeroid.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7a
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Iron Man 2
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7b
comment
Played painfully straight in Iron Man 3, in the "Barrel of Monkeys" scene. The last victim is caught just before hitting the water and is magically unhurt.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Iron Man 3
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4b790c7b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4bc3fa15
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4bc3fa15
comment
Uru: Ages Beyond Myst plays this very straight. You can fall about 12 feet and never take damage. If there's a hazard or an even higher drop below you, though, you "panic-link" back to your Relto Age.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4bc3fa15
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4bc3fa15
featureConfidence
1.0
 Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4bc3fa15
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4be1bdd0
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4be1bdd0
comment
At the end of the first Golden Sun game, Sheba falls off the top of Venus Lighthouse, and Felix leaps off the tower after her, in an apparent suicide dive. It's later noted that 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.
In the second game, it's confirmed that Sheba is a Wind Adept, and Kraden suggests that she subconsciously used her powers to slow the fall, rather than breaking it. Whirlwinds carrying water is how water spouts are formed, so Sheba's powers also explain the "seas rising up" part. (Felix also incredulously checks himself for injuries upon waking.)
The massive crater next to Lalivero in the first game? Sheba fell from the sky (possibly from the moon) as an infant. Somehow she hit hard enough to leave a crater the size of a city, but was completely unhurt herself.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4be1bdd0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4be1bdd0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Golden Sun (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4be1bdd0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c08aa7e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c08aa7e
comment
The Return of Hanuman has a boy surviving after crushing through walls and a guy falling off the road while driving his truck. Seems like Maruti the reincarnation of Hanuman isn't the only one who's Nigh Invulnerable.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c08aa7e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c08aa7e
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Return of Hanuman (Animation)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c08aa7e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c095a1f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c095a1f
comment
In the original 1980's Transformers series, Wheeljack (one of the few Autobots who can fly) is shot out of the air and is implied to be falling to his death. He's saved when Optimus Prime transforms into his truck form and allows Wheeljack to land on his trailer. Neither Wheeljack nor Prime's trailer got hurt.
Another scenario involved Silverbolt saving a group of human dignitaries from falling out of the sky by letting them land on his jet mode. Broken bones would be the least of their problems.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c095a1f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c095a1f
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Transformers
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4c095a1f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d1ba412
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d1ba412
comment
The Adventures of Dr. McNinja — apparently Doc can land safely from any height as long as he has the cord of his grappling hook in his hands.
Even his Honda can stick a pretty deft landing.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d1ba412
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d1ba412
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Adventures of Dr. McNinja (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d1ba412
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d30cecb
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d30cecb
comment
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner: Wile .E Coyote falls from high cliffs in his pursuit of the Road Runner every episode and is always just fine afterwards. He's also crashed into rocks and walls at speed (or had large objects crash into him at speed) with similar results.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d30cecb
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d30cecb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_4d30cecb
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_50621681
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_50621681
comment
In Prince of Persia 2: The Shadow and The Flame, attempting to grab a ledge after you've fallen beyond the ordinarily lethal limit, will leave you crushed on the floor... while your arms dangle from the ledge above.
And in the original, the grab action would simply fail to stop a lethal fall, except in those ports where it didn't, allowing some major unintended shortcuts.
In the Sands of Time games almost any fall will kill you, even ones that would only cause discomfort. Justified in that given the environments he's in, even a broken ankle or sprain would effectively kill him. In the same game if you fall from a great height but manage to get near a ledge just before hitting the floor, the prince will grab onto the ledge - completely decelerating in a fraction of a second - before losing his grip and falling to the floor. Decelerating from terminal velocity using only his fingertips doesn't harm him, but the short drop to the floor below kills him outright.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_50621681
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_50621681
featureConfidence
1.0
 PrinceOfPersia
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_50621681
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_51dc68b5
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_51dc68b5
comment
This is averted in Wallace & Gromit: Project Zoo. A fall over a certain height will injure or even kill Gromit no matter what is done.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_51dc68b5
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_51dc68b5
featureConfidence
1.0
 WallaceAndGromit
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_51dc68b5
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5286ec36
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5286ec36
comment
In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Eddie Valiant falls off a high skyscraper while in Toon Town, and is only saved when Lena Hyena catches him at the last second. Possibly justified by Toon Physics being involved.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5286ec36
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5286ec36
featureConfidence
1.0
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5286ec36
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_52dd4a4c
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_52dd4a4c
comment
Ultimate Marvel Quicksilver did something similar, killing a lesser speedster by grabbing hold of her and accelerating so fast that her body was completely shredded.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_52dd4a4c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_52dd4a4c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ultimate Marvel (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_52dd4a4c
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_53a73ca0
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_53a73ca0
comment
Happens quite sometime in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, most egregiously in the Season 2 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 ground, then they catch Rex -whom Anakin threw several meters high into the air before he himself jumped- about five inches above ground.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_53a73ca0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_53a73ca0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Star Wars: The Clone Wars
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_53a73ca0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_565ad68a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_565ad68a
comment
Every super-strong or super-fast hero in the Global Guardians PBEM Universe falls under this trope. Momentum and kinetic energy just never seem to enter into any rescue catches or super-speed evacuations.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_565ad68a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_565ad68a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Global Guardians PBEM Universe (Roleplay)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_565ad68a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5755b96a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5755b96a
comment
In 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!" No, he can't.
Averted for the most part, with constant use of "feather fall" by V and others to slow down people's decent to survivable levels. Durkon once used what he called the "cleric feather fall" Let a person smash into the ground, then heal them.
Subverted in the Snips, Snails and Dragon Tails print comic. Elan's retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk gets (even more) derailed at the end when Roy points out fall damage in D&D isn't enough to kill any species of giant in the setting (strictly speaking it could fail its saving throw against massive damage by rolling a one, but Roy would be forgiven for not including that). Elan is hastily forced to retcon the ending.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5755b96a
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5755b96a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Order of the Stick (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5755b96a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5908ee91
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5908ee91
comment
Played rather strangely in Skyrim. Normally averted, as fall damage is definitely in play and can even be weaponized by judicious use of a certain shout. The odd part comes when an enemy falls just a short distance but then slides down a slope for a while before coming to a stop. The damage appears to be calculated as if it were falling the whole time.
Also, if you fall while riding a horse, the horse takes the entire impact. So you can fall off a mountain and walk away unscathed from the crumpled corpse of your former mount.
In a bizarre interaction with Soft Water, very long falls, even those that involve you bouncing off the side of a mountain or skidding along the mountainside on your face on the way down will be survivable so long as you land in sufficiently deep water at the bottom.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5908ee91
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5908ee91
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5908ee91
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_59151283
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_59151283
comment
Metal Gear:
In every Solid game past the first (which only had Bottomless Pit booby traps that immediately ended you), fall damage is played straight with smaller falls hurting you, and longer ones killing you. In Snake Eater, you may even have to medically treat your broken shins. Subverted with ledge-grabbing, however; as long as your arms stop the fall, you're fine.
Zig-Zagged in Metal Gear Solid V; there's still "pain" and "death" falls for Snake, but enemies who fall off of ledges can crack their skulls and die at much shorter heights than would even make him grunt. Riding D-Walker also completely negates any fall damage Snake would take.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_59151283
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_59151283
featureConfidence
1.0
 Metal Gear (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_59151283
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5a0935aa
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5a0935aa
comment
Cube World plays it straight and averts it at the same time. Naturally, falling off from a high ledge makes you take damage from the fall and it's possible to bounce down a steep slope and take damage from each falling bounce. Hang gliders slow your ascent, but if you run out of stamina, your character spirals in circles before going down and crashing into the ground; crashing this way only leaves you dazed and you don't suffer a scratch at all!
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5a0935aa
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5a0935aa
featureConfidence
1.0
 Cube World (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5a0935aa
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5bb406f8
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5bb406f8
comment
Averted in The Expanse, where ships can only accelerate and decelerate so fast without risking injury or death to their occupants. Gone into in detail in book 3, Abaddon's Gate, where an alien device creates a zone within which any object traveling faster than a certain speed is brought to an almost immediate stop. The aftermath when those objects are spaceships filled with people is described in gruesome detail.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5bb406f8
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5bb406f8
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Expanse
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5bb406f8
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c07d6ab
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c07d6ab
comment
Saints Row: The Third has semi-realistic fall damage. Jumping off a ledge that is 10 feet above the ground will do some serious damage to your character. Using a parachute to avoid the fall also isn't a sure-fire way to take no damage, depending on how well you control it. However, the trope is played straight to increasing degrees as you start buying upgrades that reduce damage from falling. The final of these upgrades makes it where you are completely immune to any fall damage. You can jump off a skyscraper and face plant into the sidewalk without a single scratch on you.
Cutscenes however, ignore this due to rule of cool. In one part of the game The Boss Survives falling from a cargo plane simply because he was insaide a tank.
Its predecessor, Saints Row 2 also had realistic fall/physics damage — until you completed the BASE jumping minigame, after which you could leap off a skyscraper with no ill effect.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c07d6ab
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c07d6ab
featureConfidence
1.0
 Saints Row: The Third (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c07d6ab
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c19d291
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c19d291
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c19d291
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c19d291
featureConfidence
1.0
 Doom Patrol (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c19d291
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c897f4a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c897f4a
comment
Schlock Mercenary postulates that it's not even the sudden stop that kills you, but the fact that part of your body has stopped while the rest is still going, resulting in your body crushing itself. Through the use of "inertics" to control inertia, even the most sudden of stops are made not only survivable but not even an inconvenience by spreading out the massive acceleration to the entire body at the same time.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c897f4a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c897f4a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5c897f4a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d056e18
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d056e18
comment
Justified in the Glory of Heracles series, in which your characters are immortals who can jump off high cliffs without even taking damage. If you have any mortals in your party, you won't be able to jump off cliffs until they're gone.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d056e18
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d056e18
featureConfidence
1.0
 Glory of Heracles (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d056e18
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da196
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da196
comment
Painfully obvious in Spider-Man, where Mary Jane is over water and in danger of falling; she does fall, but after about 40 feet she grabs onto a metal pipe. Her arms are not ripped out of their sockets.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da196
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da196
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da196
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da197
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da197
comment
In contrast to Gwen Stacy above, Spider-Man successfully catches Aunt May with his webbing in his second movie. This movies' webbing is shown to be very elastic, but that doesn't stop the RiffTrax from hanging a lampshade: "And her entire skeletal system was pulverized." If anyone was going to have a heart attack from the shock, it would be May.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da197
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da197
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man 2
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5d4da197
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5db577ba
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5db577ba
comment
in The Dark Knight,
Played straight where Batman uses a grapple gun to snag the plummeting Joker. By all rights, the Joker's leg should have been torn out of its socket by the force of his sudden deceleration, but instead, he simply stops and Batman hauls him back up.
Batman jumps from a balcony and grabs Rachel, but they both land unharmed on a taxi's hood. Granted, he could attribute some deceleration to the huge cape and armored suit, but it doesn't change the visible damage to the taxi or the fact that she fell much earlier.
Harvey Dent/Two Face falls from twenty, maybe thirty feet, and, according to Word of God, this kills him. Being already severely injured by his earlier accident, as well as the angle at which he fell, was probably what did it. Batman falls about the same distance and survives without any major injuries, presumably because he landed on his feet and is a lot more agile anyway.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5db577ba
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5db577ba
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Dark Knight
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5db577ba
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e150650
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e150650
comment
In Exalted, Perfect Defenses 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 defense — they work only against any attack, and falling hard is not an attack. This is clarified in a sidebar in Infernals. The few exceptions are justified (like a perfect parry that turns your skin to magic invulnerable brass, and a perfect dodge that dodges the fate of whatever was going to happen to you.)
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e150650
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e150650
featureConfidence
1.0
 Exalted (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e150650
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e91c7d
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e91c7d
comment
Hilariously averted in Resident Evil 4 during the Pueblo attack, due to Leon's habit of jumping down ladders rather than climbing them. If you climb up into the 50 foot high watchtower, Leon will still jump down, fall at a steady speed for a good three seconds, and land without so much as a grunt. It's worth pointing out that Leon isn't nearly so invulnerable to falling during any of the game's obnoxious Press X to Not Die cutscenes.
Ashley is a similar case, always jumping after Leon with him catching her at the last moment. Amusingly enough, using the second alternative costume (A heavy suit of armor), Leon clutches his side in pain after breaking her fall each time.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e91c7d
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e91c7d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Resident Evil 4 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_5e91c7d
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_60996c02
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_60996c02
comment
Averted in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Peter Parker almost wrenches his arms out their sockets when he tries to web-swing while he's lost his powers. (Spidey's not particularly known for his Super Strength in a world that has Iron Man and such, and all his villains are much stronger, forcing him to use his head, but the "proportional strength of a spider" proves to be something you'll miss very much when it's gone.)
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_60996c02
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_60996c02
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man: The Animated Series
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_60996c02
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6104baaf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6104baaf
comment
The Lord of the Rings Online: Averted. Falling from a small height will at least get you injured and limping for up to a minute. Falling even further or far enough to take damage while the injury debuff is active will kill you instantly, however.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6104baaf
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6104baaf
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Lord of the Rings Online (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6104baaf
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_610a694a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_610a694a
comment
It even happens in the manga from time to time. A particularly egregious case is Sapphire's dismount from her Tropius to catch a falling tree limb - and she survives not just the velocity of the fall (she was dropping from a higher altitude), but also the weight of the limb and the person and Pokémon which she catches on landing! Badass Normal, no kidding!
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_610a694a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_610a694a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pokémon Adventures (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_610a694a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6158718
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6158718
comment
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 "Up to here, all goes well"). Mais l'important n'est pas la chute...c'est l'atterrissage.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6158718
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6158718
featureConfidence
1.0
 La Haine
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6158718
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_615d2ab4
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_615d2ab4
comment
In Underworld the Vampires like to make entrances by jumping off buildings without so much as bending their knees.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_615d2ab4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_615d2ab4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Underworld
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_615d2ab4
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62894fec
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62894fec
comment
In one issue of the Justice League of America, he saves the population of a 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62894fec
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62894fec
featureConfidence
1.0
 Justice League of America (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62894fec
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62f94c6
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62f94c6
comment
The Dark Knight Trilogy:
in The Dark Knight,
Played straight where Batman uses a grapple gun to snag the plummeting Joker. By all rights, the Joker's leg should have been torn out of its socket by the force of his sudden deceleration, but instead, he simply stops and Batman hauls him back up.
Batman jumps from a balcony and grabs Rachel, but they both land unharmed on a taxi's hood. Granted, he could attribute some deceleration to the huge cape and armored suit, but it doesn't change the visible damage to the taxi or the fact that she fell much earlier.
Harvey Dent/Two Face falls from twenty, maybe thirty feet, and, according to Word of God, this kills him. Being already severely injured by his earlier accident, as well as the angle at which he fell, was probably what did it. Batman falls about the same distance and survives without any major injuries, presumably because he landed on his feet and is a lot more agile anyway.
In The Dark Knight Rises, the "safety rope" the prisoners use when they try to climb out of the pit lets them drop a long way before snapping taut, breaking their fall very suddenly while tied around their waist in one place, with no padding or harness to spread the load. This is ignoring the fact that they then get swung straight into a stone wall. There is no way Batman would be in any fit state to try again after falling once, especially considering how much damage his spine took already.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62f94c6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62f94c6
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Dark Knight Trilogy
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_62f94c6
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_63e72a51
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_63e72a51
comment
Subverted in 2000 AD's Chopper: A 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_63e72a51
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_63e72a51
featureConfidence
1.0
 2000 AD (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_63e72a51
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_694ab80
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_694ab80
comment
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, as Two-Face prepares to push a terrified Hugo Strange out of a flying plane for cheating him and his fellow villains; The Joker sadistically wisecracks:
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_694ab80
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_694ab80
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman Beyond
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_694ab80
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6ac55ec7
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6ac55ec7
comment
The monk class in most editions of Dungeons & Dragons can survive long falls without damage as long as they're close to a wall (or capable of bluffing the DM).
Any high level character can survive. You suffer 1d6 damage per 10 feetnote According to Dragon magazine #70, page 13, this was a printing error; the damage was supposed to be cumulative, with a 10 foot fall doing 1d6, a 20 foot fall doing 1d6+2d6, a 30 foot fall doing 1d6+2d6+3d6, etc. up to 20d6 damage, or generally between 60 and 80 points. You also have to roll versus death from massive damage but anyone capable of surviving the damage will make the save. By the time you're high level, you probably have other means of surviving a fall anyway.
The monk makes their fall slower by scrapping against the wall or other method of deceleration, they still take normal damage if there's nothing nearby.
This rule was abused in the sequel to The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters. Ridiculous Sword is hurling toward Central Earth at nearly the speed of light. The last few feet of vertical travel before she hits the ground, however, just happen to be within 8 feet of a castle wall. So, although she makes a self-shaped impact crater over a mile deep, she takes no damage from the fall.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6ac55ec7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6ac55ec7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dungeons & Dragons (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6ac55ec7
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6bbde1c8
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6bbde1c8
comment
Played mostly straight in Overwatch. There is no fall damage, but it follows the usual convention that falling (or being pushed) off the map causes instant death. However, there are also special areas within some maps that have the same insta-kill effect, such as the well in the center of the control point of one Ilios map. These can be used tactically, as certain weapons have the ability to push or pull you into these deathtraps deliberately. (Do not stand across the well from an enemy Roadhog.)
Quick reflexes, the right hero, and a bit of luck may save you even then: if charged, a rocket boost or grappling hook may be able to pull you out in time.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6bbde1c8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6bbde1c8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Overwatch (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6bbde1c8
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b3
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b3
comment
Averted in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas (both use the same engine). 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, but still die from what is now a knee-height fall. Landing in water, though, cancels fall damage... assuming you fall deep enough. You need about 3 feet of water below you to break the fall, otherwise you'll take full damage and die, only with your corpse floating in the water.
Using the GECK editor, it is possible to develop ways to cheat and alter a character's movement speed. This has the potentially dangerous side effect of causing damage by hurling yourself into various obstacles or pieces of debris strewn about the Wasteland.
Also averted in Fallout 4 if you're wearing Power Armor. No fall damage is sustained after falling from any height, and if you fall from high enough that you would normally take fall damage, you land with a massive thud that inflicts damage on anyone nearby, including friendly NPCs.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b3
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Fallout 3 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b4
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b4
comment
Also averted in Fallout 4 if you're wearing Power Armor. No fall damage is sustained after falling from any height, and if you fall from high enough that you would normally take fall damage, you land with a massive thud that inflicts damage on anyone nearby, including friendly NPCs.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b4
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Fallout 4 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c1d09b4
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c9193a1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c9193a1
comment
The Venture Bros.: Brock Samson gets this treatment a few times, because he's just that badass.
One especially impressive example was lateral, rather than vertical. Up against Myra, who was in a car when Brock was on foot, he stood in the middle of the road facing away from her. As she prepared to run him down, he did breathing exercises and maneuvers that looked like tai chi, positioning his left arm straight out in front of him and his right arm out to his side. Thus he was perfectly positioned when she collided with him: He crushed her into the driver's seat and grasped the wheel with his left hand, while his right arm restrained Dr. Venture in the passenger seat when he hit the brakes.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c9193a1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c9193a1
featureConfidence
1.0
 TheVentureBrothers
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6c9193a1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6e17a0d1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6e17a0d1
comment
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 break because he's in an action movie. It turns out the air-vent grab was due to a mistake by the stuntman. Left in because it looks cool, nothing is said on whether the stunt-man got bashed up.
Also, the big action sequence towards the end of the film, where McClane is forced to jump off the roof of the skyscraper with only a fire hose to stop his fall would have probably resulted in McClane breaking his back.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6e17a0d1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6e17a0d1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Die Hard
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6e17a0d1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1a9b5a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1a9b5a
comment
In The Devil Is a Part-Timer!, an unconscious Chiho is thrown out of the sky by Lucifer. Emi runs up and catches her. Interestingly, Chiho is unharmed, while the impact breaks Emi's legs.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1a9b5a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1a9b5a
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Devil Is a Part-Timer!
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1a9b5a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1d9716
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1d9716
comment
In Teen Girl Squad it's mentioned that if you fall into a bottomless pit, you die of starvation. In reality, dehydration would get to you first.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1d9716
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1d9716
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teen Girl Squad (Web Animation)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f1d9716
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f734712
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f734712
comment
In Smallville, Clark catches people a lot this way. Well, he is Superman. Done painfully straight when he catches a conveniently unconscious Chloe who has been thrown off a dam. Which he did by jumping off said dam a few seconds ''after'' she is dropped, and catch her after he reaches the ground. The latter half can be justified since, on Smallville, Clark can't consciously fly but does so unconsciously.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f734712
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f734712
featureConfidence
1.0
 Smallville
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_6f734712
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_702a974
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_702a974
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_702a974
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_702a974
featureConfidence
1.0
 Shadow of the Colossus (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_702a974
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_71ac4d48
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_71ac4d48
comment
Partially averted and partially played straight in 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 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. 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.
Worse than all of the above examples is you can bail out of a flaming out of control jet and come out about a foot off the ground and land because you were so close to the ground that the game never has you freefalling and the speed is negated when you jump out of the jet so you're perfectly fine.
The above about freefalling is especially silly in that Rico can, even without the hook or the parachute, fall much further than most other Wide Open Sandbox protagonists can without taking damage. Jumping off from the top of a water tower (typically after dropping a grenade on it first) without injury is just the start.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_71ac4d48
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_71ac4d48
featureConfidence
1.0
 Just Cause 2 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_71ac4d48
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72262aee
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72262aee
comment
On Avatar: The Last Airbender Azula falls very far off 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72262aee
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72262aee
featureConfidence
1.0
 Avatar: The Last Airbender
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72262aee
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72f19882
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72f19882
comment
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 Speed Force was invented largely to "explain" these kinds of mechanics.
In one issue of the Justice League of America, he saves the population of a 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.
Subverted in the Marvel Comics Eternals, where their Speeder, even when trying his hardest not to kill terrorists while disarming them, and moving at half the speed of light, still breaks their arms.
Ultimate Marvel Quicksilver did something similar, killing a lesser speedster by grabbing hold of her and accelerating so fast that her body was completely shredded.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72f19882
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72f19882
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Flash (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_72f19882
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_73b74949
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_73b74949
comment
Borderlands featured minor fall damage that fit this trope, but Borderlands 2 removed fall damage altogether. In fact, at one point, one of the characters tells you that while you're standing on an easily 200 foot skyscraper to jump off, if you do so he remarks how badass you are. Of course the player will do so because there's absolutely no punishment to doing it other than being praised for it.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_73b74949
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_73b74949
featureConfidence
1.0
 Borderlands (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_73b74949
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_747d9a6f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_747d9a6f
comment
[PROTOTYPE] features no fall damage whatsoever; in fact there is an attack that is based on jumping as high as possible, then dropping down like a bullet and creating a MASSIVE shockwave that can even seriously damage tanks. This is justified as the protagonist has no bones to break or organs to rupture. Justified even further since he can absorb the mass of anything he devours, thus if he ate 60 people, he is extremely dense and now has the weight of 60 people in a centralized human-shaped body. 60 people x Average 100-200 weight (assuming) = Extremely hard weight slamming the ground at incredible speeds. So in Prototype's case, it's not Alex's fall that kills you, it's the resulting shock wave from the blow.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_747d9a6f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_747d9a6f
featureConfidence
1.0
 [PROTOTYPE] / Videogame
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_747d9a6f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_74f7210c
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_74f7210c
comment
The Legend of Zelda:
Link would always take damage falling into Bottomless Pits or deep water, but the 3D titles also added falling damage from a sufficient enough height. In later games, if you fall too far, the roll move will no longer save you from damage.
Zig-Zagged in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. At face value, it's played more realistically than every other game; whereas fall damage in those would take out 3 hearts at worst, it can scale all the way up to 30 hearts here, enough to instantly kill you at any point. However, you also get the Paraglider at the end of the tutorial, which brings any fall to an immediate midair stop without any consequences.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_74f7210c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_74f7210c
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_74f7210c
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_755b343f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_755b343f
comment
Halo: Inverted in most gameplay situations, where you automatically die in midair after falling about 30 feet. This was also hilariously averted 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_755b343f
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_755b343f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Halo (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_755b343f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7579423f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7579423f
comment
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, however, still 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. This carried over into Donkey Kong 64 as well.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7579423f
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7579423f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Banjo-Kazooie (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7579423f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_78146d21
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_78146d21
comment
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest plays with this; 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_78146d21
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_78146d21
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_78146d21
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7a641db3
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7a641db3
comment
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 jumping out of an upper storey of a skyscraper to the city street below; in another, a train bridge has been destroyed and they jump from the falling train to the canyon floor. The implication is that since Rain is perfectly capable of surviving that fall, anyone cradled in his arms would be safe as well.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7a641db3
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7a641db3
featureConfidence
1.0
 Immortal Rain (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7a641db3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b039953
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b039953
comment
In 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 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b039953
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b039953
featureConfidence
1.0
 Avatar
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b039953
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b429ebd
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b429ebd
comment
Its predecessor, Saints Row 2 also had realistic fall/physics damage — until you completed the BASE jumping minigame, after which you could leap off a skyscraper with no ill effect.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b429ebd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b429ebd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Saints Row 2 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b429ebd
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b990d1f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b990d1f
comment
In the 1989 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b990d1f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b990d1f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7b990d1f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7bf640ee
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7bf640ee
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7bf640ee
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7bf640ee
featureConfidence
1.0
 Medal of Honor: Frontline (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7bf640ee
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7c48915b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7c48915b
comment
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 into the river.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7c48915b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7c48915b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7c48915b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7dcf6e2c
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7dcf6e2c
comment
An extreme is present in Seiken Densetsu 3, where being launched into air by a spring-like mushroom, flying up about 2 kilometers and falling back down leaves you unharmed (another example is Bon Voyage's cannon).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7dcf6e2c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7dcf6e2c
featureConfidence
1.0
 SeikenDensetsu3
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7dcf6e2c
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7fcddc41
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7fcddc41
comment
Stated word-for-word in a "glitch-death" encountered in The Journeyman Project Turbo that's triggered if you try to move forward or backward on a vertical ore conveyor on Mars, implying that you fell out of one of the buckets you were standing in, and landed at the bottom of the shaft.
Averted in Pegasus Prime, with such labels as "Face Plant" and "Have a Nice Fall".
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7fcddc41
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7fcddc41
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Journeyman Project (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_7fcddc41
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8125b468
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8125b468
comment
Batman:
In the 1989 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.
Also happens in Batman Returns when Selina Kyle, having been pushed through the window of the high-rise office where she works, falls what looks like several dozen stories to her Not Quite Death. It's implied that she didn't die (unless she really did and was mystically revived by cats, which is also shown as a possibility) because the awnings projecting from the building's side slowed her fall - except that even this doesn't happen, with Selina whipping through the awnings in a matter of seconds.
Averted in Batman Forever, when Batman dives into the death trap to save Chase and Robin. When Batman attaches the cords to Chase and when he grabs Robin, they can be seen decelerating, rather than coming to a complete stop, implying the cords are elastic. This is more noticeable when Batman rescues Robin.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8125b468
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8125b468
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8125b468
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_81692f99
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_81692f99
comment
Star Trek:
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. Of course, this being Star Trek, it's conceivable that the boots could have inertial dampeners built in as well.
Star Trek: 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. They still land on the transporter pad painfully, but are not injured.
Star Trek: Voyager has several instances of people falling getting transported without ill effects. The "Skeletal Lock" transporter technique that was invented to save some crew members from a free fall in one episode comes to mind.
Whenever a starship is attacked or grabbed by an explosion or monster, causing it to decelerate quickly enough to overcome the artificial gravity, people get jostled as if they'd been in a low fender-bender, when unexpectedly dropping just out of Warp 1 to sub-light speed involves deceleration on the order of hundreds of thousands of feet per second in a very few seconds. This would pulp anyone inside the starship. We can assume that, as with most things in Star Trek, Applied Phlebotinum is at work.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_81692f99
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_81692f99
featureConfidence
1.0
 Star Trek (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_81692f99
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8258e260
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8258e260
comment
Ditto the Super Mario Bros. series, though a Ground Pound will negate any falling damage if it's initiated from a low enough height.
Subverted with Super Mario Sunshine - falling for too long will make Mario flail around unable to do anything until his splat on the floor, but if you do a Ground Pound before that, then as long as there's ground underneath, you won't take any damage. Not even if you fall until Mario begins to light on fire as if it was re-entry from falling so far.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8258e260
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8258e260
featureConfidence
1.0
 Super Mario Bros. (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8258e260
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_82a3c9d7
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_82a3c9d7
comment
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. 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 the Fall That Kills You / int_82a3c9d7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_82a3c9d7
featureConfidence
1.0
 Emperor Joker (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_82a3c9d7
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_847a1ace
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_847a1ace
comment
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...
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_847a1ace
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_847a1ace
featureConfidence
1.0
 Attack of the Clones
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_847a1ace
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_85d1a843
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_85d1a843
comment
This actually happens a lot in the second movie as well, so barbarian hardiness/cartoon physics is the most likely explanation.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_85d1a843
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_85d1a843
featureConfidence
1.0
 How to Train Your Dragon 2
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_85d1a843
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86904ab8
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86904ab8
comment
Iron Man Film Series:
Iron Man:
Handled relatively reasonably at one point: 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.
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. Slamming headfirst into the dune like that, his liver is going to end up inside his skull. Iron Man is a comic-book character, which the film duly acknowledges, so Rule of Funny may apply here - a bit of comic relief to cap off the drama just past. It probably also hurt later to have his lifters backflip him face-first into the wall.
Later on, Tony gets blasted out of the sky by a tank, and slams hard into the ground, making a large crater. He then crawls out, damaged but alive.
In Iron Man 2, it's also averted as Tony visibly drops his speed significantly before grabbing Pepper and flying her away from the exploding Hammeroid.
Played painfully straight in Iron Man 3, in the "Barrel of Monkeys" scene. The last victim is caught just before hitting the water and is magically unhurt.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86904ab8
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86904ab8
featureConfidence
1.0
 IronMan
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86904ab8
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86a85dd6
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86a85dd6
comment
Lifted, one of the Pixar Shorts, involves an Alien Abduction test in a rural area. The young alien is having trouble with the myriad of unlabeled switches on the control board, while a grim-faced blob-like alien with a clipboard is marking every wrong action. Finally, he uses the right button, lifting up the still-sleeping human into the UFO. Then he lets go of the switch thinking it's done... and the human starts falling back to the ground. The older alien manages to push the right switch a split-second before the human hits the ground. Naturally, the human is perfectly fine, even though he clearly fell at least 5 stories. Then again, we don't know the properties of the anti-gravity beam. If its force is evenly distributed through the body, it could provide extreme deceleration without damage.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86a85dd6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86a85dd6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Lifted
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_86a85dd6
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_87cf8985
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_87cf8985
comment
At least three editions of the Hero System rules have used some variant of the following line to open the rules on falling damage:
Given its roots in the superhero genre, it's not surprising that Hero does allow a character who catches another to apply his or her strength to reduce the damage taken by both, potentially all the way down to zero. (Of course, by the 6th edition game rules terminal velocity on Earth still translates to 30d6 — yes, that's thirty dice — of "normal" damage, which would require an unheard-of STR of 150 to negate completely.) The game even covers the angle of falling desolidified characters, who basically have the choice of either taking falling damage normally or else keeping on falling through the ground...which may well be worse if they have no other way to stop and no appropriate life support.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_87cf8985
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_87cf8985
featureConfidence
1.0
 Champions (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_87cf8985
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_889b3701
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_889b3701
comment
Kagura in Oku-sama 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 Ureshiko's magic.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_889b3701
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_889b3701
featureConfidence
1.0
 Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_889b3701
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_894619be
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_894619be
comment
Averted in Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, which incorporated collision damage - and not in the sense that simply touching an enemy damaged you. Any abrupt impact from any direction hurts the same way: Force Jump and you'll take damage appropriately should there be a low ceiling in your way. Force Speed and run into a wall and you'll also take damage.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_894619be
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_894619be
featureConfidence
1.0
 Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_894619be
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_89465e75
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_89465e75
comment
In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Percy can survive a fall from any height if he lands in water. Justified in that his father is Poseidon, the god of the sea. Percy could be thrown to the deepest possible part of the ocean without being crushed, freezing to death, or drowning.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_89465e75
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_89465e75
featureConfidence
1.0
 Percy Jackson and the Olympians
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_89465e75
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8aef1fcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8aef1fcf
comment
Space Quest quotes the trope word for word for one of their The Many Deaths of You snarky comments.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8aef1fcf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8aef1fcf
featureConfidence
1.0
 Space Quest (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8aef1fcf
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b4f76b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b4f76b
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b4f76b
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b4f76b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Kaleido Star
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b4f76b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b8da0b2
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b8da0b2
comment
Lampshaded in the Visionaries episode "Feryl Steps Out". Feryl has rescued Leoric from Darkstorm's dungeon, but, in order to get to the Dagger Assault and restore Leoric's Totem, the two of them must jump off a high ledge:
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b8da0b2
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b8da0b2
featureConfidence
1.0
 Visionaries
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8b8da0b2
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8ba4613a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8ba4613a
comment
In Death Note, Matsuda has to fake his own death by falling from a building. He's saved by the other members of the investigation team with a mattress placed some floors below. Exactly how he manages to land right on it is a mystery. And he's perfectly fine after the fall, too.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8ba4613a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8ba4613a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Death Note (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8ba4613a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8c080f90
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8c080f90
comment
In Double Star, a pilot tells about his strong, but dumb and stubborn passenger, who managed to walk under 5g... and who never walked again afterwards.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8c080f90
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8c080f90
featureConfidence
1.0
 Double Star
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8c080f90
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8f979c17
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8f979c17
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8f979c17
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8f979c17
featureConfidence
1.0
 Once Upon a Forest
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_8f979c17
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a3a7f4
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a3a7f4
comment
Kim Possible: When Kim gets hurled off into the distance by Motor Ed's giant robot, she deploys a tube of "hair gel" that expands into a large cushion to soften her impact.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a3a7f4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a3a7f4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Kim Possible
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a3a7f4
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a9bc9f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a9bc9f
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a9bc9f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a9bc9f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Post-Crisis (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90a9bc9f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90b916ba
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90b916ba
comment
In Batman: The Animated Series, as Two-Face prepares to push a terrified Hugo Strange out of a flying plane for cheating him and his fellow villains; The Joker sadistically wisecracks:
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90b916ba
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90b916ba
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman: The Animated Series
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_90b916ba
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_911abba4
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_911abba4
comment
In 1000 Ways to Die, a woman is sucked out of a plane mid-flight. Due to wind velocity violently scouring the body, the abnormally cold air, and lack of oxygen, she dies before hitting the water below. This is one of the show's rare cases of Truth in Television, since this is exactly what would happen if someone were sucked out of the plane at high altitude, and in fact actually happened to a stewardess aboard Aloha Airlines Flight 243 in April 1988. Flight 243 was an old Boeing 737, built in the 60's, that had endured tens of thousands of pressurization cycles and operated in the warm salt air over the Pacific Ocean. The fuselage skin started to crack just behind the cockpit bulkhead due to corrosion and metal fatigue. Finally, while cruising at 24,000 feet, nearly a third of the roof peeled off, sucking a stewardess out of the plane. What saved the plane and the passengers (who were buckled into their seats) is that, unlike the 1981 crash of a Boeing 737 owned by Far Eastern Air Transport, the floor stayed intact. (In the 1981 crash, both the ceiling AND the floor ripped off, dooming the plane and the passengers.)
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_911abba4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_911abba4
featureConfidence
1.0
 1000 Ways to Die
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_911abba4
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_935a39be
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_935a39be
comment
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl's Subspace Emissary storyline, Lucas and the Pokémon Trainer are falling from a height of several hundred feet (well above the summit of an impressive mountain). Meta Knight spots them and catches them nearly at ground level, flying them away from the mountain at a horizontal trajectory. Even more mind-boggling in that Meta Knight is smaller than either of those characters. But then, many other characters fall from immense heights and don't need saving to come out unscathed...
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_935a39be
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_935a39be
featureConfidence
1.0
 Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_935a39be
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_93f9c777
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_93f9c777
comment
Discussed in The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer. Yuuhi mentions to Hangetsu that he's learned how to use his Domain Control to jump really high, but he also needs to keep applying it in short bursts when he descends in order to land safely.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_93f9c777
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_93f9c777
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Lucifer and Biscuit Hammer (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_93f9c777
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95bd5a8e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95bd5a8e
comment
Dishonored: One of your powers, Blink, allows you to teleport within a short distance of anything you have line-of-sight to... but sends you to the end point with your initial velocity; therefore, if you manage to teleport to a higher ledge or balcony while falling at a fatal velocity (a velocity at which hitting the ground will kill you), Netwon's first law applies that since your position was changed without major change to your current velocity, you are now falling at fatal velocity onto a ledge/balcony. Then you die.
Played straight, however, with drop assassinations. In the game, you can break your fall from any hight if you fall on top of an enemy while attacking with your sword. This will trigger a special animation that will kill them and land you safely on the ground. Turned up to 11 if you drop assassinate the armored enemies on stilts known as Tall Boys, because the animation shows your character stopping himself easily with one arm by grabbing the Tall Boy's chestplate, even if he fell from a height where this would dislocate his shoulder or worse.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95bd5a8e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95bd5a8e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dishonored (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95bd5a8e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95e58696
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95e58696
comment
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 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. The two heavy-hitters in the group, Kaede and Setsuna were able to survive the fall on their own abilities (they landed on their feet). Problematically in Setsuna's case, she decided to take actions to save Konoka herself, Bridal Carrying her on the way down. Setsuna does this routinely to Konoka while jumping massive distances without incident anyway (she probably has some Ki-related method).
Similarly, when School Newspaper News Hound 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95e58696
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95e58696
featureConfidence
1.0
 MahouSenseiNegima
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_95e58696
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_989c6002
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_989c6002
comment
Happens three times to Ueki in The Law of Ueki, every time by Kobasen. And every time, the only sign of any injury is Kobasen briefly complaining that it hurts to catch someone from that high up.
In the original manga version, the first time Mr. Kobayashi do that both of his arm bones are broken. Readers are treated with x-ray view of said bones broken.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_989c6002
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_989c6002
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Law of Ueki (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_989c6002
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9c754612
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9c754612
comment
Occasionally subverted with Spider-Man, with the most well-known case of said subversion being when he attempted to catch Gwen Stacy with his webbing after the Green Goblin tossed her off a bridge, but the sudden stop snapped her neck. Marvel Comics briefly tried to reverse course on this, saying that it, indeed, was the fall that killed her; that the shock caused her to have a heart attack and die. They even went so far as to edit the prominent "SNAP!"◊ sound effect out of the panel where Spidey catches Gwen in reprints.
After the "shock of the fall" line (originated by Stan Lee) was discredited, the current line of Word of God thinking is that since Soft Water doesn't really exist, nothing Spidey could reasonably have done at the time could have saved her. Catch her, she snaps. Don't catch her, she splats. In universe, Spidey's learned from his mistakes. In a scenario years later where Mary Jane is sent plummeting, he knows to fire his webbing at multiple points, stopping Mary-Jane from getting lethal whiplash. At the end of Superior Spider-Man, Spidey repeats the feat again with Ana Maria, claiming that he has practiced it so much that now "he can do it in his sleep". And in New Avengers (vol. 2) #21, he catches falling teammates in a soft net of web instead of snaring them with a single line. There's also a What If? issue where Spidey manages to save Gwen in this manner, and in a time travel storyline in Spider-Girl, the younger webslinger tells Peter to stop, jumps past him, embraces Gwen and then uses webbing to slow both of them at the same time, more gently and protecting her neck as they go. She specifically states that Peter spent most of her childhood explaining to her what he wished he could have done differently, so she knew exactly how to save Gwen this time.
In an old issue of Marvel Team-Up, Black Panther tried to catch Spider-Man after he was knocked from a great height. Panther noted that if he didn't time the catch exactly right, it would likely break both of their necks.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9c754612
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9c754612
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9c754612
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9cc59f9c
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9cc59f9c
comment
After dropping Buck Godot from a great height and allowing him some time to panic, the elusive Teleporter proceeds to gradually break his fall by repeatedly punching him in the stomach. Ouch.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9cc59f9c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9cc59f9c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9cc59f9c
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d8af0
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d8af0
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d8af0
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d8af0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Spider-Man 2 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d8af0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d963831
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d963831
comment
Both the Dragon Boat and Simon Heap easily survive their falls in Septimus Heap.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d963831
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d963831
featureConfidence
1.0
 SeptimusHeap
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9d963831
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9db1766a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9db1766a
comment
In Devil May Cry 3, 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. Lady takes worse later on.
While it hasn't been explicitly stated, it seems that Dante and Vergil - and, by extension, Nero from the fourth game - 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.)
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9db1766a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9db1766a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Devil May Cry (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9db1766a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9e84c324
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9e84c324
comment
Also happens in Batman Returns when Selina Kyle, having been pushed through the window of the high-rise office where she works, falls what looks like several dozen stories to her Not Quite Death. It's implied that she didn't die (unless she really did and was mystically revived by cats, which is also shown as a possibility) because the awnings projecting from the building's side slowed her fall - except that even this doesn't happen, with Selina whipping through the awnings in a matter of seconds.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9e84c324
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9e84c324
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batman Returns
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9e84c324
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9ef055f4
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9ef055f4
comment
In the first Ratchet & Clank game Ratchet and Clank wind up falling from the platform where they fight and defeat Chairman Drek. Ratchet even looks down and you 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 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9ef055f4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9ef055f4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Ratchet & Clank (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9ef055f4
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9f997b2b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9f997b2b
comment
The "arrested fall" version also occurs in Quantum of Solace.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9f997b2b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9f997b2b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Quantum of Solace
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_9f997b2b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a0c5dfd1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a0c5dfd1
comment
Everquest keeps similar physics to World of Warcraft: falling any significant depth will damage or kill you, with the damage being proportionate to the fall. A fall into any body of water (no matter now long the fall or how deep the water) will result in no damage.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a0c5dfd1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a0c5dfd1
featureConfidence
1.0
 EverQuest (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a0c5dfd1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a183d57f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a183d57f
comment
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."
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a183d57f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a183d57f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Futurama
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a183d57f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a1dd9577
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a1dd9577
comment
At the climax of The Hudsucker Proxy, Norvile Barnes attempts suicide by jumping from a clock tower but is saved when the Magical Negro who cleans the clock's gears somehow manages to stop time so that Norville freezes in place a few feet from the ground; he even tells the audience, "I'm not supposed to do this, but do you have any better ideas?" Norville then just hangs there for several minutes while talking to an angel (it's that kind of movie) until the clock-cleaner restarts time and Norville falls the few remaining feet - and, presumably since he already safely decelerated when time was stopped, he's only very slightly injured.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a1dd9577
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a1dd9577
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Hudsucker Proxy
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a1dd9577
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a31501ec
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a31501ec
comment
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 add 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a31501ec
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a31501ec
featureConfidence
1.0
 Gamble Fish (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a31501ec
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a3c8e4bf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a3c8e4bf
comment
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).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a3c8e4bf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a3c8e4bf
featureConfidence
1.0
 AxisPowersHetalia
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a3c8e4bf
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a4513181
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a4513181
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a4513181
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a4513181
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bug
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a4513181
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a6b951e9
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a6b951e9
comment
Early subversion in Legacy of the Wizard. If you fall from higher than the character's maximum jump height, it's gonna hurt. Not a total aversion, because the damage is the same no matter how high you fall from.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a6b951e9
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a6b951e9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Legacy of the Wizard (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a6b951e9
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a796bde8
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a796bde8
comment
In every Solid game past the first (which only had Bottomless Pit booby traps that immediately ended you), fall damage is played straight with smaller falls hurting you, and longer ones killing you. In Snake Eater, you may even have to medically treat your broken shins. Subverted with ledge-grabbing, however; as long as your arms stop the fall, you're fine.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a796bde8
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a796bde8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Metal Gear Solid (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a796bde8
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a9517b88
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a9517b88
comment
Kratos in God of War, being a demi-god, is rather good at surviving falls, unless it's into a Bottomless Pit of some kind. In the second game, he performs a Literal Cliff Hanger with his chainblades after leaping off the back of a Griffin. Another occurs in the third, when he leaps from the Labyrinth inside Mount Olympus all the way into the Underworld.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a9517b88
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a9517b88
featureConfidence
1.0
 God of War (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_a9517b88
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac67074d
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac67074d
comment
Averted in the Teen Titans fic The Mark. Jinx uses her powers to to make a trapeze cord Dick Grayson is using snap in midair. He, while upside-down no less, grabs the snapped rope, uses it to swing back toward the rigging, sails through the air to grab said rigging, and slides down it to the ground. The recoil of grabbing the rope dislocates his shoulder, and sliding down the rigging leaves a cloud of dust from the chalk on his hands. Of course, given that he's Robin and has been an acrobat since birth, it'd be more unusual if he couldn't do it.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac67074d
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac67074d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Teen Titans
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac67074d
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac693690
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac693690
comment
Star Trek: 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. They still land on the transporter pad painfully, but are not injured.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac693690
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac693690
featureConfidence
1.0
 StarTrek
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ac693690
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_af2a147e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_af2a147e
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_af2a147e
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_af2a147e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Enchanted
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_af2a147e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b185ec6b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b185ec6b
comment
Subverted in Jack the Giant Slayer when Jack and Isabelle are on the falling beanstalk; they swing on a smaller vine to convert their downward momentum to horizontal momentum and slide along the ground. Played straight with Elmont on the same beanstalk; he jumps off closer to the ground and lands safely in some Soft Water.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b185ec6b
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b185ec6b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Jack the Giant Slayer
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b185ec6b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b241dafb
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b241dafb
comment
Completely averted in Thou Shalt Not Die. When Mashiro catches Kuroi and Momoka in midair after they got knocked of the top of the school roof, she has to do some incredible quick thinking since, thanks to her enhanced body, she will survive the landing but Kuroi and Momoka won't even if she catches them before hitting the ground. She solves it by tossing them upward just as they are about to hit and therefore transferring their momentum to herself resulting in her hitting the ground even harder but at the same time breaking Kuroi and Momoka's fall. They still get injured, but at least they manage to survive.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b241dafb
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b241dafb
featureConfidence
1.0
 Thou Shalt Not Die (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b241dafb
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b3db2f86
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b3db2f86
comment
In a Captain America issue, Cap is flung off a building. He doesn't catch a flagpole, he slams shield first into the cold, hard cement. His Vibranium-steel alloy shield absorbs ninety-five percent of the impact but it's the five percent that bothers him. The same 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b3db2f86
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b3db2f86
featureConfidence
1.0
 Captain America (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b3db2f86
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b4967d43
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b4967d43
comment
Sonic the Hedgehog might be the largest offender of this trope, since his ability has always been to run really really fast. Not necessarily stop super fast. (Likewise, he doesn't suffer fall damage.) The closest the games get to depicting wall crash damage is to make him flatten against the wall, fall on the ground, and promptly spring back up, Disney-style (this was to be depicted in Sonic 2 and Generations, but cut out; it only appears in other 3D games like Sonic Unleashed (PS 2); the Sonic 2 Nick Arcade Prototype has this feature fully implemented.)
In game, you actually do slow down to a stop. During cutscenes, he skids to a halt. Make of that what you will.
In Sonic Generations, a skill called "Stop on a Dime" allows Sonic to slow down quicker.
Also, he does fall into Bottomless Pits.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b4967d43
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b4967d43
featureConfidence
1.0
 Sonic the Hedgehog (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b4967d43
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b87de35b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b87de35b
comment
Subverted with Super Mario Sunshine - falling for too long will make Mario flail around unable to do anything until his splat on the floor, but if you do a Ground Pound before that, then as long as there's ground underneath, you won't take any damage. Not even if you fall until Mario begins to light on fire as if it was re-entry from falling so far.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b87de35b
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b87de35b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Super Mario Sunshine (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b87de35b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9419bd1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9419bd1
comment
Played straight initially in Deus Ex: Human Revolution then Hand Waved with the optional addition of an augmentation that allows Jensen to fall from any height and survive. The game always shows Jensen activating something that shoots lightning downwards that, apparently, creates a cushion for a soft landing. Interestingly, this neither consumes nor requires energy.
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."
A lesser example occurs in the original. JC can obtain a leg augmentation which reduces (but doesn't completely negate) fall damage. When sufficiently upgraded, this enables a particularly notorious Dungeon Bypass in which he jumps from the roof of a building rather than having to fight through several floors of Mooks.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9419bd1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9419bd1
featureConfidence
1.0
 Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9419bd1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b962c879
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b962c879
comment
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 Charles Atlas Superpower besides his magic) is briefly knocked silly.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b962c879
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b962c879
featureConfidence
1.0
 Fairy Tail (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b962c879
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9aed0de
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9aed0de
comment
While not a fall, the physics-defying properties of this trope are subverted in the 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 been superman, he would have simply lost his shoulder.
Dracula throws a baby at him, and he catches it like it's a football or something. The baby is implied to be unharmed.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9aed0de
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9aed0de
featureConfidence
1.0
 Blade
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_b9aed0de
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba0e7416
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba0e7416
comment
Flint in Alundra 2 can survive any fall... especially in cutscenes.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba0e7416
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba0e7416
featureConfidence
1.0
 Alundra 2 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba0e7416
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba366aa8
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba366aa8
comment
In the Syphon Filter series, falling more than 10 or so feet in-game is fatal, although Logan survives falls much further than this 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba366aa8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba366aa8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Syphon Filter (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ba366aa8
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bacb3abc
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bacb3abc
comment
Averted in The Rock. British spy 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bacb3abc
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bacb3abc
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Rock
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bacb3abc
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bb3fde3d
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bb3fde3d
comment
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.
Incidentally, SkulkTech (long story) tries to do the same thing. It doesn't work.
Sam and Tucker are dropped from the top of a building into a dumpster. They just get grossed out.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bb3fde3d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bb3fde3d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Danny Phantom
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bb3fde3d
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bbe06161
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bbe06161
comment
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.)
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bbe06161
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bbe06161
featureConfidence
1.0
 Creatures (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bbe06161
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bd91db47
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bd91db47
comment
Pokémon:
In the episode "Nerves of Steelix", Jasmine leaps off the edge of a cliff and lands on her Steelix's head approximately fifty feet below with absolutely no injuries.
At the climax of Pokémon 4Ever, Ash, Pikachu and the Iron Masked Marauder start to fall to their supposed deaths from thousands of feet in the air. Ash and Pikachu are saved by Celebi, but as for the Marauder…he wasn't so lucky. The Marauder continues to fall to Earth, and just when you were hoping for a Disney Villain Death, he lands in a tree and continues his fall, breaking a branch along the way. He then falls to the ground and starts to roll down a hill and off a miniature cliff, and somehow survives this.
"Looks like Team Rocket's Blasting Off Again!!!"
Dawn's Buneary has been known to use her twelve-pound body to catch things several hundred times her weight like it doesn't matter how fast they're going.
It even happens in the manga from time to time. A particularly egregious case is Sapphire's dismount from her Tropius to catch a falling tree limb - and she survives not just the velocity of the fall (she was dropping from a higher altitude), but also the weight of the limb and the person and Pokémon which she catches on landing! Badass Normal, no kidding!
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bd91db47
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bd91db47
featureConfidence
1.0
 Pokemon
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bd91db47
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bdb0a080
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bdb0a080
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bdb0a080
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bdb0a080
featureConfidence
1.0
 Last Action Hero
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bdb0a080
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bfd7c6e0
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bfd7c6e0
comment
Simultaneously averted and somewhat played straight in Drowtales when Ariel 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 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 Faen that she would have died.
And later on it happens to her again, complete with a callback to the first instance when Faen is again the one to find her, and while she's not killed by the fall it's heavily implied that she's seriously damaged her back and possibly cracked several vertebrae, and will obviously be out of commission for quite a while. Notably she had tried to use her hair to slow the fall, but the pressure from her attacker shredded the "wings" before they could be properly formed.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bfd7c6e0
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bfd7c6e0
featureConfidence
1.0
 Drowtales (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_bfd7c6e0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d124e1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d124e1
comment
Riddick in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay survives a massive fall by grabbing a guard with him and holding him in front of him, which resulted in the guard hitting the ground first and taking the impact, leaving our favourite anti-hero unscathed. Badass as this may be, it landed him in a dark, underground subterranean level of the prison filled with nasty aliens with a dwindling flashlight and not much ammo. Bonus points for actually mentioning this trope, word for word.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d124e1
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d124e1
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Chronicles of Riddick (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d124e1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d295c4
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d295c4
comment
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. The Scout later got a pistol that somehow makes him immune to fall damage.
The Soldier can obtain a pair of boots that let him evade fall damage if he successfully does a Goomba Stomp on an enemy. Any damage he would've suffered goes to the stomped enemy instead... three-fold.
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 notification on your clumsy, painful death.
Since this game uses the same engine as Half-Life 2, Soft Water is also in effect. Some mapmakers invoke the trope by intentionally using this or the ladder trick at strategic places.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d295c4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d295c4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c0d295c4
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c19c6efa
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c19c6efa
comment
In Minecraft falling into water more than two blocks deep will prevent any fall damage. The same applies when catching a ladder.
This actually plats into several useful constructs most notably the Water Brake™. Don't want to climb all the way down your mineshaft? Just toss a water block on top of a sign, and you need not worry about long climbs ever again!
The death message reminds you that you didn't die from falling, you just hit the ground too hard.
Also shows up inverted if you have flying enabled but are not in creative mode. If you try to fly after a long free fall, you can "hit the ground too hard" in midair.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c19c6efa
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c19c6efa
featureConfidence
1.0
 Minecraft (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c19c6efa
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c1c48dbf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c1c48dbf
comment
There's a scene in the ElfQuest: Shards storyline (Issue 13) 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. (Link to all the comics)
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c1c48dbf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c1c48dbf
featureConfidence
1.0
 ElfQuest (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c1c48dbf
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c24091cf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c24091cf
comment
How to Train Your Dragon:
During the final battle in the first movie, 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, Hiccup and Toothless (without flight control) should probably be splats on the ground at the end (though we don't actually see how they hit the ground), and the only injury ends up being a leg needing to be replaced, so that should probably be chalked up to barbarian hardiness and cartoon physics.
This actually happens a lot in the second movie as well, so barbarian hardiness/cartoon physics is the most likely explanation.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c24091cf
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c24091cf
featureConfidence
1.0
 HowToTrainYourDragon
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c24091cf
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c2463c55
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c2463c55
comment
Final Fantasy X has a cutscene where Yuna comes up with a plan to escape her wedding to Seymour, settling on jumping off the roof of the building, and summoning Valefor as she falls, landing on her just a relatively short distance from the ground. As awesome as that is, Yuna would still have died upon landing on Valefor (not even mentioning that she was going head-first when she fell).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c2463c55
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c2463c55
featureConfidence
1.0
 Final Fantasy X (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c2463c55
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c380b436
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c380b436
comment
In Penguins of Madagascar, for some reason, only hitting the ground becomes a concern when the penguins fall from a plane, when the other planes in flight they hit along the way down would probably have been a bigger concern.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c380b436
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c380b436
featureConfidence
1.0
 Penguins of Madagascar
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c380b436
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4282b71
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4282b71
comment
In an episode of 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. Even better: three of the Wonderbolts had attempted to catch Rarity earlier in the fall, only to be knocked unconscious by Rarity's flailing hooves. Each of the stricken rescuers is at least a body lengths away from Rarity, in three different directions. Upon completion of the 90 degree turn, Rainbow Dash is seen to have the Wonderbolts on her back and carrying Rarity dangling from her front hooves. Rainbow Dash therefore performed a four way catch in a vertical hypersonic power dive (with the three unconscious victims piled on her back but yet not getting in the way of her wings) and then performed the 90 degree turn. (A physics student with too much time on his hand also once calculated that the Sonic Rainboom does not indicate breaching Mach 1, but Mach 5. True, she shattered the fabric of reality beforehand (and one could suppose the magic which is the only explanation for her flying at all can extend to her cargo), but this justification doesn't exist for these:
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 "Leap of Faith", Granny Smith dives off a six story tower and gets lassoed just before hitting the ground, leaving her completely unhurt.
In The Cutie Mark Chronicles, Filly Fluttershy is knocked off a cloud and falls thousands of feet to earth, screaming all the way. Just when you're expecting a fall to the death, she lands in some butterflies and is perfectly fine.
In "The Crystal Empire, Part 2", Spike falls from the castle tower after retrieving the Crystal Heart, but is intercepted in a Fastball Special by Cadance.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4282b71
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4282b71
featureConfidence
1.0
 MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4282b71
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c43df4d8
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c43df4d8
comment
The Doctor plays it straight in "The End of Time", where he survives a fall from a (low altitude but rapidly climbing) spaceship all the way down to the bottom floor of a 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.
In "Partners in Crime", the Doctor seizes the mechanism of the falling window-washer bucket he and Donna are in, stopping it within a second without harming either of them.
In "The Name of the Doctor", the TARDIS is hovering high over Trenzalore when the Eleventh Doctor turns off the anti-gravity system. The trope is somewhat justified in this case because what happens outside a TARDIS doesn't necessarily translate inside, so the Doctor and Clara step out of the TARDIS just fine after landing, though it's noted the TARDIS did glow red hot for a moment and suffer a broken pane of glass. ("Oops.")
In 'The Satan Pit' the Doctor survives a fall into a pit of unknown depth, possibly dozens of miles, because of an air cushion placed to break the fall. The Doctor comments before the fall that he can survive at least a 30 foot drop, so we may assume that Time Lords are sturdier than humans in this regard.
Amy and Rory have a rather interesting one in "The Angels Take Manhattan". Technically, the fall actually saved their lives.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c43df4d8
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c43df4d8
featureConfidence
1.0
 Doctor Who
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c43df4d8
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4a22754
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4a22754
comment
The Abridged Series version comments "It's a good thing I'm a cartoon!"
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4a22754
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4a22754
featureConfidence
1.0
 Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series (Web Video)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4a22754
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4fe195d
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4fe195d
comment
The 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 boiling lava! Good thing I found the magic balloon!"
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4fe195d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4fe195d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Super Mario World
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c4fe195d
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c6245086
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c6245086
comment
Averted in Crysis. If you mod your speed mode (by altering the difficulty level text files - the hardest of which is suffixed with "_bauer", amusingly) to go far faster than normal, manage to run up to full speed and smack into a wall or other object of scenery (train car, solid gate, whatever) it is quite possible to do some serious harm to yourself, and possibly even kill yourself.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c6245086
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c6245086
featureConfidence
1.0
 Crysis (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c6245086
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c72021c5
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c72021c5
comment
A lesser example occurs in the original. JC can obtain a leg augmentation which reduces (but doesn't completely negate) fall damage. When sufficiently upgraded, this enables a particularly notorious Dungeon Bypass in which he jumps from the roof of a building rather than having to fight through several floors of Mooks.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c72021c5
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c72021c5
featureConfidence
1.0
 Deus Ex (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_c72021c5
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cb6abef3
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cb6abef3
comment
Averted in The Avengers (2012) when 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. Hulk also noticeably tries to take the brunt of the impact himself.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cb6abef3
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cb6abef3
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Avengers (2012)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cb6abef3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cdcbdaed
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cdcbdaed
comment
Played straight in Sideways Stories From Wayside School. A girl fell asleep in class, rolled out the window, and fell. The playground supervisor catches her before hitting the ground. The school is a 30 floor building, with her class on the top floor.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cdcbdaed
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cdcbdaed
featureConfidence
1.0
 Wayside School
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cdcbdaed
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf3e7a82
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf3e7a82
comment
Superman regularly 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. 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 superheroes with Flight will do the same at one time or another. Realistically, they would have the additional concern of taking injury themselves from colliding with a falling object, which at least the invulnerable Superman has no concerns about.
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf3e7a82
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf3e7a82
featureConfidence
1.0
 Superman (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf3e7a82
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf69b21e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf69b21e
comment
Going forward, one episode of Beast Wars has Optimus, with Rattrap on his back, leap off a floating mountain (it was full of raw energon and was about to blow) and fell a few hundred feet into the jungle below. Optimus breaks the fall by grabbing onto a strong branch. In this case, the trope is played with: despite being a robot in disguise, such a stunt should have caused more damage to Optimus' arms and shoulders. Still, he explicitly states his arms felt "like refried rubber bands".
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf69b21e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf69b21e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Beast Wars
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_cf69b21e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d3b17858
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d3b17858
comment
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).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d3b17858
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d3b17858
featureConfidence
1.0
 Final Fantasy Tactics (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d3b17858
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d48e807f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d48e807f
comment
In 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d48e807f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d48e807f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Jet Set Radio (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d48e807f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d53b46c1
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d53b46c1
comment
Subverted in The Other Guys, where the two Decoy Protagonists fall about ten stories planning to be saved by landing in bushes. Too bad they miss.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d53b46c1
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d53b46c1
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Other Guys
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d53b46c1
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d55ffc53
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d55ffc53
comment
7th Sea, as part of its Rule of Cool swashbuckling theme, allows you to fall from any height with no damage as long as you land on something "soft", including hay bales, awnings, water and people.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d55ffc53
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d55ffc53
featureConfidence
1.0
 7th Sea (Tabletop Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d55ffc53
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d578ee98
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d578ee98
comment
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. Of course, this being Star Trek, it's conceivable that the boots could have inertial dampeners built in as well.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d578ee98
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d578ee98
featureConfidence
1.0
 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d578ee98
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d5b5d107
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d5b5d107
comment
Subverted in EA's Skate. If your character falls above a certain height without landing on a decently sized slope, he won't land the trick. This can get rather ridiculous if he looks like he should have been able to land the jump. If this is the case, your skater will stand firm for a second, but then just slump over and rag doll.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d5b5d107
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d5b5d107
featureConfidence
1.0
 Skate (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d5b5d107
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d607c683
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d607c683
comment
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle 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 an inch from hitting the pavement, and slings him onto the back of her motorcycle.
Given how the series plays with reality, it's perfectly within standards, but admittedly if one doesn't suspend their disbelief soon enough, most of the game is questionably survivable but visually awesome.
It is justified, in that Travis doesn't take any damage from attacks where the player has no input during. Yes, this is the actual reason for it.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d607c683
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d607c683
featureConfidence
1.0
 No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d607c683
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7765410
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7765410
comment
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. 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 if he could he would have torn Arthur asunder in his attempt to arrest his fall.
The fall is from an enormous sculpture, specifically from a part which is able to float impossibly many miles in the air, just because it's 'artistically correct'. Presumably Arthur survives the fall and the argument with the bird for the same reason.
In the same arc Marvin falls from the same altitude and has his fall arrested by only the rocky ground below. He survives, but did decelerate for a whole mile through the rock. And he wasn't very happy about it.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7765410
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7765410
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7765410
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7c9f170
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7c9f170
comment
The Matrix Reloaded: Neo flies very low to the ground, at a velocity that's 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 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7c9f170
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7c9f170
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Matrix Reloaded
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d7c9f170
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d8cdd857
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d8cdd857
comment
In one episode of Hercules, 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.
One of his super-powers must be soft fluffy hands.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d8cdd857
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d8cdd857
featureConfidence
1.0
 Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d8cdd857
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9731e9e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9731e9e
comment
In a side-story of Masahiko Nakahira's Sakura Ganbaru! manga, Karin Kanzuki ends up fighting a rival on top of a plane, both of them attached to the hull via safety cables. When they inevitably fall, Karin saves both their lives by wrapping one end of the cable around her arm, and then, a dozen feet before splattering on the pavement, whipping the other end across the width of a pedestrian bridge to wrap around a streetlight. The momentum swings Karin and her rival in a wide arc beneath the bridge, wraps the streetlight around the bridge and rips it off the sidewalk, and gently deposits both girls on the street, with a completely aghast Sakura (who watched the whole thing from the ground) staring in stupefaction. And Karin's arm and hand weren't even rope-burned, let alone dislocated or torn off.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9731e9e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9731e9e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Street Fighter (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9731e9e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9be958a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9be958a
comment
Also averted in Superman Returns where Supes catches a falling plane and has to decelerate gradually while the plane falls to pieces due to the conflict of forces (even having a wing torn off because he grabs it)
Which is exactly backwards; Superman slows the plane by pressing on the nose cone, which is just thin aluminum; the wing spars are one of the toughest parts of any aircraft.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9be958a
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9be958a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Superman Returns
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_d9be958a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_da92c130
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_da92c130
comment
In Erfworld, what (possibly) croaks you is a transition from airspace to a ground zone without making a proper landing (which you generally can't do if it's not your side's turn). Even hopping down from a flying mount hovering just above the ground can be incapacitating or fatal.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_da92c130
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_da92c130
featureConfidence
1.0
 Erfworld (Webcomic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_da92c130
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_db418e95
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_db418e95
comment
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.
Truth in Television - climbing ropes are elastic for exactly this reason, since falls will usually involve at least a few metres of drop before the rope catches you. Unfortunately this does mean that if you fall near the start of a long climb, the rope may well stretch enough that you still hit the floor, albeit rather more gently than if the rope weren't there. In fact, ropes for many different purposes will generally either be dynamic (i.e. somewhat elastic) or static (ie. not elastic), and it's important to know which you should be using.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_db418e95
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_db418e95
featureConfidence
1.0
 Batgirl (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_db418e95
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dbfffc66
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dbfffc66
comment
Also inverted in many Action 52 platformers where the main character is killed mid-air too, if the fall lasts too long.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dbfffc66
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dbfffc66
featureConfidence
1.0
 Action 52 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dbfffc66
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dc25de3f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dc25de3f
comment
Portal lacks fall damage, but justifies it by putting spring mechanisms on Chell's heels that absorb the force of impact. The game's own developer commentary discusses this — Chell was given leg springs because playtesters complained about her surviving "falls that would kill Gordon Freeman."
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. There is a theory that she is righted by gyroscopes in the springs.
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). This is not mentioned in the game proper (although it is commented on by GLaDOS) and early in the game, Wheatley still sounds concerned about Chell jumping into a large pit and landing on, say, her head. The bit about Wheatley is justified in that he is designed to be a moron.
Portal 2 also features Bottomless Pits.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dc25de3f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dc25de3f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Portal
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_dc25de3f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de48ce05
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de48ce05
comment
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! Worse, Splendid's constant acceleration and deceleration repeatedly breaks her spine, each time with a sickly "Crush" sound.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de48ce05
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de48ce05
featureConfidence
1.0
 Happy Tree Friends (Web Animation)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de48ce05
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de78ac33
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de78ac33
comment
Subverted and played straight in the same scene in the 1999 movie Wing Commander, when the hangar bay was depressurizing due to damage from an attack. Blair plays it straight, when he grabs an item on the deck to stop his being sucked out into space, without any obvious discomfort or injuries. For the subversion, Maniac's rush towards the vacuum is stopped by a cable tied around his waist and held at the other end by other pilots. The sudden stop when the cable that was tied around his midsection catches makes him visibly wince in pain, and afterwards he's shown with bandages wrapped around his waist, where the cable bit into him.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de78ac33
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de78ac33
featureConfidence
1.0
 Wing Commander
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_de78ac33
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_df76da7e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_df76da7e
comment
Mirror's Edge 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.
Played straight, however, in a cutscene where Kate falls out of a helicopter: She somehow manages not only to grab and hold onto the ledge of a building with her arms alone (because she's handcuffed), she isn't even remotely hurt by doing so (or, for that matter, by hitting a building from that distance in the first place).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_df76da7e
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_df76da7e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Mirror's Edge (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_df76da7e
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e034b531
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e034b531
comment
In Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide, Shadow catches a falling Dr. Light after he was thrown out of Eggman and Wily's floating base. Possibly justified in that Chaos Control warps space so it could conceivably negate his momentum.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e034b531
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e034b531
featureConfidence
1.0
 Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e034b531
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e1575a9d
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e1575a9d
comment
A storyline in MegaTokyo centers around getting medical aid for a boy whose Magical Girl love interest tried to carry him while Roof Hopping. She made sure he didn't hit anything, but she still shook him up with enough force to launch someone onto a rooftop.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e1575a9d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e1575a9d
featureConfidence
1.0
 MegaTokyo
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e1575a9d
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e179ec3a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e179ec3a
comment
Holographic Retro outright quotes the phrase in Calvin and Hobbes: The Series.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e179ec3a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e179ec3a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Calvin & Hobbes: The Series (Fanfic)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e179ec3a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e26905cd
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e26905cd
comment
Tekken uses this in Kazuya Mishima's backstory: as a child, his Jerk Ass father Heihachi tossed him off a cliff to see if he could survive and climb back up. He does, but only after making a Deal with the Devil.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e26905cd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e26905cd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Tekken
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e26905cd
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e2880359
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e2880359
comment
In "The Crystal Empire, Part 2", Spike falls from the castle tower after retrieving the Crystal Heart, but is intercepted in a Fastball Special by Cadance.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e2880359
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e2880359
featureConfidence
1.0
 Fastball Special
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e2880359
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e44291b7
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e44291b7
comment
In The Eternal Night, you do take slight but noticeable falling damage, which can be negated by gliding for at least the last foot or so of the fall. There are few things more embarrassing than beating a mini-boss or ambush with one HP left then dying on the next jump because you misjudged the height...
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e44291b7
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e44291b7
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Legend of Spyro (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e44291b7
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5d45e9a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5d45e9a
comment
In Aion, even though you can fall from ridiculous heights, hitting the ground kills you instantly (from more than something like 10m or so). You can spread your wings just above the ground to save yourself though, but that's not necessarily that unrealistic (apart from the spreading your wings part :) ) - you only accelerate for a while, after that the air resistance counter acts the pull of gravity and after you spread the wings, you don't just stop immediately - you glide a bit, giving you much more time to dissipate the speed than simply splatting into the ground. Also, the world Aion is set in appears to have very strange gravitational properties (mainly to the Aether, which apparently acts as a kind of antigravitational Applied Phlebotinum and also thanks to the fact, that the planet is eaten from inside, thus having much smaller gravity... everyone moves like on Earth more or less though... Aether did it?)
In newer versions, Aion will actually kill you simply from falling. It takes somewhere between 5 to 10 seconds of unrestricted free-falling to instantly kill you without waiting for you to hit any surface whatsoever. Particularly noticeable if you try to free-fall from the upper abyss to the lower, and catch yourself near the end of the fall. This was probably implemented to counter the common abuse which allowed you to save quite a few seconds of flight time by doing this trick. Between Abyss levels this almost the same behaviour as before.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5d45e9a
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5d45e9a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Aion (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5d45e9a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5dc45cd
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5dc45cd
comment
In Rune, one multiplayer death message states death by deceleration trauma.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5dc45cd
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5dc45cd
featureConfidence
1.0
 Rune (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5dc45cd
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5fd2cef
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5fd2cef
comment
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.
For the record, E. E. Smith was pretty careful about the application of physics because one of the key sci-fi elements in the series was neutralizing inertia (which is critical to this trope). The basic idea is that, under the neutralizing field, the object's original or "intrinsic" velocity, is still there but neutralized until the field shuts off, upon which the object immediately resumes its original velocity. Basically, the trope applied while you were in the field, but the trope also could be gruesomely averted unless you were careful before turning it off (the risks were noted frequently). Only one exception was ever made (an important but very small object), and that was handled by one of the most elaborate shock-absorbing contrivances ever written.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5fd2cef
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5fd2cef
featureConfidence
1.0
 Lensman
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e5fd2cef
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e7f9e624
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e7f9e624
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e7f9e624
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e7f9e624
featureConfidence
1.0
 Bamse
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e7f9e624
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e836e318
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e836e318
comment
In Travels of the Trifecta Conway survives falling out of a helicopter because his traveling companion acts as a human cushion, and the story even states that this saved his life.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e836e318
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e836e318
featureConfidence
1.0
 Travels of the Trifecta / Fan Fic
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e836e318
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e8d13e52
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e8d13e52
comment
In one Urusei Yatsura chapter, Ataru accidentally cushioned the fall of a young woman who was trying to commit suicide. A random onlooker even noted how really unlikely it was that Ataru could survive something like that, given the height the girl jumped from (and it turned out he was correct; it was actually the work of a demon who was trying to make Ataru more popular).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e8d13e52
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e8d13e52
featureConfidence
1.0
 Urusei Yatsura (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_e8d13e52
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb2a8ea9
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb2a8ea9
comment
Averted in Crackdown: arresting a long fall by grabbing onto a ledge still hurts just as much as it would normally, but in spite of the sickening "crunch" sound implying that the agent has just broken his arms, he doesn't let go of the ledge. Using the agent's stomp ability doesn't prevent damage, but falling into water does.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb2a8ea9
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb2a8ea9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Crackdown (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb2a8ea9
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb6802b4
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb6802b4
comment
In cutscenes in Final Fantasy XIII, Lightning utilizes a device called a Grav-Con unit to survive incredible falls and jumps (it reverses gravity just before the character hits the ground).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb6802b4
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb6802b4
featureConfidence
1.0
 Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_eb6802b4
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef076a36
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef076a36
comment
Star Trek: Voyager has several instances of people falling getting transported without ill effects. The "Skeletal Lock" transporter technique that was invented to save some crew members from a free fall in one episode comes to mind.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef076a36
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef076a36
featureConfidence
1.0
 Star Trek: Voyager
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef076a36
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef0952e9
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef0952e9
comment
Subverted in the Snips, Snails and Dragon Tails print comic. Elan's retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk gets (even more) derailed at the end when Roy points out fall damage in D&D isn't enough to kill any species of giant in the setting (strictly speaking it could fail its saving throw against massive damage by rolling a one, but Roy would be forgiven for not including that). Elan is hastily forced to retcon the ending.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef0952e9
featureApplicability
-0.3
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef0952e9
featureConfidence
1.0
 Jack and the Beanstalk
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef0952e9
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef1a245d
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef1a245d
comment
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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef1a245d
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef1a245d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Sanctuary
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef1a245d
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef4c300f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef4c300f
comment
In both Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag the list of things that prevent death from fall damage includes piles of branches. Not just leaves, actual branches - presumably straight from whatever trees are nearby.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef4c300f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef4c300f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Assassin's Creed III (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_ef4c300f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f17c3b1d
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f17c3b1d
comment
In Dead Rising, Frank West takes roughly normal (in video game terms) falling damage, unless he does a knee drop. That's right, landing on your feet hurts, but directing all the force into your kneecap is a perfect solution.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f17c3b1d
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f17c3b1d
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dead Rising (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f17c3b1d
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f2d501d6
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f2d501d6
comment
In Runaways, Victor stops Gert from falling using a steel fire escape, and references this trope, specifically the "matching speeds" angle.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f2d501d6
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f2d501d6
featureConfidence
1.0
 Runaways (Comic Book)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f2d501d6
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f323730f
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f323730f
comment
"Slow" Free Trader starships in Citizen of the Galaxy accelerate at somewhat one km/s^2 (1km/s more velocity added 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 (which is accurate: Earth-normal gravity is 9.8m/s^2, about 1/100 the acceleration).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f323730f
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f323730f
featureConfidence
1.0
 Citizen of the Galaxy
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f323730f
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3c3ca42
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3c3ca42
comment
The Tick presents an aversion: "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..." Yet because of his Nigh-Invulnerability, Tick managed to walk away with just some aches even after leaving an impression in the pavement.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3c3ca42
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3c3ca42
featureConfidence
1.0
 The Tick
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3c3ca42
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3f68a7b
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3f68a7b
comment
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". Given the nature of Garry's Mod, however, the default behavior is likely a safety to help keep you from hurting yourself while world-building. The fact that realistic damage add-ons exist and can be activated means the choice (as in most things in Garry's Mod) is up to the world-builder.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3f68a7b
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3f68a7b
featureConfidence
1.0
 Garry's Mod (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f3f68a7b
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f412ce55
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f412ce55
comment
One of the patches to 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.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f412ce55
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f412ce55
featureConfidence
1.0
 Unreal Tournament 2004 (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f412ce55
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f4e799ee
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f4e799ee
comment
Averted in an episode of Burn Notice. Michael jumps from two stories and manages to evade his pursuers with a sprained ankle. As he explains in a later episode, it's all down to technique. Two stories is not that high (about 20 feet), plus he knew how to take a landing: bend the knees as you hit, tuck and roll. All this helps to absorb and deflect the impact of landing. He also points out that it still hurts (all this is quite realistic).
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f4e799ee
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f4e799ee
featureConfidence
1.0
 Burn Notice
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f4e799ee
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f7d93e4a
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f7d93e4a
comment
In the Assassin's Creed games (including Assassin's Creed II and 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 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 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.
In both Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag the list of things that prevent death from fall damage includes piles of branches. Not just leaves, actual branches - presumably straight from whatever trees are nearby.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f7d93e4a
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f7d93e4a
featureConfidence
1.0
 Assassin's Creed (Franchise)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f7d93e4a
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f8705c18
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f8705c18
comment
Similarly, in the Hellsing manga and OVA, the Major's elite commander makes a Commanding Coolness entrance by falling several hundred feet from a zeppelin and landing in a cloud of dust no worse for wear. He's a genuine tough-as-nails badass: a seasoned veteran and a Werewolf to boot.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f8705c18
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f8705c18
featureConfidence
1.0
 Hellsing (Manga)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f8705c18
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f9742e61
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f9742e61
comment
Averted nicely in Dragonquest. F'nor and Canth are dropping from a great height at what's explicitly stated as terminal velocity. The other dragons don't just stop them short—they form a ramp to slow them down gradually. (No time for their riders to saddle up!)
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f9742e61
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f9742e61
featureConfidence
1.0
 Dragonriders of Pern
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_f9742e61
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa3e8179
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa3e8179
comment
Averted in the 1978 Superman movie when Lois falls off a high building after a helicopter accident: after catching her, Superman visibly decelerates over several dozen feet of downward motion before proceeding upward. (Sheldon was still pissed off by it enough to create a page quote out of it, though)
Also averted in Superman Returns where Supes catches a falling plane and has to decelerate gradually while the plane falls to pieces due to the conflict of forces (even having a wing torn off because he grabs it)
Which is exactly backwards; Superman slows the plane by pressing on the nose cone, which is just thin aluminum; the wing spars are one of the toughest parts of any aircraft.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa3e8179
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa3e8179
featureConfidence
1.0
 Superman
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa3e8179
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa77d43c
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa77d43c
comment
In Terminator Salvation, Marcus Wright survives falling off of an HK-Carrier flying quickly enough to make him skip across the Rio Grande when he falls off. Justified because he's actually a machine built by Skynet with organic parts, though he doesn't know this at first and still has organic parts that should have been pulverized by this.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa77d43c
featureApplicability
1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa77d43c
featureConfidence
1.0
 Terminator Salvation
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fa77d43c
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fd8ef85e
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fd8ef85e
comment
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.
Naturally, falling off anything from a great height will kill survivors, but there is one minor exception. In the 2nd map of Dead Air where you activate the crane, if you look in the street below, there is a truck. If you jump off the roof and land on the truck, you'll be incapped instead of killed, but the game quickly eats away your health and kills you in just two seconds, since there's no way for your teammates to get down there and rescue you.
Also, landing on a zombie's head will break your fall no matter how far you had fallen. If you do this in an area where you are not supposed to be like in the example above, you die anyway.
And when a survivor is hanging from a ledge, any AI-controlled survivors (who do tend to accidentally walk off ledges) will rush to help him/her up. Problem is, before a patch changed the AI from Too Dumb to Live to just spiteful, they would choose the most direct route possible. So if the survivor in peril was hanging on the other side of a short gap...
Occasionally, in a strange inversion, a survivor will cling to an edge when the ground below them would be non-lethal, or simply not a fall. If you let the survivor lose their grip, they will die instantly, no matter how stupid it looks. This is averted in Left 4 Dead 2, particularly some custom maps, where the game will first drop you, then check if the fall killed you.
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fd8ef85e
featureApplicability
-1.0
 Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fd8ef85e
featureConfidence
1.0
 Left 4 Dead (Video Game)
hasFeature
Not the Fall That Kills You / int_fd8ef85e

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingCategory2
Dangerous Heights
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingCategory2
Index to the Rescue
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingCategory2
Laws and Formulas
 Not the Fall That Kills You
processingCategory2
Superhero Tropes
 Simple Samosa (Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Return of Hanuman (Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Arad Senki: Slap-up Party / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Comet Lucifer / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Samurai 7 / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 What If? (Blog) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Adventures of Supergirl (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Empowered (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Jo, Zette and Jocko (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Sensation Comics (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Sonic the Hedgehog/Mega Man: Worlds Collide (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Incal (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Night Gwen Stacy Died (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Wonder Woman (1987) (Comic Book) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Flash Gordon 2023 (Comic Strip) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 LuminaryUprise
seeAlso
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Quotes Bad Hair Day Rated R For Retelling Of Cave Story / Fan Fic
seeAlso
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Seventh Endmost Vision (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Sonic Mania: The Novelization / Fan Fic / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 A Dramatic Ridonculous Race (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 An ordinary life (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Blame It on the Brain (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Butterfly (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Calvin & Hobbes: The Series (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Changeling Space Program & The Maretian (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 CRISIS: Equestria (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Destiny's Divide (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dodging Prison & Stealing Witches (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Rabbit of the Moon (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Skyhold Academy Yearbook (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Superwomen Of Eva 2 Soaring High (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Dark Lords of Nerima (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Emerald Phoenix (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Heart Trilogy (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Secret Return of Alex Mack (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 to forget is unforgivable (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Unleashing of a Dark Night (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Wandering of a Sword Hero (Fanfic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Ad Astra / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Batman (1989) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Batman Forever / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Batman Returns / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Blue Beetle (2023) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Cutthroat Island / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Daredevil / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Daredevil (2003) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Death Note (2017) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Die Hard / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Frozen (2010) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Garfield / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Godzilla vs. Destoroyah / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 GoldenEye / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Hancock / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Hocus Pocus / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Hulk / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Iron Man Films / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Jack the Giant Slayer / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 La Haine / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Matilda / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Men in Black 3 / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Odd Squad: The Movie / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Pumpkinhead / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 RoboCop (1987) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 SHAZAM! (2019) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Star Trek (2009) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Dark Knight Rises / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Good Shepherd / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Hobbit / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Other Guys / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Transformers Film Series / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 TRON / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Who Framed Roger Rabbit / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Wing Commander / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Halo (Franchise) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Kirby (Franchise) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Transformers Film Series (Franchise)
seeAlso
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Atari2600Spiderman
seeAlso
Not the Fall That Kills You
 RaidersOfTheLostArk
seeAlso
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Achievement Hunter Grand Theft Auto Series (Lets Play) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Deadbeats (Lets Play) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Devil Is a Part-Timer! / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Abaddon's Gate / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Ambergris / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Ground Control to Psychoelectric Girl / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Jack Blank / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 La Fuerza Series / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Lensman / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway's Flash / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Sagrada Reset / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Sourcery / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Super Powereds / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The BFG / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Devil is a Part-Timer! / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Heroic Legend of Arslan / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Lay of Paul Twister / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Wayside School / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Weather Wardens / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 What If? 2 / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Wrong Time for Dragons / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Machinima) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Gods
seeAlso
Not the Fall That Kills You
 LiteralCliffHanger
seeAlso
Not the Fall That Kills You
 NotTheFallThatKillsYou
sameAs
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Cardcaptor Sakura (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Death Note (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Kaiji (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Kaitou Saint Tail (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Maria no Danzai (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Murder Princess (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Oshi no Ko (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Pokémon Adventures (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Resident Evil: The Marhawa Desire (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Shy (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Super Doctor K (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Case Study of Vanitas (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Nightmare Before Christmas: Zero's Journey (Manga) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Fandible (Podcast) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Rollplay (Podcast) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Dollop (Podcast) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Ballad of Edgardo (Roleplay) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Alphas / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Crisis on Earth-X / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Due South / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Eureka / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 For All Mankind / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 From the Earth to the Moon / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Gotham / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Henry Danger / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Xena: Warrior Princess / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Hollow Earth Expedition (Tabletop Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Legend System (Tabletop Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Matilda (Theatre) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 A Boy and His Blob (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Action 52 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 And Yet It Moves (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Azurik: Rise of Perathia (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Baten Kaitos Origins (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Batman: Arkham Asylum (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Blackthorne (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Call of Duty: Zombies (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 CarnEvil (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 City of Heroes (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 City Shrouded in Shadow (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Corn Kidz 64 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dark Castle (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dead Space 3 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Defend Your Castle (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Defender (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Destiny (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Deus Ex: Human Revolution (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dishonored (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Donkey Kong '94 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dragon Quest VI (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dread X Collection (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dungeon Fighter Online (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dustforce (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dwarves Vs Zombies (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dying Light (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 DynaMarisa 3D (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Earth Defense Force (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Earth Defense Force 2025 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Epic Mickey (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Escape from Butcher Bay (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Fallout 76 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Far Cry 3 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Far Cry Primal (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Final Fantasy Tactics A2 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Final Fantasy VII (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Final Fantasy XIII (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Fortnite (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Frackin' Universe (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Game & Watch (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Gamer 2 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Ghost of Tsushima (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Glory of Heracles (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Glory of Heracles IV: Gift from the Gods (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Golden Sun: The Lost Age (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Gundam Battle Assault 2 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Half-Life (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Helldivers II (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Insecticide (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Jak 3 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Kya: Dark Lineage (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 La-Mulana (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 La-Mulana 2 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 LEGO City Undercover (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Lemmings (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Limbo (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Limbo (2010) (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Little Misfortune (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Lugaru (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 M.U.G.E.N (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Marvel's Spider-Man 2 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Maui Mallard And The Lost City Of Dread (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Metroid: Other M (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Minecraft Dungeons (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Mirror's Edge (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Mob of the Dead (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 MouseHunt (2008) (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 My Friendly Neighborhood (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 N (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 NightFire (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 PAYDAY 2 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Perfect Dark (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Perfect World (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Pilgrim: Faith as a Weapon (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Poptropica (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Portal Runner (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Quantum Conundrum (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Resident Evil 4 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Rune Factory Oceans (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Sable (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Scorched Earth (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Shadow Complex (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Shadow of the Colossus (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Shin Megami Tensei II (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Sonic Advance Trilogy (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Sonic the Hedgehog Classic (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Spec Ops: The Line (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Spelunky (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Super Mario 64 (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Tales of Berseria (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Dropper (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Lord of the Rings Online (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Lost World: Jurassic Park (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Red Strings Club (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Space Adventure (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 TowerClimb (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Vanquish (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 War Thunder (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Worms (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Xain'd Sleena (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Zeliard (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 ZombiU (Video Game) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Time Hollow (Visual Novel) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Bad Days (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Battle for Dream Island Again (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Bunnykill (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dorkly Originals (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 How It Should Have Ended (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 IDFB (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Nigel and Marmalade (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Red vs. Blue (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Red vs. Blue: The Project Freelancer Saga (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 StarCrafts (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Where Was My Hero...? (Web Animation) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Board James (Web Video) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Dream (Web Video) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Jerma985 (Web Video) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 PBG Hardcore (Web Video) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Two Best Friends Play (Web Video) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 WitchCraft SMP (Web Video) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Concerned (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Darths & Droids (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 8-Bit Theater (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Erfworld (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Generic Title (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Goblins (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 MegaTokyo (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Oglaf (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Realm of Owls (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Romantically Apocalyptic (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Todd Allison & the Petunia Violet (Webcomic) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Adventures from the Book of Virtues / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Barney Bear / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Lifted / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Max Steel / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Metalocalypse / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Miracle in Toyland / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Once Upon a Forest / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Penguins of Madagascar / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Pooh's Grand Adventure / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Tangled / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Tex Avery MGM Cartoons / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Fox and the Hound / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Heckling Hare / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Incredibles / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Incredibles / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 The Mitchells vs. the Machines / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Toy Story 2 / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego? / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You
 Wizards (2020) / int_38119dcf
type
Not the Fall That Kills You