History Main / EjectionSeat

* ''Film/TheFlash2023''. Alternate Batman's ejection system works by lowering the seats through bomb bay-like doors so the pilot and passengers are hanging below the Batplane (which neither Barry is particularly happy about) whereupon Batman jumps off and glides and the two passengers are dropped wearing parachutes. In the battle against General Zod the ejection doors are damaged, trapping Batman inside after the plane is hit.

-->"Goodbye asshole!" *ejection seats fire*

* ''Tough Sledding'' is a 1950's gag film by the Northrop Corporation about the testing of rocket sleds and ejection seats, with the poor test engineer getting increasingly battered and reluctant to perform.

* An option for a ''TabletopGame/CarWars'' vehicle, too. It boasted three accessory packages: a hang glider to fly away, a parachute to waft down, or (the 'Mother-in-law special') absolutely nothing, for the Wile E Coyote impersonation scene. No restrictions on vehicle (although helicopters did lose their rotors after ignition request). Fellow SteveJacksonGames product ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Vehicles'' also, naturally, had these.

* ''WesternAnimattion/LooneyTunes'': When [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Wile E. Coyote]] builds a WeaponizedCar to catch the Road Runner in "Sugar and Spies", it includes an ejection seat. You can probably guess how useful this proves to him.

* ''VideoGame/SteelBattalion'' would [[DeaderThanDead delete your save]] if you didn't use the molly-guarded BigRedButton on the insanely expensive custom controller to bail out of your HumongousMecha.

* The original ''Film/BehindEnemyLines'' film shows an ejection sequence in quite a bit of detail: once the handle is pulled, straps pull the pilot and [=RIO's=] legs tight against their seats (to avoid anything getting caught on anything), charges go off, igniting the rockets, and when their parachutes pop, the chairs themselves fall away, broadcasting a distress signal back to home base. The pilot is seriously injured from the ejection and the landing, and the RIO is suitably exhausted and has minor injuries himself, even though they were flying at relatively slow speeds[[note]]Despite trying to dodge a missile, they weren't flying very fast: they were trying to outmaneuver it, and the aerial acrobatics required relatively low speed to limit G force[[/note]].

* Brock Sampson of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' owns a '69 Charger with an ejection seat.

* The ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' and ''[[Franchise/StarWarsLegends Legends]]'' use this a lot more than the films, so that people can and do survive that way. Sometimes, however, the ejector seat malfunctions, sometimes the canopy doesn't open. Both the successful and the tragic versions happen in the ''Literature/XWingSeries''. With the mag-con field active over their flight suits, pilots can survive for something like ten minutes[[note]]varying by species; Piggy the Gamorrean can last a lot longer[[/note]] before freezing, since SpaceIsCold. Most space battles involving a StandardSciFiFleet include shuttles that fly around rescuing ejected pilots. Averted with the [[MookMobile TIE Fighters]], which are well known among the ''Franchise/StarWars'' community for NOT having ejector seats, among other things, which is used as an example of how TheEmpire doesn't give a fig about its, well, anything. [[WeHaveReserves They have reserves]]. ''Starfighters of Adumar'' relates a humorous tale in which a pilot made a crash-landing on a moon in his Y-Wing. He lived, but his ejector seat malfunctioned, launching him with enough force to escape the low gravity. They collected him, but he got saddled with the name "Ejector Darpin". The ejection seats on a gunship are weaponized by Mace Windu in ''Literature/{{Shatterpoint}}''; to capture the ship, he simply activates the seats with the Force and watches the crew go sailing away.
** Not ''all'' TIE Fighters lack ejection seats. In some cases they do get added (particularly for [[EliteMooks elite units]]), although doing so adds weight and makes the TIE slightly less agile. This becomes more common [[VestigialEmpire after the Empire goes into decline]] post-[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Endor]], since their recruitment base for more pilots is constantly shrinking. Since [[FragileSpeedster agility is pretty much the only thing the TIE Fighter has going for it]] (other than [[ZergRush sheer numbers]]) not all TIE pilots actually consider this a good tradeoff. On the plus side, TIE pilots wear self-contained life support suits, so '''if''' they either have an ejection seat or can manage to bail out manually after being shot down, they can actually survive in space for quite a bit longer than the pilots of most Rebel starfighters.