History Main / GiantRobotHandsSaveLives

** ''Macross DYRL'' when Hikaru catches a falling Minmei with the hands of his Valkyrie after matching velocity. Hikaru then proceeds to crash at terminal velocity into an abandoned portion of the Macross.

* In the IronGiant the titular robot races to catch a couple of kids who had fallen from a 3-4 story building in his metal robot hand. Though when he caught them his hand seemed to be barely a meter or two off the ground, so one wonders why he even bothered...

** An interesting variant is in the [[PowerRangersTurbo movie]], where the characters are already on the ground. The Turbo Megazord lowers its hand to allow the civilian Ranger assistants [[AndZoidberg plus Bulk and Skull]] to climb up...and then promptly locks its hand into a tight fist, presumably crushing the occupants to death. Obviously, they were fine later, but it was a bit jarring. "Oh, yeah, come on up guys, let me give you a [[IncrediblyLazyPun hand]]...CRUNCH."

** Not otherwise appreciably injured? The poor girl wakes up in a hospital in Japan an not otherwise appreciably time later, but at least a few days. Why did she [[strike:stay in a coma]] sleep for days, when prior to this she was up and running, if not because of some, not otherwise appreciable internal injuries?

** There actually is an instance. Yoko falls out of the Gurren's cockpit while it's flying, and Simon pilots the thing to catch her. Then it gets knocked into the AirborneAircraftCarrier.

* Happened at least twice during ''MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', the first time to a girl, the second time to Bulk and Skull who were in a bus.

* ''TheIronGiant'' saves a pair of plummeting kids from death by having them land on his hard, iron hands a couple of feet off the ground.

* ''SonicTheHedgehog'' franchise:

** In ''Sonic 2'' and ''Sonic & Knuckles'', Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles all fall from orbit, only to land on the wing of the tornado while it's still moving.

** (Likely unintentional) justification for the first one: [[SpecialEffectsFailure It can be seen]] during that sequence that the hand [[PeopleInRubberSuits is covered with rubber or leather]], which would make it a bit less deadly to land on than most of the other examples on this page.
** The mechanism by which giant robot hands transform from the metal they're shown to be at most times to the rubber they're shown to be in these sequences only has yet to be revealed.

* An early issue of the ''TransformersGenerationOne'' comic featured Jetfire saving a falling human by catching him. Several letters were written to Marvel about it, and awarded No-Prizes for spotting the problem.

* ''SonicTheHedghog'' franchise:

* Happens a lot in the other ''{{Transformers}}'' serieses as well. The only time it's justified is in the case of [[spoiler: Sari, as she's not technically human]] in ''TransformersAnimated''.

* The Gaia Colossus does one of these after the final battle in ''SonicUnleashed'', but [[JustifiedTrope it is justified]] in that Sonic's fall is decelerated before impact.
** However, we also have the examples from Sonic 2 and Sonic & Knuckles/Sonic 3 & Knuckles, where Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles all fall FROM ORBIT, only to land on the WING OF THE TORNADO. WHILE THE TORNADO IS MOVING.
*** Tails can fly and Knuckles can glide, so they could easily have slowed their falls down on their own. Sonic on the other hand has generally gone Super by this point, and is thus invincible.
*** Except that a. They don't and b. This same thing happens in both Sonic Advance 1 and Sonic Advance 2, the first one with Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy, all of whom drop straight down feet-first. The second, Sonic is falling feet-first while ''carrying Cream's mum''.

* Inverted in SuperSmashBros Brawl. When [[{{Mother 3}} Lucas]] and the [[{{Pokemon}} Pokemon Trainer]] defeat a HumongousMecha, it picks them up and flies into the air while activating a Subspace Bomb. The heroes have to get OUT of the Giant Robot Hand in order to avoid [[NegativeSpaceWedgie being sucked into Subspace]].

* Inverted in SuperSmashBros Brawl. When [[{Mother 3} Lucas]] and the [[{Pokemon} Pokemon Trainer]] defeat a HumongousMecha, it picks them up and flies into the air while activating a Subspace Bomb. The heroes have to get OUT of the Giant Robot Hand in order to avoid [[NegativeSpaceWedgie being sucked into Subspace]].

* Inverted in SuperSmashBros Brawl. When [[Mother3 Lucas]] and the [[Pokemon Pokemon Trainer]] defeat a HumongousMecha, it picks them up and flies into the air while activating a Subspace Bomb. The heroes have to get OUT of the Giant Robot Hand in order to avoid [[NegativeSpaceWedgie being sucked into Subspace]].

* An early issue of the Transformers comic featured Jetfire saving a falling human by catching him. In an early example of this trope being questioned, several letters were written into Marvel about it, and awarded No-Prizes for spotting the problem.

* An early issue of the [[Transformers]] comic featured Jetfire saving a falling human by catching him. In an early example of this trope being questioned, several letters were written into Marvel about it, and awarded No-Prizes for spotting the problem.

* An early issue of the [[Transformers] comic featured Jetfire saving a falling human by catching him. In an early example of this trope being questioned, several letters were written into Marvel about it, and awarded No-Prizes for spotting the problem.

** ''Macross DYRL'' when Hikaru [[spoiler:catchs a falling Minmei]] with the hands of his Valkyrie after matching velocity. Hikaru then proceeds to crash at terminal velocity into an abandoned portion of the Macross

Note that this ''could'' work if the robot hand in question moved downward a ways, to gradually slow the person's fall--but this is never the way it's portrayed.