History Main / GroundShatteringLanding

* In "Film/SonictheHedgehog2" Knuckles does a lighter variation of this when he meets Sonic and Tails in the ice temple. He doesn't actually break the ground but he does cause a pretty strong tremor and debris falling from the cave's ceiling, which for a creature much shorter than an adult human seems too much.

* VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog can do this with the bounce/bound attack in some of the games. Knuckles can also do this.

* You can do this everytime you respawn in ''VideoGame/{{Section 8}}'''s multiplayer, complete with ThreePointLanding... which is to be expected since 'respawning' includes dropping in (Being shot out of a {{dropship}}) from 15 kilometers above ground with nothing but your PowerArmor. While you do have airbrakes to give you a somewhat softer landing, there's always the possibility of some self-induced DeathFromAbove on some poor sap who forgot to look up to see you coming.

* ComicBook/IronMan's famous ThreePointLanding pose is well known for causing this kind of damage.
* ''ComicBook/{{Planetary}}'': Jakita's SuperToughness is first demonstrated in a scene where she jumps out of an aircraft without a parachute, landing unharmed and leaving two sets of radiating cracks in the rock where her feet made contact.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', when the Saiyans land their space pods. Raditz's makes quite a crater, and Nappa and Vegeta's actually destroy buildings before leaving their mark on the Earth. And that's not to mention what happens during the fights that the characters get into.

* Morpheus ends his demonstration of his gravity-defying skills with this in ''Film/TheMatrix''. And in [[Film/TheMatrixReloaded the sequel]], Neo makes the ground ''ripple'' when landing or taking off.

See InASingleBound, whose users this would probably apply to. Also see GroundPound for examples of more hard landings or GoombaStomp when the "ground" in question is an enemy.

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* Emmet does this in ''WesternAnimation/TheLEGOMovie'' when he returns from [[spoiler:the real world.]]
-->'''Emmet:''' Sorry, street!
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', Ming does an impressive one when she jumps down to the [=SkyDome=] floor. Quite justified, given that [[spoiler:she's a kaiju-sized magical red panda, over a hundred feet tall with a mass of many tons]].

* The DS game of the ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' film does this whenever you jump.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk often uses this as an attack.
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* When the title characters in ''Videogame/EarthBound'' land in their incredible flying machine, they typically crash land, making a nice big boom.

** In the series finale, after [[spoiler:[[NiceJobFixingItVillain Ozai inadvertently restores Aang's Avatar State connection]], Aang achieves this while [[OhCrap relentlessly pursuing a terrified Ozai]] with ''airbending''.]]

* Jarvan IV in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' does this, leaping on someone and trapping them within the circle of rock that shoots up around the impact point. Aatrox does something similar if with less visual effect: He flies up, then crash-lands on his target, knocking them up.

* Scott does this in ''Film/AntMan'', sometimes, it's presumably to show that he retains his mass when shrunk but the writers clearly haven't thought that aspect through.

** The series also features Ground Shattering Takeoffs - As the characters get stronger, the ChunkyUpdraft climbs to ridiculous levels, usually culminating in a violent explosion just as a character launches into flight.
* Major Kusanagi, a full-body cyborg, does it both in [[Anime/GhostInTheShell the original film]] and ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex''. Generally, the Major causes damage whenever she moves quickly, because her cyborg body weighs hundreds of pounds. The series tends to be inconsistent on this part, however, as she rarely leaves markings when starting her leaps and is on one occasion capable of doing huge leaps on the roof of an antique wooden building without any of the old lumber giving way during take-off or landing. The original manga mentions that it's actually illegal for full-prothetic cyborgs to travel around by leaping around rooftops because of the collateral damage that it causes.

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* See Franchise/{{Superman}}, the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk, and other heroes with tremendous strength or mass. The Incredible Hulk often uses this as an attack.
** Played with in Superman's case. The Man of Steel generally makes very graceful landings specifically to ''avoid'' this trope, so if he's doing this it's generally an "Uh-Oh" sign.
* In the cover of ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Vol 5]] #12'', the eponymous heroine performs a ground-cracking landing (combined with a ThreePointLanding for greater effect).
* Comicbook/IronMan's famous ThreePointLanding pose is well known for causing this kind of damage.

* ''Film/{{Iron Man|1}}'' does it in the movie version: he crashes through his roof, his ''piano'', and his floor, only stopping when he smashes a sports car in his underground garage. Funnily enough, it was unintentional. And it hapoens again in the climax when his suit loses power.

* ''Film/{{Iron Man|1}}'' does it in the movie version: he crashes through his roof, his ''piano'', and his floor, only stopping when he smashes a sports car in his underground garage. Funnily enough, it was unintentional

* ''Film/{{Deadpool}}'' even ''lampshades'' it during his [[spoiler:confrontation with Angel Dust and Ajax]]!

** Both the ''Prototype'' and ''[=inFAMOUS=]'' characters, while they can do it, also have special attacks that charge up the slam.