History Main / LandInTheSaddle

* During the ActionPrologue in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', Woody falls off the train but conveniently lands on Bulls-Eye, so he and Jessie can continue chasing after the train.

A popular exit for the [[{{Swashbuckler}} swashbuckling]] or [[TheWestern Western]] hero: leap down off the roof, wall or balcony you're on -- or [[SuperWindowJump out of a window]] -- and land in the saddle of your waiting CoolHorse.

* ''Film/{{Water}}''. Creator/BillyConnolly and his sidekick discover that [[GroinAttack trying this trick with bicycles is very painful]].

* LuckyLuke does this so often that his horse, Jolly Jumper, has been known to express surprise if Luke exits a building through the door. Jolly is sometimes seen complaining about how Luke gets to make merry in the saloon, and his horse must wait outside under the window. There are also occasional subversions to keep things interesting. In one instance, Luke throws himself out the wrong window, leading to his escaping while Jolly Jumper laughs at him. In another, he realizes the horse he's landed on is not Jolly Jumper, who explains that as he didn't know which window Luke would jump from, he put a horse under each window to be sure.

* ''Film/{{Water}}''. BillyConnolly and his sidekick discover that [[GroinAttack trying this trick with bicycles is very painful]].

* ''Film/Water''. BillyConnolly and his sidekick discover that [[GroinAttack trying this trick with bicycles is very painful]].

* Spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/TheScarletPumpernickel'', where DaffyDuck misses the horse, causing him to muse that "this never happens to ErrolFlynn".

* Spoofed on ''TheScarletPumpernickel'', where DaffyDuck misses the horse, causing him to muse that "this never happens to ErrolFlynn".

* ''{{Tangled}}'' takes it up to eleven, with Flynn [[spoiler:catapulted over a high wall and landing the saddle of the horse waiting on the other side]]. Thanks to RuleOfCool, nobody gets hurt.

* This is part of Peter's sidekick training in ''RustlersRhapsody''.
* IndianaJones tries this one in the prologue sequence of ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusadee''. The horse moves. The mooks chasing him repeat the process, but with a truck.

* In ''RobinHoodMenInTights'', Marian leaps from a balcony onto her horse. When her large lady-in-waiting attempts to do the same, her horse dodges.
* In ''CutthroatIsland'' Geena Davis ('''not''' her stunt double) [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA5ysXn-Ygo&t=1m41s races through a building on the 2nd story and somersaults out a window, landing in the passenger seat of a speeding horse drawn carriage]].
* AntonioBanderas tried this trick in ''TheMaskOfZorro'', but the horse moved. ''On purpose''.
* AustinPowers pulls this into his convertible via a forward flip. When he tries it into [[BondGirl Felicity's]] car in the sequel, he lands on the gear shift.
* [[StarWars Anakin]] in ''AttackOfTheClones'' does a Force Jump in the execution arena on Geonosis to land on the rhino-like creature sent to execute him.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''The Masque of Mandragora'', the Doctor jumps from the execution platform onto one of the guards' horses, shoves that guard out of the saddle, and takes off galloping
* ''KnightRider'': Car version, of course. Michael calls to KITT, KITT comes, and often he leaps straight into or onto KITT. At least once, KITT elevated the driver's seat so Michael would have something to aim for and fall onto.

* If you aim just right, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything you can land on your horse]] from a second story jump in ''RedDeadRedemption''.

* Happens automatically in ''FinalFantasyVI'' when Edgar, Locke and Terra escape from Kefka.

* One TexAvery cartoon has a cowboy try to jump into his horse repeatedly, only to miss every time. Eventually he moves the horse to the place where he keeps landing and tries again, only to land where the horse originally was.

* OnceAnEpisode (minimum) in ''ThundarrTheBarbarian''. In one early episode, he does it from the top floor of a ruined skyscraper without injury.

* The player can pull off this move in ''AssassinsCreed''.

* IndianaJones tries this one in the prologue sequence of ''Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade''. The horse moves. The mooks chasing him repeat the process, but with a truck.

* A running gag in the movie ''{{The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox}}'' -- the Dirtwater Fox keeps trying it, and it keeps going wrong.
* A running gag in ''ZorroTheGayBlade''. Z's horse was always in the wrong place.

* A running gag in the movie ''The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox'' -- the Dirtwater Fox keeps trying it, and it keeps going wrong.
* A running gag in ''Zorro the Gay Blade''. Z's horse was always in the wrong place.

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* If you aim just right, [[TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything you can land on your horse]] from a second story jump in ''RedDeadRedemption''.
* The player can pull off this move in ''AssassinsCreed''.
* Happens automatically in ''FinalFantasyVI'' when Edgar, Locke and Terra escape from Kefka.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': "The Masque of Mandragora". The Doctor jumps from the execution platform onto one of the guards' horses, shoves that guard out of the saddle, and takes off galloping

* Done early in the 1993 Disney version of ''TheThreeMusketeers'', as part of a chase scene. It also included the stock parody of one of the characters missing the horse.

* ''DoctorWho'': "The Masque of Mandragora". The Doctor jumps from the execution platform onto one of the guards' horses, shoves that guard out of the saddle, and takes off galloping

* In the ErrolFlynn ''TheAdventuresOfRobinHood'', Robin pulls off this jump with his hands tied behind his back. (Well, he's supposed to -- if you watch closely, the stunt guy's hands move in front of his body in one shot.)

* AntonioBanderas tried this trick in ''TheMaskOfZorro'', but the horse moved. ''On purpose''.

A popular exit for the swashbuckling hero: leap down off the roof, wall or balcony you're on -- or [[SuperWindowJump out of a window]] -- and land in the saddle of your waiting CoolHorse.

* AntonioBanderas tried this trick in ''TheMaskOfZorro'', but the horse moved.

* ''DoctorWho'': "The Masque of Mandragora". The Doctor jumps from the execution platform onto one of the guards' horses, shoves that guard out of the saddle, and takes off galloping.