History Main / ParachutePetticoat

* Princess [[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros.'' can use this to slow and control descents after being hit up.
* [[SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2'' uses this to hover in the air and make long jumps.

* ''JetDream'': In one story, Marlene's dress billows out into a "Tunic Chute" to save her from falling off a cliff to her death. Technically not "improvised," but a piece of [[ShoePhone spy gear]] ''designed'' for the purpose. It's a pretty goofy design, though, and one of the less "ladylike" examples, as just about ''any'' angle other than that chosen by the artist would give Marlene [[PantyShot "full exposure."]] [[http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/5218/jd194.jpg See Marlene's Tunic Chute in all its glory]].

* Rachel Alucard in ''BlazBlue''. Ironically, although she [[ParasolOfPain wields an umbrella]] ([[LivingWeapon a cat which turns into one, no less]]), she doesn't use a ParasolParachute, except in her intro poses.

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* A ''LiloAndStitch'' comic from ''DisneyAdventures''' Comic Zone has the characters playing with "jump jelly," goop that acts as a super-trampoline if charged with electricity. When [[WholesomeCrossdresser Pleakley]] tries it, he wears one of Nani's dresses as a safety precaution. Stitch turns the electricity up and Pleakley bounces extra-high, using the dress as a parachute to float back down with.

** It was also used for Brooke Shields's guest appearance on ''TheMuppetShow'' where she sang as Alice falling [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDShobQ7Zio down the rabbit hole]].
** The few jumps across gaps with uprising wind in ''AmericanMcGeesAlice'' also make use of the billowing uplift of the dress.

* Happens in ''ChittyChittyBangBang'', when the Baroness is launched into the air from Chitty's EjectorSeat.
* During the boxing match at the end of The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin, one of the fighters is slammed into the crowd with such force that one of the saloon girls is catapulted skyward, only to drift back down. (Then again, since she was dancing the cancan earlier, we'd already seen her petti's...)

* Princess [[TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]] in ''SuperSmashBros'' can use this to slow and control descents after being hit up.

* Alice of [[AmericanMcGeesAlice American McGee's Alice]] uses her dress as a parachute to ride steam.
** And in the [[AliceMadnessReturns sequel]], three of her four possible jumps involve this trope as a way to cross long distances.

* In the ClassicDisneyShort "Plane Crazy", Minnie Mouse's bloomers deploy like a parachute.
* Baby Piggy in MuppetBabies, as she told her version of the Lewis Carrol story, had this happen to her own Alice character, her dress taking a parachute-like means as she fell down a rabbit-, er, I mean tadpole-hole.
* In JemAndTheHolograms, one of the Misfits videos "Lovesick" had Pizzazz do a parachute petticoat.

* Happens in the novel ''{{Super-Folks}}'' by Robert Mayer, with the added revelation that the lady in question [[GoingCommando wasn't wearing underwear]].

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The thicker and more layered the material the better. Don't worry about terminal velocities and drag coefficients, [[RuleOfFunny the laws of physics tend to give way to the opportunity to see a slightly comical petticoat exposure.]]

* In the first episode of Series/JackOfAllTrades, Jack rescues President Jefferson's niece from a French fort in Canada. To escape the fort, Jack and the girl jump off a high cliff. They are saved because Jack grabs on to her feet and her skirt billows out to form a parachute. (Jack also gets an excellent view of her petticoats.)

* In the first episode of JackOfAllTrades, Jack rescues President Jefferson's niece from a French fort in Canada. To escape the fort, Jack and the girl jump off a high cliff. They are saved because Jack grabs on to her feet and her skirt billows out to form a parachute. (Jack also gets an excellent view of her petticoats.)

* [[SuperMarioBros Princess Peach]] in ''SuperMarioBros2'' uses this to hover in the air and make long jumps.

The thicker and more layered the material the better. Don't worry about terminal velocities and drag coefficients, the laws of physics tend to give way to the opportunity to see a slightly comical petticoat exposure.

http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/PetticoatParachute_9248.jpg

** Ironic as it seems, Baby Piggy in MuppetBabies, as she told her version of the Lewis Carrol story, had this happen to her own Alice character.

** It was also used for Brooke Shields's guest appearance on ''TheMuppetShow'' where she sang as Alice falling [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDShobQ7Zio down the rabbit hole]].
** The few jumps across gaps with uprising wind in ''AmericanMcGeesAlice'' also make use of the uplift of the dress.

* Happens in ''ChittyChittyBangBang'', when the Baroness is launched into the air from Chitty's ejector seat.

* Happens in Live Action Film in ''ChittyChittyBangBang'', when the Baroness is launched into the air from Chitty's ejector seat.

* ''JetDream'': In one story, Marlene's dress billows out into a "Tunic-Chute" to save her from falling off a cliff to her death. Technically not "improvised," but a piece of [[ShoePhone spy gear]] ''designed'' for the purpose. It's a pretty goofy design, though, and one of the less "ladylike" examples, as just about ''any'' angle other than that chosen by the artist would give Marlene [[PantyShot "full exposure."]] [[http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/5218/jd194.jpg See Marlene's Tunic-Chute in all its glory]].

* ''JetDream'': In one story, Marlene's dress billows out into a "Tunic-Chute" to save her from falling off a cliff to her death. Technically not "improvised", as the Tunic-Chute is actually a piece of ShoePhone-style spy gear ''designed'' for the purpose, but the design is a very goofy one. [[http://img202.imageshack.us/img202/5218/jd194.jpg See Marlene's Tunic-Chute in all its glory]].