History Main / SlowMotionDrop

* Used in one scene of {{Alien3}} to almost [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] level.

* Done in ''Film/{{Inception}}'': in an odd mix of this trope and SlowMotionFall, the van in Dream Level One falls off a bridge in slow motion, along with the entire band of characters and their target Robert Fischer, who are all dreaming in the van at that moment. [[MindScrew The same fall echoes through the rest of the dream levels as well]].

** Another episode has Fry's girlfriend from the past drop a coffee cup. It breaks, but then [[SubvertedTrope fixes itself]]. Being afraid of the future as it is, this just freaks her out more.

* [[LoadingReadyRun The Daily Drop]] was a web series that was nothing but a new Slow Motion Drop every week. They vary from satisfyingly destructive (a toy robot dog gets the everloving crap beaten out of it), through otherworldly (Kooshes turn into ''alien life forms''), to verging on comedic sociopathy (they drop a live cat, which lands safely. Then comes [[ThatPoorCat "Crowbar Is Ready"]]... at which point they throw up their hands and say [[LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt "Nah."]])

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'', with a pen.

* ''[[AustinPowers Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me]]'': Two Austins bang into each other while each is trying to catch his mojo. Cue the Slow Motion Mojo Drop.

* This is one of many tropes frequently played up for melodrama on CloneHigh. In one example, Abe falls asleep during a standardized test, dropping his #2 pencil slowly to the floor, where it shatters (?) into four pieces.

* Done in ''Film/{{Inception}}'': in an odd mix of this trope and SlowMotionFall, the van in Dream Level One falls off a bridge in slow motion, along with the entire band of characters and their target [[HeyItsThatGuy Robert Fischer]], who are all dreaming in the van at that moment. [[MindScrew The same fall echoes through the rest of the dream levels as well]].

* The last shot of the pilot episode of ''{{Sliders}}'' showed Quinn's wine glass falling and shattering in slow motion.

* ''{{Nana}}'', with a lighter.

* The anime adaptation of ''RurouniKenshin'' does a variant slo-mo drop for a bead of sweat during the Kenshin vs. Soujirou battle: the camera follows a drop of cold sweat roll off Yumi's face, and by the time it splashes on the floor, the two combatants have already traded an insane amount of blows.

-->Date: "Do you want to go back to my house for coffee?"
-->Amy: "I don't really like coffee."
-->Date: "Neither do I..."
-->Amy: "I feel a little tipsy."
-->Date: "Let me...pick up the cheque."
-->This trope is then played as the date's credit card falls.

* ''{{Fushigi Yuugi}}'' also has a [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] example, when Tamahome [[spoiler:visits his house, only to see that his entire family had been brutally murdered. He drops the ball he had bought for his little sister Yuiren, who is shown to be barely alive when the ball bounces to her fingers.]]

* Kasumi in ''RanmaOneHalf'' asks Akane "Did you accept his proposal?". Akane drops the plate she was washing and it shatters dramatically.

* At the end of the final battle between D and Meier Link in ''VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', Leila takes Charlotte's ring and tosses it at the floor. The camera follows it as it slowly, slooowly comes down, leaving a trail of after-images, interspersed with flashes of D and Meier Link fighting. When the ring bounces off the floor, the camera follows it up and down again. And it continues to follow as it rolls on its side and D picks it up on the edge of his sword.

For extra credit, finish the shot with a slow-motion shot of the object shattering, with synchronized slow motion sound effects. For extra extra credit, throw in a BigNo while all of this is happening.

* In an episode of ''{{The Simpsons}}'', Marge buys a $400 bag to show off with and plans to return it as soon as possible. When Homer takes her to a expensive restaurant, he bites into a sauce-covered shrimp and a ''tiny'' speck of the sauce splashes onto Marge's bag, much to her horror.

* An episode of ''{{Futurama}}'' where Fry's head was attached to Amy's shoulder following a car crash. Amy (with Fry's head attached) and a man she's on a date with have the following exchange;

* In the first episode of series two of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', Sam drops his paper coffee cup upon seeing [[spoiler:his father's corpse]].

* An episode of ''{{Futurama}}'' where Fry's head was attached to Amy's shoulder following a car crash (No, ). Amy (with Fry's head attached) and a man she's on a date with have the following exchange;

* When Kevin Spacey hosted ''SaturdayNightLive'' a second time, he did a skit parodying his movie ''TheUsualSuspects''. In it Andy Samburg tells Kevin an elaborate story about why he couldn't make it to a rehearsal. Kevin believes but after Andy leaves, Kevin drops his mug in slo-mo just like Chazz Palmenteri did in the movie and he notices that everything in his dressing room was a part of Samburg's story.

* The 2008 ''Speed Racer'' live action film has an occasion. Mom drops her glass to shatter on the floor [[spoiler:upon hearing oldest son Rex was killed in a crash]].
* Agent Kujan from ''TheUsualSuspects'' drops his coffee mug when [[TheEndingChangesEverything understanding]] of TheReveal begins trickling in, complete with [[RepeatCut multiple shots]] of the cup breaking and spraying coffee in slow motion.
** The first ''Scary Movie'' parodied the coffee cup from ''The Usual Suspects''; after it hit the ground, a goldfish was seen flopping about in the remnants.
** Also parodied in ''Wrongfully Accused'', where multiple objects were dropped along with the coffee cup.

* Done in {{Inception}}: in an odd mix of this trope and SlowMotionFall, the van in Dream Level One falls off a bridge in slow motion, along with the entire band of characters and their target [[HeyItsThatGuy Robert Fischer]], who are all dreaming in the van at that moment. [[MindScrew The same fall echoes through the rest of the dream levels as well]].
* In ''{{Selena}}'', the ring dropping from her fingers [[spoiler:as she dies.]]
* In ''Film/{{The Lord of the Rings}}: The Return of the King'', Aragorn has a dream about Arwen dying and him dropping the Evenstar (which seems to represent Arwen's immortality), which breaks. In a much later scene in the Extended Edition, Aragorn looks into the Palantír to face Sauron, and he shows him the same scene of Arwen dying, to which he freaks out and steps back, dropping the Evenstar just as he had seen in the dream.

* {{Gintama}}: Tsukyo's pipe in the Yoshiwara is Burning Arc

* Played with in the ninth episode of ''{{Naruto}}: Shippuuden'' by an old lady with a fishing rod. She was just playing dead for fun, and no doubt that the slow mo "made it seem so real."

* ''{{Ratatouille}}'', with a pen.

A character receives some shocking news while holding a (usually breakable) object. The news causes them to drop the object, and we follow it in close up with the [[{{overcrank}} camera overcranked]] all the way to the floor.

* In ''Film/{{The Lord of the Rings}}: The Return of the King'', Aragorn has a dream about Arwen dying and him dropping the Evenstar (which seems to represent Arwen's immortality), which breaks. In a much later scene in the Extended Edition, Aragorn looks into the Palantir to face Sauron, and he shows him the same scene of Arwen dying, to which he freaks out and steps back, dropping the Evenstar just as he had seen in the dream.

* [[LoadingReadyRun The daily drop]] was a web series that was nothing but a new Slow Motion Drop every week

* Agent Kujan from ''TheUsualSuspects'' drops his coffee mug when [[TheEndingChangesEverything understanding]] of TheReveal begins trickling in, complete with multiple shots of the cup breaking and spraying coffee in slow motion.