History Main / SlowMotionFall

* Despite the extreme AnyoneCanDie atmosphere, only happens once in ''DeathNote''.

* [[spoiler: Victor Zakhaev]] in ''[[ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4]'', after he [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled shoots himself to avoid capture by the SAS and Marines.]]

Similar to a SlowMotionDrop but instead of an inanimate object dropping, we see a person falling backwards (or, rarely, forwards) in slow-motion, usually, after being shot. Bonus points if their TrueCompanions are watching as it happens and gives us an [[SlowNo appropriately slowed down]] BigNo.

Similar to a SlowMotionDrop but instead of an inanimate object dropping, we see a person falling backwards (or, rarely, forwards) in slow-motion, usually, after being shot. Bonus points if their {{Nakama}} is watching as it happens and gives us an [[SlowNo appropriately slowed down]] BigNo.

--> ''''Hikaru'''': He's created a new technique!
--> ''''Kaoru'''': One-Man Slow Motion!

* In ''DoctorWho'', the parallel universe Cyber-controller falls to his doom after Pete Tyler cuts the ladder the Controller is climbing with the sonic screwdriver.

* Happens to Vakama in ''{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'', with Nokama watching... who is part of his {{Nakama}}.

* {{Megamind}} [[InMediaRes begins his story]] by falling to his death.

* {{Megamind}} [[EnMediaRes begins his story]] by falling to his death.

See DisneyVillainDeath for when the fall happens without slow-motion. SubTrope of DeathIsDramatic.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-85YUk9HR0 Here's the clip if your interested.]]

*** Both of which ended up so embarrassing that their copyright owners had them pulled from YouTube.

* Happens to Vakama in ''{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'', with Nokama watching... who is part of his {{Nakama}}.

See DisneyVillainDeath for when the fall happens without slow-motion.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD9iJgFBxbE Dear Sister]].
** And, of course, the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3umNk9nVxbQ original scene]] from ''TheOC''.

* The 4th season of ''BigLove'' introduced a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RlfJ7fX_ZM new opening credits sequence]] that made heavy use of this trope, presumably reflecting the fears of the characters about [[spoiler: being exiled from their church.]]

* Various ''{{Gundam}}''s like to do this, especially since AnyoneCanDie.

** [[HarryPotter And]] [[AlanRickman he]] [[HarryPotter enjoyed it when he was on the other end of this trope.]]

* [[spoiler:Qui-Gon Jinn]] in ''[[StarWars Episode I]]''.
** It wasn't in slow motion, he just did it really slowly. The Darth Vader apparition in the treecave being beheaded by Luke in'' TheEmpireStrikesBack''. THAT was in slow motion.

* Several in {{Inception}}, but [[spoiler: everyone who does fall is alright]] since they're used as a method of waking a dreaming team member up or as a way for a dreaming person to quickly wake ''themselves'' up.

* [[EngineSentaiGo-onger Go-onger]] had [[spoiler: Sosuke]] collapses and [[spoiler: turns into rust]] due to a device given to him by one of the villains. He gets better though.

* Used in ''XMenEvolution'' when [[spoiler: Rougue]] Pushes [[spoiler: Mystique]] off a cliff. Nightcrawler tries to BAMF down to save her, but he can't get there in time. When she finally comes to a halt in pieces at the bottom of the cliff, he teleports down there and starts crying over her remains.
** You might call this a subversion since she ''technically'' wasn't a person at the time.

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* ''The Light in the Piazza'' has an indirect one- there's a song in which Margaret ''describes'' her daughter's slow motion fall, but we don't actually see it, which wouldn't work on stage anyway and is much more effective.