History Main / SlowMotionFall

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

* In the climax of ''FindingDory'', when [[spoiler: Hank sends the truck to Cleveland careening off a cliff and into the ocean, opening the doors and sending all the creatures in the back released, including Dory, from captivity and back into the their homes in the ocean]], all set to LouisArmstrong's "What a Wonderful World."

* ''Film/LeonTheProfessional'' has a first-person POV example after [[spoiler: Leon]] is shot in the back by the BigBad.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has Garnet falling slowly backwards [[spoiler: after being hit by some kind of anti-Gem weapon.]] For bonus gut-wrenching, it happens right in front of Steven, and she's ''physically splitting apart'' at the time.

* Colin in the first season of ''{{Everwood}}''. While he doesn't die, it's the beginning of the end for him.

* The wife of Vlad, falling to her death in ''Film/DraculaUntold''.

* In ''YuGiOh'', Yugi Mutou has a face-forward one (complete with his friends screaming a SayMyName) after he aims a destructive banned card, Death Meteor, at himself in a HeroicSacrifice at the end of his duel with a BrainwashedAndCrazy Jounouchi in season two.

** Parodied in [[SeltzerAndFriedberg Meet The Spartans]], in which the character had time to do that pump chest peace out thing.

* SNL's Dear Sister. And the original scene from ''TheOC''.

* ''TheLightInThePiazza'' 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.

* [[spoiler: Shuji Ikutsuki]] in ''{{Persona 3}}''.
* Sora in the first ''KingdomHearts'' game after unlocking his heart with a Keyblade to free Kairi's heart.

* [[spoiler: Victor Zakhaev]] in ''[[ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4]]'', after he [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled shoots himself to avoid capture by the SAS and Marines.]]
* Each of the colossi in ShadowOfTheColossus get one when they die. They fall slowly because of their size. Amusingly, the small ones get the same length music and cutscene, even though they take only a half-second or so to drop.

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** [[spoiler:Qui-Gon Jinn]] in ''ThePhantomMenace'', after [[spoiler:Darth Maul finishes him]].
** The Darth Vader apparition in the treecave being beheaded by Luke in'' TheEmpireStrikesBack''.

* In ''{{Frequency}}'', Dennis Quaid did a slo-mo fall out of a burning building into the Hudson River, followed by his [[SlowMotionDrop helmet]] bouncing on the pavement.

* Cars going off a bridge in slow motion seems to have become a standard ever since ''Film/{{Inception}}'', see similar scenes in ''Film/CloudAtlas'' and ''Film/{{Unknown}}''.

* ''LeonTheProfessional'' has a first-person POV example after [[spoiler: Leon]] is shot in the back by the BigBad.

* In ''SevenSamurai'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMWsOyOHaaA Kyuzo's first scene]] [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes him]] as a [[TheStoic stoic]] MasterSwordsman by showing him defeat a man in a duel with a [[SingleStrokeBattle single stroke]]. An early example of this trope is played to great effect as we see Kyuzo's opponent fall.

* ''WesternAnimation/BenTenAlienForce'' has a villain falling ''sideways'', towards the gravitation pull of the Milky Way Galaxy's sun which he's trying to harvest for its resources, and setting up Kevin for a SaveTheVillain moment. [[spoiler: Which winds up subverted, Kevin lets him continue being pulled into the sun and his death because he was the one that killed Kevin's father.]]

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

* Happens to Haruhi in the last episode of ''OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', though she was just thrown over the side of a bridge instead of being shot. The thing is, she falls ''so'' slowly that [[spoiler:Tamaki has time to say thanks to Eclaire, get out of a carriage, jump over a car and off a bridge, grab and hug Haruhi, and execute a swan dive]] before she actually starts falling. Lampshaded in episode 4 when [[TheCasanova Tamaki]] collapses after being repeatedly insulted by [[OtakuSurrogate Renge]].

* ''WolfsRain'': [[spoiler:Toboe, after being accidentally shot by Quent instead of TakingTheBullet for him. At this point the audience can tell that Toboe's NotQuiteDead yet because he's still maintaining his human disguise.]]
* Happens a few times (for a few reasons) in RozenMaiden.

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

* ''Manga/SoulEater''- This happens to [[Manga/SoulEater Soul]], complete with [[spoiler:flying blood drops in mid-air]], when he [[TakingTheBullet Takes The Sword]] for [[spoiler:Maka in the fight against Ragnarok.]]

* ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' when the title characters shot down the Bolivian bandits.
* [[spoiler:Dumbledore's death]] leads to this in ''Film/HarryPotter and the Half-Blood Prince''.

* Trinity in the second ''[[Film/TheMatrix Matrix]]'' film.

* The ending of Hitchcock's ''Saboteur'', where the villain falls from the Statue of Liberty leaving the hero holding onto an empty jacket sleeve.

* Used in ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'' when [[spoiler: Rogue]] 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.

* The Last Guidance in ''Anime/{{Noir}}''. Probably a homage to the above is the scene in ''ElCazadorDeLaBruja'' when [[spoiler:Nadie falls down after being apparently shot but it turns out she just slipped on the ice]].

* ''{{Madlax}}'' "killed" by Margaret [[spoiler:for the first time right after Vanessa's death]].

* [[spoiler:Haldir]]'s death in ''TheLordOfTheRings: The Two Towers'' movie is an interesting take on this as we see it through his eyes. Followed promptly by a FoeTossingCharge by Aragorn.