History PlayingWith / SoftWater

* '''Exaggerated''': John jumps out of the International Space Station, [[GravitySucks falls down to the ground]], and is saved by landing in [[strike:the Atlantic Ocean]] a ''puddle. With no parachutes.''

** Given the circumstances of John's fall, he would have died if he had fallen into the water. But--through a great stroke of luck or resourcefulness--he manages to land on a FarSideIsland, and thus he survives.
** John jumps off a diving board into a pool and dies on impact.

* '''Zig Zagged''': John, having a basic grasp on the laws of physics, activates his parachute while falling towards a body of water, knowing that the water will not break his fall. However, the parachute gives way, and John falls into the water anyway...and dies on impact. He comes back to life a minute or so later, having fallen into the Fountain of Youth.

* '''Discussed''': "Despite what movies may have led you to think, falling into water at this height is still fatal!"
* '''Conversed''': "How did that character survive falling into water at terminal velocity? That should have broken all the bones in his body!"

* John is a trained high-diver.

* '''Parodied''': The water reaches up and plucks John out of the sky, gently lowering him down to safety.

* '''Reconstructed''': A liquid is designed to allow people to float on the surface, bu sink when they hit the surface at high velocity.

** John jumps of a diving board into a pool and dies on impact.

* '''Deconstructed''': John lands in the water and survives, but suffers massive internal bleeding, 4 broken ribs, a fractured femur, and a morbid fear of swimming for the rest of his life.
* '''Reconstructed''': John fights through his injuries and paranoia and becomes a professional high-dive champion.

** John hits the water and is later pronounced dead-on-impact.

** John does attempt sto break his fall by jumping into water, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and is seriously injured]].

%%* '''Implied''': ???

** John drains the pool at the bottom of his building and refills it with a liquid of much less surface tension just so he could land into it from the top of his building without doing himself harm.
** Alternatively, '''all''' waterbodies on John's planet has been artificially replaced with the said liquid so everyone can enjoy diving into them from a great height.

** The character has [[MakingASplash water-related magic]] that actively PREVENTS them from getting harmed in water.

** The water hits John in a tidal wave, but the latter survives.

** Alternatively, John ''does'' attempt to break his fall by jumping into water, [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and is seriously injured]].

** Alternatively, John ''does'' attempt to break his fall by jumping into water, [[RealityEnsues and is seriously injured]].

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Invoked''': John is GenreSavvy, and makes sure to fall into a body of water in order to survive.