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* Justified in ''Film/TheOldGuard'' when Nile Freeman tackles the BigBad out the window of his penthouse; she has HealingFactor and her [[BodyHorror body gets severely mangled in the process]]. The BigBad on the other hand doesn't fare so well..

* On ''Series/{{Angel}}'', Faith breaks out of jail by grabbing Wesley and jumping out a window, landing on a conveniently parked car a few floors beneath. The car cushions her fall, and ''she'' cushions his fall. Lack of injury is justified in that Faith, who has superpowers, is shown to take most of the hit and Wesley is still in noticeable pain afterwards.

** Played with in ''Film/AntMan''. Scott lands on a taxi at the end of his first outing with the Ant-Man suit, but since he's miniaturized at the time it only causes a small dent. And then he returns to normal size, puzzling the driver.

* During one fight, Stone of the ''[[Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse Global Guardians]]'' got knocked out of the air by the supervillain known as Kong (who is literally a forty-foot tall super-strong gorilla) and slammed through the cab of a semi-truck. The impact caused the truck's front tires to explode, and actually tore Stone's favorite jacket.

** Downplayed in "Happily Never After" when a dead woman slides of the top of a bus that came to a sudden stop in traffic. Turns out she had been thrown onto it out of a window by a guy who "borrowed" the bus during the night and then used it to hide her body.

** In "Past Imperfect," Clay Dobson falls (or did he jump...hmmm) from a rooftop and lands on a squad car.
** Downplayed in "Happily Never After" when a dead woman slides of the top of a bus that came to a sudden stop in traffic. Turns out she had thrown onto it out of a window by a guy who "borrowed" the bus during the night and then used it to hide her body.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Highlander}}'' a disturbed woman strips off all her clothes in an elevator after being complimented on a dress, and walks off the roof - and lands right on Duncan's car, even getting impaled on the sword he had hidden in it. Being that she's [[WhoWantsToLiveForever one of the immortals]] she survives.

-->'''Black kid:''' "Oh man, did that hurt? It ''had'' to hurt; I saw it!"
-->'''Ahnold:''' "Where is this?"
-->'''Kid's sister:''' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments "Earth. Welcome!"]]

* In ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Furious 7]]'', Hobbs and Elena are blown out of a window by an ''explosion'' and land together on a car roof. Hobbs deliberately takes the brunt of it and is later seen in hospital, but still gets off pretty lightly. Good thing he happens to be [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson the Rock]].

* In ''Film/TheCarRoadToRevenge'', the gang throws Craddock out of his office window and he lands of top his brand new Lazarus luxury sedan. Somehow, this [[HauntedTecnology allows his soul to enter the car and control it]].

* The Hong Kong action movie ''Sha Po Lang'', [[MarketBasedTitle known in some places as]] ''Kill Zone'' has the heroic Inspector Ma thrown out of a window and onto a car to his death by BigBad and AntiVillain Wong Po. This turns [[PyrrhicVillainy especially tragic]] when it's revealed that the car that Ma landed on was the same one that the BigBad's wife and little girl were waiting in. Ouch.

** In ''Film/IronMan1'', this happens when Tony crash-lands the Mark II after its test flight. Unfortunately, it's one of his vintage sports cars. The DVD with a program on the making of the movie reveals that this really was a very expensive car destroyed for the shot; the director bemoaned its loss before cuing its destruction. Said car likely was a 1965 Shelby Cobra, of which less than a hundred remain, making this a definitely TearJerker for car buffs.

** In ''Film/IronMan1'', this happens when Tony crash-lands the Mark II after its test flight. Unfortunately, it's one of his vintage sports cars. The DVD with a program on the making of the movie reveals that this really was a very expensive car destroyed for the shot; the director bemoaned its loss before cuing its destruction.

->''"He swan dives from 20 floors, lands right on it! What, do I have a bull's-eye on there? He couldn't move over two feet! Land on the sidewalk, that's city property!"''

* ''Film/{{Batman}}'', 1989:

* ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' - The jumper, an escaped mental patient, lands on George's car. George then tries (unsuccessfully) to get the hospital to reimburse him. This is, of course, after George has spent the entire episode bragging to everyone about he always gets parking spots right in front of the buildings.

-->'''Kid's sister:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Earth. Welcome!"]]

* The 19th century version appears in ''Film/SherlockHolmes'', when the American ambassador leaps out of a window while on fire, landing in the horse-drawn carriage below.

* In the ''Series/MacGyver'' episode "Passages," [=MacGyver=] falls two or three stories onto the roof of a car, putting him into a coma. He fell out of a car park, meaning that there wasn't a lot of sidewalk for him to hit. Since he's the hero, he gets better.