History Main / DeathfromAbove

** The ExpandedUniverse provides information on the ground forces, revealing that Earth Alliance, Narn, Centauri, Orieni and Minbari all have some form of artillery (ranging from Earth infantry mortars to the Minbari gravitic howitzers that fire ''{{Antimatter}} shells}}'') and aircrafts capable of attacking ground targets (ranging from the Minbari repurposed starfighters to Earth's ''[[NoKillLikeOverkill strategic bombers]]''). By no mere coincidence, these are by far the strongest ground forces in the setting.

* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', The male Muto employs a hit and run strategy using its wings, and dive-bombs [[spoiler:the boat carrying the nuclear bomb the military intended to use to kill him, the female, and Franchise/{{Godzilla}}.]]

* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': The American army built a bunch of satellites fitted with positronic cannons as a weapon against the [[HumongousMecha Evangelions]].

* ''WebVideo/ScootertrixTheAbridged'':
** Equestria has a fleet of Earth Pony built zeppelins and the as of yet, unseen Pegasus ''cloud fortresses'', who unite to bombard Sombra's [[UndeadMooks zombie army]], [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome after the three way war begins in episode 18.]]
** Also, Celestia used the zeppelins to [[AxCrazy bomb movie theaters]], showing Creator/{{Kevin Bacon}}s (who is one of her five arch enemies) movie. MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.

* In ''Fanfic/FrostbittenFlower'', Celia's husband Jack was killed by a freak accident where [[spoiler:a tree fell on him as he was building their baby's nursery]].
* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', [[EvilTwin Satan]] [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Girl]]'s planned method to kill the whole Daxamite race entailed a shower of lead across the surface of planet Daxam to poison the whole population.
-->But, somehow, she'd have to do something about both planets. Daxam would be easy. A shower of leaden hail across its surface, and the dead would litter the ground in heaps beyond Hitler's and Stalin's dreams.

* UndignifiedDeath variant: Bajamonte Tiepolo's would-be conspiracy against the Venetian government ended when, after being stymied by terrible weather, splitting the party, and an inability to rally any popular support whatsoever. The nail in the coffin for the utterly failed coup was when a Signora Rossi opened her upstairs window to shout abuse at the conspirators and then flung her grinding mortar at them. Grinding mortars are made of stone and average roughly ten pounds in weight, and the somewhat elderly Rossi was apparently a dead-eye shot. Her mortar crushed the skull of Tiepolo's standard-bearer (flag carrier) right through his helmet and he dropped dead on the spot. As Tiepolo was right next to his standard-bearer when this happened, he took this as a meaningful omen and fled into exile.

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* Meteor, for random Armageddon situations.

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* The ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky'' trilogy have a few of these as a LimitBreak for party members in the second game:
** Tita Russel, a WrenchWench who loves working with her GadgeteerGenius grandfather, pulls out a laptop and orders a KillSat laser to eviscerate the enemy over a large area. This seems inconsistant with her civilization's technology level (who only recently invented their first computer, the CAPEL).
** EleventhHourRanger Josette Capua, as a SkyPirate, can call down her father's gunship to bombard the enemy with its mounted [[GatlingGood gatling guns]].

* ''VideoGame/SplitSecond'': Air Strike mode has you racing down the track while a helicopter rains down missiles on you. In the airport race, one [[StuffBlowingUp Power Play]] drops an airplane on your opponents -- and it's not just a small plane dropping from a crane. ''[[UpToEleven A jumbo jet crash lands on the runway]]''.

* GiantFlyer, because siccing dragons and/or giant birds on those who would oppose you is [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons just too awesome]] not to do.

** After having become [[AGodAmI the incarnation of magic]], BigBad, MonsterClown and [[StrawNihilist nihilistic whack-o]] Kefka Palazzo from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' picked up the nice little hobby of annihilating any- and everything he didn't like with the [[WaveMotionGun "Light of Judgement,"]] a massive, magical beam from the skies.

* The ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' [=Starmon/SuperStarmon=] have the "Meteor Shower/Squall" attack.

* In ''Anime/YuYuHakusho'' Averted with Hiei. He saves the team by pulling a switch to stop a falling ceiling from crushing them (again, this trope averted). When a giant boulder comes from the sky he actually moves out of the way in time. Although in Lanipator's Abridged version of the show he does get crushed, but still doesn't die.

* ''ComicBook/{{Nextwave}}''. Widdle cuddly bears... of death! Then subverted by Aaron Stack. "Fear my robot head."

* Happens a few times in Fanfic/ItGetsWorse, thanks to Taylor's power, though only half of them are actually lethal.

** Sephiroth in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. Both by [[spoiler:almost]] obliterating the world with Meteor and earlier popping ''out of nowhere'' at the end of Disc 1 to deliver Death from Above to [[spoiler:Aeris]].

* In the ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehog'' Archie comic, Dr. Robotnik assembled a fleet of airships and bombed Knothole into a crater, forcing the cast to relocate.

-->-- '''Pharah''' when casting her "Barrage" [[LimitBreak Ultimate]], ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}''