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* There's a tactic called "Death From Above" in the ''VideoGame/MechWarrior'' games, which involves using your jump jets to levitate your 'Mech and then crashing it down on top of an enemy 'Mech. Obviously, since this will damage your 'Mech as well (and requires very precise piloting to pull off), it's viewed largely as a last-ditch desperate gambit... but RammingAlwaysWorks.

** In addition to standard moves that involve attacking from above your opponent (i.e Spiking and Meteor Smashes), many [[LimitBreak final smashes]] in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Brawl'' bring Death From Above onto the battlefield. Notable examples: [[VideoGame/EarthBound Ness and Lucas']] PK Starstorm, [[KidIcarus Pit]] summoning [[TheCavalry Palutena's army]], [[VideoGame/{{Kirby}} King Dedede]] and his Waddle Dees, [[Franchise/MetalGear Snake's]] Grenade assault from a helicopter, [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Lucario's]] [[KamehameHadoken Aura Storm]], and all three [[VideoGame/StarFox Landmasters]].

* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'', carpet bombing a planet is shown to be much more effective than simply dropping the Mobile Infantry on the ground and letting them shoot it out.
** The penultimate scene of ''Film/StarshipTroopers 3: Marauder'' has the Marauder team dropping from the night sky (first appearing as a halo of lights around Holly's head) in answer to Holly and Lola's prayers. After they're rescued a Q-Bomb is then used to destroy the entire planet.
** In the first film, this is on the tattoo that Rico, Ace, Dizzy and Kitten get before the Battle of Big K.

* One of the powers in ''VideoGame/{{Godus}} is the metor; allows to you wipe out anything in a small area creating a nice crater too.

->''"You should encounter little organized resistance because the Pfhor are preoccupied. I've been introducing them to the '''magic''' of orbital bombardment."''

* Done in grand fashion in ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'', the animated series on the WB. [[TheJuggernaut Apocalypse]] is running amok somewhere in Mexico, all other X-Men around have failed to dent him. Enter the new fully evolved Magneto, [[TheCape cape billowing]] behind him. He proceeds to use his powers to slam man-made satellites into Apocalypse. Mind you, all that does is [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu piss Apocalypse off]].

** They even have multiple ways to perform Exterminatus, from virus-bombing (which destroys all unprotected organic material on a planet) to cyclonic torpedoes (which shatter the planet's crust)

** When Lavos first falls from space during the prehistoric age it is also certain death [[spoiler: for the Reptites and dinosaurs. As in extinction by ice age.]]

* KidIcarusUprising:[[spoiler:Viridi]] is fond of using Reset Bombs (designed reset the Earth to its natural state) as meteors to [[KillAllHumans kill the humans]] or [[spoiler:strike down the Aurum]].

* Done in grand fashion in ''{{X-Men Evolution}}'', the animated series on the WB. [[TheJuggernaut Apocalypse]] is running amok somewhere in Mexico, all other X-Men around have failed to dent him. Enter the new fully evolved Magneto, [[TheCape cape billowing]] behind him. He proceeds to use his powers to slam man-made satellites into Apocalypse.

* ''UnrealTournament'' has an ion painter, a targeting laser for two flavors of Death From Above; either an Ion Cannon from a KillSat, or a bomber that cruises across the sky and splodes the whole place up.

* 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 Godzilla.]]

** As if that wasn't bad enough, the villain - having not learned his lesson - repeats the above line again during a rant against the heroes, prompting one of them to rub it in by asking, "Does it ever get caught on a hook halfway?" Apparently, yes, it does.