History Main / FlowerPotDrop

** In "Feeling Pinkie Keen", when the already horribly injured Twilight Sparkle is assuring Spike that [[TemptingFate something is not going to fall]], a flowerpot then crashes on her head. [[AnvilOnHead Then an anvil.]] [[SerialEscalation Then a hay wagon]]. ''[[PianoDrop Then a grand piano]]''. They all turned out to have fallen out from a delivery truck that [[TheDitz Derpy Hooves]] was working at. This being [[IronButtMonkey Twilight Sparkle]], she's fine a few scenes later.

* In Creator/{{Activision}}'s UsefulNotes/{{Atari 2600}} game ''Crackpots'', your goal is to drop flower pots to hit the climbing invertebrate.
* A common danger in the ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' game, oddly capable of a OneHitKill when Eddie comes close.
* In the NES game ''VideoGame/UrbanChampion'', people will drop flower pots from the upstairs windows occasionally. Getting hit with one will stun the victim, allowing his opponent to get in a free hit.

* In ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: VideoGame/ModernWarfare 2'''s Takedown mission, flower pots are dropped from the upper favela levels at a few points.
* In ''VideoGame/TheNeverhood'', [[{{Troll}} Willie Trombone]] drops one on Klaymen's head.

* A non-comedic version of this trope is used in an [[https://cdn.wikimg.net/en/armswiki/images/c/c4/Ninjara3.jpg official artwork]] for ''VideoGame/{{ARMS}}'', which shows [[BadassBookworm Ninjara]] catching the flower pot to save his fan.
* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'': The "Mind Flay" ability drops a flowerpot on an enemy's head, causing damage and lowering the target's Wisdom by 20%.

* Every ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode involving the "Pinkie Sense" has used this:
** In "Feeling Pinkie Keen", when the already horribly injured Twilight Sparkle is assuring Spike that [[TemptingFate something is not going to fall]], a flowerpot then crashes on her head. [[AnvilOnHead Then an anvil.]] [[SerialEscalation Then a hay wagon]]. ''[[PianoDrop Then a grand piano]]''. They all turned out to have fallen out from a delivery truck that [[TheDitz Derpy Hooves]] was working at. This being [[IronButtMonkey Twilight]], she's fine a few scenes later.
** In "The Mysterious Mare Do Well", during TheReveal that [[spoiler:Mare Do Well is some of the Mane Six teaching Rainbow Dash a lesson]], Pinkie Pie says she [[spoiler:rescued the construction workers]] with her Pinkie Sense. She then detects a falling flowerpot with it, and dashes away to avoid it.
** In "It's About Time", when Twilight asks the gypsy Pinkie Pie if she can use her Pinkie Sense to detect what will happen in the future, Pinkie explains that it's only for immediate emergencies. Cue flowerpot to Twilight's head.
--->'''Pinkie:''' Like that. ''[pause]'' [[LampshadeHanging Where did that even come from?]]

%%* On ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' this happens to poor Michelangelo.%% (when? which series?)
* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Dante and Randal are shown climbing up the side of Leonardo Leonardo's building via a climbing rope when all of a sudden a flower pot drops between them. The camera changes angles and zooms out to reveal that they are pulling themselves along a rope on the flat roof of another section of the building.
-->'''Dante:''' Why are we walking like this?
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Popeye}}'' short ''The Spinach Roadster'', Olive accidentally drops a whole mess of flower pots onto Popeye's car, including one on his head.
-->'''Popeye:''' Somebody don't know the difference between a good car and a garbage can.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'': A bumper for announcing scenes from the next show has Ringo serenading a lady on a balcony who plucks a flower from a flower pot and drops the pot over Ringo's head.

* In ''[[Film/HomeAlone Home Alone 3]]'', this is one of the booby traps that Alex sets up for the spies. Specifically, Alice trips two wires releasing flowerpots from the rooftop of a neighbor's house. The first lands on her head and the second lands on her face.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': In Part 4, Okuyasu Nijimura's debut has him demonstrating the power of his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], The Hand, being able to [[YouWillNotEvadeMe pull things towards him]] by erasing the space between them. While he grabs Josuke using The Hand's vacuum, he also pulls a flower pot off a nearby window and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard slams himself in the head with it, knocking him out]].

* Played very seriously in ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose''. [[spoiler:Toulonchamp's spy Anna tries to kill Jeudi by dropping a pot on her head from a second floor window. Jeudi manages to move her head away, but the pot still hits her on her foot.]]
* In Part 4 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Okuyasu Nijimura's debut has him demonstrating the power of his [[FightingSpirit Stand]], The Hand, being able to [[YouWillNotEvadeMe pull things towards him]] by erasing the space between them. While he grabs Josuke using The Hand's vacuum, he also pulls a flower pot off a nearby window and [[HoistByHisOwnPetard slams himself in the head with it, knocking him out]].
* In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', a couple of bullies at Ouran Academy try to drop two flower pots on Kasanoda, but Mori knocks Kasanoda out of the way and hits the second pot to the side in mid-air.

* During the January 2020 terrorist attack on Vienna, a citizen allegedly [[https://twitter.com/KutiFehler/status/1323433628064514048?s=20 threw a vase out of a window]] at the gunman, distracting him long enough for the police to get in a kill shot.

* In one ''ArchieComics'' story, Archie and Jughead decide to plant some flowers at Riverdale High School and rather than carrying them down the stairs, decide to drop them out a classroom window. Of course, they're a floor up from Mr. Weatherbee's office, who hears something zipping past his window and pokes his head out for a look...

* In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', a couple of bullies at Ouran Academy try to drop two flower pots on Kasanoda, but Mori knocks Kasanoda out of the way and hits the second pot to the side in mid-air.

* In Part 4 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Okuyasu Nijimura's debut has him demonstrating the power of his Stand: The Hand, being able to pull things towards him by erasing the space between them. While he grabs Josuke using The Hand's vacuum, he also pulls a flower pot off a nearby window and slams himself in the head with it, knocking him out.

** In "Feeling Pinkie Keen", when the already horribly injured Twilight Sparkle is assuring Spike that something is not going to fall, a flowerpot then crashes on her head. [[AnvilOnHead Then an anvil.]] [[SerialEscalation Then a hay wagon]]. ''[[PianoDrop Then a grand piano]]''. They all turned out to have fallen out from a delivery truck that [[TheDitz Derpy Hooves]] was working at. This being [[IronButtMonkey Twilight]], she's fine a few scenes later.

* In ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros [=U/3DS=]'', [[VideoGame/AnimalCrossing the Villager's]] dash attack has him trip over and drop a flower pot forwards, which breaks upon contact with the ground or an opponent.

* In one episode of ''Manga/DetectiveSchoolQ'', this was done to commit murder. [[spoiler: The killer was the wife of the victim, angry over their decaying relationship.]]
* Played very seriously in ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose''. [[spoiler: Toulonchamp's spy Anna tries to kill Jeudi by dropping a pot on her head from a second floor window. Jeudi manages to move her head away, but the pot still hits her on her foot.]]

* The ''VideoGame/MentalSeries'' has a plant pot in one of the rooms. [[spoiler: Walter must drop it on a nurse's head to move on]].

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Dante and Randal are climbing up Leonardo Leonardo's building when all of a sudden a flower pot drops in the middle of them. Dante asks "Why are we walking like this?" as the camera angle changes and zooms out, revealing they are just barely there.

This is a ZanyCartoon trope used as a less extreme version of AnvilOnHead. Compare PianoDrop.

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* ''Film/TheAvengers1998''. At the beginning of the film. Steed is almost hit by a flowerpot that drops down from a window above him.

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* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' has used this a few times.

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* The homebrew [[http://www.giantitp.com/forums/printthread.php?t=122824 Falling Anvil]] discipline fo'''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons (versions 3.X) includes this in varying degrees, starting with flowerpots, and ranging upwards through anvils, safes, and finally Viking longboats. Of course, it also includes a wide variety of other toon-like attacks and defenses.
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* Every ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode involving "Pinkie Sense" has used this:
** In ''Feeling Pinkie Keen'', when the already horribly-injured Twilight Sparkle is assuring Spike that something is not going to fall, a flowerpot then crashes on her head. [[AnvilOnHead Then an anvil.]] [[SerialEscalation Then a hay wagon]]. ''[[PianoDrop Then a grand piano]]''. They all turned out to have fallen out from a delivery truck that [[TheDitz Derpy Hooves]] was working at. This being [[IronButtMonkey Twilight]], she's fine a few scenes later.
** In ''The Mysterious Mare Do Well'', during TheReveal that [[spoiler:Mare Do Well is some of the Mane 6 teaching Rainbow Dash a lesson]], Pinkie Pie says she [[spoiler: rescued the construction workers]] with her Pinkie Sense. She then detects a falling flowerpot with it, and dashes away to avoid it.
** In ''It's About Time'', when Twilight asks the gypsy Pinkie Pie if she can use her Pinkie Sense to detect what will happen in the future, Pinkie explains that it's only for immediate emergencies. Cue flowerpot to Twilight's head.
-->'''Pinkie:''' Like that. ''[pause]'' [[LampshadeHanging Where did that even come from?]]

%%* On ''TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' this happens to poor Michelangelo. (when?)

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'' short ''The Spinach Roadster'', Olive accidentally drops a whole mess of flower pots onto Popeye's car, including one on his head.

* There is a Video Game named ''Crackpots'' where your goal is to drop flower pots to hit the climbing invertebrate.