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-->-- '''{{Slowbeef}}''' [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation as]] '''Meta-Ridley''', ''[[LetsPlay Let's Play]] [[MetroidPrime Metroid Prime 3: Corruption]]''

-->-- '''Slowbeef''' [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation as]] '''Meta-Ridley''', ''[[LetsPlay Let's Play]] [[MetroidPrime Metroid Prime 3: Corruption]]''

* [[SonicAdventure SonicAdventure2's]] final boss combines this with ColonyDrop. The final battle is in space, fighting a lizard attached to the [[SpaceStation Space Colony Ark]] [[ColonyDrop as it's falling to Earth]]. It's a timed boss: as the battle goes on, the Earth gets bigger and bigger in the background, and you lose a life if you don't stop the Ark in time.

* [[SonicAdventure SonicAdventure2's]] combines this with ColonyDrop. The final battle is in space, fighting a lizard attached to the [[SpaceStation Space Colony Ark]] [[ColonyDrop as it's falling to Earth]]. It's a timed boss: as the battle goes on, the Earth gets bigger and bigger in the background, and you lose a life if you don't stop the Ark in time.

* The aforementioned ''{{The Two Towers}}'', in which Gandalf fights the [[EldritchAbomination Balrog]] while falling into the [[DelvedTooDeep chasms of Moria.]]

* ''FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesTheCrystalBearers'', the opening cutscene sets it up, and then the very first time you are put in control, its like this. Though it's just Layle against some Mooks.

* In ''[[BonesawTheGame Bonesaw: The Game]]'', the second stage of the final boss has you falling from ''orbit'' before landing in the Clarkson University hockey rink.

* This happens in ''MortalKombat vs. [[DCComics DC]]'' if one [[DieChairDie damages the "walls" of the arena]] enough.

* The first fight against Meta Ridley in ''[[MetroidPrime Metroid Prime 3]]''.

* Moltz the Very Goonie in ''YoshisIsland DS''.

* ''FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesThe Crystal Bearers'', the opening cutscene sets it up, and then the very first time you are put in control, its like this. Though it's just Layle against some Mooks.

* In ''MetalSlug 3'', the final boss fight. You end up falling through the atmosphere while battling the alien overmind. And use his dead as a platform.

* The end of Sanae Kotiya's storyline in ''[[TouhouProject Touhou 12.3]]'' is one of these, specifically the last attack used against her.

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* The end of Sanae Kotiya's storyline in ''[[TouhouProject Touhou 12.3]]'' is one of these, specifically the last attack used against her.

* With a similar spirit as that of Lord of the Rings, in MahouSenseiNegima, Mana creates a massive hole in the ground underneath [[spoiler: the demonfolk, Poyo Rainyday, causing her to fall]] and jumps in to follow up on the attack. Given they were already at the bottom floor of the building they are in and that building is floating many miles up in the sky, the battle could potentially stay a free-fall fight if neither know how to fly.

* Spider-Man 2 and 3 has lots of these.

* ''PowerStone 2'' has a stage that starts on board an airship which gets destroyed, forcing the fighters to battle in free-fall for control of Parasol Parachutes.

* The PS1 game of GhostInTheShell had its final battle as this. The final boss, on top of the tallest skyscraper in the city, proceeds to blow up like any other....before ramming THROUGH the explosion to shove both of you off the building, whereby you have to defeat him in 90 seconds while slowly turning in midair before you hit the bottom and die.
* The end of Sanae Kotiya's storyline in [[TouhouProject Touhou 12.3]] is one of these, specifically the last attack used against her.
* One of the hardest levels in ''NoOneLivesForever'' involves you jumping out of a plane just before it explodes and fighting H.A.R.M. {{mook}}s as you fall. They have parachutes, you don't. If you don't manage to steal a parachute from one of them before a predetermined time, [[spoiler: [[NonstandardGameOver you fall into a barn and die.]] ]] Especially frustrating since there's only specific Mook who gets close enough to take his parachute, and if you (quite understandably) shoot him you're fucked.
* The opening {{cutscene}} in SpellForce: The Order of the Dawn ends with one of these between the BigBad and the BigGood.
* The opening battle of ''{{Bayonetta}}'', which is actually an extension of the opening cutscene and you are NighInvulnerable.
* The Kratos vs. Icarus battle in ''GodOfWar II''. The winner gets a pair of wings to make a safe landing with. [[LudicrousGibs The loser...]]
* In ''MetalSlug 3'', the final boss fight. You end up falling through the atmosphere while battling the alien overmind. And use his dead as a platform.
* In ''SonicUnleashed'', you fight the Egg Dragoon while standing on a standard platform, but that platform (along with everything else) is in freefall ''towards the earth's core''.
* ''Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu'' has a GiantSpider as the final boss which you'll fight while falling on a [[BubblyClouds Solid Cloud]].
* ''Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers'', the opening cutscene sets it up, and then the very first time you are put in control, its like this. Though it's just Layle against some Mooks.
* Budgies sometimes do this, at least cocks. (Hens usually try to bite each other's toes off instead.)
* The one-on-one fight between Sten and Trubo in ''BreathOfFire2'' starts on a bridge, but midway through the battle the bridge collapses, sending the two plummeting towards the ground. The battle needs to be finished before three turns are up; otherwise, they hit the ground.

* Get close enough to a dragon in PS3's ''Lair'' and you can enter a grappling match during free-fall.
* Stage 9-5 of ''{{Game/Jumper}} Two'' features Ogmo and [[BigBad The Boss]] falling from top of the tower, in a [[TennisBoss tennis fight]].