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* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Part 2'', Harry grabs Voldemort and they plunge off of the Astronomy Tower together. Being a wizard, Voldemort eventually does that black-smoke thingy to fly around the castle until they both crash into the ground, non-fatally.

--->'''Voldermort''': Good point GERONIMOOOOO!!!!!.

* Before it was typical for characters to know how to fly, this was common in fights in ''Anime/DragonBall.'' Case in point, the end of the the Tien Shinhan arc climaxes in one of these as Tien blows up the ring, forcing Goku and him to take to the air and try to knock the other toward the ground with whomever touching it losing via ring out. [[spoiler: Goku winds up losing as while he manages to knock Tien further to the ground. He collides with a car and hits the ground first.]]

Typically, the fight starts on solid ground at the top of a building or some other high point. The fight closes in on its climax and the combatants are too engaged in the fighting to really notice they're now falling toward a pavement-splattering end. On the other hand, both of them are usually too powerful to really be harmed by any impact, or they can avoid it by usage of a super power.

[[caption-width-right:236:[-[[FridgeLogic Isn't it great how these fights never seem to end with all combatants hitting the ground?]]-] ]]

* The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero 4'', is fought in a huge space-station the size of a small country that is barreling towards the planet at high speeds. The main villain is intent on slamming into the last vegetation on the planet to force the world into extinction, and the hero is focused on destroying him and breaking the satellite so it breaks apart and burns up harmlessly in reentry. [[spoiler: Needless to say the hero wins, and everything on the satellite is destroyed. A BittersweetEnding for the human race having just survived, but at the loss of its greatest hero.]]

* Literature/Tunnels: ''Spiral'' ends with two of these between Jiggs and a [[EliteMook Limiter]] and between Drake and [[TheDragon Rebecca One]].

* ''[[Literature/Tunnels Spiral]]'' ends with two of these between Jiggs and a [[EliteMook Limiter]] and between Drake and [[TheDragon Rebecca One]].

* This was parodied in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'':
-->'''Voldermort''': Hold it I don't remember you grabbing me and pulling me off a 500-foot tower!
-->'''Harry''': Would you rather make this just like the book? Where we stand around talking for half hour then have a 2-second battle?
-->'''Voldermort''': Good point GERONIMOOOOO!!!!!.

* In ''Film/BlackPanther2018'', T'Challa tackles Killmonger into the hyperloop, where they exchange strikes in midair, right after witnessing [[spoiler: Killmonger almost murder Shuri, his sister.]]

* In ''Film/BlackPanther'', T'Challa tackles Killmonger into the hyperloop, where they exchange strikes in midair, right after witnessing [[spoiler: Killmonger almost murder Shuri, his sister.]]

** The ''FireEmblem'' stage "Castle Siege" has a portion where the floor falls out from under you and everyone seems to be falling into the basement. However, the floor is still there, just invisible (characters walk on it like any other platform).

* In ''SilentScope'', one of the options when infiltrating the FinalDungeon is to parachute in, sniping the searchlights to avoid detection and enemy ambush. ''Silent Scope EX'' has sniping by hang glider as one of the paths to enter the enemy base.

* Also part of the fight against Erynnis' OneWingedAngel form in ''Ghost of Sparta''.

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

** SonicRush's penultimate boss fight has you fighting Eggman/Nega as the remains of his space station [[ColonyDrop falls out of the sky.]] Interestingly, the time limit doesn't kick in until the second to last hit, where Eggman/Nega rams into the ship three times and threatens to destroy the platform unless you deliver the final blow.

* In ''Film/{{Crank}}'', Chev Chelios and the baddie he's been chasing the whole movie have one. [[spoiler:Chev wins the fight, and dies anyway. [[CrankHighVoltage He gets better.]]]]

* Second Boss in ''VideoGame/{{Ys}} VI: The Ark of Napishtim''. Battle with winged [[GiantEnemyCrab Giant Enemy Crab-like thing]] takes place on falling platform.

* ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II'' has Starkiller battling the Gorog while falling.

* Featured in the trailer for the upcoming VideoGame/{{Deadpool}} video game. Deadpool and a mook happen to be falling from a skyscraper while the Merc punches him in the face. Clearly he's enjoying it as much as the [[RuleOfCool fans]].

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros for 3DS and WiiU'' for the inclusion of GuestFighter Bayonetta, they take the famous scene mentioned above from both games of fighting on the face of the Umbra Clock Tower, as it plummets down an endless cliff face.

* The opening {{cutscene}} in ''SpellForce: The Order of the Dawn'' ends with one of these between the BigBad and the BigGood.

* In ''Film/PacificRim'', [[spoiler:Gipsy Danger and [[FinalBoss Slattern]] continue duking it out while they plummet into the rift, ending with Gipsy Danger killing [[{{Kaiju}} Slattern]] by frying him with its ChestBlaster.]]

* This was parodied in the MadMagazine

* A couple of phases of the final boss battle is done this way in ''VideoGame/FreedomFall''

* The PS1 game of ''Franchise/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.

* ChefofIron Sanji became the staple of the "free fall flight" having the most examples of it so far, first when he was fighting the WolfMan Jabra during the climax of their fight they were falling down the Tower of Justice. Jabra stabs Sanji with his claws but Sanji with his burning leg sends the Wolf-Man to ground first and then lands on his feet like a badass.
* During the Time Skip Sanji has learned the "Sky Walk" enabling him with the power to give the finger to gravity and physics and kick the air so fast he can move around in the air, NotQuiteFlight. This how Sanji defeated the giant Wadatsumi by kicking him into the sky, falling alongside him and then finishing him off with a hell fire kick.
* Zoro does it twice, once during a non-canon movie against his "sword buddy" Saga and another time against giant Pica, Zoro (never one for complicated plans) has one of his allies throw him at high speeds at the stone giant and then slices him up in mid-air.
* The Franky vs. Fukuro fight which resulted in the two fighting over a waterfall and trying to finish each other once they were above land. [[spoiler:Franky wins.]]