History Main / ParachuteInATree

* On ''{{Madagascar}}'', when Alex demands to meet the people, King Julien points to the skeleton of a parachuter on a tree.

* Corpses of paratroopers hanging from trees are frequently found in the "Swamp Fever" campaign of ''{{Left 4 Dead}} 2''. Upgraded weapons, medical supplies and grenades can be found on their bodies.

* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Emergency}}]] 3'', you have to rescue a radioactively contaminated military pilot after he parachuted out of a crashing experimental nuclear fighter jet and his chute got impaled on a nearby church spire.

* This happens to a trainee spy in the opening sequence of ''Film/TheLivingDaylights''.

[[caption-width-right:250:[[TruthInTelevision Ste Mere Eglise, Normandy]], [[WorldWarTwo 1944]].]]

* Blair Williams from ''TerminatorSalvation'' is introduced dangling from a derelict pylon by her parachute. She tries to cut herself free, despite the large drop, but Marcus Wright grabs her before she can fall from her harness.

* ''TheLongestDay'' includes a scene where a paratrooper becomes snagged on a French church spire. This incident is based on one from the real world.

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* In ''JurassicParkIII'', a character falls victim to this and is later found half-eaten and still dangling from the canopy.

* During D-Day, a paratrooper named John Steele became snagged on the church spire at St.-Mere-Eglise and played dead for two hours before being cut down and taken prisoner by the Germans. The church still has a monument to him and the other paratroopers, in the form of a statue of a paratrooper dangling from the spire.
* This is TruthInTelevision, and the military have taken steps to prevent it. Pilots are equipped with hooked knives for slicing throught their parachute cords if this becomes a problem and some parachutes have releasable extended lines so that you can reach the ground if you are too high up to get down or risk a fall.

* A parachute on a fence, sans passenger, is how Solid Snake can learn that Liquid is alive after his helicopter was blown up in ''MetalGearSolid''. Snake believes it was left there intentionally as a coded threat by Liquid.

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* BrianEno's song 'Mother Whale Eyeless' includes the line "Parachutes caught on steeples".

* This happens to a trainee spy in the opening sequence of ''TheLivingDaylights''.

* This also occurs in one of the first levels of ''MedalOfHonor: Frontline''.

* Corpses of paratroopers hanging from trees are frequently found in the "Swamp Fever" campaign of ''{{Left 4 Dead}} 2''. Upgraded weapons, medical supplies and grenades can be found on their bodies.

* The ''DadsArmy'' episode "Time On My Hands" centres on the characters' efforts to pull down a German pilot whose parachute is caught on the town clock.

* In ''ThatManFromRio'', the hero has to ditch a plane over the Amazon jungle and parachutes down - getting stuck in a tree and dangling just above a hungry crocodile in the swamp.

* This happens in the first ''CallOfDuty''.

* A parachute in a tree, sans passenger, is how Solid Snake can learn that Liquid is alive after his helicopter was blown up in ''MetalGearSolid''. Snake believes it was left there intentionally as a coded threat by Liquid.
* Nathan Drake lands like this in [[{{Uncharted}} Drake's Fortune.]] In front of a statue with a sword in his face.

* Corpses of paratroopers hanging from trees are frequently found in ''{{Left 4 Dead 2}}''. Upgraded weapons can be found on their bodies.

* Nathan Drake lands like this in [[Uncharted Drake's Fortune.]] In front of a statue with a sword in his face.

* In ''BandOfBrothers'' the men of Easy Company find a dead paratrooper caught in a tree.

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* On ''{{Madagascar}}'', when Alex demands to meet the people, King Julien points to the skeleton of a parachuter on a tree.