History Main / PlummetPerspective

* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade''. The Holy Grail falling into the abyss. It doesn't fall all the way, but instead lands on a ledge just out of reach, setting up a TakeMyHand shot. And then another one. In the old adventure game derived from that movie, you could get the Grail back by having Indy use his whip to catch it.

* Once inverted in ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' ([[http://www.goblinscomic.com/06092007/ see here]]): We start with a monster eating up a red liquid. Some {{Zoom}} outs, and we see the "big monster" is just a bug (albeit a big one, it seems). More zoom outs, and we see more of the red liquid drop down. Another zoom out, and we see it's indeed blood. Another one, it's coming from a dead goblin on a ledge several meters high, who apparently fell to death. Another zoom out, and the goblin has become a tiny figure. Another one, and he's barely visible. ''Another one'', and even the trees on the ground are barely visible. And that's not the last one: All in all, this strip had twelve(!) panels, and each one zooms out.

* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', just right after Sulley and Mike send Randall to a Louisiana trailer home, they actually push the door leading to said trailer home off a balcony where it then gets smashed to pieces.

* ''Film/TheMatrix'': Neo's cell phone.

* ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'' (first book of ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive''): While Kaladin is contemplating suicide, he pauses to watch individual drops of rainwater falling off the edge and into the chasm, comparing them to himself.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', Serena is searching a forest for an Eevee she saw dancing - unaware that she's walking towards a steep cliff. Thankfully, the Eeevee she was searching for sees the danger and cries out; catching Serena's attention as she reaches the cliff, with some of the ledge under her boot breaking and falling before Serena backs away - narrowly avoiding a more dangerous fall after a [[SavedByThePlatformBelow similar incident]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'': Alice, who is disguised as the Princess and trapped on a mountain ledge, has a plummet perspective as she is stuck and can't get away - as well as nearly falling to her death when part of the ledge she steps onto doesn't support her weight.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCareBearsAdventureInWonderland'': The Princess, who is trapped on a mountain ledge, has a plummet perspective as she is stuck and can't get away - as well as nearly falling to her death when part of the ledge doesn't support her weight.

* In the [[Literature/TheCulture Culture]] novel by Creator/IainBanks ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'', a gunfight ends with an alien mook falling into a [[BottomlessPits shaft]] that's part of an [[LostTechnology underground nuclear missile-launching/command network]]. The hero looks over the edge to see the mook ''still'' falling, surrounded by faint energy flares as he fires his weapon helplessly at the smooth walls. Later when travelling (via anti-gravity harness) down the same shaft his female prisoner requests that if he has to drop her for some reason, would he please shoot her first.

* During the end credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'', Mater actually finds his hood in a ditch and puts it on top of his engine, but unfortunately, the hood is covered with dust and some of the dust actually goes into Mater's engine causing him to sneeze and making his hood fall off.

* In ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', Blofeld has his minions lock James Bond in the cable room in lieu of an actual cell. The place isn't designed for prisoners, as shown when Bond nearly steps off a ledge in the darkened room, knocking a metal object off in the process that we hear clang as it hits bottom a long moment later. It foreshadows Bonds perilous escape of the room by climbing out onto the cable.

* ''Series/{{iCarly}}'': Used multiple times in the climax of "iQuit iCarly", as Carly is dangling dangerously from the collapsing scaffold and her POV of the streets far below shows how serious the situation she is in.