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* ''Film/AustinPowers'': In ''The Spy Who Shagged Me'', two Austins bang into each other while each is trying to catch his mojo. Cue the Slow-Motion Mojo Drop.

* ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'': Two Austins bang into each other while each is trying to catch his mojo. Cue the Slow Motion Mojo Drop.

* Used in one scene of ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' to almost [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerated]] level.
* In ''Film/TheGreatGatsby1974'', George's gun drops from his hand after his [[AteHisGun suicide]].

A character receives some shocking news while holding a (usually breakable) object. [[DramaticDrop The news causes them to drop the object]], and we follow it in close up with the [[{{overcrank}} camera overcranked]] all the way to the floor.

** Played straight to the point of parody in season 1, when Sylar attempts to telekinetically carve open Peter Petrelli's skull, and his PeekABangs fall to the ground with a disproportionately loud boom.

* At the end of the final battle between D and Meier Link in ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD: Bloodlust'', Leila takes Charlotte's ring and tosses it at the floor. The camera follows it as it slowly, slooowly comes down, leaving a trail of after-images, interspersed with flashes of D and Meier Link fighting. When the ring bounces off the floor, the camera follows it up and down again. And it continues to follow as it rolls on its side and D picks it up on the edge of his sword.

* [[PlayedForLaughs]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool''. In one episode, Kuzco has an argument with Chaca and Tipo on who gets to live in the attic. Pacha and Chicha decide to settle this with a coin flip. When Pacha tosses it in the air, we see it very slowly fall and Chicha says "Next time, don't use the slow-motion coin."

For extra credit, finish the shot with a slow-motion shot of the object shattering, with synchronized slow motion sound effects. For extra extra credit, throw in a BigNo and/or an attempted DesperateObjectCatch while all of this is happening.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "Stardust City Rag", the scene slows down when Maddox drops the glassy which contains the drugged tranya and it smashes on to the table.

* ''Series/StarTrekPicard'': In "Stardust City Rag", the scene slows down when Maddox drops the glass which contains the drugged tranya and it smashes on to the table.

* [[Played for laughs]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool''. In one episode, Kuzco has an argument with Chaca and Tipo on who gets to live in the attic. Pacha and Chicha decide to settle this with a coin flip. When Pacha tosses it in the air, we see it very slowly fall and Chicha says "Next time, don't use the slow-motion coin."

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* ''Series/{{Heroes}}''.

* When Creator/KevinSpacey hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' a second time, he did a skit parodying his movie ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''. In it Andy Samburg tells Kevin an elaborate story about why he couldn't make it to a rehearsal. Kevin believes but after Andy leaves, Kevin drops his mug in slo-mo just like Chazz Palmenteri did in the movie and he notices that everything in his dressing room was a part of Samburg's story.
* The pilot of ''Series/{{Leverage}}'' has [[LightningBruiser Eliot]] beat the everloving crap out of four armed goons in less time than it takes Hardison to drop a duffel bag, in slo-mo, to the floor.
* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', In Season 3 Episode 2 of Sherlock, "The Sign of Three", Sherlock is the best man at John Watson's wedding. He talks about an unsolved murder of a Royal Guard that was killed in a locked shower stall with no weapon found. At the end of his speech Sherlock remembers something he heard while investigating the case and drops a wine glass in slow-mo [[spoiler:when he realizes that the killer is at the wedding and must be in the room.]]

* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings: The Return of the King'', Aragorn has a dream about Arwen dying and him dropping the Evenstar (which seems to represent Arwen's immortality), which breaks. In a much later scene in the Extended Edition, Aragorn looks into the Palantír to face Sauron, and he shows him the same scene of Arwen dying, to which he freaks out and steps back, dropping the Evenstar just as he had seen in the dream.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'', In Season 3 Episode 2 of Sherlock, "The Sign of Three", Sherlock is the best man at John Watson's wedding. He talks about an unsolved murder of a Royal Guard that was killed in a locked shower stall with no weapon found. At the end of his speech Sherlock remembers something he heard while investigating the case and drops a wine glass in slow-mo[[spoiler:when he realized that the killer was at the wedding.]]

* ''{{Frequency}}'' had this, with both a glass at a bar mirroring his father sliding out to the ocean with the kid he was rescuing.

* ''FushigiYuugi'' also has a [[TearJerker tear-jerking]] example, when Tamahome [[spoiler:visits his house, only to see that his entire family had been brutally murdered. He drops the ball he had bought for his little sister Yuiren, who is shown to be barely alive when the ball bounces to her fingers.]]