History Main / ThreePointLanding

* Done in the open for Season 2 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', where the Hunters/Huntresses are seen plunging from {{Absurd Altitude}} into the City of Vale and all of them sticking their {{Ground Shattering Landings}}. Done by Ruby in episode 5 of season 1 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', complete with head snapping up showing her determined face. Pyrhha later does it in an almost picture-perfect copy maneuver shared with ''Red vs. Blue'''s Carolina; another red-haired, green-eyed [[ActorAllusion action girl]] voiced by Jen Brown.

* Done in the open for Season 2 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', where the Hunters/Huntresses are seen plunging from {{Absurd Altitude}} into the City of Vale and all of them sticking their landings. Done by Ruby in episode 5 of season 1 of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', complete with head snapping up showing her determined face. Pyrhha later does it in an almost picture-perfect copy maneuver shared with ''Red vs. Blue'''s Carolina; another red-haired, green-eyed [[ActorAllusion action girl]] voiced by Jen Brown.

[[caption-width-right:330:Okay, [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible not technically a landing]], but [[RuleOfCool it doesn't look any less awesome]], now, does it?]]

* Spidey does the punch variant in ''Film/SpiderMan3'', complete with a cracked floor and sound effect.

* Spidey does the punch variant in Spider-Man 3, complete with a cracked floor and sound effect.

** ''Series/MoonKnight'': In the second episode Steven Grant is thrown out of a window and, as he's falling, he summons the Mr. Knight suit which allows him to hit the ground in this position. After a few seconds of posing [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Steven collapses onto his side in pain from landing on his knees that way]].
* Homelander on ''Series/TheBoys'' likes to do this when he wants to make an entrance, though he's just as likely to have his hands at his hips when he lands. Given his media savvy, it's likely deliberate. Stormfront, meanwhile, normally averts this, preferring instead to [[PowerFloats land more slowly]] on a [[ShockAndAwe bed of lightning]].

*** While the first movie didn't feature Iron Man performing a three-point landing, prominent [[http://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/c/60/4bc3a3af47b98.jpg concept art]] and [[https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-HvYs4BSaWa4/VPeXysJSEzI/AAAAAAAAF6U/_Ch7gY3plHk/w640-h960/IMG_2449.JPG promotional artwork]] did. Both images were based on the cover to ''Iron Man'' Vol. 3 #76 by Adi Granov (with the concept art being drawn by Granov himself).

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' does this frequently. It's pretty much an iconic pose for him.

* Franchise/XMen: ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} too. As do almost all of the [[PrimalStance "animalistic"]] characters like ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, Beast, Creeper, Sabretooth, X-23 and so on...

* Major Kusanagi does it when she's pursuing a guy in the first ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' movie. She lands on a metal roof tile that buckles under the impact.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' is utterly in love with these. Every opportunity for any character to land this way is gleefully taken.
* Robin pulls this off in the opening theme for ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''.

* Samus Aran from ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' does this several times, usually after a spinning jump in the air. Kind of the ''only'' way for her to land, given that one of her suit's hands is an ArmCannon and therefore lacks a hand.

[[caption-width-right:330:Okay, [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible not technically a landing]], but [[RuleOfCool it doesn't look any less awesome]], now, does it? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaKDsZ0dYzg (She must really like showing off.)]]]]

A play on "three-point landing", an aircraft landing in which both the main gear (the wheels further back on tricycle gear aircraft like airliners) and the tail/nosewheel touch down on the runway at the same time, which is ''not'' a good thing for tricycle-gear planes due to the nosewheel not being designed to take that sort of stress[[note]]the main gear are meant to take the initial shock before the nose is brought down[[/note]], though it’s usually not a big deal for taildraggers (and is actually preferred for some of them). Also not to be confused with the ''skydiving'' three-point landing, where you land on your feet and then fall on your ass.[[note]]Not as bad as it sounds, and a common way of teaching people how to land without hurting themselves: Feet hit the ground first, then immediately transfer the force of the landing to other parts of your body by falling over in a controlled fashion, letting your hips take the hit instead of your weaker ankles and knees.[[/note]]

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* In ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', Victoria/Glory Girl starts her interlude with one. The narration then comments that she'd been practicing it for weeks.
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A play on "three-point landing", an aircraft landing in which both the main gear (the wheels further back on tricycle gear aircraft like airliners) and the tail/nosewheel touch down on the runway at the same time, which is ''not'' a good thing for tricycle-gear planes due to the nosewheel not being designed to take that sort of stress[[note]]the main gear are meant to take the initial shock before the nose is brought down[[/note]], though it’s usually not a big deal for taildraggers (and is actually preferred for some of them). Also not to be confused with the ''skydiving'' three-point landing, where you land on your feet and then fall on your ass[[note]]Not as bad as it sounds, and a common way of teaching people how to land without hurting themselves: Feet hit the ground first, then immediately transfer the force of the landing to other parts of your body by falling over in a controlled fashion, letting your hips take the hit instead of your weaker ankles and knees[[/note]].

** It's been a RunningGag since ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' for Sonic to royally botch at least one of these landings.

* In the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' supplimental comic "Blood In The Water", the {{Acrofatic}} Heavy Weapons Guy pulls this off, after jumping down a level inside [[spoiler:Ayers Rock]].

*** [[spoiler:Yelena]] performs one during her fight with Clint. It seems that [[spoiler:she's [[Film/BlackWidow2021 changed her mind]] [[BrickJoke about them]]]]
** Kate ''tries'' to do it in episode 2, but she's a novice so she falls [[FailedAttemptAtDrama flat on her face]].

*** [[spoiler:Yelena]] performs one during her fight with Clint. It seems that [[spoiler:she's [[Film/BlackWidow 2021 changed her mind]] [[BrickJoke about them]]]]

* ''Series/WandaVision'':
** [[spoiler:Monica Rambeau]] does one in episode 7 when Wanda pushes her into the pavement, to demonstrate that she now has powers [[spoiler:as a result of re-entering the Hex]].
** Wanda does one when her Hex Vision tackles White Vision off of her.

* The Wrestling/{{Chikara}} Young Lion turned [[Wrestling/DragonGate Open The Brave Gate]] holder Ricochet does this pose ''a lot'', mainly as a means of taunting opponents who thought he was going to do some fancy form of offense or just to highlight how much more athletic he is(or thinks he is). And during their matches against one another, Ricochet and Will Ospreay have been known to ''duel'' with their three-point landings.

* ComicBook/IronMan does this when landing at high speed in the 2008 Game of the Movie.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ultimate Spider-Man}}'' is utterly in love with these. Every opportunity for any character to land this way is gleefully taken.

** Lampshaded in ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}''. Yelena mocks Natasha for doing these so often, calling it a "fighting pose" (and Natasha, by extension, a "total poser") and adding that, with the ensuing HairFlip, she thinks Natasha really wants to show off. [[spoiler:And then Yelena herself does this while leaving an air vent hideout, which causes her to shudder and remark "that was disgusting."]]

** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'': Iron Man performs a three-point landing during the assault on Hydra's Sokovia base.

*** Falcon strikes this pose after taking out two grunts with a spinning, jetpack-powered kick in the opening battle.

*** Rhodey does this in front of Scott Lang to {{troll}} him for his previous encounter with him

*** Pepper Potts enters the final battle [[spoiler:in her own Iron Man armor]] doing this.

* ''Film/SpiderMan2'': Peter spider-senses a getaway car coming up behind him while he's on his bike. He leaps straight off the bike and over the car, three-point landing in the middle of the road -- all in plain view of two stunned boys.

** [[spoiler:Monica Rambeau]] do one to demonstrate that she now has powers [[spoiler:as a result of re-entering the Hex]].