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13->''"I didn't really think this through, but it looked dramatic, didn't it?!"''
14-->-- '''LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}}''' [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation as]] '''Meta Ridley''', ''LetsPlay VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption''
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16Typically, 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. A middle ground scenario is that the landing impact would be the climax of the battle that determines who would be left standing.
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18A free-falling fight illustrates a strong conflict between the protagonist and antagonist, where the death of the other is more important than the death of oneself.
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20Seen often in video game BossBattle scenarios. Compare/contrast HighAltitudeBattle. Often overlaps with FightingAcrossTimeAndSpace.
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22If those falling are falling in love instead of being locked in combat, it's FreeFallRomance.
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30* ''Anime/AfroSamurai'' vs. Afro-Droid, part 2. Afro-Droid could fly, so the freefall portion was entirely its choice. This fight is also carried over to the video game adaptation.
31* ''Anime/BlackRockShooter'' vs. Dead Master in the {{OAV}}.
32* Before it was typical for characters to know how to fly, this was common in fights in ''Manga/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.]]
33* At one point in ''Anime/{{Blassreiter}}'', flying {{Combining|Mecha}} MilitaryMashupMachine has to separate as it was the only chance to win. Thing is, only one of three components was able to fly on its own, so they climbed as high as possible before dropping and tried to finish their respective targets before two of three are squashed.
34* Played with in ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'':
35** In the finale, Celty [[spoiler:after regaining her head and realizing just how inhuman she is, decides to leave Ikebukuro via a shadowy staircase in the sky]]. However, Shinra having convinced [[spoiler:Kasane to loan him Saika]] gets Shizuo to [[spoiler:chuck him into the sky after Celty]]. Afraid for Shinra's safety, Celty [[spoiler:attempts to catch him as they go into free-fall, at which point Shinra takes out Saika and severs Celty's head. It's only by miracle Celty is able to get a hold of herself in time to save him]].
36** Also in the finale season, after [[spoiler:Izaya fails to kill Shizuo, as Celty intervened at the last second, Shizuo grabs a hold of the scaffolding Izaya was standing on and shakes it until the informant loses his balance and falls. As Izaya tries to turn himself around in the air to save himself, Shizuo grabs a conveniently placed steel beam and hits Izaya into an adjacent building]].
37* ''Anime/FinalFantasyVIIAdventChildren'' features a free-fall fight [[spoiler: during the climactic battle between Cloud and the returned Sephiroth. If you assume that Final Fantasy VII's planet has the same mass and atmospheric density as ours, it's possible to calculate the height of the Shinra building off of which they fall (though "fall" is a poor approximation of the complexity of what's happening to them, not least because Sephiroth can warp gravity and fly), and it is at least ''2.8 miles tall or more.'']]
38* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', this happens in the Courtesan of Nation arc in the final fight between the protagonist Gintoki and arc antagonist Oboro as they fall from the top of Edo Castle.
39* Freesia vs. Jubei's Freefall Fight in the second season of ''Anime/JubeiChan''. This was also the season's GrowingTheBeard.
40* The final battle with [[BigBad Ragyo Kiryuin]] in ''Anime/KillLaKill''.
41* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz'' scales things up: Heero and [[spoiler:Wu Fei]] start off dueling in low Earth orbit, but during a BladeLock they plunge through the atmosphere, stop fighting long enough to worry about re-entry, then start fighting again. While Wing Zero can fly, [[spoiler:Altron[=/=]Nataku]] can't, which is why the fight falls under this trope and not HighAltitudeBattle.
42* This happens a few times in ''Manga/OnePiece'':
43** When Luffy has just beaten the evil pirate Don Krieg, Krieg doesn't take his defeat well and throws an iron net around Luffy, planning to [[TakingYouWithMe drown him when they hit the water]]. But Luffy just uses his rubber powers to swing Krieg down like a mace, knocking him out.
44** ChefOfIron Sanji has had the most examples of this trope so far. The first is during his fight with [[WolfMan Jabra]]. During the climax of this fight, they are falling down the Tower of Justice. Jabra stabs Sanji with his claws but Sanji uses his burning leg to kick Jabra so he hits the ground first, and then lands on his feet like a badass. During the TimeSkip Sanji learned the [[NotQuiteFlight Sky Walk technique]], letting him give the finger to physics and kick the air so fast that he can move around in the air. This is how Sanji defeats the giant Wadatsumi by kicking him into the sky, falling alongside him and then finishing him off with a hell fire kick.
45** Zoro does it twice, once during a non-canon movie against his "sword buddy" Saga and another time against the gigantic Pica. In the latter, 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.
46** The Franky vs. Fukuro fight, which results in the two fighting over a waterfall and trying to finish each other once they're above land. [[spoiler:Franky wins.]]
47* ''Literature/SwordOratoria'': In [=S1E11=], Lefiya got thrown into the big hole that connect the floor 52 to floor 58. Bete, Tiona and Tione jump in to rescue her while fighting wyverns that come into the hole to greet them.
48* ''Anime/TheTowerOfDruaga'' has one of these. On a series of frozen pillars. In a tower a mile up. Did we mention only one of these characters can actually fly, and the one who actually wins it jumps with no ropes or other aid?
49* In ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'', Urek engages with Viole in a fight that's partially free fall, inside a giant monster that just turned on it's belly.
50* ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' had Yusei and Ushio continuing to duel while falling down an elevator shaft.
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54* Happens twice in ''Fanfic/TheBridge'' during the finale of two arcs involving [[BehemothBattle brawls]] between kaiju.
55** The final battle against [[AnimalisticAbomination Enijin]] involves Kaizer X figuring out his opponents weakness of not being able to heal when not in contact with the ground and using Aria Blaze as a LivingBattery. He promptly blasts Enjin off the side of the plateau they'd been fighting on and hits him with an energized DivingKick strong enough to expose Aria's prison. After some freefalling blows and grapples, X punches into the cracked core and rips Aria out to kill Enjin.
56** The latter half of the battle with Grand King Ghidorah against Xenilla and Godzilla Junior involves this as while Ghidorah and Xenilla can fly, Junior can't. [[spoiler: At least at first, turning it into a HighAltitudeBattle.]]
57* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' features two in the sequel, both featuring Harry - one, against Dracula, which he decisively loses, and the other, against [[spoiler: the Elder Wyrm]], as part of a brutal extended brawl from core to upper atmosphere and back down again that he ends up winning (with help from Thor, Wanda Maximoff, Dumbledore, and [=MI13=]).
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61* ''WesternAnimation/DucktalesTheMovieTreasureOfTheLostLamp'': The climactic battle between Scrooge and the villain Merlock takes place like this after Scrooge and the lamp fall off Merlock's flying fortress and Merlock flies after them.
62* Happens towards the end of the fight between Shifu and Tai Lung in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1''.
63* ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted'' features a climatic mid-air fight between Alex and Captain [=DuBois=].
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67* ''Film/TheATeam'' film has the fight between the team's tank and two Reaper [=UCAVs=]. It is [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awesome.]]
68* In ''Film/BladeII'', Blade and Nomak fall off a gantry mid-fight and fall all the way to the floor, each still grappling and punching all the way down.
69* The 2022 South Korean action movie ''Film/{{Carter}}'' has the added complication that the villain is tandem-jumping with a [[LivingMacGuffin child]], so the hero has to both steal his parachute ''and'' rescue the kid as well.
70* 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. [[Film/CrankHighVoltage He gets better.]]]]
71* ''Film/TheGrayMan2022'' has the "stealing a parachute in mid-air" version, though shot with JitterCam to portray just how confusing and difficult that would be.
72* In ''Film/HaroldAndKumarEscapeFromGuantanamoBay'', Agent Fox (Rob Corddry) leaps out of an airplane without wearing a parachute just so he can shoot at the title heroes on the way down.
73* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Part 2'', Harry grabs Voldemort and they plunge off of the Astronomy Tower together. Being a wizard, Voldemort does that Apparation-like black-smoke move to fly around the castle, both fighting each other the whole time, until they both crash into the ground, non-fatally.
74* In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'', Gandalf fights the [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Balrog]] while falling into the [[DugTooDeep chasms of Moria.]] In both this and the book, they hit a lake on the bottom, but they are both too powerful to be killed by the impact. Instead, they ''keep fighting'' out of the lake, out of the caverns and back up the mountains which are now in the middle of a storm. [[spoiler:Gandalf eventually fatally wounds the Balrog and sends it toppling back down the mountain where its corpse crashes on the rock.]]
75* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
76** In ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'', T'Challa tackles Killmonger into the hyperloop, where they exchange strikes in midair, right after witnessing [[spoiler: Killmonger almost murder Shuri, his sister.]] Unusually for this trope, the fight is realistically short before they land on the transport tracks; both combatants are [[spoiler:empowered by the Heart-Shaped Herb and]] wearing vibranium combat suits, allowing them to survive the landing and continue the fight on solid ground.
77** ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}'': [[spoiler:As a result of the Red Room aerial complex being destroyed, Natasha and Taskmaster fall towards the ground while dodging debris and seeking parachutes.]]
78* ''Franchise/TheMatrix'':
79** Happens in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'', when Trinity is thrown out of a window, and the agent jumps after her. They are both shooting at each other. This is one of the examples of where not only does she hit the ground, but it's a significant plot point.
80** In ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'', Neo has a climactic battle against Agent Smith where both combatants fly and float in the air, at one point one slamming the other into the ground. This and some other acrobatic scenes were filmed on NASA's Vomit Comet zero-G training plane.
81* The beginning of ''Film/{{Moonraker}}''. Although this fight was actually over a parachute.
82* In ''Film/PacificRim'', Gipsy Danger and [[FinalBoss Slattern]] continue duking it out while they plummet into [[spoiler:the rift]], ending with [[spoiler:Gipsy Danger killing Slattern by frying him with its ChestBlaster.]]
83* Happens between Johnny and Bohdi in ''Film/PointBreak1991''.
84* ''Film/ShootEmUp'' has this one toward the end of the movie as its second-to-last major shoot-out.
85%%* ''Film/SpiderMan2'' and ''3'' has lots of these.
86* In ''Film/TronLegacy'', happens between Clu and Rinzler after the latter crashes their Lightjets together, to seize the remaining Lightjet rod.
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90* Literature/SherlockHolmes and Moriarty, grappling with each other as they plunge over the Reichenbach Falls [[spoiler:(supposedly)]].
91* ''[[Literature/{{Tunnels}} Spiral]]'' ends with two of these between Jiggs and a [[EliteMook Limiter]] and between Drake and [[TheDragon Rebecca One]].
92* When in ''[[TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms Wyvern's Spur]]'' the hero transformed into a big wyvern fights another guy in the dragon form, they ends up wrestling, and can't keep their altitude.
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96* In the ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' episode "Razor", a young William Adama collides with a Cylon fighter in atmosphere, forcing both to eject. The Cylon, apparently upset by this turn of events, attempts to shoot Adama while falling to its death. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Unfortunately for the Cylon]], a handgun is a poor choice of weapons while moving at terminal velocity and it fails to hit Adama.
97* ''Series/{{The Flash|2014}}'': In "Enter Zoom", since Zoom is faster than Barry, Barry attempts to even the odds by making them both run off a building. Since neither of them can fly, Zoom's speed advantage is negated since both can only fall at terminal velocity. Unfortunately, Zoom gets the better of the midair brawl and forces Barry to take the brunt of the impact with the ground.
98* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': In the penultimate episode, "The Bells", the Hound and the Mountain are locked in a DuelToTheDeath amidst [[spoiler:the collapsing Red Keep]], which culminates with Sandor charging his brother Gregor through a brick wall in a final attempt to kill him. They continue fighting all the way down until [[spoiler:they're both engulfed by a sea of dragonfire.]]
99* In ''Series/{{Garo}}'', the first battle between Saejima Kouga/GARO and Suzumura Rei/ZERO started out as an ordinary melee/sword fight and turn into this after they transformed into their armors while jumping to the top of two adjacent skyscrapers, in which after that, they proceed to fight while falling hundreds of feet between the skyscrapers. It's awesome.
100** And later in the TV-movie ''Beast of the White Night'', we have a fight scene in a forest where gravity has been turned on its side, turning all the trees into hazardous vertical obstacles.
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104* The Harry vs. Voldemort fight was parodied in ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'':
105-->'''Voldermort:''' Hold it I don't remember you grabbing me and pulling me off a 500-foot tower!\
106'''Harry:''' Would you rather make this just like the book? Where we stand around talking for half hour then have a 2-second battle?\
107'''Voldermort:''' Good point. GERONIMOOOOO!!!!!
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112* In ''VideoGame/TheAngryVideoGameNerdAdventures'', the fight against a demon[=/=]{{Satan}} takes this approach, and you have to dodge Death Blocks while falling.
113* The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedRevelations'', [[spoiler:Prince Ahmet]], is fought while he and Ezio are falling from a ''very'' tall cliff. He is not that tough, but adjusting to the controls may cost you a few synch bars.
114* The final level of ''VideoGame/BatmanVengeance'' is this. Simply put, the Joker has jumped out of his airship with Batman in hot pursuit. Batsy has to contend with thrown Joker cards, exploding balloons, and hot lead from the Joker's tommy-gun. [[spoiler: At the end, when he's thrown the last punch and grabbed the Joker in time, the Batwing appears and Batman grapples his way into the cockpit.]] This fight is timed. Bats would survive but not the Joker. The HaveANiceDeath message reminds you, "[[ThouShaltNotKill Death is]] [[SaveTheVillain no substitute for justice.]]"
115* ''VideoGame/BoogieWings'' have you in the middle of a BattleshipRaid on foot inside an airship, when said airship suddenly loses altitude, leading to everyone onscreen getting thrown in mid-air in the middle of a gunfight.
116* In the fourth level of ''VideoGame/{{Cybernator}}'', you have to survive atmospheric reentry and freefall, chuteless, while fending of waves of assault suits until your rescue arrives.
117* In ''VideoGame/TheDeadlyTowerOfMonsters'' after fighting a boss for a while you and the boss will fall off the titular tower and fall to the ground, still locked in combat.
118* In ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'', [[spoiler:the rematch against Corazon Tea in Clockwork Arboretum consists of her smashing the entire floor with her jump pad once her health is halfway depleted and the rest of the battle continues while falling through the elevator shaft.]]
119* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin As the name suggests]], the entire gameplay of ''VideoGame/Freefall3050AD'' revolves around this. In the [[LayeredMetropolis vertical cities]] of the future the quickest way for the police to reach a crime scene is jumping down the chasms between the buildings. Unfortunately you and your fellow cops aren't the only ones equipped with jump suits, so you have to deal with all sorts of punks and criminals on your way down.
120* The [=PS1=] game of ''VideoGame/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.
121* Part of the fight against Erynnis' OneWingedAngel form in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarGhostOfSparta''.
122* The final battle against Tiberius in ''VideoGame/HardCorpsUprising'' during his OneWingedAngel form.
123* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'':
124** The penultimate boss battle of ''VideoGame/KirbysAdventure'' and its remake is an UnexpectedShmupLevel in freefall. The ground acts as an AdvancingWallOfDoom, though it's hard to tell because the ground doesn't appear until the player takes too long.
125** The final boss battle in ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand2'' is also a free fall battle, but instead of the ground outright killing Kirby, he just takes damage until he's dead.
126* Get close enough to a dragon in [=PS3=]'s ''VideoGame/{{Lair}}'' and you can enter a grappling match during freefall.
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128* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyroDawnOfTheDragon'' has the second part of the FinalBattle with [[BigBad Malefor]] take place as the entire stage the battle is taking place on plummets down a volcano to the core of the world. Probably justified by the fact that Malefor ''has'' to be stopped and Spyro and Cynder can't afford to risk him surviving. It's every bit as epic as it sounds. [[spoiler:They stop when they reach the core and end the fight with a BeamOWar that Spyro and Cynder win.]]
129* The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/MegaManZero4'', 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.]]
130* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'':
131** In ''Metal Slug 3'', the final boss fight with Rootmars. You end up falling through the atmosphere while battling the alien mastermind. And you use his [[spoiler: possibly]] dead body as a platform to protect yourself from the impact of hitting the ocean.
132** The final boss of ''6'' also does this once it takes enough damage. Interestingly, the Invader Queen becomes invulnerable during this part of the fight, and you're supposed to HoldTheLine while it fires showers of destructible projectiles. Eventually, it falls to its death while you manage to cling onto the side of the shaft.
133* In ''VideoGame/SlySpy'', the first stage begins with the protagonist shooting {{Mooks}} skydiving over Washington, D.C.
134* ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II'' has Starkiller fighting a Gorog with Force Lightning while they free fall to the surface of Cato Neimoidia.
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137* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' has Asura and Yasha in Episode 21 during their younger years fighting from a tower. Asura punches Yasha out of said tower with the former jumping and pursuing him. You then fight Yasha in a free fall style. ''[[RuleOfCool It is awesome.]]''
138* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'':
139** Bayonetta versus Balder. The two fight on a chunk of a platform falling several hundred feet.
140** The very beginning of the game is a fight scene atop a ruined clock tower ... as it plummets down a seemingly-endless cliff.
141** The last portion of the FinalBoss battle in the game: [[spoiler:destroying Jubelius's body as it plummets towards the earth.]]
142* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'':
143** Valor boss fight happens as you are falling down inside a tower.
144** Again, the fight on the debris of the ruined clock tower, only in a slightly different scenario.
145* In ''VideoGame/{{Bonesaw}}'', the second stage of the final boss has you falling from ''orbit'' before landing in the Clarkson University hockey rink.
146* Featured in the trailer ''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]].
147-->'''Deadpool''': "[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Best. Ride. Ever!]]"
148* The Kratos versus Icarus battle in ''VideoGame/GodOfWarII''. The winner gets a pair of wings to make a safe landing with. [[LudicrousGibs The loser...]]
149* ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'''s first proper boss encounter involves you jumping from from platform to platform in a free fall as [[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Mecha-King Ghidorah]] tribute tries to kill you.
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152* Wolverine's stage in ''VideoGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'' is a bridge over a canyon in Alaska, with a waterfall in the background. At the start of Round 2, the ropes supporting it snap, and it falls into the gap, smashing to pieces at the end of the match. The winner stands on a rock for the VictoryPose; the loser is washed away.
153* The Freefall Kombat feature of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatVsDCUniverse'' involves one of the fighters breaking the walls of a specific stage and trading blows with their opponent while falling until they reach the floor. Only a handful of stages have this feature, among them [[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 Hell/Netherrealm, the Graveyard]], [[Franchise/{{Batman}} the Batcave, the transition between Rooftop and Streets of the Gotham City stage]], [[Franchise/{{Superman}} the Fortress of Solitude]], the Special Forces' Base, the transition between Raiden's Temple and the Rock of Solitude (Captain Marvel's half of the stage), the Outer Space, and Apokolips (the fusion between Darkseid's Throne Room and the Outworld Throne Room), a.k.a. Dark Kahn's stage.
154* ''VideoGame/PowerStone 2'' has a stage that starts on board an airship which gets destroyed, forcing the fighters to battle in freefall for control of Parasol Parachutes.
155* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'':
156** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'':
157*** The ''Franchise/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).
158*** Subverted on Final Destination, which starts in space, goes through re-entry, and ultimately looks like it's on a collision course for the ground, before it whites out and starts over. Interestingly enough, the white out happens at exactly 5 minutes, which is how long you have to beat the boss fight, implying that you did crash.
159** ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'': The Umbran Clock Tower stage, taken from ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', takes place on the face of a clock tower as it plummets endlessly towards the ground, similar to the opening stage of the game it hails from.
160* The end of Sanae Kochiya's storyline in ''VideoGame/TouhouHisoutensokuChoudokyuuGinyoruNoNazoOOe'' has one of these, specifically Suwako's final attack. Also, the previous attack of the same fight is fought on a rising shockwave from an explosion.
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163* In ''VideoGame/AgentUnderFire'' in the 8th mission "Fire and Water" James Bond is pushed off the edge of an oil platform by Bloch after watching a sexy lady do a dive. He grabs him as he falls and both punch each other as they fall into the water. They both survive.
164* At the end of the final mission in ''[[VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany Battlefield: Bad Company 2]]'', you have to shoot the game's BigBad Arkady Kirilenko while in freefall so you can get your parachute from Sweetwater, who's trying to keep the parachute from Kirilenko.
165* The fight with the Heretic Leader in ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'' takes place while the gas mine is in freefall, although there's [[TakeYourTime no time limit]].
166* The first fight against Meta Ridley in ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption''. Though in this case, both Samus and Ridley appear doomed when the floor gives out -- Samus can't fly, and the tunnel is too small for Ridley to spread his wings. Ridley doing this may be a case of TakingYouWithMe, but [[spoiler:defeating Ridley lets Rundas [[BigDamnHeroes fly down]] and [[CatchAFallingStar save]] Samus. Ridley himself, however, [[JokerImmunity doesn't die, as usual.]]]] Interestingly, there is actually a 'bottom' and you must defeat Ridley before your altitude reaches zero (which isn't the ground in this case, but the planet's ''core'').
167* A variation of it happens in ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare 3'' in the level "Turbulence". The plane you are in itself goes into free fall, leading to you having a shootout with {{Mooks}} in zero gravity before the plane is stabilized. You even get an achievement for killing all of the Mooks.
168* One of the hardest levels in ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'' involves you jumping out of a plane just before it explodes and fighting H.A.R.M. {{mooks}} as you fall. They have parachutes, you don't. If you don't manage to steal a parachute from one of them before a predetermined time, [[spoiler:[[NonstandardGameOver you fall into a barn and die.]]]] Especially frustrating since there's only specific Mook who gets close enough to take his parachute, and if you (quite understandably) shoot him you're fucked.
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171* Both ''VideoGame/BattleClash'' and its sequel, ''Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge'' feature one. ''Battle Clash'' has the stage in the Andes Mountains against ST Artemis, and ''Metal Combat'' has the battle atop the TowerOfBabel SpaceElevator against ST Griffin.
172* In ''VideoGame/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.
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175* In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsofShadowMirrorofFate'' has Trevor eventually do this when he fights Dracula. [[spoiler:He loses...]]
176* The second fight against the robotic chicken boss in Level 5 of ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' is essentially this. Major Mucus would also count if he and Jim weren't attached to bungee cords during their fight.
177* A couple of phases of the final boss battle is done this way in ''VideoGame/FreedomFall''.
178* ''VideoGame/JackieChansActionKungFu'' culminates with Jackie fighting a GiantSpider while falling on a [[SolidClouds solid cloud]].
179* Stage 9-5 of ''VideoGame/{{Jumper}} Two'' features Ogmo and [[BigBad The Boss]] falling from top of the tower, in a [[TennisBoss tennis fight]].
180* One of the Troia Base simulations in ''VideoGame/{{Mega Man X}}8'' has you fight a robot in freefall.
181* In ''VideoGame/{{Ristar}}'', in the third act of [[LethalLavaLand Planet Scorch]], part of Ristar's battle against Adahan takes place this way.
182* ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight''
183** The GuestFighter [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] boss fight becomes this in the second phase of the fight. Kratos shatters the floor of the temple the fight takes place in, and both fighters must leap on falling debris. Notably, this is the one area of the game where falling off the bottom of the screen isn't lethal; you'll just fall from the top of the screen, taking half your life bar in damage.
184** In the ''Specter of Torment'' and ''King Of Cards'' campaigns, [[spoiler:Propeller Knight's fight starts off on a generic arena as it did in the other two campaigns. Then the cannonballs from the battleships in the background completely shatter the arena, leaving Specter/King Knight to fight Propeller Knight while using the latter's navy ships as platforms]].
185* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog''
186** In ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', you fight the Egg Dragoon while standing on a standard platform, but that platform (along with everything else) is in freefall ''towards the earth's core''. On occasion, Eggman destroys the platform you're on, turning it into an actual freefall fight until Sonic lands on another one. By the final part of the fight, Sonic and the Egg Dragoon are inside the planet's core fighting directly above the magma [[spoiler:in order to set up the FinalBoss battle with Dark Gaia]].
187** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'': The Final boss combines this with ColonyDrop. The final battle is [[SpaceZone in space]], fighting a lizard attached to the [[SpaceStation Space Colony Ark]] [[ColonyDrop as it's falling to Earth]]; if you take more than 5 minutes to beat the fight, you lose... Although you'd deliberately have to drag out the entire fight in order to lose that way. Far more likely is that you'll lose from the '''other''' time limit that is your rings, which your SuperMode needed for flight runs on.
188** ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'' features another fight against the Egg Dragoon. The fight is half chasing it along a track, and half aiming for its core and dodging missiles as you freefall.
189** ''VideoGame/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.
190* The second boss of ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach'', Hoo, takes out the platform you fight him on halfway through the fight, turning the battle into this and forcing you to utilize the Joy vibe to fly up above him to land the last couple of hits.
191* In ''VideoGame/TazInEscapeFromMars'', in the third act of [[UndergroundLevel Mole World]], Taz fights the giant drilling machine [[AdvancingWallofDoom that chased him throughout the second act]] this way.
192* Moltz the Very Goonie in ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS''. This can be tricky because the only way to damage it is by doing a GroundPound, but the move takes a while to execute during which it can still move. If you miss, Yoshi falls to its death.
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195* The opening {{cutscene}} in ''VideoGame/SpellForce: The Order of the Dawn'' ends with one of these between the BigBad and the BigGood.
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198* The one-on-one fight between Sten and Trubo in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireII'' starts on a bridge, but midway through the battle the bridge collapses, sending the two plummeting towards the ground. The battle needs to be finished before three turns are up; otherwise, they hit the ground.
199* The intro to ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'' features [[TheHero Adell]] engaging in one of these with a bunch of random people.
200* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
201** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', you have to do this while falling down a ''waterfall''. Amazingly enough, you will continue falling for as long as the fight takes, and instantly hit the bottom when you beat the last enemy.
202** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' also does something similar with the fight against the Air Force.
203** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyCrystalChroniclesTheCrystalBearers'', the opening cutscene sets it up, and then the very first time you are put in control, its like this. Though it's just Layle against some Mooks.
204* The final boss fight in the original ''VideoGame/{{Wild ARMs}}'' could be seen as a mixture of this and FinalBossNewDimension. The fight takes place as you travel from a space colony to the planet surface after thwarting Ziekfried [[spoiler:and Mother's plan. Mostly Mother's]]. Zeik interrupts you as you are teleported down, and you fight essentially in free fall in a strange teleportation dimension.
205* Mage players in ''VideoGame/{{World of Warcraft}}'' have been known to jump off tall towers or flying mounts and duel each other while slowfalling. This is very fun, and known as mage dueling.
206* Second Boss in ''Videogame/YsVITheArkOfNapishtim''. Battle with winged [[GiantEnemyCrab Giant Enemy Crab-like thing]] takes place on falling platform.
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209* In the ''Franchise/JamesBond'' game ''VideoGame/EverythingOrNothing'', the BondGirl is thrown off a cliff, so naturally Bond jumps off after her, and then has to dodge outcrops from the cliff manned by rocket-launcher equipped mooks Bond has to shoot on the way down.
210* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird''
211** The game starts out with one which includes falling back ''into'' and ''through'' the plane you just jumped out of.
212** Another level has you jumping from one plane to another, then when it blows up you free fall '''''in a tank.''''' At the end, that tank blows up and you free fall to hijack another one.
213-->"[[ShoutOut I love it when]] [[Series/TheATeam a plan comes together.]]"
214* ''VideoGame/TransformersWarForCybertron'' has the first boss fight against [[spoiler:Trypticon]] ''in freefall towards the planet Cybertron''. [[BestBossEver It's as awesome as it sounds]].
215* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine'' has one against the final boss starting in low orbit.
216* ''VideoGame/{{WET}}'' has a level dedicated to this trope. In short, a gunfight destroys the plane everyone is standing in, nobody has a parachute, and they all decide to keep shooting at each other on the way down for lack of anything better to do.
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220* ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy II''. A good quarter of the battle involves an ''insane'' Freefall Fight down the side of a building.
221* ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/594240 Manly Brawl on a Big Tree]]'' ends with one of these.
222* The season one finale of ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'' has Tari fighting off Belle as she falls down the mountain in ''Tempest'' in order to execute the [[GameBreakingBug Deep Mountain Clip]].
223* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' season 9 episode 15 brings us the scene (appropriately, with "Falling Towards the Sky" in the background), where Tex, Wash, Carolina, and York battle the flying mooks and ''Hornets'' to get the Package into 479er's Pelican. Wash shoots one of the Hornet pilots out while standing on the falling package.
224* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The Volume 9 sneak peak shows a brief sequence of two characters fighting while they're falling. [[spoiler:A recap of the Volume 8 ending is shown from Ruby's perspective, and includes additional footage; while falling into the Void, Neo manages to reach Ruby and starts trying to punch and strangle her as they fall. Ruby fends her off as Neo shapeshifts through a variety of forms that resemble Ruby's friends.]]
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228* Near the end of the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "The Hand that Rocks the Mabel", Dipper and Li'l Gideon have a WimpFight after falling out the window of a cliff-side factory.
229* In the ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2021'' episode "A Very Hungry Dragonfly", Teela and Evelyn get in a MagicDuel while freefalling towards Gary the Dragonfly.
230* In one ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode, Kim fights someone while skydiving.
231* In an episode of ''JustForFun/LosDiasYLasNochesDeMonsignorMartinez'', a ShowWithinAShow in the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' universe, Father Martinez, part-time Catholic priest, part-time hitman, leaps out of an airplane to catch and then kill man who had just leapt from that plane with a parachute.
232* The climax of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'''s Christmas special features a free fall fight over a lava pit for the sake of all Christmas, with the Music/TransSiberianOrchestra's version of "Carol of The Bells" playing.
233* One ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' sketch begins as a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL2qKeR6gmw skydiving marriage proposal]] but eventually becomes this.
234* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans''. In the episode "Winner Takes All", between the two {{Badass Normal}}s: [[TheHero Robin]] and Speedy.
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238* Budgies sometimes do this, at least cocks. (Hens usually try to bite each other's toes off instead.)
239* Raptors in aerial combat, such as eagles, will often lock talons with each other in an attempt to 'toss' one another towards the ground.
240* Done during judo and sambo matches between astronauts on the International Space Station. Subverted by there being no danger from impact, since the whole station is free falling. There is [[NoGravityForYou a risk of getting stuck out of reach of any handholds]].
241* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt-pB1R64mI this video]], the two cats tumble off the roof while fighting and continue fighting on the way down and when they hit the ground.
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245->[[BookEnds I'M STILL FALLIN'!]]

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