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14	[[quoteright:292:[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/captain_falcon.jpg]]]]
15	[[caption-width-right:292:Don't laugh, or [[VideoGame/FZero he'll]] [[ParasolOfPain beat you up with it.]]]]
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17	->''"The sun shines on this Parasol of mine. Where I walk, enemies balk, and I float gently down..."''
18	-->-- '''Description of the Parasol ability''', ''[[VideoGame/KirbysAdventure Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land]]''.
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20	A SubTrope of ImprovisedParachute and PunyParachute, in many cartoons and video games, an umbrella or parasol can be used as an improvised parachute, allowing someone who opens it in midair to float safely down to the ground.
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22	Of course, the umbrella or parasol may fail, turning inside-out and sending the unfortunate user plummeting to the earth below. DontTryThisAtHome, especially not off the roof.
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24	''Series/MythBusters'' [[JustForFun/TropesExaminedByTheMythbusters tested this]], alongside other forms of hindering falling: surprise, surprise, it didn't work. Real parachutes have vent-holes in the top to help keep it stable, but that would defeat the purpose of an umbrella in the first place. Theoretically, it is still better than nothing since it makes you fall feet-first, so the main impact won't be on your head.
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26	Compare ParachutePetticoat.
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29	!!Examples:
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33	[[folder:Advertising]]
34	* Subverted in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWKRy9jiBzw 1976 commercial for Kellogg's Raisin Bran.]] One defective raisin is considered not sweet enough to qualify for the signature 2 scoops and gets jettisoned in the air by Sunny. The hapless raisin parachutes to the ground with an umbrella that quickly fails.
35	* Ads for Travelers insurance (now part of Citigroup) featured men in black pinstripe suits carrying gigantic red umbrellas (Travelers' logo) in this manner.
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38	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
39	* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', Liltotto Lamperd arrives on the battlefield floating down on a little umbrella.
40	* ''Manga/HaventYouHeardImSakamoto'': To [[FriendToAllLivingThings save a bird caught in a thunderstorm]], Sakamoto let the wind pick him up, then opened his umbrella to gently drift down.
41	* This is OlderThanTheyThink, actually. In a [[NightmareFuel rather creepy]] episode of ''Anime/MahouNoMakoChan'', one of the titular MagicalGirl's rivals is a CreepyChild who uses his red parasol (a traditional Japanese one) this way when he jumps off a building and escapes from her.
42	* In the first episode of ''Anime/MajokkoMegChan'', Megu flys down into the human world using an umbrella. This becomes her iconic item.
43	* This is a primary mode of transportation, both up and down, for the stuffed-animal Mary Land characters in ''Anime/OnegaiMyMelody''.
44	* Miss Valentine in ''Manga/OnePiece'' has this as her main gimmick, which along with the ability to change her weight to anywhere from 1 to 10,000 kilos allows her to float using her parasol -- or turn it around and crush her enemies flat.
45	* Shiro floats around using his parasol in ''Anime/ProjectK''.
46	* In the first arc of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'', Usagi uses a parasol to gently float down from a 4th-floor balcony. As if that isn't bad enough, she had Tuxedo Kamen -- a young man -- hanging on to her during the descent. This is perhaps justified as the parasol was created as part of a magical disguise, so it could very well be magical itself.
47	* One episode of ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' has the team, shrunk down to insect size, summon umbrellas from the Umbrella Decor and use it to float down to ground level from the window ledge, with the acrophobic Akane and Nao hanging onto one umbrella in a panic.
48	* The Ame-Warashi in ''Anime/XxxHolic'' is seen doing this in the opening credits with her umbrella, as well as once in the manga. Then again, she is the Rain Spirit, so her use of it might not be entirely unjustified.
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51	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
52	* ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': In "Opera", Fat Doc tries to scoop up Lamput from below him using an umbrella. He accidentally drops the umbrella, which opens while Lamput is clinging to it and floats slowly towards the audience below until Mr. Moustache grabs it.
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55	[[folder:Comic Books]]
56	* One ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' story has Archie and Veronica go for an afternoon drive. With Archie unable to close the roof of his jalopy, they use an umbrella to protect themselves from the sun and lower the windshield to catch a breeze. The breeze eventually becomes so strong, it blows both the umbrella and Veronica away, but [[ContrivedCoincidence they land safely in Reggie's car]].
57	-->'''Reggie:''' Don't tell me, I know the name...Mary...[[Film/MaryPoppins Mary Popoff]]!
58	* This is a classic shtick of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'''s Penguin who would have special umbrellas that were either designed to be strong enough to act as a parachute or have a helicopter function instead.
59	* ''ComicBook/DuckTales'': During the first segment of ''Scrooge's Quest'', Scrooge uses his umbrella as a parachute while he's chasing his hat (and the money he tucked inside the band). Later, when he falls off an ice bridge at the North Pole, he uses it again, although he admits that it's not going to be able to save him here. Luckily, it doesn't have to, as the boys call Launchpad, who catches him with the plane.
60	* Improbably used by British WWII soldier Percy Pinkerton in ''Comicbook/SgtFuryAndHisHowlingCommandos''.
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63	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
64	* Calvin finds out that umbrellas don't work that way in ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. He also orders a propeller beanie from the back of a cereal box and is disappointed when it doesn't let him fly like a helicopter.
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67	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
68	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats'', Edgar used an umbrella when he jumped off the windmill trying to evade the dogs but turned inside out seconds later.
69	* ''WesternAnimation/ArloTheAlligatorBoy'': Arlo does this in the final chorus of "Beyond These Walls", using a parasol given by Jeromio to parachute past various floating New York landmarks and aspects.
70	* While falling out of the spaghetti twister in ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs'', Flint grabbed hold of an umbrella, only for it to turn inside out after a few seconds.
71	* This happens to Pooh at the end of the song "Heffalumps and Woozles" in ''WesternAnimation/TheManyAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh''.
72	* Happens to John Darling during the song "You Can Fly!" from ''WesternAnimation/PeterPan''.
73	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}}'' (and also ''WesternAnimation/FunAndFancyFree'') - This is Jiminy Cricket's chosen mode of conveyance. It probably helps that he is, well, a cricket.
74	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfMeetThePegasus'': After he gets launched into the sky and knocks the wings off Prince Pegasus, Wolffy quickly grabs a parasol to ease his fall, making the joke that "The first secret of beauty is to keep away from UV rays!" as he does so.
75	* ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'': The circus monkeys jumped off the roof of a crash train cart and used an umbrella to float down. Phil and Lil attempt to do the same with a broken umbrella but falls down faster than the monkeys.
76	* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheSamuraiSword'', Scooby and Shaggy use a paper umbrella to first fly (using paper fans as wings) and then parachute. It works fine till Scooby tries climbing on top of it.
77	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', a baby baboon does this with Jane's umbrella after he and the other baboons chase her down for the sketch she drew of him.
78	* ''WesternAnimation/TheThreeCaballeros''[=/=]''WesternAnimation/SaludosAmigos'' - José Carioca is typically seen carrying an umbrella. And since he never seems to use it to keep the rain off of him, Parasol Parachute is one of the alternate uses he has for it.
79	* ''Animation/WhiteSnake2019'': Blanca enchants Xuan's umbrella to be capable of {{Flight}} and they share it as they have a FlightOfRomance sequence, complete with an AccidentalHandHold moment as they both clutch it.
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83	* Creator/JackieChan does this at some point in ''Film/TheAccidentalSpy'', as he is chased in Turkey. There are no special effects in the scene, he really did it himself. Like almost every other crazy thing he has done in his movies (of course, lots of the times he ends up severely injured... while in the movie he immediately continues to run or whatever)... Medallion was a lot less realistic in this aspect (although to be fair, [[spoiler:people died from falls, it was the titular Medallion that brought them back to life with super-natural powers]]).
84	* Played straight in the Film/JamesBond movie ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'', when Bond uses a poolside umbrella to slow his fall when jumping off a wall. It's also useful as a momentary visual shield to avoid bullets.
85	* Near the climax of ''Film/InspectorGadget1999'', Gadget and his love interest are plummeting from the top of a skyscraper, so he begins shouting out every possible gadget he can think of that might slow their fall or soften their landing (after he tries "parachute" he glances up for a second because it's actually plausible), eventually trying "parasol", which works. The parachute does open -- after they've landed, providing only privacy for an intimate moment.
86	* ''Film/MaryPoppins'': Mary P can ''propel herself upwards'' with one, as well, with help from the West Wind.
87	* The conclusion of ''Film/PracticalMagic''.
88	* In ''Film/RadioFlyer'', there are seven wondrous abilities that people have while they're children, which become lost as adults. One of them is this, although the scene demonstrating it is played realistically, with Bobby's attempt to use an umbrella to float down is met with him landing heavily on a pile of flowerpots.
89	* Though not exactly a parasol, ''Film/ShortCircuit2'' has Johnny 5 use a built-in hang glider to slow his fall from a skyrise building. Read that again: a multi-hundred-pound robot breaks his fall with a dinky hang glider small enough to fold into a standard-sized toolbox, all while falling upside-down from several stories of a New York high rise. To be fair, they somehow had to spice up the previous scene from the first movie, in which he saved himself with a common parachute.
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92	[[folder:Literature]]
93	* Main function of umbrella belonging to one of main protagonists of ''Literature/ArcadiaSnipsAndTheSteamworkConsortium''. It's also very sturdy and doubles as ParasolOfPain (see there).
94	* The title character of ''Big Max'' is a detective who travels by flying with his umbrella, and has to help a king find his missing elephant. [[spoiler: Turns out, the elephant escaped by building a staircase made from ice blocks and went back to the jungle so it can attend an elephant party.]]
95	* Subverted in Creator/AstridLindgren's ''Literature/{{Madicken}}'' where the titular heroine tries this jumping off a roof, fails miserably, and is home with a concussion in the next chapter.
96	* In Scott Westerfield's ''[[Literature/{{Uglies}} Pretties]]'', Tally has a dream where she's a princess who gets out of a tower with a Parasol Parachute. Even in a dream, it doesn't work like she thinks it should.
97	* This goes back to Creator/LFrankBaum's ''Sky Island'', in which the child Button Bright has a magical umbrella that flies him wherever he wants to go.
98	* Ruth Plumly Thompson's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_in_Oz Speedy in Oz]]'' (1934).
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101	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
102	* In ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' Tobias tries this (while dressed up as a [[Film/MrsDoubtfire British]] [[Film/MaryPoppins nanny]]) to rekindle some wonder from Maebe. Naturally, he just ends up falling through the living room table.
103	%% * ''Series/BrainiacScienceAbuse'' once did this along with attempting other makeshift parachutes.
104	* Missy does this in ''Series/DoctorWho'' as part of an intentional ''Film/MaryPoppins'' homage. Most likely she had an anti-gravity device or something hidden inside.
105	* ''Series/MythBusters'' tested it. The best thing that can be said about trying this is that it makes you less likely to fall on your head, and more likely to land feet-first, injuring your legs instead of your brain.
106	* On ''Series/Preacher2016'' Cassidy tries this when he is forced to jump out of a plane without a parachute. It helps him land feet first but most of his body still ends up as a bloody mangled mess. However, he is a vampire and he gets better after he drinks enough blood.
107	* ''Series/{{Readalong}}'': In the animated intro of the show, the last kid to jump into the book first pulls out an umbrella and uses it to slowly descend into said book.
108	* ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'': In "The Cham-Cham", Parker climbs on the roof of a cable car careering down a wire at a high speed. Lady Penelope offers him her umbrella, to help him attach hooks to it lowered by Thunderbird 2. When Parker falls off the roof, he uses the umbrella as a parachute.
109	* At the beginning of the ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'' episode, "Norval the Great", Literature/TheCatInTheHat uses his umbrella to slowly descend as he jumps from a 15-story-high painting of his Uncle Lou.
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112	[[folder:Music Videos]]
113	* The music video "Tonight Tonight" by Music/TheSmashingPumpkins (an homage to the 1902 film ''Le Voyage dans la Lune'') features the two characters using parasols to slow their fall to the moon's surface. (Well, the lady uses a parasol. The gentleman uses a more masculine umbrella.) It becomes a ParasolOfPain when the Moonmen attack.
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117	* ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' has the [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/MSRD:FX_Items#Umbrella_of_Feather_Falling Umbrella of Feather Falling,]] which functions as a ''feather fall'' spell when opened.
118	* In the original ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting of ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'', one of the more controversial "goofy" elements was the fact that the Retebius Air Fleet (an aerial branch of the military for the empire of Thyatis) and the Knights of the Air (a Thyatian club for nobles and adventurers interested in flight) both make use of the "Bumber-Chute", an enchanted umbrella that allows the user to slowly descend from heights, as an emergency protection against being knocked from the sky.
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121	[[folder:Video Games]]
122	* ''VideoGame/AdventureIsland IV'' features parasol as a powerup. It can be used for Master Higging to fall slower, helping him to cross larger gaps.
123	* ''VideoGame/AliceInWonderland'', released in 1985 for the Platform/Commodore64. Though most plummeting descents would leave Alice stunned on her ass with her bloomers in the air, with the parasol she could guide her descent to reach ledges she otherwise couldn't. Alternating this with the top hat, which allowed her to float up in the same way, she could reach a lot of hidden characters, treasures, and {{Easter Egg}}s.
124	* Lieselotte of ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'' enters matches by floating down with her parasol.
125	* [[ElegantGothicLolita Rachel Alucard]] of ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' can slow her descent using her ShapeShifting [[MegaNeko cat]], Nago as a parasol.
126	* The protagonist of the Platform/BBCMicro game ''VideoGame/{{Boffin}}'' used his umbrella to slow falls.
127	* The Drowning Doom Bride units from ''[[VideoGame/BrutalLegend Brütal Legend]]'' do this when they spawn: they hold open their parasols and gently float to the ground after jumping off your stage.
128	* In ''VideoGame/CJsElephantAntics'' and its sequel ''VideoGame/{{CJ in the USA}}'', the titular elephant uses an umbrella as a parachute.
129	* At one point of ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfMonkeyIsland'', Guybrush fell from a cliff and had to use the umbrella he had in the inventory to float safely to a cave in there. Else he'd fall, crash with the rocks and the bottom and splash on the water...just to surface at the shore seconds later to try again.
130	* ''VideoGame/DodgeThePrank'': Used by the girl if equipped to her by the player after the prankster stretched the bottom of her trampoline while she was trying to rescue a cat.
131	* ''VideoGame/{{Fortnite}}: Battle Royale'' gives umbrellas as a CosmeticAward glider-replacement for winning a Victory Royale. "The Umbrella" is awarded for your first win ever, and a [[TemporaryOnlineContent special limited-edition]] umbrella for your first win in each season.
132	* The main character in ''[[VideoGame/{{Gobliiins}} Goblins 3]]'' uses an umbrella to slow down his fall after jumping off the flying ship where the game starts.
133	* One of Faust's entrances in the ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' series has him floating down from offscreen using an oversized umbrella.
134	* In ''VideoGame/HolyUmbrella'', the Gliding Brooch upgrades the umbrella to allow the player to do this.
135	* In ''VideoGame/KingAndBalloon'', the titular king will gently float down to the ground with an umbrella any time the player shoots down a balloon that has captured him.
136	* Many games in the ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series feature the Parasol Copy Ability, which typically has the additional perk of allowing Kirby to use the parasol to gently float downward.
137	* Baby O'Hara from ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'' carries a paper umbrella, and when tapping jump while in mid-air, she'll open it up and float a bit around the area. It helps that she's a rabbit and one of the lightest heroes.
138	* One of the main power-ups from ''VideoGame/KnyttStories'' is an umbrella used this way.
139	* The Penguin has one of these in the ''VideoGame/LegoBatman'' game, which can also be used as a weapon.
140	* ''VideoGame/{{Lemmings}}'' allows you to create floaters who use umbrellas to avoid splattering after falling long distances.
141	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' games:
142	** In ''VideoGame/SylvesterAndTweetyInCageyCapers'', one of the items that Sylvester can use is the umbrella, which allows him to make slow descents.
143	** In ''VideoGame/DesertDemolition Starring [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote]]'', one of Wile E.'s ACME items is a tiny umbrella used to gently float down.
144	* Olaf from ''VideoGame/TheLostVikings'' does this with a wooden shield. Despite likely weighing as much as the other two vikings combined.
145	* ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'': There is a mini-game called Parasol Plummet, where you have to avoid hammers while descending with a parasol and catching the coins and coin bags thrown by some of the Hammer Bros. that hang on the beanstalks. Closing the parasol makes you fall down faster, while opening it will allow you to steer sideways to grab the loot.
146	* Subverted in ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Mega Man Battle Network 6]]'', Lan tries this...and the umbrella collapses.
147	* P.B. Winterbottom's umbrella from ''VideoGame/TheMisadventuresOfPBWinterbottom''. Doubles as a weapon.
148	* An ancient Platform/ZXSpectrum ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'' ripoff named ''Monkey Biznes'' used this, making it OlderThanTheNes.
149	* OlderThanTheNES: Occurs in Richard Bartle's original [[MultiUserDungeon MUD]].
150	* ''VideoGame/NosferatuLilinor'': [[PlayerCharacter Lilinor]] has a parasol that she can use to slowly descend as long as she has it open. It can be swapped out for other parasols in the CharacterCustomization part.
151	* This trope is built into the ''[[VideoGame/BubbleBobble Parasol Stars]]'' video game.
152	* There's a level of ''VideoGame/PowerStone'' where you are falling from a broken airship, and have to grab umbrellas to slow you as you fall. In ''Power Stone 2'', Julia came pre-equipped with an umbrella, letting her do this. In the aforementioned level, she still needs to grab one of the other umbrellas, though, or splat.
153	* In ''[[Advertising/McDonaldLand Ronald]] in the Magical World'' for the Platform/GameGear, Ronald collects [[BigBad Mr. Joke]]'s magical stick in the game's opening cutscene, and one of the things it can do is turn itself into a parasol. Ronald can use this parasol to make slow descents, and in the final world, [[BigFancyCastle Magical Castle]], Ronald can use this on the fans to propel him up to the top floor of Mr. Joke's castle.
154	* Okuni can do this in ''VideoGame/SamuraiWarriors''. Given that the game doesn't have falling damage, this doesn't serve much purpose, but gliding with her umbrella is faster than running so if she starts on top of a hill, she can cover a decent bit of ground fairly quickly if she doesn't have a horse.
155	* ''VideoGame/SonicAdvance'': In the third game, when Cream is paired up with Amy, she can produce a parasol out of nowhere to significantly slow her falls, trading her ability to fly.
156	* ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' Team Rose can do this with [[CloudCuckooLander Big's]] umbrella. It's actually a ShoutOut to the Creator/StudioGhibli movie ''Anime/MyNeighborTotoro''.
157	* One of the standard tools in the ''VideoGame/SuperGranny'' series is a parachute umbrella. Jumping off of things while using it is sometimes accompanied by a voice clip of Granny saying "Supercalifragilistic."
158	* In ''VideoGame/SuperAnimalRoyale'', everyone parachutes down to the island this way. The parachutes can be swapped out for custom ones you earn or buy like other cosmetic items.
159	* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Princess Peach uses parasols in several games.
160	%%** ''VideoGame/SuperPrincessPeach''.
161	** In the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series, Peach uses a parasol for her up special attack. More specifically, she jumps, [[ParasolOfPain allowing her to strike opponents above her]], and then opens the parasol, which causes her to float down gently. In ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Ultimate]]'', Daisy, an [[MovesetClone Echo Fighter]] of Peach, is also able to use a parasol.
162	** In one cutscene in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', she jumps from the top floor of her castle and uses her parasol to slow her descent.
163	** In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' to increase her jumping distance.
164	** ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS'' allows her to use her parasol in this way as well.
165	* The Parasol in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'' also works like this, automatically slowing your descent if you jump while holding it. It's reproduced from the Kirby games and is more useful to the combatants who can't fly.
166	* In ''[[VideoGame/TamagotchiPartyOn Tamagotchi: Party On!]]'', one of the possible games you play upon landing on a Gotchi Game space has you pressing a specific at just the right time to make a falling Tamagotchi open an umbrella they're holding and use it as a parachute.
167	* In ''VideoGame/{{Terramex}}'', you find an umbrella early in the game that allows you to float down from heights that would otherwise kill you.
168	* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': The Umbrella is a very early-game weapon that, when wielded, makes the player fall slowly, at the same rate as a Featherfall potion, and negates FallingDamage. The Tragic Umbrella that you can buy from the Clothier has the same effect.
169	* ''VideoGame/TowerBloxx'': People who enter the building do so by floating with a parasol to it.
170	* The Shadowlands expansion of VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft includes a repeatable quest that revolves around catching spheres of anima to keep one of these working long enough to reach the landing zone.
171	* The tutorial of ''VideoGame/{{Zack and Wiki\|QuestForBarbarosTreasure}}'' uses this to slow your descent after jumping from a blowing-up plane. The tutorial then uses the opportunity of you holding an item to show you how to drop items. While you're still falling.
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175	* This is done in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' by Neo. A few times, she's shown using her umbrella to slow her landing. This is eventually used against her at the end of Volume 3, as she was whisked away by the wind when Ruby activated her parasol on top of an airship.
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179	* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'':
180	** When more powerful monsters first approach John's house, one of the imps who had been bothering him up until that point quickly absconds by jumping over the side of the roof while using an umbrella as a makeshift parachute.
181	** Towards the close of Act 5, [[spoiler:when airdropping a large shaving cream-based bomb on Jade's house, the Courtyard Droll hops off the bomb before it lands and parachutes the rest of the way down with an umbrella]].
182	* ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'': Muneca Powell can do this using her GravityMaster powers. We could see this on-screen [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/MangaPacificators/MangaPacisV01CH01P042.html here]] (it also happens several times throughout the comic, but usually implied).
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186	* In the opening credits of ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'', Oblina scares a man holding an umbrella by disguising herself as the umbrella's handle. The man tosses her into the air, and she uses the umbrella to float into the chimney of a schoolhouse, where she scares the children inside.
187	* In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', "Seer No Evil", Chip fell out of a window but had his fall slowed by an umbrella. (Of course, thanks to the SquareCubeLaw, even a fall lacking in increased drag would have perhaps only left him momentarily dazed, so the "flying horse" wouldn't have exactly saved him...)
188	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'', Gran's cyborg arm includes an umbrella which she sometimes uses as a parachute.
189	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "The Mutants Are Revolting", the gang is thrown down into the sewer. Zoidberg, however, had the foresight to bring an umbrella and gently floats down while the others drop like stones.
190	* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch are in town on their [[ItMakesSenseInContext invisible motorcycle]] with Peevly and Botch chasing them. The keepers crash out their jeep into a street vendor hot dog stand. Peevly is jettisoned up into the air and floats to Earth using the stand's umbrella. From the missing scenes from the episode "Rare Bear Bungle."
191	-->'''Square Bear:''' Look...it's Mary Poppins!
192	* ''WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget'': Gadget's mechanical arms produce a pink ruffled "Gadget-brella" for comic effect during a fall. Sometimes the gadget-hammer would appear instead, providing no help at all.
193	* In the WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes short "The Dixie Fryer", when Foghorn Leghorn is riding in a balloon basket, he jumps out, using an umbrella as a parachute, and floats gently.
194	* The opening sequence on the ''WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' TV cartoons has him blithely causing chaos while driving. A construction crane hurls his car into the sky and he slows his fall with an umbrella - landing on a roller coaster track.
195	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop'' episode "Jungle Jeopardy", a single small umbrella is enough to lower the entire Ant Hill Mob ''and'' Chuggaboom safely to the ground.
196	* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/RudolphTheRedNosedReindeer'', an elf onboard SantaClaus' sleigh actually gives all of the misfit toys umbrellas to soften their landing after being dropped from the sleigh... ...except for the toy bird that can swim but cannot fly. He refuses to give the bird an umbrella, and ''pushes him off the sleigh instead!''
197	* The music video for the ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' theme tune has one of the sheep jumping off the roof of the farmer's house using an umbrella.
198	* In the ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'' episode "The Secret Library", Sofia uses this technique on Prince Roderick, hooking his belt with her Aunt Tilly's umbrella, causing him to fall off of his pegasus and descend to the ground, unharmed but irritated.
199	* Parker does this in ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'' after falling off a cable car and is forced to use Lady Penelope's umbrella as a parachute. The scene serves as a ShoutOut to ''Film/MaryPoppins''.
200	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'', Dr. Henry Killinger uses his umbrella to float away like Mary Poppins. However [[spoiler:a]] Hank Venture is shown trying the same from the roof of the Venture compound [[spoiler:and plummeting to his death]].
201	* ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'': In "Fast Track to Hackensack", Penelope Pitstop loses her umbrella, and it lands in the Bouldermobile, blinding Rock and Gravel Slag and causing them to drive their car up a hill. When they drive it off a cliff, they use Penelope's umbrella to slowly descend, and land in the Army Surplus Special.
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205	* A man in China once tried this and found that this trope doesn't work in real life (he injured his legs).
206	* UsefulNotes/QinShiHuangdi liked to jump from the Great Wall of China carrying an open umbrella over his head. Existing accounts say that he was never hurt. (However, the Great Wall is only 5-8 meters tall, so it's not really much of a drop anyway.)
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