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->'''Hikaru:''' He's created a new technique!\\
'''Kaoru:''' One-Man Slow Motion!
-->-- ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub''

Similar to a SlowMotionDrop but instead of an inanimate object dropping, we see a person falling backwards (or, rarely, forwards) in slow-motion, usually, after being shot. Bonus points if their TrueCompanions are watching: it's the cue for an [[SlowNo appropriately slowed down]] BigNo. There's a bit of TruthInTelevision to this, as stressful situations can cause people's perception of time to slow down due to the adrenaline pumping.

See also DisneyVillainDeath. SubTrope of DeathIsDramatic. If it goes on long enough for it to start being funny, it's IFellForHours.

Be warned that '''this is frequently a {{Death Trope|s}}'''!
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* In the first episode of ''Literature/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', Senjogahara falls from a staircase.
%%* Subverted with Revy and a toy gun in ''Manga/BlackLagoon''.
* A fixture in ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' combat scenes, if almost never fatal.
%%* [[spoiler:Euphie]] in ''Anime/CodeGeass''.
* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'':
** [[spoiler:Julia]]. This one comes with DisturbedDoves in the background...
** When Spike falls from the stained glass window in the first chapter featuring Vicious, we get one of the slowest drops of all time. Spike falls through the air for fully ''1 minute 50 seconds'' as both he and Vicious have flashbacks, ''some of which are themselves in slow motion.''
* Despite the extreme AnyoneCanDie atmosphere, only happens once in ''Manga/DeathNote''.
* In ''Anime/FairyTail'', after Acnologia [[spoiler:rips Igneel's left side of his body]], he falls down in slow motion all the while Natsu looks on in shock.
* [[spoiler:Maes Hughes]] in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', when he's [[DisconnectedByDeath shot in a phone booth]].
* Various Franchise/{{Gundam}}s like to do this, especially since AnyoneCanDie.
* ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei'' begins with [[MeaningfulName Rakka]] falling out of the sky.
* Parodied in ''Manga/LuckyStar'': "The drawing hand is an artist's everything..."
* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' "killed" by Margaret [[spoiler:for the first time right after Vanessa's death]].
* Poor Umi in ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' after Alcyone uses her for icicle target practice. Complete with wide-eyed stare from Hikaru and Fuu.
* ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'' uses this during a holographic re-creation of the Kasshu family's downfall, when Domon's mother [[TakingTheBullet intercepts a bullet]] meant for her other son, Kyoji. Domon does a slow-motion dive for her as she falls dead.
* The Last Guidance in ''Anime/{{Noir}}''. Probably a homage to the above is the scene in ''Anime/ElCazadorDeLaBruja'' when [[spoiler:Nadie falls down after being apparently shot but it turns out she just slipped on the ice]].
* Happens to Haruhi in the last episode of ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', though she was just thrown over the side of a bridge instead of being shot. The thing is, she falls ''so'' slowly that [[spoiler:Tamaki has time to say thanks to Eclaire, get out of a carriage, jump over a car and off a bridge, grab and hug Haruhi, and execute a swan dive]] before she actually starts falling. Lampshaded in episode 4 when [[TheCasanova Tamaki]] collapses after being repeatedly insulted by [[OtakuSurrogate Renge]].
* ''Manga/Reborn2004'': Whenever Reborn shoots Tsuna with the "Dying Will Bullets" he is shown falling backwards in a show of dying to the ground before getting a fierce expression on his face and going into "Dying Will Mode", complete with massive ClothingDamage.
%%* Happens a few times (for a few reasons) in ''Manga/RozenMaiden''.
* Two opening from ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' have this, the first with Matoi, the second with Fuuka.
* ''Manga/SoulEater''- This happens to Soul, complete with [[spoiler:flying blood drops in mid-air]], when he [[TakingTheBullet Takes The Sword]] for [[spoiler:Maka in the fight against Ragnarok.]]
* ''Anime/WolfsRain'': [[spoiler:Toboe, after being accidentally shot by Quent instead of TakingTheBullet for him. At this point the audience can tell that Toboe's NotQuiteDead yet because he's still maintaining his human disguise.]]
* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Yugi Mutou has a face-forward one (complete with his friends screaming a SayMyName) after he aims a destructive banned card, Death Meteor, at himself in a HeroicSacrifice at the end of his duel with a BrainwashedAndCrazy Jounouchi in season two.
* ''Anime/ZombieLandSaga:'' In the very [[Recap/ZombieLandSagaE01 first episode]], [[Characters/ZombieLandSagaSakuraMinamoto Sakura]] is flung into the air after being hit by an oncoming truck, and the scene slows down right as she's about to come falling to the ground, dead. This scene is recreated multiple times throughout the show, sometimes PlayedForLaughs[[spoiler: and sometimes PlayedForDrama]].
** [[Recap/ZombieLandSagaE07 In episode 7]], Junko is hit by Kotaro's van in an almost mirror fashion to Sakura, who can't help but feel DejaVu. PlayedForLaughs.
** [[spoiler:[[Recap/ZombieLandSagaE10 In episode 10]], Sakura is once again hit by a truck running out of a house. PlayedForDrama as it causes her to suffer amnesia of her (un)life as a zombie.]]
** [[spoiler:[[Recap/ZombieLandSagaRevengeE07 In episode 10]], Maimai slips on a bar of soap that Kotaro drops, creating a scene that [[{{Parody}} parallels the show's first episode]].]]
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[[folder:Film — Animated]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'', when Baymax and Hiro fall from the window at the secret microbot factory, the scene goes into slow motion.
* In the climax of ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', when [[spoiler:Hank sends the truck to Cleveland careening off a cliff and into the ocean, opening the doors and sending all the creatures in the back released, including Dory, from captivity and back into the their homes in the ocean]], all set to Music/LouisArmstrong's "What a Wonderful World".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'' begins his story by falling to his death.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', when Bonnie tosses her dolls in the air, for a short moment we see Woody falling in slow motion.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', when Mei jumps off Mr. Gao's roof toward her family's temple, the shot of her falling is played in slow motion to act as a HopeSpot that she'll land within the temple walls.
* ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph'': During the climax, when Ralph plunges into the stack of Mentos, there is a swift moment of him falling in slow motion, almost like floating in mid-air.
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[[folder:Film — Live-Action]]
* ''Film/ThreeHundred'' had a scene in which a character's head gets chopped off and falls in slow motion.
** Parodied in ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Meet The Spartans]]'', in which the character had time to do that pump chest peace out thing.
* ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' when the title characters shot down the Bolivian bandits.
* [[spoiler:Hans Gruber]] in ''Film/DieHard'', though he actually falls at normal speed after the first twenty feet or so.
* Mirena, the wife of Vlad, falling to her death in ''Film/DraculaUntold''.
* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' (2012) has two of these, both POVCam shots where [[DrugsCausingSlowMotion the victim had their perception slowed down thanks to the drug Slo-Mo]]. They almost edge into IFellForHours. This also happens at the end when Dredd subjects [[BigBad Ma-Ma]] to her own drug before throwing her out the window.
* In ''Film/{{Frequency}}'', Dennis Quaid did a slo-mo fall out of a burning building into the Hudson River, followed by his [[SlowMotionDrop helmet]] bouncing on the pavement.
* [[spoiler:Dumbledore's death]] leads to this in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''.
* Mr. Yoon falling to his death in ''Film/TheHost2006''.
* Several in ''Film/{{Inception}}'', but [[spoiler: everyone who does fall is alright]] since they're used as a method of waking a dreaming team member up or as a way for a dreaming person to quickly wake ''themselves'' up.
** The part where the van falls into the river, which takes ''half the movie'' to finish falling.
** Cars going off a bridge in slow motion seems to have become a standard ever since ''Film/{{Inception}}'', see similar scenes in ''Film/CloudAtlas'' and ''Film/Unknown2011''.
* ''[[Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague Justice League]]'': Diana/Wonder Woman's fall during the fight against Steppenwolf in the tunnels. She tries to grab her sword during the fall, and when Flash enters his SuperSpeed mode, the slow motion almost gets to a standstill (from his perspective) as he [[WallRun runs on the wall]] to hit the tip of his finger to send the sword back in Diana's hand.
* Happens to Isabeau in ''Film/{{Ladyhawke}}''. Before she hits the ground, sun rises and her curse turns her back into a hawk.
* Jack Slater's fall from the elevator in ''Film/LastActionHero''.
* The ''Film/LethalWeapon'' films feature Riggs in [[{{Pun}} non-lethal]] examples:
** Jumping along with the suicidal guy (they're supposedly cuffed together; you can see the stunt doubles jumping uncuffed) in I.
** Falling, along with Leo Getz and an unknown goon, into a swimming pool, in II.
** Falling, then hanging on for dear life after driving a motorcycle off an unfinished freeway ramp, then falling again on to some scaffold, in III (both falls can be seen in the preview).
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings:''
** Done with [[spoiler:Boromir]] at the end of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]''. When the first arrow hits him, he staggers and falls slowly to his knees... but, since this is his DyingMomentOfAwesome, he stands back up and keeps fighting while the scene remains in slow motion. It's repeated when he's hit by a second arrow, falls, and stands again, but the third arrow finishes it. The scene returns to normal speed when Aragorn crashes into the Uruk-Hai archer.
** [[spoiler:Haldir's]] death in ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'' movie is an interesting take on this as we see it through his eyes. Followed promptly by a FoeTossingCharge by Aragorn.
* ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'': At the start of the film, Neo has been having recurring dreams where his lover Trinity falls out of an office window when she's cornered by an agent, while turning around and shooting at him until he kills her. Then it seems to happen for real, [[spoiler:but Neo ultimately saves her before she hits the ground and removes the bullet with his matrix-warping powers.]]
* In ''Film/MazeRunnerTheDeathCure'', this is how [[spoiler:Teresa]]'s death is portrayed, falling from a crumbling helipad.
* ''Film/TheProfessional'' has a first-person POV example after [[spoiler: Leon]] is shot in the back by the BigBad.
* ''Film/TheRoom2003'': [[spoiler:Johnny]] falls backwards in slow motion after [[spoiler:[[AteHisGun eating his gun]]]].
* The ending of Hitchcock's ''Film/{{Saboteur}}'', where the villain falls from the Statue of Liberty leaving the hero holding onto an empty jacket sleeve.
* In ''Film/SevenSamurai'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMWsOyOHaaA Kyuzo's first scene]] [[EstablishingCharacterMoment establishes him]] as a [[TheStoic stoic]] MasterSwordsman by showing him defeat a man in a duel with a [[SingleStrokeBattle single stroke]]. An early example of this trope is played to great effect as we see Kyuzo's opponent fall.
* Done for hilarity and/or cruelty in ''Film/ShaolinSoccer'' when a woman slipping on a banana peel is stretched out to more than a minute with multiple camera angles for good measure. In the epilogue, [[spoiler:she slips on another peel, but has now learned Kung Fu, so she rights herself in mid-air and then performs a SlowMotionPassBy on the man who popularized Kung Fu for a new generation.]]
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** [[spoiler:Qui-Gon Jinn]] in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'', after [[spoiler:Darth Maul finishes him]].
** The Darth Vader apparition in the treecave being beheaded by Luke in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''.
* Aman's wife [[spoiler:[[KilledOffForReal for good]]]] in ''Survive Style 5+''.
* The Comedian being thrown through the glass in TheMovie of ''Film/{{Watchmen}}'', as seen in the trailer.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The 4th season of ''Series/BigLove'' featured lots of Slow Motion Falling in its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58jq0U6q51w teaser]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RlfJ7fX_ZM new opening credits sequence]], presumably reflecting the fears of the characters about [[spoiler: being exiled from their church.]]
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E6TheAgeOfSteel "The Age of Steel"]]: The parallel universe Cyber-Controller falls to his doom after Pete Tyler cuts the ladder the Controller is climbing with the sonic screwdriver.
** [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CSVoyageOfTheDamned "Voyage of the Damned"]]: Four characters fall into the ''Titanic''[='s=] nuclear storm drive this way. One of which was by forklift.
* ''Series/EngineSentaiGoOnger'' had [[spoiler: Sosuke]] collapses and [[spoiler: turns into rust]] due to a device given to him by one of the villains. He gets better though.
* Colin in the first season of ''Series/{{Everwood}}''. While he doesn't die, it's the beginning of the end for him.
* ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'' features one played so literally, the victim managed to land on his feet, rather than falling to his death. This is caused by the enemy's "Slowdown" phenomena.
* Parodied in the finale of ''Series/{{Newhart}}'' when Dick is hit in the head by a golf ball and slumps to the ground in slow motion as the soundtrack becomes heavily reverberant. [[spoiler:Cut to the reveal that the entire series was AllJustADream.]]
%%* SNL's Dear Sister. And the original scene from ''Series/TheOC''.
* In the ''Series/StargateSG1'' episode [[Recap/StargateSG1S5E102001 "102001"]]: Carter's drop into the gate.
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[[folder:Roleplay]]
* In ''Roleplay/DawnOfANewAgeOldportBlues'', Rhys [[MurderByMistake accidentally]] shoots Carlie while trying to aim at Daigo. Rhys and Hyeon describe her body falling, with both making mention of how it seems to happen in slow-motion.
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* ''Theatre/TheLightInThePiazza'' has an indirect one- there's a song in which Margaret ''describes'' her daughter's slow motion fall, but we don't actually see it, which wouldn't work on stage anyway and is much more effective.
* ''Theatre/SpiesAreForever'' uses this trope for comedy for Owen's fall during the failed mission. He makes an exaggerated face and falls in slow motion as Curt reaches out slowly with a similarly goofy face.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* [[spoiler: Victor Zakhaev]] in ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare Call of Duty 4]]'', after he [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled shoots himself to avoid capture by the SAS and Marines.]]
* Every [[ShowdownAtHighNoon quick-draw duel]] in ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarez'' ends with this, following the BulletTime during the actual shots. Also, [[spoiler:William's death]] in the penultimate cutscene of ''VideoGame/CallOfJuarezBoundInBlood''.
* This happens to Sora in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI'' after unlocking his heart with a Keyblade to free Kairi's heart.
* The ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles'' series uses this twice:
** In ''Shadow Lake'', when the young Billy falls from his school bell tower to his death.
** In ''Broken Hour'', when Meredith Huxley gets blown through a clock tower and falls down to her demise.
%%* [[spoiler: Shuji Ikutsuki]] in ''VideoGame/Persona3''.
* Near the end of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil5'', Chris and Sheva open up the plane's cargo door to make [[BigBad Wesker]] fall out. Wesker grabs Sheva's ankle in attempt to [[TakingYouWith me drag her out with him]]. Sheva loses her grip and the scene of her and Wesker falling plays in slow motion. If you fail to grab her in time, Sheva is sucked out of the plane with Wesker, ending in a game over.
* Each of the colossi in ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' get one when they die. They fall slowly because of their size. Amusingly, the small ones get the same length music and cutscene, even though they take only a half-second or so to drop.
* Tsumuji's mother in ''VideoGame/ShounenKinindenTsumuji'' pushes Tsumuji into a hole to save him and he falls in slowly before she is turned to stone.
* Shield Knight from ''VideoGame/ShovelKnight'' is shown falling in slow-motion on several occasions, giving Shovel Knight an opportunity to catch her.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' has a villain falling ''sideways'', towards the gravitation pull of the Milky Way Galaxy's sun which he's trying to harvest for its resources, and setting up Kevin for a SaveTheVillain moment. [[spoiler: Which winds up subverted, Kevin lets him continue being pulled into the sun and his death because he was the one that killed Kevin's father.]]
* Happens to Vakama in ''Toys/{{Bionicle}} 3: Web of Shadows'', with Nokama, who is one of his TrueCompanions, watching in horror.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''
** "Stewie Kills Lois", with Lois falling in slo-mo off the ship's railing.
** Nazi puppeteer Franz at the end of his battle with Herbert.
** The death of Diane Simmons, after she becomes a serial killer; after Stewie shoots her she plummets over a cliff into the sea.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[Recap/StevenUniverseS1E48TheReturn "The Return"]] has Garnet falling slowly backwards [[spoiler:after being hit by a Gem destabilizer]]. For bonus gut-wrenching, it happens right in front of Steven, and she's ''physically splitting apart'' at the time.
* Used in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' when [[spoiler: Rogue]] Pushes [[spoiler: Mystique]] off a cliff. Nightcrawler tries to BAMF down to save her, but he can't get there in time. When she finally comes to a halt in pieces at the bottom of the cliff, he teleports down there and starts crying over her remains.
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