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* The inciting incident in ''Literature/{{Aniara}}'' is the ejection of the spaceship's reactor after a fire. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome The force of dumping all that equipment knocks the ship off course]], turning a [[CasualInterstellarTravel three-week trip to Mars]] into [[WagonTrainToTheStars a years-long voyage into uncharted space]]. [[spoiler:Many, many years.]]
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* In ''[[Literature/TheShipWho The City Who Fought]]'', refugees from a deliberately LostColony hastily retrofit their ColonyShip, which had been converted into an orbital station and eventually largely abandoned as the colony became SpaceAmish, to fly again, but they didn't have the time or resources to do it properly and couldn't outpace the SpacePirates. They're forced to vent the water tanks from life support to lose mass and confuse pursuers - unfortunately, that also means that life support is crippled and everyone has to go into cold sleep to try and avoid asphyxiation, despite all the cold sleep drugs being so long expired that CryonicsFailure is inevitable for many of them.
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* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Book 3 (''Rebel Dawn'') depicts Han having to dump a load of glitterstim near the Maw black hole cluster in order to avoid having it confiscated by the Imperial customs officials. Unable to recover it afterward, he ends up heavy in debt to Jabba the Hutt, setting up for the situation he's in at the start of ''Film/ANewHope''.
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* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Book 3 (''Rebel Dawn'') depicts Han having to dump a load of glitterstim near the Maw black hole cluster in order to avoid having it confiscated by the Imperial customs officials. Unable to recover it afterward, he ends up heavy heavily in debt to Jabba the Hutt, setting up for the situation he's in at the start of ''Film/ANewHope''.
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-->'''Plucky:''' ''(Crying)''' And I was gonna be such a nice rich guy!
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* ''WesternAnimation/ZigAndSharko'': A number of episodes have the plot device of the week fall out of a passing cargo airplane. Sometimes voluntarily, sometimes the pilot screws up and hits the BigRedButton by mistake.
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* ''Film/MysteriousIsland'': As the balloon starts losing altitude, the soldiers throw overboard everything they can in an attempt to keep it aloft for as long as possible.
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** A Submarine, meanwhile, uses ballast as its primary depth control, and can either release it or intake it slowly to gradually ascend and descend, or quickly in order to sprint to the surface (known as an "Emergency Blow") or to dive away from danger (known as a "Crash Dive"). These emergency maneuvers can themselves be dangerous due to A) Being about as stealthy as dropping a ship into the ocean, that is, not very, and B) the risk of the sub crashing into something unseen (as has happened in the past). Further, if the sub's hatches are not properly secured, a sudden crash dive could quickly turn into unplanned scuttling.
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** A Submarine, meanwhile, uses ballast as its primary depth control, and can either release it or intake it slowly to gradually ascend and descend, or quickly in order to sprint to the surface (known as an "Emergency Blow") or to dive away from danger (known as a "Crash Dive"). These emergency maneuvers can themselves be dangerous due to A) Being about as stealthy as dropping a ship into the ocean, that is, not very, and B) the risk of the sub crashing into something unseen (as has happened in the past). Further, if the sub's hatches are not properly secured, a sudden crash dive could quickly turn into unplanned scuttling.[[note]]Or a planned one, if the crew have abandoned the sub and need to deny it to the enemy.[[/note]]
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* ''Film/TheIsland'' brings us Lincoln-Twelve, who finds himself riding on a flatbed trailer full of railroad axles while being pursued. Some undoing of the straps later, and the enemies pursuing him are suddenly playing high-speed Dodgeball.
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* ''Film/TheIsland'' ''Film/TheIsland2005'' brings us Lincoln-Twelve, who finds himself riding on a flatbed trailer full of railroad axles while being pursued. Some undoing of the straps later, and the enemies pursuing him are suddenly playing high-speed Dodgeball.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': After one of the balloons is punctured, [[spoiler:Rourke]] tells [[spoiler:Helga]] to lighten the load. She throws every loose item on the balloon overboard. When she runs outof things to toss overboard, [[spoiler:Rourke]] pushes her off.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': After one of the balloons is punctured, [[spoiler:Rourke]] tells [[spoiler:Helga]] to lighten the load. She throws every loose item on the balloon overboard. When she runs outof out of things to toss overboard, [[spoiler:Rourke]] pushes her off.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AtlantisTheLostEmpire'': After one of the balloons is punctured, [[spoiler:Rourke]] tells [[spoiler:Helga]] to lighten the load. She throws every loose item on the balloon overboard. When she runs outof things to toss overboard, [[spoiler:Rourke]] pushes her off.
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* At the start of the third game of ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'', the player character has to dump out all of his frat's luggage off the magic carpet to ensure that they reach their destination safely. His fratmates are not appreciative when they land.
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** Vampire bats, although better at maneuvering on the ground than most bat species, still fare better if they can get airborne as soon as possible after a meal. They therefore have extremely fast-acting kidneys, which let them pee like crazy very soon after feeding, shedding the cumbersome weight of the watery component of blood.
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* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Book 3 (''Rebel Dawn'') depicts Han having to dump a load of glitterstim near the Maw black hole cluster in order to avoid having it confiscated by the Imperial customs officials. Unable to recover it afterward, he ends up heavy in debt to Jabba the Hutt, setting up for the situation he's in at the start of ''Film/ANewHope''.
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* ''Film/CocaineBear'' opens with Andrew C. Thornton II dumping the bags of cocaine out of a failing plane before attempting to jump out himself… and hitting his head on the door and falling out unconscious.
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See ColdEquation for similar situations where human sacrifice is required. See DisposableVehicleSection for cases where part of the vehicle itself is ejected. BringMyBrownPants is a biological response to stress designed to lighten a body's load/cause a distraction for a quick getaway. Completely unrelated to DramaticDrop.
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See ColdEquation ColdEquation, for similar situations where human sacrifice is required.required, and JettisonJetpackAttack, for when fuel tanks are discarded to become an improvised weapon. See DisposableVehicleSection for cases where part of the vehicle itself is ejected. BringMyBrownPants is a biological response to stress designed to lighten a body's load/cause a distraction for a quick getaway. Completely unrelated to DramaticDrop.
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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' had a few comical examples:
** In one Muppet News segment, The Newsman reports that an airplane was forced to throw out some sports equipment, which falls on The Newsman. In another, an airplane was forced to throw out some musical instruments, leading to a piano falling on The Newsman.
** In a Pigs in Space segment, the Swinetrek is losing power and Dr. Strangepork tells Link that they need to dump something the weight of one pig. Link considers dumping Miss Piggy.
** In one Muppet News segment, The Newsman reports that an airplane was forced to throw out some sports equipment, which falls on The Newsman. In another, an airplane was forced to throw out some musical instruments, leading to a piano falling on The Newsman.
** In a Pigs in Space segment, the Swinetrek is losing power and Dr. Strangepork tells Link that they need to dump something the weight of one pig. Link considers dumping Miss Piggy.
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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' had a few comical examples:
** In one Muppet News segment, The Newsman reports that an airplane was forced to throw out some sports equipment, which falls on The Newsman. In another, an airplane was forced to throw out some musical instruments, leading to [[PianoDrop a piano falling on The Newsman]].
** In a Pigs in Space segment, the Swinetrek is losing power and Dr. Strangepork tells Link that they need to dump something the weight of one pig. Link considers dumping Miss Piggy.
* ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'': In "The Road to Ka-Larry", Sue Snue, Fox in Socks, and Mr. Knox are on the way to the Kingdom of Ka-Larry to deliver an important package to Queen Regina. When they travel aboard a zeppelin piloted by Horton, they are in danger of crashing into a mountain and have to throw something overboard to make the zeppelin rise. At first, Sue, Fox, and Knox all turn their attention to Horton, since he's an elephant, but decide against tossing him overboard since he's the pilot. Horton instead tosses out the three 25-karat donuts in the box, much to Sue's dismay (he didn't find them very tasty). This results in the zeppelin flying over the mountain, but he unfortunately tosses out too much weight, causing the zeppelin to fly too high, and into thin air.
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* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' had a few comical examples:
** In one Muppet News segment, The Newsman reports that an airplane was forced to throw out some sports equipment, which falls on The Newsman. In another, an airplane was forced to throw out some musical instruments, leading to [[PianoDrop a piano falling on The Newsman]].
** In a Pigs in Space segment, the Swinetrek is losing power and Dr. Strangepork tells Link that they need to dump something the weight of one pig. Link considers dumping Miss Piggy.
* ''Series/TheWubbulousWorldOfDrSeuss'': In "The Road to Ka-Larry", Sue Snue, Fox in Socks, and Mr. Knox are on the way to the Kingdom of Ka-Larry to deliver an important package to Queen Regina. When they travel aboard a zeppelin piloted by Horton, they are in danger of crashing into a mountain and have to throw something overboard to make the zeppelin rise. At first, Sue, Fox, and Knox all turn their attention to Horton, since he's an elephant, but decide against tossing him overboard since he's the pilot. Horton instead tosses out the three 25-karat donuts in the box, much to Sue's dismay (he didn't find them very tasty). This results in the zeppelin flying over the mountain, but he unfortunately tosses out too much weight, causing the zeppelin to fly too high, and into thin air.
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* ''Film/TheIslandAtTheTopOfTheWorld'': When the ''Hyperion'' hits a mountain while flying into the storm covering Astragard, Sir Anthony immediately climbs out on to the catwalk and starts jettisoning the extra barrels of fuel in order to lighten the airship.
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* ''Film/TheIslandAtTheTopOfTheWorld'': When the ''Hyperion'' hits a mountain while flying into the storm covering Astragard, Sir Anthony immediately climbs out on to onto the catwalk and starts jettisoning the extra barrels of fuel in order to lighten the airship.
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* ''Spaceship Medic'' by Creator/HarryHarrison. After being struck by a meteor, a spaceship has gone off course and doesn't have enough reaction mass (fuel) to correct this. However, a scientist on board realises they're looking at the problem the wrong way -- they just have to decrease the spaceship's overall mass until the fuel they have is enough. They can't dump the cargo because it's locked in cradles on the outside of the ship, so they strip everything inside and throw it out the airlock, including the passengers' luggage. That backfires later when the resentful passengers launch a mutiny.
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* ''Spaceship Medic'' by Creator/HarryHarrison. After being struck by a meteor, a spaceship has gone off course and doesn't have enough reaction mass (fuel) to correct this. However, a scientist on board realises realizes they're looking at the problem the wrong way -- they just have to decrease the spaceship's overall mass until the fuel they have is enough. They can't dump the cargo because it's locked in cradles on the outside of the ship, so they strip everything inside and throw it out the airlock, including the passengers' luggage. That backfires later when the resentful passengers launch a mutiny.
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* Some birds such as vultures will regurgitate the contents of their filled crops, if the weight of a heavy meal would otherwise be too great for them to get airborne and escape an oncoming predator.
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* The first aerial crossing of the English Channel was achieved by two balloonists, French Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries. The offloading started in a fit of international rivalry when each participant "accidentally" dropped the other's flag overboard, but things turned serious when they realized they were at risk of crashing before they reached their destination in Calais, France. After losing all balast they were forced to also throw away various equipment they had brought along, and Blanchard even threw away his own trousers. They barely made it.
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* The first aerial crossing of the English Channel was achieved by two balloonists, French Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries. The offloading started in a fit of international rivalry when each participant "accidentally" dropped the other's flag overboard, but things turned serious when they realized they were at risk of crashing before they reached their destination in Calais, France. After losing all balast ballast they were forced to also throw away various equipment they had brought along, and Blanchard even threw away his own trousers. They barely made it.
