History Main / ThreePointLanding

* Sonic and friends like to do that in newer ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' games sometimes.

* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCuGJD1u58&feature=PlayList&p=298A9A6DA98393C9&playnext=1&index=37 guy]] does it a lot in his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_0XqZqxCaQ presentations]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwegzn92_i0 competitions]].

* Baymax does this in ''WesternAnimation/BigHero6'' after rescuing Hiro during the final battle. Presumably, this is one of the things Hiro programmed into him as part of his fighting package.

** In "Luthor", [[spoiler:[[EvilCounterpart Clark Luthor]] does this. Comes with a ShockwaveStomp.

* ''Series/Supergirl2015''

** In "Luthor", [[spoiler:[[EvilCounterpart Clark Luthor]]]] does this. Comes with a ShockwaveStomp.

** In "Luthor", [[spoiler:[[EvilCounterpart Clark]] [[ForWantOfANail Luthor]]]] does this. Comes with a ShockwaveStomp.

A play on "three-point landing", an aircraft landing in which both the main gear (the wheels further back on tricycle gear aircraft like airliners) and the tail/nosewheel touch down on the runway at the same time, which is ''not'' a good thing for tricycle-gear planes due to the nosewheel not being designed to take that sort of stress[[note]]the main gear are meant to take the initial shock before the nose is brought down[[/note]], though it’s usually not a big deal for taildraggers (and is actually preferred for some of them)[[note]]and naval aircraft meant to land on an aircraft carrier are specifically designed to land like this, as there's not enough space on a carrier deck to allow for a gentle rear-wheels-first landing[[/note]].

* Major Kusanagi does this when she's pursuing a guy in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell1995''. She lands on a metal roof tile that [[GroundShatteringLanding buckles under the impact]].

* ''Film/Deadpool2016'':

** In ''Film/IronMan2'', Iron Man performs a three-point landing in two different instances of landing on the Stark Expo main stage, [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/ironman/images/2/27/Iron_Man_Expo_Landing.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140625180802 here]] and [[http://static6.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_large/11128/111284868/5199957-iron+man+entrance+gif.gif here]]. Black Widow also performs one, as seen in the page image, but it's not a landing; she's actually getting up from a slide along the ground.

** ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' has Tony performing a three-point landing when he makes an appearance in Germany to capture Loki.

*** The titular Soldier does it after flying off a braking car. Sparks are flying when he brakes with his metal arm.

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/BlackWidow2021''. Yelena mocks Natasha for doing these so often, calling it a "fighting pose" (and Natasha, by extension, a "total poser") and adding that, with the ensuing HairFlip, she thinks Natasha really wants to show off. [[spoiler:And then Yelena herself does this while leaving an air vent hideout, which causes her to shudder and remark "that was disgusting".]] (Creator/FlorencePugh [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/black-widow-scarlett-johansson-florence-pugh-disney-plus-1234975907/ revealed]] [[ActorInspiredElement this was added by the writers overhearing her comments]], which even had a stuntman agreeing "Well, yeah. [[AwesomeButImpractical If she actually landed like that, she would have broken her spine.]]")

* Homelander from ''Series/TheBoys2019'' likes to do this when he wants to make an entrance, though he's just as likely to have his hands at his hips when he lands. Given his media savvy, it's likely deliberate. Stormfront, meanwhile, normally averts this, preferring instead to [[PowerFloats land more slowly]] on a [[ShockAndAwe bed of lightning]].

* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' shows:

*** Wanda does one when her Hex Vision tackles White Vision off of her.

** ''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'': In the first episode, Kamala does an impressive one after jumping out of her bedroom window and swinging on a tree branch, but only in her ImagineSpot. When she attempts the move for real, it ends with the tree branch breaking off and landing on ''her.'' She pulls off a shaky but otherwise successful one in the second episode after saving a kid's life. Unfortunately she fails to wait until she's done saving him to start posing, and doing so causes her powers to fail and almost drop the kid onto a car.

-->-- '''Deadpool''', ''Film/Deadpool2016''

** ''Series/Hawkeye2021'':

** ''Series/MoonKnight2022'': In the second episode Steven Grant is thrown out of a window and, as he's falling, he summons the Mr. Knight suit which allows him to hit the ground in this position. After a few seconds of posing [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Steven collapses onto his side in pain from landing on his knees that way]].
** ''Series/MsMarvel2022'': In the first episode, Kamala does an impressive one after jumping out of her bedroom window and swinging on a tree branch, but only in her ImagineSpot. When she attempts the move for real, it ends with the tree branch breaking off and landing on ''her.'' She pulls off a shaky but otherwise successful one in the second episode after saving a kid's life. Unfortunately she fails to wait until she's done saving him to start posing, and doing so causes her powers to fail and almost drop the kid onto a car.

* [[TheBigGirl Tiren]], of ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany'', jumps off the airship, does several flips and lands this way [[YouShallNotPass between]] a cornered [[DamselInDistress Sal]] and advancing [[TheDragon Izor]]. Too bad the acrobatics gives her motion sickness and [[VomitDiscretionShot ruins]] the [[BigDamnHeroes moment]].
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': When chasing Zola, right after a set of stairs lampshade Zeetha and Higg's status as heroes, Zeetha jumps through a hole and lands in a wide crouch with her hands in front of her, at least one stablizing her landing on the rubble.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhkrahTqaUI The first part]] of the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' short ''The World's Longest Deathtrap'' plays with this trope. Dewey falls from a great height and lands like this perfectly... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome then collapses and complains about how inefficient this technique is]].

* PlayedForLaughs and for SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome in ''LightNovel/GoblinSlayer'', when the agile, lithe High Elf Archer performs this move jumping down from a second-story... and looks visibly pained and wobbly as she is getting up.

* One of the adverts for ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' plays with this trope. Dewey falls from a great height and lands like this perfectly... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome then complains that the landing still hurt and how inefficient this technique is]].

-->-- '''Deadpool''', ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}''

* Subverted in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': Amelia tries to perform acrobatics, but ''accidentally'' lands head down, and it hurts.
* Kirito pulls this off in his BigDamnHeroes ascent to the entrance of the World Tree in ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline''. Dressed in a black BadassLongcoat, it almost seemed more of an homage to ''Film/TheMatrix''. His sudden ground-shaking landing caused other players nearby to wonder if a special game event was in progress.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' You're on a soon-to-explode artificial island, running for your life towards the blimp that is your only means of escape, but your MoralityPet kid sibling can't keep up. What do you do? If you're Seto Kaiba, the answer is: pick him up and throw him onto the blimp's ramp with one hand, then jump clean over him and land like so.

* ''ComicBook/{{Youngblood|2017}}'': Issue #2 has Suprema landing like this on a car, crushing it and using the shockwaves to knock Shaft backwards.

* Major Kusanagi does this when she's pursuing a guy in ''Anime/{{Ghost in the Shell|1995}}''. She lands on a metal roof tile that buckles under the impact.

* ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'':

* ''Film/IRobot'', when Sonny escapes from the lab by jumping a dozen stories to the lobby, he performs a text book three-point landing, [[GroundShatteringLanding breaking the stone floor]]. Helps that he's a robot.

** ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' has Tony performing a three-point landing when he makes an appearance in Germany to capture Loki.

** {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Film/{{Black Widow|2021}}''. Yelena mocks Natasha for doing these so often, calling it a "fighting pose" (and Natasha, by extension, a "total poser") and adding that, with the ensuing HairFlip, she thinks Natasha really wants to show off. [[spoiler:And then Yelena herself does this while leaving an air vent hideout, which causes her to shudder and remark "that was disgusting".]] (Creator/FlorencePugh [[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/black-widow-scarlett-johansson-florence-pugh-disney-plus-1234975907/ revealed]] [[ActorInspiredElement this was added by the writers overhearing her comments]], which even had a stuntman agreeing "Well, yeah. [[AwesomeButImpractical If she actually landed like that, she would have broken her spine.]]")

* Homelander on ''Series/{{The Boys|2019}}'' likes to do this when he wants to make an entrance, though he's just as likely to have his hands at his hips when he lands. Given his media savvy, it's likely deliberate. Stormfront, meanwhile, normally averts this, preferring instead to [[PowerFloats land more slowly]] on a [[ShockAndAwe bed of lightning]].

* In the pilot episode of ''Series/DarkMatter'' the spaceship has to dodge a couple of missiles, so does an emergency maneuver that overloads the ability of the ArtificialGravity and InertialDampening to compensate. Cue everyone floating into the air, then getting slammed into the deck, except Two, the woman who ordered the maneuver who manages a cool-looking ThreePointLanding because she knew it was coming.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse shows:

** ''Series/{{Hawkeye|2021}}'':

** ''Series/{{Moon Knight|2022}}'': In the second episode Steven Grant is thrown out of a window and, as he's falling, he summons the Mr. Knight suit which allows him to hit the ground in this position. After a few seconds of posing [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Steven collapses onto his side in pain from landing on his knees that way]].
** ''[[Series/MsMarvel2022 Ms. Marvel]]'': In the first episode, Kamala does an impressive one after jumping out of her bedroom window and swinging on a tree branch, but only in her ImagineSpot. When she attempts the move for real, it ends with the tree branch breaking off and landing on ''her.'' She pulls off a shaky but otherwise successful one in the second episode after saving a kid's life. Unfortunately she fails to wait until she's done saving him to start posing, and doing so causes her powers to fail and almost drop the kid onto a car.

* Burnham pulls one off in ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'''s third episode when dropping into a shuttlecraft through the roof hatch. The landing is seen in the assorted promos for the series due to the coolness factor.
* ''Series/{{Supergirl|2015}}''
** [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Danvers]] has mastered this landing pose, having practiced it since [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-er9cwycDiMU/Wg19rYnyF5I/AAAAAAAAxCc/TRm1qcI88CE149ulyrbfzk5aOR_zuE_eQCLcBGAs/s1600/9.jpeg she was a teenager]].

* The Doom Slayer from ''VideoGame/{{DOOM|2016}}'' lands in this pose after particularly long falls, which gives a nice impression of how this stunt would look like from a first-person perspective.

** Tifa makes a habit of doing this in both ''VideoGame/{{Dissidia Final Fantasy|2015}}'' and the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake''. In the latter she will even do it multiple times in a single attack.

* The Prince from ''VideoGame/{{Prince of Persia|2008}}'' lands like this after finishing a mid-air combo.

* One of the adverts for ''WesternAnimation/{{DuckTales|2017}}'' (2017) plays with this trope. Dewey falls from a great height and lands like this perfectly... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome then complains that the landing still hurt and how inefficient this technique is]].

* Robin pulls this off in the opening theme for ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}''.

* At the beginning of the sixth ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film, ''Meet the Pegasus'', Wolffy appears and lands on the ground in this way after the goats point out that the group of wolves confronting them does not include Wolffy.

* In ''FloraAndUlysses'' Ulysses the squirrel does a superhero landing during his diner-destroying leap which convinces the Buckmans of his superheroic status.

* [[TheBigGirl Tiren]], of ''Webcomic/DubiousCompany'', jumps off the airship, does several flips and lands this way [[YouShallNotPass between]] a cornered [[DistressedDamsel Sal]] and advancing [[TheDragon Izor]]. Too bad the acrobatics gives her motion sickness and [[VomitDiscretionShot ruins]] the [[BigDamnHeroes moment]].