History PlayingWith / NotTheFallThatKillsYou

* '''Defied''': Despite everyone telling him he'll be okay as long as he finds something to break his fall, Frederik refuses to to take the dangerous jump, because he passed his physics class in high school and knows that it's foolish.

* '''Exaggerated''': Frederik [[RecycledInSpace falls through the atmosphere]] only to be saved from all damage by landing on a trampoline.

* '''Inverted''': Frederik dies mid-air after [[IFellForHours falling for quite some time.]][[note]]This is actually possible. When you know you are falling from a great enough height that you'll go splat on impact, the fear of that impact can actually stop your heart before you land. Receiving some other fatal injury while in freefall, say, [[InstantDeathBullet a bullet wound]] for example, can also have this effect.[[/note]]

** Alternatively, the setting does not have RealLife physics.
** [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Alternatively alternatively]], Frederik is NighInvulnerable.
** [[RunningGag Alternatively alternatively alternatively]], Frederik can block elements, like wind and earth.
** [[OverlyLongGag Alternatively alternatively alternatively alternatively]], Frederik did something to slow down his fall.

** Alternatively alternatively, Frederik is NighInvulnerable.
** Alternatively alternatively alternatively, Frederik can block elements, like wind and earth.
** Alternatively again, Frederik did something to slow down his fall.

* '''Straight''': Frederik jumps out from a helicopter but survives the fall because George caught him.
* '''Exaggerated''': Frederik [[RecycledInSpace falls through the atmosphere]] only to be saved from all damage by landing in a puddle.
* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Inverted''': Frederik dies mid-air after falling some time.[[note]]This is actually possible. When you know you are falling from a great enough height that you'll go splat on impact, the fear of that impact can actually stop your heart before you land. Receiving some other fatal injury while in freefall, say, [[InstantDeathBullet a bullet wound]] for example, can also have this effect.[[/note]]
* '''Subverted''': Frederik manages to grab a ledge, but it breaks from the sudden impact and sends him falling.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Fredrick jumps off a cliff, but survives because he falls into a body of water. However, when he jumps off his helicopter, he dies after hitting a body of water similar to the one he fell into when he jumped off the cliff.
* '''Averted''': Frederik tries to catch a ledge after falling out the helicopter, but only manages to break his arm, and he falls to his death anyway.
* '''Enforced''': "Wait, we need to have our hero do that thing where he falls from the top of a skyscraper, but survives due to falling in a puddle! Every movie has a scene like that, right?"

* '''Invoked''': Frederik deliberately aims for a body of water to break his fall.

* '''Deconstructed''': Fredrick either dies or is crippled after being caught.
* '''Reconstructed''': Frederick is seen falling and onlookers think he will Go Splat, but he employs a parachute.

* '''Justified''': Frederik is on a low-gravity planet and most of the regular surface is lethal on touch -- only the ledges and water are free from that toxic substance.

* '''Deconstructed''': Fredrick either dies or is crippled after being caught.
* '''Reconstructed''': Frederick is seen falling and onlookers think he will Go Splat, but he employs a parachute.

* '''Conversed''': "So Frederik, what would you do if you fell out of a plane like those people in the tail section on {{Lost}}?" "I dunno George, probably wave my arms to try to slow down and aim for the softest thing I can find to break my fall."

----

'''Basic Trope''': A character falls off ofa high place, but survives by being caught before hitting the ground, or grabbing a ledge on the way down, or landing in water or something.

* '''Inverted''': Frederik dies mid-air after falling some time.[[hottip:**:This is actually possible. When you know you are falling from a great enough height that you'll go splat on impact, the fear of that impact can actually stop your heart before you land. Receiving some other fatal injury while in freefall, say, [[InstantDeathBullet a bullet wound]] for example, can also have this effect.]]

'''Basic Trope''': A character falls of a high place, but survives by being caught before hitting the ground, or grabbing a ledge on the way down, or landing in water or something.

* '''Inverted''': Frederik dies mid-air after falling some time.[[hottip:**:This is actually possible. When you know you are falling from a great enough height that you'll go splat on impact, the fear of that impact can actually stop your heart before you land. Receiving some other fatal injury while in freefall, say [[InstantDeathBullet a bullet wound]] for example, can also have this effect.]]

* '''Conversed''': "So Frederik, what would you do if you fell out of a plane like those people in the tail section on {{Lost}}?" "I dunno George, probably wave my arms to try to slow down and aim for the softest thing I can find to break my fall."

* '''Inverted''': Frederik dies mid-air after falling some time.

* '''Reconstructed''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': ??

* '''Justified''': Frederik is on a low-gravity planet and most of the regular surface is lethal on touch and the only the ledges and water are free from that toxic substance.
** Or it is not a real-life setting.
** Frederik is MadeOfIron.

* '''Conversed''': "So Frederik, what would you do if you fell out of a plane like those people in the tail section on {{Lost}}"? "I dunno George, probably wave my arms to try to slow down and aim for the softest thing I can find to break my fall."

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Enforced''': Frederik falls through thousands of updrafts and thermals slowing his descent to next to nothing, and catches a rubber band dangling from the flag pole which helps to gradually reverse his speed.

* '''Invoked''': Frederik deliberately aims for a body of water to try to break his fall
* '''Defied''': Frederik falls from about 30 feet into a swimming pool. A partially drained swimming pool, with about an inch of water covering the concrete bottom. He dies.
* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Discussed''': "So Frederik, what would you do if you fell out of a plane like those people in the tail section on {{Lost}}"? "I dunno George, probably wave my arms to try to slow down and aim for the softest thing I can find to break my fall.
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Discussed''': ???

* '''Exaggerated''': Frederik jumps out from a hot-air balloon but survives because he manages to grab onto a mountain ledge after a 30-second fall.

* '''Parodied''': Frederik [[RecycledInSpace falls through the atmosphere]] only to be saved from all damage by landing in a puddle

* '''Enforced''': ???

* '''Defied''': ???

*'''Lampshaded''': "Wow, Frederik is really lucky. He fell three stories and managed to do that flag-pole-catching thing they do in movies and cartoons."

*'''Exaggerated''': Frederik jumps out from a hot-air baloon but survives because he manages to grab onto a mountain ledge after a 30-second fall.

*'''Parodied''': ???

*'''Invoked''': ???