History Main / CameFromTheSky

** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': After having seen [[ComicBook/PublicEnemies2003 a giant Kryptonite meteorite]] crashing on Earth, Batman is picking up the pieces scattered in the bottom of Gotham Bay when he stumbls upon an empty vessel alien. When he and Superman find its owner, they find the latter's cousin, Kara Zor-El.

** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': After having seen [[ComicBook/PublicEnemies a giant Kryptonite meteorite]] crashing on Earth, Batman is picking up the pieces scattered in the bottom of Gotham Bay when he stumbls upon an empty vessel alien. When he and Superman find its owner, they find the latter's cousin, Kara Zor-El.

%%** ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis Kara]]'''s origin story, ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'', had her found by Batman and Superman. %%Example needs context to make sense on its own.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'': Hal Jordan got [[ResignedToTheCall taken]] to the site where he was [[ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin given the Ring]] by a [[AlmostDeadGuy dying]] Abin Sur.

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* Manga/{{Radiant}}: The monsters called Nemesis randomly fall from the sky to Pharenos inside eggs and after hatching, cause destruction on their surroundings.

* ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'': The Bakugan Cards are described by Dan as something like this in the first intro.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'': The origin story of Goku before the events of ''Manga/DragonBall'', found and adopted; and in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', how Raditz arrives on Earth, complete with farmer and a shotgun.

** Also in [[Anime/ChoppersKingdomOnTheIslandOfStrangeAnimals the third movie]], the animals in the titular island believe that Chopper was their king when he seemingly came flying down from the sky. The truth was that he was simply flung off Going Merry when the ship went flying and landed in front of the animals.

** According to most of his origin stories, this is how he was adopted by the Kent family.
** In ''ComicBook/SupermanUnchained'', [[MilitarySuperhero Wraith]] ended up on Earth this way. Unlike Superman, however, he ended up landing at a military installation and sent for a purpose he appears to have known, thus leading to [[ShadowArchetype very different development]].

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton1959'', Clark Kent found [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Zor-El]] when he saw a rocket crashing down to Earth and flew to the landing site to investigate. Inside the rocket he found a teenager girl who was dressed like him and happened to be his cousin.
** ''[[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis Kara]]'''s origin story, ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'', had her found by Batman and Superman.

** In ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the titular character's rocket ship crashes in Metropolis' Centennial Park. Dr. Light and Gangbuster head to the zone to investigate and run into Bizarrogirl.

* ''ComicBook/TeenTitansRebirth'': This is how a newborn Crush arrives to Earth, then is found by David and Lisa Rojas, who would end up adopting her. (As seen in Issue #25.)
* ''ComicBook/{{Hillbilly}}'' had an arc called "Red-Eyed Witchery From Beyond", about a meteorite bringing an alien curse to the hill country.

* ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'': The Mask of Nihilus arrives on Remnant this way. After being dropped into Remnant's atmosphere, the mask's container crash-lands near a monastery and creates an impact crater.
* ''Fanfic/LastChildOfKrypton'': Details change between both versions, but a Kryptonian rocket crashed down on Antarctica, and Yui Ikari found it.

* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'': Kal-El's ship crash-landed in Germany, [[spoiler:killing the baby, and his remains were found and taken to STAR Labs for analysis]]. Eventually his DNA was used to [[spoiler:fertilize the ova that would be Asuka]].

* The [[MaskOfPower Mask of Life]], housing protagonist Mata Nui's soul in ''WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}} -- The Legend Reborn'', crashes this way on the [[SingleBiomePlanet desert planet]] Bara Magna. In earlier media, background info was relayed through a sort of tribal play, in which special stones representing Mata Nui, [[BigBad Makuta]] and the Toa were shown falling out of the sky.

* ''Film/TheBlob1958'', An old man pokes it with a stick.

* ''Film/{{Evolution|2001}}'' was the plot set up as a meteor crashed to Earth and the bacteria inside of it evolved rapidly into alien life forms to live on Earth.

* In the ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' remake movie, where it's the human ship at the bottom of the crater.

* ''Film/{{Prey}}'': The heroine sees a falling star and initially thinks it's some kind of omen, but it turns out to be a Predator's spacecraft.
* ''Film/{{Slither}}'', which was an affectionate parody of a bunch of monster movies, had the nasty arrive from space via crashing to earth.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Imperial probe droids do this. One lands on Hoth and was mistaken for a meteorite. Luke had intended to investigate the crash site, but was attacked by a wampa, a yeti-like predator.

* The titular character's hammer in the live-action film ''Film/{{Thor}}''. Also shown after the credits of ''Film/IronMan2''.
* The ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' uses this to explain how they get to Earth. Also has the second type where Megatron is discovered frozen a good while after he got here.
* Various adaptations of Creator/HGWells' ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' start this way.

* Creator/HPLovecraft's short story ''Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace''. In the BackStory, a meteor fell on the farm of Nahum Gardner. Although not the trope maker, it's probably the first story to use a meteorite, rather than a constructed spaceship.
* ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898'' starts this way, with the Martians' cylinders falling to Earth after being launched from some giant cannon back on their own world.

* The Orb of Aldur and the Sardion both fell from the sky in Literature/TheBelgariad as well as the ThunderboltIron used to make [[TheHero Garion's]] sword. Beldin complains about this tendency in Literature/TheMalloreon; "[[LampshadeHanging Why does everything fall out of the sky? Why can't something rise up out of the earth for a change?]]"

* In Creator/CliffordSimak's novel ''Mastodonia'', protagonist Asa Steele has been excavating what looks like a meteor crater on his family farm, but his discoveries are making him instead think it's the place where an alien spaceship crashed thousands of years ago. [[spoiler: He's right. Furthermore, one of the aliens escaped the crash and has been living in the area ever since, hoping for rescue.]]
* In the backstory of ''Literature/{{Gone}}'', a meteor crashed into Perdido Beach's nuclear power plant and killed a worker there, which turned out to contain [[spoiler: a being created by aliens to spread life to other worlds, which is [[NuclearMutant mutated by the radiation]] to become [[EldritchAbomination the Gaiaphage,]] which becomes a MassSuperEmpoweringEvent as well as the BigBad of the series.]]

** [[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"]]: At the beginning, the Doctor, wearing a spacesuit with the helmet on backwards, falls to Earth this way after blowing up an attacking spaceship and not being able to get back to the TARDIS in time. A woman named Madge is nearby when he lands, and finds him after approaching the crater.

* ''Series/{{Roswell}}'' TV series: The main characters are alien survivors of the [[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswell]] UFO crash, who were adopted and raised by human families.
* Happens very often in the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' franchise, with alien monsters often arriving on Earth and being mistaken for meteorites before they land. The most straightforward example of this is from the original ''Series/{{Ultraman}}''. In the episode simply titled "Gift from the Sky", a massive meteorite that crashes on the outskirts of Tokyo turns out to be a superheavy monster Science Patrol dubs Skydon as a pun on how it came "sky-down".

* "Look to the Skies" by Music/CreatureFeature. If you listen closely, it's a song about ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''.
* "Zopilotes" by Mexican band Cafe Tacuba is about a group of the titular "Vultures" seeing a ball of metal and flames crash onto the desert. The vultures then approach it and are puzzled by the non-human looking beings among the wreckage.
* "Venus Ambassador" by Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears quotes this line almost word for word.
--> ''Venus Ambassador's alright\\
From out of the sky to the capital of the state"\\

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* Creator/OrsonWelles' adaptation of Creator/HGWells' ''Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', famous for causing actual panic.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': How the Primarchs ended up on their adoptive planets, before being found by the locals.

* ''VideoGame/ShounenKinindenTsumuji'' begins with the Big Bad seeing a meteorite from the sky crashing into the ground and as soon he goes near it, it immediately enters his body and gives him demonic powers.
* ''VideoGame/SteelHarbinger'': This is how the alien pods land on earth, as seen in the opening cinematics - hundreds and hundreds of pods dropped from the stratosphere and embed themselves on Earth's surface everywhere. Then one of those pods in California suddenly unleash CombatTentacles, grabs civilians and begin assimilating everyone into half-human monstrosities, followed by pods in the rest of the world.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' has this in the backstory. Jenova's is referred to in Ancient records as "the calamity from the sky". The far-northern site where she impacted several thousand years before the game is a massive crater called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "the Northern Crater"]]. The damage done to the (living) planet by this event still hasn't healed, which is why the north is so cold and barren (the planet is using all the local life energy to slowly repair the "wound"). The plan of the BigBad is eventually explained to be [[ApocalypseHow a recreation of this event on an ''even larger scale'']].

* The ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' adventure titled "It Came From The Sky", which features a alien spaceship crash-landing near a research facility on an icy planet. The alien that was aboard said ship had, unknowingly, infected the entire base with a [[TheVirus strange, mutagenic disease]].

* The entire plot of ''VideoGame/{{Mardek}}'': Chapter One is Mardek and Deugan as kids trying to find a star that fell out of the sky into the nearby Canonia Woods. It turns out to be Rohoph's crashed [[CoolStarship galloper]].

* In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer,'' the resource "Tiberium" arrives by meteorite strike on the banks of the Tiber River, Italy. It's a literal [[GreenRocks green rock]] that can be processed into fuel or metal; and since its self-replicating, it's a renewable resource. Predictably, this leads to a war over its control; between the [[UnitedNationsIsASuperpower Global Defense Initiative]], who want to contain it, and [[{{Cult}} The Brotherhood of Nod]] who want to exploit it as a catalyst to human evolution.

* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The ''Color of Madness'' DLC centers around a comet that fell on a farmstead near the town. The comet contained [[spoiler: a larval EldritchAbomination]], and the energies leaking out from the comet horribly warped the area and its inhabitants. The Miller, his farmhands, and his plow horses were turned into grey-skinned husks filled with crystalline growths, and the warping of time and space in the farmstead means that any enemy from another dungeon can also show up there.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': [[spoiler: All of the Kids, their Guardians, and Bec came down in meteorites sent through Skaian portals during the Reckoning. This happens to every session.]] Additionally, a lot of mysterious buildings are seeded by the Reckoning, such as the Skaianet Lab near Rose's home or the Exile bases.

* Though it was never shown, this is how Owen is stated to have arrived in ''Webcomic/{{Project0}}''. Also the reason the kids decide [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines to build a flying machine]] to get him home.
* In ''Webcomic/StarImpact'', this is how the [[LegendaryWeapon Shooting Star]] [[PowerFist gloves]] get to [[TheHero Aster]], and they blow up a good chunk of her apartment upon landing.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': Where Doctor Amazing thinks "symbiotic vampires" came from:
-->“Whoa! You mean we got vampires from outer space now too?” complained Toni.\\
I nodded. “Doctor Amazing thinks that the first ones came to Earth in meteors in the late Sixties."

* This is how Ben Tennyson from the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' series first got the Omnitrix.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In the episode "Let's Play the Thing From Outer Space", a strange egg-shaped object falls from the sky into Smileyland. The main four find out that it is alive. Kaeloo and Quack Quack consider accepting it into their home, but Mr. Cat and Stumpy are paranoid and want to get rid of it. [[spoiler: At the end of the episode, Mr. Cat tricks Quack Quack into launching it back into space.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/KatieAndOrbie'' is about a little pink alien who crash-landed in the backyard of a little girl named Katie, and taken in by her family.

* As shown in the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' theme song, Jet's house, [[spoiler: which was actually a starship]], just fell to Earth.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Episode 37, "Venom Returns", in an homage to ''Film/TheBlob1958''. Some guy even pokes it with a stick.
* ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends'' episode "Menace of the White Dwarf": In the BackStory, a meteor fell next to the house of hillbilly Paul Martingale. It turns out to be a piece of kryptonite, carrying spores of Kyrptonian mushrooms that can cancel out the gravity of a white dwarf star fragment. Yes, really.
* In each Franchise/{{Transformers}} installment, they come to Earth in various ways.
** For example, in ''[[WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated Animated]]'', this is how Sumdac found Megatron. His head, anyway.

** Similarly in the ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' remake movie, where it's the human ship at the bottom of the crater.

** In the prequel, ''Film/{{Prey}}'', the heroine sees a falling star and initially thinks it's some kind of omen, but it turns out to be a Predator's spacecraft.

* The titular character's hammer in the live-action film ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
** Also shown after the credits of ''Film/IronMan2''.
* The ''Film/TransformersFilmSeries'' uses this to explain how they get to Earth.
** Also has the second type where Megatron is discovered frozen a good while after he got here.