History Main / CameFromTheSky

** 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.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival's ''Willy and the Poorboys'' album included a song called "It Came Out of the Sky":
-->''Oh, it came out of the sky, landed just a little south of Moline.\\
Jody fell out of his tractor, couldn't b'lieve what he seen.\\
Laid on the ground and shook fearin' for his life.\\
Then he ran all the way to town screamin' it came out of the sky.''
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* Calcifer of ''Literature/HowlsMovingCastle'' fame is a falling star. In another novel by Creator/DianaWynneJones, ''{{Dogsbody}}'', the protagonist used to be the god who inhabited the star Sirius, and he's been sent to Earth to find and recover a mysterious powerful object called a "zoid" which fell onto the planet and will probably resemble a meteorite.

* [[DianaWynneJones Calcifer]] of Howl's Moving Castle fame is a falling star.

* ''DragonBall'': The origin story of Goku, found and adopted, How Raditz arrives on earth, complete with farmer and a shotgun.
* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has the second type: there was a delay of a couple thousand years between the crash and when Adam & Lilith were discovered and excavated since Lilith had to create humanity first.

* ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}'': The game starts off with a meteorite crashing near Ness' house.
* [[KingsQuest King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride]]: Cheese mysteriously falls from the sky, leading to people getting hysterical because "The moon is falling!".

* ''JasonX'' ends with Jasons' burning remains re-entering the atmosphere and landing in the lake, but not before being mistaken for a falling star by a couple who decide to go have closer look.

* ''SLiTHER'', which was an affectionate parody of a bunch of monster movies, had the nasty arrive from space via crashing to earth.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': This is part of the secret origin of Bec, [[spoiler:the four kids]], [[spoiler:four of their guardians]]...[[spoiler: you know what, let's say lots of stuff came from meteors and call it a day.]]

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* HPLovecraft's short story ''TheColourOutOfSpace''. In the BackStory, a meteor fell on the farm of Nahum Gardner.

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* ''KatieAndOrbie'' is about a little pink alien who crash-landed in {{Suburbia}}, was found by a little girl named Katie, and taken in by her family.

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* In TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess, [[spoiler: Oocco and her son come from the [[FloatingContinent City in the Sky]], the last dungeon level before [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Hyrule Castle]]. She fell off, and eventually gave up hope of getting back to the sky until she met Link]].

* ''{{Megamind}}'' and Metro Man both crashed to Earth. The latter lands at the doorstep of a rich family, the former in a prison yard.

* Lampshaded in ''BackToTheFuture'': after crashing the time machine into a barn, Marty emerges to find himself face to face with a farmer with a shotgun, and the farmer's son holding a comic book depicting a crashed alien ship and a figure wearing a space suit startlingly similar to Marty's.

* ''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 snow creature (wampa).

* ''GilligansIsland'' episode "Meet the Meteor": A radioactive meteor falls onto the island.

* ''{{Earthbound}}'': The game starts off with a meteorite crashing near Ness' house.

** And as should be fairly obvious, the entire scene is a ShoutOut to {{Superman}}.

* The entire plot of ''MardekRPG'': 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]].

* ''SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries'': Episode 37, "Venom Returns", in an homage to ''TheBlob''. Some guy even pokes it with a stick.
* ''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.

* ''IndependenceDay'': Area 51 conceals a repaired attacker and three alien bodies recovered from Roswell in 1947. A fresh one also gets shotdown.

* ''{{SLiTHER}}'', which was an affectionate parody of a bunch of monster movies, had the nasty arrive from space via crashing to earth.

* Though it was never shown, this is how Owen is stated to have arrived in ''{{Project0}}''. Also the reason the kids decide [[ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines to build a flying machine]] to get him home.

* ''Film/{{Evolution}}'' was the basically the entire 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.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfEternia'' starts off with Reid and Farah nearly getting hit by a crashing UFO. Of course, Farah wants to go see what nearly killed them. This leads to them finding Meredy, which kicks off the plot.

* In ''ChronoTrigger'', the asteroid that [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs killed the dinosaurs]] turns out to be the [[PlanetEater worlds-consuming]] alien Lavos.

* HPLovecraft's short story "The Colour Out Of Space". In the BackStory, a meteor fell on the farm of Nahum Gardner.

* ''OnePiece'' has a unique one at the start of the Skypiea arc, a huge Galleon comes crashing down from the sky right next to the Strawhat crew nearly capsizing their ship, once they recover they immediately start investigating the wreckage and find items setting them up for their next adventure.

* ''{{Stardust}}'': Due to an accident elsewhere in the story a star gets knocked out of the sky. A young man, Tristran, who wants nothing more than to win the heart of his beloved Victoria grandly declares that he'd even give her the star that just fell, and she [[EngagementChallenge challenges]] him to do just that in return for anything he wants from her. The fallen star turns out to be a girl named Yvaine.

* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': This is part of the secret origin of Bec, [[spoiler:the four kids]], and [[spoiler:four of their guardians]].

* ''TalesOfEternia'' starts off with Reid and Farah nearly getting hit by a crashing UFO. Of course, Farah wants to go see what nearly killed them. This leads to them finding Meredy, which kicks off the plot.
* ''FinalFantasyV'' begins with meteors crashing, and the wind stopping. These two events share a common cause.

* ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Book 3, Episode 4: "Sokka's Master", Sokka makes himself a [[AbsurdlySharpBlade sword]] from a [[ThunderboltIron meteorite]] that fell at the beginning of the episode.

* In TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess, [[spoiler: Oocco and her son come from the [[FloatingContinent City in the Sky]], the last dungeon level before [[TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon Hyrule Castle]]. Her motivation to get back to the sky is not revealed until a significant length of time after she is first met.]]

* This is how ''{{Ben10}}'' got the Omnitrix.

* ''MenInBlack'' had "The Bug" and The AnimatedSeries had lots of background stories.