History Main / CameFromTheSky

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun2001'': The town of Lalivero holds Sheba to be their sacred child, because she fell from the sky without harm. The second game features a ginormous crater, which we're told used to contain the city of Anemos before it [[SubvertedTrope lifted off into the sky to become the moon.]] Hmmm...

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has the second type: there was a delay of over a billion years between the crash and when Adam & Lilith were discovered and excavated since Lilith had to create terrestrial life first.
* ''Manga/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.

* Franchise/{{Superman}}:

** ''ComicBook/SupermanRedSon'' has a very simple premise: arriving with a few hours' difference means Kal-El lands in the Soviet Union, becoming the other Man of Steel.
* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:
** In ''Comicbook/ActionComics #252'', Clark Kent found 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/{{Supergirl 2005}} Post-Crisis Kara]]'''s origin story, ''Comicbook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', had her found by Batman and Superman.
** In the first pages of ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1982}} Supergirl Volume 2]]'', Kara retells how she crashed on Earth and Superman met her.
** ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 2011}} In the Post-Flashpoint universe]]'' her space pod landed in Kansas, cut through the mantle and emerged in Siberia. When Kara left her pod, she was surrounded by a corporate-owned black cops team who wanted to capture her to examine her. They didn't count on their target being a super-powerful Kryptonian and Superman arriving at the site during the melee.
** ''Comicbook/SupergirlBeingSuper'' begins with Kara's space rocket crash-landing on Earth and being found.
** ''Comicbook/YoungLove'' starts out with Kara reminiscing her arrival on Earth and her meeting with 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.
* Franchise/GreenLantern: Hal Jordan got [[ResignedToTheCall taken]] to the site where he was [[ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin given the Ring]] by a [[AlmostDeadGuy dying]] Abin Sur.
* When Creator/MarvelComics wanted to bring ComicBook/JeanGrey back from the dead, they had her hibernating in a [[HesJustHiding cocoon]] at the Jamaica Bay crash site where Phoenix emerged.

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': ''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.

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSunTheBrokenSeal'': The town of Lalivero holds Sheba to be their sacred child, because she fell from the sky without harm. The second game features a ginormous crater, which we're told used to contain the city of Anemos before it [[SubvertedTrope lifted off into the sky to become the moon.]] Hmmm...

* Franchise/GreenLantern: Hal Jordan got [[ResignedToTheCall taken]] to the site where he was given the Ring by a [[AlmostDeadGuy dying]] Abin Sur.

* ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'': Lilo and Nani see something crash near their house. Nani [[WeirdnessCensor doesn't seem to care]] but Lilo thinks it's a shooting star and makes a wish for a friend, "Maybe an angel, the nicest angel you have." [[DescriptionCut Cut to a decidedly non-angelic Experiment 626 emerging from the wreckage.]]

* ''VideoGame/GoldenSun'': The town of Lalivero holds Sheba to be their sacred child, because she fell from the sky without harm. The second game features a ginormous crater, which we're told used to contain the city of Anemos before it [[SubvertedTrope lifted off into the sky to become the moon.]] Hmmm...

* ''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.

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

* Similarly in the ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' remake movie, where it's the human ship at the bottom of the crater.
* Thor's hammer in the live-action film of ''Film/{{Thor}}''.
** Also shown after the credits of ''Film/IronMan2''.
* ''Film/TheDeadlySpawn'''s opening shot is of the meteorite full of aliens crashing somewhere in the woods.
* ''Film/{{Predator}}'' starts with the title character's ship landing in South America.
* The beginning of ''Film/TheThing1982'' is of the spaceship containing the Thing crash-landing in Antarctica.
* ''Film/AttackTheBlock'' has the alien crash onto a car on Guy Fawkes's day, meaning people assume it to be a firework.
* A deleted scene from the first ''Film/{{Hellboy}}'' movie has the villains finding a mysterious stone altar that they need in their ritual at the climax of the movie. The stone's origin, we're told, is that it fell out of the sky, carvings and all, causing TheTunguskaEvent.
* ''Film/TheGodsMustBeCrazy'': A careless pilot drops a glass Coke bottle out of his plane's window. It survives the landing and is found by a tribe of bushmen, who use it in their everyday tasks. Before long, the fact that there's only one causes dissension, and Xi is sent to drop it off the Earth.
* ''Film/LazerTeam'': The Antarean courier ship was coming in for a landing, when a pair of hicks fires a large firework rocket that strikes the craft, causing it to crash land. Inside, the two idiots, plus a sheriff's deputy and a high school quarterback, find the [[PoweredArmor Suit]].

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* 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.

* ''Webcomic/{{Hexenringe}}'' [[http://hexenringe.blogspot.jp/2013/10/001-prologue-1.html begins]] with a meteor crashing into the Earth while the main character is more concerned with DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.

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* ''Manga/DragonBall'': The origin story of Goku, found and adopted, and in ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', how Raditz arrives on Earth, complete with farmer and a shotgun.

->''"Something mysterious falls to the earth\\
Maybe a blessing, maybe a curse..."''
-->-- '''Music/CreatureFeature''', "Look To The Skies"

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': At the beginning of [[Recap/DoctorWho2011CSTheDoctorTheWidowAndTheWardrobe "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"]], 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/GilligansIsland'' episode "Meet the Meteor": A radioactive meteor falls onto the island.

--> ''Did a vehicle come from somewhere, out there''
--> ''Just to land in the Andes''
--> ''To find a place to park itself?''
--> ''Or was it something different?''

--> “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/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode "The Iron Eater". A meteor falls outside of Metropolis. After it hits the ground, it breaks open and reveals the title monster.
* ''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.

* This was shockingly common throughout most of the cold war, starting at first with downed spy plane pilot Gary Powers. Yuri Gagarin wasn't much better, he parachuted into a farm independently of his space craft. A few of the early Venera craft failed and reentered and landed in both America and the Soviet Union. The probes were meant to operate on Venus and survived reentry, much to the shock of locals.

** ''ComicBook/RedSon'' has a very simple premise: arriving with a few hours' difference means Kal-El lands in the Soviet Union, becoming the other Man of Steel.

* The Bakugan Cards from ''Anime/{{Bakugan}}'' are described by Dan as something

* Happens very often in the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' franchise.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/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.

* ''WesternAnimation/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 ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer,'' the resource "Tiberium" arrlives 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 [[UnitedNationsAsASuperpower 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.

* "Look to the Skies" by Music/CreatureFeature. If you listen closely, it's a song about ''Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers''.

** ''ComicBook/SupergirlCosmicAdventuresInTheEightGrade'' begins when Kara crash-lands into Earth after smashing into a Luthor's giant robot.