History Main / CarCushion

* ''Series/{{CSI}}'': In "The Happy Place," the VictimOfTheWeek swan-dives off her balcony onto the roof of a bus; landing with enough force to shatter its windows.
* ''Series/CSICyber'': In "Ghost in the Machine," a fleeing suspect leaps off a balcony, crashes through a carport roof and smashes into the roof of a car.
* ''Series/CSIMiami'': "Miami, We Have a Problem" opens with a carjacking that is foiled when a dead body falls out of the sky and impacts on top of the car.
* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': A few.
** In "Dancing with the Fishes", a couple are driving underneath a tramway when the body of a young lady falls onto their windshield.
** In "Past Imperfect", Clay Dobson falls (or did he jump... hmmm?) from a rooftop and lands on a squad car.
** Downplayed in "Happily Never After" when a dead woman slides off the top of a schoolbus that came to a sudden stop in traffic. Turns out her killer had thrown her out a window onto it the night before, and the guy who had "borrowed" the bus to attend a party didn't realize she was there when he returned it to the lot.
** In "Nine Thirteen", the victim lands on a parked cab after falling off the 10th floor balcony of the episode's eponymous building.

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!!'''As a DeathTrope, all Spoilers will be unmarked ahead. Beware.'''

!!Examples

* ''Film/EdgeOfTomorrow'': Both the male and female lead land side-by-side on top of the same car after falling into a crater at the Louvre.

* ''Film/{{Eraser}}''. Arnie lands in a car wrecking yard after barely getting his parachute open.
-->'''Black kid:''' Oh man, did that hurt? It ''had'' to hurt; I saw it!
-->'''Ahnold:''' Where is this?
-->'''Kid's sister:''' Earth. Welcome!

* ''Film/{{Garfield}}'': DoubleSubversion in the live action Garfield movie. Garfield falls about 20 stories onto a large truck, but is so heavy he crashes straight through the ceiling. [[TrademarkFavoriteFood Into lasagna.]]

* ''Film/LethalWeapon'' opens with a young woman on a high-rise balcony throwing flowerpots ([[StartsWithASuicide and then herself]]) at the parked cars below.

* In the 1981 film ''Film/{{Looker}}'', one of the commercial actresses falls to her death on top of a parked car from her apartment balcony.

* In the 80's sex comedy ''Film/BachelorParty'' the evil blond preppie falls, like, 20 stories and winds up butt-first in the sunroof of a car. Neither he, the passengers nor the car suffer any kind of damage, but the passengers end up [[LiteralAssKissing kissing the guy's butt]] when they lean in to kiss each other.
* ''Film/Batman1989'':
** One of the Joker's falling henchmen lands through a TV camera van, causing a massive spark explosion for no reason. Otherwise, the trope tends to be averted by Creator/TimBurton: Both the Joker himself and Selina Kyle fall directly on the pavement. Though Joker doesn't survive, Selina gets better (due mainly to falling through several awnings before being revived by the neighborhood cats led by Miss Kitty).
** Selina takes another fall later in the movie after her first battle with Batman as Catwoman. She lands in a dump truck filled with sand. ("Saved by kitty litter...")

* In ''Film/FuriousSeven'', Hobbs and Elena are blown out of a window by an ''explosion'' and land together on a car roof. Hobbs deliberately takes the brunt of it and is later seen in hospital, but still gets off pretty lightly. Good thing he happens to be [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson the Rock]].

* In ''Film/TheRageCarrie2'' (which actually isn't as bad as one would expect), the protagonist's friend commits suicide by jumping off of the school roof. She lands on an unfortunate student's car.

* In ''Film/TheFifthElement'', Leeloo jumps from a building and falls into Korben Dallas' taxi. There are huge amounts of cars flying on several levels, so she was pretty much bound to hit one eventually, before she could get hurt.

* In ''ComicBook/BlackWidow'' #2, the Widow dives off a skyscraper in Shanghai to avoid an assassin. After attempting to slow her fall, it eventually ends with her landing atop a car.

* ''ComicBook/KickAss'' opens with a monologue about why no one's tried to be a superhero before and a guy wearing a strange outfit standing on a skyscraper. He unveils his wings and jumps, sure that he will be the first flying superhero. His dreams end badly, as does the only car nearby on the ground level.
* An issue of ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' has Franchise/SpiderMan throwing ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} out a window for bad-mouthing his wife. Being Wolverine, he survives. He's next seen with a steering wheel around his neck, grumbling about how some people have no sense of humor.
* In ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', Barracuda throws the Punisher out of a window when the latter goes into [[UnstoppableRage berserker rage]] and nearly tears him apart. The Punisher doesn't just land on a car below, he lands on a ''cop car.''

* ''Film/{{Vice}}'': While escaping from the sweeper team sent to pick her up, Kelly jumps off a parking garage and lands on the roof of a station wagon parked in the street. Being an android, she just picks herself up and keeps on running.

** It's also recreated by the members of [[Main/Radiohead Radiohead]] for the music video of [[Music/TheBends ''Street Spirit (Fade Out)'']].

** It's also recreated by the members of {{Radiohead}} for the music video of [[Music/TheBends ''Street Spirit (Fade Out)'']].

** It's also recreated by the members of [[Music/Radiohead Radiohead]] for the music video of [[Music/TheBends ''Street Spirit (Fade Out)'']].

** It's also recreated by the members of [[Music/Radiohead]] for the music video of [[Music/TheBends ''Street Spirit (Fade Out)'']].

* At the end of the ''Grakour'' skit, [[Music/SalvatoreGanacci]] plummets from a rooftop while performing the titular extreme sport ([[LeParkour Parkour]] + graffiti) and crashes into a car, apparently dying.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'': Frozone lands on one during the killer robot battle.

* A young college girl in the Korean movie ''Nightmare'' commits suicide via diving off a building (and onto a car), though in truth she did not commit suicide--her fall was a coverup for her accidental death. Cue typical ghost revenge movie.

* ''Film/FinalDestination5'': {{Averted}} big time : while Olivia fell on a car, it didn't save her in any way or form, and she was instantly killed.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'', Madd Dogg is threatening to jump off of a roof because his career is over. To help him, CJ has to get a pickup truck full of cardboard boxes and park it under him so he'll land in the boxes when he jumps. This is subject to a notorious GameBreakingBug - Mad Dogg will frequently jump within seconds of the mission starting, making it {{Unwinnable}}.

* ''Film/LethalWeapon'' opens with a young woman on a high-rise balcony throwing flowerpots (and then herself) at the parked cars below.

* In ''Series/TheWalkingDead'', in the episode "Consumed" several [[NotUsingTheZWord walkers]] fall from an overpass onto a van that had just fallen off said overpass. The accompanying ''Talking Dead'' episode referred to the first one, in its "In Memoriam" section, as "wait-for-it walker", as there were several seconds' delay between the van's landing and that of the walker.

Contrast PedestrianCrushesCar, which usually ends with the car's destruction without harming the other side of the collision.