History Main / DivingKick

* [[Creator/PlatinumGames Plainum Games]] seems to love this move:

* In ''Manga/BusoRenkin'', Captain Bravo uses one of these against Moonface at one point. Moonface spots him ahead of time and jumps clear, resulting in Bravo smashing the power pole on which he was standing.

* Mercury Black tends occasionally employs these attacks in ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', though unlike in many examples, he tends to use an axe kick by raising one of his legs up to strike rather than pointing it downwards.

* The Phil Jimenez cover for ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'' depicts Franchise/WonderWoman in her white mod suit dropping in with a flying kick.

* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Tifa Lockhart's]] starting move in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' is one of these. Its even literally called Dive Kick.

* In ''Manga/BusouRenkin'', Captain Bravo uses one of these against Moonface at one point. Moonface spots him ahead of time and jumps clear, resulting in Bravo smashing the power pole on which he was standing.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Strider}} 2'', the SignatureMove of the youngest Kuniang sister is a plasma-enhanced diving kick. In the 2014 remake, all three sisters [[spoiler:and their master]] can do it, and they often do it at the same time when fighting together.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' did this on occasion, when the [[EverythingsBetterWithSpinning spinning]] back kick wasn't appropriate. Most famously, he jumped and kicked a guy through the windshield of a moving car.

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* The all-time king of Diving Kicks is ''Franchise/KamenRider'' of course, as pictured above.

* Medusa and Rider Kintoki do this as one of their attacks in ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. Doubles as a ''Main/StealthPun''.

* This is expected in the VideoGame/KamenRiderClimaxHeroes games since Kamen Rider is the series that started the idea of Diving Kicks. In the games, every Rider's Rider Kick have variations for each of them and are either used as special moves or finishing moves.

** The previous season, ''Series/TokumeiSentaiGoBusters'' has the team SuperMode give everyone special individual finishers among their new powers. Yoko's is a dead ringer for [[Series/KamenRiderFaiz Takumi's]] version of the Rider Kick.

* Tends to be a staple of 2D ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games (and ''VideoGame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' by extension); being able to drop kick off of enemies (or partners in games that have them) for a GoombaSpringboard is one of the ways a SpeedRun is accomplished.

* Tends to be a staple of 2D ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games; being able to drop kick off of enemies (or partners in games that have them) for a GoombaSpringboard is one of the ways a SpeedRun is accomplished.

* The Phil Jimenez cover for ''ComicBook/SensationComicsFeaturingWonderWoman'' depicts Wonder Woman in her white mod suit dropping in with a flying kick.

** ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' has both an upward and a downward version of this move. It changes color depending on what leg weapons Bayonetta has equipped.

* Series/UltramanLeo uses a version called the Leo Kick as one of his signature attacks, performed in the same way as a Rider Kick, as a friendly nod to one of the franchises spawned from the Tokusatsu boom the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' brought.

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* ''FanFic/TheBridge'' has a Kamen Rider ShoutOut in the finale of the Enjin Arc, where a supercharged [[AntiVillain Monster X]] uses the newly devised "Graviton Kick" to smash open [[AnimalisticAbomination Enjin]] to pull Aria Blaze free from it.

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* Amy, the Pink Ranger of ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' often uses the Rider Kick as a finisher.

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* In ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', 'Mechs with jumpjets can perform the so-called "death from above" maneuvre. The attacking 'Mech has to stand on a hill and in jumpjet range to its target. It jumps high up and lands feet first on the enemy 'Mech's upper body, ideally destroying the cockpit in the process. Both 'Mechs will take damage and probably fall to the ground afterward, but the attack can be devastating when done by heavy 'Mechs. The 90-ton ''Highlander'' even has legs specially designed and armored to maximize damage to the target and minimize damage to the legs caused by the maneuvre (called the "Highlander Burial" in this case). While most descriptions make it sound more like a GoombaStomp, there are a few books where a mech's DFA is explicitly described as a Diving Kick.

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* Pearl of ''[[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Steven Universe]]'' attempts one while driving a walking robot she had created to land a finishing blow. [[DefiedTrope Defied]], however, as she is caught by the ankle on the way down and left helpless. She did one more successively in person in a previous episode when destroying an alien robot of uncertain purpose.

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* The move itself is based on a real life martial arts jump kick move, albeit meant to be exaggerated when in a fictional work.