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* In ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth2008'', the characters fall due to the floor breaking after riding the minecarts, scream, stop screaming, realize via Trevor screaming that "WE'RE STILL FALLING!", and scream some more. In the end, they land [[SoftWater in water]].

* ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'' redoes the ''Falling Hare'' (see below) example but with a falling car: [[MythologyGag the vehicle once again stops a few inches just before hitting the ground]], Bugs Bunny says "[[ShoutOut Heh, out of gas]]," and [[QuipToBlack the screen fades out]], only for TheComicallySerious Kate to protest "[[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome What?! It doesn't work like that!]]", prompting [[SubvertedTrope the car to crash into the ground anyway]].

* ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'': During the leap off the bridge at the beginning of the game, Jesse and Petra fall for a long time, even accounting for the fall being done in slow-mo. Eventually, you start wondering just when they're going to land. The fact that [[SoftWater their fall doesn't injure them in the slightest]] doesn't help.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/{{Super Mario World|1991}}'', [[TropeNamers "Mama Luigi"]]

* In the 3-D ''Film/JourneyToTheCenterOfTheEarth'' movie, the characters fall due to the floor breaking after riding the minecarts, scream, stop screaming, realize via Trevor screaming, "WE'RE STILL FALLING!" and the characters scream some more. In the end they land [[SoftWater in water.]]

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* The TropeNamer, coming from the ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'' cartoon. In the episode "[[Recap/SuperMarioWorldEPisode13MamaLuigi Mama Luigi]]", Luigi explains to Yoshi that a Fire Sumo Brother opened up a crack in the ground as it attacked, and Luigi allegedly fell into the resulting chasm "for hours". He then admits that it just seemed like hours, though, making it a possible subversion. [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou He survived falling]] because he [[MemeticMutation "Found a MAAAAAAAGIC balloon!"]] This went full-circle with the 2017 Mama Luigi reanimation collab, in-which Luigi actually checks his watch during the iconic fall.

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/SuperMarioWorld'', [[TropeNamers "Mama Luigi"]]

* During ''Fanfic/TheUnchained'', Tobi throws the regenerator, Hidan, from the top of Sky Island, ten kilometers above sea-level, with only vague directions about what to do when he hits the ground.

Namely, it's when NotTheFallThatKillsYou meets OverlyLongGag; a character takes a fall (perhaps from an AbsurdAltitude), and falls for a really, really long time, long enough for either the character or the audience to start wondering when the fall will end. Generally unrealistic (unless someone is sky diving), especially since the character will almost always survive the fall. It's rather hard for it not to be PlayedForLaughs. It might involve a BottomlessPit, or at least a near-bottomless one. The character may become bored and start to look for things to do to pass the time, though it can be equally hilarious to just have them [[OverlyLongScream scream their lungs out the entire time]] (perhaps even stopping to take a breath mid-scream, which is a sure indicator that this trope is in effect). If other objects are falling with the character, expect the character to interact with the objects, examples including a falling character sitting on a falling chair, grabbing and eating falling food, reading a falling book and more.

* In the ''Literature/{{Tunnels}}'' series, if you fall into [[BottomlessPit the Pore]], you fall for ''days''. What eventually stops you is not any sort of bottom, but the gradual loss of gravity. (The ''Tunnels'' series has a rather strained relationship with [[GravityIsAHarshMistress inertia]]... don't think about it too hard).

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'': In 3D games like this, this trope can unintentionally occur due to a GameBreakingBug that causes characters to fall through the ground or through walls and plummet into some endless void that may or may not be a BottomlessPit. In this game, the Caped Crusader [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGZtS6nNXnY can find himself falling in a seemingly endless void]].

* The old ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda1989'' cartoon has an episode where Ganon is thrown down a BottomlessPit by his rebelling minion, after he was trapped in an invulnerable sphere that can only be broken by the Triforce. He falls for quite a while, until the story eventually comes back to him when he realizes that his magic still works inside the sphere, and he conjures up a balloon to slowly float his way back out. Actual times or distances are never mentioned, though they are implied to be fairly ridiculous.

* The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named]] "Bottomless Pit" episode of ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' shows us a literal BottomlessPit, funnily enough. The cast falling into it has time to tell four stories, among other activities, before finally reaching a halt[[spoiler:, coming out of the same end they fell into, oddly enough.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:[[Music/LemonDemonNo offense but at least it's predictable.\\

[[caption-width-right:350:No offense but at least it's predictable.\\
Gotta stop stalling, I've got some falling to do.]]

* The beginning of Chapter 6 in ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', aptly titled "The Fall" and containing a nice bit of LampshadeHanging from [=GLaDOS=].
-->'''[=GLaDOS=]:''' Well, since we aren't going anywhere -- well, we ''are'' going somewhere, alarmingly fast actually, but since we aren't busy other than that...

* Myth/PacificMythology includes a story in which this happens to the bodies of dead people once they are buried. A dead girl's sister holds on to her body for several days, so they both fall into the underworld. The fall apparently takes [[UpToEleven years]] (fortunately, you don't seem to need water or food down there). Once there, the one who is still alive finds a [[BuffySpeak giant evil lizard]] called Whiro, who [[ImAHumanitarian eats the bodies]], and gains strength from doing so; once strong enough, he will [[OhCrap ascend to the surface and eat everyone]]. She finds a way back to the surface, and warns people about Whiro; those who believe her start cremating bodies to keep Whiro from getting them.

* ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' has a few of these. The playable introductory sequence has you tumbling down a cliff while fighting angels for four minutes, and the penultimate boss battle has you falling continuously from a skyscraper for however long it takes you to defeat him. The final boss really [[UpToEleven takes it up to eleven]] though, when you [[spoiler:punch the spirit of Jubileus out of her body and send it falling into the heart of the sun from beyond the orbit of Pluto]].

* ''VideoGame/ZorkGrandInquisitor'' takes this UpToEleven if you fall into a {{Bottomless Pit|s}}: [[HaveANiceDeath You fall forever, of course, and even start a family with another luckless person falling down the pit.]]
* Also taken UpToEleven and PlayedForDrama in ''VideoGame/{{Enchanter}}'': If your KULCAD spell turns the endless stairs into a {{Bottomless Pit|s}}, you'll fall down for hours. If you don't IZYUK yourself or if your IZYUK wears off, you'll fall forever and eventually die.

* Taken UpToEleven in LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}} and Diabetus' LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', where [[spoiler:Omega Ridley, when he appears on the Pirate Homeworld, says, "I finally finished fallin'!", having been falling for the entire game up to that point, [[FridgeLogic and somehow arriving on the Pirate Homeworld at the bottom of a shaft that started on Norion, a completely different planet.]] Though the duo had an explanation for that, too, as an earlier joke they told had their version of Ridley explain that he could "fall between planets".]]

* The old ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfZelda'' cartoon has an episode where Ganon is thrown down a BottomlessPit by his rebelling minion, after he was trapped in an invulnerable sphere that can only be broken by the Triforce. He falls for quite a while, until the story eventually comes back to him when he realizes that his magic still works inside the sphere, and he conjures up a balloon to slowly float his way back out. Actual times or distances are never mentioned, though they are implied to be fairly ridiculous.

* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'': In 3D games like this, this trope can occur due to a likely GameBreakingBug that causes characters to fall through the ground or through walls and plummet into some endless void that may or may not be a BottomlessPit. In this game, the Caped Crusader [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGZtS6nNXnY can find himself falling in a seemingly endless void]].

* In 3D games, this trope can occur due to a likely GameBreakingBug that causes characters to fall through the ground or through walls and plummet into some endless void that may or may not be a BottomlessPit. A notorious example of a glitch that evokes this trope is ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', in which the Caped Crusader [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGZtS6nNXnY can find himself falling in a seemingly endless void]].
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Many games in the series feature levels in which Mario falls a long distance, and is able to steer himself through the air to grab rows of coins on his way down.

* In 3D games, this trope can occur due to a likely GameBreakingBug that causes characters to fall through the ground or through walls and plummet into some endless void that may or may not be a BottomlessPit. A notorious example of a glitch that evokes this trope is ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamOrigins'', in which the Caped Crusader [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0gdtqhIaec can find himself falling in a seemingly endless void]].

!!Examples

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

--->'''Yukine''': Is it just me, or has this been a [[LampshadeHanging really long fall]]?

* In a ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' comic, [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick drop down a seemingly bottomless pit. They fall for so long that they grow beards and then shave them off before hitting the ground.
* In ''ComicBook/Judas2017'', Jezebel's fate in Hell is to fall forever with no bottom in sight.

-->'''Garfield:''' I'm falling from a tree! (takes a quick nap) A '''really''' tall tree.

--> '''Maui:''' *gleefully* I am ''still'' falling!

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Eddie Valiant falls off a Toontown skyscraper long enough to have a conversation with WesternAnimation/BugsBunny and MickeyMouse.

-->'''Loki''': ''(after landing in the hallway)'' I have been ''falling'' for '''''thirty minutes!'''''

[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]

[[folder:TabletopGames]]

** In the Adventure Path "Hell's Rebels" predictably takes the party (back)to Hell for its climax. Particularly, a series of spires over a seemingly-endless abyss that leads all the way to the city of Nessus in the lowest pits of Hell. Any player (without the ability to fly) who happens to fall into said abyss gets a few chances to save themselves before being considered effectively dead, either through starvation, dehydration, or simply ''old age''. And although the game does have ways of beating all of those, they're still out, as it's going to be several ''centuries'' before they reach the bottom.

* ''Webcomic/{{TheMansionOfE}}'' has a couple of characters launched into the air, it's only after quite a long conversation that they realise that they have been kept in the air.

* The German internet phenomenon Creator/{{Coldmirror}} has one sketch called "The NEW EIGHTH Literature/HarryPotter Book" in which she, dressed up as [[Creator/JKRowling JKR]], presents "Harry Potter and the Bottomless Black Hole". She even reads an excerpt: "Harry looked at Ron and Hermione and fell and fell and fell and fell and fell and fell and fell and fell[[OverlyLongGag andfellandfellandfellandfellandfellandfellandfelland]]."

* Taken UpToEleven in LetsPlay/{{slowbeef}} and Diabetus' LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'', where [[spoiler:Omega Ridley, when he appears on the Pirate Homeworld, says, "I finally finished fallin'!", having been falling for the entire game up to that point, [[FridgeLogic and somehow arriving on the Pirate Homeworld at the bottom of a shaft that started on Norion, a completely different planet.]] Though the duo had an explanation for that, too, as an earlier joke they told had their version of Ridley explain that he could "fall between planets".]]
* In the last episode of ''WebVideo/FranceFive'', the fight between [[TheHero Red Fromage]] and [[TheDragon Zakaral]] leads to them both falling from a building, and exchanging some EvilGloating vs. Heroic Banter for a good while before hitting the ground. (In UsefulNotes/{{Paris}}, where tall buildings are quite rare.)
* ''WebAnimation/DeadFantasy'' starts with [[VideoGame/FinalFantasy Yuna, Rikku and later Tifa]] fighting [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Ayane, Kasumi and Hitomi]] atop a very tall building. Said building eventually gets demolished and the girls continue fighting as they free-fall for a few minutes.

* ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny'':
** The early cartoon ''Heckling Hare'' has both Bugs and the canine antagonist accidentally plummet off a cliff, screaming hysterically and clutching each other as they fall for a [[OverlyLongGag ridiculously long time]] by the standards of a seven-minute short. Director Creator/TexAvery wanted to have them fall off yet another cliff after they survived the fall from the first one, but Leon Schlessinger [[ExecutiveMeddling cut Avery's ending]], which prompted Avery to leave Warner for MGM. The cut part also alluded to a [[NuclearFamily very]] [[ThereIsOnlyOneBed risqué]] [[DestructoNookie joke]]:
-->'''Bugs (after they fall again):''' "Hang on to your hats fellas, here we go again!"
** A similar gag was done in ''Falling Hare'', with Bugs Bunny trapped in a plane which plummets down for a long time, with some hilarious takes of Bugs panicking and becoming sick to his stomach. It only stops just before hitting the ground because it runs out of gas.

** The plot of ''Falling Hare'' was recycled some years later as ''WesternAnimation/HareLift'', in which Bugs and then fleeing bank robber WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam board a huge plane; Sam, mistaking the rabbit for a pilot, orders him at gunpoint to take off. To avoid crashing into a skyscraper, Bugs pulls back on the plane controls so far that he takes the plane into space, and then, to avoid crashing on the moon, he pulls the controls down again, sending the plane into an endless dive back toward Earth. Bugs tries to read the pilot manual to learn how to fly, and Sam demands that he read faster. Bugs, offended by Sam's behavior, refuses to comply unless he apologizes first. Sam refuses. Only when they are ''finally'' about to hit the ground does Sam apologize, and Bugs pulls the plane out of the dive in the nick of time. In the end, Sam tires of Bugs' shenanigans and orders him to give him control of the plane. Bugs complies -- [[ExactWords by ripping the control-stick free and tossing it Sam's way]]. He misses, however, and the controls go out the window. The plane, out of control, starts another endless freefall. Sam activates a robot pilot.. which takes one look at the situation, [[FailsafeFailure grabs one of two parachutes]] on board and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bails out]]. Sam of course grabs his loot and the second parachute and does the same, only to land right in a [[FallingIntoJail conveniently-positioned open-topped police car]]. Meanwhile, back on the plane, Bugs pulls hard on a lever, and, as in ''Falling Hare'', the plane screeches to a halt just inches from hitting the ground.
--->'''Bugs:''' ''(very much relieved)'' Lucky for me this thing has [[{{Pun}} air brakes]].

* WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants:

-->'''Sherman''': I love you, Mr. Peabody!\\
'''Mr. Peabody''': I love you too, Sherman!\\
''(They scream some more)''\\
'''Sherman''': It's been really fun traveling through time with you!\\
'''Mr. Peabody''': Yes, Sherman, fun and remarkably educational all at the same time! I too will miss it!\\
''(They scream some more)''\\
'''Sherman''': And you've been a really great dad!\\
'''Mr. Peabody''': Thanks Sherman, you too! Great son, I mean, not dad!\\
''(They scream some more, but then stop)''\\
'''Sherman''': Sheesh, this is a really long fall, isn't it?

* Even in the book, Gandalf later on claims to have been falling forever, but in the movie version of ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'' we actually see Gandalf and the Balrog falling down the pit under the Bridge of Khazad-Dûm, taking seventy seconds to reach the bottom, and [[FreeFallFight fighting each other all the way down]]. For reference, if a Balrog has no terminal velocity, that would mean they fell roughly 24 km and hit the water at Mach 2.

* In the 1st season finale of ''WesternAnimation/TheNewMrPeabodyAndShermanShow'', the titular duo fall off of the roof of a skyscraper and the credits roll as they continue falling and falling. In the resolution, the duo continue falling for so long that they run out of parting words before finally crashing into a flying car with no indication they were anywhere near the ground yet.