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** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has a mission with parachuting tanks. Supposedly, you can destroy them by shooting the parachutes off at high altitude, but it's easier to just let them land and shoot them to pieces with your guns. The last mission of the game also has friendly paratroopers taking objectives on the ground. It also put a ShoutOut to the US 101st Airborne (before a typo made it the 122nd).

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** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has a mission with parachuting tanks. Supposedly, you can destroy them by shooting where the parachutes off at high altitude, but it's easier enemy starts paradropping tanks to just let them land try to occupy an allied mass driver, though they're vulnerable while in the air and shoot them to pieces with your guns.can't fight back until they land. The last mission of the game also has friendly paratroopers taking objectives on the ground. It also put a ShoutOut to the US 101st Airborne (before a typo made it the 122nd).

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* In a rare example of a bad guy pulling this on a hero, in ''[[WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge2006 Curious George]]: Follow That Monkey,'' security jerk Danna Wolf leaps out of an airplane to chase George and the Man in the Yellow Hat. Seeing that they had a parachute and he did not, he caught up with them and saved himself by hanging on the Man's boots.
* It's raining hamsters and mice: The ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "Cat-astrophe" has DM and Penfold parachuting from the Mk. III and into a castle where Colonel K is being held prisoner by a robotic cat.
* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' had members of [[TheSquad Able Company]] doing an orbital insertion on occupied Earth in pyramid-shaped entry capsules.
* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Tip of the Zoidberg" during a flashback sequence where a young Zoidberg and (relatively) young Farnsworth scream in terror as they are tossed out of a plane until their parachutes open, where they ''immediately'' switch to a casual conversation. Their landing, along with the rest of their peers, isn't quite so casual.
-->'''Zoidberg:''' We'll be safe as long as we stay out of the methane swamps! ''[lands in swamp, sniffs]'' What smells like methane?
* In the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' finale a (sort of) elite rescue squad stages an airborne assault on the Fearamid to rescue [[TakenForGranite Ford and the townspeople]] while the [[HumongousMecha Shacktron]] distracts Bill Cipher. For bonus points, they're using parachutes made out of Mable's sweaters.
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' episode "The Fraudulent Volcano". Dr. Quest and Race Bannon must bail out and parachute down when the plane they're in is shot down by an invisible beam.



* ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop''. In "Jungle Jeopardy" Penelope used her scarf as a parachute after jumping from a plane.
* ''WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue'' features ground-based vehicle characters jumping out of a cargo plane character as smoke jumpers.
-->"We're not (jumping out of perfectly good airplanes). We're jumping out of you!"
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' had them joining the army to become full-fledged tank paratroopers. (That is, they were put into tanks that had parachutes strapped to them that were then dropped from planes. Seeing as how the tanks were on fire and falling like stones in ''spite'' of the parachutes, one can only assume they were on a suicide mission.)
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Grey Dawn" with senior citizens attacking the town. Their parachutes even have the AARP logo boldly printed on them.
* WesternAnimation/SupaStrikas In "Cool Joe Loses His Groove" Iron Tank decide to arrive at the ground by parachuting into it for some reason.



* 1942 cartoon "WesternAnimation/TulipsShallGrow" has the Screwballs, obvious Nazi analogues, dropping ''tanks'' into Holland with parachutes.



* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' had them joining the army to become full-fledged tank paratroopers. (That is, they were put into tanks that had parachutes strapped to them that were then dropped from planes. Seeing as how the tanks were on fire and falling like stones in ''spite'' of the parachutes, one can only assume they were on a suicide mission.)
* ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest'' episode "The Fraudulent Volcano". Dr. Quest and Race Bannon must bail out and parachute down when the plane they're in is shot down by an invisible beam.
* In a rare example of a bad guy pulling this on a hero, in ''[[WesternAnimation/CuriousGeorge2006 Curious George]]: Follow That Monkey,'' security jerk Danna Wolf leaps out of an airplane to chase George and the Man in the Yellow Hat. Seeing that they had a parachute and he did not, he caught up with them and saved himself by hanging on the Man's boots.
* An early episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'' had members of [[TheSquad Able Company]] doing an orbital insertion on occupied Earth in pyramid-shaped entry capsules.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePerilsOfPenelopePitstop''. In "Jungle Jeopardy" Penelope used her scarf as a parachute after jumping from a plane.
* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Tip of the Zoidberg" during a flashback sequence where a young Zoidberg and (relatively) young Farnsworth scream in terror as they are tossed out of a plane until their parachutes open, where they ''immediately'' switch to a casual conversation. Their landing, along with the rest of their peers, isn't quite so casual.
-->'''Zoidberg:''' We'll be safe as long as we stay out of the methane swamps! ''[lands in swamp, sniffs]'' What smells like methane?
* Parodied in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Grey Dawn" with senior citizens attacking the town. Their parachutes even have the AARP logo boldly printed on them.
* ''WesternAnimation/PlanesFireAndRescue'' features ground-based vehicle characters jumping out of a cargo plane character as smoke jumpers.
-->"We're not (jumping out of perfectly good airplanes). We're jumping out of you!"
* 1942 cartoon "WesternAnimation/TulipsShallGrow" has the Screwballs, obvious Nazi analogues, dropping ''tanks'' into Holland with parachutes.
* WesternAnimation/SupaStrikas In "Cool Joe Loses His Groove" Iron Tank decide to arrive at the ground by parachuting into it for some reason.
* It's raining hamsters and mice: The ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "Cat-astrophe" has DM and Penfold parachuting from the Mk. III and into a castle where Colonel K is being held prisoner by a robotic cat.

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