Similar to aSlow Motion Drop but instead of an inanimate object dropping, we see a person falling backwards (or, rarely, forwards) in slow-motion, usually, after being shot. Bonus points if theirTrue Companions are watching: it's the cue for anappropriately slowed downBig No.

SeeDisney Villain Death for when the fall happens without slow-motion.Sub-Trope ofDeath Is Dramatic. If it goes on long enough for it to start being funny, it'sI Fell for Hours.

Be warned thatthis is frequently aDeath Trope!

Anime and Manga

• Subverted with Revy and a toy gun inBlack Lagoon.
• A fixture inBleach combat scenes, if almost never fatal.
• Euphie inCode Geass.
• Cowboy Bebop
  • Julia. This one comes withDisturbed Doves in the background...
  • When Spike falls from the stained glass window in the first chapter featuring Vicious, we get one of the slowest drops of all time. Spike falls through the air for fully1 minute 50 seconds as both he and Vicious have flashbacks,some of which are themselves in slow motion.
• Despite the extremeAnyone Can Die atmosphere, only happens once inDeath Note.
• Maes Hughes inFullmetal Alchemist.
• VariousGundams like to do this, especially sinceAnyone Can Die.
• Katekyo Hitman Reborn: Whenever Reborn shoots Tsuna with the "Dying Will Bullets" he is shown falling backwards in a show of dying to the ground before getting a fierce expression on his face and going into "Dying Will Mode", complete with massiveClothing Damage.
• Parodied inLucky Star: "The drawing hand is an artist's everything..."
• Madlax "killed" by Margaretfor the first time right after Vanessa's death.
• The Last Guidance inNoir. Probably a homage to the above is the scene inEl Cazador de la Bruja whenNadie falls down after being apparently shot but it turns out she just slipped on the ice.
• Happens to Haruhi in the last episode ofOuran High School Host Club, though she was just thrown over the side of a bridge instead of being shot. The thing is, she fallsso slowly thatTamaki has time to say thanks to Eclaire, get out of a carriage, jump over a car and off a bridge, grab and hug Haruhi, and execute a swan dive before she actually starts falling. Lampshaded in episode 4 whenTamaki collapses after being repeatedly insulted byRenge.

Hikaru: He's created a new technique! Kaoru: One-Man Slow Motion!

• Soul Eater- This happens toSoul, complete withflying blood drops in mid-air, when heTakes The Sword forMaka in the fight against Ragnarok.
• Wolf's Rain:Toboe, after being accidentally shot by Quent instead ofTaking the Bullet for him. At this point the audience can tell that Toboe'sNot Quite Dead yet because he's still maintaining his human disguise.
• Happens a few times (for a few reasons) inRozen Maiden.
• Poor Umi inMagic Knight Rayearth after Alcyone uses her for icicle target practice. Complete with wide-eyed stare from Hikaru and Fuu.

Film

• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid when the title characters shot down the Bolivian bandits.
• Dumbledore's death leads to this inHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
• Hans Gruber inDie Hard, though he actually falls at normal speed after the first twenty feet or so.
• Trinity in the secondMatrix film.
• Star Wars
  • Qui-Gon Jinn inThe Phantom Menace, afterDarth Maul finishes him.
  • The Darth Vader apparition in the treecave being beheaded by Luke inThe Empire Strikes Back.
• Haldir's death inThe Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers movie is an interesting take on this as we see it through his eyes. Followed promptly by aFoe-Tossing Charge by Aragorn.
• InFrequency, Dennis Quaid did a slo-mo fall out of a burning building into the Hudson River, followed by hishelmet bouncing on the pavement.
• Aman's wifefor good inSurvive Style 5+.
• The Comedian being thrown through the glass inThe Movie ofWatchmen, as seen in the trailer.
• Isabeau inLadyhawke.
• Done for hilarity and/or cruelty inShaolin Soccer when a woman slipping on a banana peel is stretched out to more than a minute with multiple camera angles for good measure. In the epilogueShe slips on another peel, but has now learned Kung-fu, so she rights herself in mid-air and then performs aSlow-Motion Pass-By on the man who popularised Kung-fu for a new generation.
• Jack Slater's fall from the elevator inLast Action Hero.
• 300 had a scene in which a character's head gets chopped off and falls in slow motion.
  • Parodied inMeet The Spartans, in which the character had time to do that pump chest peace out thing.
• Several inInception, buteveryone who does fall is alright since they're used as a method of waking a dreaming team member up or as a way for a dreaming person to quickly wakethemselves up.
  • The part where the van falls into the river, which takeshalf the movie to finish falling.
• The ending of Hitchcock'sSaboteur, where the villain falls from the Statue of Liberty leaving the hero holding onto an empty jacket sleeve.
• Megamind begins his story by falling to his death.
• Leon:The Professional has a first-person POV example afterLeon is shot in the back by theBig Bad.
• The Room:Johnny falls backwards in slow motion aftereating his gun.

Live Action TV

• SNL's Dear Sister. And the original scene fromThe OC.
• Engine Sentai Go-onger hadSosuke collapses andturns into rust due to a device given to him by one of the villains. He gets better though.
• InDoctor Who, the parallel universe Cyber-controller falls to his doom after Pete Tyler cuts the ladder the Controller is climbing with the sonic screwdriver.
  • In "Voyage of the Damned", four characters fall into theTitanic's nuclear storm drive this way. One of which were by forklift.
• The 4th season ofBig Love featured lots of Slow Motion Falling in itsteaser andnew opening credits sequence, presumably reflecting the fears of the characters aboutbeing exiled from their church.
• Colin in the first season ofEverwood. While he doesn't die, it's the beginning of the end for him.

Theater

• The Light in the Piazza has an indirect one- there's a song in which Margaretdescribes her daughter's slow motion fall, but we don't actually see it, which wouldn't work on stage anyway and is much more effective.

Video Games

• Shuji Ikutsuki inPersona 3.
• Sora in the firstKingdom Hearts game after unlocking his heart with a Keyblade to free Kairi's heart.
• Everyquick-draw duel inCall of Juarez ends with this, following theBullet Time during the actual shots. Also,William's death in the penultimate cutscene ofBound in Blood.
• Victor Zakhaev inCall of Duty 4, after heshoots himself to avoid capture by the SAS and Marines.

Western Animation

• Family Guy
  • "Stewie Kills Lois", with Lois falling in slo-mo off the ship's railing.
  • Nazi puppeteer Franz at the end of his battle with Herbert.
• Used inX-Men: Evolution whenRogue PushesMystique off a cliff. Nightcrawler tries to BAMF down to save her, but he can't get there in time. When she finally comes to a halt in pieces at the bottom of the cliff, he teleports down there and starts crying over her remains.
• Happens to Vakama inBionicle 3: Web of Shadows, with Nokama, who is one of hisTrue Companions, watching in horror.

• Trope
• Camera Tricks
• Slow Motion Fall
• Velocity Index
• Falling, Dropping, and Plummeting