Not the Fall That Kills You/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character falls off ofa high place, but survives by being caught before hitting the ground, or grabbing a ledge on the way down, or landing in water or something.
 * Straight: Frederik jumps out from a helicopter but survives the fall because George caught him.
 * Exaggerated: Frederik falls through the atmosphere only to be saved from all damage by landing in a puddle.
 * Justified: Frederik is on a low-gravity planet and most of the regular surface is lethal on touch -- only the ledges and water are free from that toxic substance.
 * Alternatively, the setting does not have Real Life physics.
 * Alternatively alternatively, Frederik is Nigh Invulnerable.
 * Alternatively alternatively alternatively, Frederik can block elements, like wind and earth.
 * Inverted: Frederik dies mid-air after falling some time.
 * Subverted: Frederik manages to grab a ledge, but it breaks from the sudden impact and sends him falling.
 * Double Subverted: He only has a few feet left to fall.
 * Parodied: Frederik jumps out from a hot-air balloon but survives because he manages to grab onto a mountain ledge after a 30-second fall.
 * Deconstructed: Fredrick either dies or is crippled after being caught.
 * Reconstructed: Frederick is seen falling and onlookers think he will Go Splat, but he employs a parachute.
 * Zig Zagged: Fredrick jumps off a cliff, but survives because he falls into a body of water. However, when he jumps off his helicopter, he dies after hitting a body of water similar to the one he fell into when he jumped off the cliff.
 * Averted: Frederik tries to catch a ledge after falling out the helicopter, but only manages to break his arm, and he falls to his death anyway.
 * Enforced: "Wait, we need to have our hero do that thing where he falls from the top of a skyscraper, but survives due to falling in a puddle! Every movie has a scene like that, right?"
 * Lampshaded: "Wow, Frederik is really lucky. He fell three stories and managed to do that flag-pole-catching thing they do in movies and cartoons."
 * Invoked: Frederik deliberately aims for a body of water to break his fall.
 * Defied: Despite everyone telling him he'll be okay as long as he finds something to break his fall, Frederik refuses to to take the dangerous jump, because he passed his physics class in high school and knows that it's foolish.
 * Discussed: "Don't worry about falling, as long as I catch you, you'll be fine!" "But sir, what if we're falling at terminal velocity?" "I said you'll be fine!"
 * Conversed: "So Frederik, what would you do if you fell out of a plane like those people in the tail section on Lost?" "I dunno George, probably wave my arms to try to slow down and aim for the softest thing I can find to break my fall."

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