Soft Water/Playing With

Basic Trope: A character is rendered immune to a fall from any height simply by landing in a large body of water.
 * Straight: John jumps out of a burning building from the 30th story, but lands in a large swimming pool, and suffers no harm.
 * Exaggerated: John jumps out of a space shuttle in low Earth orbit, falls down to the ground, and is saved by landing in the Atlantic Ocean a puddle.
 * Justified: Conditions on John's planet are just right so that, at terminal velocity, water will actually help him to avoid injury.
 * Inverted: John hits the water and is later pronounced dead-on-impact.
 * Given the circumstances of John's fall, he would have died if he had fallen into the water. But--through a great stroke of luck or resourcefulness--he manages to land on a Far Side Island, and thus he survives.
 * Subverted: John jumps off the building, watching the water below him while he falls, and then activates his parachute.
 * Double Subverted: The parachute gives away and John is saved by the water after all.
 * Parodied: The water reaches up and plucks John out of the sky, gently lowering him down to safety.
 * Deconstructed: John lands in the water and survives, but suffers massive internal bleeding, 4 broken ribs, a fractured femur, and a morbid fear of swimming for the rest of his life.
 * Reconstructed: John fights through his injuries and paranoia and becomes a professional high-dive champion.
 * Zig Zagged: John, having a basic grasp on the laws of physics, activates his parachute while falling towards a body of water, knowing that the water will not break his fall. However, the parachute gives way, and John falls into the water anyway...and dies on impact.
 * Averted: John does not attempt to survive a high fall by falling into water; he knows that it would be fatal.
 * Alternatively, John does attempt to break his fall by jumping into water, and promptly dies.
 * Lampshaded: "You'd think that you'd have been smashed to bits on impact with the water due to the laws of physics, John! It's like they don't actually exist or something!"
 * Invoked: John is Genre Savvy, and makes sure to fall into a body of water in order to survive.
 * Defied: As John looks down on the water from above, he decides to find another way down, knowing the fall would kill him.
 * Discussed: "Despite what movies may have led you to think, falling into water at this height is still fatal!"
 * Conversed: "How did that character survive falling into water at terminal velocity? That should have broken all the bones in his body!"

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