The ‘superhero landing’, also known as the three point landing, is a classic visual
trope in which a hero does something epic, or enters a scene epically, generally dropping
from a great height into a seemingly simple and flawless martial arts inspired pose. Sure
there’s lots of variations – some land on one of their knees, others with a fist,
causing damage to the ground they’ve landed on – but generally, it’s always slick,
and always cool. Someone on the internet even made a super cut of examples!
See! It is a trope! But regardless, today we’re taking a closer look at some of those
fantastic poses with our list of the best superhero landings,.
10 Captain America Civil War – Bucky and Black Panther
The relationship between Bucky Barnes and Black Panther continues to grow into a compelling
one. When the duo encounter each other during Civil War, there’s a scene where T’Challa
is chasing Bucky, and Bucky throws himself across to another building. T’Challa follows
him, and knocks him down in the process of making his own epic superhero landing.
9 Scott Pilgrim vs The World – Scott and Matthew Patel
In a less traditional but still noteworthy superhero landing, let’s take a look Scott
Pilgrim vs The World. If you’re unfamiliar with the film - or the comics it originates
from - in order to win the heart of the super cool Ramona Flowers, super slacker Scott Pilgrim
must defeat her seven evil exes. Matthew Patel is the first, and he jumps on Scott during
a show that he and his band Sex Bob-omb are playing. Both have their fair share of superhero
landings, and have one of the most fun fights of the entire film.
8 Iron Man 2 – Black Widow In her first appearance in the MCU in Iron
Man 2, Scarlett Johannson’s Black Widow makes a superhero landing of her own, but
it isn’t from a jump; it’s more of a slide during a battle in a hallway after she pulls a few
impressive acrobatic stunts against a group of security guards.
7 The Matrix Reloaded – Trinity A computer hacker and programmer who escaped
from the Matrix, Trinity is one of the main characters in The Matrix franchise. And she’s
such a bad ass. During one scene of The Matrix Reloaded, we see Trinity riding a motorcycle.
She backflips off of it, letting the motorcycle crash into the building below it, causing
the building to explode in front of her as she lands like a total boss in one of her
more memorable poses in the franchise. She then calmly removes her helmet and kicks a
bunch of security guards’ butts.
6 Gwen Stacy – The Amazing Spider-Man 2 Moving into darker territory here, let’s
take a look at the Amazing Spider-Man 2, the Fox reboot of the Spider-Man franchise starring
Andrew Garfield in the lead role as Peter Parker. One scene in the film replicates the
infamous scene in the comics in which Gwen Stacy, who is the primary love interest for
the hero in this adaptation and played by Emma Stone, dies tragically when Peter is
unable to save her in time. It’s a fatal landing, with her barely skimming the ground
before Peter’s web catches her, inevitably resulting in her death.
5 Supergirl – CW’s Arrowverse Let’s jump over to the small screen for
this number and take a look at one of the more impressive three point landings made
by the CW’s Arrowverse’s Supergirl. This particular landing happens during a crossover
episode of Arrow during season 5, episode 8, which just also happened to be Arrow’s
100th episode. Supergirl uses this three point landing to make one hell of an entrance, making
the Flash stop and pause his own fight in awe. He then taps her in, and the two continue
the fight as a duo.
4 Quicksilver Extraction scene – X-Men Apocalypse Apocalypse was a…questionable film. Especially
compared to First Class and Days of Future Past. But despite what credits - and yours
truly - felt about the film, there is one sequence that’s pretty amazing. After Apocalypse
makes a visit to the Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Havoc’s attack on the
villain goes a little haywire, and causes the school to explode. Luckily, Quicksilver
(the fox version) is there in the nick of time, and speeds into the school to save all
of the students. In the process, as he flies out with the remainder of them, he makes quite
the landing before speeding off to join the rest of the kids outside on the lawn.
3 Spider-Man – Civil War I think it’s a bit of an understatement
to say that everyone was excited for Spider-Man’s appearance in the MCU. Prior to this, the
character’s rights had been owned by Fox, but with Disney/Marvel buying them back, it
opened up a whole lot of opportunities for the integration of the hero in the already
well established superhero cinematic universe. Peter Parker made his debut in Captain America
Civil War, with his first official reveal being in the trailer for the film - he does
a superhero landing after stealing Captain America’s shield - and pretty much everyone
lost their shit over it. In the context of the film itself, Spider-Man steals Cap’s
shield upon making his entrance at the start of the airport battle, and even another superhero
landing mid way through when he takes on Cap again.
2 Deadpool – Superhero Landing One of the many reasons why Deadpool was a
massive hit was because the film captured the same wonderful mocking spirit the character
has in the comics. Being a superhero film itself, Deadpool makes sure to comment on
many of the tropes and mishaps of other superhero films, including the three point landing trope.
Referring to it as a Superhero Landing, Deadpool openly anticipates Angel Dust’s superhero
landing right before the final face off of the film. And it’s hilarious.
1 Iron Man 2 – jumping into stadium In arguably the coolest of superhero landings,
in Iron Man 2, Tony Stark jumps out of an airplane and speeds down into the sky showing
off some of the suit’s abilities as he makes one hell of an entrance at his Stark expo.
Backed by attractive dancers in Iron Man bikini suits. While it may not be a mid-battle superhero
landing, it’s still pretty epic nonetheless.
There we have it friends! What’s your favourite superhero landing? Did it make our list? Let
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