Even limited exposure to Chinese historical action films tells me that I can support myself by stepping on a spinning sword
The body heat emanating from his arms acts as a super cushion to slow down the lass before she hits.
Seriously, I would like to see a superhero fly or swing down to catch a falling person. They’d match their speed to the (by now unconscious) person, and gradually push them away from a vertical fall… and hopefully miss the ground at the end of their very wide arc* as they “slow down slowly”. They’d both end up flying horizontally, not speeding back up into the sky.
*So if you’re falling, call for Supes right away, while you’re still a half mile up.
Also applies if you’re falling from a bridge, and Spider-Man snags you with his web.
R.I.P., Gwen Stacy. 
When a group of friends from high school or college reunite after a long period of time, all of them have exciting and important jobs- bestselling author, movie star, senator, celebrity chef, inventor. Maybe one will be an investment banker, and worry about giving up their idealism for money. It’s about as realistic as a group of high schoolers all getting into the Ivy League together.
Interestingly, it does sometimes happen- remember that Al Gore was Tommy Lee Jones roommate.
I think that would be more plausible if the characters attended an elite secondary school or university.
One of them will be a loser.
One of them will be dead - but look like Kevin Costner
Another one will have just gone through a divorce.
Wasn’t that how Hannibal Lector killed someone in the book/movie Hannibal? Supposedly a medieval/Renaissance Italy way of spectacularly doing away with someone.
See “lithobraking”.
Superman must be using his contact levitation power that makes it possible for him to pick up aircraft carriers.
Yup. He tied him to a metal hand cart, eviscerated him, and then pushed him out the window. The rope caught him as he fell but his intestines continued all the way down…
Yep. Superman has skills that can only be attributed to magic.
Batman, on the other hand, at least SEEMS to pay lip service to the laws of physics even if most of his nifty gadgets would not work as advertised.
So if it comes down to choosing which one to stop me as I make my unplanned descent from the skyscraper, it’ll have to be Superman.
I’d never heard of lithobraking but the Wiki article seems to basically be saying it’s a combination of SOME kind of reverse thrust (to slow the vehicle down), and a whole lot of balloon cushioning (glorified bubble wrap) to absorb / spread out the final impact and slow the rate at which you go from 100 to zero. I wonder if Mythbusters ever looked into that sort of use for bubble wrap…
They did indeed. IIRC, it did not end well. The dummy they wrapped would have suffered severe internal injuries.
Yeah, but as I recall, Lector sliced open the guy’s lower abdomen before he pushed over the balcony.
Nobody tell this to Jackie Chan.
Snipers in movies/TV will always have their target sighted in so that only their head or very upper body is visible through their scope.
As far as I can tell in real life having that large image in your reticle means either your within pistol range of your target or the slightest movement would throw off your aim completely.
Why did Hannibal Lecter invite Jackie Chan to dinner?
He was in the mood for a little Chinese, 
No, you’d want to ask his doctor. Jackie Chan is riddled with injuries from such stunts.