While the song's authors might have predicted its lasting impact, particularly on gay audiences, vocalist Martha Wash certainly never did. In fact, she admits The Weather Girls didn't even want to sing it! Are you kidding me? When the others passed most notable being Summer, who had become a Born Again Christian, and wanted to move away from gay fans , Jabara approached Wash and Armstead. Jabara thought they were perfect for the project.
Gay history, some would argue! After caving to Jabara's pressure, the duo -- reborn as The Weather Girls to play up the song's title -- released "It's Raining Men" on their third album, Success. It became an instant classic! Globally, however, it was an even bigger smash. Or "Orbital Insertions" anywhere on Planet, once you have a specific technology or have built the Space Elevator. A good strategy against the AI which inevitably neglects its air defenses is to run an air-based blitzkrieg , using well-armed 'copter units to clear bases of defenders and then drop high-armor paratroops in to capture and defend your conquest.
You do need to be either geographically close to the faction you're fighting for this to work, or at least capture a base or two to serve as a beachhead or, after you research Nanometallurgy, use carriers ; not only is there a limited range for Drop Pods, the 'copters need to refuel every turn or else suffer damage. Similarly, in most incarnations of Civilization , there is at least one Paratrooper unit that can make airdrops; since Civilization III , these play animations of the unit paradropping when you use that functionality.
Their animation has them being deployed by a Skyranger.
In World in Conflict , it rains men when you order paratroopers through the tactical aid menu. Other infantry are delivered by helicopters, but unlike in Real Life , it also rains heavy tanks and artillery—they are always delivered by paradrop. Also, there is a prop in the map editor used on some official urban maps that allows you to literally rain men on some area, preferably, off map, since they don't affect the gameplay at all.
The trailers for the game put a special emphasis on this trope, with one showing U. Another shows said Soviet paratroopers jumping out of a plane revealing massive anti-aircraft fire, with raining planes to go along with those raining men. The trailer for Soviet Assault has the Soviets pull this with a main battle tank , dropping it into a car dealership to back up some outnumbered soldiers.
Complete with its red parachute landing on the skylight, tinting everything red , and Polyushka Polye kicking back in.
Also, let's not forget that in the first mission featuring the invasion of Seattle, it's raining men everywhere in the background. And the intro for the next mission shows a little girl getting off her bike watching the Soviets drop down from the sky while a panicked man who calls into a local radio show can be heard screaming in the background "They're here!
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They're coming from the skies man! Look up in the skies man we're being invaded!
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EndWar averts this trope in terms of the standard methods of deployment. Riflemen can be deployed behind enemy lines using an ability called Deep Strike, which has those riflemen rappelling out of a helicopter. Other troops and vehicles can also be deployed by helicopter outside of their standard landing zones, averting the unrealism of airdropping them though having multiple vehicles that don't look as if they would fit in that one helicopter drive out of it This makes them the second most hardcore soldiers on the human side, next to the Spartans.
Don't mention that last part to their face. The opening cutscene of Halo 3: ODST gives the player a first-person view of an orbital drop. The Master Chief is notorious for pulling this kind of stunt it helps that his armor has Inertial Dampening and can "lock down" during a fall , something Sergeant Johnson lampshades at the beginning of Halo 3: Why do you always jump? One of these days you're going to land on something just as stubborn as you are. Falling towards a barn "Please be full of hay! Please be full of hay! Please be full of A Miracle of Science: The Alt Text in this strip.
Doc also once reenters the earth's atmosphere while surfing on the back of a rocket-propelled robot Dracula A Beginner's Guide to the End of the Universe has a bunch of people descend while using the protagonist itself, who is wearing gravity-defying armor , as a parachute. In here spoilerriffic link warning.
Erfworld had a bit of fun with this one, as it was the title of part two of Book 2, and it was a central plot point. Burk is introduced when he does just that. Then he improvises a parachute out of his cape. Falling from the sky thing-- fixed. Skippy's List has examples: Not allowed to sing "High Speed Dirt" by Megadeth during airborne operations. Justice League uses this in the Grand Finale "Starcrossed" with the Thanagar army descending from the sky.
Considering they are all Winged Humanoids , it produces a surprisingly biblical image. In the opening credits for Season 3 Total Drama World Tour , the contestants form a human pyramid on the plane's fuselage, only to fall when the the pilot Chef Hatchet shakes them off. The contestants have parachutes, so they land safely Also in Season 3, one of the plane's doors blows out with an assist from Chef in the Japan episode, and the contestants are blown out. They plummet to earth without parachutes, singing all the way down , but land safely in a giant bowl of rice.
They have no parachutes, but land safely in water. All have parachute packs, but only half of those contain actual parachutes, which is the season's team selection method. With or without parachutes, the contestants land safely in water. Since their mission requires quickness, they do it without parachutes. Justified in that both have a healing factor and the plane nearly lands to accomplish this. That is, they were put into tanks that had parachutes strapped to them that were then dropped from planes. Seeing as how the tanks were on fire and falling like stones in spite of the parachutes, one can only assume they were on a suicide mission.
Jonny Quest episode "The Fraudulent Volcano". Quest and Race Bannon must bail out and parachute down when the plane they're in is shot down by an invisible beam. In a rare example of a bad guy pulling this on a hero, in Curious George: Seeing that they had a parachute and he did not, he caught up with them and saved himself by hanging on the Man's boots. An early episode of Exo Squad had members of Able Company doing an orbital insertion on occupied Earth in pyramid-shaped entry capsules. The Perils of Penelope Pitstop. In "Jungle Jeopardy" Penelope used her scarf as a parachute after jumping from a plane.
Played with in the Futurama episode "Tip of the Zoidberg" during a flashback sequence where a young Zoidberg and relatively young Farnsworth scream in terror as they are tossed out of a plane until their parachutes open, where they immediately switch to a casual conversation. Their landing, along with the rest of their peers, isn't quite so casual. We'll be safe as long as we stay out of the methane swamps! We're jumping out of you! World War II was the absolute hey-day of this tactic: Whilst certainly critical to the invasion, more conventional methods may have worked just as well, since the fortress guarding the northern end of the bridge was manned by only three Danish soldiers.
It was the largest airborne operation in history, delivering over 34, men of the American st and 82nd Airborne Divisions, the British 1st Airborne Division, and the Polish Brigade. Gliders also brought in 1, vehicles and artillery pieces. And it was a failure. The troops were scattered, and the 1st Airborne were dropped far away from their target the critical bridge over the Rhine at Arnhem, the whole reason for the operation.
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There were more German troops nearby than expected, namely two Waffen-SS Panzer Divisions resting up intelligence from local resistance forces on German troop concentrations was received by the Allies, but was ignored ; the Allied intelligence thought the only troops at the area would be just secondary quality, such as Volksgrenadiers.
The 1st Airborne managed to take the bridge anyway, but they were eventually overwhelmed and forced to surrender before the Allied relief forces could arrive. Despite the taking of several other bridges leading to Arnhem by the rest of the Allied airborne units, the primary objective of the operation, capturing a bridge over the Rhine in order to bring an end to the war in Europe in , was not achieved.
Estimated Allied losses are between 15, and 17, people. The operation was not a complete failure , though. It led to final liberation of Belgium and Luxemburg, and capture of important ports at Rhine estuary, greatly aiding the Allied logistics.
The Allied forces had over-stretched their supply lines since Normandy; after Market Garden, they were able to ship supplies directly from UK to Belgian ports. One of the largest air drops in history was on the eve of D-Day, where Allied airborne units landed to take strategic locations in preparation for the amphibious landing. Due to mistakes in recon, some paratroopers ended up being dropped in waterlogged fields with some of them ending up drowning in water that was maybe feet deep, due to their heavy equipment.
Operation Varsity , an airborne drop intended to aid the crossing of the Rhine towards the end of WWII, is the largest single-day drop at 16, men. The assault on the Belgian fort of Eben Emael, which was crucial for the Blitzkrieg campaign in the West The Eben Emael strike was performed by glider infantry.
Operation Greif during the Battle of the Bulge had English-speaking German soldiers paradropping behind Allied lines to perform sabotage missions. The upshot of all these paratroop drops is that paratroopers can be useful when sent to accomplish small, targeted objectives, but large-scale paratroop drops were generally not very effective.
The troopers tended to get pretty wildly scattered, like at D-day, where there was no such thing as unit cohesion. Even if a unit did manage to stay together after a drop, paratroopers faced an obvious problem in that they could not carry heavy weaponry. The bravest of men carrying nothing but rifles and grenades will struggle against an enemy with artillery and tanks, as the British paratroopers at Arnhem discovered.
The German paratroop drops at Crete helped take the island, but at such a high casualty rate that the Nazis never tried an airborne drop again.
While the Americans, British and Germans had the most famous paratrooper forces during the Second World War, the Japanese had their own. They participated in numerous campaigns during the early parts of the Pacific theater. The Rikusentai were the Japanese marines, organizationally part of the navy. However, they had their own paratroops, specifically 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Rikusentai Units roughly oversized battaliions, although usually translated as "regiments" or called SNLF's in English home-based at Yokosuka.
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The Red Army's paratroops probably had the worst time of it and the lowest survival rate of any airborne troops during WW2. Prior to the war Russia had raised paratroop divisions and they were a proud part of pre-war propaganda movies — thousands of parachutes raining men is always impressive in any propaganda movie. However, in the confusion and chaos surrounding the initial German invasion in , hundreds of transport planes were destroyed on the ground.
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