Skydiving is an extreme sport which involves jumping out of an airplane, hopefully with a parachute, free-falling a great distance, and then opening the chute and hoping to God you don't land in a volcano or something. Pro tennis player Jaime Sommers went on an ill-fated skydiving trip once, but when her parachute malfunctioned, she fell through a grove of trees that nearly cost her her life. Fortunately, her boyfriend Steve Austin was present, and Steve knew some people who knew some people. Courtesy of the scientific wizardry of the Office of Scientific Intelligence, they were able to save Jaime's life and outfit her with some bad-ass cybernetic prosthetics, which enabled her to run fast, chuck boulders as if they were Frisbees and hear two kids fornicating in a parked car from two miles away. She hence became known as the Bionic Woman. [1][2]
On iZombie, an adventurous thrill-seeker named Holly White lost her life when she was skydiving with a troupe of friends and impaled herself on a tree branch. Her old college buddy, Liv Moore, now a zombie, had to eat Holly's brain to gain insight as to whether there was any malicious intent leading to her death. [3]