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[Comic Books]If a hero catches someone when they're about to hit the ground, How is it not the same as them just hitting the ground

In my physics class the teacher asked this question as a though experiment, and he said it would be the same as hitting the ground. I tried to object saying it was explained in some book.

I however couldn't find anything, could you guys maybe find something?
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The hero in question is able to cushion the fall slightly, might have some power to cancel out momentum, or is actually changing the vector of the fall gradually (though that isn't possible if it's *just* above the ground).

This is actually brought up in the earlier Spider-man comics.  Green Goblin throws Gwen Stacy off a bridge.  Spidey shoots out a web to catch her, but unfortunately, the force from stopping snaps her neck.  This was later retconned into her secretly surviving and having Osborne's kid or something though.