Flying Tropes

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A Index of tropes about flight. Beware of Anti-Air.

See also: Vehicle Index and This Index Blows

Contrast Falling and Landing Index.

Tropes:

• Flight (main topic)
• Acrophobic Bird: A character capable of flight doesn't want to fly for some reason.
• Aerial Canyon Chase: A chase commences in the air, next to a canyon.
• Airborne Aircraft Carrier: A flying air force station.
• Airborne Mook: This enemy can fly. Expect some degree of frustration from it.
• Air Jousting: Duel where two people crash into each other... IN THE SKY!
• All Balloons Have Helium: Balloons + Air = Floating Balloon
• Angels Earn Their Wings: An angel wants to fly, but needs to earn it!
• Armored Coffins: A vehicle with no safety or escape features, so that being disabled almost always kills the pilot.
• Balloonacy: (Balloons × Helium) + Object/Character = Easy Flight.
• Balloon-Bursting Bird: A balloonist's worst nightmare.
• Balloon Delivery: Sending notes, mail or even packages via balloon.
• Belly-Scraping Flight: An aircraft or flying creature brushes the ground or a terrestrial obstacle in a close call.
• Bombardier Mook: Airborne Mooks with explosives.
• Call of the Wild Blue Yonder: A character wishes they could fly and repeatedly tries and fails at it.
• Clip Its Wings: The wings are a very crucial weak point for flying targets.
• Cool Airship: Airships are awesome.
• Cue the Flying Pigs: A verbal put-down Tempts Fate.
• Death Flight: Trying to kill someone via dropping them from an airborne vehicle while it's in flight.
• Die or Fly: Dormant superpowers come to light under extreme circumstances.
• Disturbed Doves: Mass bird take-off is always symbolic.
• Dreams of Flying: A character dreams that they're flying.
• Ear Wings: Ears are used as a form of flight.
• Emergency Cargo Dump: Dumping stuff out of a plane to make it lighter.
• Flight Is the Final Power: A character gains various superpowers, with flight coming last.
• Flight of Romance: Flight is associated with love.
• Floating in a Bubble: Character in an actual bubble, for any number of reasons (but usually for travel).
• Floating Continent: A large, midair landmass.
• Floating Mask: Mask of Power + Power Floats.
• Flying Books: Books that fly.
• Flying Brick: A person who can fly, has Super-Strength and Nigh-Invulnerability.
• Flying Broomstick: Witches travel around on cleaning implements.
• Flying Car: A car that flies.
• Flying Face: Disembodied flying head.
• Flying Flightless Bird: A bird that shouldn't be able to fly actually does.
• Flying on a Cloud: Someone can fly on a cloud.
• Flying Postman
• Flying Saucer
• Flying Seafood Special
• Fragile Flyer: Flying beings depicted as weaker or less durable than non-flying ones.
• Full Moon Silhouette: Flying in front of the moon.
• Ghostly Glide: Ghosts that float.
• Giant Flyer: Huge flying animals.
• Global Airship
• Hair Wings: Hair is used as wings to fly.
• Hat of Flight: A hat that enables its wearer to fly.
• Helicopter Hair: Hair that spins like helicopter blades, enabling flight.
• Helicopter Pack
• Heli-Critter: A living creature that flies with rotating blades or wings.
• High-Altitude Battle
• High-Up Ice-Up
• Hindenburg Incendiary Principle: Fictional airships tend to crash spectacularly.
• Hover Bike: A bike that hovers off the ground.
• Hover Board: Flying skate, surf, or other boards.
• Hover Bot: A floating robot.
• Hover Mecha: A floating mecha.
• Hover Skates: Footwear that allows its wearer to float above the ground.
• Hover Tank: A tank that hovers off the ground.
• Hubcap Hovercraft
• I Believe I Can Fly: A setting where flight is a common superpower.
• If It Swims, It Flies: Things that can move underwater can move in the air like it's also water.
• Improvised Jet Pack
• Inflating Body Gag
• Instant Flight: Just Add Spinning!
• Jet Pack
• Jettison Jetpack Attack
• The Joy of First Flight: Flying for the first time is an exhilarating experience.
• Jump Jet Pack
• Kite Riding: Flying by riding or being strapped to kites.
• Levitating Lotus Position: Someone floats off the ground with their legs crossed under them.
• Living Gasbag: Creatures that float through internal stores of lighter-than-air gases.
• Look Ma, No Plane!
• Love Floats
• Magic Carpet: A flying carpet that can carry people around.
• Midair Repair
• Not Quite Flight
• Ominous Floating Castle
• Parachute in a Tree
• Pegasus: Flying winged horses.
• Polymorphic Plummet: A character transforms while falling, usually to avoid a nasty landing, often into something that can fly.
• Possession Levitation
• Power Floats: Supernatural power induces floating.
• Remembered I Could Fly
• Ridiculously Small Wings: Characters which can fly in spite of the size of their wings.
• The Sky Is an Ocean: Skies are depicted as acting like another sea, with flying ships, fishes, islands and so on.
• Sky Pirate: Pirates in flying vessels.
• Sky Surfing
• Space Whale: Such whales are often depicted flying in atmospheres as well.
• Stationary Wings
• Submersible Spaceship: If it flies in a vacuum, it can fly in an ocean.
• Those Magnificent Flying Machines: Decorative, baroque and improbable flying devices.
• Tiny Flyer, Huge Cargo: A flyer carries passengers or cargo larger and heavier than itself.
• Toasted Buns
• Token Flyer: Ensemble teams tend to have a single flying member.
• Turbine Blender
• Up, Up and Away!
• Video Game Flight
• We Will All Fly in the Future
• Wind from Beneath My Wings
• Winged Soul Flies Off at Death
• Wire Fu
• World in the Sky: A setting of floating landmasses in the sky.
• Wronski Feint: Flying towards an obstacle and dodging at the last minute to trick pursuers into crashing.
• Zeppelins from Another World

Useful Notes

• Airships