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[[File:Laputa.jpg|link=Laputa: Castle in the Sky|frame|The [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|sky castle]] of [[Gulliver's Travels|Laputa]] in ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]''. ]]

 

 

An otherwise-normal place that's floating in the sky, often for no adequately-explored reason.

 

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* In [[Cowboy Bebop]], there are floating islands ... [[Captain Obvious|floating]] in the atmosphere of the [[Terraform|terraformed Venus]].

* The eponymous ''Laputa: Castle in the Sky'', released as ''[[Laputa: Castle in the Sky]]'' in some markets (Especially because in Spanish, "la puta" means "the whore". In Spain, e.g., "Laputa" was changed to "Lapuntu", in the US and Mexico "Laputa" was simply ommitted).

* In the ''[[Dragon Half]]'' manga one of the [[Plot Coupon]]s needed to defeat Azatodeth is located on a Floating Island. Unfortunately it was only after the king of the Island gave it to the girls did he remember that said [[Plot Coupon]] was ''[[Colony Drop|powering the Island's engines!]]''

* Vash in ''[[Trigun]]'' got his coat, artificial arm and third gun from a massive colony of SEEDS that never hit the ground, and so remain peacefully isolated from the [[Crapsack World]], comfortable with their future tech. When Vash goes back for repairs and upgrades, naturally trouble follows him.

 

 

* The sadly short-lived [[Cross Gen]] comic ''[[wikipedia:Meridian (comics)|Meridian]]'' features floating islands over a poisoned and barely-livable surface. They are held aloft by a substance called "floatstone" woven into the rock (and floating ships to travel between them, made with special floating wood). There was even a completely artificial island. Cities had to be careful about adding too much mass, though, or collect a type of floating coal to stay up. One such city ends up dropping.

* Superbia, the home of the International Ultramarine Corps in the [[DC Universe]], is a city that floats over the remains of Montevideo.

* Within the pages of [[Cable]]/[[Deadpool]], Cable converts his former base into a floating island.

* The shortlived [[Marvel Comics]] ''[http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix4/weirdworld.htm Weirdworld]'' setting has the floating island of Klarn, homeland of the [[Our Elves Are Different|Elves]].

* [[Supergirl]]'s home town of Argo City, which survived the destruction of Krypton for a while as a floating planet chunk.

* [[The Mighty Thor]]'s home of Asgard was always portrayed as a great land mass floating in extradimensional space.

** Between 2007 and 2010, it was a great land mass floating over Broxton, Oklahoma.

 

 

* Roger Dean's album covers for the progressive rock band [[Yes]] are absolutely packed with these.

* The videos for "Feel Good Inc" and "El Manaña" by [[Gorillaz]] feature Noodle on a floating island with a windmill.