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{{quote|''Aren't you surprised by how we got water to blatantly ignore gravity? ''(pause)'' What?!?! You think it is easy altering the laws of physics, like gravity?!?!? How 'bout you try?!?''|A Random [[Super Mario Bros.|Toad]] in ''[[Super Mario 63]]''}}▼
Water works in a pretty simple way. Water flows wherever gravity takes it, and water takes the shape of its container. Or Does It? '''Floating Water''' is the strange fictional occurrence in which water decides to defy gravity, and sometimes make a plethora of shapes.▼
▲{{quote|''Aren't you surprised by how we got water to blatantly ignore gravity? ''(pause)'' What?!?! You think it is easy altering the laws of physics, like gravity?!?!? How 'bout you try?!?''|A Random [[Super Mario Bros|Toad]] in [[Super Mario 63]]}}
There can be any number of explanations that can be made by the people using this trope, but it really all boils down to the [[Rule of Cool]]. Remember however, it can still be in a glass container of some sort, just expect it to be crystal clear and barely noticeable.
▲Water works in a pretty simple way. Water flows wherever gravity takes it, and water takes the shape of its container. Or Does It? Floating Water is the strange fictional occurrence in which water decides to defy gravity, and sometimes make a plethora of shapes.
▲There can be any number of explanations that can be made by the people using this trope, but it really all boils down to the [[Rule of Cool]]. Remember however, it can still be in a glass container of some sort, just expect it to be crystal clear and barely noticeable.
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Goku from ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' exercises himself when he is in a hospital bed by concentrating his will on the water in a glass, moving the water out of the glass while it remains in the same shape as the glass. Naturally, when someone entered the room, he became distracted and the water fell on his head.
* Happens in ''[[
** Speaking of ''Pokémon'', [[Olympus Mons|Manaphy]] is living water.
* The ''Noiseman'' anime short has this.
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== Fan Works ==
* During the Ego Trip in ''[[
* ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* In the climatic battle of ''[[Harry Potter and
* The Red Matter in the new ''[[Star Trek (
* The Mon Calamari opera/dance/thing in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode III''.
* Justified in the movie ''[[
* The water tentacle from ''[[The Abyss]]''.
* [[Richard Kelly]] is ''obsessed'' with this image. Watch any movie he directed, from ''[[Donnie Darko]]'' to ''[[Southland Tales]]'' to ''[[The Box]].''
== [[Literature]] ==
* [[Older Than Feudalism]]. In ''[[
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]], or at least [[Handwaved]], in [[Larry Niven]]'s ''The Integral Trees'' and ''The Smoke Ring'': "Ponds" in the setting are spheres of water floating in midair, due to the near-complete lack of gravity.
* Also justified in one of [[Poul Anderson]]'s ''Flandry'' novels (part of the [[Technic History]] series), although the zero-g environment was artificial in this case.
* In ''[[
* In the [[Spellsinger]] series, the river Sloomaz-ayor-le-Weentli is a "double" river, in which one river flows at ground level and another underground, with an air-filled space between them ([[A Wizard Did It]]).
== [[Live
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek
* In the ''[[
* Cleo from ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'' has the power to manipulate the form of water and mould it into a different shape. She can mystically create more water to form a "branch" from a small cup
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* The [[Forgotten Realms]] setting in ''[[Dungeons
** 1st Edition D&D had a lot of Bible-derived cleric spells, including ''Part Water'' and ''Raise/Lower Water''.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Centaur Man's level in ''[[
* Fan-made ''[[Super Mario 63]]'' has water that can cling onto walls. They even lampshaded it in one particular level.
* The second and third game of ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' had floating tubes and spheres of water.
* The computer game ''[[Aquaria (
* <s>[[8-Bit Theater
* ''[[
* ''[[
** [[Super Mario Galaxy 2
* Floating bodies of water are sometimes seen in the ''[[Kirby]]'' games. In particular, ''Kirby Super Star'' has a couple of blatant examples. In the first level of the Dynablade sub-game, an optional room has a perfectly rectangular space of water. The water-themed planet in Milky Way Wishes has other oddly-shaped bodies of water, with arbitrarily-placed pockets of air.
* Through use of the sponge block, it is possible to produce this effect in ''[[Minecraft]]''.
* All the water in ''Riven: The Sequel to [[Myst]]'' is like this. The [[Hand Wave|explanation]] is that the water contains a heat-avoiding bacteria that makes people sick when they drink it. Boiling it kills the bacteria and makes it ordinary water.
* [[
* The forest level in ''[[The Legendary Starfy]]'' had numerous examples.
* A single-course setpiece obstacle in ''[[New Super Mario Bros
* The very first ''[[Turok (
* Ditto one part of ''[[Clive
* ''[[
* In the trailer for [[
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgB7mgdjUhA This] is a water rift from...well, ''[[Rift]]''.
* One of the outdoor levels in ''[[Secret Agent (
* ''[[Something|Something Else]]'':
** Rainy Clouds has a section where Luigi has to swim in shark-filled water and another section where the water is floating amongst to the clouds.
** The Secret Exit route in Cat Beach in Something Else is based around this particular gimmick. One false move and Luigi plummets to his death.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[
* [http://www.trollscientist.com/image/120-floating-swimming-pool-troll-physics.png This] troll science cartoon.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* This is the main principle of [[Making a Splash|Waterbending]] in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Katara calls it "streaming the water."
* Aqualad of ''[[Teen Titans (
* In the ''[[Ren and Stimpy]]'' episode "Space Madness", Captain Hoark is in the bath and Space Cadet Stimpy turns off the gravity in order to calm him down. Cue this trope with the bath water taking the same rectangular shape as the bathtub.
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* [[Truth in Television]]: In zero gravity, water will form floating spheres. These [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=487fnnjAgZM NASA] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTqLQO3L4Ko videos] shows a number of visually cool experiments involving them.
** And played for laughs in the ''[[Planetes]]'' manga: in an [[Omake]] [[Yonkoma|four-panel strip]], Hachi sees a blob of floating hot coffee. Being cute, he sticks a straw in it and slurps it. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
** Demonstrated in the ''[[Tintin
** And in the novel ''Simon Black in Space'' by Ivan Southall when one of the characters attempts to create a bath in zero gravity, and almost drowns in the process.
* Another way water does this in real life is in water droplets. When watched in a high speed camera it's revealed that the drop will float on the surface of the water as a perfect sphere for a fraction of a milisecond before bursting, launching a smaller sphere into the air which does the same thing until it gets too small to support itself.
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