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[[File:blitzball.jpg|link=Final Fantasy X|frame|Think that's breaking the laws of physics? Try playing ball games in there.]]
{{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.
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== Fan Works ==
* During the Ego Trip in ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', John causes a fifty-foot stretch of river to rise up and stream over his head so the others can cross without struggle. Everyone is ''mightily''
* ''[[Tangled Up in Blues]]'': Seafoam demonstrates her telekinesis by "dividing the water in the fountain into cubes that float through the air."
== [[Film]] ==
* In the climatic battle of ''[[Harry Potter and
* The Red Matter in the new ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie. Justified in they ''had'' to have it suspended in a vacuum, because if it touched any other kind of matter at all it would turn into a black hole.
* 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]].''
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* [[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 ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Smith and Jones," the gravity-transport beam the Judoon use to transport the hospital from the earth to the moon causes water to condense out of the air around the hospital and fall upward, creating the illusion that it's "raining backward."
* 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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* The second and third game of ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' had floating tubes and spheres of water.
* The computer game ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]]'' has water bubbles suspended in air.
* <s>[[8-Bit Theater
* ''[[Donkey Kong Jungle Beat]]'' had floating bodies of water floating in air that you had to swim through. Later, [[Super Mario Galaxy 2]] re-used the same idea, adding games characteristic gravity tricks.
* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' has the Loopdeeloop and Loopdeeswoop Galaxies, which are Manta Ray race tracks made of floating wall. The latter even has the water go uphill and in a vertical loop!
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* 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 Angry Video Game Nerd]] famously lost his cool while playing ''Super [[Pitfall]]'' as the result of this trope.
* The forest level in ''[[The Legendary Starfy]]'' had numerous examples.
* A single-course setpiece obstacle in ''[[New Super Mario Bros. Wii]]'': moving circles of water mixed in with the platforms. Yes, you can swim in them, and you can fall out of them to your death.
* The very first ''[[Turok (series)|Turok]]'' game (the good one) had vertical columns of water that you had to ascend and jump out of at the top to scale a dungeon.
* Ditto one part of ''[[Clive Barker's Undying|Undying]]'' set in [[Eldritch Location|Oneiros]].
* ''[[Mario Party]] 7'' has a mini-game where the four players are placed in a giant floating bubble of water, and must punch the others out of the bubble. (And yes, despite what logic might otherwise dictate, being punched out the top of the bubble counts as a knockout.)
* 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 (video game)|Secret Agent]]'' has a block of water just floating in mid-air ([[Super Drowning Skills|that kills you instantly on touch]].) There's no explanation for this. Apparently it's a level designer's error.
* ''[[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.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[SCP Foundation]]: [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-791 SCP-791] is an inexplicably orb-shaped mass of water.
* [http://www.trollscientist.com/image/120-floating-swimming-pool-troll-physics.png This] troll science cartoon.
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Instant Index, Just Add Water]]
[[Category:Rule of Cool]]
▲[[Category:Floating Water]]
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