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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.]]

 

 

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.

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== [[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.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* 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 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 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]]).

 

* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had a planet made entirely out of water, the reason for that being it was held together by a massive force field generator at its core. The people living on the planet meanwhile believed their gods had given it to them as a gift (note: they lived underwater in buildings).

* 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."

 

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