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'''Aelita:''' ''(shrugs)'' [[Stealth Pun|He's not afraid of falling...]]<ref>He's a cat boy, you see.</ref>|''[[Code Lyoko]]'', "Bad Connection" }}
A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Cool Board]], the main recreational device in the future is the Hover Board. Like an all-terrain skateboard, the
The characteristic that determines whether you have a
May be accompanied by hover bikes, scooters, and skates as well. Hoverboards are very, very popular in [[Video Games]]. Usually a large part of the gameplay in a futuristic platformer involves riding and acquiring these vehicles, although they're just as likely to be temporary power-ups.
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* [[Soul Eater|Death the Kid]] has a flight-capable skateboard, [[I Call It Vera|whom he named "Beelzebub"]]. Technically though, this is more an example of [[Sky Surfing]], because he generally uses it to outright fly.
* Van from ''[[Zoids]]: Chaotic Century'' has one.
* Jean in ''[[Transformers Victory]]'' has one that allows for some degree of
* Used with <s>disastrous</s> hilarious results at the beginning of ''[[Manabi Straight!]]'' when two of the girls are [[Late for School]].
* Owned by Psy in ''[[Heroman]]''.
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== Literature ==
* Scott Westerfeld's ''[[Uglies]]'' series features these quite prominently.
** Uglies play around with them
*** Interestingly, the center-of-gravity device clips onto their belly-button rings, a fact that the characters all seem to take for granted. Apparently belly-button piercings are mandatory for young people in the utopian/dystopian future.
** Pretties generally can't ride hoverboards due to their reduced reflexes {{spoiler|caused by the brain lesions that come with the operation}}. Zane and Tally, however, are able to ride hoverboards as pretties when they consciously try to "stay bubbly" and {{spoiler|fight the influence of the lesions}}.
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