If It Swims, It Flies: Difference between revisions

You hit an instant snag, though. Once you are out of range of the ocean, your naval man's mech loses its special value to the team. How does one make up for this Aquaman-level flaw?

 

 

It's not just mecha, by the way. Anything that looks like an aquatic vehicle can, with the right amount of thought or lack thereof, be converted to something that flies through the air or into space. After all, [[Space Is an Ocean]], isn't it?

** ''[[Tensou Sentai Goseiger]]'': GoseiShark averts it by moving on the ground when not in the water. The [[Mecha Expansion Pack|Seaick Brothers]] play it straight a bit, though.

** ''[[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger]]'': The Rangers have GokaiGalleon, as befits a [[Pirate]]-themed team. But they're also ''[[Space Pirates|Space]]'' [[Space Pirates|Pirates]], so the ship is obviously spaceworthy. In addition, there's GokaiMarine, which at least has shown it can move about in space (as can the other land mecha).

* The ''[[Cool Plane|God Phoenix]]'' in [[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]. Its launch base is underwater.

* Inverted in ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'': the Dai-Gurren, which looks like a ship with legs and a torso, was originally a surface battleship. Later, Leeron converted it to be seaworthy (by tacking on a giant <s>oar</s> paddle and a pair of flippers...), though they couldn't go very deep. Even later, it nabbed one of the flight spheres of the Dai-Gunten, Cytomander's [[Flying Aircraft Carrier]], gaining the ability of unassisted flight... even though Parallel Works 8 shows us hundreds of these battling the Anti-Spirals in high Earth orbit.

** A third inversion: the Moon-sized Chouginga Dai-Gurren can apparently operate as a submarine, even though there's no ocean big enough for it... though when they got caught in the ocean-like Death Spiral Field, the ship was almost crushed by the pressure.

* ''[[Space Battleship Yamato]]'' has it both ways: it is an ex-sea battleship that was reconfigured into a space battleship, but it can still go on water, and can indeed go underwater and survive if absolutely necessary.

{{quote|'''Ash:''' This thing ''flies?!?''

'''Melody:''' If you know how. }}

* [[Marvel Universe]] [[Face Heel Revolving Door|Anti-villain-hero]] Namor the Submariner could fly. Because he had wings on his ankles. [[Fridge Logic|You know, like underwater creatures do]].

** People forget, Namor isn't just a [[Half-Human Hybrid]] (a cross between baseline human and Atlantean), he's a MUTANT hybrid that exhibits a bunch of traits not found in either population.

 

 

* ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' - the Yellow Submarine swims and flies equally well.

* The Manta Squadron fighter planes from ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''

 

 

* ''[[Golden Sun]] 2'': You get a ship that is upgraded to an airship... by adding giant flapping wings. Said wings are explicitly powered by the party's magic - specifically, an ability called Hover.

* [[Xenogears]]: The Yggdrasil stars as a [[Sand Is Water|Sand Sub]], that can ''only'' work on sand. Then it gets [[Mid-Season Upgrade|fixed]] after [[Person of Mass Destruction|Id]] sinks it. Later it gets the ability to fly.

* Vehicles in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]] Nuts and Bolts'' tend to turn out this way. Plane-ish vehicles tend to be able to navigate underwater easily (if they have the underwater capable cockpits) and Submarine vehicles tend to fly well (if given wings). Make a boat. Then add wings to it. Bam, flying boat!

* In the point-and-click adventure game ''AmerZone'', you operate a vehicle that not only invokes this trope, but does so in multiple ways: it can fly as either a prop plane or helicopter, navigate the water as a motorboat, sailboat, or fan-propelled swamp boat, and drag itself along the river with a grappling hook.

 

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== Western Animation ==

* The T-Sub of ''[[Teen Titans (animation)|Teen Titans]]'' quickly became the T-Ship as more episodes took them into space. Cyborg Lampshades this the first time. "The T-Sub was made for deep sea, not deep space!" He makes it work though.

** Several of the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' Fuzors, which are biological mashups of two animals, are part aquatic and part flying animal, in order to avert this. This results in the piranha/bee and hammerhead shark/falcon, which look about as cool as they sounds.

* Syndrome's manta ray jet/submarine from ''[[The Incredibles]]''.