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Compare with [[Flying Seafood Special]], where the inexplicably flying aquatic entities are ''living organisms''.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[Mazinger Z (Anime)|Mazinger Z]]'': Mazinger-Z got upgraded to be able to swim (in episode 18) and fly (in episode 34). However its mobility and speed gets severely hindered underwater, its weapons do not work properly, so it may count as a subversion.
** ''[[Great Mazinger (Anime)|Great Mazinger]]'': Great Mazinger was also equipped to fly and swim, and faced the same problems its antecessor.
** ''[[UFO Robo Grendizer (Anime)|UFO Robo Grendizer]]'': One of its [[Mid
* ''[[Getter Robo (Manga)|Getter Robo]]'': Getter is -literally- built around this concept. Depending on how the three jets combine, the form a different robot, capable to fly on Earth and space, fly or burrow underground, or swim and dive.
* ''[[Combattler V (Anime)|Combattler V]]'': Battle Marine, One of the machines forms the body of the [[Humongous Mecha]] -to be specific, the legs- is able to swim and fly -and it also carries around the Battle Tank, that can not fly on its own).
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== Comic Books ==
* [[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
* The ''Secret of the Swordfish'', the first [[Blake and Mortimer]] adventure, has the titular Swordfish (a rocket-powered plane) launched from an underwater base.
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** The steam-powered airship ''Hilde Garde III'' in ''[[Final Fantasy IX (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IX]]'' is similarly built from the hull of the ''Blue Narciss'', a sailing vessel.
* ''[[Golden Sun (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|Xenogears]]: The Yggdrasil stars as a [[Sand Is Water|Sand Sub]], that can ''only'' work on sand. Then it gets [[Mid
* The Empire of the Rising Sun in ''[[Command and Conquer Red Alert]] 3'' uses the Sea-wing/Sky-wing, a fast anti-air submarine that can [[Transforming Mecha|transform]] into anti-infantry airplanes. And by "transform", we really just mean "take off"; the two forms are identical.
* 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!
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== Webcomics ==
* Inverted in ''[[
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