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** ''[[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 vehicles of the Sea Team from ''[[Dairugger XV]]'', a.k.a. ''Vehicle [[Voltron]]'', can all fly. Then again, so can the Land Team's.
* 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.
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** 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.
* ''[[Super Atragon]]'': The undersea battleship ''Ra'' is given exactly two scenes where it is shown flying; neither instance of her flight has any plot relevance.
* Taken to ridiculous levels in ''[[Pokémon: The Movie 2000]]'', where Melody's sailboat--which is apparently ''just a regular sailboat''--is made to fly above the waves when they need to go faster. Complete with the following dialogue:
{{quote|'''Ash:''' This thing ''flies?!?''
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* [[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.
* 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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* ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'' - the Yellow Submarine swims and flies equally well.
* The Manta Squadron fighter planes from ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''
* The fully amphibius [[Future Copter]] from ''[[A.I.: Artificial Intelligence]]''
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* ''[[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.
* The Empire of the Rising Sun in ''[[Command
* 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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== Webcomics ==
* Inverted in ''[[8-Bit Theater
== 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.
* Depth Charge of ''[[Beast Wars]]'' has a manta ray beast-mode, and a flight alt-mode. His flight alt-mode, however, is based of the ship he used to come to earth in the first place. True of most Transformers with swimming alt-modes. Most sharkformers can fly, and the Energon toy-only Transformer Sharkticon turns into a submarine/spaceship.
** 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]]''.
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