Power Floats: Difference between revisions

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[[File:PowerFloat.jpg|frame|Behold, the Throne Of [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Power Floats]]. ]]

 

{{quote|'''Chip:''' She can fly!?

'''Needy:''' She's only hovering. It's not ''that'' impressive.

 

Just like [[Power Glows]], [[Power Echoes|Echoes]], and [[Power Makes Your Voice Deep|Makes Your Voice Deep]], it also floats.

 

Don't expect this to let you pass the [[Insurmountable Waist-Height Fence]] though. Expect to see some [[Mid-Air Bobbing]]. The most common stock pose associated with this is the [[Levitating Lotus Position]]. If it takes a turn for the eerie, may be paired with [[Marionette Motion]]. See also [[Chunky Updraft]]. And if the power of love causes it, it's [[Lovetation]]

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* In ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', all of the main characters can fly. When someone brings out their Super Saiyan [[Battle Aura]], it adds to the mix rising currents of [[Dramatic Wind]] and [[Chunky Updraft]] lifting stuff up around them as they leave the ground.

** As an added bonus, this often happened not by having characters rise off the ground, but by having a small section of the ground ''blown out from under them'' with their [[Battle Aura]]. They simply couldn't be bothered to fall a measly four inches.

 

 

* Dr. Manhattan does it in ''[[Watchmen]]''.

* In the surreal 1989-1990 Larry Hama comic ''[[Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja|Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja]]'', the [[Reality Warper]] [[Meaningful Name|Alphie O'Meagan]] floats off his bed the first time he truly activates his power, after having a conversation with his subconscious in the form of a giant animated face coming out his ceiling.

 

== Literature ==

* In [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Stand]]'', Randall Flagg likes to spend his downtime hovering and [[A God Am I|meditating on his own awesomeness]].

* Just before the final fight in ''[[Discworld/Thief of Time|Thief of Time]]'', Newgate{{spoiler|/Jeremy}} floats gently, while glowing. He's learned Rule One - "Never act incautiously when facing a small wrinkly bald smiling old man!" Still doesn't go too well for him.

 

 

* The C'Tan of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' like to slowly float over the battlefield as they kill everything in sight, though this is largely because they consider the laws of physics to be optional. Similarly, the [[Psychic Powers|enormously psychic]] [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Tyranid]] organisms known as Zoanthropes float to get around, since their brains are superdeveloped at the expense of the rest of their body - their tiny, atrophied legs can't possibly support them.

** Going by how the models' brains are ''clearly visible'', neither can the rest of their bodies...

* The Elocater [[Prestige Class]]'s 1st class ability, "scorn earth," causes you to float a foot off the ground at all times. The ability's description implies that you're so powerful, you've just decided to ''ignore the ground entirely.''

** Actually, it lets you float as high as you like, but at more than 1 foot above the nearest flat surface, they lose a lot of speed and stability. Still, nothing is stopping you [[Dungeon Bypass|floating up to the tower's topmost window and gliding through]].

== Video Games ==

* The first of the flight powers in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' is "hover" but it's essentially extremely slow flight.

** There is also the Soul Storm power, which will raise the user into the air, flight or no flight.

* Zasalamel in ''[[Soul Calibur]]'' hovers off the ground when turning into Abyss. The effect is not seen anywhere else in the game, and once he becomes Abyss, he doesn't float any more.

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Gwynn tends to float and [[Power Glows|glow]] when she starts really channeling her witchy powers.

* ''[[The Way of the Metagamer]]''. The [[Dismantled MacGuffin|Colour Drops]] all float, as do spellcasters when preparing spells.

 

 

* Ron floats and glows when he taps into his inner monkey in the real ''[[Kim Possible]]'' finale.

* ''[[The Venture Bros]].'' has wizard Dr. Orpheus, who often levitates for no reason at all.

* The villain of ''[[Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders]]'', Lady Kale, once managed to take over most of the magic in Avalon and rule the kingdom. When the Jewel Riders broke into the Crystal Palace, they found her at Queen Anya's throne—or more specifically, "sitting" on it by floating high above.

* All of the [[Our Ghosts Are Different|ghosts]] in [[Danny Phantom]] both float and have a [[Power Glows|glowing aura]].

* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' can fly, of course, but they rarely walk, usually levitating when they do anything except sleep or watch TV.

 

== Real Life ==