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Water works in a pretty simple way. Water flows wherever gravity takes it, and water takes the shape of its container. Or Does It? Floating Water is the strange fictional occurrence in which water decides to defy gravity, and sometimes make a plethora of shapes.
There can be any number of explanations that can be made by the people using this trope, but it really all boils down to the [[Rule of Cool]]. Remember however, it can still be in a glass container of some sort, just expect it to be crystal clear and barely noticeable.
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== [[Film]] ==
* In the climatic battle of ''[[Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix]]'', Dumbledore momentarily nabs Voldermort inside a sphere of water and levitates it into the air.
* The Red Matter in the new ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' movie. Justified in they ''had'' to have it suspended in a vacuum, because if it touched any other kind of matter at all it would turn into a black hole.
* The Mon Calamari opera/dance/thing in ''[[Star Wars]] Episode III''.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* An episode of ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Star Trek Voyager]]'' had a planet made entirely out of water, the reason for that being it was held together by a massive force field generator at its core. The people living on the planet meanwhile believed their gods had given it to them as a gift (note: they lived underwater in buildings).
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "Smith and Jones," the gravity-transport beam the Judoon use to transport the hospital from the earth to the moon causes water to condense out of the air around the hospital and fall upward, creating the illusion that it's "raining backward."
* Cleo from ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'' has the power to manipulate the form of water and mould it into a different shape. She can mystically create more water to form a "branch" from a small cup
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* The second and third game of ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' had floating tubes and spheres of water.
* The computer game ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]]'' has water bubbles suspended in air.
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* ''[[Donkey Kong Jungle Beat]]'' had floating bodies of water floating in air that you had to swim through. Later, [[Super Mario Galaxy 2]] re-used the same idea, adding games characteristic gravity tricks.
* ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' has the Loopdeeloop and Loopdeeswoop Galaxies, which are Manta Ray race tracks made of floating wall. The latter even has the water go uphill and in a vertical loop!
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* Floating bodies of water are sometimes seen in the ''[[Kirby]]'' games. In particular, ''Kirby Super Star'' has a couple of blatant examples. In the first level of the Dynablade sub-game, an optional room has a perfectly rectangular space of water. The water-themed planet in Milky Way Wishes has other oddly-shaped bodies of water, with arbitrarily-placed pockets of air.
* Through use of the sponge block, it is possible to produce this effect in ''[[Minecraft]]''.
* All the water in ''Riven: The Sequel to [[Myst]]'' is like this. The [[Hand Wave|explanation]] is that the water contains a heat-avoiding bacteria that makes people sick when they drink it. Boiling it kills the bacteria and makes it ordinary water.
* [[The Angry Video Game Nerd]] famously lost his cool while playing ''Super [[Pitfall]]'' as the result of this trope.
* The forest level in ''[[The Legendary Starfy]]'' had numerous examples.
* A single-course setpiece obstacle in ''[[New Super Mario Bros Wii]]'': moving circles of water mixed in with the platforms. Yes, you can swim in them, and you can fall out of them to your death.
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* In the trailer for [[Bioshock]] 2, a Big Sister uses telekinesis to make a big shield of water, for no reason other than to look awesome.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgB7mgdjUhA This] is a water rift from...well, ''[[Rift]]''.
* One of the outdoor levels in ''[[Secret Agent (video game)|Secret Agent]]'' has a block of water just floating in mid-air ([[Super Drowning Skills|that kills you instantly on touch]].) There's no explanation for this. Apparently it's a level designer's error.
* ''[[Something|Something Else]]'':
** Rainy Clouds has a section where Luigi has to swim in shark-filled water and another section where the water is floating amongst to the clouds.
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[SCP Foundation]]: [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-791 SCP-791] is an inexplicably orb-shaped mass of water.
* [http://www.trollscientist.com/image/120-floating-swimming-pool-troll-physics.png This] troll science cartoon.
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