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Bubbles - the most fragile, light and transitory of objects. They aimlessly flutter through the air at the whim of a merest breeze, and vanish into nothingness at the merest touch. [[Too Dumb to Live|Hey, let's use them as a form of transportation!]]
You seem a little apprehensive, so let me clue you in on something: on the inside of a bubble, ''gravity vanishes''. Things just [[Mid-Air Bobbing|bob around]] in there, having somehow become as weightless as the bubble itself. Don't worry, it's perfectly safe!
The only tricky part is getting out of the bubble once you get in. For some bizarre reason, people put in bubbles tend to find themselves completely unable to get themselves out, no matter how hard they batter the inside of the bubble. It must be a side effect of zero gravity or something.
Oh? How do we get in? Well, we just get a bubble about ten feet in diameter, and... what? What do you mean, [[Square-Cube Law|impossible?]] Well, I suppose we'll just have to [[Incredible Shrinking Man|shrink down to a few inches]] and use a normal-sized one, then.
What? How do we steer it? Why, isn't it enough to just go wherever the wind takes you? Is your spirit really tied down to such weighty stones as "appointments" and "street numbers" and "deadlines" and -
-fine, go take a taxi, then.
See also [[Sphere Factor]].
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== Film ==
* This happens to the protagonists of ''Honey We Shrunk Ourselves''.
* Used by Glinda the Good in the film version of ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''.
* ''[[Meet the Robinsons]]'' features bubbles as a form of public transportation in the future.
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Bubble Bobble]]'', and sequels ''Bubble Symphony'' and ''Bubble Memories'': how the protagonists travel between levels and how enemies are on the way to being defeated.
** If the [[True Final Boss]] gets you in ''Rainbow Islands'', [[It's a Wonderful Failure]].
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** Any baby character in Yoshi's Island DS if knocked off Yoshi's back.
** In the original ''[[Super Mario World (video game)|Super Mario World]]'', bubbles could contain a floating Goomba, Bob-Omb or mushroom, and tended to pop without being touched.
* This can happen to Wario in the ''[[Wario Land]]'' series.
* Bubbled objects in ''[[Kirby]] Squeak Squad'' are sent to Kirby's stomach, which functions as an [[Video Game Items and Inventory|inventory]].
* The [[Infocom]] adventure ''Trinity'' had this.
* Mew in ''[[Pokémon Snap]]'', ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee'' and ''Brawl''.
** And before any of that, [[The Movie]].
* The Latheon Gorge segment of [[Tales of Symphonia]] is navigated by use of wind-blowing flowers and a magic ring that (among other things) encases the characters in a bubble.
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** And let us not forget everyone in Bikini Bottom in "Rodeo Daze."
* Bubbles are a common mode of transport in ''[[The Dreamstone]]''.
* An episode of ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' had the boys working on a bubble that could be ridden in.
* Showed up occasionally in ''[[My Little Pony]]''. The Sea Ponies could form breathing bubbles around people to stop them from drowning, and Fizzy could make all sorts of bubbles, including a couple times bubbles for floating through the air.
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