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Never mind that in many circumstances, objects move faster in zero gravity since, obviously, there's no gravity to slow them down. If you kick off from a wall, you'll travel as fast your legs propel you. This trope presumably originates from footage of astronauts deliberately moving very slowly, because they know it's easy to let momentum get the better of you and hurt yourself bashing into something. It may also be a weird side-effect of [[Space Friction]], or of writers' only personal experience of "weightlessness" being a dip in the swimming pool.

* Played so straight in the series ''Space1999'' that they filmed moonwalking scenes in ''slow motion''.

* Subverted at length (and with obvious relish from author [[Anthony Horowitz]]) in the space-set sequence that concludes the ''[[Alex Rider]]'' novel ''Ark Angel''. The first thing Alex does in space is bang his head after getting up too quickly. At one point he gets stranded in the middle of a room and has to throw his shoes to propel himself in the other direction (equal opposite reaction etc). Later he throws a hammer at an enemy, expecting it to drift slowly - instead it zooms across the room and hits the guy very painfully on the shoulder.

* Massively averted in an episode of [[Planetes]] where the crew barely manage to move a piece of debris out of the way of an oncoming spacecraft in time - said spacecraft flashes by ''very fast''.

* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'': Jackie and Hak Foo end up fighting in space during the Moon Demon episode, and Hak Foo is forced to rethink his [[Calling Your Attacks|attack names]]. "Tiger prowls...through pudding? Turtle...fist! Sloth...kick!"

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