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[[Speculative Fiction]]'s answer to the [[Flying Broomstick]], in which a character rides on a rocket.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The opening credits of ''[[Paprika]]''
* The Rocket Bikes in the sewer in ''[[
* One of the last episodes of ''[[Grenadier]]'' has Touka riding a missile.
* In [[Shin Mazinger]], [[Badass Grandpa|Juzo Kabuto]] rides a Rocket '''Punch''' to snap Kouji out of a [[Heroic BSOD]].
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The [[Norman Osborn|Green Goblin's]] initial introduction in ''[[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|Spider-Man]]'' has him riding a rocket powered broomstick before upgrading to his famed [[Hover Board|Goblin Glider]]
* The Penguin has ridden on a number of rocket powered Umbrellas in the ''[[
* Leni "Sky Witch" Muller from ''[[Top Ten]]'' rode a rocket powered broomstick.
** Not to mention Stefan "Saddles" Graczik, who rode a rocket powered saddle.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Rocket-powered rideable craft much like broomsticks are used in asteroid mining in ''[[The Rolling Stones (
* At least one [[Star Wars]] book took a speeder bike and turned it [[Up to Eleven]], welding the controls of a bike to a PODRACER engine. Han commented it must shake considerably when it breaks the sound barrier. The owner answered that it did. He later experienced it first hand.
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** You can also get one from getting someone else to join the game, and there are several in-game rides to be had. There's the Rocketway in Azshara, The Uncrashable that carries one from Light's Hope Chapel to Fuselight Landing, and the taxi mount departing from Cliffwalker Post in the Stonetalon Mountains.
* ''Earthworm Jim'' did this in a few games
* The (Bonne family) train boss, the [[Gratuitous German|Gemeinschaft]], in [[
* ''[[Contra]] III's'' 4th boss involves riding a [[Macross Missile Massacre]] while disabling the boss's anti aircraft weaponry and shields. This fight is a [[Rule of Cool]] and takes [[Refuge in Audacity]].
** ''Shattered Soldier'' had Mooks riding missiles in the second stage. And in the fourth stage, you ride one again.
* All vehicles in ''[[Jak and Daxter|Jak II]]'' are jet bikes, and can be jacked in midair. Doing this to the Krimzon Guard brings down the wrath of the [[Demonic Spiders]] and is best avoided.
* At the end of ''[[Just Cause (
* This comes up a few times in ''[[Rayman|Rayman 2]]''. The first few rockets you get to ride have legs, but in the final level you get to actually fly one. [[Scrappy Mechanic|It is very difficult.]]
* In ''[[Action 52]]'', main character and some enemies in ''Rocket Jockey'' ride on a rocket.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Roxy Rocket (pictured above) from ''[[Batman: The Animated Series
* [[Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner
* Baloo from ''[[
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