History Main / AirplaneArms

** In the UsefulNotes/Nintendo3DS remake of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVII'', Maribel runs with her arms outstretched behind her.

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* Music/{{Weezer}}'s video for [[https://youtu.be/gkroIXktjgE?t=191 "The Good Life"]] has Matt Sharp and Patrick Wilson briefly doing a slo-mo airplane run across the studio together during the instrumental bridge of the song - appropriately enough, this is cut to when the pizza delivery driver from the ConceptVideo segments is watching an actual plane skywrite the word "DELIVER".

* The song in the page quote was used on ''Series/SesameStreet''. [[https://www.youtu.be/A5wOkfHwweo Watch it]], in all its catchy goodness.

* In the first issue of ''[[ComicBook/Superboy2011 Superboy vol. 5]]'' Kon wonders what his childhood would have been like if he'd been allowed to have one instead of being artificially aged while watching a kid run through a field with his arms outstretched and a makeshift cape pretending to be a superhero.

* In ''Webcomic/KiwiBlitz'', robots run with their arms swept back. In TheRant on [[https://www.kiwiblitz.com/comic/page-226 page 226]], Mary Cagle explains that this is because their locomotion is quite different from a human's.

* In the closing credits of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' Laura runs down a hill with airplane arms extended. And airplanes weren't even invented yet!

** Mario runs this way in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'', and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder''. In ''3'' and ''World'', he can take flight when running this way with certain power-ups equipped (the Racoon Leaf and Tanooki suit in ''3'' and the Cape Feather in ''World'').

%%* Son Gohan and others in ''Franchise/DragonBall''.

* In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' Gohan and his little brother Goten [[https://i.makeagif.com/media/8-25-2017/IRZqR8.gif run like this]] while training. They likely get it from their father [[https://i.giphy.com/media/1wXeZxGTdF8Uka5k4C/giphy.webp Goku]] who would often run with Airplane Arms in the original ''Manga/DragonBall''. In some GenerationXerox Pan runs like this in ''Anime/DragonBallSuperSuperHero'', in the exact same fashion as Arale (whom she's already very similar to in this version).

* In the sixth ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' OVA, the Nazi vampires run this way. The eighth episode has Iscariot officers running through Alucard's infernal host [[https://youtu.be/fJhQEfYpUCs?t=441 this way]].
-->'''[[WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged Alucard]]:''' Y'all know you're ''Naruto'' running, right?!

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'' several characters occasionally run with Airplane Arms such as [[https://youtu.be/VT9OYs07jOE?t=7 Luffy]] and [[https://youtu.be/DfT0XgTmiy0?t=9 Sanji]] during the Thriller Bark arc. Of course actual ninjas like Raizo and Shinbou from Wano run like this too, even [[https://64.media.tumblr.com/a62802ec90734dbc8ea6573c90c1b2ae/5f7c14143fe2b318-04/s400x600/42907697684864e454990efce93c20471cb39322.gifv Nami]] runs like this after becoming a kunoichi.

** Parodied by one the many [=NPCs=] of ''Sonic 2006''. A man with Sonic hair and a familiar dress style will challenge Sonic to a race, claiming to be the real Sonic, and he reenacts this style of running. He's really, really slow, though, and it's almost impossible to lose against him.

* [[VideoGame/StarFox Falco Lombardi]] runs in variations of this manner depending on the game. In the credits of ''VideoGame/StarFox64'', he is seen running exactly this way. Probably appropriate, since he is essentially an anthropomorphic bird... and in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'', it's actually ''Fox'' that sprints at a full-on Bird Run. Huh. Falco goes for more of a NinjaRun for this game.

** Mario runs this way in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', ''Videogame/SuperMarioWorld'', and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBrosWonder''. In ''3'' and ''World'', he can take flight when running this way with certain power-ups equipped (the Racoon Leaf and Tanooki suit in ''3'' and the Cape Feather in ''World'').

* This was [[https://www.youtu.be/3ollHKfSKKw brought up]] in an episode of ''WebVideo/GameGrumps'' when the grumps were playing ''Manga/{{Naruto}} Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm Generations'' (Jon as Sasuke, Arin as Shikamaru).

** In "Brother Brat", an aircaft worker leaves her son for Porky to babysit, enthusiastically telling him "We hafta build those planes!" and heading out with arms outstretched -- and then seen ''flying off'' in the distance!
** Bugs Bunny does this in "The Hare-Brained Hypnotist", after he is somehow hypnotized into thinking he's a B-19 aircraft.
** In 1936's "Plane Dippy", Porky has outstretched arms and imitating a plane to tell an army sergeant he wants to be a pilot.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Happy Raven does this when Beast Boy and Cyborg enter Raven's mirror in "Nevermore". It's their first hint that she isn't the Raven they're used to.

* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'':
** CheerfulChild Sealand does this quite a bit.
** The entire Italian army does this while running away from lookout duty.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Grace [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2014-08-08 does]] this while considering the long term potential for a relationship between Justin and Luke.

-->Since they don't have a human’s muscular system, it's actually efficient for these gals to run NINJA STYLE. Unlike actual humans and/or narutos.

[[caption-width-right:350:"It's-a me! [[BilingualBonus Aereo]][[note]]Italian for "airplane"[[/note]]!"]]

--> -- '''Music/JonathanRichman''', "I'm a Little Airplane"

A strange position where a character in a generally good mood runs with their arms fully outstretched to the sides like the wings of an airplane. (Try it, it's fun!). Little kids may be depicted doing it as it looks cute.

A cooler, more aerodynamic variant, with the runner's body leaning foward and the arms swept farther back, like the wings on an F-14 Tomcat, is also often used to indicate a very fast and agile runner. {{Ninja}} are frequently portrayed running this way, though they now tend to prefer the NinjaRun. [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai Samurai]] also run in a similar manner, usually while keeping one hand grasped onto their katana. In a more (apparently) realistic series this may have something to do with the runner having a reduced profile and thus being harder to hit with ranged weaponry, but it's generally just the RuleOfCool. In modern Japan, this pose is known as [[http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=list&tags=bu-n "buun."]]

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* Common in small children as an attempt to balance. Or of course, when they're pretending they're an airplane.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' has run this way ever since Sonic CD, his SuperMode also flies like this.

* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]] has been doing this in the 2D platformers since ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3''.
** And if he has the right item (such as the Cape in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld''), he ''can'' take flight, making this almost a literal case of a Bird Run.
** Also, when he first appears in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', Mario is seen running towards the Star Festival with his arms out, just because he's such a happy-go-lucky guy. Also, he can run like this in-game in [[InvincibilityPowerUp Rainbow form]].

* [[CheerfulChild Vivio]] does this in episode 15 of ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaStrikers'' as she runs to [[HasTwoMommies Nanoha and Fate]]... before promptly falling flat on her face.

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