History Main / BatmanCanBreatheInSpace

** This could also be explained by the fact that Peter Quill at that moment still possessed his Celestial Powers, albeit he still didn't know it.

* Near the end of ''Film/TheBlackHole'' the characters are inexplicably seen climbing from the Cygnus to the probe ship through the vacuum of space without space suits.

-->'''Dr. Evil:''' It's a flu shot. You've been in the [[SpaceIsCold coldness of space]], I don't want you to get sick.

* In the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film ''Moon Castle: The Space Adventure'', the gang goes to the moon to keep the Gourd King from making it bitter. They do not wear their spacesuits while on the moon, and yet they have no problems breathing there.

In RealLife, space exposure is dangerous. Suffocation is the greatest concern, followed closely behind by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebullism your internal fluids boiling away]] due to the low pressure and radiation from high-energy wavelengths that the atmosphere normally absorbs. It is also recommended to ''not'' hold your breath, as the internal pressure could cause your lungs to rupture. That said, people can theoretically survive in space for a minute or two, given they can be rescued while unconscious and given medical assistance afterwards.

* [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-zagged]] on ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'': Dr. Fox averted it in "Wishing Well" when she was nearly launched into space while tied to a rocket and worriedly exclaimed that she can't breathe up there, and in "Brain Trust" when she rode a rocket into space and began suffocating before activating her helmet. Meanwhile, it was played straight in "Film Fest" when Unikitty, Puppycorn, and Hawkodile were launched into space at the end of Dr. Fox's movie, and then {{lampshade|Hanging}}d at the end of "Growing Pains" when Unikitty and Puppycorn are floating in space and Puppycorn questions how they're breathing.

* ''Young Samson & Goliath'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_%26_Goliath episode]] "Moon Rendezvous". Kunev Khan flies his rocket ship to the Moon with the title characters as stowaways. After arriving, Kunev Khan, Samson, and Goliath cheerfully walk around in the Moon's near-vacuum with no side effects at all. And Samson and Goliath's superpowers don't explain it: they exposed themselves to the non-existent atmosphere before they changed to their super-powered forms.

** Batman, however, has snuck onto and off of the Watchtower without the use of teleporters or shuttles, when it was ''in orbit''. [[CrazyPrepared That's just how Batman rolls]]. [[ParanoiaFuel He could be behind you right now]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' typically plays this straight, but in "Wishbones" RuleOfFunny dictates that during Skarr's wish, the statue of himself rising out of the ground under him extends in height until it reaches outside Earth's atmosphere, after which he suffocates and suffers ExplosiveDecompression.

-->'''Dr. Evil''': It's a flu shot. You've been in the [[SpaceIsCold coldness of space]], I don't want you to get sick.

%%* '''Unsure - hitchhiker's guide is weird. Certainly not played straight''' In ''Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything'', the gang is able to stand on a bare asteroid after Slartibartfast [[BystanderSyndrome extended an SEP field over them, thus making the problem of lack of air "Somebody Else's."]] Which is pretty irresponsible when you think about it... Or rather not, as the concept of the SEP field is better summarized "not MY problem".
%%** Exactly how it functions in this instance is left unexplained since it's implied that an SEP field is only effective if one is unaware of it, and that it can only mask the presence of something rather than create something; so while Arthur and his friends might have willingly wandered out into the vacuum of space under the illusion that the lack of air was "somebody else's problem", they would have immediately asphyxiated since the SEP field could not have actually created a breathable atmosphere.

** Not in space, mind you, but close: in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E1TerrorOfTheZygons "Terror of the Zygons"]], the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane are trapped in a hyperbaric chamber being drained of oxygen. He puts Sarah into a trance, telling her she does not need to breathe, then puts himself into one until they are rescued.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]], the Doctor survives strangulation at the hands of a mummy servitor. Afterward, the Doctor claims that he has a respiratory bypass system. It has since been referenced in a variety of episodes when the Doctor needs to survive a toxic atmosphere or the vacuum of space.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E2FourToDoomsday "Four to Doomsday"]], the Doctor survives in space with nothing but a TARDIS "spacepack" that only has a visor. Presumably there is a forcefield involved that protects the user, but it is never mentioned onscreen.

* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'': Mike and Pearl occasionally sit in the open door of Pearl's space-worthy VW Bus. But if you're wondering how they eat and breathe, and other science facts, just repeat to yourself: [[MST3KMantra "It's just a show, I should really just relax"]].

* Music/{{Rammstein}} in their video for "[[{{Eagleland}} Amerika]]", where they appear on the Moon in astronaut suits but without helmets. [[spoiler:Since the Moon surface where they perform is revealed InUniverse to be just a set.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': Gumball doesn't have any problems breathing or even talking in space in "The Debt". He is also seen there with Penny and four planets in "The Compilation".

** Which gets lampshaded again by the very same character in ''Machinima/ZePyromancers'', at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIugPm9WD14 this video]] as a CallBack.

%%* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
* Abused in ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'':
** Superman talks in space. Nuclear Man uses his super-breath in space. To freeze Superman. Lacy ''screams'' in space. And by that point, the brain melts, if it hadn't already from everything else wrong with that film.
** And in a deleted scene, he takes the boy who wrote to him saying he should destroy all of Earth's nuclear weapons for a flight around the Earth, without a spacesuit. At least in the comic book adaptation he gives him one.
** Hilariously, at the end of the film, after defeating Nuclear-Man and Luthor asks him how he did it, Superman begins his answer with the words "High school physics..."

* In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', The Octalians are immune to the vacuum of space as long as they hold their breath and shape-shift.

* Several ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts (primarily in the WesternAnimation/TheBugsBunnyRoadRunnerShow / ''The Bugs Bunny and Tweety Show'' show the characters doing this, particularly Bugs Bunny in the Marvin the Martian Episodes, and Daffy Duck as Duck Dodgers. Even Porky Pig and Sylvester could survive in space after a flying saucer takes them into space on top of the spacecraft, having cut out underneath their campsite.

* In ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the girls frequently end up in space for one reason or another, and have no trouble breathing, talking, shouting, or, in [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie the novie]], hearing screams and gasps from the Earth while on an asteroid. DependingOnTheWriter: in one episode they did have spacesuits on.

* In ''Franchise/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the girls frequently end up in space for one reason or another, and have no trouble breathing, talking, shouting, or, in TheMovie, hearing screams and gasps from the Earth while on an asteroid. DependingOnTheWriter: in one episode they did have spacesuits on.

* In ''Literature/AllTomorrows'', the Spacers ''can't'' breathe in space, but they ''don't need to either'', since their cardiovascular systems and digestive systems are fully pressurised. They're even able to use this to their advantage, as by expelling pressurised air through flatulence, they're able to travel long distances through space.