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* ''In The Dark Forest'', one of the books in the [[Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem Remembrance of Earth's Past]] series, ships fill their cabins with breathable "Deep Sea Fluid" to protect their insides from the effects of hypergravity.
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* ''Literature/DarkLife'' has "Liquigen" short for "Liquid Oxygen", which works similar to the fluorocarbon liquid mentioned in ''Film/TheAbyss'' above but has the advantages that it turns to vapor quickly when exposed to oxygen (good for when the driver stops using it -- prevents them from needing to puke it up) and somehow prevents the human body from being affected with such things as the bends.
* ''Literature/{{Deeplight}}'': Humans can breathe [[EldritchOceanAbyss Undersea]] water. Since it's essentially liquid fear, the experience is not pleasant. Side effects include experiencing the terror of shipwreck victims as they drowned.
* ''In The Dark Forest'', one of the books in the[[Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem ''[[Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem Remembrance of Earth's Past]] Past]]'' series, ships fill their cabins with breathable "Deep Sea Fluid" to protect their insides from the effects of hypergravity.
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* ''In The Hall Of The Mountain King'', one of the stories in the [[Literature/KnownSpace Man-Kzin Wars series]] features a Tnuctipun pilot encased in a capsule of breathable fluid to protect him (and his normally air-filled lungs) from high-G maneuvers.
* ''Literature/KnownSpace'': ''In The Hall Of The Mountain King'', one of the stories in the ''Man-Kzin Wars'' series features a Tnuctipun pilot encased in a capsule of breathable fluid to protect him (and his normally air-filled lungs) from high-G maneuvers.
* In Mary Lowd's ''Otters in Space'' series the ''Jolly Barracuda'' fills with liquid "oxo-agua" when underway, allowing the crew to handle greater g-forces than most other spaceships, too bad nobody told the feline passenger.
* In the young adult novel ''Space Winners'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, Peep is an alien from a high-gravity planet. When he falls off a boat in the middle of the ocean he is too dense to float or swim, but his lungs are so powerful he has no trouble breathing the water like air and just walks along the ocean floor to the nearest land.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': The ExpandedUniverse novel series ''Federation'' explains that before the invention of the [[InertialDampening inertial dampener]], the stresses of high-G acceleration required starship pilots to be immersed in liquid-filled capsules, breathing an oxygen-rich saline solution to prevent their lungs from being crushed.
* The sliph from the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series is a magical construct used by ancient wizards for rapid travel. She is composed of what looks like living quicksilver one must breathe while traveling (instantly lethal to anyone not possessing the appropriate magic).
* In the young adult novel ''Space Winners'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, Peep is an alien from a high-gravity planet. When he falls off a boat in the middle of the ocean he is too dense to float or swim, but his lungs are so powerful he has no trouble breathing the water like air and just walks along the ocean floor to the nearest land.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': The ExpandedUniverse novel series ''Federation'' explains that before the invention of the [[InertialDampening inertial dampener]], the stresses of high-G acceleration required starship pilots to be immersed in liquid-filled capsules, breathing an oxygen-rich saline solution to prevent their lungs from being crushed.
* The sliph from the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series is a magical construct used by ancient wizards for rapid travel. She is composed of what looks like living quicksilver one must breathe while traveling (instantly lethal to anyone not possessing the appropriate magic).
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* The sliph from the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series is a magical construct used by ancient wizards for rapid travel. She is composed of what looks like living quicksilver one must breathe while traveling (instantly lethal to anyone not possessing the appropriate magic).
* ''Literature/DarkLife'' has "Liquigen" short for "Liquid Oxygen", which works similar to the fluorocarbon liquid mentioned in ''Film/TheAbyss'' above but has the advantages that it turns to vapor quickly when exposed to oxygen (good for when the driver stops using it -- prevents them from needing to puke it up) and somehow prevents the human body from being affected with such things as the bends.
* In the young adult novel ''Space Winners'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, Peep is an alien from a high-gravity planet. When he falls off a boat in the middle of the ocean he is too dense to float or swim, but his lungs are so powerful he has no trouble breathing the water like air and just walks along the ocean floor to the nearest land.
* In Mary Lowd's ''Otters in Space'' series the ''Jolly Barracuda'' fills with liquid "oxo-agua" when underway, allowing the crew to handle greater g-forces than most other spaceships, too bad nobody told the feline passenger.
* ''Literature/{{Deeplight}}'': Humans can breathe [[EldritchOceanAbyss Undersea]] water. Since it's essentially liquid fear, the experience is not pleasant. Side effects include experiencing the terror of shipwreck victims as they drowned.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': The ExpandedUniverse novel series ''Federation'' explains that before the invention of the [[InertialDampening inertial dampener]], the stresses of high-G acceleration required starship pilots to be immersed in liquid-filled capsules, breathing an oxygen-rich saline solution to prevent their lungs from being crushed.
* ''Literature/DarkLife'' has "Liquigen" short for "Liquid Oxygen", which works similar to the fluorocarbon liquid mentioned in ''Film/TheAbyss'' above but has the advantages that it turns to vapor quickly when exposed to oxygen (good for when the driver stops using it -- prevents them from needing to puke it up) and somehow prevents the human body from being affected with such things as the bends.
* In the young adult novel ''Space Winners'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, Peep is an alien from a high-gravity planet. When he falls off a boat in the middle of the ocean he is too dense to float or swim, but his lungs are so powerful he has no trouble breathing the water like air and just walks along the ocean floor to the nearest land.
* In Mary Lowd's ''Otters in Space'' series the ''Jolly Barracuda'' fills with liquid "oxo-agua" when underway, allowing the crew to handle greater g-forces than most other spaceships, too bad nobody told the feline passenger.
* ''Literature/{{Deeplight}}'': Humans can breathe [[EldritchOceanAbyss Undersea]] water. Since it's essentially liquid fear, the experience is not pleasant. Side effects include experiencing the terror of shipwreck victims as they drowned.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': The ExpandedUniverse novel series ''Federation'' explains that before the invention of the [[InertialDampening inertial dampener]], the stresses of high-G acceleration required starship pilots to be immersed in liquid-filled capsules, breathing an oxygen-rich saline solution to prevent their lungs from being crushed.
* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'': In Jolly Roger's Lagoon, Mumbo can cast a spell to oxygenate the local water, making the vast underwater sections of the level much easier to navigate. In all other levels, Banjo is at the mercy of an OxygenMeter.
* ''VideoGame/{{Brigador}}'' lore states [[SpacePirates Spacer]] vehicles are piloted by having the pilots submerged in "gel", a breathable [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gel]]-like substance which allows them to link themselves to the vehicle's systems, a much more advanced - and also to them, less savage - method of implementing a BrainComputerInterface than attaching neural jacks to their heads.
* ''VideoGame/{{Brigador}}'' lore states [[SpacePirates Spacer]] vehicles are piloted by having the pilots submerged in "gel", a breathable [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gel]]-like substance which allows them to link themselves to the vehicle's systems, a much more advanced - and also to them, less savage - method of implementing a BrainComputerInterface than attaching neural jacks to their heads.
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* ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'': In Jolly Roger's Lagoon, Mumbo can cast a spell to oxygenate the local water, making the vast underwater sections of the level much easier to navigate. In all other levels, Banjo is at the mercy of an OxygenMeter.
* ''VideoGame/{{Brigador}}'' lore states [[SpacePirates Spacer]] vehicles are piloted by having the pilots submerged in "gel", a breathable [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gel]]-like substance which allows them to link themselves to the vehicle's systems, a much more advanced - and also to them, less savage - method of implementing a BrainComputerInterface than attaching neural jacks to their heads.
* ''VideoGame/{{Brigador}}'' lore states [[SpacePirates Spacer]] vehicles are piloted by having the pilots submerged in "gel", a breathable [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gel]]-like substance which allows them to link themselves to the vehicle's systems, a much more advanced - and also to them, less savage - method of implementing a BrainComputerInterface than attaching neural jacks to their heads.
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* ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': The Insecta-type ships feature cockpits filled with liquid used for synchronization. Hajime opting to not pilot completely naked makes the ship lose control. He still goes off-source even when naked.
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* ''Videogame/BanjoTooie'': In Jolly Roger's Lagoon, Mumbo can cast a spell to oxygenate the local water, making the vast underwater sections of the level much easier to navigate. In all other levels, Banjo is at the mercy of an OxygenMeter.
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* ''Videogame/BanjoTooie'': ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'': In Jolly Roger's Lagoon, Mumbo can cast a spell to oxygenate the local water, making the vast underwater sections of the level much easier to navigate. In all other levels, Banjo is at the mercy of an OxygenMeter.OxygenMeter.
* ''VideoGame/{{Brigador}}'' lore states [[SpacePirates Spacer]] vehicles are piloted by having the pilots submerged in "gel", a breathable [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gel]]-like substance which allows them to link themselves to the vehicle's systems, a much more advanced - and also to them, less savage - method of implementing a BrainComputerInterface than attaching neural jacks to their heads.
* ''VideoGame/{{Brigador}}'' lore states [[SpacePirates Spacer]] vehicles are piloted by having the pilots submerged in "gel", a breathable [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin gel]]-like substance which allows them to link themselves to the vehicle's systems, a much more advanced - and also to them, less savage - method of implementing a BrainComputerInterface than attaching neural jacks to their heads.
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* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasDriftsInTheUniverse'' have the gang being accidentally caught in the Space Knights' vessel and taken away from earth, before the Space Knights decide to bring them back in a journey that will last for ''days''. When the team's BathingBeauty, Shizuka, asks if the Knights have a bathroom on their ship, Freya from the Knights reveals they do - a literal sphere of liquid that they can breath ''inside'' while washing themselves.
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* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': The ExpandedUniverse novel series ''Federation'' explains that before the invention of the [[InertialDampening inertial dampener]], the stresses of high-G acceleration required starship pilots to be immersed in liquid-filled capsules, breathing an oxygen-rich saline solution to prevent their lungs from being crushed.
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* ''Star Trek'' in Star Treks expanded novel series Federation, explains that before the invention of the inertial dampener, the stresses of high-G acceleration required starship pilots to be immersed in liquid-filled capsules, breathing an oxygen-rich saline solution to prevent their lungs from being crushed.
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* ''Star Trek'' in Star Treks expanded novel series Federation, explains that before the invention of the inertial dampener, the stresses of high-G acceleration required starship pilots to be immersed in liquid-filled capsules, breathing an oxygen-rich saline solution to prevent their lungs from being crushed.
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** The aliens have (stolen) human bodies and stay inside spacesuits filled with an oxygenated liquid that allows them to breath.
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* One alien species in ''Manga/{{Dandadan}}'' are like human-sized mantis shrimp that have lungs instead of gills because they evolved in some sort of oxygen-rich liquid[[labelnote:*]]The name for the liquid was in untranslated StarfishLanguage, but Okarun theorizes it's some kind perfluorocarbon.[[/labelnote]]. This makes visits to Earth awkward, as they're adapted for underwater movement but can't ''breathe'' underwater or hold their breathe long. And when they bring [[AliensStealCattle a cow]] to their planet to milk it, it's very difficult because the milk dissolves in its surroundings.
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* ''In The Dark Forest'', one of the books in the Remembrance of Earth's Past series, ships fill their cabins with breathable "Deep Sea Fluid" to protect their insides from the effects of hypergravity.
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* ''In The Dark Forest'', one of the books in the [[Literature/TheThreeBodyProblem Remembrance of Earth's Past Past]] series, ships fill their cabins with breathable "Deep Sea Fluid" to protect their insides from the effects of hypergravity.
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* PlayedWith in ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''. Instead of air, the Tower contains a substance called Shinsoo. Shinsoo is a substance that can act as both water and air, based on density and concentration. At lower floors the Shinsoo behaves more like air, while at higher floors it behaves closer to water. It's still breathable regardless, provided you can withstand the increasing Shinsoo pressure each floor provides.
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* ''Literature/{{Deeplight}}'': Humans can breathe [[EldritchOceanAbyss Undersea]] water. Since it's essentially liquid fear, the experience is not pleasant. Side effects include experiencing the terror of shipwreck victims as they drowned.
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** PlayedWith in the episode "Ordeal". Aliens kidnap Paul Foster and force him to breathe the liquid so he can survive being transported to the alien home world, but it turns out to be OnlyADream.
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** PlayedWith in the episode "Ordeal". Aliens kidnap Paul Foster and force him to breathe the liquid so he can survive being transported to the alien home world, but it turns out to be OnlyADream.AllJustADream.
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* ''Film/TheAbyss'' features a character using liquid breathing to dive thousands of feet without compressing. The film also features a scene with a rat submerged in and breathing fluorocarbon liquid, filmed in real life, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdlyM7w8PM not special effects]].
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* ''Film/TheAbyss'' features a character using liquid breathing to dive thousands of feet without compressing. The film also features a scene with a rat submerged in and breathing fluorocarbon liquid, filmed in real life, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdlyM7w8PM not no special effects]].
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* In Mary Lowd's ''Otters in Space'' series the ''Jolly Barracuda'' fills with liquid "oxo-agua" when underway, allowing the crew to handle greater g-forces than most other spaceships, too bad nobody told the feline passenger.
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* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' mentions this in passing. When Julia wakes up from her cryosleep, she starts puking to which Victory comments "It's breathing fluid. Just let her get it out."
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* Creator/BenBova's novel ''Jupiter'' features a craft in which the crew are suspended in a breathable liquid that allows them to survive in the high pressure environment of Jupiter's atmosphere.
* In ''Literature/TheLostSymbol'' by Dan Brown, Robert Langdon (the protagonist) is completely submerged in breathable liquid mixed with hallucinogenic chemicals and sedatives as a torture and interrogation technique by Mal'akh (the antagonist). He goes through a near death experience when he inhales the liquid and blacks out, losing control over his body, but is soon revived.
* In ''Literature/TheLostSymbol'' by Dan Brown, Robert Langdon (the protagonist) is completely submerged in breathable liquid mixed with hallucinogenic chemicals and sedatives as a torture and interrogation technique by Mal'akh (the antagonist). He goes through a near death experience when he inhales the liquid and blacks out, losing control over his body, but is soon revived.
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* Creator/BenBova's novel ''Jupiter'' features a craft in which the crew are is suspended in a breathable liquid that allows them to survive in the high pressure high-pressure environment of Jupiter's atmosphere.
* In ''Literature/TheLostSymbol'' by Dan Brown, Robert Langdon (the protagonist) is completely submerged in breathable liquid mixed with hallucinogenic chemicals and sedatives as a torture and interrogation technique by Mal'akh (the antagonist). He goes through anear death near-death experience when he inhales the liquid and blacks out, losing control over his body, but is soon revived.
* In ''Literature/TheLostSymbol'' by Dan Brown, Robert Langdon (the protagonist) is completely submerged in breathable liquid mixed with hallucinogenic chemicals and sedatives as a torture and interrogation technique by Mal'akh (the antagonist). He goes through a
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* ''In The Dark Forest'', one of the books in the Remembrance of Earth's Past series, ships fill their cabins with breathable "Deep Sea Fluid" to protect their insides from the effects of hypergravity.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': Peridot's EscapePod fills up with some sort of liquid that humans can breathe through--which is quite strange when you consider that gems [[TheNeedless don't need to breathe]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In a clear homage to Evangelion, Peridot's EscapePod fills up with some sort of liquid that humans can breathe through--which is quite strange when you consider that gems [[TheNeedless don't need to breathe]].
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* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the cockpits of the titular Mecha are filled with an oxygenated liquid called LCL which is required for the pilot to mentally sync with an Evangelion, as well as providing direct oxygenation of their blood, and dampening the impacts from battle. Once the cockpit is flooded the LCL is ionized, bringing its density, opacity, and viscosity close to that of air.
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* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the cockpits of the titular Mecha are filled with an oxygenated liquid called LCL which is required for the pilot to mentally sync with an Evangelion, as well as providing direct oxygenation of their blood, and dampening the impacts from battle. Once the cockpit is flooded the LCL is ionized, [[WaterIsAir bringing its density, opacity, and viscosity close to that of air.air]].
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* In the young adult novel ''Space Winners'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, Peep is an alien from a high-gravity planet. When he falls of a boat in the middle of the ocean he is too dense to float or swim, but his lungs are so powerful he has no trouble breathing the water like air and just walks along the ocean floor to the nearest land.
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* In the young adult novel ''Space Winners'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, Peep is an alien from a high-gravity planet. When he falls of off a boat in the middle of the ocean he is too dense to float or swim, but his lungs are so powerful he has no trouble breathing the water like air and just walks along the ocean floor to the nearest land.
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* In an episode of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', Sheriff Jack Carter is submerged in a tank of "oxygen rich plasma" to be cured of the effects of a scientific accident.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', Sheriff Jack Carter is submerged in a tank of "oxygen rich plasma" to be cured of the effects of a scientific accident.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Rick created a pocket dimension called [[SugarBowl Froopy Land]] to entertain his daughter. When she realizes she didn't imagine it in adulthood, she accuses him of being careless. To prove her wrong, he throws himself off a cliff, revealing that everything is like a trampoline. Then he tries to drown himself, revealing that the water is breathable.
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* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': How useful it is (or whether or not [[ForgotAboutHisPowers he has it at all]]) is DependingOnTheWriter, but ever since the early 2000s the Hulk officially has the capacity to breathe underwater because he "[[HollywoodEvolution evolved]]" an organ that fills his lungs with a breathable fluorocarbon liquid.
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* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': How useful it is (or whether or not [[ForgotAboutHisPowers he has it at all]]) is DependingOnTheWriter, but ever since the early 2000s the Hulk officially has the capacity to breathe underwater because he "[[HollywoodEvolution evolved]]" an organ that fills his lungs with a breathable fluorocarbon liquid.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Rick created a pocket dimension called [[SugarBowl Froopy Land]] to entertain his daughter. When she realizes she didn't imagine it in adulthood, she accuses him of being careless. To prove her wrong, he throws himself off a cliff, revealing that everything is like a trampoline. Then he tries to drown himself, revealing that the water is breathable.
* In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', Rick created a pocket dimension called [[SugarBowl Froopy Land]] to entertain his daughter. When she realizes she didn't imagine it in adulthood, she accuses him of being careless. To prove her wrong, he throws himself off a cliff, revealing that everything is like a trampoline. Then he tries to drown himself, revealing that the water is breathable.
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* ''Videogame/BanjoTooie'': In Jolly Roger's Lagoon, Mumbo can cast a spell to oxygenate the local water, making the vast underwater sections of the level much easier to navigate. In all other levels, Banjo is at the mercy of an OxygenMeter.
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On occasion, a work has a reason for characters to breathe a liquid rather than the normal air. This has been accomplished with perfluorocarbon for medical purposes, and has been proposed with other theoretical substances to help with crushing pressures or high-g forces.
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* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the cockpits of the titular Mecha are filled with an oxygenated liquid called LCL which is required for the pilot to mentally sync with an Evangelion, as well as providing direct oxygenation of their blood, and dampening the impacts from battle. Once the cockpit is flooded the LCL is ionized, bringing its density, opacity, and viscosity close to that of air.
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* ''Film/TheAbyss'' features a character using liquid breathing to dive thousands of feet without compressing. The film also features a scene with a rat submerged in and breathing fluorocarbon liquid, filmed in real life, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdlyM7w8PM not special effects]].
* ''Film/MissionToMars'': The ship that Jim gets into to fly to where the Martians ended up has some sort of breathable liquid in it.
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* ''Literature/TheForeverWar'' describes liquid immersion and breathing in great detail as a key technology to allow space travel and combat with acceleration up to 50 G.
* ''In The Hall Of The Mountain King'', one of the stories in the [[Literature/KnownSpace Man-Kzin Wars series]] features a Tnuctipun pilot encased in a capsule of breathable fluid to protect him (and his normally air-filled lungs) from high-G maneuvers.
* Creator/BenBova's novel ''Jupiter'' features a craft in which the crew are suspended in a breathable liquid that allows them to survive in the high pressure environment of Jupiter's atmosphere.
* In ''Literature/TheLostSymbol'' by Dan Brown, Robert Langdon (the protagonist) is completely submerged in breathable liquid mixed with hallucinogenic chemicals and sedatives as a torture and interrogation technique by Mal'akh (the antagonist). He goes through a near death experience when he inhales the liquid and blacks out, losing control over his body, but is soon revived.
* Hal Clement's 1973 novel ''Ocean on Top'' portrays a small underwater civilization living in a 'bubble' of oxygenated fluid denser than seawater.
* In Creator/DavidBrin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series the ''Streaker'', a starship crewed primarily by uplifted dolphins, is largely flooded with "oxywater" that the neo-fin crew can breathe without periodically leaving their stations to come up for air. They strongly prefer air though.
* The sliph from the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series is a magical construct used by ancient wizards for rapid travel. She is composed of what looks like living quicksilver one must breathe while traveling (instantly lethal to anyone not possessing the appropriate magic).
* ''Literature/DarkLife'' has "Liquigen" short for "Liquid Oxygen", which works similar to the fluorocarbon liquid mentioned in ''Film/TheAbyss'' above but has the advantages that it turns to vapor quickly when exposed to oxygen (good for when the driver stops using it -- prevents them from needing to puke it up) and somehow prevents the human body from being affected with such things as the bends.
* In the young adult novel ''Space Winners'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, Peep is an alien from a high-gravity planet. When he falls of a boat in the middle of the ocean he is too dense to float or swim, but his lungs are so powerful he has no trouble breathing the water like air and just walks along the ocean floor to the nearest land.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', Sheriff Jack Carter is submerged in a tank of "oxygen rich plasma" to be cured of the effects of a scientific accident.
* ''Series/SevenDays''
** In season 1, episode 13, chrononaut Frank Parker is seen breathing a hyper-oxygenated perfluorocarbon liquid that is pumped through a sealed full body suit that he is wearing. This suit and liquid combination allow him to board a Russian submarine through open ocean at a depth of almost 1000 feet. Upon boarding the submarine he removes his helmet, expels the liquid from his lungs and is able to breathe air again.
** The three aliens that crashed at Roswell in 1947 are kept in [[PeopleJars alien jars]] at Neverland. One is still alive, and it can apparently breathe the liquid since it's not hooked up to any tubes.
* ''Series/{{UFO}}''
** The aliens have (stolen) human bodies and stay inside space suits filled with an oxygenated liquid that allows them to breathe.
** PlayedWith in the episode "Ordeal". Aliens kidnap Paul Foster and force him to breathe the liquid so he can survive being transported to the alien home world, but it turns out to be OnlyADream.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' supplement ''Mysteries of the Hollow Earth''. In the seas around the Sunken City can be found crystal orbs that, when broken, oxygenate the surrounding water enough for land creatures to breathe it.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': The "Cyberpirates!" Sourcebook introduced the Liquid Breathing Apparatus that has allowed divers to achieve depths down as far as 3,000 meters, as the liquid system completely negates the risks of decompression.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'' Universe, pilots in capsules (escape pods that function as the control center for the spacecraft) breathe an oxygen rich, nano-saturated, breathable glucose-based suspension solution
* In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' the Liir use a hyper-oxygenated liquid on their ships. The ceremony for joining the Black Swimmers includes a ritual "drowning" in the substance.
* ''VideoGame/XCom: Terror from the Deep''. "Aquanauts" fighting deep ocean conditions breathe a dense oxygen-carrying fluid.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}''. As Beryl, Tempo and Jardin are boarding a shuttle to take Jardin to a Loroi outpost, Tempo mentions that the shuttle is big enough to support inertial dampers, meaning that they won't have to use a liquid breathing medium to compensate for its acceleration.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', the other members of the band submerge guitarist Toki in a "liquid oxygen isolation chamber" while recording an album in the Mariana Trench.
* WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse: Peridot's EscapePod fills up with some sort of liquid that humans can breath through.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* There have been some experiments in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing liquid breathing]] using perfluorocarbon, which has a higher oxygen capacity than blood. It requires mechanical assistance to circulate the fluid, and often surgery to ventilate it, but liquid breathing has been used occasionally to help premature infants and adults with ARDS breathe since the 1990s.
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SuperNotDrowningSkills is when a character is able to breathe ordinary water for no explicable reason. May be a component in an ArtificialGill.
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!!Examples
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' the cockpits of the titular Mecha are filled with an oxygenated liquid called LCL which is required for the pilot to mentally sync with an Evangelion, as well as providing direct oxygenation of their blood, and dampening the impacts from battle. Once the cockpit is flooded the LCL is ionized, bringing its density, opacity, and viscosity close to that of air.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/TheAbyss'' features a character using liquid breathing to dive thousands of feet without compressing. The film also features a scene with a rat submerged in and breathing fluorocarbon liquid, filmed in real life, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MdlyM7w8PM not special effects]].
* ''Film/MissionToMars'': The ship that Jim gets into to fly to where the Martians ended up has some sort of breathable liquid in it.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/TheForeverWar'' describes liquid immersion and breathing in great detail as a key technology to allow space travel and combat with acceleration up to 50 G.
* ''In The Hall Of The Mountain King'', one of the stories in the [[Literature/KnownSpace Man-Kzin Wars series]] features a Tnuctipun pilot encased in a capsule of breathable fluid to protect him (and his normally air-filled lungs) from high-G maneuvers.
* Creator/BenBova's novel ''Jupiter'' features a craft in which the crew are suspended in a breathable liquid that allows them to survive in the high pressure environment of Jupiter's atmosphere.
* In ''Literature/TheLostSymbol'' by Dan Brown, Robert Langdon (the protagonist) is completely submerged in breathable liquid mixed with hallucinogenic chemicals and sedatives as a torture and interrogation technique by Mal'akh (the antagonist). He goes through a near death experience when he inhales the liquid and blacks out, losing control over his body, but is soon revived.
* Hal Clement's 1973 novel ''Ocean on Top'' portrays a small underwater civilization living in a 'bubble' of oxygenated fluid denser than seawater.
* In Creator/DavidBrin's ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series the ''Streaker'', a starship crewed primarily by uplifted dolphins, is largely flooded with "oxywater" that the neo-fin crew can breathe without periodically leaving their stations to come up for air. They strongly prefer air though.
* The sliph from the ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series is a magical construct used by ancient wizards for rapid travel. She is composed of what looks like living quicksilver one must breathe while traveling (instantly lethal to anyone not possessing the appropriate magic).
* ''Literature/DarkLife'' has "Liquigen" short for "Liquid Oxygen", which works similar to the fluorocarbon liquid mentioned in ''Film/TheAbyss'' above but has the advantages that it turns to vapor quickly when exposed to oxygen (good for when the driver stops using it -- prevents them from needing to puke it up) and somehow prevents the human body from being affected with such things as the bends.
* In the young adult novel ''Space Winners'' by Creator/GordonRDickson, Peep is an alien from a high-gravity planet. When he falls of a boat in the middle of the ocean he is too dense to float or swim, but his lungs are so powerful he has no trouble breathing the water like air and just walks along the ocean floor to the nearest land.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Eureka}}'', Sheriff Jack Carter is submerged in a tank of "oxygen rich plasma" to be cured of the effects of a scientific accident.
* ''Series/SevenDays''
** In season 1, episode 13, chrononaut Frank Parker is seen breathing a hyper-oxygenated perfluorocarbon liquid that is pumped through a sealed full body suit that he is wearing. This suit and liquid combination allow him to board a Russian submarine through open ocean at a depth of almost 1000 feet. Upon boarding the submarine he removes his helmet, expels the liquid from his lungs and is able to breathe air again.
** The three aliens that crashed at Roswell in 1947 are kept in [[PeopleJars alien jars]] at Neverland. One is still alive, and it can apparently breathe the liquid since it's not hooked up to any tubes.
* ''Series/{{UFO}}''
** The aliens have (stolen) human bodies and stay inside space suits filled with an oxygenated liquid that allows them to breathe.
** PlayedWith in the episode "Ordeal". Aliens kidnap Paul Foster and force him to breathe the liquid so he can survive being transported to the alien home world, but it turns out to be OnlyADream.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/HollowEarthExpedition'' supplement ''Mysteries of the Hollow Earth''. In the seas around the Sunken City can be found crystal orbs that, when broken, oxygenate the surrounding water enough for land creatures to breathe it.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': The "Cyberpirates!" Sourcebook introduced the Liquid Breathing Apparatus that has allowed divers to achieve depths down as far as 3,000 meters, as the liquid system completely negates the risks of decompression.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In the ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'' Universe, pilots in capsules (escape pods that function as the control center for the spacecraft) breathe an oxygen rich, nano-saturated, breathable glucose-based suspension solution
* In ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' the Liir use a hyper-oxygenated liquid on their ships. The ceremony for joining the Black Swimmers includes a ritual "drowning" in the substance.
* ''VideoGame/XCom: Terror from the Deep''. "Aquanauts" fighting deep ocean conditions breathe a dense oxygen-carrying fluid.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Webcomics]]
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Webcomic/{{Outsider}}''. As Beryl, Tempo and Jardin are boarding a shuttle to take Jardin to a Loroi outpost, Tempo mentions that the shuttle is big enough to support inertial dampers, meaning that they won't have to use a liquid breathing medium to compensate for its acceleration.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', the other members of the band submerge guitarist Toki in a "liquid oxygen isolation chamber" while recording an album in the Mariana Trench.
* WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse: Peridot's EscapePod fills up with some sort of liquid that humans can breath through.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* There have been some experiments in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing liquid breathing]] using perfluorocarbon, which has a higher oxygen capacity than blood. It requires mechanical assistance to circulate the fluid, and often surgery to ventilate it, but liquid breathing has been used occasionally to help premature infants and adults with ARDS breathe since the 1990s.
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