History Main / FloatingContinent

* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': The EvilSorcerer Motalla operates out of a flying sky-city: a remnant of the ancient Atlantean technology found scattered across Skataris.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rollbots}}'': Flip City is entirely above ground with structures held aloft by anti-gravity devices.

** ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'': Angel Island is the home of Knuckles the Echidna and the [[MineralMacGuffin Master Emerald]].

* ''VideoGame/TailConcerto'' is set in a world of floating continents in the sky, connected by {{Steampunk}} air travel.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The Kharadron Overlords live in floating sky-port cities in the skies of Chamon, the Realm of Metal, held aloft by the mystical science of the aether-endrins. These sky-ports are centres of commerce and culture with the six greatest ports of Barak-Nar, Barak-Zilfin, Barak-Zon, Barak-Urbaz, Barak-Mhornar and Barak-Thryng forming the Geldraad, a council of representatives that act as the Kharadron government.

OminousFloatingCastle is its own trope. Characters who live on the ground and wish to reach a floating continent will likely need to undertake a JourneyToTheSky.

** In the teaser, a flying island can be seen overhead as Mario first arrives in the Mushroom Kingdom.
** Bowser's castle in the teaser resembles a volcanic island capable of flight.

The UrExample is the original {{Cloudcuckooland}}, from Creator/{{Aristophanes}}' ''Theatre/TheBirds'', but the TropeCodifier is the City of Laputa, from Jonathan Swift's ''Literature/GulliversTravels''. Swift also originated the ColonyDrop: Laputa maintained control of its groundbound colonies by ''landing'' on any rebellious population centers, ''crushing them beneath its armored underbelly''. The trope was popularized in modern popular culture by Creator/HayaoMiyazaki's ''Anime/CastleInTheSky''. The TropeNamer is the Floating Continent orbiting Jupiter in ''Anime/StarBlazers[=/=]Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato.''

%%* ''WesternAnimation/SonicUnderground'' has the TropeNamer.

* ''Edens Bowy'' is about two floating continents, Yulgaha [[SpellMyNameWithAnS (or Eurgoha)]], and Yanuess. The people below regard them as gods, and some places actively do something for them, like providing water, or becoming an industrial place. Eurgoha is the larger, having high-tech cybernetic technology but is somewhat high-strung, while the smaller Yanuess is industrialized to the point of constant pollution (plus ruled by a [[LittleBitBeastly cat-eared woman)]]. [[spoiler: Eurgoha and Yanuess eventually collide together, and a good chunk of Eurgoha falls. Yanuess is more or less intact, but Eurgoha is messed up, in a whole lot of ways.]]

** ''VideoGame/SonicRushSeries'': Sky Babylon, appearing in ''Sonic Rush Adventure'', is essentially the Sol Dimension's equivalent to Angel Island.

* ''SundaraDawnOfANewAge'' has Archbliss, a haven for sorcerers. They levitated it (using a special stone in the foundations as a battery) to protect themselves from the prejudices and concerns of ordinary people. When an earthbound region is in danger, the sorcerers often fly over to offer aid...and negotiate a price for it.

* ''LetsPlay/{{Yogscast}}'': Towards the end of ''Cornerstone'', the titular base is less of a floating island and more of a small city in the sky. This happens in part after LetsPlay/HatFilms expand the island significantly, setting precedents for the others to do the same.
* ''WebVideo/YogscastMinecraftSeries'': Skyhold in ''Shadow of Israphel'' is a floating city accessible only by airplane.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'' revisits ''Skyward Sword'''s concept of islands floating in the sky by adding said islands to the existing map of ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild Breath of the Wild]]'', though thanks to [[UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch its console]]'s increased power, Link can seamlessly float up and fall down between the two "tiers" without any transitional loading phase.

* ''[[Creator/DetsniyOffSkiword Dahlia Hawthorne Escaps From Pirson]]'': Brexit causes Britain to turn into one of these, followed by [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace flying off into space]].

* In ''VideoGame/ToeJamAndEarl'', each level is a floating chunk of land. Falling off one lands you in the previous one, implying that they're arranged in a vertical stack. For what it's worth, you do take an elevator to go from level to level. (Yeah, it's [[WidgetSeries that kind of game]].)

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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': A floating island was constructed by Kubulus aliens to make [[MechanicalLifeforms power spheres]] on, but when they got greedy and turned some of them into destroyer robots, the first power sphere named Klamkabot used his {{teleportation}} power to disperse his kind and distance the island from the Kubulus. In ''Animation/BoBoiBoyTheMovie'', the floating island appears on Earth, and on its land pieces the heroes find alien flora and an abandoned power sphere factory deep within the island.
* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 3 episode 13, the Supermen go into the world of a movie taking place in an ancient Chinese-looking world consisting of a bunch of floating islands linked together by bridges.
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy'': A floating island was constructed by Kubulus aliens to make [[MechanicalLifeforms power spheres]] on, but when they got greedy and turned some of them into destroyer robots, the first power sphere named Klamkabot used his {{teleportation}} power to disperse his kind and distance the island from the Kubulus. In ''[=BoBoiBoy=] The Movie'', the floating island appears on Earth, and on its land pieces the heroes find alien flora and an abandoned power sphere factory deep within the island.

* ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia'': Alqamah, the Ethereal City, was turned into a floating, constantly moving city by minervae to hide it from Mankind's Disgrace.