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-->-- '''Hewpoe''', ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}} (Wii)''

* In ''Anime/TransformersRobotsInDisguise'', Sky-Byte transforms into a shark which can fly (as well as burrow underground).

This also happens in nearly every {{Mons}} series ever. OK, now since there are more aquatic creatures than any other kind on Earth, obviously you're going to have to throw in some Mons based on fish somewhere. Except the problem is, 90% of your game takes place on the land. Hrm. Well, just have them act like they're swimming through the air. NotQuiteFlight, just hovering ever so slightly over the ground at all times. Problem solved! Nobody would question that!

This also happens in nearly every {{Mons}} series ever. OK, now since there are more aquatic creatures than any other kind on Earth, obviously you're going to have to throw in some Mons based on fish somewhere. Except the problem is, 90% of your game takes place on the land . Hrm. Well, just have them act like they're swimming through the air. NotQuiteFlight, just hovering ever so slightly over the ground at all times. Problem solved! Nobody would question that!

* Creator/KeithThompson has a large air whale, [https://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/undeadleviathan.html dead], [https://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/floatingleviathan.html rotting] away. Reminiscent of his work on Literature/Leviathan, but with more zombie.

* ''Machinima/FinalFantasyVIIMachinabridged'': Deconstructed. The "flying space eel" Bottomswell engages the party without the RequiredSecondaryPowers this trope otherwise mandates. [[PuffOfLogic The instant Cloud points this out]], [[CriticalExistenceFailure it dies]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'' has Pamela the giant fish from ''Door to Phantomile'' and the Wii remake. She is only seen swimming and jumping at first, so Klonoa and Huepow are very surprised when she flies up to them later on, pulling a BigDamnHeroes to help them get to the Sun Temple, which is in the sky.

%%* ''VideoGame/{{Spectrobes}}'': All of the fish-based {{Mons}}.

This also happens in nearly every {{Mons}} series ever. OK, now since there are more aquatic creatures than any other kind on Earth, obviously you're going to have to throw in some Mons based on fish somewhere. Except the problem is, 90% of your game takes place on the land (because AtlantisIsBoring). Hrm. Well, just have them act like they're swimming through the air. NotQuiteFlight, just hovering ever so slightly over the ground at all times. Problem solved! Nobody would question that!

%%* ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'': The Sand Rays.

* ''WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk'': While not a sea-creature as such, Thunderdrum dragons are both adept swimmers and flying {{Lightning Bruiser}}s.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'': Albert is a fish that swims through the air and has the face and behaviour of a dog.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'': Because everything is backward on the world of Trolla, actual flying fish are a natural species of wildlife the characters can see whenever they visit.

* ''VideoGame/{{Journey}}'': Not exactly seafood, but the red cloth creatures flying through the air are all modeled after sea life: the smallest tatters gather in shoals like tiny fish, the slightly larger ones resemble dolphins, while the largest in the game are pretty much whales.

** ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' takes things UpToEleven: With AR mode on, you can actually have a flying Seaking on Earth, sorta. Even with AR mode off, this trope is still played straight, many Water-type Pokémon appear floating above ground, sometimes far away from the nearest body of water!

** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' has flying manta rays that can be used as platforms.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'': Brigadier Mollosque-Lanceur III, a giant squid, is fought while he is hovering above water.

->''"Isn't she from [[UnderTheSea Jugpot]]? I didn't know she could fly."''

** Most of the above largely fall under GameplayAndStorySegregation and AcceptableBreaksFromReality; being unable to use the most populous type of Pokémon in an ElementalRockPaperScissors game would violate RuleOfFun. What falls under this trope from an InUniverse perspective is the Float Whale Pokémon. Wailord is '''the''' largest Pokémon by volume (tallest listed height, and proportionately long for a Pokémon based on a freaking blue whale), but surprisingly light for its size; at 14.5 meters tall, at least twice as long, and only 390 kg heavy, it's less dense than '''air'''. A Wailord flying around in Pokétopia is actually more realistic than than a Wailord ''swimming in the [[VideoGame/PokemonRanger Almian]] sea''.

** Inverted with Lugia. It's a Flying/Psychic bird, but it's also known as the 'Guardian of the Seas'. It can be seen swimming on [[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Soulsilver's]] title screen, and can learn some water moves, like Hydro Pump, Rain Dance, Surf, Waterfall and Dive.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonGo'' takes things UpToEleven: With AR mode on, you can actually have a flying Seaking on Earth, sorta. Even with AR mode off, this trope is still played straight, many water pokémons appear floating above ground, sometimes far away from the nearest body of water!

* In ''Manga/TheKajikiChefDivineCuisine'', the titular kajiki are divinely created animals that mainly resemble real life animals. Kajiki versions of marine sea life freely float about in the air as if it were an ocean with little regard for other life or human structures. The main exception shown so far is an octopus so massive in chapter 8 that its tentacles drag upon the ground as it wanders around Japan.

* In ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'', there's a giant, flying manta-ray that you can take a picture of.