History Main / LilyPadPlatform

A SubTrope of ThemeParkLandscape and ImprovisedPlatform. Closely related to LeafBoat. See also TreeVessel.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* The Flower Fields level in ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' features some lilypads that can be used as platforms.

** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'': The Ancient Cistern features numerous lilypads acting as platform. Several are upside down and must be turned around with the whip.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' , as you might expect from location named "Lotus Lake", the path Miis walk on in said lake is made of giant lilypads. There are even entire inns that can be found on these.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', you can make your own by drawing on water with your celestial brush. While you can swim on lava, lily pads won't last on it. At one point in the game, you can take villagers for a ride on your lily pads.

* The Water[=/=]Grass-type ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' Lotad sports a lilypad on its head, with a radius slightly larger than its body. It tends to live in ponds and lakes, floating on the water surface. Many of its [[MonsterCompendium Pokédex entries]] state that it often serves as a ferry for smaller Pokémon that can't swim.
** This is seen in ''VideoGame/NewPokemonSnap'' where you can use fruit to lure Pikachu into crossing a river on a lotad in the forest level.
* You use giant lily pads to move between platforms in Marlon's water-type gym in ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2''.

* ''VideoGame/TheSmurfs1994'': In the Swamp level.

** In ''VideoGame/TailsAndTheMusicMaker'', one of the mini-games involves Tails and an army of frogs hopping across lily pads as music plays, and when the music stops, whoever is on the orange lily pad loses.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Chaos 4 is fought in a lake of water. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles need to stand on lily pads to wait out the boss.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle'', the "Over the Rainbow" mini-game involves Sonic and his friends hopping across lily pads by [[PressXToNotDie pressing the right button]] before time runs out.
* The video game adaptation of ''VideoGame/StarTrekGenerations'' features this on a mission on planet Bersus V; the player even has to grow new pads to cross a large chunk of a lake. The mission is played as Data, an android who canonically weighs just a little more than the average human his height, but even so, the pads appear to be particularly sturdy.

* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'', Link can put on the Deku mask and walk on lily pads. He can't do this in normal mode or his other forms.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap'' has lilypads to cross bodies of water before getting the flippers and in the overworld when [[SizeShifter tiny]].
** The Ancient Cistern from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' features numerous lilypads acting as platform. Several are upside down and must be turned around with the whip.

''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'' features giant lily pads in several levels.

* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy4'' only allows you to do this after finding the appropriate pair of boots (the others allow you to walk on lava and clouds). Of course you only obtain one pair of boots so a later cutscene shows only Annie doing this while the rest of the party struggles to cross the water the old fashioned way and discussing if half a boot will work the same.

* ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'':
** In the original ''Rayman'', the titular character can gain the ability to plant these.
** ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'' also features giant lily pads in several levels.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' has the infamous lily pad ride as one of its secret stages. Mario has to navigate an acidic stream using a series of lily pads that slowy disintegrate.

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* ''Sandbox/PoppyDollAndButterflyBartholomew'': In "Poppy Doll and Angry Lilypad", Poppy Doll is in danger that she will have to stay in the middle of a lake. She fell into the water and was too heavy to Butterfly Bartholomew to carry her as usual. However, the Sun starts shining and the lily-pads are forced to bloom. Their blooms make for a comfortable bridge which the Popply Doll can cross.
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* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' , as you might expect from location named "Lotus Lake", the path Miis walk on in said lake is made of giant lilypads. [[UpToEleven There are even entire inns that can be found on these.]]

* ''Anime/DoraemonAndTheGreenGiantLegend'': At one point under Planet Green's surface, the gang crosses an underwater stream via floating lily pads that can support their weight.

* The Koppai crew and the Pikmins can ride giant lilypads in the Twilight River from ''VideoGame/Pikmin3''. Justified, since all of them are really puny.

* ''Animation/PoppyDollAndButterflyBartholomew'': In "Poppy Doll and Angry Lilypad", Poppy Doll is in danger that she will have to stay in the middle of a lake. She fell into the water and was too heavy to Butterfly Bartholomew to carry her as usual. However, the Sun starts shining and the lily-pads are forced to bloom. Their blooms make for a comfortable bridge which the Popply Doll can cross.

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** In ''VideoGame/TailsAndTheMusicMaker'', one of the mini-games involves Tails and an army of frogs hopping across lily pads as music plays, and when the music stops, whoever is on the orange lily pad loses.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', Chaos 4 is fought in a lake of water. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles need to stand on lily pads to wait out the boss.
** In ''VideoGame/SonicShuffle'', the "Over the Rainbow" mini-game involves Sonic and his friends hopping across lily pads by [[PressXToNotDie pressing the right button]] before time runs out.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'', you can make your own by drawing on water with your celestial brush. While you can swim on lava, lily pads won't last on it. At one point in the game, you can take villagers for a ride on your lily pads.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': Lily Pads are used for levels that have the swimming pool. Useful to place other plants on.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': Lily Pad returns in the [[PalmtreePanic Big Wave Beach]] levels, and can be placed on any tile beyond the tide line. This protects your plants from being swept away by the tide, although a select few plants can hover above the water and hence do not require Lily Pad's assistance. Using Plant Food on a Lily Pad will create more Lily Pads adjacent to him.

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' has the infamous lily pad ride as one of its secret stages. Mario has to navigate an acidic stream using a series of lily pads that slowy disintegrate.
** The lily pads actually return in both ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy2'', which even features a ''Sunshine'' themed level in the latter.
** At one point in the Great Boggly Tree from ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', Mario has to lead the Punies across a small body of water by walking on black-and-white lilypads.
** A variation appears in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'' in Loop Loop River, where Mario rides giant fallen leaves on a circular poisonous river.
** Plum Park, from ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash'', features such lilypads.
* ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}}'':
** In the original ''Rayman'', the titular character can gain the ability to plant these.
** ''VideoGame/Rayman2TheGreatEscape'' also features giant lily pads in several levels.
* ''VideoGame/RuneFactory3'' gives you a magic seed you can use to instantly create a hovering lily pad that you can ride. This is one of two ways you can cross water in the game.
* ''VideoGame/IllusionOfGaia'' features a town that has areas that can only be accessed by standing on lily pads.
* The third teaser trailer for ''VideoGame/AliceMadnessReturns'' has Alice waking up on a lily pad and seeing the wonderful garden. She then hops on top of them and approaches the Caterpillar. Afterwards, all hell breaks loose.

* ''VideoGame/TheSmurfs1994'': In the Swamp level.

* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy4'' only allows you to do this after finding the appropriate pair of boots (the others allow you to walk on lava and clouds). Of course you only obtain one pair of boots so a later cutscene shows only Annie doing this while the rest of the party struggles to cross the water the old fashioned way and discussing if half a boot will work the same.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' , as you might expect from location named "Lotus Lake", the path Miis walk on in said lake is made of giant lilypads. [[UpToEleven There are even entire inns that can be found on these.]]
* The Flower Fields level in ''VideoGame/KirbysEpicYarn'' features some lilypads that can be used as platforms.
* The Koppai crew and the Pikmins can ride giant lilypads in the Twilight River from ''VideoGame/Pikmin3''. Justified, since all of them are really puny.
* In ''VideoGame/CoolSpot'', lily pads are present in the fourth level, "Wading Around". Some of these have frog enemies on them that Spot has to take out first.
* In the ''VideoGame/TheJungleBook'' LicensedGame, lily pads are present in the fourth level, "The River". At the end of the level, Mowgli plays a mini-game where Baloo tosses fruit and he has to catch it. With each fruit Mowgli misses, the lily pads begin to sink further, though you don't have to play the mini-game, and can drop into the water at any time to end the stage and advance to the next level.
* The Water[=/=]Grass-type ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' Lotad sports a lilypad on its head, with a radius slightly larger than its body. It tends to live in ponds and lakes, floating on the water surface. Many of its [[MonsterCompendium Pokédex entries]] state that it often serves as a ferry for smaller Pokémon that can't swim.
** This is seen in ''VideoGame/NewPokemonSnap'' where you can use fruit to lure Pikachu into crossing a river on a lotad in the forest level.

* ''VideoGame/CongoBongo'': The fourth stage has these, along with hippos and fish.
* ''VideoGame/TheWolfAndTheWaves'': In the tutorial, a zombie (and later a bunny) reaches the players raft by way of a lilypad.
* ''VideoGame/KidBabyStarchild'' has these in at least the first level. They come in varying sizes, and have upward-sticking triangles on the edges.
* These let Anna Lee cross ponds in ''VideoGame/CabbagePatchKidsAdventuresInThePark'', though there might also be swinging vines or trampolines to use.
* ''VideoGame/CrossCode'': The oasis areas of [[ShiftingSandLand Maroon Valley]] tend to have lily pads in the water that Lea can walk across to reach secret areas.

* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': Lily pads are used for levels that have the swimming pool. Useful to place other plants on.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': Lily pad returns in the [[PalmtreePanic Big Wave Beach]] levels, and can be placed on any tile beyond the tide line. This protects your plants from being swept away by the tide, although a select few plants can hover above the water and hence do not require Lily Pad's assistance. Using plant food on him will create more Lily Pads adjacent to him.

** ''VideoGame/{{Rayman 2}}'' also features giant lily pads in several levels.

If there's a body of water that needs to be crossed, some lily pads are useful in traversing it.

* Cri-kee can be seen using one of these during the song [[IWantSong "Reflection"]] from ''{{Disney/Mulan}}''.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':