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| 5 | [[caption-width-right:350:"Guess those candybutt astronauts didn't have the stones to try it."]] |
| 6 | |
| 7 | ->'''Superman:''' Great Kandor! Batman, your space helmet doesn't cover your head! How can you--?\ |
| 8 | '''Batman:''' ''I'm Batman.'' And I can ''breathe in space.'' |
| 9 | -->-- ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' |
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| 11 | Find yourself in space without a spacesuit? Not a problem! Those supposed hazards of the "unforgiving" vacuum of space just never show up. Ordinary people can breathe just fine in space, and you can take a spacewalk in your underwear if you don't mind being a bit [[SpaceIsCold chilly]]. For those worried about oxygen, the most you'll need is an oxygen mask, but an upside-down fishbowl on your head will often do in a pinch. You don't need a "can-breathe-in-space" power, it doesn't need to be explained, and you ''certainly'' don't need a spacesuit. It makes you wonder why astronauts bothered with them in the first place. |
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| 13 | 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, humans can theoretically survive in space for a minute or two, if they can be rescued (by which point they would likely be unconscious) and given medical assistance afterwards. |
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| 15 | Superpowers complicate the situation. This is about how ''ordinary people'' don't need spacesuits in space. SinglePowerSuperheroes are usually close enough to normal to count, but characters with [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]] powers, BizarreAlienBiology, and magic powers aren't "normal" enough for this trope. Their survival can be {{Handwave}}d away as part of their abilities. This trope is for when characters with no relevant powers are exposed to the vacuum of space without protection and suffer no negative consequences. |
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| 17 | SubTrope to TheNeedless, because the character is somehow protected from dangers that would be lethal to human beings, and to ArtisticLicenseSpace, because these outer space inaccuracies are in service of the story. Compare SpaceIsNoisy, where sound is conveyed via vacuum in the same way as sound is conveyed through atmosphere, allowing the characters to talk to one another. Contrast ExplosiveDecompression, where being exposed to a vacuum will quickly make you explode due to the air inside your body trying to expand and fill the void. Sometimes all you need is a SpaceMask. |
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| 19 | A work featuring this trope tends to rank as softer on the SlidingScale/MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness. |
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| 22 | !!Examples: |
| 23 | |
| 24 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 25 | |
| 26 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 27 | * In a Capital One commercial (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrSG8p-iBTo here]]), Herman Li and Sam Totman of Music/DragonForce are standing on an asteroid. |
| 28 | * A {{Creator/PBS}} promotion for ''Series/SesameStreet'' briefly has Big Bird and a five-year-old girl on the Moon during the Apollo landings with no protection whatsoever. |
| 29 | [[/folder]] |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[folder:Anime and Manga]] |
| 32 | * In ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Mikoto and Kuroko are launched to the edge of the atmosphere to deal with an approaching missile. They are not bothered by the vacuum, but could not breathe and had to work fast so Kuroko could teleport them back to Earth before they suffocated. They were on the edge of the stratosphere to intercept a satellite that was falling from the Themosphere. In the aftermath, both were left in poor condition and needed recovery time. |
| 33 | * ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Late on the series, our heroes end stranded in ''a'' moon, and there's no air problems. A FanSub actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this. Then again, they're in the digital world. Everything is made of data, so real-world physics don't apply. |
| 34 | * ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': |
| 35 | ** Usually averted; whenever space is visited the comics take care to bring up the lack of air and the characters use one of Doraemon's gadgets, either the "Adaptation Light" or the "Edible Spacesuit". |
| 36 | ** A straighter example would be in ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasGreatAdventureIntoTheUnderworld'' where Nobita mentions how they're in space and able to breathe. Doraemon replies / {{HandWave}}s that because they're in a parallel universe that runs on magic instead of science, our standard understanding of the laws of the universe doesn't apply. |
| 37 | * ''Franchise/DragonBall'': |
| 38 | ** In the original series, Son Goku uses his power pole to drop the rabbit-like Carrot Master and his thugs off on the moon. Neither Goku making the trip or the moon-bound gang members suffer any ill effects because this is a re-telling of the rabbit-in-the-moon myth from Japanese folklore. |
| 39 | ** In ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', during a {{filler}} episode, Vegeta and Nappa are shown to be able to breathe in space, with both Saiyan warriors standing just outside their small spaceships. However, Frieza later points out that Saiyans would suffocate in space. |
| 40 | ** During the fight between Bardock and Frieza, Bardock is just floating in space kicking butt (or is at least in the outer atmosphere). Despite Frieza's claim, Saiyans and other high-level fighters are shown doing perfectly fine in a vacuum. |
| 41 | ** In ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'', Beerus and Goku have a conversation and part of their fight in low Earth orbit. While Beerus is a legitimate PhysicalGod, Goku is still supposed to be a normal Saiyan, who would suffocate due to lack of oxygen, if the series hadn't already shown that it doesn't care about that. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/GalaxyExpress999'': Tetsuro is baffled to hear the sound of distant church bells as the 999 approaches a planet. Its inhabitants are so arrogantly pious that they have gravitational wave emitters that broadcast an intense graviton carrier wave that induces the sound of distant church bells in passing ships. Impressed, Tetsuro rolls down the window and sticks his head out to get a better look. |
| 43 | %%* '''Unsure - Are mamoru and kaidou "normal"?''' ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'': Mamoru and Kaidou both can fly and survive for long periods in space un-aided, even while unconscious! |
| 44 | * ''Anime/GlassFleet'': Unless it's relevant to the plot that they don't, it's safe to assume that humans can breathe in space. There's only one time where it's relevant. |
| 45 | * On the last episode of the ''Anime/KaitouTenshiTwinAngel'' anime, the girls fly off to space via pure willpower to destroy a KillSat. They're also shown surviving re-entry into the atmosphere fine. Oddly, despite all her complaints of "How do we go to space?" and "How do we come back from space?", Kurumi never asks how are they breathing in space. |
| 46 | * ''Anime/KillLaKill'': Apparently, this is another ability of the Life Fibers. In the final episode, [[spoiler:Ryuko and Ragyo's final battle takes place in low-earth-orbit. They both have Life Fibers incorporated into their body, and Life Fibers, being alien beings hurled to earth, probably can survive without oxygen]]. |
| 47 | %%* '''Unsure''' In ''Anime/KurauPhantomMemory'', Christmas and Kurau pull this off when their spaceship gets blown up. |
| 48 | %%* ''Anime/{{Macross}}'': |
| 49 | %%** '''Unsure''' That scarf Hikaru/Rick used early on in ''Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross''[=/=]''Anime/{{Robotech}}'' must have been some kind of awesome to have let him survive out there in space. Unless... this trope. |
| 50 | %%*** Possibly with a side order of ScienceMarchesOn and ArtisticLicense, as the episode establishes that Hikaru ''was'' holding his breath while out in hard vacuum, which as mentioned above is '''not''' a good idea if you're exposed to it... Seriously, the greater issue was he was in an unpressurized, and not thermally insulated, flight jumpsuit. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint And how did the tuna not get freezer burn, anyway?]] |
| 51 | * ''Anime/MyOtome''. Some fans have tried to justify it by saying "Otome can breathe in space", but nanomachine enhancements would not change the fact that "Otome needs oxygen badly!" In the OVA Arika even takes the completely normal Mashiro ''with her'' (for a sightseeing tour of the world... no seriously, that's exactly what she says). It's entirely possible that said sequences only take place in the outer atmosphere where some oxygen would still be present, although that still doesn't help the Mashiro example. Then there's the fact that Lena gets slammed into the side of the moon in ''Sifr''... |
| 52 | %%* '''Unsure''' In ''[[Anime/TheLastNarutoTheMovie Naruto The Last]]'', Naruto's fight against [[BigBad Toneri]] on the moon definitely qualifies. |
| 53 | * Kaworu in ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' doesn't need a spacesuit in space. |
| 54 | %%* '''Unsure''' In ''Anime/NGKnightLamune40'', the Doki-Doki Space seems to have air, which is because everyone can breathe and talk freely. |
| 55 | %%* '''Unsure - powers''' The titular Symphogear users from ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'' not only breathe in space but they also have no problem talking or ''singing'' there. Handwaved as a telepathy from the gears' powers. |
| 56 | * A number of characters in ''Manga/SgtFrog'' get away with this. Lampshaded in the Funimation dub, when the narrator complains about Space Police Officer Poyon walking around unprotected in space at the start of episode 11. |
| 57 | * ''Anime/SonicX'': |
| 58 | ** Early in the first season, Sonic wing-walks the Blue Tornado into space and promptly freezes when outside of Earth's atmosphere. He is fine when they re-enter it. Their own universe must have different laws or something... |
| 59 | ** The third season. All the furries and alien beings can breathe, speak, and generally not die while strolling or freefalling in space without wearing anything other than their fur or clothes, but human characters (Chris and Eggman) have to wear spacesuits when space walking. |
| 60 | * In ''Anime/StarBlazers[=/=]Space Battleship Yamato,'' our heroes can turn their regular uniform into a spacesuit just by putting on a helmet. This often leaves their neck or the back of their driving-glove-clad hands open to space, which realistically would produce massive bruising at best. |
| 61 | ** In ''Space Battleship Yamato: The New Journey'', Desslok is shown standing on his ship without even a helmet. Also, his cape is billowing in the space-wind. |
| 62 | ** Really, that's par for the course for any Matsumoto production. The windows on the Galaxy Express 999 open, Harlock is often seen steering the ''Arcadia'' from his battle bridge -- on top of his ship (next to the fluttering Skull and Crossbones flag) and Big One from Galaxy Railways has a balcony at the rear where you can stand and watch while your hair blows in the space-breeze. |
| 63 | * ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', but by the time we see people breathing in space, there are [[ShockingMoments things so much crazier]] that it's easy to overlook. |
| 64 | * Played with in ''Manga/UQHolder'' in regards to Karin Yuuki. She actually can't breathe in space but her immortality makes it only a minor nuisance rather than a life-ending danger. |
| 65 | [[/folder]] |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 68 | * ''Animation/ThreeThousandWhysOfBlueCat'': When Blue Cat and Feifei get sent into outer space in the episode "Will Earth Be Destroyed?", they're able to talk to each other just fine without wearing helmets or space clothes. |
| 69 | * ''Animation/CrazyCandies'': In the first episode of Season 3, Mr. Seed is sent to the moon and is able to breathe there without any problems despite not wearing a spacesuit. |
| 70 | [[/folder]] |
| 71 | |
| 72 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 73 | * In ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', during Cerebus' time on the Moon with the Judge at the end of ''Church and State II'' and the extensive "trek through the solar system" section in the last quarter of ''Minds'', Cerebus and other characters have no space-faring gear of any sort. |
| 74 | %%* '''Unsure''' The ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' just use helmets-- their [[MySuitIsAlsoSuper uniforms]] double as spacesuits (except Characters/TheThing, his skin is tougher than any spacesuit) -- the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_activity_suit Space Activity Suit]] was still several years away from invention when the FF started this practice. |
| 75 | * In the second story-arc of ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' the lack of oxygen doesn't seem to be an issue on the moon. The princesses did bring the moon closer first, so it could just be within the planet's atmosphere, but that wasn't the reason they gave for doing it. |
| 76 | * In the ''ComicBook/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' story "Bad Day On The Moon", the eponymous duo blast off to the moon (via thousands and thousands of match heads stuffed into the [=DeSoto=]'s tailpipe) with only a set of penny-conscious moon gear (paper bags with plastic eye holes to put over their heads) to protect them from the lack of atmosphere on the moon. But, despite Sam's preparedness (he brought a spare bag in case he ran out of air), it turns out that they can breathe easily on the moon, as Max exemplifies by taking his bag off to dig some moon dust out of his eye. Explained thusly: |
| 77 | -->'''Sam:''' So let me get this straight: We can breathe on the moon?\ |
| 78 | '''Max:''' I guess those candy-butt astronauts never had the stones to try! |
| 79 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': Pre-crisis Characters/{{Superman|TheCharacter}} could hold his breath indefinitely in space. After the ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' reboot, he needed an [[SpaceMask oxygen mask]] until Mongul Jr. taught him a method of holding his breath. |
| 80 | * If you're a comic book character simply ignoring physics is a valid option: in ''ComicBook/Trinity2008'', Despero leaps out of his armada flagship to fight ComicBook/GreenLantern in space. When his lackey objects, saying that he has no spacesuit on, Despero merely shouts "Air is for cowards! Do it!", and he actually survives perfectly fine. |
| 81 | * In ''ComicBook/XMen: ComicBook/XCutionersSong'', there's one scene where Cyclops and Jean Grey escape one of Stryfe's fortresses and attempt to get away by ''crawling across the moon''. Not only do they survive that brief point of time before they ''pass out''. That's also counting the fact that there's also probably enough gravity that Jean can take a misstep and promptly faceplant onto the moon's surface and get a bloody nose. |
| 82 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The early stories sometimes handwave Diana and the Holliday Girls' very exposed space travel, with things like air retention gel or magical earrings, and sometimes don't bother. This includes the very human Holliday Girls surviving walking around on the moon and ''the surface of the sun'' in t-shirts and shorts. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 86 | * ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': |
| 87 | ** Calvin's Spaceman Spiff persona is once seen repairing his spaceship without adequate vacuum protection. This is ArtisticLicense on the part of the character rather than the author. |
| 88 | ** Calvin himself breathes in space just fine, such as in the strips where he sneezes himself into orbit, grows too large to stand on the Earth, or flies to Mars with Hobbes on his wagon. Of course, considering it might all just be Calvin's imagination, it makes sense he wouldn't let himself asphyxiate in his own fantasy. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 92 | * Partway through ''[[Creator/DetsniyOffSkiword Dahlia Hawthorne Escaps From Pirson]]'', we see [[FloatingContinent Britain fly off into space]] [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as a result of Brexit]]. At no point does anyone in Britain, regardless of if they were already there or had just arrived to find out what’s going on, seem to have trouble with breathing or gravity or the like. |
| 93 | %%* '''Unsure''' ''Everyone'' in ''Fanfic/TheEndOfEnds'' can breathe in space. |
| 94 | * In ''Fanfic/SnicNdTheOsrailianResrant'', Saniic jumps into space, touches the moon softly, and comes back down. |
| 95 | * ''Fanfic/SundaySkivvies'', a fanfiction of ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'', has Luan ask why the comic book character Muscle Fish can breathe in space. |
| 96 | * ''Fanfic/ForeverAndAMile'' has a zigzagged example. While traveling through the ball pit, Opie and Octavia enter a space level, and it's explained that there isn't enough oxygen for them to speak to each other, but they still communicate silently. Then Octavia begins to realize she can't breathe ''because'' of the lack of oxygen, but she isn't particularly worried about it and manages to go without air for quite some time. |
| 97 | [[/folder]] |
| 98 | |
| 99 | [[folder:Film — Animation]] |
| 100 | * ''WesternAnimation/AGrandDayOut'': WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit can breathe just fine on the moon. They don't exhibit weightlessness in outer space either, with only a ball Wallace kicks into the air being affected. |
| 101 | * In ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', all of the kids are seen sitting in open space multiple times without any equipment whatsoever. Also there's the fact that a fire can be built on a large asteroid and an airless area is apparently capable of conveying sound. |
| 102 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie2TheSecondPart'': Spacesuits exist in this movie, but nobody seems to really need one. |
| 103 | ** When Rex and Emmet jump out of Harmony Town into another planet, they don't even bother to put on spacesuits as they fall through empty space (Emmet does hold his breath, but it turns out he didn't need to). |
| 104 | ** The Party Buses taking all the Systarians to the Queen's Wedding deploy into party-mode in the middle of travel, which is in space. Everyone is probably too busy partying to care. |
| 105 | ** In the final battle, Lucy ejects herself into space without a suit in order to reach Undar. |
| 106 | * In the ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'' film ''[[Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolfMoonCastleTheSpaceAdventure 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. |
| 107 | * In ''Animation/TheReturnOfHanuman'', Hanuman fights against Rahu and Ketu in outer space, with no space equipment whatsoever. |
| 108 | %%* '''Unsure''' This happens to Batman himself in ''WesternAnimation/SupermanBatmanPublicEnemies''. After the destruction of the Kryptonite meteor, Batman is trapped in what can only be described as a small airplane for several minutes in space, while Superman beats up the President. Finally, Superman gets around to rescuing his best friend, who is unconscious, but still alive. |
| 109 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'', everyone can breathe in space. Chalk it up to RuleOfCool, since the whole movie treats space [[SpaceIsAnOcean like an ocean]] (although Space is filled with a substance called "The Etherium", [[AllThereInTheManual which apparently allows breathability according to tie-in material]]). And there's all sorts of spaceborne organisms, like {{Space Whale}}s. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Film — Live-Action]] |
| 113 | * In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBaronMunchausen'', the protagonists travel to the Moon via hot air balloon. It fits the tone, as it's a MindScrew fantasy film and the Moon is depicted as a rather surreal place. |
| 114 | * In ''Film/AirplaneIITheSequel'', after the Mayflower crash lands on the Moon, the passengers evacuate onto the surface without any breathing gear. Also, they can hear each other fine and there's apparently normal Earth gravity. |
| 115 | * Comically treated as the ElephantInTheLivingRoom in ''Film/AustinPowers: The Spy Who Shagged Me'', when Mini-Me's rescued unharmed some time long after he was sent spinning off into space. |
| 116 | -->'''Dr. Evil:''' It's a flu shot. You've been in the [[SpaceIsCold coldness of space]], I don't want you to [[CatchYourDeathOfCold get sick]]. |
| 117 | * The lone Xenomorph drone from ''Film/{{Alien}}'' doesn't die from direct exposure to the vacuum of space, further validating Ash's claims that the creature is a [[UltimateLifeForm "perfect organism"]]. |
| 118 | * 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. Reportedly space suits ''were'' to be used in this sequence but the cast disliked their design and there wasn't enough time to redesign them[[note]]The novelization averts this, with everyone human dressing in space suits[[/note]]. |
| 119 | * In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', while they use breathing masks at the time, when Han, Leia, and Chewie venture outside the ''Millennium Falcon'' while hiding in what turns out to be a giant space slug, they don't seem to have any protection against decompression. One ''could'' assume the asteroid was large enough to have enough of some semblance of an atmosphere, or that the worm's innards are responsible. |
| 120 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 121 | ** ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' apparently operates by the principle that you can't ''breathe'' in space, but if you have some kind of respirator, you need no other protection from the elements. [[TheHero Peter Quill]] flies from the Kyln to the other Guardians in the ''[[CoolShip Milano]]'' in nothing but his civilian clothes and his [[CoolMask mask]], which doesn't even cover his hair. Similarly, Peter later [[spoiler:saves Gamora's life by coming out of his mining pod in space and giving her his mask, holding his breath long enough for TheCavalry -- in the form of his space pirate adopted family -- to come and get both of them]]. Neither suffers particularly ill effects given that they both spend about a minute in vacuum. |
| 122 | ** While at first the title character of ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'' activates her collapsible helmet whenever exposed to vacuum, Carol eventually figures out she can just keep her head exposed, [[SuperpowerLottery being just that powerful]], as shown by both her final scene in that movie and her introduction in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''. |
| 123 | * Parodied in ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', when Barf moves Princess Vespa to Lone Starr's ship, he just takes a ladder and climbs in her sunroof. |
| 124 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' movies, Superman and other Kryptonians can spend long periods in space without worrying about breathing. |
| 125 | ** ''Film/SupermanIVTheQuestForPeace'' is pretty egregious with Superman and his clone, Nuclear Man are somehow able to take non-powered humans into space without killing them. |
| 126 | ** In the ComicBookAdaptation Superman takes a child into space wearing a spacesuit that he didn't have in the movie's DeletedScene it's based on. |
| 127 | * The silent film ''Film/WomanInTheMoon'', despite being one of the few early sci-fi movies where the creators paid attention to technical accuracy. This was because silent film actors depended greatly on facial expressions and body language [[InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace which would be obscured by bulky spacesuits and helmets]]. |
| 128 | * The astronaut from ''Film/{{Zathura}}'' wears his full spacesuit when he first appears, but he doesn't wear his helmet during a later scene where he rescues his past self from getting ThrownOutTheAirlock for [[NoFairCheating cheating]] at the game. |
| 129 | [[/folder]] |
| 130 | |
| 131 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 132 | * In the sci-fi series ''Literature/{{Akiko}}'', this is handwaved hilariously when the eponymous character takes her first trip into space in a roofless shuttle--there's ''plenty'' of air in space! |
| 133 | * The last third of ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'' is entirely set in space and there's no mention that our very human protagonist has any problem breathing as he jumps off the Sun and flies to Mars. To be fair, this was written in 1324, so [=NASA=] didn't have the funding to correct Dante's error. And God explicitly sent the Pilgrim on his journey, so it's likely he was courteous enough to take care of it. |
| 134 | * In ''Literature/FromTheEarthToTheMoon'' by Creator/JulesVerne, soon-to-be-shot-into-space adventurer Michael Ardan is asked whether it is not foolish, since there is little if no air on the Moon? "Then I will only breathe on special occasions!" he quips. |
| 135 | %%* '''Unsure - probably a subversion''' Barrington Baley's Literature/TheGarmentsOfCaean some of heroes (like Alexei Verednyev and his girlfriend Lana Armasova) just live in space. They know they can. [[spoiler:They are colonists who wear their advanced spacesuits/miniships their whole live. Their cyborg opponents also can do that but don't need suits and looks mostly human. He thought that members of research expeditions are cyborgs because of how they look and because they tried to extract him from the suit.]] |
| 136 | %%* '''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." |
| 137 | %%** 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. |
| 138 | * In ''Marvin Wanted MORE!'', the titular sheep somehow manages to breathe in space in order to eat [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext the entire Earth]]. |
| 139 | * In ''Literature/ThePlatinumKey'' the characters can breathe in space in the Jumbo vortex, although the reason is unknown. |
| 140 | * In the ''Literature/{{Kemlo}}'' series by Creator/ReginaldAlecMartin, anyone born in space (i.e. actually in the vacuum of space itself, not merely on board a spaceship or station) can somehow "breathe" in space. Even for a pulpy children’s science fiction book series from The50s, this strains the reader's credulity to breaking point. |
| 141 | * ''Literature/VenusPrime'': Towards the end of the series, Blake and Sparta have their bodies altered to the point that they are able to walk through outer space [[PosthumanNudism nude]]. |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 145 | * Lampshaded by the MC Bat Commander in the first episode's ''A Cartoon!'' segment on ''Series/TheAquabatsSuperShow''. |
| 146 | -->'''MCBC:''' [inhales] Love that moon air! |
| 147 | * In ''Series/BlackLightning2018'', Jennifer and Jefferson are able to fly up to the ionosphere, which is where Earth's atmosphere fades out into the void of space. Going up there is treated as dangerous due to all the ionized particles, but neither of them seems to have trouble breathing and talking normally, despite there in ''no way'' being enough of an atmosphere to allow for that. |
| 148 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 149 | ** 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. |
| 150 | ** 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. |
| 151 | ** 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. |
| 152 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten "The Rings of Akhaten"]] is the most insane example in the new series. ''Everyone'' is going around in a planetary ring system that appears to be open to the vacuum of space. The only explanation is that there's probably some kind of atmospheric shell — but this is not brought up in the episode. |
| 153 | * For the most part, ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' manages to avoid this trope, the exception being in the mini-arc "Look At The Princess", where John Crichton manages to hold his breath long enough to float from one craft to another. Even though the air pressure will rupture your lungs, that's why you ''don't'' hold your breath in a vacuum, though that's the least of that scene's problems with science... |
| 154 | * ''Series/{{Lexx}}'' gives its human characters spacesuits consisting of... a helmet with a plastic visor covering the eyes. That's all. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools But it's all part of the charm]]. |
| 155 | * ''Series/LoisAndClark'' sees Superman hanging around in space without any protective gear. Then, just as everyone's convinced that he can do that because [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands he's Superman]], he takes Lois for a trip up there with him. Without any sort of breathing apparatus. And has a conversation with her there. |
| 156 | * ''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."]] |
| 157 | ** In the KTMA "Season Zero", there is a series of episodes where Joel is absent, as the bots locked him out of the Satellite as a prank. When he makes it back inside and they question his survival, he tells them to relax. |
| 158 | * ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' plays this one mostly straight. ''Series/PowerRangersLostGalaxy''[='=]s Mike was able to survive, albeit unconsciously, in the vacuum of space, while ''Series/PowerRangersInSpace''[='=]s Carlos could take an unmorphed little girl for a ride on his Galaxy Glider. Most JustForFun/{{egregious}}ly, the team-up episode "Forever Red" features the villains ''riding horses on the moon.'' |
| 159 | ** Stingwingers bodily disembarked from the Scorpion Stinger into the vacuum of space to destroy two of the Megazords in the episode [[GrandFinale "Journey's End"]]. |
| 160 | ** Ironically, the villains themselves were robots, and would naturally have no problem with vacuum. The horses, on the other hand, were, to all appearances, ''perfectly normal horses''. |
| 161 | *** There are canonically indigenous bats living on the moon in the PR universe, per ''Turbo''. Plus, Merrick's Ranger form is named for the LUNAR wolf... which stops being silly when you consider the lifeforce of his monstrous Org alter ego Zen-Aku is bound to the moon's own ecosystem. |
| 162 | ** Rita, Zedd, Finster, Goldar, and Rito wander around the surface of the moon to no ill effect for the entire second half of ''Series/PowerRangersZeo''. They even watch television. There's something approaching an Earth-normal atmosphere there. |
| 163 | ** Additionally, in the ''In Space'' {{Crossover}} episode "Shell Shocked", the [[Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] can also breathe in space -- they go for a ride on the Rangers' Galaxy Gliders. In a bit of meta-irony, the TMNT ''franchise'' died (until 2003) shortly after. |
| 164 | ** It's generally assumed that Rita made the moon (or at least the area her palace is in) habitable with her magic when she first set up shop there and it remains so to this day. However, that doesn't explain the unprotected girl on the Galaxy Glider, ''hair blowing in the wind that space totally shouldn't have.'' (And no, it ''doesn't'' matter that the scene was identical in Megaranger; that just means ''two'' production companies [[ArtisticLicenseSpace fail science forever]].) |
| 165 | * In ''Series/RedDwarf'': "Confidence and Paranoia," Confidence tries to invoke this trope while outside of the ship with Lister. [[spoiler:Lister refuses to go along. Confidence then tries to encourage him by taking off his own space helmet [[ExplosiveDecompression and explodes]].]] |
| 166 | * ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. In "Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton" holoprogram Tom Paris is seen [[JetPack jetpacking]] through the vacuum of space protected only by a [[AdventurerOutfit leather jacket and aviator goggles]]. Since it's an AffectionateParody of [[Film/FlashGordonSerial 1930s sci-fi]] {{film serial}}s, even the slightest semblance of realism isn't on the cards. |
| 167 | [[/folder]] |
| 168 | |
| 169 | [[folder:Music Videos]] |
| 170 | %%* Major Tom in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D67kmFzSh_o this]] video for Space Oddity. |
| 171 | * 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.]] |
| 172 | * Music/{{TLC}}'s video for "No Scrubs" features the trio dressed in skimpy black {{Stripperiffic}} outfits... onboard a spaceship, without helmets. |
| 173 | [[/folder]] |
| 174 | |
| 175 | [[folder:Pinball]] |
| 176 | * If the backglass and AstralFinale of ''Pinball/JunkYard'' are taken into consideration, the player character flies into space with nothing but a fishbowl for oxygen. |
| 177 | * The MatchSequence for ''Pinball/ThePartyZone'' shows Captain B. Zarr flying through outer space in his rocket, with the cockpit open and exposing him to vacuum with no ill effects. |
| 178 | [[/folder]] |
| 179 | |
| 180 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 181 | * The RuleOfFun/[[RuleOfCool Cool]] physics of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' allow this: there is no oxygen in space, but whenever an object goes into space, it takes an "envelope" of air with it. So everyone can breathe in space, for a minute or handful on their own. The amount of air is proportional to the size of the object, which helps the crew of a huge ship, but not a giant, for example, since it uses proportionally as much air. After a while, the air becomes stale and eventually runs out, though far-traveling ships usually avoid it with air-creating spells or plants. Escape velocity or burning up in the atmosphere aren't problems -- if you go up high enough, you end up in space, simple as that. All of this was designed to allow SpacePirates to [[RuleOfCool stand on the decks of their wooden ships]]... [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace In Space]]. Incidentally, the way gravity works is even weirder.\ |
| 182 | And that's within the solar system-containing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin crystal spheres]]. Outside, the universe is filled with volatile, gaseous phlogiston. You still have to worry about running out of air, but if you do, breathing phlogiston places living things in suspended animation. People preserved thusly can be revived even millennia later by giving them fresh air, with only a slight chance of death from shock. Putting people in airtight coffins for trips between crystal spheres makes for the ultimate budget travel option! |
| 183 | * A version of this is the Grant (special ability) of the Ten Thousand Fans in ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression''. They can spend [[{{Mana}} Mania]] to temporarily negate their need for a vital element, for an amount of time based on how vital that is. One point of Mania lets them negate the need to breathe for one minute. (For comparison, the same amount lets them ignore the need for water for one ''day''.) |
| 184 | [[/folder]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 187 | * ''Ride/SpaceMountain'' at the Ride/DisneyThemeParks sends guests off into outer space in completely exposed rockets, and yet they are able to breathe just fine. |
| 188 | * At Ride/UniversalStudios: |
| 189 | ** ''Ride/ETAdventure'' brings guests up into space and into lightspeed towards E.T.'s planet, all without them needing to wear any gear. |
| 190 | ** In ''Ride/SpaceFantasyTheRide'', similar to ''Space Mountain'', has riders blast through outer space in an exposed vehicle. |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 194 | * The toy that led to the original snarkiness was a Batman figure from the original ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' toy line. Several characters were given [[EnvironmentSpecificActionFigure "space armor"]] to go with reissues of their older toys. Batman's helmet was [[https://i.imgur.com/uKeoN20.png an inexplicable half-bubble that only came up to eye level]], which inspired the [[TropeNamers trope naming]] ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' comic. |
| 195 | [[/folder]] |
| 196 | |
| 197 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 198 | * ''{{VideoGame/Aether}}'': The boy and the creature can survive in the vacuum of space just fine. |
| 199 | * Many ''VideoGame/BattleTech2018'' missions take place on airless moons and martian-style environments. While [=BattleMechs=] ''are'' rated for hard vacuum in-universe (this is one of their major draws), most of the standard-issue vehicles that you can encounter in such missions are not. In addition, cracking open the cockpit of a 'mech does not put the [=MechWarrior=] inside at risk of decompression or atmospheric poisoning. |
| 200 | * During the last level of ''VideoGame/BinaryBoy'', both the Boy and a few other humanoid characters can walk around in space without protection just fine (even though the Boy did need a scuba mask when going underwater.) |
| 201 | * Lampshaded and played for laughs in ''[[VideoGame/{{Bleed}} Bleed 2]]'', where two whole levels take place in space. The Heroine Wryn can not, in fact, breathe in space – she can just hold her breath really, really long, through sheer badassery! |
| 202 | * One mission in ''VideoGame/CosmicStarHeroine'' takes place on an asteroid floating through space, yet your party, mostly consisting of organic beings, walks on it wearing nothing more than their usual attire. The gravity also appears to be comfortable. |
| 203 | * Discussed and justified in ''VideoGame/Disgaea4APromiseUnforgotten'': When the group goes to the moon, Fuka holds her breath since there's no air, but is informed that demons, angels and the undead don't need to breathe. [[spoiler:They realize that [[BigBad Nemo]] is also undead when they see him doing just fine on the moon, despite seemingly being a normal human.]] |
| 204 | * Played for laughs in ''VideoGame/DoubleDragonNeon''. While on a [[ItMakesSenseInContext rocket-powered ten-floor pagoda]], Billy and Jimmy only need to hold their breath to go outside the spaceship. During those sections, you can visibly see their cheeks are puffed out. |
| 205 | -->'''Billy:''' We'd better hold our breath, this is a hard vacuum.\ |
| 206 | '''Jimmy:''' Good idea, bro! |
| 207 | * ''VideoGame/DuckTales'' NES game: |
| 208 | ** It has a moon level, yet Scrooge [=McDuck=] doesn't get sprites of him in a spacesuit. Parodied [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHEgzRtKC5o here]]: |
| 209 | --->"Wait, Uncle Scrooge, you need a suit out there! How are you alive? You need heat! Also air!" |
| 210 | ** The remake finally explains why Scrooge can do that. He's been chewing oxygen-flavored taffy (though this doesn't explain how he can survive the extreme cold and lack of air pressure). |
| 211 | * ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' waffles on this. In ''{{VideoGame/Duke Nukem 3D}}'', Duke can handle the vacuum of space just fine with only a t-shirt and a cigar for defense. In ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' however, Duke needs to hold his breath to walk on the surface of the moon. Still BeyondTheImpossible, but it seems that Duke's spacesuit-grade lungs went the same way as his ability to [[LimitedLoadout carry more than two guns at once]] during his [[DevelopmentHell twelve-year break.]] Duke is seen wearing a spacesuit on the postcards that came with the [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Balls of Steel Edition]] of ''Forever'' (also featured on the walls in a few spots in the casino level.) Presumably Duke didn't want to demasculate the other astronauts when that shot was taken. Space Suit was a planned inventory item that would have activated automatically like the Scuba Gear. In the pre-release 1.0 demo leak, it changes Duke's speed/physics to moon conditions while letting him survive in the vacuum of space. However, only one such vacuum area was built (in the level Dark Side) so the Space Suit was turned into a decorative sprite, and the vacuum area was altered slightly with a forcefield so that it could be played normally. It's still in the Zoo demo level, so its cutting must have been a late one. |
| 212 | %%* '''Unsure''' ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' has the party travel to the moon. They can walk around on the moon without needing anything to help them breathe. [[spoiler:Though it is an artificial moon that was home to the species Cecil's father was a part of, so there may be air.]] |
| 213 | * In ''VideoGame/AHatInTime'', everyone can seemingly breathe in space just fine. The game's kicked off by a mafia member breaking into Hat Kid's spaceship (without a spacesuit), then at the end of the game, all the villains end up hanging on the outside of the spaceship asking her not to leave, before being pushed off with a broom. |
| 214 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' ''Endwalker'' has Mare Lamentorum - a section of the moon. No character, including yours, has any problems breathing and talking without any sort of specialized, or even magical, equipment, and gravity seems to function exactly the same as it does on the planet despite obviously lacking an atmosphere. [[spoiler:Considering the Moon is actually an artificial spacecraft disguised as a satellite, and one of the reasons it was created was to act as an ark for humans to evacuate the planet, this is likely justified.]] |
| 215 | * The House on the Moon from ''VideoGame/HouseFlipper'' is literally on the moon, and is seemingly unprotected from the vacuum of space. There is no need for airlocks or spacesuits, though, as it is mechanically the same as any other house in the game. |
| 216 | * One of the updates to ''VideoGame/IronMan3TheOfficialGame'' added a level taking place in Stark Satellites orbiting the Earth. While most of the enemies are either cyborgs or are wearing suits, the Extremis soldiers are capable of flying in the vacuum of space while wearing civilian clothing. |
| 217 | * Inverted in ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' -- the Kerbals wear full spacesuits everywhere, even on their Earth-like home planet. They only remove their helmets in pressurized crew containers. This is {{lampshade|Hanging}}d by some of the science blurbs on Kerbin: "I don't think a spacesuit was really necessary to get here, was it?" |
| 218 | * The ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' series featured many levels or scenes that take place in space, most of them with the little pink hero traveling on the Warp Star. In ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'', Daroach even lampshades it when talking about a level that takes place on an asteroid: "How can you even ''breathe'' in space?" The oddest thing may not even be him surviving - since he's an alien - but the fact Kirby is still able to vacuum up everything in sight when there is no air. ''Mass Attack'' is also where Kirby is too weak to survive underwater anymore but space seems to take less effort. |
| 219 | ** Kirby's not the only character this applies to either; Ribbon has no trouble traveling through space on the back of the crystal in ''Kirby 64'' and Meta Knight just needs his CapeWings to travel between planets in ''Kirby Super Star Ultra''. |
| 220 | * This has made into official Batman media as of ''VideoGame/LEGOBatman 3''. Specifically, Robin jokingly asks Batman why he needs a spacesuit, having always thought, well, [[https://www.shortpacked.com/comic/batman-can-breathe-in-space you know]]. |
| 221 | * ''VideoGame/LaTale'' has several dungeons that take place both inside and outside a space station. The only effect it has on you is an enhanced jumping ability. |
| 222 | %%* '''Unsure''' {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''Lunar Defense Force'', a fangame in which [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Shroobs]] are about to invade [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]] and Princess Luna fights them on the moon. |
| 223 | %%--> '''Shroob number whatever''': Am I the only one who can't breathe? |
| 224 | * In ''VideoGame/MDK2'', the invading aliens apparently have no trouble working in vacuum without any protective gear or having large outdoor areas on their orbiter. This orbiter is apparently keeping all that air inside a forcefield because when Doctor Hawkins opens the airlock on his own spaceship ''Jim Dandy'', all the air in the UnnecessarilyLargeInterior gets promptly blown out through it, including [[ThrownOutTheAirlock Hawkins himself]] if he doesn't find a way to pin himself to the floor. Even then he is in danger of suffocating... unless he puts on a fishbowl, which doesn't even fit tightly to his neck. |
| 225 | * Most versions of Rainbow Road in ''VideoGame/MarioKart''. It's best noticeable on the Nitro Rainbow Road in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'', where the background Toads need spacesuits, but the racers don't. |
| 226 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 227 | ** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'', every squad member wears a completely sealed helmet in any remotely hazardous location, including ones without any atmosphere. ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' lets this slide; half the team wears nothing more than a breath mask in hard vacuum (only Tali and Garrus wear complete spacesuits, even if Garrus' has a damaged collar). Special mention to Jack, who goes about in her usual {{Stripperiffic}} outfit and a breath mask. |
| 228 | ** In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', this is the result of certain DLC looks for squaddies -- Ashley and James can apparently survive with just a visor or headset. Javik doesn't bother with ANY kind of headwear. Breathing oxygen is for primitives apparently. |
| 229 | ** The kett of ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' can temporarily survive in a vacuum. |
| 230 | * While all units in ''VideoGame/MechWarrior Living Legends'' are air-tight and have closed life support systems, nothing particularly bad happens to the pilot of a [[HumongousMecha BattleMech]] or a [[PoweredArmor Battlearmor]] when their cockpit is breached and exposed to the elements -- even on a map like [[SpaceZone Extremity]] or [[LethalLavaLand Inferno]]. |
| 231 | * The player commandos in ''VideoGame/MetalSlug 3'' initially start out in an Astro Slug the Rebels developed for space operations. If the Slug in question is destroyed, they continue on as normal, downplayed as they at least have the sense to wear a fishbowl helmet and an oxygen tank to breathe, but it's still in play as they didn't bother wearing a fully covered spacesuit. |
| 232 | * There are several maps on ''VideoGame/{{Nexuiz}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Xonotic}}'' which take place at platforms in outer space (Soylent, Evilspace in the former; Xoylent in the latter) or starships/floating factories where the player(s) can go outside (the eponymous Starship in the former; G-23 in the latter), yet few of the characters have any space suit to talk about. |
| 233 | * The same deal happens with ''VideoGame/OpenArena'', having several maps taking place in space such as oa_pvomit, oa_shine, am_spacecont, suspended, [[NostalgiaLevel wrackdm17]] and czest1tourney, yet only a few characters (Grunt, Grism, Sarge, S_Marine) have a spacesuit or are even aliens/nonhumans (Liz, Merman, Skelebot). |
| 234 | * The Horizon Lunar Colony map in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' takes place in... well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a colony on the moon]]. It features two airlocks that allow access to the lunar surface. Now, some characters have armor or abilities that could be handwaved as protecting them from the harsh vacuum, but most don't. Nevertheless, the only downsides to anyone going outside are that [[SpaceIsSlowMotion their movement speed slows to a crawl]] and they lose the ability to hear anything. Also, opening both airlock doors simultaneously doesn't have any effect on the internal colony atmosphere. |
| 235 | * There are 2 moon maps in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare'' 2, and there's no sort of sustaining tech for either the Plants or Zombies. While the lack of air wouldn’t be a problem for the Zombies, both they and the Plants ought to freeze to death on these maps, but for whatever reason, they don’t. |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/PunkySkunk'': Punky, the Chews, and Badler spend the last stages of the game in outer space. |
| 237 | * VideoGame/PuttPutt and Pep can breathe in space perfectly well in ''Putt-Putt Goes to the Moon''. Strangely, Pep does wear a helmet at first but loses it as soon as they land on the moon. |
| 238 | * Ratchet from ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' can survive wearing no protection on {{baby planet}}s that logically shouldn't hold any atmosphere. He ''did'' gain an O2 helmet in [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank the first game]] and presumably still has it -- not that they alter his model to include it in any of the subsequent games. The mask still leaves his upper face and tail exposed to hard vacuum with no ill effects. |
| 239 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando Going Commando]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal Up Your Arsenal]]'', Ratchet has a helmet with a visor that normally only covers his eyes, but it extends to cover his whole face and a rebreather appears automatically upon Ratchet entering a vacuum, diving underwater, or entering certain toxic atmospheres. There are still some {{baby planet}}s where the rebreather doesn't activate, but these worlds also tend to have plants and animals that are apparently doing just fine out there, so this trope may still be in effect. |
| 240 | *** Plus in the ''[[VideoGame/RatchetAndClankFutureToolsOfDestruction Future]]'' games, the O2 mask was changed from a full helmet to a small face mask. |
| 241 | %%* '''zce''' The [=PS2=] ''VideoGame/RogueGalaxy'', like ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'', takes RuleOfCool and runs with it for the {{Space Pirate|s}} concept. |
| 242 | * ''Franchise/SamAndMax'' The ability to breathe on the moon isn't even {{Hand Wave}}d for the game ''Bright Side of the Moon''. |
| 243 | * ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': |
| 244 | ** It varies in the games; most stages set in space don't have a problem with breathing, but there are some exceptions, especially any stage where only Super forms are permitted. Whether the need for SuperMode is due to problems breathing or need for the power of hovering/flight generally granted by such forms can be somewhat unclear. It may be possible that the other space station-based stages have artificial atmosphere. Strangely, even though they can survive in a vacuum, Sonic and co. can still drown if they stay underwater for too long. |
| 245 | ** In ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', even though characters can get sucked out of the space station through broken windows, none of them have any trouble breathing in the vacuum when they venture outside. |
| 246 | * ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5'' is inconsistent with this one. Some levels show Ulala in outer space while wearing a full spacesuit, but at the end of the game, she leads a parade through hard vacuum without even an oxygen supply. |
| 247 | * Utterly spoofed in the fangame ''[[VideoGame/SpaceQuest Space Quest: Incinerations]]'', where the laws of physics work in such a way that you can, in fact, breathe in space, among other impossible things. The first indication of this is in the introduction, where Roger Wilco, after waking up, groggily wanders around a spaceship trying to find some coffee, completely oblivious to the fact that ''the ship has been shot to pieces in a massive battle and is exposed to the vacuum all over.'' |
| 248 | * The final fight of the campaign in ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'' takes place on a rocket just at the edge of the atmosphere. While Agent 3 was given headgear that seems to work as a space helmet, there's no indication of how Smallfry, [[spoiler: Mr. Grizz, and DJ Octavio]] seem to be able to breathe, even though they should still all require oxygen even after evolution. |
| 249 | * Starkiller in ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II''. He flees the planet Kamino in Darth Vader's starfighter, the TIE Advanced x1. Every official schematic of said vehicle asserts that it has no life support system (Like every other part of the TIE line, hence why the TIE Pilots wear those costumes). |
| 250 | ** The reason of which is another, more logical example in the SWU at large. Darth Vader, thanks to his "armor" being a glorified life-support system, is essentially always in a spacesuit. Early drafts of a ''A New Hope'' even had him fly through space ([[AWizardDidIt The Force?]]). |
| 251 | * In ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'', everyone can breathe in space because [[SpaceIsMagic space just happens to have an oxygen-bearing atmosphere]]. The real problem with unprotected exposure to space is the [[SpaceIsCold cold]]. |
| 252 | %%* '''Unsure''' The ending of ''VideoGame/SuperHeroineChronicle'' has both OriginalGeneration girls Noel Kazamatsuri and Meru Ransheru to breathe ''and'' talk in space. They also stop a spaceship that somehow is attracted to Earth's gravity when said spaceship is nowhere near Earth. |
| 253 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 254 | ** In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', he didn't need anything to breathe, either on the moon or in transit to it. Even though travel consisted of being shot from a cannon. Goombella realizes and lampshades this if you ask her about the moonbase's entryway. |
| 255 | ** The ''VideoGame/MarioParty'' series has a bunch of minigames and boards which involve characters travelling in outer space, with no one needing a space suit or a helmet to breathe. |
| 256 | ** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', a luma is put in Mario's cap to give him the ability to travel through space, which apparently includes breathing as if it were filled with air. This isn't the problem, it's that everyone else can breathe just fine with no such justification, with the issue never being brought up. Then again, there is a conspicuous "woosh" sound when Mario flies from planet to planet; maybe that space ''is'' filled with air... |
| 257 | ** And then in ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', despite having gone to the moon and back in the preceding game, Tippi will insist that you need to get a "space helmet" (Which is just an empty goldfish bowl) before you can start chapter 4 proper. You're then given the option to be a wise guy by refusing to put it on, [[NonstandardGameOver with an appropriate result.]] |
| 258 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioSportsMix'' gave us the star ship. Not only is it in space, but also right next to the sun and in the middle of a meteor shower. And yet no one suffers negative effects from it. [[ArtisticLicenseSpace You are even rewarded for catching the meteors]]. |
| 259 | ** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioOdyssey'', Mario can explore [[spoiler:the Moon Kingdom]] without needing a spacesuit; he can get one, but he doesn't need to wear it. Similarly, Bowser, Peach, the Broodals, various enemies, and every other sentient species from throughout the game can breathe in space too. |
| 260 | * ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series: |
| 261 | %%** '''Unsure''' Whenever [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Yoko]] uses her sniper rifle attack of the Yoko M Tank on outer space terrain in ''VideoGame/{{Super Robot Wars Z}}2''. |
| 262 | ** In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsV'', [[Anime/CrossAnge Ange]] somehow can fire her machine gun out of her cockpit in space. |
| 263 | ** In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsX'', [[Anime/MashinHeroWataruSeries Wataru]] exits Ryuoumaru in his final attack. This can be done even in outer space. |
| 264 | * The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series plays this straight with the Star Fox stages. Brawl actually parodies this with one of Fox's Codec conversations, where Slippy gives this trope quite the LampshadeHanging. You can hear more about it right [[http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Super-Smash-Bros-Brawl/Slippy-Toad/ here.]] |
| 265 | * ''VideoGame/TimeGal'': Reika spends the later stages in outer space in nothing but a bikini. |
| 266 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'': |
| 267 | %%** '''Unsure''' The [[TrueFinalBoss true final stage]] of ''VideoGame/TouhouEiyashouImperishableNight'' takes place halfway between Earth and Moon. One of the heroines actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it. |
| 268 | ** In ''[[Manga/TouhouBougetsushou Silent Sinner in Blue]]'', Sakuya opens a window while inside a flying spaceship. |
| 269 | ** During Tenshi's Last Spell in ''VideoGame/TouhouHisoutenScarletWeatherRhapsody'', you are fighting on top of stone pillars reaching above the atmosphere. |
| 270 | * ''VideoGame/TumblePop'' has the last two levels set in outer space and on the Moon, but the sprite of the main characters remains the same. |
| 271 | * ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal 1'' and ''2'' involve the Roberts siblings being whisked up into outer space by Calypso [[JackassGenie twisting their wishes]]. Carl was stuck out there for a ''year'', and when he and Jamie reunite later, they don't require any spacesuits to survive or converse in the vacuum. |
| 272 | * In ''VideoGame/XWing'', this runs into FridgeLogic, ''hard''. Canonically, most Rebel pilots don't have fully-sealed and self-contained helmets. Since in the films [[FridgeHorror they don't seem to have ejection seats either]], this isn't as problematic as it could be. However, as a game mechanic in the flight simulator, your X-Wing, A-Wing, B-Wing or Y-Wing ''is'' given an ejection seat... but the same non-enclosed helmet. Rebels can breathe in space? We never ''see'' anyone eject in the films, but dialogue indicates that they can (and specifically that Porkins should). |
| 273 | [[/folder]] |
| 274 | |
| 275 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 276 | * ''WebAnimation/ASDFMovie'': Desmond the Moon Bear. He's not native to the moon, even asking how he got there in the first appearance, yet talks and breathes with no issue. He's dead in his second appearance, but WordOfGod is he was killed by some unseen creature rather than lack of air. |
| 277 | * Lampshaded at the very end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtN0RKPN6Xg this]] ''Random Crap with WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' video: |
| 278 | -->'''Cheesecake:''' ''[floating through space]'' Oh well. [[NegativeContinuity At least the continuity in this random series is non-existent.]] [[SnapBack By the next episode, I'll probably be back home, safe and sound!]] Hey, ''wait a minute!'' How am I breathing? |
| 279 | ** Which gets lampshaded again by the very same character in ''WebAnimation/ZePyromancers'', at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIugPm9WD14 this video]] as a CallBack. |
| 280 | * As seen in episode 2 of ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', Stolas and his daughter, Octavia, can breathe (and in Stolas' case, sing) in the vacuum of space without issue. |
| 281 | * Happens in two Object Shows, ''WebAnimation/ObjectOverload'' and ''WebAnimation/ObjectMayhem''. The elimination areas on those 2 places are in space, namely "Prison Planet" and the moon, and none of the eliminated contestants wear equipment in space and yet are perfectly fine. Subverted in ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'', because although the contestants go to space in Episode 2 of Season 2 to save Marshmallow without gear, Mephone 4 admits that earlier in the episode, Marshmallow will in fact die in space after an hour if she is not saved. |
| 282 | [[/folder]] |
| 283 | |
| 284 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 285 | %%* '''Unsure - zce''' Parodied in ''Webcomic/BatmanAndSons'', in [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_64bXi6uBdLk/TKV675cZrOI/AAAAAAAAAio/3YiBYNBOcYk/s1600/bmom21.jpg "Mr. BatMom"]]. |
| 286 | %%* '''Unsure''' ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': In-universe example — Dr. Disaster's simulation. [[MetaGuy Antimony]] notes that she has [[RuleOfFun a lot more fun]] when she [[MST3KMantra just doesn't think about it]]. |
| 287 | * In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', the trope namer was referenced almost to the letter [[https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-12-22 here by Lt. Pi]], with ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' mentioned in that strip's note. And with a nice lampshading of Pi's ''sanity'' by Kevyn. Not that it's a surprise to anyone at that point... |
| 288 | * ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' is the {{Trope Namer|s}} ("How would he ''know''? Has he ''[[https://shortpacked.com/comic/batman-can-breathe-in-space tried]]''?"). More recent strips show that, while Bruce Wayne can breathe in space, Dick Grayson ''can't''. One ''Bigger Than Cheeses'' comic lampshades this with the title "Breathing in space doesn't help on the Sun" -- the comic itself is about what would really happen in a fight between Batman and Superman. Incidentally, while Batman can breathe in space, ComicBook/TheFlash ''[[http://pics.livejournal.com/shortpacked/pic/000y2cyq/ can't]]''... oops! |
| 289 | [[/folder]] |
| 290 | |
| 291 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 292 | * ''[[http://www.captainbucky.com/ The Adventures of Captain Bucky and his Space Marshals, in Outer Space]]''. The intrepid space adventurers put on their [[FunWithAcronyms Oxygen Rebreathing Atmospheric Lung]] helmets, but no spacesuits so the sexy legs and bare arms of TheSquadette are still uncovered as they go moonwalking. |
| 293 | * Jeff {{lampshade|Hanging}}s the ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' example and Hal agrees, but Bowser Jr. tells him to shut up in episode 8 of ''WebAnimation/BowsersKingdom''. |
| 294 | * WebVideo/{{Hadriex}} apparently can breathe and talk in space like it ain't nothing. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5pmxOXixf4 As seen in this video.]] |
| 295 | * ''WebAnimation/TodayIsSpaceshipDay'': The three protagonists simply remove their helmets while on a remote planet that doesn't seem to have an atmosphere, and seem just fine. |
| 296 | [[/folder]] |
| 297 | |
| 298 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 299 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', the characters are capable of breathing in outer space without helmets or spacesuits. At one point, this is lampshaded by Sheen, who asks Jimmy how it's even ''possible'' for them to survive in space without said equipments (other than them being in a [[RuleOfFunny cartoon]]). Unfortunately, [[TheUnreveal Carl's annoying singing]] [[TrollingCreator drowns out all of Jimmy's explanations]]. When interviewed about this the animators said that they decided that spacesuits would interfere with the expressions of the characters, so that InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace. |
| 300 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' episode "Bad Day On The Moon", Sam and Max are able to breathe on the moon (which has no atmosphere) without special equipment, Max shrugs it off by saying "I guess those prissy paranoid astronauts didn't have the spine to try it." Given that the characters reach the moon by ''driving there in a 1960 Desoto convertible'', this is not that surprising. |
| 301 | * During the [[GrandFinale Grand Finale]] of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', [[spoiler: the [[FinalBattle Final Battle]] occurs [[AstralFinale in space]] with the girls using their [[SuperMode Calamity Forms]] to fight against [[BigBad The Core]] in order to prevent it from [[ColonyDrop crashing into Amphibia]], however, the girls aren't able to stop it, and when all hope seems lost, Anne decides to pull a [[HeroicSacrifice Heroic Sacrifice]] by taking all the powers of the [[MacGuffin Calamity Gems]] by herself to destroy The Core, this removes Marcy and Sasha's powers, but for some reason they are both able to still breathe in space before being sent back to the planet. Sprig then flies up to space with [[RobotBuddy Frobo's]] help to try to convince Anne to don't sacrifice herself, and he is also able to talk and breathe normally]]. |
| 302 | * ''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." |
| 303 | * Played straight with almost all the superheroes and villains in ''WesternAnimation/AtomicPuppet'', including the title KidHero. The only exception is [[BigBadWannabe Mookie]], but even then, the only thing he ever needs is the helmet (usually a makeshift glass bowl!). However, given Mookie has no powers unlike every other superhero or supervillain, the show's basic underlining seems to be that having superpowers automatically allows one to breathe in space. |
| 304 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', during the first episode, Batman is shown occasionally in space without breathing gear. Plus, the breathing gear he gets is just a plastic covering of the mouth hole in his suit. Then again, with that hole plugged, the suit covered his entire body. Being that this was a heavily gadget-laden Batman, perhaps the suit was self-contained? |
| 305 | * ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': |
| 306 | ** This was done in ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce Alien Force]]''. However, since they were with a 100,000+-year-old scientist that walked through time like it was nothing, they [[TheUnReveal didn't bother to try to explain it]]. The so-crazy-he's-[[BoredWithInsanity supersane]] scientist ignored the question. |
| 307 | --->"What, how are we even breathing?"\ |
| 308 | "An excellent question, but not even remotely the point." |
| 309 | ** Lampshaded in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'', where after boarding a derelict spaceship Ben takes off his helmet without bothering to check whether there's still atmosphere. His new partner Rook asks how he knew it would be okay, and Ben just responds that it's never been a problem in the past. |
| 310 | * The very first episode of ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' had this trope. When the mice are being pursued by Plutarkians, Vinnie gets up and ''opens a door on the side of their spacecraft and leans out to fire a bazooka at the Plutarkian ship''. And it's quite clear that there's no airlock or anything like that. |
| 311 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Catscratch}}'' has the cats doing this in the premiere. Given that Creator/DougTenNapel wrote it, you shouldn't be surprised. |
| 312 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': In "The Other Day the Earth Stood Still", the villain causes Earth to lose its gravity, and all unattached objects and people float off into space. Nobody has any trouble breathing. |
| 313 | %%** '''Unsure''' DM and Penfold affect this after being shot into space in "The Bad Luck Eye Of The Little Yellow God." |
| 314 | %%** '''Unsure''' In "Gremlin Alert", after DM dispatches the anti-logic gremlin aboard his spacecraft, DM and Penfold become weightless due to lack of atmosphere and DM suddenly gropes for air. |
| 315 | * ''WesternAnimation/DastardlyAndMuttleyInTheirFlyingMachines'': After an unsuccessful stint in the Pacific theater on an isolated island (episode "Have Plane, Will Travel"), the Vulture Squadron gets transferred again...to the moon, where they seem to do fine without any proper apparatus. |
| 316 | * In the ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'' (particularly ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague''), there is a general consensus that even metahumans can't breathe without oxygen -- even Superman uses a Space suit or at least breathing gear. |
| 317 | ** 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]] [[StealthHiBye Batman rolls]]. [[ParanoiaFuel He could be behind you right now]]. |
| 318 | ** The other one to use this trope is Lobo, whose usage of this trope is pure RuleOfFunny: He rides through space in an open-topped space-bike with no spacesuit or forcefield and gets by fine. He is even able to talk audibly in space unaided and gets heard through hulls and spacesuits... Somehow. |
| 319 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' episode "[[Recap/DuckTalesS1E4WhereNoDuckHasGoneBefore Where No Duck Has Gone Before]]", Launchpad accidentally dumps himself into outer space when he opens the wrong door. Not only can he breathe, but he can also talk. |
| 320 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': [[spoiler:Della Duck]] is able to breathe on the Moon by chewing Oxy Chew (the gum that provides oxygen while you chew!) Gyro had invented. Unfortunately, it only comes in one flavor. |
| 321 | -->"Ugh, black licorice!" |
| 322 | * ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' has the three main characters launched into space twice. [[RuleOfFunny The only problem they experience is the height.]] |
| 323 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': |
| 324 | ** In one episode, the main characters were floating in space with no suit and breathing. When Timmy asked how this was possible, he was told this was a TV Show. Specifically, a ShowWithinAShow based on ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost''. |
| 325 | ** In one of the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts, Cosmo accidentally sneezes the Turner house into space, and Timmy and his parents have no trouble breathing. This was usually averted in the show itself. |
| 326 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': |
| 327 | ** In a scene from "Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story", Peter becomes an astronaut and accidentally ejects himself from his suit and into space, but has no problem breathing. |
| 328 | ** In "Blue Harvest", Peter (Han Solo) tries to fit a couch into the Millennium Falcon as he and the rest of the gang are escaping the Death Star, but it gets stuck in the access hatch. He decides to just hold onto the end of the couch on the outside of the ship until they're out of danger and is more concerned with how they're piloting. |
| 329 | * In the 1950's WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat cartoon "Venus and the Master Cylinder" (and in other cartoons in the series set in space), both Felix and Professor have no problem breathing or talking whenever they're launched into the vacuum of space, nor do they have any problems whenever they set foot on the moon. |
| 330 | * ''Series/FireballXL5'': Need to breathe in space? Take an oxygen pill. No spacesuit necessary. Lasts for hours. |
| 331 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' is fine with its cast talking in space. Then again, in a series where vessels can easily travel between galaxies despite not travelling faster than light (because the speed of light ''was increased'') and the Planet Express ship specifically travels by ''moving the universe around it'', this isn't that unusual. |
| 332 | ** In ''Into The Wild Green Yonder'' the Planet Express ship crashes into a space station through a massive glass window. When it backs up and reverses out, there's nothing holding the air in place. |
| 333 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', one of the Joes [[MacGyvering improvises]] a spacesuit out of a glass jar, some plastic trash bags, rubber bands, and determination. |
| 334 | * ''WesternAnimation/GreenLanternTheAnimatedSeries'': Lantern rings give their wearers life-support forcefields that let them operate normally in space, justifying the trope, but the trope is played straight for many non-lanterns. In one episode, Kilowog lifts a bunch of evacuees into space on a platform with no roof or walls to escape their planet's destruction, while in another a group of [[WingedHumanoid Thanagarians]] simply fly out of an asteroid prison via flapping their wings. Not only are none of them wearing closed helmets, they're [[WalkingShirtlessScene not even wearing shirts]]. |
| 335 | * ''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. |
| 336 | %%* '''Unsure''' ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids''. Zandor and Zok, while Zok was carrying Zandor to another planet in the episode "Sarko the Arkman". |
| 337 | * On ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'', Beezy manages to climb to Miseryville's moon and sculpts it into a heart without the need of any kind of gear. Oddly enough, Jimmy and Lucius needed suits in an earlier episode. |
| 338 | %%* '''Unsure''' The main four from ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' can do this. They spend a lot of time in space in the Season 3 premiere. |
| 339 | %%* '''Unsure''' Practically everyone in ''WesternAnimation/LavenderCastle'' is able to breathe in space. |
| 340 | * ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil'': Skullosus tangles with a military guy over a cold ray, succeeds, and retreats to his space station. Shortly thereafter, the military guy, with no space suit, pops up in the base. He got there by the helicopter hovering just outside the window, and Skullosus [[LampshadeHanging incredulously points out]] that should be impossible: |
| 341 | -->"Helicopters in space? [[HowIsThatEvenPossible How does that even]] ''[[HowIsThatEvenPossible work]]''?!"\ |
| 342 | "No time to quibble over ''logic''!" |
| 343 | %%* '''Unsure - zce''' Played straight in ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes''; possibly forgivable due to the series taking place in the 30th Century and there is plenty of advanced technology available. |
| 344 | * ''WesternAnimation/LoveDeathAndRobots'': One of the changes in [[Recap/LoveDeathAndRobotsZimaBlue Zima's body]] when he became a cyborg is enabling him to breath in deep space in a [[PosthumanNudism clothless form]]. |
| 345 | * Several ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' shorts (primarily in 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. |
| 346 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MegasXLR'', the protagonists must be able to breathe in space, because there's no way that car-head is air-tight. |
| 347 | * ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouseClubhouse'': As part of an EarlyInstallmentWeirdness, in the episode "Donald's Big Balloon Race", Mickey and Donald can breathe in space. Starting with the episode "Goofy on Mars", this is averted, as Mickey and his friends always use spacesuits whenever they go to space. |
| 348 | * Several installments of ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' in all three variations (Terrytoons, Filmation, Bakshi) have the hero in space, usually on the moon where he either lives or is seen reclining. |
| 349 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'': The Octalians are immune to the vacuum of space as long as they hold their breath and shapeshift; as explained by Loab: |
| 350 | -->'''Loab''' Well, our hull was breached and I was sucked out. You see, we're immune to the vacuum of space as long as we hold our breath and shape shift. Milo was the last one I touched, so I changed into him. |
| 351 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' episode "Mixel Moon Madness", the Infernites and two Nixels are seen breathing perfectly fine on the Mixel Moon. Lampshaded later on: |
| 352 | -->'''Naut:''' That dome is the only thing between us and the hideous vacuum of space!\ |
| 353 | '''Flamzer:''' Uh, weren't we just walking around out there?\ |
| 354 | [Naut glares at Flamzer]\ |
| 355 | '''Flamzer:''' Sorry. |
| 356 | * Invoked and lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha''. One episode had the protagonists travelling to Mars, wearing nothing but their leotards: |
| 357 | -->'''Rikochet:''' So, that whole "no air" thing?\ |
| 358 | '''Buena Girl:''' Don't even go there. |
| 359 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' episodes. |
| 360 | ** "Prehistoric Pterodactyls". The title creatures breathe just fine while Superman was taking them unprotected through space to another planet. |
| 361 | ** "The Robot of Riga". Superman carries Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane through space unprotected while returning them to Earth from the planet Riga. The odd thing is that the episode had already established that the Rigans had spaceships (that's how Jimmy and Lois reached Riga in the first place), so it could have shown him taking them back in one. |
| 362 | * This is done in the ''WesternAnimation/OutOfTheInkwell'' cartoon "A Trip to Mars", where both [[Creator/MaxAndDaveFleischer Max Fleischer]] and Koko fly off to the moon, with no oxygen masks. |
| 363 | * ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' tends to flip-flop depending on the situation. In "Rollercoaster", the rollercoaster car accidentally flies into space, passes over a satellite, and is ablaze during reentry, but the kids show no discomfort from lack of air, and Phineas casually remarks that they should've charged a higher admission. Conversely, in "Out To Launch", everyone is wearing space suits whenever they're outside safe environments. (The Milkshake Bar asteroid explicitly has an Earth-like atmosphere, despite its size.) Also, in "Unfair Science Fair Redux", Candace has no problem hanging out on Mars in only her regular casualwear. |
| 364 | * ''WesternAnimation/PJMasks'': Anytime the characters visit the moon, the villain Luna Girl has no trouble breathing while there even without a spacesuit, oxygen tank, etc, unlike the other characters who do need helmets. Her Luna Magnet grants her this ability. Later seasons introduce Motsuki, and Newton Star, who also have this power (Newton's biography on the official PJ Masks website even namedrops the trope). |
| 365 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Pocoyo}}'': Various episodes that involve space travel show Pocoyo and co. have no problems breathing and talking in space. |
| 366 | ** Subverted in "The Bee", where the titular character wears a space helmet to follow Pocoyo, Pato, and Elly in space. |
| 367 | * 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 movie]], hearing screams and gasps from the Earth while on an asteroid. Although in one episode they did have spacesuits on. |
| 368 | * The ComicBook/XMen travel to Asteroid M for TheClimax of ''WesternAnimation/PrydeOfTheXMen''. One review notes, "Space was a lot different way back then. Breathing devices and spacesuits were optional." |
| 369 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', Sean and Sydney, two human kids, can breathe in space, even without spacesuits with oxygen tanks. |
| 370 | * When we first see WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle in the debut story arc "Jet Formula," they are standing on the moon with no survival apparatus. They went there to retrieve their stove (Bullwinkle: "We still owe two payments on it") which got blown up there by the first layer of a highly combustible triple-layer cake batter. The second layer got the two to the moon in a homemade rocket and the third layer brought them back. |
| 371 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TheScoobyDooAndScrappyDooShow'' short "Close Encounters Of A Strange Kind" Scooby, Scrappy, and Shaggy can breathe in space with no problem. |
| 372 | * After defeating Yellow Pinky in an outer space mission, WesternAnimation/SecretSquirrel and Morocco Mole accidentally blow up their spacecraft. Until headquarters can send up a vehicle to retrieve them, the two consign themselves to playing checkers while floating about in space with no breathing apparatus. |
| 373 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 374 | ** Mocked relentlessly while they watch an [[StylisticSuck old black and white]] [[ShowWithinAShow sci-fi movie.]] "Space air, leaking in!" "Put on your space breathing goggles, everyone!" |
| 375 | ** {{Discussed|Trope}} in "Pokey Mom." While Homer is recovering from a back injury from being gored at the prison rodeo, he talks to the warden about a prisoner's painting of a unicorn in space. |
| 376 | ---> '''Warden:''' He painted a unicorn in outer space! So I'm askin' you, what's he breathin'?!\ |
| 377 | '''Homer:''' Air.\ |
| 378 | '''Warden:''' There's no air in space!\ |
| 379 | '''Homer:''' [[CloudCuckoolander There's an Air & Space museum]]. |
| 380 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost'': |
| 381 | ** The title character, unless he's an actual ghost (and wouldn't need to breathe), but it's never been clear whether he is one or not (a possible explanation is that it's [[AllThereInTheManual all in the suit]]). As {{lampshade|Hanging}}d in ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhostCoastToCoast'': |
| 382 | --->'''Michael Norman:''' You're not sure how you became a ghost, are you really a ghost, are you sort of making this up as you go along?\ |
| 383 | '''Zorak:''' [stifles a laugh]\ |
| 384 | '''Space Ghost''': I... uhh... what, you think I'm lying?\ |
| 385 | '''Michael Norman:''' Do you require oxygen?\ |
| 386 | '''Space Ghost:''' Um... no.\ |
| 387 | '''Michael Norman:''' Well, then, I suppose you're not a living thing.\ |
| 388 | '''Space Ghost:''' Um... Oh! I mean, yes! I do! I do require oxygen!\ |
| 389 | '''Michael Norman:''' [sighs]\ |
| 390 | '''Space Ghost:''' Um, I mean, no I don't?\ |
| 391 | ''[cut to commercial]'' |
| 392 | ** Space Ghost's sidekicks Jan, Jace, and Blip can also breathe in space with no problems. So can most of the alien opponents they encounter. |
| 393 | * Used frequently in ''WesternAnimation/SuperFriends''. While usually only Superman went into space without any breathing equipment, the other Super-Friends were able to survive with just fishbowl helmets. Oh, and [[SpaceIsNoisy Space was Noisy]]. |
| 394 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'': |
| 395 | ** [=ThunderCats=] don't bother about breathing gear either when they venture into space. And they don't even bother handwaving it... suppose it could have to do with their magic/tech [[{{Pun}} catsuits]]? |
| 396 | ** Not even just the cats. Mandora may have been a gynoid, but Captain Bragg and his circus personnel seem very squishy, and then he hauls the Lunattacks and Mutants to Exile Island (an asteroid with its [[BabyPlanet own problems]]). The Lunattacks have a single superpower each, but none involved breathing in space, and the Mutants didn't even have that. |
| 397 | * Space works even more weirdly in ''WesternAnimation/SilverHawks'', by the same creators as the original ''Thundercats''. There's air, gravity, and ''night and day'' by virtue of switching on a gigantic light on a schedule. |
| 398 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TinyPlanets'', the heroes don't seem to have trouble breathing as they zip between planets in their open-topped spacecraft. And in the title sequence, they pass an asteroid far too small to hold an atmosphere that nevertheless has a trio of aliens living on it. |
| 399 | * In ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', Tom shows this ability in a few cartoons. This is a show where he can also jet through the air and come apart like a multistage rocket. |
| 400 | * [[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 even though they're in space. |
| 401 | * When the characters in ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' are in space, they wear space outfits. Yet they can breathe without it (eg. Jimmy and Jerry Gourd in their debut story, Veggies in Space). This also counts for the [[WesternAnimation/VeggieTalesInTheHouse Netflix series]]. |
| 402 | * On an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBros'' Brock Sampson got sucked into the vacuum of space for a good 10 minutes before he was rescued. He survives fine. |
| 403 | * The friends of ''WesternAnimation/WowWowWubbzy'' can breathe in space without incident. |
| 404 | * ''WesternAnimation/YogisSpaceRace'' is just one of countless examples, but Huckleberry Hound actually revels in this. He can be found on the top of his and Quack-Up's racer relaxing and trying to get a tan (Huck even mentions this in the first episode, saying that since they'll be passing "the Sun", that he wanted to take the opportunity)! |
| 405 | * ''WesternAnimation/YoungSamsonAndGoliath'' 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. |
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