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| 8 | [[caption-width-right:320:The fastest model yet! ([[PowerCreep Until the sequel.]])]] |
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| 10 | ->''"My Other Car Is a Broom"'' |
| 11 | -->-- '''Bumper sticker''' |
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| 13 | Brooms are the traditional flying mount of the WitchClassic (and many a contemporary). According to [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] the idea of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom#Brooms_and_witchcraft witches riding on brooms]] goes back to [[OlderThanSteam at least 1453]]. In the original woodcuts, they've got the head or brush part in front, logical enough since the original witch's broom was a staff with a carved phallic end and the brush was tied on as a disguise. Today's depictions most often put the head in the back, for sake of an aerodynamic appearance (and for similarity with an exhaust pipe or jet engine). |
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| 15 | As brooms [[DifficultButAwesome aren't exactly designed]] to be ridden upon, riding one would require really good balance so as not to fall off, especially when really high up. Prospective witches and warlocks should also try not to land wrong while sitting on their brooms either or you'll end up "[[GroinAttack Riding the Rail]]" if you know what I mean. But if these difficulties are discussed at all, there will usually be a HandWave about how the same magic that causes the broom to fly also makes the experience more comfortable than it logically ought to be. |
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| 17 | At some point, witches were portrayed as riding the brooms side-saddle, similar to how women traditionally rode horseback. If two witches are shown together, the difference in how they sit on their brooms usually relates to a TomboyAndGirlyGirl dynamic. |
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| 19 | Appearance-wise, these broomsticks are almost always the old-fashioned kind made by tying bristles in a rough cone around the end of a long stick; modern brooms are very rarely put to such uses. When they are, it'll often be as a joke on [[ModernizedGod witches getting on with changing times]]. In these cases, however, it's likelier for the joke to be pushed further and to show the witch riding around on a vacuum cleaner; even more recently, witches might be seen flying on ''roombas'', as an ultra-modern broom. |
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| 21 | Similar to the MagicCarpet, which is also a flying object but has unrelated origins and applications. |
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| 23 | For the SpeculativeFiction version see RocketRide. Compare SkySurfing, in which various flying objects are ridden on while standing: particularly daredevil witches may well do this on their brooms. If also used as a weapon, it's a BroomstickQuarterstaff. |
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| 27 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 28 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3btVEGC00Ns This]] Advertising/{{GEICO}} insurance commercial describes customers' savings as making them "happier than a witch in a broom factory," along with a depiction thereof. |
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| 31 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 32 | * ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'': |
| 33 | ** The opening credits of the {{O|riginalVideoAnimation}}VAs from the 1990s briefly show Belldandy on a broomstick, followed by Skuld riding a vaguely broom-shaped flying machine, and finally (in a subversion of a subversion) Urd riding a ''canister'' vacuum with the hose draped around her like a feather boa. |
| 34 | ** In the manga, Urd's broomstick is so jazzed up with magic, it is sentient. When Belldandy borrows it, love blooms. Weird, twisted, "sweep with me!" love. Yes, sweep. |
| 35 | * Mostly played straight in ''Manga/AkazukinChaCha'', but it is also parodied: the ''school bus'' that the class rides to field trips on is this, with enough seats for everyone. |
| 36 | * During the Fantasia arc of ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' , the party meets an attractive (but aggressive) witch Morda who rides flying broomstick casually. Isidro is quick to note how impressive it is to see a "actual witch" just to annoy the group's resident non-flying witch Schierke. |
| 37 | * In the world of ''Manga/BlackClover'' mages use brooms to fly. It's used as a test at the Magic Knights Entrance Exam to see how skilled a mage is based on how well they use it. |
| 38 | * Double-subversion in ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'': Sakura does not ride a broomstick, but she uses her MagicWand like this after she captures the Fly card [[spoiler:until she upgrades it into a Sakura card [[PowerGivesYouWings and it lets her grow wings]].]] |
| 39 | * ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'': [[spoiler:Aleister]] uses a flying broomstick to rescue Touma from falling, in New Testament 18's Epilogue. |
| 40 | * [[CuteWitch Natsumi's]] angel in ''Literature/DateALive'' is a flying broomstick that she can ride on, use to appear before people, and transform things with. It is quite the powerful multipurpose tool, perfect for a witch-themed spirit. |
| 41 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasGreatAdventureIntoTheUnderworld'' has Nobita creating an alternate universe where magic exists, and everyone flies on broomsticks or carpets by default. |
| 42 | * Makoto in ''Manga/FlyingWitch'' complains that "Flying for a long time really hurts my butt and groin." Her senior-witch sister Akane laughs and points out that "A lot of people think they're riding the brooms," but "The secret is you don't ride the broom. You're actually supposed to levitate yourself too." That explains how witches can ride a broomstick without agony, or having to ride sidesaddle. |
| 43 | * In ''Manga/GakuenBabysitters'', Kirin tries to invoke this trope since she believes she can become a witch and fly on a broom if she tries hard enough (due to being just a toddler who still [[CannotTellFictionFromReality can't distinguish fiction from reality]]). However, this isn't a fantasy series, so Kirin learns the hard way that this trope doesn't apply to a realistic setting when she jumps off a high ledge and Ryuuichi has to catch her before she hits the ground. |
| 44 | * A ''Manga/GhostSweeperMikami'' episode was about two flying brooms built centuries ago by Doctor Chaos. [[spoiler:They have a tragic backstory, as they belonged to a páir of StarCrossedLovers whose souls are bound to them.]] |
| 45 | * While Izetta of ''Anime/IzettaTheLastWitch'' is first seen riding the traditional broomstick, the magic is hers, not the broom's. When she has to catch her beloved Princess Finé from a still-airborne plane wreck, she grabs the closest available substitute: an [[{{BFG}} anti-tank rifle]]. (A [[StealthPun flying boomstick]], perhaps?) The gun performs beautifully as a substitute; Izetta can stay abreast of fighter planes doing 400 kilometers per hour, and shoot them down besides. |
| 46 | * ''Toys/{{Jewelpet}}'': |
| 47 | ** In ''Anime/Jewelpet2009'', almost all the titular pets, who're wizards, ride flying brooms everywhere. |
| 48 | ** TheMovie ''[[Anime/JewelpetTheMovieSweetsDancePrincess Sweets Dance Princess]]'' brings them back. |
| 49 | * This appears in the ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'' anime, fittingly enough in an episode involving a pastiche of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books. |
| 50 | * ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'': |
| 51 | ** Broom flying is considered such an elementary skill that nobody even considers the possibility that main character Akko can't do it. It becomes a running gag. |
| 52 | ** [[Anime/LittleWitchAcademia2017 TV series]]: |
| 53 | *** Professor of "Modern Magic" Croix flies on a Roomba. |
| 54 | *** In the climax of the TV series, the main characters combine a large number of brooms [[spoiler:to create the magical equivalent of a multi-stage rocket.]] |
| 55 | * Dorothy of ''Manga/{{MAR}}'' rides a broom, preferring it even over the carpet the other characters ride. It doubles as her standard weapon. The broom is about her only trait that most would consider telling for her classification of "witch". In ''MAR Heaven'', it's just the name of a person from a restrictive country. None of the other characters from the same place are seen with brooms. |
| 56 | * [[CuteWitch Fabia Crozelg]] of ''Manga/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaVivid'' uses a witch broom called Hell Gazer as her [[EmpathicWeapon Device]]. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'': |
| 58 | ** Several minor magical characters have brooms, and Negi uses a staff that's functionally the same. He later switches to SkySurfing on it, and by the end of the series he can fly unaided. |
| 59 | ** [[DarkMagicalGirl Yue's]] artifact includes a flying broom, and [[WizardingSchool Ariadne Academy]] has classes of broom-riding. |
| 60 | * ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' has a button on the girls' taps in the first two seasons that summoned their brooms, but the cutscene is skipped in ''Motto'' and ''Dokkan''. Humorously, Majorika flew by using a ''dustpan''. |
| 61 | * Brooms in ''Anime/OkusamaWaMahouShoujo'' comes in several flavours, aside from the standard ones: Modern ones, vacuum cleaners, and giant eating utensils. |
| 62 | * ''Manga/{{Perman}}'': The mysterious witch in the episode "Perman 3's a Real Witch" flies around on a broomstick. |
| 63 | * A variation in the ''[[Creator/RumikoTakahashi Rumic Theater]]'' story "One Hundred Years of Love". Ninety-year-old Risa Hoshino gains weird telekinetic powers after a near-death experience, and they can fly by riding a ''crutch''. She doesn't really need it, but it helps her stand up once she reaches the ground. Note also that since she's a {{Miniature Senior Citizen|s}}, the crutch is twice as tall as her. |
| 64 | * In ''Manga/{{Servamp}}'', Mahiru invokes this. His lead happens to be a broom, and his servamp's animal form is a black cat. It didn't take long for him to connect the dots. |
| 65 | * Somehow subverted in ''Manga/ShadowStar'' with Jun Ezumi, a girl who rides a flying broom that really is a "dragon", one of the {{Mons}} equivalent of the series. The protagonist Shiina even mistakes her for a witch, but Jun says she choose that specific form for her dragon (aptly if not creatively named "Broom") just for fun. |
| 66 | * ''Manga/SoulEater'': |
| 67 | ** We first see Medusa riding a broom... that has an arrow/snakehead. |
| 68 | ** Jacqueline turns into a lantern which can propel itself by shooting fire and grow a pole for her partner Kim to hang onto, visually evoking this trope. [[spoiler:Which hints at Kim really being a witch.]] |
| 69 | ** People with a certain type of soul can make a [[EquippableAlly Weapon]] they're holding sprout wings to fly on them if they have the power of a Witch's soul. [[spoiler:Maka uses Soul's scythe form to accomplish it.]] |
| 70 | * Subverted in ''Anime/StrikeWitches'', with broomsticks being relegated to use as training devices, as season 2 episode 3 demonstrated the [[VisualInnuendo visual]] and [[GroinAttack physical problems]] of their use. |
| 71 | * ''Anime/{{Tamagotchi}}'': In the "Three Hell Devil Sisters" episodes, Flowertchi plays a witch who flies around on a broomstick. |
| 72 | * ''Anime/TweenyWitches'': The witches fly on brooms using the feathers of gryphon fairies. |
| 73 | * ''Manga/UnderworldAcademyOverload'': Shion travels around on a broom, appropriately for a witch. |
| 74 | * ''Manga/AWitchsLoveAtTheEndOfTheWorld'' takes place at Sternenlichtl, a school for witches, and one of the various lessons shown taking place there is broom flying lessons. |
| 75 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamTheWitchFromMercury:'' In keeping with the "witch" theme, [[spoiler: the Gundam Calibarn has one that also doubles as a [[{{BFG}} giant cannon]]]]. |
| 76 | * ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' has a variation with Botan. Though she rides an oar instead, she rides it very much in the style of a witch on a broomstick. |
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| 79 | [[folder:Asian Animation]] |
| 80 | * ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 8, several dark wizards are seen flying through the air on broomsticks. Huo Haha is also shown using his toilet plunger MagicWand in the same one would use a flying broomstick on several occasions. |
| 81 | * ''Animation/{{Lamput}}'': The docs find a flying broomstick in the castle in "Witch" and fly around on it to aid in their pursuit of Lamput. [[spoiler:The witch who owns the broom soon notices and gets mad at the docs for it, along with disturbing her rest, and at the end of the episode she magically transforms them and Lamput into frogs.]] |
| 82 | * In ''Animation/PleasantGoatFunClass: Sports are Fun'' episode 6, Weslie and Paddi compete in a tennis match with Wolffy on a floating piece of land in the sky. A number of animals can be seen flying on broomsticks and wearing wizard clothing, including Wolffy when he first appears to challenge the goats. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
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| 85 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 86 | * ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'': Routinely used by Magica De Spell and other witches from the [[ComicBook/DisneyMouseAndDuckComics Disney comics]] like Witch Hazel. Some comics even have the broom act as Magicka's AnimateInanimateObject sidekick. |
| 87 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}: Darkness Calls'', witches are shown flying unaided, on giant animals (like cats), in cups, and with all types of animals/items... even brooms. |
| 88 | * In the [[FrancoBelgianComics Franco-Belgian Comic]] ''ComicBook/{{Melusine}}'', the CuteWitch protagonist and many other characters regularly ride brooms. The witch's school curriculum even includes broomstick lessons. Her friend Cancrelune, however, is a catastrophically clumsy flyer and a CaptainCrash. Since Mélusine is employed as a maid in the HauntedCastle, she also often uses her broom for the task it was designed for. |
| 89 | * Often seen (along with occasionally the vacuum cleaner variant) in the ''ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' comic. |
| 90 | * In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book story "The Flying Smurf", the titular character creates one by using a magic spell on an ordinary broom, but it ends up flying without him, and after Papa Smurf finds the book that Flying Smurf used and puts it back in his laboratory, Flying tries to create another flying broom with no success. (This was later used in the AnimatedAdaptation of the comic book story "The Astro Smurf"). |
| 91 | * In his very first appearance in ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', the [[ComicBook/NormanOsborn Green Goblin]] flew around on a high-tech version of a broomstick. Subsequent appearances replaced this with the trademark Goblin Glider. |
| 92 | * ComicBook/{{Starman}} foe the Prairie Witch rode on a flying broomstick. Starman was convinced that it was some kind of technological trick until he yanked it away from her (causing her to plummet to the ground) and discovered it was a perfectly ordinary broom. |
| 93 | * Leni "Sky Witch" Muller from ''ComicBook/TopTen'' rides a mechanical flying machine that resembles a broomstick. |
| 94 | * ''Wendy the Good Little Witch'' (WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost's friend) used to ride a broom (sentient in some stories, and called Broomie); now she rides a flying vacuum cleaner. |
| 95 | * In the indie comic ''ComicBook/TheUnderburbs'', main character Angela is a witch who rides a broom, complete with a black cat living in it. Bearing in mind the broom was part of a Halloween costume made real by magic. |
| 96 | * The French comic ''ComicBook/{{Raghnarok}}'' is about the titular flightless young dragon. He steals the local witch's broom, jumps off a cliff with it... and goes splat, as usual. When the witch is patching him up, he asks why she keeps a broomstick if it doesn't fly, she answers that she keeps it for sweeping. |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/SensationComics'': In the Halloween Franchise/WonderWoman issue Diana loops her lasso around ComicBook/SteveTrevor, ComicBook/EttaCandy and the Holliday Girls and has them sit on their costume broomsticks while she flies her invisible robot plane to make them appear to be flying on broomsticks like real witches. |
| 98 | * In the ''Lowborn High'' strip in ''Comicbook/TwoThousandAD'', flying brooms are used for playing Orbitus (which, aside from being an arial ball game, is ''not'' very much like that ''other'' WizardingSchool setting's favourite game), and high-end brooms are shown as specially-created devices with animal heads at the front (the most expensive has a unicorn). Our RagtagBandOfMisfits, on the other hand, have a mismatched set of "broom-like" cleaning tools, including a plastic yard-brush, two different brands of vacuum cleaner (an upright, and more bizarrely, a BlandNameProduct [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_(vacuum) Henry]]), and a couple of mops. |
| 99 | [[/folder]] |
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| 101 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 102 | * Subverted in one ''ComicStrip/PhoebeAndHerUnicorn'' comic where Phoebe brings Marigold a broom and asks the unicorn to enchant it so Phoebe can be like the protagonist of her favorite book ''Emily Zapp: Witch Detective''. Marigold zaps the broom...and it ends up sprouting a mouth and singing "[[Series/LambChopsPlayAlong The Song That Endeth Not]]". |
| 103 | --> '''Phoebe:''' This isn't what I meant. |
| 104 | --> '''Marigold:''' It goes on longer than you thought! |
| 105 | [[/folder]] |
| 106 | |
| 107 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 108 | * Creator/AAPessimal's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fanfiction sees two witches coming out of [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} Far Überwald]] who seek training in Lancre. Olga and Irena have a passion for flight. They develop into [[WrenchWench broomstick technomancers]] who seek to push the [[{{Magitek}} technomancy]] as far as it will (im)possibly go. Snapped up by Sam Vimes as prospects for the expanding Air Police and backed by his budget for R&D, they go to town. Vetinari, who needs an Air Force as a counter to the uneasy realization that Klatchians would have used magic carpets as a means of launching an airborne invasion, supports the two auburn-headed witches as they build an, er, ''Red Hair Force''. Elves -- on fast, maneuverable yarrow stalks -- are also an airborne enemy to be shot down without pity where encountered. Innovations include a pretty much supersonic broom that they are banned from riding over the city because of its effect on windows. They have Dwarf technicians, the ''Messers Schmidt'', whose designs are code-named with prefixes like the ME-262 (the aforementioned broom that flies faster than Discworld sound) and the ME-110 (a two-seater mounting automatic crossbows fore and aft). A Dwarf from a Far Überwaldean clan called ''Mig Oyeff'' is adding his designs to the mix. The naming of souped-up high-performance broomsticks, necessarily festooned with armaments, is indeed an, er, ''HurricaneOfPuns'' involving a couple of Spitfire pilots. |
| 109 | * ''Fanfic/ThePriceOfFlight'' focuses on the Air Watch and its pilots through two main story arcs and related shorts. |
| 110 | * In ''Fanfic/TwinklingInTheDark'', [[Anime/MahoGirlsPrecure Riko]] floats on a broomstick while helping clean up the trashed [[Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure Pretty Holic salon]]. |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 114 | * In ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'', Kiki is a witch in training whose only real magical ability is flying, so she starts up [[FlyingPostman a delivery service via her broomstick]]. The trope is played with in that the broom itself isn't magical, and a witch's powers are what make it fly. Kiki normally uses a traditionally made broom, [[spoiler:and finds herself unable to fly at all when she loses her powers as a result of burnout]]. At the end of the film, however, she is forced to improvise, using a mass-produced deck brush. The deck brush works, but is extremely difficult to control. |
| 115 | * ''WesternAnimation/SecretMagicControlAgency'': Baba Yaga's broomstick is used to steer her flying mortar. Unfortunately, Hansel misunderstands Gretel's instruction to get the broomstick for their escape in the mortar - he breaks it, thinking that he's stopping Baba Yaga from chasing them by flying on the broom herself. |
| 116 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zombillenium}}'', young-looking witch Gretchen uses a standard broom, except she ''stands'' on it when flying, SkySurfing-style. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 120 | * Early on in ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', Creator/AngelaLansbury[='s=] apprentice witch Miss Price receives one. She initially tries to ride it side-saddle because "a witch is always a lady except when circumstances dictate otherwise." Due to the difficulty, she eventually gives up on that and rides astride the broom instead. |
| 121 | * Creator/NicoleKidman (a.k.a. Samantha) rides one in the 2004 ''Film/{{Bewitched}}'' film. |
| 122 | * ''Film/CominRoundTheMountain'': Aunt Huddy has one, which even has a windshield and windshield wiper, to Wilbert's amusement. |
| 123 | * The fourth installment of ''Series/{{Fantaghiro}}'' played with this one hard: When Xellesia and the Black Queen realize that the latter can't transform into anything that flies, they seek an alternate means (including carpets, rejected because they only work well in [[ArabianNightsDays Arabian Nights Land]]) and eventually settle on the brooms, despite the Black Queen complaining that they will look ridiculous. |
| 124 | * ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters''. Averted. The witches fly long crooked sticks, but not brooms. |
| 125 | * The ''Film/HarryPotter'' movies, of course, featuring everything from high-speed chases to sporting events mounted on the brooms. The actors have often noted that while the broomstick scenes look fun when you see them on screen, they were not fun to film. They were uncomfortable for the male actors (as Creator/DanielRadcliffe puts it, "certain very, very important organs are crushed") and tedious for everyone since actual filming obviously consisted of spending hours sitting around in front of a [[ChromaKey blue screen or green screen]]. |
| 126 | * In ''Film/{{Haxan}},'' witches are seen flying over town on classic broomsticks. In a variation, some are seen flying on pitchforks instead. |
| 127 | * In ''Film/HocusPocus'', when the Sanderson Sisters' brooms are stolen, Winifred is the only one to find a (modern) broom. Sarah has a mop and Mary has a vacuum cleaner. |
| 128 | ** In ''Film/HocusPocus2'', all of the Sandersons get upgraded versions of their original flying instruments, with Winifred getting a proper Halloween witch broom, Sarah a Swiffer, and Mary a set of Roombas. |
| 129 | * In ''Film/KamenRiderWizardInMagicLand'', the world is rewritten into one where magic is more widespread and practically everyone can turn into mass-produced Kamen Rider Mages. Among other things, the police ride metallic, Toku-style "broomsticks". |
| 130 | * An interesting subversion for this trope comes from the movie version of ''Film/PracticalMagic'', where witches having the brooms serves a purpose, to sweep away the ashes of the soul removed from possessing Gillian Owens. |
| 131 | * In ''Film/TheWitchFiles'', witches fly by using magic to levitate themselves. However, this is inherently unstable, as MJ discovers when she crashes to the ground. Jules discovers that holding a staff between you legs provides stability, and speculates that this is why witches were depicted riding broomsticks. The entire broom is not necessary, and at the end of the film, MJ and Claire chase after [[spoiler:Jules]] riding a mop handle that MJ took the mop head off. |
| 132 | * ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'': The Wicked Witch of the West rides one, which she most notably uses for skywriting "Surrender Dorothy" over Emerald City. (In [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz the original novel]] she carries an umbrella instead of the traditional broomstick because her secret weakness is... well... water.) |
| 133 | * The titular character in ''Film/TheWitch'' is seen rising into the air on a broom... after rubbing it down with the [[WouldHurtAChild blood of a dead infant]]. |
| 134 | [[/folder]] |
| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Jokes]] |
| 137 | * Q.: Why would Hillary Clinton's election as president save the government a great deal of money?\ |
| 138 | A.: Air Force One could be replaced with a broomstick. |
| 139 | * Q: Why do modern witches use vacuum cleaners?\ |
| 140 | A: Well, don't you? |
| 141 | * "My [[ObnoxiousInLaws mother-in-law]] CameFromTheSky -- because her broomstick broke!" |
| 142 | [[/folder]] |
| 143 | |
| 144 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 145 | * Keith Roberts' ''Anita'' stories had the title character, among other things, learning to fly a broomstick, and IIRC discussing its technicalities with other trainee witches in the same way other kids would discuss motorbikes. There are some bits with "the Controller," who gives out landing clearance instructions like an air traffic controller, and a scene where Anita's grandmother, attempting a tricky rescue on broom, tells a friend "Verniers," and a moment later corrects it to "Main jets ... Aggie, ''fire main jets''..." |
| 146 | * This trope is not exclusively western; witches flying on broomsticks are off-handedly mentioned in one story of the ''Literature/ArabianNights''. |
| 147 | * The children discover Miss Price is a witch in ''Literature/BedknobAndBroomstick'' when they help her recover from a crash on one of these. |
| 148 | * The witches in Scurry 13 from the children's book ''Literature/TheBlueNosedWitch'' all use brooms except the Grande Madame, who rides a vacuum cleaner. One of the threats against Blanche for being so young is that she ought to be downgraded to a whisk broom. |
| 149 | * Early in ''Literature/BookOfBrownies'', the brownies escapes from an EvilWizard's cottage by stealing his magical flying broomstick, which they unfortunately lose a chapter later. Oddly enough, the story ends with the brownies being pursued by a WickedWitch who uses a FlyingCarpet instead. |
| 150 | * The ''Literature/DorrieTheLittleWitch'' stories used them in the traditional way, and some not traditional, such as pulling carriages in the air. |
| 151 | * In "Literature/{{Feathertop}}", Feathertop's spine is Mother Rigby's former flying broomstick. Incidentally, it doesn't appear that Feathertop himself can fly. |
| 152 | * In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe, flying broomsticks come in a variety of makes and models. Then there are the spells that go with them and a popular sport, Quidditch, that employs them. |
| 153 | ** In ''Literature/QuidditchThroughTheAges'', it is said that brooms come with a cushioning charm on them, so ''Harry Potter'' has AWizardDidIt {{Handwave}}. ''Quidditch Through the Ages'' also lampshades how these are probably the magical community's worst-kept secret, stating that "no Muggle drawing of a wizard or witch is complete without one." |
| 154 | ** {{Defictionalization}}: Mattel briefly [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime produced a battery-powered Harry Potter broomstick]]. This vibrating toy was popular with young girls -- it could ''really'' make them [[DoubleEntendre "fly"]]. No wonder it was swiftly recalled. |
| 155 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 156 | ** In ''Literature/EqualRites'', Granny Weatherwax once had to make do with her protégé's wizard staff. (Earlier in the book, Esk had disguised the staff by sticking bristles on it, which is one theory as to the origins of flying brooms in the first place.) |
| 157 | ** In ''Literature/WyrdSisters'', it's said you need magic to keep a broomstick up, but other books suggest the magic is intrinsic to the broom, and even Rincewind can fly one; apparently they can store a limited amount of magical energy but require a witch or wizard to replenish it after a while, or several witches if the rider is carrying out a complicated spell at the same time, which is how ''Wyrd Sisters'' became the first work of fiction ever to depict mid-air refuelling with broomsticks. (ItMakesSenseInContext.) In ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' Nanny Ogg complains her grandkids keep joy-riding on hers. |
| 158 | ** ''Literature/GoingPostal'': Averted. Moist von Lipwig just paints an ordinary broomstick blue with stars, in order to [[KansasCityShuffle fool the antagonist into thinking it was a real one]]. PlayedForLaughs when a wizard cautiously asks him if he's aware that the paint job won't get the broom airborne (but is careful not to let the antagonist hear this). |
| 159 | ** Granny's broomstick is described as [[TheAllegedCar the magical equivalent of a split window Morris Minor]], and the dwarf craftsman who looks at it is amazed it flew at all. In later books, it's been fixed up, but still needs a running start. Though in one case of escaping danger, just outright jumping off a cliff qualifies as a "running start". It inexplicably maintains this quality [[TheseusShipParadox even after replacing every component multiple times.]] In the end they get it working perfectly by replacing both at the same time. |
| 160 | ** In ''Literature/{{Thud}}'', the wizards speed up a carriage in part by nailing broomsticks to the bottom to make it hover. |
| 161 | ** ''Literature/{{Wintersmith}}'': When Tiffany Aching starts riding a broomstick, it has two smaller brooms attached to the back to keep her stable. These get removed as she gets more comfortable. |
| 162 | ** According to ''The Discworld Companion'', Magrat's mentor, Goodie Whemper (maysherestinpeace), a witch of an experimental turn of mind, decided to find out if a broomstick could keep its magic if you pulled all its bristles out one by one while it was in flight. This was her last experiment. |
| 163 | * ''Literature/EnchantedForestChronicles'': This is the standard transport method for witches. Book 3 goes further into depth on it, where it's explained that the standard way to ride a broom is to sit sideways, not astride, which would be far easier on the groin; Telemain the magician insists on riding astride despite having been told otherwise, which is one of the reasons he hates using them. Later in the same book, it's shown that broomsticks are made to fly by the application of a balm, which can be used on anything wooden to achieve the same effect (Morwen mentions having once flown forty leagues on a borrowed rake). This is used to make a much more seatable flying basket, although it has stability issues (partly because it's missing a bit). [[Literature/BabaYaga A flying mortar and pestle]] are also mentioned, but Telemain declines to use them, sticking with the laundry basket. |
| 164 | * ''Literature/HaroldShea'': The titular character enchants brooms in each episode of ''The Incompleat Enchanter''. In ''The Castle of Iron'', he uses a Moorish carpet instead, while flying brooms don't belong in the Kalevala or Old Ireland and, presumably, for this reason, aren't resorted to in ''The Wall of Serpents'' or ''The Green Magician''. |
| 165 | * Creator/RobertAHeinlein: |
| 166 | ** ''Literature/MagicInc'' includes a witch riding a broom the proper way. |
| 167 | ** Another Heinlein novella, ''Literature/{{Waldo}}'', has antigravity vehicles that consist of a horizontal cylinder (containing the mechanisms) with power receptor antennae at the rear. When mounted in a transparent hull, they resemble flying broomsticks, and are referred to as such. |
| 168 | * ''Literature/MegAndMog'': Meg rides a broomstick. |
| 169 | * The witches in ''Literature/TheMidnightFolk'', as part of their general WitchClassic presentation (some of which is eventually revealed to be just for show). At one point, the narration gives a list of the varieties and materials used, including a "broom (plant) broom". |
| 170 | * In ''Literature/ANightInTheLonesomeOctober'', each of the main characters fits into a horror character archetype; Crazy Jill is the WitchClassic, and she and her cat {{familiar}} Greymalk get about on a flying broomstick. |
| 171 | * ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': Witch princess Bianca has a broom she can fly on, but it is really expensive, five times the value any heirloom the other princesses had. |
| 172 | * ''Literature/RachelGriffin'': Used extensively in ''The Unexpected Enlightenment of Rachel Griffin''. The eponymous Rachel, an expert, rides a hand-made steeplechaser-type broom. Others use more standard "Flycycles". Bristleless brooms are reserved for beginners. |
| 173 | * ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': Rather than being {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s, broomsticks in this series are stated to be a species of magical creature in their own right that feeds symbiotically on its rider's mana, and getting to ride one is akin to breaking in a horse; actual cleaning brooms are dead individuals. "Broomsports" in the series consist variously of obstacle course races, one-on-one jousting, and team battles--the latter of which Nanao quickly ends up excelling at after a notoriously MoodyMount takes a liking to her. |
| 174 | * ''Literature/SeptimusHeap''. Averted. It is mentioned that no witch uses broomsticks anymore for flying. |
| 175 | * ''Literature/{{Spellbreaker}}'', given it's setting in the world of witchcraft and sorcery, have most witches travelling around using broomsticks, and carrying them around when on foot. One notable scenario have the protagonist encountering the Storm Witches, a trio of [[TheWeirdSisters weird sisters]] who creates tornadoes by flying around in circles via brooms. |
| 176 | * ''The Sleeping Dragon'' by Jonny Nexus is set in a DungeonPunk world with vehicles that are basically magic-powered {{Hover Bike}}s, but are called "broomsticks" for historical reasons. (Similarly, the {{Flying Car}}s are called "[[MagicCarpet carpets]]".) |
| 177 | * Similarly to the ''Waldo'' example, Creator/LarryNiven's ''Svetz'' time-travel stories occasionally have Svetz riding a "flight stick", which is similar enough in appearance to a broom that that's what people in the past assume it is. |
| 178 | * Dmitry Emets' ''Tanya Grotter'' series plays around with this. Usually, the most common flying object in the books is a vacuum cleaner, however, the dragonball (local Quidditch analogue) team from British magical university Magford sticks to brooms. It should be noted that, in general, ''any'' object can pop up as a means of flight in Grotterverse (the title heroine uses a flying double bass, for example). |
| 179 | * ''Literature/LesVoyageursSansSouci'': Séraphine Alavolette, queen of all birds, uses a talking, magical, flying broomstick made from birch wood while posing as a witch. Nonetheless, her broomstick is sick of serving her, so Alavolette throws it away angrily when the broomstick complains that she wants to be let go to go back to sweep floors. |
| 180 | * In the children's story ''Whispering in the Wind'' by Creator/AlanMarshall, the Pale Witch uses her broom to fly to the Moon and sweep up all the footprints left behind by the astronauts. |
| 181 | * In ''Literature/WiseChild'', Wise Child undergoes a spiritual test of character that involves being given a hallucinogenic that grants her an out-of-body experience of flying on a broom to a place destined to be vital in her future (in her case, Brodgar). |
| 182 | * The title story of the third collection of short stories written by Creator/TerryPratchett for the Bucks Free Press early in his career is "The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner". |
| 183 | * Averted in ''Literature/TheWitches'' by Creator/RoaldDahl, where the opening line of the book is "In fairy tales, witches wear silly black hats and cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale: this is about REAL witches." |
| 184 | [[/folder]] |
| 185 | |
| 186 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 187 | * While not seen in the show itself, the opening credits of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' features an animated Samantha flying around on her broom.[[note]]Samantha being a ''lady'', she rides side-saddle.[[/note]] |
| 188 | * Lampshaded in ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' when a Wiccan group at Willow's college complain about this being a "non-empowering stereotype". Sure enough, Tara is seen faking a smile when Dawn gives her a broom for her birthday in "Family". |
| 189 | * A Halloween episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' reveals Phoebe's dislike for the "cackling hags on broomsticks cliché", until time traveling shenanigans reveal that she created the cliché, much to her amusement. |
| 190 | * In ''Series/ElChavoDelOcho'', if Doña Clotilde and a broom are the topic of a conversation, expect this trope to be the source of a joke. |
| 191 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E2TheShakespeareCode The Shakespeare Code]]", Lilith, a witch-like alien called a Carrionite, departs an inn by murdering the landlady and stealing her broom as an escape vehicle. Martha sees her flying away. |
| 192 | * In ''Series/HRPufnstuf'', Witchiepoo drove a broomstick-like vehicle called the Vroom Broom that included a sidecar. |
| 193 | * ''Series/KeyAndPeele'' has the sketch "Inner-City Wizard School", which features the inner city equivalent of Hogwarts, Vincent Clortho Public School for Wizards. Among the various deficiencies the school faces, the Quiddich team is forced to use mops and Swiffers instead of regulation brooms. |
| 194 | * ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' had a spin on this, hoverbikes that transformed from brooms. There was also a MagicCarpet for the SixthRanger. (''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' kept the broom/hoverbikes, but ditched the magic carpet.) |
| 195 | * One episode of ''Series/TheNanny'' had C.C. say that they needed to deliver a package to London quickly; ServileSnarker Niles hands her a broom and quips "Here, hop on. With the time difference you should just make it." |
| 196 | * ''Series/OnceUponATime'': Zelena, being the [[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wicked Witch of the West]], is shown with a flying broomstick, although it rarely appears. She mainly uses it during the Missing Year in Season 3 and during her VillainSong in "The Song In Your Heart". |
| 197 | * In "Catastrophe", Kate's first appearance on ''Series/{{Rentaghost}}'', she and Mumford are transported back from the Spirit World on a flying broomstick; having turned down the offer of a flying vacuum cleaner. |
| 198 | * Multiple episodes of ''Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch'' has her on a flying vacuum cleaner with the first episode explaining that they are now faster than broomsticks. |
| 199 | * On ''Series/TheXFiles'', Mulder and Scully were investigating a case that appeared to involve witches. They knock on a woman's door but there's no answer. Mulder points to a broom near the door and says, "Probable cause?" |
| 200 | * One of the few things ''Series/TheWorstWitch'' is actually competent with. |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Manhwa]] |
| 204 | * West is curiously enough the only witch from ''Manhwa/WitchHunter'' to use a broom. |
| 205 | [[/folder]] |
| 206 | |
| 207 | [[folder:Mythology & Religion]] |
| 208 | * ''Literature/BabaYaga'' is often said to fly using another domestic utensil, a pestle. |
| 209 | ** To be more precise, she is flying in a mortar, using pestle as a weapon and a broom to move and navigate the mortar. |
| 210 | * Played With in ''Myth/BrazilianFolklore''. One tale of Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, tells about a woman who was cleaning her house during the Good Friday (when it was said people shouldn't work in some traditions). As soon as she got the broomstick, however, it ''itself'' became a witch and flied away, called [[https://contosassombrosos.blogspot.com/2008/11/vassoura-bruxlica.html?m=1 Vassoura Bruxólica]] ("witchy" broomstick). |
| 211 | [[/folder]] |
| 212 | |
| 213 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 214 | * The "Trick or Treat" table in ''VideoGame/PsychoPinball'' includes a WickedWitch on a flying broomstick silhouetted in front of the moon. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 218 | * Merle from ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' has one called the Wroom Broom. Its command word? [[TotallyRadical Hang Ten]]. |
| 219 | [[/folder]] |
| 220 | |
| 221 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 222 | * One magic item in most editions of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' is the Broom of Flying, one of the basic forms of flight available to players along with the MagicCarpet, the [[MercurysWings Winged Boots]], the Wings of Flying (a wing-like cape) and of course the Fly spell. Notably, near any object could also be enchanted for this purpose, and autonomous ass-kicking animated brooms are also available. |
| 223 | * ''TabletopGame/PalladiumFantasy'' has them as expensive alternative modes of travel. They won't burn away as much of a player's coin purse as a magic carpet will but hold far fewer passengers as a tradeoff. |
| 224 | * In ''TabletopGame/WitchGirlsAdventures'', various broomsticks are standard equipment for witches on the go (at least, those who don't use a FlyingCarpet, a [[SkySurfing Flying Surfboard]] or a flying Vespa scooter). They are often highly customized and, next to the witch's MagicWand, are one of the most important fashion statements a witch can make. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 228 | * The end of Act One of ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'' shows how Elphaba, [[Film/TheWizardOfOz The Wicked Witch of the West]], succeeded in escaping the Wizard's thugs by enchanting her broom to fly while singing "[[IAmBecomingSong Defying Gravity]]". |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 232 | * ''VideoGame/AtelierSeries'': |
| 233 | ** In the Dusk subseries, Wilbell Voll-Ersleid is a CuteWitch who flies around on a broom. In ''VideoGame/AtelierShallieAlchemistsOfTheDuskSea'', Shallote hears the CallOfTheWildBlueYonder after being rescued by Wilbell, becoming her protege in an attempt at learning how to fly on a broom. Sadly, broomstick flight is a form of magic, and Shallotte does not possess the gift of magic. |
| 234 | ** In ''VideoGame/AtelierFirisTheAlchemistAndTheMysteriousJourney'', Firis' Sky Flicker is a flying broomstick that can zoom across the map and over water. |
| 235 | * Gruntilda in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie''. It appears to be sentient, as evidenced by the head with eyes and ScaryTeeth. She divebombs the eponymous duo with it during the first part of the final battle against her. |
| 236 | * ''VideoGame/BubbleWitchSaga'': CuteWitch Stella is often depicted flying on her magic broomstick. |
| 237 | * ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'': |
| 238 | ** The Witch enemy in rides on a broomstick and strafes you with magic. The ''Student'' Witch tries... but can't keep it in the air more than three seconds. |
| 239 | ** Charlotte, one of the two protagonists of ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'', briefly does it when she {{Double Jump}}s. |
| 240 | * ''VideoGame/{{Cotton}}'' is a shump where you're a CuteWitch flying around on your trusty broomstick while casting attacking spells to take on ghosts, skeletons, zombies, and other supernatural foes. |
| 241 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown'', investing points in the Sorceress' Levitation skill lets her zoom around the battlefield on her staff. The [[BonusDungeon Labyrinth of Chaos/Tower of Mirages]] later gives her an actual Witch's Broom to equip as a staff to complete the witch on a flying broomstick visual. |
| 242 | * A weapon type in ''VideoGame/DungeonFighterOnline'' covering practical-looking brooms and sleeker "paintbrush" designs, intended for the female mage subclass Witch. While airtime is [[GameplayAndStorySegregation quite limited in play]], it allows practical air-to-air melee and air-to-ground bombardment as well as extending some nasty launcher chains. Oddy, advanced broomstick skills tend to involve buzzsaw-type [[SpectacularSpinning spinning]]. The Creator class shares the Broomstick Control skill and preferred weapon type despite being unable to execute the keyboard commands which would allow riding it, relegating it to a StatStick, and despite lore-wise having more effective transportation methods (space/time/planar gate control). Giving Creators the skill (which still implies broomsticks are flyable when you're not playing) isn't really arbitrary, as the weapon type provides a movement speed increase which helps the Creator stay out of enemy lines of attack. |
| 243 | * ''VideoGame/{{Flyff}}'' has them, although they're not limited to only the magical character classes. Whether a player chooses to ride a broom or [[SkySurfing a board]] is largely a matter of taste. To go into more detail, there are three ways you can fly: [[FlyingBroomstick sitting on something and riding it like a broom]], [[SkySurfing standing on something]], or [[WingedHumanoid with wings]]. "Broom" items are generally stick-shaped, although there are a few exceptions (like a wooden rocking horse); a recent "broom" is actually a guitar. |
| 244 | * ''[[VideoGame/FreedomForce Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich]]'' features Red Oktober, a [[UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRustingRockets Soviet]] witch. When she flies into the air, it's on a broomstick. |
| 245 | * ''VideoGame/GhoulPanic'': The third boss, Witchita the CuteWitch, attacks you while flying on her broom. And her weak spot is actually the broomstick's front. |
| 246 | * ''VideoGame/KhimeraDestroyAllMonsterGirls'': Ending a level while wearing the Witch costume has Chelshia riding the broom, which floats, as the ending animation. |
| 247 | * ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': |
| 248 | ** This is used by one of the enemies which gives you the Cleaning power, named Keke as an obvious parody to ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService''. |
| 249 | ** In ''VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3'', pairing up with Chuchu with the Cleaning power lets Kirby fly a broom himself. |
| 250 | * In ''VideoGame/LegendOfTheGhostLion'', a flying broomstick serves as the game's WarpWhistle. You get a broom from a witch early on, which allows you to instantly warp to places you've visited prior. |
| 251 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 252 | ** Maple the Witch from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' has first a broom, then a vacuum cleaner, then a ''flying saucer''. |
| 253 | ** Koume and Kotake from ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'' also ride broomsticks. |
| 254 | ** Irene from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' has one that she [[WarpWhistle lets Link ride to travel quickly between areas]]. It even does so by itself when she is absent. |
| 255 | * In ''VideoGame/MagicalDoropie'', Doropie's broom functions as a moving platform, like Item-2 from ''VideoGame/MegaMan2''. |
| 256 | * In ''[[VideoGame/MagiciansQuestMysteriousTimes Magician's Quest/Enchanted Folk]]'', a very Harry-Potter-esque game, it's no surprise that there is a wide selection of flying brooms (well, hovering brooms) to be ridden. There's also a broom-shaped taxi. |
| 257 | * ''VideoGame/TheMaidOfFairewellHeights'': On examining the broomstick in the Magic room, Marshmallow says: |
| 258 | -->'''Marshmallow:''' A witch's broom! I wonder if I can fly on this? |
| 259 | * Later "silly" depictions of Kohaku in ''VideoGame/MeltyBlood'' gives her this ability. Her broom also has a [[SwordCane sword hidden in the handle.]] The [[AWizardDidIt only explanation]] has been [[RealityWarper the Tatari's Influence.]] |
| 260 | * ''VideoGame/MikaAndTheWitchsMountain'': As the gameplay footage shows off, central to the gameplay will be Mika’s ability to fly around the environment on her broomstick. |
| 261 | * Evie the Winter Witch from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' can fly around on her ice staff like a broomstick. |
| 262 | * ''VideoGame/PiratesNIX'' inexplicably have witch enemies who flies on broomsticks attacking you while airborne, despite every other enemy being pirate-based. |
| 263 | * Not a broom, but the way [[CuteWitch Braixen]] rides on her staff/torch in ''VideoGame/PokkenTournament'' when using Flame Charge and in some of her victory screens is supposed to invoke this. |
| 264 | * The first stage of ''VideoGame/SavageHalloween'' have you hitching a ride with a witch, where you ride shotgun on her broom while shooting at ghosts and demons from a distance. |
| 265 | * In ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'', It's possible to obtain a flying broomstick as one of your vehicles. |
| 266 | * Used by the witches in Episode 1 of ''VideoGame/ScoobyDooFirstFrights''. |
| 267 | * ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII's'' Rody wants to become a [[CuteWitch witch]] just so he can ride a broom. He even uses one as a weapon in the meantime, so he'll always have one handy. |
| 268 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': |
| 269 | ** Kammy Koopa from ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' has one. Some of the Magikoopas do, as well. |
| 270 | ** Kamek from ''VideoGame/YoshisIsland'' and ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiPartnersInTime Partners in Time]]'' fame. |
| 271 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyAdvance'': The minigame Broom Zoom, as its name suggests, has you flying through rings on a broom. |
| 272 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'': The default vehicle for Haunted Trail is the Magical Sleigh, a sleigh mounted atop a pair of magical floating brooms. |
| 273 | ** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' doesn't have flying brooms, but Professor E. Gadd shows up at one point riding a Poltergust 3001 (upgrade from the original Poltergust 3000 from ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'') to serve as transportation. |
| 274 | * Even ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has a magical broomstick which, when enchanted, can be used to teleport to a certain place, with the animation being of the player mounting it ''Harry Potter'' style. Naturally, it is earned by helping out a witch. |
| 275 | * Wand Witches from ''VideoGame/SakuraDungeon'', though the broomstick itself isn't special. Rather, it's a ceremonial gift given to witches who reach such a proficiency that they are able to levitate themselves ''and'' cast strong magic. |
| 276 | * In ''VideoGame/TheSims3: Supernatural'' broomsticks were introduced as a vehicle. Although any sim can use them, typically witches will use them automatically. |
| 277 | * One can buy a broomstick-themed Extreme Gear in the first ''VideoGame/SonicRiders''. It allows anyone who rides it the ability to grind on pipes. |
| 278 | * Arche from ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' flies around on a broom, and in battle too, refreshingly. She also uses them for her weapons. This also enables her to dodge many ground-only based effects, such as the Tractor Beam spell. |
| 279 | * In ''VideoGame/TatsunokoVsCapcom'', [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Roll]] rides on her broomstick whenever she dashes forward. |
| 280 | * CuteWitch Marisa Kirisame from ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. WordOfGod says she doesn't really need a broom to fly (since everyone in the games can fly anyway), but uses it because she consciously goes for a Western witch look, and that obviously includes the broom. Marisa eventually also started SkySurfing on the broom as an attack or simply RuleOfCool, which due to her mini-reactor added to the end makes it closer to a RocketRide. |
| 281 | * In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' during the Hallow's End event, the summoned Headless Horseman can sometimes drop flying brooms that can be used as mounts as part of his loot. Unfortunately for players, they only last 14 days. |
| 282 | * ''VideoGame/MysticBelle'': Belle rides her broom when she uses Dash. |
| 283 | * ''VideoGame/MysticRiders'' have both player characters, Mark and Zeal, flying on their brooms while battling enemies for the entirety of the game. It's loosely based on ''VideoGame/{{Cotton}}'', after all. |
| 284 | [[/folder]] |
| 285 | |
| 286 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 287 | * Parodied in ''WebAnimation/SuperThings''. Walpurgis, being a witch coming from a world where [[AnimateInanimateObject objects are living things]], ''is'' the broom in this situation, and is always floating off the ground. The [[Toys/SuperThings toyline]] for the series would introduce her cousin Witchy Way, a flying broomstick witch on the side of the heroes. |
| 288 | [[/folder]] |
| 289 | |
| 290 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 291 | * ''WebVideo/EmpiresSMP'' Season 2: Witches use these for transportation.[[note]]In-game, this is portrayed with a retextured shield and invisible Elytra-wings.[[/note]] Shelby, the resident CuteWitch, makes a passing nod to people vacuuming instead of using brooms (at least for cleaning), and jokes about using a Swiffer as a modern-day equivalent to the classic flying broom. |
| 292 | * ''WebVideo/WitchCraftSMP'': A viable form of transport available to the Witches via the modpack of the series. |
| 293 | [[/folder]] |
| 294 | |
| 295 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 296 | * Melody the beach witch from ''Webcomic/BeachWZRD'' uses a flying broomstick as her standard mode of transportation, which earns her scorn and mockery from [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Wizard]] who finds it cliche. |
| 297 | * Winnie from ''Webcomic/FreeSpirit2014'' has a broom that can quickly fly people to anywhere in the world, and also turn them invisible while traveling. |
| 298 | * ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'': Bizarrely, a flying broomstick is not used by Witch but by Druid instead. [[https://www.handbookofheroes.com/archives/comic/travel-planning Unfortunately, it doesn't accommodate]] her ''Allosaurus'' animal companion. |
| 299 | * Opal the WitchDoctor from ''Webcomic/HarpyGee'' fly's around on a ''shovel''. Justified as she grew up on a farm and also uses it to dig up ingredients for her potions, also to [[ShovelStrike hit things]] once or twice. |
| 300 | * ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': Minor character Layla Brimstone does this with her ''rifle'' because she's a [[MageMarksman Gun Witch]]. |
| 301 | * [[NoNameGiven Broom Girl]] from ''Webcomic/NeverSatisfied'' uses her broomstick to get around nearly exclusively. |
| 302 | * In ''Webcomic/ZackJack'', this is the preferred mode of transportation of CuteWitch Alex. |
| 303 | [[/folder]] |
| 304 | |
| 305 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 306 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' the witches in the Neitherworld use broomsticks to fly around. Beetlejuice and Lydia too when they impersonate witches in order to save Lydia's cat from them. |
| 307 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', there is a cleaning woman-gone-witch named Winifred who flies around on a magic hoover. |
| 308 | * Witch Hazel from the WesternAnimation/{{Classic Disney Short|s}} "Trick or Treat", and subsequent appearances in Disney comics, has a broom named Beelzebub, which acts as both her servant and her mode of transport. |
| 309 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': |
| 310 | ** Witch Hazel uses a flying broom. ''WesternAnimation/BroomStickBunny'' has a gag where she mounts a broom and tries to fly on it, only for it to start sweeping the floor, then throw her off. |
| 311 | --->'''Witch Hazel:''' Crazy me. That was my sweeping broom. |
| 312 | ** In "Bewitched Bunny", Literature/HanselAndGretel -- having been warned off by WesternAnimation/BugsBunny -- jeer at Witch Hazel as they're departing her cottage: "Ach, your mother rides a vacuum cleaner!" |
| 313 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': The Warlock's sister has a flying broomstick. The Warlock steals it from her to embark on his scheme of revenge. |
| 314 | * Denizens of the Boiling Isles in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' use the staff forms of their [[{{Familiar}} Palismen]] for flight, which works in much the same way as the pop culture depiction of witches on brooms. Luz once found a storeroom full of brooms in Eda's house, and was disappointed that they were nothing but cleaning equipment. |
| 315 | * Witches in ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' are seen flying in broomsticks in episodes "If I Were a Witch Man" and "Kitty-Cornered". |
| 316 | * ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaAndTheGroovieGoolies'': Sabrina's ride had a big cushioned eggshell-like seat with a flower on top. (Aunt Zelda flew a vacuum cleaner.) |
| 317 | * Bristle in ''The Scarecrow'' is a flying broom who just so happens to belong to Miss Bee Bee. At the end of the film, Miss Bee Bee creates a female broom so that he can have a dance partner. |
| 318 | * ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'': |
| 319 | ** BigBad Revolta in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'' rides one. |
| 320 | ** And Scooby and Shaggy use one for transportation in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGoblinKing''. |
| 321 | * From ''WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower'', Madam Razz has a flying, talking broomstick with anthropomorphic face and arms named... Broom. |
| 322 | * Most if not all witches in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'' used flying broomsticks. Most notably was Brenda, the good little witch. |
| 323 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E28ChangeYourMind Change Your Mind]]", [[spoiler:Rainbow Quartz 2.0 (the {{fusion|Dance}} of Steven and Pearl]], has an [[ParasolOfPain umbrella]] for a Gem weapon, which they can fly on ([[spoiler:leaving a rainbow-coloured trail]]), and they do so to [[spoiler:rescue the falling gemstones of Ruby and Sapphire]]. |
| 324 | * Played with in the ''Franchise/TomAndJerry'' one-reeler The Flying Sorceress. While cleaning up a mess he made, Tom finds am 'Help Wanted' ad in the paper. He follows up on the ad, to find the ad was placed by a witch. When he takes her broom for a joyride, the witch punishes him by enchanting the broom to shake him through - which causes Tom to wake up clinging to his home broom and realize it was AllJustADream. He then seats himself on the (mundane) broom he's using to clean, kicks it like a motorbike... and the broom comes to life and flies away with him. |
| 325 | * Creator/HannaBarbera's ''WesternAnimation/WinsomeWitch''. Crosses over with SkySurfing as Winnie stands on her broom. |
| 326 | * {{Lampshade|Hanging}} in the 4Kids dub of ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' when Tecna says, "Real witches don't ride brooms, Zing. You've been watching too many of Bloom's Earth [=DVDs=]." |
| 327 | * ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' extends the parody depicted in ''Hocus Pocus'' by having one of the Sandersons fly around on a Roomba like a hoverboard. It goes awry when the charge goes low and it tries to return to a docking station. |
| 328 | ** An early-season sketch also touches on one of the drawbacks of trying to fly on a broom as Harry Potter groans in pain on the ground after [[GroinAttack a certain mishap]]. |
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