History Main / FlyingBroomstick

* 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.

* 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. She also has a TomboyAndGirlyGirl dynamic with Alice Margatroid, so on the occasion that Alice rides on the broom as well, naturally Marisa sits forward while Alice sits sideways. 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.

* Played with in the ''WesternAnimation/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.

* West is curiously enough the only witch from ''Manhwa/WitchHunter'' to use a broom.

* 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.

** The character Witch Hazel uses a flying broom. One cartoon featuring her has a gag about Hazel taking her ''sweeping'' broom by mistake.

** ''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.

* ''VideoGame/{{Atelier}}'':

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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 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.

* ''LetsPlay/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.

* ''LetsPlay/WitchCraftSMP'': A viable form of transport available to the Witches via the modpack of the series.

** ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'' doesn't have flying brooms, but Professor E. Gadd shows up at one point riding a Poltergust 5000 (upgrade from the original Poltergust 3000 from ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'') to serve as transportation.