alt title(s): Rocket Boots
Cat: Let's get into the jet-powered rocket pants and Junior Birdman the hell out of here!
Kryten: A brilliant and inventive suggestion, sir, with just two tiny drawbacks. A) We don't have any jet-powered rocket pants, and B) there's no such thing as jet-powered rocket pants outside the fictional serial "Robbie Rocketpants".
Cat: Well, that's put a crimp on an otherwise damn fine plan!
A standard piece of equipment for anyone from
The Future. A backpack that lets the wearer fly by shooting jets of fire (or concentric rings of
Pure Energy) out of the back, parallel to the wearer's legs. Strangely enough, nobody ever suffers
Toasted Buns as a result. Nor do their ever run out of fuel, or even consume any fuel of any sort in the first place.
Also covered here are
Rocket Boots.
Due to its ubiquitous appearances alongside the
Flying Car as a predicted technological advance, it's one of the reasons why people declare
I Want My Jet Pack.
A sub-trope of
Flight and
Awesome Backpack .
Examples
Comic Books
Film
Live Action TV
TabletopGames
- War Hammer 40,000 is full fo these. Assault Marines, Crisis Suits, Raptors, and Storm Boys have some form of jet pack. Most jump infantry without wings are examples of this trope.
- Seraphim Squad. Jetpacks that look like wings. Awesomesauce.
Video Games
- Metroid
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I Am Not Making This Up.
- You eventually get one of these in Cave Story.
- You get a Jet Pack and a rocket pack in City Of Heroes as a reward item for finishing a mission.
- Peyj from Beyond Good And Evil also has Jet Boots, although they don't propel him very high.
- In the Dragonball Z games, Hercule has a jetpack to fly...but from the Tenkaichi series onwards, they only get him in the air for several seconds.
- Also, Mario's Rocket Nozzle in Super Mario Sunshine. It substitutes plumes of fire for a blast of boiling water.
- And Mega Man's Jet and Super Adapters, and Bass' Treble Boost.
- Duke Nukem.
- In Elite Beat Agents, the "Makes No Difference" stage has the agents entering the scene via jet packs.
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. Has finite fuel, so you must learn to manage it.
- Jetpack (obviously)
- In the Pilotwings series the "Rocket Belt" is one of the vehicles that can be piloted.
Western Animation
Truth In Television
- Many people spend lots of time/money (attempting a successful run at) making these. A fair number had military funding some decades ago.
- The Other Wiki has this
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