History Main / AirborneMook

** Pictured above as the trope image is the Paragoomba. Yellow ones fly high overhead to avoid Mario's attacks, while dropping Micro-Goombas that stick onto Mario and weigh him down. [[GoddamnedBats Definitely an annoyance whenver they appear]].

** Pictured above as the trope image is the Paragoomba. There are some that fly high overhead to drop Goombettes that stick onto Mario and weigh him down. [[GoddamnedBats Definitely an annoyance whenver they appear]].

** Pictured above as the trope image is the Paragoomba. There are some that fly high overhead and drop Goombettes that stick to Mario and weigh him down. [[GoddamnedBats Definitely an annoyance whenver they appear]].

* The ''{{Sonic the Hedgehog}}'' series has quite a few, like the [[Game/SonictheHedgehog Buzz]] [[SonicTheHedgehog2006 Bom]][[SonicColors bers]] and [[SonicTheHedgehog2 Buz]][[SonicTheHedgehog4 zers.]] They [[TooDumbToLive tended to fly within Sonic's attack range]], though, and most were rather easily dispatched.

* The ''MarioAndLuigi'' series has them. Hammers and other low-hitting moves will not be able to hit these kinds of enemies, use your GoombaStomp instead. Bowser from ''BowsersInsideStory'' has it pretty rough against the (very few) airborne enemies he fights- he is unable to attack them via any of his normal attacks.

* ''CommanderKeen 4'' has the Skypest. Can't shoot them, can only crush them with your pogo stick when they land.

Because of this, they can be considered GoddamnedBats or in worse cases, DemonicSpiders, especially in games where your character has DenialOfDiagonalAttack. Can be a type of KungFuProofMook, if they're especially hard to hit normally.

* ''{{Bug}}!'' had at least one in each level, and they were usually very annoying to defeat.

* The Balloon Zombie in ''PlantsVsZombies''.
* ''[[http://www.kongregate.com/games/HeroInteractive/bubble-tanks-tower-defense Bubble Tanks: Tower Defense]]'' has an odd variation -- in this game, the flying enemies are called "[[IntangibleMan Ghost]]" enemies. They pretty much act in the same way you'd expect a flying mook to in a TowerDefense game -- by [[DungeonBypass bypassing your towers]].

* 1. Try to knock the player via CollisionDamage or by diving into them.
* 2. Stay out of the player's reach and shoot them or drop bombs (or Mooks) from above. Can also make them GoddamnedBats and/or DemonicSpiders.

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* ''TheElderScrolls III: Morrowind'' introduced the [[GoddamnBat Cliff Racer]], a flying enemy with a [[HitboxDissonance dysfunctional hitbox]] so reviled both in-game and in the series' {{fandom}} that it was driven out of Morrowind offscreen by a character who was granted in-game fame by virtue of their AscendedFandom.

* Cacodemons, Lost Souls, and Pain Elementals in ''Doom''.

* The ''{{Sonic the Hedgehog}}'' series has quite a few, like the [[Game/SonictheHedgehog Buzz]] [[SonicTheHedgehog2006 Bombers]] and [[SonicTheHedgehog2 Buz]][[SonicTheHedgehog4 zers.]] They [[TooDumbToLive tended to fly within Sonic's attack range]], though, and most were rather easily dispatched.

* [[GoddamnedBats Floating Medusa Heads]] from ''{{Castlevania}}''
* Neckies in DonkeyKongCountry, Flitters in DonkeyKongCountry 2 and Knik-Knaks in DonkeyKongCountry 3