History Main / FloatingInABubble

* ''Animaniacs'': In one of their Tower Escape gags, the Warners use a bucket of water combined with a liquid known as ACME HumOngo Bubble. Yakko then has a giant wand to create a massive bubble the size of the tower which he, Wakko and Dot enter into before floating away.

* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'':
** Happens to Bogus in the third act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E3ADayAtTheOffice A Day At The Office]]", after drinking a bottle of apple juice when he [[IAteWhat accidentally eats some laundry detergent]]. This causes him to hiccup a bubble as he becomes trapped inside.
** Happens to Bogus again in the first act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus Bad Luck Bogus]]", after landing in the bathtub, but only his head is in the bubble, though he does still float up to the ceiling.

* ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs'': In one of their "Tower Escape" gags, the Warners use a bucket of water combined with a liquid known as "ACME HumOngo Bubble". Yakko then has a giant wand to create a massive bubble the size of the tower which he, Wakko and Dot enter into before floating away.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'': The 1977 Marvel Comics' comic-book had a case of this in Issue 9's "The Amazing Rubble Bubble", where Barney creates a new formula by mixing every soap in the world called "Rubble Bubble". Which a con man takes advantage of

* ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful'' has her using the same effect to save Oscar and China Girl as well as herself. [[spoiler: And then she flies without a bubble, admitting that bubbles are just for show.]]
* One of the tricks the Four Horsemen did at their New Orleans show in ''Film/NowYouSeeMe'' had Henley floating in a bubble above the audience. The bubble popped when it touched one of the chandeliers, causing her to fall and be caught by Daniel.

* Bubbles the Dog gets transported into ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' this way. (AWizardDidIt, sort of; Piers Anthony decided to immortalize one of his beloved pets into his book series.)
* Appears in Patrick O'Leary's ''The Gift''.
* Used in [[Literature/LandOfOz one of the Oz books]] (with an explicit hefty dose of magic) to send a whole bunch of guests home from the Emerald City.

* In ''Theatre/TheGoldenTicket'', an opera adaptation of ''Literature/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory'', the Television Room uses specially-created bubbles to teleport items to a television screen. (Wonka calls it "Bubblevision".) The easily-distracted Mike Teavee, upon seeing this process, decides he wants to be miniaturized and live in one of these bubbles...

* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'': Bubbles can contain a floating Galoomba, Bob-omb or mushroom, and tend to pop without being touched.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioLand2SixGoldenCoins'': In the Hippo level, Mario has to enter a bubble and hover across it to reach the upper exit and travel [[JourneyToTheSky all the way up]] to the skies to access Space Zone. This level has to be replayed every time Mario wants to return to that world.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld2YoshisIsland'' has Baby Mario (and any baby character in ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS'') enter a bubble and float up when he's knocked off Yoshi's back. Take too long to retrieve him and he gets kidnapped by Toadies. Some transformation powerups are also kept in bubbles.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'': This is one the major mechanics seen in the {{Gimmick Level}}s. Mario encases himself into a bubble and then the player uses the pointer of the Wiimote (or Joy-Con in the ''3D All-Stars'' version) to blow the bubble and guide it through a perilous obstacle course. Any obstacle can burst it upon contact, leading Mario to a guaranteed death.
** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'': This is employed in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' as a means of avoiding death and/or re-entering the level in multiplayer. [[YetAnotherStupidDeath Just don't have everyone]] [[ItSeemedLikeAGoodIdeaAtTheTime go into a bubble at once]]. This also applies to ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'', as they too are compatible with up to four players.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The minigame Bubble Brawl has all four players fight against each other inside a large bubble suspended in the middle of a watery plaza. The objective for each player is to punch the others to take them out of the bubble, disqualifying them. The last player remaining is the victor, but more than one can win if they survive for 60 seconds.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty9'' has a minigame called Bumper Bubbles where players float through the sky in a bubble with the goal of collecting more balloons than their opponents while avoiding spiked balls. Contact with one of these spiked balls will pop a player's bubble, scattering their balloons and sending them plummeting offscreen, after which they return with a new bubble and start from scratch.
** ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'' has the minigame Bubble Squabble, where one player must trap all of their opponents in bubbles and send them floating away. Any players that get trapped in a bubble can be freed if one of their teammates pops it before it floats off the screen.
** ''VideoGame/YoshisStory'' features prizes stuck in super-rubbery bubbles that projectiles can break. (You can actually break the bubbles using only Yoshi's body if you bump into them or jump on them enough times. It takes a while, but can be done.)
** ''VideoGame/WarioLand'': This can happen to Wario in the series. ''VideoGame/WarioLandII'' also has a boss named Awabo who is a living bubble trying to float Wario out of the arena.
* ''VideoGame/WarioWareTwisted'': During Crygor's story chapter, he activates the Gravitator to test it and begins to dance in celebration. But the machine then unleashes several bubbles which trap him and several objects found in his laboratory (and the effect of reduced gravity is kicking in as well). The player has to tilt the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance to make the bubbles pop.

* The Creator/{{Infocom}} adventure ''VideoGame/{{Trinity}}'' had this.
* Mew in ''VideoGame/PokemonSnap'' and in the ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series.
* The Latheon Gorge segment of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' is navigated by use of wind-blowing flowers and a magic ring that (among other things) encases the characters in a bubble.
* In ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' the only way to get in and out of Cloud Cuckooland is via bubble lift.
* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', Draco Cantus will often send a Neku-seeking bubble during it's boss fight, and unless [[PlayerCharacter Neku]] doesn't pop it in time, it'll get popped by the boss, taking what [[LowLevelRun can be a]] [[SelfImposedChallenge nasty amount of health off]]. Interestingly, [[spoiler:before the fight, Shiki and Beat are captured this way by a fused Kitaniji/Joshua]].

* ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has [[SquishyWizard Patchy's]] spell card, Water Sign "Jellyfish Princess", which creates a protective bubble for Patchy to float around in. When it's used by the actual player, the bubble doesn't cause her to float, acting as more of a general barrier for defense.

* In ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance'', any Dream Eaters that can't swim (which is almost all of them) end up in a bubble while playing the Water Barrel minigame. It's also weaponized by the Bubble Burst reality shift, where Sora or Riku can ride on top a bubble and entrap multiple enemies within before popping it with explosive force, and again by the Tatsu Steed's Bubble Blast link attack which traps foes in an exploding bubble if they get hit enough times.
* ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'': Krang's saucer, the boss of the "Star Base" level, uses these as attacks. "Anyone got a pin?"
* ''VideoGame/DynamiteDux'': This is how [[DamselInDistress Lucy]] is captured at the beginning of the game, though the bubble is referred to as a "miracle ball".

* One level of ''VideoGame/TheSmurfs1994'' has your Smurf floating in a bubble to navigate through a maze of thorny vines.
* Certain levels of ''VideoGame/TheSmurfs2'' has your Smurf floating in a bubble to reach difficult places in the level.
* In ''VideoGame/LollipopChainsaw'', Mariska can travel inside a bubble and trap Juliet inside one.
* In ''VideoGame/SidAndAlsIncredibleToons'', Sid will float off in a bubble if given a stick of bubblegum.
* In ''Literature/TheBerenstainBears Camping Adventure'' for UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis and UsefulNotes/GameGear, if Brother or Sister fall into a pit, they will float back to the platform they were last on in a bubble, until they have run out of lives.
* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'' has Murky's Safety Bubble ability, which makes him temporarily invincible.
* The Zoogs in ''VideoGame/IgglePop'' have trapped the cute Iggles in bubbles. Some can shoot bubbles to trap the playable character into one, too, costing them a life.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Octogeddon}}'', the titular octopus acquires several useful aquatic animal buddies to aid it on its rampage. During the land levels, they appear floating around in water-filled bubbles, so they can be used during all the levels, underwater or not.
* These are the only way to climb Rumble Falls in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongJungleBeat''. What kind of bubble can levitate a full-grown gorilla is best left to the imagination.
* In ''VideoGame/MOAstray'', the titular character, MO can hitch a ride in bubbles emerging from purple {{Acid Pool}}s.
* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger:'' Some of Frog's double techs involve enclosing a teammate inside a giant floating water bubble and dropping them on an enemy.
* ''VideoGame/Rockman7EP'': Mega Man floats in a bubble in certain sections of Spring Man's stage. They control identically to the zero-gravity screens in the third Wily stage in Mega Man 9, with both using weapon recoil to determine how fast you move horizontally.
* ''VideoGame/{{Abadox}}'': When the final boss is defeated, Princess Maria, whom it swallowed earlier, emerges from it in a bubble. The hero must then carry the bubble to safety before the level explodes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'':
** This is the premise of the episode "Bubble Trouble", where Pooh got trapped inside a huge bubble blown by Tigger who uses a concoction of ingredients. Throughout the rest of the episode, Pooh ends up bouncing all over the Hundred Acre Wood until he is freed by Gopher.
** In the episode "Find Her, Keep Her", Kessie, the little bird Rabbit is taking care of, floats away in a soap bubble while Pooh and Piglet bathe her.

* Used to a ridiculous extent in ''The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars.'' The baby is in a bubble on Mars for ''hours,'' and neither runs out of oxygen, needs a diaper change, nor milk.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Happens regularly:
** The butterfly "monster", "Wormy", Squidward at the end of "Squidward the Unfriendly Ghost", Squidward's whole ''house'' in "Bubble Stand", and Spongebob himself in "Fungus Among Us".
** Everyone in Bikini Bottom in "Rodeo Daze."
** One entire episode is dedicated to driving in bubbles, when [=SpongeBob=] fails his driving test again.
* Bubbles are a common mode of transport in ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone''.
* ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'':
** In "The Golden Pyramid Problem", while being a wizard, Ramone travels in a giant bubble.
** In "The Sparkling Sphere Problem", Ramone spends the bulk of the episode floating around in a sparkling, translucent bubble. Justified because it's not an ordinary soap bubble, but rather a magic one. At the end of the episode, Peg, Cat, the dragon, the mermaid, and the fish also float in identical bubbles.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''
** In "Bubble Boys", the boys make a bubble that could be ridden in.
** In "The Wizard of Odd", we see Isabella use this before and after the pointless song and dance number.
** In "Agent Doof", Doof, Perry and Dr. Diminutive get caught in one of these bubbles thanks to Diminutive's Photon 2000 particle bubble-"erator"
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs1981'': In "Bubble, Bubble, Smurfs In Trouble", Scaredy Smurf borrows a wand from a water sprite that can create bubbles even around himself as protection. Unfortunately, he ended up dropping the wand and Gargamel used it to trap Scaredy (and Big Mouth later on) in a bubble until the other Smurfs got the wand out of Gargamel's hands and trapped him and his cat inside a bubble.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "Rabbit Every Monday", Bugs plugs the barrels of Sam's shotgun with bubble gum -- when Sam fires, he ends up trapped inside a giant bubble, which Bugs sends bouncing off with a small puff of breath.
* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'':
** Happens to Bogus in the third act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E3ADayAtTheOffice A Day At The Office]]", after drinking a bottle of apple juice when he [[IAteWhat accidentally eats some laundry detergent]]. This causes him to hiccup a bubble as he becomes trapped inside.
** Happens to Bogus again in the first act of the episode "[[Recap/MrBogusS2E5BadLuckBogus Bad Luck Bogus]]", after landing in the bathtub, but only his head is in the bubble, though he does still float up to the ceiling.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': This is a major form of space travel. Conveniently, "orbble juice" bubbles seem to generate their own air.

* In the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} cartoon ''How To Swim'', Goof ends up inside a bubble when the changing booth he's in falls in the ocean. He pops it when he lays down his umbrella and it starts filling up with water as he sits down to eat, oblivious the whole while.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' episode, "Up, Up, and Away", Ord accidentally gets trapped inside a giant bubble when he and Max are playing around with creating big bubbles from a spring. The bubble mix they used was so strong that trying to pop Ord's bubble with a claw or a barrette doesn't work, and they have to cart his bubble (and him) to a cold region where it freezes over and they then shatter it to finally let him out.
* In ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'''s episode "Song of Celice", He-Man uses a bubble stick to trap Skeletor in a bubble. [[StatusQuoIsGod He does get out though.]]
-->'''Skeletor:''' A 0g Bubble!
-->'''He-Man:''' I always said you were light weight, Skeletor!
* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'':
** In the episode "He Followed Me Home", Cadpig ends up on a floating bubble while trying to give a bubble bath to the baby elephant they've been trying to keep as a pet.
** In the episode "Mall Pups", Cadpig, Rolly, and Lucky all end up in bubbles when they get caught in a bubble machine while running from Pug in a toy store in the mall.
* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'': [[MonsterOfTheWeek One-shot villain]] The Bubbler is able to inflict an involuntary version on his targets. At first, he decides to simply [[ThereAreNoAdults spirit away all the adults in Paris]] so he can [[AntiVillain throw his friend Adrien a birthday party]], but he quickly advances to targeting the other party guests (his friends when he's not BrainwashedAndCrazy) for [[HappinessIsMandatory not having enough fun]], and then Ladybug and Chat Noir when they try to stop him.
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': In "Prime Evil's Good Deed", Jake Kong Jr., Eddie Spenser Jr., Tracy the Gorilla and Big Evil get caught in bubbles with The Bubble Blaster.
* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'': Janitor Poopatine gets trapped in a soap bubble in "The Janitor's Apprentice" when Fanboy and Chum Chum fill hand dryers with soap.

* In Episode 6 of ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki'', Roberto first appears this way. Later on in the same episode, Ai is trapped as well.

* In 1977 The Flintstones Comic by Marvel Comics had a case of this in Issue 9's "The Amazing Rubble Bubble", where Barney creates a new formula by mixing every soap in the world called "Rubble Bubble". Which a con man takes advantage of

* The ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' series introduces this as a status effect of sorts in the sixth game, where it paralyzes the victim, and causes them to take doubled damage from electrical attacks. It also had the Bubble Wrap chip which provided a regenerating bubble shield that could absorb a single hit of damage whenever it was up, but wouldn't regenerate if struck with electricity.

* Krang's saucer, the boss of the "Star Base" level of ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesTurtlesInTime'', uses these as attacks. "Anyone got a pin?"
* Burst Man from ''VideoGame/MegaMan7'' does this to enter the battle. His Danger Wrap makes Mega Man experience this... and float into a ceiling of instant-death SpikesOfDoom.
* This is how [[DamselInDistress Lucy]] is captured at the beginning of ''VideoGame/DynamiteDux'', though the bubble is referred to as a "miracle ball".

** In "Pluto's Bubble Bath", Mickey and Pluto get trapped inside bubbles and helplessly float away. With the gang needs to find a way to stop them. The episode ends with the Sensational Six, alongside Clarabelle and Bella, floating in bubble.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', Ord accidentally gets trapped inside a giant bubble when he and Max are playing around with creating big bubbles from a spring. The bubble mix they used was so strong that trying to pop Ord's bubble with a claw or a barrette doesn't work, and they have to cart his bubble (and him) to a cold region where it freezes over and they then shatter it to finally let him out.

** In the episode "He Followed Me Home", Cadpig ends up in a floating bubble while trying to give a bubble bath to the baby elephant they've been trying to keep as a pet.

* One of Mr. Randall Fargus' inventions in ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'' is Super Bubble Mixture, something that can create huge bubbles people can get stuck in and float in. He and Peter used it at the end of "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Running_Mates Running Mates]]" and the two are seen using it in the opeing of "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Fast_Times_at_Buddy_Cianci_Jr._High Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr. High]]". And in the future scene in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Stu_%26_Stewie%27s_Excellent_Adventure Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure]]", the elderly Fargus and Peter perform the bubble mixture at the retirement home and end up impressing the seniors so amused with it, by the time Lois is done talking with Stu and past Stewie, the elders are all in bubbles having fun.

** This is the premise of the episode "Bubble Trouble", where Pooh got trapped inside a bubble. He didn't float around inside it, though.

* In the "Animation/VirTheRobotBoy" episode "Bubble Man", Mad Max makes a bubble in which Timbuktu can enter and control the bubble. Timbuktu gives directions with the help of sensor gun so that the bubbles can capture people. Special mentions go to VIR, Dr. Prem Sahay and Mad Max

** ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'': This is employed in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' and ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosU'' as a means of avoiding death and/or re-entering the level in multiplayer. Just don't have everyone go into a bubble at once. This also applies to ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DWorld'' and ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'', as they too are compatible with up to four players.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'':

* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog:''

See also SphereFactor.