History Main / JumpJetPack

A device that helps propel its user forward, backward, etc. quickly. Unlike a JetPack, it doesn't grant flight, but it can help jumping InASingleBound, DoubleJump, [[HoverSkates hovering in the air temporarily]], slowing descent, or being used in a DashAttack or VideoGameDashing. Sometimes a JetPack designed for use in [[NoGravityForYou low gravity]] can be used as a JumpJetPack while on earth, or vice versa.

* The Mobile Infantry have {{Jump Jet Pack}}s that finally get used to their full potential in ''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersTraitorOfMars'' for combat drops, quick getaways, and mid-air boarding.

* ''VideoGame/HalfLife'': The HEV Suit has a long jump module that's effectively a big rocket attached to Gordon's back for crossing gaps his normal jump had no hope of reaching. Not used very much in the game and abandoned in the sequel.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has Jump Packs, which SpaceMarines of every sort can use, which [[InASingleBound propel them airborne with a thrust]] and can also slow down an otherwise very harsh landing if they get dropped from sub-orbit. Jet pack infantry (primarily Tau battlesuits, but there are a few similar units in other armies) don't move any faster than regular infantry (though they can still jump over obstacles), but may instead use their jetpacks to maneuver in the assault phase, so they may for example jump up from behind terrain, fire their weapons and then jump back out of enemy line of sight. The Tempestus Scions or Storm Troopers and Drop Troops such as the Elysian Drop Troops have Grav-chutes which are used to slow rapid descents when they Deep Strike.

* ''Film/Interstellar''. Small rockets are worn as gauntlets on the spacesuits, and are used to move in bounds down a steep icy slope [[spoiler:and then as an ImprovisedWeapon when one astronaut gets into hand-to-hand combat with the other.]]

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* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' finally included one of these in the Jungle Inferno update, as a secondary weapon for the Pyro. It's more of a utility than a serious weapon, but man is it awesome to use.

* The player characters of the old Spanish game ''[[http://www.mobygames.com/game/sol-negro Sol Negro]]'' ("Black Sun") used these things, including a cool-down time if they were used for too long time.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has Jump Packs, which SpaceMarines of every sort can use, which [[InASingleBound propel them airborne with a thrust]] and can also slow down an otherwise very harsh landing if they get dropped from sub-orbit. Jet pack infantry (primarily Tau battlesuits, but there are a few similar units in other armies) don't move any faster than regular infantry (though they can still jump over obstacles), but may instead use their jetpacks to maneuver in the assault phase, so they may for example jump up from behind terrain, fire their weapons and then jump back out of enemy line of sight.

* The CommandAndConquerRedAlert3 DLC Uprising has [[http://cnc.wikia.com/wiki/Cryo_Legionnaire Cyro Legionnaires whose]] jump packs can get them over obstructions or shatter frozen units by landing on them.

* ''VideoGame/Destiny:'' While the Cabal's sole tactic in battlefield is "slow advance", their foot soldiers use jump packs to reposition themselves or advance on an enemy faster.

A device that helps propel its user forward, backward, etc. quickly. Unlike a JetPack, it doesn't grant flight, but it can help jumping InASingleBound, DoubleJump, [[HoverSkates hovering in the air temporarily]], slowing descent, or being used in a DashAttack or VideoGameDashing.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'': A mainstay on almost all Ground Base Mobile Suits, aside from [[HoverMecha a few exceptions]]

A device that helps propel its user forward, backward, etc. quickly. Unlike a JetPack, it doesn't grant flight, but it can help jumping InASingleBound, DoubleJump, [[HoverBoots hovering in the air temporarily]], slowing descent, or being used in a DashAttack or VideoGameDashing.

A device that helps propel its user forward, backward, etc. quickly. Unlike a JetPack, it doesn't grant flight, but it can help jumping InASingleBound, DoubleJump, hovering in the air temporarily, slowing descent, or being used in a DashAttack or VideoGameDashing.

* During the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, big balloons worn on backpack-like straps were available as stunt devices, allowing very high jumps but not negating the entire weight of the wearer. Since then, jetpacks replaced them as stunt devices; neither them nor those were ever really practical.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has Jump Packs, which SpaceMarines of every sort can use, which [[InASingleBound propel them airborne with a thrust]] and can also slow down an otherwise very harsh landing if they get dropped from sub-orbit. Jet pack infantry (primarily Tau battlesuits, but there are a few similar units in other armies) don't move any faster than regular infantry (though they can still jump over obstacles), but may instead use their jetpacks to manouver in the assualt phase, so they may for example jump up from behind terrain, fire their weapons and then jump back out of enemy line of sight.

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