History Main / LivingGasbag

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has the Netch, giant flying jellyfish that provide the page picture. They reappear in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVOblivion -- Dragonborn'', having drifted from Vvardenfell to Solstheim after Red Mountain blew its top.

--> -- '''a netch hunter''', ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim -- Dragonborn''

* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', the Zerg Overlords are helium-filled gasbags that move with psychic power. They can carry other Zerg, and their psychic ability is required for controlling a swarm. ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'' adds Overseers, an evolution of Overlords, and Corrupters, who also seem to work on the gasbag principle.

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has the Netch, giant flying jellyfish that provide the page picture.

** Koffing are spherical floating bags filled with toxic gases, with pores all over them for releasing those gases. It's evolved form, Weezing, is two Koffing fused together.

* In ''TheRedTapeWar'', one of the three beings named Millard Fillmore Pierce is a sapient floating gasbag who is checking out our universe with an eye towards invasion.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #52 "Dragon's Bestiary". The Pelin is a large aerial creature that extracts hydrogen and helium and uses it to float, much like a zeppelin.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', the Zerg Overlords are helium-filled gasbags that move with psychic power. They can carry other Zerg, and their psychic ability is required for controlling a swarm.
** ''StarCraftII'' adds Overseers, an evolution of Overlords, and Corrupters, who also seem to work on the gasbag principle.

* ''TitanAE'' has a plant version, filled with hydrogen.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', the Zerg overlords are helium-filled gasbags that move with psychic power. They can carry other Zerg, and their psychic ability is required for controlling a swarm.

* GregoryBenford's ''The Sunborn'' has strange alien gasbags discovered on Pluto, which show signs of intelligence.

Often overlaps with StarfishAlien or FlyingSeafoodSpecial. Self-propelled forms employ BizarreAlienLocomotion. May count as a GiantFlyer. May double as a LivingShip, in which case it's probably also a CoolAirship or even an AirborneAircraftCarrier. Compare SpaceWhale. May provide {{Balloonacy}}.

Often overlaps with StarfishAlien or FlyingSeafoodSpecial. May count as a GiantFlyer. May double as a LivingShip, in which case it's probably also a CoolAirship or even an AirborneAircraftCarrier. Compare SpaceWhale. May provide {{Balloonacy}}.

* ''Expedition'' by Wayne Barlowe, and the SpeculativeDocumentary based on it, ''Alien Planet'', feature the many alien species which float above the ground in Darwin IV. One example is the almost-sapient Eosapien.

* {{Mortasheen}} has the [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/miasmadusa.htm Miasmadusa]], which is something like a gas-filled Man 'O War and can rain down deadly toxins on their opponents.

Often overlaps with StarfishAlien or FlyingSeafoodSpecial. May count as a GiantFlyer. May double as a LivingShip, in which case it's probably also a CoolAirship. Compare SpaceWhale. May provide {{Balloonacy}}.

* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Drifloon and Drifblim are living floating balloons, and despite having a largely nonthreatening appearance, the former are known to abduct children. Drifblim is mostly peaceful, however. The Jigglypuff line is a subversion; though gasbags, they don't fly.

* In the ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' series, the Bahtwin were uplifted from a lighter-than-air gasbag species that floated in their homeworld's atmosphere.

* DavidBrin's ''Glory Season'' has the zoor, flying jellyfish-like creatures which range from twenty meters up. Sailors like to tie ribbons and messages to their tentacles, and the larger ones can lift a child.

* In the second episode of ''[[Manga/2001Nights TO]]'', "Symbiotic Planet", one of the colonists has been studying some floating spheres, and feels he may have made friends with some. This is later proven to be true when a group of them sacrifice themselves to protect his colony from incoming missiles.

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* In the second episode of ''Anime/{{To}}'', "Symbiotic Planet", one of the colonists has been studying some floating spheres, and feels he may have made friends with some. This is later proven to be true when a group of them sacrifice themselves to protect his colony from incoming missiles.

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* In the ''Franchise/StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Beldon Beldons]] native to Bespin floated in the gas giant's upper atmosphere and produced Tibanna gas.
* RobertHeinlein's ''Literature/StarmanJones''. The floating gasbag aliens (which the humans call "hobgoblin balloons") are used by the [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur aliens]] as spies. They are capable of moving on their own, not just drifting on the wind.

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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Dragon magazine #52 "Dragon's Bestiary". The Pelin is a large aerial creature that extracts hydrogen and helium and uses it to float, much like a zeppelin.

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* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' has the Netch, giant flying jellyfish.

* ''VideoGame/{{Gears of War}}'' 3 introduces the Locust Gas Barge as a means of transportation after the flooding of the Hollow.
* ''{{Meteos}}'' has a few: The puffy inhabitants of Yooj, the sentient colorful gas clouds of Brabbit, the umbrella-like fellows from Megadom, and the creatures of Bavoom that drift endlessly in the planet's fierce winds. All of these civilizations live in either nebulae or gas giants and must float by necessity.

* The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Drifloon and Drifblim are living floating balloons, and despite having a largely nonthreatening appearance, the former are known to abduct children. Drifblim is mostly peaceful, however.
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Often overlaps with StarfishAlien or FlyingSeafoodSpecial. May count as a GiantFlyer. May double as a LivingShip, in which case it's probably also a CoolAirship. Compare SpaceWhale.