History Main / MobileFishbowl

* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}:
** Aquaman in his earlier years had a time limit on how long he could remain on dry land and had a special suit filled with water for missions on land. It ends up saving the life of [[spoiler:ComicBook/MartianManhunter]] in ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaTowerOfBabel''.
** In the Sub Diego arc a coastal portion of San Diego is struck by a massive earthquake and sinks into the sea, with a portion of the affected surviving via a mutation derived from Aquaman's DNA that changes them to waterbreathers at the cost of their ability to breathe on dry land. A city council member from the affected area, now called Sub Diego, uses a mobile suit with a water filled helmet in order to attend a briefing in hopes of separating from the land bound part of San Diego and become their own municipality.
* Prince Namor the ComicBook/SubMariner can breathe on dry land, but he's a mutant. The other denizens of Atlanta have to wear water bowls when they're above the surface.
* A group of Atlantis characters popped up in ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'' from time to time, with aquatic "breathing" gear to use to go on land for an invasion. This was a RunningGag in which the gear always malfunctioned in someway, killing all of them.
* Longstanding ComicBook/GreenLantern [=NautKeLoi=] is an extraterrestrial with an amphibian and fish-like anatomy who wears a sphere full of water on his head in order to breathe while he's off his home planet.
* In a ''ComicBook/{{Mickey Mouse|ComicUniverse}}'' story, a group of FishPeople use fishbowl helmets filled with water in order to survive on dry land.

* Jeffrey the fish from ''WesternAnimation/TheDeep'' has two. The first created by [[GadgeteerGenius Antaeus Nekton]] was a backpack that allowed Jeffrey to be with Antaeus on land and in some rooms. The second was a dedicated MiniMecha for the fish based on the teams' rover capable of amphibious mobility despite looking like a fishbowl on a skateboard.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Ambergris Element". At the end of the episode two Aquans (aliens who can only breathe water) are shown on the bridge of the Enterprise wearing water-filled helmets on their heads.

* Fishface from the 2012 ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|2012}}'' cartoon has both water mounted on his gills, as well as artificial legs.

The inverse of an ArtificialGill, which allows terrestrial organisms to breathe underwater. Compare ArtificialLimbs. Contrast FishbowlHelmet, which is for air-breathing creatures using a fishbowl-like device to breathe, and BathtubMermaid, where aquatic creatures are placed in a stationary container.