History Main / RideTheRainbow

* ''[[Animation/FlowerFairy Flower Fairy the Movie: Miracle Girl]]'' opens with Xia An'an and Kukuru flying in the sky, then sliding on a long, curvy rainbow that forms as they fly around.

SubTrope of EverythingsBetterWithRainbows. Compare with FlyingOnACloud, RideTheLightning and StairwayToHeaven. See also AllYourColorsCombined, RainbowLite and RainbowMotif.

* In''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' Mario was driving a kart in the rainbow, along with the characters behind him and later seen fighting the enemies on it.

* Trailers for ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'' show a kart chase scene on a rainbow based on the Rainbow Road track from the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' games.

--> '''Narrator''': "Then he dipped his brush into each color pail and sailed through the sky on a rainbow trail."

** ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'': By channeling Stormbreaker's energy through a mechanical ship (repurposed from a carnival ride at New Asgard and drawn by two massive goats), the ship and all it's passengers are able to travel on the Biforst like a transdimensional roadway.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: The Bifrost is a form of dimensional energy harnessed through a crystalline, prismatic "rainbow bridge". Asgardians use this energy as a means of traveling across the universe.

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* Every game in the ''VideoGame/MarioKart'' series features Rainbow Road as its final track, in which the racers drive on a rainbow floating in space (or in one case, above a city).
** It is so iconic to the Mario series that it appeared in a number of other games, such as a stage in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' or a pathway to the final dungeon in the climax of ''VideoGame/PaperMarioColorSplash''.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In the episode "Life of Crime", Patrick needs money, so [=SpongeBob=] takes him to "The First National Bank of [=SpongeBob=]" by sliding down a rainbow to the pot of gold at the end (which, unfortunately, is empty.

* In ''Centaur Aisle'', one of the early ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' books, the party uses a spell to ride a rainbow for rapid travel from the southern tip of Xanth up to the northern Mundane border.
* In ''Literature/SweetStory'', it is revealed that rainbows are used by rainbow pirates as transportation, allowing them to plunder wherever the rainbows lead and leave along with it. [[spoiler:Considering Sally's wish made it impossible for it to ever rain water again, this link between worlds is severed forever.]]
* Several ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books have a minor character named Polychrome the Rainbow's Daughter, a sort-of sky fairy who comes down to Earth on a rainbow, and needs the rainbow to return for her in order to get back up to the sky.

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: The Bifrost is a dimensional energy harnessed through a crystalline, prismatic "rainbow bridge" that Asgardians use as a means of traveling across the universe.

** ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'': By channeling Stormbreaker's energy through a mechanical ship (repurposed from a carnival ride at New Asgard), the ship and all it's passengers are able to travel on the Biforst like a transdimensional roadway.

* The Wings of Tinabi from ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'' is a [[AncientArtifact Shen Gong Wu]] that sprouts wings, bestowing its user the power of flight, leaving behind a rainbow trail in the process.
* The [[WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite titular]] Rainbow Brite uses rainbow pathways to travel places, mainly between Earth and Rainbowland.
* Giant Realistic Flying Tiger from ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' leaves a rainbow-colored trail behind her, which is implied to be, um... [[{{Fartillery}} coming from her butt]].
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Life of Crime", Patrick needs money, so [=SpongeBob=] takes him to "The First National Bank of [=SpongeBob=]" by sliding down a rainbow to the pot of gold at the end (which, unfortunately, is empty).
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' - possibly as a deliberate ShoutOut to the Bifrost (as Creator/ButchHartman is known to be a big comic-book geek) - has a rainbow bridge as the "official" entrance to Fairy World. ''WesternAnimation/AbraCatastrophe'' lampshades its general superfluousness, when Jorgen destroys it in response to everything going to shit in the human world:

* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, the Bifrost is a dimensional energy harnessed by the Asgardian people through a crystalline, prismatic "rainbow bridge" that Asgardians use as a means of traveling across the universe. It is harnessed and controlled through Heimdall's Observatory, Heimdall himself being capable of using this power in short intervals, such as when he sent the Hulk back to Earth after Thanos defeats him in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''. Should the Bifrost be left open for too long, the energy becomes destructive and is capable of destroying planets, as is what almost happened to Jotunheim in ''Film/{{Thor}}''.

* Every (non-cutscene) appearance Bianca from ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'' makes to Spyro directly has her appearing when a rainbow weaves its way through the environment before landing in-front of him, Bianca appearing from where it landed. Taken UpToEleven in ''VideoGame/SpyroReignitedTrilogy'' with the inclusion of FantasticFireworks.

[[caption-width-right:350:Fly Bifrost: The Gay Way to Travel!]]

* The TropeCodifier here is probably from Myth/NorseMythology, where Bifrost was the name of the rainbow bridge that connected Asgard (home of the gods) to Midgard (home of humans). The Midgard end could be moved around, but the Asgard end always connected to Heimdall's home of Himinbjörg. Like everything else in Norse Mythology it's destined to be destroyed in Ragnarok when the forces of Muspelheim storm the bridge to get to Asgard.