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* ZigZagged throughout the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series: whenever Ratchet has to go out in the vacuum of space, he'd either don an [[ArtificialGill O2 mask]], or his helmet would extend to cover his full face. Same goes for underwater levels. Either way, his body and large ears may still exposed to the vacuum depending on what helmet and armor he's wearing.

Needless to say, in real life, an oxygen mask alone is nowhere near sufficient to protect someone from space. Decompression may not be as dramatic as it often appears in Hollywood, but it's still not pretty, and probably not survivable for extended periods. This is because spacesuits need to keep our bodies under enough air pressure for our bodily fluids like blood to remain in a liquid state. Once we pass the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit Armstrong Limit]]" (a point where air pressure is low enough for water to boil at human body temperature), unprotected space walks will become fatal in 60-90 seconds. In addition, space is full of deadly radiation from solar winds and cosmic rays, and exposing your body to that will cause serious radiation illnesses and cancer.

May be justified in story by BizarreAlienBiology or some sort of AppliedPhlebotinum.

* Averted throughout the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series: whenever Ratchet goes on a space level while wearing an outfit that doesn't include a helmet, he is shown wearing an [[https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/O2_Mask O2 mask]], or in the later games his helmet extends to covers his full face. Underwater sequences use an ArtificialGill rebreather that would fit this trope were they ever used in a vacuum. ''However'', nearly all of Ratchet's helmets do not cover his large ears, meaning he would still be ''quite'' exposed to the vacuum!

* ''[[Machinima/TheFedoraChronicles Burning Through Space 2]]'': [[spoiler:The Red Team has to battle an alien armada outside of their spaceships and all equip helmets and jetpacks, but no actual spacesuit for their bodies. Scout even {{Lampshade}}s how cold it is out in space.]]

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'': Star-Lord wears a metal mask that only covers his face and retracts behind his ear when he's not in open space. The sequel replaces it with full-body force fields.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': Star-Lord wears a metal mask that only covers his face, and retracts behind his ear when he's not in open space. The sequel replaces it with full-body force fields.

Needless to say, while in real life an oxygen mask is nowhere near sufficient to protect someone from space, decompression may not be as dramatic as it often appears in Hollywood, but it's still not pretty, and probably not survivable for extended periods. This is because spacesuits need to keep our bodies under enough air pressure for our bodily fluids like blood to remain in a liquid state. Once we pass the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit Armstrong Limit]]" (a point where air pressure is low enough for water to boil at body room temperature), unprotected space walks will become fatal in 60-90 seconds. In addition, space is full of deadly radiation from solar winds and cosmic rays, and exposing your body to that will cause serious radiation illnesses and cancer.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. During the climatic battle against the Psiborg Collective, Captain Janeway steps out of an airlock wearing only an oxymask because she doesn't have time to put on space armor. Janeway fires a rocket-grapple to [[BigDamnHeroes save B'Elanna Torres' life]], only to drop the launcher as her fingers swell up because the fluids in her body have started to boil in the vacuum. B'Elanna quickly shoves her back into the airlock and seals the hatch behind them.

* ''Fanfic/RocketshipVoyager''. During the climatic battle against the Psiborg Collective, Captain Janeway steps out of an airlock wearing only an oxymask because she doesn't have time to put on space armor. Janeway fires a rocket-grapple to [[BigDamnHeroes save B'Elanna Torres' life]], only to drop the launcher as her fingers swell up because the fluids in her body have started to boil in the vacuum. B'Elanna quickly shoves her back into the airlock and seals the hatch.

* ''[[Machinima/TheFedoraChronicles Burning Through Space]]'': The Red Team has to battle an alien armada outside of their spaceships and all equip helmets and jetpacks, but no actual spacesuit for their bodies. Scout even {{Lampshade}}s how cold it is out in space.

* ''VideoGame/MassEffect'': In the first game, [[PlayerCharacter Shepard]] and all squadmates will wear full helmets whenever walking around in the vacuum of space or on worlds with extremely low atmospheric pressure. In the second and third games, however, certain squadmates will wear only a breather mask covering the nose and mouth (or, in Javik's case, eschew any kind of facial covering entirely). Though possibly justified in that the squadmates who don't wear helmets are generally either [[MindOverMatter biotics]] (so it's possible that they're simply using a biotic field to protect them) or robots.

* Throughout the ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series, whenever Ratchet goes on a space level while wearing an outfit that doesn't include a helmet, he is shown wearing an [[https://ratchetandclank.fandom.com/wiki/O2_Mask O2 mask]], if that.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': In "Four to Doomsday, the Doctor does a spacewalk from the Urbankan ship to the TARDIS wearing a highly-advanced space helmet, which emits a force field to protect him.

* Deconstructed in ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLight.'' The "Emergency Respirators" Augmentation only halves the damage crew take from being in vacuum. They can breathe, sure, but without a pressure suit to go with it, they still get hurt.

* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'': The third game's final level, prior to the BattleshipRaid, has a segment where players gets on an Astro Slug and battles Martians in the depths of space. If the rockets ends up being destroyed while in space, the player then continues the mission wearing a FishbowlHelmet connected to an oxygen tank, in their regular army uniforms without a spacesuit.

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'': In Chapter 4-1, Mario, Peach and Bowser end up in outer space unprepared, nearly suffocating from lack of air before Tippi teleports them back to Flipside. They later return with a makeshift space helmet they can breathe in, which is just an ordinary goldfish bowl they borrow from a kid.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Invincible|2021}}'': Invincible just holds his breath the first time he goes into space, but for the weeks-long trip to Mars he wears a faceplate attached to an oxygen tank.

Needless to say, in real life an oxygen mask is nowhere near sufficient to protect someone from space, decompression may not be as dramatic as it often appears in Hollywood, but it's still not pretty, and probably not survivable for extended periods. This is because spacesuits need to keep our bodies under enough air pressure for our bodily fluids like blood to remain in a liquid state. Once we pass the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong_limit Armstrong Limit]]" (a point where air pressure is low enough for water to boil at body room temperature), unprotected space walks will become fatal in 60-90 seconds. In addition, space is full of deadly radiation from solar winds and cosmic rays, and exposing your body to that will cause serious radiation illnesses and cancer.

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* ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil'': Anytime a character is underwater or in space, all they need to survive is a helmet.