History Sandbox / BatmanCanBreatheInSpace

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': ''Miracle of Endymion'', Kaori Kanzaki does not need a space suit while everybody else does. She is a Saint and therefore much tougher than an ordinary human. She was also surrounded by a magical energy field.

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'': ''Miracle of Endymion'', Kaori Kanzaki does not need a space suit while everybody else does. She is a Saint and therefore much tougher than an ordinary human. She was also surrounded by a magical energy field.

* '''Wrong - powers''' ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' followed JLU's lead by showing that Superman and [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] needed oxygen masks to breathe in space. [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner]] didn't need masks, but were shown protected by the aura their [[GreenLanternRing power rings]] generated.

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''ComicBook/PS238'', they take a class excursion to the moon. The various superkids require various levels of protection, and Captain Clarinet (the son of a Superman CaptainErsatz) has some trouble explaining that he DOES, in fact, need to breathe, and thus goes up wearing a breathing-apparatus. (He still has no trouble with the radiation, temperature, or general vacuum-ness, though.) Then [[Franchise/GreenLantern Emerald Gauntlet]] Jr. reveals that his [[GreenLanternRing Gauntlet]] can both provide a protective force-field AND gather oxygen-atoms from the surroundings to allow him to breathe. "I'm cool that way", as he puts it. Then he winds up marooned on the moon along with a few other students, including the EvilGenius Zodon, and suggests that he could just ferry them all back to Earth with his Gauntlet... only for Zodon to explain that, while he can probably gather enough oxygen to maintain breathing on the moon (the moon's consists of approximately 40% oxygen, though most of it is bound to silicon), the same cannot be said for interplanetary space.

* '''Wrong - powers''' ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' followed JLU's lead by showing that Superman and [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] needed oxygen masks to breathe in space. [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner]] didn't need masks, but were shown protected by the aura their [[GreenLanternRing power rings]] generated.

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''Comicbook/PS238'', they take a class excursion to the moon. The various superkids require various levels of protection, and Captain Clarinet (the son of a Superman CaptainErsatz) has some trouble explaining that he DOES, in fact, need to breathe, and thus goes up wearing a breathing-apparatus. (He still has no trouble with the radiation, temperature, or general vacuum-ness, though.) Then [[Franchise/GreenLantern Emerald Gauntlet]] Jr. reveals that his [[GreenLanternRing Gauntlet]] can both provide a protective force-field AND gather oxygen-atoms from the surroundings to allow him to breathe. "I'm cool that way", as he puts it. Then he winds up marooned on the moon along with a few other students, including the EvilGenius Zodon, and suggests that he could just ferry them all back to Earth with his Gauntlet... only for Zodon to explain that, while he can probably gather enough oxygen to maintain breathing on the moon (the moon's consists of approximately 40% oxygen, though most of it is bound to silicon), the same cannot be said for interplanetary space.

* '''Wrong - powers''' The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk can breathe and survive in the vacuum of space.

* '''Wrong - powers''' The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk can breathe and survive in the vacuum of space.

** Primarchs can take it UpToEleven. During the Battle of Calth, Roboute Guilliman was blown into space where he spent hours clinging to the spaceship hull. After that he still had enough strength left in him to find some Word Bearers and punch their heads off. With just his fists, not a powerfist, while still in space and despite Word Bearers being in power armor.

** Primarchs can take it UpToEleven. During the Battle of Calth, Roboute Guilliman was blown into space where he spent hours clinging to the spaceship hull. After that he still had enough strength left in him to find some Word Bearers and punch their heads off. With just his fists, not a powerfist, while still in space and despite Word Bearers being in power armor.

** '''OK''' ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' apparently operates by the principle that you can't ''breathe'' in space, but if you have some kind of respirator, you need no other protection from the elements. [[TheHero Peter Quill]] flies from the Kyln to the other Guardians in the ''[[CoolShip Milano]]'' in nothing but his civilian clothes and his [[CoolMask mask]], which doesn't even cover his hair. Similarly, Peter later [[spoiler:saves Gamora's life by coming out of his mining pod in space and giving her his mask, holding his breath long enough for TheCavalry -- in the form of his space pirate adopted family -- to come and get both of them]]. Neither suffer particularly ill effects given that they both spend about a minute in vacuum.

* '''OK - ordinary humans can survive in space''' The RuleOfFun/[[RuleOfCool Cool]] physics of the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' allow this: there is no oxygen in space, but whenever an object goes into space, it takes an "envelope" of air with it. So everyone can breathe in space, for a minute or handful on their own. The amount of air is proportional to the size of the object, which helps the crew of a huge ship, but not a giant, for example, since it uses proportionally as much air. After a while, the air becomes stale and eventually runs out, though far-traveling ships usually avoid it with air-creating spells or plants. Escape velocity or burning up in the atmosphere aren't problems -- if you go up high enough, you end up in space, simple as that. All of this was designed to allow SpacePirates to [[RuleOfCool stand on the decks of their wooden ships]]... [[RecycledInSpace In Space]]. Incidentally, the way gravity works is even weirder.\\\

* '''OK''' ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' waffles on this. In ''{{VideoGame/Duke Nukem 3D}}'', Duke can handle the vacuum of space just fine with only a t-shirt and a cigar for defense. In ''VideoGame/DukeNukemForever'' however, Duke needs to hold his breath to walk on the surface of the moon. Still BeyondTheImpossible, but it seems that Duke's spacesuit-grade lungs went the same way as his ability to [[LimitedLoadout carry more than two guns at once]] during his [[DevelopmentHell twelve year break.]] Duke is seen wearing a spacesuit on the postcards that came with the [[LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition Balls of Steel Edition]] of ''Forever'' (also featured on the walls in a few spots in the casino level.) Presumably Duke didn't want to demasculate the other astronauts when that shot was taken. Space Suit was an planned inventory item that would have activated automatically like the Scuba Gear. In the pre-release 1.0 demo leak, it changes Duke's speed/physics to moon conditions while letting him survive in the vacuum of space. However, only one such vacuum area was built (in the level Dark Side) so the Space Suit was turned into a decorative sprite, and the vacuum area was altered slightly with a forcefield so that it could be played normally. It's still in the Zoo demo level, so its cutting must have been a late one.

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'', not only can Ridley breathe in space, he can fly in space by flapping his wings. This is easily {{hand wave}}d by the fact that at this point, Ridley is more machine than dragon. His wings are made of force field and the flapping can be chalked up to muscle memory. What isn't so easily hand waved is how a seemingly non cybernetic Ridley was able to fly from the Ceres Research station to planet Zebes in ''Videogame/SuperMetroid''. Oddly enough, in ''Metroid Zero Mission'' he does fly a spaceship to the surface of Zebes.

* '''Wrong - not real space, realistic-ish survival length''' In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 5}}'', one level has the characters jumping through airlocks into the vacuum of space for very short periods of time. They state that a human can survive in space for 30 seconds or so as long as they keep their eyes and mouth shut. But it's a mental world as well, so it's not like it follows the rules of physics of the real world to begin with.
* '''OK''' Ratchet from ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' can survive wearing no protection on {{baby planet}}s that logically shouldn't hold any atmosphere. He ''did'' gain an O2 helmet in [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank the first game]] and presumably still has it -- not that they alter his model to include it in any of the subsequent games. The mask still leaves his upper face and tail exposed to hard vacuum with no ill effects.

** '''Unsure''' The [[TrueFinalBoss true final stage]] of ''Imperishable Night'' takes place halfway between Earth and Moon. One of the heroines actually {{lampshade|Hanging}}s it.
** '''OK''' In ''Silent Sinner in Blue'', Sakuya opens a window while inside a flying spaceship.
** '''OK''' During Tenshi's Last Spell in ''Scarlet Weather Rhapsody'', you are fighting on top of stone pillars reaching above the atmosphere.

* '''OK''' The ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' series plays this straight with the Star Fox stages. Brawl actually parodies this with one of Fox's Codec conversations, where Slippy gives this trope quite the LampshadeHanging. You can hear more about it right [[http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/video-games/Super-Smash-Bros-Brawl/Slippy-Toad/ here.]]

* '''OK''' In the 1950's WesternAnimation/FelixTheCat cartoon "Venus and the Master Cylinder" (and in other cartoons in the series set in space), both Felix and Professor have no problem breathing or talking whenever they're launched into the vacuum of space, nor do they have any problems whenever they set foot on the moon.

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the girls frequently end up in space for one reason or another, and have no trouble breathing, talking, shouting, or, in TheMovie, hearing screams and gasps from the Earth while on an asteroid. DependingOnTheWriter: in one episode they did have spacesuits on.

* '''Wrong - powers''' ''Comicbook/{{Empowered}}'' discovers this by ''accident'' [[spoiler:when she steps on to an airless asteroid from a malfunctioning portal]]. Then again, her supersuit [[HowDoIShotWeb didn't come with instructions]].
* '''Wrong - powers''' The Comicbook/IncredibleHulk can breathe and survive in the vacuum of space.
* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis'', Superboy Prime jaw jacks with the entire Green Lantern Corps. In space. The Corps. are protected by their rings of course. When Earth 1 & 2 Supermen tackle Superboy Prime, they hold their breath while Prime keeps insulting them and throwing punches casually, until they throw him through the red sun of Krypton and fly him right into Mogo, a Planet that just happens to be a Green Lantern. Comics are weird.

* '''Wrong - powers''' In an issue of ''Comicbook/MarvelStarWars'' Vader survives an assassination attempt via opening airlock, since he has a life-support suit; the officers who attempted the assault [[HoistByHisOwnPetard get sucked out instead]].
* '''Wrong - powers''' Comicbook/TheMightyThor plays this fast and loose. It's not specifically stated that he doesn't need to breathe, but he is shown surviving in space for short periods. The writers probably thought "He's a god, so [[AscendedFanon why not]]? It's long since been confirmed that Thor can survive perfectly fine in space, considering he [[spoiler: went round for round with the Phoenix Force (the entity itself, not the host) in deep space wearing nothing but his normal sparkly pants]].

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''Comicbook/PS238'', they take a class excursion to the moon. The various superkids require various levels of protection, and Captain Clarinet (the son of a Superman CaptainErsatz) has some trouble explaining that he DOES, in fact, need to breathe, and thus goes up wearing a breathing-apparatus. (He still has no trouble with the radiation, temperature, or general vacuum-ness, though.) Then [[Franchise/GreenLantern Emerald Gauntlet]] Jr. reveals that his [[GreenLanternRing Gauntlet]] can both provide a protective force-field AND gather oxygen-atoms from the surroundings to allow him to breathe. "I'm cool that way", as he puts it. Then he winds up marooned on the moon along with a few other students, including the EvilGenius Zodon, and suggests that he could just ferry them all back to Earth with his Gauntlet... only for Zodon to explain that, while he can probably gather enough oxygen to maintain breathing on the moon (the moon's consists of approximately 40% oxygen, though most of it is bound to silicon), the same cannot be said for interplanetary space.
* '''Wrong - powers''' The Comicbook/PostCrisis Comicbook/CaptainAtom originally couldn't breathe in space, and once, when an enemy teleported him to the outer solar system, he had to fly back to Earth while holding his breath, which he could only do for a normal amount of time. Later on, though, he learned to use his powers to create and manipulate matter to keep his lungs filled with air indefinitely, so he could stay in space as long as he wanted.

** However, even Superman is seen using a breathing apparatus in space in early Comicbook/PostCrisis comics, though he has since kicked his oxygen addiction as part of his [[PowerCreepPowerSeep general muscling up]] to near Silver Age levels.
** Nowadays, that just means that he can hold his breath for absurd lengths of time (as can several of his spaceworthy allies, like Comicbook/MartianManhunter and Franchise/WonderWoman). He's still working this trope, though, when he ''talks'' in space, which he's done in a couple recent issues of JLA.
** In the video game ''Justice League Heroes'', Comicbook/MartianManhunter reminds Superman to hold his breath in the intro to a series of levels that take place on Mars. A few levels later, Superman and Franchise/WonderWoman are fighting in the vacuum of space and talking, screaming, and fairly obviously breathing. Inconsistency much?

** And at one point he didn't even need to breathe altogether: during Creator/JephLoeb's run on Superman during the time when Brainiac 13 upgraded Metropolis. Superman was suffering from Kryptonite Poisoning induced by a nanobot, and Comicbook/{{Steel}}, Comicbook/{{Superboy}}, and Comicbook/{{Supergirl}} [[FantasticVoyagePlot were shrunk down to go into Superman and cure him.]] While there, Superboy and Steel got blown into Big Blue's stomach, which was "the intestinal equivalent of a nuclear reactor! This is the man's power source... his body's splitting atoms to convert them into [[PureEnergy pure energy"!]] The person talking was The Prankster in Steel's hijacked armor, so his scientific knowledge of the situation may not be accurate, and this was a few origin re-tellings ago....
** In ''Comicbook/WarWorld'' both Kryptonian cousins sail the galaxy at their heart's content. Neither Clark nor Linda need to breathe due to her Kryptonian physiology. They can talk each other, though, thanks to their Super Ventriloquism (whatever it is). Martian Manhunter does not need to breathe either, and Comicbook/TheSpectre is... well, a spirit.
** In ''[[Comicbook/{{Supergirl 1982}} Supergirl Volume 2]]'' #21 both Kryptonian cousins and Kryptonite Man fight in space. Neither of them needs to breathe.

** ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline provided several examples: Supergirl and Superman didn't need to breathe because they are sun-powered Kryptonians; Green and Red Lantern can survive in space because their rings' force field provides a self-recycling oxygen bubble; the Diasporan alien race can survive in the vacuum of space (that capability works against them when Supergirl notes that she can blow their ships up without killing them).

* '''Wrong - powers''' During the ''Trial By Fire'' storyline of ''Franchise/{{J|usticeLeagueOfAmerica}}LA'', Comicbook/{{Firestorm|DCComics}} finds himself out on the moon, breathing normally. Then, he is attacked and transformed back into Ronnie Raymond. He is immediately unable to breathe or function, and it is only Flash's assistance that saves him.

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'', Dr. Manhattan doesn't need to breathe, and momentarily forgets that ordinary humans ''do'', he then provides Silk Spectre with a Legion style invisible forcefield. Mars is only slightly more human friendly than space.

** '''OK''' ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' apparently operates by the principle that you can't ''breathe'' in space, but if you have some kind of respirator, you need no other protection from the elements. [[TheHero Peter Quill]] flies from the Kyln to the other Guardians in the ''[[CoolShip Milano]]'' in nothing but his civilian clothes and his [[CoolMask mask]], which doesn't even cover his hair. Similarly, Peter later [[spoiler:saves Gamora's life by coming out of his mining pod in space and giving her his mask, holding his breath long enough for TheCavalry -- in the form of his space pirate adopted family -- to come and get both of them]]. Neither suffer particularly ill effects given that they both spend about a minute in vacuum.

* '''OK''' Ratchet from ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' can survive wearing no protection on {{baby planet}}s that logically shouldn't hold any atmosphere. He ''did'' gain an O2 helmet in [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank the first game]] and presumably still has it -- not that they alter his model to include it in any of the subsequent games. The mask still leaves his upper face and tail exposed to hard vacuum with no ill effects.

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', the girls frequently end up in space for one reason or another, and have no trouble breathing, talking, shouting, or, in TheMovie, hearing screams and gasps from the Earth while on an asteroid. DependingOnTheWriter: in one episode they did have spacesuits on.

* '''Wrong - powers''' ComicBook/{{Starfire}} in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' animated series is explicitly stated to be able to survive the conditions of space.

* '''Wrong - powers''' ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' followed JLU's lead by showing that Superman and [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] needed oxygen masks to breathe in space. [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner]] didn't need masks, but were shown protected by the aura their [[GreenLanternRing power rings]] generated.

* '''Wrong - powers''' ComicBook/{{Starfire}} in the ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' animated series is explicitly stated to be able to survive the conditions of space.

* '''Wrong - powers''' ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' followed JLU's lead by showing that Superman and [[Comicbook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] needed oxygen masks to breathe in space. [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner]] didn't need masks, but were shown protected by the aura their [[GreenLanternRing power rings]] generated.

* '''Unsure - powers''' The titular Symphogear users from ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' not only breathe in space but they also have no problem talking or ''singing'' there. Handwaved as a telepathy from the gears' powers.

* '''Unsure - powers''' The titular Symphogear users from ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear'' not only breathe in space but they also have no problem talking or ''singing'' there. Handwaved as a telepathy from the gears' powers.

* '''Wrong - not real space''' ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'': Anyone can breathe in space... as long as it's the fantasy version. If you cross the border of the fantastic and the real when you're on the moon, you die.

* '''Wrong - powers''' During the ''Trial By Fire'' storyline of ''Franchise/{{J|usticeLeagueOfAmerica}}LA'', Comicbook/{{Firestorm}} finds himself out on the moon, breathing normally. Then, he is attacked and transformed back into Ronnie Raymond. He is immediately unable to breathe or function, and it is only Flash's assistance that saves him.

* '''Wrong - powers''' During the ''Trial By Fire'' storyline of ''Franchise/{{J|usticeLeagueOfAmerica}}LA'', Comicbook/{{Firestorm}} finds himself out on the moon, breathing normally. Then, he is attacked and transformed back into Ronnie Raymond. He is immediately unable to breathe or function, and it is only Flash's assistance that saves him.

* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'':

* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'':

** It's generally assumed that Rita made the moon (or at least the area her palace is in) habitable with her magic when she first set up shop there and it remains so to this day. However, that doesn't explain the unprotected girl on the Galaxy Glider, ''hair blowing in the wind that space totally shouldn't have.'' (And no, it ''doesn't'' matter that the scene was identical in Megaranger; that just means ''two'' production companies [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay fail science forever]].)

** '''Unsure''' ''VideoGame/MarioSportsMix'' gave us the star ship. Not only is it in space, but also right next to the sun and in the middle of a meteor shower. And yet no one suffers negative effects from it. [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay You are even rewarded for catching the meteors]].

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', everyone can breathe in space with no problem. Then again, that's probably the [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay least unrealistic]] (and most consistent) aspect of space in that game, plus we don't see any mortals from Earth up there, just demons, space pirates, and an angel or two. Pit has to hold his breath underwater, but only Earth's water, not in the liquid flowing through Celestial Sea where he fights SpacePirates(no, there isn't actually a ''sea'' in space but there is a creek to splash around in said sea region).

* '''Wrong - powers''' In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', everyone can breathe in space with no problem. Then again, that's probably the [[SpaceDoesNotWorkThatWay least unrealistic]] (and most consistent) aspect of space in that game, plus we don't see any mortals from Earth up there, just demons, space pirates, and an angel or two. Pit has to hold his breath underwater, but only Earth's water, not in the liquid flowing through Celestial Sea where he fights SpacePirates(no, there isn't actually a ''sea'' in space but there is a creek to splash around in said sea region).

* '''Wrong - powers''' SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} can breathe, talk and ''[[BeyondTheImpossible smoke a cigar]]'' in space. Of course, Lobo lives and breathes BeyondTheImpossible.

** Lodoze, a parody of SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}, can apparently breathe in space because he's so tough. (Although, as Bun-bun puts it shortly before making short work of him, it's easy to be "tough" when you're completely invulnerable.)

* '''Wrong - powers''' SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}} can breathe, talk and ''[[BeyondTheImpossible smoke a cigar]]'' in space. Of course, Lobo lives and breathes BeyondTheImpossible.

** Lodoze, a parody of SelfDemonstrating/{{Lobo}}, can apparently breathe in space because he's so tough. (Although, as Bun-bun puts it shortly before making short work of him, it's easy to be "tough" when you're completely invulnerable.)

* '''OK''' ''Anime/MaiOtome''. Some fans have tried to justify it by saying "Otome can breathe in space," but nanomachine enhancements would not change the fact that "[[VideoGame/{{Gauntlet}} Otome needs oxygen badly!]]" In the OVA Arika even takes the completely-normal Mashiro ''with her'' (for a sight-seeing tour of the world... no seriously, that's exactly what she says).