Image by Toshihide Sano.
"Flying is just jumping, but you miss the Earth."
A Index of tropes about flight. Beware of Anti-Air.
See also: Vehicle Index and This Index Blows
Contrast Falling and Landing Index.
Tropes:
- Flight (main topic)
- Acrophobic Bird: A character capable of flight doesn't want to fly for some reason.
- Aerial Canyon Chase: A chase commences in the air, next to a canyon.
- Airborne Aircraft Carrier: A flying air force station.
- Airborne Mook: This enemy can fly. Expect some degree of frustration from it.
- Air Jousting: Duel where two people crash into each other... IN THE SKY!
- Airships
- All Balloons Have Helium: Balloons + Air = Floating Balloon
- Armored Coffins: A vehicle with no safety or escape features, so that being disabled almost always kills the pilot.
- Balloonacy: (Balloons x Helium) + Object/Character = Easy Flight.
- Belly-Scraping Flight: An aircraft or flying creature brushes the ground or a terrestrial obstacle in a close call.
- Bombardier Mook: Airborne Mooks with explosives.
- Call of the Wild Blue Yonder: A character wishes they could fly and repeatedly tries and fails at it.
- Clip Its Wings: The wings are a very crucial weak point for flying targets.
- Cool Airship: Airships are awesome.
- Cue the Flying Pigs: A verbal put-down Tempts Fate.
- Death Flight: Trying to kill someone via dropping them from an airborne vehicle while it's in flight.
- Die or Fly: Dormant superpowers come to light under extreme circumstances.
- Disturbed Doves: Mass bird take-off is always symbolic.
- Dreams of Flying: A character dreams that they're flying.
- Ear Wings: Ears are used as a form of flight.
- Emergency Cargo Dump: Dumping stuff out of a plane to make it lighter.
- Floating in a Bubble: Character in an actual bubble, for any number of reasons (but usually for travel).
- Flight Is the Final Power: A character gains various superpowers, with flight coming last.
- Flight of Romance: Flight is associated with love.
- Floating Continent: A large, midair landmass.
- Floating Mask: Mask of Power + Power Floats
- Flying Books: Books that fly.
- Flying Brick: A superhero with very generic abilities.
- Flying Broomstick: Witches travel around on cleaning implements.
- Flying Car: A car that flies.
- Flying Face: Disembodied flying head.
- Flying Flightless Bird: A bird that shouldn't be able to fly actually does.
- Flying on a Cloud: Someone can fly on a cloud.
- Flying Postman
- Flying Saucer
- Flying Seafood Special
- Full Moon Silhouette
- Giant Flyer
- Global Airship
- Hair Wings
- Hat of Flight
- Helicopter Hair
- Helicopter Pack
- Heli-Critter
- High-Altitude Battle
- High-Up Ice-Up
- Hindenburg Incendiary Principle
- Hover Bike
- Hover Board
- Hover Bot
- Hover Tank
- Hover Skates
- Hubcap Hovercraft
- I Believe I Can Fly
- If It Swims, It Flies
- Inflating Body Gag
- Instant Flight: Just Add Spinning!
- Improvised Jet Pack
- Jet Pack
- Jettison Jetpack Attack
- The Joy of First Flight
- Kite Riding
- Levitating Lotus Position
- Living Gasbag
- Love Floats
- Look Ma, No Plane!
- Magic Carpet
- Midair Repair
- Midflight Water Touching
- Not Quite Flight
- Ominous Floating Castle
- Parachute in a Tree
- Pegasus
- Power Floats
- Remembered I Could Fly
- Stationary Wings
- Space Whale
- The Sky Is an Ocean
- Sky Pirate
- Sky Surfing
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines
- Toasted Buns
- Token Flyer
- Turbine Blender
- Up, Up and Away!
- Video Game Flight
- We Will All Fly in the Future
- Wind from Beneath My Wings
- Winged Soul Flies Off at Death
- Wire Fu
- World in the Sky
- Wronski Feint
- Zeppelins from Another World
