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!
- 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.
- Balloon-Bursting Bird: A balloonist's worst nightmare.
- 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
- Fragile Flyer: Flying beings depicted as weaker or less durable than non-flying ones.
- Full Moon Silhouette
- Giant Flyer: Huge flying animals.
- Global Airship
- Hair Wings
- Hat of Flight
- Helicopter Hair
- Helicopter Pack
- Heli-Critter: A living creature that flies with rotating blades or wings.
- High-Altitude Battle
- High-Up Ice-Up
- Hindenburg Incendiary Principle: Fictional airships tend to crash spectacularly.
- Hover Bike: A bike that hovers off the ground.
- Hover Board: Flying skate, surf, or other boards.
- Hover Bot: A floating robot.
- Hover Mecha: A floating mecha.
- Hover Tank: A tank that hovers off the ground.
- Hover Skates: Footwear that allows its wearer to float above the ground.
- Hubcap Hovercraft
- I Believe I Can Fly
- If It Swims, It Flies: Things that can move underwater can move in the air like it's also water.
- Inflating Body Gag
- Instant Flight: Just Add Spinning!
- Improvised Jet Pack
- Jet Pack
- Jettison Jetpack Attack
- Jump Jet Pack
- The Joy of First Flight: Flying for the first time is an exhilarating experience.
- Kite Riding: Flying by riding or being strapped to kites.
- Levitating Lotus Position: Someone floats off the ground with their legs crossed under them.
- Living Gasbag: Creatures that float through internal stores of lighter-than-air gases.
- Love Floats
- Look Ma, No Plane!
- Magic Carpet: A flying carpet that can carry people around.
- Midair Repair
- Midflight Water Touching
- Not Quite Flight
- Ominous Floating Castle
- Parachute in a Tree
- Pegasus: Flying winged horses.
- Possession Levitation
- Power Floats
- Remembered I Could Fly
- Ridiculously Small Wings: Characters which can fly in spite of the size of their wings.
- Stationary Wings
- Space Whale: Such whales are often depicted flying in atmospheres as well.
- The Sky Is an Ocean: Skies are depicted as acting like another sea, with flying ships, fishes, islands and so on.
- Sky Pirate: Pirates in flying vessels.
- Sky Surfing
- Those Magnificent Flying Machines: Decorative, baroque and improbable flying devices.
- Toasted Buns
- Token Flyer: Ensemble teams tend to have a single flying member.
- 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: A setting of floating landmasses in the sky.
- Wronski Feint: Flying towards an obstacle and dodging at the last minute to trick pursuers into crashing.
- Zeppelins from Another World
