Basic Trope: A character can breathe in space.
- Straight: Harold can breathe in space.
- Exaggerated:
- Harold can not only breathe in space, he can also talk audibly, despite the lack of air otherwise necessary to carry his sound-waves.
- Not only can Harold breathe in space, he also becomes stronger than ever.
- Downplayed:
- Harold can survive in space without oxygen, but the lack of oxygen makes him weaker.
- Harold can survive longer in space than a normal human can.
- Harold cannot survive in space unprotected, but a simple breathing mask is all that he needs.
- Justified:
- Breathing in space is Harold's super power.
- Harold doesn't need to breathe at all.
- His universe has a breathable atmosphere, even in space.
- Inverted:
- To keep up his superheroics, Harold needs plenty of oxygen. The slightest nick in his spacesuit would make him pass out.
- Harold is a highly unstable Energy Being. He will explode if he has prolonged contact with oxygen. So, he and the rest of his species spend much of their existence wandering in the vacuum of space.
- Harold can breathe in the core of a planet.
- From Exaggerated: Harold can not only breathe in the core of a planet, he can also talk audibly, despite the pressure overload hampering his sound-waves.
- Subverted:
- Harold appear to be breathing in space without assistance... until the oxygen tanks on his back are shown.
- A Too Dumb to Live character falsely believes that he'll be able to breathe in space...and when he goes out in space, he suffers the immediate dangers of being unable to breathe.
- Double Subverted:
- ...However, it's discovered Harold only uses them to hide his secret that he can breathe in space.
- The idiot survives in space anyway.
- Parodied:
- Harold can survive in space by simply putting on a fishbowl.
- Harold can breathe in space...until he's told he can't, and then he starts choking immediately.
- Zig Zagged: Harold can't breathe in space when they took off from California, but later on he's able to breathe in space above the idyllic and verdant planet home only to a Hidden Elf Village. It turns out that the first time was because of the smog.
- Averted:
- Harold can't breathe in space.
- Harold doesn't leave his space ship.
- Harold doesn't go into space.
- Enforced: They didn't hire those photogenic, top-grade actors just to hide them in incredibly impersonal, bulky spacesuits.
- Lampshaded: "How is it even possible for somebody to breathe in space?"
- Invoked: Harold, having been severely injured fighting the Alien Invasion, is rebuilt as a Cyborg specifically so that he can survive in space without air.
- Exploited: Space Pirates attack Harold and his crew and demand a volunteer to be airlocked. Harold volunteers to save his crew.
- Defied:
- "I'm not going up there! How do you expect me to breathe?!"
- Thrown Out The Air Lock.
- Discussed: "Someone as superpowered as Harold? And you're surprised he's breathing in space?"
- Conversed: "Did you notice how no one in that movie was wearing a helmet in space? What was up with that?"
- Deconstructed: Lack of air is not the only danger in space. Radiation, micrometeorites, lunar dust, sunburn, cosmic rays, lack of convection and many other dangers take their toll on Harold even as he can keep his breath.
- Reconstructed: As part of his Training from Hell, Harold adapts to space. He can't stay on ground for long, but is genuinely better off this way.
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