I Believe I Can Fly: Difference between revisions

* Characters from the ''[[Touhou]]'' series have abilities ranging from [[Super Strength]] to controlling insects to "[[Green Lantern Ring|manipulating boundaries]]," but without fail every single one of them can also fly. A footnote in [http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Perfect_Memento_in_Strict_Sense/Flandre_Scarlet an article] from ''[[All There in the Manual|Perfect Memento in Strict Sense]]'' could imply that ''everyone'' in Gensokyo can fly, even the "normal" humans.

** Special mention must be made of main protagonist Reimu Hakurei. In the PC-98 games she was incapable of flight and rode into battle on the back of her [[Turtle Power|flying, bearded turtle Genji]], but since the Windows game she's evidently learned to fly on her own while Genji is "[[Put on a Bus|probably living in the lake at the back of the shrine]]." Not only that, but Reimu is also able to [[Game Breaker|exploit her power of flight]] to literally [[Intangible Man|fly out of reach of your attacks in a spatial sense]] with her "Fantasy Heaven" spellcard, making her effectively invincible for its duration. The only reason she's beatable is that she's sporting enough to impose a time limit on her own ability.

* ''In [[City of Heroes]]'', the most commonly taken travel power is flight. Sure it's slow and uses a lot of Endurance, and sure Super Jump and Teleport and [[Super Speed]] do a similar job, but it's simple to use, unaffected by topography, and highly thematic. Plus non-melee characters can float twenty feet in the air and rain death on their opponents with impunity.

* Comes and goes in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]''. On the one hand, many [[Super Robot]]s can fly just for cool and [[Real Robot]]s, especially [[Gundam]]s, are inherently aerospace weaponry. On the other, there are just as many "lower-tech" adventure stories where the robot is grounded, as well as the tendency to have [[Transforming Mecha]] with a plane mode and ground mode. (Variation: [[Mazinger Z]] and descendants can always fly provided they have a Scrander, but their performance is often better when standing than in the air.)