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{{trope}}
[[File:Jetpack 8369.jpg|link=The Rocketeer (comics)|
A standard piece of equipment for anyone from [[The Future]]. A backpack that lets the wearer fly by shooting jets of fire (or concentric rings of [[Pure Energy]]) out of the back, parallel to the wearer's legs. Strangely enough, nobody ever suffers [[Toasted Buns]] as a result. Nor do they ever run out of fuel, or even consume any fuel of any sort in the first place.
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A [[Sub-Trope]] of [[Flight]] and [[Awesome Backpack]]. Not quite related to [[Stupid Jetpack Hitler]], although [[Those Wacky Nazis|jet packs may be involved there as well.]] Compare [[Helicopter Pack]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* [[Robot Girl|Chachamaru]] of ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' is equipped with one, though even in her upgraded form, she can only use it for up to fifteen minutes before needing to recharge.
* ''[[Mazinger Z]]'': Mazinger-Z's [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] was a Jet Pack docked with Mazinger-Z. It was yellow with red [[Razor Wings]] and could shoot star-shaped shurikens to whoever tried attack Mazinger-Z from back. Its name was Jet Scrander.
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* ''[[Astro Boy (manga)|Astro Boy]]'' has [[Rocket Boots]].
* The main propulsion/jumping thrusters for most [[Gundam|Mobile Suits]] are mounted on a backpack. Some have secondary thrusters in the legs as well.
* The eponymous ''[[Strike Witches]]'' have a cross between [[Rocket Boots]] and [[Power Armor]] for the leg area, powered by magic.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', the Float systems used by Britannian [[Humongous Mecha|Knightmare Frames]] look like Mecha-sized jet packs. The Air Glide Wing variation used by the Black Knights, and the Energy Wing system that appears later look less like jet packs, although they are much more refined.
* ''[[Macross Frontier]]'' finally gives the franchise a real jet pack, standard on all [[Power Armor|EX-Gears]].
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* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'': The Gurren Lagann, the somewhat-eponymous mech, uses the drills on its back to [[Mega Manning|assimilate an enemy aircraft]] and turn it into one of these.
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Iron Man]]'' has the rocket boots. In the [[Iron Man (film)|film]] this leads to some [[Amusing Injuries]] before he learns to control them.
** This was clearly a retcon of the comic-book ''Iron Man,'' due to the fact that boot-only rockets would too-obviously end up failing hiliariously as shown; thus since comic-bok Iron Man already had repulsor-rays in his gauntlets, they rationalized that he could simply use them to stablize himself in flight, and avoid flipping over backwards like that when he fired his rocket-boots.
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* And [[Adam Strange]] in [[The DCU]].
* ''[[Zot]]'' apparently has several models of the boots.
*
* The [[Marvel Universe]] version of [[Leonardo da Vinci]] has this beat with an ''ornithopter''-pack.
* [http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm140/slim_dayspring/Decorated%20images/ze9sRdbFKq4ltcokRBLHR25Ao1_500.jpg Cyclops] has one.
* [[The Rocketeer (comics)|The Rocketeer]]
* The 1980's British ''[[Starblazer]]'' comic had jet packs.
== [[Film]] ==▼
▲== Film ==
* Commando Cody ([[Same Face, Different Name|AKA Larry Martin, AKA The Rocketman]]) the interchangable hero of various Republic [[Film Serial]]s in [[The Fifties]] who battled criminals, supervillains, and alien menaces with the aid of an atomic-powered jetpack and a rather silly helmet.
* ''[[The Rocketeer (film)|The Rocketeer]]''
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* The classic Buster Crabbe ''[[Buck Rogers]]'' serials had a jet pack strapped to the back of the eponymous hero in some of their more memorable moments.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* In ''[[
▲== Literature ==
▲* In ''[[Discworld/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'', having already established dragon-power as the motive force of the [[Discworld]]'s first rocketship, Leonard of Quirm invents a device that allows one to leave the ship with a dragon strapped to one's back, in emergencies. No-one else can think of an emergency that would be worse than having a dragon strapped to one's back.
* In ''[[Star Wars]],'' novels, again at least the Fetts use them.
* Stewart Cowley's ''Great Space Battles''. A law enforcement officer investigates the base of a band of mutant space pirates. After they detect his presence, he activates his backpack jet pack and lifts off, barely escaping their grasp. When he returns with the authorities, the pirates are gone.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Seeing Red": villains with jet packs. Of course, this being the nerd trio, one of them tried to fly while underneath a ceiling and knocked himself out.
* Worn by Tom Paris in the [[Show Within a Show|Captain Proton holoprogram]] in ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', in a deliberate homage to the old ''Commando Cody/Rocketman'' Republic [[Film Serial]]s.
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* A piece of standard equipment available to Unicorn agents in the Japanese show ''[[Series/Giant Robot|Giant Robot]]'' (you may know it better from its movie compilation, ''Voyage Into Space'').
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' is full of these, usually as an accessory to [[Powered Armor]]. Space Marine Assault Squads
▲== Tabletop Games ==
** Though most of these people are slightly more realistically set-up, Crisis suits, Assault Marines, Raptors, and Seraphim have angled thrusters so that they don't set their butts on fire, Stormboyz don't really care about safety, and Swooping Hawks use anti-gravity vanes sculpted to look like wings instead of proper jetpacks. Also, given the rules' remarks that soldiers don't have unlimited ammunition but are instead assumed to have enough to last six turns of gameplay, it is reasonable to assume that these people merely have enough fuel in their jetpacks to last a normal-length battle instead of being unlimited-fuel affairs. Or an external power source, since most of them are plugged into power armour.▼
▲* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' is full of these, usually as an accessory to [[Powered Armor]]. Space Marine Assault Squads, Tau Crisis Suits, Chaos Marine Raptors, Ork Storm Boys, Sisters of Battle Seraphim, Eldar Swooping Hawks, and Yeld Spyrers all have some form of jet pack. Most jump infantry without wings are examples of this trope, and even some with wings are as well.
** At least the Seraphim
▲** Though most of these people are slightly more realistically set-up, Crisis suits, Assault Marines, Raptors, and Seraphim have angled thrusters so that they don't set their butts on fire, Stormboyz don't really care about safety, and Swooping Hawks use anti-gravity vanes sculpted to look like wings instead of proper jetpacks. Also, given the rules' remarks that soldiers don't have unlimited ammunition but are instead assumed to have enough to last six turns of gameplay, it is reasonable to assume that these people merely have enough fuel in their jetpacks to last a normal-length battle instead of being unlimited-fuel affairs.
** Early editions had some ''Guard'' units with jump infantry. The problem is, these things are very expensive. Thus impractical unless your [[Schlock Mercenary|skeet]] is protected well. Also, other ways achieve similar results, usually cheaper. To move a bunch of troops faster than they walk, there are APCs (''Codex: Witch Hunters'' back in 4th edition<ref>apparently, since it had "guess range" weapons</ref> had both as options, with APCs carrying 10-12 troopers at a cost 2.5×-3.5× of ''one'' jump pack); Valkyrie transport can also drop infantry on grav chutes ''and'' provide some air support, still cheaper per trooper inserted. To hit a high-priority target, units who infiltrate (such as assassins) or deep strike (again, drop troops) are faster and more reliable, as they can appear already in the attack range.
▲** At least the Seraphim usejump packs in more sane tactics than usual for 40k "I'm too hardboiled to live" charge. They ''don't'' mistake themselves for slow ultra-light aircraft, but are trained as close-combat specialists with short-range weapons (flamer or [[Dual Wield]]ing bolters), that is, skirmish and harass buzzing around an enemy, and are supposed to be used in combination with ground troops.
* [[Monsterpocalypse]]'s Sky Sentinel, Defender X, and Nova-ESR all wear giant jet-turbines to help them jump and fly their way across the battle maps.
* ''[[GURPS]]''
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* ''[[DC Heroes]]'' has one that can fly at 100 m.p.h.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* [[Hero Smash]]: Has some examples.
** Some players have Jetpacks even though they can fly without Jetpacks
** [http://www.herosmash.com/hs-character.asp?id=rocker Rocker] from Skull Deep
** {{color|purple|Mr Purple}} in the trailer.
* The original [[Dangerous Dave]] featured a jetpack that could be picked up and used on certain levels.
* ''[[Halo: Reach]]''. What's cooler than a ''[[Halo]]'' multiplayer match? A multiplayer match with '''''jetpacks!'''''
** ''Halo 2'' introduced the Ranger-class Elite which were equipped for EVA with jetpacks and fully-enclosed helmets, though they fight planetside as well. ''Halo 3'' added a class of Brutes with the same abilities.
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* ''Jetpack Joyride'' (obviously again)
* In the ''Pilotwings'' series the "Rocket Belt" is one of the vehicles that can be piloted.
* ''[[Nancy Drew (video game)|Nancy Drew]]'', of all people, gets a jet-pack in the PC game ''The Haunting of Castle Malloy.''
* ''[[Warhawk (1995 video game)]]'s'' latest expansion pack adds jetpacks.
* Wario has a hat version of this in ''[[Wario Land]]'', the aptly named Jet Cap/Jet Wario, which allows him to fly forward for a certain amount of time. Underwater too apparently.
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* ''[[Dead Space 2]]'': Isaac has thrusters in his boots and shoulders. However, they only work in zero gravity. (and certain cut scenes)
* Reapers in ''[[StarCraft]] II'' are Terran close-combat infantry with jetpacks and [[Guns Akimbo|dual pistols]]. Their jets, actually mounted on the shoulders of their [[Powered Armor]], don't let them outright ''fly'', but they are very fast on the ground and can hop over cliffs.
* ''[[Jabless Adventure]]''. Jables even [[
* In the ''[[Command & Conquer: Tiberium]]'' series, GDI has specialist infantry units with jetpacks in ''Tiberian Sun''. The Zone Troopers, Zone Raiders, and Commandos in ''Tiberium Wars'' also use jetpacks, although they are for leaping rather than flying.
* The hero of ''[[Jett Rocket]]'' has one, although the use is limited.
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* Fassad from ''Mother 3'' sports a jet pack from Chapter 7 onward. Presumably this is because {{spoiler|Fassad lost the ability to walk when he was put back together ala Humpty Dumpty after his fall from Thunder Tower. So he flies instead.}}
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]], with ''[[Organic Technology|organic jet packs]]'' that develop as a natural part of [[Charles Atlas Superpower|working your abs too much]].
** Also, we have James, who invented [[Rocket Boots]], and used them to kick people.
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* As part of a rescue mission, Alice from ''[[I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space]]'' built a set of rocket boots from a pile of scrap. The pirates all refused to wear them because the colour clashed with their uniforms.
== [[Web Original]] ==
▲== Web Original ==
* ''[[Haloid]]''. Another reason why Zero Suit Samus rocks: [[Rocket Boots]]!
* [[Whately Universe]]:
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* Baron von Fogel of [[The League of STEAM]] wears a rocket backpack.
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Jimmy Neutron]]''
* ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''
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* ''[[Batman Beyond]]''.
* In ''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Filmations Ghostbusters]]'', the Ghost Packs could transform into "Buster Thruster Packs" at the press of a button.
* Agent K from ''[[The Replacements (animation)|The Replacements]]''.
* Used regularly by Batman in ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]''.
* Used frequently by the girls in ''[[Totally Spies!]]''.
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* ''[[Recess]]''. The cast found a note worth a large amount of money and decided to try to find its owner. They did, and T.J returned it, only to be told to leave. The person he returned it to appeared wearing a Jet Pack and explained that [[Secret Test|he did this all the time, and the gang was the only one to actually return the note to him]].
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* The opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles included a Bell Rocket Belt (the ''[[Thunderball]]'' device) flown across the stadium.
* Many people spend lots of time/money (attempting a successful run at) making these. A fair number had military funding some decades ago.
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