Power Floats/Playing With

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    Basic Trope: Something powerful floats in mid-air.

    • Straight: The characters draw in power, and as a result, begin to levitate.
    • Exaggerated: The characters draw to power and are catapulted into the stratosphere, where they face off against enemy fighter jets.
    • Justified: The power causing the floating is explained to cause a localised change in the laws of physics, specifically the negation of gravity. Any tiny push against the ground causes the subject to rise, with only air friction slowing them to a stop.
    • Inverted: The power causing the floating causes a localised increase in mass, or an increase in the force of gravity, causing objects to fall heavily to the ground and characters to be pushed down against it.
      • The power causes other things nearby to float.
    • Subverted: The character doing the floating is revealed to be on a cable, or using a separate anti-gravity device...
    • Double Subverted: ... The cable is cut, or the anti-gravity device destroyed, and the character still floats.
    • Parodied: A character begins floating after drinking a cup of strong coffee.
    • Deconstructed: They may be floating in midair, but they can't actually control the floating; they have to flail about as though they're in a zero gravity environment.
    • Reconstructed: After twenty seconds of considerations one of them takes out a fan from his backpack, while other begins recoil-boosting himself around.
    • Zig Zagged: Floating is a potential side effect of gaining great power, but it's not guaranteed.
    • Averted: A character's power may have many effects, but their feet remain on the ground.
    • Enforced: ???
    • Lampshaded: "Her feet aren't touching the ground. Perhaps we shouldn't get on her bad side."
    • Invoked: A character uses a levitation spell to impress people.
    • Defied: A character wears heavy shoes to ensure their feet stay on the ground, to avoid drawing attention to themselves.
    • Discussed: ???
    • Conversed: "With great power comes the ability to float in midair... i wonder why." "Everybody dreams of flight, right? There's your explanation."
    • Played For Laughs: The character is indoors when it happens, and bumps her head into the ceiling.
    • Played For Drama: The character is new at this, and due to not being able to control this side-effect can't actually do anything in the important battle.

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