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Graceful in Their Element
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This character is much like a duck: they're awkward and clumsy on land, but put them in the water or in the air? Poetry in motion. There's a lot of variation in this trope. Usually the character is The Klutz (or at least notably awkward) on land, but if given a chance they're very Graceful In Their Element. The variation comes in on what that more natural element might be. On or in the water, they could be a champion swimmer, skier or sailor. Ice-wise they could be an angelic skater. In the air, they might be an Ace Pilot. If machines are involved, they'll be a Badass Driver with Improbable Piloting Skills, and be able to turn a Humongous Mecha into an Impossibly Graceful Giant. If fighting, dancing or both are involved, they may be a consummate Dance Battler. This Hidden Depth is used either for humor or to add a level of dichotomy to a character. It can make them seem a bit otherworldly; they're helpless on land, but they're so graceful outside of it that it seems like they don't really belong in this world. This can be further reinforced if the awkwardness is due to a physical disability, so it becomes a case where putting someone in a new medium where they're on a level playing field with everyone else lets them surpass their limitations. To a certain extent, this is Truth in Television. Moving in a different medium like asphalt, ice, or zero-g vacuum requires an entirely new skill set that doesn't completely map out with bipedal terrestrial locomotion. While being naturally graceful and aware of kinesthetics makes learning skating or piloting easier, it's by no means a free pass. Sister Trope to Eloquent in My Native Tongue and Bunny-Ears Lawyer (when someone's personality is extremely awkward, but they're an expert at their profession). See also Crippling Overspecialization, Dancing Royalty. |
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A plot point in Aquaman: Arthur has spent most of his life on the surface, and is severely outmatched when forced to fight Atlanteans of similar skill level underwater. However, the Atlanteans are at a similar disadvantage when fighting on dry land. | |
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In Ranma ½, while Akane doesn't know her own strength on land she is revealed to be a very gifted and graceful skater, unlike graceful-on-land Ranma. | |
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Babe Darling Of The Hills: Another merman example is Guy Guppy the Man Mermaid, who manages to beat the superhumanly-skilled Babe Boone in a swimming race, but is virtually helpless on land, though he fares better once he gets a pair of crutches. | |
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Kit Cloudkicker (from TaleSpin) has grown up following in Baloo's footsteps as a pilot. Unfortunately, he's terrible at it, lacking discipline and relying on a crowbar as his "co-pilot." But when he leaves the flying up to someone competent, he can still cloudkick as gracefully as ever, leaving Della in tears at his sheer beauty. | |
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In Song of the Dolphin Boy, the half-selkie Finn is awkward and clumsy on land, but can swim as quickly and easily as a dolphin. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise: Malcolm Reed is a socially awkward Shrinking Violet, but put him behind a tactical console and he's an absolute genius at making starships go boom. | |
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The Belgariad: Cho-Hag, the Algarian Chief of the Clan-Chiefs, was crippled in his youth but is one of the best horsemen in a nation that's collectively Born in the Saddle. When he and his Arch-Enemy face each other on horseback, onlookers are amazed by how gracefully and effortlessly Cho-Hag dismantles him. | |
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Sub-Mariner: A milder example exists with Namor the Sub-Mariner. While he is by no means clumsy on land, it's been established he is much more agile and extremely fast (not to mention stronger) when he is in his element: the sea. | |
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Jar Jar Binks from The Phantom Menace, being an amphibious alien, while a Lethal Klutz on land, is a fine swimmer in water. | |
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The Eelies from Slurpy Derpy are eel-like creatures with ribbon-like appendages. Their humorous flavor text states that they can swim up to 100mph in the water but on land they can only flop at approximately 3mph if the wind is favorable. And unfortunately for them, they make their homes on land. | |
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Wonder Woman: Manno the Merman, one of Wonder Woman's Distressed Dudes in the Silver Age comics who is pretty much even more useless than Aquaman outside the water. Beneath the waves, he is an excellent swimmer and a capable fighter. On land, however, he can only awkwardly hop around on his tail.◊ At least Aquaman actually has legs. | |
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Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Wheeler, a former street teen from Brooklyn, isn't exactly well versed in the environmental problems that most episodes cover, but in the "special" episodes relating to city problems (like drug use, HIV, and gang violence), he's usually the one most understanding and on top of things. | |
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Rick and Morty: Jerry Smith is a total loser in society, partially because he's so spineless that if there's someone to mooch off of he takes no initiative for himself, however when put into a situation where no one else can step up, removed from the modern trappings of society with little or no technology, like post-apocalyptic life or camping, he's a surprisingly competent provider where everyone else flounders. | |
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A quest chain in World of Warcraft's Western Plaguelands has you take Zenkiki, a novice druid, under your wing for a while. He's incapable of even the most basic of druid abilities until he starts healing and it becomes clear he's a natural restoration druid. | |
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In Dinotrux Skrap-It is a Scraptool, by nature made to take stuff apart, being forced to serve as The Medic to Big Bad D-Structs. It is made abundantly clear that despite his best efforts he is not a great mechanic and his repairs on D-Structs aren't as good as they could be. On the other hand, when D-Structs needs another Trux sabotaged as part of his plans, Skrap-It can do that with great efficiency; often able to remove small critical parts from a trux without them even noticing he was there. | |
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During a full-scale battle against Ethniu's army in Battle Ground (2020), Harry notes that his side is fortunate that they're battling on land, as the Formorians are clumsy outside of the water and unable to use their normal tactics to surround enemies from all directions. | |
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Inverted with Kaito in Magic Kaito. Normally a stylish Gentleman Thief, he absolutely has no balance on ice, and would immediately slip and fall over when he enters the skating rink. | |
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Starwalker: Starwalker is a pilot and a ship. She can pull miracles in space but is awkward in an atmosphere. | |
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Two very strange examples in ARK: Survival Evolved: both Ankylosaurus and Doedicurus (a glyptodont) are heavy, low-set, slow creatures with body armor and tails specialized for mining. Both creatures inexplicably have a high base Oxygen stat, which governs not only the amount of time one can spend under water but also swim speed, making them much faster and more agile in water than on land. | |
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In the Vorkosigan Saga, the Quaddies are a species gene-engineered to have four arms and no legs. In a gravity field, they're awkward and helpless, but in zero-G, they excel. Miles has rarely seen anything as beautiful as their zero-G ballet. | |
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In Super Mario Bros. 3, the frog suit is great for swimming, but not for traversing land, where you need to resort to jumping constantly to move at a decent pace, as attempting to walk or dash will just make Mario move with extremely sluggish hops. | |
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Merone from Monster Musume is a mermaid. While she can breathe just fine on land as long as her gills are moistened, her fish tail means she's largely confined to a wheelchair - and even when she is on land, the most she can do to "walk" while upright is carefully hop on her tail (imagine hopping on your tip-toes while your ankles are bound). When the girls go to a gym's swimming pool, she gets to show off how incredibly mobile she can be in the water. | |
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The reason the stereotypically unhurried turtle sidekick in The Swan Princess is nicknamed "Speed" becomes abundantly clear the moment he's needed underwater. | |
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Inferior Five: May apply to Awkwardman — none of the teams cases takes place underwater. | |
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Sillage: Ehmte-Ciss-Ronn is a short, four-legged green alien lawyer, the last person you would expect of any athletic feats. However, he comes from an amphibian race and is a graceful swimmer, a fact that might catch his would-be assassins by surprise when he changes his office into a Shark Pool with a push of a button. | |
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Farscape: Rygel XVI. A diminutive toad-like creature who rarely even walks on his own, preferring to use his Throne-Sled (hoverchair) for movement. This is because he's aquatic. When we see him swimming in "The Peacekeeper Wars" miniseries, he's extremely graceful. | |
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender Teo is a master pilot able to outperform Aang without being able to Airbend. He's also in a wheelchair. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In one episode, Melora Pazlar, a Starfleet officer from a light world, is assigned to the station; because her muscles are designed for a light world she has to wear a special full-body brace in order to get around, which she does very clumsily. At one point some baddies have invaded; the crew turns off the Artificial Gravity, and she's the only one who can move about, quickly taking out the bad guys. | |
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New discoveries show Spinosaurus as having had incredibly short legs for a theropod, and likely waddled clumsily on land in a far cry from its Jurassic Park III portrayal. However, a 2020 discovery revealed it to have a flexible, powerful tail equipped with a ridged, eel-like fin, making it far more adept in the water where, instead of preying on other dinosaurs, specialized on aquatic game such as 10-foot sawfish and giant coelacanths. | |
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Joker from Mass Effect. He can only barely walk (slowly) on his feet due to brittle bone disease but is probably the best human starship pilot alive. The hanar are basically sentient jellyfish, and can only move on ground through the use of special fields that hold them up. In their native oceans, however, they can apparently move with astonishing speed and agility - they're actually predators, and their tentacles are strong enough to break a grown man's neck (Zaeed mentions having to wear a neckbrace for months after one tried to strangle him). |
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Philip, the protagonist of the novel Of Human Bondage, was born with a club foot and walks with a limp, but is a strong swimmer. | |
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Captain Bartlett from Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War makes reference to this when he's forced to drive a car while the player supports him from the air, claiming that only being able to move in two dimensions "really cramps my style". | |
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Iron Man is graceful and agile while flying through the air, but looks pretty awkward trying to run down an airplane ramp or even walk down a set of stairs. | |
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In Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Rokea (were-sharks) are clumsier on land. | |
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Victor Krum in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is described as duck-like on land, but fantastically gifted on a broomstick. | |
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No One Needed to Know: Donald struggles with fine motor tasks like unlocking a door or carrying a tray of food, but he turns out to be a surprisingly good bowler. He beats all the other kids in his special ed program. | |
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Rena Hirose from Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere may be a borderline example: she is not extraordinary clumsy but confined to indoors due to allergy to sunlight; flying planes with closed cockpits and external cameras is the only means for her to see the outside—and so she became a distinguished Ace Pilot. Captain Bartlett from Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War makes reference to this when he's forced to drive a car while the player supports him from the air, claiming that only being able to move in two dimensions "really cramps my style". |
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Suletta Mercury, heroine of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, is normally a timid, socially-awkward, stuttering Country Mouse. Inside the cockpit of her Humongous Mecha Aerial, however, she becomes a serene and at times almost playful One-Man Army, capable of shredding enemy Mobile Suits with terrifying ease. | |
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In an episode of Family Matters, Eddie hires his friend Waldo at the Burger Fool he manages as a favor, but Waldo is incompetent at everything he's assigned to do. Carl tells Eddie a story of a police officer he knew who had a similar problem to help Eddie realize the importance of playing to a person's strengths. For Waldo, this was cooking and his performance improved drastically behind the grill. For the officer Carl used to demonstrate the point, it was going undercover in a dress to lure out muggers. | |
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Another sport-related example is Harold "Stinker" Pinker in the Jeeves and Wooster novels; he can't cross a room without tripping over something, but put him on a rugby field and he turns into an unstoppable juggernaut. | |
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Pokémon: Cherrim is an otherwise forgettable Grass-type, but when it's sunny out, it blooms, granting its partners in double and triple battles boosted Attack and Special Defense. There is a reason why the final opponent in Pokémon Battle Revolution uses Cherrim in one of his teams, otherwise filled up completely with Olympus Mons. Rotom is a Fragile Speedster on its own—it can pack some hurt, but it requires a lot of savvy from the player to get a lot of mileage out of one. Once Rotom possesses a household electrical appliance, it becomes a Lightning Bruiser, with greatly increased stats and versatility. Appliance-Rotom has since become a staple Pokémon in competitive battling in all four environments, something very few Pokémon can claim. As more general examples, a number of Pokémon Abilities related to weather reflect this trope: Swift Swim (Speed doubles in the rain), Chlorophyll (Speed doubles in the sun), Sand Rush (Speed doubles in a sandstorm), Solar Power (Special Attack increases in the sun but takes damage), Sand Force (certain attacks do more damage in a sandstorm), Sand Veil (evasion increases in a sandstorm), Snow Cloak (evasion increases in hail), Rain Dish (continually heals in the rain), and Ice Body (continually heals in hail). |
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Godzilla tends to be a lumbering Mighty Glacier on land but is surprisingly fast and graceful in water. He deliberately takes advantage of this in Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019), where he drags King Ghidorah underwater for a Homefield Advantage against the non-swimming dragon. | |
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Sid the sloth in Ice Age is hardly graceful on land, but a throwaway gag showed him as a skilled ice skater while Diego and Manny slip and fall. This came in useful towards the end when it turns out he's equally good at skiing. And let's not forget the part where, upon losing part of his makeshift skis, he just starts snowboarding instead, becoming even more graceful. It is awesome. | |
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In Magic: The Gathering, the Weatherlight is a lousy sailing ship - its two masts and sails extend mostly horizontally from its sides, its hull's cross-section leaves it vulnerable to choppy water, its vanes are right on the waterline making the ship prone to swamping, it requires two rudders to maneuver effectively, and its anchor is awkwardly placed at the rear of the ship right beneath the crew bunks. In the air, however, the Weatherlight is swift and graceful, and capable of planeshifting itself and its crew to any destination. | |
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Vulture of Shaman Blues - he's impossibly graceful in the air, but his manner on the ground is reminescent of a duck with sea sickness. | |
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Perfect Strangers started out portraying Balki this way. When doing things he really knew how to do, he was competent and at ease. | |
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Gura Gawr, of the English branch of hololive, struggles with most video games. The exception is Rhythm Games, where she can consistently pull off perfect runs. | |
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Spider-Man: On open ground, Spider-Man can manage a decent athletic run or awkward but effective long jumps... but give him tall things to swing from and bounce off of, and his entire mode of locomotion completely changes, and it becomes blatantly clear why people call him 'amazing', 'spectacular', and 'web-slinger'. | |
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Eric starts the Spells, Swords, & Stealth series as a small town guard and not a very good one. However, all that marching and training and armor still serves him well as he discovers after setting out as an adventurer that much more naturally faster and agile out of armor than in. This ends up making him a better fit as his adventuring party's rogue than their paladin, which he had been originally planning to be. | |
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Natsu's Edolas counterpart in Fairy Tail, as opposed to the real Natsu's extreme motion sickness. Edolas Natsu is an incredible Badass Driver, but take him out of a car, and he quickly melts down. | |
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In Godzilla vs. Kong Kong is left virtually defenseless in their first battle: unarmed and on a boat, Kong stands zero chance against the aquatic Godzilla. Their second fight, however, takes place in Hong Kong after Kong acquires his axe: allowing him to even the odds by utilizing an ape's two greatest skills— tool use and climbing. | |
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Aquaman: In the DC Universe, this is the background of one of the Sea Devils. He's a musclebound oaf on land, but he takes up diving and discovers he's a graceful swimmer. | |
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Mythbusters: One episode tested the myth that it was possible to swim as fast through syrup as through water, and as part of the testing, the crew requested the help of Olympic gold-medalist swimmer Nathan Adrian. The team had initially expected that he would be able to provide consistent swimming times — his control tests for swimming in a trough full of water was indeed very consistent — but once he got to the tests of him actually swimming in syrup, such consistency ended up becoming nonexistent to the point his results had to be thrown out, as evidently, it was such a bizarre and foreign experience to what he had trained for that it threw his technique completely out of whack. | |
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A more metaphorical example in Safehold with Allyn Magwair. For a long time, he's considered to be the most useless of the four villains. He's an awful politician, naval commander, and socialite but when land war starts, he suddenly turns out to be one of Safehold's most skilled generals. | |
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Kamen Rider Kiva: Wataru Kurenai has a crippling social anxiety on top of No Social Skills because of his isolated upbringing, so he is absolutely useless when interacting with people and that's only under the assumption he had not abruptly removed himself from the uncomfortable/unknown situation in the first place. When it comes to playing and repairing violins, he has a justifiedly absolute confidence in his skills and a reputation in the field to boot. | |
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Prince Charlemagne of The Icemark Chronicles walks with a bad limp due to a childhood polio infection, but after some training (and a bit of self-esteem improvement) learns to be a skilled and graceful horseman. | |
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Kine the Fish in Kirby's Dream Land 2, similarly to the previous example, is good at swimming, but can only move at a normal speed on the land by jumping, and can barely move by walking or dashing. In the sequel, however, he's able to dash around on land just as quickly as any of the other animal friends. | |
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In Mekton Zeta, Ace Pilot Mark Benjamin Michaels is described as being "terminally clumsy outside of a cockpit". | |
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Akira Renbokoji in Valvrave the Liberator is an extreme Hikikomori, and absolutely hates having to deal with people in person to the point that she starts freaking out and screams until they leave her alone. However, she is an expert computer hacker and can work miracles while online. Her computer skills become increasingly important as the show goes on. | |
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In Firefly, Dr. Simon Tam is often portrayed as a Fish out of Water, a Core-born fugitive trying to get by on the Rim with the rest of the crew of Serenity. But in the episode "Ariel", where he has to infiltrate a Core hospital to find out what was done to his sister River, it is obvious that he is in his element — not only does he blend in seamlessly, but he even takes over an operation and saves a patient's life, before then proceeding to ream the doctor in charge of the operation a new one in Drill Sergeant Nasty fashion. | |
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Sumia in Fire Emblem: Awakening is a Cute Clumsy Girl with a tendency to trip over thin air. On a pegasus, she can pull a Big Damn Heroes move to pull her leader out of harm's way. This is something her daughter also seems to inherit. | |
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In Address Unknown (Remedy), Derpy's element actually is on land, as her vision problems cause her bigger problems while flying, but once she's demoted to ground deliveries she proves to be an unstoppable mailmare. | |
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Aqua, a filler character in Dragon Ball Z, lumbers about on land like he just got out of bed. His instructor has to constantly remind him what to do. In the water, however, he suddenly looks a lot more alert, able to outspeed Goku like he was standing still and predict all of his movements. | |
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The Secret of NIMH has Jeremy the Crow. Awkward on land to the point of being a ditzy Klutz but in the air, he's a flying ace. | |
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In The Tick, the character Sewer Urchin becomes much less of a Rain Man-like character when a case actually takes the group into the sewers. (The Tick and Arthur, conversely, begin to act the way Sewer Urchin does when he's above ground.) | |
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Orville the albatross in The Rescuers and his brother Wilbur in The Rescuers Down Under. Landing or taking off is an ordeal, but once in the air, pure poetry. (Truth in Television for many seabirds, some of which even sleep in midair.) | |
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The very clumsy Alfredo Linguini in Ratatouille turns out to be exceedingly graceful on roller skates, bringing the dishes to every patron in the restaurant within two seconds via a complicated series of hairpin turns. | |
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