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Sand Is Water

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Sand Is Water	comment	Water is cool, but how much cooler would it be if we replaced it with sand? Rivers, lakes, whirlpools, even whole oceans of sand that behave more or less exactly like a body of water are common in desert settings. Bonus points if ships sail said sandy seas (say that ten times really fast). You will even often find native life swimming in (or above) these seas, with everything from Sand Guppies to threatening Sand Sharks to full-blown Sand Worms. A commonly found type is the sand whirlpool, which works in a similar manner to quicksand in that anyone who steps into one will be quickly pulled down and suffocate. In a broader sense, this can also apply to when anything solid or semi-solid is treated like water. For instance, while swimming in a pool of coins. While sand can act like a fluid, it is a non-Newtonian fluid which means it won't act like water. You can stand on it when it is stationary, for example, but not when it is fluidized. Just about everyone must have seen the experiment where you blow air through sand, giving a fluidized bed that behaves like water. It's also extremely abrasive: anything with sand running over it or through it is likely to be scoured down to nothing fairly quickly unless it's harder than quartz, especially if it has mechanical parts. It's also a tad difficult to breathe sand, whether you attempt it with gills or lungs. But, hey, it's cool enough so we can forgive it. This is often a feature of the Shifting Sand Land, the Sea of Sand and the Thirsty Desert. For another substance that is often treated like funny-looking water, see Lava Is Boiling Kool-Aid. Compare Space Is an Ocean, The Sky Is an Ocean. Contrast Water Is Air.
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Sand Is Water / int_100d4e39	comment	Aladdin: The Series is a major user, including both Dune-like sand worms and a giant shark that could swim through the sand. The landshark was also hunted by a Captain Ahab Captain Ersatz who piloted a flying masted ship until it was killed by a tribe of Koala-like tribesmen.
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Sand Is Water / int_10ddd3d5	comment	Twilight Princess: The fourth dungeon, Arbiter's Grounds, not only features sinking sand but has sand whirlpools.
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Sand Is Water / int_11e566f0	comment	The Reflection: Sea Serpent, besides having the ability to swim in water, he can also swim in loose sand.
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Sand Is Water / int_11e7a4f7	comment	Mushroom Go features the Chainless, a ship built to travel through sand. It's partially powered by magic, and doesn't handle regular sand as well as it does the Mario-style quicksand.
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Sand Is Water / int_1367ce42	comment	Hugh Howey (author of Wool) has another serial novel called Sand in which divers use vibration suits to swim through sand and scavenge treasure.
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Sand Is Water / int_164f12e6	comment	Super Mario Galaxy 2: One part of the "Slipsand Galaxy" level has Mario navigate a large river of quicksand on top of a large bird-shaped raft while at the same time avoiding the cacti and Magikoopas dwelling in the quicksand.
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Sand Is Water / int_168c4727	comment	Guild Wars 2: Zig-zagged. The sands of the Crystal Desert are filled with marine-type animals like land sharks, sand eels, and skimmers (which resemble giant manta rays). However, walking through the sand is just like walking on other land. There are also pits full of quicksand that kill you quickly (similar to video game lava), unlike water which is swimable. However, skimmers can glide over both water and sand, and get the same speed boost for each.
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Sand Is Water / int_169f043b	comment	Apparently, most Zerg units from StarCraft can swim through any material (including steel), not just sand, though they cannot actually move around when buried. This is likely for balance. In StarCraft II, this is handwaved by the Zerg being able to erode any material with millions of micro muscles, effectively making them semi-liquid. Don't think too hard about it.
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Sand Is Water / int_1b604019	comment	The Area 88 manga features a desert aircraft carrier: an aircraft carrier on tracks that can submerge itself in the sand and move around 'underwater.' It doesn't dive like a submarine, though; it pumps sand up to bury itself. It also has a few problems with overheating.
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Sand Is Water / int_1c1ceec7	comment	Any desert of the Monster Hunter franchise has at least one kind of monster that swims through sand, such as Cephalos, Delex, and Cephadrome, all of which can swim through sand like dolphins in water. And then there's Jhen Mohran and Dah'ren Mohran, two massive monsters who are fought in sand-sailing ships.
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Sand Is Water / int_1c45a0d0	comment	The Railsea is an ocean of sand that you can only cross by train. Dangerous monsters will attack the second you step off the rail.
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Sand Is Water / int_1eb6c857	comment	The Sea of Rust in Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is a variant; it's still effectively a dust-ocean, but the "powder" that serves as a water-substitute is actually untold billions of tons of rust flakes, created when some unknown disaster corroded an entire continent-sized mass of Cybertron in a comparative instant.
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Sand Is Water / int_1ed9811d	comment	The original had Sand River.
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Sand Is Water / int_1ed9811f	comment	Wild ARMs 3 replaced all of the wet oceans with sand oceans. You even get a special boat to sail on these sand oceans later. There was an entire ecosystem living in the sand, mostly fish-like monsters and one Optional Boss Sand Worm.
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Sand Is Water / int_1ed98120	type	Sand Is Water
Sand Is Water / int_1ed98120	comment	In Wild ARMs 4, there is a sand inland sea, which, yes, has ships that sail on it. Somewhat subverted as people are able to stand on this "sandsea." On a cutscene at least.
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Sand Is Water / int_20e8e9bd	comment	The Sandopolis Zone in Sonic 3 & Knuckles had sand waterfalls and sand rivers that you slide down.
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Sand Is Water / int_214cc479	comment	Meredith Ann Pierce's The Darkangel Trilogy had a Sea of Dust, over which the heroine sails a skiff in the second book. It's even got fisherfolk, whales, and sea serpents.
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Sand Is Water / int_223c2a48	comment	Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom: On top of the Molduga enemy that acts as a fast Sand Worm in the Gerudo Desert, there are also Sand Seals, walrus-like beasts of burden that swim through sand like it is water.
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Sand Is Water / int_2a5145ed	comment	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning can surf on sand dunes. Oddly, she can do this even when the ground is not sloped enough to facilitate movement. Somewhat justified in that manipulating gravity is one of her powers. Previous games gave us the Sahagin, a (presumably) amphibious animal found next to water. In Lightning Returns we get the Desert Sahagin, which swims through the sand.
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Sand Is Water / int_2cb2e5ed	comment	Breath of Fire IV has dragons that can swim through water, including a transparent, worm-like dragon that lives in a sea of mud.
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Sand Is Water / int_2ccd14d	comment	Secret of Evermore has whirlpools in a sandy area just before the Bugmuck. Which suck you down and then.. spit you back up somewhere else. Weird.
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Sand Is Water / int_2ddf611	comment	The Dark Sun setting has the Sea of Silt. This is a semi-aversion; although it has enough sea-like characteristics to qualify for the trope (pseudo-sailing vessels, silt-monsters), there are also many notable differences. It's described as essentially a gigantic basin full of dry quicksand. In the 4E update of the setting, it was declared that the Sea of Silt is caused by Elemental Chaos leaking through and changing local physics.
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Sand Is Water / int_3055fc61	comment	Golden Sun features an entire dungeon (Venus Lighthouse) devoted to solving puzzles with this trope.
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Sand Is Water / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto: Gaara effortlessly controls sand, and with moves like "Sand Drizzle" and "Sand Waterfall", it's obvious that sand is water for him. Orochimaru once uses a jutsu to let him traverse through dirt like water, even using a Reed Snorkel, to spy on Team 7.
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Sand Is Water / int_30f32521	comment	In Darksiders, a giant desert exists populated by absolutely enormous sand worms swimming easily through it. Strangely, War sinks hip deep into this stuff and his movement slows to a crawl but can run atop it when mounted on his giant horse Ruin...
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Sand Is Water / int_318fe3d2	comment	Etrian Odyssey: Etrian Odyssey: In the first floor of Sandy Barrens (16th floor overall in the Yggdrasil Labyrinth), there are several passageways where sand is flowing steadily, effectively acting as conveyor belts. These cannot be overriden, so the player's character party has to figure out the right path to advance to the next floor. Etrian Odyssey Nexus: The drifting sands originally seen in Sandy Barrens in the first game and its remake make a return here, not only in the first floor of Sandy Barrens once again but also in the Mini-Dungeon Forest of the End (despite its name, it's also a Shifting Sand Land location like Sandy Barrens).
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Sand Is Water / int_31a48e8e	comment	The Outer Limits (1963): The episode "The Invisible Enemy" has several giant monsters swimming through the sands of Mars, "living in the sand like a shark in the ocean!" (They aren't Sand Worms, they have heads and crab claws). The sand sea even has a tide that rises and falls.
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Sand Is Water / int_332cb317	comment	In Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), bodies of sand and bodies of water interact with the player exactly the same way: like bottomless pits. Dusty Desert is a rather egregious example, as if you come in contact with any body of sand, it splashes. And if you happen to let the sand come above a character's ankles, they'll die instantly as if they fell into water.
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Sand Is Water / int_33d31677	comment	Dune: Part Two: When Paul sits with Chani and contemplates the desert, which extends up to the horizon, he tells her about his birth planet of Caladan (both the sea and the constant rain) and to imagine the sands as water, and if one were to dive into it they'd never reach the bottom. Chani has trouble even imagining that much water, and even the concept of "swimming" is utterly foreign to her, having lived all her life on Dune/Arrakis.
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Sand Is Water / int_36ba934d	comment	Etrian Odyssey Nexus: The drifting sands originally seen in Sandy Barrens in the first game and its remake make a return here, not only in the first floor of Sandy Barrens once again but also in the Mini-Dungeon Forest of the End (despite its name, it's also a Shifting Sand Land location like Sandy Barrens).
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Sand Is Water / int_3a41fa82	comment	Mario Party: Island Tour: In the minigame Pokey Corral, the characters stand onto an enormous geyser made of rising sand, though the top's surface has the sand flow away from the center. Due to this, the characters have to move in order to stay in the geyser's top and avoid falling down; some Pokeys rise from the geyser's interior, and being touched by one will stun the affected character, putting them at the risk of being dragged away. Lastly, the geyser's diameter will gradually shrink as well. The last player standing wins, though more than one can win if they resist for 60 seconds.
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Sand Is Water / int_3cfa5020	comment	Tank Girl: Lori Petty takes a shower while in the Water & Power prison. In sand. Mmm. "Rain Lady" corresponds to the character "Sub Girl" from the comics, and plows her submarine through the desert for the Final Battle!
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Sand Is Water / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	Super Mario 64 (The Trope Namer for Shifting Sand Land)
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Sand Is Water / int_45501b8c	comment	Super Metroid: In Maridia, when the Gravity Suit is acquired, water no longer renders Samus sluggish. However, flowing sand pits underwater still slow her down.
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Sand Is Water / int_45799562	comment	Talislanta plays this one fairly straight, with giant sand eels and duneships. Land barges, yet another type of wheeled ship, are a partial subversion, as they're used on flat steppes as well as sand.
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Sand Is Water / int_468bebb0	comment	The Discworld has the Great Nef, a desert with an ocean of dehydrated water (a silvery powder) at its centre. This is explicitly described to be a fourth state of water, only attainable in a high thaumic field. The desert nomads who live there sail on ships that wouldn't look out of place in the Circle Sea. It's also briefly mentioned to be home to very strange fish.
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Sand Is Water / int_495ea55e	comment	Deep Rock Galactic: The Sandblasted Corridors may have actual sandstone rather than sand, but Nayaka Trawlers don't seem to care at all. They're the only ones that get to treat the floor this way however, and it's specifically noted as something really strange they can do. But they will swim through sandstone at you, grab you, and then exploit the fact to you it's still sand to try and subject you to a horrible death through abrasion by dragging you through the sandstone; it's a good thing your heavy armor manages to stave off a lot of that harm.
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Sand Is Water / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII has the Ogir-Yensa and Nam-Yensa sandseas, both massive oceans of quicksand. As if to emphasize that point; there are oil rigs which is basically how the heroes crossed the sandseas, and the native Urutan-Yensa traverse the place on giant fishes.
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Sand Is Water / int_49a88442	comment	Taken to its illogical extreme in Final Fantasy XIV, where you can actually 'fish' in sand.
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Sand Is Water / int_4b6caf38	comment	The Sands of Destruction anime had this. Falling into sand made splashing noises, there were rowboats and motorboats that moved through sand like water, and a pair of apples were once seen falling into the sand...then acting like they were floating downriver. Taken Up to Eleven with a sand ocean... and a boat that docks from the sand ocean to the sand beach. There's also a sand submarine whose engines somehow don't clog, and sand jellyfish (which look like ordinary water jellyfish) and sand whales (which look like giant sea serpents) also live in the sand sea. The manga played it a bit more realistically, with humans being capable of walking on the surface of the sand sea, but the snake-like sand whales still swim in it freely and humans typically use boats to get around on it because they're more efficient than walking.
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Sand Is Water / int_4be1bdd0	comment	Golden Sun: Golden Sun features an entire dungeon (Venus Lighthouse) devoted to solving puzzles with this trope. In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, you get a spell that lets you swim under sand (technically, you turn yourself into a sentient, mobile pile of sand). Which you use in the last dungeon to swim through glass panels to avoid a flamethrower.
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Sand Is Water / int_4c849aac	comment	Played around with in Journey. Sometimes, the sand acts like sand. At other times, you can surf through it like water, and watch it glisten and ripple like water as well. The use of marine animal styles for the "cloth creatures" makes the parallel even stronger.
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Sand Is Water / int_4d6d64dc	comment	In the desert world of Crazy Food Truck, there are still isolated lakes, like in Towata, but many areas of sand have sea life in them, like squid and oysters. Gordon mentions that life "adapted and evolved" (in only a few hundred years since the Unspecified Apocalypse).
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Sand Is Water / int_5075737a	comment	In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, you get a spell that lets you swim under sand (technically, you turn yourself into a sentient, mobile pile of sand). Which you use in the last dungeon to swim through glass panels to avoid a flamethrower.
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Sand Is Water / int_52e8fba	comment	Land of Oz: In The Road to Oz, the fifth book of the Oz series, Dorothy, Toto, Button-Bright, Polychrome, and the Shaggy Man travel across the Deadly Desert to Oz in a "sand boat", which is described as "a sleigh with sails and a rudder".
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Sand Is Water / int_554058cf	comment	'Mario Kart 8'': Bone-Dry Dunes is surrounded by sand, with a crew of Toads on a pirate ship that throws coins onto the track.
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Sand Is Water / int_588b7241	comment	In Sonic Forces, the rivers and waterfalls in Green Hill Zone are replaced with sand due to Dr. Eggman's hostile takeover, adding some Shifting Sand Land elements to the stage.
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Sand Is Water / int_5bfa9c98	comment	Mars in Warframe is home to desert skates, which swim in the sand and will attack Tenno and Grineer alike.
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Sand Is Water / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, far to the south, near the Pole, people actually have sand ships that are used as transport and in warfare.
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Sand Is Water / int_5e3832b5	comment	Sand Zone from Cave Story features aptly named sand crocs which prey on any hapless victim that falls into otherwise solid sand in which they can seemingly swim.
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Sand Is Water / int_645c39bd	comment	Stella Glow: One of the field battles set in the desert features many elevations, some going by discrete increments and others forming a continuous slope. Visually, both kinds have their sand flow towards a sinkhole (the one where the characters always start the battle), but it's the slope which affects gameplay: In every turn that passes, a character who is placed in a tile within this slope will be dragged one step closer to the starting area (the sinkhole), which makes mobility difficult.
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Sand Is Water / int_6a8ce345	comment	Avatar: In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the nomadic tribes of the Earth Kingdom's Si Wong Desert specialize in manipulating the sand that surrounds them (other earthbenders can do little more with sand than make a few puffs of dust unless they practice diligently) so the water-like behaviour is justified, since it's derived from their mystical bending powers; consequentially, their movements are more akin to those of a waterbender. They apply this power to use small sand skiffs to sail around in. In The Legend of Korra episode "Long Live the Earth Queen," Korra and Asami use a sand-ship to escape from a gigantic sand fish.
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Sand Is Water / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons has several examples: The Greyhawk setting. The Sea of Dust had "dust lakes" which acted like water, including supporting boats and allowing people to swim through it.In one Greyhawk novel, a group sets out to cross the Sea of Dust, using a ship outfitted with huge inflated wheels. This becomes a subversion when the wheels get punctured by cacti and the ship is left immobile, something that wouldn't happen on the water. Bulettes are monsters that are more or less quadrupedal, armored land sharks. The asherati are a desert-dwelling humanoid race with the ability to "sandswim," and can dive through loose sand as easily as a fish moves through water. They navigate beneath the sand's surface with light shed by their bodies, and have built entire cities out of sight beneath the dunes. The Abyss also has a river of salt... which will dehydrate you and grate you to a paste if you fall in. The Dark Sun setting has the Sea of Silt. This is a semi-aversion; although it has enough sea-like characteristics to qualify for the trope (pseudo-sailing vessels, silt-monsters), there are also many notable differences. It's described as essentially a gigantic basin full of dry quicksand. In the 4E update of the setting, it was declared that the Sea of Silt is caused by Elemental Chaos leaking through and changing local physics. The Spelljammer D&D setting had merfolk native to... you guessed it, sand.
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Sand Is Water / int_6c96b7	comment	Etrian Odyssey: In the first floor of Sandy Barrens (16th floor overall in the Yggdrasil Labyrinth), there are several passageways where sand is flowing steadily, effectively acting as conveyor belts. These cannot be overriden, so the player's character party has to figure out the right path to advance to the next floor.
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Sand Is Water / int_702a974	comment	In Shadow of the Colossus, there are two colossi that swim through sand. One essentially behaves like a large sand dwelling snake, whereas the other one actually flies, but when first encountered, is living in the sand, and breeches like a whale.
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Sand Is Water / int_72262aee	comment	In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the nomadic tribes of the Earth Kingdom's Si Wong Desert specialize in manipulating the sand that surrounds them (other earthbenders can do little more with sand than make a few puffs of dust unless they practice diligently) so the water-like behaviour is justified, since it's derived from their mystical bending powers; consequentially, their movements are more akin to those of a waterbender. They apply this power to use small sand skiffs to sail around in.
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Sand Is Water / int_72b6933f	comment	Heroic Age in the first episode features a squid-like creature that lives in the sand (though it can also hover above the ground) and has the main character dive into the sand to wrestle it underground.
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Sand Is Water / int_7385bc4d	comment	Sand ships and sand dolphins can be purchased in the ridiculously advanced future of Doraemon; in Doraemon: Nobita's Dorabian Nights, Nobita and company discover that Sinbad the Sailor (of the Arabian Nights) was the beneficiary of such gifts from a grateful time traveling tourist who'd got stranded in the desert and saved by Sinbad.
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Sand Is Water / int_74c659e6	comment	Rocket Age's Mars has Silt Seas, full of life. Good luck trying to swim in it if you're not evolved to, however, although you can sail over it.
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Sand Is Water / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda series likes this trope. Numerous games feature monsters that swim through sand, including but not limited to Leevers, Lanmolas, Moldorms, and (in The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks) Malgyorgs. Most of them are worms of some sort, but Malgyorgs are sand-swimming sharks. Link's Awakening: A sand whirlpool appears on a single screen of the Yarna Desert. A Lanmolas appears here as a Mini-Boss, and defeating it is necessary to get a key that opens the entrance to a dungeon. Ocarina of Time has a giant river of sand flowing through the desert. Using the Hookshot to latch onto a wooden post at the other side is necessary to avoid falling onto it. The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: Oracle of Seasons has a small desert with sand whirlpools and a half-buried pirate ship. One of the major quests is to get the ship unburied and back out to sea. Oracle of Ages has a mole miniboss who does this, attacking from underneath with its drill-nose. Fortunately, it's completely helpless aboveground when dug up. Twilight Princess: The fourth dungeon, Arbiter's Grounds, not only features sinking sand but has sand whirlpools. Spirit Tracks: This is how Malgyorgs move through it. Most sand-dwelling enemies in the Zelda series are worms of some sort, but Malgyorgs are sand-swimming sharks (serving as distant cousins of the sea-dwelling Gyorgs from Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass). Skyward Sword: Many rivers of sand flow across Lanayru Desert, and it's even justified because you're using crystals that revert their surroundings to their past state. Most of the desert was once an ocean. It's also exemplified in the Lanayru Sand Sea, where the effect of the Timeshift Stone in Skipper's boat transforms the vast ocean of sand into water as you move along. Played straight, however, with a scorpion the size of a bus that can instantly burrow itself in the sand and move around, which you unbury with a reverse vacuum cleaner. Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom: On top of the Molduga enemy that acts as a fast Sand Worm in the Gerudo Desert, there are also Sand Seals, walrus-like beasts of burden that swim through sand like it is water.
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Sand Is Water / int_7559ae0b	comment	Dune: Sandworms swim through the deserts like through the water. The sandworms also generated intense heat and triggered some extremely powerful electromagnetic storms from all the friction. The sandworms' larvae are plankton-like and serve a similar function in the sand ecology. Played even straighter with tidal dust basins, basins of dust so deep they have tides, which an unwary traveler can wander into and die. Shortly after the Atreides' arrival on Arrakis, one House soldier declares his readiness for a nice hot shower, only to be told that he'll have to make do with sand. In The Film of the Book 'Children of Dune', James McAvoy discovered that sand is most definitely NOT water (see 2:28 - 3:05 of this interview).
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Sand Is Water / int_7579423f	comment	On Banjo-Kazooie's sixth level, Gobi's Desert, there are pools of sand that have small waves going across them, almost like boiling water. Obviously, entering these pools without the Wading Boots is hazardous to your health.
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Sand Is Water / int_78d41a8b	comment	Tress of the Emerald Sea has oceans of spores — however, they are explicitly stated to behave as liquids due to liquefaction caused by air emissions beneath the surface, and as a result can solidify, causing ships to become stranded until the emissions start up again.
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Sand Is Water / int_78eaa75d	comment	In The Atlantropa Articles, Ansel has a massive ship that sails through the sands of the Kiln desert.
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Sand Is Water / int_7a4fcde	comment	In Klonoa 2: Lunatea's Veil, you can surf on sand with the surfboard after the Sea of Tears has been dried up. The failed physics is corrected somewhat when you account for a floating board.
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Sand Is Water / int_7f87dafc	comment	Mobile Suit Gundam SEED attempts a justification by saying the sand-ships use a "scale system", where the vibrations of micro-scales propel the ship in the same fashion as a fish's fins. Naturally, it works just as well underwater.
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Sand Is Water / int_7fb486bc	comment	Link's Awakening: A sand whirlpool appears on a single screen of the Yarna Desert. A Lanmolas appears here as a Mini-Boss, and defeating it is necessary to get a key that opens the entrance to a dungeon.
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Sand Is Water / int_7fbd6753	comment	Thunder Cats 2011 has the Sand Sea in "Ramlak Rising," with waves, tides, storms, flying pirate ships and sea monsters great and small. Oases are reimagined as islands of water. Landlubbers are screwed either way.
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Sand Is Water / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: Super Mario 64 (The Trope Namer for Shifting Sand Land) Another possibly ridiculous example from Mario Teaches Typing has Mario do the front stroke swimming through quick sand with a somewhat goofy expression. Many subsequent Mario games use the same idea again, for instance Dry Dry Desert in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!. 'Mario Kart 8'': Bone-Dry Dunes is surrounded by sand, with a crew of Toads on a pirate ship that throws coins onto the track. Super Mario Galaxy 2: One part of the "Slipsand Galaxy" level has Mario navigate a large river of quicksand on top of a large bird-shaped raft while at the same time avoiding the cacti and Magikoopas dwelling in the quicksand. Mario Party: Island Tour: In the minigame Pokey Corral, the characters stand onto an enormous geyser made of rising sand, though the top's surface has the sand flow away from the center. Due to this, the characters have to move in order to stay in the geyser's top and avoid falling down; some Pokeys rise from the geyser's interior, and being touched by one will stun the affected character, putting them at the risk of being dragged away. Lastly, the geyser's diameter will gradually shrink as well. The last player standing wins, though more than one can win if they resist for 60 seconds.
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Sand Is Water / int_82643b4b	comment	In Zoids: New Century, the aquatic Zoid War Shark got the ability to swim through sand as well.
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Sand Is Water / int_862e754d	comment	The makers of Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak said that they intended to make a "naval" game. What with the aircraft carrier on treads. Wind-powered sand ships capable of making the trip from pole to pole appear in the backstory.
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Sand Is Water / int_86814cd2	comment	In Final Fantasy IX, the sand that flows through and down Cleyra acts very much like water. There are even floodgates for it. There are also sand whirlpools here and in one of the deserts, which will pull you under if you step into them.
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Sand Is Water / int_86814e56	comment	Figaro Castle in Final Fantasy VI was able to turn into a sand-submarine and move between two deserts.
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Sand Is Water / int_8ac4e993	comment	Most incarnations of Gundam have at least one "Land Battleship" that behaves like a seagoing ship, only in the desert. The biggest offender is probably Kazuhisa Kondo's manga adaptation of the original Mobile Suit Gundam, in which the Federation's Big Tray class, a futuristic giant hovercraft/tank thing in the original has been completely redesigned to look like a naval ship & features prominently throughout the "Earth-Arc", "sailing" around a desertified Eastern Europe (possibly justified as being actual naval ships that had simply been retrofitted with amphibious capability, but it's still a bloody silly thing to do). Mobile Suit Gundam SEED attempts a justification by saying the sand-ships use a "scale system", where the vibrations of micro-scales propel the ship in the same fashion as a fish's fins. Naturally, it works just as well underwater.
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Sand Is Water / int_8c87469c	comment	Skyward Sword: Many rivers of sand flow across Lanayru Desert, and it's even justified because you're using crystals that revert their surroundings to their past state. Most of the desert was once an ocean. It's also exemplified in the Lanayru Sand Sea, where the effect of the Timeshift Stone in Skipper's boat transforms the vast ocean of sand into water as you move along. Played straight, however, with a scorpion the size of a bus that can instantly burrow itself in the sand and move around, which you unbury with a reverse vacuum cleaner.
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Sand Is Water / int_8e29cc6c	comment	Many subsequent Mario games use the same idea again, for instance Dry Dry Desert in Mario Kart: Double Dash!!.
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Sand Is Water / int_8fda7950	comment	One history of Larry Niven, also of his Known Space, takes place in a planet covered by sand-like organic compounds (fullerenes) that behave like a liquid and have almost null friction.
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Sand Is Water / int_916f149a	comment	In Lanfeust of the Stars, a planet has oceans of sand due to a strong planetary magnetic field (that also prevents spacecraft from entering the atmosphere anywhere but at the poles). Bonus points for having ships hunting sand-whales — including a giant white one.
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Sand Is Water / int_924b6d63	comment	One of the early areas in Xenogears involves a massive desert large enough to have ships "sailing" on it, along with gigantic unseen creatures such as "sand whales" and a "desert remora". The Cool Boat you get is one such sandships, which eventually upgrades to a sea vessel and an airship as the plot progresses. Some attention is actually paid to the technology needed to make the sand-sub work, which can make the scientific inaccuracy more or less egregious depending on the individual.
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Sand Is Water / int_927e9d08	comment	Played straight in Cardcaptor Sakura when Sakura and Syaoran are attacked by "The Sand" card whose main power appears to be this trope, even creating a sand whirlpool!
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Sand Is Water / int_93b9b77c	comment	Nexus War has rivers of dust in the plane of Nifleheim. For gameplay purposes they're treated exactly like water. If you can't swim, you'll drown. If you can breathe water through mystical skill or magical potion, you can breathe dust too.
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Sand Is Water / int_9b1b6065	comment	Side Eye, a Hammerhead shark Rabbid and one of the bosses of the Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle DLC "DK Adventure" moves around by swimming into sand with only his fin poking out of the sand. Like, you know, sharks.
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Sand Is Water / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Used during an anime filler section of the Alabasta arc where Luffy comes across pirates whose ships can travel on the desert for some reason. Senor Pink of the Donquixote Pirates takes this Up to Eleven, as his Devil Fruit, the Sui Sui no Mi (Swim Swim Fruit), allows him to swim through any solid surface. Ironic when you remember that all Devil Fruits rob the user of their ability to swim in water. Jinbe's Seraphim clone, S-Shark, has an artificial copy of Senor Pink's Devil Fruit, which is made outright deadly by the fact that it synergizes with his inherited Fishman Karate skills, letting him manipulate solid ground in the same way the original Jinbe manipulates water.
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Sand Is Water / int_9ef055f4	comment	Several enemies in the Ratchet & Clank series fit here. But the most appropriate is the 'sand shark' from the first game. Walking, chomping shark heads that pop up and try to eat you when you get close enough.
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Sand Is Water / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind: Secco's Stand, Oasis, gives him the ability to treat any stone or earth as this. It's a virtually unbeatable combo with his partner, Cioccolata, whose Green Day generates a virulent fungal infection that spreads extremely rapidly, but only when its victims move to a lower elevation. JoJolion: Doremifasolati Do can burrow through ground like its water, but this only applies to natural ground like soil.
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Sand Is Water / int_d36b8ea7	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games: Oracle of Seasons has a small desert with sand whirlpools and a half-buried pirate ship. One of the major quests is to get the ship unburied and back out to sea. Oracle of Ages has a mole miniboss who does this, attacking from underneath with its drill-nose. Fortunately, it's completely helpless aboveground when dug up.
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Sand Is Water / int_d803ecde	comment	Ben 10: Omniverse: The Tetramand home planet has Sand Rippers, half-Land Shark half-Sand Worm creatures that swim through sand with a visible dorsal fin and gills.
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Sand Is Water / int_da448595	comment	Spirit Tracks: This is how Malgyorgs move through it. Most sand-dwelling enemies in the Zelda series are worms of some sort, but Malgyorgs are sand-swimming sharks (serving as distant cousins of the sea-dwelling Gyorgs from Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker and Phantom Hourglass).
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Sand Is Water / int_e944602	comment	Goblin Slayer: The desert of Volume 11 has sand-dwelling magic sealife and boat-riding nomads. One of the locals in the capital city of the desert kingdom outright calls it "the sand sea".
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Mark Rober (Web Video) / int_bf8de9e4	type	Sand Is Water
The Kaskade Region (Web Video) / int_bf8de9e4	type	Sand Is Water
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