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Traveling Landmass
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A landmass (usually an island) that is always on the move across the waters, making it difficult to find. Because of this, it's thought to not exist by most people, until one of the main characters finds it. This may overlap with Turtle Island, when the reason the landmass moves around is because it's on the back of a large living creature. See also The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday. Supertrope of Floating Continent and Mobile City. |
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The official explanation (in the Discworld Companion) for some discrepancies about Chimeria (originally said to be the home of Hrun the Barbarian in The Colour of Magic, so probably near the Hub; mentioned in Jingo as one of the Klatchian countries; and shown on the Mapp as being near Llamados) is that it wanders about a bit. | |
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Doom Patrol: The Doom Patrol is allied with Danny the Street, a sapient, talking, mobile, transvestite street able to move from city to city, including at one point getting the team into the "city-like" base underneath the Pentagon. | |
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Sonic The Hedgehog: Angel Island moves through the sky, and the original Japanese manuals say that the sea-bound island of the first game also moves around. | |
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Justice League International: Kooey Kooey Kooey isn't always on the move, but sometimes it decides to wander for a bit. | |
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Humanx Commonwealth: Quofum, a planet, has an annoying habit of not being there when one goes to look for it. It turns out that the entire planet is some kind of dimension-hopping starship. | |
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Tower of God: The forest wherein walkhaiksong HQ is located can be transported as Urek Mazino's Space Compression power. Multiple shineuh (heavenly god fish which look like space whales) are speculated to be this trope. The sea cow on the 21st floor was able to contain Urek for long enough a time for him to be deemed a problem on the floor. Since TOG is such an expansive universe it's been said that there could be islands like this. |
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Discworld: Jingo: The island of Leshp is a giant pumice dome that gets filled up with gas, rises to the surface, floats around a bit, then sinks again every couple of hundred years after causing a war or two. The official explanation (in the Discworld Companion) for some discrepancies about Chimeria (originally said to be the home of Hrun the Barbarian in The Colour of Magic, so probably near the Hub; mentioned in Jingo as one of the Klatchian countries; and shown on the Mapp as being near Llamados) is that it wanders about a bit. |
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The Magic Key: Clutterland is a floating garbage-covered island that is propelled through the sea by a bunch of people named either “Mary� or “Bob� rowing. (No, that doesn’t make any more sense in context.) | |
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Jingo: The island of Leshp is a giant pumice dome that gets filled up with gas, rises to the surface, floats around a bit, then sinks again every couple of hundred years after causing a war or two. | |
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Noah's Island: A polar bear called Noah travels around the world on a floating volcanic island, picking up lost, ostracized and endangered animals and trying to get them to live in harmony. Also noteworthy as rare example of this trope that can be steered to a limited extent, using a sort of Bamboo Technology thruster system powered by the huge pool of molten lava in the centre of the island, which was left by the meteor that's responsible for it breaking off from a larger landmass in the manner of an iceberg. Well, it makes about as much sense as the rest of the show's premise. | |
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Marvel Universe: Krakoa, the Island that Walks Like a Man! and, to a certain extent, Spragg, the Living Hill. | |
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The Witches of Karres: The titular planet is one of these. The residents like it that way, and control where it goes. | |
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Paper Mario 64: One NPC thinks he's seeing one off the docks of Toad Town, as one day it's pretty far away and the next it's right next to the docks. It turns out to be a whale who requests Mario's help. | |
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Final Fantasy IX: The "Chocobo's Air Garden" will hover over one of six random locations on the world map. Once you've been there, its current location can be found on the player's map, but before that it's identifiable by the circular shadow on the ground beneath it (hard to spot if it's over water). Getting there the first time requires the player to dig up all six pieces of the map to the island (which is really just a series of clues to the locations it might be found) by playing the Chocobo Treasure Hunt Mini-game and leveling up the Chocobo's abilities so that it is able to fly AND the use of a Dead Pepper every time the player wants to return to the Garden. The Air Garden gets you access to the last couple of Chocobo treasure maps, the optional super-tough side boss Ozma (but not the ability to HIT it with attacks, that's a whole other side quest), and the most difficult but most rewarding area to play the treasure hunt minigame (helpful if one is trying to pick up some of the semi-unique rewards). |
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Lost: The Island is constantly moving, thanks to a strange pocket of mystical energy. | |
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Dragon Quest VI: One shows up to take people to a heavenly island far away, getting them good and drunk on the way. It's increasingly obvious that it's crewed by demons and leads the party to the second Archfiend, but once that's settled it serves as the party's ship in the dream world (and as a Trauma Inn). | |
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Lizard Music: The lizards' island moves around, and is sometimes closer to shore and sometimes farther out, which is one reason it's so difficult to find. | |
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One Piece has many examples. Most are sky islands and would thus belong to Floating Continent, but there are a few on the ocean surface too: Thriller Bark is an artificial example of one that can also be steered. This was once a normal, stationary island, but Gekko Moriah and his crew managed to tear it off and convert it into their ship, which they've since used to travel around. That being said, Moriah prefers to park it in the Florian Triangle, a foggy region where he can capture people passing by and, with his Mad Scientist crewmate Dr. Hogback, use them for his human experimentation. Zou is notoriously difficult to find and moves around too much to be charted on any maps. Exploited by the Minks, a civilization of Beast Men who live on Zou because Zou moves around and thus they can stay away from the people who would persecute them. Minks instinctively know where to find this place, and being a Mink or consulting one are the only reliable ways to reach it. Zou turns out to be an example of Turtle Island, however, as the island is actually a colossal elephant walking along the ocean floor with his back above the surface. He has been given orders centuries ago to never stop moving and never go near any other populated landmass, which is why Zou is near impossible to locate. He also had orders to never attack anyone, which were rescinded when the elephant comes under attack and Mononosuke, discovering he can give commands, orders the elephant to defend himself. |
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The DCU: Doom Patrol: The Doom Patrol is allied with Danny the Street, a sapient, talking, mobile, transvestite street able to move from city to city, including at one point getting the team into the "city-like" base underneath the Pentagon. Justice League International: Kooey Kooey Kooey isn't always on the move, but sometimes it decides to wander for a bit. |
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The Areas of My Expertise: The 51st state of Ar, or Hoqhoq as the residents call it, is a floating plateau that moves through the skies of North America by unknown means and is known to sporadically disappear altogether. | |
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Malazan Book of the Fallen: The island of Drift Avalii is drifting across the ocean and one would have to know its route to find it. There used to be trade between it and the Malazan Empire, but all the trade ships were lost and the island and its inhabitants were forgotten, which — as far as the latter ones are concerned — may be for the best, because Drift Avalii houses the Throne of Shadow, the possessor of which would have power over the Shadowrealm. It was put there to be out of everyone's reach in the first place, after all. | |
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The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle: Spider Monkey Island. Explained as a freak volcanic bubble during island formation creating a huge air pocket to serve as a float. When the rock at the top of the volcano drops down, it punches a hole in the bottom to fix the island in place. | |
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NationStates: This is the official explanation for how Nations can move between Regions. It's given all of one line about entire nations being airlifted by helicopters and is Played for Laughs when it is mentioned at all. | |
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Oliver and the Seawigs has a whole species of walking islands, which travel upon the ocean floor. Oliver goes looking for his parents with one that he names Cliff. | |
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Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire: Mirage Island does not move around, per se — when it's found, it's always in the same spot — but it tends to drift in and out of existence, appearing and disappearing on a random basis. | |
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Futaba-kun Change!: The Shimaru homeland, which floats around because it is really a crashed spaceship that let the moss grow on the hull a bit over the years. | |
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