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Up, Up and Away!
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The classic Flying pose: stretched out, with one or both arms forward of/above the head. In both cases, this creates the illusion of 'obvious' aerodynamicness, as the resulting shape looks vaguely bullet or gooselike, since the human body tends to look very silly in flight otherwise. There is a very early example in the third panel of the children‘s strip Mr. Twee Deedle for January 26, 1913, by Johnny Grulle. From Superman's catch phrase, originated on radio to indicate to the audience when he was taking off, in his earlier cartoons and comics. Examples |
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Metroman usually uses this pose when flying in Megamind. When Hal Stewart is given Metroman's powers, he initially flies like he's driving a car, until Megamind admonishes him to "be more like Metroman." Given his inexperience, though, he spends a good bit of his airtime spinning and flailing around. | |
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Astro Boy: It's an iconic pose of The Mighty Atom. | |
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In Kryptonite Nevermore, Superman flies stretching his left fist upwards in the first page. | |
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Hurricane Helms and Captain New Japan fly in the arm bent way in their video packages. | |
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Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny averts this in "Super Rabbit" as he flies along with arms by his side. Wile E. Coyote tries to do this in "Fast and Furry-ous" dressed in a superhero outfit. Naturally, he plummets to the ground. Played straight with Daffy Duck in "Stupor Duck." |
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A variant in Wreck-It Ralph, when the titular character attempts his Heroic Sacrifice: Ralph is actually in freefall, but with his fist extended towards the ground, making him assume the classic Superman pose. | |
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The characters of Lyrical Nanoha typically don't fly in this manner, but in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny, the ever flashy Large Ham Levi once decided to adopt the one arm outstretched◊ pose when she joins her fellow Material Stern in her flight towards a Suicide Mission against the Unbreakable Darkness. | |
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In Supermom, Paragon uses the one-fist version as her standard flying pose. | |
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The title character of Captain Planet and the Planeteers does this. | |
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The Dragon Ball series has flying poses of all kinds: hands extended (curled into fists or kept straight), hands back, one hand stretched, etc. | |
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Spoofed in the "Paradise" part of La Divina Commedia a Fumetti (a comic book parody of The Divine Comedy), where Beatrice instructs Dante to assume this pose, Dante does so and asks why, and she replies it's because it looks cooler as you fly-and that's when Dante notices he's been flying. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin, wearing a cape (but not in full costume), shouts "Up, up and away!", leaps into the air with arms outstretched and lands flat on his belly. | |
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Averted in Nightman, who uses an anti-gravity belt to fly. He flies in a mostly vertical pose (sometimes at a 45-degree angle). | |
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In "Ayla and the Tests" of the Whateley Universe, Phase (after a couple months of having powers) is ''still' learning how to fly without having serious steering and angular momentum problems. He gets major grief from some other students because he's seen flying in the 'Supergirl' posture. In keeping with the series' love for metahumor, at one point Generator tries out several different flying poses, including the two-fisted "Superman" style and the one-arm-forward "Supergirl" posture. |
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WordGirl uses this constantly. | |
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The Powerpuff Girls | |
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Oh Yeah! Cartoons has The Fairly OddParents! "Super Humor" short, where Comet Commando Timmy fails to say this as he crashes into stuff. | |
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The Ninja Megafalconzord from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. | |
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Parodied in XCOM: Enemy Unknown: when an operative uses the Grappling Hook to reach a higher ground, they sometimes quip "Up, up, and away!" while being pulled up—with their right hand naturally outstretched, because said hook is built into their Powered Armor's arm. | |
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Unsurprisingly, Supergirl (2015) features the lead character flying with her fists stretched out◊. Briefly averted just after Supergirl gets her powers back in "Human for a Day," when she flies with her arms at her sides while searching for earthquake-related emergencies to help out with. | |
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Freakazoid! subverts this. He attempts this pose when trying to fly, only to realize he actually can't fly. This is followed by Freakazoid running around (often completely aimlessly) with both arms stretched over his head and making "whoosh" sounds to simulate flying anyway. Please note he can run super fast like The Flash, he just chooses to run like a little kid because it amuses him. | |
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Subverted two times in With Strings Attached. John wouldn't dare pose like this in flight; he'd probably drop right out of the sky. He usually hooks his thumbs in the waistband or belt loops of whatever pants he's wearing. And Paul, just after receiving Super-Strength and thinking he's been turned into Superman, leaps into the air yelling the phrase—only to discover, several thousand feet up, that he can't actually fly. Good thing he's Nigh-Invulnerable. | |
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Mazinger Z: The titular Humongous Mecha almost always assumes this position when it flies, curling its hands into fists or keeping them straight. | |
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In Schlock Mercenary, Sergeant Schlock goes so far as to grow a third arm to look cool in this strip. | |
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Solar Exalted are required to keep at least one arm extended to fly. Other types of Exalted have different limitations. | |
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Disney's Peter Pan doesn't give a second thought to aerodynamics and is able to fly backwards, upside down, or while pretending to run on clouds. | |
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Peter from Peter Pan & the Pirates would frequently fly forwards, backwards, in a sitting position, sideways, upside-down....as characters go, Peter just loves to show off, in any incarnation! | |
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Supergirl: Kara has been doing this since the late fifties. In the cover of Action Comics #252 -her first appearance- she is flying upwards with her left arm above her head. Two◊ examples◊ from Krypton No More respectively. Her second solo book's first issue's cover◊ Kara◊ in Many Happy Returns. Post Crisis Supergirl in the cover of Supergirl (Vol. 5), issue #20◊'' Kara puts an arm forward while she flies to hospital in Young Love |
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In The Ren & Stimpy Show, Powdered Toast Man inverts the trope by flying backwards in the pose. At least once, he did it while upright. | |
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Peter Pan doesn't say it straight, but it is strongly implied that you can't fly with one hand bound behind your back. That, and it's hard to have happy thoughts while being fed to a crocodile. |
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Axe Cop has a variation on this: in order to fly, he has to clench one hand and leave the other open. According to Word of God, this is because some superheroes fly with closed hands and some fly with open ones, so Axe Cop does both at once. | |
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Before Iron Man The Rocketeer flew the same way, for roughly the same reason (although he lacked the hand-mounted stabilizers). Interesting to note, Cliff is the only user of the jetpack who attempts to fly this way, everyone else tries to maintain a vertical "standing" posture. He's also the only real pilot in the film to use it, meaning he knows more about aviation principles. | |
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Kara puts an arm forward while she flies to hospital in Young Love | |
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In the first Legion of Super Heroes (2006) animated episode, the novice Clark Kent is brought to the future. As he has been keeping everything under wraps, he hasn't flown yet — but the Legion needs him at full capacity. He spends most of the episode careening about and crashing — until Brainiac 5 tells him to adopt the traditional pose — for aerodynamic reasons. It takes him a while to get the hang of it, though. And his own flight ring. | |
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The Pumaman: Averted. Puma Man flies in an odd crouching position presumably meant to be reminiscent of a puma in mid-pounce. | |
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In Shazam! fanfiction Here There Be Monsters, the Marvel family often adopt an "arms stretched forward" stance while soaring across the space. | |
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Man of Steel gives you the sense that Superman doesn't do this just because, but because it helps him. He actively flies in this pose almost every time he needs to really pick up speed. It also seems to help him guide his flight path as well as stabilize his flight similar to a rudder. Since in this movie Superman flies evidently by some sort of gravity/telekinesis field, it's possible that the outstretch arms help keep this "field" stable. | |
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Sanae in Touhou Project, and only rarely. Notable because in a series with over a hundred flying characters, nobody else seems to do it. Justified since she is one of the few who'd know and be into the trope. Of course, arms-out is his standard flight pose in games with flight power-ups. One theory is that this is because one-arm-up is already taken for his jumping pose, and his arms are too stubby to look aerodynamic or cool if he holds them both over his head. |
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The first time in The Greatest American Hero that Ralph Hinkley tries to use his alien-powered supersuit to fly, a young bystander helpfully explains to him that he has to adapt this pose to get airborne. It works, sort of. | |
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Played with in The Matrix: Path of Neo as Neo does the one-arm pose when taking off once, but for actual flight it's arms to the side like in Film/The Matrix example above. | |
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In a parody sketch on Saturday Night Live, a superhero was chastised by her Super Team for, among other things, failure to assume the "proper" flying position; she flew while standing upright. | |
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Kryptonian clones/counterparts Bizarro and Bizarrogirl also fly putting both fists forward. | |
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Tsuna from Reborn! (2004) uses his flames as a propellant, like the Iron Man example below, as such depending on where he needs his thrust he will point his hands in that direction. | |
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Danny from Danny Phantom who does it often. The same rule applies to his Opposite-Sex Clone and the Big Bad. Not a lot of ghost baddies do this though, must be more of a hero thing. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, while Nanase never felt the need to assume this pose while flying, Elliot certainly did. It may have had something to do with the Super Hero spell. | |
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In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Izuku strikes this pose while flying straight through the body of the Starro robot during the U.A. Entrance Exam. | |
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Star Brand, from Marvel's The New Universe, subvert this once or twice. Once while depressed the character was flying while in a classic moping pose, legs crossed as if sitting 'indian style', elbows on his knees and his cheeks resting on his hands. | |
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Even though they're miniature winged horses rather than humanoids, pegasus ponies (usually Rainbow Dash) in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic often do this when flying fast. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Voyage of the Damned", two of the robotic Host assume this position when flying the Doctor up to the bridge, in order to smash through the ceiling to gain entry. | |
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Super Mario Galaxy. The flight power from the Red Stars seems to be centered in Mario's hands, and he needs to hold them outward to fly or hover. | |
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In Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, when the superhero-styled Pokémon Palafin is in its Hero form, it briefly assumes the classic 'one fist overhead' pose when it switches into battle and when it attacks. | |
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Ultraman and his relatives tend to fly with both hands forwards, or whatever emphasizes their streamlined alien look. The fist-raised pose and its variants come in when they transform, like they're punching upwards in scale. | |
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Superman would be the Trope Codifier. Golden and early Silver Age Superman artist Wayne Boring's flight style for Superman was quite unique: he would draw flight scenes with Superman standing completely upright and in a running/jogging pose, like so◊. In War World both Superman and Supergirl stretch one or two arms forward when they fly across the galaxy, searching Warworld. In Kryptonite Nevermore, Superman flies stretching his left fist upwards in the first page. Christopher Reeve flew gliders as a hobby and used that experience to make Superman's flying feel more believable in his films. |
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Optimus Primal did this a lot in the first season of Beast Wars, before he got proper flight modes. Season three had his flight mode stuck in the "both arms forward" position, replacing his head with G1 Prime's spark cockpit. |
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Her second solo book's first issue's cover◊ | |
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Post Crisis Supergirl in the cover of Supergirl (Vol. 5), issue #20◊'' | |
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The Iron Giant does this as an (in-universe) tribute to Superman. The rocket-powered giant really doesn't need to do this, but Hogarth insists for style purposes. | |
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In War World both Superman and Supergirl stretch one or two arms forward when they fly across the galaxy, searching Warworld. | |
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In Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Supergirl crossover The Vampire of Steel, Kara Zor-El deliberately puts both arms forward when she streaks towards Sunnydale. | |
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Played straight with Mighty Mouse as he's essentially a Superman expy. | |
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Sprint Vector, being a VR game, has the player make a two-fisted pose to glide through the air. | |
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Kamen Rider: Skyrider | |
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In Supergirl (1984), director Jeannot Szwarc deliberately tried to avoid making the flight scenes similar to those in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies, opting instead for a more "feminine" ballet-inspired take. Nevertheless, some promotional images◊ featured Kara flying with a fist stretched out. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Friendship Games: Rainbow Dash takes the classic pose after she "ponies up" during the motocross race and gains her wings, flying toward the monstrous plants to fight them. | |
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Averted in much of The Matrix film trilogy, as Neo generally "does his Superman thing" with arms to his side. Later, in The Matrix Revolutions, Neo and Smith exchange their flight poses to meet the need for fighting. Near the end of The Matrix Resurrections, Neo attempts to fly with this pose, but is only able to jump slightly off the ground before falling normally. | |
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When City of Heroes added flight poses, one was the classical one knee bent, one fist forward Up Up And Away pose, and another was the both hands forward "high dive" one. | |
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Kara has been doing this since the late fifties. In the cover of Action Comics #252 -her first appearance- she is flying upwards with her left arm above her head. | |
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Fancy Apartments has Herbert, a vampire, parodying this by flying through Vrotheus superman-style. | |
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