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Water Is Air

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Water Is Air	comment	Living underwater sounds like it would be so cool, doesn't it? In fiction, it isn't really that big a deal, because life at the bottom of the ocean is conducted impossibly similarly to life on land. Whether your characters are mermaids, Fish People, or talking, sapient fish and other sea creatures, you'll find that their underwater lifestyles have a lot in common with humans' above-land lifestyle. Most Writers Are Human, after all, and they give the viewers or readers a portrayal they are familiar with. Examples of this type of Creator Provincialism include: Buildings designed by and for mermaids but built with features like stairs (even though they have no legs) and upper story windows (which would function the same as a patio door), and furnished with chairs or beds, even though buoyancy means you would float over them. Bonus points if characters like mermaids ignore this trope and swim in and out of upper story windows anyway. Corals equal plants and grow everywhere. Despite resembling plants, corals are animals (marine invertebrates), and the types typically seen only grow in warm, shallow water. Characters move in two dimensions, walking along the seafloor or swimming near it, despite even humans being capable of vertical movement in water. There's no such thing as swimming up. If they do, it'll be refered to as Flight. Water is always crystal clear. Sand, silt and mud on the sea floor will stay on the seafloor rather than dispersing as clouds of the stuff at the tiniest disturbance. The effects of water pressure and temperature are non-existent. Sound being transmitted as clearly as through air. The direction of sounds will be easy to pinpoint. Between human ears not being adapted to hearing underwater and the higher speed of sound in water, a human would hear muddied sounds coming from every direction at once. If it's daytime, there will be sunlight. This is acceptable for settings taking place in the photic zone but not when it's deeper. Long hair still hangs down instead of drifting with your motion or water currents, and it won't get tangled around your head. Alternatively, long hair will act like it would underwater, but it will just sway around in artistically convenient ways, never tangling or getting in the way. Characters can pour and drink cups of other liquids. This is possible if the liquid has a higher density than and is immiscible with water, but it never looks like it does in fiction. If you really want to stretch it, things can burn. With fire. Yes, underwater. (This is possible with proper fuel, which usually isn't used in this case. This is usually Lampshaded.) Or stretching it to extremes, there are rivers and lakes. Underwater. Which hardly-if-at-all resemble brine pools or the real phenomenon of underwater lakes and almost certainly were not designed with those in mind. Or even more extreme, characters can drown in them.note Technically Truth in Television, as underwater brine pools don't have oxygen. Characters (who can swim) are worried about falling into trenches and off cliffs. If a character somehow finds themselves off the edge of something, gravity magically increases and buoyancy is overridden, as if the character suddenly gained several times their weight. Surface dwellers can all see perfectly clearly underwater and vice versa. All forms of combat can be executed as if on dry land. Projectiles, blades and bludgeons inflict the expected amount of damage despite having to pass through a medium 784 times as dense as air. Any metal, such as iron and steel, somehow doesn't rust quickly or even at all, especially when submerged in salt water. Sinking objects descend at the same speed they would if they were falling through air. In extreme cases, this may even apply to objects lighter than water, like wood or ice. If there are talking animals, creatures like whales, seals, and crocodiles can still talk underwater despite not being able to breathe it.note Actually Truth in Television for cetaceans like whales and dolphins: while they are unable to breathe underwater just like any other mammal, they have specialized vocal organs that allow them to communicate with sound even while holding their breaths underwater. Electronic or paper devices work just as well as on land with no adverse effects. The problems with viewers being able to understand the characters can sometimes be handwaved with Direct Line to the Author. In addition, the setting for underwater fantasy is almost always "under the sea," not "under Lake Michigan" or "under the Amazon River" presumably because it sounds more romantic, even though salt water would introduce yet a few more challenges, such as 'things would rust at really fast rates' and 'having a salty taste constantly in your mouth would probably get annoying faster than permanently wrinkled skin and burning eyes'. In short, replacing air with water requires far more changes to the human anatomy than simply replacing legs with a fishtail and far more research about the laws of physics and biology than most writers bother to do. Fortunately, as mentioned above, the concept is saved by the Rule of Cool and by Acceptable Breaks from Reality. Nobody is going to watch an ocean movie, only to strain their eyes and ears to see or hear anything taking place. Compare Water Is Dry, Space Is an Ocean, Sand Is Water, and Walk, Don't Swim. Contrast The Sky Is an Ocean. Frequently overlaps with Artistic License â€“ Biology, Artistic License â€“ Chemistry, and Artistic License â€“ Physics. Not to be confused with Super Not-Drowning Skills, when characters are given an unexplained ability to survive underwater for an infinite time.
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Water Is Air / int_10175749	comment	The makers of Aquaman didn't bother to maintain continuity with Justice League and had Atlanteans talk freely underwater. Besides, molten lava doesn't quickly solidify underwater, apparently.
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Water Is Air / int_10917acb	comment	The Snorks featured this problem a lot. At least they were smart enough to substitute geothermal vents for fire as their main heat source.
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Water Is Air / int_1360c1cf	comment	The sequel, Finding Dory, doesn't do quite as good a job of averting this. In the post credits scene, we see Gill and the rest of the aquarium fish from the first movie, still in the bags that they escaped in at the end of that movie, despite the fact that Finding Dory takes place a full year after Finding Nemo. And if that's not enough, there's no way those small little bags would have supported those fish an entire year in oxygen alone.
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Water Is Air / int_13652756	comment	Finding Nemo was actually pretty good at averting this, except for the "too much sunlight" problem, which is largely thanks to the Rule of Perception. One of the crew, on the bonus DVD or making of or commentaries or some such, mentions that they actually originally made the water "too realistic," and had to go back and make the effects more "cartoony". One of the most brilliant moments in the movie is when Marlin is shouting after Nemo, who was fishnapped by the dentist. He yells for a while, then goes down, takes a "breath" of water, and goes up and yells after him some more. The sequel, Finding Dory, doesn't do quite as good a job of averting this. In the post credits scene, we see Gill and the rest of the aquarium fish from the first movie, still in the bags that they escaped in at the end of that movie, despite the fact that Finding Dory takes place a full year after Finding Nemo. And if that's not enough, there's no way those small little bags would have supported those fish an entire year in oxygen alone.
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Water Is Air / int_16c83de8	comment	Star Fox 64 did a pretty good job at averting this in its only underwater level, Aquas. Fox operates a submarine, it's dark (although the script implies this is at least partially due to pollution caused by Andross' bioweapon) and the enemies are fitting for the setting. Why Andross would deploy a bioweapon down there is another matter...
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Water Is Air / int_22d74b2e	comment	Mostly averted in Redwall: since the main characters are all mammals, there are very few underwater sequences, and even those involve otters.
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Water Is Air / int_242b4b79	comment	Justice League: Throne of Atlantis: Played straight when a US Navy submarine attacks Atlantis. Actually a False Flag Operation by Prince Orm to justify declaring war on the surface world. Kelp catches fire, Atlantians swim/run only in two dimensions, and dead bodies lie on the bottom the way they would on land. Averted when the League is reviewing Cyborg's video of being attacked underwater. Green Lantern points out that the attackers' maneuvers indicate fighters familiar with three-dimensional combat.
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Water Is Air / int_254af7ac	comment	Sub-Mariner's writers usually have Namor walk around like a ground-dweller, and few artists realize that Atlanteans don't walk, they swim.
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Water Is Air / int_276be0b2	comment	Fish Police zig-zags the hell out of this trope, often lampshading it as well. A notable example is Inspector Gill asking, "If we're under water, how come the beer stays in the mug?"
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Water Is Air / int_2e3e7ac2	comment	Justice League features this with Aquaman and the city of Atlantis. Atlantis had a death trap consisting of a room that filled with water... underwater in a city filled with water-breathing citizens. One would guess just shoving them out of an airlock was too much trouble. While Orm tries to handwave it by saying it's for executing intruding surface dwellers, that still doesn't explain why tossing them out the airlock with guards to make sure they drown isn't used instead.
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Water Is Air / int_2f2f1ab7	comment	In the sequel, Tip the penguin and Dash the walrus invoke this trope as they seemingly suffer no problems underwater, despite being air breathers. This goes down as far as them diving down with Melody to Atlantica, where the merpeople are confused at the sight of them, a merboy even asking "Was that a penguin?"
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Water Is Air / int_3a7f5b49	comment	While the previous game (and other levels in the same game) avert this, the ocean section in Alice: Madness Returns is something like this. Sea creatures can swim, but Alice walks and breathes as she would normally. Then again it is Wonderland.
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Water Is Air / int_3e5c6c5a	comment	Averted in Super Mario 64 in that Mario will drown if left underwater for too long, but the gauge which measures how long he has before drowning can be refilled if he collects coins underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_44fe781e	comment	In Neon Genesis Evangelion, LCL has the consistency (and, presumably, composition) of amniotic fluid, and characters breathe it while sitting in the Entry Plugs. Fair enough, but they also speak and yell without any sort of difficulty or distortion. Sweat, blood, and tears also behave as though LCL had air-like density and solvency. There have been attempts to explain away the unimpeded-speech issue, but the tears that fall freely on a character's lap remain inexplicable.
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Water Is Air / int_48b1e3db	comment	In Doraemon: Nobita and the Castle of the Undersea Devil the gang enjoys an underwater barbeque using special coal from the 22nd Century. Which can produce smoke underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_48d51945	comment	The Little Mermaid has several examples. The first film and its TV adaptation, in particular, suffer the problems of architecture (although granted, there were some fauna that primarily walk on the Ocean Floor, so the inclusion of something like "stairs" is excusable), coral=plants, and burning fire (usually blasts from Triton's trident), although long hair moved slower and tended to float (but still never gets in the way aside from surfacing). On the other hand, the animators did attempt to replicate the physics of water as realistically as possible in the original film. Ariel specifically mentions that she doesn't know what fire is in one of her songs. In the prequel, Ariel sees something she wants to check out from her bedroom window... and instead of swimming out the window to check it out, she goes all the way downstairs through the castle to get outside. Shortly after intruding on Ariel's grotto during "Part of Your World," Sebastian tells her, "I'll take you home and get you something warm to drink". When Ariel shows Flounder the shipwreck at the beginning of the original movie, Flounder tries to weasel out of going in, saying it looks damp in there. It would look damp, seeing how it's underwater. A debatable example would be when Price Eric throws the harpoon underwater, striking Ursula hard enough to draw blood, despite actually throwing it underwater, and being a considerable distance away from her in the first place. In the sequel, Tip the penguin and Dash the walrus invoke this trope as they seemingly suffer no problems underwater, despite being air breathers. This goes down as far as them diving down with Melody to Atlantica, where the merpeople are confused at the sight of them, a merboy even asking "Was that a penguin?" Ursula throws most of her potions into the cauldron still in the bottle, but when she does pour them out, they pour normally, rather than just dissipating into the surrounding liquid.
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Water Is Air / int_49a87cb3	comment	In Final Fantasy VII you can go underwater in a submarine. Fair enough, except that you can fight Emerald Weapon while standing on the bottom of the sea, with no lighting or pressure-related problems. The air isn't breathable without the Underwater Materia, but the characters apparently can hold their breath for twenty whole minutes. (Eat your heart out, Guybrush Threepwood!) Cid Highwind will always fight with a lit cigarette in his mouth, even underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Vashj'ir. Full stop. While it avoids some of the more egregious aspects of this trope — for example, you can swim in 3D like in all other bodies of water, and the zone has a separate light source independent from the main world — the Creator Provincialism is right there. The "Sea Legs" spell gives you perfect sight and hearing underwater. Sometimes you can glitch out on a flying mount and appear to be swimming in mid-air for quite some time. Thus making this trope Air Is Water Is Air and Your Head Asplode. Fire spells still work in any place underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_49f9b411	comment	Bubble Guppies has the same problems as SpongeBob above. They build a campfire, visit an airport, and at one point, view the moon from a telescope.
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Water Is Air / int_4d67edae	comment	In the prequel, Ariel sees something she wants to check out from her bedroom window... and instead of swimming out the window to check it out, she goes all the way downstairs through the castle to get outside.
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Water Is Air / int_4edff9aa	comment	Star Fox Command doesn't even attempt to distinguish between normal and underwater levels. All ships are perfectly operable and there is always enough light. Oddly enough, water surfaces are considered solid obstacles in normal levels.
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Water Is Air / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Certain trolls in Homestuck are amphibious, but you wouldn't noticed when they were underwater save for the fish suspended in "midair". But then things get subverted when physics strike.
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Water Is Air / int_542776ac	type	Water Is Air
Water Is Air / int_542776ac	comment	The Voyage of the Dawn Treader addresses this briefly when Lucy sees mermaids through the preternaturally clear sea-water. Among other things, C. S. Lewis compares the deep water to dangerous mountains, and the shallows to sunny, habitable valleys. In addition, even though mermaids are usually depicted in media as being able to poke their heads above water and converse and breathe in air, Drinian explains that these merpeople cannot come up and examine the Dawn Treader or talk with them because... they cannot breathe air! When Lucy sees them, she expects them to be able to surface, because her coronation apparently featured singing mermaids that could breathe air. Drinian explains that those mermaids must have been a different sort.
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Water Is Air / int_5708f2cb	comment	Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea has this trope full-scale. Underwater is exactly like above water, except for fishes (who looks more like hovering than swimming) and the occasional swimming (which looks rather more like a long jump). There is no buoyancy, no water resistance, no distorted sounds, no light dampening and you can even cook and drink without a problem.
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Water Is Air / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, a few bits of artifact equipment and the anima power of the Water Aspect Dragon-Blooded allow them to treat water according to this trope.
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Water Is Air / int_60ba1106	comment	Umi Monogatari is a huge offender. Everyone can speak underwater, there's always at least some light no matter how deep they go, there's barely a bubble in sight, defeated characters fall down instead of floating up, people cry underwater, people drink tea underwater, and everyone's hair hangs down instead of flowing upwards.
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Water Is Air / int_6644f858	comment	Sherman's Lagoon: This happens all the time.
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Water Is Air / int_68b8bdfe	comment	X-COM supplement Terror of the Deep features humans fighting aliens in an underwater world. Unfortunately, the game system was directly adapted from the original with no changes, so the characters are able to do ridiculous things like throwing grenades underwater. Smoke grenades, too, only in this game it's called a dye grenade. The hilarious thing is, THIS is the weapon they picked to modify to be more reactive to water. Instead of covering the battlescape in smoke, the dye grenade first creates a small initial puff of dye and dust that provides little to no cover. There are also surface missions. The only difference is the type of aliens you encounter and the fact that your "flying" suits can't fly in air. All the alien (and reverse-engineered) sonic weapons still work exactly the same, despite the fact that their firepower should be vastly reduced in air.
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Water Is Air / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Later editions of Dungeons & Dragons have pages of rules detailing precisely how life underwater is not like life on land (and spells to remove some of these differences).
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Water Is Air / int_6c8b9d4f	comment	A mermaid learns the difference between water and air in the Adventures of the Gummi Bears episode "Water Way To Go": She tries to return Gusto's forgotten sketch pad to him, but, of course, it's waterlogged and ruined by the time she catches up to him — unfortunate, but an understandable mistake for someone who has no experience with paper and ink from a water-free environment.
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Water Is Air / int_7385bc4d	comment	Inverted in an episode of Doraemon where the gadget-of-the-week permitted the protagonists to treat air as water, for recreational purposes.
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Water Is Air / int_74365738	comment	Going Postal describes shipwrecks continuing to sail underwater, when they reach a degree of pressure that provides suitable boyancy, justifying this with the claim "the sea is, after all, in many respects, only a wetter form of air".
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Water Is Air / int_74a4c704	comment	In the original Kingdom Hearts, the controls for swimming are the same as flying in the Neverland level, Fire spells work underwater, and nobody's electrocuted by Lightning spells. But then again, they ARE magic...
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Water Is Air / int_758d474d	comment	In Glider PRO, all watery environments are nothing but custom backgrounds; no special mechanics are involved. Logically, Super Drowning Skills ought to be involved, since gliders are made of paper and can ordinarily be destroyed by a single droplet of water.
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Water Is Air / int_79c70a15	comment	Land of the Lost (1943) is a major offender here- despite being at the bottom of the sea, the titular Land is basically treated like, well, land, especially where the lost objects are concerned- pens can write without their ink just dissipating in the water, musical instruments can play just fine, clocks that should be rusted to a stop by the saltwater can keep on ticking, and playing cards and stock certificates can exist without getting soggy. The three worst examples are perhaps the fans of Fan-Tasy Hall, who explicitly blow air; Umbrella Land, where it rains, and the gas lamps and candles in the Hall Of Lost Lamps, who can still burn.
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Water Is Air / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	While Bayonetta can't use her Crow of Panther forms underwater, she can do everything else there, including walking, fighting, breathing and talking. This is particulary prominent in the sequel.
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Water Is Air / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros. Mario can actually throw fireballs underwater, light fires underwater and in a Mario & Luigi game, Luigi could use electricity/thunder powers underwater. Not to mention the fact both Mario and Luigi, as well as pretty much any enemy in the 2D games could breathe underwater forever, or the underwater Chargin' Chucks (football players) who can whistle underwater. Or Wario's underwater working jet pack hat and flamethrower. Somewhat averted as movement underwater tends to be slower and more sluggish than normal. Also, in both Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Super Paper Mario, Bowser can breathe fire underwater, in addition to being able to breathe underwater as mentioned above.
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Water Is Air / int_84377fd8	comment	In GI Joe The Rise Of Cobra, while not obvious, the effects of particles in the underwater fight scene moved very much like they were in air, not accounting for the difference in density, especially in cold water. In fact, the speed at which it moved was comparable to that in air.
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Water Is Air / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI averts this trope slightly, as a diving helmet is needed to access the ocean path. Then again, only one is needed (or found), and no explanation is given of its functionality without other supporting equipment.
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Water Is Air / int_87e00d8e	comment	Averted in Teen Titans (2003). We don't get to see what Atlantis is like, but as for all the other aspects, they're either presented surprisingly realistically or just flat out not addressed. (The primary example of the former is Aqualad's hair; it just goes crazy while he's underwater.)
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Water Is Air / int_8cb3a247	comment	An interesting aversion in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire—when Harry goes to "blast" the Grindylows during the second task, a jet of hot water comes out of his wand.
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Water Is Air / int_90c73dda	comment	Averted in Animorphs, since most underwater sequences have the characters morphed as appropriate sea life. There is one book where they go underwater in a stolen space fighter, but Ax explains that most such ships are capable of limited underwater travel.
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Water Is Air / int_9139221c	comment	In The City of Lost Children one of the main characters, the Mad Scientist lost his mind (Identity Amnesia), and as a deep sea diver permanently lived on the bottom of the sea, collecting marine debris.
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Water Is Air / int_92a3f728	comment	Aquanox takes this to the point where submarines are used where Star Wars uses space fighters, and with the usual Old-School Dogfight combat.
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Water Is Air / int_961b37e0	comment	DC Extended Universe: Averted in Justice League. Atlanteans need pockets of air to talk, which Mera conjures to speak to Arthur/Aquaman. Zack Snyder's Justice League elaborates further by having Atlanteans communicate with dolphin-like sounds when in water. Zack Snyder found the idea of talking underwater "stupid". The makers of Aquaman didn't bother to maintain continuity with Justice League and had Atlanteans talk freely underwater. Besides, molten lava doesn't quickly solidify underwater, apparently.
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Water Is Air / int_9a80fd5d	comment	Trolls: TrollsTopia: Mostly averted in that non-Techno Trolls need to wear breathing helmets when underwater in Techno Lagoon. But it's lampshaded in a flashback in "Daylight Ravings Time", where Synth questions how the pieces of the DJ mask that he just dropped could unleash a large fire at the lagoon.
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Water Is Air / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: Averted in general throughout the series. Visibility is quite limited in water, and it gets worse as you get deeper. Light and Night Eye spells having very little effect while torches (and other light sources based on flame) are extinguished when entering water. Movement is also generally slower in water than on land (characters who can swim faster are typically capable of running fast as well), though spells like "Swift Swim" exist to speed it up. In games which allow combat underwater, you are generally slower and less effective when doing so, and you also typically cannot cast spells or used ranged attacks. A few exceptions exist, such as the presence of a Water Breathing spell effect throughout much of the series. It will allow you to stay under water for the duration of the spell's effect (or indefinitely if it is enchanted onto an item). The Argonians, the series' Lizard Folk race with some traits of amphibians, have a natural Water Breathing racial power, and are known (in lore) to use this as an Exploited Immunity (launching guerilla attacks from underwater, dragging non-Argonian foes into water to drown them, setting up underwater camps which are difficult for non-Argonians to attack, etc.). This also makes one quest in Morrowind quite difficult to complete as an Argonian, as it requires you to because you have to drown yourself. note Given that the quest is part of the Dunmeri Tribunal Temple questline, and the Dunmer have an acrimonious relationship with the Argonians, it is quite possibly Justified as they wouldn't expect an Argonian to be undergoing the related pilgrimage.
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Water Is Air / int_9da6f861	comment	A rather literal version of this trope is how most air-breathing animals can breathe super-oxygenated fluid temporarily without major side effects. This is seen in The Abyss, apparently the scene where the fluid is being demonstrated on a rat was real (and PETA was quite pissed).
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Water Is Air / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "The Deep South", Zoidberg's house burns to the ground... underwater. Zoidberg wails, "How could this have happened?" and Hermes notes, "That's a very good question." Bender picks his still-lit cigar out of the ruins and puffs on it, and Hermes cries "That just raises further questions!". Moreover, the Planet Express Ship somehow survives the crushing depth, despite the following conversation: Bender tries to pour a bottle of booze he found in a sunken ship into his mouth, only to have it drift out and diffuse into the water. It overall seems to be playing with the trope. The fact that the city looks like one on land is because it's Atlanta after it sank (apparently the architecture didn't change in 1000 years) and they mix in actual problems (how to breathe, withstanding the pressure) with nonsense solutions (a suppository pill which lets them adapt to the pressure, breathing devices which don't explain how they can speak clearly or why water doesn't flow into their lungs). There's also the fact that the citizens of Atlanta "evolved" into mermaids, which was supposedly sped up by the caffeine from the Coca-Cola factory. How anyone survived long enough for this to happen is not addressed.
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Water Is Air / int_a78fff6d	comment	SeaQuest DSV takes place on a hyper-advanced submarine in the near future. They almost always treat water as air (they even have mini-subs that behave as jet fighters).
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Water Is Air / int_a7bb29af	comment	Also averted in Mega Man X2, where if one uses Speed Burner underwater, only two pods come out (supposedly what carries the flame).
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Water Is Air / int_a7bb29b0	comment	And in Mega Man X3, the Acid Burst dissolves in the water (only a few bubbles come out), making it useless.
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Water Is Air / int_a8729c90	comment	Cosmo in The Fairly OddParents! uses fire to light candles in the goldfish bowl.
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Water Is Air / int_aad9b544	comment	Tales of Maj'Eyal has a few underwater dungeons. The only effects of being underwater are a slight bonus to fire resistance, a slight penalty to cold resist, and the need for an Oxygen Meter. Lightning spells and effects, projectiles, and fire effects (including being set on fire) work normally underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_ae925a1e	comment	Marine Boy is all over the place with this trope. The Ocean Patrol craft certainly move in 3D, and require engines to do so. While underwater, the characters never walk, and the resident mermaid has, at times, to cope with not having legs, though we never really see her much away from the humans. On the other hand, the Non-Human Sidekick (a dolphin) never need to breathe (and it's doubtful that he could chew the "oxygen gum" that the eponymous hero used); the hero's uniform has no visor or goggles, yet he has no difficulties seeing or talking underwater — which is generally crystal-clear; and in the most outrageous use of this trope, his sole weapon is a folding boomerang, which he throw at everything from bad guys to sea monsters to full-sized submarines! Being an "electro-boomerang", it zaps them all (and frequently more than one in a single "flight"), often causing mechanical enemies to blow up.
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Water Is Air / int_af552e7e	comment	In Metroid Prime, Samus' Plasma Beam functions perfectly fine underwater. This sort of gets a Hand Wave because she's firing superheated plasma as opposed to ordinary fire, but it still doesn't explain how organic enemies can catch fire when completely submerged. Her flamethrower Charge Combo won't work underwater, though.
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Water Is Air / int_afa87e53	comment	In Backyard Baseball, whenever the characters play in the Aquadome, which is entirely underwater, they play exactly the same as they do normally.
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Water Is Air / int_b0028436	comment	JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: A downplayed example. In this franchise, water acts in the same way as normal waterâ€¦ unless youâ€™re a stand user. Apparently, anybody who owns a stand appears to have the inherent ability to all underwater through both their physical bodies and their stands. They also appear to be able to stay underwater for longer periods of time even though drowning is still mentioned. This is especially shown in the anime. Combat underwater also operates differently when stands are used as the stands and the user are able to move as fast in the water as they do on air.
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Water Is Air / int_b0329377	comment	In The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 episode "The Ugly Mermaid", Mario and friends have to protect an underwater kingdom called Mertropolis when Bowser invades it. Confusingly, Mertropolis is in an airdome but is populated by human-legged fish who need to wear fishbowls on their heads in order to survive. As if that's not enough, Bowser tries to submit the Mertropolis citizens into submission by flooding the place with water, which somehow causes them to flee in terror. In the famous episode "Mama Luigi", Luigi GASPS underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_b1433971	comment	Sonic games mostly avert this with the all too infamous possibility of drowning. However, in Sonic Rush, though Sonic and Blaze can still drown, Blaze can use her fire attacks underwater, though this could simply be an effect of Blaze's flame that water cannot put it out.
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Water Is Air / int_b7f04ccc	comment	From The Patrick Star Show: In "Bubble Bass Reviews", Bubble Bass brings up a clip of Patrick and Squidina resting by a campfire and complains about how unrealistic the scene is, since it shouldn't be possible to light a fire underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Averted in Young Justice (2010). When Dolphin is brought to Atlantis by Kaldur, he first has to cast a spell on her so that she can understand Atlantean as well as speak underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_b962c879	comment	In the Fairy Tail seaside training episode, Natsu practices his Fire Dragon Roar by using it deep underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_bb58cad8	comment	Averted in Justice League. Atlanteans need pockets of air to talk, which Mera conjures to speak to Arthur/Aquaman.
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Water Is Air / int_bb6c2ecc	comment	The levels set underwater in They Bleed Pixels use identical physical constants, and nobody seems to have any trouble breathing or dealing with pressure. Of course, either these are barely-lucid dreams or both their setting and inhabitants (including you) are alien to our reality. And given the game's high difficulty level it's just as well the task of getting around stays with the familiar.
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Water Is Air / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants plays this trope arrow-straight, starting with the intro to every episode, in which SpongeBob takes a bath underwater. Within every episode, sea creatures walk on the ground...drink liquids out of cups...use fire...land heavily after falling from great heights. In fact, just about the only time this trope is averted are the nods to sea creatures not being able to breathe air (when SpongeBob dries out after going into Sandy's treehouse), or the reverse with Sandy needing a spacesuit to go out and about. Frequently the cartoon hangs a lampshade on this concept. From very early on in the series, the characters go to Goo Lagoon for any beach-themed episodes, complete with lifeguards. The Goo itself is not very gooey but is heavier than water, and it's implied to be what the characters use as an equivalent elsewhere, such as when SpongeBob takes a bath or the Krusty Krab lavatories. Of course, the show never points this out, allowing the characters to appear to use water underwater and keep the joke. SpongeBob and Patrick nearly drown in the Goo Lagoon in "SpongeGuard on Duty". While it seems like this trope for an underwater creature to drown underwater, Goo Lagoon is a brine pool, and brine pools are saltier than seawater and contain no oxygen, so this is Truth in Television even if it seems made-up. In "Bubble Buddy", a fish is buried up to his neck in the sand at high tide with only SpongeBob and Bubble Buddy to dig him out. When the time comes to dig him out, SpongeBob leaves it to Bubble Buddy, who of course doesn't... obviously. The fish ''drowns'' (presumably in Goo Lagoon's goo). In "Life of Crime", SpongeBob and Patrick run away from Bikini Bottom and huddle around a campfire. Patrick points out "Hey, if we're underwater, how can there be a fire?" and the fire then immediately goes out. Then it starts up again later when Patrick stomps the tinder in rage! In "Party Pooper Pants", Patchy the Pirate sends letters down to SpongeBob and Patrick inviting them to his party. The ink of course runs. SpongeBob and Patrick go on to mention that the person who sent the letters obviously had no understanding of the physical limitations of living underwater, and then proceed to dispose of the letters in a fire. Hilariously lampshaded in "Pressure" where SpongeBob has to go on dry land for one minute, Mr. Krabs stops him first, takes a glass but doesn't fill it with water, saying that SpongeBob should make it last. SpongeBob just drinks out of the glass, because, well, he didn't need to fill it with water, cause it's all around them. In "Nasty Patty", Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob think they've killed the health inspector: when they're disposing of the body, SpongeBob at first leaves the guy's head unburied because he thought that "he might need some air." Soon after, it rains underwater. "Pranks a Lot" has an example of fire underwater and water underwater when SpongeBob and Patrick mess with Mr. Krabs by threatening to light a dollar bill on fire. Krabs stops them by dousing them and their match with a nearby bucket of water which not only extinguishes the match, it also washes off the duo's invisible paint. In "Wet Painters", paint works underwater the way it would on land with SpongeBob and Patrick nervously trying to not get it on anything but the walls, worried they would not get it off if they did. While the paint doesn't wash off in the water; it does with saliva, which Mr. Krabs demonstrates. To make a long story short, it's Zig-Zagged depending on what's funnier and more convenient (for example, all the vehicles use propellers because that's more interesting). The choice of making most of the main characters bottom-dwelling species (sponge, starfish, crab) was probably done to make the lack of swimming somewhat less noticeable, with the exception of all the walking fish. From The Patrick Star Show: In "Bubble Bass Reviews", Bubble Bass brings up a clip of Patrick and Squidina resting by a campfire and complains about how unrealistic the scene is, since it shouldn't be possible to light a fire underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_bdd4882	comment	Like its source material, the short-lived cartoon Fish Police would both follow and subvert this trope, mostly depending on which would better suit the Rule of Funny. As an example, in one episode one of the villain's henchmen was pushed out of a window from several stories up; when Inspector Gil found the henchman clinging to the window ledge by his fingers (fins?) calling for help, Gil reminded the henchman he was a fish and could just swim away. The henchman let go of the window ledge — only for gravity to promptly take over and cause the henchman to plummet to the ground, Wile E. Coyote-style. (Making this an inversion of Gravitational Cognizance, in that it's a case of a character falling because they're too dim to realize they shouldn't be.)
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Water Is Air / int_c007cccf	comment	Barbie Fairytopia: The first sequel, Mermaidia, takes place primarily underwater and zig-zags this. On one hand, the problem of land creatures spending extended time under the surface is resolved via a magical seaweed that lets you breathe underwater, people don't just swim along the sea floor unless they need to, and there's a plot point where Elina must magically trade her wings for a mermaid tail because her fairy body isn't strong enough to swim for long periods, in particular struggling to keep up with Nori. On the other hand, people can talk underwater just fine and things like water pressure and vision aren't an issue (though that could be handwaved by the magic seaweed) and it's too bright in deeper parts of the sea, among other things. No one's hair or loose clothing floats either, though that's likely due to the limitations of the animation (both technological and budgetary).
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Water Is Air / int_c1b44782	comment	Aquaman: Arthur Curry's writers frequently fall victim to this, even though his post-2011 runs have tried to avert it, with narration talking about how your typical Atlantean thinks in three dimensions.
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Water Is Air / int_c1caa781	comment	Similarly, Burner Man's Wave Burner from Mega Man & Bass can't create flames underwater, but it will create a jet of hot water that can push enemies away.
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Water Is Air / int_c2463c55	comment	Final Fantasy X: Blitzball is a cross between hockey and rugby (or soccer, rugby and diving, depending on where you live) played by two teams of 6 (five players plus a goalie) played entirely underwater in five minute rounds. It is stated that the characters have learned to hold their breath while doing incredibly strenuous activity for this amount of time to become players. The fact that the water itself is specifically designed to help improve breathing duration (apparently due to pyreflies saturating the water) also helps. There's also the fact that all of the players move exclusively in two dimensions, as though they were playing on land, despite the fact that the "playing field" is literally a large sphere of water. Although earlier cutscenes show the players making use of the entire volume of water, with Tidus making a spectacular leap outside the sphere at one point, the only time Blitzball gameplay makes use of the third dimension is during Tidus' Jecht Shot where he swims up to make the kick. They can even throw a ball underwater as if there was no water in the first place. Especially notable since Blitzballs are shown to be light enough to float on the surface of the water, and have the dynamics of soccer balls when handled in dry land.
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Water Is Air / int_c9bd2c4e	comment	The Legacy of Kain series has a lot of fun with this: In Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Raziel can be initially burned to death by water, and in the spectral realm (the dimension inhabited by spirits, as opposed to the material realm) water has no heft nor lift and literally behaves exactly like air, which is an important puzzle element in some areas. It's averted in the material realm once Raziel learns how to swim/resistant to water. This even carries over to the sequels which is odd because all his other skills sort of disappeared.
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Water Is Air / int_d3c4b794	comment	Subverted in an episode of My Bride is a Mermaid when Sun decides to take Nagasumi underwater to look at a coral reef. However she's unaware of how sensitive humans are to water pressure, and it ends up taking a toll on Nagasumi when they get around 45 meters deep.
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Water Is Air / int_d3ff6961	comment	Averted in an episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! when during the underwater chase from the glowing Scuba diver Captain Cutler, Shaggy and Scooby sees an underwater cannon that is said to be loaded, which they attempt to use against him by lighting the cannon's fuse — only for the match to fail to ignite, since they are scuba diving underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_d51868d1	comment	In Hexen II the Paladin player character receives a boon from his deity that allows him to be able to move through water as quickly as air.
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Water Is Air / int_d531b6f7	comment	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow includes a scene where airplanes fly underwater. The airplane's control surfaces allow it to function almost identically to how it would fly through the air.
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Water Is Air / int_da02c1ef	comment	Also, in both Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Super Paper Mario, Bowser can breathe fire underwater, in addition to being able to breathe underwater as mentioned above.
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Water Is Air / int_dab32e3	comment	Averted in the first Mega Man X. The flamethrower weapon Fire Wave acquired from Flame Mammoth is completely useless underwater, barely distorting the water with the heat from X's Arm Cannon and causing a few harmless bubbles. Even the powered up version sends out a tiny wisp of flame that is extinguished the instant it leaves X's cannon. Similarly, Burner Man's Wave Burner from Mega Man & Bass can't create flames underwater, but it will create a jet of hot water that can push enemies away. Also averted in Mega Man X2, where if one uses Speed Burner underwater, only two pods come out (supposedly what carries the flame). And in Mega Man X3, the Acid Burst dissolves in the water (only a few bubbles come out), making it useless.
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Water Is Air / int_dd638dbf	comment	Shark Tale lampshades this when the race seahorse that Oscar bet on trips right before the finish line:
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Water Is Air / int_e381e71f	comment	Digimon Tamers did this in "Shibumi Speaks". As long as they believe they won't drown/get wet/etc, it won't happen to them. Justified in that the Digital World functions under vastly different rules than the real one, with the water being mere data.
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Water Is Air / int_e388fcf7	comment	DSBT InsaniT: Lampshaded by Cody in the underwater game he and Lisa are playing in 'VRcade'.
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Water Is Air / int_f04b4111	comment	The Metroid series tends to downplay and justify this, at least for Samus. While she can enter bodies of water and move and fire just fine, she'll be realistically slowed down compared to if she was on dry land. She'll only be able to move at max speed with the Gravity Suit and similar items, which are explicitly designed to allow for full movement in watery environments and the like. In Metroid Prime, Samus' Plasma Beam functions perfectly fine underwater. This sort of gets a Hand Wave because she's firing superheated plasma as opposed to ordinary fire, but it still doesn't explain how organic enemies can catch fire when completely submerged. Her flamethrower Charge Combo won't work underwater, though.
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Water Is Air / int_f120845f	comment	Averted in Kingdom of Loathing. The Undersea area requires one to obtain SCUBA gear in the Final Dungeon and a Bathysphere for one's pet beastie. All tasks use up two Adventures, and weapon damage is nerfed due to water resistance.
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Water Is Air / int_f14deb8a	comment	A particularly bad example is The Perils of Penelope Pitstop, episode "Bad Fortune in a Chinese Fortune Cookie". Not only do the mobsters hold a conversation underwater while rescuing Penelope, but it's implied that the Hooded Claw, still in his boat, heard Dum Dum's joke through the water. It was that kind of show.
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Water Is Air / int_f2d35352	comment	Clam Man: Lampshaded when Clam Man sees water on the floor, with a Wet Floor sign, despite the game taking place underwater.
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Water Is Air / int_f3d889f7	comment	Zack Snyder's Justice League elaborates further by having Atlanteans communicate with dolphin-like sounds when in water. Zack Snyder found the idea of talking underwater "stupid".
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Water Is Air / int_f4a98dcc	comment	Also happens in PokÃ©mon 3 when the film's antagonist Molly challenges Misty. Since it takes place in a dreamworld created by the Unown, it's expected.
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Water Is Air / int_f81101f2	comment	In an episode of PokÃ©mon: The Original Series, they have a battle underwater. Misty scolds Ash for forgetting that you can treat underwater like the sky when Ash gets confused after their opponent takes advantage of the surroundings to attack in 3 dimensions. Also happens in PokÃ©mon 3 when the film's antagonist Molly challenges Misty. Since it takes place in a dreamworld created by the Unown, it's expected.
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Water Is Air / int_f9368d52	comment	In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, the Atlantica level controls just the same as everywhere else, despite being underwater. Ariel and the other natives still swim, but Sora, Donald, and Goofy all walk everywhere and can breathe just fine. They lampshade it at the start of the level, then shrug and carry on. In the original Kingdom Hearts, the controls for swimming are the same as flying in the Neverland level, Fire spells work underwater, and nobody's electrocuted by Lightning spells. But then again, they ARE magic...
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Water Is Air / int_fb9a94f9	comment	In The Magic Voyage of Sinbad the title character throws himself into the sea to appease Neptune. On MST3K they even ask "Why isn't it wet underwater?" and when a pigeon with a message reaches him in Neptune's kingdom they ask "How does that work?"
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Water Is Air / int_fe225cd4	comment	In The Chronicles of Amber, the water in the undersea city of Rebma works like this, but the trope is justified as it's explicitly a magical effect, and people are able to breathe the water within the city as well. In fact, if you fall off the underwater stairway leading to the city, you re-enter 'normal' deep sea conditions and are crushed to death.
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Water Is Air / int_fe83990a	comment	A very odd example in Saint Seiya. The Seven Pillars of Poseidon's Sanctuary are connected to, and hold up, the Seven Seas, so the temple itself —at the bottom of the ocean, mind— is a dry land above which the seas hang like a canopy. As a show of force, Seiya was once punched upwards so hard by Seahorse Baian that he crashed into the "ceiling" (namely, the bottom of the North Pacific Ocean,) was pushed up all the way to the surface by the strength of the blow, and then sank all the way back down, unimpeded, and fell right back into the Sanctuary. But despite the entire depth of the ocean hanging above the temple, sunlight is as abundant there as though they were fighting in an above-water plaza.
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Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
PokÃ©mon 3 / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Cap's Kooky Quartet (Comic Book) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Fantastic Four (1961) (Comic Book) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
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David Attenboroughss Natural History Museum Alive / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Pacific Rim / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
The Love Nest / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
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The Little Mermaid / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
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Doraemon (Manga) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Odd Squadcast (Podcast) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
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The Midnight Train to Nowhere (Roleplay) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
ABZÛ (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Alice: Madness Returns (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Aqua Rhapsody (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Aquanox (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Axial Disc 2 (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Bayonetta (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Bayonetta 2 (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Blood (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Clam Man (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Dungeon Fighter Online (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Final Fantasy VI (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Grim Fandango (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Hexen (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Math Rescue (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Metroid Prime (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Monster Sanctuary (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Ōkami (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Sea of Thieves (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Super Mario War (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Wadanohara (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Water's Fine (Video Game) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
StarCrafts (Web Animation) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
RPG World: Fan Revival (Webcomic) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Google (Website) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
A Town Called Panic / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Atomic Puppet / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Barbie Fairytopia / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Bubble Guppies / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Dinosaucers / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Shark Tale / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Slugterra / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
The Little Mermaid / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
The Little Mermaid Golden 1992 / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
The Little Mermaid III: Ariel's Beginning / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Trolls: TrollsTopia / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Trolls World Tour / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Zig & Sharko / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air
Aquapunk (Webcomic) / int_e03c448e	type	Water Is Air

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