History Main / AwesomeBackpack

* The [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario series]] had a brief love affair with this trope during the [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube GameCube]] era.

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* The "Knapsack" from Fablehaven book four - poke your head inside (or crawl right in) to reveal a good sized storage space, with food, water, a Yahtzee-obsessed demon, and odds and ends that you will never, ever need unless you are in a fantasy novel.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tribes}}:'' Everyone gets jetpacks (and we do mean everyone)! The equipable Packs might also qualify, although some are more awesome than others.

* ''Backpack Hero'' is about a mouse managing the inventory in her backpack to optimally explore dungeons. This backpack is the core of the game, with most means of even damaging people, healing, and magic, all stored in there. There are even bonuses for proper inventory spacing and positioning.

* ''VideoGame/{{BackpackHero}} is about a mouse managing the inventory in her backpack to optimally explore dungeons. This backpack is the core of the game, with most means of even damaging people, healing, and magic, all stored in there. There are even bonuses for proper inventory spacing and positioning.

* RJ's golf bag full of random man-made items in ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'' isn't particularly special, but seeing as Verne feels the need to point this out to his friends...

* Most of Gizmo's weaponry in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' is some type of awesome backpack.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Birdman}}'' episode "Meets Reducto". The title villain's ShrinkRay device is a pistol connected to a backpack that holds the Reduction Device's electronic components.

* The [=GrabPack=] from''VideoGame/PoppyPlaytime'' is a mechanical backpack outfitted with pneumatic-powered firing mechanisms that you can use to [[GrapplingHookPistol grab far-away objects]] and complete electric circuits thanks to the conductive cables. Presumably for the sake of fitting Playtime Co. branding, the "hooks" are cartoony red and blue hands.

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[[caption-width-right:250:The backpack TheMedic wears is called the [[SicklyGreenGlow Emerald]] [[JarPotty Jarate]].[[note]]If you catch the [[FriendlySniper Sniper's]] drift.[[/note]]]]

* Banjo's backpack in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' could be considered a subversion: most of the awesome comes from Kazooie, not the backpack itself. Double (maybe even triple) subverted in ''Banjo-Tooie'' where the backpack has powers on its own and can do many things you wouldn't be normally able to do... but it still pales in comparison to Kazooie.

* ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'': Dendy's "hack pack" serves as a travelling laboratory, a supercomputer that can [[EverythingIsOnline hack into just about anything]], and [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers a secure carrying case for her POW Cards collection]].

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'' features the Proton Pack (featured as the trope image and subject of the trope quote), a man-portable particle accelerator which, through an attached "Neutrona Wand", is used as a sort of lasso to wrangle the ghosts into a position to be trapped properly. The wildly undulating particle streams also have a nasty habit of causing lots of collateral damage.

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[[caption-width-right:350:You too, can blast ghosts with 500,000 Mhz of protons!]]