History Main / AwesomeBackpack

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'', ''Shadowland'' magazine Vol. 5 article "Bigger, Badder and Powered". One option for powered armor is the Extended Power Supply, which is a backpack attached to the rear of the armor that doubles duration of use.

* Pangolin Backpacks http://gizmodo.com/5398996/pangolin-backpack. A backpack made from old trucking tires, slides down via magnets, and is incredibly sturdy.

* The original ComicBook/RogueTrooper's backpack was so awesome it was one of the characters, being implanted with the {{biochip}} of one of his fallen comrades! Also something of a BagOfHolding.

An ordinary backpack doesn't do anything too special, being that it's just there to carry things around, and, by its nature, weighs you down and gets in the way in the process. An Awesome Backpack is different though, such that you end up wishing you could get your hands on one. While most Awesome Backpacks aren't for carrying things around, it can still involve a normal backpack if it constantly provides items that are a [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman central part of a character's capabilities]] (especially for CrazyPrepared or CrazyAwesome characters).

-->-- '''Peter Venkman''', ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''

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* The ''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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* Nakor from ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'' has one with a magic portal in the bottom that terminates in a fruit warehouse, allowing him to always produce an orange from it no matter where he is. He can also use it to hide things in the fruit warehouse.
** And, later, in a cave where his things are less likely to get stolen.

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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', Ace's backpack seems to function as a BagOfHolding...filled with pipe bombs.

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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': the four-armed robo-tank-repair-backpack of a Techmarine. Indeed, with the exceptions of Scouts and Terminators, ''all'' Space Marines wear awesome backpacks, often including such things as eagle's-head exhausts, trophy racks, and (in the case of Chaos Possessed) ''functioning batlike wings''.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}''

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** Another RealLife example would be an astronaut's PLSS, allowing them to do a free flight EVA.

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

* Backpack Boy from ''NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide''
* Jack Bauer's messenger bag (a.k.a. "The Jacksack") during the fifth season of 24. Guns, ammunition, C4s, cell phones...you name it, it's there.

* DoraTheExplorer's backpack...really! That thing turns into a submarine and a hang glider! It's the coolest thing in the show.

* ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank''. Clank ''is'' an Awesome Backpack most of the time.

* The Warcasters in ''IronKingdoms'' wear steampacks that generate a power field, enhance their physical traits, and nullifies the roleplaying penalty to casting Arcane spells while wearing armor.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonDiamondAndPearl'' ''Pokémon Platinum''

* ''VideoGame/GlobalAgenda'', trying very hard to be a modern Tribes, does this. The jetpacks open up when you activate them, and dont close for a few seconds. You can color them. They're shiny. The devs realized at some point that the thing you spend hours looking at should be ''pretty''. The medic ones have tubes of ''something'' running through them. Not sure what it is, but it has almost as much animation in making the tubes of shining goop bounce as for the rest of the player model.

* Field agents of ''The Bureau XCOM Declassified'' wear increasingly bulky backpacks that provide a number of advantages, such as improved accuracy, protection, or armor-piercing bullets.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics'': Male Chemists; female Chemists have an Awesome Fannypack instead.

* FelixTheCat's bag of tricks.

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-->-- '''Peter Venkman''', ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''

* The Film/{{Ghostbusters}} 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.
* Sarah Harding's backpack in ''[[Franchise/JurassicPark The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'' saves her ass on a few occasions.

* Film/KickAss, in the climax, [[spoiler:gets his hands onto the {{jetpack}}, complete with two shoulder-mounted retractable [[GatlingGood miniguns]].]]

* As [[SteamPunk nineteenth century analogues]] to the Film/{{Ghostbusters}}, Theatre/TheLeagueOfSTEAM have several awesome backpacks.

* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''
** The WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters wear Ghost Packs, which are far more mundane [[BagOfHolding Bags of Holding]]...EXCEPT for the fact that they can also [[MundanemadeAwesome turn into jetpacks]].

* JohnnyTest had the Turbo Action Backpack, with an A/V system, heavy weapons, and a shrink ray.
* ''StaticShock'' has Richie's robot backpack.

* The original RogueTrooper's backpack was so awesome it was one of the characters, being implanted with the {{biochip}} of one of his fallen comrades! Also something of a BagOfHolding.

* Nakor from ''TheRiftwarCycle'' has one with a magic portal in the bottom that terminates in a fruit warehouse, allowing him to always produce an orange from it no matter where he is. He can also use it to hide things in the fruit warehouse.

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

* [[BlueBeetle Jaime's]] scarab in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' could be thought of as an AwesomeBackpack that ''talks'' (sort of).

* F.L.U.D.D. in ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine''.
* The Poltergust 3000 in ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'' and the Poltergust 5000 in the sequel.

* Characters on ''{{Lost}}'' frequently carry messenger bags filled with everything from [[CrazyPrepared makeshift flamethrowers]] (Locke) to bunnies (Ben).

** WordOfGod says that their entire personality is in there. Not only that, some WildMassGuessing theories say that the only reason the entire Irken race even have bodies is so they can carry PAKs around to conquer planets with. It's their brains, their life-support systems, their pretty much everything.

* In ''GundamSEED'', this seems to be the theme of the series. The main character's mobile suit is unique for its abilities to wear a different Awesome Backpack for every situation, which carries onto the mass-produced versions in the sequel. The Justice also has an Awesome Backpack, which doubles as a hoverboard.
* The Beargguy from ''ModelSuitGunplaBuildersBeginningG'' has the Landcell unit. It looks like a school backpack, yet it's outfitted with space thrusters to allow it to move through space and holds its Beam Recorder/Saber and a missile launcher.

->--'''Peter Venkman''', ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''

* Kagome's backpack in ''InuYasha'': modern food and medicine in a medieval setting, plus arrows.