History Main / JetPack

* The pulp novel ''Armageddon 2419 A.D.'', best known as the original source of the comic strip ''ComicStrip/BuckRogers'', is the UrExample of a jetpack in modern fiction [[note]]along with, coincidentally, ''The Skylark of Space'', another story featured in the very same ''Amazing Stories'' magazine issue[[/note]]. The jetpacks are called "floaters", and are back-strapped rockets encased with the [[ArtificialGravity gravity-reducing]] "[[AppliedPhlebotinum Inertron]]". The floaters are a technical evolution of the "jumpers", wide vest-like belts full of inertron that reduce weight to the wearer's preference.

** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'' have the "Levitator", a jet pack which gives proper flight with limited fuel.
** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus'' and ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'', the jetpack allows Ratchet to engage in aerial combat. However, if his fuel runs out, he still needs to find a refueling station.

** ''Enemies''. The supervillain Lazer uses one which allowed him to fly at 65 m.p.h. Interestingly, it is powered by his own Endurance rather than an onboard fuel supply.

* Incrediboy/Syndrome uses rocket boots in ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. When he's a kid in the film's prologue, they're rather bulky, but by the time he's an adult, he's refined them to the point where they're sleek and white.

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* George Michael receives a jet pack in an ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' episode, with [[HilarityEnsues predictable results]].
* Jet packs are mentioned as being part of the equipment available to the crew of ''Series/BabylonFive'' when [[spoiler:Sheridan is falling to his death, after leaping from a shuttle blown up as part of an assassination attempt]], but never shown.
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E19SeeingRed Seeing Red]]", Warren of the Nerd Trio does a VillainExitStageLeft using a jetpack hidden under his jacket. Andrew tries to follow suit, but fails to notice he's standing under an overhanging ceiling and [[FailedDramaticExit knocks himself out.]]
* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. In "Sad Clown A-Go-Go", the VillainOfTheWeek Mad Pierrot uses the rocket boots version. Spike Spiegel defeats him by activating the rockets sending him [[BabyPlanet flying off the asteroid]] they're fighting on.

* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In the TwoPartEpisode "Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven" the Cybermen have upgraded themselves with rocket boots. When the Doctor is put on a UNIT airborne command post to handle the crisis, they have no problem following.
* ''Series/{{Farscape}}''. The engine room of a Peacekeeper Command Carrier is [[StarshipLuxurious so large]] it requires jetpacks to conduct routine maintenance. [[RuleOfCool Needless to say]] this leads to a mid-air jetpack fight between the protagonists and a group of Peacekeepers.

* Jet packs are used a few times by John Robinson in the ''Series/LostInSpace'' series. They actually filmed a stunt pilot using a Bell Rocket Belt.

--->'''The Mandalorian''': ''[after Paz Vizla flies off]'' I gotta get one of those.

* The ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' episode "Ignition" is about a murder committed over the design of a new jetpack. [[strike:[=McGeek=]]] [=McGee=] unsurprisingly is a huge fan and bores his co-workers to tears with trivia on rocket belts, but when the guilty party tries to make a quick getaway in one at the end even Tony and Ziva look impressed.
* Jet packs are mentioned in the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "Terrorform":
-->'''The Cat:''' I say let's get into the jet-powered rocket pants and Junior Birdman the hell out of here.
-->'''Kryten:''' An excellent and inventive suggestion, sir, with just two tiny drawbacks. A, We don't have any jet-powered rocket pants. And B, There's no such thing as jet-powered rocket pants outside the fictional serial "Robbie Rocket Pants".
-->'''The Cat:''' Well, that's put a crimp on an otherwise damn fine plan.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. A jet pack is worn by Tom Paris in the holodeck program ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'', in an affectionate homage to the old ''Commando Cody/Rocketman'' Republic {{Film Serial}}s. Tom even wears the same jetpack controls as Cody on his AdventurerOutfit.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':

* The Principal in the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' manga had a jet pack that exploded.

*** In ''ComicBook/SupermanVsTheAmazingSpiderMan'', ComicBook/LexLuthor owns a green jetpack and rocket boots.

*** ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': In ''[[ComicBook/TheLegionOfSuperHeroes their first appearance]]'', the Legionnaires used jetpacks to fly around. Later, they replace them with Flight Belts and ultimately with Flight Rings.
** Jet packs are standard equipment for ComicBook/AdamStrange.

* ''Franchise/GIJoe'' get jet packs as standard issue, called J.U.M.P. packs. Cobra later answers this with a man portable flying wing, The C.L.A.W.

* In ''ComicBook/JonSableFreelance'' #14, Jon pulls a large object out from under the vehicle and dons a flight helmet and buckles into a harness. We see the scrambled helicopter move in, towards the paraglider. We then see Jon's feet lift off the ground. Weapons fire from inside the helo, then Jon returns fire from his winged jetpack.

** Jet packs are standard equipment for Wonder Man in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers''.
** Characters/DoctorDoom has either a jetpack or rocket boots, depending on his whim!

** ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]] is the [[http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm140/slim_dayspring/Decorated%20images/ze9sRdbFKq4ltcokRBLHR25Ao1_500.jpg owner of a jet pack]].

* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans''. Crypto's suit has a built-in jet pack that can pop out and allow him to fly around.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Haloid}}''. Another reason why Zero Suit Samus rocks: RocketBoots!

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** James invented RocketBoots and used them to kick people.

* The opening ceremonies of the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles included a Bell Rocket Belt (the ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' device) flown across the stadium.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' probably has a few of these, but the [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop JET BOOTS!]] that Mandark installed in the giant statue of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington stand out.

** ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' has Allied rocketeers, hovering light infantry. Soviets has the Cosmonauts in expansion which are prcticaly the same, just with laser weaponry. These are however used only on Moon.
** In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', Japanes has the deadly Rocket Angels. They funtion basically the same, but instead of light anti-infantry weapons they use MacrossMissileMassacre.

* [[RobotGirl Chachamaru]] of ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' is equipped with a jet pack, though even in her upgraded form, she can only use it for up to fifteen minutes before needing to recharge.
* ''Anime/MazingerZ'''s MidSeasonUpgrade was a Jet Pack docked with Mazinger-Z. It was yellow with red RazorWings and could shoot star-shaped shurikens to whoever tried attack Mazinger-Z from back. Its name was Jet Scrander.
** ''Anime/GreatMazinger'': Great Mazinger had a red Jet Pack folded from its back, and a second Jet Pack (Big Booster) docked with it. It was grey, with wide triangular wings, and was equiped with a spike to impale {{Robeast}}s. [[FemBot Venus-A]] also had an attachable Jet Pack, right like Mazinger-Z.
** ''Anime/UFORoboGrendizer'': Grendizer had THREE jet packs (not counting its spaceship): Double Spacer -to fly inside and outside of atmosphere-, Marine Spacer -to fly and dive underwater- and Drill Spacer -to fly and burrow underground-.
* The Principal in the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' manga had a jet pack that exploded.
* ''Manga/SamuraiGun'': Kaishu Katsu has a Jet pack in the [[AnachronismStew Tokugawa era]].
* In the first episode of ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'', a jet pack was used by Ataru Moroboshi in an attempt to catch Lum, despite her flying abilities. [[FailureMontage Instead the jetpack blows up when he starts it.]]

* The eponymous ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' have a cross between Rocket Boots and PowerArmor for the leg area, powered by magic.
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', the Float systems used by Britannian [[HumongousMecha Knightmare Frames]] look like Mecha-sized jet packs. The Air Glide Wing variation used by the Black Knights, and the Energy Wing system that appears later look less like jet packs, although they are much more refined.

* ''Manga/HanaukyoMaidTeam La Verite'' episode 11. Konoe's OneeSama has a jet pack as part of her armor, which she uses to pursue the protagonist party as they escape via elevator after rescuing Mariel.

* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'':
** [[BigBad Marder]]'s foot troops use jet packs.
** In episode 4, Hilmuka and Chururu steal a pair of jet packs and use them to fly across a low-gravity area.

* In ''Fanfic/NewBeginningsSmallville'', Oliver Queen decides he needs a jet pack after seeing Clark Kent flying for the first time.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' [[TransplantedCharacterFic Uberfic]] ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9075802 The Artisans of War]]'', B'Elanna Torres and Annika Hansen are extracted from a [[StarScraper bladescraper]] via a BigDamnGunship shooting out the windows, followed by a US marine jetpacking through the broken window, locking them into a hostage rescue harness and flying them back to the helicopter.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12378786 Captain Proton and the Planet of Lesbians]]'', Proton tries using his rocket pack while doing a BridalCarry and finds he can't reach the chest controls to turn it off, causing them to ricochet around the room like a pinball until they crash.

* ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} Megamind: The Button of Doom]]'': Having taken on the role of Defender of Metrocity, Megamind does a GoodCostumeSwitch including rocket boots, in imitation of the previous FlyingBrick superhero, Metro Man. They don't work very well when fighting a HumongousMecha, so Megamind goes back to using a SpiderTank instead.

* ''Film/TheRocketeer'':
** Despite the name, this ''was'' a jetpack rather than a rocket, since it was fueled by alcohol but carried no oxygen to combust it with. Here, the hero stopped Hitler from creating an army of [[StupidJetpackHitler flying Nazi stormtroopers]] that would conquer America -- and the world.
** Hell, the first time they fire it up you can see an air intake fan start to move under the housing. ''Everything'' we're shown in the movie marks the device as a Jetpack, but ''everyone'' in the movie keeps calling it a "Rocket" -- even Howard Hughes, who built it and presumably knows the proper name.
* ''Franchise/StarWars''
** Both Fetts have jetpacks, and both of them fail them in one way or another. Since they wear armor, it's at least justified why they never get burned.
** The Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse has a very select cadre of (non-Mandalorian) mercenaries with jetpacks, also armored. And there are several varieties of clone and stormtrooper with jetpacks, each with different appellations like jet trooper, airtrooper, and Rocket Trooper. Since at least one of those was developed for a tabletop game, the type of jetpack troopers use comes with restrictions like fuel and where it can or can't be used.
** Raises FridgeLogic issues, as repulsor-field technology otherwise suggests that jetpacks are obsolete as a means of aerial propulsion. {{Justified|Trope}} by RuleOfCool and as an {{homage}} to sci-fi tradition. It is noted in a few places that Repulsor packs are not small and are not efficient when they are small. Even droids that use them don't use them constantly, because it drains their batteries. And really heavy loads still use wheels or legs to support them.
** Granted, Boba's is probably nostalgic, because it belonged to his father. Mandalorians as a whole are traditionalist, since they made the art of bounty hunting they don't like people taking different approaches by altering the core of their tactics (flamethrowers, wristblades and personal missiles in a world with laser everything-else).
** One of the clone troopers is called Commander Cody in a homage to the original Rocketman.
** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', we suddenly discover that R2-D2 is equipped with leg rockets.
** In ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', stormtroopers are revealed to have been issued with jetpacks (to the dismay of the heroes) but they turn out to be AwesomeButImpractical (a stormtrooper's aim isn't any better whilst flying and they crash with nice fiery explosions).
* ''Film/JamesBond'':
** James Bond uses a jet pack to escape to top of a building at the beginning of ''Film/{{Thunderball}}.'' Bonus points for this ''not being a special effect'', but was an actual flight by a Bell Aerosystems Rocketpack provided for use in the film by the US Air Force (see the Real Life section below).
** This same jetpack that appeared in ''Film/{{Thunderball}}'' makes a cameo in ''Film/DieAnotherDay''.

* A jetpack inexplicably turns up in the fantasy-comedy film, ''Film/TheMermaid'', as one of the various gadgets developed by Liu's company. For most of the film the jetpack is shown being tested and screwing up hilariously, throwing Liu around, but it eventually works when Liu uses said jetpack to save the titular mermaid from being killed by mercenaries.
* ''Film/MinorityReport'': [=PreCrime=] enforcement units use jet packs.
* ''Film/SpyKids1'' has Machetes' [=BuddyPacks=]. Both are in use by the heroes and villains, of course. Carmen uses one to pursue the villains to recover the Third Brain. While trying to escape, Juni accidentally activates a stray [=BuddyPack=] that causes one of the villains to get her hair burned off by the flames shooting out of pack's exhaust pipe.
* ''Franchise/StarTrek'':
** In ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'', Spock steals a "thruster suit" -- a space suit with a one-use rocket backpack -- so that he can reach V'ger's inner chamber.
** Spock has rocket boots (Spocket boots?) in ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier''.

* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'': ActionGirl and AcePilot 'Franky' Cook [[EjectionSeat ejects]] from her [[MilitaryMashupMachine submersible airplane]] just in time to avoid a MacrossMissileMassacre. After breaking the surface of the water a JetPack boosts her the rest of the way up to her AirborneAircraftCarrier. Even the [[LoveTriangle rival for the hero's affections]] is impressed.
* ''Film/TheRunningMan'': A jet pack is used by the Stalker named Fireball.

* In ''Film/{{Sleeper}}'', Milo (Creator/WoodyAllen) tries to use a jet pack to escape the security police, but it takes off without him. He then tries a [[HelicopterPack backpack helicopter]], also with comedic results.
* The classic Buster Crabbe ''ComicStrip/BuckRogers'' serials had a jet pack strapped to the back of the eponymous hero in some of their more memorable moments.
* In ''Film/RoboCop3'', Murphy gets his hands on a prototype jet pack to aid him in foiling bad guys.
* ''Film/{{Gravity}}'': An astronaut is sent hurtling into space, but fortunately another astronaut happens to be testing a Manned Maneuvering Unit (see Real Life section). As mentioned in that section however, it only has limited fuel to enable them to reach a nearby space station.

* In ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen'', [[spoiler: Optimus uses Jetfire's parts to form a jetpack for a time]].
* ''Film/WinnerTakesAll'' has a finale involving a jetpack jousting duel between the two heroes (respectively a GentlemanThief and a CowboyCop) and their main nemesis, a Japanese assassin, while hovering on top of electrified floor panels. It sounds awesome on paper, but unfortunately because some SpecialEffectsFailure (and for most of the fight the camera doesn't show what's below the three characters' feet) it's painfully obvious that all three combatants are fighting on a raised platform instead of ''actual'' jetpacks.
* Used by the dwarf secret agent hero in the Filipino ''Franchise/JamesBond'' parody ''For Y'ur Height Only''. Given his lack of stature, he probably found it more necessary than most.

* Creator/IsaacAsimov's "Literature/TheTercentenaryIncident": Lawrence Edwards begins the story with a flotron motor worn on his back, using it to hover two hundred feet above the crowd during the [[FoundingDay 300th anniversary of America's Declaration of Independence]].

* Creator/StewartCowley's ''Literature/GreatSpaceBattles'': A law enforcement officer investigates the base of a band of mutant space pirates. After they detect his presence, he activates his backpack jet pack and lifts off, barely escaping their grasp. When he returns with the authorities, the pirates are gone. Illustrated [[http://www.peterelson.co.uk/gallery/image.php?cat=10&id=312 using this thrilling picture]] by science-fiction artist Peter Elson.

* In ''Literature/{{Bounders}}'', the kids are taught to use blast packs so they can get around on planets with unusual gravity levels. On Jasper's first try, he accidentally flies into the ceiling and knocks himself out.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager''. A jet pack is worn by Tom Paris in the holodeck program ''Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton'', in an affectionate homage to the old ''Commando Cody/Rocketman'' Republic {{Film Serial}}s. Tom even wears the same jetpack controls as Cody on his AdventurerOutfit.
* George Michael receives a jet pack in an ''Series/ArrestedDevelopment'' episode, with [[HilarityEnsues predictable results]].

* One episode in ''Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive'' features a jet pack. Which never seems to work properly, so it doesn't become a staple to the series.
* The Saturday morning kid's show ''Series/ArkII'' used the "Jet Jumper" in practically every episode. It was a genuine, working jet pack flown by a stuntman. You can tell it was real by how huge and bulky it was, compared to more typically-streamlined Hollywood portrayals.
* Jet packs are mentioned as being part of the equipment available to the crew of ''Series/BabylonFive'' when [[spoiler:Sheridan is falling to his death, after leaping from a shuttle blown up as part of an assassination attempt]], but never shown.
* Jet packs are a piece of standard equipment available to Unicorn agents in the Japanese show ''Series/GiantRobot'' (you may know it better from its movie compilation, ''Voyage Into Space'').

* ''Series/GilligansIsland'': A military jetpack lands on the island. Due to his weight, Gilligan is the only one who can fly it. He flies into a cloud, causing a rainstorm that halts the military search for it. Later, he tries to fly to Hawaii, but forgets to strap it on properly.
* ''Series/DoctorWho''. In the TwoPartEpisode "Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven" the Cybermen have upgraded themselves with rocket boots. When the Doctor is put on a UNIT airborne command post to handle the crisis, they have no problem following.
* ''Series/TheMandalorian'':
** In "The Sin", the other members of the Mandalorian covert enclave arrive for their BigDamnHeroes moment by jet pack, and Paz Vizla briefly flies after the ''Razor Crest'' to salute him. It's not explained why the Mandalorian doesn't have one of his own, but he wants one.
--->'''The Mandalorian''': ''[after Paz Vizla flies off]'' I gotta get one of those.
** He finally gets the desired EquipmentUpgrade in the Season One finale, though the Mandalorian Armourer cautions our hero that he must train with it first as he hasn't used one since he was a foundling trainee. As it turns out circumstances force him to [[ChekhovsGun use it a lot sooner]] in a battle with a TIE fighter. The same episode also has a flashback to how he became adopted by the Mandalorians, with him being saved as a child by a Mandalorian in the middle of a battle and then carried to safety using a jetpack.
** In the Season 2 premiere "The Marshal", Cobb Vanth, the self-appointed protector of a small settlement called Mos Pelgo, is revealed to be in possession of Boba Fett's armor and jetpack. Vanth and Mando use their jetpacks to aid them in their slaying of the Krayt Dragon terrorizing the locals. Mando even melees Vanth's jetpack to send him flying away to safety, referencing Boba Fett's defeat at the hands of Han Solo.
** In "The Passenger", a bounty hunter is holding a knife at the Child's throat, so Mando [[HostageForMacGuffin trades his jetpack in exchange]]. As soon as he has the Child back, Mando remotely activates the jetpack and sends the bounty hunter shooting a long way up into the air, then drops him.
* ''Series/CowboyBebop2021''. In "Sad Clown A-Go-Go", the VillainOfTheWeek Mad Pierrot uses the rocket boots version. Spike Spiegel defeats him by activating the rockets sending him [[BabyPlanet flying off the asteroid]] they're fighting on.

* In the ''[[Pinball/GilligansIsland Gilligan's Island]]'' pinball, Gilligan is wearing a jet pack, which he uses to fly over Kona the Volcano God.
* In ''Pinball/ThePartyZone'', Captain B. Zarr's various female followers fly around with chrome jet packs shooting energy rings.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' is full of these. Space Marine Assault Squads, Tau Crisis Suits, Chaos Marine Raptors, Ork Storm Boys, Sisters of Battle Seraphim, Eldar Swooping Hawks, and Yeld Spyrers all have some form of jet pack. Most jump infantry without wings are examples of this trope, and even some with wings are as well.\\\
Most of these groups have slightly more realistically designs. Crisis suits, Assault Marines, Raptors, and Seraphim have angled thrusters so that they don't set their butts on fire, Stormboyz don't really care about safety, and Swooping Hawks use anti-gravity vanes sculpted to look like wings instead of proper jetpacks. Also, given the rules' remarks that soldiers don't have unlimited ammunition but are instead assumed to have enough to last six turns of gameplay, it is reasonable to assume that these people merely have enough fuel in their jetpacks to last a normal-length battle instead of being unlimited-fuel affairs.\\\
The Space Marine version actually has a slightly plausible explanation for how it works. Power from the backpack reactor is used to convert reaction mass to a superheated plasma, which is directed to launch and maneuver. This explains why the Jump Pack only allows the user to make short hops, not full flight - it takes a short while to convert enough mass to perform the next Jump.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'''s Sky Sentinel, Defender X, and Nova-ESR all wear giant jet-turbines to help them jump and fly their way across the battle maps.
* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'':
** ''TabletopGame/GURPSUltraTech'' has a nuclear jet pack that lets out a torrent of irradiated plasma below it. It's cool but neither particularly safe nor stealthy.
** ''TabletopGame/GURPSSupers'' supplement ''Supertemps''. The heroes Clone and New Javelin each have a jet pack that allows them to fly.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'':
** Most flying models of PoweredArmor use heavy jet systems mounted on the back, though the armor itself is usually hanging/pushed along from them in an upright position. Jetpacks are otherwise fairly rare on Rifts' Earth, though the Three Galaxies setting uses gravity-based versions fairly extensively.
** Also noted are a set of rocket boots used to enhance jumping ability. They fire once on takeoff, and again to brake for landing. Notable in that it's also mentioned that one has to be superhumanly tough to be able to use them without breaking your legs.

* ''TabletopGame/DCHeroes'' has a jet pack that allows the wearer to fly at 100 m.p.h.
* ''Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game'' Adventure 3 ''ComicBook/FantasticFour: Fantastic Voyages''. In the adventure "Hands of the Ravager", there are three jet packs stored aboard the Skrull scout ship ''Kell'rr Anelle'', and the Kree Jon-Larr has one as well.
* ''TabletopGame/SpiritOfTheCentury''. The NPC hero Jackson "Jet" Black, the Flying Soldier, had a jetpack that he used to fly into battle during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI.
* Fantasy Games Unlimited's ''TabletopGame/{{Aftermath}}!''. Rocket packs were a high-tech way of getting around before the Ruin that ended civilization. Some of them are still available for the finding by survivors.

* ''Carcosa: Weird Science-Fantasy Horror Setting''. Among other high tech items, the space aliens on the planet Carcosa have jet packs.
* ''Encounter Critical''. One of the items that can be purchased is a jet pack. It allows flight at a speed of 20" (by comparison, human ground movement speed is 7") and has a 23% chance of being defective. Another item on the equipment list is a Contra-Gravity Belt that doubles the jet pack's speed. The Combat Gravbelt in the ''Asteroid 1618'' supplement triples jet pack speed.
* Creator/{{TSR}}'s ''TabletopGame/MarvelSuperHeroes'', ''Uncanny X-Men'' boxed set Adventure Book. At the end of Chapter 9 "Let the Game Begin", if the heroes don't find Arcade within 15 minutes after the end of the basketball game, he will put on a jet pack and try to escape.
* ''It Came from the Late, Late Show II'' adventure "Bjorn on the Bayou, or Escape from Alkatrazz XII". Alkatrazz XII is a prison planet. The cyborg warden Skrank and his bodyguard Jorj have jet packs as part of their standard equipment.
* ''Tales of the Space Princess'' RPG. One example of a Super Science device is the Jet Pack. A character wearing one can fly at at a movement rate of 60 yards/10 seconds (15 m.p.h.) for 1 hour before needing to refuel.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' supplement ''Paranormal Animals of Europe''. In one story, a shadowrunner escapes the charge of a wild minotaur when her jetpak (sic) automatically activates and lifts her off the ground out of its way.
* In ''TabletopGame/RocketAge'', the United States was originally the only country to have mastered jet pack technology and kept it a closely guarded secret. The US Rocket Rangers use them as part of their standard equipment and Erisian 'Knight' Armor often included something similar.

* ''Princess Ryan's Star Marines''. One of the Black Guard opponents the title characters can fight are platoons of armored grenadiers wearing jet packs.
* ''Magazine/{{Ares}}'' magazine #14 game "The Omega War". Infantry units used in the war can fly using jet packs.
* The Creator/SteveJacksonGames game ''Battlesuit'', which involves infantry wearing PowerArmor. The troops have a limited flight ability using jetpacks.
* ''TabletopGame/JudgeDredd'', ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' magazine #88 adventure "A Night in the Death of Sector 255". If the Judges attack the BigBad Grag Peppard in his candy factory, he will try to escape using a jet pack.
* ''TabletopGame/TopSecret''. ''Magazine/{{Polyhedron}}'' magazine #9 has a list of new gadgets for the game, including the Model Jet Pack (MJP) - Defender Series. The wearer can travel at 30 miles per hour for up to five hours.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Battlelords Of The 23rd Century}}'' supplement ''Lock-N-Load: The Battlelord's War Manual''. The T-5 jet pack can fly at a speed of 240 kilometers per hour for three hours.

* ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerStarResistance EXTRAPOWER Star Resistance]]'': Turns out not all the alien characters are gifted with superhuman flight. Daitoku Igor is more mundane in his abilities, and keeps up with Sharkungo and Forcestar via jetpack. In ''[[VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce Attack of Darkforce]]'', this is also how he makes his escape when the robots he pilots get destroyed.
* ''VideoGame/HeroSmash'' has some examples.
** Some players have jet packs even though they can fly without them.
** [[http://www.herosmash.com/hs-character.asp?id=rocker Rocker]] from Skull Deep has a jet pack.
** In the trailer, [[color:purple:Mr Purple]] has a jet pack.
* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': In "Escaping The Prison" during the Sneaky Escapist route, Henry can try to use a jetpack to escape from the prison, which he quickly loses controls of and flies head-on back into his cell.

* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'':
** ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' and ''VideoGame/Halo4'': What's cooler than a ''Halo'' multiplayer match? A multiplayer match with '''jetpacks!'''
** ''VideoGame/Halo2'' introduced the Ranger-class Elites, who were equipped for EVA with anti-gravity packs and fully-enclosed helmets, though they fight planetside as well. Ranger units in later games use more traditional jetpacks, as do the Brute Jumpers introduced in ''VideoGame/Halo3''.
* In all ''VideoGame/StarsiegeTribes'' games, the jetpack is an EXTREMELY integral piece of the gameplay. Someone in [[MightyGlacier juggernaut armor]] can only achieve any significant height gain by standing still while the same person in [[FragileSpeedster scout armor]] is nigh unstoppable on flag runs. And then we have the skiing ability of players, [[AscendedGlitch which originally came by as a bug]], but is explained away in-game via micro-bursts from the jets. By the way, only scout and assault armors have jetpacks; juggernaut armors have jetboots instead.
* Neon Boulevard from ''VideoGame/JitsuSquad'' have enemy mooks on hover-packs, who repeatedly attempts sniping your characters with a bazooka while hovering above the area.
* ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'':
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime'' has the Pirate Aerotroopers, which not only have jet packs but also go kamikaze on you after being defeated.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'': The Gravity Boost is a powerup that lets you rise up while underwater for a limited time. It doesn't work on land, so it's an underwater-only jetpack.
* ''VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures'' has Sparkster, a Rocket Knight, who, as the name implies, is a armored knight with a rocket pack, along with a sword that creates energy slashes. It's just as awesome as it sounds.
* ''VideoGame/SlyCooper'': This is one of Bentley's gadgets available to him in the second game, and he gets rockets in the third.
* ''VideoGame/SpecialProjectY'' have multiple levels where you chase down enemies while wearing armed jetpacks of your own, firing at mooks in your way. The game's first mission have you pursuing enemies on speedboats with your jetpacks.

* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' has a jet pack, and it was arguably one of the most fun vehicles in the entire game. It was also highly necessary to collect all the items on the rooftops in the Las Vegas-like city.
* You eventually get a jet pack in ''VideoGame/CaveStory''. Notably, it comes in two, [[MutuallyExclusivePowerups mutually-exclusive]] forms. The Booster 0.8 can only angle its thrust straight down and is acquired in a normal playthrough. But, if you perform a bit of precision platforming, you can skip that Booster, which allows you to later acquire the Booster 2.0, which can fly in any direction and is required for the GoldenEnding.
* ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000SpaceMarine'' has a slightly more realistic take on its jump packs, the thrusters are angled such that they aren't going to fry [[PlayerCharacter Titus']] ass (and given his PoweredArmor it might not do much damage anyway), and at the end of every jump pack level Tidus comments that he's out of fuel and takes it off.

* ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'':
** You get a Jet Pack and a rocket pack as a reward item for finishing a mission.
** Rocket boots (and [[InASingleBound piston boots]]) are also an unlockable costume part, though they're purely cosmetic, only adding a special effect to existing flight powers.
* Pey'j from ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' has Jet Boots, although they don't propel him very high.
* ''VideoGame/BlowOut'' have your character equipped with a jet pack, which allows you to hover for limited periods of time to climb up shafts or evade swarms of mutant bugs. You do need to recharge it constantly, however.
* In the ''Anime/DragonballZ'' games, Hercule has a jetpack to fly... but from the Tenkaichi series onwards, they only get him in the air for several seconds.
* ''Franchise/MegaMan'':
** ''[[VideoGame/MegaManClassic Mega Man's]]'' Jet and Super Adapters, and Bass' Treble Boost.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' has the [=AirShoes=] Battle Chip.
** ''VideoGame/MegaManX'' has the falcon armour as well as Axl.
* ''VideoGame/DukeNukem3D'' has one you can use whenever you want provided you still have fuel for it. ''VideoGame/DukeNukemManhattanProject'' has it as a timed PowerUp.

* ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheEmpire''. A jet pack has finite fuel, so you must learn to manage it.
* ''VideoGame/{{Jetpack}}'' (obviously), where the jetpack provides VideoGameFlight.
* ''VideoGame/BarrySteakfries'':
** ''VideoGame/MonsterDash'' features the [[GatlingGood Machine Gun Jetpack]] as one of the power-ups to kill monsters with.
** ''VideoGame/JetpackJoyride'' and ''VideoGame/JetpackJoyride2'' take the Machine Gun Jetpack from ''Monster Dash'' and base their gameplay around it, with many ImprovisedJetPack available from the game's store.
* ''VideoGame/{{Jetpac}}''. In this game, the main character wears it. Not the same game as ''Jetpack''.

* VideoGame/NancyDrew, of all people, gets a jetpack in the game ''The Haunting of Castle Malloy.''

* ''VideoGame/{{Warhawk}}'s'' latest expansion pack adds jetpacks.
* ''VideoGame/CortexCommand'' has nearly all units equipped with jet packs, which is a good thing, because the "realistic" physics and inability to jump makes simply walking on anything besides completely flat ground almost impossible. However, if a unit carries too much weight, the jetpack becomes nearly useless, and not all units have jetpacks. Plus, they're a little fudgy to use, and if you come down too hard, you [[LudicrousGibs break your legs off. Or break your body.]] Losing legs and non-vital parts does mean losing weight, however, which makes it that much easier to fly.
* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'':
** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'': Diddy Kong has a wooden Rocketbarrel in this game, which becomes his recovery move in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''; he can use it when he hops onto his designated Kong Barrel, and can fly for as long as he has Crystal Coconuts left (though in certain challenges as well as during the FinalBoss battle the number of that item is unlimited, for the sake of convenience).
** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountryReturns'': Diddy uses a jetpack in this game (serving as a tool to temporarily hover in the air), though it looks much different from the Rocketbarrel in ''[=DK64=]'' and ''Brawl'', as it has a little rocket that comes out of a backpack to help Diddy (and Donkey Kong if he has Diddy on his back or if you combine in Co-op) float for a short while.
* ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'': Lupus has jet engines equipped in his four paws, allowing him to hover in the air for a surprisingly extended period of time (making him the only character capable of crossing large chasms that lead to unique areas). Later in the game, Juno and Vela are given jetpacks to fly vertically, though they can only use them when [[PlatformActivatedAbility standing on a Jet Pad to collect fuel]] (during that same period, Lupus has his own jet engines upgraded to use the Pads as well).

* Rocket Boots are a powerup in ''VideoGame/BackyardFootball''.

* The side-scrolling shooter ''VideoGame/JetsNGuns'' is full of jetpacked mooks, and in some levels in the ''Gold Edition'', you have to leave your spacecraft and infiltrate an enemy base wearing a jet pack.
* The shop in ''VideoGame/ClashAtDemonhead'' sells jetpacks. They're useful, but quite expensive.
* The old ZX Spectrum game ''Jet Pac'' and its successor ''Lunar Jetman'' both have jet packs.
* The protagonist of ''Dark Side'' uses one. (Be careful not to run out of fuel in mid-air!).
* Jet packs can be found/purchased/stolen in ''VideoGame/{{Spelunky}}''. In the first game, they were a GameBreaker. The sequel nerfed it by making it [[MadeOfExplodium blow up if you get hit by fire or bullets]].
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot2CortexStrikesBack'': The fourth-to-last and second-to-last levels feature the use of a jetpack as a game mechanic. Crash has to use it in order to travel across the corridors of the zero-gravity zone. It's also an example of UnexpectedGameplayChange, as the difficulty of the commands is why these stages have been put in the fifth Warp Room. [[spoiler:Crash uses the jetpack again in the final battle against Cortex; the control scheme is adapted to make it so Crash goes forward automatically, so the player only needs to worry about steering.]]
* Actual rocket boots are an unlockable powerup in the ''VideoGame/ToyStory2'' game.
* ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'': From 3 onwards, players will be occasionally granted access to jetpacks, which allows them to fly after enemies in airborne missions instead of pursuing on foot. Said jetpacks also has a missile launcher built in.
* ''VideoGame/MetalFatigue''. The game has jet packs as optional flight accessories for [[AMechByAnyOtherName combots]]. [=MilAgro=] and Neuropa have jetpacks with wings while Rimtech uses mundane jetboots. Mounting jetpack/jetboots make combots behave like aircraft when ordered to move beyond a certain distance; they can even use ranged attacks without landing and cannot be attacked via melee until they do land. Now the drawback: while flying, combots get zero armor and all hits do full damage which means bad news, as flying parts have about 20 HP which is [[GlassCannon INSANELY low]]. [[FragileSpeedster It's still the fastest form of travel, though.]]
* The Cyborg class in ''VideoGame/GhoulsVsHumans'' has a jetpack, which has limited fuel. Apart from flying, it can be used for super-jumps, or to make a rapid dodge forwards, not unlike a FlashStep.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'': Isaac has thrusters in his boots and shoulders. However, they only work in zero gravity (and certain cut scenes).
* Reapers in ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'' are Terran close-combat infantry with jetpacks and [[GunsAkimbo dual pistols]]. Their jets, actually mounted on the shoulders of their PoweredArmor, don't let them outright ''fly'', but they are very fast on the ground and can hop over cliffs.
* ''VideoGame/JablessAdventure''. Jables even {{lampshades}} the fact that, since you have the jet pack, you must be near the end of the game.
* In the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberium'' series, GDI has specialist infantry units with jetpacks in ''Tiberian Sun''. The Zone Troopers, Zone Raiders, and Commandos in ''Tiberium Wars'' also use jetpacks, although they are for leaping rather than flying.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'' has Allied rocketeers, hovering light infantry. Soviets has the Cosmonauts in expansion which are prcticaly the same, just with laser weaponry. These are however used only on Moon. In ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'', Japanes has the deadly Rocket Angels. They funtion basically the same, but instead of light anti-infantry weapons they use MacrossMissileMassacre.
* The hero of ''VideoGame/JettRocket'' has a jet pack, although the use is limited.
* ''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'' series
** ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'' have the "Levitator", a jet pack which gives proper flight with limited fuel.
** In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankIntoTheNexus'' and ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016'', the jetpack allows Ratchet to engage in aerial combat. However, if his fuel runs out, he still needs to find a refueling station.
* The Rocket Boots can be purchased and used in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}''.
* The Jet ability in ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' basically grants Kirby a Jet Pack. He can use this not only to fly, but to charge at enemies and fire energy pulses, and even perform an aerial throwing attack.
* Fassad from ''VideoGame/Mother3'' sports a jet pack from Chapter 7 onward. Presumably this is because [[spoiler: Fassad lost the ability to walk when he was put back together ala Humpty Dumpty after his fall from Thunder Tower. So he flies instead.]]
* In ''VideoGame/TwilightHeroes'', a hero with enough time and resources can undertake the game's biggest construction project, the Jetpack. The diagram for building it has its own page on the game's wiki. But once you complete the task, the Jetpack serves as one of the game's best forms of transport - Range 5 (meaning it can go anywhere on the map; there are ''very'' few Range 5 vehicles), flying, and without any level limit. And the only requirement to use it is the Passable Pilot skill, available in any run to any hero with five turns, 500 chips, and access to Downtown (which only takes a Moped).
* [[Creator/{{Epyx}} Automated Simulations']] ''Star Warrior''. Depending on which method you use to create your character, you can either choose a suit with a built-in jet pack for him or pay for a jet pack as one of his custom suit's options.
* In ''VideoGame/SlySpy'', some enemies fly in on jetpacks, and when killed will sometimes drop theirs for you to use.
* ''VideoGame/KerbalSpaceProgram'' gives its astronauts a Manned Manoeuvring Unit similar to the one used in RealLife. On Kerbin it does next to nothing, but on some lower-gravity bodies it's possible to achieve ''orbit'' with them.
* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehogChaos'' and ''VideoGame/SonicTripleTrouble'' have rocket shoe power-ups in certain stages if you play as Sonic.
** Shadow the Hedgehog also has rocket shoes, but the only time he's ever used them to hover is in the second Dark Story cutscene of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''. Most of the time, he uses them like a pair of roller skates.
** ''VideoGame/SonicLostWorld'' has Dr. Eggman in possession of a jet pack, and he does use it. He also uses one in ''VideoGame/SonicCD'' after his first boss machine is wrecked and he makes his escape.
* In ''VideoGame/DoubleOhSevenFromRussiaWithLove'' Both James Bond and his opponent Grant can use a jet pack to fly.
* In ''VideoGame/MySimsKingdom'', one of the figurines depicts Trevor wearing a jetpack. Victor wonders why.
* ''VideoGame/RocketRanger'' is a deliberate homage to the original [[Film/TheRocketeer Rocketeer]] in video game form.
* In certain levels of ''VideoGame/MDK2'', Max makes use of a jetpack with limited fuel.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceEngineers'' has every character equipped with a small rocket pack for maneuvering in zero-gravity. The jetpack is fairly realistic affair, with multiple jets on both their front and back for movement in all three directions, and is aligned with the character's center-of-mass.
* [[WolfpackBoss The Aero-Divers]] as well as [[BigBad Joe Fang]] fly using jet packs in ''[[VideoGame/VirtuaCop Virtua Cop 2]]''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Infinifactory}}'' has jetpacks as standard issue on the bright red space suits the Overlords issue to all their servant engineers. It's an essential tool for designing your factories.
* Every hunter in ''VideoGame/{{Evolve}} has a jetpack. This allows the mobility to traverse the maps, which are filled with canyons, cliffs, and rivers, and the agility to dodge attacks.
* The Rocketeer is one of ''VideoGame/PulpAdventures'' available party members and has flight-related abilities, from hovering above ground while being able shoot, to ramming the target. There's also the Nazi Rocket Troopers, who are Nazi mooks with jetpacks; the Rocketeer initially appears ingame because he has been hired by the protagonists especially to not be too disavantaged against the Nazi Rocket Troopers.
* ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans''. Crypto's suit has a built-in jet pack that can pop out and allow him to fly around.
* Two examples in ''VideoGame/RiskOfRain'': the Rusty Jetpack only increases jump height, whereas the Photon Jetpack gives limited flight.
* [[NeverMessWithGranny Iva]]'s movement ability in ''VideoGame/{{Battlerite}}'' is provided by a jet pack. It also leaks oil onto any enemy she passes over, putting them at risk of [[ManOnFire being lit up]].
* Jet packs are used by some {{Mook}}s as well as one boss in ''VideoGame/XaindSleena''. The LaserBlade ones are the nastiest, as they love dives to either attempt to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale]] you with their weapons or in "kamikaze" fashion.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'': The [[TheFuture Far Future]] world introduces the Jetpack Zombie, who travels quickly, and can also fly over most plants to [[DungeonBypass bypass them]]. There's also the Disco Jetpack Zombie, a disco version summoned by the Disco-Tron 3000. Finally, the expanded levels have the Blastronaut Zombie, a faster and tougher Jetpack Zombie whose Almanac entry subverts it, funnily enough -- the jetpack is just for show, and his flight capability comes from a deep meditative state and being full of helium.
* ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda:'' The Andromeda Initiative gives out turian Jump Jets, borrowed from the turian elite forces, as standard equipment to its explorers. No more getting waylaid by three foot high ledges! They're pretty powerful, even capable of taking the weight of a krogan. One quest ends with the quest giver asking, as terms of a deal, for one of them in trade.
* ''VideoGame/FightingForce'' Has a boss with a jet pack.
* ''VideoGame/GetOffMyLawn2014'': The second variety of aliens has them wear a jetpack. It allows them to dodge incoming shots at least once.
* ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'''s Inkjet special weapon causes the player to don a large jet pack that constantly fires continuous streams of ink out of it as a means of propulsion while arming the player with a rocket launcher that fires explosive globs of ink. The means of propulsion also means that flying over enemies [[WeaponizedExhaust causes them to take damage]].
* ''VideoGame/TheHorusHerseyLegions'': Units that have the Unstoppable ability have the ability to ignore units with Front Line ability. Cards that have them, are shown with jet packs on their cards to identify, and emphasis their ability.
* ''VideoGame/ClubPenguin'' features several instances of jetpacks:
** The minigame "Jetpack Adventure'' requires the player to fly to the finish line with a jetpack without touching anything.
** The character Jet Pack Guy is a secret agent who is always seen with this flying device.
** In the minigame "Catchin' Waves", when the player is rolled over by a wave, a penguin with a jetpack will put him back on his feet.
* ''Videogame/{{Splitgate}}:'' All players get a recharging jetpack that allows just a little flight each jump, and near-instantly restocks while not in use. While it won't let you fly across the map on its own it's definitely helpful, especially while taking a portal-enhanced leap.
* Doris de Lightning of ''VideoGame/MaxBlasterAndDorisDeLightningAgainstTheParrotCreaturesOfVenus'' wears a pair of rocket pants for the mission.

* ''WebAnimation/{{Haloid}}''. Another reason why Zero Suit Samus rocks: RocketBoots!
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Whitney can conjure up a yellow jet pack at will.
** Robo-Wolf and [[RobotDog Rodney]] can fly by emitting jets through the soles of their feet.

* ''WebAnimation/TheCyanideAndHappinessShow'': The short entitled "Don't Do It" has a guy jumping out of an apartment window with a jet pack and landing unharmed. It seems as though the witnesses are begging him not to do it... until it's revealed that they were saying it to a person [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]].
-->'''Bystander:''' You asshole! [[WhatTheHellHero You coulda caught that guy!]]\\
''(camera pans over to the suicidal person dead on the concrete)''\\
'''Jet Pack Guy:''' ...Oh. ''[[{{Beat}} (beat)]]'' Bummer. ''[[KickTheDog (blows smoke on the suicidal person and flies away)]]'' [[CrossesTheLineTwice Shoulda had a]] ''[[HypocriticalSinging ♪jet paaaaa-a-a-aaack!♪]]''

* [[CloudCuckoolander Fluffy]] [[http://www.commanderkitty.com/2010/05/16/spaceouts/ wears one]] in ''Webcomic/CommanderKitty''. At least, in an ImagineSpot.
* An early ''Webcomic/ValAndIsaac'' comic had Val using one of these and [[DualWielding a pair]] of laser pistols to take on [[https://val-and-isaac.tumblr.com/post/180021872057/tredlocity-val-vs-the-bhangoghat-pit-monster a large monster.]]

* Baron von Fogel of Theatre/TheLeagueOfSTEAM wears a rocket backpack.
* ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga'':
** In Season 9, the Freelancers face a group of EliteMooks equipped with jetpacks during the freeway battle.
** In Season 10, the Freelancers themselves use jetpacks to navigate around an Insurrectionist controlled space station. It's also established that Agent Georgia had [[NoodleIncident suffered a vague horrible fate involving a jetpack.]]

* WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes and WesternAnimation/MerrieMelodies
** A standard piece of equipment for Wile E. Coyote and Sylvester the Cat in their never-ending quest to chase the Road Runner, Tweety Bird and –- sometimes, for Sylvester –- Speedy Gonzales. Never worked.
** In "WesternAnimation/LighterThanHare," spaceman WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam uses one, which Bugs Bunny eventually replaces with a keg of dynamite.
--->'''Sam:''' YOSEMITE SAM OF OUTER--'''''*KABOOM*''''' ...space?
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'': Jimmy's school backpack included a jet pack function, which he used every once in a while (notably the time he and Jet Fusion used it to escape an avalanche).

* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Jet packs are often used by Kim and {{sidekick}} Ron. Shego uses a bigger rocket pack at one point. And Dr. Drakken once used one to escape Kim and forgot that he was indoors. He embedded himself head-first in the ceiling.

* Dr. Wakeman from ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' was often seen using these. Brad and Tuck have stolen them for their own use before.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has jet boots.
* In ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'', the Ghost Packs could transform into "Buster Thruster Packs" at the press of a button.
%% ZCE * Agent K from ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements''.
* Used regularly by Batman in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''.
* Used frequently by the girls in ''WesternAnimation/TotallySpies''.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' probably has a few of these, but the [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop JET BOOTS!]] that Mandark installed in the giant statue of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington stand out.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ExoSquad'', James Burns and the Venus Resistance make extensive use of jetpacks.
* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'' makes a lot of use of these as well, particularly in the opening of the first mini-series, and even more spectacularly in the opening of ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie''. Cobra has their own version in the C.L.A.W., which is essentially a jet pack with wings.
* Slade's MechaMooks in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' have rocket boots.
* In ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', Section 13 has one.
-->'''Jade:''' Oooh, when're you gonna finish your jetpack? ''[accidentally takes off]''\\
'''Kepler:''' ''[not noticing]'' Yesterday.
* Heloise on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''. She even uses it in the second season opening. Lucius also uses one in several first season episodes.
* As well as having one in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'', [[TheHero Number One]] also has jet shoes, and they see a good amount of use throughout the series.
* There was one that was one of the inventions made by Double-D in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' in which the Eds show up uninvited to Jimmy's birthday trying to be spy-like. The Jetpack didn't work so well, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero probably because it was damaged from Ed catching Eddy in mid-air when he used it]].
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', after [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick take Sandy's rocket and crashed it back to Bikini Bottom, Sandy resorts to using jetpack to travel to the moon.
* The ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats'' had them. It was even the special for Razor in the SNES game of it. They only used them a couple times in the show, though.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost''
** Jan, Jace and Blip used them to fly through space. In the episode "The Drone" Space Ghost called them "rocket packs".
** In "Brago" a young boy used one to go for help against the title bandit.
** At the beginning of "The Web" a man uses one to escape the lair of the Black Widow.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheHerculoids''
** "Queen Skorra": Queen Skorra's attack robots use jet packs to fly while fighting the Herculoids.
** "The Pirates": The pirates wear jet packs while flying their "flying torpedoes" (hover vehicles). When Tundro smashes one of the vehicles and Zok destroys another one with his laser eye beams, the pirates piloting them fly away using their jet packs.
* A sketch from ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' has a scientist complain that he's sick of people asking him all the time, "It's the future now, where's my jetpack?" They tried and failed, so they gave up on it and just decided to keep making iPods smaller.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', 21 tries to get 24 to become full-fledged archvillains with him, using stolen jet packs as their motif. 24 burns his shoes with his, and 21 is too heavy to fly more than a foot off the ground.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'': The cast found a note worth a large amount of money. Each of them talks about their fantasy of what they would use the money for, which all happen to feature a jet pack in some capacity, but they decided to try to find its owner instead. They did, and T.J returned it, only to be told to leave. The person he returned it to reappeared wearing a JetPack and explained that [[SecretTest he did this all the time, and the gang was the only one to actually return the note to him]] and then offers each of them a ride on his jet pack.
* In "The Fast & the Feathery", ''WesternAnimation/DuckDodgers'' uses rocket boots to get back in his spaceship after falling out, only to jump out again as he's just set the seat on fire.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Unlimited'' episode "To Another Shore", King Faraday and his fellow Secret Service agents use jet packs to provide air support for Wonder Woman and Green Arrow.
* Skye of the WesternAnimation/PAWPatrol has a variation, being a glider pack equipped with twin mini-thrusters and retractable wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/Birdman1967''
** "The Purple Moss". At the end the villains escape their ship by donning jet packs and flying away. Unfortunately they're too high in the atmosphere and end up going into orbit around the Earth.
** "Wings of FEAR". Several FEAR {{mooks}} fly using a combination of wings and a jet pack. They use them to kidnap people by swooping down, grabbing them and flying away.
* ''Rocket Robin Hood''. Robin and his Merry Men sometimes used jet packs to fly through space.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'': The first wish Dez ever granted was giving a jet pack to his babysitter Muriel. But due to Dez's wonky wishing magic, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Muriel can't ever take off or turn off the jet pack]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FantasticVoyage'': The protagonists had jet packs that they could use to fly around, as in the episodes "The Menace from Space", "The Atomic Invaders" and "The Master Spy".
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has Cad Bane, the bounty hunter. While he's skilled with his pistols, his jet boots -- and the mobility they provide -- help put him on equal footing with Jedi.
* In the Creator/{{Toonami}} Immersion Event ''WesternAnimation/TheIntruder'', TOM 1 puts one on in order to go outside and investigate a breach in the ship.
* Creator/{{Filmation}} 1960's series ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman''. In the ComicBook/{{Superboy}} episode "The Revolt of Robotville", the robots that capture Clark Kent and Lana Lang and later rob a steel foundry use jet packs to fly.
* ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries''. In "World's Finest", Batman has come to Metropolis and is working with Superman. Being unable to fly himself, he uses a jetpack with bat-like wings that the Joker promptly mocks him for.
-->'''Joker:''' Copy-bat! Copy-bat! [[CompensatingForSomething Suffering from propulsion-envy]], Batboy?
* Jet from ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' has one. He uses in a few episodes like "Mindy's Moon Bounce House" and "My Fair Jet".
* ''WesternAnimation/EscapeFromPlanetEarth''. In a bid to stop their son from launching a spaceship, ''Kira'' carries hubby ''Garry'' from home to a launch-area by means of a rocket boots.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': When Timmy wishes that his life was an action movie, he gets a "jet pack out of nowhere". At the end, the villain's RightHandCat gets one.

* ''VideoGame/JetForceGemini'': Lupus has jet engines equipped in his four paws, allowing him to hover in the air for a surprisingly extended period of time (making him the only character capable of crossing large chasms that lead to unique areas). Later in the game, Juno and Vela are given jetpacks to fly vertically, though they can only use them when standing on a Jet Pad to collect fuel (during that same period, Lupus has his own jet engines upgraded to use the Pads as well).

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioMaker2'': In Ground levels set during dight, Mechakoopas make use of jet engines to briefly hover in the air.

%% * Do the Stompers in ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'' count?

* Wario has a hat version of this in ''VideoGame/WarioLand'', the aptly named Jet Cap/Jet Wario, which allows him to fly forward for a certain amount of time. Underwater too, apparently.

* ''VideoGame/JetpackJoyride''. The gameplay revolves around flying a jet pack.

* Jet packs are used by some {{Mook}}s as well as one {{Boss}} in ''VideoGame/XaindSleena''. The LaserBlade ones are the nastiest, as they love dives to either attempt to [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impale]] you with their weapons or in "kamikaze" fashion.

* The titular heroine of ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfAeroGirl'' uses a jetpack to fly about.

* Wiki/TheOtherWiki has [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_pack this]].

* Machinima/RedVsBlueTheProjectFreelancerSaga:

A standard piece of equipment for anyone from TheFuture. A backpack that lets the wearer fly by shooting jets of fire (or concentric rings of PureEnergy) out of the back, parallel to the wearer's legs. Strangely enough, nobody ever suffers ToastedBuns as a result. Nor do most ever run out of fuel, or even consume any fuel of any sort in the first place.