History Main / KangarooPouchRide

* ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse": In the end of "The Stolen Cartoons", Pete manages to hide briefly inside [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Kanga's pouch]] as Mickey is chasing him because of stealing the titular cartoons.

* Subverted in Sterling Lanier's ''The Unforsaken Literature/{{Hiero}}''. Giant kangaroos are used as mounts in D'alwah, but people ride on their ''backs'' with highly specialized saddles.

* Subverted in Sterling Lanier's ''The Unforsaken Hiero''. Giant kangaroos are used as mounts in D'alwah, but people ride on their ''backs'' with highly specialized saddles.

* ''Webcomic/{{VHV}}'': Rumbah of both genders have marsupial pouches, Butter had a [[BagOfHolding pocket dimension]] enchantment tattooed onto [[https://vhv.webcomic.ws/comics/15 hers]] and Mia's kids (who are nearly her own size) like to ride in it.

* ''Webcomic/{{VHV}}'': Rumbah of both genders have marsupial pouches, Butter had a [[BagOfHolding pocket dimension]] enchantment tattooed onto [[https://vhv.webcomic.ws/comics/101/ hers]] and Mia's kids (who are nearly her own size) like to ride in it.

* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle2007'': At the end of "Ape Ruth", two kangaroos ([[ArtisticLicenseBiology both male]]) convince George and Ape to compete in a pouch race, with the pair riding in each of their pouches.

Compare with BoxingKangaroo and KangaroosRepresentAustralia. Compare HorseOfADifferentColor and FurIsClothing.

* In ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'', [[http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/47f6c8411e3c4 Siberoos]] are kangaroo-Siberian tiger splices that were engineered as rescue animals in polar regions. Females can carry passengers and keep them warm at the same time.

* While there are no kangaroos in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' per se, there are Kangaskhan. They are much larger and [[OneGenderRace exclusively female]]. In an episode of the anime, they [[WildChild adopt and raise a human child]] who could easily fit inside the pouch. Furthermore, as seen in the end of the episode, the pouch could fit the child, his birth parents, and a baby Kangaskhan, with room to spare. Kangaskhan are officially depicted as 7'03'' in size, but the Kangaskhan leader in this episode was easily 15 to 20 feet tall to pull that feat off.
** Pikachu's origin story in ''Journeys'' has him being adopted as a Pichu by a loving Kangakhan mom. Unfortunately, he and the baby become too big to occupy the pouch together and end up slowing the Kangaskhan down.

* Happens in the infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9bHTUZBwQ ''Dr. Rabbit's World Tour'']] as seen in many [[WebAnimation/YouTubePoop YouTube Poops]]. And somehow the kangaroo hops all the way from Australia to the United States [[{{AutomatonHorses}} without breaking a sweat...]]

** Pikachu's origin story in ''Journeys'' has him being adopted as a Pichu by a loving Kangakhan mom. Unfortunately, a SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when he and the baby become too big to occupy the pouch together and end up slowing the Kangaskhan down.

* A 1980s ''WesternAnimation/{{Gumby}}'' episode, "Kangaroo Express," had an Australian equivalent to the Pony Express, where kangaroos carry small parcels across Australia in their pouches. Thanks to Gumby's portable [[ShrinkRay Shrink-a-Dink device]], Gumby and his friends can ride in one of the kangaroos.

* Roo is sometimes seen doing this from time-to-time in Kanga's pouch in the various Disney ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh'' productions.

** The show's intro begins with the titular character as a baby being carried in his mother's pouch before falling out and being aged up by a sentient clock (fittingly, he's a wallaby.)

* ''WesternAnimation/PuppyDogPals'': Bingo and Rolly hop in the pouch of two Kangaroos in the episode Bob's Boomerang.
* ''WesternAnimation/WidgetTheWorldWatcher'': In the episode "Widget's Walkabout" the title character transforms into a kangaroo and invites one of his friends to ride in his pouch.

* Although there have been no real life incidents of humans riding in marsupial pouches, the extinct Diprotodon (a sort of giant wombat) had a backward-facing pouch large enough to carry an adult human. [[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18533038 A fossil discovery has placed this creature in the spotlight.]]

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* ''Series/TheGoodies''. When the Goodies start their own pirate postal operation, Graham says he's ordered several hundred kangaroos for parcel post delivery. This is an early indication that he's going loony.
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* In ''Literature/WinnieThePooh,'' Rabbit kidnaps Roo by dropping Piglet into Kanga's [[LivingToys button-up pouch]] when she isn't looking (they're about the same size, so she just thinks Rabbit put Roo in for her). Piglet doesn't enjoy the ride at all.
* In ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' Dread Mountain, the heros meet a small number of creatures called the Kin, large, winged, intelligent creatures whom were hunted to near extinction by the Gnomes and Grey guards respectively. After rescuing one of their young three of the largest of the Kin volunteer to fly the characters to the titular mountain in their pouches.
* In ''Literature/ThePrideOfParahumans'' Aniya is a "rescue-taur" type parahuman with opossum genes and an airtight pouch on her lower body that can fit most humans or parahumans in case one's helmet breaks while on a spacewalk.

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* Happens in ''VideoGame/YoshisIslandDS''.

A SubTrope of KangaroosRepresentAustralia. Compare HorseOfADifferentColor and FurIsClothing.

* While there are no kangaroos in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' per se, there are ''Kangaskhan.'' They are much larger and [[OneGenderRace exclusively female]]. In an episode of the anime, they [[WildChild adopt and raise a human child]] who could easily fit inside the pouch. Furthermore, as seen in the end of the episode, the pouch could fit the child, his birth parents, and a baby Kangaskhan, with room to spare. Kangaskhan are officially depicted as 7'03'' in size, but the Kangaskhan in this episode was easily 15 to 20 feet tall to pull that feat off.
** Pikachu's origin story in ''Journeys'' has him being adopted as a Pichu by a loving Kangakhan mom. Unfortunately, SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome occurs when he and the baby become too big to occupy the pouch together and end up slowing the Kangaskhan down.

* in WebAnimation/StarshineCarly, Jean-Luc from westernanimation/bluey is riding in a kangaroo’s pouch. The video is [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sOU1fdOsoNU here]].

* in WebAnimation/StarshineCarly, Jean-Luc from WesternAnimation/Bluey is riding in a kangaroo’s pouch. The video is [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sOU1fdOsoNU here]].

* in WebAnimation/StarshineCarly, [[WesternAnimation\Bluey Jean-Luc]] is riding in a kangaroo’s pouch. The video is [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sOU1fdOsoNU here]].

* in WebAnimation/StarshineCarly, [[WesternAnimation/bluey Jean-Luc]] is riding in a kangaroo’s pouch. The video is [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sOU1fdOsoNU here]].

* in WebAnimation/StarshineCarly, [[WesternAnimation/Bluey Jean-Luc]] is riding in a kangaroo’s pouch. The video is [[https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sOU1fdOsoNU here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Minions}}'': In their search of England, the Minion clan makes a short trip in kangaroo pouches when they reach Australia.

* On ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', the intro begins with the titular character as a baby being carried in his mother's pouch (fittingly, he's a wallaby.)
** In the episode where he goes to the laundromat, the washer he's using becomes unbalanced and starts hopping away, and he has to subdue it. It continues hopping along with him on it in this fashion, until he takes a baseball bat and destroys it.

* [[Anime/LupinIIIRedJacket Lupin III]] and his right-hand man, Jigen, use this in at least one episode to make their getaway. Because how else would the world's greatest thief make a grand escape in Australia?