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* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake: Berry in the Big City'': In "Relaxing by the Pool': Berry and her friends get into a splash fight over whether they should chill beside the pool or play around in it. Lemon Meringue deescalates the conflict by putting everyone in their own personal plastic bubbles.

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* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake: Berry in the Big City'': ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcakeBerryInTheBigCity'': In "Relaxing by the Pool': Berry and her friends get into a splash fight over whether they should chill beside the pool or play around in it. Lemon Meringue deescalates the conflict by putting everyone in their own personal plastic bubbles.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StrawberryShortcake: Berry in the Big City'': In "Relaxing by the Pool': Berry and her friends get into a splash fight over whether they should chill beside the pool or play around in it. Lemon Meringue deescalates the conflict by putting everyone in their own personal plastic bubbles.
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* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Zach and Gray are using a gyrosphere to travel around a valley full of dinosaurs.

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* In ''Film/JurassicWorld'', Zach and Gray are using a gyrosphere to travel around a valley full of dinosaurs. In [[Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom the sequel]] Claire and Franklin take shelter in the abandoned gyrosphere and end up rolling off a cliff [[TrappedInASinkingCar into the ocean]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/AThousandAndOneAmericas'': During the start of the fourth episode, Chris' pet dog Lon finds himself balancing atop a ball throw at him by his owner. He was supposed to just grab it, and due to his nervousness he ends being throw into a bush.
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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "The Flame Pokémon-athon" has one of the racers doing this with an [[ActionBomb Electrode]]! [[EpicFail It ends just about as well as you'd expect.]] Also, one of Meowth's {{Imagine Spot}}s involve Giovanni using a Donphan in a similar manner.

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* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'': The episode "The Flame Pokémon-athon" has one of the racers doing this with an [[ActionBomb Electrode]]! [[EpicFail It ends just about as well as you'd expect.]] Also, one of Meowth's {{Imagine Spot}}s involve Giovanni using a Donphan in a similar manner.
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* In the ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'', Tim Drake finds himself balancing on top of a giant bowling ball. While doing so, he remarks that Franchise/{{Batman}} actually made him practice this in the Batcave.

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* In the ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'', ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': Tim Drake finds himself balancing on top of a giant bowling ball. While doing so, he remarks that Franchise/{{Batman}} actually made him practice this in the Batcave.
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* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowksiSuburubanDaredevil'': In "Kick the Habit," Kick has to go a full day without doing stunts or else he goes to military camp. He tries to prevent it outright by having Gunther put him in a plastic bubble, but immediately caves and rolls off the cliff they're on and gets caught by the military man. Fortunately this was just a bad daydream, so he gets Gunther to pop the bubble and moves onto a different solution.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowksiSuburubanDaredevil'': ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil'': In "Kick the Habit," Kick has to go a full day without doing stunts or else he goes to military camp. He tries to prevent it outright by having Gunther put him in a plastic bubble, but immediately caves and rolls off the cliff they're on and gets caught by the military man. Fortunately this was just a bad daydream, so he gets Gunther to pop the bubble and moves onto a different solution.

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* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowksiSuburubanDaredevil'': In "Kick the Habit," Kick has to go a full day without doing stunts or else he goes to military camp. He tries to prevent it outright by having Gunther put him in a plastic bubble, but immediately caves and rolls off the cliff they're on and gets caught by the military man. Fortunately this was just a bad daydream, so he gets Gunther to pop the bubble and moves onto a different solution.



* The titular characters in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' do this on a [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant gumball machine]] in "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbAreYouMyMummy Are You My Mummy?]]". They also have done bowling from the inside of a giant bowling ball. And a giant bubble. They do a lot of spherical travel.

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* The titular characters in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' do this on a [[ItMakesSenseInContext giant gumball machine]] in "[[Recap/PhineasAndFerbAreYouMyMummy Are You My Mummy?]]". They also have done [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbBowlRAmaDrama bowling from the inside of a giant bowling ball. ball.]] [[Recap/PhineasAndFerbBubbleBoys And a giant bubble. bubble.]] They do a lot of spherical travel.
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* In ''Film/TheMeg'', during the {{megalodon}}'s attack at the Sanya Bay beach, one of the beachgoers is using a Zorb ball and tries fleeing in it, over the top of others trying to swim for safety. This only attracts the attention of the megalodon which is big enough to wrap its jaws around the ball and pop it to get at the human inside.

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* In ''Film/TheMeg'', during the {{megalodon}}'s megalodon's attack at the Sanya Bay beach, one of the beachgoers is using a Zorb ball and tries fleeing in it, over the top of others trying to swim for safety. This only attracts the attention of the megalodon which is big enough to wrap its jaws around the ball and pop it to get at the human inside.
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** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioParty'': The minigame Bumper Brawl has each player rolling around an arena encased in a larger plastic ball, and the goal is to push all of the opposing players out of the arena by bumping into them.
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** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyStarRush'': In Rolling Rumble, each player stands atop a ball on a pedestal in the middle of a circus tent, and Shy Guys appear atop the pedestal rolling around on their own rubber balls. Players must knock the Shy Guys off of the pedestal in order to earn coins.
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** ''VideoGame/MarioParty10'':
*** In Balance Ball Brawl, players have to walk around on balls to navigate a small maze of paths with the objective of running over all of the switches before anyone else. Because of how narrow the paths are, it is impossible to pass another player on the same path, so the only way to avoid bumping into the opponents is to take a different path.
*** The 2-vs.-2 minigame Soccer Brawl has two teams of two players each play a game of soccer, trying to score more goals than the opposing team within one minute. However, all players are moving around while balancing atop balls, and the only way to move the soccer ball is to bump into it.
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* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes 3: The Stones'', the Huixin army that attacks Planet Qiyuan at the beginning of the film uses large, spherical vehicles that can attach to each other to produce large caterpillar-like constructions. Similarly, Big M. uses a giant spherical vehicle to attack Planet Xing; it uses a cannon to launch large disks.

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* In ''Animation/HappyHeroes 3: The Stones'', ''Animation/HappyHeroesTheStones'', the Huixin army that attacks Planet Qiyuan at the beginning of the film uses large, spherical vehicles that can attach to each other to produce large caterpillar-like constructions. Similarly, Big M. uses a giant spherical vehicle to attack Planet Xing; it uses a cannon to launch large disks.
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* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': Mabel has a dream sequence inspired by the human sized hamster ball she finds in a magazine. This dream is so intense that it somehow invades Dipper's Indiana Jones fantasy later on.


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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'': In the Roadrunner short "Bubble Trouble," Wile E. gets trapped in plastic bubble and uses it to keep up with the Roadrunner.
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** ''VideoGame/MarioParty3'': The minigame Bounce 'n' Trounce takes place in a 3x3 platform suspended in a starry sky, and the players stand on it while riding bouncy balls as they try to push each other onto the pit. As time passes, some of the tiles of the platform begin falling down one by one. The last player standing wins, but if 30 seconds pass and more than one remains, the minigame ends in a draw.


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** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyTheTop100'': In addition to the eponymous Trope Namer from ''Mario Party 7'', other minigames of this type like Bumper Balls (''2'') and Bounce 'n' Trounce (''3'') appear. The former one has two teams of characters guiding a large ball through an obstacle course to the goal, and is part of the Racing category; the latter two have the character ride the balls and knock away each other until only one remains, and are part of the Action category.
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** ''VideoGame/MarioPartyIslandTour'': In the minigame Musical Snares, the characters are maneuvering onto rubber balls on top of a giant drum, and have to collect musical notes (the silver ones are worth one point each, while the gold ones are worth two). As a character collects the notes, their rubber ball will grow bigger. After 30 seconds, whoever got the highest score (and thus stands onto the largest ball) wins.
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* [[https://web.archive.org/web/20111201103355/http://davidszondy.com/future/Living/rollerball.htm Behold]], the AwesomeButImpractical transport of a ZeeRust future!
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* [[http://ftr.wot-news.com/2013/08/19/stalins-balls-of-steel/ Stalin's Balls of Steel!]]
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* In ''Film/TheMeg'', during the {{megalodon}}'s attack at the Sanya Bay beach, one of the beachgoers is inside a giant, inflatable ball that he uses to walk around on the surface of the water. The megalodon is big enough to wrap its jaws around the ball and pop it to get at the human inside.

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* In ''Film/TheMeg'', during the {{megalodon}}'s attack at the Sanya Bay beach, one of the beachgoers is inside using a giant, inflatable Zorb ball that he uses to walk around on and tries fleeing in it, over the surface top of others trying to swim for safety. This only attracts the attention of the water. The megalodon which is big enough to wrap its jaws around the ball and pop it to get at the human inside.

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