Basic Trope: A non-aquatic character brings air with them to travel underwater.
- Straight: Bob wears an air-filled suit to travel underwater.
- Exaggerated: Bob's necktie parts the whole darn ocean when he travels underwater.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: Bob doesn't have gills, just lungs, so he can't breathe water.
- Inverted: See Mobile Fishbowl.
- Subverted: The suit is purely decorative; he's fine dressing in street clothes.
- Double Subverted: The suit is only "unnecessary" because he wears near-invisible scuba gear developed by the resident mad scientist.
- Parodied: Bob makes a large bubble using a bubble blower, puts it on his head, and this manages to actually work somehow.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Despite being a normal human, Bob can handle the water fine unassisted.
- Enforced: The network wanted Tropes in Space! to teach kids how real scuba equipment works, but they trimmed out a lot of the more complicated pieces to make it more comprehensible.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: An enemy incapacitates Bob by smashing his faceplate to let the air out.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed:Meredith: Hey, Frank, why does Bob always wear that air-filled-suit-thingy when he visits?
Frank: (eye roll) He's an apeman, Merry. He can't breathe water. - Conversed: "How did the studio get their hands on such compact diving equipment?"
- Played for Laughs: ???
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