Lily Pad Platform

If there's a body of water that needs to be crossed, some lily pads are useful in traversing it.

A Sub-Trope of Theme Park Landscape. See also Leaf Boat.

Examples of Lily Pad Platform include:

Film

• Cri-kee can be seen using one of these during the song "Reflection" from Mulan.

Toys

• Bionicle: Ga-Koro is made out of this.

Video Games

• Sonic Adventure: Chaos 4 is fought in a lake of water. Sonic needs to stand on lily pads to wait out the boss.
• Crash Bandicoot: The two river-based levels both contain lily pad platforms amongst the obstacles. They sink almost immediately, serving as temporary platforms.
• In Okami, you can make your own.
• A common sight in Golden Sun games.
• Plants vs. Zombies: Lily pads are used for levels that have the swimming pool. Useful to place other plants on.
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • In The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask, Link can put on the Deku mask and walk on lily pads. He can't do this in normal mode or his other forms.
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap has lilypads to cross bodies of water before getting the flippers and in the overworld when tiny.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Super Mario Sunshine has the infamous lily pad ride as one of its secret stages. Mario has to navigate an acidic stream using a series of lily pads that slowy disintegrate.
  • The lily pads actually return in both Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2, which even features a Sunshine themed level in the latter.
• Rayman:
  • In the original Rayman, the titular character can gain the ability to plant these.
  • Rayman 2 also features giant lily pads in several levels.
• Rune Factory 3 gives you a magic seed you can use to instantly create a hovering lily pad that you can ride. This is one of two ways you can cross water in the game.
• Illusion of Gaia features a town that has areas that can only be accessed by standing on lily pads.
• The third teaser trailer for Alice: Madness Returns has Alice waking up on a lily pad and seeing the wonderful garden. She then hops on top of them and approaches the Caterpillar. Afterwards, all hell breaks loose.
• Minecraft has lily pads spawn in the water of swamp biomes.

Webcomics

• Homestuck: Jade plays guitar and somehow summons giant lily pads. It sort of makes sense, given that the lily pads lead to a frog temple.