...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Amphibious Automobile
- 394 statements
- 75 feature instances
- 46 referencing feature instances
| Amphibious Automobile | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Amphibious Automobile | label |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile | page |
AmphibiousAutomobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile | comment |
In real life, cars tend to sink in water. This, however, can be averted in fiction (and in Real Life). This trope applies whether a normal car can inexplicably float or work as a submarine, or a modified car can do this (more realistic). These can overlap with Cool Car, the Alleged Car, and What a Piece of Junk. Sub-Trope of We Don't Need Roads. Sister Trope to Flying Car, though making a car float on water is much easier than making it fly. Can be achieved by a Transforming Vehicle. The opposite of Ship Out of Water, although they can overlap. Examples |
|
| Amphibious Automobile | fetched |
2023-12-01T00:51:10Z | |
| Amphibious Automobile | parsed |
2023-12-01T00:51:10Z | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to AmateurSleuth: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to ArmoredCoffins: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to AwesomePersonnelCarrier: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to CannonballRunII: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to CoolBike: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to GallowsHumor: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to OhCrap: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to SignatureTeamTransport: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to TankGoodness: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to TheSixties: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingComment |
Dropped link to WackyRacing: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Amphibious Automobile | processingUnknown |
CannonballRunII | |
| Amphibious Automobile | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_15c6ea11 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_15c6ea11 | comment |
Wonder Woman (1942): The Sea Lion's lackeys take the cops on a merry chase through Gotham and then drive off a pier at full speed revealing their car doubles as a boat. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_15c6ea11 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_15c6ea11 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wonder Woman (1942) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_15c6ea11 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_1a912507 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_1a912507 | comment |
Skunny Kart: Driving into deep water turns the cart into a submarine. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_1a912507 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_1a912507 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SkunnyKart | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_1a912507 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_1cf9838c | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_1cf9838c | comment |
Bill Nye the Science Guy drives an amphibious car at least once on his show. Given that the show is filmed in Seattle, which is right on Puget Sound, it makes sense. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_1cf9838c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_1cf9838c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bill Nye the Science Guy | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_1cf9838c | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_218590b0 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_218590b0 | comment |
In Blues Brothers 2000, the updated Bluesmobile can function underwater. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_218590b0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_218590b0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blues Brothers 2000 | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_218590b0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_233840c3 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_233840c3 | comment |
In the series Viper, after being destroyed and rebuilt the car that the series is named after is able to covert into a hovercraft. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_233840c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_233840c3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Viper | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_233840c3 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_24ffd341 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_24ffd341 | comment |
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: Dennis claims his Range Rover is an "Amphibious Exploring Vehicle", and drives it into a lake. It isn't. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_24ffd341 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_24ffd341 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_24ffd341 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_25d97c04 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_25d97c04 | comment |
The James Bond game NightFire includes an Aston-Martin that converted into a submarine. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_25d97c04 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_25d97c04 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| James Bond (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_25d97c04 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_261a3cc | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_261a3cc | comment |
The cars in Diddy Kong Racing can stay afloat and even move in water, albeit extremely slowly. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_261a3cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_261a3cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Diddy Kong Racing (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_261a3cc | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_261c8d3f | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_261c8d3f | comment |
A quick gag on an episode of The Simpsons showcases a flashback of Grandpa Abraham Simpson that the city had an Amphicar factory. This is part of a (relatively speaking, streets literally made of gold norwithstanding) "Mister Sandman" Good-Times Montage that exposes how much of a Crapsack World Springfield has become in the meantime (and also shows how quick it is for the city to fall in line and invest on the latest trend, no matter low short-lived or impractical). | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Simpsons | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_261c8d3f | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_27c361a9 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_27c361a9 | comment |
In Spy Hunter, you can drive into the water and your car automatically becomes a boat. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_27c361a9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_27c361a9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spy Hunter (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_27c361a9 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2aaa6ba | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2aaa6ba | comment |
They can change networks and shows, but the second season of The Grand Tour proves that some things about Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May will stay the same. Trying to one-up their stunt from Top Gear this time they attempt to convert a Bond Bug into an amphibious vehicle capable of beating the UK water speed record for an amphibious vehicle. It was uncomfortable, nearly unsteerable, the engine kept cutting out because of the choppy ride and the conversion from land to water was long and complicated (it was designed by James May after all). But it not only worked, it succeeded in breaking the record. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2aaa6ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2aaa6ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Grand Tour | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_2aaa6ba | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2d4919e7 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2d4919e7 | comment |
In Mailed Fist, John Foley ruefully describes the time and effort that went into waterproofing his Churchill tanks and adapting them so they could withstand being unloaded from landing craft some way off the beach, and deep-wade onto shore without drowning, if necessary surviving underwater for as long as it took to get onto dry land. On the day their Royal Navy landing craft commander prided himself on landing them dryshod on the beach. The expensive and manpower-heavy deep-wading gear was never needed. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2d4919e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2d4919e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mailed Fist | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_2d4919e7 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2e5a8c7b | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2e5a8c7b | comment |
Condorman, Woody finds himself being chased by a KGB pursuit squad of elite drivers, but is able to crash them with his gadget car. Their leader however he's unable to shake off, so Woody inflates flotation devices under his car and drives off a pier and somehow across the water as well. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2e5a8c7b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2e5a8c7b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Condorman | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_2e5a8c7b | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2e8193c8 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2e8193c8 | comment |
In Herbie Rides Again, the bug is shown to float and propel himself in the Pacific for around 30 minutes. But then, this is Herbie. Obviously inspired by the VW ads. The later film Herbie Goes Bananas exaggerates this by having Herbie get tossed off a cruise ship by its pissed-off captain and "swim" several hundred miles to a South American country, including through the Panama Canal, only apparently (and temporarily) "dying" from exhaustion once he arrives to shore. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2e8193c8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_2e8193c8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| HerbieRidesAgain | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_2e8193c8 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_30940081 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_30940081 | comment |
Grand Theft Auto V Grand Theft Auto Online: The "Import/Export" update introduces the Blazer Aqua and Technical Aqua.note This is strongly based on the Toyboata listed above Both are also armed. The "Doomsday Heist" update introduces the Stromberg,note based on the Lotus Esprit sub from The Spy Who Loved Me and named for the film's villain a sports car that can transform into a submarine. It too is armed. The "Cayo Perco Heist" update introduces the Toreador,note based on the Lamborghini Marzal concept car which, similar to the Stromberg, is a weaponized sports car capable of transforming into a submarine. Unlike the Stromberg, however, the Toreador also has rocket boosters. |
|
| Amphibious Automobile / int_30940081 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_30940081 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Grand Theft Auto V (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_30940081 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_324159aa | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_324159aa | comment |
In Kokoro Library, Lina drives a VW Schwimmwagen (see Real Life section). Comes in handy once or twice when she forgets to look where she is driving and ends up in the river. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_324159aa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_324159aa | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kokoro Library (Manga) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_324159aa | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_34fd3cf6 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_34fd3cf6 | comment |
Both 2 Wycked and the Danger Cart are able to transform into submarines in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "Last Dance for Napkin Lad." | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_34fd3cf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_34fd3cf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_34fd3cf6 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_36d1798b | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_36d1798b | comment |
In A Goofy Movie, Goofy's AMC Pacer floats down a huge western river with two people on top. It's only the waterfall that beats it. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_36d1798b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_36d1798b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| A Goofy Movie | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_36d1798b | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_3b19a3ad | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_3b19a3ad | comment |
Methuselah's Children opens with a character driving an Automated Automobile — she takes a nap while it drives most of the way to her destination, although she does have to resume manual control when the car leaves the "controlways" for the back roads — which then turns out to function as a submarine as well, traveling underwater through a lake in order to reach an Elaborate Underground Base. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_3b19a3ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_3b19a3ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Methuselah's Children | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_3b19a3ad | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_48cf61a6 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_48cf61a6 | comment |
Superfriends (1973-74) episode "The Weather Makers". The villains have a car that can operate as a speedboat. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_48cf61a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_48cf61a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Superfriends | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_48cf61a6 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4965fb90 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4965fb90 | comment |
In Incredibles 2, the Incredibile can be converted into a boat, as seen when the Parr children need to get to the Everjust hydrofoil. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4965fb90 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4965fb90 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Incredibles 2 | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_4965fb90 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4ed68f36 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4ed68f36 | comment |
In Vigilante8, in the stages with water components, there'll usually be a Power-Up nearby that turns the wheels of your car into a set of propellers and rudders so you can drive on water. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4ed68f36 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4ed68f36 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Vigilante 8 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_4ed68f36 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4efd20ba | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4efd20ba | comment |
In the Freakazoid! episode "Hot Rods From Heck", the title character pits his Freakmobile against Longhorn's super semi-truck; after matching him on both land and in the sky, Freakazoid decides to show off his car's underwater capabilities by driving into a lake. As he's pushing buttons to transform the Freakmobile, it crashes into the bottom of the lake. Freakzoid realizes too late that the Freakmobile was never designed to operate underwater. Longhorn's truck on the other hand has zero problems following him into the lake. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4efd20ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_4efd20ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Freakazoid! | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_4efd20ba | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_554058ce | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_554058ce | comment |
All usable vehicles in Mario Kart 7 and Mario Kart 8 can turn into submarines if any of them land in the water.note However, driving underwater was possible in Mario Kart: Super Circuit too, although it was extremely slow and you only had a little while before Lakitu fishes you out anyways. Other courses, like Peach Beach, also had water that you could drive through, but it was still considered a hazard. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_554058ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_554058ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mario Kart 7 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_554058ce | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_56b09616 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_56b09616 | comment |
Carmen Sandiego: Carmen's crew has to figure out how V.I.L.E. is planning on smuggling an illegal mine's worth of alexandrite out of Rio right in the middle of Carnival. It turns out they were using an amphibious parade float (since, apparently no one would notice a giant float breaking away from the parade and driving straight into the ocean). Zack and Ivy figure it out because Boston Harbor is full of duck boats. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_56b09616 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_56b09616 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Carmen Sandiego | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_56b09616 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5a0093 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5a0093 | comment |
The Amphicar, whose frame and body were welded to become a boat with the flick of a switch, originated in Germany and was marketed from 1961 to 1968. It was a recurring prize on the Bill Cullen edition of The Price Is Right (ARP was around $2900). | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5a0093 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5a0093 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Price Is Right | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_5a0093 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5a2333ef | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5a2333ef | comment |
In LittleBigPlanet, you can build your own amphibious car with materials that can float on water note cardboard and wood in the Level Editor. There's no limit to how the car moves as long as it is light enough to float on water, be it with wheels, tank treads, or rocket propellers. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5a2333ef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5a2333ef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| LittleBigPlanet (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_5a2333ef | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5dfc7572 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5dfc7572 | comment |
In The Angry Beavers episode, "Fancy Prance", Norbert and Daggett take a bus outside their dam that has their destination Vienna, Austria as one of its stops; note For context, the beaver brothers live in North America and Austria is in Europe when we cut to the bus arriving to Vienna and it opens it's doors the beaver brothers come out as well a full bus worth of ocean water. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5dfc7572 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_5dfc7572 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Angry Beavers | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_5dfc7572 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_607f6b7 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_607f6b7 | comment |
Dr Claw in the Inspector Gadget cartoons could turn the Madmobile into a submarine (and an airplane). | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_607f6b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_607f6b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Inspector Gadget | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_607f6b7 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_615d90c6 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_615d90c6 | comment |
Speed Racer: The Mach 5 can not only float but also be a submarine for short periods of time. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_615d90c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_615d90c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Speed Racer | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_615d90c6 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_65016f12 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_65016f12 | comment |
An upgrade in Roundabout allows you to float your limousine in water and drive as normal and even make short dives underwater. Touching water without it equipped is instant death, however. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_65016f12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_65016f12 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Roundabout (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_65016f12 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790d3 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790d3 | comment |
The "Import/Export" update introduces the Blazer Aqua and Technical Aqua.note This is strongly based on the Toyboata listed above Both are also armed. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Top Gear (UK) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790d3 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790db | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790db | comment |
Then in 2013, the Americans got in on the act by building their own amphibious cars and attempting to cross Lake Ontario with them. Only Rutledge succeeded. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Top Gear (US) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_6ad790db | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_71ac4d48 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_71ac4d48 | comment |
This is the main gimmick for the Agency Hovercraft in Just Cause 2 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_71ac4d48 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_71ac4d48 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Just Cause 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_71ac4d48 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7524dff3 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7524dff3 | comment |
Jump Bug: The player-controlled car can jump and bounce under water as well as it does out of the water. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7524dff3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7524dff3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jump Bug (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_7524dff3 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7ccc77f0 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7ccc77f0 | comment |
Patlabor shows that with the addition of some relatively straightforward flotation systems, Section 2's command cars (and even more impressively) Labor trailers can operate amphibiously — quite well, too, given the rough seas that they successfully navigate. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7ccc77f0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7ccc77f0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Patlabor (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_7ccc77f0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7de8951a | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7de8951a | comment |
Classic Traveller, Paranoia Press supplement SORAG. The Amphibious Ground Car (a.k.a. the "Mudpuppy") can travel at 88 k.p.h. on the road and 21 k.p.h. (11 knots) in the water using its twin propellers. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7de8951a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_7de8951a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Traveller (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_7de8951a | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_8771125f | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_8771125f | comment |
The Stretchers: The last upgrade Professor Doctor gives the ambulance allows it to drive on water. Its use becomes immediately apparent when the medics have to chase Captain Brains down after he shows up to kidnap the inventor. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_8771125f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_8771125f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Stretchers (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_8771125f | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_87e13b20 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_87e13b20 | comment |
In Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats, the Cadillac could convert into a boat. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_87e13b20 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_87e13b20 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_87e13b20 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_8e8ed866 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_8e8ed866 | comment |
The original Knight Rider had KITT moving over water after April installed some gadget inside the hood. In the end, it was removed and it never appeared again. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_8e8ed866 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_8e8ed866 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Knight Rider | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_8e8ed866 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_90a3a7f4 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_90a3a7f4 | comment |
During a chase, Kim Possible called the Tweebs to ask if the Sloth has aquatic modifications. After hearing the answer "sure", she tried to follow Shego and Junior into the water. Unfortunately, the Tweebs thought she'd asked if they could install aquatic modifications, and had not actually done so. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_90a3a7f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_90a3a7f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kim Possible | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_90a3a7f4 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_90e2f673 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_90e2f673 | comment |
BattleTech has rules for building amphibious tanks. They come in two varieties: fully amphibious (can move in water at half the speed they move on dry land) and partially amphibious (limited to movement 2 on water). Of course, this is not something you want to try using for fighting in water — get an actual hovercraft or boat for that. Amphibious tanks should only be used for crossing small bodies of water on the way to a fight. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_90e2f673 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_90e2f673 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| BattleTech (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_90e2f673 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_913c5062 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_913c5062 | comment |
Mr. Magoo: In "Magoo's Puddle Jumper", Mr. Magoo buys an electric car and takes it out on a spin with his nephew Waldo. Due to being nearsighted, Mr. Magoo drives his new car into the ocean and thinks he's in a different part of town. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_913c5062 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_913c5062 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mr. Magoo | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_913c5062 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_928b5dfe | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_928b5dfe | comment |
In SheZow, the Sheicle is capable of transforming into a submarine (and an aeroplane). | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_928b5dfe | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_928b5dfe | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SheZow | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_928b5dfe | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_93b87ae5 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_93b87ae5 | comment |
The Commvee in The Wild Thornberrys. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_93b87ae5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_93b87ae5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Wild Thornberrys | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_93b87ae5 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_96d3b4d6 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_96d3b4d6 | comment |
The film adaptation of All the Way has LBJ pretending to lose control of his Amphicar and drive it into the lake to prank his passenger, which was Truth in Television. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_96d3b4d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_96d3b4d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| All the Way (Theatre) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_96d3b4d6 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_987ae287 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_987ae287 | comment |
In Cars 2, the James Bond pastiche Finn McMissile transforms into a hydrofoil and a submarine. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_987ae287 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_987ae287 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cars 2 | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_987ae287 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_9b7e31d | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_9b7e31d | comment |
FAB 1 from Thunderbirds is equipped with retracting hydrofoils that turn it into one of these. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_9b7e31d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_9b7e31d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thunderbirds | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_9b7e31d | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_9d41fc3c | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_9d41fc3c | comment |
Lucy's car in Despicable Me 2 drives off a pier and turns into a submarine. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_9d41fc3c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_9d41fc3c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Despicable Me 2 | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_9d41fc3c | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a1ea0f34 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a1ea0f34 | comment |
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang can float, as well as everything else. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a1ea0f34 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a1ea0f34 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_a1ea0f34 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a3eee065 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a3eee065 | comment |
In Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed, the race cars can transform into watercraft. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a3eee065 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a3eee065 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sega Superstars (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_a3eee065 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a5a1e53d | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a5a1e53d | comment |
In Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, the human-side Trojan APC is amphibious and its mounted cannon provides it with more offensive power than the anti-personnel minigun on the "Platypus" motorboat (the only other water vehicle on the human side). The Strogg APC can also move on water, but this is because it's a Hover Tank, just like all other Strogg vehicles. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a5a1e53d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a5a1e53d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_a5a1e53d | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a609791a | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a609791a | comment |
Scooby-Doo: Fred has outfitted the Mystery Machine with submarine abilities in both What's New, Scooby-Doo? and Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!, though the former turned out to be All Just a Dream. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a609791a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_a609791a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Scooby-Doo (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_a609791a | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ae259c31 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ae259c31 | comment |
The "Doomsday Heist" update introduces the Stromberg,note based on the Lotus Esprit sub from The Spy Who Loved Me and named for the film's villain a sports car that can transform into a submarine. It too is armed. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ae259c31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ae259c31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Spy Who Loved Me | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_ae259c31 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b204e6a8 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b204e6a8 | comment |
What's Up, Doc? climaxes in a car chase where the protagonists lead everyone after the MacGuffin off a pier and into San Francisco Bay. Fortunately for our heroes, they are driving a Volkswagen, which floats. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b204e6a8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b204e6a8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| What's Up, Doc? | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_b204e6a8 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b6b17592 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b6b17592 | comment |
In Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Eggsy's cab has an amphibious mode. Unfortunately for him, the shootout and car chase he just went through have torn off a door and broken all the windows, making the car itself a bit less than watertight. Fortunately, Eggsy can hold his breath long enough to reach the underwater safehouse. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b6b17592 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b6b17592 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kingsman: The Golden Circle | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_b6b17592 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b98da5d2 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b98da5d2 | comment |
Seta's van from Love Hina can function as a submarine for no apparent reason, but considering he's such a horrible driver, it's probably in his best interest. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b98da5d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_b98da5d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Love Hina (Manga) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_b98da5d2 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_bcadd7cb | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_bcadd7cb | comment |
Warhammer 40,000: the Imperial Chimera, much beloved of the Guard and Inquisition, has the Amphibious special rule that allows it to treat water as ordinary terrain on the tabletop. In the fluff, the Space Marine Rhino chassis (which is used for their APCs and Predator tanks) is capable of driving on the floor of a lake or sea without difficulties; one segment featured a tank duel between loyalist and Chaos Predators at the bottom of the ocean! | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_bcadd7cb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_bcadd7cb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Warhammer 40,000 (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_bcadd7cb | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_bcdcf629 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_bcdcf629 | comment |
The Autobots of Transformers: Animated are shown to function in the vehicle modes while underwater. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_bcdcf629 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_bcdcf629 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transformers: Animated | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_bcdcf629 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c592d69d | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c592d69d | comment |
A few Choro Q games allow you to attach parts that make your car amphibious. Good thing since some of the courses have water sections. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c592d69d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c592d69d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Choro Q (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_c592d69d | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c8c98634 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c8c98634 | comment |
Any vehicle with the Amphibious property in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3. A few of them (such as the Allied Riptide ACV) are hovercraft, some are regular boats or ships that sprout treads or legs on land, but the vast majority are ordinary-looking trucks and tanks that merely extend a few pontoons and motor on (and some can be built at both naval facilities and factories). The Japanese MCV and Tsunami tank's treads will flip over when changing medium. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c8c98634 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c8c98634 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_c8c98634 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c9b854c4 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c9b854c4 | comment |
In the Nancy Drew book Captive Witness, Nancy and Bed steal the villain's car, which turns out to be one of these. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c9b854c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c9b854c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nancy Drew | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_c9b854c4 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c9ef8499 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c9ef8499 | comment |
The Puppet Masters features flying cars (and "groundcars"), but there's also a brief mention of "triphibs", which presumably combine this trope with being flying cars (along with the ability to drive on roads). | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c9ef8499 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_c9ef8499 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Puppet Masters | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_c9ef8499 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_cdeed79a | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_cdeed79a | comment |
Car Wars: One of the available modifications for cars in the game makes them amphibian by means of making the engine and passenger space waterproof and adding a deployable propeller. Another modification allows the car to fly and it can be added on top of the amphibian modification (cars with both are designated "tri-phibian" by the rules). | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_cdeed79a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_cdeed79a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Car Wars (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_cdeed79a | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_d26124a0 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_d26124a0 | comment |
The eponymous Supercar. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_d26124a0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_d26124a0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Supercar | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_d26124a0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_d4fff6de | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_d4fff6de | comment |
007 Racing allows Bond access to most of the vehicles in his films, one of them being the Lotus Esprit from The Spy Who Loved Me. Which he uses in the Black Sea mission to make an escape by driving into the waters and activating its submarine mode as the enemy base blows up behind him. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_d4fff6de | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_d4fff6de | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 007 Racing (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_d4fff6de | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_dbd793bc | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_dbd793bc | comment |
d20 Modern: One of the sample vehicles in the expansion book D20 Future was a futuristic 1/2 ton truck with a fully enclosed driver's section, which mentioned on the fluff text that its ads included the truck being dumped with passengers on a lake and then rolled out of it under its own power, passengers totally cool inside. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_dbd793bc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_dbd793bc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| d20 Modern (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_dbd793bc | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_de0c0303 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_de0c0303 | comment |
Mega Man X: In X4, in Jet Stingray's stage, you have to chase him on your Ride Chaser while you're escaping the exploding highway you're on and jump onto the sea waters; once there your ride behaves just like a jet ski. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_de0c0303 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_de0c0303 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mega Man X (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_de0c0303 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_df72e458 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_df72e458 | comment |
In The President's Analyst, an Amphicar (see Real Life below) is on board a motor yacht owned by the Canadian Secret Service and commandeered by a Russian spy, and used for a trip onto land. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_df72e458 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_df72e458 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The President's Analyst | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_df72e458 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_e030b382 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_e030b382 | comment |
The Deliverer armored truck in PlanetSide 1 could safely traverse water, albeit only at 70% speed. Water travel had the benefit of a perfectly smooth ride, improving the accuracy of the guns. The ANT energy supply truck was also technically amphibious but didn't float; rather, it would sink like a rock but could travel for several minutes on the seabed before stalling, unlike other vehicles that would stall within seconds. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_e030b382 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_e030b382 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| PlanetSide (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_e030b382 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_e1426d79 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_e1426d79 | comment |
Amy Rose in Sonic R drives a car that has the ability to float on water. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_e1426d79 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_e1426d79 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sonic R (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_e1426d79 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ec290eb8 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ec290eb8 | comment |
M.A.S.K. has at least a couple of examples including Shark, a Porche 928 that turned into a submarine, and Raven, a Chevrolet Corvette that can also turn into a submarine. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ec290eb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ec290eb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| M.A.S.K. | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_ec290eb8 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_f16adb7 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_f16adb7 | comment |
In Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, a Russian GAZ 46 amphibious vehiclenote or, behind the scenes, a fiberglass reproduction thereof (see Real Life section) is used as a getaway car down a river and over three waterfalls. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_f16adb7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_f16adb7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_f16adb7 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_fbf8abdd | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_fbf8abdd | comment |
James and the Giant Peach: Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker's car can function underwater when driving to New York City to get James and the giant peach back to England. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_fbf8abdd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_fbf8abdd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| James and the Giant Peach | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_fbf8abdd | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ffa85c82 | type |
Amphibious Automobile | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ffa85c82 | comment |
Mr. and Mrs. Cortez's SUV from Spy Kids. | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ffa85c82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Amphibious Automobile / int_ffa85c82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Spy Kids | hasFeature |
Amphibious Automobile / int_ffa85c82 |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.