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There's something about airships that makes them the go-to flying vehicles for villains (at least when black helicopters aren't available). Want to establish that a villain is extremely powerful and wealthy in a way that even a fancy yacht or private jet won't? Simple: show him looking down upon his puny subjects from an airship!
Part of the reason why this trope is so pervasive has to do with the history of the airship, starting with World War I. During that war, Germany used Zeppelins as bombers against Britain and France, and although they did relatively little damage they terrified Allied civilians. After the war, zeppelins were used as passenger carriers by Nazi Germany up until the deadly accident of The Hindenburg in 1937. On the civilian side, blimps are often used for advertising, which ties into fears of power-hungry CEOS with massive egos.
Another reason for this is that airships just look intimidating, in a way that airplanes and helicopters don't. Their massive size and slow, silent flight give them an ominous air, which naturally makes many writers and filmmakers fix upon them as vehicles for fictional bad guys.
Thus the airship became the go-to flying transport for all manner of fictional dictators, warlords, Sky Pirates, and other miscreants. This trope applies not only to airships in the real-world definition (powered lighter-than-air aircraft) but also to fictional vehicles that are called "airships" but use other means of lift, as are often found in Steampunk settings. It can, but need not, overlap with Cool Airship and Zeppelins from Another World.
A couple notes before adding examples: If airships are used by both heroes and villains in a story, that's not this trope. If a villain uses an airship at some point, but it's not particularly significant or otherwise associated with them, that's also not this trope. However, if airships are clearly associated with villains in the setting, that's this trope.
Has nothing to do with Led Zeppelin. Or the bizarre reggae-rock Led Zeppelin cover band that shares a name with this trope.
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LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2: One of the landmarks of the Hydra Empire is a giant zeppelin. The first part of one of the game's levels takes place on it.
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In The Great Mouse Detective, Big Bad Ratigan has a sinister-looking blimp with sharp, flaring metal tailfins... driven by a pedal-powered propeller and rudder.
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TaleSpin: Don Karnage and his Sky Pirates operate out of the Iron Vulture, a cross between an airship and an Airborne Aircraft Carrier.
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Hellywood from Now and Then, Here and There is a prime example of this trope. We don't actually see it fly until the 10th episode of the show, though. But when it does, it's quite a sight— it is, for all intents and purposes, a flying skyscraper with a built-in Wave-Motion Gun.
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Bloons Tower Defense: The primary enemies of the series are the Bloons. While regular ones look like balloons, the strongest ones resemble blimps. The blimps move slowly, but they're much tougher and are generally more resistant to slow and stun effects.
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Battlefield 1: The "Friends in High Places" campaign climaxes with a pair of gigantic German zeppelins launching a surprise attack on London. Note that this game is set during WWI, not WWII, so the Germans aren't Nazis yet.
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The Miraculous Ladybug anime sizzle reel ends with Hawk Moth unleashing an attack on Paris from a steampunk Zeppelin.
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Though its ominousness is mitigated a bit by usually being bright yellow or red, the blimp in Grand Theft Auto V makes for an effective scouting vehicle for the team of hunter players in FailRace's Survive the Hunt series. In addition to relaying Alex's position to the others, whoever's piloting will also tend to dive-bomb intersections to check on cars.
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Above the Timberline: Airships are used by both the heroes and villains of this illustrated story, but deployed differently depending on who's using them:
In the prologue, Galen Singleton's survey- and exploration-focused airship Indomitable is attacked by the Adamant, an armed stealth ship that swiftly damages and unleashes hostile boarding parties on the Indomitable. Though their ship crippled in the attack and about to crash, the courageous crew of the Indomitable manage to bring the Adamant down with them.
The villainous Wilkes and his men fly a Blackhawk M738 stealth airship into the frigid expanse of the White to track Wesley. Tribal leader Solon Kai joins them in their hunt, using the airship to transport his war party to menace the peaceful inhabitants of the Shadow Moon Monastery. The Blackhawk ship is even drawn with headlights that resembled angry, glaring eyes.
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The climax of the Batman: Black and White story "Heroes", set in 1937, features a Nazi airship.
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Skylanders: The Drow certainly fit this trope if all the airships they have floating around Sky Schooner Docks are any indication.
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: Ami's airships are a new technology to the people she shows it to, and her occupation is basically only comprised of evil people, except her, but they don't know that.
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CarnEvil: Ludwig von Tokkentakker, the Big Bad, has a giant zeppelin-like airship perched on top of the Big Top, the final level. Tokkentakker brings you on board the airship for the final battle.
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The SCP Foundation has one such example in SCP-5913, a ghostly airship from an alternate reality, whose crew are forced to sail the skies for all eternity due to her captain's ill-fated Deal with the Devil.
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BioShock Infinite takes place in the floating, militarized-via-fundamentalism city of Columbia, and among the biggest threats encountered are zeppelins run by the city's leader prophet, Zachary Comstock. The fact they rain hell onto everything below them means that when encountered, Booker has to drop everything, find a way to board them (mainly using the city's Sky-Lines), and take them down from the inside. Their presence is also felt in the overall plot: Comstock wants to use them to bring apocalypse to "the Sodom below" in a twisted equivalent to The Great Flood. When Booker is teleported to the Bad Future, he sees the same zeppelins bombarding a 1980's New York City that is completely helpless in fighting back.
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The thieves' airship in The Daughter of Twenty Faces.
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In Hazbin Hotel, Sir Pentious has one equipped with some very deadly weaponry. Unfortunately for him, Alastor is even more dangerous.
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Irregular Webcomic!: Colonel Haken's preferred mode of transportation is a zeppelin. Since this is a comedy webcomic, the inherent riskiness of traveling in a hydrogen-filled airship is the subject of jokes.
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In DuckTales (2017), Don Karnage returns from TaleSpin with an Iron Vulture that serves as an airship as well as a carrier for fighters. When Glomgold unites the villains in "GlomTales!," it becomes the de facto headquarters for his Legion of Doom.
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James Bond villain Max Zorin from A View to a Kill uses two blimps. There's one where he holds a business meeting for his stockholers (one of which gets killed for refusing to go along with Zorin's plan, getting Thrown from the Zeppelin via a Surprise Slide Staircase). He uses the second one to escape in the climax; it is smaller than the first one and unfolds from a construction shack.
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In Pokémon Adventures, there's the Team Rocket Airship in the FireRed/LeafGreen arc that can turn into a stadium with a push of a button. Giovanni probably designed it that way specifically for his rematch with Red.
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"Airlords of the Ozarks", an adventure for Twilight: 2000, had the players, having returned to the U.S.A., recruited to investigate what turned out to be a neo-fascist movement using airships for raids to build a power base.
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, one of the war vehicles the Mechanist made for the Fire Nation was a hot air balloon. It ended up being used against the Fire Nation, but they found its wreckage and reverse-engineered it to make war zeppelins. They use them to devastating effect on the Day of Black Sun to compensate for the loss of firebending. In the series finale, Ozai takes a fleet of zeppelin and comet-boosted firebenders to start burning the Earth Kingdom to the ground.
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Call of Cthulhu: supplement Fearful Passages, adventure "Rigid Air". The dirigible Bellinghausen (AKA Terra Nova) and part of its crew have been taken over by a Cthulhu Mythos entity called a dho-spawn. The dho-spawn has spent months tracking down and decapitating ex-members of the crew. The Investigators must discover the truth and destroy the dho-spawn before it perpetrates more evil.
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In the Fangface episode "The Invisible Menace Mix-Up", the Phantom Thief Sky Ghost has one of these as his base of operations, fitted with an Invisibility Ray.
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Action Man (2000): Dr. X and his Council of Doom have a high tech airship that, among other things, can turn invisible. It originally belonged to Tempest, who used it to control the weather in his debut episode, but Dr. X made it his headquarters after accepting Tempest into the council.
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In Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, we have Hunter J's airship; quite appropriate for arguably the biggest Knight of Cerebus of the anime.
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Batman:
The Dirigible of Doom from Detective Comics #33, which is used as the weapon and base of the story's villain, Carl Kruger.
The villain Colonel Blimp commands a fleet of airships capable of snatching and carrying off submarines and battleships.
The climax of the Batman: Black and White story "Heroes", set in 1937, features a Nazi airship.
In Batman: Master of the Future, the sequel to Gotham by Gaslight, Batman has to battle Alexandre LeRoi in 1892, who is seeking to disrupt Gotham's Turn-of-the-Century celebration by attacking the American Discovery Exposition with a burning glass mounted on his zeppelin.
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Bravely Default: the Sky Knights fly a giant zeppelin. Though unlike other examples, they style themselves as heroic defenders, despite actually just being thugs abusing their power for their own ends.
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Super Mario Bros.: Airships are a recurring vehicle of choice for Bowser and his Koopalings across the series, and are typically used as siege weapons when Bowser tries to take over the Mushroom Kingdom or kidnap Princess Peach. As a general rule of thumb, if boss levels in the 2D games (at least the ones since they were introduced in Super Mario Bros. 3) don't take place in a castle or fortress, they're typically on an airship. For reasons unknown, the Mushroom Kingdom is rarely seen using air travel of their own, though Mario has piloted a Cool Starship in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and a souped-up hot-air balloon in Super Mario Odyssey, and Mario, Peach, and (sometimes) Luigi have been seen occasionally riding in much smaller, unarmed hot air balloons (and in at least one instance, a conventional modern-day airplane) in the prologue or epilogue of a handful of games.
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert Series: The second and third installments of the series give the Soviet faction the Kirov Airship heavy-bomber rigid/semirigids. While the Soviets aren't always evil in 2 and 3, with their villainy mostly being Played for Laughs, they do tend to be the "bad guys".
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The climax of The Rocketeer takes place high above Hollywood aboard the Nazi dirigible Luxembourg. While it doesn't exactly belong to the Big Bad, movie star and secret Nazi spy Neville Sinclair, it's all part of a plot based on intelligence Sinclair provided, and he does dramatically leap from the burning airship after stealing the title character's rocket pack... at which point a leak in the fuel tank causes him to crash into the Hollywoodland sign and explode.
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Camp Lakebottom: In "Live And Let Squatch", Abomina Lafur and her ninja penguins attack Camp Lakebottom in a black blimp armed with volatile chocolate brownie explosive torpedoes.
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In The Three Musketeers (2011), Cardinal Richelieu's forces get a huge airship (based on an in-universe design by Leonardo da Vinci) near the end of the film and use it to combat the one that the musketeers had hijacked.
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Lawrence III's airship Hikoukyu (Japanese for "Flying Palace") from Pokémon 2000 and Zero's Megarig from Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior
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The Pokémon franchise contains numerous examples:
Lawrence III's airship Hikoukyu (Japanese for "Flying Palace") from Pokémon 2000 and Zero's Megarig from Pokémon: Giratina and the Sky Warrior
In Pokémon Adventures, there's the Team Rocket Airship in the FireRed/LeafGreen arc that can turn into a stadium with a push of a button. Giovanni probably designed it that way specifically for his rematch with Red.
Team Rockets' Meowth-shaped hot air balloon, which just happens to be their main form of transportation. However, after they Took a Level in Badass in the Best Wishes anime, they temporarily abandoned the Meowth balloon and replaced it with a simple purple hot air balloon with a stylized Team Rocket "R" insignia on it.
In Pokémon the Series: Diamond and Pearl, we have Hunter J's airship; quite appropriate for arguably the biggest Knight of Cerebus of the anime.
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Creature of Havoc: Invoked and Justified by the Sorcerous Overlord who captured the legendary flying ship Galleykeep to serve as his base of operations. His ultimate goal is to pillage a Hidden Elf Village that's magically protected from ground invasion but is vulnerable to aerial attack.
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Airships are a signature technology of the titular evil empire in S. M. Stirling's The Draka novels.
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In Lady Mechanika, evil Arms Dealer Lord Blackpool travels on a massive flying warship bristling with weapons, known as The Helio Arx.
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Sonic the Hedgehog: Dr. Eggman loves building flying battleships. He had the Wing Fortress in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, the Flying Battery in Sonic 3 & Knuckles, the Sky Fortress in Sonic the Hedgehog 4, the Egg Carrier (and backup Egg Carrier 2) in Sonic Adventure, and more. In chronologically later games, such as Sonic Heroes, he has an entire fleet of airships.
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Radiant: The Inquisition move around in airships and their biggest ship is called Uranus (and is around the size of a castle) and is equipped with a large amount of cannons.
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Syndicate: The Villain Protagonist was calling the shots from his personal airship. If you lost all your agents, you got a cutscene of the Syndicate destroying it with a bomb.
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Disco Elysium: While the "evil" part depends heavily on perspective, the armed Moralintern airships/zeppelins which patrol the skies above Revachol and keeping the vigil for any potential extremist uprising; as Moralintern is representative of Centrism, however, it's indicated that they're there to prevent any change and keep control of society. The Kingdom of Conscience thoughts lampshades this.
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Wolfenstein (2009): Deathshead bases his operations aboard a large zeppelin hovering over Isenstadt, the presence of which is a source of consternation to numerous NPCs. In the climactic mission, BJ infiltrates the zeppelin to destroy it and the secret projects on board.
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Doctor Who combines this with Zeppelins from Another World in "Rise of the Cybermen". The TARDIS crashes into an alternate history, where airships are still in common use in the modern day. Specifically, they're used by Cybus Industries, an amoral corporation that sees its customer base as research material and eventually creates the Cybermen in this version of the show's continuity.
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Up: Charles Muntz's cold, grey, massive zeppelin contrasts with Carl's small, colorful balloon-propelled house. Carl gets to keep the airship in the end, though.
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The Hawk from the Josie and the Pussycats episode "Melody Memory Mix-Up" is a villain prowling the skies in a dirigible. He's seeking Professor Layton's force field plans in order to make his dirigible impervious to anti-aircraft weaponry. From this impregnable flying fortress, Hawk aims to monopolize air traffic lanes and demand ransom to allow passage.
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In The Great Balloon Race, Count Pommodoro's Cool Airship is the war balloon, the Mako Shark PT-700, which looks like an armoured flying shark bristling with weapons.
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire has the Gyro-Evac, essentially a cross between an Escape Pod and a hot-air balloon — shaped like a rocket and designed to go straight up very quickly, armed with gravity bombs and hidden in a tanker truck until the true villains of the movie reveal themselves and their plot to abscond back to the surface with the lost treasures of Atlantis.
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In The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Professor Moriarty and Fu Manchu set out to attack Victorian London with their cavorite-powered Cool Airships. The page image shows Moriarty's ship (which is the only one of the two that actually sees action due to Moriarty stealing the cavorite).
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Henry Stickmin Series: The Toppat Gang has one. It is primarily featured in Infiltrating the Airship, and also shows up in one ending of Fleeing the Complex.
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In Sky Bandits, the heroes have to battle a German experimental armoured airship that is a veritable flying fortress, armed with all kinds of strange weaponry, such as floating mines and caltrop bombs.
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In Batman: Master of the Future, the sequel to Gotham by Gaslight, Batman has to battle Alexandre LeRoi in 1892, who is seeking to disrupt Gotham's Turn-of-the-Century celebration by attacking the American Discovery Exposition with a burning glass mounted on his zeppelin.
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PJ Masks: In Season 3, Romeo gets his own flying headquarters called the Sky Factory.
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Hellsing: Has the Millennium's airships, which are used to conduct the attacks on both London and the Hellsing Organization Headquarters, and are loaded with Nazi Vampires.
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Voltes V, being a mecha anime, has this in spades. The Boazanians have a diverse array of airships, ranging from small saucers to Skullrook, as well as Belgan's ship, Zuhl's base, the Boazanian Defence Fleet and Sodom and Gomorrah. The war crimes of the Boazanians range from slavery and colonialism to murdering refugees who flee from their nation for opposing the Fantastic Caste System.
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The Dirigible of Doom from Detective Comics #33, which is used as the weapon and base of the story's villain, Carl Kruger.
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