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Enormous Engine
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })One way to show off a vehicle, such as muscle cars, is by having some really big engines on it. May be used for Compensating for Something. While there are actual instances of vehicles that for some reason have to use monstrous engines — modern high speed trains, for example, need at least 15,000 hp to move hundreds of tons of steel at 350 km/h — in practice it usually won't work for other things than showing off: even 3000+ hp World War II aircraft engines are not that big, and they still need a transmission strong enough to cope with their torque. Heavy truck and tracked vehicle gearboxes are immensely heavy, the same weight as small cars themselves; supercars and racing vehicles, which can't afford the luxury of just making the transmission bigger, must resort to exotic alloys and laser-cut gears with nanometric precision that can cost by themselves as much as a mass-produced luxury car. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })See also Unnecessarily Large Vessel. Does not refer to a very large locomotive. Or fire truck. Do not confuse with Eternal Engine. Examples: |
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The podracers from The Phantom Menace, which are little more than a basic cockpit tethered to two or more giant engines. | |
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Power Rangers / Super Sentai has had a few over the years, typically when the Combining Mecha are Cool Cars. The most prominent example would be Speedor / the Eagle Racer, whose big giant engine block becomes the head of the robot. The earliest example wasn't a mecha, though; the Turborangers' V-Turbo Bazooka was powered by one of these. It would descend into the cannon housing and lock into place; Red Turbo would then crank an ignition lever, causing the entire thing to start shaking, spewing steam and gathering energy. |
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Several epic examples appear in Mad Max: Fury Road; the Heroes' War Rig has two large supercharged V8s up front with a quoted output of 2000hp, The Gigahorse has one huge twin-turbocharged engine. | |
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Muscle cars in Sin City pop up sometimes, engines exposed and all. Sometimes, the engine is not shown but described in explicit detail. | |
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Pokémon Colosseum: Wes probably stole the engine for his hovering motor-unicycle thingy from a Greyhound bus...or a Top Fuel dragster...or a diesel locomotive. It's mounted at the very front of his vehicle, and the single solitary wheel is mounted at the very back; only the Rule of Cool keeps the machine from nose-diving forward and catapulting Wes and Rui face-first into the sand. Rule of Cool and possibly technology, considering the Cool Sidecar clearly has some sort of propulsion system pointed downward to keep it up. |
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The engine powering Figaro Castle in Final Fantasy VI is small compared to the castle, but the characters dwarf in comparison (and they even have a boss battle on top of it). | |
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The Gullwing's Airship in Final Fantasy X-2 has an engine big enough that you can walk inside. | |
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S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarriers are usually shown with four enormous propellers or turbine engines. | |
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From the Northern German cult comic Werner came the "Satte Literschüssel". In the comic, it had exactly one liter of displacement. When it was actually built, the displacement turned out to be 1,444ccm (88cui). The engine was so big that the frame had to be built in V-shape and mounted against the back of the engine which thus carries the bike. | |
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The Fast and the Furious arcade game allows you to upgrade your car with improved engine power which has the side effect of installing a larger engine (even on tuner cars). The Drift update takes this even further. | |
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The A-10 Thunderbolt's engines are both needed in order to prevent the recoil from its Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon making it fly backwards. | |
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The only way Orks know how to build anything in Warhammer 40,000. Their space transports are nothing but hollowed-out asteroids with a minimum amount of life support and a maximum amount of engine so it can can be rammed into the enemy planet to unleash troops or explode trying (both results equally acceptable). | |
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The earliest example wasn't a mecha, though; the Turborangers' V-Turbo Bazooka was powered by one of these. It would descend into the cannon housing and lock into place; Red Turbo would then crank an ignition lever, causing the entire thing to start shaking, spewing steam and gathering energy. | |
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The fusion engines of the Greatship - a ship the size of Jupiter - are large enough to engulf the Earth. It has fourteen of them. The interior of the Greatship is full of hundreds of liquid hydrogen fuel tanks large enough to fit entire worlds. | |
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The Schpeltiger, Travis Touchdown's badass scooter from No More Heroes, is painted to look like an X-Wing from Star Wars. Definitely compensating for something. This is Travis, after all. | |
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Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduces two sentient engine-like Pokemon, Varoom and its evolved form Revavroom especially. Larger versions of Revavroom are used by all five leaders of Team Star on their starmobiles. | |
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Eddie's car, the Deuce, in Brütal Legend is upgraded with progressively larger engines as the game goes on (because "more powerful" equals "bigger" in this setting), to the point where you start to wonder how Eddie manages to see the road behind the hulking motor. | |
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Snot Rod (an orange drag racer) from Cars has a large engine sticking out from underneath his hood. | |
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Previously, Fulda-based NSU OSL fan Franz Langer had made it into the Guinness World Records: His 958ccm (58cui) NSU was the motorcycle with the largest one-cylinder engine in the world. When he found out about the "Satte Literschüssel", he first threw a fit and then began to build the "NSU Bison 2000", a classic NSU-style 1,975ccm (121cui) one-cylinder motorcycle to beat the Werner bike (German article with pics about this bike). It still looks pretty normal despite the enormous engine. | |
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Mortal Engines: the engines required to get a Traction City moving are so huge that it takes the remains of entire towns to fuel them. | |
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Some Transformers feature these. Perhaps the most notable are the Turbomasters, especially the smaller quartet of Boss, Flash, Hurricane, and Scorch, who all turn into cars featuring large, prominently exposed turbine engines. | |
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