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Nose Art
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So you have your Cool Plane and your Cool Ship, but somehow, they're still not cool enough, truly not worthy of such a badass Ace Pilot as yourself. You know what would help? Let's paint a freaking shark face on the nose. That will get the desired reaction from your enemies. Plus, it'll look great at airshows! The Plane Spotters love this kind of thing! Typically, you will see five varieties of this: Distinctive artwork on the nose or tail. If on the nose, expect something akin to the classic "Shark nose" made famous during World War II. If on the tail, expect distinctive (or even flashy) designs intended to easily identify the plane's unit. The "Pin-Up Girl". Made famous in World War II, these designs often featured scantily-clad (or nude) women in suggestive poses. Many of these were very temporary in nature, and it was not at all rare for the pinup art to reflect the name of the aircraft (such as the famous "Memphis Belle"). Though common among American aircraft in WWII and Korea, it went out of style after that, due to certain individuals declaring it "obscene," "sexist," and "unprofessional" for young men to fly high-risk combat missions with such markings on their aircraft. RAF aviators maintained the practice through the 1991 Gulf War before the same forces caught up with them. The practice survives to this day however, thanks to British tycoon Richard Branson employing pin-up nose art styled around its use in World War II (dubbed 'The Flying Lady') on every plane in the fleet of his airline, Virgin Atlantic. Full-body flashy paintjobs. Often invoked when Rule of Cool is the primary motivator behind the paint scheme. This is common for demonstration aircraft used at air shows or VIP transports not intended to be used near the front lines. Sometimes, even camouflage can fit into this category, as some patterns designed to be very effective at a distance can look downright garish up close. It was most common for combat aircraft in WWI, when famous aces on both sides wanted everyone to know they were there. Manfred Von Richtofen's "Flying Circus" took this to extremes, with every plane wearing a distinctive garish paint job, with all-red airplanes being reserved for the personal use of the young Baron himself. Patriotic slogans or pictures. This kind of nose art was especially popular in USSR (and is still in Russia), where pilots named their planes after their parents, siblings, fallen comrades or historical national heroes (Dimitri Donskoy, Aleksandr Nevsky, Aleksandr Suvorov etc). Some artforms could depict a Soviet eagle subduing a Fascist beast, or slogans like "Mstitel" (Avenger), "Na Zapad" (To West!), Za Rodiny ("For Fatherland") or "Smiert fashistam" (Death to Fascists). They were also popular in the USAAF and RAF. Can often be combined with Type-B. Victory marks. A tally of how many kills/successful missions a pilot has accomplished. The more there are, the more badass the pilot/craft is. They can vary in form from simple tally marks to decals of the victims' roundels or flags. Humorous cartoons. This type was especially popular in the USAAF and Finnish air forces, and would often depict a popular cartoon character, such as Donald Duck or Batman. This type of nose art is common even today. It usually depicts either the war itself or the enemy in ironic or satirical way, and is usually connected to the individual name of the plane. The extreme example of this was a B-24M Liberator 44-49853 It Ain't So Funny, whose entire nose was covered with cartoon characters. In Real Life, this trope has generally become much more subdued due to a combination of PR and practicality. Flashy artwork tended to clash with specially-designed camouflage patterns designed to help conceal the plane in combat, making such artwork Awesome, but Impractical. Even the traditionally applied roundel insignia, such as the RAF's bullseye had to be replaced with subdued monochrome variants.note When British military strength was re-assigned to the Pacific Theatre from late 1944 onwards, it was discovered that trigger-happy Americans saw only the red circle at the heart of RAF/Fleet Air Arm insignia and would inevitably shoot at it. In the Far East where British forces fought alongside Americans, the red part of the roundel was then deleted. A typical workaround with those limitations is to put the artwork in a normally-concealed place, like the inside of the wheel wells, or to simply draw it in less contrasting colors. On the other hand, nose art can be an immense morale boost. The nose art personifies and antropomorphizes the aircraft, creating a bond between the inanimate airplane and its pilot (and ground crew). Even in air forces where strict discipline was stressed, some form of nose art was always tolerated. Since Tropes Are Flexible, this applies to other vehicles or equipment as well, as long as it fits the spirit of the trope. Compare Itasha, which involves flashy (and nerdy) paintjobs applied to cars. If the ammunition has nose art on it, then it is a Marked Bullet. Can overlap with Ace Custom, which is when the vehicle's design, rather than it's decoration, is unique, often to give a particularly important hero (or villain) particular advantages. Nose art may display the ship or plane's name. This is not for examples of face painting, tattoos, or artwork inspired by the human nose. Truth in Television. |
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Star Trek Online: Owners of the Legendary Defiant starship have access to five sets of nose-art◊ for the ship's deflector module: the shark teeth and eyes from the starship class development patch in the background materials, and four different sets of slogan-and-kill-tally combinations (one each from fighting Klingons, Dominion, Borg, and Iconians) | |
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Chain Lightning: In World War II, Matt flies a B-17 bomber that has been christened the "Naughty Nellie". There's a cheesecake photo of a woman in a swimsuit that Matt touches before boarding his plane. | |
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The A-10 Warthog ground attack planes in Battlefield 2 have a warthog face on the nose of the aircraft. The Vietnam version of the Project Reality mod features UH-1 Huey gunships with a massive shark mouth on the nose of the chopper. |
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In Apocalypse Now, Colonel Kurtz delivers a scathing and spot-on assessment of the discontinuation of this practice. In an earlier scene, Colonel Kilgore flies into battle in a Huey with "Death from Above" painted on its nose. The Hueys of the 1st Air Cavalry have the units crossed saber insignia on their noses (which the real unit was known to do in real life, some even wore Stetsons like Kilgore. |
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L.A.C. Crews in Honor Harrington frequently adorn their ships with nose art in a direct reference to the nose art used on aircraft. | |
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Fear Agent: Houston's Retro Rocket is decorated with a shark-toothed grin. | |
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X2: The Threat allows you to import an image file from your computer that would be applied as nose art to all your ships and stations. It could be a pin-up, a coat of arms, whatever. (Game Spot's reviewer used a character from The Simpsons.) In X3: Reunion, Pirate ships have flame paint jobs on their nose, with graffiti scrawled over the rest of the ship. | |
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Red Tails, a 2012 film based on the exploits of the Tuskegee Airmen, takes its name from the highly recognizable paint job their planes featured. (See also The Tuskegee Airmen and the Real Life section below) Several pilots in the movie also had small logos painted under the cockpits to tie in with their callsigns, and Pretty Boy had his yellow-nosed fighters. |
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Starship Troopers: Invasion: Aside from having their nicknames stenciled on their chestplates, several of the Troopers have custom artwork to help them stand out. Shock Jock has a white cross on his armor, while Trig has a crosshairs on her helmet. | |
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And then there's all of Norba Shino's Mobile Suits in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, which is a combination of types A (shark grin emblem on the nose, or in this case the head area) and C (a flashy pink paintjob). | |
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Quite a few of the planes and helicopters available in Grand Theft Auto V & GTA Online feature detailed nose-art of various types that can be applied to the aircraft. | |
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Used on a couple of hacked Combine turrets in Half-Life 2: Episode 2. One features the famous shark-nose design, while the other has orange stripes and the resistance's (and the series') signature lambda logo. | |
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The officially released MechWarrior 4 titles featured a fair amount of paint work, which only grew in number and complexity as time passed and Game Mods were introduced. It is probably no surprise that a large number of Atlas paintjobs emphasize that it has a Skull for a Head, usually in some manner of bone-white, gap-toothed grotesqueness. A number of 'Mechs with 'fuselage' bodies (that is, longer front to back than tall) have optional paint jobs featuring the iconic shark-mouth nose art. | |
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During the New Jedi Order series, Jaina Solo gives a similar order to her personal squadron under not-dissimilar circumstances (ironically, while serving under Wedge Antilles). She paints hers with images of voxyn war beasts, which killed her brother and which she personally helped make extinct. | |
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Super Dimension Fortress Macross (and Robotech) had the "Skull Squadron" inspired by VF-84 the "Jolly Rogers" colors here◊ via the other wiki. | |
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The Discworld-set fic The Price of Flight concerns the Pegasus service, Ankh-Morpork's cadre of messengers, nominally part of the City Air Watch. Each Pegasus pilot is allowed to personalise her mount. Not with anything painted or tattooed onto the animal itself, as this would be cruel. The large flat-fronted forward panniers carried ahead of the saddle, however, can be personalised on their outer faces with artwork specific to the pilot, and all the pilots of the Pegasus Service elect to carry their own distinctions here, subject to Captain Olga Romanoff's approval. | |
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Sabre Ace: Conflict Over Korea used the "shark mouth" on the F-51 Mustang. | |
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As prominently displayed in the closing movie, the Highwind of Final Fantasy VII has a Pin Up girl on the nose. Cid calls her "Lady Luck" and occasionally calls out to her to help him. | |
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A staple in the Ace Combat series, from about Ace Combat 3: Electrosphere onwards. Shooting down certain enemy Ace Pilots allows you to slap their paint jobs onto your planes of the same model. Other special paint jobs were unlocked by completing certain plot missions. Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation also introduced downloadable custom paint jobs. | |
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1944 documentary The Memphis Belle, which made that particular plane famous and loosely inspired the 1990 film, shows that this is Truth in Television. There's actually a montage of all the nose art of the bombers in the squadron. One plane chose to avoid cheesecake and instead had a painting of a skunk squirting Hitler, with the caption "In Der Fuhrer's Face". | |
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In the TV series Riptide the boys use a custom painted helicopter called "Screaming Mimi." | |
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo has the Ruptured Duck, the main character, Captain Ted W. Lawson's aircraft. Based on the real aircraft from the Doolittle raid. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars continues the tradition, with several clone trooper gunships sporting artwork ranging from pinups◊ to animal mascots◊ and beyond◊. A few even feature Jedi◊ and Sith.◊ Becomes a joke in the unfinished version of the Bad Batch arc, when Anakin notices the ship used by the titular squad has a pinup of his wife on it. The finalized version removes the art. |
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Persona 5: One of the character's Guardian Entity, Captain Kidd, stands on top of a miniature pirate ship with a Slasher Smile shark grin painted on the bow. | |
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Macross Frontier has a healthy dose of all three, including the skull as a Shout-Out to the original Macross on Ozma's VF-25S (and his car). The König Monster has A-10 style Type A nose art originally, then later Type B pinups of the protagonist females of the series. Type C occurs in the Variable Fighter air show special with full body paint jobs again featuring the two female protagonists. | |
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Macross, as befitting a series featuring transforming fighter jets: Super Dimension Fortress Macross (and Robotech) had the "Skull Squadron" inspired by VF-84 the "Jolly Rogers" colors here◊ via the other wiki. Macross Frontier has a healthy dose of all three, including the skull as a Shout-Out to the original Macross on Ozma's VF-25S (and his car). The König Monster has A-10 style Type A nose art originally, then later Type B pinups of the protagonist females of the series. Type C occurs in the Variable Fighter air show special with full body paint jobs again featuring the two female protagonists. Besides the iconic Skull Squadron "Jolly Roger," a number of the non-transformable Destroids have Type B pinups mounted somewhere on their leg. One Tomahawk sports a bat-winged Vampirella in its left calf named "Vamp12", a Defender sports a topless angel on its left toe called "Angel Face", and a Spartan has on its knee a woman in a swimsuit riding on a falling bomb. |
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The Eagle and the Hawk: It's a movie about a World War I fighter squadron. Jerry's plane has a painting of the Grim Reaper on the side. The art is thematically appropriate for an anti-war film in which Jerry slowly breaks down as the terror and death of aerial combat get to him. | |
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Pacific Rim: All the Jaegers have kill markings and various other writing on them. Gipsy Danger sports a pinup on the right chest plate (by Word of God in emulation of World War II bombers). | |
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In Fallout 4, finding the right issue of Hot Rodder magazine in the post-apocalyptic Commonwealth will allow you to give your suits of Powered Armor a shark mouth paintjob, which looks better on some models than others, but always grants a bonus to your Agility when worn. Alternate color schemes include black flames on a red background or white scallops on pink. | |
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Storm Hawks: Junko's missiles have these in the first episode, it's notable because he makes them fire when they jam by ''screaming at them'' and their faces actually change into a typical Oh, Crap! expression before firing. | |
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Imperial Military Personnel Stories: The Relentless starts each episode with a Flyaway Shot from a close-up of a naked woman painted on the cockpit of an All Terrain Armored Transport loaded into the bay of the Relentless. In Chapter 3, a technician accidentally splashes an entire bucket of paint over the artwork when another AT-AT sideswipes his gantry while he's trying to touch it up. | |
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Normally averted in the X-Wing Series (the closest they come is kill markers), but when Rogue Squadron resigns for the duration of The Bacta War, they repaint their X-Wings with individualized paint jobs to further distance themselves from the New Republic military. The straightest example is Gavin Darklighter, who paints his up like a krayt dragon: tan with a reptile scale pattern, and a toothy mouth similar to the page picture. Ooryl's fighter looks rather plain unless you can see in the ultraviolet spectrum. Corran Horn's X-Wing has always been painted hunter green with black and white trim, because he took it with him when he defected from the Corellian Security Force and never officially signed it over to the New Republic. When Wraith Squadron goes undercover as Space Pirates in Iron Fist, they custom-paint their stolen TIE Interceptors. In a minor example, the 181st Fighter Group, the Rogues' Imperial counterparts, have red stripes down the wings of their TIEs (and the sleeves of their flight suits), making them the only Imperial fighters which aren't all-over grey. |
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Only Old Men Are Going to Battle: Capt. Titarenko is the leader of a Soviet fighter pilot squad that regularly goes into battle against the Luftwaffe. He is also a great music enthusiast and amateur musician who has organized the men of his squadron into a band. The nose of his fighter plane is decorated by a bar of sheet music. | |
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Aliens had the Colonial Marine's Dropship. On the nose was an eagle in combat boots and the phrase "We Endanger Species". The marines had slogans painted on their armor and weapons as well. | |
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Avatar: Trudy has a blue and white cheatline painted on her Samson helo in the film's climax, matching the warpaint worn by her Na'vi allies. In the sequel, a similar Samson used by the Na’vi insurgence is painted with similar markings, albeit more elaborate and covering more of the aircraft. It’s for the same reason. |
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Watchmen: In the Opening Montage we see a bomber with nose art of the original Silk Spectre (Sally Jupiter). | |
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The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016): The B-17 that ends up used in experiments that turn it invisible at the push of a button has art of Wonder Woman with her bullet repelling bracers crossed defensively on it. | |
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Star Trek: Never happens in the show itself, but background books like the Deep Space Nine Technical Manual include a Defiant class development patch when the ship has a toothy grin reminiscent of nose art. | |
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In Starcraft II, the Goliath has several variant skins, randomly applied when the unit is created, that have different body art◊, including flames, teeth, angel wings, and the Confederate flag. The Marine unit has a large variety of helmet decorations, like wolf/tiger/panda faces or a Rage Helm. Some are available as in-game avatars. Tychus Findlay has a pinup on one of his pauldrons in a retro style (she's the celebrity who goes in and out of rehab in the bottom text of the UNN broadcasts). |
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BattleTech has Legacy Character "The Bounty Hunter." His Mech is painted a bright green with various currency symbols all over it. Custom paint jobs are generally popular in some MechWarrior circles in the universe, such as among mercenaries and — of course — in the game arenas on Solaris VII. Larger forces tend more towards standardization, although unit-specific paint schemes (for parade purposes if nothing else) aren't uncommon. The spinoff trading card game had an actual "Intimidating Paint Job◊" card that could be attached to a 'Mech to slightly reduce the attack values of (presumably duly shaken) opposing units. |
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Type D is parodied in the Not the Nine O'Clock News song "I Like Trucking", with a trucker who keeps a tally of hedgehogs. | |
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Tony Trihull, the Lemon battleship from Cars 2, has a shark face painted onto his hull. | |
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Type D is spoofed in the Goofy cartoon "Motor Mania", with a driver who has the number of pedestrians he's hit stamped on the side of his car. A kid on a scooter is later seen doing the same thing. | |
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S.L.A.I.: Steel Lancer Arena International is positively drowning in nose art choices. There are hundreds of paint and image decorations available for purchase and use on any SV. Among them are a number of national flags, various cheeky comments, and the ever-popular shark smile. | |
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In One Piece, the Sea Train prototype Rocketman has a shark face painted on it's front. | |
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Serenity shows that the ship's name is painted in a stylized seal on the bow of the ship, in both English and Chinese. The crew later invokes this trope by disguising their ship as a Reaver vessel, complete with lots of red paint and human corpses lashed to the hull. |
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Certain planes in IL-2 Sturmovik can be customized with these. Most of the available nose arts are reminiscent of real WWII nose arts, but it's possible to mod in your own as we’ll see . | |
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In the Transformers Film Series, many of the paintjobs used by the Autobots in vehicle mode could arguably count, but the best example is Starscream's Cybertronian War Tattoos, a set of Cybertronian writing covering his entire body, starting immediately after the Decepticons drop the Masquerade in Revenge Of The Fallen. | |
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Memphis Belle: The Belle and all the other bombers have nose art, with the bombers' callsigns being derived from the nose art (One of the other planes is called "C-Cup"). Given the limited number of flyable B-17s, most had different nose art on each side. 1944 documentary The Memphis Belle, which made that particular plane famous and loosely inspired the 1990 film, shows that this is Truth in Television. There's actually a montage of all the nose art of the bombers in the squadron. One plane chose to avoid cheesecake and instead had a painting of a skunk squirting Hitler, with the caption "In Der Fuhrer's Face". |
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In Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, the titular mech is decorated with a butterfly insignia on its head. Naked Snake uses the word 'nose art' to describe it. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Eldar Corsairs are fond of ostentatious color schemes, and the Void Dragon Phoenix, a special variant of the Phoenix ground-attack craft, is depicted with a full-body paintjob reminescent of a dragon's scaled hide. Their Craftworld cousins are also known to embellish their vehicles — a motif from Biel-Tan is a long coil of thorned vines, while the Wild Rider clans from Saim-Hann are even more individualized. Imperial aircraft can actually buy a distinctive paintjob or decals as an upgrade that let one unit that sees the plane reroll one leadership test. Imperial tanks and other ground vehicles don't derive any particular special rules from the practice, but it's still mentioned from time to time in the fluff (such as the "Vixens", a tank unit from Death or Glory, whose vehicles feature a cartoon of a fox in a tanker's uniform). And of course Dreadnoughts, being Space Marines, tend to be brightly painted in their Chapter colors and heraldry. Orks, being orks, commonly have garish personalized paint jobs; indeed, it's the idea of uniformity that's odd to them. Yes, the red ones go faster. |
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Lugnut has been known to sport shark teeth on his nose, both on his Reveal The Shield toy and the "Atomic Lugnut" redeco of his original Animated toy. | |
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We actually get to see the classic shark face on a few Federation units. Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO features a Ball with one and there's a popular artbook scan featuring a GM Custom from 0083 in a hangar getting one painted onto its helmet. | |
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Space: Above and Beyond The alien fighter ace the characters call Chiggy Von Richtofen has a human skull painted on the nose of his Super Prototype with Abandon All Hope written on the side...in English, as the protagonists note. When the squadron receives its Hammerheads towards the end of the pilot episode, some squadron members paint slogans on their fighters, such as West's "Above and Beyond" and Hawkes' "Pags' Payback." The nose art isn't seen in future battles, however. |
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Guard of Honor: Col. Ross sees an attack bomber with a nose art drawing of a skeleton dancing with a nude woman. The irony here is that Col. Ross is looking at a wreck, the bomber having crashed, killing both pilot and radio man. | |
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Team Fortress 2 features a rather half-assed variant on the payload carts. It seems that the Heavy vandalizes them; they all have something he says scratched into the paintjob or spraypainted on them. For example, the one that's used most often says "CRY SOME MORE" on it. One of them also happens to be designed like a mechanical shark's head. | |
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Blake's 7. In "Dawn of the Gods", a robotic slave catcher with teeth painted on the nose and glaring searchlight eyes is sent after our heroes. Some find it more terrifying than others. | |
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In Ruiner Pinball, the top of the "Ruiner" table features two bomb-dropping pinup girls, "Drop Target" and "Da Bomb". | |
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Il Était Une Fois... Space: Almost all Cassiopeian warships have a Shark nose-esque Type A. | |
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Wartime documentary Report from the Aleutians shows an American fighter plane with its entire nose painted to look like a tiger. | |
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Star Wars: Clone Wars: The ARC troopers paint a rancor on their ship. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Several pilots from the Battlestar Pegasus have silhouettes of Cylon Raiders painted on their Vipers to indicate how many Raiders they've killed. The crew of the Galactica aren't impressed and Apollo rejects the suggestion they start doing the same thing. | |
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Besides the iconic Skull Squadron "Jolly Roger," a number of the non-transformable Destroids have Type B pinups mounted somewhere on their leg. One Tomahawk sports a bat-winged Vampirella in its left calf named "Vamp12", a Defender sports a topless angel on its left toe called "Angel Face", and a Spartan has on its knee a woman in a swimsuit riding on a falling bomb. | |
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In Flyboys, the Lafayette Escadrille members each paint a personal symbol on the side of their biplanes. Blaine Rawlings uses the logo of his old ranch in Texas. | |
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In the future of Manly Guys Doing Manly Things, the practice is revived for spaceships, likely because of Rule of Cool (given how wars themselves are fought on that). Commander Badass's old command ship has a pinup of his now ex-wife painted on. When asked by his successor a few years later if they should change it, he refused, saying that just cause they divorced doesn't mean she's not hot. Besides, she'd probably be flattered. Word of God confirms that yes, she would be flattered… especially since it outlasted his command. | |
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In The Riftwar Cycle, on Kelewan, seaships have eyes painted forward on the hulls to scare away sea monsters that actually exist. | |
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The Red Baron games feature aces from both sides of the war who have their own custom paintjobs, including the Red Baron himself. You can get one, too, provided you do well enough in the campaign. | |
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In GURPS Lensman, smaller spacecraft have "pin-up" noseart, often painted by Anson Maynard. According to the Pyramid article "The Brooklyn Bombshell", two of the examples in the book are modelled on Glamorous Wartime Singer Rachel Ginsberg. | |
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Star Wars Legends: Normally averted in the X-Wing Series (the closest they come is kill markers), but when Rogue Squadron resigns for the duration of The Bacta War, they repaint their X-Wings with individualized paint jobs to further distance themselves from the New Republic military. The straightest example is Gavin Darklighter, who paints his up like a krayt dragon: tan with a reptile scale pattern, and a toothy mouth similar to the page picture. Ooryl's fighter looks rather plain unless you can see in the ultraviolet spectrum. Corran Horn's X-Wing has always been painted hunter green with black and white trim, because he took it with him when he defected from the Corellian Security Force and never officially signed it over to the New Republic. When Wraith Squadron goes undercover as Space Pirates in Iron Fist, they custom-paint their stolen TIE Interceptors. In a minor example, the 181st Fighter Group, the Rogues' Imperial counterparts, have red stripes down the wings of their TIEs (and the sleeves of their flight suits), making them the only Imperial fighters which aren't all-over grey. During the New Jedi Order series, Jaina Solo gives a similar order to her personal squadron under not-dissimilar circumstances (ironically, while serving under Wedge Antilles). She paints hers with images of voxyn war beasts, which killed her brother and which she personally helped make extinct. |
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Imperial aircraft can actually buy a distinctive paintjob or decals as an upgrade that let one unit that sees the plane reroll one leadership test. Imperial tanks and other ground vehicles don't derive any particular special rules from the practice, but it's still mentioned from time to time in the fluff (such as the "Vixens", a tank unit from Death or Glory, whose vehicles feature a cartoon of a fox in a tanker's uniform). And of course Dreadnoughts, being Space Marines, tend to be brightly painted in their Chapter colors and heraldry. | |
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Mobile Suit Gundam: Many of Char Aznable's Ace Custom mobile suits featured his trademark red paintjob. Played Straight to the point of parody, where several mangas even featured "Char Aznable" custom RB-79 Ball designs, painted red with horns attached. We actually get to see the classic shark face on a few Federation units. Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO features a Ball with one and there's a popular artbook scan featuring a GM Custom from 0083 in a hangar getting one painted onto its helmet. And then there's all of Norba Shino's Mobile Suits in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, which is a combination of types A (shark grin emblem on the nose, or in this case the head area) and C (a flashy pink paintjob). The original MSV series of model kits and accompanying story inserts gives us an example of the classic pin-up girl version, with the "Gouf Lady", an MS-07 with a topless woman on its shoulder wearing a Stripperific version of the Mobile Suit's own armor, serving as a precursor to the MS Girls artbooks by the guy who made Galaxy Fraulein Yuna. |
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Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. The gyrocopter used by the Gyro Captain has a naked woman painted on one of the tailfins. | |
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Babylon 5: The Starfuries operated by the Earth Alliance feature a plethora of custom paint jobs on their upper wings, even on ships flown by Red Shirts and Mauve Shirts. Usually it will just be a distinctive pattern, but some of the fighters include custom artwork, occasionally taking up the entire top wing. Two Starfury squadrons are depicted as having whole-body paint jobs: The escorts for Earth Force One, with a blue-and-white paint job inspired by the Real Life Air Force One, and the Black Omega Squadron. In the fourth season of the show, Captain Sheridan has Babylon 5's emblem painted on the hull of his flagship when he personally leads the fight against President Clark. |
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Transformers: The original TakaraTomy Masterpiece Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker figures all came with a sheet of decals that included various Mythology Gag squadron insignia, including Starcream's coronation crown, Waspinator, an "Armada" insignia featuring silhouettes of Cyclonus and the Sweeps, and Kremzeek. The Hasbro issue of Thundercracker in the MP-11 Starscream mold (which actually predates Takara's MP-11T release) features tail art of Thundercracker carrying Soundwave in his tape deck mode like a boombox, over the word "SONICBOOM". The backs of his shoulders (which end up on the sides of his jet mode, behind his air intakes) also have a depiction of Reflector in camera mode. The Thrilling 30 version of Doubledealer was a redecorated version of Thrilling 30 Blitzwing that featured nose art of eyes and a toothy mouth as a homage to the original toy's alt mode of a giant birdlike creature with sharp teeth. Lugnut has been known to sport shark teeth on his nose, both on his Reveal The Shield toy and the "Atomic Lugnut" redeco of his original Animated toy. |
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One arc of Air Force Blues is devoted to the pilots decorating and naming their new F-22s. Lt. Willows (callsign "Leia") paints a lei on her nose and mudflap girls on her wings. | |
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In the sequel, a similar Samson used by the Na’vi insurgence is painted with similar markings, albeit more elaborate and covering more of the aircraft. It’s for the same reason. | |
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