...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Retro Rocket
- 376 statements
- 72 feature instances
- 57 referencing feature instances
| Retro Rocket | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Retro Rocket | label |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket | page |
RetroRocket | |
| Retro Rocket | comment |
During different eras, people had different stereotypical visions of future spacecraft. Sometimes it came from the movies, and sometimes it bled into the movies from real life. This design is a classic — it's the standard pointy-nosed, sits-on-its-fins spaceship. This piece of Raygun Gothic comes from the time when T-bird fins were actually seen as futuristic rather than retro. Spaceships were more likely to be referred to as rocketships by excited seven-year-old boys, and the designs could feed off the ongoing space race and concurrent developments which were based around a long steel tube with a pointy tip that had fins on the bottom and belched flames out of its base to reach for the skies. While once the definitive spaceship image, nowadays you generally only see these as parody or homage. Their typically phallic shape is a common target for mockery. However, with the advent of vertically landing reusable rockets with cold-formed stainless steel hulls, this design is now starting to become Vindicated by History. A few features are particularly common. The design will often necessitate a vertical take-off, and the fins are frequently used for the rocket to stand on, leading to one of the style's alternate names: "tailsitters". Thus many will have three or four fins. Also, unlike modern rockets, these typically don't discard stages to lighten their load for the trip, so the entire rocket goes into space and back. Note that in a setting with more than one style of spacecraft, this design will generally be used by humans. Aliens generally used its nemesis — the Flying Saucer. For the modern equivalent, see Standard Human Spaceship. Only very indirectly related to the small rocket motors used to provide retrograde thrust to an orbiting spacecraft (which even the earliest Space Race orbiters had). |
|
| Retro Rocket | fetched |
2023-11-27T15:01:47Z | |
| Retro Rocket | parsed |
2023-11-27T15:01:47Z | |
| Retro Rocket | processingComment |
Dropped link to AudienceAlienatingEra: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Retro Rocket | processingComment |
Dropped link to AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Retro Rocket | processingComment |
Dropped link to InSpaceEveryoneCanSeeYourFace: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Retro Rocket | processingComment |
Dropped link to JusticeLeague: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Retro Rocket | processingComment |
Dropped link to SpacePolice: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Retro Rocket | processingComment |
Dropped link to StarWars: Not an Item - CAT | |
| Retro Rocket | processingComment |
Dropped link to WhenThingsSpinScienceHappens: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Retro Rocket | processingUnknown |
JusticeLeague | |
| Retro Rocket | processingUnknown |
AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe | |
| Retro Rocket | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Retro Rocket / int_10a1dd0c | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_10a1dd0c | comment |
Eastward: Isabel's rocket made by Alva. Though she uses it for exploration rather than space travel. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_10a1dd0c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_10a1dd0c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Eastward (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_10a1dd0c | |
| Retro Rocket / int_1b94fe30 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_1b94fe30 | comment |
The Blasterpals have a purple one in Math Blaster: In Search of Spot. It gets shot down in Math Blaster: Secret of the Lost City. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_1b94fe30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_1b94fe30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Math Blaster: In Search of Spot (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_1b94fe30 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_1c34acd2 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_1c34acd2 | comment |
Rocketship Voyager is Star Trek: Voyager written In the Style of a 1950's sci-fi magazine story. The United Nations Rocket Ship Voyager is a contraterrene-powered torchship explicitly described as a cigar-shaped tailsitter. In one scene, B'Elanna Torres is Planning with Props while explaining the theory of Faster-Than-Light Travel. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_1c34acd2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_1c34acd2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rocketship Voyager (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_1c34acd2 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_22fa3992 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_22fa3992 | comment |
The Rocinante in The Expanse is shown in season 5 to be able to take off and land like a classic tailsitter. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_22fa3992 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_22fa3992 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Expanse | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_22fa3992 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_24c4c4ad | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_24c4c4ad | comment |
The Corellian Trilogy features an outdated Selonian-built starship that launches and lands vertically, with the crew seated facing what is the top of the ship while landed. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_24c4c4ad | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_24c4c4ad | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Corellian Trilogy | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_24c4c4ad | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2c464409 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2c464409 | comment |
Black Hammer's Colonel Weird pilots a cigar-shaped, lands-on-its-fins rocket ship, befitting his role as a Raygun Gothic space adventurer gone horribly wrong. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2c464409 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2c464409 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Black Hammer (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_2c464409 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2dc98f76 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2dc98f76 | comment |
Net:Zone: The Vulcan is a Cyberspace variant, a virtual vehicle that takes the player to Cycorp's Elimination Facility. Docking clamps hold the Vulcan in place when it lands. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2dc98f76 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2dc98f76 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Net:Zone (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_2dc98f76 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2eb21bdd | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2eb21bdd | comment |
Foundation - The Psychohistorians: The spaceships used by the galactic citizens are grey and blocky, but when it comes to insignia signifying spaceships, the sleek rocketship is a favourite. The Galactic Empire uses one such rocketship flying across a stylized sun as their emblem. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2eb21bdd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_2eb21bdd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Foundation - The Psychohistorians (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_2eb21bdd | |
| Retro Rocket / int_34fd3cf6 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_34fd3cf6 | comment |
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Aqua Teens uses one of these rockets to travel to a large Banana Planet. With it made of rusty metal and its controls of woods, it managed to stay without breaking apart. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_34fd3cf6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_34fd3cf6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Aqua Teen Hunger Force | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_34fd3cf6 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_37af38ce | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_37af38ce | comment |
Remina features an example of this trope being played straight in the form of the rocket the Japanese government and rich people use to escape Earth for the titular Planet Eater Remina. This imagery ties in quite nicely to the rest of the aesthetics Ito used in the series, which sit somewhere between Raygun Gothic and Cassette Futurism. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_37af38ce | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_37af38ce | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Remina (Manga) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_37af38ce | |
| Retro Rocket / int_38fa34eb | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_38fa34eb | comment |
Wonder Woman Vol 1: While the Amazons have space planes there are plenty of nice aesthetically pleasing rockets used for space travel, like the Venus Rocket built at Holliday College. Though that rocket was not meant to be manned, instead containing instruments to gather data about the planet Venus. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_38fa34eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_38fa34eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wonder Woman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_38fa34eb | |
| Retro Rocket / int_3ac36a5c | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_3ac36a5c | comment |
Transformers: Generation 1: Omega Supreme's base mode includes a rocket ship with this general shape, although it's not particularly smooth-skinned. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_3ac36a5c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_3ac36a5c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Transformers: Generation 1 (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_3ac36a5c | |
| Retro Rocket / int_3b11106f | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_3b11106f | comment |
The War Rocket Ajax in the Flash Gordon film. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_3b11106f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_3b11106f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Flash Gordon (1980) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_3b11106f | |
| Retro Rocket / int_444871f2 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_444871f2 | comment |
The Giants Series by James P. Hogan uses this type of design for the Ganymean starship Shapieron and the Earth-built craft called "Vegas", all of which are designed to fly in a planet's atmosphere and therefore have huge sweeping wings along with the tail fins. Purely deep-space craft that never enter atmosphere have different designs. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_444871f2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_444871f2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Giants Series | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_444871f2 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_4c9647dd | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_4c9647dd | comment |
Most adaptations of Flash Gordon would obviously have these, including the new Savage Worlds - based RPG. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_4c9647dd | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_4c9647dd | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SavageWorlds | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_4c9647dd | |
| Retro Rocket / int_519cdec5 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_519cdec5 | comment |
Though Woman in the Moon got there first back in 1929. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_519cdec5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_519cdec5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Woman in the Moon | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_519cdec5 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_536a5cc9 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_536a5cc9 | comment |
In Sonic Colors and subsequent games where it's present, the Orange Wisp, which grants Sonic the power of the Orange Rocket (allowing for very tall, very fast vertical leaps), is based on this kind of spaceship. It also has two vertically arranged eyes resembling the windows on such a vehicle. Sonic, once granted the power, takes on a similar shape too, with his spikes radiating from the bottom like rocketship fins. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_536a5cc9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_536a5cc9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sonic Colors (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_536a5cc9 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_53a0bd32 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_53a0bd32 | comment |
Any spaceship in The Twilight Zone (1959) was either this or a Flying Saucer. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_53a0bd32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_53a0bd32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Twilight Zone (1959) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_53a0bd32 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5586ce95 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5586ce95 | comment |
Rockets in the Mario Party series all take the retro-design, including mini-vehicles depending on the board. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5586ce95 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5586ce95 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mario Party (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_5586ce95 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5988e416 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5988e416 | comment |
In Rolo to the Rescue, Rolo takes a brief excursion to the moon on a wooden rocket. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5988e416 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5988e416 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rolo to the Rescue (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_5988e416 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5de42b4c | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5de42b4c | comment |
Zero X, the spacecraft featured in the movie Thunderbirds Are Go, was at least a partial aversion of this trope. The main body is box-like rather than cylindrical, though it mounts rocket engines at the back, and the lifting bodies — wings which helps it take off and land horizontally like an aircraft — separate from it when it reaches the upper atmosphere on take-off and returns to the ship's base, ready to rejoin it when it came back to Earth. That was the idea, at least; they aren't very reliable, hence the plot of the movie! | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5de42b4c | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_5de42b4c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thunderbirds Are Go | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_5de42b4c | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6277095a | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6277095a | comment |
Analog: The cover of the May 1940 issue has a dull chrome rocket taking off at night. In addition to the four small fins near the base where the main rocket fires, there's also two thin wings closer to the nose of the rocket. The March 1941 cover has two silver spaceships on the cover, both are cigar-shaped with four fins on the "rear" end. In May 1942's issue, on page 80 for "Beyond This Horizon", a rocket with a narrower nose than rear sits upon its lower fins. The people in the scene are tiny compared to it. The cover of the October 1942 issue shows a dull red rocket sitting upright on the moon's surface, using its fins for landing gear. |
|
| Retro Rocket / int_6277095a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6277095a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Analog (Magazine) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_6277095a | |
| Retro Rocket / int_69fa7496 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_69fa7496 | comment |
These showed up in a number of stories from the Disney Ducks Comic Universe by Carl Barks, such as "Island in the Sky" and "The Loony Lunar Gold Rush". This was back in the early 1960s, when The Space Race was in full swing and the idea of space travel was very popular. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_69fa7496 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_69fa7496 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Disney Ducks Comic Universe (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_69fa7496 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6bd368a2 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6bd368a2 | comment |
King Dinosaur has one, and it's painfully fake. (It gets recycled in other sci fi films, too.) | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6bd368a2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6bd368a2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| King Dinosaur | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_6bd368a2 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6e0e351 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6e0e351 | comment |
Escape Velocity: Many of the ships, from the humble scout ship in the original to the... rather engorged Igazra from Override. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6e0e351 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_6e0e351 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Escape Velocity (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_6e0e351 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_71af072c | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_71af072c | comment |
Haredevil Hare. Bugs is sent to the Moon in what he calls a "flying cigar." | |
| Retro Rocket / int_71af072c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_71af072c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Haredevil Hare | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_71af072c | |
| Retro Rocket / int_736e2455 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_736e2455 | comment |
The Luxion-class starships from Gunbuster. The same counts for Buster Machine 1◊ and the Cosmo Attack Fighters.◊ | |
| Retro Rocket / int_736e2455 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_736e2455 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| GunBuster | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_736e2455 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_74c659e6 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_74c659e6 | comment |
Rocket Age loves its traditional gleaming rocket ships and plays them to the hilt. They land on their fins, they burn radium for fuel and pack Ray cannons, most even have self destruct buttons. These rocket ships have it all, and to top it off, the inventors were Goddard, Einstein and Tesla. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_74c659e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_74c659e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_74c659e6 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7bc16c4f | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7bc16c4f | comment |
The spaceship in Earth Girls Are Easy is very much an homage ship. Not a 'tailsitter' but very close to the 1930s Flash Gordon serial ships. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7bc16c4f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7bc16c4f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Earth Girls Are Easy | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_7bc16c4f | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7c48915b | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7c48915b | comment |
In Gunnerkrigg Court, the Spacemonauts travel to the Moon in one of these. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7c48915b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7c48915b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_7c48915b | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7f5bc680 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7f5bc680 | comment |
Fallout: Nearly all rockets in the Series. Within the games' alternate history it appears that early rockets of the 1950s and '60s were like the real world's: the Clarabella 7 seen aboard Motherboard Zeta along with other abductees vehicles is near-identical to the single-man Mercury capsules used for the USA's first manned launches (all Mercury capsules even included 7 in their name). As time progressed into the late '60s, things begin to diverge: the Valiant 11 lunar lander in the Capital Wasteland's Museum of Technology, resembles the planned soviet counterpart 'LK Objekt' rather than the real-world NASA Lunar Module (though unlike LK Object and like the real lander, it seats two rather than only one). Like all of Fallout's technology, into the 21st century things more and more resembled what concept artists and science fiction magazines of the 1950s expected: the U.S.'s final manned rocket, the circa-2020 Delta IX seen crashed in the Capital Wasteland in Fallout 3 and the front courtyard of the REPCONN Factory in Fallout New Vegas was a nuclear powered rocket used for lunar excursions that resembles the classic Retro Rocket, though with wings in addition to fins, implying it could have been intended to take off or land like an airplane. Interestingly the Fallout 3 version features a black-and-yellow color scheme very similar to the real-world North American X-15 rocketplane's. In addition to this, the REPCONN Factory in Fallout New Vegas and the neighboring town of Novac's gas station feature more classic, unwinged retro rockets. |
|
| Retro Rocket / int_7f5bc680 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_7f5bc680 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Fallout | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_7f5bc680 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8258e260 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8258e260 | comment |
Super Mario Bros. Rockets in the Mario Party series all take the retro-design, including mini-vehicles depending on the board. Super Mario Galaxy: Among the debris in the Space Junk Galaxy is an abandoned rocketship in this style. Mario cannot get inside of it and it has its own gravitational field (except for its fins), so gameplay-wise, it's simply an oddly-shaped planetoid. In Super Mario 3D World, rocketships take you to the post-game bonus worlds. In Super Mario Odyssey, some levels have a small rocketship that Mario can capture with Cappy, leading to a sub-level. |
|
| Retro Rocket / int_8258e260 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8258e260 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Super Mario Bros. (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_8258e260 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_82d2f7f9 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_82d2f7f9 | comment |
Catwomen Of The Moon and the remake Missile to the Moon. Unfortunately while keeping within this trope the rocketship changes shape several times. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_82d2f7f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_82d2f7f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Cat Women of the Moon | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_82d2f7f9 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_882f1fdb | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_882f1fdb | comment |
Bugs Bunny shorts: Mad as a Mars Hare, where Bugs takes a trip to Mars in one of these ships. Watch him land starting at 1:50. Haredevil Hare. Bugs is sent to the Moon in what he calls a "flying cigar." |
|
| Retro Rocket / int_882f1fdb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_882f1fdb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Bugs Bunny | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_882f1fdb | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8a39c411 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8a39c411 | comment |
In the Hyperion Cantos, the Consul's starship is specifically designed to fit the Platonic ideal of "space ship". This ideal, at least according to the author, is that of the Retro Rocket. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8a39c411 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8a39c411 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hyperion Cantos | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_8a39c411 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8a6bf3f3 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8a6bf3f3 | comment |
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century: Both Dodgers' and Marvin's ships. Likewise, Dodgers' ship in the 2003 Duck Dodgers TV series. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8a6bf3f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8a6bf3f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_8a6bf3f3 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8aa56f55 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8aa56f55 | comment |
Doctor Omega: How the spaceship Cosmos is described. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8aa56f55 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_8aa56f55 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Omega | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_8aa56f55 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_90a3a7f4 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_90a3a7f4 | comment |
The spaceships being built by the Middleton Space Center, and occasionally used by the heroes in Kim Possible. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_90a3a7f4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_90a3a7f4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kim Possible | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_90a3a7f4 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_911a382 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_911a382 | comment |
The homemade space cruiser in Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_911a382 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_911a382 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Winston Steinburger and Sir Dudley Ding Dong | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_911a382 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_980c3316 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_980c3316 | comment |
Shazam!: In the older comics published by Fawcett, Dr. Sivana frequently built spaceships, and they were always designed this way. In one four-part story the big ship carried a couple of smaller one-man ships, which were used by daughter Georgia Sivana and son Sivana Junior. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_980c3316 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_980c3316 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shazam! (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_980c3316 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_9b7e31d | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_9b7e31d | comment |
Thunderbirds: The craft Thunderbirds 1 and 3. One is a hypersonic plane based on 50s-60s high-tech fighters and X-planes (English Electric Lightning, X-5, X-15) and mid-50s VTOL designs like the XFV and XFY. The other is a rocket ship with a tripod of engines. Both essentially have the same overall shape and impact leading to many seven-year-olds' arguments about which one was better. Both fit very well into the trope, aside from TB 1's VTOL abilities in horizontal position. The rocket ships in "Sun Probe" and "Day of Disaster" were each examples of this trope. The Sun Probe was a Vostok-style engine cluster with loads of extra fins and a full-on Retro Rocket stuck on the nose. The Martian Space Probe in "Day of Disaster"... Well, see for yourself. Zero X, the spacecraft featured in the movie Thunderbirds Are Go, was at least a partial aversion of this trope. The main body is box-like rather than cylindrical, though it mounts rocket engines at the back, and the lifting bodies — wings which helps it take off and land horizontally like an aircraft — separate from it when it reaches the upper atmosphere on take-off and returns to the ship's base, ready to rejoin it when it came back to Earth. That was the idea, at least; they aren't very reliable, hence the plot of the movie! |
|
| Retro Rocket / int_9b7e31d | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_9b7e31d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Thunderbirds | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_9b7e31d | |
| Retro Rocket / int_9ff4a8d9 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_9ff4a8d9 | comment |
The P-1 spaceship from the Godzilla film Kaiju Daisensou (a.k.a. Monster Zero or Invasion of Astro-Monster). | |
| Retro Rocket / int_9ff4a8d9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_9ff4a8d9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Godzilla (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_9ff4a8d9 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a04b0ca3 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a04b0ca3 | comment |
Tintin's rocket from Destination Moon and Explorers on the Moon is an interesting case as it's combined with a frighteningly prescient depiction of the Cold War space program. Blueprints and launchpad shown here. The plot is only slightly similar to the American film of the same year, and the rocket's external appearance is based on the German V2. In its trips to the Moon and back, a 180-degree rotation has to be performed mid-flight to ensure that it lands with its tail fins down. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a04b0ca3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a04b0ca3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tintin (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_a04b0ca3 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a183d57f | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a183d57f | comment |
The Planet Express Ship from Futurama, though it's horizontally oriented with extendible landing gear. Note the various late Fifties-ish elements in the show: In a show named after a 1939 & 1964 World Fair exhibit, a man who dresses like James Dean is impressed by a Retro Rocket. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a183d57f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a183d57f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Futurama | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_a183d57f | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a301927f | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a301927f | comment |
The Rocketship X-M is likely the most phallic Retro Rocket ever seen, until The '70s porn spoof Flesh Gordon of course. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a301927f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a301927f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Rocketship X-M | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_a301927f | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a52def46 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a52def46 | comment |
It is perfectly possible to build a ship like this in Kerbal Space Program and send it to orbit, thanks to the significantly smaller Δv-budget required to reach Kerbin orbit, compared to Earth. Not particularly efficient, but possible. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a52def46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_a52def46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kerbal Space Program (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_a52def46 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_aa92fc53 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_aa92fc53 | comment |
In Gene Wars the main design of humanoid spaceships is a classic futuristic rocket, seen between levels, when you start a level, and when you grab more or different specialists. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_aa92fc53 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_aa92fc53 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Genewars (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_aa92fc53 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_afd7bd75 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_afd7bd75 | comment |
Destination Moon might be the Trope Codifier. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_afd7bd75 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_afd7bd75 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Destination Moon | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_afd7bd75 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b11e29d2 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b11e29d2 | comment |
In Outlaw Star, the eponymous Cool Starship is a Genre Throwback to this trope, looking like both a classic Retro Rocket and the X-15 hypersonic rocket plane.◊ As a bonus, it launches vertically from planet surfaces, dramatic countdown and all. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b11e29d2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b11e29d2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Outlaw Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_b11e29d2 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b683f90f | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b683f90f | comment |
Oddly averted in the Perry Rhodan universe — for all the various shapes starships come in, one rarely if ever sees one of these. May be justified, though; the traditional rocket shape is optimized primarily for fast movement through an atmosphere (if only for purposes of breaking free of it before fuel runs out), and once a species gains FTL capability in this setting it probably also gets antigravity and at least some force field technology along with that, basically eliminating that concern and allowing ships to be designed with space travel in mind first and foremost. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b683f90f | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b683f90f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Perry Rhodan | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_b683f90f | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b68bb988 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b68bb988 | comment |
My Best Science Fiction Story: A very simple (and small) dart-like rocket with four large fins appears on the top of the 1949 Merlin Press cover, with a dotted line extending behind it to indicate constant velocity. The cover of the 1954 Pocket Books version has a couple of light grey spaceships that look like darts flying above a city of domed habitats. |
|
| Retro Rocket / int_b68bb988 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b68bb988 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| My Best Science Fiction Story | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_b68bb988 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b7c31e52 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b7c31e52 | comment |
Honorable mention goes to 20 Million Miles to Earth, and When Worlds Collide has a variant which adds wings. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b7c31e52 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b7c31e52 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| 20 Million Miles to Earth | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_b7c31e52 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b7eae70f | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b7eae70f | comment |
The focus of Atomic Rockets. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b7eae70f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b7eae70f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Atomic Rockets (Website) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_b7eae70f | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b94ae31e | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b94ae31e | comment |
In Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out, the duo build an orange rocket of this design. Some later episodes feature smaller versions of this rocket as decorations in their house. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b94ae31e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_b94ae31e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Wallace & Gromit | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_b94ae31e | |
| Retro Rocket / int_ba3d2748 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_ba3d2748 | comment |
Syndrome's rocket in The Incredibles resembles retrofuturistic concepts of rockets with giant fins (considering it takes place in a 1960s-esque setting), although it has a re-entry/glider stage that separates from an expendable booster, and doesn't land vertically. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_ba3d2748 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_ba3d2748 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Incredibles | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_ba3d2748 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_bb55a676 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_bb55a676 | comment |
Inverted in the Legion of Super-Heroes (originally published in 1958) — but it's not the ''trope'' that was inverted: their clubhouse was shaped like this kind of rocket, point down in the ground! In a Glorith-timeline comic, the rocket was a kid... In a crossover between the Justice League and The Authority, a rocket of this kind, used by the Legion of Super-Heroes, was mocked as a five-year-old's idea of a rocket. |
|
| Retro Rocket / int_bb55a676 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_bb55a676 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_bb55a676 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c1b43f85 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c1b43f85 | comment |
In Super Mario 3D World, rocketships take you to the post-game bonus worlds. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c1b43f85 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c1b43f85 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Super Mario 3D World (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_c1b43f85 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c35ec21c | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c35ec21c | comment |
In Super Mario Odyssey, some levels have a small rocketship that Mario can capture with Cappy, leading to a sub-level. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c35ec21c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c35ec21c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Super Mario Odyssey (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_c35ec21c | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c410034a | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c410034a | comment |
Captain Blasto, from Blasto, uses a retro rocket as his main source of transportation. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c410034a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c410034a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Blasto (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_c410034a | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
This shows up in Doctor Who more than once. Any human rocketship from the First and Second Doctor eras, in the '60s. "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit": Sanctuary Base 6's escape rocket was deliberately modelled on the Moon rocket from Tintin. "Planet of the Ood": Donna's reaction when she sees a rocket ship fly overhead is to call it a "proper rocket". |
|
| Retro Rocket / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c43df4d8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_c43df4d8 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c487221e | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c487221e | comment |
The second Men in Black film has this type of ship as part of the Special Effects Failure Show Within a Show. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c487221e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c487221e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Men in Black | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_c487221e | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c6e9c6cc | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c6e9c6cc | comment |
Super Mario Galaxy: Among the debris in the Space Junk Galaxy is an abandoned rocketship in this style. Mario cannot get inside of it and it has its own gravitational field (except for its fins), so gameplay-wise, it's simply an oddly-shaped planetoid. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c6e9c6cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_c6e9c6cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Super Mario Galaxy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_c6e9c6cc | |
| Retro Rocket / int_cf3e7a82 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_cf3e7a82 | comment |
Superman is almost always said to have arrived on Earth as a baby in a "rocketship", and the little ship is almost always depicted this way. John Byrne made it round instead of pointy, but even his version was recognizably a rocket. The only major exception is the movie version, which was a spiky crystalline sphere. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_cf3e7a82 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_cf3e7a82 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Superman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_cf3e7a82 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d2391df6 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d2391df6 | comment |
One The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids strip shows that the Green Gorillas have a green rocketship with red fins. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d2391df6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d2391df6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (Website) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_d2391df6 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d4a00292 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d4a00292 | comment |
The Starfire in Queen of Outer Space, except when it's launching from its pad and looks like a completely different Atlas rocket. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d4a00292 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d4a00292 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Queen of Outer Space | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_d4a00292 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d531b6f7 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d531b6f7 | comment |
A gigantic one appears in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. It's an Ark that will destroy the atmosphere if launched. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d531b6f7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_d531b6f7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_d531b6f7 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_dba2bec0 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_dba2bec0 | comment |
The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Most of the rockets Jimmy builds are of this type, with an open cockpit on the side because who cares about vacuum. In the movie his first rocket appeared to be cobbled together from trash cans but his second rocket was built from a coin-operated ride modeled after a 50s sci-fi rocket so justified. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_dba2bec0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_dba2bec0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutron | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_dba2bec0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_dbce0953 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_dbce0953 | comment |
Pikmin: The S.S. Dolphin and Hocotate Ship are stout, cigar-shaped rockets with pointed ends, a row of circular windows down their sides, and a trio of fins around their exhaust vents whose tips they stand on when at rest. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_dbce0953 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_dbce0953 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pikmin (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_dbce0953 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_e5da0fa0 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_e5da0fa0 | comment |
Myst: There's one of these. It doesn't actually take you anywhere, but just holds the link to the Selenitic Age. (You link into an identical spaceship, a remnant of the fact that at one point in the game's development you were supposed to fly in the spaceship.) | |
| Retro Rocket / int_e5da0fa0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_e5da0fa0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Myst (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_e5da0fa0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_e68decb8 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_e68decb8 | comment |
Star Control: Syreen ship, Penetrator "is shaped after the V-2 rocket, and a dildo." | |
| Retro Rocket / int_e68decb8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_e68decb8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Control (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_e68decb8 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_f954bf10 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_f954bf10 | comment |
Played with in Nebulous. Nebulous instructs Paula to 'fire retro-rockets', resulting in a fun whooshy noise. Then he asks her to 'fire those more modern-looking ones', resulting in an action-movie-ish Bang, Bang, BANG. | |
| Retro Rocket / int_f954bf10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_f954bf10 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Nebulous (Radio) | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_f954bf10 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_fc063da9 | type |
Retro Rocket | |
| Retro Rocket / int_fc063da9 | comment |
The Space Merchants has a rocket fitting this description on the cover of the original Ballantine edition. It more or less fits the story's description of the Venus rocket as "the bloated child of the slim V-2's and stubby Moon rockets of the past." | |
| Retro Rocket / int_fc063da9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Retro Rocket / int_fc063da9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Space Merchants | hasFeature |
Retro Rocket / int_fc063da9 |
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.