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Saharan Shipwreck
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There's something tragic about a beached ship; not only is it "dead", but it's died on land rather than in the ocean and been denied a sailor's burial. You can imagine the surprise then, when our intrepid heroes run into a ship in the middle of the desert. Somehow this ship has been wrecked on land and far from water. If it isn't just there to look ominous and creepy like a Ribcage Ridge, then it will very likely hold important supplies, clues or shelter from the desert environment for the heroes. The fact that the ship has run aground can mean a lot of things about the desert or setting. Mundane explanations include receding shorelines due to climate change or a typhoon/tropical storm/tornado. Weirder possibilities include but aren't limited to: a Teleporter Accident, The End of the World as We Know It having come and gone, the captain being that bad of a navigator, the place where all the stuff the Negative Space Wedgie sucks up gets dumped, or any of a hundred other possibilities. They may end up becoming Boats into Buildings. While parts of the Sahara actually were once part of the Mediterranean Sea, this was well before ships (or even humans) existed and thus a literal Saharan shipwreck is exceedingly unlikely. A subtrope of Eerily Out-of-Place Object. |
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Diablo III has a wrecked ship called 'The Black Rock' that can be found in the deserts around Caldeum. | |
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Another spacecraft buried beneath the sands of a desert is what kick-starts the plot of the first Homeworld game. The prequel Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak follows the Northern Coalition's second expedition to recover said spaceship, in an aircraft carrier on treads. In one of the early missions, they discover the wreck of the "first" expedition's carrier. |
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The party actually uses one of these as their main transportation in Dragon Quest VIII, after using magic to get it back to sea. Strangely for a fantastic setting, its pretty clearly stated to be a receding coastline issue—they get it back to sea by using magic to "get the area to remember when there was ocean there." | |
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Donkey Kong Country Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest: A wrecked ship is located in Crocodile Cauldron, the second world and a volcano. The ship itself is in a small lake of superheated water. The third world with the swamp theme has also a semi sunken ship in it. Given that the overall theme of this game is Pirates, there could have been even more of these in the other worlds. Donkey Kong Country Returns features a shipwreck at the top of a cliff in World 6, which is themed around Prehistoria. |
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In Father and Daughter, a father apparently commits Suicide by Sea, hugging his daughter goodbye and then rowing into the ocean in a rowboat, never to be seen again. Eventually the shallow sea coast is drained and made into a Dutch polder. Decades later, when the little girl is now an old woman, she walks out onto the polder and finds her father's rowboat, half-buried in sand. | |
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The Crystal Desert of Guild Wars: Prophecies contains several derelict Margonite ships from a time when the area was still known as the Crystal Sea. | |
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Donkey Kong Country Returns features a shipwreck at the top of a cliff in World 6, which is themed around Prehistoria. | |
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Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness has the S.S. Libra. In this case, you actually see how it got there in the beginning of the game: it was dropped there by Shadow Lugia. Unlike most of the examples, the Libra was dumped in the Eclo Wastes far more recently than most ships described by this trope, and aside from Cipher and Snagem interlopers, there's only one local on board. Cipher looted the Pokémon on the ship during their attack, and the human sailors were thrown overboard. Your visit to the Libra is the first time anyone could get a good glimpse of what happened to it. | |
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The 1995 live-action Fist of the North Star film has a submarine sitting in a middle of a wasteland. | |
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In One Hundred Years of Solitude the discovery of a wrecked ship is the exploration party's sign that they are nearing the sea, causing them to give up hope of reaching civilization. | |
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Highway 17 in Half-Life 2 is peppered with these, as well as other places (like canals rendered so shallow only an airboat can get through) which feature beached craft quite prominently. Word of God is that the Combine have been harvesting water from the earth's oceans, lowering the water level substantially. The Aperture Science Labs research vessel Borealis is slated to appear in Episode 3 (whenever it finally comes out). It disappeared from its dry dock one night, as did large parts of its dry dock; teaser art shows it lodged in an ice canyon who-knows-where. | |
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Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: In "Night on Haunted Mountain", an attack from Dark Lilith leads the gang to the top of Mount Diabla, where they find the long-abandoned Santa Lucia, an old Spanish galleon that was used by the conquistadors, filled with a variety of ancient traps. It is later revealed that the ship was intentionally brought to the top of the mountain by the conquistadors, in order to hide a piece of the Planispheric Disk. The ship is subsequently dislodged from the mountain once the piece is retrieved, destroying both the ship and most of the nearby trailer park town. | |
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A couple of MechWarrior missions have taken place in areas that were formerly underwater. In 2: Mercenaries, it's possible to visit a world that used to be more temperate until its orbit somehow moved closer to its sun and most of the ocean boiled off; the campaign will eventually have you go into the now empty hull of a wrecked ocean liner in the middle of a desert. In 3, you'll enter an area that used to be a lake until it was drained—look around and you'll find stranded Sea Mines (which of course will blow up if you shoot or step on them) and the wrecked hulls of several sunken ships in the dried out lake bed. | |
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Near the beginning of Tank Girl, a ship is seen on a dried harbor bottom. | |
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Oblivion (2013) is set in 2077 after Earth was devastated by an interstellar war. The destruction of our moon led to tsunamis wiping out most of the land, and what's left of the oceans are being drained to provide fuel for fusion reactors. At one point we see the hero riding his Cool Bike across a plain with lots of shipwrecks sticking out of the ground, including a nuclear submarine with all its missile hatches open. | |
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An interesting inversion is seen in Waterworld during the expedition in the diving bell—a submarine is seen having crashed into the side of a skyscraper in the flooded city. | |
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There's an infamous wreckage of a ship in the salty, dried-up lakebed known as the Shimmering Flats in World of Warcraft. After much Wild Mass Guessing to its origins, it became the Shimmering Deep when the entire zone was re-flooded in Cataclysm. | |
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From Space Battleship Yamato: | |
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Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest: A wrecked ship is located in Crocodile Cauldron, the second world and a volcano. The ship itself is in a small lake of superheated water. The third world with the swamp theme has also a semi sunken ship in it. Given that the overall theme of this game is Pirates, there could have been even more of these in the other worlds. | |
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Mario & Luigi: Happens in the original Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga with the pirate ship in the middle of Teehee Valley. The brothers manage to get the ship moving again when the cork holding the water back is removed and the ship sails on the open seas once again. This is short lived since the ship quickly crashes into a big rock and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. There's also the remains of a ship somehow in a cave, early in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. |
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The original Syberia featured a few rusty ships in the middle of the desert that is strongly implied to have been the Aral Sea once (the town of Aralbad is fictional but its location is obvious). | |
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Holes. is set at Camp Green Lake, which has been dry for more than a century. A small two-person rowboat can be found several miles from the camp. It provides shade from the brutal sun, as well as some jars containing moldy peaches, which are later used to carry water. Zero hides there after running away from the camp. | |
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The very beginning of the first stage of the first game of the Metal Slug franchise has the wreck of a submarine in what seems to be land with no sea on sight. Even more baffling is that additional materials identify the wreck as the remains of the Middle-Son 1999 type submarine. This submarine was an upgraded version of the old Middle-Son 1989 type submarine, the one that appears halfway through the final mission of the game, and disappeared mysteriously during a voyage. What happened to it and how it ended in the middle of a jungle is a riddle for the ages. One of the bosses in a later Metal Slug sequel is a submarine that inexplicably emerges from a desert. |
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An upside-down riverboat is found in Cowboys & Aliens 500 miles from any river that can hold it. Apparently, this is the work of the aliens, but the movie then completely forgets about this, and no explanation is provided. | |
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Second act of Digimon Adventure had the cast encounter one run by Cockatrimon. It actually functions, at least until it sails at full steam into a gigantic cactus and gets flung away. | |
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Scrooge McDuck and his nephews took shelter in a Spanish Galleon lost in a South American desert after being left for dead by the Beagle boys, while both were trying to find the Seven Cities of Cibola. | |
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Doable in the scenario editor of Age of Empires II. There are two shipwreck units and they can be placed both on water and on land. | |
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Various small ships in Fallout 3 show that the water level has gone down significantly in the last 200 years. | |
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In Fallout 4, the USS Constitution can be found beached on top of two buildings, resulting from a failed attempt to fly it with rocket engines. There's also the FMS Northern Star, a stranded freighter populated by Norwegian-speaking ghouls. | |
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Suihira, on this page, specifically. | |
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One is featured during a mission in Just Cause 2. It's a very large tanker in a desert that is very high above sea-level. No explanation is given; although the name of the place, Lautan Lama, means "formerly a sea" in Indonesian, the buildings and temples in the desert look much older than the ship. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons involves a pirate crew that somehow shipwrecked into a desert. Apparently, they beached themselves so hard that the front end of the ship punched through the ground and now sticks out in Subrosia. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword gives us the Sandship, which used to be a seafaring vessel until the seas dried out and filled with sand. At least, until you activate the Timeshift Stone on board, restoring both the ship and the ocean around it to their former glory. |
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There's a brief shot in the Special Edition of Close Encounters of the Third Kind which shows the wreck of the Cotopaxi, a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, in the Gobi Desert. note The wreck site of the real Cotopaxi was identified in 2020, by the way. Strangely, it was off the coast of Florida, near where the ship disappeared, rather than in the middle of Mongolia. | |
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Fallout: Various small ships in Fallout 3 show that the water level has gone down significantly in the last 200 years. In Fallout 4, the USS Constitution can be found beached on top of two buildings, resulting from a failed attempt to fly it with rocket engines. There's also the FMS Northern Star, a stranded freighter populated by Norwegian-speaking ghouls. |
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Featured in several episodes of The Big O. | |
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Just a Pilgrim: after the sun grows in size and dries up all the world's oceans, one battle takes place in the now dry wreckage of the Titanic. | |
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Curious Expedition: One of the things you might find on an expedition is a mysterious wrecked ship, found miles inland. You can usually scavenge them for supplies or even valuables. | |
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The prequel Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak follows the Northern Coalition's second expedition to recover said spaceship, in an aircraft carrier on treads. In one of the early missions, they discover the wreck of the "first" expedition's carrier. | |
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Saharan Shipwreck | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword gives us the Sandship, which used to be a seafaring vessel until the seas dried out and filled with sand. At least, until you activate the Timeshift Stone on board, restoring both the ship and the ocean around it to their former glory. | |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_8d817ccb | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_8d817ccb | comment |
The Black Rock in Lost, the wreck of a 19th century sailing ship decaying in the middle of a jungle. Bonus points for explaining how it got there in season 1, and then showing the actual event in season 6. | |
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Lost | hasFeature |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_8f04d767 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_8f04d767 | comment |
The mission "Sangre del Toro" in Battlefield: Bad Company 2's story mode revolves around B-Company's search for one of these (the eponymous Sangre del Toro) in the middle of Chile's Atacama Desert. | |
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Battlefield: Bad Company (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_8f04d767 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_90f42a9b | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_90f42a9b | comment |
In the backstory of The Wheel of Time when all male wizards went mad, they started destroying everything around them, drastically reshaping the continents. At one point a ruined city is described, in the mountains thousands of miles inland. A 30-something-century old wizard recalls that this used to be a sea port before the Breaking. | |
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The Wheel of Time | hasFeature |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_94a26281 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_94a26281 | comment |
Kult: Heretic Kingdoms: While not a desert, the city of Kyallisar is a long way from the coast, being built on a bunch of rocky outcroppings in a mountain pass. Some of its buildings, however, are obviously repurposed wooden ships. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_94a26281 | featureApplicability |
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Kult: Heretic Kingdoms (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_94a26281 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_989298d3 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_989298d3 | comment |
The map "Ghost Town" from World of Tanks features two large, stranded tanker ships in the middle of a desert. Wily light tanks or brave tank destroyers can use these beached vessels as hard cover for an attack or to perform scouting missions. It is heavily implied that Ghost Town is located somewhere in the vicinity of the real-world Aral Sea as mentioned in the Real Life folder. A hidden Easter Egg includes a road sign which suggests the map is placed very near the real-world Ghost Town of Muynak, Uzbekistan. | |
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World of Tanks (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_989298d3 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_9994a14f | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_9994a14f | comment |
WALL•E: There are a few of these on post-apocalyptic Earth. EVE blows up a couple when she gets angry. | |
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WALL•E | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_9994a14f | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_9ddd9679 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_9ddd9679 | comment |
A Viking ship in Land of the Lost. | |
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Land of the Lost | hasFeature |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_9f78e60 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_9f78e60 | comment |
Cheshire Crossing contains one of the more spectacular examples, because we get to see how the ship got there, and it wasn't just teleported through space but into Another Dimension. And then it gets turned into a Flying Dutchman for good measure. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_9f78e60 | featureApplicability |
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Cheshire Crossing (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_a0913a6c | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a0913a6c | comment |
Ashes Afterglow has a Russian submarine beached in the middle of a swamp in the U.S. state of Atlanta. If you read the messages in a terminal midway through the game, you can find references on an incident where a submarine disappeared, and if you have an encrypted disc found in the Secret Level of the first hub and use said terminal to decypher it, you can visit it yourself. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a0913a6c | featureApplicability |
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Ashes 2063 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_a5549ed0 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a5549ed0 | comment |
Noah's Ark is said in The Bible to have come to rest atop the Mountains of Ararat (which is presumed to include Mount Ararat in modern-day Turkey, but nobody knows for sure) after the Great Flood receded. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a5549ed0 | featureApplicability |
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The Bible | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a5549ed0 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a78fff6d | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a78fff6d | comment |
Season 3 of SeaQuest DSV began with the titular submarine being found in the middle of an Iowa cornfield. Aliens did it. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a78fff6d | featureApplicability |
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SeaQuest DSV | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a78fff6d | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a9cb14fc | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a9cb14fc | comment |
The 3E Ravenloft products introduced "Mistways" to the setting, as semi-reliable paths between realms. One of them leads from the Core's Nocturnal Sea directly to the deserts of Har'Akir, invoking this trope on any ship that traverses it. | |
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Ravenloft (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_a9cb14fc | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_acb92fd0 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_acb92fd0 | comment |
The opening credits of Father Ted show a stranded ship, some way inland, ostensibly somewhere on Craggy Island, with no clue as to how it got there. The real ship, the MV Plassey, was washed ashore on Inisheer (off the West Coast) after a bit of what locals call "soft weather" in 1960... Indeed, it has moved again once or twice over the decades, when storms are heavy enough. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_acb92fd0 | featureApplicability |
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Father Ted | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_acb92fd0 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_afeeacf6 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_afeeacf6 | comment |
The Force Awakens has Jakku, with wrecked Star Destroyers, X-Wings, and others littered across the desert. Rey lives in the wreck of an AT-AT. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_afeeacf6 | featureApplicability |
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The Force Awakens | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_afeeacf6 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_b50b1fdb | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_b50b1fdb | comment |
Thundarr the Barbarian: In the episode "Raiders of the Abyss" Thundarr visits a tribe that lives in the wreck of an ancient beached cruise ship. The chief of the tribe wears the old captain's hat and uniform as a sign of his authority. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_b50b1fdb | featureApplicability |
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Thundarr the Barbarian | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_b50b1fdb | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbcd4e9b | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbcd4e9b | comment |
Digital Devil Saga has a cruise ship in a desert, there's no bodies of water in the Junkyard period, and only it started to rain during the game's events. Many characters had expressed confusion about it, including the fact they even knew what a ship was - more evidence that the Junkyard wasn't what it seemed. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbcd4e9b | featureApplicability |
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Digital Devil Saga (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbcd4e9b | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbe9acf3 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbe9acf3 | comment |
The plot of Sahara (2005) involves a literal shipwreck in the Sahara which is supposed to be loaded with Confederate gold coins from The American Civil War. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbe9acf3 | featureApplicability |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbe9acf3 | featureConfidence |
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Sahara (2005) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bbe9acf3 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bc1dc95a | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bc1dc95a | comment |
Pirates of the Caribbean: Used symbolically in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, where Jack Sparrow's version of Ironic Hell has him attempting to pull the Black Pearl across an endless salt flat; as a pirate the worst place for him to be is in the middle of a desert. Not that this minor setback stops him—with a bit of help from the witch Tia Dalma, the Pearl is sailed overland until it reaches the spectral ocean at World's End. Occurs also in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with a Spanish ship on a cliff. In a jungle. To be fair, the actual coastline seems not too far away. |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_bc1dc95a | featureApplicability |
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Pirates of the Caribbean (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bc1dc95a | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_be3bd6 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_be3bd6 | comment |
In Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence is dumbfounded to see a ship sailing through the Sinai desert. It's actually because he's reached the Suez Canal and it just takes him a minute to realize it.note The funny thing about this is that ancient versions of the Suez Canal have been constructed and reclaimed by the desert before, in ancient human history. If the Suez Canal of today were to be abandoned, it would eventually sand in. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_be3bd6 | featureApplicability |
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Lawrence of Arabia | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_be3bd6 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bf0710c5 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bf0710c5 | comment |
Occurs also in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with a Spanish ship on a cliff. In a jungle. To be fair, the actual coastline seems not too far away. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bf0710c5 | featureApplicability |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_bf0710c5 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c03c2b44 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c03c2b44 | comment |
Used symbolically in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, where Jack Sparrow's version of Ironic Hell has him attempting to pull the Black Pearl across an endless salt flat; as a pirate the worst place for him to be is in the middle of a desert. Not that this minor setback stops him—with a bit of help from the witch Tia Dalma, the Pearl is sailed overland until it reaches the spectral ocean at World's End. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c03c2b44 | featureApplicability |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c03c2b44 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c08f5913 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c08f5913 | comment |
The Originull Wasteland from Kirby and the Forgotten Land is a desert that once was an oceanic area that dried out with time, and is as such littered with derelict ships. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c08f5913 | featureApplicability |
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Kirby and the Forgotten Land (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c08f5913 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: "Planet of the Dead": A red London bus in the middle of an endless desert. (It came through a wormhole.) "The Pyramid at the End of the World": Courtesy of the antagonists, a USAF bomber and a Russian submarine sitting undamaged on the ground outside the titular pyramid, in the middle of Central Asia. |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c43df4d8 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c6245086 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c6245086 | comment |
In Crysis, a frozen ship is found on a mountain. Aliens put it there. Sort of. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c6245086 | featureApplicability |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_c6245086 | featureConfidence |
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Crysis (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c6245086 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c8415529 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c8415529 | comment |
Mad Max (2015) is absolutely littered with these. The first half of the game takes place on the dried up ocean floor of the coast of Australia. Where the water has gone is never explained. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c8415529 | featureApplicability |
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Mad Max (2015) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_c8415529 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d1115083 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d1115083 | comment |
The plot of Sahara by Clive Cussler involves a literal shipwreck in the Saharah—a Confederate Ironclad. Really. What's more, its cargo is the most surprising thing. It's the corpse of Abraham Lincoln. The one shot at Ford's theater was an unwitting double. Also, shitloads of Confederate gold. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d1115083 | featureApplicability |
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Sahara | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d1115083 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d1449385 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d1449385 | comment |
In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 comics, Willow manages to teleport a ship on the Himalayan mountains. Granted, it's not as dry as the Sahara, but it's probably the farthest you can go from the sea. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d1449385 | featureApplicability |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d1449385 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d36b8ea7 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d36b8ea7 | comment |
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons involves a pirate crew that somehow shipwrecked into a desert. Apparently, they beached themselves so hard that the front end of the ship punched through the ground and now sticks out in Subrosia. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d36b8ea7 | featureApplicability |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_d36b8ea7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle Games (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d36b8ea7 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d5166b44 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d5166b44 | comment |
The level "The Storm" in Halo 3 is set at an abandoned harbor on a lake drained by the Covenant during their excavation of the Ark portal. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d5166b44 | featureApplicability |
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Halo 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_d5166b44 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_de609abc | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_de609abc | comment |
Jurassic: The Hunted: the first turret section in the game takes place next to a beached ship in the middle of a forest. There's also a German U-boat in a cave. These are justified by time travel shenanigans and wormholes. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_de609abc | featureApplicability |
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Jurassic: The Hunted (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_de609abc | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_de8fbcb1 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_de8fbcb1 | comment |
In Godzilla (2014), the MUTO manages to lift and drop a Russian "Akula" in the middle of a jungle. An "Akula" is a submarine. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_de8fbcb1 | featureApplicability |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_de8fbcb1 | featureConfidence |
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Godzilla (2014) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_de8fbcb1 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_dffb9d98 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_dffb9d98 | comment |
There's also the remains of a ship somehow in a cave, early in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_dffb9d98 | featureApplicability |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_dffb9d98 | featureConfidence |
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Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_dffb9d98 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_e42d424b | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_e42d424b | comment |
In one of the most surreal scenes of Aguirre, the Wrath of God, an abandoned ship is found atop a tree in the middle of the jungle. The original script expanded this into an actual subplotnote The Amazon sometimes has drastic changes of water flow so it's actually not that far-fetched for a ship to end trapped in a tree but the final cut leaves it ambiguous and it might as well be a figment of the men's imagination, since they are all mad at that point. Since Aguirre is the ultimate River of Madness story, this is actually very fitting. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_e42d424b | featureApplicability |
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_e42d424b | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_ea696eec | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_ea696eec | comment |
Metro Exodus has you visit the shores of the Caspian Sea, where the drying up and desertification of the sea has beached many ships, which have been turned into bases by local bandits. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_ea696eec | featureApplicability |
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Metro Exodus (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_ea696eec | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_eb3f3551 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_eb3f3551 | comment |
Mass Effect: Andromeda: The desert moon of Elaaden has a gigantic crashed spaceship taking up a good chunk of the local area, much like the Star Destroyers in The Force Awakens (complete with locals trying to loot the damn thing). It's a bit bigger than the usual examples. Apparently, it's more than halfway buried in the sand, and it's still looming over everything around it. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_eb3f3551 | featureApplicability |
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Mass Effect: Andromeda (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_eb3f3551 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_ec522504 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_ec522504 | comment |
In one Groo the Wanderer comic, Captain Ajax manages to keep Groo (the walking disaster area) from sinking his ship multiple times...at least until Groo accidentally releases the flood gates of the artificial lake the ship was on, sinking the lake instead! | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_ec522504 | featureApplicability |
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Groo the Wanderer (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_ec522504 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_eedcb4cd | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_eedcb4cd | comment |
The entirety of the second act in Torchlight II is set in the Ossean Wastes, a vast desert full of shipwrecks stated to once have been a sea before. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_eedcb4cd | featureApplicability |
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Torchlight II (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_eedcb4cd | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f18fe36a | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f18fe36a | comment |
Early on in Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Drake and Sully stumble upon an abandoned Nazi U-Boat stuck miles upriver in the middle of the jungle. Sully's explanation that it floated up there then got stuck isn't entirely implausible but still quite unlikely.note Which fits, because Uncharted runs on "plausible but unlikely." | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f18fe36a | featureApplicability |
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Uncharted: Drake's Fortune (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f18fe36a | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f349915b | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f349915b | comment |
As noted in Literature, the Dragonlance setting features quite a few of these due to changes in geography after the Cataclysm. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f349915b | featureApplicability |
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Dragonlance | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f349915b | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f3d889f7 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f3d889f7 | comment |
Zack Snyder's Justice League. In Batman's Bad Future vision of an Earth conquered by Darkseid, a supercarrier and a crashed airliner can be seen in a world that's been turned to desert by the Galactic Conqueror. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f3d889f7 | featureApplicability |
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Zack Snyder's Justice League | hasFeature |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f3d889f7 | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f4304817 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f4304817 | comment |
In the movie Fitzcarraldo (also from Werner Herzog, the director of Aguirre) the titular mad rubber baron moves a steamship through mountains and jungles in order to put it on an unreachable river. (In real life, he had the ship disassembled first.) The movie's prop ship was later abandoned in the Peruvian jungle after filming was completed, making it a Real Life version of the trope. | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f4304817 | featureApplicability |
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Fitzcarraldo | hasFeature |
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Saharan Shipwreck / int_f6b79960 | type |
Saharan Shipwreck | |
Saharan Shipwreck / int_f6b79960 | comment |
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors plays with this in an unusual way. During the first Nonary Game, an experiment designed to test and enhance the psychic abilities of children, the subjects were placed in two facilities - the Gigantic (a sister ship of the Titanic), and a construct known as 'Building Q' in the middle of the Nevada desert, which was an identical replica of the Gigantic on the inside. As the real Gigantic was being deliberately sunk during the experiment, Building Q artificially simulated the sinking with tanks that would raise the water level throughout the building. Nine years later during the second Nonary Game, the abducted partitipants believed themselves to all be in the Gigantic, only to learn in the finale that they were in the desert-located Building Q the entire time and were never in danger of the 'ship' sinking. | |
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Star Trek: Destiny begins with Earth's second starship, the NX-02 Columbia, being found on the surface of a remote desert planet◊. | |
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Happens in the original Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga with the pirate ship in the middle of Teehee Valley. The brothers manage to get the ship moving again when the cork holding the water back is removed and the ship sails on the open seas once again. This is short lived since the ship quickly crashes into a big rock and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. | |
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In the campaign of Age of Empires III, Amelia reaches the Lake of the Moon about 200 years after her ancestor, Morgan Black, and finds that it has been drained since. The bed is still littered by remains of galleons from the last battle between Morgan and the Circle, and the bad guys are mining them for gold. | |
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