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Sub Story
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*PING!* Humanity has been fascinated for a long time with going under the sea and this is epitomised in the Sub Story. Fiction and fact-based drama involving submarines has many advantages to it: You don't need to spend lots of money on sets or Stock Footage. You can set it solely in the cramped sub interior, yet still create plenty of suspense with just a radar scanner and a pinging sonar. You can justify a Shirtless Scene (Old submarines like German U-boats had no air conditioning and were very cramped and hot). Confined spaces tend to bring out the worst in people and are good for horror movies, as no one can escape. There's the added danger that if the sub goes to the bottom involuntarily, the chances of everyone dying from pressure or lack of air are pretty high. Nuclear power plant in an isolated submarine? Lots of potential for drama if the reactor melts down. Torpedoes can run for a good ten or fifteen minutes, so if you lose track of one, it might bite you in the, er, aft portion. Silent Running Mode is an good source of suspense, as the crew shuts down all power and tries to elude a sub-hunter and mine layer ship that is dropping depth charges. Hot Sub-on-Sub Action, with sleek, glistening subs gliding through the water and firing torpedoes is just plain cool. The whole thing is a contest of wits, bravery and determination with plenty of scope for a Guile Hero. There is gobs and gobs of Technology Porn and made-up Technobabble. "Adjust bow plane yaw level by 20 degrees! Maintain aft compression vortex!"note Naval submarine phraseology for radio commands is Truth in Television, because when you're deep under the ocean and the enemy is trying to blow you up, it's stressful, so you need a clear, unambiguous way to communicate commands and messages. As such, if a WWII sub captain got an urgent warning of an enemy torpedo plane, they shout "Dive! Dive! Dive!". The crew has no confusion over what they need to do. Both sides are to some degree "blindfolded" and depend on hearing or detecting each other, making for an interesting combat situation. The stakes are all or nothing. If a sub survives an engagement likely everyone aboard will survive while if it is sunk or crippled it will be so far underwater that everyone will die. Historical settings like the Cold War or World War II lend plausibility to the story; with all the secrecy back then, an adventure that took place hidden under the ocean seems like it really could have happened. They tend to be Rated M for Manly which may be a good thing for some. Submarines have been historically and exclusively a male-only environment and with this comes a few expectations with regard to storytelling. Female characters are often either minimized (often no spoken lines), or even totally absent. Many of these are During the War, but they don't have to be. Indeed they don't even have to involve the military. They don't even have to be underwater, as Space Is an Ocean means that fictional spaceships will often behave like subs. Films such as The Fantastic Voyage and The Core have recycled Sub Story tropes in more fantastical settings (a man's bloodstream and the Earth's mantle, respectively). Home of many a Cool Boat with a Badass Crew. Expect at least one Silent Running Mode scene. Not to Be Confused with a story about a submissive member of a BDSM relationship, or a story within a story. |
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea | |
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, the 1961 scifi film by Irwin Allen that led to a TV series of the same name. | |
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Gray Lady Down features two submarines: the USS Neptune and the experimental mini sub The Snark | |
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Blue Submarine No. 6 | |
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Operation Petticoat - a comedy about evacuating nurses from the Philippines to Australia in December 1941. | |
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Subnautica becomes this when you travel in the Cyclops submarine. It can be equipped with sonar to navigate the dark depths of Planet 4546B. | |
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Barotrauma: Aside from brief visits to small outposts and the occasional EVA jaunt in a diving suit, the entire game takes place within the confines of a player-crewed submarine exploring an extraterrestrial Eldritch Ocean Abyss. | |
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Black Sea: A submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a World War II sub that's rumored to be loaded with gold. | |
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The Damned is about a group of Nazis and Nazi collaborators who attempt to flee to South America aboard a U-boat as the war is ending. | |
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The "spider drive" vessels in Honor Harrington series are basically submarines In Space! | |
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The titular The Magic School Bus transformed into a submarine several times outside the underwater episode. | |
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Iron Lung combines this with sci-fi horror. | |
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The Deep (2015): The series follows the Nekton family, a family of daring underwater explorers who live aboard a state-of-the-art submarine, the Aronnax, and explore uncharted areas of the earth's oceans to unravel the mysteries of the deep. | |
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Fear the Walking Dead: The webisode miniseries Dead in the Water is set aboard the USS Pennsylvania, which was found beached ashore in Texas in Season 6, revealing how that came to be — the sub was doing maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico when the Zombie Apocalypse began, with the crew slowly being picked off as the virus spreads among them. After refusing orders to nuke Chicago in a senseless attempt to contain the outbreak, the surviving crew members beach the ship and scatter. Unfortunately, one of them would later get seduced into Teddy's Apocalypse Cult and lead him to the Pennsylvania in order to launch its payload across Texas. | |
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In Assault on a Queen, a group of treasure hunters salvage a German U-boat and decide to become Submarine Pirates. | |
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Arpeggio of Blue Steel | |
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Yellow Submarine. This sub is part TARDIS, but it's small for a fantasy ship, with lots of pipes, and has very intimidating controls. And while its engine isn't quite as dangerous as a nuclear reactor, it's good for some drama. | |
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Big Blue: The series follows the crew of the submarine Calypso, who use their vessel to explore the ocean and defend it from threats. | |
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The Silent Service | |
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The Wolf's Call | |
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Discworld's Leonard of Quirm builds a reconnaissance submarine in Jingo. He calls it a 'Going-Under-The-Water-Safely Device'. | |
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Cold Waters, a Spiritual Successor to Red Storm Rising | |
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Das Boot, sequel series to the 1981 film. Contrary to the latter, it adds some land-based subplots. | |
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The Enemy Below, which was Recycled In Space as the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror". | |
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Parodied on No Soap, Radio. One sketch has a little old lady reading the newspaper in the park... while she's being targeted by a Japanese submarine. | |
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Destination Tokyo - a drama made during the war based on a recon patrol into Tokyo Harbor. The effects were so good that the Navy used it as a training film. | |
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Xena: Warrior Princess, of all things, had the episode "Tsunami", in which a slave galleon is capsized and sunk by an enormous wave. Xena, Gabrielle, and a handful of survivors are trapped below deck in a small part of the ship that still has air, and are trying to figure out how to get out of the ship and get to the surface before they run out. | |
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The Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Cat and Mouse" is pretty much a Sub Story IN SPACE!. Anakin and his crew have to pilot a stealth ship (built long, narrow and cramped like a real sub, and armed with torpedoes for good measure) past a Separatist blockade under the command of a fearsomely clever admiral. The stealth ship cannot fire weapons without decloaking and is vastly outgunned by the blockade, requiring Anakin to use expert piloting and guile to take out his foe. | |
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The Last Ship: Sean Ramsey, the Big Bad of Season 2, is a former Royal Navy officer who was stationed aboard a submarine, the HMS Achilles, during the Red Flu plague; being one of the only survivors among the crew, he took command of the sub and now uses it as a mobile headquarters of his cult. It gets into several battles with the Nathan James over the course of the season, with their Final Battle in particular involving the battleship ending up right on top of where the submarine is submerged and the two jockeying to get into position to attack each other without collateral damage. | |
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Hostile Waters, a film about an accident aboard a Soviet ballistic missile submarine. | |
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Das Boot, one of the most historically accurate and gripping views of World War II sub combat. | |
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Archimedean Dynasty and Aquanox | |
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The Silent Hunter Series | |
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The non-Ryanverse novel Red Storm Rising features the captains of both a sub and a sub-hunting frigate as significant POV characters. | |
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock: The USS Grissom is destroyed in a surprise attack by Kruge's Bird of Prey; later on the Enterprise is also badly damaged by Kruge's ship. | |
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One of Robert Fulton's early submarines plays an important role in Ratcatcher; the first Matthew Hawkwood novel. | |
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The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Starship Down" is essentially Das Boot in space. | |
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture: Word of God said the bridge of the Klingon K'Tinga battlecruiser◊ was made to look like "an enemy submarine in World War II that's been out at sea for too long.", and Klingon starship interiors would have similar designs in subsequent Trek productions. | |
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Sabaton Wolfpack, which is based on a Wolfpack attack on a Convoy during the battle of the Atlantic. | |
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The first season of Vigil (BBC) is a murder investigation on a British Navy nuclear submarine. | |
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Later Star Trek films would play with the trope further, with the Enterprise and other Starfleet ships having to contend with cloaked Klingon warships: | |
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Stampy's Lovely World: Episode 165, "Ocean Adventure", was supposed to be one, but then events took a turn for a worse when the crew find HitTheTarget's underwater base in the process and end up uncovering one of his evil plans. | |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events novel The Grim Grotto. | |
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Last Resort is about a US Navy submarine that goes rogue after becoming Unwitting Pawns in a Government Conspiracy's False Flag Operation. | |
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan has another sub duel Recycled In Space with two starships inside a nebula. There's even a scene in which Enterprise "submerges," waits for Reliant to pass overhead, and then "surfaces" to attack. | |
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The Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Balance of Terror" is The Enemy Below in space fought between Kirk and a Worthy Opponent Romulan Captain. The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Starship Down" is essentially Das Boot in space. |
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - the Trope Maker. Three men are kept captive on a rogue submarine run as its own country by the mysterious Captain Nemo... before practical submarines became a thing. | |
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Ozuma, submarines in the sand! | |
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The Hunt for Red October — what happens when an entire submarine tries to defect from the Soviet Union. | |
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SeaQuest DSV | |
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The Spy Who Loved Me features multiple submarines. Among its more notable aspects is a movie featuring Page Three Stunna pics somehow getting a PG when the BBFC reclassified the thing and Barbara Bach's shower. On naval ships, water is at somewhat at a premium (no, you can't get it directly from the sea; that's salt water and you need to desalinate it first) and sailors take a "Navy Shower" (rinse, lather, rinse off). Bach has the shower running. The captain clearly liked her; "Hollywood Showers" are only permitted if you've done something special. | |
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Morning Departure - actually set just post WWII, but plays much more like a WWII story than a Cold War one. | |
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The Bedford Incident - a loose retelling of Moby-Dick using a Soviet Submarine in place of the whale. | |
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We Dive at Dawn- British film made during World War II, involving a British sub of the P-class being sent to the Baltic to sink a new German battleship. Despite being a propaganda film, it's still pretty good. | |
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U-571, one of the least historically accurate movies (at least concerning the Enigma code and who exactly captured it), it still is also incredibly gripping. | |
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Below by David Twohy (of Riddick fame) plays the "bringing worst in humans" part for all the scares it can get out of it. | |
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The episode "The Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter" of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, is a flashforward/flashback set on humanity's last working military submarine, on a secret mission in the war with the Machines. | |
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Down Periscope - a comedy about a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits being given a World War II-era diesel sub as part of a naval exercise and pitted against the modern US Navy, including a nuclear sub. Despite it being a comedy, there are still some tense moments. | |
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Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy III, and Final Fantasy V all have submarines as available transportation, but the best example from the series is Final Fantasy VII which has an actual sub battle as a later part of the plot, which can be replayed for fun at the Gold Saucer, as well as being the mode of travel needed to engage in battle with the bonus boss Emerald Weapon. | |
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The Hunt for Red October is all about the Red October submarine, and the above-water forces hounding it. Additional books in the Ryanverse generally include submarine operations as a b-plot or additional actions, including The Cardinal of the Kremlinnote A Los Angeles-class submarine attempts to extract two people from the Soviet Union through the Barents Sea, The Sum of All Fearsnote The USS Maine, an Ohio-class submarine with a particularly nasty captain, is part of a b-plot involving the attempted tracking of the sub by a Soviet hunter-killer submarine, and eventually ends up as one of the casualties in the climax, and Debt of Honornote Due to a greatly reduced Navy, the Ohio-class missile submarines get a new lease on life as special operations support platforms. The non-Ryanverse novel Red Storm Rising features the captains of both a sub and a sub-hunting frigate as significant POV characters. |
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Doctor Who: "Cold War" is set on a crippled Soviet sub beneath the arctic ice, with something very nasty loose on board. | |
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Additional books in the Ryanverse generally include submarine operations as a b-plot or additional actions, including The Cardinal of the Kremlinnote A Los Angeles-class submarine attempts to extract two people from the Soviet Union through the Barents Sea, The Sum of All Fearsnote The USS Maine, an Ohio-class submarine with a particularly nasty captain, is part of a b-plot involving the attempted tracking of the sub by a Soviet hunter-killer submarine, and eventually ends up as one of the casualties in the climax, and Debt of Honornote Due to a greatly reduced Navy, the Ohio-class missile submarines get a new lease on life as special operations support platforms. | |
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The Unit has an episode involving a rather trippy dream and the women of the series getting action-y in said dream, plus a South Korean submarine. | |
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Run Silent, Run Deep - surprisingly realistic take on sub warfare around the Japanese home islands. | |
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JAG featured several episodes taking place on submarines, with plots ranging from historical events, espionage to fish-out-of-water stories to the occasional bit of Hot Sub-on-Sub Action. The 12 out of 227 episodes1x3 Shadow4x16 Silent Service5x7 Rouge5x22 Overdue & Presumed Lost6x15 Iron Coffin7x5 Mixed Messages7x14 Odd Man Out7x23 In Country7x24 Enemy Below8x7 Need To Know8x17 Empty Quiver9x7 Close Quarters | |
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The Andromeda episode "D minus 0" is also a sub story Recycled In Space. | |
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Stirring Abyss | |
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The Atomic Submarine, a 1959 B-Movie where the eponymous nuclear submarine fights an Unidentified Submerged Object beneath the North Pole. | |
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Iron Maiden's "Run Silent Run Deep". | |
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier: The Enterprise spends much of the film being pursued by another Bird of Prey commanded by Klaa. | |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire starts off as this. The journey begins with the explorers entering the Atlantic Ocean via a submarine called the Ulysses, but the submarine is then destroyed by a giant robotic lobster called the Leviathan, who kills off most of the background crew. The main characters then escape into an underwater cave via several smaller subs, and then after that is a Travel Montage through said caves leading to Atlantis, with the lost city finally being reached after their camp is attacked by a swarm of literal fireflies. | |
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Wing Commander: A Terran space fighter carrier finds itself fighting against badly stacked odds. They spend much of the movie trying to hide from the enemy Kilrathi fleet, while trying to find some way to delay their attack on Earth long enough for The Cavalry to get in position to stop them. A lot of the movie was intentionally made as an homage to Das Boot. | |
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Deep Dive Daredevils: Set in The '30s, a Diesel Punk story about a Cool Boat and its Badass Crew. | |
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Deep Trouble, a BBC radio series, is a comedy set on a Royal Navy nuclear submarine with an incompetent crew. | |
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Harpoon (based on a miniatures game) | |
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: A Klingon starship carrying Chancellor Gorkon to meet with the President of the Federation is attacked by a cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey hoping to frame the Enterprise for the attack. The film's climax has the Enterprise and the USS Excelsior battling the advanced Bird of Prey which, unlike her predecessors, does not need to uncloak to fire her weapons. | |
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Our Wives Under the Sea: Leah's half of the plot consists of her and two crewmates on a submarine that's stuck at the bottom of the ocean. They don't see anything until the end, but they do wind up slightly losing their minds. | |
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Deep Fighter | |
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