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Thememobile
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Sometimes, a character's theme goes beyond wearing his underwear on the outside. These are vehicles that follow a costumed character's theme; they may resemble the costume, or extend the idea behind the character. Regardless, these conveyances are recognizably a part of the individual's leitmotif (not to mention the show's merchandising campaign). This trope doesn't necessarily include ''iconic'' vehicles. While the X-Men's Blackbird is identifiable by fans, it doesn't continue their visual theme, and it wouldn't be recognized by someone who wasn't familiar with it. A good determiner is to ask yourself, "If I saw this for the first time on the street, how likely would I be to identify it as belonging to <character>?" If the vehicle stands out from being at least some decades old in the setting, it is the Hero's Classic Car. Ordinary vehicles (and even race vehicles) with cartoon characters slapped on their bodies have their own variant, Itasha. Most of the time a Cool Car, particularly a Pimped-Out Car; if the character isn't supposed to be particularly enthusiastic about cars, or fabulously wealthy, or have specialized transportation needs it counts as an Improbably Cool Car. For a specific type of Thememobile, see Faceship. Not to be confused with the Pope Mobile, although it is an example of this trope. May overlap with Signature Team Transport, Absurdly-Long Limousine or (if there are no performance upgrades at all) Rice Burner. Compare Vehicle-Based Characterization, where the vehicle reflects the character's personality or characterization without necessarily resembling their outward theme. Most of the toyetic live-action 1960s Trope Makers were customized by George Barris, the only leading Southern California-based customizer/showrod builder willing to work to Hollywood's hurry-up-and-wait production schedule more than once. For the grammatical construction associated with this, see Hyperaffixation. Due to The Problem with Pen Island, this trope can either be pronounced "theme-mobile" or "the me-mobile." Make of that what you will. |
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Batman: Arkham Asylum begins with Batman taking the Joker to Arkham in the Batmobile. Foreseeing Bane continuing to attack him, Batman has the car ram Bane off the island. The Bat-Wing later appears to drop off the the Line Launcher, and in the end Batman uses it for a The Adventure Continues ending. | |
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Information Society had Vector, the heavily customized 1973 Plymouth Satellite Sebring featured on the cover of their 1990 album Hack and the video for "Think". | |
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Parodied in The David S. Pumpkins Halloween Special, where David S. Pumpkins has the Pumpkinmobile, which is a giant wheeled... strawberry. Because "you can't drive pumpkins, man." | |
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Ultimate Spider-Man (2012) infamously gave Spider-Man a Spider-Cycle, despite the hero being able to crawl up walls and swing by using his webbing. In-universe, Nick Fury justifies the vehicle's existence by claiming that it's faster and more efficient than web-swinging, and saves tons of valuable web fluid. | |
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Wonder Woman vol 1: The Emperor's Saturnian Slavers have a flagship spaceship shaped like Saturn itself, rings and all. Steve Trevor steals it. | |
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Catman has also acquired a Catmobile, as seen in Secret Six. He drives it while insisting any similarities between his name and costume and Batman are strictly coincidental. He also had a Catamaran in his Silver Age appearances. | |
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Batman: Arkham Knight: The game finally allows players to actually drive the Batmobile, which now has a tank mode. The Batwing returns as well being used several times to provide upgrades to the Batmobile. It's also used to carry the Batmobile twice, once at the end of the Mr. Freeze DLC sidequest, and again near the end of the main story, when the original Batmobile is destroyed and a new one is delivered to save Batman when he is surrounded by Militia tanks. Another DLC sidequest has Batman use the Batwing to carry an incapacitated Killer Croc from a Prison Airship to the GCPD Lockup. Around halfway through the main story, the Batwing is also used to scan for the Cloudburst device and can be seen flying around the city. Played for laughs later on, to add a little levity to a dramatic event. After Batman's secret identity is exposed to the population of Gotham, three thugs had much snark about it. The Riddler also boasts as to having the "Riddlermobile". It's bigger, faster, more aesthetically pleasing...it's in the shop. One of the skins for the Batmobile actually is the Riddlermobile, which turns out to just be the Batmobile with a bunch a green question marks on it. |
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The Simpsons: Homer suggests the family get "to the Simpsonmobile!" to rescue Selma from Sideshow Bob. It is actually their car. There is also the episode where Homer salvaged the remains of a sugar truck and the massive pile of sugar attracts every bee in Springfield. When the beekeepers notice this, one proclaims, "To the beemobile!" to which his colleague asks, "You mean your Chevy?". After a beat, he responds "yes" in deadpan. |
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MythBusters In their "Demolition Derby Special", they had the Mythbus. Which was destroyed when it tipped over at the end of testing a bus-related myth. They had Earl the Cadillac for a while. Then they dropped it from a crane, because they had promised to destroy it when it was donated to them. |
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Like their 1987 cartoon counterparts, the Archie Comics' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles featured the Turtle Van, Turtle Blimp, and basically any other vehicle in the toylines/cartoons at the time. | |
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The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had the Turtlevan (called the Party Wagon in the toy line), Turtle Blimp, and probably more. The noughties series featured the Battle Shell, which was basically the Turtlevan with a Darker and Edgier name and appearance. In the futuristic Fast Forward season the Hover Shell was a Battle Shell that could fly as well as eject the cockpit as its own ground vehicle. Also the Cheapskates, basically motorized skateboards built by Donatello. |
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The noughties series featured the Battle Shell, which was basically the Turtlevan with a Darker and Edgier name and appearance. | |
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Justice League features The Flashmobile, which is actually just a pimped-out van he bought with endorsement money he made appearing in commercials. As Green Lantern points out, it's completely ridiculous. Somewhat justified, though, considering its real purpose isn't getting around... at least not in that sense... | |
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Batman: Arkham Series naturally supplies various Batman examples. Batman: Arkham Asylum begins with Batman taking the Joker to Arkham in the Batmobile. Foreseeing Bane continuing to attack him, Batman has the car ram Bane off the island. The Bat-Wing later appears to drop off the the Line Launcher, and in the end Batman uses it for a The Adventure Continues ending. Batman: Arkham City: The Bat-Wing briefly returns to once again do an equipment drop, in this case the Grapnel Boost. Batman: Arkham Origins features an early version of the Bat-Wing. The Batmobile meanwhile apparently hasn't been built yet, but a few pieces of are in the cave, indicating that they've started construction on it. Batman: Arkham Knight: The game finally allows players to actually drive the Batmobile, which now has a tank mode. The Batwing returns as well being used several times to provide upgrades to the Batmobile. It's also used to carry the Batmobile twice, once at the end of the Mr. Freeze DLC sidequest, and again near the end of the main story, when the original Batmobile is destroyed and a new one is delivered to save Batman when he is surrounded by Militia tanks. Another DLC sidequest has Batman use the Batwing to carry an incapacitated Killer Croc from a Prison Airship to the GCPD Lockup. Around halfway through the main story, the Batwing is also used to scan for the Cloudburst device and can be seen flying around the city. Played for laughs later on, to add a little levity to a dramatic event. After Batman's secret identity is exposed to the population of Gotham, three thugs had much snark about it. The Riddler also boasts as to having the "Riddlermobile". It's bigger, faster, more aesthetically pleasing...it's in the shop. One of the skins for the Batmobile actually is the Riddlermobile, which turns out to just be the Batmobile with a bunch a green question marks on it. |
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Over time, many other WWE stars would have a trademark vehicle that they'd drive down to the arena. From Eddie Guerrero's low riders up until Alberto Del Rio coming out in a random extremely expensive car, not to mention the dozen or so wrestlers who had ridden a motorcycle down to the ring. The ones that were consistent each time included JBL's white limo, complete with Texas longhorns on the hood and a license plate that had JBL's logo on it, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's ATV that he rode around as Sheriff of RAW, adorned with cute little "3:16" flags, and Chavo Guerrero Jr. as Kerwin White had what was nicknamed by fans as "The Whitemobile", a plain white golf cart with his initials on the front. | |
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Batfink had the Batillac which served no other purpose than transportation to and from the scene of a crime. | |
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Wario Land: Shake It! has the Subwarine, a Wario-themed sub colored purple and yellow with stripes representing Wario's mustache, and which he gets to use in underwater levels. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Before Linkara took it as the spoils of his victory, Comicron One belonged to Lord Vyce. As such, its external color scheme is black and green, like Vyce's armor, and its front is built in the shape of the letter V. There are plenty of Vs decorating the inside as well. | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: At Skopp City, Ann can trade Cyber Nekos for an optional vehicle called the Macaron Cat Mobile, an Alleged Car that's based on a fish beggar statue in the southern region. | |
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SWAT Kats: The Turbokat is at least as well known as the flight suits for the Swat Kats. The other bigger vehicles (the Turbomole, the Hoverkat, and the unnamed amphibious sub/tank used for a short time in one episode) all had the same basic paint scheme, as did the jet skis. The other smaller vehicles (The Cyclotron and Sandkat) had the same color scheme as their flight suits. All of them qualify. | |
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In Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader?, The Joker, Two-Face, AND Catwoman have these. Others probably do as well, given the slightly... odd... nature of the piece, however these are the only ones we're shown. | |
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The Joker often has his own Jokermobile and even a Jokercopter. | |
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Batman Begins introduces The Tumbler as the Batmobile. In this case, it is only referred to as The Tumbler. | |
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A tie-in toy to Batman Forever was a base piece with included attachments that allowed you to turn it into the Batmobile, Batboat, or Bat-Wing. Probably unintentionally, the base piece allowed you to more or less recreate the Batsub from the same film. | |
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Darkwing Duck has his plane, the Thunderquack, and his bike (with sidecar), the Ratcatcher, both very duck-themed and keeping with his overall color scheme. Note that the Thunderquack is in-universe Ascended Fanon; Launchpad built it for his favorite hero before even meeting him. After all of these get scavenged for recycling materials by Gosalyn, Darkwing proclaims "To the Quackcycle!", which turns out to be a regular tricycle with a goofy name. | |
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Green Arrow used to have an Arrow Car, an Arrow Plane, and versions of just about everything else that Batman had. | |
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Vigilante (the Gregory Sanders cowboy version) has had a couple of motorcycles named the Vig-Cycle. | |
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The four guardian mummies in Mummies Alive! have multiple vehicles with Egyptian motifs, all of them reverse-engineered from modern vehicles by Rath. They include a dragster called the Hot-Ra, Nefer-Tina's Jetcycle, a speedboat called the Nileator, and a flying Skycophagus. | |
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Nemesis the Warlock has a spacecraft called a Blitzspear that looks just like his head... or rather, a head that looks like his vehicle. Yes, the artist had already designed the vehicle when he got down to thinking what the Warlock's face should look like. A later issue informs us that it's actually a Living Ship, a species of Giant Flyers that young males of his race must capture and forcibly domesticate as a Rite of Passage before they're given extensive Bio-Augmentation to make them spaceworthy. Nemesis is that sort of comic. | |
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Mr. Mighty from Everyday Heroes parodies this with the Mighty-Mobile... which, being a minor-league hero, he can only dream of. | |
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The Dark Knight Rises sees a flying version of the Tumbler, similar to the Bat-Wing. This one is simply called 'The Bat'. | |
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Parodied on one occasion in The Fairly Oddparents, when the Sandman (played by Jackie Mason!) declares "Quick, to the Mattress-mobile!" Cut to a rickety-looking delivery truck. "This is the Mattress-mobile?" "Oh, I'm terribly sorry. And your truck is where?" Another episode had Timmy's dad declare "Quick, to the Turnermobile!" (his 70s wood-paneled station wagon) as he prepared to enter a beauty pageant. |
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Sesame Street: Zoe has a rideable toy car called the Zoemobile. | |
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Thememobile / int_46518682 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sesame Street | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_46518682 | |
Thememobile / int_48cf61a6 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_48cf61a6 | comment |
In one episode of Challenge of the Superfriends, Batman had a bat rocket. Which he flew to the moon. In under one minute. | |
Thememobile / int_48cf61a6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_48cf61a6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Superfriends | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_48cf61a6 | |
Thememobile / int_49ff762 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_49ff762 | comment |
Torchwood has cars with their logo on the side, especially notable as they're supposed to be a secret organisation. The organization itself is not secret, more or less the entire population of Cardiff knows they exist, but only the highest-ranking government officials actually know what they do. Or at least that's how it's supposed to work. | |
Thememobile / int_49ff762 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_49ff762 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Torchwood | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_49ff762 | |
Thememobile / int_4a6b1eb7 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_4a6b1eb7 | comment |
Englishman has the Bentmobile (a Bentley whose name is purely Innocent Innuendo, as Englishman is unaware of the negative connotations) and in an earlier episode the "Helicoptermobile". | |
Thememobile / int_4a6b1eb7 | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_4a6b1eb7 | featureConfidence |
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Englishman | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_4a6b1eb7 | |
Thememobile / int_4c99197e | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_4c99197e | comment |
To celebrate the success of The Muppet Show, Lew Grade gave Jim Henson a green Lotus Eclat with Kermit-eye headlights. | |
Thememobile / int_4c99197e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_4c99197e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Muppet Show | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_4c99197e | |
Thememobile / int_4dd54482 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_4dd54482 | comment |
Ben 10: Alien Force: Kevin Levin's car, the Signature Team Transport of the series, is a weird example. The car belongs to Kevin, yet seemingly by coincidence, matches the colors of Ben's outfit exactly. | |
Thememobile / int_4dd54482 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_4dd54482 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ben 10: Alien Force | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_4dd54482 | |
Thememobile / int_4ef4a5be | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_4ef4a5be | comment |
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird gives Count von Count the Countmobile. | |
Thememobile / int_4ef4a5be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_4ef4a5be | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_4ef4a5be | |
Thememobile / int_4efd20ba | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_4efd20ba | comment |
Parodied in Freakazoid! with the Freakmobile. Freakazoid stated outright that it only existed for merchandising, despite the fact that he had superspeed and clearly did not need it. One episode even had toy executives insisting that he use the Freakmobile for a car chase when he was keeping up just fine on foot. | |
Thememobile / int_4efd20ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_4efd20ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Freakazoid! | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_4efd20ba | |
Thememobile / int_4f115950 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_4f115950 | comment |
Tim Drake had a car in Robin colours (he had a provisional license because of his dad's disability) called the Redbird. | |
Thememobile / int_4f115950 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_4f115950 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Robin (1993) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_4f115950 | |
Thememobile / int_5178149f | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_5178149f | comment |
Batman: The Brave and the Bold has all the usual Bat-vehicles (including a Transforming Mecha Batmobile), as well as Green Arrow's Arrow-Car and Arrow Plane, and the Robin-Cycle. And, in the Wacky Racing episode, the Jokermobile, Kitty-Car, Huntress-Cycle, Gentleman Ghost's hearse, and so on. | |
Thememobile / int_5178149f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_5178149f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman: The Brave and the Bold | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_5178149f | |
Thememobile / int_52837809 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_52837809 | comment |
Kamen Rider Drive is a particularly noteworthy example because he's the only Rider to use a car instead of a motorcyclenote his predecessor Kamen Rider BLACK RX had one of each. His car, the Tridoron, fits the trope well by being able to change forms in order to mimic Drive's three primary modes: the race car-inspired Type Speed (its primary form), the truck-like Type Wild, and the power loader-esque Type Technic. Drive's Super Mode, Type Tridoron, actually has the car transform into armor and merge onto his body. | |
Thememobile / int_52837809 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_52837809 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kamen Rider Drive | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_52837809 | |
Thememobile / int_59fb8a3b | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_59fb8a3b | comment |
The Young Ones: Vyvyan's Ford Anglia with flames down the side and a leg stuck on the bonnet. | |
Thememobile / int_59fb8a3b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_59fb8a3b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Young Ones | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_59fb8a3b | |
Thememobile / int_5ae0bec6 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_5ae0bec6 | comment |
WWE's resident Superhero, The Hurricane, has his Hurri-cycle. Over time, many other WWE stars would have a trademark vehicle that they'd drive down to the arena. From Eddie Guerrero's low riders up until Alberto Del Rio coming out in a random extremely expensive car, not to mention the dozen or so wrestlers who had ridden a motorcycle down to the ring. The ones that were consistent each time included JBL's white limo, complete with Texas longhorns on the hood and a license plate that had JBL's logo on it, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's ATV that he rode around as Sheriff of RAW, adorned with cute little "3:16" flags, and Chavo Guerrero Jr. as Kerwin White had what was nicknamed by fans as "The Whitemobile", a plain white golf cart with his initials on the front. |
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Thememobile / int_5ae0bec6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_5ae0bec6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
WWE (Wrestling) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_5ae0bec6 | |
Thememobile / int_5c07d6ab | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_5c07d6ab | comment |
Saints Row: The Third brings us the GatMobile, which is a big purple van with a giant Johnny Gat head on the front. The cigar is also a functional flamethrower. | |
Thememobile / int_5c07d6ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_5c07d6ab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Saints Row: The Third (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_5c07d6ab | |
Thememobile / int_5cfb879b | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_5cfb879b | comment |
The Forever People had a Super-Cycle that could fly and turn intangible, but in the pages of Young Justice it fell into possession of Superboy, who admittedly fit the name better. They later used the Whiz Wagon, a flying five-person car, but that wound up property of the Newsboy Legion. | |
Thememobile / int_5cfb879b | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_5cfb879b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
New Gods (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_5cfb879b | |
Thememobile / int_5d00b56c | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_5d00b56c | comment |
One of Stephanie Plum's first cars (that the reader is shown) is a beat-up deal with "pussy" sprayed on the side. The pussymobile, as she called it, set the trend for her various vehicles of questionable quality. | |
Thememobile / int_5d00b56c | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_5d00b56c | featureConfidence |
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Stephanie Plum | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_5d00b56c | |
Thememobile / int_5db577ba | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_5db577ba | comment |
The Dark Knight: Incidentally, the Lamborghini that Bruce drives in the middle of the day is a subtle in-joke. The particular model of Lamborghini is the Murcielago. Guess what "murcielago" translates to in English? the bat | |
Thememobile / int_5db577ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_5db577ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Dark Knight | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_5db577ba | |
Thememobile / int_5ec33353 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_5ec33353 | comment |
In The Rod Squad, the Rescue Rangers (or rather the Rod Squad) boogie everywhere in their Dune Buggy typical for the time. | |
Thememobile / int_5ec33353 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_5ec33353 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Rod Squad (Fanfic) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_5ec33353 | |
Thememobile / int_5fe6bff2 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_5fe6bff2 | comment |
In the All-New, All-Different Marvel relaunch of Amazing Spider-Man, Spidey gets a second Spider-Mobile and actual driving lessons. Also, Deadpool gained possession of the original Spider-Mobile. During an arc of Spider-Man/Deadpool, the duo is given a Spider/Dead mobile for a cross country ride. | |
Thememobile / int_5fe6bff2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_5fe6bff2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
All-New, All-Different Marvel (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_5fe6bff2 | |
Thememobile / int_607f6b7 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_607f6b7 | comment |
Inspector Gadget has the Gadgetmobile, complete with Catchphrase (and lever) activation of its own gadgets. Doctor Claw, naturally, drove/flew/sailed the Madmobile, liberally decked with the MAD logo. | |
Thememobile / int_607f6b7 | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_607f6b7 | featureConfidence |
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Inspector Gadget | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_607f6b7 | |
Thememobile / int_62f94c6 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_62f94c6 | comment |
The Dark Knight Trilogy follows suit with its own Bat vehicles. Batman Begins introduces The Tumbler as the Batmobile. In this case, it is only referred to as The Tumbler. The Dark Knight: Incidentally, the Lamborghini that Bruce drives in the middle of the day is a subtle in-joke. The particular model of Lamborghini is the Murcielago. Guess what "murcielago" translates to in English? the bat The Dark Knight also has the Batpod, which is actually the front part of the Tumbler, ejected from the main body when its critically damaged. The Dark Knight Rises sees a flying version of the Tumbler, similar to the Bat-Wing. This one is simply called 'The Bat'. |
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Thememobile / int_62f94c6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_62f94c6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Dark Knight Trilogy | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_62f94c6 | |
Thememobile / int_637554db | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_637554db | comment |
The Middleman has fun with this, referring to nearly every piece of equipment they own this way. | |
Thememobile / int_637554db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_637554db | featureConfidence |
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The Middleman | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_637554db | |
Thememobile / int_671d5c19 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_671d5c19 | comment |
The Powerpuff Girls (1998) An episode has the team trying alternate identities, and Blossom becomes a Captain America wannabe with a patriotic themed car — which promptly gets stuck in a traffic jam on the way to a rescue. Later episodes featured the Powerpuff Dynamo, a Humongous Mecha that looked like a giant Powerpuff Girl with aspects of all three. It was more trouble than it was worth. |
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Thememobile / int_671d5c19 | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_671d5c19 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Powerpuff Girls (1998) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_671d5c19 | |
Thememobile / int_67f88f12 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_67f88f12 | comment |
Bibleman embraced the freedom of its new medium by tossing a bunch of toyetic vehicles at Bibleman like the Biblevan, Biblecopter, Biblejet, Bibleboat... | |
Thememobile / int_67f88f12 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_67f88f12 | featureConfidence |
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Bibleman | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_67f88f12 | |
Thememobile / int_68de28e | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_68de28e | comment |
Mario Kart Wii: Unlike in Double Dash!!, the karts and the newly-added motorbikes aren't thematically locked into specific drivers. Instead, when the player chooses a character, all the karts and bikes that are currently available in the vehicle selection will adopt the motifs of the character in question (for example, if you choose Mario, they will be colred red and blue and feature the M logo; if you choose Peach, they will be colored white and pink and feature her crown's symbol, and so on). | |
Thememobile / int_68de28e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_68de28e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mario Kart Wii (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_68de28e | |
Thememobile / int_69a51847 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_69a51847 | comment |
Ghost Rider's motorcycle, often with its own skull-shaped windshield. | |
Thememobile / int_69a51847 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_69a51847 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ghost Rider / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_69a51847 | |
Thememobile / int_6a4bddd6 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_6a4bddd6 | comment |
Iron Man has had a few of these over the years, despite having several suits of Powered Armour catering for any and all environments. Although spending ridiculous amounts of money on something that would be more use for showing off than actual crimefighting in practice would be wholly in-character for Tony Stark. | |
Thememobile / int_6a4bddd6 | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_6a4bddd6 | featureConfidence |
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Iron Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_6a4bddd6 | |
Thememobile / int_6f76d71a | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_6f76d71a | comment |
One of the expansions for The Sims 3 introduces the Motive Mobile, a Lifetime Reward that lets your Sim commute to their job in a vehicle that keeps their needs from dropping on their way to and from work. | |
Thememobile / int_6f76d71a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_6f76d71a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Sims (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_6f76d71a | |
Thememobile / int_7291539d | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_7291539d | comment |
Batman: Arkham City: The Bat-Wing briefly returns to once again do an equipment drop, in this case the Grapnel Boost. | |
Thememobile / int_7291539d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_7291539d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman: Arkham City (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_7291539d | |
Thememobile / int_73ed0aab | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_73ed0aab | comment |
The Creeper from Jeepers Creepers has his own truck, termed the "Creepermobile" by fans. It looks like The Alleged Car with an unusual vanity plate (BEATNGU), but it's fast, and the third movie confirms that it's a Weaponized Car full of booby traps. He mostly uses it to run people off the road, using the smell of their fear to track them later at his leisure. | |
Thememobile / int_73ed0aab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_73ed0aab | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Jeepers Creepers | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_73ed0aab | |
Thememobile / int_7832b74c | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_7832b74c | comment |
Steven Universe: In "Dewey Wins", Dewey mentions taking blame for includes termites eating the boardwalk, alien abductions, and crashing his Mayor-mobile into the town's only cellular tower. | |
Thememobile / int_7832b74c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_7832b74c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Steven Universe | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_7832b74c | |
Thememobile / int_79328e7 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_79328e7 | comment |
Wacky Races is entirely about improbably-themed vehicles, each fitting with their owners to a T. | |
Thememobile / int_79328e7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_79328e7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wacky Races | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_79328e7 | |
Thememobile / int_7c038c18 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_7c038c18 | comment |
In one episode of Phineas and Ferb, Dr. Doofenshmirtz had a monster truck shaped like his own head and regularly uses a Cool Airship with his name on the side. Also appears by name in another episode. Professor Poofinplotz travels in a ten-foot replica of her own head mounted on mechanical spider legs, aptly dubbed her "Me Mobile". The episode "Bee Story" reveals that Poofinplotz has a similar vehicle, the "Myself-icopter". Now it's only a matter of time before she gets a third vehicle that starts with "I"... |
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Thememobile / int_7c038c18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_7c038c18 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Phineas and Ferb | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_7c038c18 | |
Thememobile / int_7d122312 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_7d122312 | comment |
In the debut episode of The Flintstones, Barney invents a flying device that catches Fred's attention. Barney wants to call it "the Barney-Copter," but Fred christens it the episode's title, "The Flintstone Flyer." | |
Thememobile / int_7d122312 | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_7d122312 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Flintstones | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_7d122312 | |
Thememobile / int_8019a9f1 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_8019a9f1 | comment |
While the invisble plane is usually not an example, as an experimental bit of Amazonian space traveling and stealth tech, in The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016) it's instead a B-17 that's been painted with Wonder Woman Nose Art and undergone stealth experimentation that allows it to turn invisible at the push of a button. | |
Thememobile / int_8019a9f1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_8019a9f1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_8019a9f1 | |
Thememobile / int_8125b468 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_8125b468 | comment |
Batman has many such vehicles that follow the bat theme. An interesting note about all of these is that Batman doesn't necessarily always call any of them by their "bat-names" in present-day comics, usually just saying "The Car". When he does call them by the Batnames, it's likely that the ridiculousness of this will be lampshaded by saying somebody like Robin, Alfred or a member of the Justice League came up with the name. The Batmobile, in its many variations. The Batplane or (for "flying wing" versions) Batwing: fixed-wing aircraft. The Batcopter: rotary-wing aircraft. The Whirly-Bat: also a rotary-wing aircraft, but unlike the Batcopter, a very small one-man (or maybe two) vehicle that can fit in the trunk of the Batmobile if necessary. The Batboat. The Bat-Submersible or Batsub. The Batglider. Yes, there's a Batglider. In some versions, there's even a Batmech. Perhaps most damnably of all, the Silver Age Bat Train. And in the 90s, possibly intended as a more serious reimagining, the Batsubway Rocket, made to travel through Gotham's abandoned Underground railways. |
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Thememobile / int_8125b468 | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_8125b468 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_8125b468 | |
Thememobile / int_81f5d35d | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_81f5d35d | comment |
Kamen Riders, as the second part of their name implies, have some sort of mount, most often a motorcycle. The Heisei era went to greater lengths to make the bikes more visually similar to the Riders, with some even having various forms to correspond. Taken to the extreme with Kamen Rider Accel, Kamen Rider Lazer and Kamen Rider Vice, who can actually turn into bikes! (Hoverbike in Vice's case) Incidentally, Accel also owns a "normal" motorcycle that could easily serve as a Thememobile, but is disqualified due to the fact that he only uses it when he's in civilian form. Kamen Rider Drive is a particularly noteworthy example because he's the only Rider to use a car instead of a motorcyclenote his predecessor Kamen Rider BLACK RX had one of each. His car, the Tridoron, fits the trope well by being able to change forms in order to mimic Drive's three primary modes: the race car-inspired Type Speed (its primary form), the truck-like Type Wild, and the power loader-esque Type Technic. Drive's Super Mode, Type Tridoron, actually has the car transform into armor and merge onto his body. |
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Thememobile / int_81f5d35d | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_81f5d35d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Kamen Rider (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_81f5d35d | |
Thememobile / int_8258e260 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_8258e260 | comment |
Super Mario Bros.: Mario Kart: Double Dash!!: This is the first game in the Mario Kart series to feature vehicles that are thematically designed around, and modeled after, the drivers who use them. For example, DK's kart has the shape of a barrel with wheels, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi drive on karts that look like baby cars, Petey Piranha drives on a kart that looks like two fused green Warp Pipes, and so on. In a twist, any character can drive a kart that is on the same weight category as them. Many of the vehicles featured in the game tend to stretch the "kart" aspect of Mario Kart a bit much. Mario Kart Wii: Unlike in Double Dash!!, the karts and the newly-added motorbikes aren't thematically locked into specific drivers. Instead, when the player chooses a character, all the karts and bikes that are currently available in the vehicle selection will adopt the motifs of the character in question (for example, if you choose Mario, they will be colred red and blue and feature the M logo; if you choose Peach, they will be colored white and pink and feature her crown's symbol, and so on). Wario Land 4 Wario's car is called, well, the Wario Car; it's a jalopy that comes complete with a purple paint job matching his overalls and a zigzag moustache decal on the bonnet. Said car has also made a few appearances in other games, such as Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and WarioWare. Wario Land: Shake It! has the Subwarine, a Wario-themed sub colored purple and yellow with stripes representing Wario's mustache, and which he gets to use in underwater levels. |
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Thememobile / int_8258e260 | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile / int_8258e260 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Super Mario Bros. (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_8258e260 | |
Thememobile / int_87e00d8e | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_87e00d8e | comment |
Teen Titans (2003): Cyborg and the T-Car, the giant T-shaped Titans Tower and the T-Sub which doubles as a spaceship. Also, in an episode, there was a road race of all the villians plus Robin, where they all had theme vehicles, such as Mad Mod driving a car shaped like Big Ben's clocktower. | |
Thememobile / int_87e00d8e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Thememobile / int_87e00d8e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Teen Titans (2003) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_87e00d8e | |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_8bf307b3 | comment |
Most superheroes in the Disney Mouse and Duck Comics have their themed vehicles (the exception is Super Goof, who is a Flying Brick), though they rarely use such names: Paperinik has the 313-X, his car in his secret identity as Donald Duck with gadgets made by Gyro that include, among other things, a device for flying and one to change the color to black. Given that Donald built the car himself starting from a (fictional) 1934 Belchfire Runabout how he actually gets away with it remained unknown (and in one early Paperinik story the police actually confiscated the car to check for Paperinik's gadgets)-up until Donald used a chance occasion to claim he and Paperinik just have nearly identical-looking cars and sometimes switch them around to install non-superhero gadgets. In Paperinik New Adventures the 313-X gets wrecked, so Paperinik, who has moved his hideout in the Ducklair Tower with permission from Ducklair's artificial intelligence's One, starts borrowing some of Ducklair's inventions after repainting them red and adding a stylized "Pk", resulting in the Pkar, the Pk-Jet, and even a one-shot Pk-Power Armor. Paperinika (AKA Daisy) uses an unnamed motorbike, itself equipped with various gadgets. Spoofed with the Red Bat, who, befitting his real identity as Fethry Duck, include a Batcar, a Batplane with actual flapping wings, a Batbike (that he has trouble riding due the batwing-like decorations near the saddle hitting him every time he tries to jump on it), a Batscooter (an actual kick scooter with bat decorations and no gadgets), and a Batpogo (stick)-and he seems to favor the pogo stick. Fantomallard the Gentleman Thief, active in the 1920s, had a number of "phantom" vehicles more advanced than then-current technology. They include the "Mysterious Fantomallard", a high-powered car with James Bond-like gadgets bearing a notable resemblance with the Duesenberg Model J (though it was first seen in 1920, eight years before the Duesenberg car hit the market), its prototype, an armored car that Donald would nickname "mobile tank" after seeing a drawing on Fantomallard's journal, and the Fantomarine, a submersible vehicle capable of unlimited submerged operations (for perspective, the first submarine with a similar ability would be the U-58, fitted with an experimental snorkel to use the diesel engines underwater in 1943). |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_8e29cc6c | comment |
Mario Kart: Double Dash!!: This is the first game in the Mario Kart series to feature vehicles that are thematically designed around, and modeled after, the drivers who use them. For example, DK's kart has the shape of a barrel with wheels, Baby Mario and Baby Luigi drive on karts that look like baby cars, Petey Piranha drives on a kart that looks like two fused green Warp Pipes, and so on. In a twist, any character can drive a kart that is on the same weight category as them. Many of the vehicles featured in the game tend to stretch the "kart" aspect of Mario Kart a bit much. | |
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Thememobile / int_8e8ed866 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_8e8ed866 | comment |
Knight Rider plays with this, as one of the main characters is a car, and is one of the most distinctive icons of the series. Unless you're in Germany, of course. | |
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Knight Rider | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_95f7f987 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_95f7f987 | comment |
Dick Grayson's Robin had a motorbike which had his colours, and was emblazoned with Rs, but was never actually called the Robin-Cycle. | |
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Nightwing (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_976efc02 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_976efc02 | comment |
In Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, when Cal's wormy sidekick runs off to confront him after his strange rescue, Crow quips out "Into the Weeniemobile! Weenie Man away!" when he takes off in an army jeep. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_987ae287 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_987ae287 | comment |
According to the toyline for Cars 2, the Pope is, of course, a car (who is driven around by a popemobile). This raises a lot of questions about Car Jesus and whether he was crucified by the Car Romans. | |
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Cars 2 | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_996edf24 | comment |
Wonder Woman: Wonder Woman vol 1: The Emperor's Saturnian Slavers have a flagship spaceship shaped like Saturn itself, rings and all. Steve Trevor steals it. While the invisble plane is usually not an example, as an experimental bit of Amazonian space traveling and stealth tech, in The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016) it's instead a B-17 that's been painted with Wonder Woman Nose Art and undergone stealth experimentation that allows it to turn invisible at the push of a button. |
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Wonder Woman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_99c0e061 | comment |
Unusually for a "cosmic" villain, Thanos once had a helicopter — with his name on it!'note Spidey Super Stories #39 (Granted, it was the "Easy Reader" kids' comic made in conjunction with The Electric Company (1971) and not in continuity, but still....) | |
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Thanos (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_9b7e31d | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_9b7e31d | comment |
Lady Penelope's Rolls Royce, FAB 1, in Thunderbirds — a bright pink limousine, heavily customised and upgraded, featuring bullet-proof armour, machine guns, smokescreen, oil slick and hydrofoils. For a secret agent, Penelope isn't exactly discreet in her choice of transport. | |
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Thunderbirds | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_9e84c324 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_9e84c324 | comment |
Batman Returns had a slightly different Batmobile and the unusual Bat Jetsleigh. The Penguin rode in a car/boat combo that was a giant yellow duck, presumably to reflect his Psychopathic Manchild personality. | |
Thememobile / int_9e84c324 | featureApplicability |
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Batman Returns | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_a078bada | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_a078bada | comment |
The Christian metal band Stryper has the Battle Van, as featured in the album Soldiers Under Command. | |
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Stryper (Music) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_a3eee065 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_a3eee065 | comment |
Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing has Sonic's blue carnote officially called the "Speed Star". While the fastest thing alive using a car feels much like The Flash example, Word of God says that he uses it out of sportsmanship in order to have a fair race. LEGO Dimensions also has him say that it's for letting him rest his feet. Other characters like Tails, Knuckles, Amy and Shadow also have their own Thememobiles that they use themselves when racing. You could also count the Eggmobile as this for Eggman, too. | |
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Sega Superstars (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_a4a6b86a | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_a4a6b86a | comment |
Code Geass: They don't call them ZeroFrames, but Zero has had three Knightmares whose colour schemes were made to fit his theme, and when Suzaku becomes the Knight Of Zero, siding with Lelouch, the Lancelot was promptly given a makeover. Only the first Knightmare Frame Zero used was repainted from base colours, since it was a custom version of a generic model. Zero's Burai was given a dark purple, and fitted with a set of golden oni horns. In a slightly closer example, the Shinkiro was in the correct colours, and it's model number was "Type-0". This is after the completion of Type-1 through to Type-5, so this is a clear attempt to reference this trope. While the Lancelot was given a makeover, the Lancelot Albion was in the same colours as it always way. The rebuilt Lancelot, however, got a horrible pink colour scheme to go with it's new pilot, C.C. Just seeing it was enough to make viewers stare. When Suzaku actually becomes Zero at the end of the series however, the Lancelot Albion is actually is repainted (technically rebuilt as the original was totaled but it's basically the exact same machine) in "Zero's" color scheme and renamed the Lancelot Albion Zero. Although Suzaku decides it's overkill in Zero's new role for peace and stores it away, he replaces with the Mahoroba which is similar to the Shinkiro in design (but equipped with swords and arm shields and more capable of Suzaku's style of close range combat) and still in the usual color scheme of Zero Knightmare Frames. Zero's second Knightmare, the Gawain, fits him just about perfectly: it's painted his personal colors (black, maroon, and gold), has a sinister appearance, can be piloted by two people (allowing his partner C.C. to back up his weak piloting skills), and its flight pack and advanced computer system let it perform excellent recon. The thing is, it wasn't made for him at all, but was just a random Britannian test type. You'd think the researchers would realize that painting a Knightmare black and gold is pretty much a big sign that says "steal me". In general, a lot of units are painted in a style fitting of their pilot. Kallen's Burai and Glasgow, for the short amount of time she had them, were painted in red. The only red units in the series, I should point out. C.C. went and painted an Akatsuki in pink, and went the extra mile in having a Lancelot painted in pink. Cornelia's Gloucester is painted the same colour as her hair, and has a cape to boot, and the Glaston Knight's wear visors that look like Gloucester masks. It wasn't quite a given, but any unusually painted unit could be narrowed down to one or two pilots. |
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Code Geass | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_a5f7e04e | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_a5f7e04e | comment |
The Batplane or (for "flying wing" versions) Batwing: fixed-wing aircraft. | |
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Cool Plane | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_a5fec434 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_a5fec434 | comment |
Everyone in the Twisted Metal franchise has one. The one that's most recognizable, however, is Sweet Tooth, a souped-up ice cream truck with a big flaming clown-head-on-a-spring perched on top, driven by Monster Clown Needles Kane. It even can transform into a mecha called Sweet Bot in some games. | |
Thememobile / int_a5fec434 | featureApplicability |
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Twisted Metal (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_a5fec434 | |
Thememobile / int_ac0d8dc2 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_ac0d8dc2 | comment |
In Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, all of the Halloween monsters hanging out with Dracula have a race car themed after themselves, with the weird exception of the Werewolf Wagon, which bears no similarity to anything werewolf-related (though one could argue that as a light yellow Beetle, it vaguely resembles a full moon). | |
Thememobile / int_ac0d8dc2 | featureApplicability |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_ac4b6a62 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_ac4b6a62 | comment |
The Vespavenger from Questionable Content is a rare example of a character named for their mode of transportation, rather than the other way around. | |
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Questionable Content (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_afb7052 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_afb7052 | comment |
Batman & Robin had the most thus far: Batman had a more streamlined, single-seat Batmobile while Robin had his own cycle. Mr. Freeze, meanwhile, had his own tank complete with ice-canon. Batgirl also had her own bat-themed motorcycle. Oh, also, Batman has a Bat-Credit Card. No, really. With an expiration date of "Forever." | |
Thememobile / int_afb7052 | featureApplicability |
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Batman & Robin | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_b0b22636 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_b0b22636 | comment |
The Wheelmobile. | |
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Wheel of Fortune | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_b0fc9724 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_b0fc9724 | comment |
A special mention for the Duomobile, the vehicle of Ace and Gary from The Ambigously Gay Duo, as it is shaped like a... penis and scrotum. With a laser firing from the tip. It sure is "an extension of the concept behind the characters".... | |
Thememobile / int_b0fc9724 | featureApplicability |
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Saturday Night Live | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_b1e6eef4 | comment |
The anniversary show Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger has a team wide example with their moving base being a flying and space capable Gokai Galleon which, is a spaceship shaped like a galleon | |
Thememobile / int_b1e6eef4 | featureApplicability |
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Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_b1e6eef4 | |
Thememobile / int_b31b332f | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_b31b332f | comment |
The Human Alliance subline introduced for the Transformers Film Series toyline. In this case, the vehicles were normal Transformers and the riders were humans (and Frenzy) who could either sit inside the larger figure's vehicle modes or man weapons on their robot modes. The Dark Of The Moon toyline introduced smaller Human Alliance figures that can also accommodate human riders or become weapons for larger Transformers figures. | |
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Transformers Film Series | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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National Lampoon's Animal House gives us the Deathmobile during the climactic city parade. | |
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Animal House | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_b493baca | |
Thememobile / int_b4996199 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_b4996199 | comment |
Any superhero action figure eventually acquires a vehicle of some sort, whether or not he has one in the source material. So, even though Spider-Man has trouble making his rent, he can still afford his own spider-themed VTOL fighter jet. What? Rather infamously, a Justice League action figure of The Flash, who can run faster than light, came with a motorcycle. There was also a Daredevil figure with a motorcycle at some point. Although he has been shown to be capable of driving in emergencies, Daredevil is blind. There was even a knockoff Naruto figure that came with a motorcycle. Note that no vehicles (outside of the Thunder Rail) appeared in the series. Jada Toys in 2023 also released figures of Naruto and Kakashi that come with toy cars designed to look like the characters outfits. Hot Wheels' Character Cars assortment of vehicles gives us cars designed to evoke the characters of whatever franchise Mattel has managed to grab. Examples include DC and Marvel, Star Wars, Power Rangers, Super Mario... even SpongeBob SquarePants gets in on the fun! |
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Thememobile / int_b4996199 | featureApplicability |
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Spider-Man (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_b4996199 | |
Thememobile / int_b78ae0b5 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_b78ae0b5 | comment |
The Blues Brothers mention the former Bluesmobile, which was a Cadillac that Elwood traded in for a microphone (a fair trade, we're told). The replacement Bluesmobile seen in the movie was a former police car that at first appears to be The Alleged Car, but endures more abuse than any automobile reasonably should. It also proves to be tire-shreddingly fast, in spite of its appearance. In the sequel, it's revealed that it can go underwater. | |
Thememobile / int_b78ae0b5 | featureApplicability |
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The Blues Brothers | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_b78ae0b5 | |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_b8e7bb8 | comment |
Super Sentai / Power Rangers Besides their mecha / Zords, many teams have motorcycles and the occasional car / flying transport / ATV / mack truck (most of these were added in the PR versions). For specific examples: Turbo and SPD had relatively normal vehicles, but they visually matched their other equipment and had team logos on them. Ninja Storm's Tsunami Cycles had lightning bolt designs to go with the "storm" theme. Lost Galaxy's Jet Jammers and Time Force's Vector Cycles sported their teams' signature zigzag and arrowhead designs, respectively. Animal-themed teams (of which there are many) often get bikes with what look like heads of the relevant animals mounted on the front. And so on, and so forth. The anniversary show Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger has a team wide example with their moving base being a flying and space capable Gokai Galleon which, is a spaceship shaped like a galleon |
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Thememobile | |
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The Monkees rode around in a radically customized Pontiac GTO called, naturally, the Monkeemobile. | |
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The Monkees | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Mermaid Man, who is a combined parody of both Batman and Aquaman, has the Invisible Boatmobile, which itself is also a combined parody of the Batmobile and Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet from The Superfriends. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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In My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks, the human version of Vinyl Scratch owns a sweet ride very much following her color scheme, with musical notes decorations and a hood ornament shaped like DJ Pon-3's unicorn counterpart. (The toy version even has a detachable windshield that can be used as Cool Shades.) To top it all, it is a Transforming Vehicle that can become a DJ booth with several big speakers and a laser light show. | |
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My Little Pony: Equestria Girls – Rainbow Rocks | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_c01688c8 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_c01688c8 | comment |
Batman (1989) had the Batmobile and Bat-Wing, the latter being so bat-themed that its entire body is (when viewed from above or below) in the shape of Batman's insignia. This conveniently allowed for a Full Moon Silhouette that resembled the Bat Signal. | |
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Batman (1989) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_c40207f9 | comment |
Duke Nukem Forever laughs at every other character's cars. Pussy cars. Duke has a monster truck Thememobile, painted in appropriate (read: the title screen of Duke Nukem 3D and "Mighty Foot" in the same typeface as the DNF logo) livery. The truck, much like the man himself, is big, loud, brute-force, and more bark than bite. | |
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Thememobile / int_c40207f9 | |
Thememobile / int_c41a1960 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_c41a1960 | comment |
The Incredibles: As the first film shows, pre-retirement Mr. Incredible had a fairly civilian-looking (from the outside, at least) car that could drive itself and change him into his costume, among other things. In Incredibles 2, it's retrieved from a collector and revealed to have been named "the Incredibile". The second movie also gives Elastigirl a custom motorcycle that can split apart in the middle to take advantage of her stretchy powers. | |
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The Incredibles (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_c41a1960 | |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who Hmmm... An anachronistic British police box on the cliffs of the planet Peladon... Who could that possibly belong to? The Third Doctor had Bessie, a 1910's vintage car in bright canary yellow that he suped up with Inertial Dampening, a Handy Remote Control and other goodies. Also under the Third Doctor's tenure, the... brace yourself... Whomobile. Which doubled as a Flying Car. |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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In Asterix and the Chariot Race, all the chariots are themed to the drivers, mostly by being shaped like National Animal Stereotypes (Asterix and Obelix have the Gaulish rooster, the Roman champion has the Imperial eagle, the Britons have a pair of lions, etc.) The pirates have a chariot that's vaguely boat-shaped, with a skull and crossbones. | |
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Asterix (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_c5779830 | type |
Thememobile | |
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Black Scorpion features a Scorpion Mobile which, in addition to various weapons, can transform into the title character's mundane car and back. | |
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Black Scorpion | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_c5779830 | |
Thememobile / int_c5e0b864 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_c5e0b864 | comment |
Over the course of The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Wonderella adopts a number of themed vehicles, even though her powers render them pointless. Usually, she adopts them at the behest of her agent in an attempt to score merchandising deals with toy companies. | |
Thememobile / int_c5e0b864 | featureApplicability |
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Thememobile | |
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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo has a "pimp boat" complete with hydraulics and spinnaz. Yes. You heard that right. A boat with hydraulics and spinnaz. | |
Thememobile / int_c5f40ad3 | featureApplicability |
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DeuceBigalowEuropeanGigolo | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_c5f40ad3 | |
Thememobile / int_c834792e | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_c834792e | comment |
For the Spyro & Friends Grand Prix, Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled added in a pair of karts themed after two characters: the Spyromobile for Spyro and the Gnasty Ride for Gnasty Gnorc. The Gasmoxia GP also makes the Velo Choppernote the kart that the bosses in Crash Nitro Kart used into this for Emperor Velo, complete with a "V" insignia on the bonnet. | |
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Spyro the Dragon (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_c834792e | |
Thememobile / int_ca540ab0 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_ca540ab0 | comment |
The Great Lakes Avengers, with a significantly lower budget, had "Quin-Jetta" — a Volkswagen Jetta with "GLA" painted on the doors. Later, after getting the benefits of government sanction, a garage was shown with all sorts of things, like Big Bertha's Bouncing Buggy and Flatman's Flatamaran. Squirrel Girl ends up in the Squirrel-a-Gig, an autogyro with a definite squirrel motif that's based on the Bat-Whirlygig. | |
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Great Lakes Avengers (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_ca540ab0 | |
Thememobile / int_cc1ec7ec | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_cc1ec7ec | comment |
There was also a Daredevil figure with a motorcycle at some point. Although he has been shown to be capable of driving in emergencies, Daredevil is blind. | |
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Daredevil / Comicbook | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_cc1ec7ec | |
Thememobile / int_cf3e7a82 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_cf3e7a82 | comment |
A unique variant of this trope is Superman's Supermobile. Unlike most of these entries, the Supermobile is usually powered by Superman's abilities, not an engine or other technology. He usually uses it when there is something in the environment (red sun rays, Kryptonite, or what have you) that he needs protection from. His Justice Jogger is admittedly a bit more difficult to justify. An episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold featured Lex Luthor piloting something very similar to the Supermobile, but with his own logo and color scheme. |
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Superman (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_cf3e7a82 | |
Thememobile / int_d0744832 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_d0744832 | comment |
The Avengers have the Quinjets: The Quinjets were introduced as small, fast passenger jets that take the heroes where they need to be. The name is an Artifact Title; they were introduced when the team had only five members. The Quinjets not only have since gotten larger to account for the Avengers' expanded roster, they're no longer even jets and in fact are equipped for short-range space travel. For a while, their teammate Hawkeye had his own Sky-Cycle which was soon manufactured into multiple cycles for all non-flying members. Depending on the Artist, Hawkeye's Sky-Cycle is sometimes the same shade of purple as his costume, and maybe even patterned with "H"s or arrows. The Great Lakes Avengers, with a significantly lower budget, had "Quin-Jetta" — a Volkswagen Jetta with "GLA" painted on the doors. Later, after getting the benefits of government sanction, a garage was shown with all sorts of things, like Big Bertha's Bouncing Buggy and Flatman's Flatamaran. Squirrel Girl ends up in the Squirrel-a-Gig, an autogyro with a definite squirrel motif that's based on the Bat-Whirlygig. |
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The Avengers (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_d0744832 | |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_d29e0237 | comment |
Most of the entries in The Great Balloon Race reflect their country of origin. For example, the Greek entry has an envelope that looks like Greek columns, and a gondola that looks like a bathtub with prop modelled as a Archimedes screw. | |
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The Great Balloon Race | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_d45a6b22 | comment |
Blade Trilogy: Blade has his own car that is decked out with a few tricks. It was affectionately referred to by the crew as "the Blademobile". The name is never actually used in the films. | |
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Blade Trilogy | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_d494343b | type |
Thememobile | |
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Iron Maiden travels in a a modified Boeing 757-200 flown by lead singer Bruce Dickinson, named Ed Force One. | |
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Iron Maiden (Music) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_d6d59994 | type |
Thememobile | |
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Cool McCool had, naturally, the Coolmobile. One episode had him equipped with a "Coolmoboat." | |
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Cool McCool | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_e02cca8e | comment |
Wario Land 4 Wario's car is called, well, the Wario Car; it's a jalopy that comes complete with a purple paint job matching his overalls and a zigzag moustache decal on the bonnet. Said car has also made a few appearances in other games, such as Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and WarioWare. | |
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Wario Land 4 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_e02cca8e | |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_e11715a2 | comment |
The Perfect Run: The Pandamobile: a Dynamis-made copy of a second-gen Fiat Panda covered in white and black fur to mimic an actual panda. Made for superhero The Panda, naturally. | |
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The Perfect Run | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_e293455a | comment |
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel Incidentally, Spike himself, as well as Giles, are other Buffyverse characters with highly distinctive vehicles that seem descriptive of their personalities. They follow the trope, although they don't get that much screentime. Most notable is Gunn's truck, which has stakes and other vampire slaying weapons attached to it. Giles' convertible, too. Spike describes it as "A mid-life crisis vehicle — something long, red, and shaped like a penis." |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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In Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, the demon girls SUV-limousine applies far more than the angels' pink Hummer. It's a ride fitting a pair of insanely powerful Alpha Bitch Action Girls with too much money. | |
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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Moon Knight has a Mooncopter that resembles a crescent moon. | |
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Moon Knight / Comicbook | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_e755f69b | type |
Thememobile | |
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Batman: Arkham Origins features an early version of the Bat-Wing. The Batmobile meanwhile apparently hasn't been built yet, but a few pieces of are in the cave, indicating that they've started construction on it. | |
Thememobile / int_e755f69b | featureApplicability |
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Batman: Arkham Origins (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_e755f69b | |
Thememobile / int_e7a9c06c | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_e7a9c06c | comment |
In Paperinik New Adventures the 313-X gets wrecked, so Paperinik, who has moved his hideout in the Ducklair Tower with permission from Ducklair's artificial intelligence's One, starts borrowing some of Ducklair's inventions after repainting them red and adding a stylized "Pk", resulting in the Pkar, the Pk-Jet, and even a one-shot Pk-Power Armor. | |
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Paperinik New Adventures (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Thememobile / int_e7a9c06c | |
Thememobile / int_e966997 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_e966997 | comment |
On Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, Bat-Bat (being a Batman spoof) has the Manmobile. It has arms and legs instead of wheels. | |
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Mighty Mouse | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_ea4f62db | comment |
Family Guy Parodied in an episode where Peter shouts "Quick! To the Petercopter!" and rushes to his Peter-shaped helicopter, which crashes on Joe's lawn. He does the same thing later with his zeppelin, the Hinden-Peter. This trope is used again with even more ridiculous vehicles in subsequent episodes, where Peter rides the Peterdactyl (which crashes into wires and is electrocuted, having Peter to take care of the babies), the Peterang (a giant boomerang that flies around the city and briefly passes by its destination before getting slammed into Peter's house), and even the Megcopter, along with Meg (which works surprisingly well). An earlier episode had "To the Popemobile", complete with cheesy Adam West music. |
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Family Guy | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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PJ Masks: All three young heroes have their own vehicle; the Cat-car (a blue automobile), the Owl-glider (a red flying machine with owl wings) and the Gekko-Mobile (a green amphibian vehicle with a lizard tail). | |
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PJ Masks | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_ef7b3325 | type |
Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_ef7b3325 | comment |
Fantastic Four had the Fantasticar, in several variants. In early adventures, the FF had the original "flying bathtub" model, then a second, more streamlined and versatile one that can split into four separate planes, and the Pogo Plane (based on a real aircraft) for longer trips than the Fantasticar could take. All have the team's big 4 logo. The "flying bathtub" is so iconic that it's still associated with the name despite having been retired back in issue #12! The "flying bathtub", like the Spider-Mobile, is in Deadpool's possession now. There are multiple "bathtub" model Fantasticars out there that have survived the Fantastic Four's post-Secret Wars sabbatical. One key perk Maria Hill used to get Ben Grimm to sign on with SHIELD in 2016 was a classic "bathtub" Fantasticar as his "company" ride. |
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Fantastic Four / Comicbook | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_f2da188a | comment |
The Batman briefly shows Green Arrow flying his Arrow Plane across Gotham. Good thing because he and Batman needed to split up to save the day. | |
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The Batman | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
Thememobile / int_f3ff4a44 | comment |
Automan had Cursor create all manner of Auto-whatever vehicles, covered with Tron Lines of the same blue-glowy effect as the man himself. | |
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Automan | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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According to an episode of The Critic, Dr. Karvorkian has one of his own. It's not as impressive as he thinks it is. | |
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The Critic | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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Catwoman had the Kitty Car and later the Catillac. | |
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Catwoman (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile / int_f655ed11 | type |
Thememobile | |
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Played with on Frasier. Frasier wants to be Corkmaster at his wine club (basically the president). Roz pokes fun at this absurd title by treating it like a superhero alias, saying that "If you win, I'd love a ride in the Cork-mobile." | |
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Frasier | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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Professor Layton's Laytonmobile is specifically designed to accommodate him and his hat. It also shares the same rust red color scheme of the Professor's outfit. | |
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Professor Layton (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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Leon's minivan in Pokémon Journeys: The Series is painted and shaped like his signature Pokemon Charizard. English-speaking fans quickly dubbed it the "Carizard". | |
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Pokémon Journeys: The Series | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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Arguably, Optimus Prime (or any other sufficiently well-known Transformer), but instead of driving his signature vehicle, he transforms into it. However, the Action Master toyline had non-transforming figures with transformation-capable accessories. Optimus Prime's was a giant, cannon-laden truck called Armored Convoy. What street you're supposed to drive that thing on remains unknown, though it'd be just the right size for Gigantion. |
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Transformers (Franchise) | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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Taken to the extreme with Kamen Rider Accel, Kamen Rider Lazer and Kamen Rider Vice, who can actually turn into bikes! (Hoverbike in Vice's case) Incidentally, Accel also owns a "normal" motorcycle that could easily serve as a Thememobile, but is disqualified due to the fact that he only uses it when he's in civilian form. | |
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Kamen Rider Double | hasFeature |
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Thememobile | |
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An episode has the team trying alternate identities, and Blossom becomes a Captain America wannabe with a patriotic themed car — which promptly gets stuck in a traffic jam on the way to a rescue. | |
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Captain America (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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