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Zeppelins from Another World
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If your characters have entered a parallel universe that's just a few steps removed from our own, the fastest way to establish it is by sticking a whopping great Zeppelin airship in the sky. In our world, Zeppelins seemed to be doing pretty well. People adored them; they were seen as extremely glamorous and futuristic. The world-famous LZ-127 Graf Zeppelin had accomplished global circumnavigations, arctic explorations, and aviation feats that people had only dreamed of. Then, on May 6, 1937, the flagship luxury liner Hindenburg burst into flames while landing in New Jersey for no obvious reason, the first major catastrophe caught on film.note The common theory as to what happened is that the captain's sharp turns trying to line up the Hindenburg with the landing mast cut a bracing wire which ripped open one of the hydrogen gas cells, causing a fuel leak, and a spark ignited the hydrogen as the mooring ropes were being dropped to the ground. This hydrogen fire, which killed roughly a third of the passengers and crew on board, created a global panic. No commercial Zeppelin would fly again until 1999, though a few relatively tiny nonrigid "blimps" did continue to operate in small niches such as aerial videography. More recently, airships are making a comeback for niches such as pleasure cruising, humanitarian aid, replacing helicopters for cargo hauling law enforcement, military surveillance, photography, and scientific research. This resurgence has been enabled by new technologies and designs that mitigate the airships' disadvantages and greatly enhance their lift, safety and speed—by hybridizing them with airplanes and tiltrotors. It is important to note that the presence of airships doesn't imply that the technology of the Alternate Universe is inferior. Just like with biological evolution, Zeppelins are not "more" or "less" evolved technology, what's used is whatever is the best available fit for the niche. It could just as well be that Zeppelins in the Alternate History were better able to suit the situation than airplanes were, say if there was a massive resource shortage that demanded efficiency and payload over speed, some other economic factor, or simply because there wasn't a Hindenburg-Equivalent, Zeppelins never fell out of favor to begin with. The sudden explosion of airships as a technological phenomenon, followed shortly by their rapid decline, gives them the distinction of invoking a feeling both futuristic and retro at the same time. Thus, they are perfect for a writer wanting to invoke a feeling of Zeerust or Days of Future Past. Strictly speaking, the name 'zeppelin' refers only to airships with a rigid internal frame, a propulsion and steering mechanism, (though it originally referred specifically to airships made by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin) and no anxiety that users will be put off by the name. Dirigibles and blimps still qualify for the trope. Alternate universe plane-spotters, take note. So by filling up Earth 2 with bulbous aircraft rather than hovercars or spaceships, you are suggesting a world that is of a similar time period to our own, but just happened to follow a different technological route. It also helps that they have lots of Diesel Punk and Steampunk cred and are sufficiently olde-worlde to be used in fantasy stories too. They are also cool. In fact, when used in a fantasy setting, you're more likely to encounter a thriving airship industry than cars or trains which are clearly too mundane for such a setting no matter how useful. Sometimes the Zeppelins are just there to show the audience that the movie is set in another world, even if nobody from our world crosses over into it and nobody in that world actually rides in one. A less extreme sister-trope to Alien Sky. The transportation of choice for Sky Pirates everywhere. When zeppelins are only used by the villains, it's a Dread Zeppelin. Also see Airborne Aircraft Carrier, Cool Airship, and Floating Continent. Future Copter is a similar trope where ducted-fan VTOL aircraft are used to indicate a futuristic setting. |
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The Thursday Next series features a world with zeppelins but no jet planes — although small propeller aircraft do exist. Of course, there's little demand for high-speed airliners with the gravtubes: London to Osaka in 42 minutes! At one point Thursday has the option of being hidden in a parallel Earth where there are jetliners — presumably, from the sound of things, our world. She says such a thing as a jetliner is impossible. | |
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One of the more obvious differences in the Watchmen universe (in which a genuine superpowered being comes into existence in the aftermath of WWII and singlehandedly wins the Vietnam War for America) is the huge zeppelins that hang in the air over New York.note Zeppelins are more viable because Doctor Manhattan can synthesize helium in large enough volumes to make airships safe and cheap. Basing a whole industry on one individual — What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | |
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Parodied in the Terrible Writing Advice episode on Steampunk, which advocates completely ignoring a real steam-powered vehicle like the train in favor of totally safe and not-at-all explosive dirigibles, and such machines should be thrown into the story with no thought because they completely revolutionize travel and logistics. | |
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In The Years of Rice and Salt, airplanes remain limited to military use, while civilian airflight is accomplished mostly by airship (and later, "space planes"!) | |
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Airships appear late in the game Guild Wars 2, as well as in some of the Living Story updates- they are first developed by the Charr, but are constructed later by the Pact with Human and Asuran inputs. Later on, many of them are stolen and then extensively used by the game's Aetherblade faction. | |
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The opening story in the New Amsterdam Books is a murder mystery set on a zeppelin... with vampires. | |
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A World Without Rainbows: The Sunside world has a hot air balloon. The Moonside world has an airship. | |
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In K, the immortal Silver King lives in one, called the Himmelreich (German for "Heaven"). Another appears in the movie and second season. | |
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The Witch and the Beast: The first continent's sky is filled with so much zeppelins it can blot out the sun. | |
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A variation in Destroyermen: while the story mostly takes place on an alternate Earth, the airships in question were, in fact, invented by the Japanese for the Grik, most of whom are too dumb to operate a heavier-than-air craft. They are also shot down incredibly easy with by three P-40s with tracer rounds. | |
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SkyGunner displays how different their world is by setting the first stage of the game around one. | |
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In The Invisible Library, Irene visits a parallel universe where vampires and other mythical creatures are considered normal members of society, and zeppelins are the normal way of air transport. However, no method of wireless communication has been invented; the airships communicate with the ground via devices powered by elf magic, which horrifies Irene, as elves are consistently evil (the stronger ones can travel between the worlds, so every parallel universe has the same elves). | |
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Featured very prominently in Dystopian Wars, often as air carriers for flying machines and as the occasional flying fortress bristling with guns. Not only that, they're often up to five times as large as Hindeburg... And there's more than one in every army. | |
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Earth-27: Airships are far more common, because Dr. Manhattan can synthesize enough helium to make them cost-effective (and safer than hydrogen-filled airships would have been). | |
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Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space opens with a description of "zeppelins moored with chrome spires that pierced the clouds" and a character has several tons of water ballast from those zeppelins dumped on their Flying Car. Later Captain Proton uses a vacuum-dirigible to travel across Mysterious Antarctica — vacuum being literally lighter-than-air gives it lift, and propulsion is via corkscrew driving planes encircling the dirigible. | |
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In the Justice League of America Elseworld Age of Wonder, set around the dawn of the 20th century, Lex Luthor travels in increasingly elaborate airships. | |
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An airship features in Damnation, for perhaps longer than it should as the folks from Unskippable point out: | |
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Hollow Earth Expedition: While The Hindenburg catastrophe didn't happen in-universe (yet), the zeppelins are on the stage of their swan song anyway. Nothing however prevents players from procuring one and even the default, starting adventure is all about using and then maintaining one on the journey to the Hollow Earth via the North Pole shaft. Nazis are also still toying with their own designs, and few Flawed Prototypes show up in the scenarios provided in the expansions — including one fitted with an extra-flammable rocket engine, because all that hydrogen wasn't already dangerous enough. | |
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The evil aristocracy in The Kingdoms of Evil employs gas-filled flying squid as a means of transportation. | |
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Uncanny X-Force: Zeppelins are present in the post-apocalyptic version of the Age of Apocalypse timeline that X-Force visit in search of a MacGuffin. | |
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Zeppelin v. Pterodactyls: The unmade Hammer Studios movie which never got past any further than this poster◊. This was during the early '70s, when Hammer was getting away from its Gothic Horror roots and into Two-Fisted Tales adventure movies, and would often start a movie's development with a poster and title well before they had a full screenplay. | |
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Trout Mask Replica: In the weirdness of the entire album the song "The Blimp" definitely fits this trope. | |
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This turns up with the second word of The Haunting of Alaizabel Cray, a somewhat Lovecraftian novel set in an alternate late-Victorian London. For the record, the first word is "The". In our universe, when Queen Victoria died, Count von Zeppelin hadn't sold even one of his machines, but he had been banging on about them since 1874. | |
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Mystery Men: A few can be seen floating over Champion City. | |
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Heavier-than-air ships powered by a bound elemental are a recent innovation in Eberron and are prohibitively expensive for most, but they're also an icon of the setting and a symbol of its Dungeon Punk character. | |
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Dungeon Keeper Ami: Inverted. The world of Adushul is a Standard Fantasy Setting, and zeppelins are introduced by due to Keeper Mercury. A.k.a Outside-Context Problem character of Sailor Mercury of Sailor Moon, augmented with a magical artifact from their own world. She's a One Woman Industrial Revolution and introduces the idea of zeppelins as quick transport for her troops and rescued prisoners. | |
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There is an airship in the opening sequence of Caprica, and in The Metaverse game New Cap City, a gigantic, heavily armed dirigible circles the virtual city, launching fighter planes and gunning down anyone it sees on the ground. | |
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In Attack on Titan, a subversion is used as one of the major twists of the series. Our introduction to the nation of Marley is a young Grisha Yeager watching a Zeppelin pass overhead as it prepares to land. The world outside the Walled nation is equivalent to the early 20th century, with Zeppelins still the preferred method of air travel while airplanes are beginning to see increased use. | |
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X-Men Noir: One of the few fantastic things to be found in any of the Marvel Noir stories is the O*N*E Dirigicarrier seen in Mark of Cain. And boy, is it ever fantastic: it's a colossal battleship kept airborne by virtue of having several Hindenburg-like zeppelins strapped to its underside. | |
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The War Against the Chtorr: Blimps are used for military and rescue operations, but nothing beats the Hieronymus Bosch, a giant luxury airship (30% longer than the Hindenburg) converted for the scientific expedition in "A Season for Slaughter". | |
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SCP Foundation, SCP-1835 ("Rupertian Zeppelins"). The Federated Empire of Rupertia is a nation in an Alternate Universe that's in a war with the nation of Alaria. Its automated zeppelins sometimes accidentally cross into the Foundation's universe and drop propaganda leaflets. In the same alternate reality, there's the Ghost Airship known as the Black Wyvern (SCP-6835), which is contained by that universe's equivalent of the SCP Foundation. | |
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In The Long Earth, zeppelins are the preferred mode of travel between the millions of parallel Earths humanity has discovered. Potentially any vehicle can dimension hop, but zeppelins, or "twains", are justified on the grounds that: A) You retain your altitude, while the ground may not, so flight is highly recommended, B) Millions of uninhabited Earths means helium is plentiful, and C) Zeppelins don't require airstrips to land safely. Technically, the twains are from our world, since homo sapiens only evolved on one Earth, but it's still a story about alternate universes and zeppelins. | |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_44a5ff02 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_44a5ff02 | comment |
The Flying Cloud is a serial web series about a British airship crew that gets stranded in the Pacific. It's set in an Alternate History where the World War I ended two years early. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_44a5ff02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_44a5ff02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Flying Cloud | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_44a5ff02 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_474c18c1 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_474c18c1 | comment |
BioShock Infinite takes place on Columbia, a floating city built in 1900. There are zeppelins. You have to take one out in a boss battle. It is awesome. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_474c18c1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_474c18c1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
BioShock Infinite (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_474c18c1 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_48b204af | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_48b204af | comment |
Played with in The Genesis of Jenny Everywhere — the title character, existing in all possible universes at once and accessing the thoughts of other versions of herself in her thoughts, is first described as dreaming of "battling airship pirates over the Alps" amongst other exciting and otherworldly adventures. By contrast, this Jenny's world is implied to be mundane and boring- and yet a couple of scenes later, there's a zeppelin heard flying past in the background. In other words, not every Alternate Universe is that exciting. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_48b204af | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_48b204af | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Genesis of Jenny Everywhere | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_48b204af | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_49ad83ee | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_49ad83ee | comment |
Seen in World of Warcraft, usually on the Horde side but sometimes in neutral zones (like Northrend). And originally appeared in Warcraft II on the Horde side thanks to the goblins, whom most others consider crazy for flying in such a contraption. The Alliance's counterpart unit, the Gnomish Flying Machine, was more of a steampunk take on a helicopter, by contrast. |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_49ad83ee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_49ad83ee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
World of Warcraft (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_49ad83ee | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4cb993d6 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4cb993d6 | comment |
Dealt in Lead No zeppelins yet, but war balloons. During The American Civil War. No, they're not used for observation. They're used for wrecking entire cities. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4cb993d6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4cb993d6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dealt in Lead (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4cb993d6 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4df07110 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4df07110 | comment |
Just Imagine is set in the then-futuristic year of 1980, and the sky is filled with zeppelin airliners. Of course, at the time the movie was made (1930), zeppelins really were used as passenger carriers, so audiences at the time would have seen them as futuristic rather than alternate-historical. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4df07110 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4df07110 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Just Imagine | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_4df07110 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_500bac67 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_500bac67 | comment |
Things that look like airships roam the sky in Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion over Mitakihara. This is one of the first indications that something strange is going on. When the truth is revealed, the ships actually catch on fire and crash. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_500bac67 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_500bac67 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_500bac67 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_50cb8af5 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_50cb8af5 | comment |
A variation exists in The Vision of Escaflowne, in which lighter-than-air craft float not due to gasses but "levistones" which decrease in mass when charged with an electrical current. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_50cb8af5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_50cb8af5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Vision of Escaflowne | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_50cb8af5 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_53df806a | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_53df806a | comment |
You can see a huge airship flying in the background in Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy, in much the same way a plane would. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_53df806a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_53df806a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_53df806a | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_55892f9c | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_55892f9c | comment |
Catnapped!: The alternate dimension known as Banipal Witt runs on blimps and pellets, with a bit of primitive-looking technology mixed in. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_55892f9c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_55892f9c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Catnapped! | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_55892f9c | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5755b96a | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5755b96a | comment |
The Order of the Stick: The Anachronism Stew comes with a side-order of airships. It was a Shout-Out to the Final Fantasy games. Specifically to Final Fantasy VI, as all the people are its PCs. Elan and Thog are disguising as Locke and Mog. Interestingly enough, the airship does not in any way look like Final Fantasy VI's Blackjack. There's also one flying over the Gladiator Games in the Empire of Blood |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_5755b96a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5755b96a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Order of the Stick (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5755b96a | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_58102fc6 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_58102fc6 | comment |
The Twilight Histories episode "The Big Turk", set in a world where Mustafa Kemal Ataturk reformed the entire Ottoman Empire into a massive and prosperous Turkish Republic, begins and ends on an airship, though high-speed rail is also mentioned as a popular mode of transportation. An airship also appears at the end of the mini-episode "Beyond the Indus". | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_58102fc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_58102fc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Twilight Histories (Podcast) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_58102fc6 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5851adbc | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5851adbc | comment |
Fire on the Mountain has its point of divergence from real history in 1859. In alternate 1959, there are high speed passenger airplanes, but local mass transit is by zeppelins. Unlike real zeppelins, these float by some form of levitation with superconducting magnets. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5851adbc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5851adbc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fire on the Mountain | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5851adbc | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_59215319 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_59215319 | comment |
Persona 2 makes special mention of a model blimp mounted to the roof of the aerospace museum. Since rumors can become reality in this game, the fact that enough people suspect it's a real, functioning blimp makes it flyable. The launching of the blimp late in Innocent Sin is a signifier that the basic rules of reality no longer apply, right before everything goes completely to hell in the late game. When it launches again (after a Reset Button) in Eternal Punishment after an early-game dungeon, it's a warning that things are moving faster now even without your contribution. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_59215319 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_59215319 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Persona 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_59215319 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5cb3196f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5cb3196f | comment |
The Diamond Age features a very well justified abundance of airships. With ubiquitous nanotech, it's so simple to create objects that are lighter than air but stronger than steel that it's the law you have to add weight to things to make sure the atmosphere isn't filled with lighter-than-air-stronger-than-steel grocery bags clogging engines. As to the airships, when you can create these materials, you don't have to fill the envelope with anything at all. Vacuum is lighter than everything and thanks to nanopumps cheap to create. Airships are so economical that they replace shipping as the bulk transit of choice. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5cb3196f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5cb3196f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Diamond Age | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5cb3196f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5d2848bb | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5d2848bb | comment |
The Ninja Emperor in Sam & Fuzzy has a personal zeppelin the size of the goodyear blimp. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5d2848bb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5d2848bb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Sam & Fuzzy (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5d2848bb | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f834745 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f834745 | comment |
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever: An airship crash near the beginning is used to help show that this is a very different setting. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f834745 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f834745 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f834745 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f89c8b8 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f89c8b8 | comment |
In PS238, which counts as a parallel universe because it's full of superheroes, the distinctly familiar Von Fogg family's not-yet-seen zeppelin is an airborne independent supervillain nation. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f89c8b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f89c8b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
PS238 (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5f89c8b8 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5fc0e68d | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5fc0e68d | comment |
Last Exile: Though it turns out that said zeppelins are actually heavier-than-air ships made to float with the use of Applied Phlebotinum conveniently supplied by a neighboring society that happens to possess somewhat more advanced technology). | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5fc0e68d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5fc0e68d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Last Exile | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_5fc0e68d | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6059ad6b | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6059ad6b | comment |
xkcd has zeppelin appearances signalled by wristwatch dial and elevator button. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6059ad6b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6059ad6b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
xkcd (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6059ad6b | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_622da7da | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_622da7da | comment |
Robur the Conqueror: Majorly subverted by the heavier-than-air design of the Albatross, and by the whole premise that lighter-than-air travel is hopelessly outmoded. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_622da7da | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_622da7da | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Robur the Conqueror | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_622da7da | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_64716a5e | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_64716a5e | comment |
The Dream of Perpetual Motion opens with the protagonist imprisoned for life on board a high-altitude airship, and then shows How We Got Here. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_64716a5e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_64716a5e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Dream of Perpetual Motion | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_64716a5e | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6e859048 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6e859048 | comment |
Presented in Big Hero 6 not as lighter-than-air transport, but as self-supporting wind turbines that (presumably) meet a lot of San Fransokyo's energy needs. In another burst of cultural fusion, they're painted in the style of paper lanterns and carp streamers. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6e859048 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6e859048 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Big Hero 6 | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_6e859048 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_70814599 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_70814599 | comment |
It's a relatively minor instance, but in the Stargate SG-1 episode "Past and Present", SG-1 finds itself on a post-industrial world remarkably similar to our own in the late 19th century. A zoomed-out shot of the city shows a zeppelin floating lazily in the sky. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_70814599 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_70814599 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Stargate SG-1 | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_70814599 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_72262aee | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_72262aee | comment |
Avatar: The Last Airbender has regular, reality-based hot air balloons, and massive '''metal''' airships that are truly from another world. The Legend of Korra also has the large metal airships of its predecessor, albeit with 70 additional years of technological development. |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_72262aee | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_72262aee | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Avatar: The Last Airbender | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_72262aee | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74603f32 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74603f32 | comment |
Arcane: Piltover's steampunk aesthetic means its lousy with airships especially once the Hexgate is built, making the city a hub of airship transportation. Powder dreams of riding one someday while Mylo boasts he'll shoot one down one day. Mylo never gets to accomplish his dream but at least Jinx got to have a shootout in an airship. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74603f32 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74603f32 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Arcane | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74603f32 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7460586f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7460586f | comment |
Archer has the "Skytanic", existing in what seems to be another timeline than our own, where the Cold War never ended. However, the Hindenburg disaster did happen in this universe, and so Archer spends the whole episode convinced the dirigible is a massive explosion waiting to happen, despite the fact that it's filled with inert Helium. However, he also points out that despite its luxury, a relatively slow-moving airship with a single route is utterly pointless in a world of passenger jets. When arguing, he even points out the irony of building a floating vehicle that doesn't travel much faster than a ship. He's vindicated when the ship's captain is revealed to have placed a bomb on board because his employers lost his retirement package after going bankrupt. There's a Genius Bonus for informed viewers in the Captain's earlier defense of cruise airships, in which he points out that they outcompete ocean liners. This is true, but ocean liners themselves died out long ago. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7460586f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7460586f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Archer | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7460586f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74c659e6 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74c659e6 | comment |
More like Zeppelins On Another World in Rocket Age. As rocket engines aren't safe in the atmosphere of Jupiter and the other gas giants, ships designed to explore there can be converted into zeppelins. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74c659e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74c659e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Rocket Age (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_74c659e6 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7588254f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7588254f | comment |
Continuum features a certain future CEO that lives in a penthouse on top of a strange upside-down satellite/Zeppelin that should by all rights capsize immediately, but can fly upright because FUTURE. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7588254f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7588254f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Continuum | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7588254f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_76cb191b | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_76cb191b | comment |
The Invisibles has some of these early on when Dane and Old Tom trip their way to another London. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_76cb191b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_76cb191b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Invisibles (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_76cb191b | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_791e7b7f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_791e7b7f | comment |
Zootopia: A small, red, cargo bearing airship can be seen in the Canal District when Judy rides the train into Zootopia at the beginning of the film. While it's inconclusive to say that all air travel in Zootopia has been supplanted by airships, given there are helicopters present when Lionheart is arrested, it does show that they are connected to the special circumstances of this world by being used to deliver cargo within the highly vertical Rainforest and Canal districts. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_791e7b7f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_791e7b7f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Zootopia | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_791e7b7f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ae8ef1a | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ae8ef1a | comment |
Equilibrium: The sky over Libria is full of zeppelins. In at least one scene, the zeppelin has a screen on the side to broadcast propaganda. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ae8ef1a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ae8ef1a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Equilibrium | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ae8ef1a | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ba56973 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ba56973 | comment |
The Crimson Skies computes games are set in a swashbuckling Diesel Punk 20th century alternate history that has various zeppelins used by both the armed forces and sky pirates as flying aircraft carriers or sky battleships. They often play key points in many levels, serving as the focus of escort missions or in boss encounters. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ba56973 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ba56973 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Crimson Skies (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7ba56973 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7c09d3b8 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7c09d3b8 | comment |
Shadow of the Beast, despite its high-fantasy theme, has airships floating across the sky for no clear reason. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7c09d3b8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7c09d3b8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Shadow of the Beast (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7c09d3b8 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7cf5a07 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7cf5a07 | comment |
In The Flash (2014), what little we see of "Earth-3" includes, naturally, airships. Later on, Earth-X also has them, but with swastikas on the side. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7cf5a07 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7cf5a07 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Flash (2014) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7cf5a07 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7e793c21 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7e793c21 | comment |
Watchmen manages to show a few Zeppelins in the background of some of the shots of New York. This was a thing in the comic book as well, showcasing Dr. Manhattan's ability to synthesize the massive amounts of helium needed. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7e793c21 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7e793c21 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Watchmen | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7e793c21 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7f574499 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7f574499 | comment |
Castle in the Sky: They are huge and largely made of metal with cloth used for some of the smaller ones. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7f574499 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7f574499 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Castle in the Sky | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_7f574499 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_803072ec | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_803072ec | comment |
The Two Georges is about an alternate world where the United States never left the British Empire. The first chapter is set on an airship, where the protagonist sees an Air Force biplane fly past and echoes the general view that while such speed is useful for the military, there's just no need for it in civilian life. This is in fact based on the Imperial Airship Scheme, also known as the Burney Scheme, which proposed that Britain's colonies would be serviced by a fleet of airships. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_803072ec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_803072ec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Two Georges | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_803072ec | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8274ca15 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8274ca15 | comment |
Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider #3 takes place in an Alternate Timeline where Shocker managed to take over the world. So, naturally, amidst all the jackbooting and reich-putting going all around, there are Zeppelins with the Shocker emblem in the sky to tell us how fucked up the time stream is. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8274ca15 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8274ca15 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Super Hero Taisen GP: Kamen Rider #3 | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8274ca15 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_827fa3ab | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_827fa3ab | comment |
Neo Steam has steam balloons, which are basically hot air balloons with propellers (and possibly full of steam...). Unlike other transportation methods the balloons are free to use once you have bought a map. An interesting detail is that rather than play a stock cut scene, the game remains interactive during the journey, so you can zoom in and out and circle around your character as s/he stands in the gondola while the actual terrain you are traversing unrolls below. The balloons can not be seen from the ground though. |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_827fa3ab | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_827fa3ab | featureConfidence |
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Neo Steam (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_827fa3ab | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_848c988e | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_848c988e | comment |
In Die Reise ins All there's the meteor, Captain nemo's airship, that looks a lot like an airship version of the nautilus. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_848c988e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_848c988e | featureConfidence |
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Die Reise Ins All / Videogame | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_848c988e | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_858da35d | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_858da35d | comment |
The Panzer Dragoon series features a large number of various airships. Since you are on a dragon and could just run away from anything that couldn't keep up with you, it's natural enough that it needs a wide array of flying enemies, and since its a steam-punkish universe (with added magic) the vehicles of preference for the evil empire du jour are airships or airshipesque vehicles. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_858da35d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_858da35d | featureConfidence |
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Panzer Dragoon (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_858da35d | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8690627f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8690627f | comment |
Iron Sky has zeppelins that can somehow travel through space from the Moon, and open up to release a swarm of Nazi Flying Saucers. They're also dragging asteroids for Colony Drops. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8690627f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8690627f | featureConfidence |
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Iron Sky | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8690627f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_86c3beca | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_86c3beca | comment |
In Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio, zeppelin warships are the mainstay of the Wulfenbach Empire. The crowning achievement in airship construction is Castle Wulfenbach, a literal floating airship city that easily dwarfs the typical airship. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_86c3beca | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_86c3beca | featureConfidence |
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Girl Genius (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_86c3beca | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_87b55b5d | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_87b55b5d | comment |
The Onion features this in the article "Smithsonian Museum Celebrates Black Alternate History Month with Full-Scale Recreation of W.E.B. Du Bois' War Zeppelin." | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_87b55b5d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_87b55b5d | featureConfidence |
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The Onion (Website) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_87b55b5d | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_88383ee7 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_88383ee7 | comment |
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003): Used as the revelation of the plot twist. After falling through the Gate, Edward finds himself in a world with Zeppelins in the sky... but it's our world: London, mid-WWI. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_88383ee7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_88383ee7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_88383ee7 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8bf31335 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8bf31335 | comment |
The Affinity Bridge, as a function of its Steampunk setting. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8bf31335 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8bf31335 | featureConfidence |
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The Affinity Bridge | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_8bf31335 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90199e38 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90199e38 | comment |
In Somewhither, the empire of Ur from an alternate Earth uses huge combat airships. The protagonist lampshades this trope when he sees one. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90199e38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90199e38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Somewhither | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90199e38 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9045b1b7 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9045b1b7 | comment |
In World War Z, blimps and zeppelins make a comeback due to their low cost, the scarcity of oil, their relatively low noise output compared to planes and helicopters and if they run out of fuel for propulsion, they remain airborne (both of which are vital in a world where zombies outnumber humans at least two to one). The head of the Government's resource management agency notes that he was somewhat less than enamoured with the idea of sending up Americans in hydrogen-filled airships, the only source of naturally-occurring helium in the United States being overrun with zombies, but eventually came around after it was pointed out that we've come on a long way in safe storage techniques for flammable gases since 1937. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9045b1b7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9045b1b7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
World War Z | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9045b1b7 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90b916ba | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90b916ba | comment |
Batman: The Animated Series was fond of these, as they evoked a 1930s atmosphere. Commentary for "On Leather Wings", which was the first episode of the series, acknowledges that Police blimps never really existed, even in the 1930s, but they decided to use them anyway because of the impression they gave of Batman's world. A later episode features a full-scale zeppelin. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90b916ba | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90b916ba | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman: The Animated Series | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90b916ba | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90f18253 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90f18253 | comment |
Battletech has Zeppelins as support vehicles, in small, medium and even large. In addition, the Star League apparently once used a Zeppelin based design to create multi-platform flying cities. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90f18253 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90f18253 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
BattleTech (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_90f18253 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_924c74a | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_924c74a | comment |
Chronicles of the Pneumatic Zeppelin revolves about the adventures of the title Zeppelin. Despite the danger of hydrogen fires, they must be them because of alien obelisks that prevent their using electronics. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_924c74a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_924c74a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
ChroniclesOfThePneumaticZeppelin | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_924c74a | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97135500 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97135500 | comment |
Doc Sidhe is set on an alternate world where zeppelins and autogyros are still cutting-edge aviation technology, and the climactic showdown takes place on board the major villain's airship. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97135500 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97135500 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Doc Sidhe | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97135500 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97218fa4 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97218fa4 | comment |
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal's Metropolis (a recurring level) had airships with Ratchet & Clank advertising which could be destroyed for a skill point. An early teaser for Tools of Destruction also featured them. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97218fa4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97218fa4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_97218fa4 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_979d8a9d | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_979d8a9d | comment |
The Ghoul pirates in Requiem Vampire Knight have a whole city made of such airships named Aerophagia. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_979d8a9d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_979d8a9d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Requiem Vampire Knight (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_979d8a9d | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_985d0d05 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_985d0d05 | comment |
THE MONUMENT MYTHOS has a variation with the Rockefeller "luftshiffes" made by the German Empire in secret collaboration with US president John D. Rockefeller. While their presence in World War One doesn't make them that alternate, their construction and ability does: the gas has been replaced with the severed, flying heads of convicts decapitated with Giza Glass blades. This change in design allows them to bomb targets with near impunity, seemingly because the "pilots" are near indistructible, with the only thing able to effectively take them out being an equally mystical Death Ray. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_985d0d05 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_985d0d05 | featureConfidence |
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THE MONUMENT MYTHOS (Web Video) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_985d0d05 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98c55b59 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98c55b59 | comment |
The beginning of Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura sees the player barely surviving a terrible airship crash. Interestingly, it seems heavier than air ships have a shorter than real-life span of use in Arcanum, as the aforementioned blimp IFS Zephyr (incorrectly called a zeppelin) was the first of its kind and on its maiden voyage, but was destroyed with stolen biplanes. Later in the game, succeeding on one quest and providing proof the biplanes flew insures their continued existence. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98c55b59 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98c55b59 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98c55b59 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98d4a2f9 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98d4a2f9 | comment |
In Imago, which takes place in a fantasy setting inspired by various North African cultures, the equivalent of Tuaregs fly zeppelins and even build settlement out of the carcass of wrecked airships. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98d4a2f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98d4a2f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Imago | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_98d4a2f9 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9983eff5 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9983eff5 | comment |
Captive State: The strange rock-like spaceships that transfer people off-planet are very blimp-like. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9983eff5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9983eff5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Captive State | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9983eff5 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_99af5702 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_99af5702 | comment |
Used in TimeShift. Most of the game takes place in an alternate 1940s, so the zeppelins aren't so far out note In reality the last of the zeppelins was scrapped in April of 1940. The helicopters and giant mechanical spiders, however, make you realize something is more than a little wrong. They are badass zeppelins. They have two giant vertical props, have two heavy-duty AA autocannon turrets, several machinegun emplacements, dedicated lift systems between decks, and self repair capabilities, thus able to fend off a heavy-duty assault by two or three dozen unusually slow jet planes. |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_99af5702 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_99af5702 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
TimeShift (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_99af5702 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9b32982d | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9b32982d | comment |
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight. In this Elseworld Batman story set in the Nineteenth Century, the Gotham police have lighter-than-air patrol craft leading to an Interesting Situation Duel when the villain throws the crew out and then battles Batman on top of the gas envelope while the out-of-control dirigible drifts into buildings and gets fired on by the Trigger-Happy police. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9b32982d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9b32982d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Batman: Gotham by Gaslight | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9b32982d | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e41dff5 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e41dff5 | comment |
The Three Musketeers (2011) had not just one zeppelin, but an entire battle sequence between two flying ships over Notre Dame. At least one of those flying ships also had a flamethrower and a machine gun, and let's not get started on the ending when an entire fleet of these flying ships is preparing to invade England. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e41dff5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e41dff5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
The Three Musketeers (2011) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e41dff5 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e6a761b | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e6a761b | comment |
Fall Out Toy Works: Baron has one as his base of operations — in a Cyberpunk story. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e6a761b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e6a761b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Fall Out Toy Works (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9e6a761b | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9f22267f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9f22267f | comment |
Thorgal has Mayincatec zeppelins. However, it's thanks to the fact that their Physical God (who is actually a descendant of the spaceborne humans who left Atlantis) is capable of creating the gas to float them. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9f22267f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9f22267f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Thorgal (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_9f22267f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a2a386c9 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a2a386c9 | comment |
Even in the far future of Orion's Arm, various kinds of airships are still used. The advanced technology allows for variants that don't (yet) exist in real life, like airships that get their lift from vacuum. Some are even used as places to live in. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a2a386c9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a2a386c9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Orion's Arm (Website) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a2a386c9 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a4296e4 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a4296e4 | comment |
Wings of Vendemiaire: One chapter takes place on a zeppelin, and the whole story take places in a world resembling France around the time of World War I. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a4296e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a4296e4 | featureConfidence |
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Wings of Vendemiaire (Manga) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a4296e4 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a71cb0e6 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a71cb0e6 | comment |
Airborn is set on an alternate world where, due to the existence of an ultra-light gas called hydrium, airships became the primary means of long-distance travel. Features lots of metaphors. There's still an Eiffel Tower, but it's used for mooring. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a71cb0e6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a71cb0e6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Airborn | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a71cb0e6 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a81325d3 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a81325d3 | comment |
The Final Fantasy games love airships; each main-series game includes an airship in the mid- to late game as easy transport around the world. While many of the earlier games are simply sea-ships with propellers on, Final Fantasy VI and VII (both much more technology-oriented than their predecessors) feature actual zeppelins as their major airships, and Final Fantasy IX brings them back as general-use vehicles in a fantasy Steampunk setting. More recent games have airships that look too advanced to be barely recognizable as dirigibles. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a81325d3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a81325d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Final Fantasy (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_a81325d3 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aaaf716a | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aaaf716a | comment |
K-20: Legend of the Mask begins with a few autogyros launching from a zeppelin over the Japanese capital city of Teito in an alternate 1949. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aaaf716a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aaaf716a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
K-20: Legend of the Mask | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aaaf716a | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_abf4c9b3 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_abf4c9b3 | comment |
Zeppelins seem rather abundantly used by villains in the Dead or Alive series, mostly by the evil DOATEC. Their universe seems to be a mix and match of different eras. At DOATEC, it seems to be a big city with elements of Cyberpunk, then there's the ninja clan villages which seem to be stuck in feudal Japan. Oh, and dinosaurs still roam the jungles for some reason. To top it all off, now there's a time travelling Spartan. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_abf4c9b3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_abf4c9b3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Dead or Alive (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_abf4c9b3 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac70897e | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac70897e | comment |
When Stardust's hero finds himself in a magical alternate reality, one of the major setpieces of his adventure is the lightning-hunting airship Caspartine, captained by Robert DeNiro. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac70897e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac70897e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Stardust | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac70897e | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac8b90f5 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac8b90f5 | comment |
Mage: The Ascension: A favorite (if blatantly anachronistic) mode of transportation for the Sons of Ether, who for the most part revel in just the type of aesthetic that would spur mad scientist/mages to build large and improbable airships. They mostly keep their zeppelins to offworld Pocket Dimensions to avoid the threat of a Reality-Breaking Paradox if enough Muggles notice the impossible vessels. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac8b90f5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac8b90f5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Mage: The Ascension (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac8b90f5 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac978b2 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac978b2 | comment |
In Caliphate, given the relative scarcity of oil but plentiful energy thanks to nuclear power, hybrid lifting body airships powered by pebble bed nuclear reactors are the most common mass transportation for both civilian and military purposes in many countries. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac978b2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac978b2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Caliphate | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ac978b2 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ae56742b | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ae56742b | comment |
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness features a sequence of Strange and America Chavez tumbling through several alternate universes' Manhattans. In a Freeze-Frame Bonus, one can spot a zeppelin in flight with the Hydra sigil on its prow, indicating that Hydra won WWII in that universe. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ae56742b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ae56742b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ae56742b | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aedc983a | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aedc983a | comment |
Wing Commander spinoff, Privateer 2: The Darkening, featured the planet Bex, complete with flying zeppelins and purple sky in its intro movie. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aedc983a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aedc983a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Wing Commander (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_aedc983a | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b09d7e7e | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b09d7e7e | comment |
A Central East: Averted while, at the same time, played straight. Zeppelins have not been mentioned once. At the same time, this is the early 20th century, the zenith of the Zeppelin... and this is Another World where nothing so far has made Zeppelins less popular. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b09d7e7e | featureApplicability |
-1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b09d7e7e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
A Central East | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b09d7e7e | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b187842f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b187842f | comment |
Southland Tales: One of the big differences between real 2009 and parallel universe 2009 is the presence of massive perpetual motion-powered Zeppelins. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b187842f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b187842f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Southland Tales | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b187842f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b25b940f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b25b940f | comment |
Lady Mechanika: Zeppelins are commonplace in this world and it's used when a person wishes to travel long distances in comfort. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b25b940f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b25b940f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
Lady Mechanika (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b25b940f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b315ae83 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b315ae83 | comment |
V/H/S: Viral: In the Parallel Monsters segment, it is obvious from the start that there is something wrong with the Alternate Dimension Alfonso is exploring, but it's the sight of a blimp with a huge inverted cross on its side that really sells it. | |
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V/H/S: Viral | hasFeature |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_b3c736aa | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b3c736aa | comment |
Autómata: Swarms of blimps float over cities to act as mechanical clouds, dispensing water in rain, presumably to keep the radiation under control. | |
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Autómata | hasFeature |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_b7e2bb69 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b7e2bb69 | comment |
Syndicate's isometric view is explained as the player commanding the action from an airship floating above the level. | |
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Syndicate / Videogame | hasFeature |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_b85fbbaa | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b85fbbaa | comment |
In The Yiddish Policemen's Union, no actual Zeppelins appear, and the technology is for the most part pretty similar to our timeline's — but in a subtle joke on this trope, the protagonist finds "a windup zeppelin" amongst other junk in a basement. | |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_b8e5dfd9 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_b8e5dfd9 | comment |
In Disco Elysium, these are not seen during gameplay thanks to the top-down isometric perspective, but they are visible in the opening splash screen: rather than seagoing ships, which cannot cross the Pale, large patches of anti-reality which keeps the world's continents — the so-called isolas — seperated, most cargo shipping and passenger travel is accomplished through the use of airships, or aerostats — blocky vessels which resemble aircraft carriers, maneuvering via enormous fixed rotors. Even the equivalent of naval forces use aerostats rather than conventional battleships, such as the Coalition patrol ships off the shore of Revachol which have been a permanent feature of the city's skyline since the end of the World Revolution. | |
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Disco Elysium (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_ba45ed89 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ba45ed89 | comment |
In Terminal World, Swarm is a entire mobile city of zeppelins connected via rope bridges and small dirigible "taxis". Zeppelins have the advantage of being one the safest and fastest methods to travel on a planet where the laws of physics can abruptly change and cause technological failures. Each zeppelin carries multiple redundant weapons, power sources and forms of propulsion, in case the Swarm travels into a Zone where combustion engines or autocannons begin to fail. | |
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Terminal World | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ba45ed89 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bc6846ff | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bc6846ff | comment |
While it's not entirely clear if The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne takes place in an alternate world, the heroes travel the world in an airship much more advanced than possible at the time. Then again, this isn't even the least likely invention in the show (hovering Time Machine, anyone?). A later story arc features a group of baddies copying the design into an even larger, armored airship complete with cannons in order to help the South win The American Civil War. The reasoning is that battlefield artillery is designed to shoot horizontally (which is wrong, especially if mortars are also used) and can't shoot an airship above. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bc6846ff | featureApplicability |
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The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bc6846ff | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bc9d8d9f | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bc9d8d9f | comment |
American Flagg!: "Zeps" are the travel mode of choice in the 2031 setting. | |
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AmericanFlagg | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bc9d8d9f | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bcb32dc6 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bcb32dc6 | comment |
Airship technology turns up from time to time in Shadowrun: in remote drones for aerial surveillance, in huge "cargolifters" for inexpensive bulk transport, and in luxurious cruise ships for the ultra-rich. The finale of the first Shadowrun book takes place at an airfield where a yakuza boss has just flown in on a zeppelin. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bcb32dc6 | featureApplicability |
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Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bcb32dc6 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bef11602 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bef11602 | comment |
In Wolfenstein (2009), one such zeppelin has been hovering over Isenstadt for the whole game, serving as a headquarters for the Nazi's Veil research. The climactic levels involve BJ infiltrating and destroying it. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bef11602 | featureApplicability |
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Wolfenstein (2009) (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_bef11602 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c18bfdae | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c18bfdae | comment |
Blade Runner: Despite being set in a futuristic 2019, the Los Angeles appears to be infested with zeppelins, most of which wind their way through the labyrinthine skyscrapers advertising immigration to the Off-World Colonies and various Chinese/Japanese products. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c18bfdae | featureApplicability |
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Blade Runner | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c18bfdae | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c20bb6fc | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c20bb6fc | comment |
Great Ship: The tree-walkers in The Memory of Sky use blimps and zeppelins for travel between the district's inhabited trees — they are slow enough to be safe to maneuver in crowded areas, and agile enough to maneuver in the upper foliage of the wilderness. The zeppelins have combustion engines (whose iron is extracted from corona blood) and fueled by alcohol. The papio, on the other hand, use airplanes with VTOL capabilities, as they inhabit the coral growing from the rim of the world where large open expanses are more common. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c20bb6fc | featureApplicability |
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Great Ship | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c20bb6fc | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c234561 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c234561 | comment |
Air units in March of War, which takes place in an alternate version of the 1940s, tend to be airships of some kind. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c234561 | featureApplicability |
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March of War (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c234561 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c381cd95 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c381cd95 | comment |
In The Merchant Princes Series, one of the two alternate universes featured in detail uses zeppelins for air travel. (The other one has a roughly medieval level of technology, so it doesn't have air travel at all.) | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c381cd95 | featureApplicability |
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The Merchant Princes Series | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c381cd95 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c43df4d8 | comment |
Doctor Who: In "Rise of the Cybermen", the Doctor immediately notices that they've slipped into a parallel world when he sees zeppelins in the sky above London. "The Wedding of River Song" opens with a montage of anachronisms ("Do Not Feed the Pterodactyls" sign, Holy Roman Emperor Winston Churchill, Charles Dickens interviewed on television, etc.) starting, of course, with a sky full of hot-air balloons. Carrying cars. |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_c43df4d8 | featureApplicability |
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Doctor Who | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c43df4d8 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c8c98633 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c8c98633 | comment |
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 (Both set in separate alternate timelines) feature the Kirov Airships, massive, heavily armoured war Zepplins used by the Soviet Union to bombard ground targets. Cutscenes and promo pictures, as well as the menu screen for Red Alert 3 show them looming ominously over US Cities. This is explained as an alternative approach to aircraft due to the Allies forbidding the Soviets from building a strong conventional air force. While the Soviets do get additional aircraft in Yuri's Revenge, this takes place after the main storyline, giving the Soviets more time to build fast-strike MiGs. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c8c98633 | featureApplicability |
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Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_c8c98633 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cae652c | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cae652c | comment |
In the Hunter × Hunter world, airships are the only air transportation system. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cae652c | featureApplicability |
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Hunter × Hunter (Manga) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cae652c | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cb1e142a | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cb1e142a | comment |
Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lampshades this when the Turtles point out the Gotham City skyline is full of Awesome, but Impractical police blimps. Later in the movie, Donatello and Michelangelo are saved when one of those 'useless' police blimps break their fall. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cb1e142a | featureApplicability |
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Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cb1e142a | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cd47b5dd | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cd47b5dd | comment |
The "blimps" that ply the "skies" of the giant living space habitat Gaia in the Gaea Trilogy are literally Zeppelins from another world. They aren't machines, though: they are living, sentient creatures kept aloft by naturally produced hydrogen. Sometimes they allow people to hitch rides. They're terrified of fire, for good reason. At least partially because of this, they (and most of the main characters) hate "buzzbombs", heavier-than-air flying creatures that have what amounts to an organic ramjet embedded in their bodies and are described as being something like sharks mentally. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cd47b5dd | featureApplicability |
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Gaea Trilogy | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cd47b5dd | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cfd569c5 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cfd569c5 | comment |
Proxima ends with a band of explorers emerging on a world to be confronted by an airship piloted by an angry Roman. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cfd569c5 | featureApplicability |
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Proxima | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_cfd569c5 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d04ab162 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d04ab162 | comment |
Figment (Disney Kingdoms): Somewhat literal when Dreamfinder creates a portal to jump into and create the attraction's iconic flying machine. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d04ab162 | featureApplicability |
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Figment (Disney Kingdoms) (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d04ab162 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d2391df6 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d2391df6 | comment |
The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids: The parallel world seen in Genesis of the Cupids prominently includes airships. One particularly large one is stolen by the Imperial Imperator and crashed into the great Clock-Tower in the climax. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d2391df6 | featureApplicability |
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The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (Website) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d2391df6 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d25037f5 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d25037f5 | comment |
Greg Mandel Trilogy: Airships are being used in a global-warming world, but it's mentioned in Mindstar Rising that they are only a viable technology after the development of superstrength monolattice composites built in orbital microgravity factories. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d25037f5 | featureApplicability |
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Greg Mandel Trilogy | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d25037f5 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d40b489b | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d40b489b | comment |
Drifting Dragons: Airships appear to be the principal means of transportation in the setting. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d40b489b | featureApplicability |
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Drifting Dragons (Manga) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d40b489b | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d42ed1be | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d42ed1be | comment |
Job: A Comedy of Justice has the main character from a zeppelin-filled world, slipping into a world with no air traffic at all, and then into one with similar technology to our own. One especially well-done part is when he attempts to explain to the readers what an airplane looks like from the perspective of someone who's never seen one before. It's explained that in this alternate reality, heavier-than-air flight is proven to be mathematically impossible and that zeppelins travel at mach speeds. | |
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Job: A Comedy of Justice | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d42ed1be | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d531b6f7 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d531b6f7 | comment |
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, set in a Diesel Punk version of 1939, opens with the Hindenburg III docking with the Empire State Building. While the building was in fact designed with a mooring mast, the idea was dropped after tests with a U.S. Navy airship showed that wind turbulence caused by the surrounding skyscrapers made it too hazardous. Well, that and the fact that most passengers found the idea of crossing a gangplank 1000 feet above the street more than a little intimidating. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d531b6f7 | featureApplicability |
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d531b6f7 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d5ddd6c1 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d5ddd6c1 | comment |
Pokémon: The Series: Zeppelins and blimps (along with windmills, solar power, and other eco-friendly technologies) are a big part of the "just like ours only better" world. That said, there are also plenty of airplanes, cars, and other "realistic" technology. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d5ddd6c1 | featureApplicability |
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Pokémon: The Series | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d5ddd6c1 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d6423831 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d6423831 | comment |
In the John Carter of Mars series, airships — ranging from small personal flyers to spectacular airborne battleships — are very common among the cities of the Red Martians. The Black Martians also have a formidable aerial navy, which features prominently in The Gods of Mars. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d6423831 | featureApplicability |
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John Carter of Mars | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d6423831 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d66ef045 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d66ef045 | comment |
Atlantis: The Lost Empire shows why people riding in hydrogen-filled dirigibles shouldn't back-stab badass subordinates packing flare guns. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d66ef045 | featureApplicability |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d66ef045 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d841a3ee | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d841a3ee | comment |
In The Red Star, the military power of the Soviet-esque Reds is based on their great fleet of "skyfurnaces," which are essentially kilometer-long flying battleships/carriers/troop transports that run on magic. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d841a3ee | featureApplicability |
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The Red Star (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_d841a3ee | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_db96ded4 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_db96ded4 | comment |
The Legend of Korra also has the large metal airships of its predecessor, albeit with 70 additional years of technological development. | |
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The Legend of Korra | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_db96ded4 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e0e18eca | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e0e18eca | comment |
In Decades of Darkness, they're used to great success in the North American War and the Brazilian Civil War. | |
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Decades of Darkness | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e0e18eca | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e1a87807 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e1a87807 | comment |
In The Saboteur, Nazi zeppelins act like helicopters from GTA. It is worth mentioning that these airships can be shot down in a fiery inferno. | |
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The Saboteur (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e1a87807 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e21b4346 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e21b4346 | comment |
Guns of Icarus has you pilot a zeppelin called the Icarus across a post-apocalyptic landscape, fighting off Sky Pirates along the way. | |
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Guns of Icarus (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e21b4346 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e43ccc76 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e43ccc76 | comment |
Kiki's Delivery Service has a huge polar exploration zeppelin as befits its Retro Universe setting. It also escapes its mooring and crashes spectacularly, proving that Kiki's world, while different, is not all that different from ours. Hayao Miyazaki adores blimps so much, he has been credited as the inspiration for the presence of airships in works like Up, Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Final Fantasy. | |
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Kiki's Delivery Service | hasFeature |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_e5c5bc22 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e5c5bc22 | comment |
GURPS, being a generic system, addresses the subject of airship technology from time to time — often in relation to alternate histories, as it turns out. Kenneth Hite (see above) was one of the authors of Infinite Worlds, and one of his contributions was a table to randomly generate alternate technologies for one's randomly generated worldline; it has a note that certain results dictate adding zeppelins regardless of the rest of the universe's tech level. Apparently, alternate history just generates airships. GURPS Steampunk 1: Settings and Style has a box-out discussing what a world or setting needs to justify the survival and prevalence of airships, and concludes that they are actually a logical fit with Steampunk. GURPS All-Star Jam 2004, a 10-chapter compilation of various roleplaying concepts and settings, devotes one chapter (by Brian J Underhill) to airships. |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_e5c5bc22 | featureApplicability |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_e5c5bc22 | |
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Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e67a7d6c | comment |
Negima! Magister Negi Magi pulls this off in the Magic World with Great Flying Whales. You can even see a flying ammonite in the first spread. | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi (Manga) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_e67a7d6c | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ebe37329 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ebe37329 | comment |
In Flying Circus, the Great War stunted technology to the equivalent of the early-20th century, zeppelins and other airships remain a mainstay in Himmilgard. Airships appear through the artwork to bring home the setting's tech level. | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ebe37329 | featureApplicability |
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Flying Circus (Tabletop Game) | hasFeature |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_ebe37329 | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_f0e68fa9 | type |
Zeppelins from Another World | |
Zeppelins from Another World / int_f0e68fa9 | comment |
The titular Leviathan in the Leviathan series is a living airship in an alternate history with Organic Technology. | |
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The Hubris in More Information Than You Require, a massive zeppelin that the author buys from Emo Philips. Counts as another world because according to this book, Thomas Jefferson was friends with the mole men, axolotls have magical powers, and Enrico Fermi was an alien. | |
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The Windup Girl is set in a Post-Peak Oil world, so dirigibles powered by kink-springs and other alternate energies have replaced the now obsolete airliners. | |
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Books of the Raksura: Downplayed. One remote cliffside city is extremely proud of its unique blimps, which it uses for trade and defense. The Raksura visitors are used to seeing magic-powered Cool Airships, so they studiously avoid mentioning how ridiculous the blimps look in comparison. | |
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In the 1632 series, Marlon Pridmore uses his experience as a balloonist to help the Danes build a dirigible to bring home nutmeg from their Indian colony of Tranquebar. Also, without any experience, but with a lot of brute force, Berni Zeppi helps the Russians build their own dirigible, which they use to beat a Polish-Lithuanian army. | |
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The Ancient Decepticons from Transformers: Cybertron can combine into these (shattering combination records for the franchise in the process). | |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_f6236e31 | type |
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2000 AD: In the "Tharg's 3rillers" story "The English Astronaut", when multiple possible timelines start colliding, there are three airships (and a Flying Saucer) in the skies over London. One "normal", one crashing, and one with a sign painted on it reading "ALTERNATE REALITY SIGNIFIERS: YOUR AD HERE". | |
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Transition invokes this — a man who frequently travels between universes at one point looks up at the sky when arriving in a new one, searching for zeppelins. As he says, he 'likes it when there's zeppelins'. | |
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The Red Mars Trilogy has a fleet of automated "air"ships used both for exploration and as part of the early terraforming effort (ultimately a failure, but it turns out somewhat useful anyway), so they're Zeppelins on another world as well. There's solid science backing this: Mars has a much thinner atmosphere than Earth, so fixed-wing aircraft have trouble generating lift there — a problem that lighter-than-air vehicles do not share. Due that much thinner atmosphere, however, the zeppelins need to be very large. Later (post-terraforming, with a much denser atmosphere), a transforming high-tech sailboat turns into a blimp to escape rough seas. | |
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Mortal Engines has a lot of Zeppelins, though it's a post-apocalyptic future version of this world rather than a parallel one. Heavier-than-air flight is reinvented over the course of the series. | |
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In the setting of Space 1889, most flying ships on Earth and Mars use "Martian liftwood" to stay aloft, giving them a more ship-like appearance. But on Venus liftwood doesn't work, so the German colony there is patrolled by Zeppelins — on another world in another world. | |
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Zeppelins from Another World / int_fcacaa36 | type |
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This trope is heavily downplayed in The Man in the High Castle. Establishing shots of the Nazi-occupied New York occasionally contain zeppelins in the distant skyline. However, the show prefers to use Concorde aircraft (which were invented a couple decades earlier in the series' timeline compared to ours) with its distinctive sonic boom to convey the "this is an alternate universe" feeling. | |
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The Borrowers (1997) has numerous indicators that is set in a mid-Atlantic retro universe, not least of all being the constant presence of one or more zeppelins in the sky. | |
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