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Flying Saucer
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })The stereotypical alien spaceship of many a sci-fi epic is the ubiquitous flying saucer. For some reason spacefaring civilizations across the galaxy have determined that a flying disc is the most effective and efficient means of crossing the void. In actuality the most efficient design for a spacecraft would likely be a sphere as this shape encloses the greatest volume with the least amount of material. They just don't look very cool or quite as alien, though they have their own charms. But there can be some merits to this design as some of them are seen rotating and might therefore use the Centripetal force to create an Artificial Gravity, They also have a smaller radar cross-section compared to some other shapes, like the previous mentioned sphere or That's No Moon! The term comes from Kenneth Arnold's description of a UFO sighting. Arnold described their flight (but not their shape) as "like saucers skipping across water." Nevertheless, the term stuck. Flying Saucers are the most reported type of UFO (and the most commonly hoaxed type as well) though it is unknown if the term was being used by the witness as an interchangeable word for UFO or describing the nature of the UFO (the term UFO describes any possible aircraft shape, as long as it is Unidentified.) Flying Saucers are still reported today, with a recent one reported over Chicago O'Hare airport in 2006. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })See also Little Green Men and The Greys, the most common aliens in UFO culture. Examples: |
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Such spacecrafts are among the numerous targets from the shooting minigame from both Wii Play and Wii Play: Motion. | |
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Mindwarp: These appear at several points, but it's not the saucers that are dangerous, but the aliens they bring. eventually revealed to be time machines rather than spacecraft. | |
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The Jetsons fly around in a UFO large enough to fit 4-5 characters comfortably, replacing cars as everyday transport in the future. | |
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Wild Zero has dozens of flying saucers swarming over Earth to cause a Zombie Apocalypse. | |
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In the Master of Orion reboot, the Psilons use this type of design for their ships. | |
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In scurrilous adult comic Viz, Johnny Fartpants note There's always a commotion going on in his pants! is used by NASA as the propulsion system for an experimental spacecraft using the power of his flatulence to drive the vessel at incredible speeds. | |
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In The Adventures of Figaro Pho, one appears in the opening for both seasons so far. In both openings, it's the first supernatural threat to appear. | |
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Wild ARMs 3 had an Alien Invasion sidequest where you had to shoot down a bunch of these with your Transforming Mecha of a mechanical dragon. | |
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Both Batman and The Wild Wild West did episodes in which the (human) villains of the week attempt to run an "invading aliens" con which involves using a flying saucer prop. | |
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The Visitor ships in V (1983) are saucer-shaped. | |
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) | |
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The Disneyland documentary episode "Mars and Beyond", while speculating on possible intelligent life on Mars, shows an animated flyer saucer, rapidly followed by a flying (lit) cigar, a flying lampshade and a flying water bottle. Wernher von Braun objected to what he saw as Hollywood frivolity, so the narrator suggests that humanity will one day develop an 'electromagnetic drive' saucer spaceship. The final scene shows several flying saucers zooming over a domed human colony on Mars, ascending into a giant mothership saucer which flies off into interstellar space. Also worthy of note are the 'umbrella ships' of the Mars Expedition Fleet, each topped with a huge round heat radiator for the atomic generator. | |
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Woah Dave! has these show up to move platforms around later on. | |
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Pixar Shorts: Unidentified Flying Mater has Mater himself. | |
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Featured several times in the Mega Man (Classic) series, with Dr. Wily's escape pod sometimes resembling a UFO. One of Wily's Robot Masters, Galaxy Man from Mega Man 9, has a top half that is built like a flying saucer. His stage also features a saucer-shaped enemy called the Adamski, named for ufologist George Adamski. | |
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These make up a good number of the vehicles in Calculords; naturally they're piloted by The Greys. Most have the "Flying" ability, which grants immunity to Splash Damage, almost all Herd Hitting Attacks, and land mines. Oh, and there's a "UFO Abductor" card — it removes the weakest enemy unit from the lane it's played in. The enemy commander Uracillon, himself a Grey alien, makes extensive use of saucer units. | |
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Players can sometimes see flying saucers (labeled as "Unknown Object") zipping about in the X-Universe games. They don't interact with anything in the game, and will fly through the universe until they inevitably plow into something. The literature explains them as belonging to a Precursor race called the Sohnen, a species of Mechanical Lifeforms whom the Ancients use to interact with the world outside their presence cloud when the need arises. | |
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Looney Tunes: Marvin the Martian is often seen flying in these. | |
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Mr Blank's Little Green Men get around in Flying Saucers, though they're referred to as UFOs. | |
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Hedgewars lets you use these as a mobility tool. They're hard to control, but they don't end your turn and can take you just about everywhere. | |
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In some games, Kirby can transform himself into a flying saucer with the UFO copy ability. It allows Kirby to float around freely (as opposed to his normal method of flight) and shoot laser beams. The only drawback is that he is unable to go down ladders or slip through narrow floors while in this form. Some UFOS are also used by the Squeaks. There is also a UFO enemy called Mr. UFO. |
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Aliens almost always use them in Frank and Ernest. | |
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Interestingly, in The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, the only flying saucer is of human design (reminiscent of the Avrocar but much larger). It was in development before the Outsiders even invaded, although it incorporates some elerium-derived technology and is later enhanced with recovered Outsider tech. Technically, Titans are also flying saucers, but they are, basically, this game's version of Cyberdiscs (i.e. flying robots). |
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One of these is piloted by a stereotypical 'grey' alien (as opposed to the more normal aliens) in an episode of the Tenchi Muyo! manga. | |
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Although he's human, Calvin and Hobbes' Spaceman Spiff pilots a one-seater saucer. | |
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The Trash Alien in Math Blaster Episode 1: In Search of Spot flies around in a red one. | |
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Other sci-fi films by Toho usually go for the saucer shape as well, such as The Mysterians and its sequel Battle in Outer Space. Unusually, the saucers are not always perfectly circular and rarely spin around like they usually do in western depictions. | |
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The enemy mother ship that attacks Katina in Star Fox 64 is a flying saucer. The whole mission is an Independence Day shout out, the saucer will destroy the Katina base with a similar Wave Motion Gun if you fail to destroy it. | |
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In Ready Jet Go!, the Propulsions have a minivan which turns into a flying saucer in space. | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Hondo Ohnaka's pirate gang tools around in these. | |
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Let's not forget good ol' Space Invaders, which has a saucer flying across the top of the screen every so often. Shoot it down for bonus points! | |
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Subverted in Slipping Between Worlds, where the Discworld goes through its own War of the Worlds mass panic and everyone swears blind the aliens have landed from their incredibly advanced flying discs, you know, the ones with the deadly ray gonnes what are just about to blast the Patrician's palace into atoms, just keep watching, squire, sooner or later the mothership is going to pop out of invisibility just over Broad Way, let's see how that wily bugger Vetinari gets out of this one, and so on. | |
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In Sinfest, the aliens arrive in one.] | |
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The Martians in the Metal Slug series attack in several sizes of flying saucers, ranging from the tiny personal vehicles to the massive, city-sized mothership. | |
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Persona 5 has one in Futaba Sakura's persona Necronomicon. | |
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One of the many odd things used as transportation by the Item World pirates in Disgaea 3. | |
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One of the rarer enemies in Zombies Ate My Neighbors are the Martians, who come to Earth in flying saucers. The saucers attack with arcs of electricity fired downward and can't be destroyed any way other than managing to land enough exploding soda cans in the open hatch on top. | |
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And who can forget Exeter's ship from This Island Earth, which could readily be described as a flying cowboy hat! | |
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Mars Attacks! cribs its saucer design directly from Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, all it the name of Affectionate Parody, and utilizing modern CGI to emulate the stop-motion spinning effect. | |
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The cover of Earth vs. The Radiators by The Radiators (US) (as well as the associated concert film) has a flying saucer approaching Earth...sporting a bumper sticker for the band. | |
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Played with in the opening of Captain America: The First Avenger. In a scene similar to The Thing from Another World something is found buried under the ice in the Arctic, and one character jokes it's probably a weather balloon. They come across what appears to be a UFO sticking out of the ice, but then the Reveal Shot shows it's just the wingtip, and the shape of a massive flying wing is outlined with light poles. | |
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The Miranu of Escape Velocity Override uses a half-saucer as the basis of their ship designs (cut vertically), but the shipyard description of their Scout class mentions that earlier generations of it were full saucers. | |
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Flying saucers appear in The Sims 2. | |
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The Europans' ship of choice in Rocket Age. The saucers use Gravitic Pulse drives, making them seem to move against the laws of physics. | |
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The Prawns' ship in District 9 is a massive flying saucer with a bunch of industrial-looking pipes and tanks attached to the bottom. | |
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Sword of the Stars has these in Zuul Slave Disks, the Ten Rings of the Von Neumann Berserkers and the Peacekeeper Enforcer. The former two of which are Riders that detach from larger carrier ships, and the Zuul do abduct people if several million at a time and they look nothing like Greys. | |
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Destroy All Humans! is a game about the stereotypical inhabitants of the aforementioned floating disks. Laser beams and brain eating are just extra treats. | |
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The Great Gazoo from The Flintstones has a UFO; sometimes it's large enough to comfortably fit 1 normal-sized person, and other times he barely fits with his helmet serving as the round top. | |
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They appear in the Fallout universe as well. In one Fallout 3 DLC you get captured and sent to one, which you eventually capture just as another tries to bring you down. | |
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The Flipside of Dominick Hide: The time machines used by Dominick and the other Corros for observations resemble small, fairground ride-sized, flying saucers. Larger ones exist for tour groups though. | |
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A frozen flying saucer appears in Ice Age when the herd passed an ice cave. In the teaser trailer for Ice Age 5: Collision Course we see how presumably exactly this flying saucer gets accidentally activated by Scrat. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Star Trek: Federation's standard design for non-shuttlecraft ships, each one is composed of a circular or oval saucer attached to 2 or 3 warp nacelles attached in different places. Picard's version can separate its saucer section from its star-drive section, though the budget prevented The Powers That Be from having it do this with any regularity. The fact that the crew time traveled back to 20th Century Earth at least once provides some fun seeds for Epileptic Trees about the origin of flying saucers amongst human society. Spoofed in Sev Trek: Pus in Boots where the saucer section is used to transport a meal of chicken drumsticks, chips, peas and crouton torpedoes, all of which fall off whenever the ship goes to warp. The Romulan Bird of Prey, as featured in the original series, was a saucer with a pair of warp nacelles mounted on struts, stylized to look like a pair of wings. |
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When the Fantastic Four first encountered the invading alien Skrulls (way back in Fantastic Four #2), the team hijacked their flying saucer and kept it in storage in the Baxter Building for years. In the early 80's, Rom Spaceknight finally used it to return to his home planet Galador. | |
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Super Mario Bros.: The Shroobs from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time invade the Mushroom Kingdom in these kinds of spaceships. Also, the Starshrooms from both Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel. In Super Mario 3D Land, if you use a binocular pad to look directly upwards and zoom in to the max in World 1-3, a flying saucer will fly by and disappear. Super Mario Odyssey: The Broodals sometimes retreat in their hats during battles and fly, making them look like UFOs. There's also the boss Torkdrift in the Steam Gardens level, as well as an enemy called a Yoofoe which is clearly based on the idea. A very small flying saucer appears behind the cathedral in the Lunar Kingdom where it behaves like a little bird, flying away when Mario approaches. Closer inspection reveals that it is a miniature Torkdrift, with a single lily within it. |
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Conquest: Frontier Wars has the Oracle-class ships for the Celareons, which are their unarmed scout ships. They look like your stereotypical flying saucers, albeit tiny ones (compared to some other ships) and are capable of cloaking. | |
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Gamera, in his flying form, resembles a flying saucer made of turtle meat. | |
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In the Animorphs series, the Skrit Na are described as using saucer-shaped spacecraft, implied to be because they need aereodynamic ships capable of traveling through atmospheres quickly as well as through space. | |
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Teenagers from Outer Space has a unique twist on the classic flying saucer: the alien ship is essentially a gigantic screw with a UFO as its head. When it lands, the screw part drills into the ground so only the head is left exposed, looking like a normal flying saucer has landed. | |
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Plan 9 from Outer Space, although nonsensically, one of the saucers is described as "cigar-shaped", when it clearly isn't. They clearly have some kind of shape-shifting mode, since the scenes with people entering through its hatch show it with flat sides at 90-degree angles, much like a... shed of some sort! |
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In one of The History of the Galaxy novels, a human colony is attacked by a massive automated mothership built millions of years ago. In a serious case of artistic license, the main character notes its circular shape and comments that it is the most efficient form for a spacecraft. | |
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There are several Flying Saucers in UFO Robo Grendizer, which can launch smaller flying saucers. | |
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When aliens appear in a Godzilla movie, more often than not, they're flying around in one of these. In Godzilla 2000, the monster was the flying saucer, until it got out of it to provide a traditional giant monster battle. Other sci-fi films by Toho usually go for the saucer shape as well, such as The Mysterians and its sequel Battle in Outer Space. Unusually, the saucers are not always perfectly circular and rarely spin around like they usually do in western depictions. |
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They Live shows a nightmarish version of Earth where aliens freely walk among us, holographically disguised as humans. In one brief scene it is shown that they also have flying saucer drones that patrol cities disguised as helicopters. | |
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Nibbler and his race in Futurama each own their own very small UFO "warmachines", which can almost contain a whole human with their Nibblonian pilot. Omicronians use saucers with mechanical legs around the edge. Strangely enough, the Hubble Space Telescope has the same design. |
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Spinnerette has the Avrocar, the pinnacle of Canadian Aerospace Engineering, which turns out to be a piece of crap. It's actually based off of the actual Avrocar built by aircraft manufacturers Avro. It was also a piece of crap until someone added a heavy rubber skirt, and thus invented the hovercraft. | |
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In Super Mario 3D Land, if you use a binocular pad to look directly upwards and zoom in to the max in World 1-3, a flying saucer will fly by and disappear. | |
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In Independence Day, the Alien Invaders nuke cities by directing a Wave Motion Gun down from the centre of their ships. | |
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The Thing from Another World (1951). The search team position themselves around the edge of the crashed 'aircraft' under the ice and realise they're forming a perfect circle, whereupon they become quite excited at having "finally found one". | |
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Main vehicle of the Watchers in Dark Void. | |
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Star Wars: the Millennium Falcon, of course. | |
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Many times, they used the model of C57D from Forbidden Planet for their spaceships, notably in "The Invaders" and "Death Ship." Angnes Moorehead (Endora from Bewitched) smashes one of these in "The Invaders." Fortunately it's a breakaway replica and not the original used in preceding shots. | |
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Project UFO, being lifted from the pages of Project Bluebook, had its fair share of these. | |
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Most aliens in the Ultra Series pilot flying saucers unless they can fly through space. Ultraman Leo's Flying Saucer Beasts (or Enban Seibutsu, literally "Living Saucers") are an entire class of kaiju able to fly through space in the form of flying saucers, and varying in appearance from the Flying Seafood Special Silver Bloome to the Teru Teru Bozu-based Nova to the dragon-like Black End. All of them are the servants of Commander Black and become some of Leo's most dangerous foes in the later part of the series' run. |
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V/H/S/2's 'Slumber Party Alien Abduction' segment depicts Gary being lifted into one at the very last moment, though only the lights can be seen. | |
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Not too common but known in Perry Rhodan. The Yülziish civilization (perhaps better known by their English-language nickname "Blues") does traditionally use disk-shaped starships, Terran-built "Space-Jets" are small secondary and scout craft constructed along similar lines, and the aliens behind the original flying saucer sightings eventually put in an appearance as well (they turn out to work for the setting's notional forces of "order" and encounters typically involve only a single actual alien with the rest of the crew being subservient androids). In the latter case, the "saucers" are once again actually secondary craft; the bigger and more rarely seen motherships are instead cylindrical. | |
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The Jupiter-2 from Lost in Space. | |
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The Proteus-Z in Space Age is a chrome saucer, as part of the game's 1940s-inspired setting. | |
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The Naval Ops series has a handful of flying saucers as enemies, as well as the Halberd series of aircraft that you can acquire for your own ships. | |
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Uryuoms were once shown in one of these in El Goonish Shive, while showing how The Masquerade there worked. The solution? A banner saying 'We are not aliens!'. For most, it's true. | |
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Spelunky features these as opponents in the ice-caves section of the game, piloted by green tentacled blobs. | |
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Brainiac's original spaceship was a purple flying saucer, which he used until he acquired his now-iconic skull-shaped spaceship in the early 80's. | |
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Super Mario Odyssey: The Broodals sometimes retreat in their hats during battles and fly, making them look like UFOs. There's also the boss Torkdrift in the Steam Gardens level, as well as an enemy called a Yoofoe which is clearly based on the idea. A very small flying saucer appears behind the cathedral in the Lunar Kingdom where it behaves like a little bird, flying away when Mario approaches. Closer inspection reveals that it is a miniature Torkdrift, with a single lily within it. |
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Doctor Who: The Dalek warships from the new series provide the page image, from "The Parting of the Ways". This is a Continuity Nod to their use as Dalek spacecraft in the early episodes, made back in the '60's when this trope was all the rage. "The Husbands of River Song": River arrives onto the scene in a very retro red one. |
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Also, the Starshrooms from both Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Earth vs. the Flying Saucers is THE flying saucer movie. The saucers, depicted by stop-motion animation, have rotating sections on the tops and bottoms that move in opposite directions, massive ray-guns, force-fields, translator devices inside, and nearly impenetrable armor. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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The JAG episode "Impact" has a flying saucer-like craft built by a Covert Group with Mundane Front. | |
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The Gerry and Sylvia Anderson 1970s series UFO (obviously), though they were more conical than saucer-shaped. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Ultraman Leo's Flying Saucer Beasts (or Enban Seibutsu, literally "Living Saucers") are an entire class of kaiju able to fly through space in the form of flying saucers, and varying in appearance from the Flying Seafood Special Silver Bloome to the Teru Teru Bozu-based Nova to the dragon-like Black End. All of them are the servants of Commander Black and become some of Leo's most dangerous foes in the later part of the series' run. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Star Trek: Generations stands out just because it's one of the very few times we actually get to see the Enterprise-D use it's saucer separation feature. | |
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| Flying Saucer / int_d36b8ea7 | type |
Flying Saucer | |
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In a linked Legend of Zelda Oracle Series game, Maple the witch will eventually upgrade from Flying Broomstick to Flying Vacuum Cleaner to Flying Saucer if she gathers enough Rupees from you. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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In Godzilla 2000, the monster was the flying saucer, until it got out of it to provide a traditional giant monster battle. | |
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The racing game Re-Volt has a flying saucer as a hidden car, available only via cheats. It pretty much drives like a normal car (though its speed and other characteristics make it a Game-Breaker), but hovers a bit after leaping off ramps, sometimes flying for really long distances. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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The first event of the first story in The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! is a flying saucer crashing into Bob's roof. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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The Shroobs from Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time invade the Mushroom Kingdom in these kinds of spaceships. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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You'll be seeing a lot of these in Touhou Undefined Fantastic Object. It's a Shout-Out to Space Invaders. Turns out they really are undefined objects; they only look like what you ''think'' they are. |
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Flying Saucer | |
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At the beginning of Fortunately, the Milk, the protagonist is abducted by hostile aliens flying in a huge, humming silver disc. | |
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Flying saucers with stolen Mii faces are among the numerous bizarre enemies Miis have to fight in Miitopia. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Naturally, some of the alien ships in the XCOM series fall under this, as does one of the ships you can manifacture in the first game. Interestingly, in The Bureau: XCOM Declassified, the only flying saucer is of human design (reminiscent of the Avrocar but much larger). It was in development before the Outsiders even invaded, although it incorporates some elerium-derived technology and is later enhanced with recovered Outsider tech. Technically, Titans are also flying saucers, but they are, basically, this game's version of Cyberdiscs (i.e. flying robots). |
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Flying Saucer | |
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The Orion VII and VIII in Raumpatrouille. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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The mechanical men of Muni-Mula come to Earth in a flying saucer and make off with Ruff and Reddy in their first adventure ("Planet Pirates"). | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Earth Defense Force 5: The large alien mother ship encountered early on and its smaller laser firing attack drones are all flying saucers. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Freeza and his family seem to favour these in Dragon Ball Z, although they have retractable "legs" for landings. | |
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Hidamari Sketch: Yuno gets abducted by aliens in said Adamski flying saucer while napping on the school roof, but it is All Just a Dream (or was it?) | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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The "interdimensional beings" (read: aliens) in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull used a flying saucer, although you can't see it very well on account of it having been buried for a few thousand years. (It's briefly visible after taking off, right before it jumps into "the space between spaces".) | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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The goal in Wii Party's minigame Saucer Snap is to photograph it. It zooms from one side of the screen to the other and the Mii with the most centered photograph wins. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Prometheus has a brief appearance by a flying saucer in the opening sequence. It is so large that when it manouvres, the clouds flow around it. | |
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Terraria has the "boss" enemy of the Martian Madness event, the Martian Saucer. It flies around, firing rapid laser shots, homing missiles, as well as having a Wave Motion Gun Death Ray that it fires downwards. It can drop the Cosmic Car Key on defeat, which allows the player to have their own flying saucer mount with infinite flight time and fast speed. | |
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City of Heroes has the Rikti, whose crashed mothership is an enormous saucer. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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One of the Aeon experimental-class units in Supreme Commander, the Czar, is an Airborne Aircraft Carrier in the form of a flying saucer. Naturally, it has a Wave Motion Gun in the middle. The sequel removes the carrier aspect and trades it for lots more weaker lasers and lots of little bombs. It keeps the giant middle laser, though. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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Transformers: The Autobot Cosmos had this as his alt-mode. As one of the few Transformers who can reach escape velocity unaided, his job was orbital recon. He considered it boring and lonely at times and often got into mischief. He once got into trouble with the U.S. government who thought he was an alien UFO, though technically he is. His Japanese name, Adams, is a tribute to George Adamski. However, his alt mode has brought up a bit of Fridge Logic on the TF Wiki: where exactly did he scan his alt mode from? Well, for his Movie universe counterpart it was his native Cybertronian alternate form. It's possible the same is true for his G1 incarnation. |
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Flying Saucer | |
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In Gravity Falls, the valley in which Gravity Falls was founded was carved out by a flying saucer that crashed millions of years ago; it's also responsible for the town's distinctive cliff. The technology on board was reverse engineered to make the things in the Mystery Shack's secret basement. | |
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Flying Saucer | |
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The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits (1963) found this trope handy, both for alien and human vessels. Many times, they used the model of C57D from Forbidden Planet for their spaceships, notably in "The Invaders" and "Death Ship." Angnes Moorehead (Endora from Bewitched) smashes one of these in "The Invaders." Fortunately it's a breakaway replica and not the original used in preceding shots. |
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