List of fictional vehicles
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The following is a list of fictional vehicles.
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Buses
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Buses often appear as settings, or sometimes even characters, in works of fiction. This is a list of named buses which were important story elements in notable works of fiction, including books, films and television series.
- The Battle Bus, from Fortnite
- Bus 25/25, from the 1994 film Speed{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CC48DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT76 |title=Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road |editor-first=Gordon E. |editor-last=Slethaug |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=2017 |isbn=9781501335273 |chapter=The Tour Bus and the Road |first=Anaia |last=Shaw |pages=72–}}
- Catbus, a sentient bus from the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro{{cite web |url=https://streets.mn/2020/05/20/the-five-best-bus-films-of-all-time/ |title=The Five Best Bus Films of All Time |first=Bill |last=Lindeke |date=20 May 2020 |access-date=25 July 2020 |website=streets.mn}}
- "Cyclops", a nuclear-powered bus from the 1976 film The Big Bus
- "Bertie the Bus" and "Bulgy the Double-Decker Bus", from The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends.
- "Doris", the fictional band's tour bus in the 2000 film Almost Famous.
- The Knight Bus, which appears in several of the Harry Potter books and films
- The Magic School Bus{{cite news |url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2088972_2088978_2089001,00.html |title=Top 10 Famous Buses |newspaper=Time |first=Frances |last=Romero |date=17 August 2011}}
- "Priscilla", the eponymous bus in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- "Sweetheart", in John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus{{cite journal|title=John Steinbeck's Sweetheart: The Cosmic American Bus
|first=Cathryn |last=Halverson |journal=College Literature |volume=35 |number=1 |date=Winter 2008 |pages=82–99 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|doi = 10.1353/lit.2008.0004|jstor = 25115479|s2cid=143266987 }}
- "Tayo", "Rogi", "Lani", and "Gani", bus characters from the Korean animated children's show, Tayo the Little Bus.{{cite web |url=https://blog.lareviewofbooks.org/the-korea-blog/one-koreas-popular-cartoons-bus/ |title=One of Korea's Most Popular Cartoons Is About a Bus
|work=The Korea Blog |publisher=The L.A. Review of Books |date=31 March 2016 |first=Colin |last=Marshall}}
Hovercraft/anti-gravity vehicles
- Hoverboard
- Snowspeeder
- Speeder bike
- Fast attack (Javelin, Land Speeder, etc.) and main battle platforms (Astraeus, Repulsor, etc.) - Warhammer 40000
Magical vehicles
Mecha
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- Big Darrell - OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes
- Big O - The Big O
- E-frame - Exosquad
- Evangelions - Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Mobile weapons - Gundam
- Tripod - three-legged Martian fighting machine, armed with a heat-ray, The War of the Worlds
- VF-1 Valkyrie - variable geometry space fighter from Robotech (TV series)
- Voltron
- Z-Mech - Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
- Metal Gear robotic war engines - Metal Gear
- BattleMechs - bipedal walker battle robots from BattleTech game series.
- Titans, smaller Imperial Knights and their counterparts of other races - Warhammer 40000
- Heavy Gears - bipedal warsuits from a Heavy Gear science fiction game universe
- Dreadnought - Warhammer 40k
- BT-7274 and other Titans - Titanfall & Titanfall 2
Railroads and trains
{{See also|Ghost train (folklore)|Starlight Express#Characters}}
- Blaine the train - the Dark Tower by Steven King
- Hooterville Cannonball - Petticoat Junction
- The Quadrail trains - the Timothy Zahn series
- Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
- The Wanderer - The Wild Wild West
- Wabash Cannonball
- Baby Train
- Snowpiercer
- Supertrain
- Galaxy Express 999
- Tachypomp
- Blaine the Mono
- The Polar Express
- The Hogwarts Express - Harry Potter
- The Atlantic Express - Avalanche Express
- Central Pacific Railroad No. 131 - Back to the Future Part III
- The Transcontinental Express - The Cassandra Crossing
- The Indian Valley Railroad - Shining Time Station and Thomas and the Magic Railroad
- Wilson, Brewster and Koko - Chuggington
- Azul - Dora the Explorer
- Casey Junior - Dumbo (1941) and Dumbo (2019)
- Puffa and Little Owl - TUGS
- Driver Dan's Story Train
- The Greendale Rocket and The Pencaster Flyer - Postman Pat
- Ivor the Engine
- The Ninky Nonk - In the Night Garden
- The Spirit Train - The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
= ''The Railway Series'' =
There are many railway and other 'vehicle' characters in The Railway Series children's books by Rev. W. Awdry. For a list, please see:
= ''Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends'' =
Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends is the TV spin-off from The Railway Series. As such, it shares many characters with the original books but also introduces a vast array of new characters. These, too, are collated in a set of lists:
[[Armoured fighting vehicle|AFVs]]
= Tanks =
- Bolo - AI armored super-heavy tank
- Drill Dozer - Drilling tank from Drill Dozer, piloted by child gentleman thief Jill.
- Griffon tank - Warhammer 40000
- RX-75 Guntank - Mobile Suit Gundam
- Leman Russ - a main battle tank of Astra Militarum, backbone armed force of Imperium of Humankind from Warhammer 40000
- Baneblade, Fellblade and their variants - super heavy tanks from Warhammer 40000
Other
- Howl's Moving Castle
- TARDIS
- B-Ped - Teen Titans
- Farcaster - Hyperion Cantos
- Time Tunnel - The Time Tunnel
- Transporter - Star Trek
- Time machine - novella "The Time Machine" by H. G. Wells
- Laputa - Gulliver's Travels and Castle in the Sky
- Steam Castle - Steamboy
- Manhattan Island - Cities in Flight
- Death City - Soul Eater (anime but not manga)
- 2019 Spinner - self-contained lift, Blade Runner 1982 design by Syd Mead
- Supercar - Supercar
See also
The following are lists of mixed types of vehicles, not otherwise categorized above:
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