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* TheCrystalMaze replaced the [[IndustrialGhetto Industrial Zone]] with the Ocean Zone in later seasons - a Titanic-style sunken ocean liner trapped within an air bubble on the ocean's floor.
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* ''TheOceanHunter''.
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* ''BlueSubmarineNumberSix'' (TropeMaker?)

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* ''BlueSubmarineNumberSix'' (TropeMaker?)''BlueSubmarineNumberSix''
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* ''Literature/TheScar'' by [[{{ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville]]

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* ''Literature/TheScar'' by [[{{ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville]]ChinaMieville
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* ''[[SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' is set on a cluster of islands where the main villains are robotic pirates.

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* ''[[SonicRushSeries ''[[VideoGame/SonicRushSeries Sonic Rush Adventure]]'' is set on a cluster of islands where the main villains are robotic pirates.

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* The ''Wave Walkers'' trilogy by Kai Meyer.
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* ''OnePiece''

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* ''OnePiece''''Manga/OnePiece''
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* The second ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure}} Pendragon]]'' novel, ''The Lost City of Faar'', takes place on the territory of Cloral, which is covered entirely by water [[spoiler: until the mountain of Faar is raised at the end]]. Cloral has generally advanced technology, including water guns that can blast through walls, plastic made from processed water, and water-based propulsion systems, with specialized floating cities called "habitats" housing residents.
* ''{{Vampirates}}''.

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* The second ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure}} ''[[ThePendragonAdventure Pendragon]]'' novel, ''The Lost City of Faar'', takes place on the territory of Cloral, which is covered entirely by water [[spoiler: until the mountain of Faar is raised at the end]]. Cloral has generally advanced technology, including water guns that can blast through walls, plastic made from processed water, and water-based propulsion systems, with specialized floating cities called "habitats" housing residents.
* ''{{Vampirates}}''.
''Literature/{{Vampirates}}''.
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Flood stories may have *inspired* the trope, but they are not the trope.


* OlderThanDirt: Settings like these may be in part inspired by the story of [[TheBible Noah]] and other 'great flood' stories from folklore and mythology.

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* OlderThanDirt: Settings like these may be in part inspired by the story of [[TheBible Noah]] and other 'great flood' stories from folklore and mythology.
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* ''{{Vampirates}}''.
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* ''SkiesOfArcadia'' is PiratePunk and SkyPirates with more emphasis on the former (at first). Characters travel between floating islands in flying 18th-century pirate ships (which later get upgraded to more modern-looking battleships). You play as a small band of pirates trying to take down [[TheEmpire the evil armada]].

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* ''SkiesOfArcadia'' ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'' is PiratePunk and SkyPirates with more emphasis on the former (at first). Characters travel between floating islands in flying 18th-century pirate ships (which later get upgraded to more modern-looking battleships). You play as a small band of pirates trying to take down [[TheEmpire the evil armada]].
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* FiftyFathoms is all about the swashbuckling piratey oceanpunk goodness.
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* ''Sealab 2020'' and ''{{Sealab2021}}.''

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* ''Sealab 2020'' and ''{{Sealab2021}}.''[[{{Sealab2021}} Sealab 2021]].''
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* ''Sealab2020'' and ''{{Sealab2021}}.''

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* ''Sealab2020'' ''Sealab 2020'' and ''{{Sealab2021}}.''
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* ''Sealab2020'' and ''{{Sealab2021}}.''
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* ''{{Jabberjaw}}'' is set in a future where the ocean floor has been colonized.
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* Kamino in ''AttackOfTheClones.''
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For a similar setting that trades the water for the skies, see SkyPirates. And since SpaceIsAnOcean, you might have SpacePirates.

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For a similar setting that trades the water for the skies, see SkyPirates. And since SpaceIsAnOcean, you might have SpacePirates.
SpacePirates. Compare and Contrast its exact opposite DesertPunk.
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* The ''MonkeyIsland'' series.

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* The ''MonkeyIsland'' series.''SubmarineTitans'', which is basically StarCraft [[InSpace IN SP--underwater]]!
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Trying to match up the article with the examples, and making a different article for the examples that didn\'t fit the description but were still similar wasn\'t apparently distinct enough.


Also could be called PiratePunk. Life in a [[SingleBiomePlanet mostly watery world]] (or a mostly watery part of the world where the rest isn't of much matter) with distant islands connected by trade routes, ships sailing back and forth, and of course, many {{Pirate}}s and buccaneers, whether they're wielding cutlasses on sailing ships or the aquatic equivalent of HumongousMecha.

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Also could be called PiratePunk. PiratePunk, though the setting may not even have so much as a single pirate in it in many cases. Life in a [[SingleBiomePlanet mostly watery world]] (or a mostly watery part of the world where the rest isn't of much matter) with distant islands connected by trade routes, ships sailing back and forth, and of course, many {{Pirate}}s and buccaneers, whether they're wielding cutlasses on sailing ships or the aquatic equivalent of HumongousMecha.
HumongousMecha. May contain [[OrganicTechnology Organic Technology]], and have a large focus on what happens under the waves as well as over.
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* ''The Scar'' by [[PerdidoStreetStation China Miéville]]

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* ''The Scar'' ''Literature/TheScar'' by [[PerdidoStreetStation [[{{ptitlen9ir3dhv}} China Miéville]]
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* ''{{Bionicle}}'''s Mahri Nui arc took place in an underwater setting, complete with FishPeople, underwater vehicles and robots, a sunken city, EldritchAbomination-like sea monsters, and vampiric squid.
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Blue Submarine #6 predates MI with 23 years and is a more spot-on example


* ''BlueSubmarineNumberSix''

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* The ''MonkeyIsland'' series. (TropeMaker?)

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* The ''MonkeyIsland'' series. (TropeMaker?)
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* ''FutureBoyConan''
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* The second ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure}}| Pendragon]]'' novel, ''The Lost City of Faar'', takes place on the territory of Cloral, which is covered entirely by water [[spoiler: until the mountain of Faar is raised at the end]]. Cloral has generally advanced technology, including water guns that can blast through walls, plastic made from processed water, and water-based propulsion systems, with specialized floating cities called "habitats" housing residents.

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* The second ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure}}| ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure}} Pendragon]]'' novel, ''The Lost City of Faar'', takes place on the territory of Cloral, which is covered entirely by water [[spoiler: until the mountain of Faar is raised at the end]]. Cloral has generally advanced technology, including water guns that can blast through walls, plastic made from processed water, and water-based propulsion systems, with specialized floating cities called "habitats" housing residents.
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* The second ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure| Pendragon]]'' novel, ''The Lost City of Faar'', takes place on the territory of Cloral, which is covered entirely by water [[spoiler: until the mountain of Faar is raised at the end]]. Cloral has generally advanced technology, including water guns that can blast through walls, plastic made from processed water, and water-based propulsion systems, with specialized floating cities called "habitats" housing residents.

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* The second ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure| ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure}}| Pendragon]]'' novel, ''The Lost City of Faar'', takes place on the territory of Cloral, which is covered entirely by water [[spoiler: until the mountain of Faar is raised at the end]]. Cloral has generally advanced technology, including water guns that can blast through walls, plastic made from processed water, and water-based propulsion systems, with specialized floating cities called "habitats" housing residents.
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* The second ''[[{{ThePendragonAdventure| Pendragon]]'' novel, ''The Lost City of Faar'', takes place on the territory of Cloral, which is covered entirely by water [[spoiler: until the mountain of Faar is raised at the end]]. Cloral has generally advanced technology, including water guns that can blast through walls, plastic made from processed water, and water-based propulsion systems, with specialized floating cities called "habitats" housing residents.
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* The parts of ''Without warning'' that deal with the crew of the ''Aussie Rules''.

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* The parts of John Birmingham's ''Without warning'' Warning'' that deal with the crew of the ''Aussie Rules''.
* Taylor Anderson's ''Destroyermen'' series is set in the Pacific Ocean of an [[AlternateHistory alternate Earth]] where that pesky asteroid never wiped out the dinosaurs so it qualifies. Since the main characters are the crew of a [=WWII=] era destroyer that ran afoul of a time-space rift it also has elements of DieselPunk.
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* The parts of ''Without warning'' that deal with the crew of the ''Aussie Rules''.
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* ''{{Dubloon}}''

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