History Main / ResurrectTheWreck

* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Nearing the end of The SleepWalker Arc, Linkara's friends and [[spoiler:Lord Vyce]] repair Comicron 1 after it had crashed on the moon. Somewhat unusually, they didn't need the spaceship for travel or combat, but rather [[spoiler:to free Linkara after he was possessed by The Entity.]]

* Due to how shallow the water was, the US Navy was able to salvage many of the ships sunk during the attack at Pearl Harbor and even put some of them back into service. Within six months, five battleships and two cruisers had been floated and patched so they could be sent back to shipyards for extensive repairs; of the nine battleships lost, only three were not returned to service, those being the ''Oklahoma'', which had capsized and sustained irreparable damage from its superstructure being demolished on the floor of the harbor, the ''Arizona'', which was split in two by an ammunition explosion, and the ''Utah'', which had also capsized like the ''Oklahoma'' but had already been removed from service and re-designated as a target ship anyways.

* Due to how shallow the water was, the US Navy was able to salvage many of the ships sunk during the attack at Pearl Harbor and even put some of them back into service. Within six months, five battleships and two cruisers had been floated and patched so they could be sent back to shipyards for extensive repairs.

* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'': Trevor manages to breath new life into [[FanNickname WRECTO-1]] with a bunch of other old car parts and get it into ghost-chasing shape again.

** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E21PeakPerformance Peak Performance]]", a team led by Riker are put in charge of an eighty-year-old, semi-decomissioned starship for a battle simulation exercise. One of the first things they do is get the warp drive working again, at least for a brief hop, which the mediator of the exercise thought impossible.

* As you rescue your friends in ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', they gradually repair an old fishing boat found wrecked in a sea cave. Why they don't just use one of the modern, fully-functional boats or hellicopters scattered around the islands isn't addressed, but presumably they wouldn't have been able to travel rough seas or have the range needed to reach safe land.

* ''Film/GhostbustersAfterlife'': Trevor manages to breath new life into [[FanNickname WRECTO-1.]]

* In ''Film/MysteryMen'', Roy is tasked by his junkyard boss to dismantle a weird old tank, but never manages to do so. Near the end of the film, the team's ally, an enthusiast for non-lethal weaponry, sees the tank and explains that it's a one-of-a-kind vehicle designed not to kill, so they resurrect it to use as their transportation to the enemy's hideout.

* VideoGame/DawnOfWarII: Every campaign has a level where you fight an enemy faction's (or your own faction's) superheavy unit. In the ork campaign, Mista Nailbrain convinces Kaptin Bluddflagg to let him fix the battlewagon they just trashed (named Daisy) [[https://youtu.be/Tvmgs6BPmZ4?t=237 exactly like a little boy asking to keep a wild animal as a pet.]]

** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E21PeakPerformance Peak Performance]]", a team led by Riker are put in charge of an eighty-year-old, semi-decomissioned starship for a battle simulation exercise. One of the first things they do is the warp drive working again, which the mediator of the exercise thought impossible.

** In the episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E21PeakPerformance]]", Riker and his team are put in charge of an eighty-year-old, semi-decomissioned starship for a battle simulation exercise. One of the first things they do is the warp drive working again, which the mediator of the exercise thought impossible.

** In the episode "[[[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E21PeakPerformance]]", Riker and his team are put in charge of an eighty-year-old, semi-decomissioned starship for a battle simulation exercise. One of the first things they do is the warp drive working again, which the mediator of the exercise thought impossible.

* Scotty does it again - with the help of his ''Enterprise''-D counterpart, Geordi La Forge - in the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' episode, "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E4Relics Relics]]". After losing contact with the ''Enterprise'' while working to recover the sensor logs from the wrecked USS ''Jenolan'', the pair work quickly to get the ship flyable in order to find out what happened.

** In the episode, "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS22E11SchoolOfDuck School of Duck]]", the school at Harwick is damaged by a storm, rendering the children unable to go to it until it's rebuilt. While the school is being rebuilt, Daisy is left to take the children to the school at Knapford, much to her dismay. Duck, thinking the job sounds like fun, decides to look for a coach after delivering a train of scrap to Reg so he can do it. Unfortunately, every coach he finds is being used by another engine. Duck eventually comes across Dexter, a decrepit coach abandoned in an overgrown siding, whom he is unable to pull due to broken axles. When he hears from Daisy that it could be months before the School at Harwick is repaired, Duck decides to take Reg's advice about recycling old things and making them new again. He comes across Dexter again and uses Judy and Jerome to take him to the Steamworks to turn him into a mobile classroom.
** In "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS5E16ThomasPercyAndOldSlowcoach Thomas, Percy, and Old Slow Coach]]", while delivering a train of scrap to the scrapyard, Thomas and Percy come across Old Slow Coach, an abandoned coach set to be broken up despite otherwise being in perfect shape. Thomas and Percy wish there was something they could do to save her, and they get their wish when a workman's hut catches fire and burns down despite the firemen's best attempts to put it out (Thomas and Percy even help by letting them use the water from their newly-filled tanks). The two tank engines suggest that Old Slow Coach be used as a new hut for the workmen, and Sir Topham Hatt has her restored to her former glory.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'':

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'' 2[[superscript:nd]] Edition: One RitualMagic spell lets a {{Necromancer}} raise a sunken wreck as a GhostShip, crewed by the undead remains of its old sailors and traveling at an even speed regardless of local wind or weather.

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* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamIronBloodedOrphans'': Throughout the series, Tekkadan fixes several old and wrecked Gundam Frame mobile suits that they find to use in battle, such as the Gundam Barbatos (driven by Mikazuki Augus), the Gundam Gusion (driven by Akihiro Atland), and the Gundam Flauros (driven by Norba Shino, though he [[InsistentTerminology insists he and and everyone else call it Ryusei-Go]], much to everyone else's annoyance).

* In the Creator/CarlBarks ''ComicBook/UncleScrooge'' story "The Great Steamboat Race", renowned sportsman Horseshoes Hogg is pestering Scrooge [=McDuck=] to get him to finish a very special boat race that was begun eighty-five years prior by Horseshoes' uncle Porker and Scrooge's uncle Pothole. The outcome of the race will determine the ownership of a large southern mansion called Cornpone Gables. The odd (and costly, hence Scrooge's reluctance) part is that for the race to be valid, it will have to be completed with the same 1870 boats with which it was begun, meaning Scrooge and Horseshoes have to raise their uncles' boats from the muddy waters of the Mississippi before they begin! Of course, Donald and Huey, Dewey and Louie eventually convince Scrooge to give in, and the race begins!

* When the titular group from ''Series/TheATeam'' [[ATeamMontage works on a vehicle]], they're usually [[WeaponizedCar weaponizing it]]. But in the episode "Knights of the Road", they end up fixing up an old tow truck which hadn't run in years. They end up using it to go after the VillainOfTheWeek [[spoiler:and when they've sufficiently angered him enough to attack them, ''then'' they weaponize it.]]

* Happens in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]". While investigating the wreck of the ''U.S.S. Constellation'', Kirk, Scotty and a damage control team get stuck there when the titular weapon attacks the ''Enterprise''. Kirk and company work to get the derelict ship running to at least provide a distraction.

* ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' adventure [=GW6=] ''Alpha Factor''. On Mindkeep Plateau there is a maintenance hanger which holds a derelict military ground car and some mechanic's tools. The car's battery is dead, it's out of fuel, and there are no keys. If the {{Player Character}}s can recharge the battery, find a source of fuel, and recover the keys, they can get the car running and drive it around.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': In the GaidenGame ''TabletopGame/{{Gorkamorka}}'', the background plot for the game is the Orks trying to rebuild the spaceship they crash-landed on the planet ''again'', because a civil war broke out over which of their identical-to-a-non-Ork gods it was meant to represent, nearly destroying the ship. The Meks working on the titular Gorkamorka manage to keep the Orks occupied by having them compete to bring in the most scrap metal to rebuild the ship and get more tags (having a tag will allow an Ork passage on the ship once it's built, so naturally, the Orks think the more tags you have the more chance you'll have to leave the planet).

* In ''VideoGame/BattleTech'', one of the campaign missions is about defending a wrecked Star League Dropship until it can be patched up enough to lift off. After that, you gain it as your base, and can spend money to restore all the various systems the patch-up didn't.

* ''VideoGame/MarvelsAvengers'': The game begins with a celebration marking the opening of the Avengers' West Coast facility in San Francisco as well as the launching of their new [[AirborneAircraftCarrier helicarrier]], the ''Chimera''. Things go awry when a terrorist attack results in MonumentalDamage to much of the city, and the ''Chimera'' crashing into San Francisco Bay. Five years later, [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] follows leads to the Utah desert where she find someone had moved the ''Chimera'' there, but otherwise left it derelict. Part of the first part of the game involves getting the ship airworthy again before AIM comes looking for them.

** In "[[Recap/ThomasTheTankEngineS5E16ThomasPercyAndOldSlowcoach Thomas, Percy, and Old Slow Coach]]", while delivering a train of scrap to the scrap yard, Thomas and Percy come across Old Slow Coach, an abandoned coach set to be broken up despite otherwise being in perfect shape. Thomas and Percy wish there was something they could do to save her, and they get their wish when a workman's hut catches fire and burns down despite the firemen's best attempts to put it out (Thomas and Percy even help by letting them use the water from their newly-filled tanks). The two tank engines suggest that Old Slow Coach be used as a new hut for the workmen, and Sir Topham Hatt has her restored to her former glory.

* Due to how shallow the water was, the US Navy was able to salvage many of the ships sunk during the attack at Pearl Harbor, and even put some of them back into service. Within six months, five battleships and two cruisers had been floated and patched so they could be sent back to shipyards for extensive repairs.
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