History Main / TheArk

* The Yamato Ark in ''{{Okami}}'' brought the gods to earth after Yami sacked heaven. (Unfortunately, Yami came along...)

* Ishra's Ark, a large airship of indeterminate origin, serves as one of the most memorable levels of [[{{Klonoa}} Klonoa 2]]

* There is a Forerunner structure in the ''{{Halo}}'' universe (no points for guessing what its name is) which is approximately 262,144 lightyears from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, well out of range of the Halo superweapons designed to kill everything within 25,000 light years of them.
** ''Halo'' also has the [[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Shield_World Shield Worlds]]. 343 Guilty Spark hypothesized that the Ark would be in one, but was proved wrong.

** In the First Doctor serial "The Ark", the Earth is destroyed by the sun going nova, and a spaceship carrying the surviving humans, as well as samples of the animal and plant life, sets out to colonize a distant Earth-like planet.

** You could even call this the [[IncrediblyLamePun ''Ur'']] [[UrExample Example]].

* ''{{Moonraker}}'': Drax created his space station to hold the humans who would repopulate the Earth after the deadly spores killed everyone on the surface. When the two leads see that their space shuttle is carrying a cargo of men and women:

* ''DoctorWho'':

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** You could even call this the [[IncrediblyLamePun ''Ur'']] [[UrExample Example]]

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* There is a Forerunner structure in the ''{{Halo}}'' universe (no points for guessing what its name is) which is approximately 262144 lightyears from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, well out of range of the Halo superweapons designed to kill everything within 25,000 light years of them.

* The entirety of the game ''{{Brink}}'' is set on a {{deconstructed}} {{utopia}} floating along the surface of a flooded Earth. (No points for guessing what ''this'' place is called, either.) It was designed as a peaceful and fully sustainable city easily capable of being home to 5,000 people; however, everything gradually fell apart as the population grew to about 10 times as much, and is now on the [[MeaningfulName brink]] of a civil war.

* The planet [[spoiler: Ilos]] in ''MassEffect''. [[SubvertedTrope Unfortunately]], [[spoiler: the Reaper harvest took much longer than their power supply could keep the Protheans on Ilos in stasis for, and it instead became a [[AncientTomb massive tomb]] for all but a handful.]]

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The concept of the ark [[TropeCodifier owes most of its form]] to the [[TheBible biblical]] story of Noah's Ark. Most iterations of the ark today either directly identify with or at least reference the Noah story, including such elements as: TheGreatFlood; the ark builder being divinely inspired to prepare for the flood, and mocked by his neighbors who don't know the cataclysm is coming; the ark housing pairs of animals, implied to be all the animal species in the world, who enter and reside their compliantly without eating each other (strangely, this is the only part of the story most people seem to have trouble with); and, the ark builder sending a dove or other bird to search for dry land to signify that the Flood is ended.

* In ''{{WALL-E}}'' humanity abandons a ruined Earth in a fleet of spaceships.

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* The entirety of the game ''[[http://www.brinkthegame.com/ Brink]]'' is set on a {{Deconstructed}} {{Utopia}} floating along the surface of a flooded Earth. (No points for guessing what ''this'' place is called, either.) It was designed as a peaceful and fully sustainable city easily capable of being home to 5,000 people; however, everything gradually fell apart as the population grew to about 10 times as much, and is now on the [[MeaningfulName brink]] of a civil war.

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* In the first season of DragonBallGT, Bulma just happens to have one of these tucked away beneath the Capsule Corporation in order to evacuate everyone to the new planet created by Baby with the Blackstar balls.

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* The ship that originally brought {{Superman}} to earth, along with a database containing the history and culture of Krypton.

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* The basis of the [[ShowWithinAShow movie-within-a-movie]], "Li'l Ark Angel", in ''[[CatsDontDance Cats Don't Dance]]''.

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* Is one of the episodes in the 1936 WarnerBros. film ''The Green Pastures'', which retold TheBible from the perspective of a poor African-American child.
* In ''TheLastFlightOfNoahsArk'', the titular plane is not an ark per se, but borrows some themes due to transporting a lot of animals and becoming a boat.

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* TheBible, specifically Genesis 6-9.

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** You could even call this the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun Ur]]'' [[UrExample Example]]

** You could even call this the [[IncrediblyLamePun ''Ur'']] [[UrExample Example]]

* The entirety of the game ''[[http://www.brinkthegame.com/ Brink]]'' is set on a {{Utopia}} floating along the surface of a flooded Earth. (No points for guessing what ''this'' place is called, either.) It was designed as a peaceful and fully sustainable city easily capable of being home to 5,000 people; however, everything gradually fell apart as the population grew to approximately 10 times that much, and now the population is on the [[MeaningfulName brink]] of a civil war.

This doesn't necessarily mean the people go themselves. If they're smart, they'll bring flora and fauna with them. And if they're pressed for time or resources, they may not go bodily: [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture The ark may simply contain the distilled knowledge and culture of the civilization, and maybe some of their DNA, in the hope that they will be reconstructed or at least remembered by someone else.]]] In this case, the ''Voyager'' spacecraft, which possess detailed descriptions of Earth and its people, could be considered arks -- except that we didn't build them under the imminent threat of our own destruction.

This doesn't necessarily mean the people go themselves. If they're smart, they'll bring flora and fauna with them. And if they're pressed for time or resources, they may not go bodily: The ark may simply contain the distilled knowledge and culture of the civilization, and maybe some of their DNA, in the hope that they will be reconstructed or at least remembered by someone else. In this case, the ''Voyager'' spacecraft, which possess detailed descriptions of Earth and its people, could be considered arks -- except that we didn't build them under the imminent threat of our own destruction.

This doesn't necessarily mean the people go themselves. If they're smart, they'll bring flora and fauna with them. And if they're pressed for time or resources, they may not go bodily: The ark may simply contain the distilled knowledge and culture of the civilization, and maybe some of their DNA, in the hope that they will be reconstructed or at least remembered by someone else. In this case, the ''Voyager'' spacecraft, which possess detailed descriptions of Earth and its people, could be considered arks — except that we didn't build them under the imminent threat of our own destruction.

* The spaceship in the books composing the DeepWaterBlack trilogy turns out to contain the genetic structure of pretty much every animal on Earth, at which point the characters point out themselves they're on an ark. Then it turns out there were actually two arks — the other one contains all of humanity's genes.

* ''DoctorWho'' has visited the concept at least three times: the First Doctor serial "The Ark", the Fourth Doctor's "The Ark in Space", and the Eleventh Doctor's serial "The Beast Below". Less obviously, we have the Daleks' void ship in "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday".
* This happens occasionally in the StargateVerse. And strangely, too — both ''StargateSG-1'' and ''StargateAtlantis'' featured cases of civilizations trying to survive by storing just their inhabitants' minds, which, admittedly, would save a lot of resources. The ship that brings the Ancients back to Atlantis might qualify too, though it wasn't sent out with that intention.

This doesn't necessarily mean the people go themselves. If they're smart, they'll bring flora and fauna with them. And if they're pressed for time or resources, they may not go bodily- the ark may simply contain the distilled knowledge and culture of the civilization, and maybe some of their DNA, in the hope that they will be reconstructed or at least remembered by someone else. In this case, the Voyager spacecraft, which possess detailed descriptions of Earth and its people, could be considered arks- except that we didn't build them under the imminent threat of our own destruction.

The concept of the ark [[TropeCodifier owes most of its form]] to the [[TheBible Biblical]] story of Noah's Ark. Most iterations of the ark today either directly identify with or at least reference the Noah story, including such elements as: TheGreatFlood; the ark builder being divinely inspired to prepare for the flood, and mocked by his neighbors who don't know the cataclysm is coming; the ark housing pairs of animals, implied to be all the animal species in the world, who enter and reside their compliantly without eating each other (strangely, this is the only part of the story most people seem to have trouble with); and, the ark builder sending a dove or other bird to search for dry land to signify that the Flood is ended.

* The ''Spriggan'' film centers around the original Ark and various organisations fighting to control it.

* {{Doraemon}} - Nobita sees the vision of a flood via one of Doraemon's "peek into the future" devices, and builds an ark accordingly; [[spoiler: turns out that was a bedwetting dream Nobita had]].

* The basis of the [[ShowWithinAShow movie-within-a-movie]], "Li'l Ark Angel," in ''[[CatsDontDance Cats Don't Dance]]''.
* ''IceAge: The Meltdown'': all the herds head for a giant log that would serve as a boat when the flood waters come.
* ''[[{{Disney.Fantasia}} Fantasia 2000]]'' contains a retelling of the Biblical story set to ''Pomp and Circumstance'' by Edward Elgar, with Donald Duck as Noah's assistant.
* An example in {{Battle for Terra}}. No points for guessing what is the name of the gigantic ship housing the humanity.

* ''EvanAlmighty'' is basically a modern retelling of the original story, with a few twists (most notably, the flood comes not from rain but from a dam breaking).
* Several of 'em in ''[[TwoThousandTwelve 2012]]''. They manage to be some of the least ridiculous things in the movie (which isn't to say they aren't utterly ridiculous).

-->Polly: My God, Joe. It's an ark.
* ''{{Moonraker}}''. Drax created his space station to hold the humans who would repopulate the Earth after the deadly spores killed everyone on the surface. When the two leads see that their Space Shuttle is carrying a cargo of men and women:
-->JamesBond: The animals went in two by two.
-->Holly Goodhead: What do you mean by that?
-->JamesBond: Noah's Ark. This operation.

* Is one of the episodes in the 1936 WarnerBros. film, ''The Green Pastures'', which retold TheBible from the perspective of a poor African American child.

* In [[StephenBaxter Stephen Baxter's]] {{Flood}}, great ships (of the floating and space variety) are built to escape the global flood. They are, of course, called "Arks".
* The spaceship in the books composing the DeepWaterBlack trilogy turns out to contain the genetic structure of pretty much every animal on Earth, at which point the characters point out themselves they're on an ark. Then it turns out there were actually two arks - the other one contains all of humanity's genes.
* In the YA novel ''Devil On My Back'' by Monica Hughes, the protagonist's DomedHometown is called Arc One, generally assumed to be due to the curve of its roof, but the protagonist eventually discovers that it was originally ''Ark'' One, built so that the population could survive TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

* ''DoctorWho'' has visited the concept at least twice. The First Doctor serial "The Ark", the Fourth Doctor's "The Ark in Space", and the Eleventh Doctor's serial "The Beast Below". Less obviously, we have the Daleks' void ship in "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday".
* This happens occasionally in the StargateVerse. And strangely, too- both ''StargateSG-1'' and ''StargateAtlantis'' featured cases of civilizations trying to survive by storing just their inhabitants' minds, which, admittedly, would save a lot of resources. The ship that brings the Ancients back to Atlantis might qualify too, though it wasn't sent out with that intention.
* A {{Filmation}} LiveActionTV series in the 1970's called ''Ark II'' peddled a [[strike: evironmentalist]] conservationist message.

* ''{{Traveller}}'' Classic Double Adventure ''Horde''. The unnamed alien inhabitants of a planet in the Alenzar system were about to be wiped out by a plague of carnivorous animals. They created spaceships with mechanisms to freeze the passengers, who would exist as {{Human Popsicle}}s for the long trip to another solar system.

* The Yamato Ark in ''{{Okami}}'', which brought the gods to earth after Yami sacked heaven. (Unfortunately, Yami came along...)

* There is a Forerunner structure in the ''{{Halo}}'' universe (no points for guessing what its name is) which is approximately 262144 lightyears from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, well out of range of the Halo superweapons designed to kill everything within 25000 lightyears of them.
** Halo also has the [[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Shield_World Shield Worlds]]. 343 Guilty Spark hypothesized that the Ark would be in one, but was proven wring.
* The entirety of the game ''[[http://www.brinkthegame.com/ Brink]]'' is set on a {{Utopia}} floating along the surface of a flooded Earth. (No points for guessing what ''this'' place is called, either.) It was designed as a peaceful and fully sustainable city easily capable of being home to 5 000 people; however, everything gradually fell apart as the population grew to approximately 10 times that much, and now the population is on the [[MeaningfulName brink]] of a civil war.
* ''{{Doom}} 2''. After the demon hordes of Hell invade Earth, the remaining human population is loaded onto space ships that will carry them to safety.
* WOW has both the Exodar and the Oshu'gun.

* Yogi and his pals manned a flying version in ''Yogi's Ark Lark'', later changed to ''Yogi's Gang'', a cartoon that premiered in 1972 and justifies the Trope TheDarkAgeOfAnimation.
* The autobots traditionally come to earth in a ship called the Ark in {{Transformers}}, usually relating towards how the planet becomes their second home for some time for one reason or another.

* Yogi and his pals manned a flying version in ''Yogi's Ark Lark'', later changed to ''Yogi's Gang'', a cartoon that premiered in 1972 and justifies the Trope TheDarkAgeOfAnimation.

* Is one of the episodes in ''The Green Pastures''.

->Polly: My God, Joe. It's an ark.

->JamesBond: The animals went in two by two.
->Holly Goodhead: What do you mean by that?
->JamesBond: Noah's Ark. This operation.

* Probably one of [[OlderThanDirt the oldest tropes in existence]], since it was referenced in ''TheEpicOfGilgamesh''. In the story, Gilgamesh seeks out Utnapishtim, the man who survived the Great Flood by hiding inside a boat.

* The basis of the movie-within-a-movie, "Li'l Ark Angel," in ''[[CatsDontDance Cats Don't Dance]]''.
''IceAge: The Meltdown'': all the herds head for a giant log that would serve as a boat when the flood waters come.

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* ''DeepImpact''
* ''EvanAlmighty'' is basically a modern retelling of the original story, with a few twists (most notably, the flood comes not from rain but from a dam breaking).

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