History Main / TheArk

* The ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' universe contains a Forerunner megastructure (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 that kill everything within 25,000 light years of them. It too is to escape "The Flood", represented here by [[OurZombiesAreDifferent ancient alien zombies]].
** The Ark is not only the ultimate Forerunner defence in that it serves as, well, an ark, but also because it provides a remote detonator for any and all of the Halo rings.
** ''Halo'' also has the [[http://www.halopedia.org/Shield_world Shield Worlds]]. 343 Guilty Spark hypothesized that the Ark would be in one, but was proven wrong.
** The human [[MileLongShip dreadnought]] ''Infinity'', largest and most advanced starship humanity ever constructed, was originally conceived as an ark that would carry the last remnants of humanity in the event that the war against the Covenant was lost and Earth was burned by the invaders. After the Human-Covenant War instead ended in humanity's favor, the ''Infinity'' was repurposed as a hybrid science-exploration vessel and ([[TheBattlestar very powerful]]) warship.

* The planet [[spoiler:Ilos]] in ''Franchise/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.]]
** Likewise, the ''From The Ashes'' day-one [[DownloadableContent DLC]] for ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' reveals [[spoiler: Eden Prime]] to be an ark world, similar to [[spoiler: Ilos]] from the first game. [[spoiler: It fares hardly any better, but does at least contain ''one'' LastOfHisKind survivor.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'', the ''Nexus'' and five other {{Sleeper Starship}}s are designed to get 100,000 colonists to the Andromeda Galaxy in a trip that lasts [[TimeSkip 700 years]]. [[spoiler:It later turns out that the mysterious benefactor's goal is to create a ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts situation, in case of the Reaper invasion, which does indeed happen mere months after the Arks' departure]]. Besides the ''Nexus'', the first wave of the Arks is species-specific to make it easier for life support: ''Hyperion'' (human), ''Leusinia'' (asari), ''Natanus'' (turian), and ''Paarchero'' (salarian). There's also a clan of genophage-resistant krogan aboard the ''Nexus'', who are largely responsible for the actual construction of the ships. The only second wave Ark, ''Keelah Si'yah'', is largely quarian, but also has room for drell, hanar, elcor and volus settlers. The reason the ''Keelah Si'yah'' is part of the second wave is because the diversity of its passengers requires additional modifications to life support.
*** Halfway through the game, it's possible to discover that [[spoiler:the kett themselves use Ark ships to get around the vast distances of Andromeda, or at least the parts they don't control. Ryder and squadmate Liam are unnerved by the revelation.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown'': All the herds head for a giant log that would serve as a boat when the flood waters come.

Sister trope to ColonyShip and NoahsStoryArc. Compare GenerationShips and FlingALightIntoTheFuture.

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* The humans attempted to do this in ''VideoGame/Splatoon'' to escape the great flood. In fact, the very vessel's name was "Ark Polaris." It ultimately ended in failure, as the ruins of the ark can be seen as a map in the gamemode Salmon Run. It's clear that it was man made, as there is a bear activity warning sign written in English.

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

* ''Film/{{Noah 1998}}'', a modern re-telling with TheDanza himself.

* This was the original intention of Tevat Noah on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', as it was designed by H.I.V.E. to survive the nuclear apocalypse they would engineer, allowing their leader Damien Darhk to remake the world in his image. Unfortunately, madman Lonnie Machin aka Anarky infiltrated and ultimately destroyed the facility, thus ruining Darhk's entire plan. Not that it stopped him from [[OmnicidalManiac launching the nukes anyway]].

* This was the original intention of Tevat Noah on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', as it was designed by H.I.V.E. to survive the nuclear apocalypse they would engineer, allowing their leader Damien Darhk to remake the world in his image. Unfortunately, madman Lonnie Machin aka Anarky infiltrated and ultimately destroyed the facility, thus ruining Darhk's entire plan. Not that it stopped him from [[OmnicidialManiac launching the nukes anyway]].

* This was the original intention of Tevat Noah on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'', as it was designed by H.I.V.E. to survive the nuclear apocalypse they would engineer. Unfortunately, madman Lonnie Machin aka Anarky infiltrated and ultimately destroyed the facility, thus ruining H.I.V.E.'s entire plan.

* This was the original intention of Tevat Noah on ''Series/Arrow'', as it was designed by H.I.V.E. to survive the nuclear apocalypse they would engineer. Unfortunately, madman Lonnie Machin aka Anarky infiltrated and ultimately destroyed the facility, thus ruining H.I.V.E.'s entire plan.

* By the end of the fourth season of ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'', the Mothership has appeared to become this for the [[EnergyBeing Taelon]] race. It's unclear what happened to their homeworld or their other planets and ships. Either they all died when they ran out of Core Energy, or the [[TheReptilians Jaridians]] killed them all. At the end of the series, an ancient [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Atavus]] ship is discovered beneath the earth with thousands of Atavus in stasis. The show ends with the stasis pod being taken aboard the Taelon Mothership, which departs to look for the original Atavus homeworld.

* ''Anime/{{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]].

* ''Literature/TheLastDragonChronicles'': In ''Fire World'', [[spoiler:the Librarium becomes one during the flood, complete with animals and plants.]]

* In [[Literature/{{Dragons}} Fire World]], [[spoiler:the Librarium becomes one during the flood, complete with animals and plants.]]

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* In ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' humanity abandons a ruined Earth in a fleet of spaceships. The Axiom is sending out probes -- such as EVE -- to find viable life on Earth but the "ark" takes on a mind of its own and tries to prevent a return.

* In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', the surviving Asgardians escape the complete destruction of their homeworld on a single spaceship, the Statesman. In the following film, ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' [[GreaterScopeVillain Thanos]] catches up with them [[spoiler:and kills half of those onboard while letting the rest flee. He then blows the ship to pieces with the Infinity Stones]].