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* WesternAnimation/TheHairBearBunch convince zookeeper Peevly to have an ark built so a re-creation of the story of Noah can be staged. The bears actually use it tovescape from the zoo with all the other animals.

* The Autobots in ''{{Transformers}}'' traditionally come to Earth in a ship called the Ark, usually relating to how the planet becomes their second home for some time for one reason or another.

* 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.
%% * ''Animation/ElArca''

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'':
** Mr. Slowy builds an ark in ''Joys of Seasons'' episode 65 so that he and the goat kids can seek shelter when the Moving Lake causes a flood in Goat Village.
** The fifth film, ''The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness'', does the "characters ride out a flood using an ark" plot again, only this time they use an ancient spaceship called the Ark. To get the ship running, you have to have at least one of each kind of animal in it... except the gang hits a snag there when one of the required animals is a snake, which they believe to be an extinct species.

* ''Animation/ElArca''

* ''Series/TheArk2023'' is about a ship sent to colonize a new planet. Unfortunately, while the ship is still in transit, a series of malfunctions damages much of its infrastructure, culminating in the deaths of the ship's entire command structure, forcing the remaining crew to improvise as they struggle to survive the year until they reach their destination.

** There's also the question of [[spoiler:what is supposed to happen to all the alien races on the ship]].

* In ''Series/SupermanAndLois'', the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Eradicator]] is a device invented by Lara Lor-Van, Superman's biological mother, meant to preserve the Kryptonian race. [[spoiler:Lara's other son Tal-Rho (AKA Morgan Edge) plans to use the Eradicator to re-create the Kryptonians on Earth. The residents of Smallville are ideal candidates for host bodies, as the mines near the town are full of X-Kryptonite, and their bodies have gradually been exposed to the radiation from it, making the process of transferring a Kryptonian consciousness into the body of a Smallville resident safe. Strangely, the reborn Kryptonians also possess their powers. When the original plan fails, Tal-Rho merges with the Eradicator and becomes able to turn humans into Kryptonians with little more than a look. After Superman and [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons]] destroy the Eradicator, Superman, Tal-Rho, and Leslie Larr (Tal-Rho's NumberTwo possessing the body of a human woman) are the only three Kryptonians left (not counting Superman's half-Kryptonian sons, one of whom has powers), as the show takes place on a different Earth than the rest of the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}} (which means to Series/{{Supergirl}} or Argo City.]]

* In ''Series/SupermanAndLois'', the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Eradicator]] is a device invented by Lara Lor-Van, Superman's biological mother, meant to preserve the Kryptonian race. [[spoiler:Lara's other son Tal-Rho (AKA Morgan Edge) plans to use the Eradicator to re-create the Kryptonians on Earth. The residents of Smallville are ideal candidates for host bodies, as the mines near the town are full of X-Kryptonite, and their bodies have gradually been exposed to the radiation from it, making the process of transferring a Kryptonian consciousness into the body of a Smallville resident safe. Strangely, the reborn Kryptonians also possess their powers. When the original plan fails, Tal-Rho merges with the Eradicator and becomes able to turn humans into Kryptonians with little more than a look. After Superman and [[ComicBook/{{Steel}} John Henry Irons]] destroy the Eradicator, Superman, Tal-Rho, and Leslie Larr (Tal-Rho's NumberTwo possessing the body of a human woman) are the only three Kryptonians left (not counting Superman's half-Kryptonian sons, one of whom has powers), as the show takes place on a different Earth than the rest of the Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}.]]

* According to WordOfGod the Bottled City of Kandor was [[PragmaticAdaptation adapted]] to [[{{Macguffin}} The Orb]] on ''{{Series/Smallville}}''. It was a handheld object that contained both the genetic code and memories of the people of Krypton, intended to clone them into new lives on Earth.
* 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 once the radiation subsided. 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]].

* ''Literature/TheBible'', specifically Genesis 6-9.

* The humans attempted to do this in ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' 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.

Derived from a Latin word for "chest" (see also TheArkOfTheCovenant), an ark is now best known as a vessel (usually a boat, or at least boat-shaped) in which people seek sanctuary from some great cataclysm.

The concept of the ark [[TropeCodifier owes most of its form]] to the [[Literature/TheBible biblical]] story of Noah's Ark (which is itself suspiciously similar to [[OlderThanTheyThink even earlier stories]] like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Preserver_of_Life The Epic of Gilgamesh]]). 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 therein compliantly without eating each other; and, the ark builder sending a dove or other bird to search for dry land to signify that the Flood is ended.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ark'' have this as the premise of the film. Set in the alien world of Planet Alcyeon whose days are numbered thanks to [[EarthShatteringKaboom an impending a meltdown in it's core]], the titular Ark is [[AMechByAnyOtherName a giant mecha]] meant for transporting Alcyeon's citizens to another world, only for it to be hijacked by the BigBad, an ImmortalitySeeker who believes said Ark will make him live forever while leaving the entire planet and her inhabitants to their doom.

* ''VideoGame/{{Rage}}'''s Arks, similar to the Vaults in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, were built to protect a small number of humans from the destruction brought on by the asteroid impact, opening after a hundred years underground.

* In ''GunBuster'', the Eltreum (a massive 70km starship) was originally designed to evacuate Earth if the war with the Space Monsters proved impossible to win, but once their defeat was deemed as feasible, the ship was refitted with weapons and played a key role during humanity's final battle [[spoiler: at the center of the galaxy]].