| 1 | [[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/landkreuzer_p1000_ratte_by_ivan_troitsky.jpg]] |
| 2 | [-[[caption-width-right:350:The Landkreuzer P-1000 Ratte, planned by Nazi Germany in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII but never put into production.]]-] |
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| 4 | ->''"Though I charge through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am driving a house-sized mass of '''fuck you.'''"'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Anonymous [[VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberiumWars Mammoth Tank]] crewman''', ''FanFic/TiberiumWars'' |
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| 7 | In large modern warfare engagements, infantry may as well be CannonFodder. You want something that can HoldTheLine. Something with a {{BFG}} and/or MoreDakka, crawler treads and (literal) tonnes of armor. You want a tank. |
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| 9 | RealLife tanks have large cannons to take on other tanks and fortifications, and (usually) secondary weapons to deal with infantry or aircraft. In fiction and reality, other tanks may use anti-infantry or [[AntiAir anti-aircraft]] weapons instead of cannons.[[note]]These do exist in RealLife, but they're not called tanks. To make the distinction even more difficult, many of these are based on existing tank chassis, so they look like tanks that have had their turrets swapped out. Cue [[TanksButNoTanks journalists and the general public calling them "tanks" anyway]].[[/note]] The tank's size and mobility [[CarFu may also be used as a weapon]] to crush people, cars, and walls. The armor is thick enough to stop small arms fire, most of it in the front, with the weakest areas being the rear, bottom and top. [[AttackItsWeakPoint Expect enemies to take advantage of this for massive damage.]] |
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| 11 | Of course, the above paragraph refers to tanks around the size of today's main battle tanks. Sometimes that's not enough. [[BiggerIsBetter They need to be bigger!]] Big enough to crush the ''other tanks''! [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill And carry loads of weapons!]] [[MultiTrackDrifting While racing donuts around them!]] And the armor is able to withstand Martian Death rays! And it has NBC protection! It's a FLIPPING BUNKER ON TRACKS. Oh, and the wheels on the tracks are equipped with armored gun pods. |
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| 13 | Other armored fighting vehicles, like [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier armored personnel carriers]], self-propelled artillery and tank destroyers may be called tanks. [[TanksButNoTanks They're not. Don't be fooled!]] Likewise, don't listen to the deranged lunatics who keep wanting to [[WalkingTank put legs on them]]. [[AwesomeButImpractical Ridiculously impractical, that.]] |
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| 15 | Related to CoolCar, CoolBike, CoolTrain, BaseOnWheels, and other vehicle/warfare tropes--this is basically Cool Tank. Has nothing to do with {{Shorttank}}, which makes you say "tank goodness" in a completely different way. Also has nothing to do with playing a damage-sponge character in an {{MMORPG}}, or with the oxygen storage unit strapped to the back of a SCUBA diver.[[note]]Well, maybe this trope has ''a little'' to do with these things: tanks in [=MMORPGs=] are named after ''this'' kind of tank, because they are heavily armoured characters who can soak up a lot of damage while also dishing it out; as for the kind of tank that holds gas or liquid -- that is actually the ''source'' of the term as used in this trope, odd as it may seem! When the first practical tanks were being developed around the time of {{UsefulNotes/World War I}}, they were so called in documentation as a code term, to confuse the enemy and throw any spies off the track; for one reason or another, the code name just stuck. They might just as easily have ended up with the admittedly cooler name of ''"land-ships."''[[/note]] |
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| 17 | For armed tank-like vehicles, which have legs instead of good ol' treads, see WalkingTank. For ones which [[PowerFloats float]], see HoverTank. For ones that can travel underground, see DrillTank. When the military geniuses of the world finally realize there is no firepower like battleship firepower, one may witnesses the ultimate tanks: [[MilitaryMashupMachine Land Battleships.]] For when things in video games (such as people) act like tanks when they shouldn't, see {{Tank Controls}}. [[SapientTank Sapient Tanks]] can think for themselves. |
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| 19 | When tanks are useless in media, see TanksForNothing. For inaccuracies with armoured vehicles, historical and otherwise, see TanksButNoTanks. For information on tanks and other armored vehicles, see UsefulNotes/ArmoredFightingVehicles. |
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| 21 | If you looked up Mechanized Infantry and expected to see a giant robot with a gun, try looking up RealRobot instead. For [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_locomotive tank engines]] like in WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends, see CoolTrain. |
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| 23 | Although the "tank" class/role in video games gets its name from the role of literal tanks, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant they have nothing to do with this trope]]. |
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| 25 | By the way, they are called "tanks" because when the British were first developing them in World War I, they were called water carriers or water "tanks", in an attempt at secrecy. |
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| 27 | !!Example subpages: |
| 28 | |
| 29 | [[index]] |
| 30 | * TankGoodness/VideoGames |
| 31 | * TankGoodness/RealLife |
| 32 | [[/index]] |
| 33 | |
| 34 | !!Other examples: |
| 35 | |
| 36 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 37 | |
| 38 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 39 | * Guntanks from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' were the secret weapons of the earth forces, more or less, and bridged the gap between mobile suits and mobile armor. Guntank descendants also pop up in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' (Guntank II), ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn'' (Loto) and ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamF91'' (Guntank [=R44=]). |
| 40 | ** Gundam also uses [[MilitaryMashupMachine Land Battleships]] in many continuities. |
| 41 | ** Oh, and we can't forget the Magella Attack, a tank with a turret (Magella Top) that can detach and become a flying hovercraft. |
| 42 | ** Or wielded as an [[ArmorPiercingAttack anti-armor]] [[{{BFG}} cannon]] by a mobile suit. |
| 43 | ** Zeon also rigged together wrecked Zakus and Magella Botton chassis to form the Zaku Tank. Sometimes just used as a construction machine, sometimes as an actual fighting vehicle. |
| 44 | ** Don't forget the good ol' Type 61, with its double 150/155mm cannons, in MS Igloo 2, King of Ground battles. |
| 45 | *** In fact, despite the shows' natural focus on the titular HumongousMecha, and their impact for the space battles, up to 80% of all ''land'' battles [[BoringButPractical were won by the good ol' 61]], even if that fact [[AllThereInTheManual gets pretty seldom mentioned]]. This is in part because the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' anime itself depicts about 3.5 out of the 12 months of the One Year War, and the last two months of the war were fought mostly in space. The majority of the ground combat had already happened. Even the most important land battle depicted in the anime, Operation Odessa, focuses almost entirely on the Gundam while ignoring the ''six thousand'' Type 61 tanks that were the bulk of the ground forces' firepower. |
| 46 | ** Speaking of Igloo, the Hidolfr pretty much epitomizes the top quote from this page. Just one of these [[BiggerIsBetter 220 Metric ton]], super-heavy-armored, semi-transforming behemoths with a [[LightningBruiser top speed of 110km/hr]] is a match for about six Zakus ''and'' their artillery support. |
| 47 | ** In the Alternate Universes, we have the Tragos (''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'', also a HoverTank, though if necessary it can detach its hover skirt and transform into a humanoid mobile suit), Daughtress Tank (''[[Anime/AfterWarGundamX Gundam X]]''), [=ZuOOT=]/[=GaZuOOT=] (which are TransformingMecha, but their mobile suit mode has no discernible advantage over tank mode) and, Linear Tank (with its hexagonal INNER barrel; railguns don't need rifling, after all), and in a sense, the [=BuCUE=] and [=LaGOWE=] (basically {{Walking Tank}}s, aside from the fact that they have a dog-like head carrying a [[LaserBlade beam saber]] in its "mouth") (all from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'') and Union Realdo Hover Tank (''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00''). |
| 48 | *** The Earth Alliance's [=Zamza-Za=] Mobile Armor from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny''. The [[SpiderTank Gells-Ghe (the half-spider/half Strike Dagger)]] and [[WalkingTank one of the Destroy's forms]] count as well. |
| 49 | * The minitank ''Bonaparte'' from Masamune Shirow's ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'' manga is a partial Aversion. The whole police force uses tanks and the Bonaparte is the smallest one, and has the lightest weaponry. But it pulls its share of the workload partially because of its small size (it can go places the others cannot), and because its driver is a little crazed. |
| 50 | ** ''Bonaparte'' was made from the salvaged remains of a larger tank, Squad Leader Britain's Tank Special. It was the only tank on the force made from steel instead of bioplastic. |
| 51 | ** The driver was a perfectly adequate fella, please-and-thank-you, it's [[ActionGirl the commander]] who was [[AxCrazy out of her gourd]]. |
| 52 | * ''Anime/SuperDimensionCavalrySouthernCross'' (a.k.a. the "Masters" arc of ''Anime/{{Robotech}}'') had the Spartas Hovertanks, which could [[TransformingMecha transform]] into HumongousMecha and Walking Tank modes. |
| 53 | * ''Manga/ThoseWhoHuntElves'' has a tank possessed by the spirit of a cat. Whole towns are devastated when it spots a mouse. |
| 54 | * ''Manga/PumpkinScissors'' has a number of tanks. Too bad [[spoiler:none of them can stand up to one guy and his handgun]]... |
| 55 | * ''Animation/SpaceThunderKids'' shows that one can never have enough tanks. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voaK8wL3vz4 Now to destroy them to victory!]] |
| 56 | * ''Manga/DesertPunk'' features the massive tank Fire Dragon Kong. It was the most dangerous machine in the desert, but Desert Punk managed to beat it by shooting a rock structure down on it, then the Machine Gun Brothers shot it until they hit the gas tank and it exploded. Until then, it was pretty freaking deadly. |
| 57 | * ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'': |
| 58 | ** During [[spoiler:Mustang's coup d'etat]], one of the military men, while commenting on the opposition's fighting power, remarks that it's not like they have ''tanks''. [[TemptingFate Guess what shows up a few panels later.]] Turns out that [[spoiler:the Briggs soldiers]] disassembled a tank, then smuggled all the parts into Central and reassembled it by hand. |
| 59 | ** [[FourStarBadass Maj. General Armstrong]] used a tank to repel Sloth, driving it into a ''freight elevator'', then down a narrow corridor, nearly crushing the Elrics in the process. |
| 60 | * At the beginning of ''Manga/VenusWars'', Ishtar invades the Aphrodian capital, Io, using parachuting Superheavy tanks. |
| 61 | * ''Anime/FutureWar198X'' has an awesome (and fairly accurate) huge tank battles on the North German Plains. |
| 62 | * In later light novels of ''Literature/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Saito obtains a King Tiger II tank from second world war. |
| 63 | * In the ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' manga, Skuld builds a tank for a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill rubber band fight.]] |
| 64 | * ''Literature/TheThirdTheGirlWithTheBlueEye'' features Bogie, a cool tank designed for desert travel, with an onboard [[ArtificialIntelligence A.I.]] and MoreDakka than you can shake a stick at. |
| 65 | ** ''And'' storage space for a PoweredArmor. |
| 66 | * ''Manga/{{Joshiraku}}'' may be a slice of life show about rakugo performers, but in the opening credits the main characters are shown riding on top of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_61 Type 61 tank.]] |
| 67 | * ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'' is all about [[MilitaryMoe high-school girls who drive tanks]], in particular those made during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. The school team consists of a Panzer IV, a Pz.38(t), M3 Lee, a [=StuG-III=], and [[TheAllegedCar Type 89 I-Go]]. Other schools have Churchills, Matildas, Shermans, Tigers, Panzer III, T-34/76, T-34-85, IS-2, KV-2, Elefant, [=JagdTiger=], Panther, and [[spoiler:Kuromorimine takes the cake with a goddamned Maus]]. The ImprobablyFemaleCast is justified by the fact that in the world where the series takes place, driving tanks is considered a "womanly" martial art. |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 71 | * The vehicle that gives ''ComicBook/TankGirl'' her name. |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan''. After Alter's first attempt to seize the biohazard suite is foiled due to Russian sniper Natalya, the next time she shows up her AmazonBrigade is driving stolen M1 Abrams tanks. |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/TankVixens'', although the tanks mostly served as a prop for weaponized {{Fanservice}}. |
| 74 | * UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} Franchise/DCUniverse's Haunted Tank. The first version involved a UsefulNotes/WorldWarII tank haunted by its commander's ancestor, [[UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar Confederate General J.E.B Stuart]], as penance for supporting slavery. This naturally causes occasional friction in the crew, since the tank's gunner is black. The Haunted Tank recently reappeared in a Vertigo series set in modern Iraq. The general's new descendant is this Abrams tank's commander, who is descended from Stuart and one of his slaves. |
| 75 | * Creator/GarthEnnis's ''War Stories'' and ''Battlefields'' stories featured a couple of tank stories. The very first, "Johann's Tiger", featured a German commander desperately fleeing west to surrender to the Americans while avoiding Russian and German patrols. And a couple of ''Battlefields'' stories centred on the crew of a Churchill (and later, a Firefly) tank and their Geordie commander. |
| 76 | * The Batmobile in ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns''. Batman even comments that only something [[Franchise/{{Superman}} not of this world]] could ever hope of damaging it. |
| 77 | * One of [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin's]] daydreams has him doodle a tank on his homework and blow up his school. His rampage ends when Miss Wormwood shows up, takes away his paper and gives him detention (in the doodle she's a giant monster that is strong enough to resist the tank's cannon fire). |
| 78 | * ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'': ''{{Film/Psycho}} 3''; the panel shows Norman driving a tank through the bathroom door. |
| 79 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'', Herr Starrr uses the resources of The Grail to commandeer a US tank battalion as part of his operation to capture [[TheHero Jesse Custer]] and simultaneously fend off [[TheJuggernaut the Saint of Killers]]. While Starr definitely approves of the tanks, declaring that the mere sight of them gives him a hard on, they're just as helpless and ineffectual as anything else that tries to fight with the Saint. |
| 80 | * A tank is featured on the cover of the very first issue of the very first ''[[ComicBook/GIJoeARealAmericanHeroMarvel G.I. Joe]]'' comic book series, and the [=MOBAT=] was the center of the plot of issue #5. Other iconic tanks featured include the Joes' Mauler and Cobra's [=HISS=] series; later years of the original series introduced more fanciful models. |
| 81 | * ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'': Justice Department tanks are friggin' ''huge''. They're rarely used outside of military conflicts however, since the Judges are still primarily a police force. |
| 82 | * The Krawls from ''ComicBook/TheRedStar'' are tanks deployed by dropships. They pack enormous fire with their heavy main cannon and sponson-mounted autocannons. Additionally, they double as artillery with their mounted multi-missile launchers. |
| 83 | * In ''ComicBook/DCOneMillion'', Vandal Savage brings out his [[StupidJetpackHitler World War II-era Blitz Engines]], these are giant tanks powerful enough to dominate contemporary militaries. Though the Martian Manhunter quickly brings them down. |
| 84 | * Continuing with DC are the [[MonowheelMayhem War Wheels]], the originals are [[StupidJetpackHitler Nazi superweapons]] with NighInvulnerable armour and massive sponson cannons in World War 2 and were used against ComicBook/{{Blackhawk}}. In modern times, [[ComicBook/FrankensteinAgentOfShade S.H.A.D.E]] uses a new type of War Wheel that have all the abilities of the originals and can be remotely controlled, have a [[MoreDakka series of extra turret cannons]] and [[BaseOnWheels can house an army of G.I. Robots]]. |
| 85 | * ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''[[Recap/TintinTheCalculusAffair The Calculus Affair]]'', Tintin and Captain Haddock hijack a Bordurian tank while escaping the country with Professor Calculus. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 89 | * Considering the page quote, it should come as no surprise that badass tanks are common in ''Fanfic/TiberiumWars''. Tanks are depicted fairly realistically, with the interior of the tanks being cramped, noisy, and hot, and realistic tank tactics being used. The interior of the Mammoth Tanks are described as being more spacious, but still loud and uncomfortable. |
| 90 | * Despite the rise of Mecha and Engels, tanks are still viable and effective in ''FanFic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion'', and the tank crews joke about various disadvantages of the mecha and boast about the advantages of the tanks. |
| 91 | * ''FanFic/HereWeGoAgain'' brings the US Marines' [=M1A1=] Abrams tanks into the story of ''Literature/{{Gate}}''. The 2nd Tank Battalion, Charlie Company a.k.a "[[HorsemenOfTheApocalypse The Four Horsemen]]" often brings additional firepower to Itami's Recon Team and are major force multipliers into fights that were ''already'' a CurbStompBattle for the JSDF in canon. Especially when the titular tank, 'Here We Go Again' goes up against the flame dragon, lives to tell the tale and even gets badass claw marks scarred into its hull for all to see! |
| 92 | * ''[[Fanfic/TheNowakverse Under the Bridge]]'' has The Exterminator, a glue-shooting tank-like vehicle fashioned out of a 10" [[Series/DoctorWho Dalek]] toy. Its name is somewhat ironic, considering it was built and is operated by small rodents. |
| 93 | * In ''FanFic/WorldwarWarOfEquals'', The Race's landcruisers are not so tough facing 21st century tanks. While several models of tanks such as the Al-Khalid and the Leopard 2 work just fine against them, some tanks such as the Argentinian [=TAM=] tank requires an armor upgrade to fight them more equally. |
| 94 | * In ''Fanfic/PinkAlert3'', most Soviet Pony Republic Commanders place great emphasis on their many tough and highly capable armored fighting vehicles. While the Equestrian Alliance's tanks have all kinds of nifty special tricks and the Aquestrian Empire's amphibious mecha armies look plain awesome, in a traditional armoured slugging match the Soviets can be relied upon for coming out on top. |
| 95 | * ''Fanfic/LastRights'' has a paragraph-long {{infodump}} describing the Starfleet T-204 Hayes main battle tanks carried aboard the USS ''Bajor'' for the Kobali Prime land war. They're tracked vehicles a little bigger than an M1 Abrams or T-90, but weigh half as much and are powered by a miniature fusion reactor. Armaments are sponson-mounted Type V phasers (shuttlecraft-grade) and a phaser minigun on the turret, with the main gun being a 120mm coilgun that will put a bunker-buster through eight meters of ferrocrete. The author's notes spoke disparagingly of the {{Spider Tank}}s and MiniMecha used respectively by the Vaadwaur and Voth in the canon game (they're AwesomeButImpractical, as are {{Hover Tank}}s), and envisioned something looking like the bastard offpsring of a Russian T-90 and a [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} Leman Russ]]. |
| 96 | * Drawing on the ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' example of the Type 61 above, the 61A3 that serves as the mount of the main Federation characters in ''Fanfic/AFeddieStory''; the story itself is in some ways the chronicle of the last stand of conventional armor against the new Mobile Suit, and often points out that the tanks actually ''won''. |
| 97 | * ''Fanfic/BeatTheDrumsOfWar'' has a scene where Bajoran Militia infantry are falling back under attack from Iconian Heralds, with the Harbinger leading the Heralds doing some EvilGloating. He's abruptly KilledMidSentence by a shell from a Bajoran tank that was sitting on a hilltop two kilometers away. |
| 98 | * ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaOccupationalHazards'' features the main characters stumbling across and subsequently taking a ten-meter long 81-ton land battleship from the basement of a vehicle testing facility. Mounting a turreted Equestrian Royal Ordinance 76.2mm gun firing 17-pound shells and traveling at the speed of slow, it's not really sugarcoated that they'd found a TOG II, albeit with some upgrades - least of all being a compact nuclear reactor in place of the diesel engine and 20mm autocannons for coaxial and hull secondary armament. |
| 99 | ** ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestriaEmptyQuiver'' has the Tank Ghouls, a band of protectors for the town of Maple Station that all operate and own their own tanks. Of the group, there is a Churchill AVRE with a [[{{BFG}} 290mm spigot mortar]], a Sherman Firefly with a bulldozer attachment, a [[FlawedPrototype Porsche Tiger]], and a Type 2 Ka-Mi, an amphibious tank. |
| 100 | * ''Fanfic/WonderfulMazinja'': The tanks built by super-villain [[TheEngineer Squealer]] are heavily modified: they are equipped with multiple cannons which shoot fireballs and spiked cannonballs, they can turn invisible, rotate thirty-sixty degrees, deploy electrical shields... and some of them are taller than buildings. |
| 101 | * ''Fanfic/DavionAndDavionDeceased'' includes tank forces as a component of all major military forces, ranging from fast hover tanks to the slower tracked units with heavy autocannon and missiles. Marge Pritchard and her tank crew are occasionally a viewpoint. |
| 102 | * ''Fanfic/TarkinsFist'': Colonel Loi Cas of the Chinese People's Liberation Army serves as a tank commander of a brigade of T-99g tanks. |
| 103 | [[/folder]] |
| 104 | |
| 105 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 106 | * The animated Korean film ''Animation/AachiAndSsipak'' starts out with a tank battle between police and a gang of mutants who drive small one-man tank, motorcycle, roller blade machines. |
| 107 | * In the "Cannon Fodder" segment of ''Anime/{{Memories}}'', there's an entire city that is effectively one gigantic tank. It sports many, many turrets of all sizes built into its structure and creeps slowly through the desert on treads. The biggest turrets have entire work-crews loading and firing automobile-sized shells but only get off a few shots per day. They appear to be at war with a similar city-tank, though it's never seen on screen. |
| 108 | [[/folder]] |
| 109 | |
| 110 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 111 | * Israeli film ''Film/{{Lebanon}}'' tells the story of an Israeli tank crew during the [[UsefulNotes/ArabIsraeliConflict 1982 Lebanon war]]. What makes this movie really stand out is its perspective. You see only what the tank crew sees. That means the ''only'' window to the outside world is ''a gunsight''. This serves as pure ParanoiaFuel, and in case the viewer is claustrophobic, NightmareFuel. |
| 112 | * In ''Film/{{Stalingrad|2013}}'', the German unit assaulting the apartment building can't break the stubborn Russian defense--until a squad of panzers show up and start shelling the Russian position inside the building. |
| 113 | * The Russian war film, ''Film/{{T 34}}'' has the titular T-34 tanks, as well the German antagonists using their wide array of Panzers. The plot hinges upon a group of imprisoned Soviet tankers being forced to use a recently captured T-34-85 as live targets for a German training program, but instead figuring out a way to use it to escape. |
| 114 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' has hovertanks as well as relatively real HumongousMecha. |
| 115 | ** The ExpandedUniverse (and Episode 3) has the Juggernaut vehicle, which could be turned into a full-fledged tank just by replacing the wheels (all ten of them) with tracks. It's essentially a slab of metal with guns. |
| 116 | ** The AT-TE of Episode 2 is designed very similarly to a tank despite technically being a mecha, with a low profile, multiple antipersonnel weapons, no real head, and a massively powerful swivel-mounted weapon on top. If you removed the legs and added treads, it would look like a tank. (The cockpit is transparent, but it's [[HandWave Transparisteel]].) |
| 117 | ** The [=TX-225 GAVw=] "Occupier" combat assault tank in ''Film/RogueOne'' is a track-propelled tank designed to operate in tight quarters and urban environments. It has two laser cannons on each side and its powerful engine can transport heavy payloads, such as [[spoiler:Kyber crystals in Jedha]]. |
| 118 | * Film/JamesBond himself commandeers one of these in the big chase in ''Film/GoldenEye'' |
| 119 | ** The third level from the LicensedGame ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye 007]]'', where you must find a plane in a runway and escape from the dam, also lets you shoot down the heavy machineguns with a tank. (there is also the level based on the movie's chase scene, but it's just a [[TimedMission timed level]], no chasing occurs) |
| 120 | * When the [[{{Thememobile}} Batmobile]] in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' was first revealed to the world, fan opinion was mixed. Then the movie came out. Gordon wants one. |
| 121 | -->'''Gotham cop:''' It's a black... tank. |
| 122 | ** Definitely a ShoutOut to ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''. |
| 123 | * Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse: |
| 124 | ** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': The Batmobile is a mix between the armored Tumbler of ''Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy'' and classic hot rod Batmobile designs. |
| 125 | ** ''Film/JusticeLeague2017'' has the "Knightcrawler", an armored SpiderTank designed to explore tunnels. It can [[WallCrawl crawl walls]]. |
| 126 | ** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'' introduces the "War Machine" (in Creator/ZackSnyder's own words), a tank-like vehicle conceived and operated by Batman, inspired by the Batmobile from ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns''. |
| 127 | * ''Film/TheBeastOfWar'' is about a Soviet tank in Afghanistan that becomes separated from the rest of the army. As the lone tank battles through mujahadeen guerrilla attacks, its crew slowly [[AHouseDivided tears itself apart]]. |
| 128 | * The ''[[Series/ThePhilSilversShow Sgt. Bilko]]'' movie had a hover-tank which didn't work because the [[AwesomeButImpractical hovering tank has no way to stabilize itself against the recoil of its main gun]], so firing the gun launched the tank uncontrollably in the opposite direction. They faked it with some fireworks. |
| 129 | ** Of course, the movie ends before the military figures out they've been duped. It's not clear why they can't be satisfied with a hover-APC, as it can simply fly over landmines and Czech hedgehogs. |
| 130 | * In ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'', the Sultan of Hatay lends support to the Nazi Grail expedition by providing them with transportation including tanks. The film shows one modified WWI tank, a Mark VIII with a turret dropped on top with the RuleOfCool. |
| 131 | * The Landram was used in the PilotMovie of the original ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|1978}}'' to save some humans from the Cylon rigged Casino on planet Carolon. |
| 132 | * Franchise/{{Rambo}} used one in ''Film/RamboIII'' to play chicken with the BigBad's gunship. |
| 133 | * ''Film/KellysHeroes'' features some great tank action. The soldiers have on their side Oddball, a proto-hippie tank commander with three Shermans manned by gypsies. The Shermans provide the backbone of the group's offense along the way to the loot, which is guarded by German Tiger tanks. A big tank battle ensues, but ultimately the final Tiger [[spoiler:is just too much to handle, so the soldiers negotiate with the German tank commander to split the loot he's guarding.]] |
| 134 | * ''Film/TheATeam'' movie (as seen in the trailer) involves a battle between a tank and Reaper drones. The tank is is in midair, in the middle of parachuting down. And after they shoot down the aircraft, they fire the tank's cannons to adjust its course and allow for a safe landing. ''They are flying a tank!'' |
| 135 | * In ''Film/{{Tank|1984}}'', James Garner's character uses a WWII Sherman tank he'd bought and restored to break his son out of prison, then drives it to the Tennessee border to seek a fair trial for his son and others framed by a corrupt Georgia sheriff. |
| 136 | * ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' has several examples. Wheeled Hydra tanks powered by [[MagicfromTechnology Tesseract energy]] are everywhere, and stolen by Allied troops during the prison break scene to even the playing field. Captain America himself highlights a primary flaw in size escalation when he takes out a comically-oversized three-story tank with the classic InsertGrenadeHere. |
| 137 | ** Oddly enough, the massive tank that the Cap blows up is just about [[TanksButNoTanks the only tank that HYDRA is seen using]]: all the other armoured vehicles were either repainted [=FV432=] [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier APCs]] or a bulldozer mock-up. |
| 138 | * ''Film/AntMan1''. [[spoiler:When Hank and Hope are trapped in the Pym facility, Hank reveals that his tank keychain isn't actually a keychain.]] |
| 139 | * In the 1987 homage/parody ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'', Friday assaults the bad guys' headquarters with the police version of this; instead of a gun, the tank sports a battering ram with a smiley-face on it. |
| 140 | * In ''Film/GIJoeRetaliation'' Roadblock drives a tank-like dune buggy built by Coulton to battle some Cobra tanks. |
| 141 | * ''Film/Sahara1943'' (the film with Creator/HumphreyBogart and the remake with James Belushi, ''not'' the Clive Cussler novel and its adaptation) has the protagonists using an M-3 Lee to escape from the Nazis overtaking the Allies' battle lines in Africa. It is one of the few advantages that the heroes have on the HoldTheLine LastStand that makes the bulk of the movie. |
| 142 | * ''Film/ShootEmUp''. With every freelance hitman in the city trying to kill the BadassAndBaby, Smith puts the baby and his LoveInterest inside an M24 Chaffee in a museum. "You'll be safe from gunfire and most explosives." |
| 143 | * ''Film/{{Fury 2014}}'' is about an entire armored unit of Sherman Tanks. While that in itself may not sound all that spectacular, this does mark the film debut of an actual Tiger Tank. Not a mockup, not a CG render. A '''''Real''''' Tiger Tank. [[note]] The tank itself was donated by the Bovington Tank Museum, and is the ''only'' fully operational Tiger Tank in existance.[[/note]] |
| 144 | * ''Film/TankGirl''. The title character has a tank with an astonishing assortment of accessories as well as a BrainInAJar controlling it. |
| 145 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BoyAndTheWorld'', the police display some really impressive tanks during a parade downtown. Later in the movie, they put them to good use when they [[spoiler:take down a giant red bird]]. |
| 146 | * ''Film/{{Underground}}'': The underground refugees spend their time making weapons to fight the Nazis, believing that World War 2 is still raging above. Their biggest achievement is building a whole tank. In one of the film's iconic scenes, Natalija dances on the tank at Jovan's wedding. The refugees also use the tank as their bomb shelter. |
| 147 | * Becomes the BrickJoke in ''Film/LifeIsBeautiful''. |
| 148 | * In ''Film/ChaiLaiAngelsDangerousFlowers'', the heroines have been trapped in a cage by Kong, and the CarnivalOfKillers and an army of {{Mook}}s are closing in. When they do a quick count of their numbers, they realise that Hibiscus is missing. At this point, Hibiscus comes round the corner commanding a tank being driven by Chen, which quickly puts the bad guys to flight. |
| 149 | * The [[Film/RichardIII 1995 film adaptation of]] ''Theatre/RichardIII'' updates the setting to an AlternateHistory 1930's UK, and begins with an ActionPrologue of Richard assassinating King Henry VI. Said prologue begins with him ''[[BigEntrance ramming a tank into Henry's mansion]]'', quickly emerging from the chaotic rubble and blasting his target in the head. |
| 150 | * Part of ''Film/DonCamillosLastRound'' revolves on Peppone, Brescello's Communist mayor and now candidate to the Parliament and also a partisan during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, needing to help a local sharecropper who in 1945 got his hands on an [=M24=] Chaffee (previously captured by the Germans and stuck at a farm during their retreat in 1945) and ''never reported it to the authorities'', and as the sharecropper is now about to be evicted he could face serious consequences. He and Don Camillo (the local priest, who decided to help to protect the sharecropper from his own stupidity) manage to move it where it can be "found"... But not without Peppone shooting the dove statue on the Monument to Peace the Communists had recently built. |
| 151 | ** The sequence was so iconic that when a museum to the Don Camillo movies was built in Brescello the town ''bought a tank and parked it in front''... Though they got the wrong model (an [=M26=] Pershing, which is a much heavier tank). |
| 152 | * ''Film/SnowAndFire'': The World War II Western Front winter battle scenes boast well-known tanks of the era, notably the German ''Königstiger''. The (real) one used for the film belongs to the Saumur tank museum, it is the only one in the world that's still in running condition [[invoked]][[JustHereForGodzilla and is reason enough for World War II tank enthusiasts to watch it]] (the museum hasn't lent it to any other production since). |
| 153 | * 1941 short film ''Film/TheTanksAreComing'' was a propaganda piece showing some recruits going through tank training at Fort Knox. The idea was to reassure the American public that our tanks are great and there was nothing to worry about--look at them ford a ditch, look at them flatten a taxi cab! This was ironic, since the M2 tanks shown in the film were wholly inadequate to combat against the Germans and had to be replaced with the M4 "Sherman" tank. |
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| 155 | |
| 156 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 157 | * In the ''Ack-Ack Macaque'' stories from Gareth L. Powell, Land Leviathans are giant tanks that look like battleships on tractor treads. With their huge size and smokestacks, they'd appear to be an example of AwesomeButImpractical. However these Land Leviathans come from an alternate Earth that has a much higher technology level than the already very advanced Earth of 2060 AD. Besides having especially strong armour and cannons as well as missile batteries, these tanks have force fields. With all that technology, they easily storm through Earth's armies and are only held back by Dreadnoughts, giant fusion-powered zeppelin battleships that can sometimes take out a careless Land Leviathan with a missile barrage. The final undoing of the Land Leviathans came when the heroes ally with a resistance band from centuries in the future. The rebel mining ship had a uniquely powerful PlasmaCannon-LaserCutter. |
| 158 | * Creator/HGWells laid out the concept of armored vehicles ("landships") in his 1904 short-story "The L.and Ironclads", making this trope OlderThanTelevision, insofar literature is concerned. However, his vehicles differ from the overall concept in that they were more like a mix between [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier armored personnel carriers]] and [[BaseOnWheels Land Battleship]]s. |
| 159 | * The ''Literature/{{Bolo}}'' series in Creator/KeithLaumer's stories, especially the Continental Siege Units (the Mark XXXIII's were called Planetary Siege Units). Their firepower is usually given in megatons per second and have an AI far above human level in both intelligence and ethics. And don't even get started on the ''Planetary'' Siege Units that are deployed in independent brigades of 24 units each and that each have armaments that let them duel ''starships''! |
| 160 | * Creator/DavidDrake's ''Literature/HammersSlammers'' stories feature the titular mercenary company, whose primary offensive arm are air-cushion {{Hover Tank}}s. |
| 161 | * The eponymous tracked BaseOnWheels in Michael Moorcock's ''The Land Leviathan''. |
| 162 | * ''Tramp In Armour'' by Colin Forbes features the crew of a British Matilda tank who get trapped behind enemy lines in the last days of the Battle of France, and their journey to Dunkirk in order to escape. An excellent representation of armored warfare. The Matilda's limitations are thoroughly explored, but thanks to the way her crew fight her, she remains a thoroughly awesome weapon. |
| 163 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' featured a steam tank of sorts in ''Literature/SmallGods'' -- notably, because its existence was enough to shift the balance of power and change history, Lu Tze of the [[TimePolice History Monks]] sabotaged its construction. |
| 164 | * Creator/JohnRingo's ''Literature/LegacyOfTheAldenata'' features upgraded modern tanks by the bucketful, as well as totally new designs like the Tiger [=IIIs=] based on alien tech from ''Watch on the Rhine''. |
| 165 | * Averted in the ''Literature/{{Starfist}}'' military sci-fi series, thanks to the development of highly effective and extremely light man-portable anti-armor weapons making heavily armored vehicles obsolete. This actually drives the plot of one of the novels - a megalomaniac manages to conquer a world with tanks, which nobody has seen for literally centuries, and the anti-armor weapons are now museum pieces. The military is forced to use the museum pieces to manufacture new copies, and have to have history professors instruct the Marines in their use. They do put a permanent order to maintain the anti-armor capability as well. [[HollywoodTactics How precisely these weapons are supposed to be effective when you're engaging a combined arms force where the tanks are firing from multiple kilometers away is not addressed]]. |
| 166 | * Creator/RobertAHeinlein: |
| 167 | ** ''Literature/IfThisGoesOn'' has these. They are sort of "landships". To get an idea of the "landships", think of a [=WW2=] battleship that goes overland like a tank. |
| 168 | ** ''Literature/ThePuppetMasters'' has amphibious tanks or "mud turtles". |
| 169 | * Literature/TheDraka Hond tank is the king of the battlefield in the Eurasian War, and the Draka produce them in Soviet Union-like numbers from their massive transcontinental empire. |
| 170 | * The ''Sovremenyy''. the Russian jaggernaut (ice cruiser) rumbling across the south polar plains in Swedish dieselpunk novel ''Iskriget''. |
| 171 | * Creator/FyodorBerezin is in love with this trope. As an example, the modern Soviet tanks from an alternate reality in his ''Red Stars'' duology (where the USSR dominates the world) are four-tracked monstrocities with huge cannons. This is explained by the fact that USSR struck first in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, destroying ''Germany'''s military-industrial complex instead of the Soviet one, allowing factories to keep building heavier and heavier tanks, like KV-3, and KV-4 (for reference, the RealLife KV-2 was armed with a howitzer cannon and 5 of these obliterated over 20 German tanks in one battle). |
| 172 | ** Berezin's ''Huge Black Ship'' series. Picture a HoverTank called a Sow (AKA Battle Mountain): powered by several nuclear reactors, four hundred meters in length, with its main guns having a 1.5 m caliber, plus a lot of smaller guns. The second book also introduces a 5-ton monstrosity with a six-barreled 152 mm rapid-fire gun. These smaller tanks are called Piglets, since they're actually carried into battle by the above-mentioned Sow. |
| 173 | * While this seems to be the case with the [[LizardFolk Race]] landcruisers in Creator/HarryTurtledove's ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'' series, they're no more (and probably less) advanced than modern-day tanks. However, they're monsters in the books' UsefulNotes/WorldWarII setting, compared to what the human "empire and not-empires" can put out. The shells are laser-- [[InsistentTerminology sorry]], [[CallARabbitASmeerp skelkwank-guided]] and can punch through any human armor. As mentioned by several characters on both sides, had the Race arrived only a generation later (as some of them wanted), the humans would've wiped the floor with them. |
| 174 | ** By the ''Colonization'' series, taking place 20 years later, the major "independent not-empires" have caught up and, in some cases, passed the Race's military technology. When the Reich invades the Race-controlled Poland, it's stated that the new German tanks are a 1-to-1 match for the Race's landcruisers, and the Germans actually know how to fight with tanks which was pointed out as the biggest weakness of the Race's tanks by Germans in the previous trilogy. To the Germans, they fought like Russians: "Their tanks are great but their tank ''skills'' are shit." |
| 175 | * ''Literature/WorldWarZ'': Averted at the Battle of Yonkers. Tanks do very little to kill the massive hoard of zombies that start flooding the bridge. It's also specified, however, that the person in command was specifically an idiot and didn't use them right: real tanks could destroy a zombie horde simply by driving over them. |
| 176 | ** It is mentioned that they are used again against human opponents who don't want to rejoin the United States. |
| 177 | * In the ''Literature/HonorHarrington'' series, they have largely been replaced by PoweredArmor, but they do turn up from time to time. One plotline in ''Shadow of Freedom'' revolves around a planetary government's PraetorianGuard using tanks to put down protests and riots, and the local [[LaResistance resistance movement's]] escalating efforts to counter them. The tanks prove to be vulnerable to dedicated Anti Armor weaponry, which the rebels have limited supplies of, [[spoiler:and a substantial number of them are destroyed when a truck bomb flattens a parking garage they were staged in to provide cover from the aforementioned anti armor weaponry.]] Another time, in ''Echoes Of Honor'', [[spoiler:a large-scale POW camp breakout was made possible by the external help [[GunshipRescue in the assault shuttle]]]] capturing the camp's armor park first, and handing out the available tanks to the rebels, before any PoweredArmor-equipped defender ever had a chance to suit up. |
| 178 | ** [[AllThereInTheManual According to the House of Steel supplement]] Manticore does use tanks, however we don't see them as the series focuses on the Navy and Marines, whereas tanks are only used by the Army. |
| 179 | * In ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'', Marco and Tobias acquire a tank in book 51. They steal it off a train, drive it the wrong way down a freeway, and leave it parked on top of the remains of Vice Principal Chapman's house. |
| 180 | * In ''Literature/MailedFist'', the stars of the book are the British Churchill Tanks - mechanically reliable, surprisingly manouvrable, heavily armoured, and ''still'' only equipped with a gun that cannot put a hole in a German Tiger from a hundred yards away. As Major Foley and his crew discover to their cost. |
| 181 | * Zig zagged in Antti Tuuri's ''Literature/TheWinterWar''. Due to the Finns' shortage of proper anti-tank weapons, Russian tanks often act at leisure, [[MolotovCocktail as far as they don't get too close to Finnish positions]]. However, their impact is rather limited until the Russians improve their tactics. It is mentioned that in another sector the Russians break the Finnish lines with proper use of tanks. |
| 182 | * ''Literature/RebuildWorld'': High level hunters (PrivateMilitaryContractors) in the more dangerous east from where the cast live are said to each have either one of these, or a MiniMecha, to help them take on {{Kaiju}}. Akira faces a number of monsters similar to tanks (including SpiderTank types). Eventually after Akira gets [[PriceOnTheirHead a price on his head,]] he and a few allies have to fight off entire tank platoons sent to bring him down, that have DeflectorShields and can make an ImprovisedPlatform out of force fields to point the tank upwards. Human crewed tanks tend to shoot barrages of missiles Akira and allies have to shoot down until they can arrange concentrated WaveMotionGun fire. Akira ends up getting extremely expensive (and illegal) {{Antimatter}} bullets to take them down easier. |
| 183 | [[/folder]] |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 186 | * ''Series/SovietStormWorldWarIIInTheEast'' features several prominent German and Soviet tanks, namely the T-34, IS-2, Tiger I, and Panther in all their wartime glory. This is especially true with the episode focusing on the Battle of Kursk, where tanks are the deciding factor in the outcome of the battle. |
| 187 | * ''Series/HogansHeroes'': Carter infiltrates a German unit to recover confiscated TNT so they can blow up a bridge. However, rather than just getting the TNT and leaving, he requisitions and drives off with a German tank and they use ''that'' to blow the bridge. |
| 188 | * In series one of ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' Alex [[AwesomeButImpractical commandeers a hot pink gay pride tank so that she can total a car]]. |
| 189 | * ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': The original Megazord has a tank mode, although this is used sparingly. Titanus' attack mode is tank-like and was even branded as such in ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger''. The original [[MilitaryMashupMachine Ultrazord]] is also basically a tank, guaranteed to obliterate the MonsterOfTheWeek by rapid-fire shelling it to dust. The only being to survive a barrage fron Ultrazord was Lokar, and he was badly scarred when next he showed up. |
| 190 | * A staple of the ''Series/MetalHeroes'' shows, typically used by the hero; often, their tank can split into a CoolPlane and/or a [[ThisIsADrill drill tank]]. ''Series/JikuuSenshiSpielban'' had the villains using massive fleets of tanks, with the lead general, Deathzero, in an EvilCounterpart to Spielban's own tank, also capable of splitting into a jet and a ground vehicle (with a big spinning sawblade instead of a drill); this carried over into ''Series/VRTroopers'', with the added caveat that General Ivar's Ravage Tank is the only thing keeping the other tanks operating, so [[DecapitatedArmy the Troopers often target Ivar's tank to end the assault]]. Season 2 of ''VRT'' also gives Ryan his own tank (courtesy of ''Series/SpaceSheriffShaider''). |
| 191 | * Pearly, from the ''Series/SpaceAboveAndBeyond'' episode "Pearly". Who is most definitely NOT an APC, thank you very much. |
| 192 | * In ''Series/ChouSeiShinGransazer'', when the Japanese military decides to build their own HumongousMecha someone thought that its support vehicle should be a conventional tank- only a hundred times bigger. |
| 193 | * ''Series/UltraSeven'' gives us one of the most ridiculous [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot yet awesome]] monsters ever in '''Dinosaur-Tank'''. It looks like ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ultra/images/9/98/Dinosaur_Tank%282%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20180428181238 Yeah.]] |
| 194 | * Ineffectual Marxist ''Series/CitizenSmith'' gets a hold of a [[TanksButNoTanks Scorpion AFV]] and uses it storm Westminster [[spoiler:: while the Government is on its Summer Holidays]]. |
| 195 | * The Japanese cop show ''Series/SeibuKeisatsu'' features one in its first two episodes. The vehicle, a massive armored car named the TU-355 Lady Bird, is hijacked by a trio of mercenaries hired by a RightWingMilitiaFanatic. |
| 196 | * [[Series/TheWalkingDead Mitch Dolgen]] uses an old Patton tank against the prison [[spoiler:but it's destroyed during the fight.]] |
| 197 | * In one episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', after a commander of an army tank unit has to have a rather embarrassing problem treated at the 4077th ("[[TheDiseaseThatShallNotBeNamed carnal flu]]," as Hawkeye calls it), the camp is plagued by snipers, and Hawkeye "convinces" him to park one of his tanks in the center of the camp to scare the snipers away in return for "losing" the record of the treatment. It works, but then Frank Burns gets the idea to impress Margaret by telling her he can drive a tank, and proceeding to take the controls to prove it. Long story short, he ''can't''. (Ultimately, Hawkeye and BJ agree to cover for him in exchange for Frank signing a form they'd been trying to get him sign for the entire episode.) |
| 198 | * In the ''Series/Batman1966'' episode, "Penguin's Disastrous End," the Dynamic Duo and the police have the Penguin and Zelda trapped in a gold vault waiting for them to surrender for lack of food and/or air. However, the Penguin has a completely unexpected plan to escape: using his gold loot to have it fashioned into a fully functional tank and smash his way out. Although it is a shock at first, Batman and Robin give chase and easily stop it with their Batzooka. |
| 199 | * ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In a murder that is [[CruelAndUnusualDeath unusual even by Midsomer standards]], the first VictimOfTheWeek in "[[Recap/MidsomerMurdersS19E1 The Town That Rose from the Dead]]" is run over by a tank. |
| 200 | [[/folder]] |
| 201 | |
| 202 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 203 | * The Swedish PowerMetal band Music/{{Sabaton}}, given their fondness for singing about militaria in general and UsefulNotes/WorldWarII in particular, naturally feature this trope ''quite heavily'' throughout their oeuvre. Special props to "Panzerkampf" (about the Battle of Kursk), "Panzer Battalion" (about the 2003 invasion of Iraq), "Ghost Division" (about UsefulNotes/ErwinRommel's "ghost" tank division), and more recently, "Steel Commanders" (about the history of tank warfare). |
| 204 | -->''Armored tanks of mass destruction''\ |
| 205 | ''Killers in the east''\ |
| 206 | ''Rats who dares to stand before us''\ |
| 207 | ''Feel our guns go live''\ |
| 208 | ''Death in the shape of a panzer battalion!'' |
| 209 | * The anthem of the [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons WWII German tank korps]], ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awehbFe3P3U Panzerlied,]]'' which is so good the tune and lyrics have been adapted by the Chilean, Italian, and even ''French'' militaries, and (unofficially), by [[UsefulNotes/WeAreNotTheWehrmacht modern German Army]]. Famously featured in ''Film/BattleOfTheBulge.'' |
| 210 | -->''If it storms or snows, or the sun smiles on us,''\ |
| 211 | ''The day burning hot, or the icy cold of night.''\ |
| 212 | ''Dusty are our faces, but happy is our mind, yes, our mind.''\ |
| 213 | ''Then roar our tanks in the storm's wind.'' |
| 214 | * The Soviet tank forces had several fight songs that all sound pretty awesome and glorify their vehicles: "Three Tankmen" and "March of the Soviet Tankists" are the most famous. (Badly) translated from Russian: |
| 215 | -->''With their fire, and their strong steeling,\ |
| 216 | The tanks will win future battlefields,\ |
| 217 | We'll be ordered into battle by Comrade Stalin\ |
| 218 | And the Grand Marshal will be our leader.'' |
| 219 | * The earliest song to feature tanks is the British WWI propaganda song "The Tanks that Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy", written after the first operational use of tanks at Cambrai: |
| 220 | -->''And the tanks went on, and they strolled along with an independent air,\ |
| 221 | And their guns began to blare, and the Huns began to swear,\ |
| 222 | For they pulled the trees up by the roots, and they made the Huns look like galoots,\ |
| 223 | Did the tanks that broke the ranks out in Picardy!'' |
| 224 | * Music/{{Pink Floyd}}'s song "When the Tigers broke free" relates a tank attack during the Battle of Anzio, where Roger Waters' father was killed. |
| 225 | [[/folder]] |
| 226 | |
| 227 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 228 | * The "Tank Chase" mode from ''[[Pinball/IndianaJonesThePinballAdventure Indiana Jones: The Pinball Adventure]]''. |
| 229 | * "Tank Multiball" in Creator/SegaPinball's ''Pinball/GoldenEye'', which also has a model tank on the play field. |
| 230 | * [[Creator/{{Zaccaria}} Mr. Game's]] ''Pinball/MacAttack'' has the Mac Mobile, a rocket-powered tank with two massive cannons on top. During gameplay, the player must move it into position to expose a ball lock for one of the game's {{Video Mode}}s. |
| 231 | [[/folder]] |
| 232 | |
| 233 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 234 | * Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril has Veronica, who can [[BagOfHolding telescope a tank out of her purse.]] She uses it for the most [[MundaneUtility mundane tasks,]] such as transportation down the street, or [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill killing a single demon.]] There are times when it comes in handy, though. Like the FinalBattle. |
| 235 | [[/folder]] |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 238 | * In ''TabletopGame/AT43'', armoured might is usually through [[WalkingTank Walkers]], SpiderTank and high-flying HoverTank. But for the zombie-using corporation O.N.I., they decided to go back to the drawing board and bring back "traditional" tanks that are updated for current times. Their crowning achievement is the O.N.I heavy tank which is not only cheaper than any other factions' top tier vehicle, it boasts a resident mechanic for field repair and has the heavy maser cannon, the heaviest vehicle weapon commisioned from alien Cog faction. Interestingly, in reality the heavy tank and other O.N.I vehicles aren't tanks, with its 6 large wheels the heavy tank looks strongly like the Kodiak/Stryker [=LAVs=] in real life. |
| 239 | * While ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' unabashedly assigns the 'king of the battlefield' role to its HumongousMecha, conventional combat vehicles are still very much in evidence and frequently use the very same engines, armor, and weapons that [=BattleMechs=] do. Well-designed tanks in particular (available in hover, tracked, and occasionally wheeled, though the last seriously suffers in terms of terrain restrictions) can readily match 'Mechs of comparable weight in terms of firepower; the 'Mechs' primary advantages are superior terrain handling and toughness (due mainly to having more hit locations to soak up damage and even being able to lose some and still walk off the battlefield), not arbitrarily bigger and better guns. Tanks, meanwhile, are canonically cheaper and easier to produce... |
| 240 | ** Epitomized by the Demolisher series of tanks. Massive tanks ranging from 80 to 100 tons carrying [[MoreDakka dual Autocannon-20s]], some of the largest ballistic weapons in the game, and with enough armor to weather assaults. In the canon, it was specifically designed to hunt and kill [=BattleMechs=], which it could do readily--few units, even in the assault weight class like the Demolisher, can carry two AC/20s, and even fewer can shake off a hit from just one of those cannons. |
| 241 | ** The Demolisher has two newer cousins--the Rommel and the Patton, armed with a single AC/20 and a AC/10 respectively. The Rommel also comes in a few variants, one of which has a [[MagneticWeapons gauss rifle]]. Aside from the gauss rifle variant, they are less well armed then the [[MightyGlacier Demolisher]], but both have [[LightningBruiser better armor and speed]]. |
| 242 | * Another miniatures game: [[http://www.BrigadeModels.co.uk Brigade Models]] makes a game called ''Land Ironclads'', which takes ground combat to a UsefulNotes/WorldWarI as foreseen by Creator/HGWells and friends. They explore a world where tank combat did as these futurists expected, and followed the same model as their [[SpaceIsAnOcean present-day naval combat]], with scout tanks, cruiser tanks, and dreadnought-tanks. |
| 243 | * ''TabletopGame/BrokenGears'' has the USRA's (unification of Communist China and the Soviet Union after the War of Broken Gears) Iron Tiger Land Fortress, a forty yards long and twenty yards high behemoth with 3'' thick armour plates powered with uranium that can crush anything on its path, its one turret can hurl half-ton shells at a mile and enough anti-armour guns and small arms to tackle any enemy. And if it is surrounded, it can vent incredibly hot radioactive steam to blanket the vehicle. |
| 244 | * In the future warzones of ''TabletopGame/DropzoneCommander'', the 4 main factions all have their tank variations. The most traditional are the United Colonies of Mankind (UCM). Their tanks are noted for often having a telescopic arm rather than a standard turret and with the exception of some of the Post-Human Republic (PHR), their ultra-thick composite alloy armour is the most protective of any faction. And like all vehicles, they carry a powerful point defense system for dealing with missiles and the occasional heavy shell. Most iconic of the UCM tanks are the Gladius and Scimitar heavy battle tanks. The Gladius has two rail guns to keep a constant pressure on enemy vehicles, while the Scimitar's battlefield laser, while rather weak for an energy weapon, allows it to ignore the point defense systems of other vehicles. |
| 245 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Dust}}'' more emphasizes [[WalkingTank Walkers]] and [[SpiderTank Heavy Walkers]] than traditional tanks. But set in an alternate World War 2 where the discovery of alien technology has led to an LensmanArmsRace, the Sino-Soviet Union (SSU), continues to use tanks as their Walker technology is just developing. The mightiest of their tanks are the superheavy tanks "Karl Marx" (heavy Tesla cannon and 3 12.7mm machine guns) and its variant "Lavrentiy Beria" which uses a 152mm cannon, a flame cannon and a pair of 12.7mm machine guns. |
| 246 | * ''TabletopGame/DystopianWars'' has a large number of War Machines. For scale, a Small Tank base is the size of a Modern Tank. A Land Ship in game is so large they can mount Saint Paul's Catherdral on its chassis. |
| 247 | * ''TabletopGame/GearKrieg'' is an alternate World War 2 game where certain events had led to SovietSuperScience, StupidJetpackHitler and other anachronistic MadScientist tech. So there are many examples of amazing tanks, though the game is moving more to [[WalkingTank Walkers]]. Among them is the Maus superheavy tank with its two cannons and several machine guns (yeah it went to production and spawned several variants) and the dreaded Manticore HoverTank with its heavy laser. Soviet Russia loves their superheavy tanks and their early T-44 Lenin superheavy and its variants already outgun the Maus, but the Soviets double-down and made the KV-300 which has 5 turret cannons and 5 machine guns plus new generation sloped armour. With Allies and Axis also modifying existing tanks with experimental weapons like thermal rays, Tesla projectors and magnetic cannons, plus more nations creating a new wave of superheavy tanks - the LensmanArmsRace is strong in the ''TabletopGame/GearKrieg'' world and that's just the tanks... |
| 248 | * The Tank form in ''TabletopGame/{{Mekton}}'' gets you a 2pt bonus to your armour and lets you appoint either the 'head' or the 'torso' to have a 360 degree arc of fire as the turret. Of course, you can also build a mecha that [[TransformingMecha turns INTO a tank]], thereby getting HumongousMecha and Tank Goodness bonuses at the same time. |
| 249 | * ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'' was an attempted rival to ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', so it has its fair share. Among them are Cybertronic's twin-cannon Armadillo hovertank and Capitol's Leviathan which is a tank built around the biggest cannon fielded on a land vehicle. The most famous tank in the game though, is Bauhaus's Grizzly which is more of a mobile fortress than a tank and has enough guns and turrets to wipe out small armies. The Dark Legion has a unique tank which is so dangerous that after it had its treads destroyed, it continues to bombard the human factions and has since become a permanent land hazard out on the Dark Legion borders. |
| 250 | * In ''Necropolis 2035'' a ''TabletopGame/SavageWorlds'' game somewhat reminiscent of ''TabletopGame/MutantChronicles'', there a number of powerful tanks backed by future technology. The 3 most notable are the heavy tanks: Golgotha, Calvary and Thor. All 3 tanks are armed with a rail gun, a coaxial autocannon and coaxial flechette machine gun as well as pintle-mounted flechette machine gun. They also have a number of ball-bearing firing Anti-Personnel point defense packs. The [[ChurchMilitant Sacre Ordines]] have the Golgotha which is the heaviest of the 3 and has the largest rail gun and autocannon, the Sacre Ordines are moving to the new Calvary which has lighter armour and weaponry but greatly increase mobility due to having an anti-gravity generator. The Thor is a corporate vehicle designed by the Asgard company, it's a slightly inferior answer to the Golgotha but it's still mighty and available to any buyer. |
| 251 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'' one artifact is the Crawler Tank. This is a hybrid of conventional "nuts and bolts" tech and {{Biotech}}, it's a treaded armored vehicle that also has a tentacled organism which allows the tank to go up surfaces impossible for treads alone. The Crawler Tank packs quite a punch with a pair of energy cannons and a vent for pumping out poison gas. |
| 252 | * In the supernatural, post-apocalypse game ''Obsidian: Age of Judgement'' the powerful LAW corporation has 2 types of BaseOnWheels tanks which protect the remainder of humanity in the former USA. They're the Precinct and the even larger Enforcer. Besides heavy armour and even heavier firepower, these two vehicles are big enough that they carry a small fleet of WeaponizedCar, labs, prison and troop bunkers. The Enforcer is so mighty there's only 4 of them, they've never been defeated and in almost a century of service only 2 had to be replaced. |
| 253 | * The TabletopGame/{{OGRE}} in Steve Jackson Games' wargame of the same name is a computer-controlled mobile fortress with a size measured in ''acres''. It was heavily influenced by the first {{Literature/Bolo}} book, which came out in 1976, one year before ''Ogre''. |
| 254 | ** The main and secondary guns of an Ogre fire SATNUC rounds. That's [=SATuration NUclear Cluster=]; a round splits into submunitions over the target, each of which takes a split second to ''aim,'' and then detonate, producing a ''shaped charge'' of nuclear plasma. |
| 255 | ** The Biphase Carbide armor of the Ogre is several ''meters'' thick. It cannot be breached ''even by nuclear weapons''. The only hope a defense force might have of stopping one is to destroy its exposed tractor-treads -- and even ''these'' require nukes to put a dent in them. Of course, good luck getting your forces in close enough to ''do'' damage to its treads; the Ogre's arsenal can vaporize a whole battalion of futuristic "conventional" tanks without even blinking. |
| 256 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'' has the Mark IV Warbot, designed by R&D in hopes of replacing the ''entire Armed Forces''. While NighInvulnerable to conventional firepower, it can be disabled by attacking its bot brain [[spoiler:(including an overzealous scrubot with a steel scrub brush, and an inferiority complex due to a barometer falling off)]], or flat-out destroyed by [[Franchise/StarWars firing into a thermal exhaust port]]. At one point, another Alpha Complex captures one and renames it the [=OGREbot=] (a ShoutOut to the Steve Jackson game). |
| 257 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' first introduced tanks to the game in the ''Traix and the NGR'' {{sourcebook}}, and has pretty much made a point in outfitting nearly every country on the planet since with outrageous tanks to go along with their PoweredArmor and HumongousMecha. The standout examples include the Karthum-Terek, a massive tank with guns capable of harming starships and enough redundancy built in that it literally has to be blown to pieces in order to destroy it, and the Neo-Abrams, which manages to combine both realistic practicality (by real-world standards, no less!) and [[GameBreaker overwhelming munchkinism in the same package]]. |
| 258 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Twilight 2000}}'' lets you come out of character creation with your squad having an M1 or a Challenger II (mentioned above); unfortunately in the context of the game this is likely to prove AwesomeButImpractical. |
| 259 | * ''TabletopGame/VorTheMaelstrom'': Despite having multiple species with advanced alien technology, only 3 factions have tanks and of these two of them are future humans. The Union are advanced enough to use HoverTank technology on both their tanks. They have the Wendigo battle tank which uses a [[MagneticWeapons rail gun]] and PlasmaCannon plus it can add chain guns as an option. The Union also has the quicker but smaller and less armored Fenris main battle tank which uses a traditional cannon that actually hits harder than the guns on a Wendigo as well as a pair of chain guns that can be swapped out for a rocket launcher or multi-missile system. The Neo-Soviets don't have the technology to make anything other than traditional tanks with treads but they make up for it by being more heavily armored. The Tundra battle tank carries a massive cannon and a pair of heavy chain guns and a machine gun for the driver. The Neo-Soviets also use the smaller Blizzard assault tank which trades firepower and armor for quicker speed and besides the cannon it only as a single heavy chain gun. |
| 260 | ** The only alien species to use a tank are the Pharon and their dreaded Wrath of Ammit tank. It's only weakness is its thin armor as it's a very fast HoverTank that starts off with powerful energy weapons and can swap all these out for even stronger ones. Finally it can supplement its armor with a magical rune that will greatly improve its surival. There were plans for the heavily armored aliens, the Golems to get tanks but due to the failure of Vor to sell well, the Golem rulebook and the accompanying tank miniatures never happened. |
| 261 | * ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill takes this Trope and makes sweet, sweet love to it]]. All races have access to some form of armoured death machine, with the exception of the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranids]], who instead get [[{{Kaiju}} hulking chitinous nightmares capable of tossing said armored death machines around like toys.]] From the core game's model kits to [[http://forgeworld.co.uk Forge World]]'s specialized tank variants or hull types, there's a lot for [[http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14209 a tread head to enjoy.]] |
| 262 | ** The [[Characters/Warhammer40000ImperialGuard Imperial Guard]] have pretty [[RedshirtArmy lackluster infantry]], but to make up for it not only do they get some of the best tanks in the game, they get to take them in squadrons, meaning they'll usually outnumber ''and'' outgun enemy armor. The basic Leman Russ has [[{{BFG}} a battle cannon]] that can smash vehicles or reduce {{Space Marine}}s to LudicrousGibs on top of additional [[MoreDakka anti-infantry]] or [[AntiArmor anti-armor]] weapon options, but it also comes in a staggering number of specialized variants. The Leman Russ Vanquisher has a long-barrel anti-tank cannon, the Demolisher has a short-ranged cannon that pulverizes even the hardest targets, the Punisher has a [[GatlingGood gatling cannon]] that [[MoreDakka can fire twenty shots in one shooting phase]], [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Leman_Russ_Battle_Tank#Named_Vehicle_Variants and so forth.]] As if that wasn't enough, the Imperial Guard can also field super-heavy tanks like the Baneblade, with its [[VideoGame/DawnOfWar "eleven barrels of hell."]][[labelnote:details]]Baneblade battle cannon mounted in the turret [[MoreDakka with a co-axial autocannon,]] [[{{BFG}} Demolisher cannon mounted in the hull,]] two sponsons mounting [[MacrossMissileMassacre twin-linked heavy bolters]] with [[BeamSpam two lascannons mounted on top of those,]] and a further twin-linked heavy bolter mounted in the hull[[/labelnote]] The Baneblade chassis in turn forms the basis for [[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Baneblade#Variants another array of tank variants]], such as the Shadowsword [[AMechByAnyOtherName titan]]-hunter or Stormlord transport/[[GatlingGood infantry mulcher.]] The scary thing is that, during the glory days of the [[VestigialEmpire Imperium's]] founding, such monsters were designated ''medium'' tanks. |
| 263 | ** The {{Space Marine}}s' Predator battle tank actually feels lackluster compared to the Leman Russ, but overlapping with AwesomePersonnelCarrier is the Land Raider, a vehicle with the highest possible armor rating on all its facings, weapon options that can kill enemy armor or infantry alike, a [[WetwareCPU "machine spirit"]] smart enough to assist the driver (and in some cases operate the vehicle by itself), ''and'' it's still capable of carrying a squad of [[PoweredArmor Terminators]] into the enemy line. The 7th edition "vanilla Marines" codex made [[SpaceMarine Astartes]] tanks even more powerful by giving them bonus abilities if you have three of a particular variant on the table at once. For instance, if you have three Vindicators (which sport the aforementioned Demolisher cannon) and all are operational, you can choose to [[CombinedEnergyAttack fire one shot from one of them]] with a 10" Apocalyptic Blast marker and the Ignores Cover special rule instead of firing all three with their normal 5" Large Blast marker. |
| 264 | ** [[EvilCounterpart Chaos Space Marines]] get the same tanks as the above, just covered with SpikesOfVillainy and with upgrade options such as DemonicPossession. |
| 265 | ** One Rhino APC variant used by the [[AmazonBrigade Sisters of Battle]] stands out for being an artillery platform that is a combination [[MacrossMissileMassacre multiple missile launcher]] and ''[[InstrumentOfMurder pipe organ]]''. |
| 266 | ** The [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orks]] slap together ramshackle Battlewagons that can carry anything from [[{{BFG}} unreasonably large cannons]] to [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier mobs of Boyz]], but just as often [[EnemyExchangeProgram simply looted Imperial tanks.]] The only good news for their opponents is that looted tanks suffer from Orks' [[ATeamFiring terrible accuracy]] and [[CriticalFailure have a chance to go careening off]] when the driver [[WhatDoesThisButtonDo pushes the wrong button.]] But Emperor help you if they manage to get their hands on a Baneblade and Orkify it... |
| 267 | ** The [[SpaceElves Eldar]] use stately [[HoverTank grav-tanks]] that [[GlassCannon lack the heavy armor of Imperial vehicles,]] but function more like a [[CoolPlane helicopter gunship]] than a conventional tank. Between the firepower of the Falcon or Fire Prism, their extreme speed and mobility, and upgrades such as [[HolographicDisguise holo-fields]], they're harder to kill than their armor would suggest. The Eldar have super-heavy vehicles too, armed with devastating laser or [[SphereOfDestruction distortion]] weapons, but theirs are [[LightningBruiser fast-moving, skimming super-heavy tanks.]] |
| 268 | ** The Tau's mainline armored vehicle, the Hammerhead {{hover tank}}, isn't as fast or flashy as Eldar vehicles, but does sport an enormous [[MagneticWeapons railgun]] as its main weapon that can annihilate entire squads of enemy infantry with an explosive submunition, or fire an anti-tank solid round that can punch clean through an enemy vehicle and reduce its crew to a twenty-meter red stain extending from the exit hole. |
| 269 | ** The [[SkeleBot9000 Necrons]] don't have tanks that other species would recognize, instead their heavy vehicle is the Monolith. It's more or less a floating bunker bristling with [[DisintegratorRay Gauss weapons]], its hull of living metal is exceptionally hard to damage, and it contains a teleporter nexus that allows Necron reinforcements to pour from it. In later editions they acquired an additional selection of heavy skimmers similar to the Eldar's, although not as fast and using DeflectorShields rather than evasion. |
| 270 | ** The [[TheFairFolk Dark Eldar]] stand out for being a mechanized force that averts this trope - they're pirates and raiders, and so make good use of exceedingly fast but fragile skimmers on the battlefield. |
| 271 | ** The Horus Heresy shows us the Tanks that existed when the Imperium actually had the concept of "development" and "scientific research"; the utterly terrifying Fellblade tank is the Baneblade with twice the amount of guns, while its variants can mount a variety of other titan-specific weapons, including a massive Volkite Cannon. Then there's the Sicarans, which can best be described as the unholy lovechild of a Predator and a ''Land Raider''. Speaking of Land Raiders, it is during these times that the Spartan Assault Tank, what can only be described as a ''super heavy land raider'' existed; it could transport entire contingent of space marines and had enough firepower to back them up. Perturabo, not being satisfied with these, decided to one-up everything by taking the hull of a Spartan and marrying it with the Tremor Cannon; A weapon that can be compared to the Vindicator's Demolisher cannon as the Baneblade's Battlecannon can be compared to a grenade launcher. Appropriately, few people dared making compensation jokes around him specifically because of said cannon. |
| 272 | ** Speaking of Perturabo, He also had his own ride; the Tormentor. It is a Shadowsword Superheavy tank (a variant of the Baneblade) modified to be able to carry him and his retinue of Iron Guard robots into battle. If you thought a casemate tank destroyer armed with a Titan Killer Weapon was scary it's nothing compared to one that can also spew out ''a demigod and his five pissed off robot bodyguards''. |
| 273 | * Even ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' gets a slice of the action with the Empire's [[SteamPunk Steam Tanks]]. They're temperamental and barely-understood contraptions, but you can imagine their effectiveness in an otherwise late Medieval/Renaissance setting. |
| 274 | * In ''Weird War Two'', a dice and paper WWII RPG which basically mixes myth, horror, and WWII, there are demonically possessed Nazi tanks from hell. There are also super haunted ghost tank hunters for the Allies. These tanks can have special abilities and Special Ammo. Tanks in this game are downright deadly to anyone not sporting big guns or lots of infantry with AT weapons. So having a tank on your side is this. |
| 275 | * The ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' card game has a few tanks, such as [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Oni_Tank_T-34 Oni Tank T-34]] |
| 276 | [[/folder]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 279 | * One ride at Ride/ActionPark was the aptly-named "Tank Ride", where visitors would ride around in giant tank and shoot each others' weak points, stopping them for 15 seconds. It was also known for being the worst place to be an employee, since the riders would [[ComedicSociopathy shoot them with no mercy]] when they had to get in the area. |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 283 | * Tamiya is famous for creating military model kits, a huge varieties of tanks is among them. |
| 284 | * Kaiyodo has a series of chibi tank capsule toys known as World Tank Museum, those tanks happen to be ''[[SuperDeformed cute]]''. |
| 285 | * Takara Tomy, of Tomica fame is no exception, they created a pull back BB tank series known as [=WAR2=] (now discontinued), as well as JSDF Type 90 tank for Tomica Premium. |
| 286 | * Common in ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}''. Blitzwing and Brawl always turn into tanks, and Megatron has had tank alt modes several times. Most tank Transformers are Decepticons, with the Autobot Warpath being a notable exception. |
| 287 | [[/folder]] |
| 288 | |
| 289 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 290 | * In ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'', the [[HowTheCharacterStoleChristmas Christmas Thieves]] somehow have a ''tank'' which they hop into for their heist. It can stand up to the fists and [[ImprovisedWeapon uprooted mailboxes]] wielded by the main character - not actually a small feat, since she seems to have SuperStrength -- and is stopped only briefly by an anti-materiel rifle. |
| 291 | [[/folder]] |
| 292 | |
| 293 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 294 | * Sheila of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' ''is'' a tank, in addition to being a major character. |
| 295 | -->'''Church:''' Why would I surrender to you?\ |
| 296 | '''Grif:''' We outnumber you.\ |
| 297 | '''Church:''' Bullshit, dude, I got a tank! People with tanks are never outnumbered! |
| 298 | [[/folder]] |
| 299 | |
| 300 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 301 | * ''Webcomic/KatushaGirlSoldierOfTheGreatPatrioticWar:'' Katusha and her sister Milla are members of the crew of a T-34 fighting on the Eastern Front in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. |
| 302 | * ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' gives us the slightly downplayed Danish tanks viewed while our RagtagBunchOfMisfits pauses to get their last members and their final tool-up before hitting the Silent World. They're not the biggest examples of Tank Goodness you'll meet on this page, but they're designed to be robust enough to go out and kill Trolls and Giants strong enough to rip their way through solid steel -- as demonstrated when an armoured, Swedish train hit very ''big'' trouble. As a result, they have to be chunkier than your average tank. |
| 303 | * ''Webcomic/SixCommando'' features hulking supertanks known as Autonomous Armored Vehicles ([=AAVs=] or "Rumblers"). They have ArtificialIntelligence built in, making them a fully autonomous SapientTank. The ''Echo''-class is about six times the size of an M-1 Abrams, and weighs about 500 tons. The planned ''Victor''-class would be even larger, bringing them into [[BaseOnWheels Land Battleship]] territory. |
| 304 | [[/folder]] |
| 305 | |
| 306 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 307 | * ''Literature/AssociatedSpace'' has an opening scene involving "Mobile Siege Fortresses", gigantic hovertanks the size and shape of ancient Egyptian pyramids. Which Fatebane sabotages for comic effect. |
| 308 | -->'''Fatebane:''' Pyramids don't roll. |
| 309 | * Website/TheOnion: The sadly axed [[http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_axes_pentagon_plan_to_build Dragon Tank]]. |
| 310 | * In ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'', tanks turn out to be HIGHLY effective against the [[MugglesDoitBetter demon hordes]]. Not only do the main gun blast through demonic flesh like tissue paper, but many demons are crushed under the tank treads and just the sight of the "[[ColdIron iron chariots]]" made one demon army route. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 314 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': |
| 315 | ** Decepticons, while they started out as being primarily aerial combatants (to contrast with the ground-pounding Autobots), like to take tank alt-forms when they're on the ground. Megatron himself has taken particularly awesome ones, in "Generation 2" and ''Armada''. |
| 316 | ** Warpath, Brawl, Guzzle, Quake, and others also had tank altmodes. [=RiD=]!Armorhide also has a tank alt mode. The triple-changer Blitzwing usually has a tank as one of his alt modes. Even [[MadScientist Shockwave]] has one in ''Transformers Prime'', probably to drive home how this version [[GeniusBruiser is much more combat-capable than most]]. |
| 317 | ** Megatron's toy has a [[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/attachment.php?do=fullview&attachmentid=9923 tank form]] in ''Revenge of the Fallen'', but the movie itself, rather than make him a [=jet/tank=] triple-changer that was theorized by some fans, made him a [=jet/tank=] ''hybrid''--i.e., a ''flying tank''. |
| 318 | *** In general, because toy laws no longer allow realistic looking guns, for any non-collector's toy of Megatron made since the early 2000s that's meant to represent his Generation 1 self, his alt mode has since become a tank due to being the closest vehicle in spirit to his original pistol mode, as seen with the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersWarForCybertronTrilogy'' toyline starting in 2018, which focused on making "definitive" G1-accurate toys of the cast. Moreso when they actually start using Earth vehicles than Cybertronian approximations; while everyone gets their classic alt modes, Megatron remains a tank. One could argue that this has precedence from before his gun mode was excised; his upgrade Galvatron has treads on the struts of his "space cannon" mode, making it tank-like, and Megatron was already a tank as early as Generation 2. The only times he would ever be a gun besides his original and Masterpiece releases are the Nerf-like Classics figure and its repaints. It also addresses an admittedly silly and thus often-mocked aspect of his original gun mode, as he mass shifts ''and'' requires to be wielded by another of his troops to be used just for the stronger firepower, not to mention being immobile. A tank altmode means he doesn't sacrifice his mobility or self-functionality for the sake of terrifying firepower. |
| 319 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' has {{Steampunk}} tanks with [[PlayingWithFire Firebenders]] instead of turrets (or rather ''Firebenders inside their turrets''), as well as [[spoiler:crawler tanks used against the Fire Nation]]. |
| 320 | * ''WesternAnimation/SwatKats'' has several cool tanks, including the infamous Metallikat Express - a high-speed hovertank loaded to the brim with weaponry and missiles. |
| 321 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': |
| 322 | ** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E2BrothersLittleHelper Brother's Little Helper]]", Bart hijacks one when he gets addicted to ADD meds, [[spoiler:to shoot down a satellite that was spying on people and gathering massive amounts of marketing data for Major League Baseball]]. |
| 323 | ** Mr. Burns uses one to lay siege to the Simpson home when he finds out that Mona Simpson is back in town. |
| 324 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': Peter buys Meg a tank instead of a car. Brian and Stewie use it to destroy Superstore USA. |
| 325 | * In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', Harley Quinn ended up being chased by one driven by General Vreeland after accidentally kidnapping his daughter Veronica. |
| 326 | -->''[while driving away]''\ |
| 327 | '''Veronica:''' Wait, what are you doing? That's my father.\ |
| 328 | '''Harley Quinn:''' No, that's your father IN A TANK! |
| 329 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' had two games where the User character was a tank. Unfortunately one of the games crashed and a dinosaur game was loaded on top of the crashed game, merging the games. The result was a User character that was a [[NinjaZombiePirateRobot t-rex with a tank turret for a head]]. |
| 330 | * Panthro's DynamicEntry in ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' involves GunshipRescue by surprise tank attack. |
| 331 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' episode "Bereft", the Bialyan Army uses tanks effectively against the Team and manage to get them on the run until Superboy arrives. |
| 332 | * The Army Surplus Special on ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' is really a tricked out tank. With all its tonnage, it's a wonder it could get out of the blocks at the start, let alone win a race. |
| 333 | [[/folder]] |
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