History Main / ThatsNoMoon

* On ''AdventureTime'' [[AnIcePerson the Ice King]] washes up on a random island only to discover that it's a giant [[GeniusLoci island woman]] named Senorita. She turns out to be a lot nicer than most of the examples on this page.

* In SchlockMercenary, the [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2013-03-23 Oafan space station Eina-Afa] is large enough for Tagon to reference this trope.

* In the first RevelationSpace novel, a planet orbiting a neutron star turns out to be [[spoiler: a beacon that alerts the Inhibitors, a race of OmnicidalManiac aliens. The neutron star turns out to be an immense computer.]] In the sequel, Redemption Ark, [[spoiler: the Inhibitors break down three worlds to create an enormous weapon, which is used to turn a star into a flamethrower.]] The third book in the trilogy, Absolution Gap, a gas giant is revealed to be [[spoiler: a transport mechanism for creatures from another dimension.]] AlastairReynolds really likes this trope.

* Inverted in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Jiraiya once made a trap that consisted of a restaurant that was really a toad. A ''[[ClownCarBase regular-sized]]'' [[http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/File:Toad_Shop_Technique.PNG toad]].
** Way later in the manga, [[spoiler:the trope is played straight as the moon is revealed to be the container of the Ten-Tailed Beast, which was sent into space by the Sage of the Sixth Paths]].
*** Well, technically [[spoiler:it ''is'' the moon (as in a giant rock orbiting earth), it's just that it was made artificially and contains [[SealedEvilInACan something inside of it]] (not all of it)]].

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Luffy spends much of the Skypeia arc inside of a giant snake, which he believed to be a cave.

* In TableTopGame/YuGiOh, there is a card called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Island Turtle]].

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* ''CalvinAndHobbes'' featured "Spaceman Spiff" exploring an alien landscape that turns out to be alive. The last shot reveals that Calvin, in classic six-years-old fashion, is crawling over his father's sleeping body. This happens twice. On another occasion, Spiff is flying over some canyons that turn out to be part of giant footprints.

* In ''[[{{Lanfeust}} Lanfeust of Troy]]'', the gang at one point explores a huge island. Later, they reveal that it is not an island, but a huge creature [[spoiler: And not just any creature, the Magohamoth itself !]]
* In SonicTheComic story The Return of Chaotix, Charmy think's that a massive rain storm is soon to happen, judging by the large cloud moving their way. Sonic is terrified, noticing that the "cloud" is actually "thousands of Metallixes, blotting out the sun"!

* ''TwoThousandAndOne'': That's no monolith... it's full of stars!

* Happens in ''LoneWolf'' book 20, ''The Curse of Naar'', while the hero is venturing into the Plane of Darkness (the setting's equivalent of Hell). While lost at sea on a small raft, Lone Wolf spots a distant island and heads toward it -- until it starts moving and is revealed to be a nondescript giant monster. If the player hadn't picked a [[PlotCoupon magic amulet]] earlier, [[TheManyDeathsOfYou Lone Wolf gets eaten by the monster]].

For ships/stations that may ''literally be confused with moons (or planets)'', see PlanetSpaceship. See also BigDumbObject and DysonSphere. If it's a real-world location, may overlap with WeaponizedLandmark. Whatever the actual object turns out to be the discovery of it can often lead to an OhCrap moment. Contrast NoMereWindmill. And just to note, [[VulcanHasNoMoon Vulcan doesn't have one.]]

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' suppliment ''Elder Evils'' features Atropus, an •EldritchAbomination that was a living moon (well, not really living, as it was an undead being) with the goals of an OmnicidalManiac.

* DavidIcke theorized that Earth's Moon is not a moon at all but is rather some sort of organic, hollowed-out planetoid or possibly an ancient spaceship built by AncientAstronaughts.

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* Yet another giant turtle with an island on its back appears in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}} and the King of Thieves''.

* There's a forest in Utah that covers 107 acres, with about 47,000 trees.... Correction: there's a giant tree in Utah named Pando with about 47,000 stems. Pando is a male tree. This is apparently not as unusual for Quaking Aspen as we'd have suspected -- we just never looked all that close at forests before. Pando is also probably 80,000 years old.

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', as [[spoiler:the Mechonis begins to awaken]], Kallian has to remind everyone that ''[[spoiler:they're fighting on its arm]]''.

* In the dub for ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'', when Yurika is shown a Jovian colony fortress, she immediately says: "That's no space station, [[InSovietRussiaTropeMocksYou that's a moon]]!"

* In the somewhat-fogotten ClueFinders games, the "living island" the kids land on in 5th grade adventures is [[spoiler: not an island, but a spaceship]].

* Near the end of ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}'', [[spoiler:as the Mechonis begins to awaken]], Kallian has to remind everyone that ''[[spoiler:they're fighting on its arm]]''.

* The title planet of ''Franchise/{{Halo}}: Ghosts of Onyx'' is [[spoiler: composed mostly of trillions of Sentinels]].
** To clarify, [[spoiler:the bulk of the "planet" is composed of Sentinels, but not the whole thing; there's a Forerunner facility inside, which, among other things, ''produces'' said trillions of Sentinels.]]

* In ''[[TheElricSaga The Sailor on the Seas of Fate]]'', Elric and a bunch of others are tasked with destroying two malevolent beings. They enter one of what they believe to be the towers of these creatures, but in the end it turns out the "buildings" are rather the creatures themselves. The {{mooks}} the protagonists have been fighting inside are the immune system of the creature.

** Played with in "Plankton's Amry". Plankton's family comes [[spoiler: to help steal the Krabby Patty formula. What a surprise]]. They surround the Krusty Krab and Mr. Krabs asks "You planted grass?" Then the grass started laughing and reshaping itself into limbs and ears...

* In ''[[HumanxCommonwealth Reunion]]'', AlanDeanFoster appears to play this straight from the StarWars example, with an artificial object orbiting an otherwise uninteresting gas giant. A bit larger than Earth's moon, it appears to be a colossal space station, or even possibly a warship. However, it one-ups the TropeNamer when it turns out [[spoiler: the "moon" is a ''lifeboat''. You know, those tiny things that carry only a small fraction of the parent ship's passengers and crew. Turns out the ''real'' warship is the ''Gas Giant''. Said "gas giant" being slightly larger than Jupiter, which is itself ''1320 times larger than Earth by volume'']]

* Happens in GameBoy ''VideoGame/MegaMan5'', leading to an UnexpectedGameplayChange: "What's that star?..." *''"Star" shoots its [[{{BFG}} Big Fraggin' Laser]] at Mega Man''*

* [[TheSimpsonsGame Comic Book Guy]] gives this exchange in the level Around The World In 80 Bites:

* Played straight in one of the levels in ''KidIcarusUprising''. The level begins with Pit singing. Then, after Palutena asks about the moon, Pit responds that it looks beautiful, the screen pans over to a second one, which is actually a giant base you have to invade, and Palutena asks for his opinion on that one. It then proceeds to shoot at you.
* LegendOfDragoon: [[spoiler:[[BadMoonRising The Moon That Never Sets]] is actually the dormant embryo of the [[EldritchAbomination God of Destruction]], intended by [[GodIsEvil Soa]] to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cleanse the world]].]]