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6	This is the Plot Trope about evacuating (or trying to evacuate) a large population of animals, people, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs people and animals]] in order to survive an impending disaster, most often a [[TheGreatFlood flood]].
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8	The TropeNamer and TropeCodifier would be the [[Literature/BookofGenesis story]] of Noah from Literature/TheBible, who was told by God to build an ark in order to preserve his family, seven of every "clean" animal (the extra were for sacrifices), and two of every "unclean" animal in order to be protected from the Flood that God planned to use to wipe out the earth as they knew it.
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10	People '''building arks''' go to '''TheArk'''.
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12	Not to be confused with ''Series/NoahsArc''.
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15	!!Examples:
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20	* In the first season of ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', Bulma just happens to have a spaceship fleet capable of transporting all of Earth's population beneath the Capsule Corporation in order to evacuate everyone to the new planet created by Baby with the Blackstar balls. Considering the number of times Earth has been nearly (or actually) destroyed in this franchise, that might be more {{Justified\|Trope}} than it sounds.
21	* ''Manga/QueenMillennia'': Yayoi has built spaceships called Noah to shelter Earth's population when the calamity from La-Metal's approach comes.
22	* In ''Manga/{{Spriggan}}'', it's depicted to be created by an ancient race as an out-of-place artifact which not only carried dinosaurs and mythical creatures, [[spoiler:it's also used as a weather control device that can bring about drastic changes to the Earth's weather, including the threat of global flooding]].
23	* In ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'', the Arc-Gurren is used to house the population of Kamina City in space when the moon is on a collision course with earth.
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27	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': In ''Joys of Seasons'' episode 65, the Moving Lake approaches Goat Village and floods it, forcing Mr. Slowy to build an ark and seek shelter in it along with the other goats.
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31	* ''Comicstrip/{{Nero}}'': In the story "The Ark Of Nero" Nero builds an arc and even has lots of animals imported to bring along with him. Everyone says he's crazy, but as it turns out the tide does come. In the end it was AllJustADream.
32	* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': The story ''De Adelijke Ark'' has the characters search for the Arc of Ut Napistum (a character in Mesopotamian mythology that is the direct inspiration to Noah. Vandersteen probably used this character to prevent angry letters from Christian readers.)
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36	* ''ComicStrip/BonersArk'', a gag-a-day strip about Captain Boner and the various animals on his ark. (Noah had it easy - Boner's ark was on the sea for 32 years, only reaching dry land in the final strip.)
37	* ''ComicBook/JustAPilgrim'': the role of the ark is taken by a space shuttle containing genetic sequences of thousands of animals so life can be started elsewhere, as the planet is now under the control of sentient mind-controlling jellyfish.
38	* In Jules Feiffer's satirical "The Deluge," an installment of his ''Feiffer'' comic strip for the ''Village Voice'', an angel instructs U.S. civil servant Harvey Noah to build an ark. Instead of doing so himself, he takes the matter to his supervisor. This starts a bureaucratic chain of events which culminates in the ark housing only selected members of Congress. As it starts to rain, Harvey attempts to board the vessel, only to be told he's not on the list.
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42	* ''Fanfic/ANewWorldANewWay'': What Arceus' plan ultimately boils down to.
43	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5304252/3/I-shall-endure-to-the-end I Shall Endure To The End]]'', a ''Literature/GoodOmens'' fic by Creator/AAPessimal, goes back to the Biblical account and, among other things, explains who the dove and the raven on the Ark ''really'' were. In passing the Noachic family dynamic is explored, with reference to the repopulation of the world afterwards.
44	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13646760/21/The-NEW-151-Pokeshipping-Stories The Wrath of Kyogre]]'' revolves around Arceus deciding to restart humanity after seeing it wasn't going so great, and counts on Ash and Misty to repopulate the world.
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48	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ark}}'', also known as Noah's Ark [[RecycledInSpace In Space!]] - two warring alien tribes on a soon-to-be-destroyed planet must put aside their differences and locate an ancient giant robot called the [[AMechByAnyOtherName Ark of Life]] to carry their entire civilization to another planet. The film's heroine, Amarinth, discovers she is TheChosenOne late into the film, as her mother is an ancient HighPriestess who saved the planet by piloting the first Ark at the cost of her life.
49	* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'': The valley's animals are forced to migrate en masse towards a gigantic, ark-like trunk to escape an imminent flood as the glaciers melt.
50	* ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' has a segment where WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck is a deckhand on Noah's ark responsible for getting the animals onboard, [[FurryConfusion including two non-anthropomorphic ducks]].
51	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': The fifth film, ''Animation/TheMythicalArkAdventuresInLoveAndHappiness'', is about the goats having to get everyone into a big spaceship called the Ark in order to escape from a big flood affecting Goat Village. At least one of each animal needs to be in the ship to activate it, which becomes a problem when the goats need to find a snake, which they believe to be an extinct species, to activate it.
52	* In Creator/RankinBassProductions' ''[[WesternAnimation/SantaClausIsCominToTown The Easter Bunny Is Comin' to Town]]'', one music segment has the chickens tell a story [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment in a song]] that makes fun of [[ArtisticLicenseBiology the riddle of "chicken or the egg"]]: They explain that "the chicken came first" by retelling Literature/TheBible story of Noah's Ark.
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56	* The entire plot of ''Film/{{Noah}}''.
57	* ''Film/EvanAlmighty'', the 2007 sequel to 2003's ''Film/BruceAlmighty'', had the title character from the former assume the role of Noah when God informs him that a flood is coming and tasks him with building an ark.
58	* The underground refuge in ''Film/DeepImpact'', designed to ensure continuity of the species in the face of an impending extinction-force impact, is called the Arc.
59	* In ''Film/TwoThousandTwelve'', there are great disasters all around the world, particularly a giant flood. The small portion of the populace try to escape this fate by building giant arks in the Himalayas. In one shot, some animals are brought in such as giraffes and elephants. One of the protagonists is a young boy named Noah.
60	* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'': Dr. Totenkopf believed that Earth was doomed due to the destructive nature of humanity, so he built a rocket ship to carry two of every animal on Earth (and genetically engineered humans) to another planet. He intended them to create a technological utopia there.
61	* ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'': This is Hugo Drax's plan-take the people he dubs to be worthy of living in his new world and send them into space while his bioengineered spores infect the world, then take them back to Earth to build his utopia.
62	* ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' starts off as this, with a plan to save as much dinosaurs as possible before the volcano destroys Isla Nublar. [[spoiler:Turns out the "rescuers" who brought Claire, Owen, Webb and Rodriguez in are mercenaries who just seek to save a few species for an AuctionOfEvil.]]
63	* In ''Film/{{Downsizing}}'', it is discovered that [[spoiler: [[JustBeforeTheEnd the world will be destroyed in a few centuries and there is nothing anyone can do about it]], leading to a bunch of people evacuating to [[BeneathTheEarth an underground bunker.]]]]
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67	* The Creator/CliveCussler ''Literature/DirkPittAdventures'' novel ''Literature/AtlantisFound'' features the villains' attempt to cause the EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt and survive in four megaships to found a MasterRace.
68	* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': Early in ''The Deep End'', Greg discusses the story of Noah's Ark. He says that if he were Noah, he would've left off animals like scorpions and kept more puppies and pandas. The climax of the book sees Greg and his family trying to escape (and eventually save) people from a flood.
69	* In ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', there's an UrbanLegend about the founding of Ankh-Morpork that tells how a wise man foretold a Great Flood, gathered his family and hundreds of animals into a big ship, and rode it out. After a few weeks' sailing, the accumulated wastes from all the animals were filling up the vessel, so they tipped all the manure over the side, and built a city on the resulting dung-island.
70	* Utnapishtim from ''Literature/TheEpicOfGilgamesh'' is the UrExample and TropeMaker, [[OlderThanTheyThink pre-dating Noah's story]] from ''Literature/TheBible''. Similarly to his biblical counterpart, he built a giant ship called ''The Preserver of Life'' to save his family, friends and all the animals from a flood. He was granted immortality afterwards.
71	* Parodied in ''Literature/TheRestaurantAtTheEndOfTheUniverse''. The main characters are teleported to Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B. Which seems like a Ark, but is actually a trick to get its inhabitants off the planet, as they were judged to basically be the useless third of the population, as they just cleaned phones and other minor tasks.
72	* Joked about in ''{{Literature/Holes}}''. The kids see a cloud in the sky, the first they've ever seen in this arid desert, and start joking about how they need to start building an ark. It's all just to get their hopes up, as Camp Green Lake hasn't had rain for a hundred years. [[spoiler:It rains at the end just as the attorney general closes the camp]].
73	* ''Literature/WhenWorldsCollide'' (Literature and Film versions): a pair of rogue planets are on a direct path to hit Earth. Scientists and governments rush to make a pair of rocket ships to hold the best of the best (and supplies) to send to another planet so humanity won't be extinguished.
74	* The 1899 novel ''Literature/ADwellerOnTwoPlanets'' features a CrossoverCosmology with elements from the Bible and the {{Atlantis}} myth. So, in this version, Nepth and his family survive the sinking of Atlantis by building an ark and loading it with animals.
75	* In the seventh ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' book, [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien the Ellimist]] makes his first appearance by telling the main characters that they have no real chance to defeat the [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]]. While he's not allowed to interfere with the war, he offers to preserve Earth's life by transporting a portion of humanity, along with animals, to another planet. He even shows them a BadFuture of how things will go if they don't take his offer. [[spoiler:Said BadFuture actually helps them realize how to strike a major blow against the Yeerks, which was the Ellimist's plan all along]].
76	* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' Literature/PastDoctorAdventures novel ''City at World's End'' looks at the last surviving city of the planet Sarath as it attempts to construct a vast spaceship to take its population to the neighbouring planet Mirath before Sarath's moon crashes into the planet and destroys it. [[spoiler:In the end, construction issues and internal conflicts mean that only just over a thousand survivors can make it to Mirath out of a population of over eighty thousand]].
77	* ''Literature/TheLastDaysOfKrypton'': Jor-El gives No-Ton and the other councilors who believe his warnings about a cataclysm plans for a space ark. Despite their best efforts, building a fleet of evacuation ships from scratch in just three days is impossible, so they focus all of their efforts on finishing just one ship in the last seven hours. [[spoiler:They don't finish it in time.]]
78	* The series ''Literature/{{Remnants}}'' is centered around eighty humans who blast off in an experimental rocket ship to escape the destruction of the Earth by an asteroid.
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82	* A scammer-slash-crazy guy used this and built an ark in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'''s "[[Recap/CSINYS03E17 The Ride In]]." He offered rides, made off with the victims' money, and was found dead inside his house while the people he'd scammed were waiting on the ark with his animals.
83	* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship", the spaceship in question is an ark fleeing the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event.
84	** This was in fact the fourth time this trope was used in ''Series/DoctorWho''; the previous instances being the William Hartnell episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E6TheArk The Ark]]'', the Tom Baker episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS12E2TheArkInSpace The Ark in Space]]'' and the Matt Smith episode ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E2TheBeastBelow The Beast Below]]''.
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88	* ''Music/QueenOfTheWave'' (Pepe Deluxé's rock opera based on ''A Dweller On Two Planets'') ends with "Riders on the First Ark", describing Nepth and his family escaping Atlantis' destruction by boat, and taking a variety of animals with them. According to the song, unicorns are extinct because Nepth forgot to bring them.
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92	* In the [[Creator/TheBBC BBC]] Radio science fiction series ''Radio/{{Earthsearch}} II'' the crew of a starship abandon it, and its evil computers, to colonise an Earthlike planet [[spoiler:which turns out to be EarthAllAlong]]. In an attempt to get the crew back the computers use its terraforming devices to melt the polar icecaps. The crew have to use their large shuttle (which is airtight so it can fly in outer space) as a floating ark to save some of the local flora and breeding pairs of the fauna.
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96	* In one of the episodes in the play ''Theatre/TheGreenPastures'', which retold Literature/TheBible from the perspective of a poor African-American child.
97	-->'''First Man:''' What you think of it, Flatfoot?\
98	'''Flatfoot:''' I must say! Look like a house wit' a warpin' cellar.\
99	'''Noah:''' Dis yere vessel is a boat.\
100	'''Flatfoot:''' When I was a little boy dey used to build boats down near de ribber, where de water was. ''[the others laugh]''\
101	'''Noah:''' Dis time it's been arranged to have de water come up to de boat.
102	* A retelling of the story is featured in the 1987 edition of Theatre/{{Cortylandia}}, where Noah travels thought time alongside his niece to tell the story of how he saved every animal from dying, with the sole exception of the Dinosaurs who were too big for the arc.
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106	* In ''Early Heroes of the Bible'' (1984), an educational Platform/AppleII game in ''The Baker Street Kids'' series based on Literature/TheBible, the titular kids [[https://i.imgur.com/gL64DBE.png enact the story of Noah's Ark]], with Jamie and Amy in the role of Noah and his wife. Of course, a bird and a cat are in a cardboard prop of an ark, while some hands pull out a hose to reenact the rain, which is pretty silly and cute.
107	* This is [[spoiler:[[MeaningfulName Johannes]] [[TheVonTropeFamily von]] [[GratuitousGerman Schicksal]]]]'s plan in ''VideoGame/GodEaterBurst''. [softreturn] Basically, The [[spoiler:Aegis]] Project was just a front for a secret Ark Project [[spoiler:which involved a certain MacGuffinSuperPerson being some sort of key that will give Johaness [[GodhoodSeeker the power of God]]]], where a select few population were to be shipped to the moon while the rest of the world are to be nuked to oblivion along with the aragami. it should be noted though that the one who planned all this [[NoPlaceForMeThere had no intention of being with the ones to repopulate the earth]] though, knowing well how extreme [[spoiler:his]] actions are.
108	* ''VideoGame/Persona5'': The Ark Palace is a large cruiser ship that swims across the sunken Japan, with only the chosen kept aboard, representing [[spoiler:Shido prefering to sacrifice the entire nation for the convinience of himself and his close allies]].
109	* The Soldier from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' is under the impression that [[Literature/TheArtOfWarSunTzu Sun Tzu]] once gathered two of every animal onto a boat, and then beat them all up with his awesome fighting skills, and that's why a place where a bunch of different animals are all gathered together became known as a "[[FunWithHomophones Tzu]]". [[note]]Unless it's a farm.[[/note]]
110	* The main character in ''VideoGame/{{Terranigma}}'' is named Ark. Why? He's TheChosenOne who has the power to revive the dead surface of the earth and all its inhabitants.
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114	* ''Webcomic/DeepRise'': A subculture of Mi-go conquer the human race, pollute the entire world for the sake of gathering materials, then build a city-sized Ark to flee from the Royals, a race of mountain-sized OmnicidalManiac supergeniuses with more doomsday weapons than a Second-World dictatorship. Each. It gets worse as Royals are revealed to have colonized the entire galaxy, responding to human-sized life forms with ion beams and nukes, so they disassemble all secondary functions and flee further in a dinghy-Ark.
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118	* ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'': During his story of the "Corrupted Blood" incident in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', Yahtzee imagines this scenario in which "Blizzard had no option but to contact one of the figureheads of the quarantine effort and have him construct a giant wooden boat in which he was directed to place two of every monster so that they could send a rainstorm for forty days and forty nights" before fessing up with a "Nah, I'm fucking with you; they just hard-reset the servers. Bit anticlimactic, really."
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122	* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'' episodes "Daeson Heavy Industries, Parts 1 & 2": Stan has a crisis of faith when Steve shows him how unbelievable the Noah story is -- but when Stan learns that a ship big enough to house every animal has been constructed in Korea, he suddenly believes that he's being called to be the new Noah. Naturally his family tries to make him see reason, but the boat already has hundreds of animals on board. (They were being transferred from one zoo to another, but Stan had stopped listening by that point).
123	* There was at least one ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' sketch called "Noah's Lark" that followed the Hip Hippos getting on Noah's Ark and nerves. It featured a CrossoverCameo of [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Buster and Babs Bunny]], who walked up and stated they were not related, so Noah let them on the Ark.
124	-->'''Babs and Buster''': Babs and Buster Bunny. No relation.
125	-->'''Noah''': ''([[LeaningOnTheFourthWall to the audience]])'' Let's hope not, this is a kids show.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'' had an episode where they see a bad omen in the sky that signals the world is gonna flood. They and a couple other characters try to build an ark, but end up failing. To top it all off, the "omen" they saw was actually a peanut shell stuck in the telescope.
127	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': In "Crimes of the Hot", global warming has gotten so severe that Randy decides to gather two of every animal onto his boat. But as his boyfriend points out, the animals he chose were all male.
128	-->'''Randy''': Hey, there are parts of the Bible I like and parts I ''don't'' like.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/NoahsAnimalsAndOtherStories'' tells the story through a PerspectiveFlip, we see the events of the story through the eyes of the animals, primarily the main trio [[{{Bully Turned Buddy}} Crocodile]], [[{{The Big Guy}} Elephant]] and [[{{King of Beasts}} Lion]].
130	* The 1959 Disney short ''WesternAnimation/NoahsArk'' tells the story of the TropeNamer. It is a rare example of a stop-motion Disney short film.
131	* Disney also adapted the story in the 1933 ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphony'' "Father Noah's Ark".
132	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' had one of these as an adventure. Being babies, they were unaware of the actual purpose of there being two of every animal, thinking it was so they wouldn't be scared during the flood.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' had a segment called "Elementary, My Dear" on the subject of multiplying by 2, which partially retells the story of Noah at the beginning and has its' plot spawned from one of Noah's kids asking how many animals are on board the ark.
134	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
135	** In a WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX episode]] spoofing Y2K, after Homer's blunder destroys all electronics on Earth the US govenerment sends two rockets off: one with the best of the best (Lisa is invited) and one which Homer & Bart sneak on to which is aimed directly at the sun to dispose of the more useless members of the human race.
136	** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E10PrayAnything Pray Anything]]", Homer sued the Church and started living in it, but then in his blasphemy a flood started and Flanders decided to do the Noah's Ark thing on a car-driven speedboat, but said [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he only brought two of every ''male'' animal to prevent them from actually mating]].
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