OK, for funsies, here is a list of examples whose context is not really good enough to figure out if they are misuses or not:
- The Yukari-mobile in Azumanga Daioh. An old, beat-up (Gee, I wonder why) Toyota Alleged Car that actually belongs to her parents. The mere mention of that car is enough to scare the everlasting fuck out of poor Chiyo-chan.
- When reminded about the Yukari-mobile, Chiyo undergoes Color Failure and starts muttering "... please stop... Yukari-sensei, please stop... please stop... please be more careful... I'm sorry... no, we're going to die... the old man, the old man... RUN!" to herself.
- Speed and the Mach 5, in Speed Racer.
- The Lions, from Go Lion.
- The motorcycles from Double Dragon.
- Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series
"There isn't a Mokubamobile!"
- In Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, the demon girls SUV-limousine applies far more than the angels' pink Hummer. It's a ride fitting a pair of insanely powerful Alpha Bitch ActionGirls with too much money.
- The "Jet Pack Pets" comics in Disney Adventures magazine once introduced a vehicle for them. Not only are they Talking Animals, but they have jetpacks. They manage to find a use for it, however... the drive-thru.
- Unusually for a "cosmic" villain, Thanos once had a helicopter — with his name on it
!'note (Granted, it was the "Easy Reader" kids' comic made in conjunction with The Electric Company and not in continuity, but still....)
- The Great Lakes Avengers start off with the "Quin-Jetta"... a Volkswagen Jetta with "GLA" painted on the doors. Later, after getting the benefits of government sanction, a garage is shown with all sorts of things, like Big Bertha's Bouncing Buggy and Flatman's Flatamaran. Squirrel Girl ends up in the Squirrel-a-Gig, an autogyro with a definite squirrel motif that's based on the Bat-Whirlygig mentioned above. (Makes you wonder what Mr Immortal would have, doesn't it?)
- The Avengers have the Quin Jets, small jets that take the heroes where they need to be. For a while, their teammate Hawkeye had his own sky-cycle which was soon manufactured into multiple cycles for all non-flying members.
- The X-Men had the Blackbird, a jet (based on the Lockheed SR71 Blackbird
)that was eventually equipped with alien technology.
- For a while, even The Punisher had his own van which was decked out with guns and a sonic cannon.
- The Incredimobile seen at the very beginning of The Incredibles.
- The Dark Knight Saga
- The Tumbler serves as the Nolanverse's answer to the Batmobile.
- "Incidentally, the Lamborghini is much more subtle..." This is a subtle in-joke. The particular model of Lamborghini Bruce Wayne drives is the Murcielago. Guess what "murcielago" translates to in English? the bat
- They still threw the "Batpod" out there but it strangely didn't seem out of place. Maybe Michael Caine can do that.
- The third installment sees a flying version of the Tumbler, similar to the Bat-Wing.
- The Gnomemobile from the Walt Disney film of the same name.
- The Pussy Wagon, as seen in all of Quentin Tarantino's films since Kill Bill.
- And also in Lady Gaga and Beyonce's "Telephone" video.
- And is Quentin Tarantino's daily driver.
- Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters.
- Deuce Bigalow European Gigolo has a "pimp boat" complete with hydraulics and spinnaz. Yes. You heard that right. A boat with hydraulics and spinnaz.
- Pee Wee Herman's bicycle.
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 The Movie: "Into the Weenie-mobile! Weenie-man away!"
- The first Austin Powers movie has an easily identifiable Jaguar E-Type convertible painted to look like a Union Jack with a Vanity License Plate reading SWINGER: the Shaguar.
- From Orgazmo:
"What?"
"My Buick Century!"
- The Mirthmobile from Waynes World.
- The Blues Brothers mention the former Bluesmobile, which was a Cadillac that Elwood traded in for a microphone (a fair trade, we're told). The replacement Bluesmobile seen in the movie was a former police car that at first appears to be The Alleged Car, but endures more abuse than any automobile reasonably should.
- Blade had his own car that was decked out with a few tricks. It was affectionately referred to by the crew as "the Blademobile". The name was never actually used in the film.
- One of Stephanie Plum's first cars (that the reader is shown) is a beat-up deal with "pussy" sprayed on the side. The pussymobile, as she called it, set the trend for her various vehicles of questionable quality.
- Batman: "Quickly, Robin! To the Batmobile!". Once Batgirl entered the show, she was given a motorcycle.
- The Movie version introduced the Bat-copter and Bat-boat. Meanwhile, the Penguin and the rest of the villains had their own penguin sub.
- Super Sentai / Power Rangers and their Zords. As well as their motorcycles and the occasional car / flying transport / ATV/ mack truck (most of these were added in the PR versions).
- Doctor Who
- Hmmm... An anachronistic British police box on the cliffs of the planet Peladon... Who could that possibly belong to?
- The Third Doctor had Bessie, a 1910's vintage car that he hyped up with Inertial Dampening, a Handy Remote Control and other goodies.
- And then he had the Whomobile, a futuristic Flying Car.
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel
- Spike refers to Angel's car as "The Angelmobile" in Angel while making fun of the title character 'Quickly, to the Angel-Mobile. Away!' The scene can be see here
(for now).
- Incidentally, Spike himself, as well as Giles, are other Buffyverse characters with highly distinctive vehicles that seem descriptive of their personalities. They follow the trope, although they don't get that much screentime.
- Most notable is Gunn's truck, which has stakes and other vampire slaying weapons attached to it.
- Giles' convertible, too. Spike describes it as "A mid-life crisis vehicle — something long, red, and shaped like a penis."
- Spike refers to Angel's car as "The Angelmobile" in Angel while making fun of the title character 'Quickly, to the Angel-Mobile. Away!' The scene can be see here
- In Sid And Marty Krofft Productions' Electra Woman And Dyna Girl, the duo of course have an "Electracar".
- Myth Busters
- Whenever the Myth Busters have a myth which involves a car, it is invariably called the "Mythmobile".
- Boats tend to get called the "Myth-tanic X", where X is a number increased with every new boat.
- In their "Demolition Derby Special", they had the Mythbus. Which was destroyed when it tipped over at the end of testing a bus-related myth.
- They had Earl the Cadillac for a while. Then they dropped it from a crane, because they had promised to destroy it when it was donated to them.
- Heroes: Somewhat parodied with the Ando-Cycle — Which we see in maybe two episodes before it's seldom ever mentioned again.
- Knight Rider plays with this, as one of the main characters is a car, and is one of the most distinctive icons of the series. Unless you're in Germany, of course.
- Automan had Cursor create all manner of Auto-whatever vehicles, covered with Tron Lines of the same blue-glowy effect as the man himself.
- The Young Ones: Vyvyan's Ford Anglia with flames down the side and a leg stuck on the bonnet.
- Played with on Frasier. Frasier wants to be Corkmaster at his wine club (basically the president). Roz pokes fun at this absurd title by treating it like a superhero alias, saying that "If you win, I'd love a ride in the Cork-mobile."
- In Michael Moore's show, The Awful Truth, there was the SODOMobile.
- On Seinfeld, when Kramer and Newman rush out of the apartment together, Jerry quips, "To the Idiotmobile!"
- The Monkees rode around in a radically customized Pontiac GTO called, naturally, the Monkeemobile.
- WWE's resident wrestling Super Hero, The Hurricane, has his Hurri-cycle.
- You can get these in Mutants And Masterminds.
- And you can build them in Genius: The Transgression, although it's quite likely to have some unfortunate quirks.
- Barbie's Dream Car.
- The vehicles in Mario Kart: Double Dash!! and subsequent games, which tend to stretch the "kart" aspect of Mario Kart a bit much.
- Who doesn't love driving a Kart shaped like Yoshi?
- Or an egg? A tank? An airplane? A shooting star? The lower half of a robot with a big wheel between his legs?
- While we're at it, Bowser's Koopa Clown Car (actually a copter) is also worth mentioning.
- Mario Kart DS one-ups the Clown Car, with The Hurricane, a Clown Car-shaped Airplane/Car (too bad it doesn't actually fly).
- The Starshroom in Super Mario Galaxy, and Spaceship Mario in the sequel.
- Who doesn't love driving a Kart shaped like Yoshi?
- The Edelweiss, the Cool Tank from Valkyria Chronicles is shown a few times carrying various members of Squad 7 for long distance travel.
- One of the expansions for The Sims 3 introduces the Motive Mobile, a Lifetime Reward that lets your Sim commute to their job in a vehicle that keeps their needs from dropping on their way to and from work.
- From Terror Island: The waitermobile.
- Mr. Mighty from Everyday Heroes parodies this with the Mighty-Mobile
... which, being a minor-league hero, he can only dream of.
- The Vespavenger from Questionable Content is a rare example of a character named for their mode of transportation, rather than the other way around.
- The Whoremobile from Problem Sleuth. No, really.
- Lady Spectra & Sparky drive around in the Prismobile.
- Englishman has the Bentmobile (a Bentley whose name is purely Innocent Innuendo, as Englishman is unaware of the negative connotations) and in an earlier episode the "Helicoptermobile".
- In the Global Guardians PBEM Universe, Battlecat rides a Cool Bike called the Battlecycle. The Nightwatchman drives a midnight-black Cool Car called the Nightmobile.
- Introducing, the FegelMobile
!
- As SpongeBob SquarePants tells us, you don't need a license to drive a sandwich.
- Mermaidman and Barnacle Boy have an invisible Boatmobile, as it happens.
- Family Guy
- Parodied in an episode of where Peter shouts "To the Petercopter!" and rushes to his Peter-shaped helicopter, which crashes on Joe's lawn. He does the same thing later with his zeppelin, the Hinden-Peter.
- An earlier episode had "To the Popemobile
", complete with cheesy Adam West music.
- An earlier episode had "To the Popemobile
- The Phooeymobile from Hong Kong Phooey.
- In one episode of Phineas and Ferb, Dr. Doofenshmirtz had a monster truck shaped like his own head and regularly uses a Cool Airship with his name on the side.
- Also appears by name in another episode. Professor Poofinplotz travels in a ten foot replica of her own head mounted on mechanical spider legs, aptly dubbed her "Me Mobile".
- A special mention for the Duocar... the penis-and-scrotum-shaped car of The Ambiguously Gay Duo.
- The Falconcar from Dynomutt Dog Wonder.
- The Ranger Plane from Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers. At least that one. There's also at least one Ranger Mobile, the Ranger Wing, the Ranger Rocket, and a number of rides not named after the Rangers.
- Teamo Supremo would have one, as shown by Paulson about to unveil it to them in the series premiere, but they don't get to use it because they're too young to drive.
- Parodied in Johnny Bravo, where Adam West drives the Adamwestmobile.
- Yin Yang Yo!! parodies this trope in one (hilarious) ocassion:
- The Simpsons
- Homer suggests the family get "to the Simpsonmobile!" to rescue Selma from Sideshow Bob.
- There is also the episode where Homer salvaged the remains of a sugar truck and the massive pile of sugar attracts every bee in Springfield. When the beekeepers notice this, one proclaims, "To the beemobile!" to which his colleague asks, "You mean your Chevy?". After a beat, he responds "yes" in deadpan.
- Beverly Hills Teens Larke's Pink Ferrari, the diamond stretch limo, The Rockmobile, and the Woody, to name a few.
- In a Clock Punk variant, Wakfu's Justice Knight has the Justice Train.
- Batfink and his sidekick Karate drive the Battillac.
- A few of them in Captain Planet And The Planeteers. The Geo-cruiser and the Geo-copter were two of them.
- Cool Mc Cool drove (what else?) the Coolmobile.
- The Mystery Machine on Scooby Doo has become as iconic as the Scooby gang themselves.
- Dan Vs. features the Carmobile. A later episode refers to it as the Danmobile.
- In one episode of Challenge of the Super Friends, Batman had a bat rocket. Which he flew to the moon. In under one minute.
- In the debut episode of The Flintstones, Barney invents a flying device that catches Fred's attention. Barney wants to call it "the Barney-Copter," but Fred christens it the episode's title, "The Flintstone Flyer."
- The Wheelmobile.
- Do we count Carbug? Its first appearance, if you don't count the online previews, was actually in real life, in public. Also, there's actually someone driving about in it now...
- No mention of Hitler's car?
- The Who Bus
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- Google's fleet of Street View cars
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- There is also the Geeksquad beetles.
- The Girls Gone Wild Bus. And let's leave it at that.
- We can't forget the many libraries that have bookmobiles.
Also: is having your name painted on the side of your vehicle enough to make it a Theme Mobile?
edited 1st Apr '13 9:26:10 AM by willthiswork
From the ones I recognize, most of them fall into the parody form of the trope. The only ones I can say for sure would be true examples are ones like the Monkeemobile, the Ecto-1, and the Mystery Machine, where an actual car can be described. Just reading through the ones brought into the thread, I feel pretty safe in saying if the example just reads that a character only says "To the Tropemobile," but doesn't mention an actual vehicle, it probably falls into the parody version of the trope.
I think one problem is it isn't clear what tropes the parodies should go under. If we're separating things, the To the Batnoun! link needs to appear in the header somewhere, not just hidden away in the page quote. Next, the obvious way to help make examples clearer would be to actually describe the distinctive features of the vehicles.
Alternatively, divide the page in half; one for straight examples, and one for parodies. Or create a section just for "moblie" mentions on the To The Bat Noun page. Especially since the parodies seem to be far more numerous than straight examples nowadays.
I think all examples of the stock phrase (most of which, yes, are parodies) belong on To the Batnoun!; and all examples of iconic vehicles that aren't theme-related belong on Cool Car. That said, I'm not convinced that Theme Mobile is such a great name here.

The trope Theme Mobile is about a character (or group) with a clear theme, that has a vehicle that continues this theme; the most famous example being Batman's Batmobile.
However, there is a lot of misuse on the page itself, for (1) any group that has an "iconic" vehicle even if it doesn't expand on their theme (which the trope description specifically calls out NOT to do); and (2) any usage of the stock phrase "To the Batmobile!" or any and all variations or parodies thereof (which is a different trope).
Ironically, it lists the X-Men's Blackbird as a clear example of not this trope, but it is listed among the examples anyway). So anyway, this needs a bunch of cleanup.