History Main / MileLongShip

** In ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'', [[BigBad Ronan]]'s ship, the ''Dark Aster''(and similar Accuser vessels seen in ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'') is three kilometers ''wide'' as opposed to long.

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' has the Cathedral Terra, later named the Super Galaxy Dai-Gurren, is a big-ass ship that ''was the moon for a while.'' It's roughly half the size of earth, and it is piloted by Simon, piloting Gurren Lagann, that pilotes Arc-Gurren Lagann. It also transforms into its own giant robot. This is taken even bigger, reaching the point where galaxies are used as throwing stars. ''And that's not even the limit.''

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Primal}}'' has a three-episode arc set on board the ''Colossaeus'', a absolutely immense pre-modern naval ship that is apparently home to an entire [[FantasyCounterpartCulture Ancient Egypt-esque]] kingdom. The ship's exact size is never stated, but in scale with the characters it seems to be at least a mile long, and probably much more, and even holds a fleet of smaller ships. The second episode shows that it's not the only one on the seas, as it comes under attack by a second, near-identical ''Colossaeus'', this one populated by a kingdom inspired by the Sea Peoples.

* Creator/EEDocSmith's book ''[[Literature/SkylarkSeries Skylark of Valeron]]'': the ''Skylark'' was a sphere over 1000km in radius and has a crew of four, it needed to be that big to contain the navigational instruments necessary to cross intergalactic space.
* In the ''Literature/StarCarrier'' series by Ian Douglas the eponymous vessel ''America'' is a kilometer long and not very wide, while the railgun cruiser ''Kinkaid'' is of similar size or bigger, given the barrel for main weapon is a klick long. There are also several [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Turusch]] vessels built from hollowed-out asteroids that are several times larger. H'rulka vessels are an interesting version: they initially look 20 klicks long but are actually several single-crewperson ships docked together that are individually several klicks in length (the creature flying it is [[BizarreAlienBiology a 200-meter colony organism]] that finds itself cramped by the "small" vessel).

** The all-powerful V'Ger from ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' is possibly the most standout example; the ''Enterprise'' is an insect next to it, and cut dialogue places its length at 48 miles while non-canon sources have gone as high as 60 (making it roughly three times the size of Manhattan).

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': In ''Literature/CiaphasCain: The Emperor's Finest'' the space hulk ''Spawn of Damnation'' is said to be about five kilometers in diameter. As space hulks go that's fairly small[[note]]in fact it's at least an order of magnitude too small to make sense; the class of ship the heroes arrive in is about that size itself but the text says they're tiny next to it and ships of even bigger classes can be seen poking out of the mess. See the franchise' entry in the tabletop section.[[/note]], but one of Amberley Vail's footnotes comments that it's "quite big enough under the circumstances."

* Some of the starships in Iain M. Banks' ''Literature/TheCulture'' novels are quite large -- a GSV (General Systems Vehicle) can be 25 to 200 kilometers long, with millions of passengers and enough on-board manufacturing capacity to match a ''planet'' in production. ''Literature/ConsiderPhlebas'' shows the megaships of [[RingworldPlanet Vavatch]], which are massive oceangoing city ships that are at least 4 kilometers long, and are so massive that it takes years for them to accelerate to their max speed. The megaships use enormous cruise ships as tenders.
** One scene taking place on a GSV contains a throwaway observation by one of the characters of a megaship being neatly tucked away for storage in one of the GSV's smaller storage bays. Yeah.

** The mysterious whale probe from ''Film/StarTrekIV'' is almost as long (fitting since it was probably built by a race of alien whales).

* In the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' series, Dr. Eggman's philosophy of building large vehicles is "go big or go home," though he is more likely to build ''airships'' that are miles long, such as Wing Fortress in ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'', Flying Battery in ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'', Egg Carrier and Egg Carrier 2 in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', and Final Fortress in ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'', than spaceships. If Eggman wants to operate from space, most of the time, he builds a space station instead. The series is also no stranger to enormously large ocean-faring vessels too: In addition to the Egg Carriers being able to travel by sea if needed, there are Huge Crisis and [[FlyingDutchman Haunted Ship]] from the VideoGame/SonicRushSeries.

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', Thriller Bark is a megalithic ship that serves as an entire island.

* ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': The Clans have the largest ships in Inner Sphere, such as the [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Leviathan_(Heavy_Transport) Leviathan]], [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Black_Lion Black Lion]] and [[http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Potemkin Potemkin]]. Even ordinary [=JumpShips=] tend to be over a kilometer in diameter, though that's just the "sail" used to gather solar energy, the ship proper is usually around half a kilometer long.

** In ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', [[BigBad Ronan]]'s ship, the ''Dark Aster''(and similar Accuser vessels seen in ''Film/CaptainMarvel'') is three kilometers ''wide'' as opposed to long.

* ''[[https://www.deviantart.com/dirkloechel/art/Size-Comparison-Science-Fiction-Spaceships-398790051 The Ultimate Starship Size Comparison Chart]]'' lines up notable ships and space stations from several different science fiction franchises (along with a few real-life ships for the sake of argument) side-by-side to compare their length. They're all dwarfed by the aforementioned ''Executor''-class star dreadnought from ''Franchise/StarWars''. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20220807203722/https://www.deviantart.com/moreorlesser/art/Spaceship-Size-Comparison-Updated-V22-903959442/ More recently, an updated version with ships from after 2014 has been created using the original as a foundation.]]

* ''[[http://sciencefiction.com/2013/09/29/ultimate-science-fiction-spaceship-comparison-chart-update-5/ The Ultimate Starship Size Comparison Chart]]'' lines up notable ships and space stations from several different science fiction franchises (along with a few real-life ships for the sake of argument) side-by-side to compare their length. They're all dwarfed by the aforementioned ''Executor''-class star dreadnought from ''Franchise/StarWars''. [[https://www.deviantart.com/moreorlesser/art/Spaceship-Size-Comparison-Updated-V22-903959442/ More recently, an updated version with ships from after 2014 has been created using the original as a foundation.]]

* ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'':
** Battleplates are starfaring triangles with 8km sides and a hull 1km thick. They were built to either prevent catastrophic meteor impacts, or to cause something closely resembling one, depending on deployment.
** They're not the only ones, of course; Petey's got a few that seem to be even bigger, including an "Extortionator" that has an antimatter power generator about as big as a battleplate in itself, but the latter are the only ones that get precise measurements.

* Most of the capital ships fielded by the major factions in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'' are this. A standard Grineer Galleon is just over 4 kilometers long, while Corpus Obelisks appear to be significantly larger.

** ''VideoGame/StarCraftIILegacyOfTheVoid'': The ''Spear of Adun'', a 74 kilometer long arkship which serves as Artanis' flagship and base of operations during the fight against the Void. Also, Zerg Leviathans which can reach the size of a small moon - though [[CripplingOverspecialization have no weapons]] other than smacking things with their tentacles or deploying fighters. They serve the role of massive transports among the zerg, along with the unseen Behemoths, as the zerg otherwise have no real ships (just [[ZergSwarm swarms]] of Mutalisks and Overlords).

** While scales aren't given often (and when they are, they are seldom reliable), the Galactic Council ship [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial Benign Intervention]] and the various [[HumongousMecha Titans]] both dwarf the ''Lost Light''.

* ''Fanfic/TheButcherBird'': [[spoiler:''Prometheus'', the second Nightmare ship,]] is a whopping 603 meters at the waterline. For reference, that's about twice the length of the ''Gerald R. Ford'' class supercarrier in real life, and over three times the length of the Marine battleships of the ''Manga/OnePiece'' world.

** DownloadableContent later introduced even bigger ships like Juggernauts, which are one-of-a-kind mobile shipyards packing serious firepower, and the moon-sized Colossus PlanetKiller. One loading screen shows a Juggernaut hovering over an alien metropolis, [[Film/IndependenceDay City Destroyer]]-style, with the ship taking up the entire width of the artwork despite being at least a couple kilometers away from the observer and being viewed at an angle.

* While it is ultimately up to the interpretation of the player, Battleships and especially the gigantic Titan ships in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' are implied to be in the several-kilometer range. DownloadableContent later introduced even bigger ships like Juggernauts, which are one-of-a-kind mobile shipyards packing serious firepower, and the moon-sized Colossus PlanetKiller. One loading screen shows a Juggernaut hovering over an alien metropolis, [[Film/IndependenceDay City Destroyer]]-style, with the ship taking up the entire width of the artwork despite being at least a couple kilometers away from the observer.