History Main / NoahsStoryArc

-->'''Noah''': ''([[FourthWallGag to the audience]])'' I hope not, this is a kids show.

-->'''Noah''': ''([[FourthWallJoke to the audience]])'' I hope not, this is a kids show.

* 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 [[TheCameo Cameo]] of [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Buster and Babs Bunny]], who walked up and stated they were not related, so Noah let them on the Ark.

* ''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 anohter, but Stan had stopped listening by that point).

The TropeNamer and TropeCodifier would be the 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.

* 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]].

* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'': The fifth film, ''The Mythical Ark: Adventures in Love & Happiness'', 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.

* ''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.

* A scammer-slash-crazy guy used this and built an ark in ''Series/{{CSINY}}'''s episode "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.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' has this trope embedded into its spoiler-laden story. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1 Melia]] and [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2 Nia]] collaborated to construct Origin (the Ark allegory) as a means of protecting the knowledge, culture, and souls of the inhabitants of their respective worlds from being destroyed in the process of their imminent merging back into the original world that Klaus had originally sundered with the Conduit]]. It's no coincidence that one of the main protagonists of the story is named 'Noah', though [[spoiler:his ultimate task in this case is to liberate the Ark from the AI that had seized control of it, with the aim of splitting the world of Aionios back into two]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SchoolhouseRock'' had a segment called "Elementary, My Dear", 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.

** In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E10PrayAnything another episode]], 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]].

* ''WesternAnimation/NoahsAnimalsAndOtherStories'' tells the story through a PerspectiveFlip where we see the events of the story through the eyes of the animals, primary the main trio [[{{Bully Turned Buddy}} Crocodile]], [[{{The Big Guy}} Elephant]] and [[{{King of Beasts}} Lion]].

* ''WesternAnimation/NoahsAnimalsAndOtherStories'' tells the story through a PerspectiveFlip where we see the events of the story through the eyes of the animals, primary the main trio [[{{Bully Turned Buddy}} Crocodile]], Elephant]] and [[{{King of Beasts}} Lion]].

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge2TheMeltdown'': 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.

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.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13646760/21/The-NEW-151-Pokeshipping-Stories The Wrath of Kyogre]]'' revolves around [[Franchise/Pokemon Arceus]] deciding to restart humanity after seeing it wasn't going so great, and counts on Ash and Misty to repopulate the world.

* ''WebOriginal/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.

* 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 [[AGodAmI 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.

* 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 [[AGodAmI 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.

* 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 {{Cameo}} of [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Buster and Babs Bunny]], who walked up and stated they were not related, so Noah let them on the Ark.