History Main / Thememobile

This trope doesn't necessarily include ''iconic'' vehicles. While the {{X-Men}}'s Blackbird is identifiable by fans, it doesn't continue their visual theme, and it wouldn't be recognized by someone who wasn't familiar with it. A good determiner is to ask yourself, "If I saw this for the first time on the street, how likely would I be to identify it as belonging to <character>?".

* The ''PowerRangers'' and their Zords. As well as their motorcycles and the occasional car/flying transport/''mack truck''.

* ''{{Torchwood}}'' has cars with their logo on the side, especially notable as they're supposed to be a secret organisation. The organization itself is not secret, more or less the entire population of Cardiff knows they ''exist'', but only the highest-ranking government officials actually know what they ''do''.

* Unusually for a "cosmic" villain, {{Thanos}} once had a helicopter -- [[http://www.the-isb.com/?p=76 with his name on it]]!'[[hottip:*:Spidey Super Stories #39]] Although this story was from a comic based on ''SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends'' and is not in canon.

* Brainiac has a starship shaped like his own head, with metal tentacles hanging underneath.
* Unusually for a "cosmic" villain, Thanos once had a helicopter -- [[http://www.the-isb.com/?p=76 with his name on it]]!'[[hottip:*:Spidey Super Stories #39]]

** Most notable is Gunn's jeep, which has stakes and other vampire slaying weapons attached to it.

* The original Batman movies had many of these, as expected.
** ''Film/{{Batman}}'' had the Batmobile and Bat-Wing.
** ''BatmanReturns'' had a slightly different Batmobile and the Penguin rode in a giant floating duck.
** ''BatmanForever'' saw yet another Batmobile, the return of the Bat-Wing, and the new Batboat, which doubled as a submarine.
** ''BatmanAndRobin'' had the most thus far: Batman had a more streamlined, single-seat Batmobile while Robin had his own cycle. Mr. Freeze, meanwhile, had his own tank complete with ice-canon. Batgirl also had her own motorcycle. Oh, also, Batman has a Bat-Credit Card.

* Essentially, any cartoon made in TheEighties had multiple vehicles for both heroes and villains.

** ''BatmanAndRobin'' had the most thus far: Batman had a more streamlined, single-seat Batmobile while Robin had his own cycle. Mr. Freeze, meanwhile, had his own tank complete with ice-canon. Batgirl also had her own motorcycle.

* [[AzumangaDaioh The]] [[DrivesLikeCrazy Yukari]]-[[TheAllegedCar mobile]]. An old, beat-up ([[DrivesLikeCrazy Gee, I wonder why]]) Toyota that actually belongs to her parents. The mere ''mention'' of that car is enough to scare the everlasting fuck out of poor Chiyo-chan.

* [[AzumangaDaioh The]] [[DrivesLikeCrazy Yukari]]-[[TheAllegedCar mobile]]

* ''SwatKats'': The Turbokat is at ''least'' as well known as the flight suits for the Swat Kats. The other bigger vehicles (the Turbomole, the Hoverkat, and the unnamed amphibious sub/tank used for a short time in one episode) all had the same basic paint scheme, as did the jet skis. The other smaller vehicles (The Cyclotron and Sandkat) had the same color scheme as their flight suits. All of them qualify.

* ''TheDarkKnight''

* ''{{Series/Batman}}'': "Quickly, Robin! To the Batmobile!"

* ''Any'' superhero action figure eventually acquires a vehicle of some sort, whether or not he has one in the source material. So, even though SpiderMan has trouble making his rent, he can still afford his own spider-themed VTOL fighter jet. [[FlatWhat What]].

** In ''WhateverHappenedToTheCapedCrusader'', Joker, Two-Face, AND Catwoman have these. Others probably do as well, given the slightly... odd... nature of the piece, however these are the only ones we're shown.

** Dick Grayson's Robin had a motorbike which had his colours, and was emblazoned with Rs, but was never actually called the Robin-Cycle.

* ''TheFantasticFour'' had the Fantasticar, in several variants. In early adventures, the FF had the original "flying bathtub" model, then a second, more streamlined and versatile one, and the Pogo Plane (based on a real aircraft) for longer trips than the Fantasticar could take. All have the team's big '''4''' logo. The "flying bathtub" is so iconic that it's still associated with the name despite having been retired back in issue #12!

** His Avengers teammate Hawkeye averts this, having his own sky-cycle that doesn't match his color scheme or have arrow-themed gadgets or anything.

* In a ClockPunk variant, ''{{Wakfu}}'''s Justice Knight has the [[CoolTrain Justice Train]].

[[caption-width-right:330:Look, if it bugs you, then ''you'' tell him he can't have a Hulk-cycle!]]

* ''TheBatman'' briefly shows Green Arrow flying his Arrow Plane across Gotham. Good thing because he and Batman needed to split up to save the day.

* The GreatLakesAvengers 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. SquirrelGirl ends up in the Squirrel-a-Gig, an autogyro with a definite squirrel motif. (Makes you wonder what Mr Immortal would have, doesn't it?)

** The Whirly-Bat: also a rotary-wing aircraft, but unlike the Batcopter, a very small one-man (or ''maybe'' two) vehicle.

** Catman has also acquired a Catmobile, as seen in ''SecretSix''. He drives it while insisting any similarities between his name and costume and Batman are strictly coincidental.

* Which is of course the [[CaptainErsatz Ersatz Mobile]] for the BlueBeetle's "Bug".
* {{Spider-Man}}'s Spider-Mobile was introduced, both InUniverse and in RealLife, as part of a corporate deal (with a car company and a [[MerchandiseDriven toy company]], respectively.) In a lovely bit of WriterRevolt, Spidey, being like many lifelong New Yorkers an untrained driver, accidentally drives it into the East River almost as soon as he gets it.

* ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has all the usual Bat-vehicles (including a TransformingMecha Batmobile), as well as GreenArrow's Arrow-Car and Arrow Plane, and the Robin-Cycle. And, in the WackyRacing episode, the Jokermobile, Kitty-Car, Huntress-Cycle, Gentleman Ghost's hearse, and so on.

** In general, a lot of units are painted in a style fitting of their pilot. Kallen's Burai and Glasgow, for the short amount of time she had them, were painted in red. The only red units in the series, I should point out. C.C. went and painted an Akatsuki in pink, and went the extra mile in having a Lancelot painted in pink. Cornelia's Gloucester is painted the same colour as her hair, and has a cape to boot, and the Glaston Knight's wear visors that look like Gloucester masks.

** "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?

* ''TheBluesBrothers'' mention the former Bluesmobile, which was a Cadillac that Elwood traded in for a microphone (Jake agreed it was a fair trade). The replacement Bluesmobile seen in the movie was a former police car.

* ''TheBluesBrothers'' and their Bluesmobile.

** IronMaiden travels in a a modified Boeing 757-200 flown by the lead singer, named Ed Force One.

* This troper has a cousin who had a friend who had a very bad car: clinging door that was strapped on by rubber bands, portable radio (original car radio was stolen), jammed windows (either they stayed down all day, which caused the car once to flood in rainy season, or they went up but he had to open the car with unorthodox methods), a chair glued to where the driver's seat would be and last but not least, scrapped paint. They nicknamed it The Poopmobile.