Vehicle Title



This is one of the easiest ways to name a work of fiction. Instead of naming a series after a central location, the name comes from the vehicle that is the focal point of the series. Extra points to those works where the vehicle doubles as the primary setting (ie a good deal of the character interaction occurs onboard), the MacGuffin, or some combination of the two, all of which seem to be more likely if the vehicle is a Cool Ship (no, not that kind of ship) be it spacefaring, nautical, time-traveling, or an airship. As the title suggests, other vehicles, mecha, helicopters, tanks etc. also qualify for this trope.

Anime and Manga

 * Black Lagoon
 * Bumpety Boo
 * Cowboy Bebop (compare Media Research Failure)
 * Fafner in the Azure: Dead Agressor
 * Linebarrels of Iron
 * Martian Successor Nadesico.
 * Mazinger Z
 * Megas XLR
 * Mobile Suit Gundam and almost every other gundam title since, (excluding 0080, the 8th ms team, 0083, chars counterattack, and SEED)
 * Neon Genesis Evangelion
 * Outlaw Star
 * RahXephon
 * Sentou Yousei Yukikaze
 * Sol Bianca
 * Space Runaway Ideon
 * Super Dimension Fortress Macross
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
 * Uchuu Senkan Yamato (AKA Space Battleship Yamato, AKA Star Blazers).
 * Vandread sort of. The main ship is called the Nirvana, but the series gets it's name from the Vandreads (made by combining Dread fighter-ships Van mecha) all of which are called Vandred (insert female pilot's name here), except Super Vandread a.k.a. Vandread Pyoro (Pyoro being a robot and neither a pilot nor female)

Comic Books

 * The Haunted Tank in the DCU.

Film

 * Air Force One sort of.
 * The Battleship Potemkin. A film labelled "the most important propaganda film of all time".
 * The Big Bus
 * Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
 * Drive Angry
 * Genevieve
 * The Hindenberg
 * The Hunt for Red October
 * K19: The Widowmaker
 * The Love Bug
 * Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
 * The Poseidon Adventure and its remake Poseidon
 * The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
 * Serenity, The Movie of Firefly
 * Titan A.E.
 * Titanic
 * U-571
 * The Wackiest Ship In The Army
 * PT-109
 * The Beast of War, though not calling it by name.
 * 3:10 to Yuma

Literature

 * Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic.
 * C. S. Forrester's The Last Nine Days of the Bismark
 * And its 1960 film adaptation, Sink The Bismark!
 * Stephen King's Christine

Live Action TV

 * Airwolf (helicopter)
 * Andromeda
 * Ark II
 * Battlestar Galactica
 * Fireball XL 5
 * Firefly to an extent. While the actual ship was named Serenity, it was a Firefly-class transport.
 * The Love Boat was an in-universe nickname for the semi-eponymous cruise liner "Pacific Princess."
 * Red Dwarf
 * In German-speaking markets Star Trek was originally called Raumschiff Enterprise.
 * Although the series itself wouldn't qualify, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had the episodes "Defiant" and "Valiant". Care to guess which ships those episodes revolve around? There was another episode called simply "The Ship" about a crashed Jem'hadar fighter.
 * Star Trek: Enterprise
 * Star Trek: Voyager, pictured above.
 * Supercar
 * Supertrain
 * The Wackiest Ship In The Army

Music

 * Good Shp Venus
 * Yellow Submarine by The Beatles

Theater

 * H.M.S. Pinafore
 * Duncan Pflaster's play The Starship Astrov
 * Subverted in A Streetcar Named Desire as the reference is merely symbolic.

Video Games

 * Armored Core
 * Starship Titanic
 * Metal Gear - Only for |the first game, where the enemy mecha is simply called "Metal Gear". Afterward, the game titles and the Metal Gear mecha featured in each game no longer matched up.
 * Metal Slug. The subtitle for the first game is even "Super Vehicle 001".

Western Animation

 * The Magic School Bus
 * Speed Buggy