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The issue of fast acceleration and sudden braking leaving the rider spinning inside the wheel itself is usually ignored or [[Hand Wave|handwaved]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==▼
▲== Advertising ==
* In a 2007 television commercial produced for the drink brand Capri Sun, a boy and a girl are both riding in variants which appear to be manufactured vehicles made of metal and fiberglass (up to the point where they are levitated into the air by a CGI effect).
▲== Anime & Manga ==
* Jack Atlas in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's]]'' has one of these as his D-Wheel. A D-Wheel fit for a <s>former</s> king.
* Ray Steam in ''[[Steamboy]]'' builds a pedal/steam powered one.
* Jean from ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]'' uses one. It even appears in the opening, at least in the French dub.
* Many mobile suits of the Zansacre Empire in ''[[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam]]'' use Einrads, giant versions that they stand in. They can also ''fly''.
* Some of these eventually show up in the ''[[Gantz]]'' manga. Although their users tend to die just as horribly as [[Kill'Em All|everyone else]].
* A chapter of ''[[Kochikame]]'' has a mad scientist creating cars of the future that uses a renewable energy (mostly unimpressed). Ryotsu is impressed of the monowheel and goes for a joyride. Until the wheel goes out of control when he stops at the red light and knocking him unconcious.
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* In the animated adaptation of ''[[Venus Wars]]'', one-wheeled motorcycles are used both in bloodsport and combat.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Comics ==▼
* In the ''[[Blackhawk]]'' comics, the Nazis have a superweapon called the [http://mightygodking.com/index.php/2009/02/26/thursday-whos-who-the-war-wheel/ War Wheel,] which was one of these on steroids.
** One of their villains, the Hoopster, once used used [[media:
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* ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=305 solution]: 1 running wheel with a [[Cloudcuckoolander|crazy]] [[Petting Zoo People|humanoid]] [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels|squirrel]] still inside + 2 shots at the construction holding it in place = 1 improvised light tank.▼
* In ''[[Jonah Hex|Hex]]'', Reinhold Borsten's forces had armoured monowheels; sort of like minature, one-man War Wheels.
== [[Film]] ==
* In ''[[Star Wars]] Episode III'', General Grievous tries to escape Obi-Wan by riding a Wheel Bike that also has some legs for those rough terrain.
** Destroyer Droids in all three prequels fold up into monowheels to maneuver around. The Clone Wars animated movie took advantage of the lack of shields in this mode to render them into scrap.
** A ''[[Transformers]]'' Crossover figure. They noticed that the Wheel Bike looked like Grievous enough to make a figure of Grievous that transforms into it.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
▲== Literature ==
* There's a very cool one of these in [[Iain M Banks|Iain M. Banks' novel]] ''[[Against a Dark Background]]''.
* [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[The Cat Who Walks Through Walls]]''. While traveling on the Moon, the vehicle the protagonists are in is attacked by a giant Monowheel. It had gunpods sticking out from each hub.
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* There's a living example in [[E. E. "Doc" Smith]]'s [[Lensman]] series novel ''Galactic Patrol''. The Wheelmen of Aldebaran I are literally wheel-shaped aliens, with their heads where the hub would be, and dozen of arms with capable looking hands. They move around by rolling like wheels.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* One episode of ''[[Scrapheap Challenge]]'' had the two teams constructing monowheels and then racing them around a test track.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
* The Skaven of ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' recently got one of these; a weird gunned-up, blade-covered wheel powered by ''hundreds of running rats''.▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* The Skaven of ''[[Warhammer]]'' recently got one of these; a weird gunned-up, blade-covered wheel powered by ''hundreds of running rats''.
** The Doomwheel? They've recently ''regained'' that after it was cut for 6th edition. [[Older Than They Think|They've actually had it since the mid-nineties]].
** They got smaller, cheaper ones recently. Now you can field [[Crazy Awesome|friggin' GIANT SPIKY BALL MONOWHEEL CAVALRY!!!]]
* Arduin Dungeon #1 ''Caliban'' had a magikal construct called a "Warwheel" that ranged from
* The fourth edition of ''[[Shadowrun]]'' features a monowheel called the Horizon-Doble Revolution.
* ''[[Hollow Earth Expedition]]'' supplement ''Secrets of the Surface World''. In the Weird Science chapter, the example of the creation process is a Wheelbike: a single large wheel running around the outside of a gyroscopically balanced cockpit and engine.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
▲== Video Games ==
* In the most recent ''[[Dune]]'' RTS game, the Harkonnens have the Buzzsaw, which specializes in ruining Spice fields or slicing through infantry formations. No explanation on how the blades stay sharp after traveling over rocks, though.
* One of the enemies in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Brawl'''s Subspace Emissary is essentially this. A common Kirby enemy, as well.
* This is one of the party's primary means of transportion in ''[[Wild
* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] 4'' has the [http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060820184834/megaman/images/2/24/Mm4monoroadersprite.png first variant of the "Roader" enemy]. The roaders that appear in later games look less like a monowheel, though.
* This is one of the Extreme Gears you can use in ''[[Sonic Riders]]: Zero Gravity''.
* You can fight some of this in ''[[Airforce Delta]] Strike''.
* In ''[[Kirby Super Star]]'', the helper from the wheelie powerup is a monowheel.
* In ''[[Wild
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The Martian tank in ''[[The Stormrunners]]'' runs on a huge 45 degree wheel. It's only seen at the beginning of the story because it soon gets blown up.
▲* ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=305 solution]: 1 running wheel with a [[Cloudcuckoolander|crazy]] [[Petting Zoo People|humanoid]] [[Everythings Nuttier With Squirrels|squirrel]] still inside + 2 shots at the construction holding it in place = 1 improvised light tank.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Chaotic]]'', the Mowercycle (as pictured above) is this plus some metal teeth that can either be used to climb vertical surfaces and even run across cavern ceilings or be used to vandalize your enemy's city by powersaw-ing through their stone statues.
** A recent set release of the card game introduced the Bi-Mowercycle. As you can tell it has two wheels to allow more city wrecking fun. [[Fridge Logic|Although this may disqualify it]] for being a monowheel [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|of doom]].
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* Colonel Dirk Courage, [[The Hero]] from ''[[Spiral Zone]]'', drove the Rimfire, a monowheel with a [[BFG]] on top.
* Pre-dating Episode III by twenty years, the ''[[Droids]]'' cartoon features a monowheel.
* In ''[[Wakfu]]'', Nox's [[Mook
* A futuristic version of the monowheel is shown in a few episodes of ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003]]''.
* In ''[[Hot Wheels Battle Force 5]]'', The Red Sentient Kytren uses The Vyirex which is a gyroscope monowheel (hence the name).
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4YmVP6i4qw McLean V-8 Monowheel]. Too bad it crashed. Don't worry the driver wasn't badly hurt.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSbfAJEYS_k School project?]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mu1iZKz-jMA Some monowheel fun], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE6rQwT5liE more monowheel fun], and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmeTWPN5o4 old-fashion monowheel fun].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120502060706/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/01/17/war-tank-on-one-wheel-operated-by-one-man/ This] article from ''Popular Mechanics'' (November, 1933).
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* The German [http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2-german-prototypes/kugelpanzer/ Kugelpanzer]. In the linked article you may notice references to two other similar projects, German (1917, working prototype built) and American (1936, on paper only).
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