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[[File:spacewhale-1.jpg|frame|[[Theme Tune|5...4...3...2...1...]] [[Power Rangers in Space|Whalers]] [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]].]]
{{quote|''[[Future Imperfect|We're whalers on the moon]]''
''We carry our harpoons... ''
''But there ain't no whales, so we tell tall tales,''
''And sing our whaling tune!''|'''[[
[[Space Is an Ocean]]. This is a well-known phenomenon. For some reason, though, the ocean is pretty much devoid of fish.
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* Whales become even more interesting [[Space X|when they]] are [[Recycled in Space]].
* [[Rule of Cool]].
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
[[Gilbert and Sullivan|But nevermind the whys and wherefores]], space and whales are just two great tastes that taste great together. Bonus points are awarded if the whale in question is also a [[Living Ship]].
A planet-bound variant of the Space Whale is the [[Giant Flyer|Air Whale]]. Whales are basically shaped like [[Zeppelins
See also [[Sapient Cetaceans]], [[Flying Seafood Special]].
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Not to be confused with the [[Space Whale Aesop]], which is something quite different.
{{examples
* ''[[Ah
▲== Anime & Manga ==
▲* ''[[Ah My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' had Schroedinger's Whales, which traverse the entire space-time continuum. They are an exceedingly rare treat to see, considering the chance of one existing could only happen in a ''near-infinite space''; naturally, they have a very hard time finding other Schroedinger's Whales with whom to breed.
* ''[[Macross 7|Macross Dynamite 7]]'' features space whales in a bizarre cross of [[Moby Dick]] and [[The Power of Rock]].
* In ''[[Gundam Seed]]'', space explorer George Glenn discovers a fossilized Space
** Rather notable as [[Gundam]] typically has [[Absent Aliens|no aliens at all]].
** In ''Turn A Gundam'' A number of whales thrive in human built waterways on the moon. Turn A's connections with other Gundam universes leads me to question whether SEED's Space Whales are related.
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* ''[[Idol Project]]'' featured the "Tropical Dimension", basically a resort/ocean planet. And yes, it had space whales.
* ''[[Plastic Little]]'' features a crew and ship whose business is capturing exotic creatures in the 'sea of clouds' of the planet Ietta, apparently a gas giant of some kind, and selling them to collectors and zoos. In the sequence in which you get to see the exotic creatures, one of those shown is most definitely an Air Whale.
* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'''s [[Magical Land]] has [[Flying Seafood Special|Air Whales]] ''en lieu'' of the usual [[Zeppelins
* The spaceships of ''[[Blue Drop]]'', while mechanical, are clearly inspired by this trope. The main character's sentient ship (the Blue) looks like a sperm whale, complete with fins and a random whalesong whenever she moves.
* One episode in the third season of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' features a painting done by Michiru that is of a whale in space. This is particularly fitting for her, since she's Sailor Neptune and has ocean/water powers.
* [[Kurohime]] one-ups this trope with a Time Whale.
* In "Seiketsu no Hagurama" the flying whales are actually steam-punk looking ships http://www.mangafox.com/manga/seiketsu_no_haguruma/v01/c001.1/16.html designed by a literal blue-blooded [[Gadgeteer Genius]] prince who, contrary to his intentions to use his machines for peaceful purposes, were being used to eradicate the remaining red-blooded people by his father.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''Abraxas and the Earthman'' by Rick Veitch (originally serialized in ''Epic Illustrated,'' later released as a graphic novel) is all about this trope: There are space whales (which look exactly like Earth's whales, and "swim" through space with their fins and tails), and space whalers. The whalers are from a civilization based on Organic Technology; they fly in ships which look like small asteroids covered with
* Ultra Boy of the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' originally got his powers from being swallowed by a space whale. (To make it even better/worse, his real name is Jo Nah.)
** Still better/worse: Superboy calls him on the coincidence the first time they meet.
** And that's not even the only space whale in ''Legion Of Super-Heroes''. In the original continuity, Lightning Lad lost his arm to the "Super-Moby Dick of Space!"
* In one of the ''[[Metabarons]]'' comics, the bad guys use a kind of organic spaceship that strongly resembles a whale. Background material implies that it was developed from actual whales through [[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|genetic engineering]]. They're also called cetacyborgs, which is [
* The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' villains The Brood traveled in lobotomized space whales known as the Acanti.
** You haven't lived until you've seen a whale doing a high-speed close-orbit approach of a planet to free its ancestor's soul from a citadel of evil.
** On one occasion, Storm actually ''merged'' with one of the Acanti, [[Take a Third Option|as an alternative to]] either committing suicide or [[Body Horror|transforming into one of The Brood]] after [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|being implanted with a Brood egg]]. Fortunately, the X-Men and Starjammers were able to free the Acanti from slavery, and the whales' thankful shaman (yes, a giant whale sorcerer) [[A Wizard Did It|magically]] purged the Brood eggs from the mutants' bodies.
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* And let us not forget [[Lobo]]'s "space dolphins", which as of ''52'' have their own religion.
** Lobo also once joined a crew of space whalers who's ship was swallowed whole by an immense albino space whale. Lobo even met a Jonas analogue inside, shortly before eating him.
** Speaking of Lobo, in [[
* In the ''[[Green Lantern]]'' comics, it was recently revealed that the [[Anthropomorphic Personification|cosmic personification]] of willpower, Ion, looks very much like a big green whale.
** In one ''[[
* Doug TenNapel seems fond of this one.
** ''Creature Tech'' features Giant Space Eels with humanoid alien riders. The Mad Scientist tries to use one of these eels to destroy California.
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* In the French comic series ''Kookaburra'' has space Lamantines. They act a lot like whales though, and are hunted by whalers.
* In [[Recycled in Space|Space]] [[Usagi Yojimbo|Usagi]] there are space turtles. When they die, their shells are used as spacecraft hull. Not whales, but still impressive.
* ''[[PS238]]'' had a [http://ps238.nodwick.com/comic/11012013/ cyborg space kraken thing].
== [[Film]] ==▼
* ''[[Star Trek IV:
▲== Film ==
* The 1965 Belgian animated movie ''Pinocchio in Outer Space'' was a [[Recycled in Space]] sequel to Disney's [[Pinocchio]] that had Astro, a
▲* ''[[Star Trek IV the Voyage Home (Film)|Star Trek IV the Voyage Home]]'' didn't have whales floating through the void, but implied that they had a strong connection with space, when the probe blasted weaponized frequency-shifted humpback whalesong into the depths of space. It was explained that the reason for the probe using whalesong was because the last time it had visited the Earth, humans had not yet evolved and that whales were the most intelligent organism at the time. When the probe returned, it expected to be able to talk to the whales again. (Eventual backstory in a novel revealed that the probe was designed by a sentient cetacean species -- dubbed "hyperdolphins" -- on the other side of the galaxy, which might qualify as doubling the trope.)
▲* The 1965 Belgian animated movie ''Pinocchio in Outer Space'' was a [[Recycled in Space]] sequel to Disney's [[Pinocchio]] that had Astro, a [[Space Whale]] version of Monstro the Whale, complete with a jet nozzle replacing his blowhole.
* ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' - Wins bonus points for having [[Space Pirates|full-rigged sailing ships in space]] as well. Still, that was kind of the POINT.
* In the "Pines of Rome" sequence of ''[[Fantasia]] 2000'', some sort of [[Negative Space Wedgie]] gives a pod of whales the power of flight, whereupon they rise into the atmosphere, enter space itself, and [[Disney Acid Sequence|ultimately breach the surface of the 'ocean' of the atmosphere]] - the animators [[Shrug of God|assure us it's intended to be ambiguous]]. Besides, the sequence's [[Crowning Music of Awesome|titular song]], by Ottorino Resphigi, is so majestic [[Rule of Cool|we can pretty much not care about that]].
* [[Titan
* [[The
== [[Literature]] ==
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** The illustrated
** Discworld itself is carried through space on the back of [[Turtle Power|another enormous aquatic animal]].
* Terry Pratchett's ''[[
* An Italian satirical science-fiction novel titled ''Terra!'' featured an extended Moby-Dick parody sequence, with metal-rich asteroids and miners.
* [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s novel ''Cachalot'' (1980), part of the [[Humanx Commonwealth]] universe. In the future, Mankind had decided to save the last survivors of the cetacean species of Earth (whales, dolphins, orcas) and transplant them to a planet almost completely covered by oceans which had no native sentient species (or so they thought, because they didn't look deep enough in the oceans). The cetaceans prospered, on a world that belonged to them and on which humans and thranx were only allowed as traders and researchers. By the time of the novel, all the cetaceans are sentient to some degree, with the toothed whales more so than the baleen whales (either due to evolution or genetic Uplifting done prior to the whale diaspora or shortly afterwards, it's not entirely clear). Some species of toothed whales have even grown more intelligent than humans and live for hundreds of years since they are no longer hunted. The book ends with the revelation that these whales have developed [[Psychic Powers|psionic powers]] like telekinesis and telepathy (since they have no hands and thus a civilizations based on song, not artifacts and tools), and with the help of these powers they can levitate their bodies from the water and travel into space.
* Wayne D. Barlowe's ''Expedition'' not only gives us a planet with a wide variety of "Floaters", several of whom are basically Air-Whales, one of these is of human-like intelligence.
* [[Timothy Zahn]] wrote a series of short stories in the mid 1980s which featured "Space Horses," small
* [[Iain M Banks|Iain M. Banks]]
** ''Consider Phlebas'' briefly mentions the chuy-hitsi warp animal, spacebourne creatures capable of interstellar travel.
** A largely un-related but voluminous B Plot in the sequel ''Look to Windward'' introduces the "dirigible behemothaur": a very, very, very large Air Whale.
** The Dwellers fit this - although they mostly live on gas planets as Air Whales, it is implied that they created a massive intergalactic network of wormholes. It is certain that at one point they used them. Their culture is intimately examined in [[The Algebraist]]. In some ways they are similar to the Affront from [[Excession]], being gleefully violent and cruel to their offspring, and being possessed of a rather macho attitude to life. They are, however, also quite scholarly and thoughtful at times.
* Douglas Adams' ''[[The
** The Hitchhiker's Guide also has space ''dolphins''- the {{spoiler|second}} most intelligent species on Earth {{spoiler|escapes before the planet is destroyed.}}
{{quote|
** Also, the whale survived for only a few minutes. A whale could hold their breath for that long.
* In the 1970s Robert F. Young wrote ''[http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pe.cgi?26084
* The [[
* It didn't take long for Star Wars Expanded Universe to invent some: the first example of a space whale species was introduced in 1984 by one of the earliest Star Wars novels. Other examples followed, eventually making their ways into cartoons (see below).
* The Star Trek TNG novel ''Dark Mirror'' by [[Diane Duane]] has a [[Sapient Cetaceans|dolphinoid]] ambassador aboard the Enterprise-D; he [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling|detects differences in the hyperstrings]] when the starship has crossed between universes. In fact it's his sense that something is different that gives them time to figure out what's going on.
* Philip Reeve's ''[[Larklight]]'' novels subvert this trope: space is almost devoid of whales, and filled with fish. The protagonists' father is actually a biologist whose specialty is these fish. The few 'wind-whales' that do appear are clearly described to be more like jellyfish.
* In [[Stephen Baxter|Stephen Baxter's]] ''[[Xeelee Sequence
* In the Seafort Saga series, by David Feintuch, the allied governments of humanity are attacked by giant space goldfish we accidentally lured into our space by FTL travel; apparently it sounded just like someone calling out to them and they were exploring to find out who was out there. {{spoiler|The protagonist kills them all at the end of the series by tricking them into the Sun}}.
* The novel ''A Deeper Sea'' by Alexander Jablokov involves a whale being turned into a spacefaring cyborg to fulfill a religious prophecy of the dolphins, with whom man has learned to communicate.
* Hinted at in the ''[[Dune]]'' series, where it claims that House Harkennon got into the Emperor's favor by 'manipulating space whale fur prices'.
** The prequel novels [[Hand Wave]] this by simply claiming they're regular whales (with fur) from the planet Lankiveil.
* [[Larry Niven]]'s ''The Integral Trees'' has the Moby, a whalish giant creature that lives within the breatheable Smoke Ring gas torus orbiting a dead neutron star. Notable in that, by the very nature of the Smoke Ring, it's both a Space Whale ''and'' an Air Whale at the same time.
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* [[Diane Duane]]'s [[Young Wizards]] series includes a sentient whale teleporting to the moon for a meeting in the eighth book. While the whale spends no time actually traveling ''through'' space, it probably still counts.
* In ''[[The Dreaming Dark]]'' trilogy for the [[Eberron]] setting, the main characters are in a dimensionally-traveling orb-shaped vessel sitting in the ethereal plane, where they are rammed by something they can't see from the inside. The leader immediately panics about "orb-eating ethereal whales".
* The ''[[
* In [[John Varley]]'s [[Gaea Trilogy]], the artificial planet Gaea is home to ''air whales.'' (Since Gaea itself is in orbit around Saturn, they are also, technically, in space.)
* Cassie could be called this, or the air whale variant, albeit briefly, in at least two ''[[
* In ''[[
▲== Live Action TV ==
▲* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' there was a kind of whale analogue. It looked more like a giant dragonfly, but its method of gathering oxygen and then [[Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale|holding its breath while it flew to another planet]] was explicitly likened to whales.
** In series 5, {{spoiler|Spaceship UK's engine is in fact a captured Space Whale, almost literally (they call it a star-whale).}}
*** In this case it even gets the bonus points {{spoiler|since the ship wouldn't exist/would fall apart without it.}}
** The Doctor Who novel ''The Resurrection Casket'' has a variation with Krarks, which are small, very vicious space [[
*** Not to mention in "A Christmas Carol", when there are sharks and fish in the atmosphere.
* It was revealed in commentary for ''[[Star Trek:
** According to the ''Enterprise'' blueprints, cetacean engineers actually '''designed''' much of the navigation system. That's engineers who are cetaceans. From Earth.
** In the TNG episode "Galaxy's Child", they're under threat by a Space Whale baby who thinks the Enterprise is its mother, and is sucking the energy from the ship.
** Likewise, there's an episode of ''Voyager'' which involves the ship getting mixed up in some sort of space whale mating ritual. The male space whales even challenged U.S.S. Voyager as a mating rival. The ship escaped by rolling over and turning blue, because that's how real ocean-going whales indicate submission.
** TNG also had another space whale which was also a [[Living Ship]] called Gomtuu in the episode "Tin Man".
* ''[[
** ''Farscape'' also features budongs, natural creatures that can grow to the size of a small moon. In one episode Talyn gets swallowed by one.
* Some episodes in the various ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek
* The [[Speculative Documentary]] ''Alien Worlds: Blue Moon'' features Sky Whales.
== [[Music]] ==
* The video for ''In The End'' by Linkin Park features a couple of space whales flying around.
* [[Skyclad]]'s album ''Silent Whales of Lunar Sea'', although this is actually a pun and the music features no whales.
* French metal band Gojira features the song "Flying Whales" on ''From Mars to Sirius''.
** The [[Concept Album|entire album]] deals with a quest to find the Space Whales who inhabit Sirius and get them to help revive the biologically dead Earth, long since destroyed by ecological damage dealt by humanity. Whether or not this qualifies as a [[Space Whale Aesop]] is another question.
* The trance tune [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPz2JlVut7o ''Shamu''] (named after the famous killer whale?) by Vincent de Moor has synthesizer sound effects that sound like whale song. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tbuJZuQz0 The Armin van Buuren remix] uses actual whale song samples.
** "Embracing the Future" by BT and "Neo (The One)" by Slyder also have orca/whale song type sounds.
* The lyrics Cormorant's song Hole in the Sea features one of these. Possibly.
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* Speaking of 1971, [[Pink Floyd]]'s "Echoes" has lyrics that were originally space-themed (and later changed to ocean-themed,) plus a nice [[Progressive Rock|four-minute interlude]] in which David Gilmour makes his guitar sound like whalesong.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==▼
== Other ==▼
** Space-themed [[Spelljammer]] setting had the Kindori, your basic mouthless
* During the pre-release online hype for ''Cloverfield'', numerous [[Epileptic Trees]] abounded about what the monster would look like and where it had come from. One sketch of a multi-fluked whale with legs, which would've stood several times ''taller'' than the actual creature from the film, was widely circulated as "the ''real'' Cloverfield monster"; this spawned its own flood of debate over whether it was an unknown sea creature, a ''mutated'' sea creature, or a [[Space Whale]].▼
* In [[The Nineties]] a popular art-style for folders and binders was a dolphin or whale swimming through symmetrically-arranged coral and star clusters and sparkly purple nebulae? They were marginally darker and less [[Tastes Like Diabetes|diabetes-flavored]] than the Lisa Frank rainbow-and-unicorn kind.▼
▲== Tabletop Games ==
▲* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' got some.
▲** Space-themed [[Spelljammer]] setting had the Kindori, your basic mouthless multi-eyed blue whale. Delphinids are Space Dolphins. The godlike Great Dreamers aren't quite Space Whales proper, but rather space-traveling whales, as they float in water envelopes the size of a little moon (they are up to 20 miles long themselves).
*** And, of course, ''the Spelljammer'' itself basically is a giant space manta ray.
*** Esthetics are mildly shapeshifting giant space mollusks. Usually encountered already tamed and used as [[Living Ship]]s by the Reigar, but they revert to feral existence if the owner dies or goes from "[[Mad Artist]]" to plain "stark raving mad".
** Air Whales appear in a third edition supplement book, too. And they're used as blimps.▼
** Balaenas (later re-named "elsewhales"), an intelligent species of magical whale, can take people on trips in pockets of air it creates in its mouth.
** One old ''[[Dragon (magazine)|Dragon]]'' article featured a species of large whale that could use astral projection as an inherent ability, making ''the Astral Plane'' home to [[Space Whales]].
* ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'':
** There were mentions of something called a "Void Whale". In the 5th edition rulebook, there's a picture of one. It looks like a combination of whale and an anglerfish. In SPACE. The Space Wolves codex has a short story about a mutated Void Whale. It was 12,000 miles long. The little picture of the whale using a small moon to lure stuff into its mouth is pretty much to scale.
** The "[http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Void-dragon Void-dragon]", some sort of beasts fought by the Salamanders (in one meaning of that, anyway).
** Tyranid spaceships are [[Living Ship|living organisms]] controlled by the [[Hive Mind]], among the other things.
** Void Kraken, mentioned in ''[[Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay]]'' and fully introduced in ''[[Rogue Trader|The Koronus Bestiary]]'' (picture is [https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/ffg_blog/20881/original_content here]). It [[Silicon-Based Life|feeds on stony asteroids and consists of a similar substance]], which means usually it has no business to float in empty void, but rather lurks among the true asteroids, and that at long range it's not easily detectable as something other than one more asteroid, right until it starts moving -- giving kraken a good chance to ambush spaceships unlucky enough to approach one.
*** Also, it has smaller spiky tentacles capable of scratching itself or swatting the small craft, which implies existence of smaller vacuum-dwelling creatures that otherwise could be a problem for it. Though in the series there seems to be only Void-Fluke from ''[[Dark Heresy|The Lathe Worlds]]''.
* ''[[Star Fleet Battles]]'' has a race called the Alunda, which are space whales with bioelectric batteries and little plasma-enabled tentacles all over them. They really hate the Branthodon, who ride around on cybernetically-enhanced Space Dragons.
* ''[[Eclipse Phase]]'' includes a variety of whales that are members of transhumanist society. Suryas, a genetically engineered variety, live in the corona of the sun, with light-up skin. Other uplifted types of whales can be seen in spacesuits in the vacuum of space, others in low-grav environs. The recent splatbook, Panopticon, describes cetaceans' unique 3D sensibility as an advantage for moving around in space.
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** In ''[[Transhuman Space]]'' there ''probably'' aren't Space Whales. There are, however, "Whalers" or "Beyonders", a group of spacers-turned-cryptozoologists who say they encountered ''something'' massive and blue-black in the Deep Beyond. They're the butt of jokes in the inner system, but taken more seriously the further out you go.
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* [[X (
▲== Video Games ==
▲* [[X (Video Game)|X3: Terran Conflict]] has spaceflies, which are basically tiny [[Space Whale|Space Whales]], except in bug form.
▲** Which the Split [[Powered By a Forsaken Child|utilize as fuel]].
* What exemplifies this trope more than the ''[[Darius]]'' series' Great Thing? Nothing, that's what.
** ...except, perhaps, for its little-known relative, Great Force.
* The Gnosis Cathedral Ships in ''[[
* The ''[[Star Fox (
** There was also a space whale in the Sector Y level of the game, though it had to be encountered in a special way. {{spoiler|Shoot all the small stingrays in the level 'till they turn blue, and the whale shows up near the end and drops lots of powerups for you.}}
* The Wind Fish from ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** It's explicitly stated that it's neither fish nor bird in one inscription. [[Fridge Brilliance|Now think about what whales are...]]
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'', Pinocchio's Monstro was, again, a whale that swam through the void.
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** And in the GBA version, to make it more relevant to the moon and space, they name it Lunar Whale.
* [[Final Fantasy X]] revolves around the destructive monstrosity called ''Sin'', which is a huge whale .. {{spoiler|it also grows wings during one of your fights against it}}.
* In ''[[Beyond Good
* The oceans in the world of ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' were originally created by a great whale, but the whale and the oceans were swallowed by the ancient evil Malpercio.
* There's a full-sized Space Whale inside the ship in the ''[[Galaxy Angel (
* ''[[Ecco the Dolphin]]'' had dolphins in space.
** Also the flying psychic dolphins from the future.
* The [[Visual Novel]] ''[[Ever 17]]'' doesn't feature any actual space whales, but its aquatic theme park does have a "Cosmic Whale Room," with a lifelike animatronic whale suspended in a room painted to look like outer space.
* While no space whales are found in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', there is a space Flounder, and its Space Flounder spawns which all look like tadpoles with a guys face on it.
* Arcwhales in ''[[
** Given the way Vyse and Aika react when they first encounter Rhaknam, and the fact that you never see any other arcwhales through the course of the game in spite of traversing the entire world, it's reasonable to assume that arcwhales are incredibly rare and seeing one is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. {{spoiler|Or they don't exist.}}
** It is not likely that they do not exist, as Rhaknam was mentioned to be an existing creature that was modified, rather than constructed from scratch. {{spoiler|Rhaknam may be the last one though.}}
* ''[[
* ''[[Starscape]]'' had space fire dragon-''things''...
* The reason the [[Horde of Alien Locusts|Zerg]] can survive in space, according to ''[[
** That's because the Overlords ''are'' mutated versions of said Space Whales.
** On the tournament version of the ''[[
* In the 1994 PC game ''Commander Blood'', 'Ma' is a genetically modified, unique captive
* ''Jumping Flash'' has air whales in World 3-2. Uniquely for the game, they [[Everything Trying to Kill You|aren't trying to kill you]], and just sort of float there, wiggling their flukes, and letting you use them as platforms.
* ''[[Kirby]]'' ''Air Ride'', of all things, features big flying whale-like ''things'' on the Frozen Hillside stage.
* ''Spore'' has the ability to easily make any vehicle you want. A good number of the Featured creations are spaceships shaped sea creatures. Including one of a whale and a giant squid fighting.
* Let's not forget the Liir of ''[[Sword of the Stars]]''. Some peculiar cross between
** Now, with ''SotS 2'', we finally know that the {{spoiler|Suul'ka}} are actually Liir who have grown so large that, normally, the [[Square
* The exact species of Tanzer in ''[[
* A
* In the 1993 [[Amiga]]-Game ''Whale's Voyage'' http://hol.abime.net/1692 you're cruising around in a spaceship shaped like, well, a whale.
* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]] Future: Tools of Destruction'' has what appear to be space whales or sharks in two of its [[Space Pirate]] levels (though the first of which is on a planet with an atmosphere). Also, Stratus City has floating jellyfish. Additionally, there are the Basilisk Leviathian enemies (space serpents) in two levels and ''Quest for Booty'' had Pythors (space python-thingies).
* In the [[Sengoku Rance|Rance universe,]] a Space Whale created all of existence [[God Is Evil|so that it could watch humans fight amongst themselves and cause chaos for as long as they exist.]]
* Guppy from ''[[
* Comorro in [[
* One mission in ''[[Haegemonia]]: Legions of Iron'' involves defending your colonies against ship-sized space jellyfish, which can shoot back. They are [[
* ''[[Nexus the Jupiter Incident]]'' has the Locust Queen, a massive spaceborne creature capable of "launching" waves of insect-like drones.
* The second stage of ''[[Child of Eden]]'' has space whales as well as space manta rays and a space phoenix.
* Not exactly an example, but related. [[Metroid: Other M]] introduces an enemy known as Gigafraug, which is essentially (despite the misleading name) a walking whale with antlers.
** The boss Vorash is basically a lava whale.
* ''[[Solatorobo]]'' has the Master of the Clouds, a giant [[Air Whale]] who is used to travel from the Shepherd Republic to {{spoiler|Earth}}.
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* The Wahrk in ''[[Myst|Uru]]'' is a strange, [[I'm a Humanitarian|man-eating]] [[Heinz Hybrid|whale-shark-walrus hybrid thing]] that falls to Earth through the star fissure from Riven.
== [[Web Animation]] ==▼
▲== Web Animation ==
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' had a recent Strong Bad Email that reveals Strong Bad's ideal career choice as "2nd 2nd Assistant Space Whale Scrubber". In an earlier email, he put up a motivational poster of "some kinda whale...in space...".
** And the last thing the Drive-Thru Whale does in the cartoon [http://www.homestarrunner.com/drivethru.html "Drive-Thru"] is blast off into orbit after eating a Europa-pean Space Lobster. ''"Sever your leg, please. It's the greatest day."''
== [[Web Comics]] ==▼
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20170412070618/http://www.kukuburi.com/2007/08/09/one/ Kukuburi]'': [https://web.archive.org/web/20170514055009/http://www.kukuburi.com/2007/08/21/ten
▲== Web Comics ==
* The Magical Flying Fetus Whale of Josh Lesnick's ''Girly'' (introduced [https://web.archive.org/web/20130530202826/http://girlyyy.com/go/516 here]) might qualify. Who knows? Maybe space is where the whale returns to. In any case, it can definitely fly in earth's atmosphere.▼
▲* ''[http://www.kukuburi.com/2007/08/09/one/ Kukuburi]'': [http://www.kukuburi.com/2007/08/21/ten/ Airwhales!] [http://www.kukuburi.com/2008/02/12/fiftynine/ Battlewhale!] Why aren't you reading [[Rule of Cool|this]] already?
▲* The Magical Flying Fetus Whale of Josh Lesnick's ''Girly'' (introduced [http://girlyyy.com/go/516 here]) might qualify. Who knows? Maybe space is where the whale returns to. In any case, it can definitely fly in earth's atmosphere.
* The ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies had a peculiar shortage of Space Whales in the movies that ''[[Darths and Droids]]''' [[The Loonie|Sally]] tried to amend [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0263.html in this strip].
* Mentioned in one ''[[Far Out There]]'' strip. Apparently, they can have [https://web.archive.org/web/20110911135144/http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1090124/page-295-i-have-no-idea-where-claires-gun-went/ mommy issues].
* Mentioned in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' as a reference to ''[[
* ''Science and Ink'' got "[https://web.archive.org/web/20190418151638/http://www.lab-initio.com/c.html Cosmic rays]" (not to be confused with "Cosmic Ray's" or "Cosmic Ray").
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* "Space Moby", an episode of the [[Space Western]] cartoon series ''[[
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* "Space Moby", an episode of the [[Space Western]] cartoon series ''[[Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers (Animation)|Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers]]'', featured a species of space-whales that was being hunted to extinction. And an environmental group with the [[Anvilicious|anvilicious]] name of "Greenspace" that was trying to save them.
* The animated series ''[[Bounty Hamster]]'' has enormous purple space whales that act as long-haul truckers, carrying cargo from planet to planet.
* The '80s cartoon ''[[Blackstar]]'' has an episode not only featuring one variation of this trope, but titled after it: "The Air Whales of Anchar".
* In the series ''MTV's Oddities: [[The Maxx]]'', the Air Whales of Pangea appear as blimps (or technically, dirigibles) to the eyes of Mundanes in the city back in the Real World... although, as Mr. Gone claims, the Real World is a mere fantasy world, a shadow of Pangea, so who knows which version is true.
** The same juxtaposition is also explored in the original ''[[The Maxx]]'' comics. There are also the Earth Whales (whales which swim in earth and breathe water) in another Outback, but their "real counterpart" was never shown.
* An episode of ''[[X-Men (
* Though ''[[
** Notably the next line after the ones included in the page quote is 'But there ain't no whales, so we tell tales and sing our whaling tunes'.
** The Encyclopod of the 4th movie, ''[[Into The Wild Green Yonder]]'', is a space manta ray.
** And finally, the episode "Möbius Dick" introduces a Space Whale. [[Eldritch Abomination|A four-dimensional one]] that spouts fractals, has a Moebius strip colon, and "breathes" the vacuum of space.
* In an episode of ''[[Courage the Cowardly Dog]]'', a Space Whale is seen trying to eat two Space Squids, in the manner similar to a black hole.
* Subverted in ''[[
* A squadron of starfighters in ''[[Star Wars:
* Care-a-Lot in the latest ''[[Care Bears]]'' series is visited every year by the Thunder Whales, flying whales who spout storm clouds.
* In one episode of ''[[Rocket Power]]'', a whale is shown being kidnapped by a flying saucer in the background of one scene.
* The 1983 British animated short, Skywhales.
▲== Other Media ==
▲* During the pre-release online hype for ''[[Cloverfield]]'', numerous [[Epileptic Trees]] abounded about what the monster would look like and where it had come from. One sketch of a multi-fluked whale with legs, which would've stood several times ''taller'' than the actual creature from the film, was widely circulated as "the ''real'' Cloverfield monster"; this spawned its own flood of debate over whether it was an unknown sea creature, a ''mutated'' sea creature, or a
▲* In [[The Nineties]] a popular art-style for folders and binders was a dolphin or whale swimming through symmetrically-arranged coral and star clusters and sparkly purple nebulae? They were marginally darker and less [[Tastes Like Diabetes|diabetes-flavored]] than the Lisa Frank rainbow-and-unicorn kind.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20140209085328/http://www.rodneymatthews.com/stopslaughter.htm Stop the Slaughter]'' painting by Rodney Matthews shows [[Space Sailing]] whalers.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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