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** ''[[Andromeda]]'' actually has two, one of each kind: The ''Andromeda Ascendant'' as the hot technomiracle, and the ''Eureka Maru'' as the "rusty bucket of bolts".

** How about the ''Siege Perilous''-class Deep Stand-off Attack Ship II? It has 180 missile tubes, 24 35-megawatt [[Point Defenseless|PDL]] turrets, 4 [[Antimatter|anti-proton]] cannons. Built to destroy entire fleets. Out of 4 built, 3 were shown on-screen (''Wrath of Achilles'', ''Balance of Judgement'', and ''Resolution of Hector''), and they look amazing.

* The Doctor's TARDIS on ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Even though it barely works and constantly shakes and smokes, it is still the most powerful ship ''in the universe'', capable of towing ''the Earth'' through intergalactic space. And it looks like a Police Box.

** And have we mentioned that it's [[Bigger on the Inside]]?

** The ''Long Night of Solace'', the Covenant Supercarrier in ''Halo: Reach'', counts, partly due to its impressive entrance (one-shotting a UNSC Frigate from out of nowhere), and partly because of its sheer size - the thing is completely fucking '''huge''', around 27 kilometers long from the looks of it <ref>and from comparing it to the ~300-meter Covenant Corvette</ref>. Covenant Supercarriers are the largest warships ever made by the Covenant, and only about a dozen of them are known to have existed throughout the Human-Covenant War. As a comparison: [[Mass Effect]]'s Citadel is about 47 kilometers long. A Covenant Supercarrier is more than half of that length, and is about a dozen kilometers wide and at least half a dozen kilometers "tall". It carries enough firepower to take on half of the Reaper fleet singlehandedly and win. A trio of them would defeat the Reapers by themselves. They also carry hundreds of thousands of troops (and all of the armored vehicles, aircraft, gigantic cloaking-teleporting-jamming pylons, and more). One wonders how even the Covenant build these, let alone in significant numbers.

** Pretty much any Forerunner ship as described in [[The Forerunner Saga|Cryptum]]: some are made up primarily from hardened light, which can be turned transparent in some areas to simulate being completely outside. Of particular note is the unnamed ship used by the Didact, which, while small compared to some other ships, was equipped to singularly wage a large battle, and the Fortress ships, which were 50 kilometers long and capable of {{spoiler|destroying Halos on their own}}.

** The Rifter class of frigate also fits in this trope. Like all Minmatar ships, Rifters look like they're made of scrap. [http://www.eve-tribune.com/index.php?no=1_13&page=4 This article] (non-canon) claims that the first Rifters were constructed during the Minmatar Rebellion out of actual scrap, with converted plasma cutters for engines. But they don't just fly well - the Rifter is commonly held to be the best combat frigate in the game.

*** Every pilot in Goonfleet knows that the original Rifters were built from bicycles and televisions stolen from the Amarr. :)