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{{quote|"''Yea verily, though I charge through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am driving a house-sized mass of ''[[Precision F-Strike|fuck you.]]''"''|'''Anonymous Mammoth Tank crewman''', ''[[Tiberium Wars]]''}}
 
{{quote|"''Your foe is well-equipped, well-trained, battle-hardened. He believes his gods are on his side. Let him believe what he will. We have the tanks on ours.''"|'''Colonel Joachim Pfeiff, 14th Krieg Panzer Regiment''', ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]''}}
 
In large modern warfare engagements, infantry may as well be [[Cannon Fodder]]. You want something that can [[Hold the Line]]. Something with a [[BFG]], crawler treads and tons of armor. You want a tank.
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*** If you pull the legs remember to patch up that hole between the front and rear sections because getting one shot in there is going to be a real bummer. Oh, and whoever decide big glass cockpit were the way to go ought to have been shot.
**** [[Hand Wave|Transparisteel]] should not be mistaken for glass.
* [[James Bond]] himself commandeers one of these in the big chase in ''[[GoldeneyeGoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]''
** The third level from ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|GoldenEye 007]]'', where you must find a plane in a runway and escape from the dam, also lets you shoot down the heavy machineguns with a tank. (there is also the level based on the movie's chase scene, but it's just a [[Timed Mission|timed level]], no chasing occurs)
* When the [[Thememobile|Batmobile]] in ''[[Batman Begins]]'' was first revealed to the world, fan opinion was mixed. Then the movie came out. Gordon wants one.
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== Literature ==
* The ''[[Bolo]]'' series in [[Keith Laumer]]'s stories, especially the Continental Siege Units (the Mark XXXIII's were called Planetary Siege Units). Their firepower is usually given in megatons per second and have an AI far above human level in both intelligence and ethics. And don't even get started on the ''Planetary'' Siege Units that are deployed in independent brigades of 24 units each!
* [[David Drake]]'s ''[[HammersHammer's Slammers]]'' stories.
* Michael Moorcock's ''The Land Leviathan''
* ''[[Discworld]]'' featured a steam tank of sorts in ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]''—notably, because its existence was enough to shift the balance of power and change history, Lu Tze of the [[Time Police|History Monks]] sabotaged its construction.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|takes this Trope and makes sweet, sweet love to it]]. All races have access to some form of armored death machine, with the exception of the Tyranids (who have a broad variety of armored death ''biomechanoids'', but they all walk, crawl, hover, fly or slither rather than rolling). But it is the [[Imperial Guard]] who have access to the widest range of vehicles - from the ubiquitous Leman Russ main battle tank and Chimera armored personnel carrier/infantry fighting vehicle to the Baneblade super-heavy tank, pictured above in all its glory (yes, it [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Baneblade#Armament_and_Upgrades really does have] [[More Dakka|eleven barrels of hell]].<ref>If you want a quick breakdown: Baneblade battle cannon mounted in the turret, with a co-axial autocannon, Demolisher cannon mounted in the hull, two sponsons mounting twin-linked heavy bolters with two lascannons mounted on top of those, and a further twin-linked heavy bolter mounted in the hull</ref>) Then there's the Shadowsword, which is basically a Baneblade chassis housing a [[Wave Motion Gun|Volcano cannon]]—usually the main armament of [[Humongous Mecha|Titans the size of buildings]]. As for the other armies, the Space Marines and their Chaos counterparts (who can ''daemonically possess'' their tanks) have access to Predator tanks based on the Rhino APC along with the awesome [[Military Mashup Machine|troop transport/battle tank]] that is the Land Raider, while the Eldar and Tau use highly maneuverable skimmer tanks, although they tend to take their personnel carriers and turn them into tanks by adding an appropriately powerful gun that removes the capacity to carry troops. The Orks? Well, they use cobbled-together battlewagons and looted Imperial vehicles that shouldn't even be able to ''move'', let alone fight in combat. The Necrons have the titanic Monolith, a horribly-beweaponed flying tomb that is ludicrously hard to kill.
** See also the [http://warseer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14209 treadhead thread].
*** A lot of the credit also has to go to [http://forgeworld.co.uk Forge World], which is apparently what happens when you give Warhammer 40K fans/World War II buffs a Games Workshop license and a load of resin. Even counting old discontinued designs, they're responsible for about half the tanks of the [[Imperial Guard]], and up to 70% of the tanks for the Eldar and Tau.
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** The main and secondary guns of an Ogre fire SATNUC rounds. That's SATuration NUclear Cluster; a round splits into submunitions over the target, each of which takes a split second to ''aim,'' and then detonate, producing a ''shaped charge'' of nuclear plasma.
** The Biphase Carbide armor of the Ogre is several ''meters'' thick. It cannot be breached ''even by nuclear weapons''. The only hope a defense force might have of stopping one is to destroy its exposed tractor-treads—and even ''these'' require nukes to put a dent in them. Of course, good luck getting your forces in close enough to ''do'' damage to its treads; the Ogre's arsenal can vaporize a whole tank battalion without even blinking.
* Another miniatures game: [http://www.BrigadeModels.co.uk Brigade Models] makes a game called ''Land Ironclads'', which takes ground combat to a [[World War OneI]] as forseen by [[H. G. Wells]] and friends. They explore a world where tank combat did as these futurists expected, and followed the same model as their [[Space Is an Ocean|present-day naval combat]], with scout tanks, cruiser tanks, and dreadnought-tanks.
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' card game has a few tanks, such as [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Oni_Tank_T-34 Oni Tank T-34]
* While ''[[BattleTech]]'' unabashedly assigns the 'king of the battlefield' role to its [[Humongous Mecha]], conventional combat vehicles are still very much in evidence and frequently use the very same engines, armor, and weapons that BattleMechs do. Well-designed tanks in particular (available in hover, tracked, and occasionally wheeled, though the last seriously suffers in terms of terrain restrictions) can readily match 'Mechs of comparable weight in terms of firepower; the 'Mechs' primary advantages are superior terrain handling and toughness (due mainly to having more hit locations to soak up damage and even being able to lose some and still walk off the battlefield), not arbitrarily bigger and better guns. Tanks, meanwhile, are canonically cheaper and easier to produce...
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*** The Allies of the ''Red Alert'' universe have an analogue in the Mirage Tank, which uses [[Death Ray|Heat Cannons]] in ''RA2'' and [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Prism Cannons]] in ''RA3''—but in both games, it disguises itself as nearby objects (trees in ''RA2'') and can fire even when disguised!
** In the ''Red Alert'' universe, the Soviets have had a Tesla Tank in each of the three major wars (not necessarily in every ''game'', though). Much like their base defenses, they're all about [[Shock and Awe]].
** ''Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge'' has the Mastermind, a giant [[Brain In a Jar|brain in a tank]] that [[Brainwashed|Brainwashes]] ''any'' enemy organic ground units that get too close. [[Explosive Overclocking|Which can backfire]] [[Cast Fromfrom Hit Points|if it controls too many.]]
** The GDI faction Zone Operations Command (ZOCOM) in ''Kane's Wrath'' gets the Mammoth Armed Reclamation Vehicle (MARV), the big mommy of all Mammies—it's a humongous tank with three main sonic cannons, four secondary turrets whose function changes with the unit inside, and a ''fully functional on-board Tiberium refinery''.
* The Landmaster from ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]''. In ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'', The Landmaster is available as part of Fox, Wolf, and Falco's Final Smashes.
* The ''[[Battlefield (series)|Battlefield 2]]'' mod ''[[Project Reality]]'' gives the player no less than ''eight'' different playable tanks, ranging from the rustbucket T62 & T72 all the way up to the cutting edge, hell on treads M1A2 Abrams and Challenger 2.
* The Siege Tank from ''[[StarcraftStarCraft]]''. In competitive play, it makes up the backbone of about 4/5ths of viable Terran strategies. Most range of any unit in the game, check. Most single attack damage of any unit (other than one that costs money to use), check. It transforms into [[wikipedia:Self-propelled howitzer|self-propelled artillery]], check.
** They get even better in the sequel with MORE range, MORE firepower (against most units) and an even cooler transform.
** ''[[StarcraftStarCraft II]]: Wings of Liberty'''s campaign has giant tanks as well, which you can get as mercenaries.
* ''Steel Beasts'' is a tank simulator that has painstakingly accurate depictions of various tanks from around the world. It originally focused on the American M1A1 Abrams and Leopard 2A4, but has expanded to include other NATO and Warsaw Pact tanks including the Challenger 2, T72, and newer versions of the Abrams and Leopard 2. The development staff included real-life tank crews, and the simulator is so realistic that come countries even use specialized versions to train their own tankers.
* Also: the Scorpion Tank from ''[[Halo]]''. "66 tons of HE-spewin', ceramic-titanium armored, dee-vine intervention!" Comes with 90mm or (novels only) 105mm main gun.
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* In ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', Vulcan Raven uses a tank during his first boss fight. The Metal Gears themselves have been described as giant walking tanks.
** And let's not forget The Shagohod, a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|rocket-propelled nuclear-capable tank]].
* ''[[Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime]]'': How do you make [[The Goomba]] kick total ass? By giving it control over a magical tank and making smarmy references to the last game in the series. [[Better Than It Sounds|And it fucking works!]]
* Politank-Z from ''[[Waku Waku 7]]'', which is a bizarre amalgamation of tank and [[Humongous Mecha]] that walks on two legs but has treads for feet anyway. It has the slowest, but one of the most powerful super moves, and can ''turn into a helicopter'' if necessary. To top it all off, it's actually a police vehicle, piloted by the chief of police.
* ''[[Warcraft]] III'' has [[Steampunk]] tanks -- [[Our Dwarves Are All the Same|all dwarf-built]], of course.
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* ''Iron Tank'', a relatively obscure NES game by SNK, had the player blast his way through forests, towns, fortresses, and the like battling tanks of all kinds, running infantry over, and mixing tank shells (don't ask how that works) for devastating effect. The tank's driver was apparently Ralf from ''[[Ikari Warriors]]''.
** Iron Tank was the sequel to an arcade game called TNK III, that featured Ralf. ''Ikari Warriors'' was basically a [[More Popular Spinoff]].
* ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]: [[Dawn of War]]''. Yes, tanks are powerful, but enemies such as Fire Dragons, Wraithlords, Sanctioned Psykers, Heavy Destroyers, and more, are so good at destroying them that tanks become more of a fire support vehicle, to aid your infantry than the damage sponges they are presented as in many other games.
** Except the Baneblade. Which has 11 weapons, each acting idependently, tons of hit points and the most powerfull cannons in the game. Unless you bring your entire army/superunits, changes are it's going to wipe your base out.
* In ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'', starting with the boss of Episode 3, characters will be seen driving around in tanks, mechs, and other such vehicles of destruction. Soldier, engineer and professor units can get the most mileage out of them, and get major stat bonuses when riding one (the vehicle gains up to 50% to all stats depending on the driver's TEC stat). The downside is that the vehicle itself that gains experience from defeating enemies, and not the rider unless the driver has a certain skill.
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* In ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'', one part of the story requires Ezio to retrieve a tank built from Leonardo da Vinci's plans as well as burn said plans so the Borgias cannot build more.
** Said tank is a steam-powered bloated wooden barrel with a dozen cannons sticking out in all directions. You can fire only one at a time, though. Also, the cannons appear to be breech-loaded. The entire beast can be operated by three people, which is pretty impressive.
* ''[[Warzone 2100]]'': The vast majority of the units in this game are [[Design -It -Yourself Equipment|modular, customised tanks]] of some description.
* The ''[[Earth 2150|Earth]]'' trilogy with similar, but tighter and more unique [[Faction Calculus]] design mechanics than ''[[Warzone 2100]]''. Tanks are most prevalent in the ''2150'' episode, especially because there's no footsoldiers around to play with. Commonly fielded by the [[The Empire|Eurasian Dynasty]] in flavors of ground-only and [[Military Mashup Machine|amphibious]], although the [[The Federation|United Civilized States]] and the [[The Republic|Lunar Corporation]] aren't paricularly above using tanks. The UCS has a certain token makeshift [[Mighty Glacier|lumbering tracked-vehicle-turned-tank that's good for dishing out as much damage it can take]], while the LC has many designs of [[Hover Tank|the hover kind]].
* Appears in both ''[[GoldenEye 007 (1997 video game)|Golden Eye 1997]]'' and ''[[GoldenEye 007 (2010 video game)|Golden Eye Wii]]'', as per the original movie.
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* Laughably subverted by the Blitztank from ''[[Akatsuki Blitzkampf]]''. With its baby-blue color scheme, cheesy skull ornamentation and tiny mounted cannon that tragically resembles a micropenis, Blitztank is pretty much ridiculed by the entire fanbase. Really, we're talking about a tank that can be ''beaten up''; of course it's going to be lame.
* The ''[[Ground Control]]'' series has a number of cool tanks, ranging from light to heavy. In the first game, the [[Mega Corp|Crayven Corporation]] has a private army using traditional wheeled and treaded vehicles collectively known as terradynes armed with ballistic weapons. Their Grizzly terradynes are large, slow, and double-barreled. The [[The Order|Order of the New Dawn]] utilizes much mroe high-tech equipment. For example, all their vehicles [[Hover Tank|hover]] and are thus called hoverdynes. They're armed with energy weapons. The heavy Volans hoverdynes are armed with powerful energy cannons and are an even match for the Grizzlies (the latter have less firepower and maneuverability but heavier armor). The sequel takes place several centuries later with different galactic powers but nearly same equipment. The [[The Empire|Terran Empire]] uses old Order tech but makes a few additions, so hoverdynes share a battlefield with [[Walking Tank]]s. The [[The Alliance|Northern Star Alliance]] uses abandoned Crayven equipment, while making some modifications. For example, the new heavy terradynes are able to rotate their side armor forward to provide cover for any unit behind them.
* [[Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime|Dragon Quest's Rocket Slime's]] battles consist roughly 1/3 of the time in a giant tank.
* Leopardon finally gets to show off his true potential in ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]''. He has a massive arsenal<ref>missiles, machine guns, a howitzer, and a beam cannon</ref> in this game, and is not afraid to fire it all in his matches.
 
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** To put it more into perspective the last batch of F-4 Phantoms built in the 70s cost about 3 million a piece.
** The [[wikipedia:Expeditionary tank|Expeditionary Tank]] that was developed in Parallel wasn't too bad either.
* More [[Truth in Television]]: In a recent episode of [[Myth BustersMythBusters]], the cast addressed the idea that the friction between pages of two interleaved phone directories is impossible to overcome. They tested this one first with two people trying to pull it apart... then ten people... then two cars... and, instead of going with trucks or other large civilian vehicles, invoked The [[Rule of Cool]] and rented a couple of M551 Sheridan light tanks (which, yes, finally did manage to separate the books... effortlessly).
** Point-of-fact, the pages tore out, but not many of them actually separated.
* Modern MBTs have large diesel or turbine engines that can give between 1000 and 1500&nbsp;hp on average. The ''biggest'' Detroit Diesel truck engine (still in the prototype stage) is just 600&nbsp;hp. That's more than double increase in the power, and then there's the matter of traction as well. Tanks grip the ground with the whole surface of the track, while trucks has only the points of contact—the rather smallish areas where the tire contacts with the ground, greatly increasing the possibility of slippage. And, last but not least, tanks are friggin' ''HEAVY''—just upward of 40 tons for the modern ones, while only biggest 18- or 22-wheelers can be this heavy when fully laden. This also leads to slippage in such tests. In short, tanks make ''much'' better tugs than any wheeled vehicle.
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