Tank Goodness: Difference between revisions

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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.]]''"''

* In the ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' manga, Skuld builds a tank for a [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|rubber band fight.]]

* ''[[Girls und Panzer]]''. Tank battles can be awesome and ''adorable'' at the same time.

== Comic Books ==

* The [[Silver Age]] [[The DCU|DC Universe]]'s Haunted Tank. A [[World War II]] tank haunted by a [[The American Civil War|Confederate General]]. Which ends up with a black crew member.

** Haunted Tank recently reappeared in a Vertigo series.

== Fan Works ==

* Considering the page quote, it should come as no surprise that badass tanks are common in ''[[Tiberium Wars]]''. Tanks are depicted fairly realistically, with the interior of the tanks being cramped, noisy, and hot, and realistic tank tactics being used. The interior of the Mammoth Tanks are described as being more spacious, but still loud and uncomfortable.

* Despite the rise of Mecha and Engels, tanks are still viable and effective in ''[[Aeon Entelechy Evangelion]]'', and the tank crews joke about various disadvantages of the mecha and boast about the advantages of the tanks.

== Film ==

* [[Captain America: The First Avenger]] has several examples. HYDRA's armored vehicles powered by [[Magic From Technology|MAGIC!]] are everywhere, and stolen by Allied troops to even the playing field. Captain America himself highlights a primary flaw in [[Up to Eleven|size escalation]] when he takes out a comically-oversized three-story tank (A modified German Maus, which actually existed, and was actually that big, though in the real war only two hulls and one turret were ever built and none of them made it to the battlefield) with the classic [[Insert Grenade Here]].

* In the 1987 homage/parody ''[[Dragnet]]'', Friday assaults the bad guys' headquarters with the police version of this; instead of a gun, the tank sports a battering ram with a smiley-face on it.

== Literature ==

* ''[[World War Z]]'': HEAVILY Averted at the Battle of Yonkers. Tanks do very little to kill the massive hoard of zombies that start flooding the bridge.

* One of Carter's few [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] in ''[[Hogan's Heroes]]'' is when he infiltrates a German unit to recover confiscated TNT so they can blow up a bridge. However, rather than just getting the TNT and leaving, he requisitions and drives off with a German tank and they use ''that'' to blow the bridge.

* In series one of ''[[Ashes to Ashes]]'' Alex [[Awesome but Impractical|commandeers a hot pink gay pride tank so that she can total a car]].

* Pearly, from the [[Space: Above and Beyond]] episode "Pearly". Who is most definitely NOT an APC, thank you very much.

* In ''The Gransazers'', when the Japanese military decides to build their own [[Humongous Mecha]] someone thought that its support vehicle should be a conventional tank- only a hundred times bigger.

== Music ==

* ''Ghost Division'' and ''Panzer Battalion'' by [[Sabaton]] are odes to tank units.

* ''Achtung Panzer'' by Raubtier is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: tanks are coming, "Feel the armored fist", as the chorus says.

== Tabletop Games ==

* [[The Onion]]: The sadly axed [https://web.archive.org/web/20100309021403/http://www.theonion.com/content/video/obama_axes_pentagon_plan_to_build Dragon Tank].

* [[Shadowhunter Peril]] has Veronica, who can [[Bag of Holding|telescope a tank out of her purse.]] She uses it for the most [[Mundane Utility|mundane tasks,]] such as transportation down the street, or [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|killing a single demon.]] There are times when it comes in handy, though. Like the [[Final Battle]].

== Western Animation ==

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