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* The Protoss Mothership in ''[[Starcraft II]]'' comes with quite a bit of special abilities.
* The Protoss Mothership in ''[[Starcraft II]]'' comes with quite a bit of special abilities.
** However, the name is a bit misleading since it doesn't harbor any other spacecraft. The Carrier does that instead.
** However, the name is a bit misleading since it doesn't harbor any other spacecraft. The Carrier does that instead.
* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]]'' has a hero's example, the Great Fox.
* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' has a hero's example, the Great Fox.
** The Katina stage in [[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]] 64 has an enemy version as well, explicitly called a mothership and acting very much like one.
** The Katina stage in [[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]] 64 has an enemy version as well, explicitly called a mothership and acting very much like one.
*** Then again, that ship was just an expy of the [[Independence Day]] city-killer ships: it launched countless fighter craft, and was capable of shooting a giant laser beam levelling anything on the ground beneath it.
*** Then again, that ship was just an expy of the [[Independence Day]] city-killer ships: it launched countless fighter craft, and was capable of shooting a giant laser beam levelling anything on the ground beneath it.
* The Skaarj Mothership from ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004]]''.
* The Skaarj Mothership from ''[[Unreal Tournament 2004]]''.
* Scrin Motherships from ''[[Command and Conquer]] 3: Tiberium Wars'', which are armed with catalyst cannons similar to the city-killer ships from [[Independence Day]].
* Scrin Motherships from ''[[Command & Conquer]] 3: Tiberium Wars'', which are armed with catalyst cannons similar to the city-killer ships from [[Independence Day]].
* ''[[Free Space]]'' has the ''SD Lucifer''. Killing it wasn't an instant-win for the good guys; the war lasted several more months as they had to clean up the remaining Shivan fleet, but background information says that the Shivans became disorganized and confused after the ''Lucifer's'' destruction. The ''SJ Sathanas'' in the sequel is set up to look like a mothership as well, but {{spoiler|it is just one of nearly one hundred the Shivans possess, in that one fleet alone.}}
* ''[[Free Space]]'' has the ''SD Lucifer''. Killing it wasn't an instant-win for the good guys; the war lasted several more months as they had to clean up the remaining Shivan fleet, but background information says that the Shivans became disorganized and confused after the ''Lucifer's'' destruction. The ''SJ Sathanas'' in the sequel is set up to look like a mothership as well, but {{spoiler|it is just one of nearly one hundred the Shivans possess, in that one fleet alone.}}
* ''UFO: Aftershock'' has the Laputa, a flying city built by the Reticulans which has been converted into a mobile headquarters by the Commonwealth of Earth.
* ''UFO: Aftershock'' has the Laputa, a flying city built by the Reticulans which has been converted into a mobile headquarters by the Commonwealth of Earth.
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