Vehicle Title
This is one of the easiest ways to name a work of fiction. Instead of naming a series after a central location, the name comes from the vehicle that is the focal point of the series. Extra points to those works where the vehicle doubles as the primary setting (ie a good deal of the character interaction occurs onboard), the MacGuffin, or some combination of the two, all of which seem to be more likely if the vehicle is a Cool Ship (no, not that kind of ship) be it spacefaring, nautical, time-traveling, or an airship. As the title suggests, other vehicles, mecha, helicopters, tanks etc. also qualify for this trope.
Examples of Vehicle Title include:
Anime and Manga
- Black Lagoon
- Bumpety Boo
- Cowboy Bebop (compare Media Research Failure)
- Fafner in the Azure: Dead Agressor
- Linebarrels of Iron
- Martian Successor Nadesico.
- Mazinger Z
- Megas XLR
- Mobile Suit Gundam and almost every other gundam title since, (excluding 0080, the 8th ms team, 0083, chars counterattack, and SEED)
- Neon Genesis Evangelion
- Outlaw Star
- RahXephon
- Sentou Yousei Yukikaze
- Sol Bianca
- Space Runaway Ideon
- Super Dimension Fortress Macross
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Uchuu Senkan Yamato (AKA Space Battleship Yamato, AKA Star Blazers).
- Vandread sort of. The main ship is called the Nirvana, but the series gets it's name from the Vandreads (made by combining Dread fighter-ships Van mecha) all of which are called Vandred (insert female pilot's name here), except Super Vandread a.k.a. Vandread Pyoro (Pyoro being a robot and neither a pilot nor female)
Comic Books
- The Haunted Tank in the DCU.
Film
- Air Force One sort of.
- The Battleship Potemkin. A film labelled "the most important propaganda film of all time".
- The Big Bus
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Drive Angry
- Genevieve
- The Hindenberg
- The Hunt for Red October
- K19: The Widowmaker
- The Love Bug
- Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- The Poseidon Adventure and its remake Poseidon
- The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Serenity, The Movie of Firefly
- Titan A.E.
- Titanic
- U-571
- The Wackiest Ship In The Army
- PT-109
- The Beast of War, though not calling it by name.
- 3:10 to Yuma
Literature
- Clive Cussler's Raise the Titanic.
- C. S. Forrester's The Last Nine Days of the Bismark
- And its 1960 film adaptation, Sink The Bismark!
- Stephen King's Christine
Live Action TV
- Airwolf (helicopter)
- Andromeda
- Ark II
- Battlestar Galactica
- Fireball XL 5
- Firefly to an extent. While the actual ship was named Serenity, it was a Firefly-class transport.
- The Love Boat was an in-universe nickname for the semi-eponymous cruise liner "Pacific Princess."
- Red Dwarf
- In German-speaking markets Star Trek was originally called Raumschiff Enterprise.
- Although the series itself wouldn't qualify, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine had the episodes "Defiant" and "Valiant". Care to guess which ships those episodes revolve around? There was another episode called simply "The Ship" about a crashed Jem'hadar fighter.
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Star Trek: Voyager, pictured above.
- Supercar
- Supertrain
- The Wackiest Ship In The Army
Music
- Good Shp Venus
- Yellow Submarine by The Beatles
Theater
- H.M.S. Pinafore
- Duncan Pflaster's play The Starship Astrov
- Subverted in A Streetcar Named Desire as the reference is merely symbolic.
Video Games
- Armored Core
- Starship Titanic
- Metal Gear - Only for |the first game, where the enemy mecha is simply called "Metal Gear". Afterward, the game titles and the Metal Gear mecha featured in each game no longer matched up.
- Metal Slug. The subtitle for the first game is even "Super Vehicle 001".