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Care to guess the name of the Cool Starship that's the focal point of Star Trek: Voyager?

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.
• 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".

Western Animation

• The Magic School Bus
• Speed Buggy