subterrene theme
A vehicle that travels underground (through solid rock/soil) much as a submarine travels underwater, either by mechanical drilling or by melting its way forward, is featured in a science fictional context.
10 total · 3 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth (1993) | major | The Avenger vehicle could travel in any environment from air, to water, to solid rock. |
| movie: The Core (2003) | major | A main novelty of the film is a special nuclear powered, heat and pressure resistant vehicle, called Virgil, that was used by a team of specialists to drill down deep into the Earth's interior. |
| movie: Unknown World (1951) | major | The expedition used an atomic powered vehicle that bored into the ground to explore the bowels of the Earth. |
| futurama6x13 | minor | The Planet Express ship was used to tunnel deep into the Earth. |
| futurama6x21 | minor | Leela arrived at the orphanage in a subterrene taxi. |
| movie: At the Earths Core (1976) | minor | Dr. Abner Perry and his US financier David Innes made a test run of their Iron Mole drilling machine in a Welsh mountain, but ended up in a system of vast caverns ruled by a species of giant telepathic flying reptiles. |
| movie: Atragon (1963) | minor | The Atragon battleship could bore into the Earth as well as fly, and dive in the sea. |
| movie: Bunker Palace Hotel (1989) | minor | Holm plotted to escape from the bunker hotel in a Holm Industries built subterrene called the Mole. |
| movie: Godzilla vs SpaceGodzilla (1994) | minor | The Land Mogura vehicle could burrow in the ground like a mole. |
| movie: The Last Dinosaur (1977) | minor | Maston and his safari team tunneled deep underground in a unit called a "Polar Borer". |