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== Anime & Manga ==
* The Luxion-class starships from ''[[
* In ''[[Outlaw Star]]'', the eponymous [[Cool Starship]] is a [[George Lucas Throwback]] to this trope, looking like both a classic Retro Rocket and the [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/X-15_launched_bw.jpg X-15 hypersonic rocket plane]. As a bonus, it launches vertically from planet surfaces, dramatic countdown and all.
== Comic Books ==
* ''[[Tintin
** This is an interesting case as it's combined with a [[Shown Their Work|frighteningly prescient]] depiction of the [[Cold War]] space program. Blueprints and launchpad shown [https://web.archive.org/web/20100620063826/http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3p.html#tintin here]. The plot is only [[Dueling Movies|slightly similar]] to the American film of the same year.
* Anything used by [[Dan Dare]].
* [[Superman]] is almost always said to have arrived on earth as a baby in a "rocketship,'' and the little ship is almost always depicted this way. John Byrne made it round instead of pointy, but even his version was recognizably a rocket. The only major exception is the movie version, which was a spiky crystalline sphere.
* The ''[[Legion of Super
** In a [[Dork Age|Glorith-timeline comic]], the rocket was a kid...
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== Film ==
* ''[[Destination Moon]]'' might be the Trope Codifier.
* Though ''[[Woman in
* The second ''[[Men in Black (
* Honorable mention goes to ''20 Million Miles to Earth'', and ''[[When Worlds Collide (
* The [[Rocketship X-M]] is likely the most phallic Retro Rocket ever seen, until [[The Seventies]] porn spoof ''Flesh Gordon'' of course.
* Speaking of humorously phallic rockets: Dr. Evil's rocket in ''[[Austin Powers]]: The Spy Who Shagged Me'', whose shape is described in a [[Hurricane of Euphemisms]].
* The War Rocket Ajax in the ''[[Flash Gordon (
* The spaceship in ''[[Earth Girls Are Easy]]'' is very much an homage ship. Not a 'tailsitter' but very close to the 1930s ''[[Flash Gordon Serial
* The P-1 spaceship from the [[Godzilla]] film ''[[Kaiju]] Daisensou'' (a.k.a. ''Monster Zero'' or ''Invasion of Astro-Monster'').
* ''[[
* ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'': The Techno Union Hardcell-class ships.
* The eponymous ship in ''[[Missile to The Moon]]''.
== Literature ==
* Well you can see [https://web.archive.org/web/20070224112710/http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/galileo2.jpg from the cover of the book] how the ''[[Rocket Ship Galileo]]'' by [[Robert A. Heinlein]] fits in.
* The cover of another [[Robert Heinlein]] book: [[media:
* In ''[[Hyperion]]'', the Consul's starship is specifically designed to fit the Platonic ideal of "space ship". This ideal, at least according to the author, is that of the
== Live Action TV ==
* This shows up in ''[[
** Also any human rocketship from the First and Second Doctor eras.
* ''[[Star Trek]]'' has one in the episode "[[Star Trek
** When the ''Enterprise'' was designed, [[Gene Roddenberry]] made sure to steer clear of this trope, which was a remarkable move at the time. Matt Jefferies, the original designer of the ''Enterprise'', recalls that Roddenberry "emphasized that there were to be no fins, no wings, no smoke trails, no flames, no rocket."
== Video Games ==
* ''[[Star Control]]'' [[Blue Skinned Space Babe|Syreen]] ship, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509070318/http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Penetrator Penetrator] "is shaped after the V-2 rocket, [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick|and a dildo]]".
* There's one of these in ''Myst''. It doesn't actually take you anywhere, but just holds the link to the Selenitic Age. (You link into an identical spaceship, a remnant of the fact that at one point in the game's development you were supposed to fly in the spaceship.)
* Many of the ships in the ''[[Escape Velocity]]'' series, from the humble [http://www.evula.com/survival_guide/ev-ships/freighters.html#scoutship scout ship] in the original to the... rather engorged [http://www.boring.org.uk/evo/ships/igzara.htm Igazra] from ''Override''.
* ''Gene Wars''
* ''[[
* The ''[[Pikmin]]'' franchise
* The rockets at the REPCONN Test Facility in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''.
** And the Delta IX rocket from ''[[Fallout 3]]''.
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* In ''[[
* The dragons' [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20090829.html prison transport] ship in ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]]'' has this shape, although it's also stated to have a retractable ramscoop for interstellar flight.
== Web Original ==
* ''[[Fenspace]]'' uses the rocket shape as an identifier for the "Fenspace Convention".
== Western Animation ==
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** ''Mad as a Mars Hare'', where Bugs takes a trip to Mars in one of these ships. Watch him land [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoHUGHb97MA starting at 1:50].
** ''Haredevil Hare''. Bugs [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-3rzM8a0f0 is sent to the Moon] in what he calls a "flying cigar."
* The Planet Express Ship from ''[[Futurama]]'', though it's horizontally oriented with extendible landing gear. Note the various late Fifties-ish elements in the show: In a show named after a 1939 & 1964 World Fair exhibit, a man who dresses like James Dean is impressed by a
* ''[[Duck Dodgers in
** Likewise, Dodgers' ship in the 2003 ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'' TV series.
* In ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]: A Grand Day Out'', the duo build an orange rocket of this design. Some later episodes feature smaller versions of this rocket as decorations in their house.
* The [[Space Police|Space Ranger]] ships in ''[[Buzz Lightyear of Star Command]]''.
* ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' and its craft Thunderbirds 1 and 3. One's a hypersonic plane based on 50s-60s high-tech fighters and X-planes (MiG-21, X-5, X-15) and mid-50s VTOL designs like the XFV and XFY. The other is a rocket ship with a tripod of engines. Both essentially have the same overall shape and impact leading to many seven year old arguments about which one was better. Both fit very well into the trope, aside from TB 1's VTOL abilities in horizontal position.
** The rocket ships in ''Sunprobe'' and ''Day of Disaster'' were each examples of this trope. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20130402200429/http://davidszondy.com/future/Thunderbirds/sunprobe.htm Sunprobe] was a Vostok-style engine cluster with loads of extra fins and a full-on
== Other ==
* The [http://www.thehugoawards.org/hugo-trophies/2009-hugo-award-trophy Hugo Award trophy] is in this shape.
* The [
* The logo for the British comics and sci-fi collectibles shop [http://forbiddenplanet.com/ Forbidden Planet].
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