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While airships in general are cool, the Cool Airship turns this Up to Eleven. Most of the time, it will have an impossibly cool design which would most likely be unable to fly in Real Life. (Fortunately, fiction has phlebotinum for that little problem). Cool Airships also tend to be exceptionally big (sometimes so big that they double as Airborne Aircraft Carriers or even airborne cities) and are frequently decked out with various weapons. A Sub-Trope of Cool Ship, and so a Sister Trope of Cool Boat and Cool Starship. See also Global Airship for the video game-specific variant.

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  • While airships in general are cool, the Cool Airship turns this Up to Eleven. Most of the time, it will have an impossibly cool design which would most likely be unable to fly in Real Life. (Fortunately, fiction has phlebotinum for that little problem). Cool Airships also tend to be exceptionally big (sometimes so big that they double as Airborne Aircraft Carriers or even airborne cities) and are frequently decked out with various weapons. A Sub-Trope of Cool Ship, and so a Sister Trope of Cool Boat and Cool Starship. See also Global Airship for the video game-specific variant.
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  • While airships in general are cool, the Cool Airship turns this Up to Eleven. Most of the time, it will have an impossibly cool design which would most likely be unable to fly in Real Life. (Fortunately, fiction has phlebotinum for that little problem). Cool Airships also tend to be exceptionally big (sometimes so big that they double as Airborne Aircraft Carriers or even airborne cities) and are frequently decked out with various weapons. The Cool Airship is the preferred method of travel for Sky Pirates and technologically-savvy Nazis, and is extremely common in classic scientific romances and Steampunk. It's worth noting that not all airships are Cool Airships. For instance, the Goodyear Blimp is definitely not a Cool Airship. Like the Cool Car and the Cool Plane, the Cool Airship is exceptionally cool, and often impossibly so. Furthermore, it has to be owned by a major character, or otherwise play a prominent role, such as acting as the setting for a major scene. For massive cool points, there should be a small casino, bar, and sultry chanteuse on board the ship for the entertainment of the passengers. It goes without saying that these things are usually commanded by a Badass of some sort. Unfortunately, with the destruction of the Hindenburg in 1939, airships mostly died out in Real Life, so there are, unfortunately very few examples in that category, with most modern airships being used for advertising or research purposes due to their quiet nature. It's unlikely that they'll ever make a large scale comeback, since militarily, radar has made them pretty much useless, and modern jets are much faster. See Zeppelins from Another World for airships being used to help show the viewers that something is set in an Alternate Universe or Alternate History. The two can overlap, but Zeppelins from Another World are often just a background detail, and Cool Airships (including ones in Speculative Fiction) aren't always used to hint at an Alternate Universe setting. A Sub-Trope of Cool Ship, and so a Sister Trope of Cool Boat and Cool Starship. See also Global Airship for the video game-specific variant. Examples of Cool Airship include:
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