List of fictional buses

Buses often appear as settings, or sometimes even characters, in works of fiction. This is a list of named buses which were important story elements in notable works of fiction, including books, films and television series.

• The Battle Bus, from Fortnite
• Bus 25/25, from the 1994 film Speed[1][2][3][4][5]
• Catbus, a sentient bus from the 1988 film My Neighbor Totoro[4]
• "Cyclops", a nucelar-powered bus from the 1976 film The Big Bus[4]
• "Bulgy the Bus", also from The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends.
• "Doris", the fictional band's tour bus in the 2000 film Almost Famous.[1]
• The Knight Bus, which appears in several of the Harry Potter books and films[1]
• The Magic School Bus[1][2]
• "Priscilla", the eponymous bus in the 1994 film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert[1]
• "Sweetheart", in John Steinbeck's The Wayward Bus[3]
• "Tayo", "Rogi", "Lani", and "Gani", bus characters from the Korean animated children's show, Tayo the Little Bus.[5]

References

1. Shaw, Anaia (2017). "The Tour Bus and the Road". In Slethaug, Gordon E. (ed.). Music and the Road: Essays on the Interplay of Music and the Popular Culture of the American Road. Bloomsbury. pp. 72–. ISBN 9781501335273.
2. Romero, Frances (17 August 2011). "Top 10 Famous Buses". Time.
3. Halverson, Cathryn (Winter 2008). "John Steinbeck's Sweetheart: The Cosmic American Bus". College Literature. The Johns Hopkins University Press. 35 (1): 82–99.
4. Lindeke, Bill (20 May 2020). "The Five Best Bus Films of All Time". streets.mn. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
5. Marshall, Colin (31 March 2016). "One of Korea's Most Popular Cartoons Is About a Bus". The Korea Blog. The L.A. Review of Books.