Tropescilloscope: Car Fu

Using a vehicle as a weapon. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Works Set in World War II It's All About Me Artistic License – Physics Book-Ends Action Survivor Suspiciously Specific Denial Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Dual Wielding Rich Bitch Wretched Hive Babies Ever After Screw the Money, I Have Rules! timeperiod Badass Boast Foil No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Mood Whiplash Offscreen Moment of Awesome Anti-Villain Epic Movie Pimped-Out Dress Would Hurt a Child Does Not Like Shoes Would Hit a Girl Kids Are Cruel Bond One-Liner Same Language Dub Darker and Edgier Papa Wolf Break the Cutie Self-Deprecation Pre-Mortem One-Liner Captain Ersatz Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Nice Guy No Good Deed Goes Unpunished The Quiet One Faking the Dead Tap on the Head Dirty Cop Running Gag Improvised Weapon Sci-Fi Horror Blood Knight Villain Opening Scene Soft Glass Red Herring Whole Plot Reference Dark Is Not Evil Fatal Family Photo Anguished Declaration of Love Anti-Hero Eureka Moment Manchild Foregone Conclusion Facial Horror Insistent Terminology Too Dumb to Live Historical Hero Upgrade Flipping the Bird Deconstruction Contrived Coincidence Mama Bear Storming the Castle You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Superhero Destination Defenestration For the Evulz Mercy Kill Product Placement Dumb Blonde Hell Is That Noise B-Movie Poor Communication Kills Better to Die than Be Killed Science Fiction Films French Films Groin Attack Sequel Hook An Aesop Failed a Spot Check Sir Swears-a-Lot Woman Scorned Scenery Porn Novelization Dressing as the Enemy Card-Carrying Villain Hollywood Law Adaptational Badass Properly Paranoid Missing Mom The Dreaded Punch-Clock Villain The Stinger Shirtless Scene Ascended Extra Ax-Crazy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Scary Black Man Psychological Thriller Accidental Murder The Brute I'm a Humanitarian Really Gets Around The Un-Reveal Cool Guns Ungrateful Bastard Break the Haughty Plot Hole Your Cheating Heart Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Death by Adaptation Brother–Sister Incest Not So Above It All Sole Survivor Slashed Throat Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Our Vampires Are Different N-Word Privileges Adaptation Name Change Comically Missing the Point The Smart Guy Genre Savvy Woman in White How We Got Here Bare Your Midriff Manipulative Bastard Adults Are Useless Informed Ability From Nobody to Nightmare Blatant Lies Jerk Jock Major Injury Underreaction Heroes Want Redheads My Greatest Failure Fantasy Films Room Full of Crazy Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? 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Framing Device Every Car Is a Pinto Face Death with Dignity Pretty in Mink Training Montage Reasonable Authority Figure Say My Name Redemption Equals Death Awesome, but Impractical A Minor Kidroduction Token Minority Ghost Fiction Visual Pun Evil Laugh Annoying Younger Sibling The Casanova Refuge in Audacity Kubrick Stare Belligerent Sexual Tension Those Wacky Nazis Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! All Girls Want Bad Boys Politically Incorrect Villain Anyone Can Die Twist Ending Cain and Abel Deal with the Devil Meaningful Background Event Men Are the Expendable Gender Manic Pixie Dream Girl Actor Allusion Femme Fatale Defrosting Ice Queen Berserk Button The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Psychopathic Manchild Air-Vent Passageway Fate Worse than Death Chiaroscuro The Ace Here We Go Again! 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Spiteful Spit Vomit Indiscretion Shot Even Evil Has Standards Retirony "Awesome McCool" Name Disappeared Dad I Did What I Had to Do Cloudcuckoolander Dies Wide Open My God, What Have I Done? Driven to Suicide Sealed Evil in a Can Stepford Smiler Children Are Innocent Together in Death Riddle for the Ages Ironic Echo Villain Ball Almost Kiss Adaptational Villainy Greater-Scope Villain Random Events Plot A Father to His Men Sadistic Choice Deliberate Values Dissonance Ass Shove Funny Foreigner Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Handicapped Badass Big Bad Duumvirate The Oner Russian Films Imagine Spot Yandere Amusing Injuries Double Entendre Wham Line Shoot the Shaggy Dog Ambiguously Gay Pragmatic Villainy Rule of Symbolism Toplessness from the Back The '50s Epic Fail Mad Scientist The Alleged Car Expository Hairstyle Change Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Green-Eyed Monster Deadpan Snarker Crapsack World Not Even Bothering with the Accent Flashback Took a Level in Jerkass Bullying a Dragon Armor-Piercing Question Aside Glance As the Good Book Says... Bad "Bad Acting" Race Against the Clock Made of Iron Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Cluster F-Bomb Intrepid Reporter Motor Mouth Dark and Troubled Past The Dog Bites Back Dark Action Girl Never Found the Body Four-Temperament Ensemble Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Advertised Extra Get Out! Noodle Incident Action Girl Stuff Blowing Up Antagonist Title What You Are in the Dark The Chick Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Your Head A-Splode Stealth Pun Slasher Smile Getting Crap Past the Radar Cassandra Truth Sanity Slippage Creative Closing Credits Serial Killer Does This Remind You of Anything? "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Karma Houdini Award-Bait Song Death Glare Ambiguous Ending Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Revenge Sequel Escalation Real Life Writes the Plot