Tropescilloscope: Car Fu

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

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Evil-Detecting Dog Every Car Is a Pinto Not So Stoic Fantasy Films Offscreen Moment of Awesome Time Skip Asshole Victim Extreme Doormat Evil Plan Aluminum Christmas Trees Greater-Scope Villain Half the Man He Used to Be The Load Vampire Fiction Air-Vent Passageway Adaptational Attractiveness Christmas Movies Index Mugging the Monster The Ditz The Bully Black and Gray Morality Not Even Bothering with the Accent Apocalypse How You Killed My Father Dramatic Irony World of Ham Creator Cameo Scenery Porn Off-into-the-Distance Ending Never My Fault Credits Gag Foreshadowing Refuge in Audacity Funny Background Event Mighty Whitey Disappeared Dad Line-of-Sight Name Break the Haughty Karmic Death German Films The Musical Deliberately Monochrome Deconstruction The Brute Conspicuous CG Say My Name Stylistic Suck Heroic BSoD Leave the Camera Running True Companions Sexy Discretion Shot Heel–Face Turn Male Frontal Nudity Aside Glance Animal Title Index Red Right Hand The Smurfette Principle Authority Equals Asskicking Love at First Sight You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Thriller Artistic License – History Agony of the Feet Flipping the Bird Arranged Marriage A Minor Kidroduction Silent Movie Knight Templar My Greatest Failure Ambiguous Ending Shown Their Work Redemption Equals Death Male Gaze Anyone Can Die Badass Normal Big Eater Cool Old Lady Insane Troll Logic Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Cool Guns Anti-Villain Developing Doomed Characters Token Minority Due to the Dead Armor-Piercing Question Rule of Symbolism Only Sane Man Pretty Little Headshots Hoist by His Own Petard Fantastic Racism A Father to His Men Papa Wolf Posthumous Character Cool Car Dressing as the Enemy Ship Tease Epic Fail A Date with Rosie Palms Would Hurt a Child Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Gilligan Cut Politically Incorrect Villain Abhorrent Admirer Bring My Brown Pants Badass Grandpa Wham Shot Age Lift Fanservice Extra Bad "Bad Acting" Adaptational Heroism No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Serial Killer Heroic Sacrifice Suspiciously Specific Denial Took a Level in Jerkass Skewed Priorities Villain with Good Publicity Black Comedy Dramatic Gun Cock Intrepid Reporter Moment Killer Department of Redundancy Department All Men Are Perverts Obfuscating Stupidity Unresolved Sexual Tension Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Vacation Films Almost Kiss Destination Defenestration Reckless Gun Usage Auto Erotica Wretched Hive Dirty Coward The '50s Wounded Gazelle Gambit Dual Wielding Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Canadian Movies Karma Houdini Sequel Escalation Pay Evil unto Evil Celebrity Paradox The Cameo No OSHA Compliance Spell My Name with an "S" Straight Gay Tap on the Head Totally Radical Eagleland Stealth Pun Stepford Smiler Only in It for the Money Our Vampires Are Different Loads and Loads of Characters Self-Deprecation Adaptational Badass Gainax Ending He Knows Too Much Needs Wiki Magic Love Grey and Gray Morality Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Your Head A-Splode Accidental Misnaming Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy The X of Y Evil Is Petty Naïve Newcomer The End... 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Amusing Injuries Ascended Extra Death by Sex Expy Taking You with Me Last-Name Basis Big Brother Instinct Jump Scare Death by Adaptation Call-Forward Word of God What You Are in the Dark Television Movie Index Rewatch Bonus Big Bad Deal with the Devil Mexican Standoff Mundane Made Awesome Country Matters The Stoner I Did What I Had to Do Roaring Rampage of Revenge Translation Convention Mr. Exposition Only a Flesh Wound Fake Shemp Protagonist Title Camera Abuse Spiritual Successor Match Cut Psychopathic Manchild The Alcoholic Insult Backfire A God Am I Bunny-Ears Lawyer Whole Plot Reference Mystery and Detective Films Mistaken for Gay Not So Different Dying Moment of Awesome One-Word Title Domestic Abuse Not Quite Dead Dark Action Girl Crucified Hero Shot Even Evil Has Loved Ones Offscreen Teleportation Action Girl Novelization Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Award-Bait Song Ungrateful Bastard Get Out! I'm a Humanitarian Badass Bookworm Captain Ersatz Unwitting Instigator of Doom Missing Mom Unusually Uninteresting Sight Never Found the Body Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Sociopath Bilingual Bonus Put on a Bus Red Eyes, Take Warning Historical Villain Upgrade Parental Neglect Canon Foreigner Villain Ball Pragmatic Adaptation Sadistic Choice Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other folderlabel Film Noir Ironic Echo There Is No Kill Like Overkill Pet the Dog Coming-of-Age Story Author Appeal Driven to Suicide Big Fancy House All Just a Dream Adapted Out Eldritch Abomination Hair-Trigger Temper Badass Boast The Power of Love As the Good Book Says... 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Freudian Excuse Villainous Breakdown The Mafia Better to Die than Be Killed No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Berserk Button Man on Fire Manchild Bloody Hilarious Artistic License – Biology Shirtless Scene Fan Disservice Face–Heel Turn Bi the Way Bland-Name Product Beard of Evil The '90s Playing Gertrude Heel Realization Chekhov's Gun Dwindling Party Faux Affably Evil Superhero Brick Joke Death of a Child Race Against the Clock The Chick Vitriolic Best Buds Neck Lift Drives Like Crazy Shipper on Deck Broken Bird For the Evulz Documentary Punch-Clock Villain Anguished Declaration of Love What the Hell, Hero? Captain Obvious I Have Your Wife Card-Carrying Villain Fate Worse than Death This Is Gonna Suck Dogged Nice Guy Bald of Evil Unreliable Narrator Those Two Bad Guys Major Injury Underreaction Rousing Speech Honor Before Reason Badass Longcoat Neck Snap Henpecked Husband Sir Swears-a-Lot Names to Run Away from Really Fast Take a Third Option Catapult Nightmare Abusive Parents An Arm and a Leg Foregone Conclusion Corpsing It's All About Me Depraved Bisexual Noodle Incident Men Are the Expendable Gender Green-Eyed Monster And I Must Scream Music Stories French Films Rich Bitch Psychological Thriller Overprotective Dad Hooker with a Heart of Gold Composite Character Adaptation Expansion Evil Cannot Comprehend Good She's Got Legs Evil Laugh Hollywood Darkness Femme Fatale Hell Is That Noise The Dreaded The Chessmaster Drugs Are Bad "The Reason You Suck" Speech Silence Is Golden Breaking the Fourth Wall For Want of a Nail Big Applesauce Heterosexual Life-Partners Important Haircut Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Blood from the Mouth Eiffel Tower Effect Improbable Weapon User Slasher Movie Morality Pet Action Prologue How We Got Here Famous Last Words Lampshade Hanging The Voiceless Stock Footage Anachronism Stew Genre Savvy The Quiet One Training Montage Overly Long Gag Humiliation Conga Affably Evil Determinator Manly Tears Blackmail Camp Gay Babies Ever After Super Strength Adult Fear Not So Above It All Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Brother–Sister Incest Anti-Hero Slasher Smile Determinator aka: The Determinator Sports Stories All There in the Manual Punny Name Would Hit a Girl Meaningful Echo Reality Has No Subtitles Advertised Extra Fourth Date Marriage Motor Mouth Historical-Domain Character Married to the Job Badass in a Nice Suit Fun with Acronyms Alliterative Name The Reveal Stuff Blowing Up I Need a Freaking Drink Big-Bad Ensemble Cat Scare Bad Boss Running Gag No-Sell Jerkass Animated Credits Opening Soft Glass Rated M for Manly Cool Old Guy British Films The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Oh, Crap! Scare Chord Shell-Shocked Veteran Groin Attack Martial Arts Movie He Who Fights Monsters Contrived Coincidence Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Cowboy Cop Eyepatch of Power Immune to Bullets Let's Get Dangerous! 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Blood Knight Room Full of Crazy Demonic Possession Parental Substitute Mr. Fanservice Film Series Exact Words "Shaggy Dog" Story Happily Married Monumental Damage Frame-Up Eureka Moment Dutch Angle Adaptation Distillation Worthy Opponent 20 Minutes into the Future NO INDOOR VOICE Those Two Guys Animal Motifs Bond One-Liner You Have Failed Me Small Name, Big Ego Distracted by the Sexy Bowdlerise Dark and Troubled Past Gorn Ominous Latin Chanting Off with His Head! Faking the Dead Fingore Intergenerational Friendship Vomit Indiscretion Shot Pimped-Out Dress Works Set in World War II Improvised Weapon Chekhov's Skill The Hero Double Entendre Jitter Cam Children Are Innocent Artistic License – Geography Kids Are Cruel Lighter and Softer Only Known by Their Nickname Product Placement Handicapped Badass Broken Aesop Bittersweet Ending Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Spiteful Spit Sequel Hook The Faceless Fiery Redhead "Where Are They Now?" 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Australian Movies Outrun the Fireball Disney Villain Death Curb-Stomp Battle Twist Ending Shout-Out Dumb Blonde The Atoner Chewing the Scenery Stealth Hi/Bye Nothing Is Scarier Establishing Character Moment "Well Done, Son!" Guy Getting Crap Past the Radar Dark Reprise Romantic False Lead Japanese Films timeperiod Star-Crossed Lovers Adaptation Dye-Job Adaptation Name Change Obviously Evil Storming the Castle Idiot Ball Biopic Laughing Mad Properly Paranoid Sinister Minister Truth in Television Attempted Rape Obstructive Bureaucrat Crazy-Prepared Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Book-Ends Alpha Bitch Homage Beta Couple Disney Death Italian Films Bare Your Midriff Big Damn Heroes Up to Eleven Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Older Than They Look Combat Pragmatist Sole Survivor Casting Gag Hollywood Law Villain Song Friend to All Children Wicked Cultured Redshirt Army Manipulative Bastard Epic Movie Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Undying Loyalty Mooks Pragmatic Villainy Bound and Gagged An Axe to Grind Black Best Friend Wrong Genre Savvy Rule of Funny Those Wacky Nazis Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Empathic Environment Shut Up, Hannibal! Fanservice Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Hypocrite Peek-a-Boo Corpse Sanity Slippage Covers Always Lie Adults Are Useless Despair Event Horizon Grievous Bottley Harm Kick the Son of a Bitch Fat Bastard Demoted to Extra Body Horror Chase Scene The Ghost Manic Pixie Dream Girl Belligerent Sexual Tension Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Big Bad Duumvirate May–December Romance Big "NO!" Alas, Poor Villain Foil Psycho for Hire Fatal Family Photo '80s Hair Vomit Discretion Shot The Smart Guy Hate Sink Genre Shift Knife Nut Ms. Fanservice Continuity Nod Made of Explodium Cool Shades Hero Antagonist Gold Digger Car Fu Reality Ensues Madness Mantra Dirty Old Man Throwing Your Sword Always Works Sacrificial Lion Corrupt Corporate Executive Market-Based Title Disproportionate Retribution Guile Hero Ripped from the Headlines Slap-Slap-Kiss And Starring Here We Go Again!