Tropescilloscope: Car Fu

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

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Or Is It? Beauty Is Never Tarnished Gorn Zombie Stories Enemy Mine World of Ham Immune to Bullets Running Gag Artistic License – Gun Safety The Mafia Pyrrhic Victory Jerk with a Heart of Gold Celebrity Paradox Bitch in Sheep's Clothing The Bad Guy Wins Crapsack World Fantastic Racism Ambiguously Gay Get Out! Spiritual Successor Accidental Misnaming Neck Lift He Knows Too Much The Stinger Loophole Abuse The Bully Knife Nut What Happened to the Mouse? Badass Bookworm Disappeared Dad Call-Back Improvised Weapon Face–Heel Turn Blonde, Brunette, Redhead I'm a Humanitarian Mercy Kill Ax-Crazy Offscreen Teleportation Extremely Short Timespan Break the Haughty Sequel Hook You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! As You Know Butt-Monkey It Will Never Catch On Vomit Discretion Shot Smoking Is Cool Babies Ever After Romantic False Lead Black Dude Dies First Manipulative Bastard Neck Snap Trailers Always Spoil Extreme Doormat Depraved Bisexual Henpecked Husband Badass Boast The Mole Good Is Not Nice Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Stalker with a Crush Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Aside Glance Screw This, I'm Outta Here! 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Is a Crapshoot Lighter and Softer Parental Substitute Distracted by the Sexy '80s Hair Show Within a Show Wicked Cultured Adapted Out The Vamp Author Avatar For Want of a Nail Wounded Gazelle Gambit Evil Is Petty British Films Villainous Breakdown The '60s Disguised in Drag Training Montage Half the Man He Used to Be Soft Glass Mad Scientist Badass Longcoat The Hero Dies No Antagonist Covers Always Lie The Faceless It's All About Me Bolivian Army Ending Novelization Artistic License – Biology Character Development Made of Iron "The Reason You Suck" Speech Leaning on the Fourth Wall Fanservice Extra Truth in Television Bad Boss Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Creative Closing Credits All Girls Want Bad Boys Those Two Guys Sequel Escalation The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Unreliable Narrator Bond Villain Stupidity Nice Guy Comically Missing the Point A Date with Rosie Palms Dogged Nice Guy Self-Deprecation Time Skip The Dragon Back from the Dead Break the Cutie Canon Foreigner Evil vs. Evil For the Evulz Beware the Nice Ones Death by Irony Establishing Character Moment Small Name, Big Ego Bullying a Dragon Deliberate Values Dissonance Improbable Weapon User Abusive Parents Bland-Name Product All Men Are Perverts Damsel in Distress Armor-Piercing Question Narrator Dull Surprise Getting Crap Past the Radar Captain Obvious Kick the Dog Villain Song Not What It Looks Like The Load Determinator Ascended Extra Poor Communication Kills Demonic Possession Protagonist Title Cluster F-Bomb Bare Your Midriff Precision F-Strike Nothing Is Scarier She's Got Legs Artistic License – Law Reckless Gun Usage Adorkable I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Victoria's Secret Compartment Dying Moment of Awesome Manly Tears Early-Bird Cameo Heel–Face Turn Madness Mantra Body Horror Artistic License – Geography Interrupted Suicide Aww, Look! 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